Authors Note: Hallelujah! I'm back from being busy. Curse you busy bees of doom! Anyways…
Hello dear readers and Welcome to Heaven, because this is Chapter 7
Chapter 7: Hot Topic Tragedy
Jazz parked right in front of the store and I got out of the back seat. I shut the door behind me and smiled at the Gorgeous silver Cadillac, then waved goodbye. The car honked and began to roll down its driver's window. I tilted my head in curiosity then nearly fell backwards at the sight of a man there. It was a black guy, or to be more precise the guy looked like Wesley Snipes. I gazed at him in amazement. He only smiled.
"Yo, Jody. I need yo' digits if ya' got one" The man told me.
"Jazz, is that you?" I asked and reached a hand out to poke his forehead, but it went right through and the image flickered a bit.
"Naw, Jody, this is a hologram, though I should upgrade ta' somethin' solid, huh?" he asked as he watched me put my finger through his head.
"Yeah" I started and pulled my hand away "Oh, my number is: 555-626-6139"
Jazz made a note of the Cell number, his hologram nodded and rolled up the window.
"See ya' 'round Jody" the car said as it pulled back onto the street and headed back from where it came.
I smiled and watched it go. I then took a deep breath and swerved around, heading into the Hot Topic store. I grinned at the wonderful smell of Nag Champa in the air that rested against the red and black walls. Gothic, Punk, and Emo attire lined the walls, shelves, and racks. I brushed past it all and leaned against the glass counter top and looked at two familiar faces.
There chatting inside the cashier square was Josh and Jaden, two of my best friends, not that I had many but still, my best friends. Josh turned around, showing me his attire for the day. A bandanna around his neck, a black Green Day shirt, shredded skin tight black jeans, and black, red, and white converse. But you can not forget his black hair which most of it just fell down around his shoulders, some hung over the right side of his face. 'How Emo' I thought, smiling.
Then there was Jaden, she was my closest friend. She wore a yellow shirt with a panda head above two cross bones, a middle thigh length leather mini skirt, net stockings on her arms and legs, striped socks just like mine, black slip ons with blue hearts around them, sparkle blue nail polish and lipstick, puffed out bleach blond hair with black roots, and the enchanting majestic purple eye changing contacts in her eyes.
Jaden noticed me and squealed, quickly diving over the glass top of the counter to tackle me. I yelled in surprise and hit the floor. Josh laughed as he dog piled on the both of us. I groaned.
"Dear lord you two, who's been eating the extra pocky?" I squeaked.
Jaden stuck her tongue out at me as Josh got off us.
"Good to see you too" Jaden said as she poked my forehead.
I stuck my tongue out right back. I rolled her off me and stood, brushing myself off. I walked over to the Boom Box, skimming over the collection of CD's we had. I 'oohed' and found a Linkin Park Album. I took the CD out and popped it into the Boom Box. It began to play Faint and I turned to find Josh and Jaden dancing. I smiled and joined in.
Jaden and I twirled around while Josh took one of our hands and guided us around. We heard the door open and we quickly stopped dancing and went to our stations.
"To your battle stations!" I screamed.
We were all in the right places. Jaden and Josh at the cashier square and myself at the opening, ready to greet. What we found was something odd, a man or what looked to be a man wrapped in bubble wrap. I looked at the two at the cashier square and shrugged.
"Hey, welcome to Hot Topic" I chimed.
The person inside the bubble wrap turned quickly and seemed to be looking at me. I went a little wide eyed at this and looked back at my comrades who shrugged.
"May I help you sir?" I asked.
It seemed to point at something. I frowned and looked where it was pointing and found it pointing at the outfit I was saving up to buy. I growled but smiled and looked back at him.
"You want the Undertaker outfit?" I asked.
It nodded its form. I sighed and nodded and walked over to the wall that the outfit hung from and grabbed it. The bubble wrapped person stopped at the cashier square.
"That will be $260.99, sir" Josh told him.
The bubble wrap man looked at him and seemed to pat his side. Josh looked at him funny and slowly and cautiously reached through the bubble wrap and felt something cold and metal. Josh shivered and opened what seemed like a pocket and inside was three one hundred dollar bills. Josh went wide eyed and brought the money out from the pocket. Josh smiled awkwardly and rang up the price and quickly held out the change. The bubble wrap man shook his form as if to say no.
The three of us were stunned. Josh nodded and motioned me to give the outfit to the guy. I was about to give it to him when he backed away and seemed to hop over to the changing room. I raised an eyebrow.
"You want to dress in it now?" I asked.
The bubble wrapped man nodded. I sighed and walked over to the dressing room, setting the outfit on the hook in the door. The bubble wrapped figure hopped in and quickly shut the door. I walked over to the other two and looked at them with a expression of confusion. They shook their heads and shrugged. After about an hour, the door to the changing room opened. We gazed at the guy who was once in bubble wrap and was now covered head to toe in his newly bought outfit.
I nodded, seeing it really looked good on him, though it was still creepy. Suddenly my cell phone rang, I jumped slightly at the unknown ring tone of I'm Not Okay by My Chemical Romance. I flipped open my Razor and squinted at the number and ID.
