Chapter 20: Reunited
Pop! Sierra's lips went off the straw of her drinking cup. "So," She tilled her head at her boyfriend's story. "You all got stuck in a different realm, like a shadow zone?"
Diamond nodded, "With a zombie 'con to boot."
Sierra smiled, shaking her head. "I'm not surprised by anything any more." She picked up a fork and started to pick at a group of food on her plate, placing it in her mouth.
The two of them were at the Rose Cafe having lunch. It was the weekend, and the two of them were having a day out to themselves. Since her father was gone, Sierra had been living by herself, her mother had died when she was young so she had done most of the cleaning and cooking around the house. As for bills and MONEY TROUBLE, she had huge amounts of money in her bank account. But she didn't tell anyone where it was coming from.
Diamond excused himself from the table, walking over to the boy's room.
While waiting for Diamond to return, Sierra's eyes wondered around the room only to freeze on someone.
The man had red spiked hair, and pale flawless skin. Hiding his eyes were wrap around sunglasses, that were tinted red. As he walked, she noted he wore a business suit, black with a red tie. He stopped in front of her and sat down in front of her.
"Sierra," He greeted with a smile.
She knew him, he was the one who kept her safe from her father when Jade and Vince couldn't. "K.O." She mumbled.
He chuckled. "I'm surprised, you haven't run off screaming."
Sierra tilled her head. "I should, but I don't find you scary." In fact for Sierra, she felt safe around him. "You kept me safe for at least a year and a half, and you've been placing money in my account. What is there to be scared of?"
"You do know what I am now, right?"
"Yes, I saw you that night."
"And I'm sure Sweet rims filled you in on the rest."
"Sweet rims?" She frowned, wondering if he was some kind of new Autobot she had yet to meet.
"Prime," He replied shortly, he frowned as she giggled.
"Why do you call him that?" She tried to stop laughing to be serious, but it was tricky.
Knock Out shifted. "Habit. Answer my question."
"Yeah, he did."
"One last thing, do you feel alright around them?"
"Yes, same as I feel around you, safe."
Knock Out didn't answer, instead his holoform disappeared, leaving Sierra by herself.
She sighed. "Thank you, Knock Out." Sierra whispered. "For everything."
*6:30pm*
Miko sat down on the couch of the Autobot base, focused on the TV screen, beside her was Ratchet's holoform, who held the TV remote.
Miko's brows were knitted together as she tried to read the cybertronian story. "... and then the Spa..."
"Sparkeater." Ratchet helped.
"Sparkeater had appeared."
"Well done, Miko. Not even Jade has read this much."
Miko beamed with pride. "Well I had to LEARN ENGLISH as a second language, after a while it gets easier to learn new ones."
Suddenly an beep went off. "What's that?" Miko asked.
"Bulkhead, he has yet to check in." Ratchet turned off her holoform and transformed, she then walked back over to her work area. "I'll have to call him."
"Can I?" Miko chirped.
Ratchet paused, "I don't see why not."
Miko ran over to the human section for the ground-bridge operation systems. Turning on the comlink for Bulkhead's line, she spoke into the headset mic. "Marco! Marcooo~!
"Miko?" Bulkhead's voice sounded groggy.
"You're meant to say polo," Miko pouted, a playful grin on her face.
'That's why,' Ratchet thought to herself, pinching the bridge of her nose, while in the background Diamond looked over to them with a questioning expression on his face.
Knock Out paced her lab, well her sister's lab. Megatron had yet to give it back to her. At the moment, Knock Out was worried, Breakdown had been blocked off from their bond, like someone had snapped a spark blocker over Breakdown's chest.
Suddenly she felt something, Flatline? She frowned, it had been years since Flatline had opened her old bond, why do it now?
Then Knock Out saw though Flatline's eyes and ears.
Megatron stood facing the bridge.
Starscream stood next to the great leader. "But Master, shouldn't we help Breakdown? Knock Out would-" He stopped mid-sentence as Megatron turned to glare at him.
