CHAPTER SIXTEEN
The Fallen's Rising
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Emma: I CAN SEE YOU!!!!
Meg: I really dunno how this happened. *Shakes head* Anyway, on with the story!
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The next day, Stream Fire was awakened by me screaming: "AAAAUUUURRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!"
She and Screamer ran into the bathroom, to find me standing on the toilet seat, as a cockroach the size of a five dollar note scurried around the bathroom.
As Screamer took care of the roach, Streamer gazed at me in shocked wonder. "Em…you can see!?"
I nodded, hopped down onto the floor, and gave her a HUGE hug! "Yes! Thanks to you and your 'fem advice', but…" I stopped and looked at her. "Sorry, but Bee was right – you do look like Rini from Sailor Moon."
*
Screamer was watching the news as Streamer and I were getting dressed (we'd gone shopping late last night, at Matahari Department Store, in Kuta).
"We're not gonna be able to get out of the country today," Screamer, wearing boardies and a top again, suddenly said, his voice grim, and Streamer and I stopped what we were doing, to see people on the news talking about giant robots and unknown jets in the sky. The airspace around Bali was being monitored, because people feared terrorist attacks.
"Slag…" Screamer muttered, as I pulled on a blue t-shirt over my white shorts, and I went over to him.
"We'll talk to Optimus," I said. "And see if he can get the army to help us out." I changed the station, and watched as Prowl's favourite TV show (whether he admits it or not), Sakura Wars, came on. I like the theme song.
Streamer, wearing a short white skirt and pretty pink singlet, stopped what she was doing and said: "I wanna go shopping today."
"Since when do Transformers care about shopping?" I asked her.
"Em-ma…" She complained. "Come on, you know you wanna go too!" Her red eyes glittered. "Just think, Matahari, Centro, Kuta…"
"Tuban, Legion, Denpasar…" I agreed. "Ramayana's…"
"The Art Markets." She reminded me. "All those clothes and pretty jewellery…"
"Uh-oh." Starscream said. "The last thing you two need is more jewellery!"
But, he was outvoted. Even the cockroach was on our side!
*
"What time was our flight again?" Screamer asked me, as we stood in a shop and watched Streamer watch a little catfish with HUGE eyes swim around in a tank. Streamer was fascinated, and wouldn't take her eyes off it.
I rolled my eyes, and said: "For the last time, Optimus said the flight would leave at six o'clock, PM." I added.
"Duh." Screamer said.
I smacked him upside the head. "Come on, get your sister, it's my lunchtime." And I handed him the solid gold watch I'd bought him.
"Yes Ma'am." Screamer said, saluting before giving me a quick kiss, which made me smile.
*
The airport has many shops, so Streamer and I got to do some last minute shopping while Screamer stood around impatiently.
I had to get some presents for the kids, Bianca, Zikya and Bee, luckily I was sure no one else would mind if I came home empty-handed for them.
I bought a bracelet-making-kit for Kelsi, as well as a pair of skate-shoes (the roller-blade kind, that is), which I knew would soon be lacking their laces as she made the world's largest bracelet for her beloved friend, Ironhide.
For Shooting Star and Honey Bee, I bought the cutest stuffed toy antelope you've ever seen, and a little green box. Inside the little green box, on a bed of red satin, are two gold-coloured crickets (pretend ones). The crickets chirp when you open up the box! They stop chirping when you close it. You can buy some really weird, cool things in Bali.
For Bianca or, more to the point, for her sparkling-on-the-way, I bought a CD of bedtime songs, which are sung in Balinese and are really cool.
For Zikya's baby-on-the-way, I bought a book of classic children's fairytales (in English).
I paid for these things, and our flight was boarding soon, but I had to find something for Bee.
"There!" I cried and, leaving Screamer and Streamer standing there, I rushed into the shop and made the purchase.
Then, I rushed back out again, and the three of us hurried through customs and the metal detector, which didn't stop us this time. We hurried on-board the plane, and sat with me by the window, Screamer next to me, and Streamer across the aisle from him.
I looked out the window, as the plane took off.
The sunset was nice. It was pretty.
I wanted to come back to Bali sometime.
