Chapter 7

I ran as fast as I could, my right hand always on my pocket with Redial in phone mode inside it. As I went I saw a lot of damage from the fighting and heard shots not too far off. I side stepped away from a man running with his pants on fire (literally) shouting to drop and roll then turned a corner.

"Oh snap!" I stop short and watch as Bumblebee, now tied onto the back of a tow truck, was riding and shot a big con. With his help the soldiers were able to get him. His body fell into a store with a loud boom. I clap, not expecting to be heard, and keep running. And then, my ankle suddenly started hurting and I grumble annoyed. ~Always when I have to run. Dang ankle.~ I think. Not paying attention I almost fall on a lady in a dress when the ground shakes.

"Oh sorry! Wow, I love your dress!" I complement her. The dress was just my kind of blue and I'd love to have one just like it. The lady smiles and runs off. I wave and start run-skipping to the area that shaking came from. A quick thought runs through my head.

~How on earth was the dress so clean but her skin and hair so dirty?~

I ran for two minutes and ended up in, I think, the main street of Mission City. It, like everywhere else, is pretty smashed. I slow down when my eyes immediately notice two LARGE transformers lying on the ground. Curious I stop behind a Moped to watch from a safe distance. I crouch down and peek around the side, quickly recognizing Megatron, and I guess the other is Optimus Prime.

"Can you hear what their saying, Re?" I ask in a low voice. I let her out and she transforms. She shakes her head. "No mommy, sorry mommy." I smile and gently rub her head with a finger. "It's o-" I started to say but I was cut off with the two getting up.

"It's you and me Megatron."

"No it's just me Prime."

"At the end of this day, one shall stand and one shall fall."

"You still fight for the weak! That is why you lose!" Megatron yelled as he and Optimus started a boss battle. I didn't even think about it; I just started following the two as they beat the snot out of each other. I had to stop every time they took a big step or threw one another.

Redial suddenly pulled on my thumb clicking loudly and I turn to look down the street. A big con with helicopter propellers was turning around and shooting at solders. I grab my guns-after Redial climbed up my arm-and start shooting. It turns to me and in a panic of ~What the heck am I doing oh man it's looking at me!~ I aim for one of the two things you should always aim at; the eyes.

I shot right, left, right and the con roared in pain, grabbing its shattered right eye. I stop shooting when the fighter jets shot at it, and I watch as Captain Lennox slides under it, shooting and screaming like a mad man. The con falls and I fist pump. "Yes! Oh yeah, the boss battle!"

I turn and run up the street and stop behind a news stand across Optimus. I slip the guns pack in my pockets and duck down as Megatron is shot at and I hold Re to my chest. Megatron falls somehow growling and I almost fall. The shots stop and Megatron starts talking sounding a bit crazy-mad to me.

"I'll kill you! Mine! Allspark!"

"Sam! Put the Cube in my chest now! Sam! No Sam!"

I stand up to see better and just catch Sam stand under Megatron and throw something up into his chest. I watch shocked as whatever it is flies up in pieces and
Megatron growls, groans and makes sounds like he's gargling. Then he falls on his back, silent.

I stare with my mouth open. "He…he's dead. Sam killed Megatron. Sam Killed Megatron!" I smile. "Well what do you know about that?"

Redial jumps around on my hand clicking and whatnot happily. I walk around the news stand and wince. My shoulder for some reason smarts. I rub it and the pain goes away. Ratchet and the black Autobot, Ironhide if I remember right, walk over, the black one holding Jazz in his arms. I smile relieved when I see his visor is on and he's smiling.

Mikaela walks out of the tow truck with Bumblebee on it and smiles at me and Sam. I walk over to her as Ironhide walks to Optimus. "Idiot got ripped in half but he'll live." He said putting him on a large flatbed conveniently there. Optimus chuckled.

"That's good to hear."

Jazz smirks and then notices me. He points at me. "It's most'y thanks to her. She shot somethang into Megapunks' optic and saved mah hide. Closed most of mah Energon lines too." He explains. I smile bashfully pulling my ear as everyone looked at me. "It was nothing." I say shyly.

There was some chuckling then Optimus spoke. "We are thankful to you all. We have gained new comrades and you honor us with your bravery."

I jump when a new voice speaks. I turn to Bumblebee to see his, I think, mouth move. "Permission to speak, sir?"

"Permission granted old friend."

"You speak now?" Sam asks. A bit unnecessarily if you ask me.

"I wish to stay with the boy." Bumblebee says. I blink then turn to Optimus. "If that is his choice."

Sam looks at Optimus then at Bumblebee. "Yes." Bumblebee I think smiles (man their faces are hard to read) at Sam. I look at Optimus as he leans down to Megatrons body and pulls something out of his chest. He looks at it then wraps it in a fist.

I look around at the city. So many buildings wreaked, the road totaled, cars smushed… "Dang this city is a mess." I say out loud without meaning too. Captain Lennox nods to me. "We'll have to close off the city. Though how we'll do that is a mystery."

Epps pats him on the back. "Ah we'll figure it out. Now who's got something we can use to call the pentagon if the communications are working again?"

"I do." I say holding up a hand. I pull out my Blackberry from my jacket pocket and turn it on. I smile. "Full bars." I toss it to Epps and he starts calling. That's when I remember something.

"Shoot! I totally forgot about the others!" I say hitting my head. "Redial, give them the call please." Redial nodded quickly then transformed into a phone. Her screen lights up.

"'Others'? What others?"

