Spark (Bumblebee Love Story)

Chapter 22

"Your mom's so nice" Mikaela comments, as the 3 teenagers walk into the kitchen.

Danielle nods silently, watching Sam dug around his backpack that was resting on the kitchen island, looking for the glasses. She looks around, finding her parents casually sitting in the living room, Judy sipping on her half empty glass of red wine.

"I want you to distract my parents while Danny and I slip out and get these glasses to them, okay?" Sam asks Mikaela.

As Mikaela gives a curt nod, Danielle notices Judy getting up from her seat, walking outside frantically.

"They're ripping up my rose bushes!" Danielle hears Judy yell in the backyard.

Danielle and Sam glanced at each other in confusion, before looking back from the source of noise from Judy. Sam stuffs the glasses into his sweatshirt pocket, the 3 teenagers walking into the living room, seeing the fiasco.

Half a dozen men in suits walk around the Witwicky living room, collecting random pieces of decoration and furniture, storing it in evidence bags. One of the men in suit holds a lit flashlight at Judy's eyes. Danielle grows alarmed, overwhelmed with the number of men in suits.

"What is this?" Sam asks out loud to no one in particular.

The man who was aiming the flashlight at Judy's eyes turns his attention to the 3 teens and walks over to them. Danielle notices Judy's baseball in his hands, which he hands off to a random man in suit to his side, before giving a smile to the 3, "How are you doing, kids? Is your name Sam and Danielle?"

"Yeah?" Sam and Danielle respond in unison.

"Well," the man continues, "I need you two to come with us."

Instantly Ron, who was getting checked by a random suit, shows resentment. He walks over to the teenagers, trying to push Danielle behind him protectively, "Woah, way out of line!"

The man holding the flashlight directs his attention to Ron, "Sir, I am asking politely. Back off."

"You are not taking my son or daughter" Ron states.

"Really?" the man retorts, "You're gonna try to get rough with us?"

"No, but I'm gonna call the cops because there's something fishy around here."

"Yeah. There's something a little fishy about you, your son, your daughter, your little Taco-Bell dog and this whole operation you got going on around here."

"What operation?"

"...That is what we are going to find out."

The conversation between Ron and the man in suit ends fairly short, as the man in suit's partner leans over to his ear, whispering something. As the partner leans away, the man in suit walks over to the teenagers, handed a radar-like machine.

"Kids?" the man asks Sam and Danielle.

"Yeah?" Sam only replies back, Danielle falling silent.

"Step forward, please."

Hesitantly, Danielle and Ron walk in front of Ron, standing in front of the man. Sam twitches his hand for his sister to hold, but Danielle doesn't notice, finding her throat burning once again.

"Just stand?" Sam asks the man.

The man doesn't respond, holding the contraption in front of Sam's body, the whole room hearing a whirring- beep sound resonate from the machine. The man scrunches his face slightly, reading what the machine was telling him.

"14 rads...." He mumbles, before pointing the machine at Danielle's body.

Instead of it being at the same pace the machine was in front of Sam, the machine in front of Danielle beeps loudly as well as fast, as if it was a never-ending whir. The man looks shocked reading the results, but keeps his face calm, "Off the chart....Bingo! Tag them and bag them!"

Everything starts to happen too fast for Danielle. Men swarm around the group, some walking from different rooms to the living room, others walking through the front door. Danielle feels her hands being pulled behind her back, her hands getting cuffed. She feels the sharp metal piercing her wrists as she tries to twist them, giving a small whimper of discomfort. She wasn't enjoying the pain of being cuffed, not to mention, she felt as if her throat would burn her entire body, as she feels pain radiate from there, going to her entire body. The men in suits drag Sam, Danielle, and Mikaela outside, towards the front of the house, where a large black SUV was parked for them. Danielle looks around, finding her parents being cuffed, being sent to another SUV, with a cuffed Mojo with them.

"You hurt my dog, I'll kick your ass!" Danielle hears Judy yell from afar.

"Dad!" Sam screams for Ron.

"Sam! You're gonna be fine! Danny, watch your twin! Do not say anything, Sam! Not a word until we get a lawyer!" Ron yells out to Sam.

The men drag the 3 teenagers into the van, sending Danielle in first. She collides on the left side of the door in the 2nd row of the SUV, giving a small groan of discomfort. She feels Sam being thrown next to her, followed by Mikaela. Sam notices Danielle and gives her a look.

"Danny-"

"I'm ok" Danielle groans out, her throat burning more than usual.

"No, you're not! You look like you're going to throw up!"

"I might in a bit" Danielle mumbles to her brother.

They were in for a long night.