Once again, it had been rather quiet at Saotome Academy. Classes had gone on as usual whilst everyone went about either creating their assignments or going about doing their own thing. It was almost as if everything that happened with Mia had died down and they went back to their ordinary lives. In fact, by this stage, it was something that was sure to envy about, despite a normal life seeming so boring when one experienced very little of what life has to offer.

STARISH was rehearsing their dance moves in one of the music halls, their bodies moving simultaneously to the beat of the music that blared in the room, however not loud enough to be heard through the corridors that lead out of the room. The music soon came to an end, the boy group striking their final pose that they agreed to do. The room fell into silence momentarily, not one sound with the exception of the faint echo of breathing, emphasising how exhausted they were through practice.

"Good practice everyone! Let's just leave it there for today." Said Ittoki whilst attempting to catch his breath, causing his words to come out abruptly.

The rest of the idol group nodded with agreement before they eventually split apart from their positions to grab their things so that they could leave to work on their class assignments.
Tokiya picked up his phone, his finger trailing over the button before pressing it.

No new messages…

A disappointed yet worried expression ran across his face, something that the group have known for quite some time, especially after the mysterious disappearance of his girlfriend.

"No word from your little lamb?" Asked Ren who looked over his shoulder to the bright screen on his phone, to which Tokiya turned off the screen, hesitantly shaking his head as a response. He couldn't comprehend how lonely it was without having the girl there to hug, to have in his hold. In fact, it scared him of facing the reality of losing someone precious to him.

"I'm sure she's fine. Remember, she knows how to kick butt whenever she wanted to." Syo said to ease the dark haired idol's nerves, especially with attempting to add a few attack moves to emphasise his point.
Tokiya smiled in consideration of the point that his friend made.

He was right.

"Thank you, every-"
Before he could finish, his phone began to vibrate in his hand, catching his attention almost immediately. It was an unknown number, much to the idol's confusion. Of course, the first thing that popped into his mind was a record label deal for another company. He answered, his voice turning serious and professional.

"Hello?" He said, however, the voice that he heard in the reply was the last person he'd expected to call, despite being the one he needed.

"Tokiya, I need you to listen…"

He paused in shock as he listened to the first few words from his missing lover, happiness spread within his eyes, his expression glowing with joy.

"Mia! Oh my god, are you okay!? Where have you been!?" He asked almost immediately after, continuing the topic of her disappearing through a series of questions that even she wasn't able to answer without interrupting him but she had no choice.

"Tokiya, look I missed you too and I'm sorry for disappearing like that but you have to listen carefully. Get everyone to safety as fast as you can! You don't have much ti-"
With so, the call ended with a few beeps that rang in the male's ear. His heart sank the moment that he realised that his lover was in trouble. Dropping his phone, he rushed out of the hall to the gardens, someplace that he could look around to find out why the call ended so suddenly.

But he was too late to realise that it wasn't Mia's life that was in danger, but it was his.

The ground began to tremble, almost as if an earthquake was happening nearby. Impossible…

It wasn't an earthquake but it was something different. Something extra-terrestrial. Something dangerous. Soundwave appeared from the trees, a wave formation showing on his screen as Mia's voice began to play, the exact words that she had said previously in the call was heard once again. He had intercepted their call and then cut it off completely. He was the one responsible.

As much as he wanted to speak, to scream, he couldn't. His body felt paralysed, unable to move off the spot to run to safety. Just as he thought that matters couldn't get any worse, it did.
The leader of the Decepticons transformed and landed precisely beside Soundwave, a row of shark like denta showing in pleasure of how feared the human was. That was the sights that he enjoyed, seeing his victims trembling in fear, speechless and unable to do a single thing.

Just as he leaned down to swipe the human up in his servo, a flash and black, green and purple came out of nowhere. Before he could anticipate the attackers move, he got kicked in the face, forcing his body back and skid across the grass, causing flakes and speckles of dirt to fly everywhere. The mech groaned as he looked up, only to notice it was the femme that he had transformed in the first place. Anger began to marge within his spark, his crimson optics glowing dangerously.

