Battle and Revival (Book 2)

Chapter 5

Nightwing's POV

I look towards the night sky and feel the cool night air. I look at the stars as I remember a lullaby that Zorya used to sing to me when I was still a sparkling. Plus reminding me what Zorya said some years ago of me always being her little sparkling. I could hear Zorya's voice in y mind of her singing the lullaby. "Lay down your head and I'll sing you a lullaby" I sigh sadly as I feel Bee wrap his arms around my waist as Bee pulls me against his chassis. I turn around and I hug him, I rest my head on his shoulder and he rests his head on top of mine. I hear the gate creak open and I see Sam embrace Mikaela before she says, "There's nothing you could have done." Sam turns to Bee and I before saying, "Bee, Night, if you hate me I understand. I messed up, I'm sorry." Sam says and I reply, "Sam, I don't hate you." "Young fella, you are one of the people I care about most in my life. If there's anything you need, I won't be far away." Bee says via radio as Sam sits beside Mikaela before he says, "She's dead because of me. She came to protect me and she's dead." "There's some things you just can't change. So-her-sacrifice for us will not have been in vain! Hallelujah! " Bee says via radio and Sam replies, "I'm gonna make it right, I'm gonna turn myself in." Sam says. "We-we've got to stick together!" Bee says as he goes to vehicle mode and Mikaela agrees, "You're not going to do that." "Yes I am." Sam disagrees with her, Bee pushes up against him and says via radio, "Everything we worked for will be wiped out in one day!" And I agree, "Sam if you turn yourself in, my mother will have died in vain." He turns to Skids and Mudflap, showing them the marks and symbols he's been seeing in his head, but they admit that they don't do a lot of reading.. I was still learning about the Language of the Primes when Zorya had been....Sam turns to me with a hopeful look. "Sorry Sam, I haven't learned much about this symbols, all I can decipher is that they're a map to an Energon source." I say. Leo comes back and Mudflap says, "Look who came sayshaying back." "Look I know I had a panic attack earlier, but I think I was allowed that after everything that's happened." Leo says to which Mudflap replies, "That's because you a pussy." Skids snickers and he and Mudflap fist bump, but that comment kind of ticked me off. So I went over to Skids and Mudflap, smacking them upside the backs of their helms. "OW!" they yelp and rub their heads. "Let Leo talk." I say sternly before we turn our attention to Leo and he says, "I heard you had a problem, I think I know someone who can help." "*scoffs* Who?" Sam asks and Leo replies, "Robo-Warrior." "We leave in the morning, after all of you have gotten your rest." I say, they all nod and we go to our different areas to sleep. I lay down next to Bee's alt. mode in my beast mode and close my eyes to go to sleep.

In the morning...

I was in my holoform as a human to ride inside Bumblebee with the others so I could stay in a low-profile since we were heading to the city full of humans. Skids and Mudflap followed "Alright, Leo. Who's this Robo-Warrior guy?", I said. Leo said to us but mostly to Sam, "This guy, Robo-Warrior, everything about anything alien, he's supposed to know. One time we revenged-hacked his site and maybe I saw some of your alien drawings or whatever." "Leo, they're not alien drawings! They are an ancient Cybertronian language I cannot decipher.", I said giving him a look as we pulled in beside a building that looked like a Deli. When Bee finally stopped and parked by the building, we got out and I handed Sam a hat saying, "You should probably wear this. Got to hide your identity to keep you from getting caught." He took it and put it on just as I turned to Leo then asked, "So, is this it?" "This is it. Yep. Deli. Good front!" He went to go inside but stopped to say to us, "All right, wait here. I'll give you the go/no go. All right?" I rolled my eyes and said, "We'll be fine, just go already!" He nodded and went inside the Deli.

It's been a few minutes since Leo didn't give us a word yet but, heard him talking to someone and the man's voice sounded familiar. I turned to Sam and said, "Sam put your hood up and let's go inside to see what's taking Leo so long." He did as told and opened the door carefully as we just made our way in. Leo saw us and said while pointing at....Simmons?!, "It's him! It's him! That's the guy right there! That's him!" Simmons lifted up his head and saw us then froze saying, "No." I said not happy to know it's this guy, "OH PIT NO!!!" "You got to be kidding me.", Sam agreed not happy to see him as well. Simmons then yelled to the customers, "All right, meat store's closed! Everybody out! Out, right now! That means you, lady, right now." Leo turned to us and asked while looking confused, "Wait a minute. You two know this guy?" "We're old friends.", Sam said sarcastically. I growled and added, "Who do you think got me captured and tortured for twenty-four hours?" Simmons then came over and said to Sam with an angry look, "Old friends? You're the case that shut down Sector Seven, got the kibosh, disbanded. No more security clearance, no retirement, no nothing. All 'cause of you and your little criminal girlfriend. Look at her now, so mature. And who is this chick anyway?" I growled and said, "You be dead right now in one quick second if I weren't being in this holoform." His eyes widen and Mikala said with a small smirk, "This happens to be Nightwing herself. I be careful to what I say to her if I were you." "Will do.", Simmons replied. Then we heard a woman say loudly, "Moron! Where's the whitefish?" We turned to see what's happening and a guy who is the middle of cutting some meat yelled to the guy behind him who was trying to move a dead pig behind him, "Hey! Don't touch me with the pig." "Yakov!", Simmons yelled to him. The guy turned to him and yelled back, "What?" Simmons said to him, "You don't get Christmas bonuses standing around! You want those new teeth you saw on SkyMall?" "It's my dream.", the guy replied. Simmons yelled to him, "Help her out." Mikala then asked Simmons, "You live with your mama?" "No, my mama lives with me. It's a big difference.", Simmons said to her. I scoffed and said with my arms crossed, "It's not different, it's the same thing." "Whatever. They got your face all over the news, alien boy.", Simmons said motioning to the TV. Sam replied looking at it then back at him, "Yeah, I know." Simmons added, "And NBE One's still kicking, huh? How did that happen? Don't answer. I don't know what you're hiding, but I don't want to do with it. So, good-bye. You never saw me. I got bagels to schmear. Vanish." Sam said to him as Simmons begins to walk away, "Can you give me five seconds? Look, hold on, I need your help." "Really? You need my help?", Simmons said turning around towards him. Sam then said taking off his hat a little bit frustrated, "I need...Look, I am slowly losing my mind. Okay, I had a little crab-bot, plunged a device deep into the soft tissues of my brain and started projecting little alien symbols like a freaking home movie! And on top of that, I'm a wanted fugitive. So, you think you got it rough?" "You said it projected images off your brain?", Simmons asked after a moment. Sam nodded as he replied, "Right." "That's what he just said.", I said to him with a shrug. Simmons then said to us before leading us to somewhere, "Meat locker, now!"