Chapter 24

Dad gave a sigh as I rested my head on his shoulder. We were sitting on his hood as we waited for the scouts to return with more lintel as well as Prime's orders. The surrounding area was a meadow with trees growing tall to reach the darkening sky above us. There was a slight chill in the humid air as I pulled my jacket closer around my body to keep my heat trapped in between the layers.

"Karen you okay?" he asked as he looked over the vegetation around us.

"I'm fine dad, just thinking about that woman," I replied, before giving Chormia a smile as she walked past.

"You talking about Sue?" he questioned. "She is a friend of your mothers as well as some others that you haven't met before. The attack on base was some of their people seeing how we would respond from an attack from their enemies."

"Hang on you're making sound as if their some secret agency," I said, holding my up hands to slow him down. "Dad who are these people really?"

"They are known as Black Hawks to the people that know them," he explained, as he activated a hologram to show me a bird like symbol with feather around it. "Your mother was one of them when we meet that night in November. She wasn't supposed to fall in love with me or have you. When you was born she was given a year before she had to return to the field. The night she left she promised that no matter how far or were she was, she would return to us when their prophecy is filled by four girls that can unite some family."

I stared at my father in awestruck before a cup of hot chocolate was placed into my hands. Looking down at the cream cup that hold the brownish liquid and the white fluffy marshmallows, and then up to meet Will's eyes as he leaned against dad's hood.

"Thought you two should know that Bee and the scouts are on their way back," Will told us. "You told Karen about the Hawks?"

"Yeah, she kind of meet Sue and I hate lying to her Will," Dad replied. "Karen sort out your boyfriend before I offline him."

I frowned before looking to the yellow Lamborghini twin as he pointed a servo at us, as he and Sides laughed about something. I have a sigh, before jumping off dad's hood and walked over to them. Sunny gave a smile as his hologram appeared to pull me into a hug. Sides pulled a face at me as he pulled me away from his twin so that I could receive a hug off him as well.

"I feel the love," I teased with a smirk. "So where are the scouts?"

"Talking to Prime, Elita and Prowl," Sides replied, as Sunny pinched me off him. "Oh I thought me and Karen would get along well."

I gave a laugh as he too laughed before the ground shook around us. Sunny tightened his hold on me as his servo scooped up me and his hologram. Placing his servo by his shoulder I grabbed the metal there and pulled myself up before his hologram deactivated when he saw that I was in a safe place that I wouldn't fall from.

"Optimus what's going on?" Will asked as he and some of Nest ran up to him.

"Provide fire cover so that the civilians can get out of here as well as try to not gain the local's attention," Optimus ordered, before his battle mask clanked over his faceplates. "Whatever this is, we will make our stand here."

Karen something is about to happen. Solus spoke. Listen to my orders and then ran to the mountain base that is on average 200m away from us to the left.

What's going on? I questioned as Sunny placed me on the ground as Mikaela ran up to me.

"Karen we are going to get as many tourists and locals away from this area as possible around the mountain," she told me, as we ran pass Jazz.

"Okay," I replied, grabbing my bag with the supplies they gave me for an emergency.

Mikaela received a slightly bigger bag that would have a communicator that we could use. My eyes flickered to the silver saboteur as he looked at Mikaela before looking away to listen to Prime. I than looked at Mikaela as she hid a blush that had settled over her cheeks.

"Keala tell him before you regret it," I told her. "You will never know if you don't try."

"Karen he has more important things to worry about than my feelings," Mikaela replied. "Now we should get going."

I nodded, as another blast kicked up some grass and mud that went flying everywhere and covered us as we ran to the shelter that the surrounding forest would give us. Hearing a growling sound I looked to the left to see the Decepticon panther Ravage as he ran after us.

"Thought Bee killed him," Mikaela grasped out, as we ran over a steam that would cover our scent.

"Soundwave must have fixed him or sent a clone that day," I replied, grabbing her hand, to hide behind a birch tree. "Stay quiet and don't move."

Mikaela nodded, before I grabbed a low hanging branch and pulled myself up the branches of the tree. Many had green moss covering them, veins that twisted and turned like thread work to hide the bark underneath. Keeping an eye on my footing and the sound of breath as I pulled myself up to reach branch that I could walk across. Grabbing a branch that would support my weight if I slipped, I made my way across the thick branch. Hearing the metal talons below me cut into the springy grassy ground below me, I clamped my mouth shut and pressed a side button on my necklace that would hide my heat radar as well as spark beat from the con.

Sending a ping to Bee for some help, I walked across again before grapping the branch tightly as my feet slipped, removing the slippery moss and it went pluming to the ground which made the con look up and start growling as I tried to pull myself up. Hearing the talons plunge themselves into the thick bark, I felt fear climb up me, before I managed to rest a foot on the branch before pulling another one up. Feeling the graze of the con I turned to face him. HIs single crimson optic glared at me, as his razor sharp teeth curled into a smirk as he saw that I wouldn't be going anywhere anytime soon.

