CHAPTER EIGHT
Miracle Child
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Meg: I'm gonna let the poll run a little while longer, and then see what turns out. *Checks poll*
Okay – One person wants her to end up with Starscream…
Starscream: Yay!
Meg: So OOC…anyway…one person wants her to end up with both…
Emma: They…what!? I didn't mean they should actually vote for both of them!!
Meg: Too late now…and…Bumblebee has…four votes.
Bumblebee: Alright! Vote for me, Bumblebee! Yeah, alright!
Starscream: Un-modest slagger…
Meg: Language. Anyway, please read and review and don't forget to vote now if you already haven't! Otherwise Megatron will rip out your tongue and nail it to a post!
Megatron: I'm a purple cockatoo!
Meg: :D
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We – Mum, Dad, Star, Mr. Jones and I – sat in the living room, which was as big as Coralina's house. I wondered if she knew I was missing yet…I wondered if the others knew yet.
Probably.
Anyway, so Mum and Dad sat on one couch, and Star and I sat on the other couch, facing them. Mr. Jones sat in an armchair in the middle of all this, drinking tea and eating cookies and occasionally offering his two-cents.
"Emma, I can't believe it…" Mum couldn't take her eyes off of me, she seemed stunned. "Look at what a beautiful young woman you have become…the last I saw of you was when you were just two years old…"
I was sitting there, with Leveret in my lap, and I looked up at her. "Why did you send me away?" I wanted to know.
Mum and Dad exchanged a glance. "Well," Mum said. "Let's start at the beginning, shall we?" She took a sip of her tea, and went on: "Well, your Father and I had always dreamed of having a baby. We tried so many times until, finally, the doctors told me I was pregnant with a little baby girl," She smiled fondly at me. "The day you were born was the happiest day of our lives. You were such a happy baby, always cheerful. You learned things so fast, and you hardly ever cried – you were our wonderful Emma Luzetta Pendanto…"
"Luzetta?" I interrupted her.
"Your middle name," Dad said. "It means 'light'…we didn't tell Nenona and Jerome that, though."
At the mention of those two names, my heart seemed to stop beating. Star glanced at me.
"How are Nenona and Jerome, by the way?" Mum wanted to know.
I looked at Star. He nodded, and then said to my parents, in a flat voice: "They're dead."
"Oh dear," Mum said, sounding very upset by this news.
I took a deep breath, and then felt someone reach out and take my hand.
I glanced down at the hand, and then up at Star, who said nothing.
"Mum," I said to her. "Do you know…anything about the All-Spark?"
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Megatron's P.O.V:
"Uh…I don't think she's in the city anymore, Lord Megatron." Lugnut said.
"Damn this!" I shouted, slamming my fist into the wall. "That bloody slagging traitor Starscream must've taken her!" I turned to my subordinates. "Don't just stand there! Find them! And when you do, kill Starscream but bring the girl to me, understood!?"
"Yes Lord Megatron."
I growled, and turned back to the window, looking out over the planet. 'Starscream will not defeat me this time…' I thought.
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Starscream's P.O.V:
I watched as the human Em called her Mother smiled, a little sadly, and leaned forward. "Yes I do, my dear," She said, and I felt Em's hand tense in mine. I held it tightly. "You see, when you were nearly two, you were badly injured in a car accident." The human female sounded choked up, as she went on: "Your body was so badly damaged, that the medic didn't even try to save you…so we brought you back here, to our lab."
"We're both scientists," The human male, Brendan, explained. "And, we'd been working for some time on an experiment that was based around what mot people would consider to be cyborgs."
"Humans fitted with robotic parts." Came the soft voice of the robot maid, Tiffany. She had come in to pour more tea, and I noticed that she kept glancing between me and Em.
"That's right," Lisa said, seeming to pull herself together, although her eyes still looked sad. "We had just perfected it when Emma was…hurt," She cast her eyes downwards. "We knew that it was the only way to save her, so…" She glanced helplessly at her husband.
