I'm a very new Transformers fan; I just saw the movie for the first time about two weeks ago so my knowledge about the Transformers is limited to the movie and a few things I've seen in other fanfictions. Advice or suggestions are welcome as well as constructive criticism and feel free to point out any mistakes involving the Transformers or my writing, this is my first fanfic that I haven't had a beta reader for and I'm not very good at remembering proper punctuation so I'm sure there will be mistakes.
This starts out right after Megatron was destroyed.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything except for my original characters.
Shortly after the final battle with Megatron the government officials had told the Autobots that it would be best if no one else found out about them. All of the down town area where the battle had taken place was blocked off and the news crews were being told that the robots had been made by a terrorist group and military choppers flew over the area making sure no one could get close enough to see what was happening on the ground.
Ratchet had checked everyone's injuries and after finding no serious damage on the others he had started to work on repairing Bumblebee while they waited for a truck to be brought to transport him to somewhere safe where Ratchet could finish the repairs.
After searching for injured people and having captain Lennox and his men take them to the rescue workers who hadn't been allowed into the block where the Autobots were waiting everyone had collapsed. Sam and Mikaela were sitting next to Bumblebee trying to keep him distracted while Ratchet worked on repairing him, captain Lennox and his men were being checked by a paramedic and Optimus and Ironhide were discussing what they would do now that Megatron had been defeated.
Optimus had just pulled out the piece of the Allspark as he was telling Ironhide about it when his arm was hit by a small missile causing him to drop it. Another missile barely missed his head and he turned and saw an almost human sized robot aim at him again. Before it could fire again Ironhide fired one of his cannons at it, destroying it.
After discussing where the robot could have come from and finding out that Sam had fallen with the Allspark. Optimus said. "Ratchet stay here, keep working on Bumblebee and watch the children. Ironhide and I will split up and search the area and make sure there are no more of those things running around."
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A couple of blocks away.
Ella finished tying a strip of cloth around a deep cut in an old woman's arm, "Just keep pressure on that and the bleeding should slow down." She told the woman's husband, "Stay here and as soon as I see rescue workers I'll send them to get you." She said before heading off to look for other injured people.
As she headed down the road between cars and ruble she stopped and checked each car for people and sadly found that most of the ones who were still in the vehicles were already dead. Spotting a clothing shop she went in and started taking clothes that could easily be torn into bandages, she found a backpack and started to stuff the clothes into it when someone yelled at her to stop. She turned around and saw a terrified woman standing behind the register.
"Look I'm not stealing these to keep them, I haven't seen any rescue workers yet and people are bleeding to death out there. I need something else to use for bandages, I'm kind of running out of clothes, this was a full length skirt when I started helping people." Ella said indicating the skirt that now barely came half way to her knees. "Do you still have running water here?" she asked.
"I don't know I haven't moved from here since the explosions started." The woman replied.
"Where's you bathroom?" Ella asked.
"It's back there." The woman said pointing to the back of the store.
"Here start tearing these into strips for me." Ella said tossing the clothes onto the counter then grabbed a couple of plastic bags and another pile of clothes.
"What are you doing with those?" The woman asked.
"I'm going to get them wet so I can at least partially clean people's wounds." Ella said grabbing a pack of ponytail holders as she headed to the bathroom.
Ella quickly washed the blood and dirt off of her hands and face, pulled her long black hair into a quick braid then took off her denim jacket and cleaned then tightly bandaged a deep cut on her left arm. It hurt horribly, but she knew she had been lucky. She had left home at five that morning so she could spend the whole day at the court house and library in Mission City, her biggest concern when she left home had been whether she would find all of the records she was looking for before they closed. Now she was trying to keep herself alive as well as help as many people as she could. She wasn't even sure what had happened, she had stayed inside of the court house watching from the windows as what looked like giant robots occasionally came into view fighting each other and shaking the buildings around them, at one point something had slammed into the court house causing lights and plaster to fall from the walls and ceiling and the windows to break, including the one she had been standing by, showering pieces of broken glass over her and leaving her with dozens of small cuts as well as the larger one on her arm. No one she had talked to knew anything about what had been happening or where the robots had come from and she couldn't come up with any explanations that didn't seem crazy. When things had finally quieted down she had suggested that those who weren't injured should help those who had been hurt outside. Just looking out the windows it was obvious there were going to be a lot of people who would need help, but everyone else seemed to be too afraid to go out so she had headed out by herself. Sighing she tore her mind from the events of the day and finished soaking the clothes then put them in the bags and headed back out. Stuffing the wet clothes into a second backpack, she took the one of torn clothes from the woman thanked her for her help and started to leave the store.
"Wait, do you want to change into a pair of pants or something?" the woman asked.
"If you really don't mind I would be more comfortable with a longer skirt." Ella replied.
"Go ahead; the dressing room is over there." She said pointing to the far wall.
