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"Is this machine bothering you?" he asked me in a language that sounded nothing like any Earth language (typed italic from here on). But strangely enough I understood what he said.
I was so shocked that I couldn't say a word and nodded.
"Don't worry, he will no longer harass you." He walked around Starscreams body towards me. I didn't know what he wanted from me, so I walked around to the other side, giving him a wary look.
"There's no need to be afraid of me," he gave me a friendly smile. "We have been looking for you for years… we'd almost given up hope to ever find you."
What did he mean with 'we've been looking for you for years… I wondered why 'they' would look for me. Was it a good thing he'd found me, or was I in some major trouble?
"Don't you remember who you are? Where you came from?" he stopped trying to approach me, he wasn't getting any closer anyway. Now he was waiting for me to respond to him.
I could call Dad for help… but than he might end up like Starscream… Did he kill him? I tried so sense his spark… and the creepy feeling returned. Guess he's still here.
"You do understand me, don't you?" he checked when I seemed absent with my thoughts.
In my mind my thoughts slowly changed from American to Azori'jin and I tried to speak the words I 'said' in my thoughts.
"I understand you," I replied. "Who are you?"
"Don't you recognize me?"
I looked at him for a while and did see a resemblance to my features. Slowly I walked around Starscream towards him, my eyes locked with his to make sure he wasn't gonna try anything.
When I was only two steps away from him I stopped and looked up to him. He was about a head taller than me. In his eyes I saw he was thrilled to see me and nervous as well. But he could hide that last part very well, cause I only saw that in his eyes.
"Last time you saw me I was fifteen, I did look quit different," he said friendly. "And you had only just turned seven."
Flashes from a passed lifetime shot through my mind. Memories of two playing kids in a lovely garden. I felt absolute happiness and no worries what so ever. A name popped in my head. Something with a K… Kane… Kye…
"Kanaye …"
His eyes lit up like candles and his whole face smiled. "You remember!"
"That name just popped up in my head… I don't remember a lot, just flashes." I quickly explained and realized at the same time that his cheerful eyes looked so familiar!
"Oh…" the lights faded a bit and he let out a sigh. "Well, that was to be expected… You've been through a lot when you were taken from us."
"You are Kanaye? I remember us playing… were we friends?"
"I am your big brother," he said with a proud smile.
My brother? I had a big brother! I HAVE a big brother! I couldn't help it but this huge smile grew on my face and my heart made an extra leap of joy!
"You mean I actually have family?! I have a big brother?" I asked happily.
He nodded and held out his hand to me. "Say, wanna sit down somewhere and have a drink and a bite to eat? I can tell you more about you, me and where you are from. And you can tell me all that has happened to you all this time. If you'd like?"
"What about him?" I nodded towards Starscream.
"Him? Oh, he'll be fine. I just paralyzed him and wiped his mind of any memory of you. For the rest he's unharmed." He saw that surprised me. "I can wipe parts of his memory in seconds. He'll never know he's missing something."
We walked towards the shopping centre.
"I am surprised you left him unharmed."
"Oh? I'd prefer not to hurt anybody when I don't need to."
"I've heard a story from one of my friends about Azori'jins that was very shocking to me. That was about a battle between Azori'jins and mechanical life forms, two thousand years ago."
"Two thousand years ago?" He grinned. "That's sooo long ago, what are we talking about? Our race was way different then than it is today." He told me as we walked towards a nice looking place to have a drink and a talk.
"We were way more violent and intolerant than we are today. And there were more of us back then than there are now. Our old way of life almost brought our kinds to the brink of extinction."
"Extinction?"
"There aren't even one hundred of us left across the galaxy."
The waitress asked us for our orders and he ordered us some refreshing drinks and sandwiches.
Flashes of the attack that separated me from my father and mother shot through my mind.
"Do you know what happened to me… to our parents?" I was afraid to ask about it, afraid to know what had happened, but I asked him anyway. "I can only remember vague things… violent memories… they terrify me."
He let out a sigh and took a sip from the glass the waitress put down in front of him on our table.
"That don't surprise me one bit. I don't know exactly what happened, but our mom and dad … were practically… slaughtered by our enemies."
"I remember a fight between large felines… I took the shape of one too… I was hiding somewhere… " A flash of two big hands grabbing me and dragging me out in the open shot through my mind and made me shiver. "They found me anyway."
"Who did? Can you remember any faces?" he said anxiously. "We know Azori'jins were behind the attack, but we never really found out who." He looked at my face hoping for answers and he saw my teary eyes. "Too soon… right? Too much too soon. Never mind… maybe it will come back to you later."
He let me have a drink and then he asked: " Did they hurt you?"
I dug deeper in my memories… it knew it would be painful, but it was about time I found out about more what had happened to me.
"I have trouble remembering… I have blocked most of it. But I do remember them scaring the living daylight out of me. I heard them talking about that they wanted to torture and kill me… leave no witnesses…"
My tears ran down my face and my heart pounded in my chest as I remembered that. I firmly grabbed my glass and took a shaky sip off it. More memories came back … I felt the fear… the coldness of my cage… the pain in my heard and the pain of my body.
A few transformers and people looked at us, but I ignored them. Kanaye gave them no attention either. We were sitting in a quiet part of the restaurant, and we were somewhat hidden by the metallic plants that decorated the place.
We were sitting on a half rounded bench so Kanaye shoved closer to me so he could put his arm around my shaking shoulders. That made me feel a lot better… safer. I could sense him clearly… his presence. Like I could sense the Autobot's sparks. Again… that felt familiar.
"Then I was taken from my dark cage by two of my capturers and given to some strange men.I believe they sold me. They never told them I was more than just a cat." I remembered the whole thing now
"They took me away in a spaceship and sold me to some other strange looking aliens who also sold me and finally – it must have been years - I ended up on an entertainment-planet – I don't even know the name – where they put me on display in a glass cage. All this time I had been in my feline form, I was slowly beginning to believe I was just a cat."
"That's what happens when you stay in a form too long. And when you're a kid all alone…" He wiped away some tears from his face.
I gave him a wondering look.
"Don't look so surprised about that, you are my little sister. We were very close. You have been through so much, I can almost feel your pain."
"But you haven't seen me for so long."
"Doesn't matter. Don't you feel the strong band between us?"
I nodded. "I believe I do. It's very familiar."
He smiled and gave me a hug. "Well, let's be a family again. Come home with me. Home where you belong."
"I… I …" Lot's of thoughts shot through my mind. What about Dad, what about Hot Rod... What about all the others? Leave… I can't just leave…
