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We made it to China safely. Hovering over the Guangzhou for a moment, trying to figure out where Joyce could possibly be.
Shane and Tessa were able to find Joyce, he was on the roof of one of the buildings, trying to get our attention. The back of the ship was aimed toward him, the back door opening.
"Joshua!" Cade yelled.
"Hey, baldie!" Hound added.
Bee cautiously took some steps forward, ready to fight if he needed to. We all kind of huddled near the opening, Hound with his guns ready, the rest of us just anxiously waiting for the Seed to be handed over.
It was surprising, how Joshua Joyce was willingly handing over the one thing he needed for his corporation to become unstoppable. Maybe he found his common sense.
"Bring it over now!" Cade yelled over the engines. "Let's go!"
The ship lowered so Joyce would be able to hand the Seed to Cade without any trouble. Joshua ran over to where Cade was, standing near the edge of the ship's opening.
"Looks like we're about to have company," Hound said.
Right when Cade grabbed onto the Seed, still in its protective casing, missiles hit the ship and the impact made Cade fall out. Tessa, Shane, Bee, Hound, the girls and myself lost our balance and fell out, as well.
Joshua stumbled back, tripping and falling. We all watched as the ship flew off before crashing somewhere else.
Running on the roof, Cade helping Joshua hold the Seed, we hoped to evade detection of the artificials and any Cemetery Wind agents that might have come to China.
My thoughts kept going back to everyone who remained on the ship. I wanted to know if they were alive; were the kids OK; were Abby and the others unharmed. It angered me, knowing that not only did we allow Megatron to manipulate us for five years, that we told ourselves it was the Autobots' fault for everything that happened in Chicago, and every other place the Decepticons tried to destroy.
Slaughtering Autobots because it seemed like the right thing to do; collecting Decepticon parts for experimentation; using said parts, with dead Autobot parts added to the mix, to make man made Transformers...driving the remaining Autobots away, making them feel so threatened, so vulnerable, the only way they could ever feel safe is for them to leave the planet.
It was unforgivable, what humans have done these past five years. And if the Autobots are so hellbent on leaving for their own safety, then we'd show them, this little group of ours, one last time that there are humans who will always fight for what they believed in.
Looking over the ledge of the rooftop, we saw the artificials climbing up nearby buildings.
"I've got ten down below," Hound called.
"I thought you said you had one prototype get infected," Cade snapped at Joyce.
"Now he's got operational control over my other fifty," Joyce said.
We turned and quickly tried to walk away. The tension had escalated, and we were trying to figure out how to get the Seed away from Galvatron and his goons.
"I may have started the apocalypse," Joshua started, "but you brought your family. And that's, you know, terrible parenting."
"I'm about one second away from knocking you out, taking the bomb and just leaving you here," Cade threatened.
He muttered something under his breath.
We were, in no time at all, dodging missiles and gunfire as Hound and Bee tried to fight off the artificial Transformers.
Bee ran up behind us, protecting us from the man made Transformers as they shot at us. But he had to go and help Hound with the ones attacking down below.
Luckily, for us, the rooftop we were on had an elevator.
Opening the elevator door, Cade looked back at us.
"Into the elevator!" he ordered. We all huddled into the small elevator. Before the doors closed, someone shot just above our heads. I held the girls close to me, curling myself over them. Looking up just for a moment, Savoy was on the rooftop of a neighboring building, his gun aimed at us. He fired again, and when the bullets stopped, we tried closing the elevator doors.
"He's reloading," I said.
Joshua pushed nonstop on the button that was supposed to close the doors.
"It's not closing," he exclaimed.
"There's too much weight," Cade concluded, running out of the elevator, he told us to go to Bumblebee.
"Dad, no!" Tessa cried.
As Cade ran on the rooftop, yelling at Savoy, the gunfire followed him. The elevator doors closed and we all descended from the rooftop.
We knew Savoy would tell Attinger which elevator we'd be on, depending on if Attinger was anywhere nearby. A plan had to be thought up, or we'd be dead before we even got out.
