Author's Notes: This story is going to take place before Transformers 4. So far this chapter deals with things like murder, brutal interrogation, violence, and attempted rape. The second chapter is going to be a lot worse. So please read with caution.

My name is Meri Banes. And I am an Autobot.

Hawaii's sun was starting its ascent above the horizon when the inhabitants of the self proclaimed House of Technology were awakened by the sound of their alarm clocks and the smell of coffee. Showers were had. And pancakes were made. Along with eggs and bacon. Finally everyone settled down for a quick breakfast. When it was over half the people went to grab their own showers and finish getting ready for work. While the others made up to go cups of coffee for everyone or loaded the dishwasher.

All in all it was an everyday, perfect morning.

But the perfect morning would not last long.

While Meri Banes was throwing in the last of her supplies into her messenger bag the phone rang. Looking back later she would come to realize the phone call was an omnious omnen.

"Hey Kaela," Meri said, a smile spreading across her face.

"Hey sweetie. Are you ready for your final exam of the semester?"

"Yeah. How is packing going?" Are you guys still coming for a week on Saturday?"

"Don't worry we are going to be there."

"Is Bumblee coming too or is he still on that recon mission for Optimus?"

"Still on a mission. Speaking of Bots. How are things going between you and Drift?"

"Pretty good I guess. I just wish he'd talk to me more."

"Well. Drift was always a quiet Bot. And Optimus did say he has opened up a lot more now that he is with you. I mean that's something right?"

"Maybe I just don't know where I stand with him. And when I tried to ask him he changed the subject."

"Well maybe Optimus sending him on a mission to meet the new arrivals will be good for you both."

"Maybe."

"Trust me. Sometimes people need sometime apart. If he still doesn't want to talk-. Sam? What was that noise?"

"Is everything okay Kaela?"

After a moment of silence Mikaela came back on the line. "Yeah I think Sam just dropped a glass."

"Okay."

Meri was about to say something else when the sound of a door hitting the wall violent came from her cousin's side of the line.

"Who the fu-?"

"Kaela?" Meri whispered, when her cousin's question was cut off and a strange chocking sound filled her air. "Kaela?"

The only sound she heard was a strangled choking noise and Meri felt tears fill her eyes. Her mind started to race as she tried to place the sound when she heard rough laughter on the other side of the phone.

"Hey look!" crowed a male voice. "She's chocking on her own blood."

"What?" whispered Meri.

"Good bye Autobot whore. Don't worry we'll be there for you soon enough."

The phone went dead and the sound of glass breaking came from downstairs. The sound of feet running up the stairs and down the hall. Maggie slammed into her bedroom and grabbed the phone out of her hand. The blonde immediately crouched down and started dragging boxes out from under Meri's bed.

"Get under the bed." The older woman ordered keeping her voice low and pulling Meri down beside her, her painted nails digging into Meri's skin.

"Whats going on?" Meri asked.

"I don't know but you need to get under the bed." That said the blonde woman started pushing the red headed girl beneath her bed and shoving the boxes back into place. "Whatever happens. Don't do or say anything."

Meri felt her heart pound in her chest as she watched Maggie leave the room from a crack between the boxes. Downstairs she could hear things breaking as Morgan, Maggie's lawyer girlfriend, started yelling and demanding an explanation as well as a search warrant. The sound of a gun going off, followed by the sound of screams caused Meri to start and slam her head against the bottom of her bed.

"Glenn!" screamed Maggie.

Meri whimpered and pressed both hands over her mouth to muffle the sound of her sobs as she listened to the hell that was happening. The sounds of violence continued for a few more minutes before silence descended the house. She lay there for what seemed like several hours, straining to hear anything over the sound of her own pounding heart. Finally she slowly placed both hands on the cold wooden floor and started to move, only to freeze when she heard the soft creaking of the steps down the hall. Her heart started pounding again and she whimpered as she pushed herself farther back into the shadows of her bed. Pressing herself as close as possible to the far corner. She pressed her knuckle into her mouth to stiffle the whimper as feet with thick, military boots appeared in her room. She waited as they moved around the room and scrunched her eyes shut, hoping they wouldn't think to look under the bed.

She waited in silence with her heart pounding before she heard them slowly leave the room. She counted to twenty before she slowly opened first one eye and then the other. Her eyes flickered around what she could make out of the room between the boxes to make sure she no one was there before she slowly uncurled herself beneath the bed and released a slow breath. She placed both hands on the floor again and started counting again as she listened for anymore sound of the intruders.

The sound of her phone going off startled her and she scrambled to silence it before it alerted anyone to her prescence. At first she was going to decline, but upon seeing the name STEVE, on her screen answered it instead.

"Steve?" she whispered.

"Meri?" he asked his tone sharp and alert. "What's-?"

The sudden feeling of hands wrapping around her ankles, drew a blood curling scream from her. "Help!"

Meri fought for purchase against the slick wooden floor with her hands, her nails digging a bit into the wood, as she was yanked out from beneath the bed. Cell phone forgotten. The hands around her ankles released hers and before she could scramble away they wrapped around her upper arms and yanked her up off the floor. A dark burlap bag was yanked over her head and something slammed against the back of her head plunging her world into darkness.

My name is Meri Banes. And I am an Autobot.

Steve McGarrett arrived at his neighbor's house with the rest of Five-O to a blood bath.

"Shit Glen!" Steve cursed and rushed to Glen's side while the others started clearing the house.

Steve drew a deep breath and knelt by his friend's side as he checked for any sign of life, sighing in defeat when he found none.

"Anything?" he asked when the others joined him in the kitchen.

