TFP: A Girl Anew, chapter 8: Part 1
A hero to bring her home
Five days she had been in that cell with her lingering headache. Raff was safe but she still worried about him. Each day she was made to decipher coordinates. A few that she gave were true coordinates but she was saving the lies for last.
"Wake up." ThornRush turned over to face the wall.
"Wake up prisoner."
"That won't work you have to use force." A familiar voice said, but she was to tired to make it out. She listened as the bars slid open and a con walk in. She heard a faint buzzing noise and then felt a terrible electric flow surge through her body.
"OOOOWWWW! Get that thing away from me!" She pushed the con away and stood up. "Knockout what are you doing here so early?"
"This." He smashed the con's head with his elbow into the wall. "Come with me."
"After you had him poke me with a electrifier. Keep dreaming." She folded her arms.
"I forgot about our love remember, I'm just your trainer and creator." Groaning she shuffled her way to the open bars and walked out.
"It's nice to be on the other side without cuffs."
"Ya, let's go, we don't have much time before someone notices something is up. We have to hurry." He slapped cuffs onto her hands.
"Hey I was enjoying my freedom."
"This is just for looks, I'll free you when we get off."
"How are we going to get off, without them tracing our history from the spacebridge?"
"I have a plan." He dragged her to the medical bay and set her down onto one of the berths chaining her cuffs to it.
"Is this really necessary."
"I told you this is just for looks." He scurried through some droors.
"Here they are."
"What are 'they'?"
"Remember when you found that ring that transformed you from car to jet."
"Ya."
"Well I took out the stone, replaced it with a fake of course, and cut in half. After that I created two identical rings that have the same power. This is how we are going to get off."
"Awesome. But how can we transform into jets if we don't have any to scan."
"I studied the rings history and found that you don't need to scan anything, it takes your original form if you were a car or jet and fixes it to be jet or car." She stared at the rings, they were silver with a black gem in the middle. Knockout unchained ThornRush and led her to the top of the uncuffed her and she threw them over the side.
"You ready?"
"Maybe." He slipped a ring onto himself and one onto her.
They both lost their wheels and doors which were replaced with wings, engines and a cockpit. "So how do we do this. transform and then fly?"
"Nope fly then transform." He grabbed her by the hand and ran for the edge.
"Knockout what are you... ahhhhhhh!"
"Transform. Transform." She tried but she was to scared.
"I can't."
"Yes you can." He held her hand. "We'll transform together. Ready?" She nodded and they both transformed into sleek fighter jets. They shot off faster than the eye could see away from the nemesis.
"So how long until they notice that were gone?"
"Not long." Just then Knockout got a comm.
{Knockout where are you, Megatron has been looking everywhere for you.} Starscream said with a hint of anger in his voice.
{I am out. What does he need.}
{He wants to know the whereabouts of ThornRush, she has disappeared and we can not find her.}
{How should I know.}
{You are her creator, knowing her whereabouts is your job.} ThornRush flew close to knockouts cockpit and spoke into the com-link."
{I'm right her stiletto.}
{She is with you, She was not permitted out of her cell.} Starscream stated angered.
{Consider this my resignation.} Knockout hung up.
"You're never going back?"
"Why spend the rest of my life on a dusty old ship when I can start anew with you."
"Awww...oow." ThornRush lost altitude and crashed into the desert ground. She transformed and held her head as knockout descended, transformed and came up to her.
"Are you all right?" He said with worry in his voice.
"Ya just..." She cringed. "Another head..ache... but this time... worse." She grabbed her head with both hands and cried. "It hurts... so bad." Knockout sat next her and pulled her into his arms cradling both her body and head.
"Just lay still, I'm here." She looked up to him.
"You know. You would make a great..." She shut her optics.
"Great what. Just keep talking."
"A great father someday." She fell limp and Knockout panicked.
"ThornRush you ok. Listen to me, respond." A bright light engulfed her and grew smaller until it reached a human size.
The light faded and a human girl rested in knockout's hands. She had long black hair and had on a green shirt matched with a black leather jacket and black denim pants. She also had a pair of green and black high heels on. The girl moved and awoke in his hand.
"Knockout is that you?"
"Yes." He smiled, the girl he fell in love with was gorgeous as a con and human.