OPTIMUS
911-123-3666
I raised my eyebrow but answered it anyways and moved away from the others.
"Hello" I said into the phone.
"Jody, are you OK?" came the low voice of Optimus Prime.
"Yeah, I'm alright, what's up?" I asked.
"We have a reading of a Decepticon in your vicinity, and by Jazz coordinates of where you work, he's right in the store" Optimus told me.
I looked back slowly at the man still standing in the outfit and began to freak out silently. I went outside the store.
"Optimus, are Decepticons people size?" I asked.
"Casseticons are, why?" he asked slightly confused.
"Oh, shit" I cursed and nearly dropped the phone.
"Jody, what's wrong?" Optimus asked concerned. I did not answer immediately "Jody!"
"There was a guy, or what we thought was a guy that came in, he bought an outfit, he went into our dressing rooms and he came out covered head to toe in the outfit, we still can't see him" I told Optimus, nearly screaming, but it was a high pitch whisper.
"Jody, calm down, we'll be there as soon as we can, don't let the Decepticon leave" Optimus told me.
"OK" I told him.
"Stay strong Jody" he said softly and the phone disconnected the call.
I stood there staring at the street, passing cars blurring by. I sighed and forced myself to move back inside Hot Topic. I looked up to see the 'man' still standing there but he was now staring at me. I went wide eyed as I saw his eyes, dropping my cell phone on the ground as I did, they were like the Autobots, but his were green and full of evil. I gulped and went over to the Boom Box and started shuffling through the CD's. The 'man' walked over towards me, casually, I froze for a minute in fear but kept pushing myself to keep looking for a CD.
The 'man' was right next to me now, looking at what I was doing. I gulped and looked back at my friends.
"Hey, who's up for some Alanis Morrisette?" I asked them as I held up a CD.
"No, How about And One?" Jaden asked "I love the song Body Company"
"We actually have that CD?" I asked her forgetting about my fear of the 'man' standing next to me, curious that we had a CD from that artist.
"Yeah, it should be next to Alanis Morrisette" she told me.
I went back to looking and to my surprise found the CD. I hugged it and popped the CD in and pressed the search button until the song 'Body Company' played. I smiled and began to move my body to the song. Jaden smiled and joined me as she came over and pushed me over with her hip. I glared at her and pushed her right back. Soon enough we were wrestling each other on the floor, Josh laughing, and the 'man' watched in fascination at us.
Suddenly I heard the rumble of engines outside and quickly got up from tickling Jaden and jogged out the door. I saw Optimus, Hot Shot, Ironhide, Jazz, and a yellow Volkswagen Beetle parked in the vacant lot across the street. I looked to my left, then my right, making sure there were no cars coming and sprinted across the road to reach the Semi.
"Jody, is he still in there?" Optimus asked.
I nodded "Yeah, he seemed to be entertained as me and Jaden wrestled" I told him.
"Jaden?" asked Hot Shot.
"That's not important right now" Optimus told Hot Shot "right now we need to get that Decepticon out of there"
"I bet you anything it's Rumble or Frenzy" said the yellow Volkswagen Beetle.
I tilted my head to the side as I looked at the yellow Beetle, wondering who it was.
"That is Bumblebee" Optimus told me.
I saw the Beetle make one of his headlights blink, gesturing a wink. I blushed.
"OK, here's the plan. Red Alert has equipped me with a first class Hologram, I will use it to grab the Decepticon, drag him over here and then we can deal with him back at base" Optimus told his men.
They honked in agreement. I stood there as I watched the door to the Semi truck open. My jaw dropped as I saw a man in black leather pants, a black tank top, and black cowboy boots come out. His hair was a greasy auburn and was down to his shoulders, he had a mustache that started from underneath his nose and rounded the corners of his mouth and ended at the neatly cut beard on his chin. All in all to me he looked like The Undertaker but a lot hotter and more rugged. I blushed at that thought.
"Well, Jody?" the man asked "lead the way"
I nodded and looked both ways before crossing the road, once again, and walked over to Hot Topic. The hologram who was Optimus, following.
We entered through the doors. I stopped dead in my tracks as I saw Jaden dancing with the Decepticon. Optimus also seemed quite disturbed and puzzled at the scene. I hatched a plan to make Optimus' mission a lot easier. I walked over to where the two were dancing and twirled Jaden out of the way and took her place as I took the Decepticon by the hand and waist and waltzed in circles with him towards the door where Optimus was waiting. The Decepticon seemed to smile wickedly and let the hand around my waist, slip lower. I glared at the Decepticon dangerously; he quickly retracted his hand back to my waist.
I was a few feet away from Optimus now and to my mistake I looked over at him, the Decepticon looked over at the 6'6" tall man standing at the door and looked puzzled at him. The Hologram glitched and the Decepticon freaked. The Decepticon grabbed me, I screamed. Optimus gave me a look of shock, surprise, and horror as he watched me be taken away, through the roof, and into the sky.