Hey y'all. sorry this took so long, i struggled a bit to write this chapter then IW came out and I've had to decompress from that a bit. so...yeah. Important AN at the bottom.

Shout Outs!:

Cashagon

I know, i do too! but no worries, we'll have a fair deal of loki here ;] get more involvement of him in this chapter :)

Victoria1676

Thank you so much!

Guest

I'm going to ask one more time make a gargoyle fanfic season 2

Don't worry it's coming out

After chapter 8

Raf stirred early that morning but still didn't wake up; Jemina, however, woke up with the sun. That morning Loki found her sitting outside on the roof, watching the sunrise. He joined her and said nothing for several long minutes. "Do you remember what happened last night?"

Jemina shrugged, "A nightmare."

"Do you remember using your powers?"

She shook her head as she frowned, "I didn't hurt anyone, did I?"

He shook his head, "No, other than giving your brother a fright."

Jemina coughed a laugh, "I guess it could have been worse."

He nodded, "Indeed. Do you remember what your nightmare was about?"

Her eyes glazed over as she stared at the purple and pink sky, "Sort of. It was about Raf and the attack." She paused like she was remembering more, "There was pain, more pain than a nightmare could produce, but like a memory's pain."

He frowned in thought before Miko came running out, "Jemina, Raf's awake!"

She jumped down, landing in her Cybertronian form, and ran inside to find Raf laying groggily on the gurney. "Raf! How're you feelin'?"

He shook a bit as June checked his head wound, "Alright, I'm alive at least. Where's Tony?"

Natasha stood next to his bed, "We're still looking. Is there anything you remember about were Tony would go or what he'd planned to do?"

Raf shook his head sadly.

Steve sat on the bed, "Can you at least tell us what happened?"

"Tony just got back from visiting Happy at the hospital and when he came back Pepper was packing up saying we needed to leave after Tony gave a terrorist group his address."

Natasha frowned, "Sounds like Tony."

Raf continued, "Then while they were arguing they attacked. I tried to get out but got trapped by a beam."

Jemina's brows creased as she frowned, hugging an arm to her side. Bruce saw her change, "Jemina, are you alright?"

She shook her head, "Yeah, I'm fine…"

"Wait!" Raff yelled, attempting to get out of bed only to stop with a hiss as his leg throbbed and June gently push him back down, "I-I remember Tony saying something about Tennessee. There was some kind of explosion or something there he thinks is related to the, uh, Mangerine-"

"Mandarin." Clint offered.

"Yeah, that." He looked hopefully at Steve and the others.

Bruce smiled at him, "Don't worry Raf," he gestured to Natasha and Clint, "they'll head over to SHIELD and start scouring through Tennessee for him. I'm going to stop by the Tower and see if Jarvis has anything."

Thor beamed, "And Steve and I shall remain here to keep you company. I'm sure we can regale some old war stories?"

Steve laughed quietly, "Yeah, I guess we can."

Loki paled, "Please spare him."

Thor looked at him with a hurt face, "Most find them highly entertaining!"

Raf laughed softly, "It's ok, I won't mind."

"Splendid!"

After they left Jemina leaned against the railing, looking at the screen Ratchet was working on before suddenly asking, "Uh…who's tellin' Bee about this."

Miko touched her figure to her nose, "Not it."

Ratchet stopped his work, face expressionless, Jemina was sure if he could've, he would've paled.

Raf pipped up, "I can, over a vid chat or something."

Jayce beamed as he ran over to Raf's bed, waving a controller in the air, "Wanna race cars?"

He grabbed for the yellow controller, "I call Bee!"

Jayce climbed onto the bed as they started, Aja chasing the little cars as they went, yipping whenever one got close making Raf and Jayce laugh.

Jemina watched them before rubbing her temple. Optimus noticed and frowned, "Is everything alright?"

She looked at him and nodded, "Yeah, I'm fine, just got a headache."

"Do you get them often?" He asked, concern lasing his voice.

She shrugged, "They aren't uncommon."

He nodded before offering her his hand and lifting her to his shoulder pad. "Is there something troubling you?"

"Besides the fact that Tony's missing, no."

"You wouldn't happen to know where he is?"

She shook her head, "Tennessee sounds right but, no, not really. Though I think he'll be fine."

"You think?"

She sighed, "If everything stays the same, which is slightly questionable now that stuff has changed but…I'm pretty sure he'll make it out alive and in, decent health at least."

Optimus nodded and turned to where Thor was retelling a battle from Vanaheim to Raf and Jayce who were both fully engaged in the story while Steve listened on, eyebrow raised in borderline disbelief—only believing it because he's seen what Thor can do.

Jemina leaned against the railing and was half listening to Thor and to Miko and Jack who were debating about which Star Wars movie was better, Miko fighting for The Force Awakens while Jack was saying that Return of the Jedi was best, while the Attack of the Clones was playing on the TV—mainly as background noise.

Loki watched the movie for about ten minutes before losing all interest, shaking his head. Jack smirked, "Defiantly not one of the better ones."

"That's for sure." Miko agreed before she paused, "Hey, Cap hasn't seen these yet, why isn't he up here?"

Jemina laughed, "Because he's too infatuated with Thor's story."

They glanced over the railing to see Steve, who wore a mild look of horror at something Thor just said. Loki nodded, "Yes, he will never hear anything like it ever again."

Miko snickered, "Well, if this was one of the good ones maybe I'd call him up. But...it looks like he's having too much fun."

Loki grinned, "I like you."

"Yer not bad yourself, Reindeer games."

"I take it back."

Suddenly the TV stopped and the broken TV look came up but with several interlinking circles with some kind of runes, symbols or writing in them and two x'ing swords in the center of it all.

