TFP: A Girl Anew, chapter 4
Going out
ThornRush stared into the open field, she knew it was washington because her father used to take her out here and fly her kite. Seconds passed, then minutes but still she stood there, could she go home? oh how she longed to see her family and to be with them again. But what would they say to her being a mechanical being.
"Oh honey that's ok well work out something." or "you hideous thing, what have you done to my daughter, we cannot have that thing here."
She let tears roll out her optics.
ThornRush felt a tap on her shoulder, and she came out of her trance, wiped her tears and turned to see Knockout tapping his foot.
"You done staring at nothing." he said rudely. she nodded her head and sighed.
"Good, now the faster we get you a form the faster we can head back. Now do you know of any car lots around here?"
"Yes, there are a whole bunch on sprague, but we'll have to wait until night to get there, sprague is always crowded this time of day."
"Fine."
"So you want to talk."
"No."
"Ok... We should move to a more covered area, we're pretty venerable here, and Mrs. Dovlin will pass around her in about ten minutes."
"Who is Mrs. Dovlin?"
"Our, I mean my old neighbor, she always takes yip out for a walk at four and passes by here at four thirty." She said straitly
"Follow me." she led him through tall thick grass that soon erupted into thick tall trees. She kept on walking until she hit a big clearing int the trees. the clearing was perfect and big enough to fit two transformers. The trees, stretched high and hid them well, although sitting down was their best option for better coverage.
In one of the trees that was smaller there was a tree house, it was small and quant. ThornRush stared at it with a slight smile, it had been hers and her friends, they all built it together and had used it every week.
Knockout broke the silence. "Look at what these trees have done to me, I just got a new paint job."
"Stop your whining, so you got a few scratches, nothing that a few fix ups can't handle." she rolled her optics, he could be such a baby sometimes. She looked back at the treehouse and sighed. As she stared she spotted a paper tapered up to the window flapping in the wind. ThornRush pulled it out and looked at it. It was a picture of her and it said.
"MISSING, she is our sixteen year old daughter. We will be having a search party at dusk, every night in june, please join us. She has been missing for a week and we cannot take it any longer. If you wish to participate, meet us at the base of dish-man mica hills."
She let another tear slide down her face.
After a few minutes of sitting ThornRush stood a little, she was never one to sit for long periods. As she stood, She heard yipping in the distance and it seemed to get closer. Soon the yipping got much closer and both ThornRush and Knockout became alert.
"What is that?" knockout questioned.
"Mrs. Dovlins dog Yip." she whispered back.
Knockout had never really seen a dog before so he did't now what to expect, he had kinda hoped it was a big furosous dog but his hopes fell what a tiny yipping Pomeranian came running through. ThornRush caught it and chuckled.
"I never lived a day without having to help Mrs. Dovlin find Yip, he always seemed to escape from her grasp." As she said that both heard a frail and meek voice calling out Yips name.
"Scrap." knockout said.
"Don't worry." She wavered her free hand at him, ThornRush put the dog down and shooed it to the direction of it's owner. soon they heard sighs of relief and footsteps walking away.
Hours passed since the dog incident and they still waited, ThornRush decided with at least an hour left she should get her plan under way.
"Knockout?"
"What?" he said still seeming annoyed.
~shee'sh he can hold a grudge.~ she thought.
"You know how you told me your home world was destroyed."
"Yes."
"Don't.. Don't you ever miss it?"
"Of course I miss it, everyone misses it, we should have never had to leave, though we had no choice." She stared at him and he at her.
"So you know how I feel, don't you?" She said holding her arm, he looked at her and at the sky seeing it was night, and just paused.
He looked at ThornRush and then at the sky. That was such a stupid thing to say. But he guessed he knew that feeling of losing a home forcefully. He just sat there thinking, such a young girl forced from the only life she knew to be pushed into something completely opposite of that. Knockout shut his optics. ~No I cannot think anything like this, she was an experiment and nothing more, it's her mothers fault she was born into this world, not mine.~ He opened them back up and sighed.
She heard him sigh and she knew she hit something. A pinge of hope erupted inside of her. He turned back to her and looked more stern than usual.
"It's dark and it's late, we should get going."
"Ok, follow me." Disappointed, she led him out of the forest and onto a road.
"Sprague?"
"No." they walked for about a minute until they hit their destination. Since they were bigger they covered more ground.
"sprague?" she looked at him annoyed.
"Yes. now be careful, it may be late but you still get people around here." they walked down sprague and watched as it turned from two way to one way, from a small road becoming bigger and a bigger road becoming smaller. it all seemed so confusing. Knockout followed ThornRush and couldn't help but admire her body, she was sleek and very well curved, she was mainly all black except for a few green accents that wrapped around her. She had heels and the back of her foot had a long spike coming out of it.
ThornRush peeked back at Knockout making sure he was still following her, she saw that he was admiring her new body and decide to try and scare him.
"Enjoying the view?" she asked womanly.
"Um," he cleared his throat. "I - uh."
"The cars, are you enjoying the views of the cars." he looked at where she pointed.
