Rodimus, Ultra Magnus, Springer and Arcee went out to investigate an anonymous tip on crime boss Victor Drath. They were after him for stealing newtronium and in doing so endangering lot's of lives.
I stayed behind cause Rodimus' secretary reported in sick and I offered to fill her place temporarily. That meant pickup up the phone and answering messages over the view-screen. I could also manage his agenda. Grin grin.
Barely off the phone with some complaining government official who demanded an appointment with Rodimus, Sideswipe came racing into the reception where my temporary workspace was located. I didn't notice him at first, cause I was still entering the appointment into digital agenda.
Blaster was right next to my computer in ghetto-blaster-mode cause the secretary didn't have a radio. She liked to work in silence. I couldn't stand silence while working so – using my begging blue eyes and my female charmes - I got Blaster to play some tunes for me.
"HELP ME!! PLEASE…." He transformed and wiggled on his legs moaning and groaning as if he was in some awful pain.
He freaked the living daylights out of me and Blaster who quickly transformed to his robot-mode, pulled his gun and ejected his cassettes, who in their turn transformed and pulled their guns as well… or at least Rewind and Eject did.
Steeljaw started to circle Sideswipe to find any kind of scents that could tell him what his problem was. Ramhorn started running around, picking up some speed to ram into any kind of threat as soon as it would appear.
Sideswipe was still squirming around like somebody with an epileptic seizure. (no offence meant to anyone!)
Blaster glanced at me. "What crept up his can? To make him act like some crazy man?"
My breath stocked in my throat and my heart stopped beating for a sec. "That's definitely not my doing… Do you think…"
Blaster tilted his head. "Your ex…?"
"It's …. It's …" Sideswipe fell to the ground. "It's the Azori'jin…"
Sunstreaker came racing in after his brother, rammed him aside, hit the wall… than he backed up, turned and ran into another wall. "I can't stop myself… somebody HEEELP!!"
I jumped up from my chair. "Get out of here! NOW!" I yelled at Blaster. "And take your cassettes with you. Alert everybody to take off and get as far away from here as possible!"
As quick as I could I transformed to my organic metal Godzilla form and ran towards the main entrance, expecting to ran into Takehiko some where out there.
Onto the hallway nothing was out of the ordinary… I didn't see or sense any more troubled Autobots… or Takehiko for that matter. I stopped running and snorted. My heart raced in my chest and I was close to hyperventilating.
I heard laughter from the reception and turned around to see Sideswipe and Sunstreaker rolling on the round laughing out loud. Blaster kinda was in shock. Ramhorn ran towards the prankster brothers but just before he rammed his horn into their metal hides Blaster called him off. Ramhorn snorted annoyed and scraped his front foot on the ground as if to say: "Let me at 'em, LET ME AT 'EM!"
"Hold on you goon! Alyx will make them sing a different tune!" He said to get him out of their when he saw my picking up speed back towards them.
The pranksters still rolled around laughing when they felt the ground started to tremble more and more. When they looked my way, they were still laughing, but when they realized what was about to happen that smile was wiped of quickly.
"HEY! Just kidding!!" they screamed and jumped to their feet to get out of my way.
"I'm not amused!!" I yelled back at them as I came up to them like a raging steam-locomotive.
"You should have seen the look on your face!" Sideswipe grinned as he transformed and raced off.
"It's hilarious!" Sunstreaker laughed out loud, transformed too following his brother.
I snapped after them with my powerful jaws filled with long white pointy teeth.
"Just wait till I sink my teeth into your hides!!" I yelled after them and heaved a huge cloud of fire after them.
"Why can't you just laugh about it?" Sideswipe wanted to know.
I stopped running around like some gone-mad headless chicken. Why was I actually chasing them when I could just make them come to me? So that's what I did. Their wheels blocked and as soon as they had come to a complete stop I made them drive backwards until they were right in front of me. Than I made them transform.
"I don't think it's funny cause that guy can destroy you all before you will even know he's here! And I don't know what he'll do to me, but it won't be pretty!"
"You'll regenerate..." Sunstreaker grinned.
That really hacked into my heart. He didn't even know what Takehiko had put me through. He didn't even know what he said.
"Yeah, I know… He could beat the crap for the rest of my life… My body regenerates and the next day he can start over… and over." I let out a sigh, transformed back to my flesh self and walked back to my desk before I lost myself and tore them apart in my rage.
"He wouldn't do that… would he?" Sideswipe asked.
"Yeah, he's your husband…" Sunstreaker added to that.
I plunged down on my swivel-chair and buried my face in my hands. "Why do you think I took off? Not because he was so good to me." I said with a long sigh following that. "Please get them out of here, Blaster," I tried very hard not to cry before they had left but I just couldn't stop my tears.
What was I thinking? Why was I even here? If Takehiko did show up he could indeed easily destroy all my friends… Sure I could try to stop him… but what if I failed…?
"Now look what you did! You insensitive oafs!" Rewind quickly walked around my desk and put his arm around my shoulder.
"You made the lady cry! If Rodimus finds out you're so gonna die!" Blaster told them. "Now get out of here or I'll kick your rear!"
They already felt sorry but to keep at least some peace they took a hike.
