CHAPTER FOUR
Alone Time
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Meg: Okay, so I fixed Brawl after he got blown to bits in the last author's notes. Now, I am off to the Qatar Desert to destroy some military bases.
Brawl: Ah, before you do, you might wanna think about a change of attire there, shorty.
Meg: Huh? *Glances down at self* Hey, hang on, you stole that line from the video game! Only I can steal lines from things – now, Decepticons transform and roll out! *Points into the sunset dramatically*
Decepticons: 0_0---
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"I have so many questions for you." I informed Bee, as we stood on the cliff looking at each other.
"You took the words right out of my mouth," Bee smirked. "It must've been while you were kissing me."
I winked at him.
"Ahem?" Angelina, Honey Bee and Shooting Star all said in unison.
We turned to face them. "Ah…"
Suddenly, I spotted a familiar yellow Lamborghini speeding towards us, followed by a black motorcycle. "Sunstreaker!" I called excitedly, completely forgetting what my new face must look like. "Backdraft!"
Sunny and Andy both transformed, but not before Sunny opened his passenger door and a red-haired girl who looked to be about seven years old hopped out. I recognised her instantly from my vision. She greeted my daughters cheerfully.
Sunny and Andy both stared at me. "My gosh, Emma…is that really you?"
Sunny had a more blunt approach. "What happened to your face!?" He laughed.
If it hadn't been for the kids, not to mention Angelina who had suddenly found herself surrounded by giant robots, I would have slugged Sunny right then and there.
As it was, I had to remind myself that he was a friend. I hoped I wouldn't find the sudden desire to suck out his blood-energon…or his motor-oil, whichever.
Kelsi suddenly caught sight of my teeth. "Nice teeth!" She assured me, and I looked down at her. She grinned. "My name is Kelsi!"
"I know," I replied. "You're Kelsi Learia – don't ask me how I know that, little one." It felt great to be able to call someone that!
Shooting Star put her hand on Kelsi's face then, and relayed a message to her.
'Oh, she can predict stuff too…cool.' Kelsi thought.
It was my turn to grin. "It is cool," I assured her. "I can also read minds…" I glanced at Sunstreaker. "Hey, I am not changing my last name to Cullen!"
Sunny exchanged an amused look with Andy. "She's good – I'm impressed."
"Clearly." Andy said dryly, but then she smiled reassuringly at me.
I mentally breathed a sigh of relief. So far, everyone was accepting me in my new body without too many problems.
Seeing that Bee and I needed some time together, Sunny and Andy offered to take Angelina and the twins back to the hotel they were staying at, and wait for us there.
I was grateful. I really needed some time to think about all that had happened.
And what was going to happen now.
Before they left, Angelina gave me back my neck pouch.
I was relieved it had survived.
When everyone was gone, Bee looked at me. "So…?"
I had a sudden idea then, and grinned. "Wanna race?" I asked him playfully. "Wanna see who's faster – me the jet or you the Camaro? How about it, speed demon?"
Bee was always up for the challenge of racing someone, and seemed thrilled that we could now race together. "You're on, babe." He said, transforming into his alte mode and revving his engines.
I phased into my jet-form, and took off, flying through the skies with Bee racing along somewhere beneath me in my shadow.
"No matter how fast you are," Bee suddenly said through our com-link. "I'm still the fastest thing on wheels – you can the fastest thing in the skies, if you want."
"A thing!?" I exclaimed, and stopped, phasing back as I landed on the ground with a thud.
Bee stopped quickly, and changed back, looking at me.
I smirked. "For calling me a thing…you get to see what it's like to go fast in the skies, my dear!" I said, and I flew at Bee, grabbing him under his arms and lifting him up into the skies.
He let out a yell as his feet left the ground, and we soared into the clouds and above them.
"Don't sweat it," I said sweetly, glad for whatever natural instinct was allowing me to do such amazing things. "I'm strong too."
"This is a worry." Bee murmured, glancing down at the clouds beneath us, and then the endless blue sky up above us. "My own wife is stronger then I am…"
I just laughed.
*
A little while later, Bee and I were lying side by side together on a grassy mountain-top.
We'd talked about everything that we'd missed out on with each other – their search for me, and Andy killing Barricade…well, they hoped he was offline now.
I told him about going back to school with Starscream, and being captured by the Fhantom.
Bee was frowning at me.
"What?" I asked him.
"Did it hurt – becoming a vampire?"
"No." I lied.
He didn't believe me. "Em, please, I know you better then anyone."
I sighed. "Oh, okay, it was like rivers of fire running through me – but that wasn't as bad as what Fhantom said next."
"What did he say?" Bee asked tightly.
"That he'd chosen me for his mate…"
"WHAT!!??" Bee yelled, and sat up, his eyes blazing.
