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A New Family, A New Life

By Witch08

Chapter 1

There was smoke and debris everywhere around me as the sounds of battle rang throughout the din. I ran, keeping to the walls and the shadows. I was scared, but I was scared even more for my fellow cadets and the visiting Autobots – who they are I do not know – here at the Academy. I was scared for my instructors and the rest of Cybertron.

Even though I was afraid, I kept running through the halls, trying to keep focus on my task. Earlier, no one believed me that I overheard some Decepticons planning to ambush the Academy. I don't know how, but my size and the skills I actually have – what skills they are I also don't know – enabled me to keep safe, out of optical sight, and to overhear what the Decepticons were saying. Now it was up to me to find the detonators and deactivate them before they went off.

I sat huddled in a ball while sitting in my hiding spot. Again, today was not the best of my days and the older mechs once again chose me for target practice. Normally I would've just run using my speed, but as there were so many of them, it just wasn't possible for me to escape 'em. They somehow found out my secret and knew that I was a vulnerable youngling. That's why I'm here now, alone. I feel like I'm in a cage, trapped with nowhere to go. I feel lost and like I'll never be found. I already lost my parents to the Decepticons, and now I'm stuck here at the Academy with only very few mechs, my favorite instructors, knowing what I truly am: A youngling. The other cadets and instructors don't know it – even though I'm out of sight most of the time –and I want to keep it that way. As far as I can tell, no one else knows of this secret.

Outside the opening of the small cave I'm in, I start to hear voices talking in low tones. Getting up carefully as to not make any sound, I move toward the entrance of the cave and gradually inched my head around the edge just enough to see the mechs, but not allow them to see me. Upon closer inspection, I saw that one of them was the very mech who killed my parents while I hid safely like they told me too. Little did anyone know, though, is that I watched the whole massacre from my hiding spot. As the recognition came to me, a shock went through my body and almost made me cry out. Almost. Fortunately, though, I did not and did my best to listen to what they were saying. They had the insignia of the Decepticons on them, so whatever they were talking about had to be bad.

"Starscream, report."

"The detonators are set and ready, my liege, as are our forces. As soon as you give the order, we will make our move and take down the Academy with those foolish Autobots there."

Autobots? What do they mea – Primus, I forgot that there are visiting Autobots today! I have to warn them!

"Excellent. Prepare for battle in four breems."

Realizing with little time to spare, I ran from my hiding place – right in front of the two Decepticons – and back to the Academy.

"Megatron! There's a spy heading back to the Autobot Academy! He could ruin every–"

"Leave him! No matter if he knows of our plans. He won't be able to stop them anyway."

I ran and ran back to the Academy to warn of the coming danger. When I got there, though, the visiting Autobots were there. Taking one of my favorite instructors aside, I told him all of what I heard and relayed the images to him.

After processing what I told and showed him, he said, "Go hide and don't come out. This is very important. I'll warn our guests and try to get some form of resistance up."

"You don't mean that you actually believe that runt."

We both looked up and saw the headmaster of the Academy.

"The runt is probably lying since he is no good here, so no need to get worked up. There is no danger here and never will be. And besides," the headmaster sneered, "I expect that our visiting guests will not even have time to listen to such a blatant lie."

With that he stalked off and left us be. For some reason, the headmaster never liked me and I don't know why.

"Just leave it to me to get the message to them."

I looked back to see my instructor give me a look of pride and satisfaction like he knew something and I didn't before taking off and leaving me to do what he said. I watched him go over to our visitors and try to talk to them before the headmaster came over to join in.

Even then I had the same bad feeling about the headmaster as I had back when I was first brought here less than half a vorn ago. Just as I started to move, a blast shook the building. Through a giant hole in the wall, Decepticons started pouring in and firing at everything in sight. Soon it was all out everywhere.

I pulled myself out of the memory as I stumbled and hurried toward my destination. No one knew I was looking for the detonators that could destroy every mech within the area. I had to pull this through.