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Chapter XI
Isis woke up after a long ride across the border of the state. She found herself still inside the cockpit of a jet, so there wasn't much room to stretch. She looked out the window to see trees about two thousand miles below. She hoped to God that Starscream wouldn't flip over and throw her out.
"How long have I been out?" she asked not knowing she did.
"About four mega-cycles," he answered. Isis almost laughed at the sound of his voice. "I thought you would never wake up."
"So you actually wanted me to be alive?"
Starscream growled. "Of course, you brainless slime. Your race showed the slightest hint of intelligence, why not you?"
Isis was about to hit the controls until something stopped her and made her think. She smirked and stared at the buttons in front of her. "I know what you're doing. You're trying to get me angry just so you can have a reason to throw me out. But you won't even do that because you kidnapped me for a reason."
Starscream gave a "hmph", so Isis figured he was smirking under all that metal. "Sorry to have doubted your intelligence, Isis."
"Yeah, well, boys have always thought girls were--…Did you just say my name?"
"I suppose I did. Isis Blanks, correct?"
"Have you been spying on me?"
"For a while."
Isis' eyes widened and she fell back into the seat. At least he has a bit of honesty, or he's just trying to scare me again she thought. And as he realized the girl was scared he had laughed, adding to her fear. It's official. This guy's creeping me out.
Another hour passed when Starscream landed on the side of a mountain. He allowed Isis out and transformed. He bent down to pick her up and she shouted in protest. Starscream shouted a few curses back at her until she was finally quiet.
"Jou got 'er?" said a voice. By the sound of it, it was sort of German…and crazy.
"Of course I got her. I never leave cities empty-handed…or without some blood." He smiled wickedly at Isis. "Either option is fine with me."
"Well, not with me!" the girl shouted back. A voice in her head told her to shut up before Starscream decided to crush her. The Decepticon shot a quick glare at her, then looked back to where the voice was coming from.
"I have her, now let me in before I turn you into scrap."
"But vere's ze other?"
"Megatron has an interest in only one for now, and one I have. Now let me in!"
"Jou didn't say ze magic vord!" it teased. Starscream held up his null ray.
"NOW!" he shouted. A few gears where heard and the mech turned to the side of the hill next to him, then walked towards it.
"Dude, that's rock," Isis pointed out stupidly. Starscream ignored her and his body phased right through the rock into a dark cave littered with the same crystals Isis had seen before in the woods.
"Holographic rock," Starscream corrected. "Do me a favor and shut up."
"Yes, sir asshole!" Isis saluted. Starscream tightened his grip, making her yelp, then brought her up to his optics.
"Shut. Up. Or you will die."
"Kill her and you be killed," said a different voice, a female's. A spider up to Starscream's thigh and definitely bigger than Isis liked walked from the side rock and in front of him. "Megatron likes his victims alive, so they can 'see the face of their doom.'"
"Don't lecture me, peasant," Starscream hissed. "I've been through enough slag with that over-glorified leader of ours."
Memory had slapped Isis across the face when she heard "Megatron" from the spider. The story of his rise, his destruction, and then his fall. From what she gathered, the Decepticon leader wanted her for something. And there was one other than her.
Starscream was led by the black spider over to an even larger part of the cave. It was made completely of metal, unlike the rest of the tunnel. It looked more like the front of a ship; controls, monitors, all was there. Isis wanted so bad to ask what the heck was going on, but she was afraid to irritate Starscream any further.
Standing to the side of the area, in a large pod, was a mech a couple feet taller than Starscream and by the looks carried a ton of strength. It showed no sign of activity, so Isis guessed it to be asleep. In front of her she saw a glass cylinder, and inside was someone else. She couldn't tell if it was a boy or girl, but it was obviously human, and it was curled into a ball on the base of the prism. Starscream walked towards it, opened it, and threw her in.
"There's such thing as being gentle!" she said, shaking a fist at him.
