CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Return To Australia
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Meg: The 'Primer Prime'?? (Has he been watching Transformers Animated??)
Bianca: Did he just make that up?
Optimus Prime: Yes, of course he did! There's no such thing as a 'Primer Prime'!
Sentinel Prime: *Off-screen* Look it up, Optimus! It is a real term!
Jazz: *Iruka-Sensei-style* Liar!
Meg: -_- You've been watching Naruto again, haven't you?
Jazz: Hey Nami-San-look-alike, it was Prowl's idea! He thought we'd pick up some new skills or somthin'!
Meg: Nami-San-look-alike?? … One Piece!?
Prowl: That was Bumblebee's idea!
Meg: I don't care! That's it! No more TV for anyone! And that includes You-Tube as well!
Bumblebee: Aww, way to go guys! *Not happy* Hey. Wait, what about Emma? She can't see, so the punishment doesn't affect her!
Emma: Hey!!
Meg: Hmm, you're right…
Elita1: *Off-screen* Meg!! Sentinel just fell into the sinking sand pit!
Meg: Oh slag…why do we even have that pit? I'm coming! *Goes to leave*
Bumblebee: *Points to Emma* Well what about her punishment!?
Emma: 0.0
Meg: Emma…think of something you really like. … You got it?
Emma: Yeah.
Meg: Well no that! *Leaves*
***
Bumblebee's P.O.V:
A couple of days later, Barricade was healed, and we were all starting to trust him.
It was going to be strange, having four ex-cons hanging around with us. But, as Emma had pointed out, the more help we had defeating the D-Cons, the better.
On Sunday, Ratchet and Ironhide booked a flight for us to fly back to Australia, on a commercial airline since only Emma, the Jet-Twins, Moth, Hornet, Starscream and Stream Fire could actually fly, and anything involving them and us flying was a very undesirable scenario.
I still hadn't forgiven the Jet-Twins for going so fast, but I was glad they'd gotten me to where Em was.
I barely let her out of my sight after we came back from retrieving Ironhide and Wasp, and I noticed Starscream was doing the same thing.
Oh well, as long as Em was happy, that was all that mattered.
I could put up with her seeker-husband, for her sake.
The Australian and US Armies had sent us more fake passports, to get us home with.
"Okay," Blurr said, marching in front of us like a drill sergeant that could rival Sentinel back in the day. We stood before him, most of us looking anywhere but at him. Only Em's unseeing optics were glued to Blurr's pacing form. My optics and Starscream's optics were glued to Emma. "Let's-review-this-one-last-time." He stopped in front of Barricade. Barricade's holoform had black hair and red eyes like Starscream's. He wore a grey jumper that said ~Police~ on the sleeve and black jeans, and he carried a gun, which he was gonna have to get rid of. "You-are?"
"Barron." Barricade replied immediately.
Next to him, Starscream's little sister giggled. Her holoform was pretty cute. She wore a white top with lots of gold jewellery, a short white skirt and pink sandals.
I had said she looked like Rini, from Sailor Moon. Because of her eyes.
Starscream reckoned she seemed like Zoey, from Mew Mew Power. Because of her hair.
"She's like Sakura, from Naruto." Emma had said. Did she mean her personality?
Except that pink-haired, red-eyed Stream Fire was immature. Really.
"And-you-are?" Blurr asked her.
Stream Fire giggled again. "Strawberry Shortcake."
Yes. That was the name she had chosen for herself.
I saw Blurr roll his eyes so that Stream Fire/Strawberry Shortcake couldn't see him, and then moved on to Starscream, who was standing next to her, and who said his name was Starling.
Emma went next. She was also using an alias name. Hers was Emerald. Because of her eyes.
I had demanded a new name, and so after a lot of deliberation, they had decided to name me Beattie. I didn't know what it meant, but they had assured me that it didn't mean 'short'.
Wasp was next to me, and he said his name was Warfield. Apparently it's a real name.
Next to him, Hornet was going by the name Horace. He had reddish-brown hair, yellowy-orange eyes, and was very muscular, like Ironhide. He wore blue jeans and a white top. His spark-mate, Moth, who was mute, was going to go by the name Molly. She had wavy brown hair and clear blue eyes. She wore a brown top called a turtleneck (I didn't see the resemblance with a turtle) and blue jeans.
