Hey guys here's the next chapter. I have to got to stop udating a month after the last chapter. Enjoy this one.
Chapter 22
My eyes flickered open as Sunny's hologram got back into his alt form. He smiled softly at me as I sat up.
"Where are we?" I asked him, rubbing some of the sleep out of my eyes.
"In Isla de Malpelo," he replied. "The plane stopped for a pick up on fuel. No news from the bots yet."
I sighed, looking down at my hands as he placed a steaming cup of white coffee into my hands and a bag of cookies and an apple.
"Eat something Karen," he replied. "Jazz is still figuring out those cooridents we recived and Keala is keeping an eye on Wheelie. I believe that Brains likes you."
His teeth had gritted together at that bit and I laughed weakly, taking a bite out of one of the cookies he had given me.
"Jealous honey?" I asked him, with a smile.
"Me... no...never," he protested, folding his arms.
"I think you are," I said, smiling as he muttered some cybertrion. "English honey please; I might be half cybertrion but I don't know the language that well."
"Yeah maybe because you ignore Prowl when he tries to," he muttered. "Now eat a cookie before you get crumbs all over my seats."
I laughed, before sipping the coffee. He gave a small smirk as he looked outside at the workers around us. I could see Mikeala and Wheelie talking to Jazz as he typed on a data pad in his hands.
"You stretch your legs since two days ago?" I asked Sunny.
"No why you ask," he replied back.
"Go ahead, that why you won't have no crumbs on your seats," I replied, opeing the passenger door and making my way over to Mikeala and the two autobots.
The sound of the lamborghini transforming made me smile slightly, before the sound of his footsteps following me as I walked.
"Hey Karen," Mikeala said as I reached them. "Had a good sleep?"
"Yeah," I replied. "I thought this island was unsafe. Why did we land here?"
"I believe Prime located the new base here," Jazz replied. "Honestly only boss bot could pick a place far away from the main land."
"He knows that the cons wouldn't think of looking here," I replied. "I just hope they're okay."
"Karen the bot are the bots no one can hurt our lot," Wheelie said. "Come on girl where's that smile you have?"
I gave a weak smile, before I felt a pair of musclur arms wrap around my waist and a few strands of blonde hair fall over my face. I turned to look at my boyfriend who's blue eyes twinkled back.
"Watch the mushy stuff," Jazz warned. "Her dad will kill you Sunny."
"Hey for a Cybertrion we need the creators and carriers permission before any of that stuff Jazz," he replied, going a bit red in the face. "But that doesn't mean I can't hug my femme in her time of need."
"Oh so I am someone's property now," I asked, half teasing him. "Gee and I thought I was an equal to the mechs. Mikeala lets leave the men to their battle startegies as it is obvious that it is not a place for us women."
Mikeala gave a laugh as she linked arms with me and we walked away from the bots to go and talk to some of the soldiers we hadn't seen around base for a while.
Sunny's POV
Ï watched my girlfriend walk off and couldn't help the smile that went on my faceplates. Jazz, Wheelie and Brains shook with laughter, as they looked at me.
"What's so funny?" I questioned, crossing my arms across my chest plates.
"The fact that she has ya wrapped around her lil fingure Sunny,"Jazz said when he had finished laughing at me. "But so that ya know; you hurt Karen ya have the entriee time out to beat ya up."
"Jazz why would I break up with her?" I asked, as he picked up his stray data pad. "I nearly lost her a couple of months ago and I am not willing to lose her again. Not for you not for her father and not for anyone that thinks that they can take ma girl away from me. Over my dead body."
"The dude knows what he is talking about," Wheelie said. "Hmm... I wonder if warrior godress will be alright?"
"Sam's an idiot," Jazz said, "He dumped Bee on us leaving the poor youngling upset; now Mikeala, who's next?"
"Ya forget us Jazz," Wheelie said as he looked at the silver autobot. "The team he left as well ya know."
I sighed as Jazz agreeed with the minibot as I heard Karen's laughter. Looking up, my optics were drawn to her as she talked to some of the soldiers that had been moved here before Egypt. They hadn't been able to get to us in that country as they had been making this place more liveable for us all to live in. I shifted my weight to my left servo, as I observed my girlfriend. Her hair was in its usually style of a pony tail that had the red streaks showing through her black hair. That was one of her favouite colours, red; when I had asked her why she had said it had to do with the second best friend.
"Get ya head out of the clouds," Jazz said as he poked my arm.
"Watch the paint," I growled at him as he kept on poking me. "Any idea on what those coordients mean yet?"
"No," Jazz stated, "maybe if you help then we can figure it out quicker."
At those words he passed me a spare data pad to find the location as Hatchet had deactivated our GPS across seas for some reason.
"Jazz what was the name of the island that we last see Helen?" I questioned as I realised what the numbers were so rememorable.
"The Smith Island," he said as he realised what I was aiming at. "Holy slag what the pit is going on?"
"I have no idea but we must find out," I replied to the first leutiant. "What's the plan then, sir."
He sent a glare at me, before he called the girls back over to us.
Karen POV
Jazz looked at me after he had finished giving out the statergie for where we was going to. The soldiers where given the orders to board the plane with us this time for some reason as I climbed into Sunny's alt form to be meet to his concerened look with something else that I couldn't identify in them.
"So what is the Smith Island?" I asked Sunny as we reboarded the plane. "Sunny?"
He cleared his vents as he hologram looked at his steering wheel, finding it suddenly very interesting.
"Sunstreaker what is it?" I questioned seriously this time. "Tell me please."
"The island was the last location we had of your mother," he blunted out before deactivating his hologram.
