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Chapter 39: Battle at Shanghai
Shanghai was being evacuated of it's people because of a toxic spill the government made up as an excuse. Only ten minutes are left until the evacuation is complete. I watched as the citizens ran from the selected area. I was hiding in an old abandoned building with a few other NEST soldiers. We were monitoring the evacuation when the rest of the soldier patrolled the air and ground of Shanghai. I was trying to calm myself down, even though I looked calm on the outside, but I'm actually very much the same as the people panicking down there. Sweat was streaming down my forehead like waterfalls and my heart was pounding so fast, that I think it skipped a few beats.
Maybe if I'm lucky enough, I'll get to see my cousins at Shanghai before I died.
I leaned against the old and dusty wall as I stared out at the broken window. The people of Shanghai were no longer seen among the streets. It was now a complete deserted area. Just as I was about to move out from my spot, a soft cheesy music was heard in the silent night. Curious, I glanced out the window and literary face-palmed.
"Ding-a-ling… come out and get 'yo ice-cream!" Skids, one of the ice-cream twins said loudly through the speakers.
I let out a small groan as the ice-cream twins began to ramble things that could make the Decepticons come out and take out all of us.
"Any Decepticon out there better get ready for some ass-whuppin'!" Mudflap continued.
Must they be so loud in the empty streets? Those two might attract unwanted attentions from Decepticons! I shouted inside my mind, massaging my temples at the same time to let the frustration out.
From the moment I've arrived at Shanghai, I was nervous and at the same time scared for life. The only thing worse than handling an angry Hatc—I mean Ratchet and an angry Mikaela, is facing a Decepticon. I wonder… people said that if you're dying, memory flashback can be seen before you very eyes. But when I was dying back then, I didn't have a flashback of my childhood or anything. Could that be a sign that I'm not actually dead? I really wish that if—I said if—I ever encountered a Decepticon and got killed by him or her, I would not have a flashback to know that I'm not actually going to die.
"Alright! Let's move out!" My captain ordered as he motioned his hand for us to move out of the building.
The soldier beside me began to move and I followed him. He might be a lower rank than the captain—but he is still a real soldier that knows how to survive an intergalactic alien war. Our team began to move closer to Will—I mean dad's team, that's going to be hard to get used to. I let out a sigh as I saw Ironhide along with Barricade and dad's team. I'm not a physic, but I can still tell that they would NOT be happy if they found out that I was at Shanghai because of Director Galloway.
I placed on the protective goggles and adjusted the M41A in my hands. At least if I acted like a soldier and wear these goggles, they won't recognize me for about ten to twenty minutes or so. I jogged right behind a tall soldier to hide me from the Weapon Specialist and the Officer's scanners.
"Alright Ironhide. We've got echoes." Dad patted Ironhide's hood and a few seconds after dad patted the hood. Ironhide began to transform into his bipedal form. I could hear the twisting metal and gears from the two Cybertronians from behind the heavy concrete construction pipes. I peaked and saw both Autobots were scanning the area. Quickly, I went back into my hiding spot.
"He's here… I can smell 'im." Ironhide said as he sniffs the air. I held back a laugh. Ironhide always smells something fishy and has a sixth sense about his cannons or 'babies' as he likes to call it.
"I sensed something else…" Barricade announced quietly, but I could still hear him.
I held my breath in my lungs as I heard Barricade announced that. I stiffened and cold sweat began to flow down my face. I closed my eyes and hoped that the two Cybertonians didn't find out that I was the 'something else'. I just hoped that the 'something else' is another someone than me. I could hear the heavy footsteps getting closer to where I was hiding. I quickly acted like nothing was happening and held the M41A close to my side and gulped as my shadow was overwhelmed by an even bigger shadow, which belongs to Barricade.
"Did you find this 'something else', Cade?" Epps questioned as he jogged towards the heavy construction pipes.
I felt Barricade did a scan and my shoulder tensed as an atmosphere of cold metal was right behind my back. I couldn't dare myself to look back and face the ex-Decepticon. I wasn't ready to be placed in the brig for life! I need to go college in the next three months! I need to take Samuel to his college at Princeton! And I need to visit Emily in Prison!
