Chapter 20

Epps looked at her with a confused face. How on earth did she know about the war the Autobots were fighting? It must be a different war she was talking about, to make sure, he asked her more questions.

"Explain." He said to her. Amelia cocked her head and raised her eyebrow.

"You know perfectly well what I'm talking about and so do a whole lotta other things in here." She said to him. She saw the stingray drive up next to Epps.

"O, look who we have here" Amelia said smugly, "its stabby McWheelfeet." Amelia could literally see the car vibrating with anger and smiled happily at his reaction.

"You know who he is?" Epps said with a tone of disbelief.

"I know all of you." Amelia said as she did small window washing movements with her hands.

"Try me." Epps said as he narrowed his eyes at her.

"Fine." Amelia said as she to narrowed her eyes. The walked up to the 2009 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray and patted it on the hood.

"This is Sideswipe." She said before walking to the black GMC topkick and patting it on its hood as well.

"This is Ironhide, weapons specialist." She then walked to the Hummer.

"This is ratchet, medical officer." Then she walked up to the Ferrari 458 Italia,

"This is signore Mirage, warrior and assassin." Then she walked to the yellow Camaro with racing stripes,

"This is triple-B AKA Bumblebee, scout and warrior."

"And this " she put her hand on the side of the peterbilt truck, "Is Optimus Prime, leader of the Autobots." She said

"O, and before I forget there's also Jolt, Skids, Mudflap, the wreakers; Topspin, Roadbuster and Leadfoot, and Jazz, Firstaid, Redalert, Wheely, brains, Que or Wheeljack and probably a few more that I can't remember right now." She said before smiling innocently. Epps just gawped at her in amazement.

"How on earth do you know these guys?" he said.

"I have my ways…" Amelia said darkly. Mearing also seemed to be impressed at her knowledge about the Autobots.

"What ways?" She asked her.

"Interesting ones."

"You're avoiding my question." Mearing said. Amelia sighed, she was going to have to tell them the truth sooner or later, so why not just tell them now?

"Well, as it turns out, being a pet is pretty interesting." She said, still looking for the right words to use when she explained the she was Barricades pet.

"What do you mean with PET?" Epps asked.

"You know, being owned and trained by somebody who cares for you or at least tries to keep you alive to some extent." Amelia said sounding bored.

"Who owned you then?" Sideswipe asked, he could really not keep the question down any longer. Amelia looked at the car before answering its question.

"I was a Decepticon pet." Amelia said. When she looked up she saw that all the Autobots had gathered around her.

"Si, and?" Mirage asked.

"Um, I was Barricades pet." Amelia said as she turned around and showed her Decepticon tattoo, "He trained and fed me." The whole room went deathly quit. Amelia sifted uncomfortably on her feet.

"Anyway… Where is my sister?" She said, breaking the tension in the air.

"You mean the person we found in the Decepticon base?" Epps asked. Amelia nodded.

"Yeah, she's the one." She said. Mearing frowned, "She's in custody." She said flatly.

"Can I see her?" Amelia asked hopefully. Mearing gave her a long look before ordering something at the soldiers.

After a few minutes the doors opened and in came three soldiers with Abigail in their midst. Amelia's face lightened up before she ran to her. Abby lifted her head to the sound of running feet and saw her sister Amelia running up to her at full speed. Before she could react, Amelia was on her. She hugged Abby so hard that she was having a hard time breathing.

"Amelia" she crocked, "Can't… Breath…" Amelia got of her friend and helped her up before hugging her again but a little less tightly.

"A simple 'Hello' would have done." Abby said sarcastically as she hugged Amelia back.

"I missed you soooo much!" Amelia said as she pulled away.

"Same here." Abby said back.

"Did they hurt you, 'cos I swear if they laid a finger on you…" Amelia said as she looked around.

"They did nothing to me, I swear." Abigail said as she patted Amelia on the back.

"Have you met the Autobots yet?" Amelia asked enthusiastically.

"Um, no…" Abby answered a little confused.

"Well, here they are!" Amelia said as she opened her arms in all the cars directions. Abby was awe struck, she could not believe her eyes. She could only ever dream of meeting the Autobots and now she was standing right in front of her. Her moment of epicenes was not to last though. A squad of soldiers came in, they were all cladded from top too toe with protective armor and had their guns at the ready. There armor was nothing compared with what she had had before they took it. Shockwaves going to be mad, Amelia thought to herself as she stood in a protective stance in front of Abigail.

"I suggest you come quietly." Mearing said as she exited the room with her helper, "Or deadly force will be used against you."

Amelia looked up at the squad, which had formed a defensive line.

"Abby, I need you to walk towards the pillar and hide behind it." Amelia wisped to her friend, not taking her eyes off the soldiers coming her way. Abigail complied and slowly walked towards it. Amelia was pretty sure she was not the target but things did tend to get messy so, to be on the safe side, she wanted Abigail to hide.

"Ya'll know what your getting' yourself into?" Amelia said loudly so that they could all hear. The soldiers were wearing some type of cloth that was covering their eyes and nose but she could see the fear in their eyes. They were perfectly aware of what had happened outside the base, they knew that their comrades were killed by the same being that they were now confronting.

"There is still a way out you know," Amelia looked at them, "It would save your family the pain of grieving."

Not one of the soldiers budged.

"As you wish. Bring the rain." She said before doing a double front flip forward and doing a full on body slam onto the first soldier knocking the two behind him down with him. Then she got the ones standing ether side down before dealing with the second line. She was brutally kicked in the gut, which sent her skidding across the floor. She came to a halt and stood up, just before resuming her attack a shot was fired. The whole room went silent. Amelia slowly looked down at her stomach. There was one perfectly round hole just below her rib cage. Her bottom lip trembled as she started feeling the pain. She wound then started bleeding. She looked up at the remaining squad, there were only five left one the one to the far right had the smoking gun. He looked like he had seen a ghost.

"F you." She hissed angrily before changing her legs into her snow leopard ones and charging. The squad in front of her had made a rather curtail mistake, they had all gathered together like a heard of antelope. When it came to the rule of safety in numbers, five humans obviously did not cut it. Amelia jumped up at least two meters into the air before handing out two hard punches into two of their faces, knocking them cold in the process. She got the two on her side by their collars and head banged them before punishing the last guy in the face as well. She looked around her to see if any of them had gotten up from the ground. She made sure she only knocked the guys out, she was not to keen on actually murdering anybody tonight. She then noticed the Autobots. They were all standing to one side still in their car modes.

"Abigail!" Amelia shouted as she looked around her. She came from behind Ironhide.

"Thank God you're safe." Amelia said as she let out a breath of air. She had already changed her legs back to her human ones and was walking towards her. All at once she felt really giddy and fell to the ground, unconscious.

Abigail ran the last but and got down by her friends side.

"Amelia? Amelia!" She cried out. Abigail's eyes widened when she saw the pool of blood that had started gathering on the ground near her side.

"Oh no, please no." Abby whispered to herself as she rolled Amelia over to her back and looked at the bullet wound.

"We'll take it from here ma'am." A soldier said as he helped her up and took her away. Abby looked over her shoulder and watched as some others lifted Amelia's lifeless body onto a stretcher and carried her away.