A Girl Anew Chapter 6
The Birthday Surprise's
Today was the day ThornRush had been dreading since she came here, the one day she was hoping to be home with her parents. Today was ThornRush's seventeenth birthday.
{ThornRush would you come down to the medical bay.} Knockout commed.
ThornRush turned to her side and sat up, talk about the worst nights sleep. She stood up off her berth and wearily walked down to the med bay.
She let out a large yawn and sat up on one of the medical berths.
"Hey Knockout what ya want."
"I want to show you something I made for you."
"Aw really."
"don't get affectionate on me, I created this for your protection." he held up a mask type thing that was green and black.
"Cool... what is it."
'It is a face mask so when you fight your face doesn't get scratched."
"Ah, so how do I put it on."
"I will be putting it on for you, since you can't reach and see the areas I can. Turn your face towards me." she did what he said and he applied one part of the mask to her with who knows what. She turned her head when he said and he did the same thing to the other side.
"Try it." ThornRush breathed and concentrated, after a bit her mask came down together.
The mask reached up to where she would have a nose and on each side it curved down to her neck, leaving her green accents visible.
"I like it. Thanks." She retracted her mask, slid off the berth and walked back to her quarters.
She arrived back at her quarters, tired and on edge. when she arrived she was instantly greeted by a Drone con.
"ThornRush Lord Megatron summons you."
"Ya ya be there in a few."
"He insist you come immediately."
"Just leave me alone for now, I'll be there soon."
"Lord megatron had informed me to..." she growled and turned around.
"Have You ever had your insides plucked out one by one, from your least important vitals to your most?" The con shook his head.
"Me neither but I've heard its a slow and painful death so unless you want to figure out how it feels I suggest leaving me be." The con nodded with fear and walked away.
ThornRush wearlily walked down to the main brig.
"One of my drone cons has informed me that you threatened him, is this true." Megatron spoke aggressively. She sighed.
"Yes lord megatron I am sorry, I did not get much rest last night and am in a edgy mood today." She heard a drone con crack a joke about her and she glared at him.
"What did you need me for?"
"We need to decipher another set of coordinates I would like you to do it."
"sure why not." she walked over to the database and messed around with the keyboard, after about five minutes she was back with another set of coordinates.
"All yours." She walked out without a glance at anyone.
When ThornRush walked up to her quarters she saw knockout lingering outside.
"Hey, what brings you."
"Nothing much. I've heard you have been a little up tight today and thought I might ask why."
"A little wouldn't even scratch that, I'm really uptight today."
"Well I understand the 'no rest' thing but I can tell something else is up."
"How?"
"No one threatens another con with only the excuse of being tired."
She sighed, and leaned against the door frame. "If you really want to know what's up. Today... Today is my seventeenth Birthday."
"Ah the human celebration of age, never really understood that concept. So why does this have you bothered."
"Well this year was supposed to be special. We didn't have enough money for anything last year so my parents saved up for this year. We were going to go on a cruise. so you see - I just this year was going to be special also because this was going to be my younger brothers first real trip."
"I see. A family vacation," He pondered for a minute. "Well I have to go." with that he turned and left.
Knockout went to the med bay and pulled up the human internet. He wanted to browse different places to go. He didn't know what he was doing or why he was even doing this, he just wanted to help out ThornRush. That first night she assumed her car form and overheard of her death he couldn't help stoping himself from feeling for her. He wanted her to be happy.
The internet popped up and he typed in the search box for 'favorite places girls like to visit'
"Fiji no. L.A no. New York no. blah, blah, blah. Nothing." he slammed his fist against the computer. An add popped up on the screen and it looked perfect.
"Iceland, green, lush, full of life. Looks perfect." he found the coordinates and walked out of the med bay.
ThornRush tried her face mask multiple times, letting it slide on then off. She had nothing else better to do than this, otherwise she would be in a bikini on a cruise bathing in the sun.
"Knock, knock."
"Who, is, there."
"Just me, I thought you'd like to see something."
"what?"
"Follow me." she stood up and followed knockout to the spacebridge. he typed in a few cooridnates and they walked through.
