Hey guys! I know I know, you're all excited because this post is WAAAAY longer than any other of my posts. But the more I wrote into it, the more excited I got about posting it lol. Thank you for all of your reviews, as always, much appreciated! Please enjoy this extra long post! Don't worry, it's not the end... yet... Plus you guys seem to be pretty perceptive as well as smarter than you think you are winks
Disclaimer: I don't own Transformers, I own Project Seven (Cat) and Project Five
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Lillian hadn't said a word since she had been taken into custody. Of course they couldn't take her to the holding cells with the new discovery of their own guards knocked unconscious and shot. There was no place to keep her where they were sure that they wouldn't run into Cat or Five, so they kept Lillian in the command center as they tried tirelessly to break the codes that she had set into the computer banks.
"-realize that you could be charged with treason?! Or even terrorism?! You'll be lucky if you only get life in prison for this! Are you listening to me Ms. Andrews?!" one of the interrogation officers was trying to get the woman's attention one way or the other.
However scare tactics weren't going to work. Lillian had known what the consequences of all of this would be from the moment she had seen Cat run out of the facility for the first time and helped her escape. But she knew that if Cat and the others could escape, it would all be worth her imprisonment.
The interrogation officer had stopped his rambling for a moment as Lillian's personnel file and history was handed to him in a large manila envelope. He sighed and sat down at a console just a couple of feet behind Lil, and sat back in his chair after pulling out a large folder and reading through the files. After reading into it for only a minute or two, the man's gaze was slowly pulled back to the restrained woman sitting in front of him. He looked carefully back to a few of the men in the room and then rolled his chair so that he was close enough to whisper to Lillian.
"As you may know, I have your personnel files right here... Do you know what's in these files Ms. Andrews?"
No answer.
"You have nearly a spotless record here, except for your recent outbreak of bad behavior. However, there is one thing here that I see as your whole possible motive. Something that I doubt that you have ever told Project Seven about..." he rolled to the side of Lillian, keeping a piercing gaze upon her. She could feel it burn into the side of her face as she never even gave him a quick glance in return.
"In the few days that you have been traveling with the young girl, did you ever once tell her?" he asked cautiously.
Lillian gave a quick glance to him and looked away her eyes darting around the room wide with fear.
"You mean she knows nothing about you? Surely after twenty years she knows that she's -" he was interrupted.
"Enough!" Lillian yelled.
"Oh? I see then..." the man leaned back in his chair, knowing that he was able to get some sort of response out of the woman. As he did this, two agents walked into the control center.
"Is this Lillian Andrews?" one of them asked the interrogation officer.
"Yes. What do you want with her?" the man asked as he kept his eyes looking through the woman's file.
"We have orders from Secretary Keller to have you release her from custody," the other guard spoke.
Lillian's shocked expression threw itself onto the guards that had just announced this. The interrogation officer sat up quickly in his chair and asked, "What?! What is the meaning of this? Where the hell would Keller get the idea to-"
"That's none of your concern... sir... We were told to come to have her released upon the orders of Project Seven, no questions asked. Here are our badges, " both of the guards handed their government identification tags to the man, who wasn't sure what to make of this himself.
After a moment, the man looked up to the one of his other workers in the command center and said, "Take the handcuffs off of Andrews..."
One of the guards that had stayed in the room with Lillian stepped up to her and did as he was told. He took the ring of keys attached to his belt and rifled through them, finding the one for the woman's cuffs. As he did this, a different alarm began to sound. Something told Lillian that this wasn't a good alarm, of course any alarm would normally be under severe circumstances.
"What is that?!" the interrogation officer asked.
One of the guards at his console was typing away as he stated, "We've had a breech on NBE one's stasis controls. Apparently all of the pumps have failed. NBE one's core temperature is rising and fast!"
The interrogation officer turned to Lillian as the woman was rubbing at her wrists and asked, "Did you do this?!"
"Of course not! I turned the lights and camera systems off and nothing else!" she replied indignantly.
"Perhaps you can tell us what's going on with our other systems then?" one of the officers directed Lillian's attention to the empty seat to which she had been sitting in just a few moments ago.
Lil scowled under her breath but did as she was asked to. She sat down at the console and started typing away, taking off her codes from the system. The lights in the control room lit back up to their normal lighting and the cameras all turned back on, the monitors lighting up with the views into the hallways and rooms.
