CHAPTER ELEVEN

The Sister

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Starscream and I took only a nanosec (lol) to assess the situation we were in, and counter-attack when more hordes of vampire bots showed up.

I went to the left, he went to the right, and then we both started shooting, taking out waves of vampire bots. Honestly, where had they all come from!?

"Any of those your friends, Em?" Starscream called to me.

I narrowed my optics, searching for Moth's drab colouring or Hornet's bright orange and red warning signs. "Umm…no…" I said. I suddenly spotted a red, orange and yellow vampire-bot. "Oh, wait…no, that's a fem-bot." I shot at her and she fell, and I kept on looking. And shooting.

"Uh, Em…just what are we looking for?" Starscream suddenly asked me. He hit a vampire that was trying to sneak up on him from behind, and kicked another mech where it hurts. "How do I know that wasn't them?"

Oh. He certainly had a point. I described Hornet and Moth to him – flashy, scary-looking red, orange and yellow mech and down-to-earth, drab-looking fem-bot.

"Is that them over there?" Screamer asked, pointing.

I looked. I squinted. He had better eyesight then me. He always had. Maybe that's why he was a seeker (not as in the Harry Potter kind, obviously, but I was starting to see some similarities).

"I thought you said there were only two of them…" Screamer went on, shooting at a gang of vampires who were coming at him, fangs bared. "Looks to me like they may just have…a sparkling."

"A what!?" The Cybetronian concept was foreign to me. I slammed my fist into another vampire's face. "Screamer, they have a sparkling!? A real, live sparkling!?"

"Yes," He replied, looking at me in a weird way.

I gulped. "Star…we already have a kid…there can't be too many differences…between a human and a robot…" Except for the obvious…I mean, armour and flesh, giant and not-so-giant, transforming and just-freaky-All-Spark-fused-powers…

I became distracted. Even though he was offline, I could almost hear Wasp screaming at me, but it was too late as a group of flying vampires slammed into me, and I hit the ground with a thud, as the vampires began to overwhelm me, tearing at my armour and biting me.

The venom couldn't do anything to me now, since I was already a vampire, but it still hurt.

A lot.

I began screaming, and was blinded by the sheer mass of vampire-bots around me. It was like in the movie Rats, when the guy gets killed by all those killer rats.

Or like the killer ant scene, in one of the Indiana Jones movies.

Aurgh. I watched that on Christmas Eve, with Nenona and Jerome one year.

It was horrible.

It was just like this.

Okay, that wasn't what I was thinking about when the vampire-bots were killing me. They must've overrode Fhantom's programming, because they had one thing on their CPU's – kill me.

I didn't want to die. No matter what Fhantom had said, no matter what he had made me, I knew that I wasn't completely immortal. Normal Transformers probably wouldn't be able to kill me – but vampire-bots probably could.

I didn't want to die.

To die would mean I wouldn't get to see my daughters grow up. I wouldn't get to watch over them from close by, and make sure that they were treated right. I wouldn't get to make sure that Jetfire and Jetstorm treated Shooting Star right, and that Blitzwing treated Honey Bee right. I wouldn't get to be a Grandma.

To die would mean I wouldn't get to see the birth of Bianca's and Optimus' sparkling. Her name was gonna be Prisma, and she was gonna look just like her Mother, but with her Father's colouring. Except pink instead of red.

I also wouldn't get to see Zikya's and Wheeljack's son either. Heck, at the moment, I didn't even remember what his name was gonna be, but I remembered that it meant 'inventor'.

Yeah…I was gonna miss out on heaps. Probably Sunstreaker and Backdraft would have a sparkling, and I wouldn't get to be Aunty Em.

Bumblebee would lose me and, in turn, would kill himself to be with me.

For that matter, Starscream would probably do the same thing.

But, the worst thing of all…was that Megatron would win. The Fallen, who had risen again, would win.

The universe would be under the rule of the Decepticons, because only the All-Spark core within me could defeat them.

Unless…I began to wonder, as I was clawed to death, just how powerful the All-Spark rim, within Bianca, was. They had always said – they meaning the Autbots, the Decepticons, and other various sentient beings – that the core was the more powerful part of the All-Spark…but what if the rim could be more powerful too?

I didn't know why this was important, as I was slowly killed by vampires who were coming at me in the hundreds, but I was slipping into blissful, peaceful blackness.

Oh…so this is what it was like to go offline.

Yay.

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Bumblebee's P.O.V:

My spark suddenly seemed to stop beating, and it had done that once before.

But now, this time, it was even worse.

"Emma!" I shouted, and then glared at Fhantom. "You…what have your vampires done to her!!??"

I suddenly began glowing blue, and a strange and unbelievable power filled me. I stopped yelling and glanced down at myself.

'Th…the All-Spark?' I thought.

It made a lot of sense…after all, Em and I had merged sparks, and so it was natural that part of the All-Spark power had been transferred to me. I just never knew it would be activated when…when she was offlined.

I used the All-Spark powers to kill Fhantom. The slagger who had dared to want my spark-mate, and who had turned her into a robot.

Granted, she would always be the most beautiful thing in the universe…but, if she was gone, then I would go to.

