Hey everyone! I'm back with chapter 13. Finally! Lol! Hope you are all doing good.
Also for those who don't know, I put up another story called Transformers Prime: The Medic's Assistant. It will follow the Prime storyline and will mainly focus on my OC, Stormracer. If you haven't read it yet, feel free to check it out.
Hope you all enjoy this chapter!
Transformers Animated: Different Angle
Chapter 13: ... and into the Fire
Disclaimer: I don't own transformers animated.
(Third POV)
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah!" Both Kylie and the face scream in unison at one another, another voice joining in. It's not until the screaming stops that Kylie realizes who it is.
"You!" both she and Bumblebee exclaim in unison.
Kylie looks down to see the same little girl from the other day standing next to Bumblebee, her frightened expression disappearing as she lets out a sigh of relief. She also notices a glowing light from the key around the girl's neck as it shines a light right at her before vanishing.
What the heck was that? Kylie thinks to herself.
Waldorf, who's now wide awake from all the excitement, starts growling at the yellow bot, gaining his attention.
"Yeah, hi to you too, Fleabag," Bumblebee grumbles.
What do I do?! Kylie thinks to herself as she starts backing away. "Hey! Nice seeing you two! Well this has been fun! Bye!"
She tries to take off running, only for Bumblebee to quickly get in front of her.
"Hold it!" Bumblebee says, holding up his servo. "What are you doing here?"
"That..." she falters, holding up her finger, "... is not the question here." She looks at him suspiciously as she points at him. "Question is... what are you doing here?"
Bumblebee frowns. "I asked you first."
"Oh," she says, dropping her expression, "uh, I pass! Your turn!"
"Oh for the love of, will you please just answer the question?" Bumblebee says, sounding annoyed.
"Right," she says nervously before giving him a sheepish smile, "what was the question again?"
Bumblebee's frown deepens as Kylie pretends to check her wrist as if she's wearing a watch.
"Oh, look at the time. Bye!" She tries to run again, only for the yellow bot to block her path yet again.
"Why are you trying to get away from us?" Bumblebee asks.
Kylie gives him a 'surprised' look. "Whaaaaaaat?! What makes you say that?" she asks innocently, trying to find a way around him. Though every time she takes a step, Bumblebee mimicks her, his arms stretched out to keep her from getting past him. This goes on for a bit until she finally gives up.
"You're not getting off that easy. Why did you have that fragment on you?" Bumblebee asks her.
"Uh... it looked shiny?" Kylie says with a nervous smile.
Bumblebee frowns at her again. "Right. So you always get yourself into trouble over shiny stuff?"
"No!" she protests before twiddling her thumbs, "Okay, so maybe there was that one incident with these diamond earrings, but that was totally different."
He gives her a weird look. "Earrings?"
"Cybertronians wear earrings?" Sari asks, "but you don't have any ears."
"Uuuuh," Kylie falters before saying, "would you believe I just like the idea of it?"
Knowing this is leading to something pointless, Bumblebee decides to move on ahead, "You know what, just skip it," he says, "can you at least tell us who you are?"
Rocking back and forth on her pedes, she tries to think of a way out of the question. "Um... well..." All of a sudden a sound twigs snapping interrupts her, gaining their attention. Whatever or whoever it is, it's coming their way.
All three of them turn with their guards up as they wait to see what or who it is, Kylie and Bumblebee shining their headlights in the direction. To their surprise, a small stout man wearing drenched clothes comes running out from behind the trees then stops, shielding his eyes from the lights shining on him.
"Dad?" Kylie looks down to see Sari looking at the man in shock. Next thing she knows, the child starts running towards him. "Dad! You're alive!" she cries happily, wrapping her arms around him as she pulls him in for a hug.
"Sari?" the man asks, blinking a few times to try and see better. Once he sees it really is his daughter, he immediately hugs her back. "Oh Sari! I thought I'd never see you again!" They tearfully hug as Kylie watches. Even though she doesn't know what's going on, she couldn't help but feel happy at the scene before her.
