TFP: A Girl Anew, chapter 5

New Relic

ThornRush sat up trying to hide her smile, Knockout had fallen for her little "I'm so sad." act from a couple days ago. She had known the police would find her to be dead, after all she wasn't human anymore.
Yesterday was just perfect timing for her plan.
Though it was sparkbreaking to see her family in such a distortion, ThornRush knew she was going to return to them soon, with they way her plan was going.
She heard footsteps and quickly straightened her face. Knockout walked in holding a cube of energon.
"You doing ok?"
"Ya. I feel more rested."
"That's good, here, drink up. I told megatron that your wounds have been healed, and he has decided that you are reliable enough to go on a relic hunt." she drank up all the energon and handed it back.
"Sounds like a lot of fun." she said halfheartedly. "So what are we going after today?"
"We never know what it is until we find it."
"Oh then that sounds even more fun. so when do we leave?"
"don't know. Soundwave is trying to decode the next coordinates."
"Oohh can I help, that sounds like fun!"
"Sure, but I don't know how much help you would be."
ThornRush walked out past Knockout and she headed to the main brig. Upon arriving she found Soundwave trying to decode the database. ThornRush walked over and watched.
"This looks just like unscramble me." Soundwave looked at her.
"It's a game I used to play as a human, and we can just say, I owned it." Soundwave still looked at her seeming confused.
"Ok, here scoot over." She hip bumped him and started to fiddle with the mainframe.
"Ok, so this game had a whole bunch of broken up letters and you had to put them back together to form a word." She hummed to herself as she typed words and numbers together, after a few minutes she poked her finger on a key and coordinates came together.
"There you go." she left the main brig and walked down to her quarters.
she walked she passed megatron, and smirked.
"Coordinates are ready."

ThornRush walked past Megatron and told him the coordinates had been found. He walked faster down to the main Brig, in disbelief that Soundwave could have found the coordinates this fast, it usually took him three to four days.
"Soundwave, I have been informed that our next coordinates have been deciphered. How did you go through the data base that quickly?" he said deeply.
soundwave replayed the video of ThornRush decoding the Mainframes iacon database.
"How could she know our language, she is human." Just then Knockout walked in.
"Lord Megatron, I may be of assistance to your question. When ThornRush went from human to transformer I made sure our language was transferred into her CPU, I did it for 'just in case'".
"I see Knockout and did this important detail just slip from you or have you been keeping it a secret."
"You see, I didn't think she would ever need to use our language so I just let it go." Megatron growled at him, and Knockout hunched back.
"Well as mad as I am at you now I am pleased also that we have a new asset to finding our relics... STARSCREAM!" The mech ran into the main brig and and bowed to megatron.
"Yes lord megatron what do you need of my assistance?"
"I want you to round up troops we have found the next relic coordinates."
"That fast, looks like soundwave has actually put in some effort this time."
"The only one not putting in effort is you starscream, now go I wish to have a troop ready by sunset."
"Yes Lord Megatron." Starscream left the Main brig.
Megatron turned to Knockout.
"Knockout I want you to get ThornRush, I am allowing her to accompany us this time, let her make no mistakes or it's you and her to the scrapyard."
"Yes Lord Megatron."

ThornRush sat on the edge of her berth bored to tears, with nothing to do.
"I'm Boooorrrreeeedddd!" she said falling back onto her berth.
"Maybe I can help with that." Knockout said as he walked in.
"Oh hey there, didn't see you."
"You were to busy talking to yourself."
"Saying i'm bored doesn't qualify as talking to myself."
"Whatever. Megatron has requested that you come on the relic hunt today."
"Oh goodie sounds like fun."
"Meet us at the space-bridge."
"K" Knockout left and ThornRush gathered her things, before she left, she looked around and spotted her double swords on the floor underneath her berth. She grabbed them and walked down to the space-bridge.