"Someone's written their own codes on the pumps... I can't seem to break them, I've never seen such a complicated code... No, I'm sorry, someone of higher intelligence than me did this..." As Lil explained all of this she caught another sight out of the corner of her eye on a camera monitor.
After a few seconds of staring Lillian stood up and said, "I have to get to NBE one now!"
"What's the hurry?" the interrogation officer asked.
"I don't have time to explain everything, but that's where I need to go!" Lillian replied as she headed for the door, some of the armed guards following.
"What, do you suppose, was that all about?" The interrogation officer asked, confused.
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"Are you two all right?!" Sam asked.
"Nothing permanent, lucky for us," Ratchet replied as he and Bumblebee were let go from their imprisonment.
"On behalf of the government of the United States, I apologize for all of this... For some reason our operatives couldn't rationalize the difference between obvious civilized beings, from themselves..." Keller said apologetically.
Bumblebee rounded up Sam and Mikaela, checking around them to make sure that nothing further would happen to any of them.
"Has the Allspark been located?" Ratchet asked, basically ignoring the agents, in a bit of anger over all of this.
Sam and Mikaela looked to Ratchet with almost confused looks on their faces.
"Well-uh, we ran into some trouble along the way... Cat's going to meet Ironhide right now in the room of the Allspark, and we came to get you guys," Sam replied.
"Catherine was not captured?" Ratchet asked, confused as to why the government agents and representatives were standing directly in front of him and were not responding to the mention of Catherine as though they were in a hurry to catch up with her.
Mikaela smiled and said, "She's free Ratchet... They let her go... They're going to let her live as a free citizen!"
Ratchet noticed the grumblings of one of the agents, whom he remembered the designation to be "Simmons". He automatically knew that this man was displeased by this.
"So you do not know if Catherine has found Ironhide yet?" the medic asked.
"She should have by know, I would think, but we haven't spoken to her since we separated and came here to get you guys. She said we should come here and find you while she went and made sure that everything else was all right," Sam replied.
"And what of Five? Is she with Catherine as well?" Ratchet asked.
Sam and Mikaela looked to each other and then back to the Autobot, "We don't know where Five went off to. She wasn't with Cat, and Cat didn't say what was happening with her."
Bumblebee and Ratchet looked to each other, both in concern mode.
"I wouldn't worry about that one... When she last left here she was full of power, and on a rampage. She can take care of herself," Simmons replied sarcastically.
Just then, an alarm sounded, making the scientists and agents look a bit perplexed.
"What's that about?" Sam asked.
"That's the alarm for NBE one... We should probably get to your "Allspark" if we're to be alive for much longer..." Banacheck motioned for them all to leave that room as the lights flashed on.
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Meanwhile, poor Optimus was stuck wondering what was going on inside, and if he should try and intervene at some point.
"Where in the pit is everyone?!" he huffed.
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"Five you have to stop this! This is insane!" Cat yelled as she watched more ice fall from the metal beast in front of her.
"I told you, Seven, this is for your own good! You may not realize it now, but it time, you'll come to understand why it is that I'm doing this!" Five replied back.
"No! I'll never understand!..." Cat turned to look at Megatron, she could tell that even as frozen as he was, he was making tiny movement, shivering almost as he tried to move his ligaments.
"You betrayed me... Which made me look as though I have betrayed them... You set me up from the moment that you revived me!... I cannot let that go unpunished, Five..." Cat turned back towards the booth, her eyes raised into an intense, serious glare.
"So what do you plan on doing about it then? Hm?! Do you plan to battle me in your weakened state, Seven?!" Five taunted.
Cat shed her remaining garbs that made her look like an agent in suit. She kicked off the shining shoes that she wore, bearing her metal feet to all who looked on.
"No Five... You've done something much worse than that... You set me up, betrayed me, and made me look like I was involved in this... You know what I have to do..." she said in a low and dangerous tone of voice. A tone that Five had never heard from her friend before.
Five punched through the glass windows and jumped down to the doors of the hanger that they were in, standing about fifty feet away from Cat.
"So you will kill me then? Is that your plan?" Five asked. In all honesty she didn't want it to turn out this way, but she decided to stand firm on her beliefs.
"I won't do anything, if you explain to everyone what you have done, and denounce your ways of thinking. If you stop this now, I won't say a word of it ever again, and we can both go on with our lives..." Cat replied, hoping to high heaven that her friend would take her up on the deal.
