A/N: I'M NOT OFFLINE! I'M STILL ALIVE AND KICKING! I'm really, really, REALLY SORRY about the big delays between chapters! I will try to update more frequently during breaks and the summer. I know I promised some of you that I would have updated over the Thanksgiving break and the reason I didn't was because I was really busy. We had two days taken off our break due to the hurricane. Then I had basically one day to do my homework cause we were in Orlando all day for Thanksgiving, Animal kingdom on Friday, Tampa on Saturday, church and my creation day party on Sunday, then all too soon I found my aft back at school. Now I have HSCA to worry about, which is duel enrollment for people who are interested in the medical field. I plan to follow in Ratchet's pede steps and become a medic in the military, only I'll be in the air force. Another thing is my carrier fell and broke her digit in 3 places and on top of that my cousin in in what the humans call ICU. Energon is leaking out inside and the medics were finally able to patch the leak. Again I'm really sorry about the long waits, I am trying to find time to write and get ideas. Speaking of ideas…..I want to thank MysticFire101 and JediWolfGirl for reviewing and giving me advice on how to write this chapter! Make sure to check out their profiles, they're stories are AWESOME! JediWolfGirl is on Wattpad so make sure to follow her, MysticFire101 is on FFN so R&R on her story too! Big thank you to all the others who have read and reviewed on my story, I promise after FSA testing I WILL step up my game!
Thoughts/dreams/lyrics
Cybertronian
Radio
Anna POV
Since the treaty between the autobots and humans was established certain changes have been made to the base. The dam served as a temporary base and most of the things were human sized. The hanger where Megatron was being kept is serving as Ratchet's med bay. Several other rooms were also being stripped. The room where the Allspark was being kept was being used as a training room. The room where the meeting with the world council and John Keller took place is now serving as the autobot's combined quarters until more space can be cleared or built.
All metal that was stripped from the rooms is being melted down to make berths to go into the med bay. The humans are also clearing out more rooms to serve as offices and personal quarters for the autobots. Not surprisingly, the designated training room and med bay were among the first to be cleared. The autobots are trying to help clear other rooms out, but it's difficult since some spaces are too small for their bi-pedal forms to fit in, especially Prime.
Presently, I was in the training room with my backpack. I had waited until the bots were in recharge, or hoped they were recharging, and quietly made my way out of the hangar and into the training room. Currently, the room was just that, a room. There were no training mats, targets, or equipment in the massive room….yet anyway. Ironhide is working on that. I stood in the middle of the room, my backpack leaning against the wall to my right, and my back to the entrance. As always my visor was present. At my silent command, a tiny compartment in the sides of my visor opened up and a pair of ear buds the same color as my visor came out and went into my audio receptors.
I had taken off the bandages around my midsection and arm a couple days ago. The only reason I had left them on for as a long as I did was to avoid Ratchet's wrath. He changed the bandages in his holoform a few times, but with the med bay being built he was busy so I just told him I would get one of the medics to change them for me. The times he did change them himself I activated my armor's holoprojector to make my skin appear unflawed, to avoid any unwanted questions. I can only hope Ratchet doesn't do a surprise check up on me. Besides, I don't know why or how but my sisters and I always were able to heal fairly quickly.
We didn't really question it, and I still don't now. With all the fanfiction I had read in my dimension (which was surprisingly a fair amount since I practically lived at the nearby library) it's probably something connected to the Allspark, Primus, or other slag like that considering I spent about 3 years with them. However, unlike the OCs in the stories I won't question it and I won't get all "Am I still human". I hate being a human. They're tiny, squishy, weak, filthy, oily, vulnerable, self-preserving, underhanded ….I could do this all solar cycle.
I sent what song I wanted to play and Undefeated by Skillet began to play. As the song started, I sent another command to my armor.
Combat simulator: Activated
Level: Medium
Begin in 10…9…
I turned to the right, facing the wall where my backpack was leaning against. Only now, instead of my backpack, I was faced with my suit of armor.
6…5...
The suit walked towards me and stopped a few feet in front of me. I took a fighting stance, stepping forward with my left leg in front and my right acting as a brace. My servos raising up, elbows slightly bent in towards me. The suit mirrored my stance.