"Why are you so big?" She looked down to see human hands and almost stumbled off off of knockout's hand. "I'm human. I"M Amanda. oh how I have longed to see this body again." She looked to her hands again and saw something was missing. "The ring where's my ring." She spotted it on the ground next to knockout's leg.
She hopped off, ran towards it and tried to drag it. "This...Thing...is more heavy...than I remember."
"Well of course it is meant for two ton metal machines."
"Metal machine, no highly sophisticated being. Looks like someone has worked on their narcissism." She said turning around.
"What can I say. Love changes a mech." Amanda climbed back up into Knockouts hand and sat.
"So how do you suppose I changed back?"
"By my calculations your power made you."
"But I thought my power, would be after one of the relics."
"It is... Long ago back on cybertron, many relics were made for our convenience. Among those relics was a special set. These relics were rare and kept away never to be touched, for who ever wore them would be able to turn into a human and disguise themselves on earth. Though they were accidentally destroyed in the war and had never been seen or used again."
"Why would I weld this power if they were rare and destroyed."
"My only thought would be because you were once human so it's only reasonable for you to change from one to another."
"Make's sense... Are you sure all of them were destroyed?"
"There was rumor once that one survived and landed here on earth but like I said it was a rumor."
"Where was it rumored to be exactly."
"They say humans found it and put it in a museum, on the water, in New York." She pondered her thoughts.
"I know what you're talking about. Lady Liberty, A museum on the water in New York. We could visit it, it would be so much fun." She said girlishly.
"I guess, but what would you need that relic for?"
"We could both be humans together, or bots which ever, at any time."
"I guess it's worth a shot, but isn't stealing against the law here."
"We won't steal we'll trade. And anyway the relic is rightfully cybertrons, so it belongs to a cybertronian."
"Ya your right, let's go get back a relic.
Amanda's plan was simple, they would travel to New York, and then she would take a ride to The Statue Of Liberty. Amanda would buy a replica of the relic and make sure it seemed realistic enough. Before closing she would hide somewhere unnoticeable and stay there until closed. Afterwords, she would trade one for the other and then both would assume jet form and take off.
"You think this is going to work?" Knockout asked before she left."
"Yes it is, anyway the autobots or decepticons are bound to find it either way so why not let us get to it first."
"Ok, see you later tonight."
"See you." She gave a kiss to his wheel and stepped out.
"Ticket for one please." She opened her new purse she got and took out some money she had earned from selling her new leather jacket, which she had sold for two-hundred dollars. "Thank you." She walked onto the ferry just in time.
It took the ferry thirty minutes to reach liberty island and by the time she got there Amanda was feeling sick she hated ships of any kind.
"Welcome to Lady Liberty may I interest you in anything." A vendor asked.
"Do you have tums."
"No ma'am."
"Then no thank you." she smiled and walked off. She entered the Statue of Liberty and was astounded, it was huge and marvelous inside she thought back to her mission and went searching for the relic.
~from what knockout told me it looks like a golden bracelet. Where could it be?~
"Hello ma'am." Amanda jumped to someone poking her shoulder. "Oh I am sorry, I was just wondering if you needed help, you seem lost."
"Oh yes. I am looking for two golden bracelets, I am a small time explorer and heard that they have are the most famed relics to see, and I just wanted to see them for myself."
"An explorer. Oh wow."
"Well I guess you couldn't really call me that, I just love finding new things."
"Either way follow me. These bracelets are in the unknown region of our museum."
"So I have a question, why wouldn't these be in the smithsonian?"
"Oh that's easy, these bracelets were found here on Liberty Island while Lady Liberty was being put up. Did you know there is writing on them we believe it to be some kind of forgotten language that people might of once spoke here."
"Wow, amazing. Would I be able to find them in the gift shop?"
"Why yes of course they are our most famed exhibit. Here we are." the woman pointed to a small room and Amanda walked in.
The room was small and possessed only a few unknown relics, it didn't take her much time to find what she was looking for. The bracelets were small but big enough to fit a mans wrist. They looked like cuff links romans would were to protect their wrists from getting hurt of cut off.
"Writing is on them, in cybertronian but I can't make it out. There so beautiful and in perfect condition." She said to herself.