"Jennifer Lennox is that you, youngling?" Barricade asked with his baritone voice.
I inhaled a deep breath and turned around, grinning sheepishly while rubbing the back of my neck using my left hand as my right hand was holding the M41A.
"Hi?" I greeted nervously as I waved my left hand to the two soldiers and the two Autobots.
"'Hi'? You're in a situation like this and all you can say is 'Hi'?" Robert asked with his eyebrows furrowed down. "What the hell are you doing in Shanghai anyway girl? Don't you know that it's dangerous here?! We have Decepticons lurking around!" he yelled quietly, trying not to gain attention from other men.
"I can explain," I raised both my hands up in defense as I took a step back. The two soldiers and the two Autobot specialists looked furious. The four of them crossed their arms across their chest at the same time and their expressions were the same as well, if it wasn't for a situation like this, I would've laugh. "—really I can explain this. You see… It all started when I was standing in the middle of an empty hangar and there's this guy—who came in and told me to go with you guys—so I just followed orders from him because he was yelling." I explained rather quickly.
Dad and Robert let out a groan while Ironhide let out a growl and Barricade let out a snarl.
"Director Galloway… I should've known…" Dad pinched the bridge of his nose as he closed his eyes in frustration.
"Aw shit man… I'm really starting to hate that guy… he's an asshole." Robert cursed as he adjusted the mini machine gun in his hand.
"Don't worry Jen, just stay with us and you'll be fine." Dad urge me, but l'm still wasn't convinced. Dad stop on his tracks and turned his head towards me, with an eyebrow raised. "You do know how to use an M41A right?" The captain of the operation questioned and he received a simple no.
"Damn it…" Dad cursed and massaged his temples. "Weren't you listening when the three of us were talking about guns?" he asked.
I nodded, "I did listen… but you didn't tell me that it was going to be tested. I'm going to be a doctor not a soldier, dad." I said with a sigh.
"Fine, fine," Dad waved it off. "Just stay behind us and follow our lead. When I said fire just fire okay?" He said and I just nodded, not really understanding what he was saying.
"Good…" Dad said as he bends down. "What do we got Epps?" He asked the African-American man.
"This is bad… really bad…" Robert mumbled.
"What is it?" Dad and I both asked in unison.
"We got a large one right in front of our eyes…" Robert said and the helicopters above us began to hover around a construction's vehicle.
The large vehicle started to transform furiously and knocked the heavy construction pipes. It all happens so quickly, so many screaming, and so many explosions. I was shock to see so many explosions in one night that I almost misheard what Dad was saying. He shouted fire and I did as told. As I was about to fire at this huge Decepticon, I was panicking and something blocked my vision. I almost pulled the trigger when someone grabbed my hand, stopping me from firing the M41A.
"Do you even know who you're pointing at?" Barricade's holoform questioned with a stern voice.
I shook my head and pushed my oversize helmet back to my head. My eyes widened in shock as I realized who I was pointing the gun at. It was me, myself. I sheepishly changed the target, but I dropped the gun and lift it back up to narrow it to the huge Decepticon. When I pulled the trigger, only soft clicks could be heard. I raised an eyebrow as I tried to pull the trigger once more and the same thing happen. I shake the gun and pressed it against my ear to hear what was wrong with it. Every soldiers' guns were working just fine, but why did mine malfunctioned?
"Did you even reload the gun first?" Barricade asked as he pinched the bridge of his nose.
"You have to reload it first?" I asked.
"Of course… How would you fire a bullet if there's no bullet inside the gun?" Barricade crossed his arms.
"Oh…" I gave out a goofy grin and searched for the bullets in my pockets, but didn't find any bullets. The only thing that I found was a rusted penny and an old piece of bubblegum—I did not eat the bubblegum to know if it's old or not, the gum just shows it with dust and has a hard structure.
"Primus help me…" Barricade groaned up to the sky. "Just get the pit out of here before Demolishor—LOOK OUT!" He yelled frantically as a yellow school bus was flying directly right at us.