On the other side it was beautiful. They stood up on a sheer side cliff. The grass was lush and green, with gorgeous flowers sprouted along the cliffs line. Below them was the ocean, a few whales jumped out only to land back in, dolphins did the same. And If you looked hard enough you could see fishermen in their boats. Behind them was a even more amazing, forests so green it seemed as if they glowed.
"I- it's beautiful. theres no words to describe how wonderful this place is."
"i'm glad you like it. I know it's not a cruise but I thought getting you out would be a great idea." ThornRush let a few tears roll down her face. She hugged him, and never wanted to let go.
After a few minutes she moved back and looked into his blood red eyes.
"You are right this may be no cruise, but it is the best gift anyone could have ever given me. Thank you." she said smiling the happiest smile Knockout had ever seen on her.
"Your welcome." he said sincerely. knockout and ThornRush walked along the cliffs edge, admiring the ocean view.
"The last time I came to the ocean it was with my family and my cousins family."
"Really. when was that."
"Two years ago. Gosh I miss that day. I remember me and my cousin were out in the waves playing and building sandcastles. I.." she started to laugh. "I remember my cuz building his castle too close to the waves, and when my aunt went to go get a picture all you saw was a wave splashing down on him. My cuz is the smartest kid in the world when he is around electronics, but not when he is around sandcastles."
"Sounds like you have a great cousin. What's his name?"
"Rafael, but family and friends call him Raff."
Knockout stiffened up a bit. Raff, one of the autobots human allies was her... cousin. This was not good. He had to tell her, no he shouldn't. He looked over to ThornRush and saw a sparkling's smile on her, how could he take that away. He couldn't do it. Knockout decided to keep things under wraps even with megatron. He knew that if Megatron knew this he would use it against her by kidnapping Raff if she ever got out of hand. Today was her birthday and he seemed to know how hard it was for her today. He decided to spend the day with her and let her keep the smile.
"you ok?" he looked up only to meet ThornRush's sparkling blue optics.
"Ya I'm fine." She gave him a look of concern and then walked on.
"So how did you find the coordinates for this place, old relic hunt."
"Ya something like that." He didn't want to tell her about searching the web for it.
"Cool, so what did you find here?"
"I wouldn't know, I wasn't assigned to this relic hunt."
"But you knew the coordinates."
"Yes...uh.. because I was the one assigned to the spacebride, it was just in case any con needed medical attention. We were under the impression this place was covered in ice."
She laughed at him. "You can't just go off of names, you have to look at the history."
"Ya how so."He sat down on the edge of the cliff and motioned for ThornRush to sit too.
"Well for example," she said sitting down next to him. "your name, Knockout. If I hadn't met you I would be under the impression you were a street-fighter not a doctor."
"Oh, that's nice to know." He said sarcastically. ThornRush brought her knees up to her chest and stared out into the ocean. She noticed that they had walked downhill from their starting point, because she could feel the ocean mist against her face.
"You know ThornRush I haven't gotten time to know you."
"What do you mean."
"I would like to know your past, when you were human."
"Really, you want to hear about my past, I bet yours is more interesting."
"How about a deal, you tell me your past I'll tell you my past.
"Deal, where do you want me to start?"
"How about the beginning."
"Well not much to know, but. I was born.
at two my biological father died of some rare disease.
At four my mother remarried to my new father, he is very kind hearted and treated me as if i were his own, oh and that is where Raff comes in he is my step cousin.
At nine my parents had Ian my little brother, We grew a bond together that seemed unseperable.
I grew up in a middle class family, we lived a good family life with strong bonds.
I was a freestyle dancer, I played ball sports with friends for fun.
and then I turned sixteen got ripped away from my family and you know the rest. Now you."
"uh.. I was born on cybertron, before the cybertronian war.
According to history I was routy, untamable and loved to take things apart without putting them back together.
I lived in a lower class sector with only my mother who might I add was narcacistic and worried about her looks all the time."
"Like mother like son." ThornRush interupted.
"Not finished. At the age of twelve the war for cybertorn came and my mother chose the decepticon side, I followed.
Before I turned fourteen my mother was shot and died in my arms, I then wanted to become a doctor.
