Alright so... I'm going to make this very quick on my long absence yet again. I passed my finals, my grandma passed, spent time with douchebag family, kinda went into a state of depression, my friends and family helped me out, started out with baby steps and now as I begin writing, it's helping me out more and more.
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Cнαpтer Twelve: Leттιɴɢ Go?
"I ғιɴαlly υɴderѕтood wнαт тrυe love мeαɴт... love мeαɴт тнαт yoυ cαre ғor αɴoтнer perѕoɴ'ѕ нαppιɴeѕѕ мore тнαɴ yoυr owɴ, ɴo мαттer нow pαιɴғυl тнe cнoιceѕ yoυ ғαce мιɢнт вe." - Nιcнolαѕ Spαrĸѕ
Cнαpтer Soɴɢ: Tнe Beαυтy & Tнe Trαɢedy - Trαdιɴɢ Yeѕтerdαy
"Watch your step, love is broken.
I am every tear you cry.
Save your breath, your heart has spoken.
You already have my life.
For I am finding out that love will kill and save me.
Taking the dreams that made me up,
and tearing them away.
But the same love will take this heart that's barely beating,
and fill it with hope beyond the stars.
Only love.
Another day, another sunrise.
Washing over everything.
In its time, love will be mine.
The beauty and the tragedy.
For I am finding out that love will kill and save me.
Taking the dreams that made me up,
and tearing them away.
But the same love will take this heart that's barely beating,
and fill it with hope beyond the stars.
Only love.
Only love, love, love.
For I am finding out that love will kill and save me."
THIRD PERSON POINT OF VIEW
Bennie gulped as the almost-bald man was talking into the radio, "Banachek. What's going on?"
"Well, the NBE-one hangar has lost power-" someone on the other line informed, only to be interrupted by Lennox.
"What?!" he exclaimed, rushing over to the radio.
"And the backup generator is just not going to cut it."
"Do you have an arms room?" Lennox questioned as the two exchanged looks. He nodded and ushered everyone out of the room. Sam grabbed Bethany's arm, tugging her along with him and Mikaela so he wouldn't loose her.
Behind her, the brunette herd the almost-bald man order, "Get everyone to the NBE-one chamber, now!"
The two Witwicky twins exchanged looks as they continued down a narrow hallway. Bethany could tell that Sam was scared just as much as she was. They've never been in a situation like that before.
"They're popping our generators." the almost-bald man said and Bethany gulped.
Once they stepped inside the chamber, in the older Witwicky's head, it turned into a popular shooter game that she would watch her younger brother play but the only difference was that it wasn't game. The guns that were being loaded and prepped were real - not a bunch of moving pixels on a TV screen.
"Forty millimeter sable rounds on the table!" Simmons shouted just before the lights starting flickering.
Bethany looked at her brother before rushing over to Simmons. "You have to take us to our car." she demanded. "You have to."
"He's going to know what to with the Cube," Sam adds as the man looked up from loading his weapon.
"Your car? It's confiscated."
The brunette had to restrain herself from punching him in the face once again and hopefully breaking more bones. "Then unconfiscate it."
He shoke his head. "We do not know what will happen if we let it near this thing!"
She crossed her arms, "You mean you don't know."
"Maybe you two know, but I don't know."
"You just wanna sit her and wait and see what happens?" her twin questioned.
"I have people's lives at stake here!" Simmons was interrupted by Lennox grabbing the man by his collar and shoving him away from the teens.
"Take them to their car!" he ordered as Simmons pulled out a gun, Lennox doing the same, "Drop it."
The soldiers around them punched the men in the black and pointed guns at them. Bethany shoke her head thinking, 'Is this what really happens in Call of Duty?'
"Woah! Woah! Woah!" she heard the almost-bald man call out, raising his hands in defense.
"Drop your weapon, soldier," Simmons told him. "There's an alien war going on and you're gonna shoot me?"
"Y'know, we didn't ask to be here." Lennox responded.
"I'm ordering you under S-Seven executive jurisdiction-"
"S-Seven don't exist," Epps said looking over at his friend.
Lennox nodded, "Right. And we don't take orders from people that don't exist."
"I'm going to count to five, okay." the brunette snorted, remembering her father counting when they had locked the door, looking for the glasses.
"Well, I'm gonna count to three."
After a few moments of silence, waiting for Lennox to pull the trigger, the Secretary of Defense said, "Simmons?"
The said man looked over at the older man. "Yes, sir?"
"I'd do what he says. Losing's really not an option for these guys."
Simmons looked back between the Secretary then back at the soldier who still had a gun pointed on his chest. "All right. Okay. Hey, you want to lay the fate of the world on the children's Camaro? That's cool."
Bethany took that as her chance to go and she, along with her brother busted through the doors. Once she saw Bee's state, she wanted to raise hell once again, "No! No!" she cried out, rushing towards the men who were attempting to freeze him.
"Stop! You got to stop!" Sam demanded. "Stop! Stop! Stop!"
The almost bald man nodded towards the men, "No, no, no, stop, stop! Let him go! Let him go!"
Bee let out a distressed wail but once he saw Bethany, he relaxed. All he wanted to do was reach out and hold her and thank her for wanting to get to him at all costs near the bridge that night.
"Are you okay?" she asked him. The large mech met their eyes, causing the brunette to smile for assurance.