Knockout was in his car form, he had sat there for and hour waiting for Amanda. He checked his internal clock, three more hours until closing, not soon enough. Knockout sat there listening to the people talk among themselves about simplistic things not even knowing that aliens lived among them. He almost jumped when a hand knocked on his window.
"Miko I wouldn't do that if I were you." It sounded like Jack.
"Don't be a worry-wart we don't even know if it's him, it could be someone with the same taste in design." She said confidently.
"Knees off the door that's hand painted." Knockout said disgusted.
"Ya it's him. So what brings you here Knockers?" Miko asked putting her elbow on his hood.
"None of your business. Not off the hood." He said. Raff walked up cautiously.
"How is she?" He asked pushing up his glasses.
"She's fine. Now I'm on break if you don't mind." Knockout was saved by the ferryman telling everyone that this was the last boat to the island. The three walked off. He turned to Amanda's signal and called.
Amanda walked up to a vendor and ordered a cheeseburger, it had been so long since she had human food. Her phone (which she was equipped with when she turned human) buzzed. She answered taking a bite out of the food.
{ThornRush.} Knockout spoke first.
{Amanda} her voice was muffled.
{Sorry, I just crossed paths with Jack, Miko, and Raff, their headed to the island, and I'm thinking not just for looks.} She swallowed.
{You think their here for the same reason.} She said taking another large bite.
{Yes, you have to be careful and fast we need to get to that relic first.}
{okay.} Her voice was muffled by the food again.
{What the heck is wrong with your mouth your sounding like it's stuffed with something.}
{It...} another swallow {was, I'm eating, you do not know how good this cheeseburger is.}
{Good for you, I have to go, just look out.} He hung up and she placed her phone back in her pocket. She wiped her hands and walked away just as the three walked in.
"Remember our plan we sneak in find a hiding spot and stay till closing. We go get the relic and trade it for this fake ratchet gave us, and leave." Jack said orderly. They left to scout out a good route and to look for cameras that might disrupt their plan.
Amanda walked into the gift shop and the first thing she saw were the fake golden cuffs, made in children sizes. She walked up to the front desk.
"Excuse me?"
"Yes" A boy about her age answered. "What may I help the pretty lady with."
"Cheesy much?"
"Hey it's worth a shot."
"Good try. I am here looking for a pair of your famed the Golden Bracelets in men sizes. My boyfriend is a collector of Famed objects around museums" she paused and thought about what she said. "if you know what I mean."
"I know what you mean, don't worry. I'll check in back." The boy left for about five minutes. "you're in luck, we had one pair in the back, anything else for you."
"One sec." she looked around and picked out a young boy's cap that had the statue of liberty sewn into it, and a king size chocolate bar. "That's it."
"That will be thirty-four dollars and eighteen cents."
"Oh wow, that much." She dug through her purse and pulled out a fifty. "Do you take change?"
"Yes." he took her money and gave her exact change, she took the bag he placed her stuff in and walked out.
Night came quickly an Amanda sat in a darkened corner of the museum where no one could see her.
"Good night bill." She heard a woman say.
"Night Cindy, will I see you tomorrow?" Bill questioned back.
"Yep, seven a.m." The woman walked out and the man followed.
Amanda flipped open her phone, it was midnight. She pressed a button and heard a slight buzzing sound. Knockout had programmed her phone to have a electric disrupter which would allow her sneak through rooms unnoticed while the cameras became off-lined by her phone. She popped out of her spot and walked towards the room the bracelets were in. Amanda walked over to the bracelets and looked to where the opening was. She heard voices and ducked behind the pedestal they were placed on.
"This is where the bracelets are." a familiar boy's voice said.
"Oh cool there they are. How do you suppose we get in there." A girl replied.
"Don't know. Raff?"
"With this, it is a decoder. we just plug it in where ever they put the code for the glass to open and it finds the code."
Amanda panicked the would have to come behind here to get the access to the panel. She got an idea, Amanda took out some extra change she had and rolled it down both side of the room. Miko and Jack went to go investigate her coin loss and Raff went to get behind the artifacts pedestal. Amanda snuck out as Raff snuck in.
~Close one.~ she thought.
She grabbed out her fake bracelets and got ready. She heard footsteps and started to panic. The glass shield opened and Amanda took the real bracelets trading them for the fake ones she bought. She rushed out and put the bracelets into her bag. Looking back she didn't notice a person coming at her.
