PART TWO

Prologue

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Meg: Hazza! And now we're back, for part two of A Different Kind Of Spark!

Emma: Yay! This is gonna be fun! I hope I get a bigger part this time!

Bianca: You're already the main character!

Emma: Well so are you!

Sunstreaker: Ladies, ladies, please – let's not get violent!

Emma: Quiet you!

Bumblebee: Who was that person at the end of part one?

Zikya: ME!!!!

Meg: Your time will come – I shall introduce thee, soon!

*

I talked to Bianca a lot about what had happened while I was unconscious. What she had to tell me frightened me in so many ways, that I had nightmares about it later on, but I tried to keep this from the others.

I had died on the operating berth.

Twice.

The first time was when my heart had gotten so weak, that it had just stopped all on its own. I had needed CPR, to get my heart and lungs working again.

Ratchet, in his holoform of course, had performed it that time.

The second time I died was when the poison from what I stabbed myself with had entered my bloodstream, and raced towards my heart. Bianca said that Ratchet had tabbed my heart with a needle loaded with both adrenaline and antivenom, to make sure the antivenom reached the poison quickly before it damaged any of me.

It had worked, but then something had gone wrong. A complication. I had died again. Bianca wouldn't say how, but somehow they had gotten me back to life. I think it had something to do with the scalpel I'd heard Ratchet mention, but I didn't ask about this. It was better not to. Then, I'd needed CPR again.

Whilst holoform Ratchet got my heart beating again, this time it had been holoform Bumblebee who had breathed the life-giving oxygen into my mouth, to my lungs.

Whoa…

I was sitting on the front porch when Bianca told me that. After she said it, I leapt up, and demanded to go over to the base straight away, but Bianca managed to convince me to stay. She said that Bee and the twins would be by in the morning, and I would have to wait until then.

I sighed, and sat down. I said: "Time makes all things possible. I can wait."

Bianca, in her holoform, paled slightly. "What did you say?" She asked me but, just then, we both heard Nenona coming. Bianca leapt up, gave me a quick kiss on the forehead, and then leapt back through her robot mode to her car mode in the instant it took Nenona to open the door.

"Come on dear, bed time," Nenona told me, smiling. "If you're going back to school tomorrow, then you'll need your rest."

It was Tuesday. I had taken Monday off of school after 'falling down a flight of stairs' but now I was going back.

I couldn't wait to see Bee tomorrow. Then, I was going to tell him exactly how I felt.

*

That night, I had a strange dream. In it, I was at the school, but it looked more like a group of science labs then the school I was used to seeing. Wheeljack was, in his robot form, standing in the middle of the school, holding a Bunsen Burner.

For some reason I yelled at him: "It's gonna blow up, be careful!"

It did blow up, and I blinked. When I opened my eyes again, Wheeljack was not standing there anymore.

Instead, a girl my own age was. She was about 5'8", with blue-green eyes. Her hair was dyed white, with blue and yellow highlights. She was wearing the girls' school uniform, complete with white knee socks. I had never seen her before, but somehow I felt like she was to be trusted, like she could be my friend.

"Hi!" I called out to her, waving.

She opened her mouth, and said: "BEEP!! BEEP!! BEEP!!"

Oh, wait, that was just my new alarm clock. What the slag?

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Meg: Okay, I hate prologues too, but this one was entirely necessary.

Bianca: Why?

Meg: Because, Emma's all like – 'to (kill) Bee, or not to (kill) Bee'.

Bianca: Which?

Meg: Exactly. That is the question.

Bianca: What?

Meg: *Sighs* Never mind. R&R, people's!