TFP: A Girl Anew
The Next Day
Amanda was crying and her tears were making a mess on her new shirt.
"No, you can't, please no. Don't take him, no." she was trying to reach for Damions hand while Government Agents were hauling him away. "No you can't I love him." She scratched at the agents hand and was immediately held back.
"Miss I advise you to stand back." The agent who grabbed her said.
"No, mom you can't let them take him." she was looking over to her mothers stale face.
"I am protecting you and by all means that means even if I have to have him detained."
"But I love him." She knocked the agent off of her and landed on her knees before her mother. "Please."
"I cannot have you dating, no, marrying an alien, and worse a decepticon."
"Former decepticon, he's changed."
"I cannot take any chances." Amanda watched as Damion was fighting back only to receive a small shock from a tazer in return. She let the tears stream down her face while she was being help back herself by two brutally strong men.
"Please he has done nothing wrong."
"He kidnapped you Amanda, and worse made you work for them."
She bit one agent on the hand and broke free from the other. In an instant she was in front of Damion speaking just above a whisper.
"I am sorry so sorry."
"You did nothing wrong." Tears were streaming down his own face now.
"Please visit me."
"What do you mean?" She slipped off his invisible cuffs he had on to make him human and he became transformer. every one scurried away in hopes to live and not be squished, Amanda was pulled away, she gave one last goodbye as he transformed into a car and sped off into the distance.
Amanda shot up in her bed, she was covered in cold sweat and tears had stained her face.
"Just a dream." She wiped away a few leaking tears and sat at the edge of her bed as her mother walked in with a food tray.
"Oh Amanda dear, what happened?"
"I just had a bad dream."
"Are you ok?"
"I am fine, just a dream that felt like reality."
"What was it about?" Her mother was now at her bedside.
"I-I don't want to talk about it"
"Ok. I made some breakfast, I though you might like it in bed since you are probably super tired."
"Sounds great." Her mother handed her the tray which had chocolate chip pancakes, syrup, eggs, and bacon. "Thank you."
"Your welcome, Are you sure you're alright I mean you look like you just ran a marathon?"
"I really am fine just a little shooken up from the dream."
"Well alright. Come down when you are ready and we can talk." Amanda almost choked on her food as her mom walked out, she had forgotten about the chat they were supposed to have today.
"Will do." Amanda ate the rest of her food in silence, wanting to fall back asleep forever.
After finishing up her breakfast Amanda picked out a pair of new and clean clothing to wear, she went into the bathroom and fixed herself up. when she had finished she walked out only to be greeted with Damions smile.
"Hey."
"Hey yourself. You seem a bit uptight, you ok?"
"I don't know. My mom wants to talk to me today about a few things."
"A few things can't be so bad."
"Damion." She gave him a worried look. "She is somehow a government agent and knows about the decepticons. She I.D your car form and knows that Knockout took me. She also wanted to talk to me about you because somehow you look oddly familiar to her. and I think to her you look like Knockout since she has most likely seen pictures of you in bot form." She let out a sigh.
"How could she think I was knockout?" He raised an eyebrow
"Let me see, Your a medic with fiery red spiky hair and goatee, plus you have tattoos on your arm that resemble knockout's car door design. How could she not mistake you."
"Don't worry about a thing isn't the humans saying. 'Love Conquers Everything'."
"Only in happily ever after fairytales."
"We'll see... I love you and will never let anything happen to us, just know that whatever happens today whether good or bad well go through it together, alright."
She let out a long sigh before looking into his eyes. "Alright, I love you too, just sometimes I let worry get the best of me."
"Really, because when I took you you let anger get the best of you."
"That was self defense, you dummy." She punched him in the arm, and he returned the favor.
"whatever you say."
He rolled his eyes and looked up to the ceiling, letting out a long sigh Damion looked back to Amanda she was so beautiful and even though he had just told her not to worry, he himself was scared out of his mind, what would Amanda's mother say to her dating a ex-decepticon and not just any one the medic who knows how to dissect bots and humans.
~If worse comes to worse then I will take Amanda away from here and protect her with all my will, no one in all the universe can separate us.~
Amanda had gotten up now and was over at the window staring at the mountain view. He walked up to he and rested his chin onto her head.
"Beautiful isn't it?" She spoke with passion
"Yes, just like you." He wrapped his arms around her waist and closed him eyes. "We could take a drive out to there if you wanted to."
"Sounds nice and relaxing."
"Maybe even spend the night there away from civilization."
"I have been away from civilization for too long, quite frankly I would like to go into town today and see it."
"We can have that arranged."
"But if you drive me then how could you go shopping with me?"