3…2…1…Combat simulator active
I began to circle my opponent, optics searching for an opening and processor going through multiple scenarios and their outcome. I remembered when Solus explained this feature to me.
Solus and I were in a different section of the pocket dimension. Away from the others and Star. Solus, who had shrunk (they called it mass shifting) down to around my size, had the backpack in her servo. She set the object down and walked over to me. "The others and I have noticed how you tend to listen to music and practice combat moves. I figured this would be more helpful then hitting nothing but air." The backpack shifted into the suit of armor.
"How is it able to stand when neither of us are wearing it?" I asked.
"The suit has motion tackers, it will track where you go and mimic some of your movements. There's also a training program installed. You can either spar with holoforms it projects, or…" Solus turned to the suit. "Combat Simulator activate"
We waited for about 10 nano-klicks before the suit took a fighting stance.
Solus looked to me then jerk her helm towards the suit. Glancing at her, I hesitantly stepped forward and got into my stance. After a few nano-klicks of silence the suit lunged forward. I dodged and heard Solus call out.
"It's on the easy setting for now. You can change difficulty levels whenever you want. You can also upload different bot's fighting styles by recording then during battle. Good luck." With that, she turned and walked back towards the others.
Coming back to the present, I took a deep breath and lunged.
Hands on my neck, foot on my back
The armor dodged to the side and reached out to grab me. I dropped to the ground and grabbed a hold of its arm. The armor, being able to lift Bee's aft, easily lift me off the ground. With a jerk of its arm it flung me off.
Closing in from every side
I twisted in midair and landed on my pedes. I ran forwards and ducked under its guard, sending a few quick punches to its abdominal platting before quickly rolling away. The suit pivoted and quickly grabbed a hold of me. It lifted me up and threw me back down to the ground on the other side. Quickly, it released me but before I could move it slammed its pede on my back. I said hello to the floor again as my arm was twisted behind my back and the suit got on top of me.
Bleeding me dry, I'm fading fast
Growling, I wriggled under it before quickly twisting my right hip upwards and leaning my whole body to the left. We rolled over, the suit now under me and I still had my arm twisted around. I rolled off the suit which unraveled my arm from behind my back.
Left for dead but I will rise up on my own I can make it alone, I got all that I need to survive
We both quickly stood and before the suit could yank me forward I quickly moved behind it and used the arm still in its grasp to do a backwards choke hold. Not that it would have any affect considering the suit doesn't need to breath, but I did give me the upper hand. It also gave the suit the opportunity to flip me forwards, which it did by grabbing a hold of my arm around its neck and bending forwards.
With the sweat and the blood I know what I'm made of, it's the hunger that keeps me alive
I didn't fall, instead I ended up in an awkward position that left me exposed and vulnerable. I was in a bridge position and the suit was bent at the waist in a 90 degree angle below me with its hand still clamped on my arm around the throat. I was on top of it, my legs on the ground and my back bend backwards. I was looking upside down at the mask, my grey eyes staring into the black optics of the helmet.
This time, I'm coming like a hurricane, this time
My gaze hardened and I tensed the muscles in my legs and arms. Then, using my legs I jumped to get my pedes off the ground while pulling my lower body up using the muscles in my abdomen and arms. I was able to get my body right side up and behind the suit, getting back into the rear naked choke hold. This time however, I brought my knee up sharply to the middle of the plating that made up the back. This caused the suit to bend slightly backwards while I used my arm to push down the neck, bending the suit even more. The scraping and creaking of metal plates and joints could be heard.
I came to fight for the love of the game, unstoppable
In this position, the suit decided the easiest way to get out of it was to drop like a rock. Literally. It disengaged the gravity manipulator and I quickly let go of it, however I was still brought down to the ground since I wasn't strong enough to hold it up. Cybertronium was heavy! We quickly rolled away from each other, my breaths coming out quick and sharp. I tensed when I saw the suit reach out, but when I saw it was not making any attacks at the moment I relaxed slightly. I was still in my defensive stance though, you never let your guard down until your opponent gives up, is knocked out, or lies dead at your pedes. The suit drew out the sword on its back and tossed it to me. Instinctively, I reached out and caught it by the hilt.