"That's alright; I don't need to waste time with a dressing room." Ella said picking a long denim skirt and slipping what was left of her skirt off to reveal a pair of shorts she wore under it then put on the other skirt.
"You wear shorts under your skirt?" the woman asked.
"Yep, I like to wear skirts, but you never know when you might be in a situation where you may need to take a skirt off to do something or in this case use it as bandages." Ella explained then left.
As she came out she spotted a vending machine, she found a good sized piece of metal, busted the lock off, flinching at the pain it caused in her injured arm then stuffed as many bottles of water and juice into the backpacks as she could. She continued down the road helping people out of their cars and unburying several that were trapped in the ruble and cleaning and bandaging their wounds. The ones who could walk she sent back to wait at the clothing shop and the others she promised to send help to. The ones that she couldn't get out of their vehicles or were buried under too heavy of stuff for her to move she would give something to drink and tie pieces of red cloth to the antennas of the vehicles or near where the people were buried so the rescue teams could get to them quickly. Although she was beginning to wonder if anyone was going to come to help.
After awhile she came to an intersection that was completely blocked by debris from a building that had been horribly damaged so she decided to cut through a nearby ally. When she was almost to the other side she heard voices and started to run the rest of the way until she tripped over a pile of stuff and fell, her hand coming down on something sharp. As she pulled her hand back she saw a long triangular piece of metal with strange markings on it. Curious about the markings on it she decided to take it with her; she picked it up and put it in her pocket then stepped out of the ally.
Everything suddenly went quiet when she stepped out. She looked around and froze when she saw two huge robots at one side of the road one looked like its lower legs had been ripped off and the other one looked like it was kneeling in front of it looking at its legs, but neither one was moving.
"It's alright they've all been deactivated." A man said coming up behind her, making her jump and glance over her shoulder at the man.
"What are they and where did they come from?" She asked looking back at the robots and starting to back away from them. After seeing them fighting and tearing up the city, even though the man said they had been deactivated they still made her nervous.
"Right now, I'm not allowed to say, but the information should be available to the media in a few hours from what I've been told." The man said leading her to the other end of the block.
"Where is everyone? Shouldn't there be rescue teams getting the people out of here?" Ella asked.
"Their starting on the north side of the city and working their way in." He told her.
"Well you need to get someone here right away; there are at least fifty people who need help on the next road over. Some of them are hurt bad and need medical attention right away. I can tell you exactly where they are." Ella told him.
"Alright, we'll get a team down here as soon as possible." He said walking up to another man and telling him to radio for a rescue team then had Ella tell him where the people were. "I'll get someone to give you a ride out of hear as soon as possible." He told her.
"No, you need to concentrate on the people who are hurt and dieing. Do you know if Kreager Street was hit or the area around the library?"
"Just a minute." He said picking up a radio.
While he was on the radio Ella started to walk back towards the end of the blocked off road, wanting to get another look at the robots, just as she was about to where she could see the robots she was grabbed from behind and pulled back a little.
"Their deactivated, but no one is to go near them." The man told her then said. "Kreager Street wasn't affected."
"Good then you just concentrate on getting those people out. My car is on Kreager Street by the library so I should be able to get there and get home." Ella told him.
"What about your injuries?" He asked.
"It's nothing worse than cuts and bruises, the worst cut won't even need more than a stitch or two, if I'm careful hopefully that won't even be necessary. I'll be fine, there are too many people who really need the help and can't get out of there without it. If I find anyone else I'll have them wait where you can find them or mark where they are the same as I did with the others." Ella said picking up the backpacks.
He hesitated a moment, "Fine, but what's your name and how do I contact you to make sure you really get out of here alright?" He asked.
"My name is Ella Haver, I live in Tranquility and this is my address." She said pulling a pen and paper out of her purse, then wrote down her phone number and address and handed it to him.
"I'm Captain William Lennox, are you sure you don't want me to send someone with you to make sure you get out of here safely?" He asked.
"If you send anyone with me I'll just make them stay and take care of the first injured person we see. I'll be fine on my own." Ella reassured him then headed down the road towards were she had left her car that morning.
She had found several more injured people, helped them and had just turned down the road where her car was parked when she heard a noise behind her. She turned to look and saw a small robot about two feet tall with glowing red eyes. She started to back away from it and it lunged at her, its sharp claws ripping into her skirt. She screamed and took off running, she had just passed an ally when the thing jumped and caught her leg, she kicked it off, sending it flying back several feet, but before she could get up it was already back on its feet and coming at her again. She was vaguely aware of the ground shaking like something huge was running then just as the small robot was almost to her a huge robot lunged out of the ally catching the small one in its hand as it landed hard making the ground shake.