Their adorable sparkling, Dragonfly, was going to be called Drentha, which means 'war born'. Befitting. She was very young-looking, actually child-like in appearance, unlike Shooting Star and Honey Bee. She had short light blonde hair, and big blue optics, and wore a blue and purple jumpsuit and carried around a little purple dragon toy called Spyro. In her robot form, she was cute too, although a better name for her would've been 'Mismatch'. She had these tiny little silver-tipped pink horns, and a pink face. A ring around her neck was silvery-grey, like her Mother's. The right side of her armour was purple, whilst the left side was dark blue. She had two wires like dropping antenna on her helmet, the right one was light blue and the left one was light purpley-pink.
Blurr stopped momentarily to tickle Dragonfly/Drentha on her little arms. I knew why. The little vampire-sparkling was adorable, and had captured all our sparks. Especially Em's. I couldn't help but wonder, now that Em was a Transformer…did she want a Transformer sparkling?
I just couldn't ask her.
Blurr moved onto the next holoform, which was Ironhide.
"Who-are-you?" He asked briskly.
"Icarus." Ironhide replied, using the name of some human man in mythology who had flown too close to the sun and fallen. Hmm…
"And-you?" Blurr asked Ratchet, who was standing beside Ironhide.
"Raphael." Ratchet replied grumpily.
As if on cue, Em and I both hummed a few bars from the TMNT TV show, and she started giggling.
Ratchet just sighed in annoyance.
"And-you-two?" Blurr moved onto Jetfire and Jetstorm.
"He be Blaise," Jetfire pointed to Jetstorm.
"And he be Storm!" Jetstorm pointed to Jetfire.
"We switched names!" They said in unison.
"Good grief." Ironhide/Icarus muttered.
"And-my-name-is-Baldric." Blurr finished up, continuing his pacing.
He stopped when he reached Emma, who wanted to know: "What does Baldric mean?"
"Ruling-prince." Blurr replied, looking smug.
Em looked amused, even though she couldn't see the smug look on Blurr/Baldric's face. The blue-haired Elite Guard, who wore a blue jacket and blue jeans, was about to get a heavy doze of Em's mind-reading skills.
"Oh, so Sentinel named you in charge of our return home mission, did he?" Em asked him.
Blurr blinked. "Wha…how-did-you-know-that!?"
"Because I am the Edward Cullen of this fan fic!" Emma said, striking a dramatic pose.
Cricket, cricket.
The rest of us just stared at her until, at last, Blurr said: "Uh…what's-an-Edward-Cullen?"
"What the slag's a fan fic?" Wasp muttered to Hornet, who just shrugged.
*
"I should've gotten a guide dog." I complained grumpily, as Bee escorted me through the airport towards gate seven.
Behind us, Barricade was getting into an argument with the dudes at the metal detector. They were so gonna lose this fight.
"You don't need a guide dog when you got me, Princess." Bee replied, and I gave him what was supposed to be a quick kiss, but practically became a full-on make-out session, since we hadn't had any physical contact like this since before the whole vampire escapade. I had even been sleeping by myself in Detroit, to make things easier for us all.
Anyway, it's fun to kiss when you can't see.
Actually, take it from me – it's fun to kiss Bumblebee regardless. In the dark, on the beach, in the water, upside down and in the rain – we've tried it all.
Suddenly, a hand grabbed me and dragged me away at about a zillion kilometres per hour, so I didn't have to see to know that it was Blurr.
"Hey!" I heard Bee complain, but he was suddenly held up by the commotion at the metal detector. "No, I don't know him."
"What was that for?" I asked crossly, detaching myself from him and giving Blurr my best death glare.
"People-are-staring-and-Starscream-and-Wasp-are-both-sending-Bumblebee-'offlining-stares'." Blurr stated matter-of-factly.
Oh, so this kind of Look was common, was it?
"Screamer I can understand, but why Wasp?" I wanted to know.