I felt Barricade pushed me out-of-the-way and let his holoform disappeared right on time as the bus hits the ground. I covered my face with my hands as the glass window shattered into millions of pieces. I adjusted my oversize helmet back and felt something warm tickling down my forehead. I touched the bleeding spot and took a deep sigh. My head is bleeding because my protective helmet was too big. What kind of protective helmet doesn't even protect the head?
"Fragging Demolishor…" I heard Barricade mumbled. His bipedal form crouched down as I slowly stood up, dusting the little stones and shattered glass off my clothes. "Are you—PIT SPAWN! You're injured!" He yelled.
I rolled my eyes. "It's just a cut, Barricade. It's nothing to worry about. I'll treat it later when we meet up with the paramedics." I assured him.
"But it looks like it would leave a scar…" Barricade continued.
"It's fine. I think that I would be nice to have something to remember this day." I gave a smile to the Autobot Officer.
Barricade sighed deeply and stood back up. "Go now youngling… This place isn't safe for long…" He warns.
"Go where?" I asked.
"Major Lennox told me that his men would regroup in an abandoned silk factory, a few miles from here. I'm sure that you'll be able to run that far and fast. Now go!" Barricade ordered as he shot Demolishor right on the lower large wheel.
I stared at him before turning around, heading right towards the abandoned silk factory. As I was running across the battle field, I saw a familiar Audi. I started at it while running and shrugged. Suddenly, the Audi R8's headlights flashed on and blinded my eyes for a few seconds. I jumped out-of-the-way as the Audi was speeding right towards me. The Audi's wheels screeched against the road, leaving black tire marks.
I narrowed my M41A to the Audi R8, I've seen this alt-mode before… but where exactly?
"Are you really going to defeat me with that empty fire weapon of yours'?" I know that voice… It—he sounded like… a Decepticon! Well I guess you all know that. That sinister and seemed laid back voice belongs to Sideways! The annoying mech I met back at the Decepticons' base two years ago! A few months before I left America!
Glancing over to my gun and back to Sideways, I gulped. I know that I have no weapon at all and my gun is not reloaded. I narrowed my eyes and furrowed my eyebrows down as I gripped on the gun. I gather all of my strength into my hands and threw the gun as far and powerful as possible. I manage to hit Sideways' windshield and it cracked. I let out a big grin and began to run towards my right, towards an abandoned factory.
"You little glitch!" Sideways shouted angrily.
Maybe I should've think first before I act.
I ran as quickly as my leg could carry me. I heard three more engines coming towards our way. I just hoped that they're not Decpeticons. I saw an ice-cream truck that was heading straight for Sideways and I. My eyes widened as the ice-cream twins won't hit the brakes. Mudflap and Skids rammed straight through a brick wall, leaving me to run for my dear life from Sideways. Luckily, I saw a pink Ducati 840, a blue Suzuki B-King, and a purple MV Agusta F4. The three motorcycles transformed into their bipedal forms and began to shoot Sideways' alt-mode.
"Jen! What the frag are you doing here?!" Chromia yelled as she glided her wheels towards me.
I panted. "Ask your director!" I shouted as I continued to run.
"Bitch aft Galloway! I should've know!" Chromia scowled. She turned into her alt-mode and scooted closer towards me. "Jump on! Let's ditch this douche-bag 'Con!" I felt that she smirked with her tone.
"Alright!" I yelled and jumped right on the seats and the motorcycle accelerated quickly towards the exit. I glanced back and saw Elita and Arcee tailing right behind us and of course, Sideways was behind all four of us. I glanced over at the front and saw that we were heading right towards a building. Sidesways quickly appeared right next to Chromia. The purple femme slowed down and let Sideways take the lead. The Decepticon transformed into his bipedal form and crashed the building right through, leaving a huge hole on it. Chromia, Elita, Arcee, and I went through the hole and found a young man along with his grandfather was eating dinner.
I think that was Grandpa Jong Ji and Cousin Fong… My bad for knocking cousin Fong off the chair… Sorry Cousin Fong… I'll promise to buy you a new teapot.
