TFP: A Girl Anew, chapter 7
Remember me
ThornRush practically jumped off of her berth. She wanted to go see Knockout and talk to him. After yesterday, her feelings for him had come alive and she wanted to show him.
She walked down to the med bay with a hidden smile behind her face mask, thinking of her birthday present he had given her, the best she had ever had. A trip to iceland and a kiss. She retracted her mask before arriving at the med bay.
Upon entering she stood in shock. Knockout laid on one of the medical berths passed out with some kind of large wire connected to his CPU and the database.
"What are you doing!" she yelled. Soundwave looked up from the computer and then back.
"I said. What are you doing!" She yelled again. This time Soundwave didn't bother to look at her. She rushed over to knockout in hopes to unattache the wire. She reached her hand to it but was stopped by a voice.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you." she looked up to see megatron, standing in the doorway.
"And why not."
"The reason being, if you do, you could run the possibility of erasing his whole memory."
"What do you mean." She said concerned.
"I mean because of your little love stunt you have made us resort to erasing part of his memory." she looked at him worriedly. "Oh don't worry not all of is memory, just the times you manipulated him into thinking he loved you."
"He doesn't think, he knows." She said folding her arms. Megatron growled at her.
"In my ship we do not do love."
"Oh come on, you've had to love at least once in your life, you can't be that cold."
"What did you just say to me!?"
"Nothing you should be concerned with, you just worry about those stupid relics of yours." She saw him clench his fists and come for her. She dodged him and slipped out of the way, making Megatron stumble over himself. He gained control and charged for her again, this time landing a large fist in her abdomen. She stumbled back into the hallway.
Regaining her composure ThornRush managed to doge another punch. She slid up her mask, gained her fighting stance and stood before megatron. He stood up and walked towards her.
"Why fight when you know you are going to lose."
"Because this is personal." She swung for him and he stopped her by grabbing her fist in his hand. She smiled and used her left leg to knock out his legs from under him. He let go and fell.
"Little trick I picked up from my dad, they fall for it every time." He growled again this time louder and more violently.
"You dare make a fool out of me!"
"Actually you made a fool out of yourself."
"You cannot win, and when you lose I will throw you in incarceration!"
"Make you a deal," She put her hands behind her back and crossed her fingers. "You win you can throw me in incarceration, and make me search for coordinates or whatever you want. But... if I win you find out a way to make me human again, and let me go back to my family."
"Deal." He charged for her and she took a punch in the right cheek. She swung at him with her elbow and left a gash in his chest. Both stepped back and examined their wounds for a few seconds and then charged at each other again.
Minutes passed and still ThornRush and Megatron fought. By now they had gathered a crowed of megatrons drone cons and loyal servants.
She stood before him on the tip of her feet with both wrists clasped in each hand struggling to get free. He looked at her and she looked at him.
"You know what megatron." She said smiling behind her mask.
"What, you giving up."
"Nope this is gonna hurt." She shot up her right knee and jabbed it into his groin. He toppled over groaning. She Stood over him and spoke in a deep calm voice.
"Never mess with a girls personal life, or you will regret it. Somehow you managed to mess with mine." She walked away turning her back to him.
Megatron slowly worked his way up. When he got back his strength, he rammed into ThornRush and made her crash hard into the nemesis's floor. Two drone cons grabbed her by the feet and dragged her down to incarceration.
Knockout sat up from the berth and shook his helm, He felt like the world was spinning in every direction possible.
"I am glad you are awake Knockout." He heard a deep voice say.
"What happened to me?" He looked over to where the voice was coming from and made out megatrons figure.
"We erased part of your memory."
"You did what!"
"Do not be alarmed we merely erased necessary parts."
"Which parts?"
"The ones where ThornRush manipulated you into loving her."
"I don't remember anything of that sorts."
"Good then the procedure went well." Megatron walked out and left Knockout to ponder his thoughts.
ThornRush slowly regained her conciseness, looking around she saw steel walls and bars.
~Scrap I'm in jail.~ She stood up wavily and shuffled to the bars.
"Let me out." She murmured drowsily. The drone con just stood there.
"Come on bucket head, let me out." He still stood there.
After a few minutes of gripping the bars and letting her headache die down, the drone con moved over and Megatron walked past him.
"I am glad you are awake."
"Why would you care?"
"Because I need you to decipher coordinates for me."
"And why...would...I..do...that." She felt her headache coming back.
"Because I won."
"I distinctly remember I won."
"Do not fight with me."
"Ah well, either way, i crossed my fingers. Human way of secretly saying the promise or deal is fake."
"Even if the deal was fake or not, if you don't find those coordinated for me he dies."
"He who?" Megatron held up a human in his hand. "Raff! Let him go, he is nothing to you."
"Oh, but he is something to you, would you say. He is your cousin after all."
She gasped. "How di-did you know? Unless you have been spying on me, how dare... you!"
"I run this ship I can do whatever I want." He threw Raff into a glass tube and hung it in front of ThornRush's cell.
"Fine, i'll do what you want." She looked at Raff who was leaning against the glass telling her not to do it.