They all shook their heads as Danny handed him Meri's cellphone. Steve wasn't surprised. He looked around again. Taking in all the carnage and blood. And wondered where the hell the others were. A part of him hoped that no one else was home. But there was too much destruction and blood for that to be true. Plus Meri had obviously been home when things had gone down.

He ran a hand down his face as Meri's cellphone started ringing and the screen bore the word Will. "Alright. Let's start processing everything. Hey Will. I've got some bad news…"

My name is Meri Banes. And I am an Autobot.

When they pulled the hood off of Meri's head she saw Maggie and the others laying face down on the forest floor with their hands secured behind them. Each of them had a man standing above them, with a boot in the middle of their backs and a gun pointed at the back of their heads.

"What's going on?" she stammered staring at the back of their heads.

"Let me make this very clear to you what will happen if you don't answer my questions." The leader said cold before nodding to the one standing above Morgan.

Meri screamed when the gun went off, the bullet silently piercing through the air through the woman's head. Morgan's blood seeped out of from the back of her head and started mixing with her black hair. Meri could make out Maggie's sobs even with the dirt that was no doubt filling her mouth.

"You son of a bitch," screamed Reggie, trying to get to his feet.

The man behind him slammed his boot against his head, causing the curly dirty blonde hair to tinge itself with at first pink then red as blood started to seep through the new gash in his skull as he slumps back to the ground. Victor glares at them, his black glasses having been broken at somepoint in the skuffle. As Patrick mumbles a soft prayer, the same one over and over again into the dirt.

"First question."

Meri doesn't listen, not at first, as the man in charge starts passing back and forth while he asks the question. She is too busy staring at the blood that is seeping into the ground, providing nourishment for the plants, from Morgan and Reggie's heads. She breathes in a shuddering breath as the blood pools start to mix together and the tears that are filling her eyes blur the image as her pounding heart drowns everything else out. A sharp slap to the side of her face brings her slamming back down to what is happening around her, along with the sweet coopery taste of blood on her tongue.

"Tell me bitch." The man spits. "How many of your friends am I going to have to make an example of before you pay attention?"

A sliver of fear races up her spine and she tried not to imagine what had happened. The cold smile on the man's face told her, that not knowing wasn't an option. But nothing had been able to prepare her for the sight of Reggie's head busted in with a heavy boot placed where his skull should be. Meri gagged at the sight and promptly threw up all over herself, much to the amusement of the men around her.

"I will ask again." The man said. "Where is Optimus Prime?"

Meri struggled to breath and form words between the terror that was happening around her as well as the snot and gunk that had made its way into her nose when she had thrown up.

"Don't tell these bastards anything Meri!" Victor snapped.

The man in charge gave a brief nod and one of the men slammed his boot down on Victor's head, causing the man to curse throw up and curse violently.

"Who's life will you end this time?" The man asked, his dark grin widening.

Meri shuddered and stared down at her remaining friends who were all staring back at her with calm determination in their eyes, balanced out by fear. Meri breathed in again and turned back to the man, sniffling.

And she spat on the man, hitting him with some of the snot and gunk that had been in her nose.

The man sighed, both in disappointment and in a twisted glee, as he gave the signal and Victor's head was stabbed straight through with a knife. By now Maggie's sobs had quieted down into soft sniffles and Patrick had stopped praying, both were patiently waiting for their turn to die.

The man laughed darkly. "Boy you little bitches are stubborn. I don't know if you are brave, stupid, or just to scared to answer."

"Go fuck yourself," Patrick hissed.

Meri blinked in surprise. Patrick had never cussed before in his life. And had it been any other time she would have laughed, but the situation was too grave for comedy. No matter how dark. Though the profanity seemed to amuse their captors even more then the deaths did.

"Sorry. You aren't our type."

Meri started screaming again when they reached for Maggie and started to tear at her clothes. The blonde woman started cursing and kicking out at their reaching hands to no avail. Patrick really started cussing them out then. Finally one of them climbed onto her chest and started undoing his pants, pulling our his hardened errection. He grabbed her hair by its roots and tilted her head back while pinching down roughly on her nose, breaking it. Maggie gagged on the blood that flooded into her mouth and again when the hardened piece of flesh was shoved uncerimonously into her mouth.

"That's right bitch suck on it. Suck on it hard."

Maggie promptly bit down on it. Hard.

The man screamed in pain and rage as he yanked his pensis out uncermonously, causing Maggie's teeth to scrap against the sensitive flesh. He started screaming an unending stream of profanities while slamming his fist repeatedly against the blonde's face. Patrick and Meri both struggled against the hold their captors had on them.

"Fucking bitch." The rapist spat when he was done climbing off the blonde's bloodied corpse and situating his pants.

"Fucking dumbass." The leader sighed shaking his head at his subordinate before turning his attention back to Meri. "Now last chance to save your final friend. Where is Optimus Prime?"

Meri took a deep breath shared a look with Patrick, who slowly shook his head before closing his eyes, before turning her attention back to the leader. And once again spat on him.

My name is Meri Banes. And I am an Autobot.

Kono took a shuddering breath as she stared down at the carnage and looked away. She sniffed slightly and touched the back of her hand to her nose.

"Hey." Chin said softly. "Why don't you take a break?"

"No." Kono said softly, breathing deeply. "I'm good."

"You sure?"

"Yeah. I'm good."

"Okay."

The cousins turned their attention back to the five bodies on the forest floor and sighed before Chin pulled out his cellphone.

"Steve." He said the moment his boss picked up. "We got good news. And we got bad news."

"What's the good news?"

"We found everyone but Meri?"

"I guess the bad news is you found everyone but Meri?"

"Yeah."

"Damnit. Where?"

My name is Meri Banes. And I am an Autobot.