"I don't care what Knock Out thinks! She is our top medic, and that piece of slag that is her twin, is a waste of space. The lost of Breakdown will make Knock Out stay loyal to me, until the end of the Autobots. Besides, what good is a solider, who so stupid, he gets caught by humans."
Knock Out was then thrown back out of the bond and alone again. Her whole frame shaking with rage. She whipped her head over to the Decepticon files, she grabbed all the data pads she could and placed them in a medical kit as well as medical tools and a few energon cubs.
She then walked out of the med-bay, headed straight for the ground-bridge.
*7:00pm*
Bulkhead sat with Miko, watching a few horror shows. However, Bulkhead knew the girl was giving him the cold shoulder.
"Come on, Miko, you're missing the smack down."
She glared at him. "No, that would be you, Bulkhead!" She growled.
Bulkhead sighed, oh, that. "Miko, please..." He struggled with his words before sighing. "Breakdown and I go way back, I hate him- her... you get the idea, a lot. If he becomes scrap, I couldn't care less. "
Miko stood up and spun around to face him. "Bulk! He's your enemy! Not Optimus'! You have to be the one rescue him! You're last fight with him was stopped by M.E.C.H. Do you really want to win a fight like that?"
Bulkhead frowned for a second, before Miko's logic hit him, it was true, he didn't want it to end like that, if anyone should finish off Breakdown, it would be him.
Knock Out drove around the underground carpark, nothing, again. She was in an abandoned human city called Kamchatka Peninsula, looking for her twin, she knew he was nearby, somewhere underground. She looked at her energon scanner again.
He was close. She transformed and drove back outside, and transformed again, looking back down at her scanner she failed to notice the transformers on either side of the building she exited.
Until a blaster was pointed right at her head. Looking up she gulped, on her right, the Autobots, Ratchet, Bumblebee and Arcee stood. The ice guardian, Diamond stood on Bee's shoulder.
held the gun to her face, while Optimus stood on her right.
"Knock Out," He greeted. "I take it you are looking for Breakdown?"
"I am," Knock Out didn't move an inch, as her eyes were locked on the gun.
"Are there other Decepticons in the area?"
"No, just me. Megatron thought that Breakdown's death would bring more loyalty to him from me, but he missed the part where I overheard him." She left out the part where her sister had helped. "I'm plan on finding Breakdown and both of us are leaving the Decepticon forces."
"I'm not buying it," Arcee snapped.
"You don't have to, Two Wheels." Knock Out snipped at the motorbike.
"Enough," Optimus' voice held authority in it, that made even Knock Out listen. "Knock Out, we are also looking for your twin and although our reasons are different, I would like to offer a truce until we find Breakdown."
Knock Out stared at Prime for a few moments. "Very well," She huffed, annoyed.
*10 minutes later*
June was dragged out of her room, the base's alert lights were going off, showing that something was up. She wondered what it was, only to then felt it, like the smallest thread that wove around her spark, Optimus. While she had a human-made sparkblocker on her chest, it seemed to be a weak one if her beloved was nearby. And Optimus was near, she could feel it. Mentally, she gave a sharp tug on the thread, hoping he'd feel it.
He did, as she felt small drops of his surprise, then his heartache. :June,: His words were barely a whisper. She felt his love, again in only small drops. The blocker was stopping any major feelings from flowing through. :Focus my love,:
A sparkbond if powerful enough, could create a physical force. The mental thread June had pulled, began to wrap around the sparkblocker and the machine on her back. Growing tighter and tighter, the metal cracked and sparked, she then felt Optimus fully. He was driving, and fast. The guards who had been carting her off had frozen, guns pointed at her. The two machines fell off her body, her gold wings stretched free while she took in a deep breath.
They then fired, June's hand flicked up. June was a Prime Guardian, originally a Shield Guardian, but chosen to become a one by Cybertron's Council.
She held power over all the elements, but she could no longer form shields. Instead the steel floor rose up, forming a barrier in between her and the guards, June also made another one in front of her, in the small closed in space, she feel to the ground. Her knees weak at the overdose of feelings.