That's why I, I'm undefeated
The armor activated the two wrist blades (similar to the ones Arcee has in TFP) and charged. I brought the sword up and blocked the two blades before dodging out of the way when the suit struck out with its left. We continued to exchange quick blows, each of us dodging certain swings and in my case sparks from when the two pieces of Cybertronium collided together.
Off the leash, out of the cage, an animal
I stepped back to put some distance between us and moved the sword to my right hand. I waited until the suit took a small step towards me before I stepped forwards with my left foot and twisted my body around. I swung my sword to cut horizontally and the suit blocked it. This time though, I kept on spinning in place, using the momentum as extra force behind my blows. While this gave great power to my strikes I had to keep a constant speed on my spinning and I had to stop when I got dizzy. The move would only leave me vulnerable if I continued to use it when I was dizzy, my balance and aim would be off. The move also works better with two swords but one is good enough.
That's why I, I'm undefeated
When I got dizzy, I stopped and did a back flip to get out of the close proximity while also using my pedes to kick the helmet. I smirked, learned that move from Bumblebee in TFP. Wonder if he uses it here.
I, I, I know I can beat it
We continued to fight throughout the song, switching from weapons to hand-to-hand combat. The suit reached into subspace and threw me my caliber 4.5 blank air gun along with a magazine. Quickly, I popped the bottom of the handle off and shoved the magazine in before closing it (A/N: Sorry if it's inaccurate, not sure if that's how you really load it). I then raised the gun, took aim, and fired at the suit. I hit the helmet in between the optics, but only left a tiny dent. The suit began moving quickly from place to place and it hard for me to get a clear shot. I missed a couple times. I went through a few more magazines before tossing the gun back to the suit and picking up my sword.
Third POV
The autobots were all recharging peacefully in their alt modes with their sensors up at the maximum level. The sound of metal clashing on metal was what woke Ironhide up. Actually, his sensors alerted him to the heat signature near by. Coming fully online Ironhide strained his audios to the maximum. What he heard next was the sound of a gun firing and him, being the trigger happy mech he is, instantly transformed and yelled out "Decepticons!"
This jolted everyone else awake, who transformed and took out their weapons. It took a while to realize there were no decepticons, before weapons powered down and were put back into subspaces.
"Yo Hide, mind tellin meh why ya woke meh up from a perfectly good recharge cycle" Jazz asked.
"Slagger, decepticons my aft" Ratchet grumbled.
"911 what's your emergency"
Ironhide growled," Shut the frag up and listen slag heads!"
Ratchet scowled and grumbled along with the others but they fell silent and listened. The sounds of slightly heavy breathing and metal clashing on metal could be heard.
Ironhide growled, "It's coming from my training room." He then stalked off towards said room. Everybot else following, both curious to see what it was and to keep Hide's temper in check.
When they got to the training room the source of the noise surprised them. It was Anna, Jazz's charge. She was fighting her own suit of armor. After a few nano-klicks of watching her they figured it was another feature to her mysterious armor and she was just practice sparing.
The sound of transformation and a zapping noise caused Jazz to look next to him. Ironhide had activated his holoform and had a smirk on his face.
"What're ya doing Hide" Jazz asked.
"Seeing how good the femmling really is without her armor" Hide replied gruffly.
"Uhh…..I don' think tha's a good-"Jazz trailed off as Hide ignored him and walked behind his charge.
Anna's POV
You know when you become so focused on a task everything around you seems to just disappear? Like, you're in the zone or something like that? That's where I was. All I could concentrate on was my opponent as my mind raced with different scenes from different Transformers shows. Before I met the Primes I would watch the fight scenes and try to copy the movements. I managed to copy TFP Bumblebee's back flip, live action Jazz's flip in his introduction, TFP Arcee's swift punches and dodges, some of TFA Prowl and Jazz's cyber ninja moves, and many more.
Just as I was bracing myself for a blow, the armor froze mid swing and my visor pinged. Someone was behind me. I sent back an acknowledging ping and a video came up on my visor. It was from the optical cameras in the armor's helmet. A human male was behind me, bringing his arm back to deliver a blow to the small of my back.