My eyes stayed frozen on the spot he had been, the words sinking into my brain quicker then anything else I had heard before. My mother that had left when I was one had last been seen at the very island we was heading too. My eyes shut as I thought of how the guys acted when theye went to Japan or China for a mission or to do some scouting about the cons. Every time I had thought that it had been due to the dangers they would face or if they would return home to their family and charges that some of them had.
"So is that why you guys act weirdly whenever you have to go that why?" I asked. "Who is she?"
That question I wanted him or my father to answer but he didn't say anything as he sat in silence. I sighed, before opening his door and went to find a seat with the rest of the soldiers, to think and to wonder what else the guys had kept hidden from me. One of the soldiers, Hails, looked up from cleaning his gun as I sat in one of the seats opposite him.
"Hey kiddo what's wrong?" he asked as I gave a sigh and rested my head on my hands.
"The Smith Island is the last place that they had my mother's location," I replied, half gruffly. "What else have they kept from me?"
"Karen your family have kept that from you to keep you safe from where I am looking at it," he said as he studied me. "Maybe they would tell you in time; they have been worried about you lately with you disappearing in November after Egypt at the start of September."
"I guess you have a point," I admitted. "I just want them to trust me to understand about my mother and what she went through to make her believe that leaving me and dad was the best thing to do, Hails, but hey you can't always get the answers you want."
He looked at me, with pity in his eyes as I stood back up and went to sit in the cock pit with the pilotes didn't say anything as I talked to the Primes inside my mind as we travelled along the cloud centre of the skies. Both Prima and Nexus were talking about something I didn't understand as I took the co-poliets seat as he went to get something from the centre of the plan.
"So you're the autobot weapon specialists kid?" the poilet asked. "What's it like having one of them as your family?"
"To be honest at times it is crazy, other times it's the best thing in the entrie world to just have someone there that may not look like you but is like you in their emotions, senses and the why they act with you," I explained. "Why did you choose to be a RAF poilet?"
"My father always wanted me and my brother and sister to have a job we would enjoy and that even with a challenge we would take it one head first," he replied. "I wanted to be a poilet as I can travel the world and also helop others in their time of need in the RAF. Any ideas on what could be in the island?"
"I have no idea," I stated. "But whatever it is had better be worth dragging us all the way over here then just a breach in sercuity."
He gave a smile as the co-poilet came back and I removed myself from his seat and went back into the main part of the plane, avoiding the four autobots and Mikeala as they watched me walk. Hails frowned as he watched me walk to one of the seats in the centre so that we could see the guns the lined the walls and some of the camera screens as we flow over the ocean.
"You okay Karen?" Mikeala asked from behind me as she took a sit in front of me.
"I'm fine Mikeala," I replied. "Just thinking about what else the bots have hide from me all my life."
"Hey don't you think they did that so that you could be safe as well as the truth be told when you was ready for it?" she questioned. "Like Sunstreaker; everybody on base that was close to the bots knew he liked you in that way,hence why he turned down some of the new comers that where of the opposite gender and one incident with a mech as he was waiting for you. I think that night eight months ago he just had to tell you. That was a secret he wanted to keep buried but yet he told you when he felt the time was right. Think about it."
I sighed as she walked away and sat on Jazz's hood again. Taking my necklace in my hand, I fiddled with some of the beads that were arranged in a pattern around it. Picking up two, I moved them and fiddled with them as I stared in space. I thought back on everything in past and wondered if the bots had told me the things they had when they felt the time was right. I was so absorbed in my thoughts I didn't realise that the alarm was ringing until I was grabbed by Hails as he forced a parchute on me. Sunny ran over and helped him.
"Sunstreaker tell her the basics," he ordered before he ran to help some overs.
"What's going on?" I questioned.
"We are under attack from some unknown force," he answered. "We are departing the moment we can get a clear visual of the island or as close as we can get to it. Now I need you listen closely to me Karen. This can either safe your life or end it right now. The blue lever is your back up one if the red lever doesn't open the chute straight away. If they both don't open as I'll be right behind you, tell me and I'll grab hold of you okay."
I nodded as he finished putting the chute on me. Just as he was about to deactivate his hologram, I wrappe dmy arms around him in a tight hug. He seemed surprised at first before returning it with more force then I had.
"Be careful," I whispered into his chest. "I can't lose you now."
"You won't," he whispered back, placing a kiss on my head. "Karen we have to go and now."
I moved away my head, and placed a light kiss on his lips before a blast cut the plane in half, leaving us a centremetre from death. My eyes widended as he pulled me to the other soldiers as Hails nodded at my boyfiend.
"Quickly now, everyone off or we will go down with this plane," Hails ordered. "Good look to us all down there."
The soldiers started to jump off, as Jazz and Sunny's engine's roared into life. Looking behind me, Sunny flashed his lights in encouragement as Mikeala slipped a hand into mine. I turned to look at her as she had an uneasy look on her face.
"I don't want to jump without support," she admitted, as she squezzed my hand. "That alright?"
"I'm scared too," I whispered as we reached the ramp. "If I die I blame the cons and tell my father I love him very much... GOOD BYE CRUEL WORLD!"
At those words, both me and Mikeala jumped out. The wind whipped against our clothes as we free falled. My eyes half shut from the cold wind that was rushing into them, making them water. I faintly heard the transformation of Jazz and Sunny as they descened behind us and the faint noise of the plane finally exploding.
"GIRLS PARCHUTES NOW!" a voice called below us as the chutes where released.
I pulled on the lever, and I was pulled up with Mikeala as we slowed down. I looked back up and gave a silent scream as something crashed into the two bots behind us and crashing into me and Mikeala. That was the last thing I saw before my world went dark.