"We're sorry…" they simultaneously said. "We didn't know that…"
"Oh, don't cry, it wasn't that awful guy!" Blaster said to me as he knelt down in front of my desk.
"I shouldn't be here," I sobbed. "I'm endangering you all…"
"But when you're gone and he does make a touchdown here, who's gonna protect us from his rage?" Eject asked.
Oh great, he did have a point there. It wouldn't matter if I left, they still would be in danger.
"Now look over here and dry your tears," Blaster said, holding a tissue box in front of me. "Nobody is dying, so stop your crying."
I looked up at him, took some tissues and dried my face. His rhyming way of speaking put a smile to my face.
"Is there any chance you can stop his deadly trance?" he asked, referring to the mind control frying thing.
"The power of my mind is way stronger than his. But he's physically way stronger. If he beats the crap out of me, I'm sure he won't stop at that. He hates mechanical life-forms."
"You can't go livin' all alone, just 'cause he might show up?" Rewind said.
"Together we stand a better chance than alone, right?" Eject added to that.
Steeljaw rubbed his head against me to give me some kind of comfort. Ramhorn just snorted angrily in the direction Sunstreaker and Sideswipe disappeared to.
"Besides, Rodimus will be down, when he finds you're not around," Blaster gave me a blink.
I grinned.
"Talking about Rodimus, weren't he and the others supposed to be back by now?" I asked.
Blaster tried to contact him through his comlink. But he only got static noise. "That is strange… he must be out of range…"
Kup contacted him at just when he stopped trying to get a better connection. He called him back to his station there were rumors about them seen cooperating with Drath's men. But chief Turan from the city police was still investigating that.
The phone constantly rang with complaints and questions about the situation that it didn't take me very long to put on the answering machine and went for a cup of tea at the machine down the hall.
Maybe they were in some kind of trouble. I tried to contact Rodimus with my mind without any luck. Now that was strange…
I have to go look for him and the others… I promised him I'd be his backup!
I transformed to my eagle form and took off. In this form I could pick up quit some speed so it didn't take me very long to reach the city. There I started to sense Rodimus' spark, I was getting nearer. This way I could find my way to him.
When I flew high above the busy streets I caught an attention-grabbing truck… it was Rodimus! And Ultra Magnus and Arcee. I soared down… strange… his spark wasn't in there… neither were the sparks of Ultra Magnus and Arcee.
OK NOW I was worried!
His spark led me to this huge mansion surrounded by a huge garden with so many trees, you could almost call it a forest.
I flew around the house to pinpoint Rodimus' location when I noticed this blond woman and a guy with reddish chestnut colored hair. Clearly I sensed Rodimus' spark in him…
'What the…' Lot's of thoughts played through my mind. 'How did that happen? What is she up to… he's not gonna be safe in the house of that crime boss! In that body they can shoot him when ever they please and there won't be a thing he can do about it. Yeah… duck…or run.
He disappeared into the house. The heavy looking red curtains were opened on
one of the windows on the lower floor. With my eagle eyes I saw a man in an expensive looking suit… probably Drath… Also I saw Rodimus again… held by two of Drath's goons.
Just as I made my way towards the window, beating my wings to pick up speed Rodimus freed himself from the goons, clashed their heads together, and was about to take out Drath. But his back was turned towards the blond broad who was about to hit him over the head with some small statue or whatever it was.
Just before I hit the glass I changed from flesh eagle to organic metal eagle. The broad held up the statue ready to strike as I broke through the window, shattering the glass into the office. Some strange guy with a metal mask covering his face slipped out the door. I hadn't seen him before. (Cobra Commander)
I spread my wings, stretched my legs out and grabbed the startled blond with my claws, smashing her to the ground. The statue fell to pieces out of her hand.
Rodimus looked over his shoulder, still holding Drath. "Hey, nice timing!"
I gave him a blink with my eagle eye.
He took a look at the screen where Drath had been monitoring the Autobot-bodies carrying explosives to destroy Autobot-City.
"It seems your plan is failing, Drath!" he said with a grin and knocked him out.
The lady in my claws didn't move a muscle, she was stunned by my sudden and impressive attack. She'd never ever seen an eagle as large as I was and of course never one with organic metal feathers all over her body.
It didn't take long before the Autobots arrived at Drath's house with the police. Drath and his goons – including the girlfriend – (I know her name, but I really don't feel like mentioning it… she backstabbed my favorite Autobot Rodimus!) were taken off our hands/claws and into custody.
Springer, Arcee and Ultra Magnus arrived at the scene as well, I could sense their sparks! Arcee drove her own body and Springer and Ultra Magnus were her passengers. Their bodies were too damaged to drive so they were brought there by masculine convoy.
They walked up to us. "Are we glad to see you!" Ultra Magnus said to Rodimus.
"I can't wait to get back into my own body!" Springer stated.
"Already?" I asked them. "Are you guys crazy? Why miss this great opportunity to experience some of the flesh-creatures pleasures?"
"Such as?" Rodimus asked me as he blinked at me.
My cheeks flushed up. "I mean like … good food and roller coaster rides…and ice cream!"
"Hmm yeah, of course you do!" they laughed.
I just could not get rid of my red cheeks. "FINE! Go back to your own bodies, miss out on all the good stuff!" I snorted and than glanced at Rodimus. "But not you, you're coming with me." Big smile.