At the age of sixteen I was studying to be a doctor, and at the age of twenty I was commissioned to the war to help the wounded decepticon soldiers. And then we came to earth. the rest is war history."
ThornRush's optics were wide open.
"I'm so sorry."
"Don't be, past is past."
"Well if it's any constellation to you, I'm here." She said resting her head on his shoulder. and closing her optics.
"Thanks." He wrapped an arm around her and closed his optics.
She shot her optics open and looked around.
~what am I doing, I'm not getting feelings for him am I? No I can't be, I'm just progressing my plan.~
She looked up to see Knockout with his optics closed and his body still.
~He's so handsome when he's still, kind of like a calm painting.
Snap out of it, don't fall for it...
Well maybe just today I can let go, just today.~
she reclosed her optics and sat there feeling the warmth of Knockout's body.
ThornRush woke up to the sound of trees rustling. It was still day so She couldn't of been asleep for long.
She felt her head pressed against warm metal and looked to see that she was lying down besides Knockout.
The rustling came back. She stood up and quietly walked towards the forest. The rustling became louder as she got closer. ThornRush peeked in through the trees and saw two kids,a boy and girl digging for something, along beside them was the purple and pink accented femme bot. More rustling came and a younger boy walked out of a bush holding a handheld device, it was Raff. She felt tears begin to form in her optics.
"Are we done yet?" The human girl whined.
"Not until we find a plant, we need one for our project." The older boy exclaimed.
"Arcee, jack, Miko come here, I found something." Raff knelt down near a bright red flower with small spikes inside.
"What is that?" Miko asked excitedly.
"A spine-root flower, very rare, and very poisonous. Because of their rarity they are not allowed to be taken out of their growing grounds, but we can take a spike out for our project."
"Well we got that, why don't we head over to the cliff edge for some other flowers." Jack said standing up. They walked out of the forest and ThornRush sunk in. She stepped back only to be yelled at.
"Watch where you're stepping." A girl voice said.
"Ah!" ThornRush spun around and tripped on a branch sending her backwards out of the forest.
She stood back up to see knockout getting ready to fight Arcee. He swift kicked her in the legs and she fell to the ground. Knockout took one of the kids in his grasp not realizing who he grabbed.
"RAFF!" Miko and jack said in unsision. Arcee went to grab him, but Knockout stopped her by putting his sharp finger to Raff's throat.
"Uh-uh-uh." he said devilishly.
"Knockout! Put him down!"
"Wha-." he turned to see ThornRush heading towards him fuming. He looked down to the boy and to her, realizing his mistake. She pulled Raff out of his grasp and held him.
"Don't worry I'll make sure he won't hurt you." she said kindly. glaring at Knockout.
"You sound familiar." Raff said a bit confused.
"I get that a lot."
"Wait. Amanda is that you?" He said pushing up his glasses.
"Huh, I haven't been called that in forever."
"I'm so glad to see you." He stated hugging her thumb. Tears rolled down his eyes.
"Me to." she pulled him closer to her and let out a tear.
ThornRush pulled him away and stared at him, it had been well over seven months since she has seen any other human, especially family. Everyone looked at them oddly, and Raff told them he would be there in a few. The other kids and femme wandered to the cliff edge in search of icelandic flowers. ThornRush Wiped away Raffs tears and her own.
"So you're one of them?" Raff asked.
"Ya, been like this for a while."
"How?" She looked up at knockout and then walked away.
"Experiment."
"Oh. Can you become human again?"
"I don't know never tried."
"You could." She nodded and blinked away a few tears.
"Your mom and dad are doing fine, it has been hard for all of us but their coping." he saidtrying to make her feel better.
"And Ian?"
"Well It has been really hard on him. He's run away a couple times, and a few weeks ago your mom caught him trying to steal fifteen pills of her anti-depressents."
"He tried to commit suicide?"
"Ya, he's doing better."
"Raff do me a favor," she looked around and leaned in. "Tell Ian when you can that I am alive and well, tell him who I am and everything. But only him." He smiled in agreement. ThornRush walked over to the others and set him down. Before he left she blinked four times and he blinked back at her once.