"You can start tomorrow, right now I need your CPU to be working fully. I will be having you see knockout." She let a small smile slip her face, but Megatron was not hesitant to erase it. "Oh but don't worry, we have erased every single last memory of you and him happily alone together, he now only remembers you as his untamed experiment."
Her smile turned into an angry frown "You cruel...cruel...thing...you."
He snickered. "Is that the best you got."
"Well no, but I was raised bette than you."
"Don't change the subject on me."
"I wasn't." She said rolling her optics and folding her arms. Megatron growled and reached his hand through the bars, lifting her chin with his finger.
"I will be watching your every move, so do not even try and manipulate Knockout again, or I will send you to the scrap yard... in pieces." She backed away and scowled at him.
"Not like I could do any harm anymore."
"Bring her to the medical bay I want her fully responsive for when she finds my coordinates."
Her cell opened and she was immidialtly cuffed and shoved down the hall.
ThornRush sat down on one of the berths in the medical bay, her hands were cuffed and a chain hung down from the cuffs to a latch on the berth. The drone con walked away leaving her alone.
Knockout walked in holding a electronic pad, which she guessed had her health records.
"And you were doing so well." He said shaking his head.
"What these," she said holding up her hands. "Just a minor set back."
"I really don't want to have to retrain you any more. Nor do I want to see a working creation of mine be scrapped."
"Aw you still care." She said sweetly.
"Care? As far as I know I really don't like you."
"Oh." He winked at her and turned to get a scanner. "Ooohhh." She winked back confused. He scanned her and checked her vitals.
"You seem good and healthy for now."
"What is that supposed to mean. For now."
"If you keep up your act towards megatron, he won't be so lenient on harming you."
"Don't care I can take a hit, he's just a big bully in a metal disguise."
"This bully can turn you onto little pieces of metal in under one minute with his bare hands... For now I need to take off this face mask of yours... where did you even get it?"
"You."
"Funny, I don't remember doing that."
"You probably wouldn't." He leaned in and started to take it off, he then leaned in more as if he needed a closer look and whispered into her audio receptors.
"I'll talk to you later in private."
"Uh ok." she whispered back jokingly, confused with what Knockout was up to.
He stood back and looked at her, and then to the door.
"She is ready to be taken back." The drone con came and led her back down to her cell.
Raff stared at his cousin with sincerity.
"Is there any way you could let him into my cell?" She asked while being shoved in through the door. "Please I really want to talk to him." The drone con sighed, took Raff out of the tube and set him into her cell. He then turned and shuffled with a few switches before a electrified green light covered the bars. ThornRush touched with her finger and immidialtly retracted.
"Electric, no one can get through. " She sat down in the corner and motioned for Raff to come over. He walked over to her and she picked him up in her hand.
"I hate this place." He said sitting down in her hand.
"You and me both."
"So how long have you been down here?"
"Mmm. Not long maybe a few hours, how long has he had you."
"Same. So why are you here?"
"Got into a big fight with Megatron over a few insults. How did you get here?"
"I was out riding with my guardian BunmbleBee and we were ambushed from behind and front. Bee set me down on a high rock trying to keep me safe, but a con grabbed me and took me here."
"Well, don't worry I will make sure nothing happens to you." She set him down beside herself and closed her optics, she still had a surging headache and wondered what was wrong.
"Amanda, Amanda... ThornRush." She awoke to her cousin talking to her.
"What?" She answered drowsily.
"I think I heard megatron down the hall." She stood up in time that Megatron appeared before her.
"Are you ready to find some coordinates?" She looked to Raff and then back.
"Yes."
"Cuff her and cage the boy then bring them up to the main brig." Megatron walked away and both were immediately cuffed and caged.
"I'm scared cuz." Raff whispered
"Don't be, as long as I do what they want you will be safe." She gave him a brave smile and he returned one.
As they entered the main brig, ThornRush's cuffs were connected to a chain at the Main Computer, and Raff's cage was hung just far enough for him to be out of reach.
"I want you to decipher the rest of the coordinates."
"I can't do that!" She said with bewilderment.
"Oh I think you can, for if you don't blood will be shed, and it won't be blue."
"Fine, but I obviously can't find coordinates, when my hands are bound." He growled at her deeply.
"Uncuff her hands and cuff her feet." She was uncuffed and held forcefully until the drone cons could cuff her feet. She got to work deciphering coordinates with a trick up her arm.
~ Ok, Just like unscramble me, you could take one part of a specific letter flip it around and make a totally different letter, so could you with unscrambling coordinates. Easy as pie, I hope.~
Hours past and thornRush was still unscrambling coordinates while Raff sat in his cage on the verge of falling asleep.
"Can I take a break?"
"Lord Megatron has told us you are not allowed to break until you are finished." A drone con answered.
"Please. I have deciphered fifteen o more for you already and right now I have a massive headache."
"Lord..." Megatron walked in seeming mad.
"ThornRush." he bellowed. "Knockout has requested to see you about your health."
"I thought I was fine."
"Apparently you aren't." A drone con uncuffed her feet and recuffed her hands. the con unchained ThornRush and pushed her down to the main brigs door.
