A/N: I LLLLLLLIIIIIIIVVVVVVVEEEEEEE! Hey, at least the wait wasn't that long this time…am I right? * holds up hand for a high five*
*A cricket chirps*
Yeesh…tough crowed. Ok, so I know you guys probably won't read this but I'mma say it anyway *clears vocalizer and takes a deep vent*…
TRANSFOREMRS THE LAST KNIGHT IS FRAGGING AMAZING! SLAG DON'T GET BETTER THAN THAT FEMMENS AND MECHS! WWWWWAAAAAAAHHHHHHHOOOOOOOO! HAIL YEAH! IT WAS AWESOME! I DON'T WHAT THE FRAG THOSE PEOPLE WHO LEFT THE MOVIE POOR REVIEWS WAS SMOKING CAUSE THAT MOVIE WAS AWESOME! BUMBLEBEE WENT FROM CUTE TO DROP DEAD SEXY! *Wolf whistles as loud as I can*
*clears vocalizer* Ok…now that I've got that out of my system….one more thing. I'd like to dedicate this chapter, along with the chapter about the midnight spar with Ironhide and the shopping trip, to MysticFire101 for giving me the idea for all three. I AM SO SORRY FOR NOT MENTIONING IT SOONER! My processor glitched and I totally forgot! JediWolfGirl has also helped me with my story greatly, so if you haven't already I strongly urge you to visit both their profiles and read their stories. They're amazing and I hope to be able to write as good as them...before I offline preferably.
.NOW…enough of me working my vocalizer to an early spot in the junk yard. ON WARD MY PRETTIES….HAHAHAHAHA!
Sideswipe: Man…seriously what are you on?!
Ratchet: *sighs* Time for another processor scan
Me: I'M PERFECTLY SANE! *optic twitches*
Ratchet: uh huh…sure you are *drags me into the scanning room*
Me: GOOD BYE CRUEL WORLD! DON'T LET SPARKS STEP ON YOUR PEDES WHILE SHE GUIDES ME TO THE WELL OF ALLSPARKS!
Sideswipe: *shakes his helm and turns to Sunny* I almost feel sorry for the femmling. Being driven to insanity and subjected to the Hatchet…what a way to go. *Both twins share a moment of silence*
Sunstreaker: Sparklings….stay in school, don't do drugs, and stay away from fanfiction.
Me: *yells from the other room* HEY! IF IT WEREN'T FOR FANFITION YOU'RE AFT WOULDN'T BE HERE! SO YOU TAKE YOUR JUDGMENTAL STATEMENT AND SHOVE IT UP YOUR-*multiple crashes and muffled curses are heard*
Ratchet: JOLT! GET YOUR AFT IN HERE! FIRST AID! WHERE ARE THOSE SLAGGING SEDATIVES!
Twins: 0.0
Thoughts
Cybertronian
Anna's (Nova's) POV:
You know in movies how there's that one moment where everything freezes in time before slag hits the fan? I always thought it was just something directors used to give the moment more feeling…that infamous "dramatic pause" that only happens in movies but never in real life. Well, let me just say that it's very real. It's your body's way of booting up your fight or flight instinct. While that's happening, your processor shuts down. All sense of logic and reason gets flung out the window, even for bots like Prowl. In the heat of the moment it's do or die, there's no time to stop and calculate the probability for an idea. In the heat of the moment, there is no such thing as time. You move and you keep moving, you're helm is on a swivel and the only though running through your processor is 'SURVIVAL'.
However, there is one thing I want to clear up. Before I do that, I want you to shutter your optics (or blink for the humans reading this). Now that you did that, tell me. How long did it take you to shutter your optics/blink? Not even a nano-klick right? That's how long that pause lasts. That's all the time you have to decide fight or flight. Which will you chose?
Fight?
Mikaela grabs my hand in a surprisingly strong grip, pulling us both up.
Or flight?
Barricade grins, before disappearing. A few nano-klicks later the building begins to shake.
Fight?
Five people disappear into thin air as people begin to scream and shout.
Or Flight?
Mothers call out, trying to gather the family and stick together. While others run towards the nearest exit. Slipping on my backpack, I let Mikaela take the lead. We run with the crowd, bobbing and weaving through people. We end up at the east parking lot of the mall, people are searching for their cars or simply running away. Turning around, we saw Barricade had transformed and towered over us. The wall next to him told us that he had shook the building and kicked it a few times. Jazz rounded the corner, tires screeching. He transformed and lunged towards Barricade, pinning him against the building.
Mikaela pulled us behind a dark grey Toyota and we crouched behind it as we heard the sound of jet engines. We looked above us and saw an F-22 fly overhead before transforming and landing in the parking lot. Starscream then began shouting, demanding that the 'pathetic insects reveal themselves at once'. Yeah, like we're gonna listen to him. A sound of screeching tires, clinking metal, and a blur of yellow and black occupied Starscream for a bit.