"Then I guess I'm not a gentle creature," he growled. He walked off to another part of the room and got into a pod similar to the one the largest was in. His optics closed and a hum was heard as he fell to stasis.
Isis looked at the being in the same cage as her. It was breathing at least. She walked over, poked it several times to try to get it to wake up, but it barely moved an inch. At her last poke it moved its arm. She poked it again and it groaned.
"Go away…" it hissed softly. "Leave me alone…"
"I'm Isis," she said, ignoring the thing's wishes. From the voice it was a boy. "Do you have a name?"
"None…that I can…remember…"
"Well, you gotta have a name. Everyone has one."
He was silent.
"Let's try this again. I'm Isis."
"I have no name…" He curled in tighter.
"Want one, then?"
"I want my…old name…They took it…"
"Who?"
"Them." He said the word as if it were a curse. "They took…my only name…Monsters…All of them…"
She waited a while. The boy sounded weak and out of life. The energy was sucked clean out of him.
"Why are you here?" she asked.
"Same reason you are…" he groaned. He lifted his hand slightly. "Touch me…"
"Huh?"
"Do it…"
Isis did as she was told and stroked the boy's hand. Immediately he reacted and grabbed her wrist tightly. He only looked and sounded weak, but his strength told her otherwise. She grunted as she tried to pull him off, but each time she gathered up strength so did he.
"Let go of me!" she cried.
"Isis Blanks…" he whispered. "Sixteen, energetic…witty, Frost Guard High, friend of Dina Ensley…sister of Thomas."
She looked at him with an eyebrow raised. "You must be crazy," she said. "I don't have any siblings named Thomas."
"None of…that…you know of…"
Slowly his strength faded away, allowing her hand to be free. She rubbed her wrist from the grip and continued staring at the boy.
"I met…someone with the…name of…Thomas…once…"
"If you're saying he's my brother or something, forget it. I never had a brother. I'm an only child."
"I saw his history…like I've done yours…He was taken as a baby…Not even his parents…knew where he went…Disappeared…Like you."
"What on God's blue and green Earth are you talking about!?"
"We are here…for harvest… Your brother… was born after you…He had enough in…him for them…when he…matured…He escaped…They have been searching…for years…"
Isis felt her eyes widen to limits and sweat pouring from each point of her body. Questions roamed around her head that she couldn't think of what to say or what to do. She's kidnapped and some boy tells her that she has a brother? Taken by the Decepticons? What did they want with him? What did they do to him? Is he dead? Is he alive? Where is he? Too many questions with one answer. It was there in front of her and she didn't know its meaning.
Carrier.
***
"I ain't joking!" Dina shouted at Jazz. "I saw her taken right up from the street and to somewhere by a Decepticon! Now either you tell me what the heck's going on or I'll get a blowtorch to your ass!"
"We can't tell you until we find Isis," Prowl answered. "It's easier to explain when both of you are here."
Dina crossed her arms. "So, what, you hate wasting breath?"
"We don't have breath, and I said it's easier to explain when both of you are here. If we talk to much about your condition, we'll be hauled back into the ground."
"Wait, condition? So suddenly I'm sick?"
"Different," Jazz said, half-smile on his face. "Unique, special, whatever word you want."
"Are you guys tryin' to make me confused as hell, 'cause it's workin'!"
"Calm down, Dina," Prowl said. "If you get any angrier the Decepticons will track you."
"HOW?!"
"We can't tell you."
Dina rubbed her forehead and then combed her fingers across her hair. "Alright, now tell me if you're allowed to answer and give me an answer. Is there a reason you guys are my friends?"
"Yes."
"Why?"
"To protect you from the Decepticons."
"Why?"
They were silent.
"Okay, if I'm calm the Decepticons can't find me?"
"Correct."
"Why?"
Again they were silent.
"Why is everything secrets in this relationship?! You guys know nothing about--!"
"Dina."
"Sorry…Can you find Isis?"
"It's sorta a faint signal," Jazz said, "but it's out of state."
"How far?"
"From here to the Appalachia."