"I'm sorry, Seven... I can't do that. I've been made into an experiment for the last time in my life... Besides... Your life is soon coming to an end... You won't even live long enough to know what happens after dark of today..." Five said quietly, sorrow filling her voice.
"I may be dying, but I'm going to die fighting for what's right! Not fighting for my past... This world has yet to understand just what to do with itself Five... You can't expect all humans to take responsibility for what has happened to us..." Cat tried so hard to reason, even with her back turned to Megatron, who was gaining even more control.
"You sound like me when I was your age... If you would have asked me a few years ago, I would have absolutely agreed with you... But then I was turned into this, " she lifted her arms and gave herself an overlook, "and now I know what I have to do..." Five was becoming angered again, having been forced to remember her days of torture.
"And I know what I have to do too..." Cat replied, taking a couple of steps towards Five.
Five bowed her head in silence for a moment.
"I do not want to kill you Seven... But I promised myself that I would destroy any who got in my way of my plan..."
"And I promised myself that I do what's right..." Cat replied quietly.
Five raised her head again, her yellow eyes looking straight into Cat's ice blue ones.
"Then we must do what we must..." Five was gone in a flash, leaving Cat to look all around her. She couldn't see or smell her, but she knew that she was closing in on her and fast.
A strong fist struck Cat in the side of the face, sending her colliding into the wall. Cat stood up and even dusted herself off with a smile. She looked around the room, not seeing anyone but the lowly scientists who cowered against the walls, and hid amongst some of the equipment in the room. Why they hadn't left, Cat couldn't understand, but she had a job to finish right now.
Cat picked up a chair and waited in silence. She concentrated on the quiet air in the room and waited until she could pick up feet that were fast approaching her. Swinging the chair, Cat landed a direct hit onto Five, which knocked the fighter several feet away and leaving her unbalanced, giving Cat enough time to rush to her and strike her with several punches and a kick to the abdomen. Cat then used her body's energy and clapped her hands together, running her left hand over her robotic right one, which transmuted it into a long, double-edged blade. She ran forward and swung it at Five, who moved much to quick for Cat. As she swung her bladed arm, Five got behind her and elbowed Cat in the back as hard as she could, sending her forward, almost into another wall, if Five hadn't reappeared in front of Cat, punching her hard in her belly, leaving Cat knocked out of wind in her lungs. She fell to the floor and slid about a hundred feet away, holding her stomach with her left hand, trying to take a breath.
Five walked over to Cat slowly and stopped over her doubled over figure.
"You can stop this now, Seven. All you have to do join me... And all of this will go away... Please Seven..." Five's voice was trembling.
Cat finally took in some full gasps, her lungs returning to their normal breathing patterns.
"I can't Five... I have to do what's right for this world..." Cat stood up, holding her stomach in a pained expression.
Five raised a hand to Cat, for the finishing blow.
"Cat!" Sam yelled as he and Mikaela trekked their way into the room. They got up to the girl and got on either side of her, looking over her.
"What happened?!" Mikaela asked, Simmons, Banachek and Keller fast approaching as well.
Cat said nothing as she stared up into Five's eyes.
-Send them away Seven... Send them away so we can finish this...- Five ordered through their internal connection.
Cat growled and said, "You guys need to go to Jazz and Ironhide. They're waiting for you in the Allspark chamber..."
"What about you?!" Sam asked, feeling something was definitely wrong.
"We're going to stay here... And guard against Megatron for as long as we can..." she explained in a low tone.
Just then Ratchet and Bumblebee also walked into the hanger. Ratchet looked at what was Megatron beginning to show signs of more movement, and then down to Cat and Five. He scanned both of them and was a bit perplexed as to what he found.
"Catherine, I think you should-" Ratchet began.
"I said go!" Cat snapped back, looking into the optics of the medic. She tried her best to tell him without saying a word.
Ratchet and Bumblebee looked to Five who said nothing, and barely even moved. Neither of them liked what was going on in front of them.
"Cat, we just-" Sam started before being pushed away by their friend.
"Just go!" Cat held back the tears that would have stung her eyes. She didn't want them to go, but in order for them to get to safety she had to push them away.
"All right Cat... We're going..." Sam took a soft hold on Mikaela's arm and tugged her in the direction of the door.
Keller looked to Five as he stood next to Cat. He looked her dead in the eyes, almost in awe about how these two women could be the same person from a cloning process. But something disturbed him as well. Something wasn't right.
