CHAPTER FOUR

The Truth That Lies

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Meg: I swear to Primus, New Divide is my all-time favourite song! *Does little dance* I just have to listen to it!

Bianca: Not again! Don't you, like, listen to that on repeat whenever you're out driving?

Meg: *Proud* Yup!

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Zikya's and my living conditions somewhat improved, although Coralina did state that Bee had pushed her over.

We denied it.

She said she'd sue.

Rowan sorted it out for us, but now Zikya and I had a curfew. It was really annoying.

"We can't stay out too late tonight," Zikya said, on January 7th, as we walked downstairs. "Home by midnight – I feel just like Cinderella."

"You too?" I mused, before we went outside.

"Hey, bitches!" Jazz was waiting in the driveway for us. "Em, Princess, you're off your crutches!"

"Yup!" I said proudly. "My ankle doesn't hurt much at all anymore – so now I'll be able to beat all your aft's at bowling tonight!"

Jazz chuckled. "I'd like to see that – if we're judging by what Zi-girl told me about the other day…"

"You told!" I cried, but we were grinning.

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Bumblebee's P.O.V:

It was Em's birthday. I felt a little bit nervous, but I wasn't sure why. Like…I could sense something was about to happen, but I didn't know what...

Em got out of Bianca, limping slightly on her still-bandaged-up ankle, and made her way toward me, smiling. Her dress, which Bianca had gotten her, was black and blue, and fitted her perfectly, showing off her curvy figure.

I couldn't help but stare.

She noticed it, and blushed.

I held out my arm to her, and we walked into the bowling alley together.

I won't say Em's lack of crutches helped her bowling any…Zikya stated that she wasn't sure which of us was worse. She, on the other hand, won the whole thing. She was pretty good…except for the time she accidentally dropped the bowling ball on to some random guy's toes.

But that was only because Leveret had shown up.

"How the hell did he get here?" Sunstreaker asked. He was standing close to Andy, and I noticed that she wasn't moving away from him like she usually did.

Hmm…

Leveret's eyes suddenly glowed, and Em stumbled forward to kneel down, and he jumped into her arms.

She held him for a second, listening, and then she stood up so fast she nearly fell over.

"The Decepticons are coming!!"

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The explosion took everyone but me by surprise. I looked up, and saw Lugnut towering over us.

The Autobots all transformed as one, and Zikya ran to me, grabbing me and dragging me to safety, as our friends began to attack.

Something was wrong, though. Lugnut had more power this time. Where he had gotten it from, or what it was, I knew not.

All I knew was that the Autobots were slowly losing. First Elita1 and Arcee went down, followed by the twins, Ratchet, Ironhide and Jazz.

Wheeljack soon followed, and Zikya left me to go to him. Ratchet was working to repair as fast as he could, but I knew that soon it would be all over.

Andy was silent as she lost, not making a sound despite the great pain having her arms ripped off must've caused her.

I stood up, and Leveret seemed to sense what was going on, because he clambered around an onto my back, as I stood up, took a step forward, and then jumped in to the sky, just as Bee and Bia went down.

Opti followed, curtesy of one too many attacks from Lugnut.

I gasped. "Well, then that gives me more reason!!" I shouted, and the energy burned in my hands. "Nobody messes with my family!"

I slammed my fist into his chest, and we both fell to the ground. He hand came up, and punched me off of him. Somehow, Leveret managed to hold on, as I landed on a wall and clung to it like Spiderman.

"Primus damn it!" I shouted, as Lugnut hit me again, and I couldn't do anything. I felt frozen, like I was being paralysed. Wait…maybe that was what was happening.

Lugnut's hand was coming down again, and I know that it was all over.

Suddenly, Lugnut was hit by a great number of missiles, which pushed him back, and into a building.

I cringed. I hoped that there was nobody in there. I held Leveret to my chest.

All of a sudden, Starscream was standing over me, looking down at me with his burning red optics.

"Y-you saved me…you attacked Lugnut…" I was confused. "But…why?"

Starscream reached down, and picked me up. "Because," He said in his cold voice, holding me to look into his optics. "You are very special."

"Because I absorbed part of Bianca's All-Spark power?" I asked.

Starscream stared at me. "Is that what they told you?" He just shook his head. "Those Autobot losers only told you half the truth. The one you call Bianca – White Fire – only has half of the All-Spark within her. The rest, the core, the very spark within the All-Spark…" His eyes were burning right in to mine, and I couldn't look away. "Is within you, Emma."

"Is that how I can…do all I do?" I said in a voice barely above a whisper.

Starscream nodded.

I stared at him, unable to comprehend that the others had lied to me. I stared in to Starscream's red optics, and was suddenly very aware of just how beautiful those glowing red orbs really were.

My heart began to pound, and Starscream chuckled. "I never thought it would be a human…albeit one as powerful as you are…" He said.

"Let her go, Starscream!" I suddenly heard Bee yell.

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Meg: I've been listening to New Divide, on repeat, for the entire duration of writing this chapter. I LOVE this song!! *Hugs Linkin Park*

Ratchet: o.o