KRay: Sooooooo guess what? I'M ALIVE!
Sides: WHERE THE FRAG HAVE YOU BEEN?!
KRay: *glares* Not my fault my precious computer was destroyed and all the files with it...
Koda: Well we were left looking like we were all dead or something!
KRay: It hasn't been that long...
Sides: It has been 17 months, 22 days, 13 hours, 4 minutes and 37 seconds since you last updated this thing.
Koda: Yeah! What Sides said!
KRay: *dumbfounded* How the frag do you even know that...
Sides: When things happen, you get bored and do weird things.
Koda: Well that's besides the point! EVERYONE IS CURIOUS TO FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENS TO ME!
Sides: *coughs*
Koda: OH YEAH AND SIDES TOO!
KRay: Well let's skip the intros and get on with the story. And first I will say that I apologize for such a long wait but this wait has been well worth it.
Koda: I WANNA DO IT!
KRay: Say what?! .
Koda: NOW IT IS TIME FOR WELCOME TO MY LIFE THE NEWEST CHAPTER!
Koda followed the soldier down the stairs, away from her room. When they got to the bottom, Koda glanced over to see Ironhide checking over his stockpile. She was worried about whom she was going to talk to but seeing Ironhide gave her some courage. She said hi to Ironhide and he looked up from what he was doing and noticed her. He nodded in response and then Koda was taken out of the room.
She was lead down the hall into yet another room, this room was about the same as Ironhide's but it didn't have a bunch of weapons in it. It had several of the same canisters that were in Ironhide's room.
She looked around the room and then noticed that there was a large semi in the far end of the room. Koda thought that this was strange but then thought that it was probably another one of the Autobots, and that they were probably the one who she was meant to talk to. She was a little scared because the truck was bigger than Ironhide and that meant that this one was probably bigger than him.
She was lead up a staircase and passed several doors. They stopped at the top where there was a wider platform. There was a table and chair, along with a cup and a jug of water. The soldier told her to sit down, so she sat in the chair and then the soldier left.
Then the room was quiet for a moment and then she heard the sounds of gears shifting. She looked over to the semi and saw it transforming. This was the first time that Koda had seen the transformation of a Cybertronian. She watched in awe as the semi transformed into a tall, towering being, even taller than Ironhide.
The large bot bent down to come face to face with Koda. He muted his voice to a low level so as to not scare the girl. He looked the girl over, immediately noticing the girl's crimson eyes. He was actually surprised that the girl looked so young. He looked at her for a few more seconds and then spoke. "My name is Optimus Prime. And you are Dakoda Aria Ray."
Koda looked at him and nodded. "Yeah, but everyone calls me Koda." Optimus noticed that Koda seemed to be comfortable around him. "Alright Koda. Well, first I want to say that I am sorry that you have ended up in a situation like this." Koda nodded. "I know it couldn't be helped."
"Well Koda, you are right, it could not be helped. But there are things that have come up in the past 48 hours that have made all of this unavoidable. And you, unfortunately, are right in the middle of it."
"Ok ok, I can understand what you mean but I hardly know what is going on. I talked to Ironhide but he only gave me a bit of background information on you guys but didn't really give me any details. I was wondering if you were able to tell me more about this."
Optimus gave her a slight nod of his head to show a response and decided that an easier way to speak would be through the use of his holoform. With this thought in mind, Optimus transformed back into his alt form and then his holoform appeared up on the platform that Koda was on.
Koda was still slightly surprised with the transforming since she now watched for only the second time of a Cybertronian transforming. And when Optimus appeared next to her in his holoform, she jumped a bit, almost out of the chair.
He was a young man, looking no older than his early 30s. He had short brown hair and brown eyes, along with a mustache right above his upper lip. He was dressed to look like a trucker, which Koda thought would be something to suit him based on his alt form.
With Optimus standing across the table from where he sat, he was getting right down to business. "Now Koda, you want to find out more of what is going on and why you hav been taken into custody. I believe that in human terms, it is know as 'being read your rights' if I am not mistaken."
"That is usually when someone gets arrested by a police officer. But I guess you can put it that way. The rights being said can pretty much just you telling me why. So can you get to explaining Optimus?"
He nodded his head again to her and turned to lean back against the wall. It wasn't a normal mannerism for him but it was a place and time for things and now was not a time for things being put forth. And since there was a moment to simply relax with this girl, he decided to take his time to explain it in a greater detail. And Koda seemed to have gotten comfortable, showing that she knew that this was going to take some time.