He then turned to Cat and asked, "Is there something going on here ladies?" in a suspicious tone.
The others who were walking towards the door, looked back to Keller as he asked this question. Cat looked to Five, who frowned, then looked back to Keller.
"Yeah... You see that giant-ass robot over there? It's about to come to life, and then kill everyone who stands in his way of the Allspark... You need to leave, Secretary..." Cat said sarcastically.
Keller wanted to say something, he really wanted to know what the truth was between these two, but he chose to walk away quickly. He'd like to have talked, but Cat did, in fact, make the point that there was a giant robot bent on destruction about to be reanimated to life. As well as the fact that the other artifact not far from where they were was in danger of being captured by this beast. Keller quickly shuffled his way out of the hanger, Simmons, Banachek, Maggie and Glen in tow. Sam and Mikaela, however, looked back to Cat one last time, Ratchet and Bumblebee doing the same.
-Goodbye... my friends...- Cat thought sadly, her heart suddenly felt like it had dropped to her stomach as she realized that it would be the last time she would see them.
The four looked away coldly as they walked quickly to catch up to the others.
"It's for the best... You've done the right thing by pushing them away... It'll make it easier for me to destroy them if they decide not to go along with my little plan," Five stated proudly.
Cat gritted her teeth and turned to Five, swinging her newly transformed bladed arm and nearly missing Five as she scooted back quickly to avoid the swing. Cat had almost admonished herself for missing when she looked up to see Five looking down at her chest. Cat had made a considerably large gash in Five's chest. It went from her left shoulder down at an angle to the middle of her chest. Five looked up to Cat and grinned a little.
"Perhaps I've misjudged your skill, little sis. Your anger seems to have heightened your senses even in your dying moments... Sadly, I'm running out of time, and I need to end this quickly," she stated simply.
"Don't you dare think that I'm going to make this easy! I may be dying, but your death may not be far away either!" Cat lashed forward at Five once again.
While they were battling, Megatron could only watch as he gained control of one arm, knocking some of the catwalks out of his way. There wasn't much time left.
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Getting to the room where the Allspark was in the hands of Ironhide, currently, Sam and Mikaela felt relieved to see them.
"Where's Optimus?" Ratchet asked.
"I've just gotten off of communications with him, he's waiting for us to exit the tunnel that Jazz and I came here in... His form was much too large to fit in that tiny crawl space..." Ironhide bellowed. He seemed upset, but he was glad to see that Ratchet and Bumblebee weren't harmed.
"Where's Cat and Five?" Jazz asked, the scientists and soldiers turning to see the new group of people walk in.
Sam and Mikaela looked to each other, and then to Bumblebee and Ratchet for help with understanding.
"Catherine and Five have opted to defend against Megatron as he comes out of stasis. They are going to try and buy us some time to escape with the Allspark," Ratchet explained.
"Megatron?! Where is he?! I'll take care of him myself!" Ironhide handed the Allspark to Bumblebee as he shoved his way towards the hanger doors.
"No! Ironhide! We need to get the Allspark away from here as far and as fast as we can in order to ensure it's safety! If we can get far enough in time, Megatron will have trouble tracking us down!" Ratchet demanded, stopping the weapons specialist in his tracks.
"Yeah, plus Five is in there, you saw what she did to old Screamer, she alone should give us the time we need, if nothing else!" Jazz added.
"If you're going to leave, then it'd better be quick! You might be able to hide this thing in Mission City, it's only twenty-two miles from here," Captain Lennox interjected, "But we cannot do this without help from the Air force.."
"We can take care of that, we've got some old systems in a storage room that we could send a signal to them from, but I'll need you two to help, "Keller motioned for Maggie and Glen to follow him.
"We'll come with you!" Banachek tugged at Simmons' bullet-proof vest in order to bring him along.
"Let's get on it then!" Jazz transformed, followed by the other three Autobots, Sam and Mikaela jumping inside of Bumblebee's cab.
The soldiers all grabbed what little equipment that they could and jumped into some armed vehicles, as well as old army Hummers, following behind the Autobots as they left quickly. The room becoming considerably quiet now that they had made their escape.