"Wait. What about Raff."
"He can stay here until you come back."
"No I would like if he came with me, I may be your prisoner but I intend to make sure he is safe."
"Fine, but don't try anything stupid." A drone con picked up Raff's cage and carried him down to the med bay along with thornRush.
Two drone con's chained ThornRush up and set Raff's cage down, soon after they left when Knockout entered the bay.
"Why am I down here, I thought I was perfectly fine."
"Well you were, until I looked over your CPU scans again and saw something peculiar." He uncuffed her hands and pulled her up.
"You trust me, after what I did to Megatron?" Silence. He took her arm and pulled her into a more private room.
"Hey where are you taking me?"
"My quarters I have to talk to you."
"Well whatever you say to me my cousin can hear it too."
"About more personal matters." They walked into his quarters and a door slid shut behind them. Knockout looked around as if making sure no one was watching them.
"Alright listen carefully. You may of been told that parts of my memory have been erased, right." She nodded. "Ok, here's the thing, back on cybertron when I was going through training to be a doctor I entered into being a test subject for a experiment."
"Ya so."
"You don't understand," He said wavering his hands "This experiment was where they put a chip inside of my CPU, this chip would enable me to save memories I wanted to save, if those memories ever got erased the chip would insert the saved memories into my CPU enabling me to remember those erased memories." She just stared at him confused. "ThornRush." He said deeply grabbing her shoulders. "The memories I saved were the ones of us, that first night, your birthday and our kiss."
"So you remember everything?"
"Yes everything, and I still love you. One way or another, I will get you out of here." Tears formed in her optics, and she hugged him.
"I love you to. Do me a favor and get Raff out before me, he needs to be safe." Knockout nodded.
"We have to go before they see were not there." He led her out and recuffed her hands.
"Now about your head. Have you been having headaches?"
"Yes massive ones. In fact I feel another one coming." She held her head.
"Alright well here's my theory."
"Megatron can throw a punch." She laughed halfheartedly.
"Well yes, but somehow when you hit your head on the ground a closed, unable to use section of your CPU was opened. Like the Relics our CPU's can enable us to have certain powers but that part has been closed off for mellenias due to past obsticles our ancestors encountered. I think your's is re-opening and will allow you to have a power of a relic."
"Cool, when will I know?"
"Most likely when your headaches die down you will find out. That is all I needed to tell you." He unchained her, grabbed Raff's cage and walked them down to the main Brig.
"Lord Megatron, I have re-examined her and found that part of her CPU has a slight crack. Nothing harmful, but if you want her fully working I would suggest her to rest for the day. Tomorrow the crack should be healed." Megatron growled and had ThornRush and Raff sent back to the cell.
Knockout looked to his computer, ThornRush asked if he could get Raff to safety and he said yes, that needed to be his top priority now. He wrote a short riddle message to the autobots of a time and place of where they could meet Raff, and how he was in danger. He scrambled it so the autobots would not know it was him who sent the message.
"That's odd." Ratchet said looking to their computer.
"What is it ratchet?" Jack asked.
"It's a cyrpted message but I can't tell who sent it."
"What does it say?" Arcee said now curious.
"It says. Seven today no later than tomorrow, the green and lush forest path you should follow. It is a place you did see before, a marvelous place where you saw a thorn. A small young boy his safety at hand, will be waiting for you near the sand. Do not be late for his life is at stake. oddest message I have ever seen."
"That's because it's a riddle, we have to figure it out. I love riddles." Miko chimed in.
"First we should break it down. Seven today no later than tomorrow, must mean meet after seven but before tomorrow." Jack said.
"The green and lush forest path you should follow, that just means we will be before or in a forest." Arcee stated.
"It is a place you did see before, a marvelous place where you saw a thorn. Well we've seen a lot of places. One with a thorn I just do... wait I got it Iceland isn't that where we saw Raff's cousin ThornRush. You saw a thorn, means ThornRush." Miko said.
"Good going Miko." Jack added delighted.
"A small young boy his safety at hand. Who could that be."
Bumblebee beeped in.
Ratchet translated "Your right bumblebee, it must be Raff, he is small and in the hands of the decepticons. Who if he went missing would have his safety on the line."
"Will be waiting for you by the sand. The beach, there was a beach there. So we just travel back to where we started follow the green path out to the sand an whala. I can't wait." Miko said excitedly.
"Oh no you're not going, you will be staying right here, by the time we show up there could be decepticons there." Ratchet said strictly
"Awww. Party pooper." Miko sat down on the couch with her arms folded.
"Since everyone else is out, I will be having Arcee and Bumblebee go out and get Raff."
ThornRush sat down in the corner and Raff walked over.
"Are you doing ok."
"Ya fine, my head just hurts, like crazy."
"I hope you feel better soon."
"Me to." She started to whisper. "Raff if Knockout comes and tries to take you don't fight back, ok." He just looked at her but before he could protest she was already asleep.
"Ok."
Hope you liked it :)
So my next chapter is going to most likely be my last for this story. I am working on another story though.