Transformers Prime

Dark Angel

"My tea's gone cold; I'm wondering why…I got out of bed at all. The morning rain clouds up my window…and I can't see at all/ and even if I could it'd all be grey/ but your picture on my wall…it reminds me that it's not so bad; it's not so bad at all…"

Angel sighed as she sat down on a fallen tree trunk and slid her red Skull Candy headphones down to hang on her neck. She ran her fingers through her black hair and looked at the scenery with her icy blue eyes. She was at the Oregon border, about to cross into Nevada.

She pulled out her map from her black torn up backpack and looked at it carefully. On it she marked her path which began with a dot in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, then crossed and waves through Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and she was just about to draw into Nevada. "About two more miles southeast…I should cross at sunset." She said before rolling it back up and sliding it back into the pack.

It had been four years since Angel had run away from her home; four years since she left everything behind; her friends, family, her parents and siblings. She walked most of the way and stayed in abandoned buildings or in apartments when the weather was unbearable. She wasn't sure where she was going; Angel had become somewhat of a drifter since reaching the west coast. She planned to hit up Nevada then bounce over to Cali and into Arizona probably. Maybe she'd catch a freight ship and travel overseas.

One thing was for certain, she could never go back to the east; she couldn't go back home. She could never return and face her parents again, that was just how it had to be. Angel sighed and changed the song before she put her pack and guitar case on and continued walking with the volume loud enough that she could hear it from the headphones.

"Let's make this fleeting moment last forever…so tell me what you're waiting for.

I'm gonna keep it frozen here forever… There's no regretting anymore.

It's worth the wait/ even so far away.

I'm making the night mine until the day I die.

No line to break when you're hanging by fate.

You know what it feels like when you're dancing blind!"

She came to a clearing and suddenly her music went to strange static. She paused the song and pulled out her IPhone. "What's wrong with this thing?" She asked as she noticed the screen becoming pixelated.

Just then Angel felt a strange presence that made the hair on her neck stand up. She looked around slowly and noticed that she was standing in a large but shallow crater. The grass had already regrown, showing that the crater was pretty old. Angel approached the center where a strange oval shaped object the size of an SUV was resting; hidden by the plants that had grown over it.

"What could this thing be?" Angel said as she approached it cautiously. She figured the thing had to of been there for a very long time judging by its condition. She began pulling vines and other foliage off of it so she could get a better look. The pod was decorated with strange symbols that she didn't recognize.

"Big crater…weird pod…strange symbols…well Nevada IS known for its alien activity…hehe…" She said as sweat ran down the side of her head and she traced one of the glowing red symbols with a finger.

Suddenly the pod's symbols glowed brightly. Angel gasped and fell backwards, dropping both her pack and guitar. The side of the pod that was facing her split into four sections that opened away from each other. Inside the pod was a glowing red light; it was too bright for her to see much of anything. Multiple glowing tentacle-like appendages shot out towards her.

She screamed and moved to run but was tripped as one tentacle wrapped around her right ankle. The others followed suit, wrapping around her wrists, thighs, waist, biceps, and around her other ankle. Angel was then lifted off the ground and held in the air. The young 16-year-old screamed and struggled against them to no avail.

"HELP! HELP ME!"

…Do not be afraid child...for I mean you no harm…

Angel froze and stared down into the pod's light. She noticed that the light pulsed like a heartbeat as did the light from the tentacles. "W-Who are you?!"

…I am known as Primus… I am a robotic life form known as a Cybertronian… the voice in the light replied.

"Y-You don't seem like a robot." She pointed out as she glanced at the tentacles.

..Not out here anyway…I wish to speak with you in person, young one… Will you allow me to bring you in…?"

Angel swallowed the lump in her throat, scared out of her mind. "You w-won't hurt me?"

…I swear upon my very spark that no harm will come to you…

She had absolutely no idea what a 'spark' was but something about this being made her feel…protected. After a few moments of thinking it through the young teen nodded her head lightly. "O-Okay, I trust you Primus."

The tentacles pulled her into the light; into the pod. She felt fear jump into her heart as she was consumed by the light.

…Thank you for your trust, young Angela…