After a few minutes of walking, the party made its way back to the hanger with the All Spark in it. The closer she got to the magnificent artifact, the more goose bumps formed on Alise's arms. Power was radiating off of it, and she could feel it flowing into her. The rest of the humans stopped a few feet behind them, but Bee continued to walk to the cube, Alise still on his shoulder. Bee was still so small compared to it, and because they were closer, Alise could see every detail of the cube. It looked at if the markings on it had veins and she saw what looked like jolts of electricity flowing through it.
When the cube was at hand, Bee reached up and placed his fingers on it, seeming to know exactly what to do with it. When he touched it, Alise could physically feel the energy flowing through her. Because she was touching Bee, all the energy transferred between the two of them. A chill went down her spine, and she saw that her hair was twitching a little, not frizzing up, but reacting from the energy. Bee's fingertips glowed, and a pulse went through the cube. Bee drew his hands away, and suddenly, the huge cube started to shrink.
It started folding into itself like an odd puzzle, and Alise looked up at it in wonder as the cube drastically shrank in size. After a few moments, it was about the size of a medium sized box. Bee took the cube, and he held it in front of Alise for her to look at. She traced her fingers along the veins of the cube and she upon touching it, she felt oddly revitalized, as if she had taken a shot of adrenaline. She wondered what Bee must have felt like, seeing that he was actually holding it, and she was just touching it. She smiled at Bee with a wondrous expression, and he smirked at her and looked down.
Sam had walked closer to them, and Bee bent over and gave the cube to him.
"Oh my god," Sam said when he examined the cube. He did the same thing Alise did, tracing the cube and examining it. Mikaela came up behind him and did the same thing. Suddenly, Bee started to speak.
"'Message from Starfleet, Captain, (static) Let's get to it!'" he said, looking down at Sam.
"He's right," Lennox said from the party behind them. "If we stay here, we're screwed with Megatron in the other hanger." He paused for a moment, thinking. "Mission City is 22 miles away. We're going to sneak that Cube out of here and hide it somewhere in the city."
"Good, right!" the suited official said with a nod. Lennox looked at him.
"But we cannot make a stand without the Air Force," he said to the official. The official nodded once more and he turned to Simmons.
"This place must have some sort of radio link," he said to Simmons.
"Yes," Simmons said respectively.
"Short wave, CV..." the official said again.
"Right, yes!"
"Sir, you're going to have to find some way to get word out to them..." Lennox said to the official. The official nodded understandingly. He then turned to the rest of the party. "Let's move!"
Bee gingerly placed Alise on the ground below him, and he quickly transformed into his carmao mode. The door opened and Alise got in, quickly slipping into the back, Sam and Mikaela taking the front seats with the cube in Sam's hands. The blonde, her friend, the official and Simmons ran to where the communications system was, and the party of soldiers ran further into the hanger and took control of a couple of vehicles along the way. When everyone was in some form of transportation, they exited Sector 7 through two large doors on the bottom floor.
They made it out to the highway, the soldiers leading the way to Mission City. They were driving speedily for a few moments, when suddenly they were boxed in. At first, Alise became incredibly nervous, but she quickly realized that the vehicles were a black Topkick, a gray Solstice, and a medical vehicle. She looked behind, and saw that they were being following by a large Peterbilt. She breathed a sigh of relief. It was the Autobots.
However, Alise's relief didn't last long. She looked back when something moving speedily down the highway caught her eye. She turned around and watched as a cop car weaved its way through the line of traffic, heading in their direction. But it wasn't just any cop car. It was the monster.
"Oh shit," Alise breathed. Sam and Mikaela turned back at her.
"What?" Mikaela asked worriedly.
"It's the cop cruiser from the plant!" she yelled. Suddenly, Bee sped up. Alise looked back once more and realized that cop car wasn't the only thing pursuing them. A large armored vehicle was driving along side of the cop car, running people in their cars off the side of the road. Then one the pitchfork-like extensions of the car rose into the air and started to plow through the cars in front of it. Sam saw this and started to panic.
"Block them, block them, block them!" he started yelling frantically. Suddenly as if he had heard him, Optimus hit his breaks and started to let up, Ironhide and Ratchet filling the space he left behind, behind them. Alise then watched in horror as the armored vehicle transformed. He was tan in color and had the same menacing red eyes as the first monster. Almost immediately after he transformed, Optimus did also, sliding across the pavement of the highway. He jumped, trying to stop himself, and Alise heard him let out a loud groan.
"Oh my god," Alise heard Mikaela whisper, but Alise didn't take her eyes off the scene.
