"Huh…?" Aria opened her eyes slowly; they felt heavy and fuzzy as she tried to regain her sight. Remained laying down, she looked around as much as her eyes could see. She could see grass, rocks, trees, and in the distance she could hear the sound of explosions and clashing metal. Soon realizing this, Aria quickly stood up to look around.
"Hello?" she called out. "Is there anyone here?"
Suddenly, the ground beneath her began to shake as flashes of light surrounded her. Still a little drowsy, she started to run as fast as her legs could. It only made it harder that her legs felt like lead.
"What is going on?"
Out of nowhere a flash of light blinded her sight as quick as an invisible force knocked her off her feet. She landed hard on her tailbone, but didn't dwell on the pain. She was too busy staring ahead of her where two giant shadows fought and clashed. Soon the two shadows came into view and more clear to see, revealing two giant bipedal shapes. They looked identical. Aria gasped at the sight as she realized one of the mysterious shapes was...or was it the other?
The two clashed and clanged at each other, punching and kicking at any open space. One shape's right hand started to transform into a giant sword that slightly shined in the dim light from the dark clouds. It swung the sword at the head of it's foe, but the other quickly ducked. With that distraction, the ducking shape raised it's fist and punched directly into the chest of the other shape. Soon it began forcefully into the other's chest. As soon as it got a good grip on whatever it's hand searched for in the other's chest, it raised the other shape in the air. As much as the other tried, it could not escape from the giants forceful grip. Suddenly the victorious shape turned to Aria's direction and flung it's prey. As soon as the giant was released from its grip and flew through the sky, it left behind a giant sphere of blue light in the others hand.
Aria was too frozen from the fear that struck her from watching the horrible sight, but she couldn't help but strain her attention to it. Her eyes followed the giant shape that flew above her and land about ten feet behind her. It's landing shook the earth around her as it crashed into the hard ground. She forced her body to slowly turn and face what had just happened. As she did, her shiny hazel Energon eyes met the fading icy blue lens of the giant. Softly, they faded into dim blackness, signaling there was no life left in the bipedal shape. Aria's eyes widened as her face went pale, a horrified emotion stretched over her face. A pain shot through her body and directly into her heart, a sign that the Energon that kept her alive and raced through her blood and skin was beginning to falter and fade away. She grabbed at her right arm as pain began to form on a cut that was not there before; blood began to seep through it and onto the white dress she was wearing. She stared at the blood coming from her arm and averted her attention back to the giant shape. As much as she tried to scream or cry, her body just didn't seem to want to obey. Thunder and lightning clashed and roared in the dark clouds that surrounded the area around the scene; rain started to let down. The other giant was no where in sight.
Aria's eyes began to blur as she felt her life being sucked out of her own body. As strong and as high as she could, she finally reached out a hand and yelled.
"OOOOPTIIMUUUUSS!"
Opening her heavy eyes once again, Aria looked around; only this time to see her hand extended in front of her and hovering most of the top half of her body over a small pull-out bed. She tried to not fall over but gravity just didn't agree. She slammed on the tiny space of floor between the pull-out, a drivers seat, and a passenger seat. She rolled around helplessly as she was caught in her entangled blankets.
"Aria are you ok? You called my name then suddenly fell. Are you hurt?" A worried Optimus Prime called from his speakers, careful not to use the full volume of his voice. She raised her head to look around once more, relief swept over her as she realized she was no longer in that horrible place. Must have been a dream.
"Yeah I guess I'm ok," she quietly replied, it had only seemed that she was talking to herself. But instead she was speaking to the Semi she was residing in, Optimus Prime. She situated her body into an upright position and regained her senses, drowsiness drifted in her mind and eyes.
"It was just a dream."
"But it seemed like a bad dream. I think others usually call it a 'nightmare'."
"Heh, yeah that's what it was. Your right."
"Was the dream my fault? You yelled out my name so please forgive me if I was the reason for your nightmare."
"Oh no, it wasn't your fault. You were in my dream but it's a blur now so I don't remember why I called you out."
She slowly began to stand on her legs and walk to the front of the cab. She glanced outside the windows to see it was pretty much still dark outside; the only light that glimmered on the hood of Optimus's terrestrial guise came from the full moon and stars in the sky. She grabbed her cell phone from the dashboard and clicked it's light on to see the clock; it read 3:14 pm. Tracing her steps backwards, she lightly sat on the pull-out bed of which she fell out of. "I should go back to sleep…" she picked up her entwined blankets from the floor and covered herself.
"I am still quite worried. Will you be having anymore nightmares?"
Aria replied to the interior in a more clear tone. "I can't say for sure; I can't choose what I dream," She paused. "I hope not."
"Then I will play soft music to keep you calm while you sleep."
Soft orchestra music filled the atmosphere of the cab and coaxed Aria back into a deep sleep. Before completely slipping back to sleep, she softly whispered.
"Thank you Optimus."
"Good night, little one."
Deep in an isolated cave that resided in a deep jungle, Starscream sat on a large boulder just the right size to accompany his large bipedal frame. Striding in was one of the new additions to the Decepticons that didn't object to being ruled by Megatron's replacement for the time being. He bared the name Blitzscreen; his form was not too much bigger than that of Knockout or The Twins. But still considerably shorter than Starscream or most of the other Decepticons. Upon his arrival, he chose for his terrestrial guise to be a maroon Jeep.
"I have arrived upon your request Lord Starscream," he spoke to the temporary Decepticon leader. He slowly bowed down then stood back up to face him. Starscream glared back at the other Decepticon, then spoke.
"It's fortunate that you have arrived to help Megatron's cause. You may have just arrived but I need you for this certain assignment."
"Yes sir."
Starscream proceeded to explain.
"We have recently just received accurate quardinates for the Autobot's hiding place and command center with the humans. You must download them from Radwave to find it. But be careful, they are the only original numbers we have, the humans have restricted it with their primitive yet powerful technology. We were lucky enough to get them but unfortunately we cannot copy them albeit human technology. We can only pass it on so be sure you don't mess them up or lose them. Anyways, you must take these and follow them to their designated spot. Once you do, you must retrieve and kidnap the young girl that Prime protects."
Blitzscreen pondered the request, then replied. "I accept sir"
"Good."
"But may I ask what we need with a pathetic human girl for? What could we possibly need with her?"
Starscream looked back at Blitzscreen and lightly chuckled.
"It is pretty simple yet complicated. Knowledge and powerful energy from the now destroyed Allspark has been passed down and absorbed into her by her human genetics. That, plus the Energon Optimus absorbed into her body to keep her alive has combined and activated with that. To put it short, we can use her mind to find other sources of Energon and deep hidden secrets of our races past. Secrets that could make us more powerful. We can also use her energy from the cube and Energon to restore some of ours, her small existence is surprisingly enough to give off enough energy to feed most of our Decepticon allies. Finally, she is Prime and the Autobot's weakness, we can use her to lure them into my thought out trap and destroy their pathetic sparks!"
"So then the girl is of some use…"
"Yes, now, go do as I requested."
"Yes Lord Starscream!"
Blitzscreen rapidly morphed back into his terrestrial guise and drove out of the dark cave into the wilderness of the outside woods.
