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I know Kanaye seems a bit strange, but he's really nice.
He really is her brother, her only family left. And I am afraid she will leave for a while. But not for ever. She couldn't possible stay away from Hot Rod forever…
In this chapter Alyx gets to know more of Kanaye's abilities.
"I can't just leave… I have a home and a new family here."
In the distance we heard the sound of laser-gun-shots. So did everybody else and most got up to leave for a safer place. That sounded awfully close by.
"It's my friends fighting off the Decepticons," I told Kanaye. "They have been causing trouble here lately."
"Won't your friends need your help?" Something occurred to him.
"My help?? I'll just get shot out there!"
"Do you even know what you are able to do? I mean, do you know what qualities an Azori'jin can have?"
"Just a bit… I can transform into lot's of animals. But that won't help them right now. I can control them… if I try really hard. Mostly it happens by accident."
He grinned. "Is that all you think you can do? Your friends don't know who or what you are either, do they?"
I let out a sigh. "Only a few even know I'm not really a dog."
He tilted his head and gave me a curious look. "How did that happen?"
"Dad was afraid for my safety if the Decepticons got wind of my abilities. And after asking Kup if he knew of an organic race of transformers I totally was afraid to tell my friends. Kup told Dad to avoid any kind of contact with Azori'jins and sketched them as terrible monsters."
Kanaye heard what I said, but just one word kept playing in his mind. "Dad?"
I wasn't sure what he was aiming for, but suddenly I realized what he meant. "Optimus Prime… the Autobot leader. He's the one who saved me from that awful planet…I kinda adopted him as my dad…"
I told him all that had happened since Prime had come along. You've all been reading my story, so you already know.
In the mean time the sounds of battle became louder and several salvo's ended up on the streets outside, destroying the streets and even blasting away a few transformers and aliens.
"I really don't remember our parents… what they look like, who they were… Please don't be angry I adopted Prime as my dad… I really needed one. And he means that much to me."
He nodded. "I'm not angry. But our dad was the best dad in the universe, you know. And mom was the best mom. But this Optimus Prime sounds like he's worthy of the 'dad' title. I would like to meet him."
I gave him a grateful smile. But that quickly faded… "But the other's can't see you… especially Kup… he'll know what you are… He'll scare them off."
"I could just erase that memory from his mind?" Kanaye suggested.
One of the Decepticons was thrown out in the street, badly damaged, followed by a salvo of laserfire that shattered the windows of the restaurant we were in.
"Time to get out of here," Kanaye said.
We got up and ran out of the place, past the Decepticon to the end of the street. We weren't the only ones running for cover.
I pulled Kanaye into an alley. "You can't erase Kup's mind. There will be no messing around in their minds! They have to know they can trust us without any brainwashing! Promise me!"
He shrugged his shoulders. "If you insist."
"I do!"
There was more shooting. Debris fell down from the buildings around us and blocked our way out so we could not run away from the debris about to fall right on top of us.
Kanaye pulled me towards him and I saw him change… it was like nothing I'd ever seen… As if a thick metallic liquid ran down his body, starting at his head, running down all over his body. But than real fast. He pushed me down onto the ground and bent over me to shield me from the debris that came crashing down with ear deafening noise.
I pressed my hands on my ears and squeezed my eyes shut. Kanaye probably knew what he was doing… I hoped.
All was dark around me and lots of dust flew around making breathing hard on me.
"Kanaye…" I asked in the dark, not sure if he would answer me.
"Yeah, I'm here."
He held up a light in both his hands. "Don't worry, I'll have us out of here in no time."
When I looked at his hands, I saw that the light came from the palms of his hands… he wasn't even holding a light or a match or whatever.
The lightballs in his hands grew bigger and they forced the debris out of the way and I don't know where he got so much power, but huge chunks of wall blasted off of us as if he had set off a bomb.
"Ever did something like that by accident?" he asked me and blinked at me.
I was too stunned to say anything.
"Yeah, you can do that. Once I have taught you how."