The tan monster was skating up the highway, fiercely coming after Optimus. Alise placed a hand over her mouth in shock, as it broke through a metro bus, the bus exploding into two, but the monster continued on, seemingly unscratched. She did notice, however, that its back legs were on fire. Optimus just turned around in time before the monster jumped, landing violently on him. Alise's eyes widened, as the two rolled off the top highway, and onto the bottom one.
"Oh my god!" Alise yelled, worriedly. "Bee! Will he be okay?"
"'He'll be (static) fine,'" Bee voiced to her soothingly, trying to calm her worries a little. It did in a way, but after seeing another one of the monsters, she was no doubt nervous now. Not that she wasn't before, but now it was really hitting her what they were getting themselves into.
After a few more minutes of speeding, they arrived in Mission City. They parked on one of the larger streets in the city, all the Autobots excluding Optimus and the soldiers next to them. The three exited Bee and all the soldiers exited the vehicles they came in. Lennox and Epps rushed over to where Bee and the three humans were. Alise looked around at the streets and she saw people gawking at the vehicles. She wanted to run and tell them to hide, but she knew it was too late. She felt a deep pain in the bottom of her stomach. What was going to happen to all these people? she asked herself worriedly.
"Are there any aircraft orbiting the city?" Lennox asked Epps.
Epps pulled out a pair of binoculars and looked into the sky. "F-22 at 12:00."
Lennox and the three looked up. They saw the aircraft Epps was taking about, flying through the air above them. Lennox nodded at him and he raised his voice so the rest of the soldiers could here. "All right, I want planes for air cover and get Black Hawks on station to extract that Cube. You got it?" The soldiers yelled back in an understanding response. Suddenly the aircraft they were talking about zoomed overhead, close to the buildings of the city.
"Air Force has arrived! Pop smoke!" Lennox ordered, but as they started to smoke the area, Epps gave a confused look at the aircraft and picked up a radio.
"Raptor, Raptor do you copy?" he tried to radio to the plane. "We have your visual. Green smoke is the mark. Provide air cover and vector Black Hawks for extraction."
The raptor changed direction and headed for the group. However, there was no reply. Lennox and Epps gave each other a nervous glance. Suddenly, Ironhide transformed beside them, making the two turn another and face him.
"It's Starscream!" he bellowed. Alise, Sam, and Mikaela looked at each other, not knowing who this was, but it didn't sound good. Alise took another look around worriedly, hoping the crowd of onlookers had dispersed and she was glad to see that most of them did. However, standing in front of an entryway of an alley was a young boy, who wouldn't leave the scene. He couldn't have been more than eight, and he just kept staring at the soldiers with a curious expression on his face, watching them. Alise's breath could in her throat. If something was coming, he would surely be hit.
"Please tell me you copy..." Epps said into the radio one last time.
"Back up!" Ironhide yelled again. "Take cover! Bumblebee!" He yelled for Bee's help and Bee transformed. The two lifted up a large bus that had been evacuated, and they used it as a shield.
"KID!" Alise yelled across the street to the boy. "GET OUT OF HERE!" The kid didn't seem to hear her, too entertained by the sight of the soldiers.
Lennox heard Alise and quickly turned his head to see what she was yelling at. Then he saw the kid, and he came to the same conclusion Alise did about his chances of getting hit.
"No, no, no, no... MOVE!" he yelled, but the kid didn't hear him either. Alise started to panic. If this kid died in front of her, she would never live it down. She knew the guilt and pain would be too much for her. He doesn't deserve this, she quickly thought to herself. He's so young. He has a life to live.
"Back up! Back up!" Ironhide yelled again. The aircraft was close now, and she knew it would strike at any moment. But Alise couldn't take it anymore. She started to run across the street towards the boy.
"ALISE!" she heard Lennox yell at her from behind. She also heard a high pitched chirp, but she didn't turn around. With all her might, she ran to the boy and grabbed him.
Throwing herself and the boy into the alleyway, she rushed them up against one of the walls. It wasn't a second later that she heard the sound of a large weapon being fired behind them. Using herself as a shield, she wrapped her arms around the boy, placing his head on her chest, and the two fell to the ground, bracing themselves. She used her back to front the blow of the blast, and placed her head against the wall.
All of a sudden, the force of the blast came towards them. Even though they were sitting, they were both thrown back roughly. Alise's head smacked against the concrete of the building, and there was a medley of screeching metallic noises coming from behind them. Suddenly, Alise was filled with pain, as something hit her in the back.
Hi everyone! Sorry for the delay! A short chapter I know, but there's plenty more to come. I'm off to the next chapter! Please review and tell me what you think!
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~Mel