Ch.8
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Italics means Thoughts or Dream P.O.V.
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"Are you ready?" Alex asked as we started to go up on the cyclone, which was one of the oldest rollercoaster in the world.
"I mean were on it anyway," I said back. "Let's do this."
We reached the top of the rollercoaster, for a second I could see the ocean and suddenly we flying down. Cassie and Alex were screaming in joy, as I grip the hand rest but laughing. As quickly as the ride started the ride ended.
"So did you like it?" Alex asked.
"That was great." I said.
"Good," Alex said. "Come on let's get you some street food." We followed Alex to a food truck. "What do you want?"
"I'm fine with anything not spicy." I said.
"You know what I like." Cassie said.
"Okay." Alex said. "You get the Drinks?"
"Fine," Cassie said, grabbing my hand. "Come along Rowan."
"I like Alex," I said as we got drinks. "She's different."
"Yes she is," Cassie said. "Alex is Alex."
"Okay." I said back.
We walked back to the picnic tables were Alex was waiting with three hotdogs and fries.
"Take your pick." Alex said.
"Thank you Alex." I said.
"Think nothing of it." Alex said.
We quickly sat down and started to eat, as Cassie passed a can of soda to Alex.
"Thanks." Alex said holding the can up to Cassie, who nodded at her.
As I was eating I suddenly felt a sharp pain in my chest and yelp in pain holding my chest.
"Rowan what's wrong?" Cassie asked.
"It's nothing just a sharp pain," I said suddenly I could see Optimus on the ground unmoving. "Oh Primus no."
"Rowan?" Cassie asked.
"It's Optimus I think he's died." I said feeling tears.
"It's okay." Cassie said hugging me tightly.
"I need to go a church or a place of worship I need to pray." I said back.
"Come on," Alex said. "I know a place."
Time Lapse
We reached a large church with a cross on the top I could see Rockefeller center.
"Where are we?" Cassie asked.
"St Patrick," Alex said. "Come along."
"What about our things?" Cassie asked.
"They don't look for that." Alex said.
Cassie rolled her eyes as Alex lead the way in, inside was beautiful, I quickly found a quietly area and I sat down. Alex nodded at me and walked off. Cassie stood by me but kept quiet, which I was relived about. I started to pray to Primus to keep Optimus okay. I could felt the tears still coming. I felt a hand on my shoulder, I looked to see Cassie looking worried at me. I felt a sharp pain in my neck then nothing the world became black for me.
Time Lapse
As I started to come too, I could hear people talking.
"Alex you had no right to do that!" I heard Cassie yelled.
"I had too Cassie," I heard Alex yelled back. "She need to rest and deal with the grief with sleep that the best thing for it!"
"You bloody idiot!" Cassie yelled back followed by that loud bang.
I opened my eyes to see I was in a bedroom. That had exposed bricks and large windows, I sat up to see I was in a full bed with a purple covers. I noticed that I was morning, meaning I slept through the night. I climbed out of the bed, I saw that my shoes were next to the bed I slipped them on and headed towards the voices.
"Grow up both of you!" I heard Tabs shout.
"Stay out of it!" Both Alex and Cassie yelled.
I reached the main area to see Alex and Cassie was at each other throats. As Tabs was watching both, she turned to see me.
"Oh morning Rowan," Tabs said. "Sorry if we woke you."
"Oh it's okay," I said.
"Want some pancakes?" Tabs asked.
"Sure thanks." I said.
"Find a stop at the table and I'll bring it over." Tabs said.
"Thanks Tabs." I said walking to the table where Cassie and Alex were giving each other a death glance.
"The two of you, out." Tabs said pointing at Alex and Cassie with a knife.
"Fine." Alex and Cassie both said getting up and left the room.
"I'm sorry for them," Tabs said. "Normally they very nice to each others."
"I can tell." I said back.
"Cassie worries about you, and doesn't agree with Alex idea to let you heal with rest," Tabs said coming over with a frying pan and she place it on plate. "We will start with one but I will make more."
"Thanks." I said back.
"You're welcome." Tabs said giving me a smile.
