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Okay, so we're on the Bonneville Salt Flats, Rodimus went to the other Autobots – hiding around the mountain ranges surrounding the Flats - to come up with a plan to take out Takehiko. Galvatron took off… coward!
And me, Takehiko and his henchmen have taken our organic metal form. So when I write about someone transforming, it's in the organic metal form, until I mention they're back in the flesh again.
"Come back with me now, and no harm will come to you," Takehiko promised me as he held out his hand for me.
He gave me the creeps but I did my very best not to show that so I gave him a fierce look, "HAH!" and spit on the ground. "I know you better than that!"
"Oh Great Takehiko," Octane carefully attracted his attention. "I detect the Autobots not far from here… Oh, and some Decepticons as well."
DARN!! That traitor! Takehiko must find him useful to detect mechanical life cause he can't! Otherwise he never would have bothered to bring along that what he loathes more than anything: any mechanical life.
Octane probably had no idea who he was dealing with! Quickly I focused my mind on him to take him out, but Takehiko was protecting him with his mind.
"You can't protect him from me! My mind is way stronger than yours!" I pushed Takehiko out of Octane's circuits and shut him off. Octane fell to the ground.
"Your mind is the only thing you have that's stronger than me!" He mocked me before he turned to his henchmen. "Find those Autobots and destroy them!"
His men transformed to their flying lizard form – that somewhat looked like a Pteranodon - and took off to find the mechanical life forms Octane had detected.
At the same time Takehiko transformed to his predatory feline form that was similar to mine, but way larger and with manes like those of a lion. Letting out a loud roar he charged at me, thrusting his massive body forwards with his powerful hind legs.
If I wanted to have any chance of taking out Takehiko's henchmen before they reached the Autobots, I had to come up with a powerful counterattack.
The best way I could come up with within a split second – didn't have more time - to stop him was to transform to my t-rex form. It was way more massive and definitely stronger than his feline form.
So that's what I did. My body transformed while I started running towards him to bash my huge t-rex head against him and throw him backwards.
Quickly I transformed back to my own self, formed a bright yellow ki-blast – powerful enough to take the henchmen out - between the palms of my hand, shot it after them and another one right behind it.
"Watch your backs, you idiots!" Takehiko jelled after them, but they were already to far to hear him.
He obviously didn't have them around for their brains. They were so focused on finding the Autobots, they noticed my blasts just before getting obliterated by them.
That really pissed Takehiko off. "We can do this the hard way, if you insist!" He transformed to a form that was equal to my t-rex form.
Well… equal… The problem with him taking similar forms was, that – being a man - he was usually way stronger and bigger in those forms.
So I had to make sure I transformed to a bigger form or to one that could outrun him! Quickly transforming to my Thomson's gazelle form I took off.
In his bulky form there was no way he could keep up with me without transforming to some animal equally fast as the gazelle. Lucky for me, he's not familiar with the Earth's fauna, or I'd be in more trouble.
From their hiding place the Autobots watched what was going on.
"How is she gonna fight that monster! Look at the size of him!" Rodimus let out, most annoyed by the fact there wasn't anything he could do right now to help me.
"Well, she can be quit a monster herself, if you haven't noticed…" Springer said. "Remember the Godzilla form? Wonder why she doesn't just use that one."
"Maybe he has other ways to take her out, look!" Rodimus pointed towards the battle scene.
That he would transform back to his own self (but still organic metal) and throw one heck of a ki-blast after me, didn't cross my mind until I sensed it coming. I could run all I wanted, but that was something I could not outrun. It hit me in my side and whacked me to the salty ground. And that made me feel really whacked in every sense of the word.
Springer turned to Rodimus. "There was one more thing I wanted to try out on her," he told him. "She has this crystal ornament from her home world in her room."
"Yeah, I've seen it," Rodimus recalled. "She's told me it's very special and very rare...HOW WILL THAT HELP HER NOW?!" He got frustrated when he saw Takehiko beat the living daylight out of me and throw me around as if I were nothing more than a ragdoll.
"I was going to make it into an arrowhead and shoot it at her. But since I'm not allowed to try anything on her anymore..."
"We'll NEVER get it here on time…"
"Well, actually…" Springer held out his hand… holding the crystal. "I got a chance to get it out of her room to have it examined… but hadn't put it back just yet."
Lucky for him, Rodimus didn't have time to go nuclear about that right now. "Make it into an arrowhead and let's hope this works."
From metal parts of their bodies that they could spare, the Autobots forged a powerful bow and an arrow, while Springer placed the crystal into the arrowhead.
Rodimus ordered Ultra Magnus to shoot some missiles at Takehiko – about a mile away from them - to give me some chance to get away from him and regenerate.
I heard his voice in my mind.
'Ultra Magnus is about to shoot some missiles your way, make sure they hit Takehiko and not you, okay?'
'That would be great…' I let him know.
'Does that crystal from your room have any effect on your organic metal form?' he asked me.
I sensed the missiles coming, made sure Takehiko was in a position where he didn't see them. When they were about to hit him I took off with the strength I had left, transformed into the gazelle again, cause it was so darn fast.
I was hurt pretty bad, but I managed to get quit some speed in my light gazelle form.