I look up to see Optimus Prime looking at me again. Ratchet was checking on Jazz and Ironhide was talking to Captain Lennox. I suddenly feel nervous again and I twirl some hair with a finger. "Well, you see-" I cut myself off when I hear a car horn honk behind me. I spin around to see the car from before. It opens its doors and the vending machine and X-Box bots climb out.

"Those others." I finish then jump when pretty much everyone pulls out their weapons. I wave my arms panicking. "Wait! Their friendlies or whatever the term is," I rush to them to prove it. The three are tense but don't do anything but stay still, thankfully. I put a hand on the cars' hood. "See? Friendly. He didn't cut my arm off or blow me to ribbons when I touched him."

"How ya know he's a he?" Jazz asks as everyone relaxes. I shrug. "The voice coming through the radio?" I turn to the car and have a thought. "Hey, how'd you get here so fast?"

"We…were…five minutes…away…from here." The car answers. My mouth drops for a sec then I face palm myself. "Dude, when I said 'to hide', I mean away from the fighting. Like out of the city hide."

The car does what I guess is supposed to be a shrug. "Well you…should…have said that." I stick my tongue at him and lightly kick the tire. "Smart alike."

"How do you do that?"

I turn and suddenly feel small. Everyone is looking at me funny or smiling or est. It was Sam who asked.

"Do what?"

Sam waves his arms around. "Be so cool and calm with everything! You haven't freaked out once but you're surrounded by giant robots and were in a battle and yet you're talking to that car like he's your best friend." He explains sounding lost and exasperated. "How can you do that?"

~Huh, he's right.~ I think suddenly realizing it. I never panicked really or anything. I just acted like this was semi normal for me, even though this most certainly is not. The one time I freaked out was when I was kidnapped. I shrug after thinking for a bit. "I don't know. I guess I'm just one of those people. Like a Doctor Who companion."

Mikaela says ooohhh and nods. "I get it. You're just good at taking things as they come. Like that Dona Noble woman."

I nod smiling. Thank goodness she watches Doctor Who and understands. "Yeah but I'm not using British words angrily and yelling at everyone." I giggle. I turn back to the car and the other two. "And I have 6 little siblings, two best friends and a goofy weird family in general. I know how to react to jokesters like this guy and craziness in general." Insert play kick to tire.

That made everyone chill and I turned to the car as everyone talked about the reinforcements coming. "Hey, do you have a name yet?" I ask him then glance at the other two as well. There was a silence then they shook their heads. I face palm myself then look up at the sky thinking. "Hmm…how about, at least for right now, you can be Scattershot, vendy can be Shockshot and X-y can be…Cyber?"

The looks and sounds they gave me, I admit, were well deserved. "Well then how about Pathfinder, or Statik for you," I say pointing at the car. Then to the vending machine one. "Dew-bot or Launcher or Lowtech for you." Then lastly to the X-box. "And for you: Xtrana, Havoc or Spider-white. You three pick because that's all I got."

They looked at each other and I walked off a little to let them think. Redial transformed and tilted her little head. "Mommy? Where names come from?" she asked as I sat on a bench. I shrug and brush my hair back. "Just off the top of my head I guess."

After that not much happened. Well, nothing really major, like another robo battle. Just backup solders arriving to help clean up-the hackers and the Defense guy coming with them, they closed off the city, the wounded were taken care of and at last I was given what I wanted.

To go home. And I went back with some friends… ;)

-1 Week later in Tranquility.-

"Hurry up! We're going to…be late!"

I open the door, slip on my hat, walk out of the house and close the door in one smooth motion. "No need to yell!" I yell back at my ride. I wave at the house as I slip into the passenger seat of the big black car. "There, happy?" I joke as a young man appeared in the drivers' seat. He glared at me as the car backed out of the driveway.

"Must you be so…slow?" he asked with a little static in-between. "Must you talk like that?" I counter. He opens his mouth, and then closes it. "Touché." "Epée." I reply. "Kool-a-I'm not getting started with this again." Path says deadpanned and I laugh.

As we quickly drive up to the park peak, Pathfinder and I talked. Pathfinder is my 'temporary guardian' and has been since Mission City. The Autobots said it would be better for me to have someone watching me for safety. Though I still don't see why other than me shooting Megs and that copter bot in the eyes might have caught some attention. But hey, dead men tell no tales. So I'm not really worried.

Bumblebee went to stay with Sam and had called Statik, my nickname for him, a little while ago inviting us to the park peak. The ride isn't long from my house and soon Statik parks to the left of Optimus Prime. I climb out and climb onto Pathfinders' roof and sat there. Optimus and I nod greet each other and I relax. The sun slowly goes down and the scene is beautiful.

I glance over at Sam and Mikaela, who had decided to instead smooch on Bees' hood. ~Ooo I hope he said he's fine with that.~ I giggle and turn away as their kiss got deeper. Then Optimus started the message.

"With the All Spark gone, we cannot return life to our planet. And fate has revealed its reward, a new world to call home. We live among its people now, hiding in plain sight, but watching over them in secret, waiting, protecting. I have witnessed their capacity for courage. And though we are worlds apart, like us, there's more to them than meets the eye. I am Optimus Prime. And I send this message to any surviving Autobots taking refuge among the stars.

We are here. We are waiting."

WT

Ok! I'm finally finished with this chapter! Man it fought me a lot. And my normal life didn't help much at all. I'm sorry the end is lame but I couldn't think of anything else.

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