"Clear a path." Even with the loud engine sounds, I could still perfectly hear Sideswipe's order to the human soldiers. I shook my head as two mech; one gold and one silver drove into an abandoned building to take care of Sideways. Chromia and I followed both the Stingray twins to see the action.
I watched Sideswipe shot Sideways a few times before he threw his wrist blade along with Sunstreaker to the hood. They both jumped and held their wrist blade, sliding it to the back, slicing Sideways to a clean three-piece cut. Ouch. That's all I have to say. That must have seriously hurt a lot. Lucky that he didn't shove me into his cab… or else I would be sliced into two pieces and it wouldn't be pretty at all.
"Damn we're good." Sideswipe and Sunstreaker said to themselves.
"Yeah… Damn straight right show-off." Arcee mumbled as she crossed her arms.
Sunstreaker smirked, "Jealous?" he asked with a smug look.
"Pit no," Chromia said. "Do you even know that Jen is here?" She questioned.
Sideswipe and Sunstreaker froze and turned their helms to the now-three-piece Sideways. "Holy Primus! We've killed our femme!" they both yelled frantically.
I fought back a laugh as the triplets already laugh.
"I'm fine Sideswipe. Sunstreaker… You both didn't kill or injured me." I grinned as the twins vented in relief.
"Primus…" Sunstreaker breathes. "We thought that we sliced you…"
I shook my head. "Don't say that… It makes me think I was inside of Sideways…" I shivered at the thought.
Elita seemed to notice something. She kept on staring at my face. I raised an eyebrow at her before opening my mouth and closing it again, thinking that it was worthless to ask what she was staring at. The thing she was probably staring at is the blood flowing down my face.
"You are injured… How?" Elita asked with a worried look.
"It's nothing… I'll fix it up later… Um… I think the Decepticon's name is Demolishor." I answered with a small smile.
"Demolishor…" Sideswipe growled. "The fight! Prime is fighting that 'Con with Magnus!" He announced loudly.
As if on cue, the three femmes and the two mechs transformed into their alt-modes, leaving me behind with a certain yellow mech. Sunstreaker opened his passenger's door and I slid inside his interior. The door closed automatically and he speeds down the highway to meet up with the others. The seatbelt tightened a bit, securing me to the leather seat.
"Are you alright?" Sunstreaker's radio said as it glows bright blue.
I nodded my head. "I'm fine." I answered.
"I'm not convinced." Sunstreaker simply stated, ignoring my answer.
"Seriously, I'm fine… It's just a small cut—," I tried to explain to him that it was only a small cut and would heal up in a few weeks or so, but the yellow mech's holoform appeared right in front of me and took off my helmet. I stared at him weirdly as he examined Sunstreaker's holoform. "What? Is it that worse that you're giving me the looks?" I questioned with a look.
"Uh… Sort of," Sunstreaker answered and I rolled my eyes as I crossed my arms. "Don't you roll your eyes in an annoying way on me, sweetspark." He points a finger and I raised an eyebrow. "Just hold still!" he ordered.
I nod and raised both my hands up in defense. I watched Sunstreaker with wide eyes and a confused look as he ripped the sleeve of his long white shirt, giving the view of his bare left arm. I kept on staring at him weirdly. What's he up to now?
Sunstreaker wrapped the ripped sleeve on my head and tied it neatly. "There… That should stop the bleeding. Just keep that on until we got to Hatchet—," I opened my mouth like a fish and just give him the stares. He furrowed his eyebrows down and blinked a few times before growling. "Don't look at me like that! You're underestimating my skills are you?" he asked.
"Ah! No! That's not it…" I argued and waved my hands quickly to avoid misunderstanding from Sunstreaker. He turned his head towards me. I gave a sigh. "It's just that… I never knew you know how to treat wounds… I always thought Ratchet, Moonracer, and Jolt were the only one who understood how." I scratched the back of my head and grinned sheepishly.