While running from the blasts from the missile impacts, I replied Rodimus. 'It can penetrate organic metal when aimed correctly. But it's way back in Autobot City…'
'Springer has it… we're making it into an arrow and will shoot it at him with a bow we made. Do you think you can get Takehiko near our position so we can have a clear shot at him?'
I changed my course and headed right for them… but that was a long way… I managed to transform to my eagle form so I could use the winds on the flats to give me more speed while I used less energy. I was getting tired and I started seeing black spots. When I blinked my eyes a few times they faded a bit.
"How's that arrow coming?" Rodimus urged Springer.
"Done!" Springer handed him the arrow with the crystal in the head.
The shaft looked like a double-edged narrow sword, razor sharp on both sides. It had fletchings made of thin sharpened metal, just as sharp as the shaft.
Within the cloud of dust, caused by the missiles, Takehiko got back onto his feet. He shook his head and rubbed his head. The missiles didn't do a lot of damage to his organic metal body, but the force of the blast did knock him out for a few seconds.
He looked around to find me and noticed a swirling trail of dust that was left behind by my funning feet.
Right now he wasn't in the mood to throw a ki-blast after me. No, he wanted to grab me like a prey and rip me to pieces. And after that, he would find those machines who dared to fire missiles at him and destroy them!
He transformed to his lion-like form and started running after me. He knew he wasn't as fast in this form as me in my gazelle form, but he knew I'd worn me out and I wasn't gonna run for long.
'Here he comes,' Rodimus told me in my mind.
'I'll try to lure him as close to you as I can. Shoot the arrow where it will kill him. This is the only chance you'll get!' I insisted.
'Don't worry, I'll get him!' he promised me.
I slowed down at rocky the foot of the mountain where the Autobots were hiding. I was so tired and my body hurt and bled all over. It cost me lot's of energy so I let go of the gazelle form and transformed back to my own organic metal self. I still was in my large size and it cost me too much energy to transform to my smaller self.
In my organic metal body I could bleed just as much as in my organic form. It was the same blood, only in an organic metal body.
Exhausted I fell to the hard ground and gasped for air. I sure hoped Rodimus would shoot Takehiko as soon as he had the chance. I hardly had any energy to regenerate, but I had made most of my wounds stop bleeding.
Takehiko approached me and launched himself at me, pushing me hard onto the ground with one of his massive paws. His sharp claws punctured my skin till they touched my bone. I couldn't cry out but it sure HURT a lot!
Rodimus drew the bow and aimed the arrow at Takehiko.
When Takehiko saw I was too weak to do anything to defend myself against him, he transformed to his organic metal self. Just when Rodimus was about to shoot Takehiko bent down, grabbed my throat with one hand and lifted me from the rocky ground.
"Guess you don't know me well enough to defeat me," he smirked.
"Darn!" Rodimus snorted. "He's holding her exactly in the way!"
'Shoot him!', he heard my voice in his mind. 'Shoot him now! Before he's on to you!'
'But you're blocking my shot!' he objected.
'I'll regenerate, shoot him! He won't stop at me, he'll destroy every mechanical life form he can find… if only because you've given me a home and a family…"
He lowered the bow and looked down, going through his options.
'Shoot now or hand the bow to Springer, he'll shoot it!' I urged him when Takehiko pulled a dagger from his belt. 'If he let's me go he'll see you!'
He looked up again, knowing what he had to do and drew the bow, aiming the arrow at Takehiko and me.
Takehiko held his dagger against my body and gave me a malicious smirk. "I will gut you like an animal! And there will be nothing your mechanical friends can do about that!"
Rodimus drew the metal string even more and let go. The arrow shot forwards, as swift as lightning. I hardly felt it as it shot through my body, just below my collarbone.
It had such force and was so razor sharp, that it never lost speed any as it easily passed through my body. It slammed Takehiko backwards as it hit him in the eye socket, piercing his brain and nailing him to the rocky ground.
The dagger fell out of his hand and clanged onto the rocks. Rodimus threw his bow aside, jumped out of hiding and ran towards me, followed by the others.
He fell on his knees next to me and held me up with his arm supporting my shoulders. I leaned my head against his chest and opened my eyes.
"Great shot… thanks…"
"Don't speak now, just regenerate, okay?" He said as he ran his hand through my messed up hair.
Springer and Ultra Magnus checked out Takehiko, who lay motionless on the rocky surface, the arrow still firmly in place.
"That was one heck of a shot, Rodimus!" Springer said. "He won't be bothering us ever again."
Kup and Arcee knelt down next to Rodimus and me.
"How's she doing?" Arcee wanted to know.
"Will she make it?" Kup asked. "She looks pretty trashed."
He was right about that, I had deep cuts and bruises all over my body, and I haven't even mentioned that gaping wound in my shoulder, gushing up lot's of blood.
"Come on Alyx, regenerate that wound," Rodimus urged me. "You said you could…"
I let my head hang back a bit so I could see his face and gave him a smile.
"I don't have … the energy to… regenerate…" I whispered and let out a sigh.
"What…?" He looked at me with a stunned look in the eyes and on his face. "But you said…"
"You had to take …. Takehiko out…" I whispered. "You had to…" I couldn't hold my eyes open, I was so tired.
"NO, Alyx!" he shook my body. "Use my energy!"
I just smiled. Couldn't do that anyway.
Out of the blue an eagle soared down over our heads and transformed to an organic metal Azori'jin, Autobot size.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!! Not another one!!