"I have a license I could drive you in a different car maybe one of your parents."
"If they allow you to, I don't think they fully trust you yet."
"I never said if we ask." She let out a short laugh and turned to face Damion.
"You bad boy."
Before Damion could answer her her door burst open and Ian ran through holding a nef gun hiding behind Amanda and Damion.
"Protect me."
"From what?" His sister answered surprised.
"Him." Another boy walked through her door with a Nerf gun looking around.
"Found you!" The other boy shot his gun and hit Damion in the leg.
"Hey not the pants, these are mens designer."
"Oops." The boy could only say. Ian tried to shoot him but ended up getting the doorframe. "You have a girls hit."
"Give me that." Damion snatched up Ian's Nerf gun and shot five times each time hitting the other boy.
"Dude you got a killer shot, so be on my team." Ian gave him pleading eyes.
"Go ahead I have to talk with my mom anyways." She leaned in and whispered into his ear. "Plus this might get you a one up for being good with kids." She pulled back pecked him on the cheek and left. "have fun you three."
Ian grabbed Damion by the arm and dragged him.
"Boy have I got some great guns for you."
Amanda chuckled to herself.
~Boys will be boys.~
She walked around the house trying to find her mother who was outside weeding. After about thirty minutes of looking Amanda finally looked outside to see her mother pulling at a stubborn weed.
"Hey mom." Amanda waved and sat next to her. "Here let me." She tugged at the weed and it came out of the ground.
"Very nice, thank you."
"Anytime. So you wanted to talk?" Her mother wiped her forehead and slipped her gloves off of her hands.
"Yes I would, come with me." She stood up and walked around to the backyard sitting down at a glass patio table. "I just want to talk to you about what happened there, did they do anything to hurt you or imply to kill you."
"Well yes, I think anyone would but I could handle it."
"How? your a human and their-their twenty-five feet tall mechanical beings."
"Well you know that experiment I was talking about."
"Yes, kinda."
"Here's the story..."
After Amanda was finished telling her mother everything up to the point when she was in jail her mother almost fainted in disbelief.
"Tha-that's, just. Wow."
"Ha-ha ya."
"So how did Damion fit into all this, I mean well how did he save you from prison?"
"Heres the funny part..." before Amanda could finish the doorbell rang.
"Give me a second." her mother got up and walked to the front door with Amanda following. Her mother opened it to reveal an african-american man who had on a well put suit and his stomach hung out a little. "Agent William Fowler how are you on this lovely day." Her mother gave a warm smile and let him in.
"I'm sorry to say Martha that I am here on official business." Amanda's stomach turned upside down.
"Oh. What brings you to our house, do you need my help." She gestured towards a seat, and fowler sat down.
"Actually no I need to talk to Amanda about this man." He held up a picture of her and Damion sitting down in the small town restaurant and eating, he held up another picture of Knockout running from a relic hunt towards a groundbridge. "We have reason to believe he is more than just human." Amanda's stomach churned and she started to get a headache.
"What about him?"
"The truth, the whole truth."
"Amanda what have you not told me about Damion?" Her mother asked confused.
"I...uh could we talk about this later, I mean, I'm still tired." She faked a yawn.
"Amanda you may of been gone a year but you're still my daughter I know a fake yawn when I see one."
Agent Fowler positioned his look onto Amanda "Let me make this easier on you. Is this Damion, Knockout in human form?"
"Why would you think that?" her mother asked confused.
"Lately there has been less reports of Knockout, and somehow one of the kids got onto the nemesis a few days ago and reported to have never seen him on board at all."
She looked to the ground and decided it was best to get the truth out than wait and create a big mess.
"Yes.. Damion is knockout in human form."she stated at the ground feeling beat.
"I...ju...hu...what?" Her mother couldn't find the right words.
"You don't understand, he's changed and a better man, bot whatever. I love him, please don't take him away." Amanda had he face cupped in her hands and was sobbing. "I can't lose him ever." Martha and William looked to each other in confusion until her mother remembered.
"Sweetie is this what your dream was about?"
"Please don't take him, I couldn't live a life without him." By now Amanda had crawled over to her mother and had her arms clasped around and her head resting on her legs, Her mother strummed her fingers through her hair and spoke softly.
"I believe you."
"you do?" She asked.
"you what!" Fowler said in Unsicion with Amanda.
"I believe you." She looked to agent Fowler. "She is my daughter and I know lying is not what she would do especially to or about someone that manialce, now if this were Megatron that would be a different story. I will have Damion/Knockout watched over like a hawk to see if there is any suspicious activity until I can trust him."