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Cat hit her back against the wall with such force that she coughed up a bit of blood. Five was coming at her quickly, and punched her in the stomach. Cat doubled over, her eyes wide and her mouth agape. Before Cat could hit the ground Five grabbed her by the nape of her shirt and threw her to the other side of the room. Our friend hit the wall face first this time and slid to the floor, dropping like a ton of bricks. But still, she willed herself to stand, even though she knew her fate would arise soon enough. Sure enough, Five was right behind her, and grabbed her by the back of her torn tank top. Feeling a pinch of pity, Five merely threw Cat to the ground lightly. Five looked up to see that Megatron could now move both of his arms and torso. He was thrashing about, destroying everything in his path.
"I... am... Megatron!" he seethed as he tore everything apart.
Five looked to the floor where she had thrown Cat, and saw that the younger girl had passed out, blood practically draining from her mouth and ears, as well as smeared all over her cheeks.
Five smirked and said, "You won't feel pain anymore Seven... So I'll let you die as you are now..." she then turned to Megatron who looked down at her furiously.
"I'm sure you're already aware of what I expect of you... You will obey me, or I'll slaughter you as easily as I slaughtered your second in command!" Five commanded.
Megatron glared down at the tiny human and replied, "I obey no one!!"
He swung a giant arm forward, crashing lights and carts of wheeled staircases to the ground. Five moved out of the way easily, but everything else aimed for Cat.
"NO!" Lillian yelled as she ran to Cat's aid, throwing her body over the young girls' own body.
Everything crashed on them and around them, leaving a dusty fog over the area. Five glanced down to see that there was nothing left of either Lillian or Cat, and then looked back up to Megatron, who was now transforming, getting ready to fly out of the facility. Five ran up the only free-standing staircase left and jumped onto Megatron's form as he flew away, leaving the room in shambles.
Five held onto Megatron's armor easily as she looked back and said quietly, "Goodbye forever..."
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The hanger in which Megatron had just fled was deathly quiet. There were overturned desks, and large shards of metal lying about. For several minutes you could have heard a pin drop to the ground. That is, until a large sheet of metal was lifted up and pushed off to the side. The pained face of Cat looked around the room, seeing nothing but what looked to be the remnants of a tornado's wake.
"Damn, damn damn damn!!" Cat punched a nearby pillar with her right arm, causing damage to the thing. She struggled to stand, falling on the first try, but catching herself against a wall. Her left leg was slightly damaged and crooked. She growled in anger.
Cat walked along the wall, getting to the door thinking that perhaps she had time to find the Autobots before she heard a faint whisper.
"S-S...Seven..." Lillian's voice raspy, at best.
Cat turned to see the woman holding a hand up to signify her whereabouts.
"Lil!" Cat yelled, balancing herself over to the wreckage that she had just climbed out of.
"Lil! Hang on!" she picked large sheets of metal and threw them nearly across the room as she made it to her friend.
Cat fell to her knees and looked over Lillian. A beam had hit her directly in the base of her back, which seemed to cause paralysis, as Lillian tried to move, but could sit herself up. She had gashes on her cheeks and forearms, as well as a large piece of steel imbedded into her right side.
"Lil... What... What'd you do?!" Cat sat on the ground completely and gathered up her friend to a sitting position, leaning her against the wall.
Lillian smiled and coughed up a little blood, "I had to make sure... that you were safe..."
"Why?! My body can handle things differently than yours!" Cat scolded the older woman.
Lillian chuckled lightly, her lungs giving her another coughing fit as she did this. Cat heard footsteps nearing the hanger as she looked up to see three armed guards standing at the entrance, stopped by the scene.
"What are you just standing there for?! Go get help! Get a medic, this woman has been severely hurt!" Cat yelled angrily to them, two of guards obeying her and running back for help, the other could only look on.
"Seven..." Lillian rasped out, Cat looking back to her with her eyes welling with tears.
"I knew that you were meant to be an important part of this world when I first laid eyes on you... You know that... You're different from Five... You always have been..."
Cat felt overwhelmed, she was trying to understand what Lillian was getting at, "What are you talking about?" she asked softly.
"When you were... born..." Lillian brought a hand to Cat's cheek.
"Five's surrogate mother didn't... pass anything onto her besides her... bad attitude," she joked a little.
"But you... You got your blue eyes from your surrogate... No one knew why... The genes in which you were... clone from was from a woman with... brown eyes..." Lillian turned her head and coughed again, raising Cat's concern.
As Lillian looked back to Cat, setting her eyes dead into her own, Cat's body froze with realization.