Time Lapse
"So this is time square." I said looking at all the advertising signs as well as the flashing T.V.'s.
"Told you she would like it." Alex said to Cassie.
We watch as the flashing T.V.'s static in and out before that metal ape appeared on the T.V.
"Citizens of the human hive," I heard the voice I froze. "Your leaders have withheld the truth you are not alone in this universe we have lived among you, hidden, but no more, as you've seen, we can destroy your cities at will, unless you turn over this boy and girl." Suddenly I could see the picture of Sam and myself. "If you resist us, we will destroy the world as you know it."
I stood frozen to the ground fear rushed through me, oh my god. When a hand grabbed me scared me to the core.
"Rowan we need to go like now." Cassie said waking me from the paralysis.
"Yes," Alex said. "Let's go now."
I let Cassie put me in between both Alex and her. As we walked quickly, Alex picked a hat off one of newspaper stall and the owner did not notice. She quickly popped on to my head; I noticed that the hat was dark blue Yankee cap. Alex and Cassie were on edge watching people as waited for our stop from the subway. As we reached the warehouse, Alex and Cassie were still on guard as we entered.
"What was that thing?" Tabs asked coming to stop on the second floor.
"Rowan knew who it is." Alex said back.
"Well who did was nearly a master hacker." Tabs said.
"I need to get you to Simmons." Alex said back. "Tabs can you give Rowan and Cassie some clothes, I need to get Cassie's weapons."
"Got it," Tabs said. "Rowan with me."
"Cassie with me." Alex said back.
"Rowan go." Cassie said.
I ran after Tabs, as she run into another room as I came in I saw that the room was full of clothes on ranks.
"What the heck?" I asked.
"Oh yeah we keep a lot of clothes around," Tabs said smiling at me. "What size are you?"
"Oh I'm about a medium and a 14 in pants." I said back embarrassed.
"Don't be embarrassed," Tabs said smiling at me. "I need to grab Cassie her bag I'll let you pick something."
Tabs then disappeared, I quickly when to medium area and found a green linkin park tee and found a pair of thin blue jeans.
"Tabs?" I asked.
"Yes." She said sticking her head.
"Where can I change?" I asked.
"There is a changing room, by the door." Tabs said.
"Thanks." I said quickly running in and changed.
"Better?" Tabs asked as she was holding a black duffel.
"Yeah." I said.
"Make sure you keep that hat on you." Tabs said. "The government has cameras everywhere."
"Thanks for telling me." I said back.
"Not a problem." Tabs said as we quickly walked back to the main area.
Cassie and Alex were waiting, I could see Cassie's weapons were shining, I could see arrows end with grey and white feathers.
"Here's your duffel," Alex said. "Let's go."
"Wait," Tabs said. "I need to give Cassie something."
"Be quick about it." Alex said.
"I will be," Tabs said back running back upstairs and within in seconds came back down with a pair of classic black converse. "Here we go."
"Thanks." I said back.
"I'll let Cassie explain." Tabs said.
Alex's watch went off.
"It's time to go." Alex said back.
We finally got off the subway and headed up to Flatbush and second. Alex lead the way to a deli, I saw a very familiar yellow Camaro, Trax and Beat.
"You got to be joking me." I said.
"What?" Alex asked.
"Cassie does that Trax and Beat look familiar?" I asked.
Cassie looked and got annoyed.
"Are you serious?" Cassie asked.
"What?" Alex asked.
"You remember that giant ape thing?" Cassie asked.
"Yeah." Alex said.
"Those cars are of the same thing but they good not bad." I said.
"Well let's go." Alex said walking with us following her towards the deli. As we got closer, I recognized Mikaela within seconds meaning Sam was here. I walked ahead of Alex and Cassie heading straight for Mikaela, She saw me and a look of shock came across her face.
"Rowan?" She question, Sam looked up to see me.
"Rowan how, what?" Sam asked.
"I'll tell you later." I said.
"Should I ask?" Alex asked.
"No." I said back.
"Go inside I will be here." Alex said.
