Chapter one: Drowning Nightmare
"The monsters will come, and you won't be able to run away when they come after you. The ones out there. And they will tear you apart and eat you up all while you're still alive."
3:05 am
Mom woke me up in panic and gave no time for me to ask what was going on or for her to explain. All she said was, "We have an emergency." To, "Grab whatever you can and meet me outside in five." I was too tired to comprehend whatever she was telling me but when I saw my mom throwing clothes to the floor while searching whatever it was in her drawers made me realize one thing; something is definitely wrong.
Okay, I know the panicking voice should be a clue but when you're half a sleep you don't really hear what people are really saying until you actually see what is really going on. The first clue was how pale my mom looked and how her hands where shaking. I heard her mumble but I couldn't hear her what she was saying. I saw her phone lying on top of her bed, sitting beside an almost empty suit case. The screen would light up and vibrate. I couldn't see who was calling her.
"Mom?" I walked in to her room, "What's going on?"
My mom's hair was a mess. She usually has her straight black hair up into a tight ponytail but right now it was set down and had pillow head printed at the back of her head. Her skin was pale, she had dark circles around her eyes, she had worry lines across her forehead and at the corner of her eyes. She looked like she just seen a ghost. I saw her holding two passports in her hand and grabbed her jacket then looked at me, "We have to go." She told me in a hurry.
"Go where?" I asked her. She rushed past me, leaving the room and I just stood there watching her go to my room which was across from hers and grabbed my jacket and my black and white converse.
Before I could say anything else, we heard someone or something break the windows from downstairs. I jumped and my mom grabbed me by the arm, leading us downstairs.
"Mom, what's going on?!" I panicked. My eyes widened when I saw her holding a gun. I never seen my mom hold a gun before, and the way she looked and the way she held it made me feel a little scared of her.
When we walked downstairs, mom pushed me to the front door when we heard another window break coming from the kitchen. I saw two men dressed in black running down the hallways and saw my mom point the gun at them. She pulled the trigger and hit the first man on his chest and the second man on his right shoulder. That didn't stop them from approaching towards us and that didn't put them down. Whatever they are, they were not human. The fact that the bullet didn't kill them, their eyes were glowing bright red in the dark.
"Get in the car!" Mom shouted. I quickly jumped inside the car and before I had the chance to buckle, my mom pulled forward causing for me to place both hands on the dashboard so I won't fly through the windshield. We heard gunshots fired behind us and one went through the back windshield and across the front windshield. That one bullet caused the whole window crack.
"I can't see." Mom commented. She swerved down the road and if she breaks we would slide and flip over since the roads were covered in ice and snow. I quickly pulled the seat back and placed both my feet on the windshield, pulled my knees up to my chest and kicked with all the strength that I had. It was no use. My mom just grabbed her gun and shot three times and punched the windshield only once making all the glass falling everywhere.
The cold wind hit us hard and I started to shiver uncontrollably.
"Mom, what is going on? Who are those men?" I somehow managed to ask through my clenched teeth and quivering jaw. I noticed that my mom's knuckle were turning white when she clenched hard on the steering wheel.
She turned to look at me with wide doe eyes, "Those are not men, Andy."
"What?" I looked behind for no known reason. I guess just to see that we weren't being followed, "What do you mean that they are not men?" I mean, I don't need to see their parts to confirm that.
"They are dangerous." She ignored my question. Someone was flashing at us from the back with the beam lights. The lights were so bright that I had to cover my eyes from getting blind.
"But why are they chasing us?" I asked my mom again. And again she just ignored my questions, "In the glove department there's a small brown pouch. Grab it and put it away in your jacket." I did what I was told and saw a small brown pouch bag at the corner of the glove department. I saw small stains on the pouch bag and something was glowing inside. Whatever it was felt warm at the palm of my hand and at the same time I felt unsafe having it there.
"Listen to me carefully, Andrea. Whatever you do, keep this safe. Guard it with your life until you see Optimus-"
"What is this?" I cut her off and started to panic. "Listen, Andy…" But before my mom could say anything else, I heard tires screeching and some kind of mechanical voice. Mom looked back and quickly pushed me down, "Get down!" She shouted. When she pushed me down, I managed to see what it was attacking us or where that mechanical noise was coming from.
In front of us stood what seemed a robot. It is just like you have seen in the tv's, movies, like how you imagined it when you read books; however, this one was tall, maybe around 27 feet. It's body blend in the dark and the only thing that you could see was the glowing blue lights across its chest. I saw its head, but it didn't have a face. It seems like it had a helmet on and a small window with green lights glowing.
The robot was moving towards us. Mom pulled up, shifted the gears to reverse and pressed on the gas. She didn't get far enough from the danger zone and hit a car behind us. The black and red car didn't stop, instead it pushed us towards the robot.
"Mom!" I shouted at her. I tried to unbuckle myself while mom started to shoot at the car behind us. Before you know it, the car behind us pushed us so hard that we started to slide across the road. Mom tried to stop and I started to scream so loud. Someone shot at us, causing for the car to spin uncontrollably and turned over, heading down hill.
I felt like a rag doll being pushed around and everything happened so quick. The world around us spinning so fast and I screamed like that would somehow stop this nightmare. The worst part is that I saw how my mom was being tossed around, her head hitting the driver side window. Then, finally when I thought everything stopped, it got really quiet. I looked at my mom. She was barely conscious; I saw her flick her eyes very faintly.
"Mom?" I groaned in pain. I tried to unbuckle myself but the belt was stuck to the latch. All of a sudden, I felt the car tipping forward and cold water slipping through the gaps.
We were pushed to a lake.
I pushed at my mom, "Mom. Mom please wake up!" I pushed her shoulder and she would just moan. I tried to look for something sharp to cut my belt and get us out but every second that I lost was another second that we got deeper into the lake. The cold water was almost halfway through the car. The cold water felt like thousands of needles pinching my skin. I kept on calling my mom out but she would just mumble something.
I couldn't understand what she was saying. It sounded like she was trying to say run or Ron. I heard explosions from behind us and I tried to scream for help but it was no use. This was it, this is how my life is going to end.
"Momma, please wake up." I cried this time. She managed to open her eyes but there was no life in them. However, she managed to speak one last time, "Optimus…" she slurred through her last breath. The water already made it through the car and I tried to get the damn seat belt off but I couldn't. I felt too weak to move and had no sharp object to cut the belt to set my mom and myself free. This was it, this is how I was going to die; being chased by some kind of robots that are after the object that my mom handed to me.
The cold water made it through the car and even though I was buckled, I felt myself being lifted up from the seat. I was almost floating. My mom was already unconscious and her body was floating upwards towards the car's roof. Her hair floated around her head and blood tinted the clear water. I tried to reach for her hand and when I almost had her my body started to jerk, placing both hands on my throat while trying to gasp for air. I tried to keep my mouth shut from avoiding of swallowing water but my body reacted and swallowed hard.
It was over. The cold, dark water took us over and I started to see darkness. I tried to fight off death and grab my mom's hand once more but when I reached towards her, something else was pulling me away.
Death was pulling me away from my only family that I ever had and it was because of those damn monsters that I have never seen.
Hello fellow readers!
I just have a quick announcement regarding that I do not own Transformers, only Hasbro does! All I own are my OC's and minor OOC's. Quotes/lyrics will be credited at the end of each chapter!
Enjoy!
B
Cites:
"The monsters will come, and you won't be able to run away when they come after you. The ones out there. And they will tear you apart and eat you up all while you're still alive." Used by Carol Peletier; The Walking Dead