"Glad to see you're okay, Professor Sumdac," Bumblebee says, "but what are you doing in the middle of the woods... and all wet?"
Sari pulls away from the hug, wiping off her tears. "Yeah. What happened? Where were you?"
"Megatron," Sumdac says, wiping away his own tears. "He was holding me prisoner this whole time. He wanted me to help him construct a space bridge."
"That doesn't sound good," Bumblebee says.
Kylie looks at the autobot in confusion. "Space bridge?"
"You know," Bumblebee says as if to remind her, "big thingy that can take you anywhere in space?"
She continues giving him a blank look.
"What rock have you been hiding under?" he comments, making Kylie frown a little.
"How did you escape?" Sari asks her dad.
"I had help from-" his eyes go wide. "Oh dear, I almost forgot! She told me to find a cave with a bot in it! Oh what was the name... Kira? No, Kylie!"
Kylie looks at him, surprised that he said her name. "I'm Kylie," she says hesitantly.
"Oh thank heavens," he says, "she told me to find you."
"Who told...?" Kylie almost asks before realizing who he could be talking about, "wait, are you talking about Jacy?!"
"Yes," Sumdac says, "she said for me to tell you to take me to the Autobots," he stops and looks at Bumblebee, "Well, I guess there's no need for that now. But she also wanted me to tell you to stay with them," he adds, looking back at her.
A look of confusion spreads across the blue femme's face. "She said that? Are we talking about the same Jacy?"
"Tall red bot with grey wings?" Sumdac describes.
"Sounds like her," Kylie says, still confused, "but why would she..." She frowns, realization something else, "wait, if she helped you escape from Mega-whatshisname, then... where is she now?"
A grim look sweeps over the professor. "Last I saw, Blitzwing was chasing after her."
Kylie's optics widen in fear. "What?!" she exclaims, "where did they go?!"
"Somewhere North," he says, "but that was a while ago. He probably caught up to her by now."
"I have to help her!" Kylie says. She goes to take off, only for Bumblebee to grab her arm.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Bumblebee says, stopping her as he lets go. "Did you not hear him? Blitzwing was chasing after her! Blitzwing! Big scary dude with three faces?! You won't stand a chance against him."
"I can't just leave her! She's my friend!" she argues.
"You won't be able to beat Blitzwing on your own," Bumblebee says before crossing his arms, a cocky smile now on his face. "Which is why you're going to need somebot who's fought Decepticons before."
Kylie immediately gets her hopes up. "One of your bigger friends is nearby to help?"
Bumblebee frowns at her as his arms drop to his side. "I was talking about me!"
"Oh," she says, not sure how to feel on that.
"Hey! I may not look like much, but I got skills," he states, "not to mention, I'm the fastest thing on wheels."
"We should still probably call for backup," Sari suggests to him.
"No time," he argues before looking at Kylie. "You go with the humans back to the city while I go help your friend."
"Hold it," Kylie protests, "I want to help."
He shakes his helm at her. "Not happening. No offence, but you'll only get in the way. Last thing I need is you becoming someone's hostage again. Besides, she says she wants you to stay with my team."
She frowns at him, "Look, like I said before, she's my friend and I want to help her. She'd do the same... she did do the same for me. Wouldn't you if it was one of your friends?"
Bumblebee thinks for a moment, knowing he would do the same if either Sari or Bulkhead were in trouble. He vents in defeat. "Fine, but stay out of the crossfire." He looks down at the two humans. "You two need to get going."
"But what if one of you get injured?" Sari argues, "I can help with my key."
"The cons could still be looking for your dad," Bumblebee tells her, "take him back to the city."
"But that's where they will look for him," she points out.
"Okay, then just... find a place to hide until we get back," he says.
Sari lets out a sigh of frustration, knowing this isn't a good idea.
Kylie kneels down and sets Waldorf down beside them, "please keep an eye on Waldorf for me."
