CHAPTER TEN
I'd Come For You
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Meg: … … …
Emma: She can't talk. Mega-pink, I mean Megatron just ripped out her tongue and nailed it to a post. He ripped out Starscream's vocal thingies as well.
Starscream: … … …
Emma: Allow me to translate for you – ahem. *Puts on Starscream voice* It was fun while it lasted!
Meg: … … …
Emma: *In Meg voice* Now, on with the story!
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Bianca's P.O.V:
A week after Em's disappearance, no sign had turned up of her or Starscream, or the other Decepticons. On an impulse, we (myself and Bee – we were using codenames now, Bia and Bee) decided to check out around her old neighbourhood, to see if anyone had seen anything.
Well, an F-22 Raptor jet, somebody was bound to have seen it!
Bee and I transformed into our holoforms, and began knocking on doors, asking flat-out if anyone had seen anything weird.
Bee began to get annoyed when nobody had. They'd either been out, asleep, or on holiday somewhere.
"Is your Mum home?" I sweetly asked the old lady in house number 22.
"MUM!!" She yelled into the house, and this even older woman came to the door in a wheelchair.
O.O
"WHAT!!??" She yelled.
Bee and I exchanged a glance.
"Let's go," Bee said, dragging me away after I'd thanked the ladies. "She probably can't even see!"
We continued our investigation.
"OH FOR THE SAKE OF PRIMUS!!!!" Bee finally threw his hands up into the air, and stalked down the driveway of the last house, next to the ruins of Em's old one.
"Hang on," The woman who had answered the door said to me. "I think my son was home on Friday night…I'll see if he saw anything…" And she turned around and called into the house.
Bee was still pacing up and down the front lawn.
A young man came to the door, and I asked my questions again – did you see anything weird on Friday night?
"No," The man shook his head, and I felt like screaming, and joining Bee in his pacing on the front lawn. "Oh, except for an F-22 Raptor jet!" The man exclaimed.
SHOOMP!!
Bee was back in a nano second, and right up in the man's face. "And!?" Bee cried. "What else did you see!?"
The man blinked and took a step back, and I grabbed Bee's jacket collar and pulled him back.
"Calm down," I told him. He looked at me, and then at the man, and nodded.
"Did you see anything else?" I asked the man.
"Like a girl, our age," Bee said, and then described Em. "About five foot, weighs exactly forty-five kilograms, utterly stunning with floor-length dark brown hair that would've been shining in the moonlight, and shimmering silvery-green metallic eyes?"
The man and his Mother blinked.
"Did you see a brown-haired girl with him?" I asked simply, and Bee glared at me. "She's short," I demonstrated with my hand. "With long hair. She would have been wearing black, and was either on crutches or limping. Oh, and she probably had a ginger cat with her?"
The man snapped his fingers. "Yes, I did see her! She was pretty cute…"
Bee nearly jumped out of my hold on him. "And!?" He wanted to know.
The man walked out of the house, and we followed him. His Mother followed us.
"Well, I came out of my house and hid there," He pointed to a clump of shrubbery. "I wanted to get a better view of her."
"Why?" I asked, flatly, and the man blushed.
"Anyway," He said, glancing nervously at Bee. "So, she sat down in the middle of the driveway, with the cat. A few minutes later, the jet arrived…" He paused. 'You…you might not believe it, but the jet turned in to a giant robot."
Bee and I exchanged a glance. "We believe it," I said. "What happened next?"
"Well," The man seemed pleased that we'd believed him. "The cute girl told the robot that 'they' had lied to her, and wanted to know what he was. He said that he was the most powerful human to have ever lived."
Bee and I exchanged another glance, a horrified one.
"Go on," I urged the man.
"So then, the robot promised that he could give her the chance to whole, and that she'd never be alone."
Bee started shaking.
The man seemed not to notice. "Then, the girl said she wanted to go with him, and that there was somewhere that she needed to go…"
"WHERE!!??" Bee and I yelled at the same time.
The man blinked. "Uh…I heard her say something about Albany…and her parents…"
We both turned to the road then, because that's where Bee had gone, transforming first in to a robot and then in to the yellow Camaro, which took off down the street and was out of sight in about three seconds.
"What the..!?" The man and his Mother yelled.
I didn't have time to worry about that, though. I ran out on to the road, phasing from holoform to robot to alte form in a swift movement, and speeding away, leaving the man and his Mother looking stunned.
"Opti!!" I shouted through the communication. "We found out where Em is, Bee's going after her!!"
"Return to the base, Bia!" Opti's voice came through loud and clear. "Repeat, all Autobots return to the base immediately!"
We all heard him. Even Bee.
But, somehow, I doubted whether Bee would listen to him now.
"Bee," I told him, just for him to hear. "Bring. Her. Back."
Bee was silent for a moment, and then he said: "I promise you – I will. And I've never broken a promise before."
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Meg: I think the next chapter is going to be rated M.
Emma: Why?
Meg: You'll find out.
Emma: I don't think I'm ready for this…
Meg: Too bad. You'll enjoy this, I promise.
Emma: NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! *Runs*
Meg: Get back here! *Chases* You need to be in this next chapter!!!!