"Flight two-twenty-seven now boarding at gate seven – hurry up or be left behind." Said a teenage girl's voice over the PA system. "How do I turn this thing off…Mr. Jefferson?"
"That's-our-flight-we'd-better-hurry-up!" Blurr said, steering me towards the gate, pushing me by the shoulders and forcing me to go a lot faster than I would have usually walked.
Behind me, I heard Stream Fire suddenly yell: "JUST SURRENDER THE FRAGGING GUN, BARRICADE!!!! YOU WON'T NEED IT FIFTY THOUSAND SERVOS UP IN THE AIR, DOR PRIMUS' SAKE!!!!"
Blurr sighed as he guided me into the walkway. "So-much-for-staying-undercover."
"We can pretend she's mentally unstable." I suggested.
"We-don't-have-to-pretend-that."
"Touché Baldric, touché."
*
The first part of the flight was extremely boring.
Unless you count…
Stream Fire getting into an argument with the girl across the aisle from her and Barricade. I don't know what the argument was about, but Stream Fire shut up when Starscream threatened to make her ride in the luggage compartment.
Me getting up to go to the bathroom, and then locking myself in there. I nearly had a panic attack. Luckily, there was a flight attendant right outside the door, and she talked me through unlocking the jammed door. Once I got outside, I decided I was officially tired of being blind. Claustrophobic too.
I accidentally left my passport in the bathroom, and Star came back with me to retrieve it. We managed to get ourselves locked in there again. Or maybe he did it on purpose, I dunno. But the flight attendant got us out of there before anything could happen. Oh well.
People kept on hissing at us during the in-flight movie, which was The Fast And The Furious. That's because Bee and Blurr kept on saying things about how slow the vehicles were going, and then Wasp began pointing out all of the inaccuracies within the movie. I'm surprised the other passengers didn't put us all in the luggage hold.
Moth and Dragonfly got locked in the bathroom too, which Dragonfly labelled 'the rest room of doom' when they got back. The flight attendant announced that she was quitting her job after this flight. All of her flight attendant friends got really upset about that.
Okay, then the pilot and co-pilot stepped out of the cockpit for popcorn during the in-flight movie, and the plane took a nosedive! Everyone began screaming, except for me, Starscream, Stream Fire, Hornet and the Jet-Twins. We all jumped to our feet, raced into the cockpit, and got the plane back on course, except for me and Stream Fire. We began yelling at the so-called pilots.
After that scare, things were pretty uneventful. I sat back in my seat, which was next to Bee (Star was across the aisle from me).
"What's happening out to window, dear?" I asked him, lazily. I was pretty tired, after everything that had happened on the flight.
"Not much. It's about two o'clock in the afternoon," He replied. "I wish this plane had video games, why couldn't we have flown Royal Brunei or something?"
I poked him. "Because we're not going to Brunei, idiot." I smiled. "Or anywhere else in Asia, for that matter. We're going straight home." I said. I sighed. "Primus, I can't wait to see everyone…well, not see exactly, but to be with them all. Sunny and Sides', Andy and Shadow and Arlexa and Jazz. Prowl and Arcee, Zi and 'Jack, Bia and Opti. Elita1 and even Sentinel…sorta. Ange and Skids and Mudflap. Kelsi, and even Blitzy. And Honey Bee and Shooting Star, of course...Bee?"
"Yes?"
"Umm…" I had no idea how to say what I wanted to say. "Umm…have you ever…I mean, did you ever think…did you…ever picture me as…as a robot?"
Bee was silent for a moment. Then he said: "I love you no matter what you look like. But, yes, when you were a human, I always wondered what you'd look like as a robot." He said it very quietly, and he was sitting very close to me.
I leaned my head on his shoulder. "Did you ever imagine we'd have Shooting Star?"
"Under the circumstances?"
"Just in general."
"Yes."
"But before you met me..?"
"I knew I loved you before I met you…"
I smiled. "Nice song, but that's not what I meant…" I took a deep breath. "Bee…I love Shooting Star…and Honey Bee too…more then anything, except their Fathers, of course. They are perfect in every way, and I wouldn't change them for the world. But, let's say, if…hypothetically, let's say I wanted to…umm…bring another child into the world…as in, a robot child this time…what would you…umm…say?" I closed my eyes and waited for the truth.