Waldorf looks over at the two humans then back at Kylie, unsure of what is going on.
"Stay," Kylie tells him as she walks over towards the autobot. Waldorf tilts his head to the side, but still sits down beside Sari.
"Alright! Lets go!" Bumblebee says to Kylie. Both bots take off running. Only...
"Hey!" Sari shouts out to them pointing the opposite way, "North is that way!"
Next thing they see is the two running right past them, this time heading north. "I knew that!" Bumblebee fibs as they run by. Once they reach an area with less trees, they transform and drive off.
As they drive at full speed, Bumblebee glances over and asks. "So, you gonna tell me now why you're out here?"
"Seriously?! Now?!" she asks in disbelief.
"We still have a ways to go."
She lets out a vent. "I can't tell you a lot, but... we've been living here. There's a cave a little ways away we've been hiding out in, though we've only been here since yesterday."
"Where did you come from?" Bumblebee asks.
"I can't tell you," she says.
"Why?" he asks.
"I just can't."
"Okay," he says confusingly, "so why did you have that fragment?"
She doesn't want to tell him a lot, so she just says, "because it would have helped us get back home."
He looks at her weird. "Then why not ask us for help? Or is that something you also can't tell me?"
"Sorry," she apologize.
Bumblebee lets out a vent as they keep driving. "Well anyway, I'm Bumblebee."
"Kylie," she responds.
The yellow car thinks for a moment. "No offence, but what kind of a name is Kylie?"
"Says the bot named Bumblebee," she points out.
"I happen to like my name, thank you very much," Bumblebee says in defence, "it's just that yours is... different."
"I'm sorry, but can we please focus on trying to help my friend?" Kylie asks him.
As much as he wants to know more about her, he decides to drop it as he apologizes. "Right, sorry." He tries searching on his scanners for any cybertonian signatures. "I'm not picking up any signatures anywhere. That's not a good thing."
"Signatures?" Kylie asks in confusion.
"You know, spark signatures," Bumblebee says, thinking she should know what it is. "Every Cybertronian has one. We can use them to track each other. How do you not know that? Did you recently come off the assembly line or something?"
"Assembly line?"
"Seriously?!" he asks in disbelief.
Kylie remembers something. "Wait, that decepticon mentioned something about our signatures back at the scrapyard. He said he couldn't detect Jacy's, even though she was standing right in front of him."
"Is she wearing a dampener?" Bumblebee asks.
"A what?"
"Never mind," he says, "at least that means there's a chance she's still online. Problem is it will make it harder for us to find her. The Decepticons have dampeners or something of their own so I won't be able to find Blitzw- Whoa!" Both he and Kylie screech to a halt before driving into a fallen tree.
Before them is a huge path of other broken trees and huge tracks that look like they were made by a tank.
"Prowl would have a fit if he saw this," Bumblebee comments.
Kylie looks closely, seeing another set of tracks in the dirt. "Those tire tracks, they must be Jacy's."
"At least we now have a trail," the autobot says as they take off down the path.
"I just hope Jacy's okay," Kylie says worryingly.
"Don't worry," he assures her, "your friend seems like a tough bot. I'm sure she'll be able to hold him off until we get to them."
(Jacy's POV)
Scrap, I'm gonna die!
I hold my arms up in front of my face as Blitzwing aims his cannons at me. I wait for the blast to hit as I shut my optics tight.
To my surprise, I hear his face swap. "Vhy don't jou fly avay?"
Lowering my arms, I open my optics. His cannons are now raised back up over his shoulders with his icy personality in control as he looks at me curiously.
"Jou can easily fly off to get avay, and yet jou're still here vaiting for me to blast jou," he says.
I keep quiet, not sure what to do.
"Jou don't know how to fly, do jou?"
"Look, I'm sorry for breaking in-" I begin to say, only to flinch when he aims his cannons back at me.
"Quiet, traitor!" his hothead personality snaps at me.
I start shaking. "I'm not a traitor!" I exclaim, "I never was a Decepticon!"
