Lego owns Bionicle and the name Ketongu. Hasbro owns Transformers. Galem owns the characters: Tali, Ava, Amber, Iris, Diego, Alyan, Adhira, Valera, and Kasar.
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Chapter 8: Nightmares
As the light of the full moon shone over Green's mansion, and the zoo surrounding it, Ketongu stood at the front door, watching his surroundings as observantly as could be managed. After Edward had kidnapped Green, Angela, and Golden, there was no way he was going to take any more chances. 'If only I had done better'. Ketongu thought, gazing sadly at the ground through his single optic. While he had been wasting time finding a parking spot, just so his friends could have a little privacy for once, they had been captured by the Makutacons, and he didn't even notice.
It was a wonder to the Av-Toabot as to why the Le-Matoran still trusted him after that. Even now Green seemed to be okay with Ketongu being his guardian. When the Makutacons had captured the three matoran, under Killer's orders, anything could've happened to them. Green himself, having received beatings from the Makutacon general, was truly blessed to still be alive, as Ketongu had prayed desperately that they would find Green before Killer had decided to end Green's life. After all of that, Ketongu was definitely going to try harder to guard his friend, to better insure his safety.
Ketongu was jolted from his thoughts then as he heard the creaking of footsteps on the wooden deck, and a familiar voice: "Hey Key"?
Ketongu turned quickly, gazing down at the Le-Matoran. His look became one of concern as he noticed the worried look and sweat dripping slowly from the forehead of his powerless Pakari.
"Yes Green"? Ketongu asked, allowing his concern to be heard as he lowered himself onto a single knee so he was facing his friend at eye level.
Green waited for a moment before asking: "Do, you think something's wrong with me"?
"Yes". Ketongu joked with a smirk.
Green chuckled a bit and rolled his eyes as he responded: "I mean really". Then lightly hitting his guardians shoulder: "Smartaft".
Ketongu chuckled at Green for a moment before responding: "Well, to be honest with you, there are things wrong with everyone". Then with a concerned look: "But why would you think that"?
For as long as Ketongu had known the Le-Matoran, he knew that it wasn't normally like Green to ask questions like this about himself. Ever since the battle in that abandoned city in the Central District, Green had learned to become less critical of other peoples actions, as all people of the world had done something wrong, or at least they had at one point of their life. That and the fact that Jesus had died on the cross for the sins of all people so many years ago. Still, Green hadn't been the kind of person to criticize himself, not publicly at least, and there was no signs of Green having depression. 'Nor should he be depressed'. Ketongu thought. Having made it out of another battle, and about to be married to a female he truly loved, Ketongu honesty couldn't see how any sort of depression could arise among that much happiness. Still, with this question being a bit out of the blue, this was still a very concerning manner to the Av-Toabot.
Green shrugged a bit. "I don't know. It's just started happening tonight. It could be nothing, but I don't know".
Ketongu immediately grew more concerned as he asked: "Well, what is IT"?
Feeling his legs about to give out from the tiredness, which wasn't surprising to Ketongu as the Le-Matoran had just woken up at two in the morning, Green walked over to the swing on the right side of the deck, seating himself in it before replying: "I had a nightmare".
Though relieved that Greens problem had nothing to do with depression, Ketongu kept his concerned look as he sat cross legged near the swing, knowing that if intense enough, nightmares could influence people to do bad or crazy thing. Not that he believed Green was capable of evil, he didn't even believe Green was crazy (most of the time), but until Green had stated what his nightmare entailed, he would remained concerned, and as a friend, he would try to be supportive in the best way he could manage.
Noticing his Toabot friend was waiting for him to continue, Green spoke once more: "But this one doesn't make sense. Because I've been with her all this time, why would it just now occurs, when we've just gotten engaged"?
Ketongu raised his single opticbrow curiously. "Well that depends, what does this nightmare consist of"?