Bee's holform's breath hitched in his throat, and I snapped my head up, gazing frantically unseeingly at him, reading into his mind…which didn't…mind.
Oh Primus, he wanted one too!?
I reached up my hand to touch his face, wishing I could convey things to others the way Shooting Star did.
Bee's own hand came up, and traced lines from the corner of my lip to my chin.
I didn't need to read his mind to know how much he loved me right then.
It was a wonderful, special, private moment – and I'm sure the entire plane was looking at us.
Suddenly, a voice snapped us both out of our reverie.
"A GIANT ROBOT!!!!"
*
Oh Primus, why did I have to be blind!?
"Bee, who is it!?" I cried.
"It's Soundwave!" He had to yell to be heard above the screaming. "Oh slag, he must've tracked us somehow!"
He must've glared at Stream Fire, because she shrieked: "It is not my fault!"
"How can Soundwave fly?" Starscream wondered, and then I heard his voice harden. "Streamer, let's go!"
"Right, brother!" She cried.
I sensed then that they both opened up dimensional gates, and jumped through them, transforming outside of the plane to battle Soundwave in midair.
"They need my help!" I exclaimed, wishing I knew what was going on.
"Oh no, you're not going anywhere!" Bee informed me.
"Then tell me what's happening!"
"Umm…"
I narrowed my eyes, and read his mind. "Bee, tell me right now if they're losing or not!?"
"They…are." He said quietly.
"Alright, that's it." I said. I didn't even bother to undo my seatbelt. I just threw open a dimensional gate and jumped through it.
*
Outside the plane, I transformed into my robot form again, and focused all of my energy into 'seeing'.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" Stream Fire screamed, and her voice sounded injured.
"I'M THE ONE HE WANTS!" I yelled back. "SOUNDWAVE – LET'S FINISH THIS RIGHT NOW!"
"YOU. WILL. BE. NOT. SURVIVE." Soundwave intoned, and suddenly a hand slammed into my chest.
He doesn't recognise me… I realised, and forced electrical waves of All-Spark energy from my hands, and Soundwave released me.
I fell a few feet, until Starscream grabbed me.
"Emma, you idiot, what are you DOING!?"
"Saving your life, that's what." I replied quietly. "Now help me…is Stream Fire injured…what's happening?"
"Soundwave is attacking her relentlessly…" Starscream replied.
"Then we have to team our energy together and defeat him, save her." I replied, I think I was bleeding energon-blood from my stomach. "Quickly…" I think I began glowing blue. "All-Spark…give me power…"
"All-Spark…" Starscream repeated, and I sensed a powerful energy welling up from inside of him. "Give me power…"
"Power…" I nodded.
"NOW!!!!" We both shouted, and I felt the power surge from us both, expanding outwards to envelope Soundwave, and rescue Stream Fire.
Then, came the explosion.
*
"Stream Fire!?"
"I'm okay," Stream Fire flew over to us, and I felt her grab my hand. "Emma, why the frag did you come out here!?"
"To save your life!" I cried, my voice choked up. "Stream Fire, you sound so injured, are you okay!?"
"Yes." She was lying.
"Don't lie!"
"It doesn't matter!" She yelled. "Soundwave is dead, anyway."
"Sleeping with the fishes." Screamer said evenly, still holding onto me. "Come on sis, I see an island over there," He must've pointed.
"Looks cool," Streamer said. "We can rest up there, and then call the others."
"Screamer, I can fly by myself." I told him, because he still hadn't let go of me.
"No, you can't." He replied, and carried me all the way to the island, which turned out to be Bali.
*
A P.O.V:
"Soundwave. To. Lord. Megatron."
"What do you have to report, Soundwave?"
I sent the information to Megatron, all of the information I had gathered from the fight. Lord Megatron must know all of this before I go offline.
"How very…interesting…" He said, as my spark began to fade. "This does make things…a lot easier."
I went offline knowing that Lord Megatron's plan would soon be put into motion.
And that made me very…happy.