And after a while of explain, Optimus concluded the information that she was requesting and then took a few moments to go silent, allowing for her to request any questions that she still had. And while sitting there for a few seconds, pondering, Koda right out spoke a question that wasn't too much relevant to the previous information. It was to something else almost entirely different.
"So what has happened with Sideswipe?"
With just that one question, Optimus was almost caught off guard but remained showing no real surprise by it. It was a question he had expected but to exactly say Sideswipe by name, it wasn't something that he had shared with her. He was actually surprised that she was showing concern for him which put further questions into his processor.
"Why are you curious as to Sideswipe and his condition? From what I had heard, you only had a small form of contact with him but did not even speak to him."
"Wrong. I did speak with Sides. We had a pretty long conversation. Well it seemed that way anyways. Besides, I feel very worried about him cause Ironhide told me that he was in bad condition. Please tell me how he is doing."
Koda was giving a bit of a begging look towards Optimus, her bright crimson eyes showing that she really wanted to know. Optimus let out a mechanical equivalent of a sigh and nodded his head once more. As he was to speak, there was a call over the intercom, addressing Optimus specifically.
"OPTIMUS PRIME REPORT TO THE MEDICAL BAY IMMEDIATELY. SIDESWIPE HAS AWOKEN AND NEEDS TO BE RESTRAINED AND SPOKE TO."
At the sound of Sideswipe's name, Koda immediately shot up out of the chair as Optimus' holoform vanished, expressing apologies and telling her to wait there. His engine started up and he immediately left the room, leaving Koda there alone to herself.
Even just being left alone, she was not going to just sit there with Sideswipe now awake. She felt a need to go see him. It was going to end the worrying she had for him to see with her own eyes that he was alright.
First thing she needed though was to find a way out of her room. The door was locked and could only be opened by a keypad on the outside, or so she thought. Koda remembered from a minute ago when Optimus made it out of the room. She quickly came up with a plan and a minute later, she was bolting down the stairway from the platform and heading for the door.
Coming up to it, she looked around the walls and edges of the door. Not seeing any way to get out but noticing that the door wasn't soundproof from hearing sounds from the other side. It got her the idea that was to start her plan.
Knocking and banging loudly on the door near the edge crack, she called out to whoever was outside, knowing that pople would not just leave her to be in there alone, especially unsupervised and technically being a prisoner.
"Hey! Anyone out there?!"
After a few seconds, she heard a voice from an unfamiliar soldier that called back to her. "Who's in there?"
"It's Dakoda Aria Ray! I was speaking with Optimus Prime but then he was called away and I was left here alone!" It was part of her plan to try and sound innocent and knowing that she was suppose to be guarded, she used that to her advantage. "I was told that I wasn't suppose to be left alone! Do you think you could let me out?!"
There was silence for a few seconds and then she heard the response of the soldier. "Alright. I'm going to open the door but you will have to stand back back from the door for safety. I will escort you back to your room."
It was going exactly as planned. Koda took back a few steps and waited for the door to open. When it did open, a young soldier, who was actually female, which Koda was a bit surprised about stood in the doorway. And taking a second look at her, Koda noticed that she didn't look to be a soldier but actually a mechanic.
Koda knew that she was going to feel sorry for doing this but as the woman stepped into the room, Koda moved quickly to the side and sprinted right past her. She took a fast bolt out the door as the woman turned and yelled at her to stop. "Hey wait! Stop!"
As Koda ran, the woman took off after her and she was surprisingly fast. Koda was now acting as a runaway. And with that motivation, she knew there was now no turning back. Sprinting down the hall, she moved past several soldiers who took notice of her and the woman chasing after her.
As they recognized who Koda was, they headed on after her and called out for a lock down. She didn't think that things were going this far to catch her. And she also had no idea where she was going as she took a turn down a hallway.
Cutting her way through some rooms, one that looked like the cafeteria, she leaped over some tables and pushed off from them, sending them back against the people that were chasing her. Once she looked back, she noticed that she had attracted quite a bit of attention and not good either.
Making a bolt through the nearest door, she placed a hand to the keypad and sent a bolt of electricity through it as the door slammed shut and she locked it so no one could access it. Smirking at the work she had done, Koda took off again, running down more and more hallways.
She had no clue where she was going but felt like each turn she made took her closer to her goal. Her feeling was made to be right as she heard the cry of a voice that sounded familiar to her. It made Koda stop right in her tracks. It was Sideswipe's voice and she could hear it as both near and far.