"What if there is activity?"
"Then I will have him detained and taken care of." Amanda dimmed down her sobbing and clinged to her mother.
"Thank you."
Damion walked down the stairs acting like nothing happened even though he heard the whole conversation and stopped at the scene before him. Amanda was holding on to her mother and and evidence of tears stained her face, Martha was gliding her hand over Amanda's hair and sitting quietly. Knockout looked to see another person in the living room and he clenched his fists when he saw him, special agent William Fowler. Fowler looked over to him and glared.
"What a nice surprise to see you Mr. Fowler." Damion spoke with a hint of poison in his voice. Fowler looked over to see Damion walking down the stairs.
"Ah so you know I know."
"As you can see I am not deaf."
"Clearly." Fowler lifted up the picture of Knockout and looked from it to Damion. "Amazing the resemblance."
"I may be in a different body, but I'm still the same looks and mind." Fowler gave him a look of uncertainty.
"The same mind, that is good information to know." Damion scowled and walked over to Amanda. "I have a question, How can you become human without a Holoform?"
"The autobots have really filled you in on everything."
"Yes everything I need to know."
"Well did they tell you holoforms have not been used since ancient times."
"And yet your human."
"I have a pair of cuffs that I use. They allow me to go from bi-pedal to human form anytime I want." Damion let out a low growl
"And how did you acquire these cuffs?"
"I borrowed them."
"And by borrowed you mean stole."
"No, by borrowed I mean took back what was rightfully mine or any other bots. I though you would have known about this, or did the Autobots not tell you about their failed adventure in New York."
"Apparently not. where are these so called cuff?."
"On my wrists. They become invisible to the naked eye when touched to a transformer or human wrist. Now if you'll excuse me I believe I promised Amanda a drive around town." He grabbed Amanda's arm and walked off towards the front door.
"Over protective much?" Fowler said with slight irritation in his voice.
"I think he really does lover her, from what I have gathered no con would go this far to protect someone so little to them."
"I still want you to keep an eye over him and make sure this isn't all and act."
"Will do fowler."
"Have a good day Martha."
"You to, and tell Raff I said hello if you see him." Fowler nodded, got up from his seat and left, before walking out of the house Amanda came through the door, slammed it and stormed up to her bedroom mumbling to herself.
"Damion! ow Damion let go." Damions hand was gripped tight to Amanda's wrist. "Damion let go." She pulled her wrist out of his grasp and stopped. "What the heck do you think you're doing? No a better question is, What has gotten into you?"
Damion stopped and turned to face Amanda, his look was a mix of anger and worry.
"I am not letting the government take you or me away from each other."
"Who said they were going to."
"No one, I know your mother is going to watch over me and Primus forbid I would do anything wrong, but being government agents out to destroy decepticons they are going to find something and I am not letting that happen. I want to leave and I am taking you away form this horrid place."
""Damion listen to yourself, your being foolish and stupid."
"I am not, I am being reasonable and protecting you from those monsters who would want to tear us apart." He turned to leave.
"Knockout!" He turned back to her and stopped confused she used his cybertronian name. "My mother is one of those so called monsters and all she is doing is looking out for my well being, so instead of just going head first I insist on you using your brain for once." her voice started to raise.
"Amanda I..I didn't mean, you know...I wouldn't.." he stumble with his words
"Just save it. I decided town isn't good for today, so why don't you go and scour the woods by yourself and think. You might actually think of something smart." She stormed to the front door with Damion following, before opening it she turned to him.
"Don't even think about following me, I don't want to see your face ever again so just GET OUT!" She walked through and slammed the door storming past a confused Fowler up to her room.
Upon entering her room Amanda flopped onto her bed and cried, she din't mean any of those words she just was mad in the moment. She knew for certain Damion would never want to see her again, she was probably worse than megatron. She messed up big time.
Fowler walked out and saw Damion at the porch steps fuming with his fists clenched.
"What's got you all tied up."
"It's none of your business."
"just asking, girl troubles?"
"I said is was none of your freaking business."
"Fine." Fowler walked past him and stopped a few feet away turning around. "Don't worry about anything, from what I have learned is that if your love her and she loves you, the fight will fade and you'll make up, relationships work like that."
"And you think I don't know that. To let you know Femme's are just like Females I just need to cool off, now if you'll excuse me I am going for a drive." Damion walked past Fowler and whispered under his breath, a few seconds later he became a transformer.
"So that's how you do it, although I would advise you not to do it in public."
"I follow my own rules. He transformed into his Aston Martin form and sped off.