He switches back to his icy personality as he approaches me. "Jou are a flyer, meaning jou have zhe shell of a Decepticon. Not to mention, triple changers come from Decepticon technology. Vith zhat evidence, zhat makes jou a traitor to jour own kind."
"How do you know I didn't start off as a flyer?" I point out, "how do you know I wasn't a prisoner and was forced into becoming a triple changer?"
"Vere jou?"
"...Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuh," I falter, definitely not wanting to tell him I've only been a bot for a day and a half.
"I zhought so," he says, "So I suggest jou make it easy for jourself and hand over zhe professor."
I gulp. "What professor?" I ask, trying to play dumb.
Next thing I know, his servo reaches out and wraps around my neck, lifting me up in the air. I choke as I try prying it off, effortlessly kicking the air.
"Hand zhe organic over, or I vill zhrow jou over zhis cliff!" his hothead personality threatens.
"H-He's not here!" I tell him as I fearfully try to get him to let go.
"Zhen vhere is he?!" he asks angrily as he now holds me over the cliff.
"Y-you don't scare me," I tell him as I try to sound brave, though the shakiness in my voice isn't helping.
He switches back to his icy personality and smirks at me. "Are jou sure about zhat?" Next thing I know, he lets go. I shriek as I fall, only for him to grab my wrist with his other servo. I grunt from the strain now in my shoulder as he holds me up.
"Just kidding! Ahahaha!" his random personality laughs as he flings me away from the edge. I skid to the ground before looking back up at Blitzwing. My body Is shaking, no matter how hard I try to stop.
He switches to his icy personality. "Jou scare very easily." he says, walking towards me. "I almost pity jou." He then switches back to his random one. "But it's so funny zhe vay jou shriek!"
Not wanting to give him the satisfaction, I frown as I stand back up. I still feel shaky as I keep my frown on him.
A look of amusement spreads across his face as he stops in front of me, "Oooh! Look vho's trying to be all tough and serious now! How cute!"
I'm annoyed by this, feeling all my anxiety reaching a very high point. "Just leave me alone."
His head spins back to his icy face. "Zhat unfortunately cannot happen," he says, "I have orders to bring jou to Megatron for judgement. But first, tell me vhere zhe human professor is."
I try my best to push down my anxiety. "No," I say in a shaky voice.
He switches back to his random personality. "Better tell me, or I'll make jou shriek again! Ahahaha!"
I feel my annoyance level rising as he laughs. "Just stop," I mumble.
"Sorry, vhat vas zhat?!" he asks with his hand to his audio receptor as if to hear better. "I can't hear jou over jour trembling!"
I finally snap. "Shut up!" I yell at him angrily. "Yes, I'm scared, but who wouldn't be?! I'm at the point where I don't know what the heck to do anymore, and am now acting out of desperation! All I just wanted to do was to find two stinking fragments! That's it! TWO! And so far today has been a heck of a day, and the last thing I need is someone making fun of how scared I am! So BACK OFF!"
I release a vent as I finally calm down a little, only to notice his random face is now looking at me with wide optics, his jagged mouth no longer in a smile as he stares at me in shock.
I think I just scared him a little.
Immediately I regret what I just said as his head spins to his hothead face.
"How dare jou speak to me like zhat!" he exclaims, "I should offline jou here and now!" He pulls back his fist, making me prepare myself for the blow.
"Wait!"
Both of us look over to see where the voice came from. A flyer soon lands down right beside us. A femme flyer. I want to say it's Slipstream, but she looks way different. I've never seen this character before on the show.
Wait, is this the new one Sumdac mentioned back at the mine? What did he say her name was again? Airborne? Airstream? Airhead?... well, maybe not Airhead.
"You really need to control that temper of yours, Blitzwing," the femme says, walking towards us. "Megatron did order us to capture her after all. Pretty sure that means intact as well."
Blitzwing grumbles to himself as she approaches me, looking me over.