Green took a deep breath to calm himself, still immensely disturbed by the dream he had awoken from minutes ago. This breathing continued for a few more minutes before he finally began to explain: "Well, in this nightmare I saw Angela. She was VERY far away from me and I saw someone in the dark pointing a gun at her. I start running towards him, in an effort to stop him but everything is LITERALLY in slow motion". He took another few minutes to breathe deeply, still in an effort to calm himself before continuing: "And this figure, he notices me watching and he grins at me. Then he looks back at her and..." A tear emerged from Green's right eye as he shut his eyes tightly, trying desperately not to picture it again. "And he shoots her. As I hear that gunshot, I see Angela fall and red just spills from her".
No matter how hard Green had tried not to picture it, the image of Angela bleeding to death still came to him, as if it were hardwired into his brain. As the image returned to him, he couldn't stop the waterfall of tears that emerged from his tightly shut eyes. 'Why did I even have that dream'? Green wondered sadly. 'I can't live without, let alone the thought of being without her. There's still so much I want to give her. I want to give her a happy life, I want to give her kids, I want her to know everyday that no matter what happens, I will never stop loving her'. But how could he do that if this dream came true, which he dearly hoped never happened, or said dream continued to plague him for the rest of his life, causing him to become overprotective of her, something of which he knew Angela wouldn't react well to. Regardless, Green was going to try hard to protect his fiance, and ensure that this dream never came true.
Green opened his eyes then, looking back to Ketongu as he continued: "I woke up immediately after that & I took a moment to look to my side to make sure Angela was OK and that that dream wasn't a memory or an immediate premonition. Because that's just how bad it was".
A sad look immediately spread across Ketongu's face. 'Forget depression'. Ketongu thought. Even the Av-Toabot knew that the fear of loving the woman you loved was so much worse. If said fear was bad enough, it would change Green to the point where he would become terrified of every single step he took with Angela. Plus sleepless nights to keep watch over her, to ensure nothing ever happened to her. A fear like this was not healthy. Especially not if it WAS a premonition. If this was a warning of some sort, Green would have to remain as healthy, clear minded, and calm as possible.
"Dang Green, I... Really don't know what to say". Ketongu responded. "I mean, it COULD be nothing but, at this point there's really no telling what it is. I'm SORRY. REALLY, but-".
Green quickly wiped his tears away, appreciating Ketongu's efforts to help as he responded: "No, it-it's OK man. I'll probably figure out what it is on my own, or what to do with it at some point".
Ketongu's concerned look returned. "You sure"? He asked, using a concerned tone once more. "If you need help, I'm always there".
Green smiled, appreciating his friends kind words as he responded: "I know you are. Trust me, if I need your help, I'll get you".
As irritating as Ketongu could be sometimes with his pranks towards him and Angela, he still considered him a friend, and therefore appreciated his willingness to help out in times such as this. In not wanting to freak out Angela or worry her, of course a friend would be the first person he told of this issue. Plus, the last time he had worried Angela, she had started crying which had made Green feel bad, and he was feeling bad enough as it was. Not that he didn't want to be there for the Ga-Matoran. Green had loved her since the day they met, and would gladly be there whenever she needed him. But they were also involved in a war, and thus Angela had enough to be scared about. If Green told her about these nightmare, what if it led to a massive decrease of whatever faith she had in him to protect her? The thought of that scared Green almost more than his nightmare. After all, if she didn't trust him, how would she allow him to protect her?
But Green decided to worry about that later, and worry more about getting the sleep he needed as he rose from the swing and looked back at his Toabot friend, saying: "Thanks for listening man, I appreciate it".
Ketongu nodded with a smile. "No problem, Green".
Green offered a smile in return as he responded: "Night Key".
"Night Green".
As Green walked back into the mansion and closed the door behind himself, he wasted no tie in rushing back upstairs to their bedroom, worried that while he was gone someone may have taken her. Green practically swung the door open upon reaching their shared bedroom, gazing at the bed as a fear-filled bead of sweat ran down his forehead. Green slumped and sighed in relief when he saw the female Ga-Matoran sleeping peacefully in their bed.