Maybe when the world wasn't in so much danger.
"Hey, look," Screamer pointed to the video games in the seat-backs-in-front-of-us, and all three of us began playing Diddy Kong Racing.
Streamer played as Diddy, Screamer played as Banjo, and I played as some little mouse whose name I can never remember.
We liked Windmill Plains best, and all three of us owned at flying the airplanes.
Ah, the joys of first-class.
Sorry Bee-Bee.
*
Screamer, Streamer and I stepped off the plane after our three hour flight, and made our way through customs, collecting our luggage and arguing our way out of having to pay a customs fine, because the huge wooden statue wasn't ours.
We made our way through a door, and into the main room of the terminal.
"THERE SHE IS!!!!" I heard a voice shout.
I looked around in a daze, and then Bee had his arms around me, hugging me so tightly I gasped, and he drew back, searching my face anxiously.
"Are you hurt?" He asked, worriedly. He glared at Screamer. "Did she get hurt!?"
"Bee, don't glare." I said.
He looked back at me, and then his aqua eyes widened. "E-Em!? You can…see!?"
I nodded. "I'll tell you later." I said, kissing him quickly, as Honey Bee and Shooting Star ran up to me and threw their arms around me.
I suddenly realised that all our friends had shown up at the airport to greet us, plus a few army members.
Barricade was nearly knocked down as Streamer ran to him and hugged him.
Kelsi, in Ironhide's arms, and there with Sunny and Andy, 'Sides was nearby too, with Arlexa, and Jazz was there with Shadow. Prowl was standing with Arcee, Optimus was with Bianca, Wheeljack with Zikya, and Ratchet was with Sky. Sentinel stood with Elita1, and Moth and Hornet stood near to them, with Dragonfly. Angelina, with Skids and Mudflap on either side of her, stood near to Wasp and Blurr, and I realised that I needed to find partners for them.
Hmm…what had Bee told me about undercover Autobots? Were there any girls?
Blitzwing, Jetfire and Jetstorm suddenly came forward, as if drawn towards my daughters, and I watched as they went to them. Honey Bee allowed herself to be picked up by Blitzwing, and Shooting Star stood between the Jet-Twins, holding their hands.
"Uh…" Screamer, Bee and I said in one voice.
Bianca and Optimus suddenly came forward, and Bia hugged me. "Emma, I was so worried." She whispered.
I hugged her back. "I'm fine. Soundwave is dead." I assured her.
"Are you sure?" Optimus asked me.
"Yup!" Streamer called. "I killed him!"
People were starting to stare at us.
"Let's go back to the base." Optimus and Bia suggested in unison, and we all nodded.
Suddenly, I reached into my pocket, pulled a genuine shark-tooth necklace out, and put said necklace around Bee's neck.
"Because you're married to a vampire." I explained.
Bee looked like he wanted to kiss me, but Screamer was watching.
*
The Fallen's P.O.V:
"Yes, my lord," Megatron said. "The All-Spark carrier, Emma, has been changed into a Transformer. I believe this will make my campaign easier, once I get her into my possession."
"You wish to have an heir, don't you, Megatron?" I asked him coldly, my red optics scanning over him.
"Yes," He said truthfully. "With her power, we will be able to take over the universe, milord, and my sparkling will also have some of that power. I believe this will help our Decepticon campaign."
"It will," I assured him. "But you must be sure she and The Matrix are separated…hmm…the sun of this pathetic planet…I can use its power to create more energon, using a machine that I know where is hidden. Send your forces to attack these coordinates in Egypt," I transferred the data over to Megatron. "But you and I will first have to separate the All-Spark carrier from the rest of these pathetic Autobots and those who have betrayed you."
Megatron nodded, cringing under my cold gaze. "Yes, Milord. I will challenge Emma. She is proud, and she has come to my call of a challenge before. I am sure that she will come alone, and then we can lure the others to Egypt." He closed his optics, and I knew what he was thinking.
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Meg: It's late…I gotta get up in eight hours…I better go to bed…
Wasp: What's this about Emma finding partners for us?
Blurr: There-are-other-Autobots-on-earth!?
Meg: You'll see!