"We did it." He said simply.
Em closed her eyes. "So," She said, taking a deep breath in. "I'm…part robot?"
Her parents exchanged a glance, and then they both nodded. "Yes." Her Father said.
Em opened her eyes, and looked at her parents. "Then what?"
They knew what she meant. "Well," Her Mother said. "The problem was, your body didn't seems strong enough to survive with the robotic part in you…"
"So, we looked for a miracle," Her Father supplied. "And, we found one."
"The All-Spark…" Em and I said in unison.
"Yes," Her Father said again, and then he glanced at me: "And…who might you be?"
"Oh!" Em seemed to snap out of her trance. "This is…umm…well, his name is Starscream…this is his human form, called a holoform…but he's really a Cybetronian, a giant alien robot…thing…"
I rolled my eyes at being called a thing.
"Ah, yes," Lisa smiled. "The great god Primus mentioned to us about the Cybetronians…tell us, Emma, which is Starscream – an Autobot or a Decepticon?"
Em and I exchanged another glance. We looked at each other for a long time.
Finally, Em turned back to her parents and said: "Neither – he is neutral, for now."
"Ah, I see," Lisa nodded, and then she went on: "Now, at the time, the All-Spark was looking for a host, but it didn't come to earth alone – a Cybetronian named White Fire was with it."
"Bianca!" Em exclaimed.
"Yes," Brendan seemed to be getting a lot of usage out of that word. "A white robot that had the ability to turn herself into a car – which she did. The All-Spark split itself in to two separate parts – the outer rim, which went inside Bianca, and the core, which went inside of you, Emma."
Em tensed up slightly.
"The core was the more powerful of the two parts," Lisa explained. "Which was why it went inside of you, Emma – you needed it to survive, for your body to fully be able to support the robotic parts we put in you. The All-Spark also shields and blocks your robotic parts from being discovered."
That would explain how we didn't know before this.
"Which parts?" Em and I asked at the same time.
Lisa nodded as Tiffany, who hurried out of the room, and returned a few seconds later with a sheet of paper, which he handed to Em.
I glanced at it too.
Deltoid, Ext. Carpi Radialis, Serratus and Pectoral Major were the muscles, generally on both sides.
Sacrum, Patella, Tibia and Cranium were the bones.
Lungs, Heart, Superior Vena Cava, Brain and Uterus were in the misc. list.
"What's a Uterus?" Em wondered quietly.
I told her.
"Oh." She said, her eyes widening, and she nearly threw the piece of paper on to the table.
Lisa had heard us. "Your reproductive organs," She said, very matter-of-factly. "Were damaged in the accident, and we wanted to ensure that you would still be able to have children one day."
"I see," Em said, nodding her head. "That would be assuming…" And she trailed off, looking thoughtful. She was looking at a picture of her a baby, which was sitting on the mantelpiece, and her eyes got a little misty.
My eyes, however, gleamed with excitement. 'Soon, Em, soon…'. I thought to myself.
"Well," Brendan said suddenly, standing up. "Since you two will be staying here," And he looked at his daughter happily. "Why don't we show you to your rooms?"
"Thanks Dad." Em said, grinning.
Just then, a black and white cat wandered in to the room. She was a female, but I could tell straight away that, like Em's cat, this one'd had the same treatment as Em herself (ie, it was part robot too).
"Oh, that's Kyo, our cat." Lisa said.
Leveret suddenly sat straight up, and stared at Kyo.
"Meow?" He asked.
"Mew…" She replied.
Leveret hopped up and jumped onto the floor. He followed the she-cat out of the room.
"Uh…okay then…" Em blinked. "What was that all about?"
I looked at her. Did she really have no idea?
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Meg: *Scarred*
Emma: What's wrong?
Meg: I had to go looking up all of those organs…and some of the pictures of the female ones…
Emma: I know… *Huddles into corner* I'm scared too…
Both Girls: *Rocking back and forth*
Bianca: *Sweatdrops*