Shane tried to reassure a crying Tessa that her father would be OK, holding her hand.
"We're not going down to the very bottom," I said after a minute of silence.
"What?" Tessa said. "Dad said..."
"I know, but they're expecting us to be there." I looked at Tessa. "We'll find Bumblebee and your dad, OK?"
She nodded.
Joshua pressed a button to a random floor. Once we reached that floor, we ran.
The floor we ended up on was the hallway of an apartment building. Joyce was yelling about our 'alien bomb', and anyone in our way immediately tried moving. I knew they probably didn't understand us, and just moved out of the way because of a group of people with a mysterious case; and if they knew English, they moved because they heard 'bomb'.
We had to come to a skidding halt. Some old women were slowly making their way down the hall, not paying Joyce any attention as he tried telling them to move.
"How do you say 'get the fuck out of my way' in Chinese?" he exclaimed.
We were relieved once we weren't behind the old women anymore. We rushed down stairs and long hallways, pushing ourselves through crowds of stunned citizens who had no idea what was going on.
Finally making it to the bottom, we found Bee and he led us to where Hound was. They both had their weapons ready, ready to attack any threat that came their way. Joyce had placed the Seed down, running and inspecting where we were, calling someone's name in surprise.
"We got three more coming in from that way," Shane called. When Joshua came back, a blonde woman was behind him. Cade found us in no time, out of breath and a little bloodied.
Tessa and Cade embraced. When the hug ended, Joyce approached Cade.
"We got a real dilemma here," Joshua said. "I created incredible robots, but it's all designed to kick that fat Transformer's ass." He pointed to Hound, who slowly turned and looked down at the man. "So really, this is a no-win situation. It's over."
Hound took his giant metal cigar out of his mouth and flicked it at Joyce. "That was mean," he muttered.
"Hey!" Joyce yelled, after regaining his balance. "I'm sorry if you can't handle the cold-hearted truth!"
"Guys, shut up," I exclaimed. "We need to figure out how to stop them. They want that Seed, and they'll stop at nothing to get it. Not to mention Lockdown probably figured out Optimus escaped and will be coming back here for him."
They thought about what I'd said before nodding. Now wasn't the time for arguing.
Hound sent out a ComLink to Optimus. He was stuck with a bunch of humans. The backstabbing weasels.
Optimus replied with something causing Hound to grumble under his breath and transform. Bee did as well, knowing whatever Optimus said, it'd involve protecting us. We walked alongside them, since it'd be pointless to need a ride in the kind of chaos happening in the streets.
Policemen were trying to redirect some of the traffic, hoards of people running down the street. We gave Hound and Bee enough room to drive ahead; the traffic becoming less of a hassle the further they went.
Missiles started firing again. Bee and Hound ended up transforming as the rest of us tried finding refuge in part of a crumbled building.
"Stay behind me, I'm coverin' ya," Hound told us. "If I stop coverin' ya, it means I'm dead. But that ain't gonna happen."
He started firing off a big machine gun at one of the artificials on a rooftop.
"Hound, I can help you," I called.
"I don't need your help, human," Hound called back. "Just stay there."
Without further argument, Hound ran off, firing endlessly at the enemies. Cade and the rest ran off, I trailed behind with the girls, hoping I'd figure out how I could help the Autobots.
QUICKY A/N:
HELLO! I HOPE YOU LIKE THIS UPDATE. I APOLOGIZE FOR TAKING SO LONG TO PUT THIS UP.
THE FOUR OC'S AREN'T MINE. THEY BELONG TO THEIR OWNERS. YOU ALREADY KNOW THE TRANSFORMERS FRANCHISE ISN'T MINE.
I NEEDED TO WRITE SOMETHING, I HAVEN'T HAD A GOOD COUPLE OF DAYS. FRIDAY WAS OK, BUT STILL WASN'T THE BEST. ANYWHO, ENJOY THIS UPDATE.
THANK YOU, ONE AND ALL.
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~SMITHY