"You… can teach me to do that?" I carefully asked him.
"Of course. You have it in you, it's just dormant."
We climbed over the remaining debris and got back on to the main street. I looked to see what was going on and pulled Kanaye's arm.
"Look, that's Hot Rod!"
Hot Rod jumped into the main street - from one of the many alleys – to avoid several rockets – aimed at him - that slammed into the buildings around him. With the lasers on his arms he shoot back at his opponent we could not see yet.
I saw movement in the corner of my eye. It was the Decepticon that had crashed down in the street earlier… he'd came to and he was aiming his gun right at Hot Rod.
Before I could think it through I called out to him before the Decepticon behind him could shoot him in the back.
"HOT ROD!! BEHIND YOU!!" That came out way louder than I thought between the broken buildings.
He glanced over his shoulder, saw the Decepticon behind him and shot him down with the quickest response I'd ever seen. The opponent that lashed out at him from his other side got shot with the lasers on his other arm.
Kanaye pulled me with him to get out of the battle zone. "Grab my shoulder!" he told me and as I did he transformed to a huge prey-bird and took off into the dark sky, leaving the fighting Transformers behind us.
"Do you think he saw me?" I asked Kanaye.
"No way, he was way to occupied with those Decepticons," he assured me.
"What were those light balls in your hands?" I wanted to know.
"Those are pure energy. I can make them very powerful. I'm sure you can do it too."
"Hey, and what is this stuff all over your body?" I asked him. I wasn't holding on to feathers, … or at least not organic ones.. so it seemed.
"We can take an organic metal body. And transform it like we can our normal organic body. It's just a lot more resistant to a lot of things like lasers… fire… bullets… you name it."
I smiled. "Well, you have to teach me that one! If I go Gojira on the Decepticons in that form, I'll kick their afterburners! They won't be as much of a threat to me as they are now."
"What's Gojira?"
"Oh, it's a creature I saw in a movie last week. They call it Godzilla as well. It's a huge iguana – a lizard - that grew so large due to nuclear tests."
(AN: the Godzilla from the American 1998 movie)
"Sis, when we have taught you all there is to teach you, they won't be any threat what so ever."
"That sounds amazing!"
"All you have to do is came back home with me."
"I want to say goodbye to my friends first. On Earth, cause they're not all here."
He nodded. "Very well. I won't deny you that."
"I would like to see my home…I remember only flashes." I tried very hard to remember any of it… but it was hard. I was only seven since I'd last seen it.
Than I heard Dad's voice in my head, checking if I was alright and telling me the battle had been won.
"I have to get back," I told Kanaye. "We'll probably go back to Earth, the Decepticons have been beaten."
He gave me a questioning look.
"Dad and I have this connection in our minds. We can speak to each other in our minds. He told me they've won and asked me to come back."
He nodded, that sounded familiar. "Most Azori'jins can do that. But it's unusual to have that kind of connection with a mechanical lifeform."
He soared down between the buildings and found a place close to the docks where the ships arrived and departed. Our ship was there too. There he landed and transformed back to his organic self.
I could tell he didn't think very highly of mechanical life. Maybe that would change if he met Dad, Ironhide and Bumblebee. I hoped so, they were the closest thing I had to family until he showed up.
"What will you do? Can you follow us? You do have your own ship, do you?" I asked Kanaye.
"Of course I have," he said with a grin.
"Anyway, are you all by yourself?"
He nodded. "There wasn't really anybody to join my search for you. Most don't believe you were still out there. The last few years it's been my only life's purpose to find you."
I felt I blushed. Was I that important to him? "I didn't realize I meant that much to you."
He gave me a device that looked most like a PDA and showed me how it worked. "Now, go to your friends. Use this to contact me." He put his finger on the PDA-thingy.
I put it in one of the pockets in my jeans and walked towards he docks. For a moment I looked over my shoulder. Kanaye gave me a blink and waved.
"See you later."
Then I transformed to my dog-self again and ran towards our ship.