"Lil... What are you saying?" Cat asked.
"They don't know why but... You got your blue eyes... from me..." Lillian cracked a small smile.
Cat sat back from the older woman for a moment, almost unable to process what it was that she was being told.
"You... You were my... surrogate?...Why didn't you... You didn't say anything!" Cat looked back to Lillian.
"I couldn't bring myself to... Your whole life I was only allowed to hold you when you were born... I was just as stupid back then, as some of those board members still are today... I was so invested into myself that I didn't realize how easily I would fall in love with the little girl that I gave life to... I wasn't supposed to be a part of your life anymore after you were born, but I managed to talk my way into a position on the board members team... And when all of those awful things happened to you," she put a hand on the cold metal of Cat's arm and traced the scratches and dents with her fingers, "I just wanted to die... I couldn't believe that I had allowed you to be put through all of that... I should have run away with you before you were born while I had the chance to..."
Cat was motionless, her body was still frozen with fear and realization.
"I should have given you the childhood that you deserved... But I was so infatuated with my work... I should been the proper mother to you... Even if you weren't really mine... And now I'm going to die without seeing you live a full life..." Lil's eyes filled with tears.
"No... No, they're getting a medic! You're not going to die! And even if they can't help you there's always..." Cat's eyes went wide as she struggled to stand, and looked up to where Megatron and escaped with Five, or at least she assumed that it was where they had gone off to.
"FIVE! FIVE GET BACK HERE! FIVE! LIL'S DYING! I NEED YOUR HELP!" she yelled, hoping that her counterpart could hear her.
Lillian coughed and retched violently this time, Cat looked down to see that the woman was sitting in a pool of her own blood, and that it was only a matter of time now. She sat back down besides her "mother" and held her hand.
"Five can heal you! She can heal anything! She healed me, remember?!" Cat knew that she was only kidding herself, she knew that Five wouldn't heal anyone who opposed her.
"It'll be okay Seven... As long as you live... I can die knowing that I've done at least one thing right... Even though you were never really mine..." and with that Lillian's eyes rolled back into their sockets, and her head sunk to her chest.
She was gone...
Cat took hold of Lil's hand once more and tapped the back of it gently.
"Lil? Lil! Hey! No! Lil!!" She took hold of the woman's chin and pulled her face up to meet her own. Cat knew that she was gone.
The guard watched as Cat gently lowered Lil's head back down to a bow as she closed her own eyes.
"No Lil... I'll always be yours... Someone who cared enough about me to help me escape my hellish existence here will always be apart of me..." Cat then stood up and opened her eyes, tears streaming down her blood-smeared cheeks.
Cat looked to the guard who jumped in surprise by the glare that she was giving him.
"Have the robots left?" she asked.
The guard nodded and replied, "About twenty minutes ago I think..."
"Is there an extra vehicle around here that I can make use of?" Cat asked.
The guard had to think for a second before being snapped back to attention by Cat, "Did you hear me?!"
"I -uh... Yeah! Yeah I think there's one... The SUV that those kids were found in... It's still outside I think!" he thought quickly this time.
"Good... Now... Where did they go?" she asked.
"I-I think I heard some of the scientists say something about Mission City! It-It's close by I think!" he replied.
"Yeah, I know where it is..." Cat hobbled away from Lillian's body and walked close to the guard.
The girl then turned back to the body of her would-be mother and said, "I can't promise you that I'll live... In fact, I'm pretty sure that I won't be able to escape this the same way as you... But I can promise you that I won't let Five have control... EVER..."
Cat then turned to the guard and said, "Don't let anything else happen to her... She's been through enough..." and she left, keeping balance on her crooked leg as she limped towards the area where she was certain the SUV was.
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Chapter Teaser!
Starscream poked his head up from the memories, his face suddenly went to looking down at the woman who stood in front of him, facing Megatron.
"I... I believe she would be of help to us in our retrieval of the Allspark Lord Megatron..." he grumbled.
"...Fine... Then you will be in charge of it... I will have nothing to do with a human!" Megatron rumbled as he transformed and took off.
Starscream looked back down to the smirking human as she said, "Let's go then.. I have a feeling that we're farther behind those Autobots than we thought we were."
Starscream transformed and allowed the woman to climb into his cockpit, then took off towards Mission City.
-I do not know what it is that you are planning for us human... But I will not obey you for long...- Starscream thought as they headed off towards the city.