Okay so I fogot to put an AN in when I put this up... actually I forgot to at the finishing touches after it was Beta'd so it shouldn't be surprising. Now, this is my first time writing a Transformers fic and though I have seen all the movies recently I have not read any comics at all and I haven't watched a Transformers cartoon since my Brother got old enough to dictate what channel we watched after school so it will be mostly based off stuff the movies tell us and what I can find and understand online.

Anyway Transformers character are not present in this first chapter but some should show up in the first proper chapter which will be up as soon as I get it back from my Beta and I have finish fixing anything wrong with it.

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Transformers at all... though I may attempt to design a rainbow loom pattern for Bumblebee since he is my Brother's favourite. I do own this town however and the people who inhabit it.

Prologue - Time to Go

1998

A girl shivered as she looked across the bridge, the misty rain making it difficult to see past the end.

Fifty steps from freedom, the same fifty she and her sister had counted as a game when they were little, the same fifty that had led to her Mother's death. She had lived in that pathetic little island town for as long as she could remember and never once had she passed beyond the end of the bridge that separated it from the rest of the world.

With every step she took dreadful questions entered her mind. What if there wasn't another town nearby? What if the people out there were really the savages everyone described them to be? What if she simply never made it or someone decided to drag her back to that hellhole?

Ever since the lights fell from the sky things had been going wrong. First the Town Hall burnt to the ground after her foolish Sister knocked over her candle in shock. Then illness started to sweep through the town causing her Stepmother to miscarry.

Leaving seemed like the best idea, before anything else could go wrong.

As luck would have it she only had to go a few hundred metres before she came to road, a road like she had never seen before, the worst part, there were three possible directions for her to go; right, left or straight.

She had often wondered how far others who had left their town had made it before being dragged back and punished. Thinking back it was likely they had gone the same way each time, straight. The road leading forwards was the same as the road leading back, only big enough two horses to travel side by side, or a cart if you were lucky. The other road was wide and black with funny lines down each side and in the centre. It was new and scary and few people she knew would risk the unknown.

Taking a deep breath she turned to face the right road and being careful not to step on the strange road she began to follow it to where ever it may lead.

I would ask you to review but last time I didn't bring in a character from the fandom I was writing straight away I got abused until I finally took the whole fic down and quit publishing anything for that fandom. I would like to ask how old Sam was in the first movie however because my knowledge of the American Education system is limited and everything I read online confuses me.