"Mikaela run," I called to the girl below me. "Bee is coming find him, and go."

"What and leave you here, no way," she said back as Ravage's attention went towards her for a moment.

Ravage gave a growl, as I felt the branch give a creek under the extra weight that had been put on it. I felt Nexus and Liego give me a confidence boost as they used their presence to get me to climb to the branch below me, so that I could reach the leaf covered ground below. Ravage let out a roar as he galloped across the branch, which creek before snapping in half, causing the cat like con to fall to the ground below us. I gritted my teeth together, and grabbed the unbroken half and pulled myself up, before I felt my leg being caught into something sharp. Looking down, I saw Ravage as he bit down on my leg, making me close my eyes from the pain as I tried to ignore the way that his teeth was cutting down to my bone.

Karen hold on. Solus yelled as I felt some of the pain ease suddenly.

This is crazy. Prima said. Nexus Liego what were you two thinking?

Stop arguing and help me. I told them, trying to kick him off with my free leg.

"Release her at once!" a voice yelled in anger.

Looking to the sound, I saw Bee as he pointed his cannons at Ravage. Anger was clear in his turquoise eyes before he looked at me with worry and concern. Ravage growled, before I felt my hands slipping on the branch due to the pressure before I felt myself pluming to the ground below me. Bee ran forward, and caught me as Ravage let go and landed on his feet a couple of meters away from us. Bee clutched me close to his spark as he pointed a free cannon at the panther.

"You harmed her," Bee growled, using his real voice that sounded angrier than any of the music clips he could use. "What gave you the impression that you could harm my sister Decepticreep? I will tear you into pieces."

"Bee don't," I whispered, placing a hand over my bleeding leg.

The red hot liquid was running down my leg, leaving trails as it collected in a puddle on the servo Bee was holding me in. I pressed my hand against it, trying to ignore the white that was my bone due to how far Ravage had bit down. Bee looked at me in concern and worry as some of his anger left before it returned as he ran a scan over me.

"Karen you're hurt," he told me, still keeping a cannon pointing at Ravage. "Dad would have my empty shell if you get more hurt."

"Dad would have to deal with it, due to the fact I don't want my older brother thinking he has to get revenge every time I'm hurt Bee," I replied, trying to ignore the pain. "But could ya get Ratch because I believe that if he gets here and I haven't told him, it is duck and cover with a painful leg."

Bee gave a nod, before we heard four running footsteps running towards us. Bee's cannon heated up, before he let out the plasma blast which hit Ravage right in the spark.

"This time stay dead," Bee half growled as he kicked the dead con's body. "Keala where are you?"

"Calling Ratchet," Mikaela said as she came into view. "Karen you alright?"

"I have a leg that is flowing with blood which is covering my hand as well as Bee's. My bone is showing though which I don't like and I kinda want a shower and a nice bed which is back at base," I replied back, half sarcastically. "So no Keala I'm not okay. I wanna get back to base and sleep for a thousand years."

"That is not possible," Prowl said behind us as he and the others walked into the clearing. "What happened here Bumblebee?"

"Ravage attacked the girls," Bee replied, handing me to Ratchet who automatically started scanning me. "I just get here as he was using Karen's leg as a lee way to get back onto the branch and inflict more harm to her. I was too late as he hurt her."

"Bee it wasn't your fault," I yelled, looking at him. "Ravage came after us, and as I have more experience in avoiding that con, I did what any of us would do to protect our family. It wasn't your fault so stop blaming yourself as well as anyone that is about to."

They guys looked at me in shock before Optimus and Will entered the clearing me and Mikaela had run to. Will looked at me in slight concern before he looked at Ratchet as Optimus analyzed the dead body of Ravage.

"Bumblebee a word if you please," Optimus told the scout.

Bee gave a whir before he followed Optimus. My eyes flickered to Ratchet for some information of what happened. Air left Ratchet's vent before he explained to me what had happened.

"It seems that it wasn't the Black Hawks that attacked us but their enemy's which have teamed up with the cons," Ratchet explained. "Now this might sting."

I closed my eyes and gritted my teeth at the pain of the atheistic and his cold hologram fingers as they buried themselves into my leg, rubbing against the nerves as he cleaned my wound below and around the bone before his hand pulled out gently and started to clean around it. My eyes opened a bit to see the torn flash rigid and open around the round like a flower.

"Karen I am going to stitch this up and then give you some painkillers," Ratchet told me, as he get some needle and thread. "You won't be able to walk on this leg for a while, so it will be a wheelchair or clutches understood."

"Yeah go ahead," I replied, turning my face away from the now throbbing wound as Ratchet sewed my flesh back together.

Looking around the clearing, I noticed that my father wasn't there. I frowned before turning to Ratchet for an explanation.

"Your father is with the woman that is a colleague of Sue and your mother," Ratchet replied. "I believe her name is Melanie Tron."

"Tron as in she had half of Megsy's name?" I questioned as he finished.