Green immediately sent a prayer of thanks to Jesus as he approached the bed slowly and tiredly. After how bad that dream was, and how real it had felt, it would've destroyed him of someone had taken her or killed her in her sleep. Though he had indeed needed that talk from Ketongu, he would've felt responsible if something had happened to her. Not wanting to take anymore risks of Angela getting captured, Green crawled tiredly into bed, under the covers, next to his fiance, draping an arm over her before closing his eyes and returning into the peaceful realm of sleep.
unbeknownst to the now asleep Le-Matoran, the feeling of the arm being draped across her shoulder had awakened Angela. Before Angela could speak out in surprise, she noticed the dark green tint in said arm, and decided to stay silent in order to allow her fiance to sleep. Next, she gazed at Green's powerless Pakari, noticing the sort of peaceful look on his powerless Pakari as he slept. Angela smiled at said peaceful look, glad that Green felt this way around her. To be honest she thought they would have problems sleeping in the same bed, afraid that one of them would try to take up most of the bed, or the covers, or that the smell of passed gas would be bad enough to make the other want to sleep in one of the spare bedrooms.
But everything had been fine. Ever since the two had moved into Green's master bedroom, both had seemed to sleep much easier. Almost as if whatever had made them want to stay up late all the prior nights had left them forever. As if a peace never felt before had befallen them, which she honestly didn't know whether or not it was a good thing or a bad thing with the war still going on. Regardless, Angela decided that she would try to enjoy this peace for as long as she could, as she snuggled close to Green's chest, and fell asleep to the rhythm of his heartlight-beat.
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Inside the ship…
Tali was sleeping peacefully in an air mattress she and her fiance had set up earlier, until the sound of muttering woke her up in the middle of the night. 'Who in the world is awake at this time of night?' She growled to herself. 'Interrupted my sleep. And I was having s good dream too!' Turning to her side, all her anger melted into concern as she saw that it was no other than her fiancé muttering in his sleep, his features contorted in fear. "Ops? What's wrong?" Tali gripped his shoulder and shook him gently.
Almost immediately Ops sat up, awakening with a half scream and a fearful look. A few seconds later, Ops turned his head to face the female Toa Rahayu of water, whom had worn a tired and concerned expression on her mask. Before Tali could say anything, Ops quickly pulled her close, wrapping his arms around her and hugging her tightly.
"Thank goodness you're OK". Ops said through shaky breaths as he pet Tali's chain link hair with his right servo.
"Ops? What is it?" His words slowly turned the gears in her half awake mind, stirring it into full speed and soon giving her the most likely reason to his actions. "Another nightmare?" She asked, concerned and yet confused. It didn't make any sense. Z was a part of the team, he wasn't going to kill them, so why was Ops still having nightmares?
Ops nodded quickly, taking deep breaths to calm himself as he responded: "Of Alphatron".
Tali was certain she had just heard my thoughts grind to a halt. "Alphatron?" Who is the blazes was Alphatron? Why hadn't Ops told her about him before? And why was he having nightmares of him now?
Immediately realizing that he had never told Tali of this person, or had even told her his name, Ops spoke: "Oh right". He broke the hug and sat up against the wall behind himself and Tali. Ops was silent for a few moments, trying to calm himself and trying to push aside the memory of what had happened in that nightmare before he finally spoke: "When Galvatron turned Autobot, his son wasn't happy and went rouge for a few years. He and Shockwave found Z, who's name was Noah at the time, and recreated him. Alphatron and I got into a fight while Z attacked my friends, a team I called "the New Toabots". Honestly, I was a little disappointed by Alphatron. He can fight, but not as good as most of us".
Okay, that answered those questions. "Oh, okay. But why was he in your nightmare?"
"Because he WAS stronger than me". Ops responded.
Though Ops's skill set was higher than Alphatrons, his foe had proven himself to not only be much stronger than Ops, but also to have a much higher resistance to pain. Since Alphatron hadn't been seen in years, Ops had no clue whether or not his nemesis's skills had improved, and to be honest he'd rather not find that out with Tali around, in fears of his nightmare becoming a reality.