Amanda got off her bed and walked to her window in time to see Knockout transform and speed off, she hoped she would see him again, a life without him would be torture.
"Please come back." She whispered under her breath. She left her room and wandered to the backyard. It was very large with a swing-set on the far corner, a pool in another and a large gazebo with a porch glass dining table and chairs near the house. the yard itself had to be at least a a mile long either way. She walked down about ten feet and told herself to become a transformer, she did and walked further into the yard. She sat at the yards edge for a while tracing over her spikes until she heard her mother's voice.
"Amanda! Sweetie where are you."
"Here." She didn't move just sat there waiting for her mother to find her.
"Oh there you...are." Martha stared at her daughter in awe, she was green and black with spikes around her body. "Are you ok?" She received a grumble in response. "Can I uh...come up?" ThornRush set her hand on the ground to let her mother walk on. She set her mother on her knee and sat her arm back down to her side letting out a long sigh.
"Did you have a fight with Damion?"
"Ya."
"What about?"
"He thinks all government agents are monsters then I got mad saying that you were a government agent. He tried to say sorry. I told him to save it and leave because I never wanted to see his face again."
"Oh, well, was this your first fight?"
"Ya, kinda."
"Then don't worry, you'll find your way back to each other."
"I hope."
"I know." Her mother gave a smile and rested a hand on her knee. "He loves you and wants to protect you, let this blow over."
"Alright." ThornRush and her mother sat in silence thinking and looking into each other's eyes.
"You a car form?"
"Ya, best one yet."
"What are you?"
"A new twenty-thirteen lamborgini."
"Your favorite." her mother let out a laugh. "so do you have a different name when your a transformer?"
"Ya, as human Amanda, as a transformer ThornRush."
"That's a good name for you considering all your thorns." her mother looked to her face again and still say that sad kittens look. "How about you get some good dinner and afterwards go out and try to find Knockout, he couldn't of gone to far."
"Sounds good, thank's mom, I really needed that."
"Anytime. Now how about returning to the house for some dinner." ThornRush nodded picked up her mother and walked to the house. Once she reached the house she became human again and walked in with her mother.
Soundwave looked to the screen at the little red dot. He deciphered it as Knockouts body signature. He walked out of his quarters and down to the main brig.
"have you deciphered another set of coordinates since most of ThornRush's were fakes." Megatron spoke with anger in his voice, ever since they found out that most of ThornRush's coordinate findings were fakes he was on edge. Soundwave walked up to Megatron and showed him the red dot on his face-mask. "What do we have here? Knockout's signature, what a pleasant surprise." Megatron let a grin form onto his face. "Soundwave get starscream and tell him to meet me at the groundbridge, we have a little catching up to do with our former medic." Soundwave walked out and left megatron to himself.
"revenge is sweet."
Knockout drove into the woods and went to bi-pedal form.
"ugh, does life always have to be so annoying?" He spoke out loud thinking no-one was around him. He held his helm and tried to rub out the wallowing pain in his processor. "I messed up big time." He slammed a fist against a tree and made it tip over making some of it's roots snap from the ground.
"Oh you messed up more than big time." Knockout turned to see a pair of red optics staring at him from the shadows.
"L-lord Megatron, what a unexpected surprise." Knockout stumbled back only to receive a blow to the head from behind him. He turned to see Starscream. "Starscream! What brings you two out here?" He spoke with hesitation in his voice.
"Don't act so surprised Knockout you know what you did, and for that you shall pay." Starscream spat his name. "Now shall we do this the easy way or the hard way?"
"Do I have a choice."
"No." laughter came from both bots as they slammed their fists into Knockout making him fall to the ground with a hard thud, they proceeded to beat him with their feet, fists and an energon prod.
"Poor Knockout didn't know how to serve his lord and master, now he shall pay eternally." Starscream spoke sarcastically. Before they could turn their guns on him, knockout made his hands a saw and sliced it through part of Megatrons and Starscreams legs. They yelped in pain and looked back with fury in their eyes.
"Now you will pay dearly." Megatron let his anger show, he let his fusion cannon fire up but before he could shoot a green light stopped him and a deep calm voice rang out form it.
"Megatron stop this now."
"Optimus how good to see you, care to join me in terminating my traitor."
"Never." Optimus ran through the portal barreling into Megatron. Bumblebee ran through and tackled Starscream. Knockout grunted trying to find the strength to get up, before he could he felt something walking on his chest plates.
"Doc, knock is knocked out." A girls voice said, which he clarified as Miko.
"Off of me you pesky human, I have more important things than to waist my time with you."
"Rude."
"Miko off he is not to be messed with."
"Listen to your protector."