"All right, wait here," The Latin boy said. "I'll give you the go no go. All right?"
He when in.
"Who is that?" I asked
"Sam's roommate named Leo," Mikaela said. "He's a bit crazy." "I can see." I said back.
"Who are you two?" Sam asked.
"Sam don't be rude." Mikaela said.
"Alex and Cassie." I said back.
"Nice to meet you." Cassie said. "I think your friend is argue with someone in there."
"How can you tell?" Sam asked.
"Sharp hearing." Cassie said back.
"We should go in." I said.
"Keep your hat on." Alex said.
"I will." I said back.
Sam led the way with his hat on with a blue hood, with Mikaela and with Cassie kept me behind her, Alex behind us.
"It's him! It's him!" Leo yelled. "That's the guy right there! That's him!"
The middle aged guy in a white chief outfit and a pale blue scarf. "No." He said.
Sam and Mikaela must had known him.
"You got to be kidding me." Sam said.
"All right, meat store's closed!" He yelled. "Everybody out! Out, right now!"
"When he says to go, you go." An older woman yelled.
"That means you, lady, right now." He ordered pushing a lady out.
"Wait a minute." Leo said. "You know this guy?"
"We're old friends." Sam said.
"Old friends?" You're the case that shut down Sector Seven," He said. "Got the kibosh, disbanded. No more security clearance, no retirement, no nothing. All cause of you and your little criminal girlfriend. Look at her now, so mature."
"Simmons what is going on?" Alex asking getting him to look at her.
"Moron! Where's the whitefish?" The older woman asked.
"Alex get out!" Simmons ordered.
"Sorry but I'm not moving until you tell me what is going on." Alex said back."
"Fine." Simmons said.
"Hey! Don't touch me with the pig." Another worker yelled.
"Yakov!" Simmons yelled.
"What?" He asked.
"You don't get Christmas bonuses standing around!" Simmons yelled. "You want those new teeth you saw on SkyMall?"
"It's my dream." Yakov said.
"Help her out." Simmons said.
"You live with your mama?" Mikaela asked causing Alex to bit her lip to hold back a laugh.
"No my mama lives with me that a big difference." Simmons said Pointing at the T.V. "They got your face all over the news, alien boy and the same with you little girl."
"Leave her be." Cassie said.
"Yeah, I know." Sam said.
"And NBE One's still kicking, huh?" Simmons asked. "How did that happen? Don't answer. I don't know what you're hiding, but I don't want anything to do with it." "So, good-bye, you never saw me. I got bagels to schmear. Vanish." Simmons started to walk away.
I gave them a look mentally asking who was NBE One.
"Can you give me five seconds?" Sam asked following him and grabbed him. "Look, hold on I need your help."
Simmons turned to face Sam. "Really? You need my help?" he asked.
"I need," Sam said putting off his hat. "Look, I am slowly losing my mind. Okay, I had a little crab-bot, plunged a device deep into the soft tissues of my brain." Sam pushed two fingers into Simmons temple. I shook that the thought of that happening to me that was just wrong. "And started projecting little alien symbols like a freaking home movie! And on top of that, I'm a wanted fugitive. So, you think you got it rough?"
Simmons had a straight face. "You said it projected images off your brain?" He asked.
"Right." Sam said.
"Meat locker, now!" Simmons said pointing behind him with his thumb.
We followed into a freezing meat locker, I could easily see my breath, and there were hanging dead pigs' carcass. I moved out-of-the-way so I won't touch any of them.
"Dead pigs." I heard Leo said.
"What you're about to see is top-secret." Simmons kneeling down to a metal door. "Do not tell my mother." He pulled it open.
"Swine flu, not good." Leo said.
"Now you know." Simmons said back as he started too climbed down. "Next time you eat a goat or a pig, there's a story behind it sad little story." We all climbed down to see a room while giant room of information as well as furniture.
"An entire city flat. How do you explain that?" I heard down there. "Are you saying you believe in aliens now?"
"Okay, files, files." Simmons said moving around. "We're talking about symbols."
Leo when to touch a transformer head, Simmons slap his hand away.