"So you're the new triple changer they've been talking about," the femme says with a smile, "sorry about my comrade here. I think he's just intrigued by the fact you're just like him." I notice the scowl Blitzwing gives her as she continues, "though I must say, I'm quite curious myself. I didn't know Blackarachnia made another triple changer. Or did someone else rebuild you this way?"
Not sure what to say, I tell her the truth. "N-neither. I just ended up being like this."
Both give me a weird look.
"Are you saying, you're a ...natural triple changer?" the femme asks me.
I shrug. "I guess."
Both of their optics go big.
"Zhat shouldn't be possible," Blitzwing says, his icy personality in control, "zhere is no such zhing. Jou obviously are lying."
"Oh come now," the femme says to him with a smile, her surprised look fully gone, "I'm sure the idea originated from somewhere. Though I've never heard of a natural triple changer before. This is really interesting." She notices the weirded out expression on my face and lets out a chuckle. "Oops! Guess I should introduce myself. I'm Airstrike." She gestures towards Blitzwing. "You've already met Blitzwing. Might I ask who you are?"
I keep quiet, not wanting to give them my name.
Blitzwing's helm spins around to his hothead face. "Vill jou tell us, or do I have to beat it out of jou?!"
Airstrike shoots him a glare. "Haven't you scared her enough today? If she doesn't want to give us her name, it's fine. We're not going to force her."
I don't like this. Its bugging me on how calm she's talking like it's some normal meet and greet.
She turns to look at me, a more serious look on her face. "Though what's this I'm hearing about you breaking into our base?"
I let out a shaky vent, "I just wanted two fragments," I say truthfully.
She looks at me curiously. "Why's that?"
"I need them," I say, refusing to say more.
"Well," she says, her smile back on, "why didn't you just say so?"
... Say what?
"Huh?" both Blitzwing and I say in unison as we give her a weird look.
"If two is all you need, then we can gladly give you some of ours," she says.
"Are jou crazy?!" Blitzwing angrily exclaims at her. "Megatron vould...!"
"Would be willing to give up just a couple of fragments to help a poor individual," she finishes.
He switches to his icy personality. "But our orders are to bring her to him."
"But that was only because we thought she was a threat," she says to him, "does she look like a threat to you? I believe once our leader realizes this is all a big misunderstanding, he'll surely allow us to help her." She looks back at me. "It's the least we can do."
A part of me wants to believe her, but that Decepticon emblem on her is telling me otherwise. I have a funny feeling there's a catch coming up.
"We only ask for one thing in return," she says.
And here's the catch.
"We need you to tell us where Professor Sumdac is. You see, we need him back so he can help us with a special project we're working on," she explains.
I remember the scared, tired look on the professor's face when I found him. I know I messed up the timeline by freeing him, but I can't just tell them where he is. It's not right. Also what if he found Kylie already? I won't let them find both of them.
"No," I tell Airstrike.
"No?" she asks me, a look of confusion on her face. "Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't you say a while ago you were desperate? I mean, it's only one human."
"And what happens to him when your project is complete?" I ask, frowning at her.
"Then he gets to go back to his family," she assures, "do understand, we don't like the idea of holding him against his will in order to achieve our goal, but I can assure you he will be under great care and will be released just as soon as we finish." She gives an assuring smile as she extends her servo out to me. "So, what do you say? Two fragments for our professor?"
I look at her servo before looking back at her and Blitzwing. No doubt I want those fragments. I want to get me and Kylie home soon as possible where it's safe.
I look back Airstrike, letting out a vent. "You are right on one thing. I did say I was desperate." I say. But instead of shaking her servo, I shake my helm, "But I'm not that desperate."
I watch as her smile disappears as she lowers her arm back down to her side. "I see," she says calmly.
Her expression suddenly changes to a look of malice as I get knocked to the ground, making me gasp in surprise. Next thing I know, a pede slams down on my chest, making me release a painful grunt.
