Chapter 8

What Love Can Do?

"Okay Chloe, remember the way." Brains said. "The tunnel goes left, left, middle, right, left, left, left, right and right."

Chloe looking a bit confuse and dizzy. Trying to memorize the direction that Brains gave. Then she goes on all fours on the ground and start crawling at the tiny shaft. Cade watched in amazement.

"I thought my daughter is already the craziest girl, having a loser boyfriend like Shane is enough for me to handle." Cade told Joyce. "They even try to hide it at my back. But that lady-Chloe is a lot crazier than Tessa."

Cade had called Shane earlier to go to Tessa's college dorm and look after her because things will get nastier. He just hope that Tessa and Shane are safe.

"Look what love really can do to anyone, even to a mech." Cade said eyeing Crosshairs who's pacing back and forth. He really seemed to be worry for his human girlfriend.

Joyce looked confuse on what he said and to what was the robot doing. "What do you mean what love can do to a mech?"

"Isn't it obvious to you?" Cade asked. "This Crosshairs here is in love with Chloe and so is she."

Joyce can't believe what Cade just said. He burst out laughing hard. "You are kidding me right?" Giggles escaped from his mouth again and he almost sit as he laughs. Crosshairs noticed that he is making fun of them, he picked a coconut fruit from one of the trees and throw it on Joyce's head as usual he never missed. Too bad for Joyce because the mech is a sharp shooter.

"Stop it A-hole!" the green mech snapped.

"Ouch!" Joyce finally stopped laughing as his head throbs.

Cade stared at him with sympathy.

Minutes later, Chloe finally get out of the opening with a heavy dusty metal box. She too is filthy. Crosshairs didn't examined the box right away as he will before. He checked his girlfriend first.

"Ya okay love?" he asked.

"I'm okay. I hope this is the box that you are all looking for."

"Ya got dirt." the mech picked some huge leaves from the unknown tree nearby and he used the leaves to wipe off Chloe's dirt.

Cade just shook his head and run towards the box with Brains.

"Not too fast." a voice roared.

Everyone looked up at the spectator.

"Ironhide?" Crosshairs muttered.

The bot who looks like Ironhide smirked. "Wrong, it is evil Ironhide." Evilhide corrected. "Hand me the box right away humans, I may spare your lives if you do so."

"Why would they do that?" Crosshairs stepped up to confront Evilhide. "Ya go to me first."

"Fine. After I'll kill you, your mortal friends will follow specially that girl." pointing at Chloe.

Crosshairs quickly punched Evilhide's face with that, Evilhide returned the punch.

Chloe's heart sank. She's so worry for the guy er.. for the mech of her life.

"Hey let's get to Optimus Prime right away." Cade shouted. As he picked up the box, he and the others started to sprint away.

Chloe just stood there, watching Crosshairs fight with Evilhide. She feel every kick and punch he received from the opponent on her own body. Tears are about to drop from her eyes as he fell off balance and dropped on the ground. Evilhide's sword missed him just an inch.

"Hey girl. Let's go." Joyce told him as he grabbed her wrist."

"No!" Chloe pulled her hand away. "I'll stay here." This time, she's already crying helplessly, she can't do anything to save her boyfriend.

"But you won't be able to do anything."

"I can't leave him just like that." she protested.

"Chloe, what are doing?" Crosshairs cried standing up again as he fight using the sword. "Ya better go with them, love."

She just stared at him, she wants to see his face just before she go.

"It's okay A'll be alright." he glanced on her direction through his optics for a moment and their eyes met. He smiled a bit.

Evilhide laughed. "You know it's not gonna happened right? I also hate some romance."

He swing his sword over his head in one hand as he holds Crosshairs' wrist on the other. "Because you're dying and so are they."

Evilhide has the same kind of fighting skills with his brother Ironhide and he is hard too. His defense is so tough that's why Crosshairs is having a hard time to shoot him at the sparks. Both Ironhide and Evilhide are armored trucks anyway. Crosshairs hates wasting ammo, he never missed before. And there's no way he will die in front Chloe. No, that's too lame.

This might be his last and desperate move. Even though he doesn't want to admit that he's desperate. He pointed his favorite weapon-grenade launcher on Evilhide's helm in milliseconds and shoot him as the warrior is about to slice his head where it stopped in mid air. Evilhide's body is about to fall to the ground but even without head, Crosshairs knows better that his body can still do the killing so he took another shot on his sparks which is now easy to target. The opponent fell on the ground lifelessly.

They heard loud footsteps, before Crosshairs can regain back his energy, another foe is coming. He looks around. Chloe and the others are still there trying to convince her to go. Then Scorn suddenly appeared in front of him followed by Optimus Prime and Grimlock and the other autobots are coming.

"Opened the box and use the teal colored crystal." Optimus instructed.

Cade quickly opened the box and took the blue-green gleamering thing and handed it to Optimus Prime. But Galvatron appeared out of nowhere.

"Give it to me Prime." He's about to grab the crystal, Cade quickly threw the Crystal on Bumble Bee who holds on Strafe as they fly.

"Do you really think you can stop us?" Galvatron snarled angrily. The mean commander is really unstoppable. He stabbed Optimus with his sword again. "The human race will be wiped out and this planet will belonged to us no matter what."

"It won't happened." Optimus is no longer riding Grimlock. "We will stop you at whatever it cost."

Chloe really feared for her life as she can hear loud gun shots all day long. A big hand grabbed her gently. She looked at Crosshairs and leaned on his leg for support.

Bumble bee raised the crystal and the surroundings turned blue green as the talisman emits the light. Everything disappeared.

I'm not sure about Evilhide's existence but I read about him somewhere and I decided to use him as one of the decepticons.