"What the-" Miko complained.

The screen changed to bombs and people dying, Steve instantly moving to cover Jayce's eyes when it changed again, to a Middle Eastern looking man. "Mr. President, only two lessons remain and I intend to finish this before Christmas morning. Meet Thomas Richards. Good strong name, good strong job. Thomas here is an accountant for the Roskon Oil Corporation, and I'm sure he's a really good guy."

Optimus frowned as he saw the scene play out, "Miko, is this one of your movies?"

She shook her head, eyes wide.

"-in the head, live on your television in thirty seconds. Number for this telephone," he pointed to the phone sitting next to him, "is in your cellphone. Exciting isn't it, imagine how it got there? America, if your president calls me in the next half-minute, Tom lives. Go."

Optimus nearly growled, "Who is that?"

Jack answered, "The Mandarin. He came on yesterday too, not long before the attack-" he stopped as the phone on the TV rang.

The Mandarin looked at the camera and leaned over, shooting Thomas in the head.

Miko broke, "That FRAGGER! That aft sucking-"

"MIKO." Optimus boomed, disapprovement blatant in his optics.

Miko shrunk under his gaze, shoulders hunched in and eyes wide.

After a moment, to fully let the effect set in, the Mandarin spoke again, "There's only one lesson left President Elise, so runaway, hide, kiss your children goodbye because nothin', not your army, not your red-white-and-blue attack dog can save you. I'll see you soon." The image suddenly cut back to the broken screen and circles for a minute before it went back to the normal TV station.

Raf trembled on the cot while Jack held him, Optimus continued to glare at the TV for another minute before turning his attention away. Thor was visibly pale, "Well that was-"

"My thoughts." Jack nodded.

Jemina sighed as she walked down the platform and to the training room, the noises from Steve as he quickly decided to tell Raf and Jayce about one of his 'trips' during the war—faded out.

The room was silent as the lights blinked on, a low humming trying to drown out her breath. She turned when she felt Loki appear in the room, "Didn't want to hear one of Steve's escapades?"

Loki frowned distastefully, "Preferably not. Who were you planning to spar with?"

She shrugged, "No one I suppose, just practice my abilities since I really can't on Cybertron."

"Then may I offer my assistance?"

She smiled, "Sure."

They both moved into a fighting position, neither one moving for the longest minute before Jemina suddenly twirled out of the way as Loki appeared next to where she had been. He lashed out with a dagger as she raised a shield before throwing a subsonic wave his way. He shielded himself with a spell as he threw out several smaller spell-shots at her. Jemina either dodged or shielded herself from them and released a bolt of energy followed quickly by several waves of subsonics trapping Loki and nicking him in the arm before he teleported again.

He reappeared behind her and she in turn vanished while unleashing another bolt of energy to which he respectively dodged then disappeared. The spar continued for several minutes in a similar fashion, both playing the disappearing act even though the other could read their movements through abilities or magic.

At some point during the fight, Jemina had pulled out her bow and used it as well when Loki got to close—using it more as a blunt weapon/shield than a true bow before firing an arrow to drive him away. Only a few minutes later did Jemina end up thrown on her back with Loki standing over her, dagger to her chest.

"You did well, lasted longer than our last fight."

She smirked, "You aren't exactly getting out of this pain free either."

Loki's eyes widened as he felt a slight poke in his back were Jemina held an arrow between a crack in his armor. He retracted his arm and sheathed the dagger as he offered her a hand up. "I must say I didn't expect that of you."

"What, we fought like, once? No twice. Both times I was pretty much just trying to run so…" She shrugged, "Kinda surprised myself too."

He frowned, "Yes…we should do back to the main room to see if they've found anything on Stark."

"Yeah, I wanna see how Raf's doing"

Loki eyed Jemina curiously, "Jemina, do you remember what you dreamed about last night?"

"Just an imagining about what happened to Raf during the attack." She said softly, "It's really nothing."

"Maybe."

They entered the main room to find everyone glued to the TV as a newsman talked about a recent terrorist attack while footage played in the background. As she neared the top she saw Iron Man catch several falling people, slowing them enough so he could safely drop them in the water.

Natasha's voice came over the comm. system after the clip stopped playing, "Just before the attack Tony called the Vice President, warning them about the attack."

"He obviously didn't call in time." Steve thought aloud.

Clint voice broke through, "Actually, he did. Ten minutes before take-off."

Bruce rubbed his eyes, "So what are you saying, the VP has a hand in this?"

"We're checking into that now." Natasha answered.

Steve nodded, "Keep us updated."

The connection ended but the room remained silent.

Aliena sat against Optimus as he worked on decoding the Iacon file and watched Jayce and Jack play around. Jayce was holding a cardboard sword with a pirate hat while Jack was sporting a 'Phaser' which was actually just a stand for one of Jayce's other toys but looked close enough so… Jayce squealed as Jack suddenly caught him, crying out about something with extra lives and still has two left while Jack carried him up to the human area.

She shook her helm at her brother's antics.

The base was fairly quiet today, Miko and Raf were home while all the Avengers were out dealing with Tony and the Mandarin's mess. Raf was still shaken up over the ordeal and Tony was currently in a hospital for various injuries but both would be alright.

Aliena rested her helm on Optimus' shoulder, closing her optics and enjoying the peace. She had almost fallen into recharge when Optimus intaked sharply. "By the Allspark."

Her helm shot up to see the file finally decoded and her optics widened, "Oh. My…Gosh."

Now that I've left a cliffy :) on to important news.

I'll be working on the next instalment of my Gargoyles fic-I will be Your Everything next so i will hopefully post that next before another chapter her or in AWNWD

so, tots, great. See y'all in another story/chap :)