Chapter 1

Sighing, a young eighteen girl rolled over and went back to sleep as the sun rose high in the sky. She didn't wanna get up but knew she had to, since she didn't go to school anymore she had a job to go to. Groaning, Rory Novak opened her eyes staring up at the ceiling as she began to count down the seconds

"5…4…3…2…1" and the sound of a baby crying filled the room.

Sitting up and swinging her legs over the side of her bed, her feet hit the ground and she shivered at the cold floorboards. After running her hands through her blonde hair, Rory stood up and walked over to the crib that sat near the window of her bedroom, bending over she scooped her four month old daughter Holly into her arms. Pulling down the strap of her pajama top, she latched her daughter's mouth onto her teat and the baby sucked. Walking out of her room, Rory headed downstairs carefully where she heard the television going and headed to the living room. Stopping in the doorway she watched as her 3 year old niece Donna Williams was sitting watching Dora the Explorer and Rory smiled.

Backing away quietly, the young mother headed to the kitchen to make breakfast but first decided to finish breastfeeding her daughter. Rory sat down on a chair in the kitchen sighing and yawning, she looked down at her daughter and her thoughts drifted back to Holly's father who had left Rory because he didn't want a baby and she sighed. Closing her eyes and leaning back in the chair, Rory dozed for a little while. She didn't know how long she had been dozing for when she felt a tugging on her arm, opening her eyes Rory looked down to see her niece

"Hey Donna, what's wrong?" she asked her

"Hungwy" she replied, being 3 she couldn't pronounce her 'Rs'.

Rory looked up at the clock and realized she had been asleep at least an hour and half, looking down at Holly she noticed she was sound asleep. Pulling her strap back up Rory stood carrying Holly and lay her in the bouncer where the baby slept. Turning back to her niece and picking her up, Rory sat Donna down on the bench

"So what will it be princess?" she asked her

"Ceweal" she replied.

Walking over to the cupboard and opening it, Rory began pulling out a box of cereal when she heard a shriek and turned to look at her niece

"No not that one, the othew one" Donna demanded before grinning at her aunt causing the said aunt to roll her eyes smiling

"Terror" she muttered under breath as she put the cereal box away and pulled out the other one labeled Fruit Loops.

Grabbing a bowel, a spoon and the milk, Rory made Donna's breakfast while the child sat on the bench humming the theme song to SpongeBob Squarepants. Shaking her head in amusement, she put the spoon in the bowl and walked into the living room while she heard Donna jump down from the bench and follow her. Rory placed the bowel of cereal on the small kids table that she had brought along with a chair, she turned around just as Donna walked over to her and she picked her up placing her in her seat. She headed out of the room but stopped when she heard Donna call to her, turning her head to her Donna asked if she wanted to stay and watch Go, Go Diego. Rory told her she couldn't because she had to get dressed for work but promised her she'd watch the Lazy Town marathon with her tonight which Donna agreed to and went back to watching the television.

Rory headed into the kitchen and picked up Holly out of the bouncer laying the baby against her shoulder, she headed upstairs and to her room where she laid her daughter in her crib before grabbing her clothes and left the room to go and shower. After showering and getting dressed, Rory dumped her clothes in her dirty clothes basket, picked up Holly, grabbed the diaper bag and left the room. Heading downstairs and into the living room, Rory noticed that Donna was sitting on the couch and bowel of cereal was no longer on the table

"Donna sweetie, can you grab my keys, phone and bag please?" she asked her niece

"Alweady by doow" Donna replied standing up and turning the television off.

Donna walked over and led the way to the front door while her aunt followed her

"Donna thank you" Rory said as she followed her niece out the front door and managed to lock up behind them.

Donna led them to the car and heaved the back door open climbing in and over to the other side while Rory placed Holly into the baby capsule buckling her in before leaning over and buckling Donna in and kissed her forehead

"Thank you you're a big help" she said

"Youw welcome" Donna said as she hugged her aunt.

Rory moved out and closed the door. Climbing into the front of the car and into the driver's seat, Rory closed the door buckled up, started the engine and pulled out of the driveway and off to her cousin's house never once noticing a police car following her.