"Soundwave, destroy the traitor!" Ordered the enraged overlord, to which his loyal follower began to do without hesitation. Two of his tendrils with spinning blades came out of his being, darting straight towards the femme but despite how quick and stealthy he was, Mia was quicker. She managed to grab the tendrils in her servos, her body gradually but forcibly forced back inch by inch.

"Get out of here!" Screamed the femme to the human, to which Tokiya almost immediately recognised the voice, even if it was more robotic than usual.

"Mia?" He questioned, quickly. "Is that you?"

The female grunted, knowing well that she would have to dodge to the side, leaving the human open to being attacked.
"Yes it is, now go!" He commanded through her clenched teeth, trying to give Tokiya enough time to escape.

Although he was surprised by how much his lover had changed physically, he couldn't take another moment to hesitate. As fast as he could, he rushes back into the building to safety, away from the fight.
Now that he was gone, Mia was free to attack the two mechs until back up arrived. She pushed away from the tendrils, causing them to collapse to the ground before retracting back into his form. Mia unsheathed her sword, standing in a position that will allow her to move from one side to the other quickly. She knew that she had to survive, even if she was overpowered by those who were stronger than her.

With swift movements, she began to strike her sword down on Megatron and quite impressively, did some damage. However, just the same with him, she too took some damage, although the gradually began to grow more severe the slower she became. Dents, and scratches weren't the end of it. In fact, she began bleeding energon from several parts of her body. Mia realised this and backed away, giving them some space, however it came to a point that she could barely stand. Her form wobbled from side to side, to which Megatron knew he could take advantage of that.

"Give up the human, and we may spare your miserable existence…"

The femmes breathing pace began to deepen, the sword that she held beginning to grow heavy. Even if this could be her final days, she knew she would rest peacefully knowing that she was able to protect the one she loved, even if it was in a short space of time.

"Heh, my miserable existence has already ended and it ended the day that I finally got away from you…" The femme replied back, grinding her denta together whilst clenching the handle of her sword tightly.
"You don't scare me anymore…"

Her words surprised the Decepticon warlord. In reality, he was quite impressed with how she finally grew a back bone. However, he wasn't going to let an Autobot live for such reason.

"Very well…" He muttered before pushing his pedes off the ground, causing his body to collide straight into hers, pulling the femme off her pedes and crash onto the ground in the same fashion that Mia did to Megatron. However, only a few single grunts escaped as she made a painful impact with the dirt covered ground.

Mia's vision faded slightly from the pain but by the time that she tried to pull herself back up, a large pede forced her body back down, a great amount of pressure becoming embedded within the dents in her armour. She pulled her helm upwards, her hands on his pede whilst trying to force him off of her, but nothing was happening.

This is the end…

Upon giving in to what she believed her fate, her audio receptors fixated on Tokiya's voice. It couldn't be. Her optics snapped open and moved over to the source of the sound.

"Leave her alone!" Screamed the blue haired male before throwing a brick at the mech, but of course, from the large size difference, it had no effect. All except grabbing his attention and making him even angrier than previously.

"Filthy human!" He snarled before stepping off of the body and charging his cannon to shoot the human away from existence. Tokiya knew the consequences, and as the same as Mia, he would give up his life if it meant that she could survive a minute longer.

No…

The cannon became fully charged, a blast aimed at Tokiya fired as the speed of light. He prepared himself, his eyes shut tightly as if he was prepared to be killed on the spot. It was worth it, except of what happened next.

A dark shadow grew on top of him, splatters of a luminous blue liquid dropped on top of him. Opening his eyes, he noticed a body with a hole going right through, wires giving off electric sparks of energy as if trying to keep the body animated for a little longer.
It took a moment to realise that in fact, Mia, the one that he was trying to save, took the shot for him…

Every single second of the moment seemed to be going in slow motion, a strike excruciating pain that numbed every single part of her being. It was all back to square one. Back to the pain she once felt for what seemed to be her final moments of living. But for her, because of the fact that the shot didn't strike any of her vital parts which was beneficial for living, it was sure to be a slow and painful ending, all the energon from her tanks drifting out of the large hole that was created from the blast.

With her body rag dolling across the ground as if physics wasn't a part of the world, she came to a halt, not moving at all but despite so, her flickering optics gave the hope that she would remain alive for a little longer. Agonising coughs caused energon to fill her mouth, allowing her to spit it out before it indulged the one place that she breathed from.