"yes what a fine selection of cars, is this all you have?"
"No We have more down the road, but this one always has the best."
they looked around until ThornRush found the perfect car. A new 2013 silver lamborgini imported from france. It was inside the building safe and protected.
"I can't get to it." she whined.
"Scan through the glass."
"Right." she said feeling stupid. She scanned through the glass, and felt herself changing. Green light showed up on her feet and on her back. when it faded her body was set with a pair of wheels in between her feet and heels, and on her back.
"Sweet!" she screeched like a little girl.
"Now lets see how well you transform." she walked out to the middle of the street and concentrated. Soon after a few failed tries, she mastered transforming, she now transformed into a black and green accented lamborgini.
"Lets test out your driving skills, now this will be different fro..." she sped off and left Knockout in the dust. He sped down the road reaching to fifty miles an hour trying catch up to ThornRush. He saw her round a corner and followed. As he caught up to her she slowed down to a stop.
In front of ThornRush and Knockout was a very well kept house with a police car in front and the curtains opened. inside were a four people, a woman with long silky blonde hair who was crying and couldn't seem to keep herself together, A man with short brown hair who was soothing the woman, another man dressed in a police uniform and cap, and a little boy about seven who was lying on the woman's lap and also crying.
"You can listen in if you use the button on the right." Knockout said. ThornRush automatically pressed the button and listened so did Knockout.
"I am sorry for having to give you this bad news."
"And your," the woman hyperventilated. the man looked at her and sighed.
"What my wife is trying to ask is, are you sure your positive about this, I mean what if."
"Sir we have looked over all the what if's, I am sorry to say that that we know for certain that your daughter is dead."
"Thank you officer, we appreciate you coming to us for the news." the man said. The little boy shot up.
"We don't appreciate the news no we don't he ran over to the officer and hit him multiple times in hopes to hurt him but he was to small.
"No she can't be dead she can't be." he fell down and clung to the officers calf, he looked into the officers eyes and spoke tiredly and sadly. "Please oh please bring back my sissy I love her too much to lose her. I just want my sissy." he let go and the officer left.
ThornRush and Knockout watched as the officer left, and the man closed the blinds.
ThornRush shot down the neighborhood back to the open field. when she arrived ThornRush transformed to a bot and ran stumbling over her herself multiple times and letting tears stream down her face. Knockout followed and tried to catch up, he wondered why this girls death affected her so much, unless, the girl was her. He had never really gotten a good look at the house so he wouldn't know which one was hers. ThornRush finally tripped over herself and Knockout pulled her back up.
"let me go." she pulled out of his grasp and ran more.
"THORNRUSH! STOP!" Knockout yelled.
"NEVER! I Will never stop until I die, if I am dead as a human then I might as well be dead as a transformer."
"after all this training I will not let you kill yourself."
"Who said I was going to kill myself. you narcissistic, crybaby."
"Wha- how dare you, insult me." he yelled.
"Insult you, that was a compliment, scraps for a CPU." she yelled back.
"Get over here right now."
"You want me, come and get me, although I might be dead by the time you reach me."
she turned around and ran he followed going even faster than her, when she slowed down she turned back only to see knockouts hand claw her face. She fell to the ground and energon leaked from her scars. ThornRush stood back up and made a couple more insults only to be clawed in the stomach with more energon leaking from her scar. She made even more harsh insults and Knockout went to claw her again, but he stopped in mid swing realizing what ThornRush was doing.
"Come on big baby, claw me again, maybe in the head."
"Stop it ThornRush your going crazy." he said sternly and for the first time with sympathy in his voice.
"says the con who just clawed me for a couple of jokes." she let out a small laugh. He grabbed her by both hands and pulled her up, thankfully he had only scratched her a couple of times.
"Ow-ow-ow, that hurts." He looked to her side and saw four large gashes from his fingers. for the first time, he felt something for her, but he didn't know what.
"Come on let's get you back so I can patch you up." He slung one of her arms over his shoulders and helped her walk
"Knockout requesting space bridge, from these cordinents."
A few seconds later a green light appeared and knockout walked through with ThornRush. As they came through into the nemesis, a drone con looked at Knockout then at ThornRush and her wounds. Knockout ignored the drone con and walked to the medical bay. Her wounds were minor and would take only a few short hours to patch them up.
ThornRush woke up on her berth, her side and face were hurting like crazy. She then remembered the scratches knockout gave her. As she sat up as Knockout entered her room.
"Took you long enough." he said leaning against the door frame.
"How long was I out."
"A day, you lost a lot of energon, here." he handed her a energon cube and she drank it gracefully. After she finished she looked up at Knockout.
"I'm sorry for insulting you, it was just hard hearing that, now my parents think I'm dead, I guess i wanted it to be true."
"I guess I understand, for you femmes it's harder to cope with that."
"Ya... I'm going back to sleep I still feel tired."
"Alright, I'll be back in a few hours to bring you more energon." he left and ThornRush turned to face the wall. She couldn't help but think to herself and smile.
~Phase one complete.~
explanation in the next chapter to come. Hope you all liked it. enjoy:)