"That's three hundred miles away from here!"
Jazz shot her look to tell her to calm down again. She looked at the ground and clenched her fist to try and not shout. He continued, "But we can get there in about an hour, if that's okay with ya, yer Highness."
"Don't even try to be funny," she threatened. "I'm from the South, okay? We've got gunshots galore and packing pounds of pressure when it comes to fist fights."
"Okay, jus' chill," the white mech said, shifting into his vehicle mode. "I'll put some music on for tha road trip so you won't rip mah seat off."
"I'll rip off more than that…" she grumbled.
***
Isis sat there, back against the glass and listening to the boy mumbling to himself a load of nonsense for hours. She sat there wondering about her "brother" the boy was talking about until she heard a humming sound. A figure appeared before her and the boy and took on a color until it showed itself to be a teenage human male. He opened his eyes and smiled at Isis.
"Starscream," Isis growled. "What do you want now?"
"Just to teach you." He walked towards her and she stood up.
"Teach me what? Hey!" Seth grabbed her hand and pulled her close, other arm wrapped around her waist. "Lemme go!"
"You need a lesson in who your superiors are," the boy smirked. He whispered into her ear, "Lesson one…You are to refer to me as Lord Starscream."
"Forget it."
"Repeat it."
"Fine…" She sighed. "I am to refer to you as Lord Jackass."
He slapped her across the cheek, making her step back and hold that side. She looked back at him, tears almost ready to fall through. He walked slowly up to her and removed her hand, looking almost tenderly but threateningly into her eyes.
"If you are to be my Carrier, you need to learn respect. I don't want to have to hurt you…" he sighed. He brought his mouth close to her ear one more time. "You are to refer to me as Lord Starscream."
"I am…to refer to you as Lord Starscream…" This was torture. Sure they were words, but it shouldn't feel this painful.
The boy purred and smiled. "Good girl…" He began kissing her ear. She tried to pull away, but he only brought her closer and dug the tips of his fingers into her back, making her yelp.
"You don't quit, do you?" said a voice she recognized. Isis looked ahead to see an African-American girl glaring at Seth with her hands on her hips. Seth stopped and looked back at her with that same grin he had.
"I can't help myself. You got a Carrier, now it's our turn."
"Mine's weak. Just look at him." She pointed to the boy on the ground. He hadn't moved an inch since Isis came. How long had he really been like that? "Are you sure there aren't any male ones?"
"Pretty sure." He moved his lips over to Isis' neck and started kissing it softly, making her sigh. They were cold and deadly, but she felt like she wanted more. Seth was pretty hot for an alien species, but it was against everything she had to even have a good conversation with him. Prowl warned her that Decepticons would kill her at first glance, but why didn't he? Starscream had the chance to kill her now he was almost forcing her to love him.
Damn you, sexual temptation.
"Well I need another and fast! This guy's running too low on energon!"
"You want a turn with Isis then?"
"Ew, no! That's exactly why we get opposite genders in the first place!"
Seth shrugged. "Suit yourself." He turned back to Isis and smiled again. Isis couldn't scream or yell or run. She was paralyzed with eyes staring wide at the boy in front of her. "Don't be alarmed, human. This will only take a moment…"
He kissed her.
A few seconds after he started the kiss Isis could feel a sort of hot liquid come from her stomach and up through her throat and then made its way into Seth's mouth. He moaned at the taste of it and pulled closer to get more. Isis knew a kiss shouldn't be this way, something coming from your insides. It was something totally different. She pulled away from him and fell to the floor, breaking the kiss. She felt the liquid on her mouth and wiped her hand on it to look. It was purple saliva. Unnatural and inhuman.
"What have you done to me…?" she cried.
"Nothing, I promise. It was you." He walked away and changed back to his giant robotic form.
"They harvest us…" said the boy on the floor. "That's what we were…used for…Even to Autobots… They take our energon…"
xXx
Author's Note: Damn you sexual temptation....
Isis: This sucks! DX