Megatron chuckled softly as he confronted the helpless being that he once tricked, holding his cannon once again on her, but instead, the shot was sure to be fatal.
"You truly are pathetic…" He said in a cold tone, his cannon charging up to take the shot.

"Hold it right there!"

Megatron growled when he heard the voice come from nowhere. At first, he thought it was the human trying to gain his attention but from his pale features, it was obvious that he was left speechless.
"What now!?" He yelled in fury. "Soundwave, investigate the noise whilst I attend to business…"

His communication officer nodded as a response before turning and heading over to the forestry that laid behind them. Before he could give an alarm as a warning of intruders, something punched his faceplate, or someone.
Soundwave stumbled backwards for a few moments, a part of his visor that occupied the entirety of his face became cracked.

Instead of one form coming out, two did instead.
"You mess with our friend, you mess with the Lambo twins and you really don't want to play any of our games." Stated Sideswipe, his loud and proud voice quickly turning quiet and dark.

"S-Sunstreaker…" Whispered the femme that laid half dead on the ground, the flickering in her optics slowing down by a gradual dimming of life. This provoked Sunstreaker's attention, his right optic twitching as he took a step forward to confront Megatron.
Sideswipe noticed so and placed a hand on his shoulder, giving him a look that emphasised for him to stick to the plan. Stubbornly, the mech finally agreed and backed down, allowing Megatron to sneer at them both.

"I see… You two Autobots are nothing but talk. You are too afraid to come and attempt to attack me…"

"No, it's for me to attack you!" Yelled a rough feminine voice that lurked out of nowhere.

Megatron's guard rose considerably when he couldn't detect where the voice came from. That is, until it was too late. The air began to form the sound of firepower, every piece of silence that was momentarily steady was ruined by the sound of war, blinding lights hitting the metal flesh that covered the Decepticon.

The femme version of Megatron appeared out into the open, a whiff of white smoke leaving the barrel of the cannon.
"Now you have two choices, leave the humans alone or suffer a beating…"

Megatron froze in consideration. It was enough that his counterpart showed up, but Optima did too. He didn't even know how much Autobots have showed up. He had to think every solution through and fast.
"Fine… You have won this battle, but I will be back to crush all of you… Especially you…" He stated, hinting over to the fallen femme who was struggling to keep online. In mere moments, the two surrounded Decepticons transformed and retreated, the peace resuming once again within the prestigious music school.

Immediately after the silence returned, Optima and Sunstreaker ran over to Mia before picking her up gently. Despite doing it slow, pain made itself evident in her expression. In a way, this brought a slight sense of relief to the motherly figure. It meant that she was still alive but for how long was the question.

"Get some rest. You'll be just fine…" Softly said Sunstreaker as he kept his gaze on her dented faceplate and her dimmed optics. This is what he was worried about.

Tokiya came out of hiding, his face still pale white like a ghost.
"W-What are you? What do you want?" He stammered whilst slowly moving towards them.

"We would tell you but as you can see, we have an emergency…" Stated Sideswipe, crossing his arms. "We have to get going…"

Megatrona nodded as a response and spoke on her com-link to one of her followers.
"Send us a ground bridge…"

Just as it didn't get even weirder for Tokiya, the portal blasted open out of nowhere.

"Oh yeah, and if anyone asks what happened, tell them it was nothing…" The Decepticon femme added before going through the portal, her pair of crimson red optics peered down to the idol. Without any thought, he nodded in agreement, small grunts evident that he wanted to speak again but no words wanted to come out.

Megatrona was the last to get through the portal before it began to shrink. It continued to gradually become smaller until there was nothing of it being there in sight and in good time too.
A tall blonde haired male peeped out of the door way, as well as the rest of the gang to make sure that it was safe and clear to leave. It seemed to be, despite the garden being ruined and splatters of energon leaving marks everywhere, especially one specific area where there was a shallow pool of the substance.
They all rushed over to the male that was frozen on the spot the moment that they found him.

"What happened here?" Asked Ittoki in worry.

The males mouth gaped open and closed for a few moments before lowering his head, looking at his dirt infused hands that trembled. Three single words escaped his lips.

I don't know…