They ended up on the edge of the sahara desert beside sheer rock formations. Megatron oredered some drone cons to start digging with machinery as he watched. Knockout talked to megatron before walking over to ThornRush.
"We have guard duty."
"Awww. I wanted to get in some action. I even brought my double swords." she said childishly.
"Probably not today. come on." they walked over to some drone cons that were positioned at the edge of the formations. After a few minutes of staring at nothing but sand, ThornRush peeked back at the decepticons.
She saw a green light just like their space bridge show up. A tall red and blue bot walked out, followed by a smaller yellow and black bot and a red white and blue bot with thirty-eights on his doors. the smaller bots stood as the tall one spoke in a deep calm voice.
"Megatron, hand over the relic." the bot said
"What relic Optimus, as far as i can tell we have not found the it yet." megatron retorted smiling devilishly.
Optimus ThornRush remembers hearing him from a eavesdropped conversation.
"Then leave, you can only do harm with a relic."
"Ah but Optimus that is my intention, to conquer the world." Megatron flicked one of his fingers and the cons went to attack the bots. Seconds later the green light came again and this time a large green bot and a smaller purple with pink accented femme bot came and joined the fight.
Knockout and the drones went to join the others and left ThornRush alone. She stood behind a rock and watched as the cons and bots fought gaining many battle wounds in the process.
~what could be so important about a dusty old relic.~ she thought. As ThornRush turned around she jumped, behind her was the red, white, and blue bot with the thirty-eights.
"Eeek."
"Hi." she just stared, he wasn't fighting her.
Knockout had said, autobots and decepticons had been old foes and fought whenever in contact, why wasn't he fighting her? That's when she remembered she didn't have a decepticon symbol on her so the bot wouldn't know the difference.
"Never seen you around here, you lost?"
"No, just cause i'm a femme doesn't mean I get lost." she shot back.
"I didn't say that." just then the bot got a comm, and she listened in.
{Smokescreen, the decepticons have found the relic, I want you to get it.} Optimus said
{On it boss.}
"Gotta go."
he transformed and sped off.
{Knockout, smokescreen is coming for the relic.} she commed him, she saw knockout make a sharp turn in his vehicle mode and ram into Smokescreen. Both transformed and went to battle with each other.
The relic was being thrown everywhere, and seemed that it could break any minute. ThornRush just stood there, not knowing what to do. She was told to stay but did they need her?
Just then The relic flew up and crashed into the ground, no one seemed to notice since they all were to busy fighting. ThornRush transformed into her car mode and slowly made her way to the relic. As she reached it ThornRush transformed again and reach her hand out. Before she could grab it, a cons foot knocked against it and made it fling away from her. She stood up in dismay looking for the relic, she saw the Autobot femme grab it facing away from her. ThornRush ran and did a mid-air flip over the other femme and grabbed the relic from her.
"Thank You." ThornRush said smiling.
"Give it back." the other femme said.
"Make me." ThornRush transformed and sped off, with the femme following behind her.
She swerved past a few fights and gained speed heading behind a cavern hidden in the rock formations. She slowed to a stop and transformed.
"Looks like a ring, inside a box. Let's see what it does." she took it out of its box and placed it on one of her fingers, nothing happened. she shook her hand, and twisted the ring, still nothing happened.
"DANGET YOU, WORK!" After she said that the ring glowed black and the glow engulfed her back and feet. When the glowing died down ThornRush looked to see what changed. She looked down and noticed she had no wheels on her feet, but she was set with a nice pair of wings on her back and her chest thorn was transformed into a cockpit.
"Sweet."

"Autobots head back to base." she heard optimus speak.
"Run along Optimus." megatron say maniacally.
She walked out of the cavern and headed towards the front of the rock formations.
"Where is the relic." Megatron said hastily. No one spoke.
"Are you telling me we have lost the relic to the autobots!" he shouted.
"No, Lord megatron, I have it." ThornRush said still in jet settings.
"What happened to you ThornRush." Knockout said.
"I- oh." she took of the ring and her car settings came back. "I figured out what the relic does."
"give it here." Megatron said holding out his hand. "I though you were on patrol."
"Well I was, until everyone left me, and the relic was on the ground alone... And it was a ring, what do you expect, girls love rings." She was pretty sure everyone rolled their optics. "You can't blame a girl for being curious, and anyway if I wouldn't of gotten to your precious jewelry then the Autobots would of had it instead of us. I at least deserve a thank you" she said smiling. Still silence. she wavered her hands up and walked away. " You men just never understand. can't blame a girl for trying."
"Spacebridge is this way." Knockout said.
"I knew that, she said turning around."

ThornRush laid on her berth tired and worn from the day. She heard a knock on her doorframe.
"Come in." She said tiredly.
"Hey." Knockout said.
"Hi."
"Thank you."
"For what."
"Today, you really helped us out on gaining a lead in this race."
"I thought it was a war not a race."
"Me to."
"Whatever, I'm going to get some sleep." He walked out and down the hall. ThornRush's optics grew heavy and she let them close.

Arcee stood in the autobot hide out fuming.
"I had it, in my grasp, but that femme just took it. I didn't see her I should have held it better."
"Arcee this is not your fault, clearly the other femme had been trained a little to well." ratchet said to her calmly.
"But by who, she didn't have any decepticon symbol on her and she ran off instead of joining the fight."
"Maybe she's new, I know if I was new I'd run off like that." Miko chimed in.
"Really, you, running from a fight. Ya right." Jack said jokingly.
"I do not know but whoever this new femme is, she was not from cybertron." Optimus said.
"What do you mean Optimus, she looks cybertronian."
"I mean, if she was, we would of picked up on her spark signal a long time ago, before she went to the Decepticons." he stated.
"ya, and she didn't have a autobot or decepticon symbol on her." Smokescreen added in.
"So what are you saying Optimus?" Ratchet asked.
"It may seem that the decepticons have not only involved a human forcefully, but they have made her a transformer like us."
"That is wrong on to many different levels." Raff added in."
"It does make sense though, You saw the news six months ago right." Jack said.
"Ya the story about the missing girl. A-A-A-Amanda Balkrie." Miko said widely.
"You think they took her." Bulkhead said.
"Yes I do, I also think we..."
"Should not get involved." Raff said quickly.
"I was going to say we should try and help her. Why would you say that Raff."
"Only because I believe she does not need our help and that she probably already has a plan devised out." he said typing at his computer.
"Why would you think that." Miko said confused.
"Uh, well here's the thing, Amanda... is my cousin."
"Your cousin, and you don't want to help her!" Miko yelled.
"Miko let Raff finish." Ratchet said.
"Here's the thing. First Amanda would never go to the evil side, and second Amanda is great at making plans and sticking through them. Though whenever someone tries to help her with her knowing or not knowing, something always goes wrong and I have a feeling that if we do try to help her, something will go wrong and she might be thrown in jail or worse killed for real. I just don't want to chance it. I trust her."
"If Raff trusts Amanda to devise a plan and get through with it then I trust her. From this time on we are to not help her at all, or even try to fight her. In the future she may fight us, and we may fight her but we are to make sure no harm comes to amanda, for Raff's sake and hers." Optimus stated calmly.
"We understand." everyone said.