I stood and looked over the roof of the Toyota. "Hmm….four against two."
"Four? I only see two. That cop that chased Sam and Starscream." Mikaela said.
"The other one is designated Barricade. There should be another one. Look for either a dark purple/blue MQ-9 Reaper or a silver Mercedes Benz SLS AMG." I told her, glancing up at the sky and checking my visor. Nothing.
Mikaela looked impressed and whistled softly. "Dang, these guys got style." I smirked at her comment, you dang right they do. That's one of the reasons why I love them. Feeling a tap on my shoulder, I looked over at Mikaela. She put a finger to her lips and pointed above us.
Directly above us was a dark purple MQ-9 reaper. So, that's his form in this universe...I will never hear the end of this from Starlight or Sol-
Grimacing, I banish that train of thought and focused on the battle.
"Ok, so assuming Jazz and Bee called for backup already we should-" I was cut off by Mikaela, who reached into her purse and pulled out…twin pistols? The frag? I didn't know she carried those!
"Find better cover that will both protect us and give us a full view of the battle. We're too close here and out in the open. Let's go over by the shopping cart drop off. It has a roof and the bars on the side are set far enough for us to see. Even though it's made of cheap, easily bent metal it's better than behind a car. Those can be easily thrown. At least the cover is bolted to the ground. You can do your thing and I'll do the best I can with these."
I just stared at her, dumbfounded. Not hearing a response, Mikaela look at me.
"What? You think all that time spent with my dad I never learned how to shoot a gun?"
Snapping out of it, I shook my helm slightly.
"Uh, right! Ok, let's move. Those two can't hold out forever. Aim for the optics and in between the plating."
We chose fight.
Something exploded to our right and we ducked down, crouching close to the car's side. I scanned the surrounding area, Jazz and Bee had switched opponents at some point. Jazz and Starscream were battling it out, crushing cars and cracking pavement as they rolled around. Each trying to gain the upper servo. Jazz ended up on top of the seeker, pinning a wing beneath his knee and delivering punches to the seeker's faceplates. His shield blocked Starscream's punches while he reached into subspace and took out a blaster. Starscream growled and stilled momentarily, the blaster resting against his fore helm as it charged up.
Farther away, Bumblebee and Barricade were engaged in servo to servo combat. Bee had his fists under his chin, elbows tucked in towards his abdomen. He bounced lightly on his pedes, swiftly dodging Barricade's punches and kicks. Seeing an opening, Bee quickly darted forward under Barricade's guard and delivered swift punches to the con's chest plating.
Soundwave was quietly hovering above us, not moving. Since he had his TFP appearance, I'm guessing he also had some of his TFP characteristics. He was probably watching and recording the battle to show Megatron and would only step in if needed or ordered by Starscream.
After making sure the coast was mostly clear, we both made a beeline towards the small shelter. The shelter took up two of the parking rectangles and thankfully there weren't many carts in there. We ran in and crouched down once we were about half way under it. Mikaela reached in her purse and took out two extra bullet boxes before positioning herself. While she was getting situated I activated my armor, breathing in a sigh of contentment as I felt the cool metal envelope my body in a tight hug. I was home.
Reaching in my subspace I took out the knife I gave to Bee, I need to stop lending my weapons to other people. Not my job to pick up their slack if they're not prepared for a battle. I tossed the knife to Mikaela, who jumped when it landed at her feet.
"In case you run out of bullets. Try not to get grabbed but if you do plunge that between the wrist plating." With that, I activated my flight tech and took off.
A quick scan of the area showed that Jazz and Bee were doing alright, so with them occupied I made my way to Soundwave. I hadn't flown since Mission City so I was still new at the whole 'taking to the air' thing. I boosted power to my thrusters and shot up in the air. Waiting for the precise time, I grabbed ahold of one of Soundwave's wing before reducing power and just hovering.
Surprisingly, Soundwave made no move to attach or shake me off. Letting go of his wing, I cautiously hovered over to the nose of the plane. I looked him over with a critical optic, trying to judge if he was going to attack. When he didn't move a piston I spoke.
"Ya know, if all you brought was Barricade and Starscream you're losing your touch Soundwave."
Silence.
"So, what are you doing here? On Earth? You're not supposed to be here for another two years."
More silence.
Well, he is the strong and silent type. This isn't right, this battle is going on too easily. Why would the Decepticons attack a populated are with two autobots near and only bring three bots? Wait….slag it! Where'd Ravage go?!
Turning my back to the silent con, I scanned the area looking for the mechanical feline. There! He was crouching behind cars, making his way towards Mikaela's position. Mikaela didn't see him cause she was focusing on shooting Barricade's optics out. Just as I was about to descend to deal with Ravage I heard a scuttling noise, before lurching forward. Two things had jumped on my back and was now crawling down my torso and legs.
