KILL 'EM WITH KINDNESS | OPTIMUS PRIME

FORTY FOUR

Loved

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"Is Lordes okay?" Cade asked as he watched the woman stare off into space, her eyes which were once a ocean blue color was now covered in a lavender color. Not just her orbs but her pupils, too. Raven sighed as she looked at Lordes before she looked back at Cade.

"Yeah, it's just the thing inside her is keeping her from reaching her Cybertronian form. Meaning she can't go back to her true form until she stops Quintessa." Raven explained before Cade sighed and glared at the ground.

"What did this to her?"

"Not what, but who. And to answer that, remember how I told you Cybertron had an enemy and Quintessa was coming here to destroy it?"

Cade nodded before Raven sat down in a chair. "That's the same being that's keeping Lordes from being her true self."

"Well, where is he? Maybe we can stop this!" Cade exclaimed before Raven shook her head. "Well, when you have a suit that can withstand about 7000 degrees Fahrenheit, then I'll be glad to help."

"What do you mean?"

"Duh! He's the Earth's core!"
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Isabella sighed as she finished Sqweeks' new arm that she finally replaced. She smiled before she wiped the sweat from her forehead.

"You look like a warrior, Sqweeks!" Isabella exclaimed as she laughed in pride. "He does."

Isabella looked behind to see Lordes standing in the doorframe smiling.

"Hey. I saw what happened earlier. Are you okay?" Isabella asked as she stood up and walked up to Lordes, helping her sit down on a crate.

"I'm fine. Just a bit woozy from the blood I lost." Izabella nodded before Lordes sighed.

"You know, when I had my vision, it was almost the same vision I had when I was in space."

"How so?"

"I kept seeing my father. But he was more like Megatron almost. Not by physical appearance but by his actions, his personality. And then he had these horrifyingly purple optics. They were so horrifying I couldn't even look at them. And those visions, he's hurt me. Something I know my father would never do with every ounce of energon in him. He was being mind controlled, I know it." Lordes said with emphasis as Izabella nodded.

"Maybe whatever did that to your eyes is playing tricks on you or something." Izabella suggested as Lordes shrugged. "Probably, or maybe it will happen. I don't know. But we'll figure it out."

"Of course." Lordes smiled before something came to her head. "You know, you never told me what happens to your family."

Izabella's smile faded quickly before she looked back at Sqweeks. "I'm sorry, if you don't want to talk about it-"

"No. I do, it's just..I don't like talking about it because my parents were pieces of shit." Lordes raised an eyebrow before Izabella sat down next to Lordes.

"What I mean is, all my life, I was told I was a mistake. My parents didn't love me at all, which is why I ran away so much. My only family was Canopy and Sqweeks. But my parents didn't know anything about them. But one particular night, my parents and I argued. I was trying to tell them that I was ganged on by some boys and popular girls from my school and they stole my phone and my money. Of course, my parents didn't believe me and blamed me for losing my money. And I said 'I bet if I was dead, you wouldn't care because you're both assholes!' Well, my mom slapped me across the face and I just screamed and shouted my feelings to them before I ran out of the house. The next day, I slept at a barn I was keeping Canopy and Sqweeks in and Canopy took me back to my house so I can get my stuff. But when we got there..my house was blown to pieces. My parents were inside, burned to a crisp and their body parts splattered all over the place. I would have laughed at it, but all I did was cry. Because as much as my parents treated me like shit, I still loved them." Izabella explained as Lordes blinked away her tears. All that's happened to this girl, Lordes felt really bad for her. If only she had meant this girl before all of that happened, she could have stayed with her without having to worry about anything.

Lordes wrapped her arms around Izabella and had let her break down in her shoulder as she did. Lordes knew it wasn't easy to talk about something like that. And she knew it. Lordes knew that it was painful, but she had to let Izabella know that she wasn't alone anymore, that she had people to rely on. That she was nothing like her parents. She almost wanted to be this teen's sister.

"Thank you, Lordes." Izabella said as Lordes nodded and hugged the girl tightly, she returning it back. "Come on, let's go help Cade with Bumblebee."

Izabella nodded before both girls pulled away and stood up. They walked back inside the work room, Sqweeks following closely behind them.