Almost immediately that terrifying dream had returned to him, along with the similar dreams he had been having for the past six months. Sure, Z had been a main nightmare for a while, but now that the ex con had proven himself an ally, the nightmares with Alphatron were becoming much more frequent. The nightmares with Z had been scary enough, but in memory that Alphatron was still out there, still as merciless and cunning as he had been all those years ago, the fears had only intensified.
"And recently, I've been having dreams of him taking you from me". Ops replied, trying and failing to not sound fearful as he continued: "I'm beaten up pretty rough, then you're trying to save me and he..."
"He what?" Tali rested a hand on his shoulder, wishing to sooth him.
Ops tried so hard not to picture it. The gore and blood spewing everywhere as the new Decepticon Leader pounced on her and attacked without any remorse. But it was too hard. It was one of those nightmares that one would try desperately to forget it, but no matter what he or she tried, the memory of said nightmare would always return, sometimes when least expected. Considering this dream regarded the safety of the love of his life, whom to make matters worse didn't approve of being overprotective, all he wanted to do with it was forget the images, to somehow delete it from his memory processor. 'Maybe if I had the courage to talk to Ratchet again after unintentionally leading his son to his death, I would ask him to do it for me'. Ops thought.
Ops let out a shaky breath and looked into Tali's concerned red eyes as he responded: "He destroys you. That's the only way I can put it right now. It's worse than when I had nightmares of Z".
Tali stared at him, stunned. Worse that his nightmares of Z? Now that was saying something. Tali worried about this. 'I'd hate to meet this guy in person. I hope we never run into him.' She knew that that was a slim chance, but she still prayed that their paths will never cross with Alphatron's. Resting her head on his shoulder, she nuzzled him a bit, to distract him from those memories.
Upon noticing Tali's head on his shoulder, he wrapped both of his arms around her and hugged her closer, then planting a kiss on her cheek as he spoke: "That's why I'll try as hard as you will allow me to protect you". He lifted her head up by her chin via a digit, and then with a smirk added: "That and I love you".
"I love you too, Ops." Tali smiled softly as she kissed his cheek. "Very much."
Ops's smirk changed into a returning smile to her soft smile. For a second, he almost moved his face closer towards her mask, wanting to kiss her to reassure her that she was safe with him. But then he remembered her promise to her parents, to not give a single kiss on the lips until the wedding day. Though Ops was a bit disappointed when he had heard, a little bit even now as he gazed temptingly at the smooth surface of her lips, he would respect her choice. As her soon to be husband, it was his duty to respect her choices.
"I swear if we were married I'd be kissing you on your lips right now". Ops told Tali, keeping his returning smile as he said it.
"Patience, Ops." Tali giggled before a thought perked her up." Speaking of that, when are we going to tell the others?" They still had not announced their engagement to the rest of their friends yet! So much had happened back to back that it had kinda slipped her mind until now.
"I think we should tell them as soon as possible". Ops responded. He smiled a bit wider then as he felt a light bulb light up in his head. "Better yet, why don't I make a call tomorrow? I can get connected to the speakers in the base and we can tell them together".
Tali was quiet for a bit. 'Hmm, well, not what I always imagined the announcement to go. But then again the engagement wasn't anything like I had dreamed before so...why not?' "I like that idea." She nodded. "Yes, let's do it."
Upon hearing Tali respond that, Ops smiled like a child on his birthday getting his most favorite present. Seeing as their friends were practically family, of course they would have to tell them eventually, so why not tomorrow? Plus, this method of doing so would be the easiest way of telling a large majority of their friends all at once, the rest of them being in different states, but he would get to those at some point later. Needless to say though, Ops was very happy to be sharing the news soon, and he could hardly wait to share it.
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Biomarvel740: Galvatron and Shockwave are owned by Hasbro, and I own Alphatron, whom will not have an appearance in this story. He will be in a future story though. As to what future story that is, I will leave that a surprise. XD
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Biomarvel740: I did too after I found out who he was. But I wanted to keep the name the same regardless. XD
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