She headed back to knockout.
What was all that talking and blinking about?" Miko asked.
"Nothing, just private family matters. The blinking is our is our code. She blinked four times." Raff stated back.
"And what does that mean?" followed jack.
"It means she has a plan." He said looking back before following Everyone through the Spacebridge to the base.
"How could you." She said walking back to knockout.
"Could what."
"Don't play dumb with me, you grabbed a kid and threatened them, and not just anyone my cousin."
"I wasn't actually going to hurt him, even arcee knew that I wouldn't but she still couldn't take any chances."
"Ough, you men are just."
"Just what?"
"Nothing."
"I took you out here to let you relax now how about we go sit on the cliff."
She sighed, even though he made a stupid mistake he was helping her.
"Ok." she gave a halfhearted smile. They both sat on the cliff edge and looked out towards the ocean. They sat and watched as day turned into night and the stars came out one by one.
"Beautiful aren't they." she said awing the sky.
"Ya, you know if you were a star you would be the most beautiful and brightest. like the North Star."
She felt herself blush, she hadn't even known transformers could blush.
"Well if I'm the North Star what are you?"
"I am a simple transformer, who was lost. I found you, followed along on your training and everything in between. I even fell for your love trap."
"My what!?"
"Don't underestimate me, I admit I act like I shouldn't but I am smart and can see a trap when it is placed."
"So the..."
"Yes the night we got your car form, I knew at least after thinking about it for a while. But I knew deep down inside, your were breaking apart."
"I'm not weak." She said hugging her knees and whispering.
"No. But you are human. I may of changed a few things about your appearance and insides, but you lived your life being human I cannot change that."
"So why are you even being kind to me then,you since it was all and...?"
"Act. Because I admire you and your courage. You are sticking up for yourself and your family, you are willing to lay down your life for them and will do anything to return to your family. That is one thing I lacked, I could of died instead of my mother but I cheated death and instead she paid the price, I regret that. You though don't seem afraid of death, and you most certainly aren't a coward."
"So you want to help me?"
"Maybe, but more than anything I want to love you." He pulled her into his grasp and kissed her passionately. She became entranced, life seemed to slow down that moment and not move at all.
Megatron stared at the screen. He knew something would come up by sending laserbeak out and he was right. She was playing mind games with Knockout and he intended to stop them. But since he now knew that Raff is her cousin, he could use that against her.
"Soundwave you can summon laserbeak back, I have all the information I need. Just make sure the spacebridge is enough away's so ThornRush and Knockout can't hear or see anything." Soundwave nodded and walked out to the spacebridge.
Knockout and thornRush stayed for a few more hours. They talked about different things, and walked along the shoreline. ThornRush never wanted to return to the nemesis she wanted to stay here with knockout.
She felt just like a human again, talking, laughing, telling past stories, and just being her normal self that she hadn't been in seven months.
"This was the best Birthday Present anyone could have ever given me. Thank you so much." She leaned up and kissed him.
"You're welcome, anytime. Speaking of time we need to get back."
"Do we have to?" she said pouting.
"Yes, I do have duties to attend to tomorrow."
"Alrrright." He commed a con requesting a spacebridge. a few seconds later the green light came before them, and they walked through.
Upon arriving back, they went their separate ways, biding each other good-night. ThornRush walked back to her quarters and fell right to sleep hoping to see knockout again tomorrow.
Knockout walked back to the med bay, his quarters were set right behind it so that if there were any emergencies he could arrive when needed.. As he entered the bay he was greeted by megatron.
"Ah, knockout how was your little trip today."
"Uh.. fine lord megatron, I never told anyone about going on a trip."
"Iceland, am I correct?"
"Yes." Knockout said uneasily, he knew something was up, but didn't know what.
"Tell me knockout do you know that ThornRush has been playing mind games on you."
"Yes, but I have them under control."
"I saw that, and would you call kissing her under control."
"How did you?"
"I have my ways, let's just say laserbeak has proved useful to us... Prep him." Megatron walked out and drone cons grasped Knockout by the arms and strapped him to one of the medical berths. Before he could protest something hit him hard against his helm and he was knocked out.
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