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Meanwhile, at Tranquility High School two teenagers sat in their English class bored out their minds. The first one was a boy who was eighteen with short brown hair and brown eyes wearing a black tee shirt, blue jeans and sneakers. And the second was a girl, also eighteen with black hair and blue eyes wearing a green camisole, blue jeans and white sneakers. They both looked at the empty seat beside the girl

"Hey Sam, can we visit Rory tonight?" the girl asked her boyfriend, Sam Witwicky looked back at his girlfriend

"Sure Mikaela" he replied and Mikaela Banes grinned kissing her boyfriend

"Thanks, it's just that I miss her not being around to hang out with and talk to her. She's a wonderful friend" she told him

"I am in total agreement there" Sam replied grinning back

"Mr. Witwicky and Ms. Banes pay attention" they heard their teacher say and they, in unison, rolled their eyes.

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Rory sat behind the desk of her job as a secretary at Tranquility Corp. that designed computer games talking on the phone to another important CEO of a gaming company in California. Charles Davies

"Right, I'll tell Ms. James everything you told me and I'll get her to call you. Okay bye Mr. Davies" Rory said and hung up and sighed looking at the clock and wondering if her daughter and niece were okay

"Rory just call Stacy" she heard someone say and looked up to see CEO of Tranquility Corp. Sharon James, she knew Sharon was referring to her cousin and nodded as Sharon headed into her office Rory following her

"Oh, Mr. Davies called" and she relayed to Sharon everything she had been told.

When that was done, Sharon rolled her eyes

"That man is impossible" she groaned before looking back at her friend "you better call Stacy and check on them. Then go get lunch" she added smiling at the young teen

"Thanks Sharon" Rory said and left the office walking to her desk and picked up the phone dialing Stacy's number.

It rang twice before it was answered

"Reynolds Residence" came the familiar voice of her older cousin

"Hey Stace it's me" Rory said

"Hey Rory. If you're calling to check up on Holly and Donna they're fine, Donna's playing hopscotch with Virginia and Andrea and Holly's sleeping. They both had lunch" Stacy informed her younger cousin

"Sorry you know me, it's still hard after… well you know" Rory said as she went quiet

"Yeah I know, anyway gotta go. Love you, bye" Stacy said

"Yeah bye" Rory said and hung up.

Grabbing her purse, Rory headed for the elevator to go to lunch.

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Rory sat at a picnic table at Tranquility Lake Park eating Chinese take-out enjoying being out in the open and away from ringing phones and annoying computers and some colleagues, she let her thoughts drift back to just 5 months ago when a bombshell had been dropped and she sighed. Resting her cheek in her palm, Rory was bored and decided to call Mikaela since she knew it was lunchtime at high school. Pulling out her cell, she dialed her best friend's number and waited.

It was answered after the first ring and Rory remembered that her friend had caller ID and was always fast in answering when it was anyone particularly her

"Oh my god Rory hi" Mikaela answered sounding so happy to hear from her

"Hey 'Kaela how are you?" Rory asked her

"I'm fine" Mikaela replied

"Hey Rory" she heard Sam say happily

"Hey Sam, how are you?" she greeted

"I'm fine" he replied

"'Kaela have you got me on loud speaker?" Rory asked her friend

"Heh, Heh guilty" Mikaela replied.

Rory was about to say something but she stopped frowning as she got the feeling she was being watched and looked up from her lunch to see a black and white ford Mustang police car and groaned. For some reason this police car seemed to be following her and had been for a while, but she never understood why. She wondered if she should say something to her friends

"Um… guys" she began and the talking she heard them doing stopped

"What's wrong Rory?" Mikaela asked her

"I'm not going crazy but I need you to listen. For a while now and I don't know how long this has been happening but I think I'm being followed" she replied

"Do you know by who? Do you want me to come and get you?" Sam said concern in his voice and Rory couldn't help but smile, she and Sam shared a brother-sister relationship and were there for each other when in times of need

"A black and white Saleen police car but the weird thing is that instead of: Protect and Serve written on the side it says: To Enslave and Torture" Rory replied.

Instead of thinking she was crazy her friends swore rather loudly and Rory heard Mikaela begin to panic

"Sam we better inform them that Rory's a target" she heard Mikaela say to her boyfriend

"I know, we'll let 'Bee know" she heard Sam say

"Guys what are you…" Rory trailed off her eyes going wide as saucers at what she saw, the police car was gone and in its place was a large 30ft tall black armored robot with red eyes

"Holy fuck" Rory swore

"What Rory what is it?" Mikaela cried

"Police car…transformed…big scary robot…red eyes" was all Rory could say

"Sam…" Mikaela trailed off

"RUN" Sam shouted over the phone and Rory grabbed her purse and piss bolted.