Title: Shades of Time I ~ When Eyes and Optics Meet {Decepticons} ~: Prologue
Genre: Romance, Drama, and (some) Action.
Pairings: Megatron x Elizabeth(OC)
Summary:
- When a sinister-looking Line-Haul suddenly transforms into a giant evil-looking robot before her very eyes, Elizabeth knows she will now exist as nothing but a pet. However, she soon realizes that she has not only given him her life, but also her heart...
Warnings:
1) Hi, Nice to meet you all (again). I'm LugiaTsuyu. I was from Thailand. So English is not my first language. That's why you will probably find a lot of grammar mistakes and not so smooth writing (such as repeated words and so on). And any comments, criticisms, corrections, and suggestions are greatly appreciated.
2) I am writing this as I go, so yeah. LOL
3) Also, you will probably find a lot of OOCness because I've never watched the Transformers cartoons before, just the three films, so I will apologize about that in advance. Please bear with me and I hope you will like my story. (Even though I am turning an action-packed franchise into romantic drama/comedy one.)
Disclaimers: I do not own Transformers, just my original characters, as it belongs to Hasbro, Marvel, IDW and Paramount.
Credit to: I have to give these authors credits. As they were the ones who motivated me to write this story. First to Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb, I am such a big fan of hers, and Dale and Taya are totally inspired by Roarke and Eve from her In Death series. Second, to orphan mia, for her incredible 'Strange Creature'. Then to Elexies, for her awesome 'Gateway of the Mind' story. And last but not least, to Ray of Starlight, for her amazing 'The Ties that Bind' series. I really thank you all for giving me the courage to finally written down my imaginations for others to see.
Oh! I almost forgot! I really want to thank TFWiki staffs and members for their hard work. The info they've gathered on that site has been VERY useful and convenient for me to do a lot of research for this story. So thank you very much!
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When Eyes and Optics Meet {Decepticons}
Prologue
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Namibia, South Africa
April 21th, 2012
9:23 am.
Elizabeth Howell was, at age twenty-seven and five feet three inches tall, a natural redhead, with oval-shaped face, dry lips and dry skin from lack of proper caring, an all-in-all everyday kind of woman. The only notable thing about her was the expressive, unusual emerald-colored with hints of golden flecks eyes.
She'd ran away from home when she had been fifteen and had never looked back. At the age of nineteen, Beth had gone to a gallery show and found her passion, her peace of mind, in nature photography. She'd worked her butt off cleaning people's houses—and had gotten fired most of the time because of her clumsiness—before she could afford her first professional camera and pay for her photography classes at a decent college.
Now, as an almost-well-known freelance photographer, Beth was making enough money and had bought a little apartment she liked to call her own 'den' back in the States. It's nothing glamorous, but it provided her with a sense of security, and a sense of relief she had fought hard to feel again since her mother had remarried thirteen years ago.
Beth smiled sadly, and focused her camera's lens on a pride of African lions a few meters away. Trying her best to not disturb the magnificent creatures, she captured their wondrous activities; the king of the wild roaring into the open grass field, the females nurturing their youngs, and—her personal favorite—the miraculously innocent cubs playing with each other.
She loved the African wilderness. She had been to most of the countries around here, taking pictures of different types of animals, trees, and the skies. And her first time in Namibia's isolated, wildlife land was currently more than enjoyable.
It was, until she saw an odd looking M915 Line-Haul speeding toward her from the right.
Something warned her that this abnormal vehicle was dangerous, namely the instinctive, frightened roars of the lions and how they were quickly moving themselves and their babies away from the scene.
Beth immediately thought: Hunters. She ran to her camouflage-painted Jeep, which she had parked ten feet behind her, and dug out her satellite radio phone from her travel bag to report a possible illegal hunting to the officers nearby.
Her fingers stopped short on the first number she had just punched in when the Line-Haul let out an animalistic growl. Then, after a heartbeat of stillness, the vehicle just...transformed, becoming a thirty-feet, extremely scary-looking robot. Half of its metallic head covered by a sand-dirtied cloak, it was staring at her with those sinister, sparkling crimson optics.
Overcame by fear, Beth stood where she was, frozen, only to land rigidly on her behind when the giant closed in on her.
The corner of its...lips...curved into a cruel smirk. "Well, well, well. Have you lost your way, fleshling?" It spoke with a male, ominous voice. So, despite her terror, Beth mentally assumed 'it' was more like a 'he'.
"Please." She whispered, but had no idea what she was begging him for.
The cruelty in his grin turned sadistic. "Very well."
Beth saw it before he even move. Her death.
In that moment, instead of devastating horror, she found peace. She had, deep down in her mind since that night thirteen years ago, wanted to end her life countless times, but she'd always been too much of a coward to have actually done it herself. It was her darkest, most shameful secret.
But now...
Beth slowly closed her eyes, and felt an unnatural-caused wind blowing, coming at her.
She was finally going to be free...
Then...oblivion.
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That stupid female insect fainted, Megatron smirked.
Oh, he had meant very much to blow her head off. But what he saw sparked his rare interest, his curiosity. The human woman had feared him, he knew. Who wouldn't? He was Megatron, the ruler and destroyer of the Universe. But the instant he'd pointed his gun at her, charging its power to maximum strength before he fire her useless existence into nothing, fear had no longer tainted her eyes, only acceptance and...disturbing elation.
So instead, he'd aimed his gun at the fleeing animal behind her, and blasted the male lion into pieces, half imagining Starscream in its place.
But the fleshling had fainted in the process.
Might as well, Megatron thought, putting his weapon away and walked toward the woman's body on the dirt ground. He paused for a second, then bent down to pick her small form between his sharp fingers, scratching her side a little.
This human female might proved to be an interesting pet.
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Author's Note: Hi again! Nice to meet you, Readers (if this is the first time you have read my story.) First things first, let me apologize (like I always do) for my lack of proper knowledge concerning grammar and vocabulary. I really hope they didn't cause any inconvenient for you while reading WEAOM{D} (I had to initialize it).
A~~~nyway, how's the prologue? To those of you who have read Reaching You before, you'll notice there's little to no change in Megatron's and Beth's first meeting scene. And there won't be many changes, if at all, in the next chapter or two, but I hope you'll still read them and tell me what you think (I'm greedy for comments and opinions, I know LOL).
And to those who have read it for the first time, how is it? Do you think Megatron is in-character or too OOC? What about Beth? I really hope she's not Mary Sue. Please do not hesitate to comment, suggest, criticize, and correct any mistakes in my story(stories), because I'll totally appreciate it if you do!
Oh, and one last thing, if you are also the Autobots fans, don't forget to check out When Eyes and Optics Meet [Autobots]! It's basically the same story and timeline. I just didn't have anything better to do so I decided to-make it more difficult and annoying for you to read LOL-separate it into two parts, one for the Autobots, and one for the Decepticons...Yeah...
Well, goodbye for today, guys! I really thank you for giving this story a(nother) chance! I hope to see you all again in the next chapter!