"Gah! Get off!" I bucked in midair and kicked out my legs, trying to throw off whatever was on me. Looking down, I saw flashes of silver, blue, and red. Rumble and Frenzy, I'll kick myself for being stupid after I get them off.
They scuttled around me and to my back, damaging my flight tech. With the thrusters deactivated we began to fall. I grabbed them in each hand as we fell and turned on my back, shielding them from most of the fall.
We hit the pavement, cracking it. I threw them both off me and quickly stood up. Removing the gauntlets, I took off the armor and activated the stasis pod. I grabbed both minibots and shoved them into the pod, sending the order through my mask for the pod to engage a forced stasis on the two. With that done, I put the gauntlets on and activated the wrist blades.
I ran over to Mikaela's position, keeping a lookout for Ravage. I made it to the small shelter with no sign of Ravage.
"Hey, you good?"
"Yeah, got one pack of bullets left."
"Ok, nice job. Let's try and get closer. It'll give you a better chance of hitting something."
"What happened to your armor?"
I gestured behind me, and she looked over.
"I didn't know they had roboanimals."
Pivoting around, I saw Ravage looking at us from the other side of the bars.
"Hey Mikaela?"
"Yeah?" Not taking her eyes off the 'roboanimal' Mikaela reached over and took her last container of bullets.
"This is why I hate shopping"
Ravage let out a mechanical growl and slashed through the metal bars.
"MOVE!"
We ran out from under there and towards the battling autobots. Sheathing the blade on one arm I grabbed Mikaela's hand so I could pull/guide her as she turned and fired at Ravage. I led us into running a wide arc, trying to get back to my stasis pod. Unfortunately, with two giant leaps he was right in front of us. We skidded to a halt as the machine gun on his back pointed at us. Letting go of Mikaela, I took out my blade just as she raised her arm and fired. I swear, that girl could have made a living as a sniper and a dang good one at that.
Ravage's optic shattered and he howled in pain, snarling and growling as he shook his helm. A pang of guilt hit me seeing him blinded and in pain. Shaking it off, we both ran towards the bots. Mikaela crouch behind a car and loaded her gun.
Starscream had managed to flip jazz and the two were once again rolling around trying to gain the upper servo. Barricade had Bumblebee down and pinned under his pede, mace hovering right above the scout's chest plates. Looking over, I saw Mikaela had saw and was aiming at Barricade's helm. I guess that means I'll take on the air commander. Not thinking, I bolted towards the two wrestling cybertronians. Not the smartest I know, but every second counts. No time for hesitation or fear. Starscream had gained the upper hand, a servo wrapped around Jazz's neck as he bodily pinned the smaller mech under him. Jazz's blaster lay just out of reach. I changed course and ran for the blaster. With a little help from my mask (the computer calculated angles, speed, and slag like that) I put on a burst of speed. I jumped on the blaster and using the momentum I pushed off and landed on Jazz's visor. The blaster spun with reach of Jazz's servo. Making a mental note to apologize later I ran over my guardian's faceplate. Being careful not to step on anything too sensitive I ran down his face and climbed up Starscream's arm. Using the forearm blades I stabbed his armor and pulled myself up, using the edges of plates and exposed wiring as foot holds.
I could have caused a lot of damage, slice important energon lines in the arm and rip out exposed wiring, but I didn't. Well ok I DID, but I didn't cut major energon lines. I was trying to make my way to the seeker's audio receptors so I could talk something out with him. Despite what others thought, Starscream 's processor actually did function. He was a scientist before the war started. Anyway, I created enough damage to make it look like I was trying my best to injure Starscream (Jazz was pinned under him after all) but most of it was cosmetic.
I finally made it to his audio receptor and I perched on his shoulder. Holding onto his helmet, mouth guard, thing I leaned in to his audio receptor.
"Son of Vos, desist this activity at once."
It was like I flipped his off switch. Starscream froze, he didn't move a piston even when Jazz managed to wriggle out from under him.
"I promise to explain as best I can. For now retreat. Autobot reinforcements will be here soon"
Rather than rebuke me with his usual "No one commands Starscream", he turned and backhanded Jazz away from us, then grabbed me and threw me up in the air. Transforming, he flew under me and I landed in his cockpit. The seatbelt restraints wrapped around me, pinning me to the seat as the seeker shot off into the sky.
Looking back, I saw Soundwave pursuing us. He must have gotten his cassettes out.
I'm kind of looking forward to meeting the decepticons.
A/N: Ok, I know the new Transformers movie has been out for a while but I typed out the note in the beginning like, a month ago. I know, I'm a horrible author. I'll try to update more frequently but I'm not making any promises at this point. High school is fun but busy so idk. I also want to try and rewrite this story due to how cheesy it is (at least in my opinion, but hey. It's my first fanfiction so I'll cut myself a bit of slack). Please read and review! You can PM me ideas or just PM me to say Hi. Anyway…HAVE A GOOD LIFE AND SEE YA IN THE NEXT CHAPTER!