A nano-click before the male's fist connected with my back I spun to my left while reaching out my left arm and grabbing a hold of the male's wrist. As I completed my spin I used my other hand to grab hold of his wrist and kept spinning in a 360. The male was caught off guard when I first grabbed his wrist and stumbled. He was unable to keep his footing and fell as I continued to spin.
I built up speed and after spinning in place for a couple times I let go and the male flew into a nearby wall. I stood there and shook my head, trying to clear the dizziness. While I was trying to regain my sense of balance the armor had switched from training to protection. It moved to stand on my left side, braced for an attack. The human male was cursing and trying to get up, his sense of balanced also fragged up. I didn't notice the 'human' temporary disappear before reappearing standing. It all happened in the blink of an optic while I was busy refocusing so I didn't see it happen.
::Yo, 25 credits says mah charge beats Hide's skidplate::
:: I'll take that bet::
Jazz grinned and shook servos with Bee before they both turn their attention to the spar.
The human and I seemed to regain our balance at the same time. I pinged my armor with my visor and basically told it to take five while I beat the male's skidplate. The armor stood off to the side observing while I proceeded to charge and deliver multiple swift kicks and punches. To my dismay, many of them were easily blocked. He struck out at me too and I was able to block most of them, although a few hit me. Even though they hurt, I could tell he was pulling his punches which was odd. If he wanted to attack me he should be fighting with more vigor and using all the strength he possessed.
I dodged a kick that was aimed for my midsection and pinged my armor to scan the surrounding area. While it was busy doing that, I turned my attention back to the male. We continued to exchange swift punches, kicks, and tried to flip each other onto the ground. His way of fighting was more brute force, keep hitting it until it stops moving kind of way. At the same time I notice him carefully observing my movements and his surroundings.
After a while, the armor pinged me and I picked up five energy signatures…..right by the door. Breathing heavily, I back up away from the man and studied him. Black combat boots, camouflage pants, tight black shirt, scar over the left eye, and black military style haircut and really, really buff. I frowned and dropped my defensive stance.
"If you wanted a spar Ironhide, I believe Optimus would be a better challenge." Turning away, I walked over to my armor and it transformed into its alt mode, or the black backpack.
"Aww come on! Don't quite, ah got 25 credits on yah!"
I froze and turned over to where the autobots were observing at the door.
"You bet on me…..against Ironhide?"
"At least ah bet in yo'r fava! Bee bet 'Hide would kick ya skidplate an' ah jus' had ta defend mah charge's honor!"
Bee whirred and hit Jazz in the chassis in a 'what the pit mech' gesture, just like he did in TFP when smokescreen blew his cover and Bulkhead said Bee was the only on there when it happened.
I rolled my eyes behind my visor and picked the backpack up, slinging a strap over one shoulder.
"Sorry to disappoint, but Ironhide would have kicked my skidplate. He has more experience and formal training."
Bee whirred and fist pumped the air, then held out his hand to Jazz expectedly.
"Now hold on a klick! If ya stayed wit the Primes for three Earth years then surly ya must have had some sort of training! That means ya could have kicked 'Hilde's aft!"
"Mm…yes I did have training. But Ironhide still would have beat me, he was just going easy on me this round."
"Aw come on…..wha' do ya think Prime" Jazz and Bee turned to Optimus, who had been silent throughout the whole ordeal.
"I believe the match was a tie since both parties ceased aggressive behavior at the same time. Although, I do believe Ironhide would have won simply because, as Anna has stated, he has more battle experience and was indeed "going easy on her". Although, the outcome remains to be seen seeing as the match remains incomplete."
"So…..no one won then right? Ah don' owe Bee credits?"
Bee whirred in playful anger and held out his servo.
Shaking my head, I started to walk past them and to my room as the two began to playfully argue.
A/N: Lol, ok I'll stop there. Do you guys think my chapter are too long? Tell me in the comments if you think I should shorten them. Also, the next chapter will finally have some D-con action. I know I've had a lot of fluff going on lately. Also, I know some of the links don't show up, so if you're curious then PM me and I'll send you the links. I'll try to update soon, but with FSA tests coming up I make no promises. Till all are one fellow Transfans.