And I was taking Fhantom down with me.

'Emma…' I thought, as the powers surged from me, and began to kill Fhantom…and me. 'I'll be with you soon…wait for me, my love…'

At least I was going down with a fight.

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Starscream's P.O.V:

No…she couldn't be dead…my beautiful spark-mate, the reason I could no longer be a Decepticon…

And all because I couldn't protect her from a bunch of bloody vampire-bots.

Anger began to surge up within me. Before she had been turned into a Transformer, Emma and I had done what the humans call 'making love'. We had done this, and she had given birth to our daughter, Honey Bee. I had never had the chance to merge my spark with her…and now I never would.

"Emma…" I whispered, as red energy began to flow within me, and became visible to those who were watching. I glared at the vampire-bots. "You…I will never forgive, for what you have done!" I yelled, and sent the energy out, streaking in wide arcs towards the vampires, all ten thousand of them were struck with the beams of red light, offlining them instantly.

Eventually, I could see her. My spark seemed to stop beating.

Her beautiful blue armour had been badly torn, and purple energon was flowing from the deep wounds.

But her optics…dear Primus, her green optics were still online! They were scanning the sky wildly, searching for me!

I had to get to her!

But, before I could…there was the little problem with Barricade.

The large black Decepticon seemed to be refusing to go offline, no matter what Jetfire and Jetstorm did, they couldn't seem to kill him!

And, he was now coming for me.

I narrowed my blood red optics. "Bring it on, slagger." I hissed. The red energy flowed around me.

Oh yeah…this power rocked.

Was it the All-Spark? Since when was the All-Spark power red?

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Bumblebee's P.O.V:

"Ratchet! Come in, Ratchet this is Bumblebee!"

"Where the hell are you, kid!?" Ratchet sounded extremely angry – which meant that he was dead worried. "Do you have any idea how worried we've all been!?"

"Ratchet, I'm sending you these coordinates!" I yelled, fighting down the panic that was building up inside of me. "It…it's Emma…she's…she's…" I couldn't say it.

Ratchet went quiet. "What happened?"

"Just get here!" I yelled, glancing up suddenly as a very Decepticon-looking jet flew overhead. "Hurry!"

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I could barely register what was happening – hell, I couldn't even see properly!

But I did hear when an unfamiliar female voice yelled: "Nobody attacks my big brother but me!!"

And then Starscream yelped (yes, yelped): "Stream Fire!?"

Who the hell was Stream Fire? Why did she call Starscream her big brother?

"Who the hell is she!?" I heard Bumblebee's voice calling to Starscream, sounding both annoyed and shocked.

"Umm…she's my little sister…" Screamer replied.

"Watch who you're calling little!" She yelled.

Screamer had a sister? Why did I not know about this until now!?

Stream Fire's last statement was followed by a whole lot of punching and cannon-fire, which was then followed by the jet-twins exclaiming, in unison and in speculation: "Who's side is she being on!?"

Excellent question.

Oh, I wished I could see!

Wait…why couldn't I?

I checked…they were open. But all I could see in front of me was absolute blackness. Was something wrong with my optics?

Was…was I blind?

Oh Primus no…

"Bee!" I yelled, unable to move very much, except my arm, which I raised and began waving around in order to attract some attention. "Star! Somebody…anybody!" I was, naturally, a little bit panicky.

Why didn't Primus just take me offline?

"Em!" Two different, very concerned, voices, suddenly exclaimed, and they sounded very close.

Two hands slipped into mine…Starscream…and Bumblebee…my spark-mates…

"I can't see!" I cried worriedly. "Something's happened to my optics!"

"It's okay," Bee replied, in a way that meant 'it wasn't' (funny, but Sunstreaker had once said the exact same thing to me). "I've called Ratchet…he's on his way."

"How?" I asked him, tearfully. "We're in America…and we're surrounded by enemies…"

"No, we're not," Bee replied in a low voice. "I killed Fhantom," My hand tightened around his. "He won't be bothering us anymore, Em."

"What about the other vampires?" I asked.

"That was my job, Em." Star informed me. "I took care of it."

"And Barricade?"

"My sister's handling him."

"Why didn't you tell me you had a sister!?"

"Uh…well…I…um…"

"That's not an answer!"

"You never asked?"

Bumblebee made a small sound of disapproval, and I could tell that he was rolling his optics.

"Where are Hornet and Moth?"

"Who?"

"Over there."

"The couple with the sparkling…they're on our side? Aren't they vampires too?"
"Yes." Screamer and I replied in unison.

"Oh…you have weird friends, Em…what happened to Wasp?"

"He's offline."

"Oh." Bee sounded slightly upset about that. Slightly.

I sighed, and then thought of something else. "Where are the Jet-Twins?" I wanted to know. I was feeling slightly calmer, but I was still in pain.

"They're over there…" Starscream raised his voice. "Don't worry guys, Streamer can take on Barricade, she'll be fine!"

"Finally, the respect I DESERVE, Screamer!" Stream Fire shouted.

I smiled slightly, as I fell into a restless recharge.

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Meg: Sorry everybody, but I'm without my internet for twenty-four days. Please understand, and I hope these multiple updates will keep you happy when I get back online.