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Sorry this took a bit long, but it had to be right and I was busy.
BUT HERE IT IS!!
I called this chapter simply 'Conclusion of the fight' cause I didn't want to give anything away in the chapter title
"Oh NO! Not another one!" Arcee let out.
They got up and aimed their weapons at him. Rodimus softly pressed weakened, dying body closer against him, while my warm blood ran down his chest and legs.
The Azori'jin looked as fierce as Takehiko, but not as malicious. Without hurting them he made the Autobots step out of his way to clear a path towards me and Rodimus.
Rodimus aimed the rifles on his arm at him. "Don't you come any closer or I will fire!"
"Please," the Azori'jin said with his warm and friendly voice. "She's dying, let me help her regenerate her wounds."
Surprised but still wary Rodimus lowered his guns. "Who are you?"
"I am Kanaye," he said as he knelt down beside me, his knees in a pool of my blood that slowly grew bigger. "Alyx' brother."
He put his hand over my wound. The golden light lit up in the palm of his hand, not a soft light as usual, but shining bright. He needed a lot of power to regenerate the deep wound. His other hand he held on my back, where the other side of the wound was and so regenerated it from both sides.
I let out a soft moan and moved my head a bit.
"Sorry I didn't get here sooner, sis," he told me. "I could have saved you a lot of trouble."
"Will she make it now?" Rodimus asked.
Kanaye shrugged his shoulders lightly. "We'll see when I'm done. I can only heal her body, the rest is up to her."
While Kanaye healed my wounds, Rodimus has a chance to observe him. He did see the family resemblance in his face. His long fiery hair (reddish with bright highlights) was braided in lots of thin braids. He didn't have any facial hair like a beard.
His outfit looked like that of a modern warrior. It was made of black leather, pants and jacket. Around his waist he wore a leather belt with small but lethal weapons attached to it.
On his back he carried a sword in a scabbard that looked like a Japanese katana. On his feet he wore black leather boots with straps with metal buckles.
When he had regenerated my wound he looked up to Rodimus. "Can we take her somewhere where she can rest?"
"Autobot-City…"
A long dark shuttle - with two wings bent forwards and a pointy nose… kinda like Cyclonus but than bigger, way better looking and more streamlined – appeared from behind the mountains. Kanaye controlled it with his mind.
"I will bring her and you there with my shuttle," he said.
Rodimus carefully picked me up from the ground and carried me into the shuttle.
Before leaving, Kanaye pulled the arrow out of Takehiko's eye socket and obliterated his body with a ki-blast.
The incredibly fast shuttle got us back to Autobot City within half an hour! In stead of hours, since we were on the other side of the country. (being Northern America)
In the medical bay there was already a bed prepared for me, a big one since I was still in my larger organic metal form. First Aid hooked me up to several machines to monitor my condition.
"She's weak… but she's holding on," he concluded after carefully studying the monitors for a moment.
Rodimus let out a relieved sigh. As did the others.
My body had gained strength quickly while resting and I was able to regenerate my smaller wounds, even though I was still unconscious. That showed First Aid I was improving and when he told Rodimus and the others they were very relieved.
I was surprised to wake up and see several of my friends around my bed. There was of course First Aid – as he was the boss in the medical bay - , Rodimus, Kup, Springer and Arcee. I was surprised to even be in a bed.
"Hey, babe," Rodimus took my hand and gently squeezed it. "You had me worried there for a while."
I smiled. "You mean I survived Takehiko…?"
Then Kanaye appeared from behind him.
"Oh, so that's how I got here alive and all in one piece…" I said softly and grinned. "What took you so long?"
"I had to escape from a well guarded dungeon first," was his reply. "Then I had to find me a ship to go after Takehiko's cruiser, which was very, very fast. Luckily I knew where he was heading."
"When did you get here? How did you find me?" I asked him.
"I followed the Decepticon they had taken with them. It was easy to sense him and Takehiko took him all the way here." Kanaye explained.
"Yes, where is that low life traitor anyway!?" I wanted to know. "Would he really sell out his own kind to stay alive?" I looked at the Autobots around my bed for an answer to my questions.
"He's in our brig… and yes, he would," Rodimus said. "But don't you worry about him, we'll take care of that." He sat down on the side of my bed. His weight made me hang against him.
"That feels familiar…" I remembered from my unconscious state. "Have you been sitting there a lot while I was out?"
He nodded with a smile. "Where else would I be?"
"Well… being the boss around here … does take a lot of your time."
"Not even Galvatron himself will get me away from you when you need me," he assured me.
I gave him a big smile with flushed cheeks and put my hand on his.
Kanaye hadn't said anything earlier, but he was getting a bit curious by now.
"Are you two…" how was he gonna put it. "…romantically involved?"
I grinned and my cheeks flushed even more. "Yeah…"
Kanaye crossed his arms across his chest. "But…"
He rubbed his chin and thought of how to make his next question as painless as possible. "He's a robot." He just let out.
"He's a mechanical life form," I corrected him. "He's not just like another toaster, you know that. They all have a spark, they are alive."
"Yes, yes, I know... but he's mechanical… and you're organic… hear the difference?"
Rodimus crossed his arms across his chest – while sitting on the edge of my bed - and slightly tilted his head.
"No offence," Kanaye shrugged his shoulders in an apologizing manner.
"None taken," Rodimus replied.
"Can I at least know why?" He asked me. "Why a him?"
I pulled myself up on Rodimus' arm, sat up in bed and looked my brother in the eyes.
"I don't have a lot of positive experience with organics," I reminded him. "I wasn't planning to fall for a mechanical guy, I just did. When I first saw him I thought he was hot, and when I got to know him better I just fell for him."
Now Rodimus' face started to redden up a bit.
"And that was way before you took me back to Azoria. When I was running from Takehiko I literally ran into him and it didn't take long before the old flame returned," I glanced at him. "Right?"
"Right!"
First Aid let out a sigh. "That's SO charming…"
"Yeah…" Arcee glanced at Springer exactly as he glanced at her, and because everybody looked at me and Rodimus, I was the only one who saw them blush.
I knew it, it was so obvious between those two, even though they hadn't really expressed it to one another. Yet.
"All right, that was mushy enough," Kup burst the pink bubbles. "Can we get back to reality please?"
Kanaye could see it was pretty serious in the way we looked at each other. I never looked at Takehiko that way… or he at me.
"Oh, well, who am I do decide who you should love…?" he said.
I was so glad to hear that and swung my arms around his neck. "Thanks, bro!"
First Aid checked my condition on the monitors I was hooked on to.
"Are you gonna let me out?" I asked him.
"I think I will, yes. All looks fine," he replied, "you've made a remarkable recovery."
When I finally got out of there me and Rodimus showed Kanaye around in Autobot-City. I introduced him to every Autobot we ran into.
"You've made lot's of friends here," he concluded. "So I guess they were not afraid of you after all."
After a few days Kanaye had to go back to Azoria, to clear our family name after the ruined bond between us and Takehiko's family. I was glad he could understand why I wanted to stay here.
Most of my Autobot friends were there when he fired up his shuttle and prepared to leave. He said goodbye to his newfound friends.
Finally he gave me a long tight hug. "I'm gonna miss you, sis," he said when he let me go. He looked at Rodimus. "Treat my sister well, Rodimus."
He nodded. "No need to worry about that." He blinked at me.
Than Kanaye took off in his black shiny ship, back home to Azoria.
In the next chapter, DARK AWAKENING!
(in this time line, that episode is happening just before The return of Optimus Prime, cause that makes more sense, not just in my opinion)