"And why should I?" Knockout picked her up by her shirt and stood up wobbling a little.
"Put her down." He saw bulkhead running towards him.
"Don't get your wires in a knot, you can have her." Knockout dropped Miko into Bulkdheads hand and walked off.
"That was weird."
"You said it Miko." Bulkhead ran though the portal back to the base, along with retreating Optimus and Bumblebee.
Megatron looked back to where Knockout had laid and roared in anger. He turned to the shadows and yelled.
"You escaped me this time, but next time I will not hesitate to kill you at first glance."
Knockout held himself against a tree, he was weak and tired from getting the scrap beat out of him and worse his whole exterior was battered and scuffed. He heard Megatron and shivered, last time he was ever going to go into the woods alone. Although he was kinda okay with it, since he knew that if it was Amanda that came out here she would have been killed first second their eyes were laid on her. Knockout sighed and sat down on the ground his body ached from getting hit and torched with an energon prod. He slipped in and out of conciseness, groaning ever time he shifted, he was almost asleep when he heard the engine of a car, he could tell it was a sports car with the way it sounded. Knockout shakily stood up and readied his saw, when he heard the rustling of trees nearby he lunged at whatever was coming.
"Hey watch it!"
ThornRush drove up to the forest and transformed to Bi-pedal mode. She walked through the trees and listened, she kept hearing groaning and walked further into the forest. As she came closer to the sound something lunged at her and she barley missed a saw coming for her.
"Hey watch it!" The thing tripped over a few roots and stumbled to the ground letting out a yelp of pain in doing so, she caught a glimpse of red and white knowing who it was. "Knockout!" She knelt beside him. "What the heck happened to you? Are you alright."
She got a groan in response. "Who did this to you?"
"M...Meg..."
"Megatron did this. He will so pay for this." She looked to him again, he had scrapes and large dents in is armor and also some large burn marks. "Let's get you home. Can you make yourself human?" He nodded and whispered under his breath soon afterwards he shrunk leaving a small battered up and torn human in his place. ThornRush picked him up transforming and setting him into her cars backseat. She sped off leaving the forest in the distance.
When she arrived back home ThornRush sped into the backyard accidentally breaking their fence in the process, she took Damion out and transformed to bi-pedal mode. She picked up his fragile body and carried him to the back door.
"Hey I need help here." She slightly knocked on the back door. She saw her brother walking towards the door with an annoyed look on his face. He looked up to her and his expression went from dull to excited.
"Freakin Awesome, are you an alien."
"go get mom."
"Amanda? Sweet!"
"Ian go get mom I need her." Ian left running as fast as he could down the hallway. ThornRush walked over to the Gazebo and brushed off a few plates and cups from the table, it was a long table meant for at least ten people. She set Damion onto it and scanned over his body. He had multiple deep cuts and bruises which he was bleeding from along with severe burns.
"Why." She whispered to herself. Martha came running out to ThornRush.
"What's the matter?"
"Damion he's hurt badly." Her mom walked up to him and scanned his body.
"He needs a doctor. We need to get him to a hospital." After she spoke Damion shifted on the table letting his lips part to speak.
"No. I can..heal myself."
"Look I know you're a doctor but you need someone else's medical attention."
He pointed to the ground outside of the Gazebo, ThornRush picked him up and set him down a few feet away. He spoke under his breath and he grew into Knockout.
"I can...heal myself."
"Oh right transformers bodies can heal themselves, just like humans but on a more higher extent." Amanda said.
"And you know this will work."
"I've had my share of times."
"Alright, but any signs of him getting worse and I will take him to a doctor." Her mother walked off into the house and Ian just stared at them.
"This is so cool."
"Yes Ian I know." ThornRush rolled her optics and slid her hand into Knockouts. "Now he has to rest and heal so you need to go inside ok."
"Fine, can I come out later."
"You can come out when he is healed but right now he is badly injured so rest is a priority."
"Ok. Are you coming?"
"No, I am staying here to make sure nothing gets worse." Ian nodded and walked back inside. A second later her mom walked back out with a small device. "what's that?"
"It's a distorter. It makes your signals not be seen by any technology so you can't be found. It will protect you from harm." Her mother set it next to her typed in a command and walked away. Are you ok?"
"Ya just tired."
"Alright get some rest, I think it's the least you can do for him." She walked back inside and locked the back door. ThornRush laid down next to Knockout and rested herself next to him.
"Please get better soon I Don't want to lose you ever." She let out a yawn and shut her optics.
This was supposed to be a short story under ten chapters but, oh well I'm having to much fun writing it! I shall be wrapping up soon though.
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