I sat up also. "It's okay…"
"No it is not okay – it's bad enough that I have share you with that Starscream, now some freaking vampire-bot thinks he's got some claim over you!?" Bee was fairly shouting now. "When I get my hands on him, I'll…I'll…"
"Yes?" I said mildly.
Bee turned to look at me. "Em, I won't lose you again."
"I know – I won't leave you for anyone, except…" I bit my lip again.
Bee guessed what I was thinking. "What are you going to do?" He wanted to know. I read his mind – I hope she chooses me, he thought.
"It's not that easy – my spark is torn in two, and I don't even wanna think about what's happened to my poor old heart…good Primus, Bee, how did he do it to me?" I pressed a hand to my mouth. "How did he turn me into a robot?"
"I don't know." Bee murmured. He reached out and ran his finger down the side of my helmet. "I could kill him for doing it to you, but…" It was his turn to trail off.
I said: "But what?"
"I think you look beautiful as an Autobot." He whispered.
My optics nearly fell out. "You mean it?" I sighed. "But, thanks to Fhantom, my energy signature reads Decepticon…at least he didn't brand me…"
Bee was frowning again. "Slag it," He said. "I wish this weren't happening – having to share you with the seeker is bad enough…now the vamp-bot wants you, and so does Megatron…"
"Thank for reminding me," I groaned. "What next? Wasp?"
Bee shuddered. "Don't even think it…" He said.
But I was thinking it…because I had bitten Wasp. Now what?
"Uh…Bee…" I began but, just then, another thought came into my CPU – and his too. "Oh…oh…" I said, looking at him. "I have been wondering that…" Why did we think of that now?
"I've never thought about it until now." Bee assured me.
"Me neither." I admitted. "Still…I wonder how Bia and Optimus managed?"
"A better question, my love, is how will we do it?"
"How?" I teased, feeling a blush creep across my face, and my spark began to thud. "Well, I dunno. How do we two lil' old robots interface?"
Bee smirked, and my blush grew. "Oh, I'm sure we'll figure it out." He told me.
*
We did.
Figure it out, I mean. And it didn't take very long. He was just as eager as I was to do it. We'd already done it in holoform/human-robot form, so this was just an extension to our ever-growing relationship.
I won't go into details, except to say what happened at the very end.
We merged sparks. Properly this time.
He managed to yank open my chest plate, revealing my glowing, bright blue spark, brighter then any spark had ever been before.
Still, when I got a glimpse of his spark, in my CPU I declared it was the brightest in the universe to me.
He disagreed, but then he was pretty biased to me.
The merging of our sparks was blissful and electrifying, better then anything I've ever experienced.
At the end of it, we were lying side-by-side on the grass together, watching the clouds go by in the early-ish afternoon, our chest plates still open to reveal our sparks to the glowing sun.
Bee gestured to the sun rather grandly. "That thing up there? It's got nothing on you, baby." He smiled.
My spark thudded visibly, and we both looked at it, before he looked back at me. I smiled at him, ignoring the sunlight glittering off my fangs and thirst I suddenly felt in my throat. "That's a matter of opinion." I said, gesturing to his spark, and then I reached out ever so gently and ran my hand over it.
"Uh…Emma…" Bee moaned. He closed his optics in pleasure.
"My love…" I told him, before a sound made my spark seem to stop…and then I fairly slammed Bee's chest-plate shut.
I turned around, my green optics wide, as Starscream landed on the grass some ten feet away from us.
Bee and I jumped to our feet, and my hands fumbled for my chest plate, willing it to shut itself.
But, I knew he had seen it.
I knew he had seen Bee's spark.
I knew he could see mine now.
I knew that he knew that Bee and I had merged sparks.
Oh Primus, I wasn't ready for this…
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Meg: Day two of Dunsborough. I attempted to get onto the internet via a random hotspot outside the shops, but I didn't have the correct wi-fi for it. :(
Brawl: You should've just called Blackout – hed've sorted it out for ya!
Blackout: I don't associate with such things…it goes against Lord Megatron's orders.
Shockwave: My. Internet. Connection. Has. Been. Terminated. *Sad look*
Blackout: Here, let me help you with that… *Looks around at Meg and Brawl* Oh slag…don't tell Megatron.
Meg: ANYWAY, so I also went into Video EZ today, to rent out the first Transformers movie. *Squee*
Barricade: And?
Meg: I didn't get it.
Brawl: Was it there?
Meg: Uh-huh – they had two copies, but Mum and Dad said no.
Barricade: What the hell for!? *Plots to kill Meg's Mum and Dad*
Meg: Because they said there was no point, and so did I.
Barricade: WHAT!!?? *Can't plot to kill Meg*
Meg: Because the reason is…there is no point in renting it…
Brawl: When!?
Meg: When you buy it instead.
Brawl: 0_0
Meg: Which we did. …
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Meg: I OWN THE FIRST TRANSFORMERS MOVIE!!!!