"They didn't hurt you, right?" Sam questions and Bee nodded, protective armor appearing on his face. He turned on his side, pointing his gun at the men around him.
Bethany stepped closer towards him, "Bee, listen. The Cube is her and the Decepticons are coming." he still continued to point his weapons towards the men who posed a threat towards his Bethany. She shoke her head, smiling at him once again. "No, they're okay Bee, they're okay. Right?"
Sam nodded. "Just back up a little bit. He's friendly, he's fine."
"Bee, put the guns down, alright?" she ordered in a soft tone and Bee let out a few whirs and clicks. "They're not going to hurt you, I promise. Just follow us towards the Allspark."
Keeping a close eye on the brunette, the large mech followed the teens towards the Cube. He stepped forward towards it, looking up at it in amazement, placing his hands on it.
"Okay here we go." Epps said. "He doing something. He doing something."
The two twins watched as the Cube started to form into a smaller cube that Bee could hold in his hands. "Oh my god," Mikaela mumbled in shock.
"Message from Starfleet, Captain- let's get to it." Bee said, looking down at them.
Lennox nodded, agreeing with the large mech. "He's right. We stay here, we're screwed with Megatron in the other hangar. Mission City is twenty two miles away. We're gonna sneak that Cube out of here and we're gonna hide it somewhere in the city."
"Good! Right," the Secretary of Defense approved.
"Be we cannot make a stand without the Air Force." the soldier added.
"This place must have some kind of radio link!" the Secretary said as Simmons approached him. "Yes. Shortwave, CB."
"Right, yes." Simmons nods.
"Sir, you got to figure out some way to get word out to them." Lennox responded. "Let's move!"
"In the alien archive," Simmons told the Secretary, "there's an old Army radio console."
"Will it work?"
"Anything's possible! Did you see that-" he made a notion of how the Cube went from a large size to a smaller size.
"All right, Bethany, Sam, get it in the car!" the soldier ordered and the three teens got into the Camaro right after Bee transformed. "Mister Secretary! Get our birds in the air! When we get to the city, we're gonna find a radio, and I'll have Epps vector them in, okay?"
Bethany sat in the back, holding the Cube. She looked back and saw Lennox, along with his team following behind Bee.
Sam looked back his older sister. "Is the Cube okay?"
She nodded. "Yeah, it's fine."
"Well, put the seat belt on it."
The brunette rolled her eyes. "Look Sam, it's fine, alright? I'm holding it. Nothings going to happen to it."
After a few minutes of driving, Sam heard his sister yawn. "Bennie?"
She peered at him, opening one of her eyes. "Hmm?"
He chuckled, leaning over to ruffle her hair. "Lennox said that Mission City is twenty miles as seeing how fast Bee drives, it won't take that long."
"So, it'll be a small nap?"
"Yeah. Enjoy it while you can."
Mikaela smiled at Bethany. "We'll wake you up if anything happens."
The brunette nodded, yawning once again, before snuggling up into the seats, tightening her grip on the Cube.
She still didn't understand how when she talked to Bee in her dream world, she managed to get energy. But she didn't question it, considering she got to sleep and talk to him.
Right when she saw the familiar flash of blue, her mind remembered the conversation between her and her brother. Maybe it was for the best, just until the war was over... How long would that be?
The blond smiled once he saw her, his arms already around her, but she didn't return it. He pulled back, checking for any signs of damage or injury. "Are you okay? What's wrong?"
She bit her lip, tears glossing her eyes, making Bee even more worried. "Bee.." she raked her fingers through her hair that desperately needed a wash, "this is the most hardest thing in the world to say... but..." she gulped down her tears, finally meeting his eyes, "at the Dam, I told my brother t-that I like you."
"Well that's great, right?" he responded, happy that she returned the feelings. Inside, he always knew, but hearing her say it felt ten times better. "I mean if he doesn't approve-"
Bethany shoke her head. "Not exactly."
"Then what is it? Beautiful, you're scaring me."
"Okay... Bee, whatever we have between us, can't happen." she finally said. "At least not right now. Not with all of this going on."
Bee felt a pang of hurt in his chest. "I-is... is that what you want?"
She almost wanted to shake her head and say that he was all she wanted, but following what her brother wanted, she nods. "Sam said that I would be safer if we weren't together."
"And if it keeps you safe then I'll do anything. I'll always keep you safe, no matter what."
"Is that what you want?" Bethany questioned.
He shoke his head. "It doesn't matter what I want. What matters is your safety, Bennie. It's what your brother would want."
She stayed silent for a few moments, taking in that she sort of broke up with Bee, even though they weren't even dating. But, Sam would be happy and that's all she could ask for.
"But I have a question," the blond said. "When... when could we... continue what was between us? I mean, you can't just throw away your feelings towards me like that. And I can't do the same for you, either. It's too hard and would hurt me more than... more than anything in the entire universe."
He did have a point and the fact that he was still willing to fight for whatever they had made her smile. "Maybe when all of this is over. Maybe then Bee."
"Then I'll wait until then. I'll wait as long as possible."
Bethany's smile widened as she threw her arms around him. He wrapped his arms around her waist, burring his face into her shoulder. "Thank you, Bee."
He nodded, responding with a muffled, "Anything for you."