Ratchet gave a nod, as he wrapped a bandage around the stitches so that it was covered before he placed two arms under my shoulders and pulled me up. I gave a wince as my leg hit the ground and pain shoot up my nerves at the extra weight my leg now had.

"Sorry," Ratchet said. "Sunstreaker get over here."

Looking up, I saw my boyfriend walk over and activate his hologram. His blue eyes were full of concern, before he wrapped an arm around my waist and then picked me up, and placed me on his hip, with my injured leg wrapped around his waist as well as my un-injured one as we where joined by Sides and Jazz. Jazz had his arms wrapped around Keala and I smiled as she looked at me before blushing.

"Nice look Jazza," I teased, holding onto Sunny's neck. "Do you think Prime will punish Bee?"

"Na, Optimus cares about ya as much as everyone else," Jazz comforted me. "He will just say Bee just have show better judgement."

I gave a nod, before I saw dad and the woman Ratchet had called Melanie walk towards us. Dad looked at me in conceren and worry as he appoarched us. He was talking to Melanie who was looking at me in wonder and a bit of something else. Melanie was dressed in a black leather jacker with purple thread for the arms, shoulders as well as a purple zip that was undone. Underneath was a silver top with some symbol on it as well as white and purple long sleeved top underneath it. Her nails from what I could see where painted red and silver and they reminded me of someone else's colour scheme but I couldn't remember who. Her emerald green eyes reminded me of my own as well as the one picture I had of my mother. Her wide curly hair was in a loose pony tail, with strands falling into her eyes. They stopped as they reached us and she looked at me with the same look as before.

"So this is my niece," she spoke at last, as she stood by my father. "My you look just like your mother. Did Sue tell you that as well?"

"Not like that," I replied truthfully. "Mind if I ask why you are here?"

"I'm here by a request of the High Council that the Nexdus doesn't like," Melanie replied. "You wouldn't know her as she doesn't come to this dimision much. Anyway my name is Melanie Tron or Scholes depending on which name you want to give me and I'm your auntie and your mother's twin sister. I haven't been around much due to watching over my own daughter and your two cousins that are somewhere else."

"Who are they?" I questioned, as Sunny looked between us.

"Their names I can't speak until you have meet them," she replied. "But they are three honest girls that are..."

She trailed off as a coldness traveled though the clearing. Dad moved closer to me and Sunny, before a spark went through each of the bots holograms and made them vanish into thin air. I landed on my butt, and had my injured leg underneath it, which flared with pain, before Melanie pulled me gently to my feet and produced a rifle from out of the black leather jacket she was wearing.

"Miss Banes hold onto Karen," Melanie ordered. "Looks like I can't explain this to you at all."

"Explain what?" I questioned, as Mikeala wrapped my arm around her shoulder to keep me steady.

"The properchy which I believe your father has mentioned earlier involoves you and your three cousins," Melanie replied. "The Nexdus known as Mytris is possibly in the one you will end up in. Karen whatever happens, tell my husband that everything will turn out fine in the end as the broken family is reunited to what it once was before it was crypted and changed for the worse."

"Who's your husband?" I asked, thinking if it was the con I was thinking of.

"My husband is the warlord and my daughter is called Crystal," Melanie replied, as she fired at the moving shadows around us.

The wind picked up, and whipped my hair around me face and so did Mikeala's before I felt a pull in my gut.

"Karen you have until the full moon of the fouth month of the year," she replied. "To get everything you know as well as the Prime's help. They choosed you for a reason now use that reason when you need it."

I blinked in confusion before a white portal appeared in front of us. Mikeala's grip tightened before I felt it slip and was sucked into the portal. All I could think was that whatever was coming I would find out the truth and that I would do what I must to unite my family as well as the ones that I have never meet before. Sending a pray to Primus, I felt my body hit a black wall before everything around me went dark.

The End

Right two down and two more to go until I get the main one up. Anyone guess what I'm doing yet? Anyway Somethings change has now come to an end and I would like to thank everyone who has read, reviewed, favouited and followed this story all the way from the start of and to now.

Karen: Yes finally a break for a while. By the way why was it Ravage that had to bit my leg off?"

Me: Because he wouldn't stop bugging me. Besides you and Scar have vaction now for a bit.

Karen: Speaking of Scar where is she?

Me: Went to the library. Why you ask?"

Karen: Wait she is on vaction and she is in the libary. What about the twins?

Me: Their father. Besides you have the new story line to learn. Go and do that as I sort out the other two as well as Maddie.

Maddie: (Poking her head in) Leave me out of this Chl. I think she will kick your butt.

Me: How did you get in here?

Maddie: Witch remember. Anyway just incase anyone sues you: Booknchoc doesn't own transformers and she never will. She only owns Karen and any other character that isn't in the movies. Now I'm off to learn my story line. Bye.

Me: (mutters) Stupid Witch. Anyway bye from the Bayverse Transformers. As well as from me.

Until all are one