Koda looked around to try and find exactly where it was coming from. While she looked, soldiers were coming up the hallway she had come from, almost right behind her. Her eyes widened and then she took off running again in an unknown direction.
The direction she took lead her down a very large hall to where she saw some soldiers gathered in an open doorway. Also what she noticed from the doorway was a familiar large black form that she knew was Ironhide. It gave her a sense of happiness to see him and knew that in some way she felt safe.
Koda though cam to a stop when she noticed that he was busy and preoccupied with another large form. The form was struggling as Ironhide tried to hold it back. Koda also heard another voice, that of a gruff old man yelling at Ironhide to hold him still. She was hearing a bark of commotion from Ironhide and several others but she only payed attention to the more familiar voices.
"Ironhide, Optimus keep a hold of him!"
"What do ya think we're doing Ratchet?!"
"Just hold him while I get the sedative!"
"Just be quick about it!"
With the voices and the yelling, she recognized the name Ratchet as one of the other Autobots that Sideswipe had mentioned. Koda tried to get closer but keep herself being hidden from the soldiers. Once she got close enough to the doorway to see inside, she was completely shocked.
Ironhide was attempting to hold down and restraint Sideswipe on a large medical table which was damaged quite a bit. The rest of the room was also damaged quite a lot. Optimus was standing on the other side of the table, also trying to hold Sideswipe down. There was a large, yellow coloured bot in the corner, getting things together, like he was looking for something. Koda guessed that it was Ratchet.
As Koda watched the scene, she didn't notice two soldiers that had come up behind her. It was too late for her to escape once they had grabbed her. They quickly restrained her and held her against her struggling. And even with them overpowering her, she was still putting up a fight, letting out a loud cry for help for those she felt would.
"IRONHIDE! SIDESWIPE! HELP!"
Even as one of the soldiers covered up Koda's mouth to keep her from saying more, the one response that came from Koda caught everyone's attention in the room, especially Ironhide and Sideswipe.
Sideswipe stopped struggling against Ironhide, hearing his name and recognizing the already familiar voice that he had only heard before. He tired to get up to find the source and Ironhide didn't try to restrain him, seeing that he also recognized the voice. Optimus had too and immediately saw the soldiers restraining Koda, whom he had last remembered leaving back in his room.
Sideswipe, still injured quickly moved to a sitting position on the medical table, calling out to the voice that he didn't know who it belonged to. "Shadow!" Ironhide knew immediately that Sideswipe might have tried to act and was going to attempt to retrain him again from sitting up. But his optics laid onto Koda's struggling form and he knew that this was wrong.
Koda started to struggle even more once Sideswipe had acknowledge her by name. With her arms being restrained, she focused into her hands and arms a large amount of energy and sent it out in an explosive shock wave, knocking away the two soldiers that were holding her back.
She called out to both Ironhide and Sidewipe again as more soldiers came to her to attempt to hold her down. But now something had changed in Koda, almost like she snapped. Her crimson eyes glowed a red that was signature of Decepticons and sparks flew out from her palms.
Ironhide noticed the immediate change probably before anyone else and knew that everyone in the room would go against what he was going to do, even he himself would go against it. It pained him to do this but he called out right to Optimus. "Prime. Hold back Sideswipe and Ratchet, get him sedated." He then turned his attention to the soldiers that were attempting to apprehend Koda. "Fleshies get back form her! I'll deal with this..."
All the soldiers stopped and moved to take several steps back, most retreating into the Med Bay. They knew that Ironhide was getting serious and possibly dangerous as he stepped forward.
What he was about to do was something that would probably land him in bigger trouble than anything else he has done while here on earth. Optimus would be angry at him but he would deal with it later.
And then as Ironhide stepped forward, the cannons on both his arms whirled to life and both became pointed at Koda as he spoke in a serious tone. "Stand down Shadow before I kill you..."
Koda: Well now that is just scary...
Sides: You got yourself into quite a bit of trouble for Ironhide to point his cannons at you.
Koda: LOOK WHO'S TALKING AND NOT HELPING ME!
Sides: NOT MY FAULT RATCHET AND PRIME ARE HOLDING ME DOWN!
Koda: WELL GET AWAY FROM THEM AND HELP ME!
Sides: ARE YOU GLITCHING IN THE PROCESSOR YOU LITTLE-
KRay: *shoves the both of them into a soundproof room and locks it* While they settle their problems, you readers can wait to see where this ends up going. Find out what happens between Ironhide and Koda in the next chapter. Thanks for reading! R&R