"Ooff." the two said bumping into each other.
"Oh scrap." she heard a young girl say. "Who are you?"
"I am a worker here who are you?" Amanda spoke saying what came to mind.
"I'm a worker too."
"You look a bit young."
"intern. Are you sure you work here I haven't seen you around before."
"I could say the same with you."
"Touché. I won't tell if you don't."
"Deal." Amanda walked past the girl heading for the doors.
~Again a little too close.~
She walked up to the doors and used her phone to unscramble the password. Walking out Amanda felt the fresh air and immediately saw a red car parked near the dock.
"What took you?" Knockout asked.
"Small encounter, but I got them."
"Can I see them." She pulled out two golden bracelets and handed them to knockout, which in his hand they grew larger. He stuck them on and they disappeared.
"Try them."
"Give me a second..." he whispered to himself and a bright light engulfed him and it grew smaller until the light stood two inches above Amanda. The light dissipated and a man with fiery red hair that spiked and a small goatee stood in its place. He wore a red black and yellow hinted button up T-shirt, his pants were black with red designs and white accents. his eyes were a piercing blood red and his car door designs were tattooed onto his fore arms.
"You look good human." Amanda said womanly.
"Whew, I am glad that's over with, that feeling is just ugh." He shook his body as if a spider were on it." She laughed.
"Well as a human you need a human name. Let's see you look like a... Damion."
"Sounds good, now all I need is a mirror." he said grazing his fingers through his hair.
"We'll get you that later. Right now we have to leave. The kids will be coming out any second." As she said that they saw the doors to the museum open.
"Scrap, we have to hide." Before they could go anywhere Miko ran up to Amanda and damion stood behind Amanda his back to hers.
"You stuck here."
"No I have a ride."
"who's that behind you?" Miko said peering over her shoulder.
"No one." A man answered.
"You sound an awful lot like knockout."
"Who?"
She jumped out in front of him. "You."
"Ahh!" Damion bumped into Amanda and almost knocked her over.
"You scream like a girl."Miko started to laugh hard. Damion looked to Amanda who was also laughing.
"You do kinda sound like a girl when you scream."
"Thanks for the support." He folded his arms. She grabbed one shoulder with her hand.
"Don't worry were not laughing at you." She stared into his eyes and burst out laughing. "okay maybe we are but just a little." He rolled his eyes as Jack and Raff came over to investigate.
"Miko are you ok." Jack asked.
""I'm...I'm fine, just a laugh attack. Whew." She stood up straight.
Jack turned to Amanda.
"Who are you?"
"Amanda Balkrie. Probably known as ThornRush to you."
Raff stepped up to her. "How did you become human?"
"Long story, How about I give you a ride and I'll tell you."
"Amanda we shouldn't we don't know what kind of germs these human could have." Damion said eyeing them.
"Knockout, how dare you this is my cousin and his friends."
"I knew it!" Miko exclaimed.
"How did you become human?" Jack asked confused.
"Long story short those bracelets you have are fake, from the gift shop. I have the real ones." Amanda answered.
"I told you they were to plasticy to be real." Miko said putting her hands on her hips.
"Why do you have them." Amanda stared at the ground not knowing what to say. Miko looked at her.
"Oooohhhh. I get it, you wanted the bracelets to have knockout turn human so he could be with you as a human. Awww."
Raff walked up to his cousin.
"But Knockout is a con, why would you be with him?"
"I'm right here you know and it's Damion." He exclaimed rudely folding his arms.
"I am with Knockout because he is changed and I love him." Amanda spoke softly.
A green light appeared in front of the kids.
"Come on this is our ride home." Jack said walking through the Ground-bridge. Miko and Raff followed. The light disappeared leaving Amanda and Damion alone.
"You ready?"
"As I'll ever be." Both returned to being transformers, changed to jet mode and flew off.
"Are you all right."
"Ya I just can't shake off the feeling of guilt."
"You shouldn't have to feel guilty for anything."
"Thank you."
"Now where would you like to go?"
"Home, if we could. First though can we make a short food stop, I need energy."
"Sure, we'll stop at the closest restaurant."
I have the second part halfway written, I was going to make one all together but it came out to long. Hope you enjoy!:)