"Too bad," she says, an evil looking smirk now on her face, "however, it's not like we don't know where he's heading. In the mean time, you're coming with us."
ZAP!
An electrical current hits her on the side, causing her to flinch as she turns around. I turn my head over and gasp when I see Bumblebee with his stingers out and... and Kylie?!
"This is your plan?!" Kylie exclaims at the yellow bot.
"You have a better one?" Bumblebee argues.
What is she doing here?! Wait, why is Bumblebee here?!
Airstrike frowns as a compartment in her arm opens, revealing a blaster. She immediately fires at them along with Blitzwing as both smaller bots jump out of the way, trying not to get shot by either con. I feel the pede on me lighten as she focuses on the two. Quickly, I shove it off, making her stumble back as I scramble to my feet.
She regains her balance and chuckles at me. "You'll only make things worse for yourself," she says.
Remembering the weird blasts I unleashed at the scrapyard and the mine, I rapidly extend my arm out at her, servo spread out as I wait for a blast to shoot out.
... still waiting...
... And now this just got awkward.
She gives me a weird look. "What are you doing?"
Sheepishly, I lower my arm, "I was actually hoping something would happen," I say pathetically. I don't get it. How did I do it before?
Rolling her optics, she aims her blaster at me.
"Hey!"
We look over to see Kylie standing there, frowning at Airstrike. "Leave my friend alone!"
Airstrike lifts an optic ridge at her. "Or what?" she taunts.
Kylie keeps her frown on as she points at her, "I... am still working on that part!"
Oh for Pete's sake, Kylie!
Airstrike lets out a chuckle. "How pathetic," she says.
While she's distracted, I tackle her to the ground, only for the flyer to flip over and pin me to the ground instead. I fearfully try to push her off, but the way she's holding me down makes it hard for me to move.
"They were right," Airstrike says with a smirk, "you are no fighter."
Kylie jumps up and grabs her from behind. "Get off of her!" she shouts angrily at the con.
Without even a struggle, the flyer reaches over, grabs Kylie, and throws her towards the cliff edge. I fearfully watch, thankfully seeing her stop a little ways away from falling off. I look back at Airstrike, still pinning me down. "Do you always hang around such a weak bunch?" she asks before pulling her fist back, only for Bumblebee to jump over towards us.
"Over here, Flamehead!" Bumblebee shouts.
Next thing we know, heat blasts are fired at us as Blitzwing tries to hit Bumblebee, causing Airstrike to jump off me and take cover on the ground. Taking a risk, I inch my way towards Kylie while trying not to get hit.
"Watch where you're shooting!" I hear Airstrike snap at Blitzwing.
"I'm not aiming for jou!" he argues, his hothead personality in control as he continues firing.
I shriek as a blast hits in front of me, making me stop in place.
"Jacy!" Kylie shouts. I look to see her trying to make her way towards me, only for her to fearfully stop in place. I look behind me, seeing Blitzwing looking at my friend. Turning around, he aims his cannons at her.
"No!" I shout as I get up and jump between the two, just as Blitzwing fires multiple times.
Everything happened so fast as I soon find myself flying backwards, a burning pain in my chest as I tumble onto my back. I feel like I can't move as Kylie kneels down, fear in her optics as she looks back down at me. She's shouting something at me, but I can't make out what she's saying. Am I in shock?
I feel the ground move for a second as I look over, seeing how close we are to the cliff's edge as the rock floor starts cracking right underneath us. Before I can even blink, the ground disappears from beneath me. I feel myself falling, but I can't scream. As I fall, I look up and see Kylie falling right above me, a look of terror on her face as she tries to grab hold of me.
Then everything goes black.
OH NO! Do the girls survive the fall? Will Jacy be okay? Will Bumblebee be able to fight off the two cons on his own? Find out on the next chapter... which I still have to type up lol.
Also, if I accidently make a character OOC, please let me know so I can fix it. Thanks!
Hopefully I will update soon. In the mean time, take care everyone and don't forget to check out my other story. God bless!