"Hey, still radioactive. Hands off." Simmons said and turned to face the rest of us. "Okay, cube-brain." He open the file to show an old Cybertronian mark."Any of these look like the symbols you saw?" Sam grabbed the file and look at it.
"Where'd you get these?" Sam asked looking up.
"Before I got fired," Simmons said walking to another file cabinet and started to climb it. "I poached S-7's crown jewel, over 75 years of alien research, which points to one inescapable fact. The transformers, they've been here a long, long time. How do I know?" He turn to face us and drop a few papers and threw something that Leo caught. "Archeologists found these unexplained markings in ancient ruins all over the world."
He climbed back down before throwing pictures down. "China, Egypt, Greece," He turned on a projector to show an Egyptian tomb. "Shot in 1932. These the symbols you're seeing in your head?"
"Yeah," Sam said.
"Same ones over here, right?" Simmons asked. "So, tell me, how did they end up all drawing the same things? Aliens, and I think some of them stayed. Check this out, Project Black Knife." He pulled out pictures. "Robots in disguise, hiding here all along. We detected radioactive signatures all across the country. I pleased on my knees with S-7 to investigate it, but they said the readings were infinitesimal, that I was obsessed. Me can you imagine that?"
"Yeah. Megatron said that there was another Energon source here." Sam said.
"On Earth. Another source?" Simmons asked.
"Okay? And that these symbols, maps in my head, would lead him there." Sam said circling his temple.
"You talk to your Autobot friends about this?" Simmons asked.
"No, No, no, the source is before them." Sam said. "Whatever the Energon source is, predates them it's before them."
"So, it comes before them." Simmons said.
"Correct." Sam said back. "Well, then we're porked, unless we can talk to a Decepticon. I mean I'm not on speaking terms with them."
"Actually, I am." Mikaela said.
Both Sam and Mikaela went back up.
A phone when off we all looked at Alex.
"Oh sorry." Alex said grabbing it. "I need to take this, I will be back." She quickly headed into open courtyard.
Sam and Mikaela came back in carrying a metal tan box.
"Let me out!" We could hear something yelling.
"This is going to be a little bit sad." Mikaela said.
"Open it." Sam said and Mikaela pulled it open and the con came flying out. Cassie threw me back sending me flying back she had a bronze dagger out.
"I will have so many Decepticons on your butt!" the Decepticon yelled.
Leo was screaming like a little girl, Sam jumped and Simmons also jumped back.
I looked over Cassie shoulder to see it have a metal chain at Mikaela was pulling back on.
"Hey, behave!" She ordered before flashing a torch gun.
"What is it, a Decepticon?" Sam asked.
"Yeah." Mikaela said taking the torch gun away.
"And you're training him?" Sam asked.
"I'm trying to." Mikaela said.
"I spent my whole adult life combing the planet for aliens, and you're carrying around one in your purse like a little Chihuahua." Simmons said looking at him."
"Do you want a throw down, your pubic fro head?" the con asked.
"I'm sorry," Mikaela said. "I'm so sorry about your eye, you know, but if you're a good boy, then I'm not gonna torch your other eye. Okay? I'm not gonna torch it. Just tell me what these Symbols are, please. Just tell me what these symbols are, please."
The con looked down and started to look at files.
"All right," He said. "I know that. That's the language of the Primes. I don't read it, but these guys. Where the frick did you find photos of these Guys?"
"Is this they?" Sam asked holding up the photos.
"Yeah, Seekers, pal oldest of the old." The Con said. "They've been here thousands of years, looking for something. I don't know what. Nobody tells me nothing tells me nothing, but they'll translate those symbols for you. And I know where to find them."
"Show us." Simmons said.
"Yeah." The Con said cranking his metal fingers and turn to face the map and green lights started to show on the map.
"The closest one's in Washington." Simmons said.
Cassie had put the dagger away and her phone buzzed, she pulled it out and read the message.
"What is it?" I asked quietly.
"Alex disappeared, family business came up." Cassie said back quietly.
Okay that the end of chapter 8 more is coming please be kind and tell what you think of it okay.