Ella sat there too terrified to move as she looked at the huge robot; it had to be at least thirty feet tall. Its feet were still in the ally and its body was stretched clear across the road and it had what looked like red and blue armor on it. It slowly turned to look at her and asked. "Are you alright?"
Ella sat there staring at its face which was only a few feet away from her for a moment, too afraid of it and shocked to reply. Then she looked in to its eyes, something about them gave her the feeling that she was perfectly safe with him and she started to relax enough to answer. "I – I'm fine." She stuttered her whole body still shaking slightly from fear as she looked at it.
As the robot stood up and started to walk away Ella called out. "Wait!"
He turned and looked at her and she said. "Thank you for saving me."
"Your welcome." He said before turning down another street and disappearing from sight.
Ella sat there for another minute thinking about what had just happened then finally got up and headed towards where her car was parked.
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Optimus returned to where the others were waiting and dropped the now crushed robot with the others he and Ironhide had found.
"Did anyone see you?" Captain Lennox asked.
"Only a young woman who was being attacked by that last robot, she said she was alright, but she had a deep cut on her arm that I think would need stitches, it wasn't too severe and other than that she had no serious injuries so I let her go." Optimus told him.
"What did she look like?" Lenox asked.
"She had black hair, brown eyes and was wearing a denim skirt and jacket." Optimus replied.
"I know who she is; she was here about an hour ago. From what I've heard from the rescue teams she helped a lot of people who were hurt today and she refused to let anyone help her get out of here or check her injuries because there are others who are hurt worse than she is. I made her give me her address so I'll make sure she had her arm taken care of before I leave for home, but how did you know her arm was cut if she had a jacket on?" Lennox asked.
"When I asked her if she was alright she didn't answer right away so I scanned her to check for injuries." Optimus explained.
"You can do that?" Captain Lennox asked in amazement.
"Yes, although I can't detect as much as Ratchet can, I'm only able to detect broken bones or deep cuts." Optimus said.
"You guys are fascinating." Lennox said.
"Yeah, but that ability of Ratchet's can also be really embarrassing." Sam said as he walked up to them. "The truck's here to take Bumblebee so we can finally get out of here."
They had just finished getting Bumblebee into the truck when Optimus remembered the piece of the Allspark that he had dropped when they were attacked. After searching the area for it and not finding it he asked the others if they had seen it or moved it, but no one had. Finally giving up Optimus, Ironhide and Ratchet transformed and followed the truck Bumblebee was in out of the city.
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When Ella got home several hours later she carefully bandaged the deep cut on her upper arm then took a long hot bath and hoped it would soak most of the dirt out of the less severe cuts. When she got out she checked her arm and groaned when she found that it was still bleeding. The last thing she wanted to do was go to the emergency room to get stitches, several ambulances had passed her on her way home, no doubt transporting people from Mission City to other hospitals to avoid over running the hospital in Mission City. Ella just didn't think she could handle having to see all the people who had been hurt that day it would just remind her of the ones she had been to late to help. She was already having a hard time dealing with the memories of all the dead bodies she had seen that day and she didn't want to do anything that might make her think about them more than she already was. The only relief she had from those images was the fact that she also couldn't get the image out of her head of the robot that had rescued her, so she tried to concentrate on that. Finally deciding that she would just have to sit and wait at the emergency room while those who were hurt worse were taken care of, she got out an old towel, removed the blood soaked bandage from her arm and wrapped the towel over it and put as much pressure on it as she could with her other hand and eventually dozed off sitting on the couch.
She woke up a few hours later, rebandaged her arm that luckily had almost stopped bleeding and was about to make something to eat when someone knocked at her door.
"What are you doing here captain Lennox?" she asked when she opened the door.
"I know it's late, but I wanted to check on you before I head home. I had the hospitals watching for you and since you hadn't been in I thought I would check on you." Captain Lennox said.
"I'm fine." Ella told him.
"Did you ever get your arm stitched up?" He asked.
"How did you know it was my arm that needs stitches?" She asked a little confused that he new about the injury. When she had first been hurt she hadn't had her jacket on, but after bandaging her arm with a piece from her skirt she had put the jacket on and she had put on a loose long sleeved blouse before starting dinner so he had never had a chance to see the cut and she was sure she hadn't mentioned where it was when she saw him earlier that day.
"A friend of mine said he saw the cut when he ran into you when you were on your way to your car and said it looked like it would need a couple of stitches. So did you get it taken care of?" He asked again.
"No, it's really not that bad and I don't think I could deal with going to the emergency room tonight." Ella told him, still trying to figure out who had seen her that day without her jacket on.
"I thought you might say that." He said as he stepped out the door and signaled someone to come in.
A minute later a paramedic came in and stitched her arm up then the two men started to leave.
"Thank you." Ella said to them.
Captain Lennox smiled, "It's nothing, you have no idea how many people you saved and how much time you saved the rescue crews today. This was the least we could do." He said as he headed out the door.
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