June then started to sink slowly into the ground, then as if she were in water, she closed her eyes and dived the rest of the way down, pushing her body fully through the ground.
She then swam through the cement, listening out for anything. She mostly heard M.E.C.H agents running about. Optimus then started to fill her mind with his memories on what she had missed. However when she reached proper dirt, she heard a voice she knew all too well.
"I am disappointed, Breakdown." Megatron. "What would your twin think?"
"My twin knows, Megatron." She heard a male voice snap back at him. "You planned to let me die!"
"And you shall, by my hands, traitor."
Megatron aimed his cannon for Breakdown's spark. However suddenly a vine shot out of the ground, tangling his arm.
He hissed, ripping the vine out of the ground, then fire burst to life in between the two groups of Transformers.
A figure rose out of the ground, short, badly cut black hair and cold green eyes. He knew her. "June." June didn't reply to him, her body was covered in sweat. "You look unwell, in fact, I wouldn't be surprised if you fainted on the spot." He smirked.
"Wouldn't give you the pleasure." June snapped back, weakly. Reconnecting with Optimus had left her weak, she had been away from him for far too long. "You might want to turn around."
He turned in time to get a blaster shot to the faceplate. Knock Out, had been the one to shoot him. It then turned into an all out fight, his Decepticon forces verses the Autobots, Guardians and the traitors.
However with June back with Optimus, he knew they overpowered them. "Retreat," He barked to Starscream.
After the retreat of the Decepticon's, Knock Out had ran over to her twin, she stopped in front of her twin as Breakdown collapsed to the ground. Knock Out crouched down in front of him. "Where does it hurt?" She questioned.
"Don't know," He muttered, "They shut down my pain receptors." Ratchet's jaw dropped at the news, while Knock Out looked like she had just gotten a scratch on her paint job. "However, I can't move my legs, so something wrong there."
"It would be best that Breakdown came back to the med-lab at our base then." Ratchet spoke up.
"Is that wise?" Diamond questioned, glaring down at the 'cons.
"Breakdown is in no condition to fight us,: Ratchet pointed out. "And Knock Out wouldn't do anything that would bring harm to her twin."
Bulkhead's called home base. "Fowler, Miko, if either of you to are listing, you need to activate the ground-bridge."
"I got it Bulky!" Miko sang happily back through the comlink.
Suddenly the sound of a body hitting metal got everyone's attention. June had collapsed, now lying in Optimus' arms. "She's cold." He noted, worry laced in his voice.
Ratchet walked over to him. "Her body may just be a bit weak from your bond to her. It is normal for those who have been way from each other for far too long."
It was then that the ground-bride activated, Arcee and Bumblebee entered first, followed by Bulkhead, who was helping Knock Out pick Breakdown up off the ground, dragging him towards the bridge. Diamond and Ratchet then walked through, Optimus gave one last scan of the area before walking through the ground-bridge, June safe in his arms.
*The next day*
Jade awoke to Megatron's voice again. She jumped right out of bed, maybe she should speak to Ratchet. This was just getting worse. Suddenly she noted Arcee and Cliffjumper were not next to her, looking over at the bed stand she noted it was 5:30am, she rolled out of bed. She then smelt something cooking, she hoped the two of them were not trying to cook something, maybe it was Sierra or Diamond.
Suddenly she smelt something familiar about the scent. She then heard laughter from down stairs, Jade walked down the SPIRAL STAIRCASE, the 2nd floor was similar to a staff lunch room. The table set up held Optimus and Raf, Prime was watching his son eat pancakes with jam and cream. He then felt her in their bond, he looked to her.
"Jade," He greeted her, Raf looked over to her and smile hugely, something had him in a good mood. "There is someone here to see you." Her father's tone held a small piece of humour.
Jade tilled her head, she looked into the kitchen, she froze. "Mum,"
Tears fell down her face as she was embraced in a pair of warm arms. "I'm home," June whispered to her daughter.