Sunstreaker chuckled. "Well… There's a lot that I can do." He said with a smirk. "I'm good at killing 'Cons, pranking, drawing, painting, cooking, but mostly… I'm a damn good kisser." He said as I snickered.
"I believe that you're good at killing Decepticons, pranking, drawing, painting, and cooking, but I don't believe that you're a good kisser." I grinned.
The holoform leaned forward. "You forgot our first kiss?" He whispered in my ear.
First kiss? Since when did we first kiss? The only first kiss I remember is Sideswipe, the second is Sideswipe, and the third is Sideswipe as well, but I certainly didn't remember a kiss with Sunstreaker. I shook my head. This mech must be daydreaming. I lightly slapped his cheek and gave a smile.
"You must be daydreaming." I said.
"I'm not," Sunstreaker frown.
"Then how come I don't remember?" I retorted.
"Do you want me to remind you?"
"What—," Sunstreaker leaned forward and cupped both my cheek with his hands. I blushed and wanted to face-palm. In times like this, he was going to kiss me. I think that it was such a bad time considering that there's a fight going on between Optimus, Ultra Magnus, and Demolishor. I snapped back to reality when Sideswipe's voice broke the silence between us and stopped Sunstreaker to do his move.
"Oi! Hey! Guys! Where are you two? Boss bot and Cousin Boss Bot is taking Demolishor down!" Sideswipe yelled.
Sunstreaker let out a chuckle. "We'll be right there, glitch." He insulted.
"Whatever fragger." Sideswipe insulted back and I bet he's smirking.
What colorful languages they have…
Sunstreaker kissed my cheek before his holoform disappeared.
"Let's roll." He said.
As we arrived, the battle was over and everyone circled around the fallen Decepticon. Demolishor was now coughing up energon from his mouth and his optics were dimming slowly. The mech tried to stood up, but can't because of his injuries. I regrouped with dad and Robert as dad gave me a fatherly hug. He releases me and narrowed his gun to the Decepticon's face.
"Punk aft Decepticon," Ironhide snarled.
"Any last words?" Optimus asked his tone was dark this time, unlike his usual kind and warm deep voice.
Demolishor stared up at him. "This is not your planet to rule," He said and coughed some energon up. I listened to him closely. "The Fallen shall rise again." He warns.
"That doesn't sound good." Robert said and I completely agreed with him.
"Not today," Optimus narrowed his plasma cannon at the Decepticon and fired, off-lining the Decepticon in mere seconds.
Whoever or whatever this 'Fallen' is… I just hope it's not another Decepticon…
The very next day, I was back home with Dad and Ironhide. We were greeted warmly by Sa—Mom and Annabelle. The little—My little sister jumped into my arms and hugged me tightly. Mom was furious when she saw that I was injured. She actually scolded me for not talking back to the Director. I simple nodded and hoped that I will never ever meet that Director again. He's a complete pain.
I promised Samuel that I would go with him on his journey to his new college. I swung my backpack over my shoulder and hop on my bicycle. I stopped on the pavement and said goodbye to Ironhide, dad, mom, and Annabelle. It was going to be a long trip to the college and a long trip back from the college as well. Judy and Ron are going to France for their holiday and I still don't know about Bumblebee. I guess that he's going with Samuel to college. I mean who else is going to protect Samuel from the Decepticons?
As I reached the Witwicky's residence, I stared at the house across from their house. It was my old home. I observed the house and it was hollow. Somehow nobody was living in there. The usual bright home was now replaced with a shadowy home with no life at all. My ex-mom's roses were dead and my ex-dad's mailbox was gone. There was a 'on Sale' sign on the front lawn. I guess that my ex-mom and ex-dad moved away from Tranquility to a new home near Emily's place. Makes me wonder, does Emily still remember her sister? I still love her even though she hates me and tries to kill me to many times to count.
I should visit her after I return from New Jersey.
A/N: Yes! We've entered ROTF! And I promise to update as soon as possible, after my practical exams are finished! and after that my final exam and the next final one and the next final one… My gosh! I have a lot of tests! But don't worry, I'll update as soon as possible! ;)
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