Prologue
My name is Rebecca Thompson and I am 26 years old. I just finished the last of 8 years of college and just moved into my new house. This is the story about how I met the Autobots.
Chapter 1
Ring Ring! Ring Ring! The ringing of my phone brought me out of my trail thought as I reached for it. I checked the caller id and saw that it was my mom and I answered.
"Hey mom!"
"Hi Rebecca! How did your last exam go? Are you unpacked yet? When are you coming over to visit me?"
"My exam went fine, I just finished unpacking before you called, and I will visit you in about 1 1/2 hours. I just want to relax for a bit."
"Okay honey, see you soon!"
I sighed as I grabbed my keys, wallet, and phone and headed out to grab a quick bite to eat.
30 minutes later I was sitting at a window table in my favorite café around the corner from where I live, eating a fresh cranberry scone and a caramel latte. I just sort of sat there as the soft typical café music played in the background. I glanced a look at my watch and saw that I still had about 15 minutes to kill before I would need to head over to my parents house.
"Rebecca! Rebecca over here!" A loud and familiar voice rang through my ears and brought me out of my thoughts.
As I snapped my head up I instantly recognized her. It was my best friend Daisy. "Hi Daisy!"
"Hey girlfriend! What's up?"
"Nothing much," I said as I shrugged my shoulders," I'm just about to head over to see my parents."
"That sounds fun," Daisy said sarcastically, "Do you think that we could hang out sometime? You know, have a girls night?"
"I don't know. It kind of depends on when. Like I said, I have to visit my parents, I have a doctors appointment because I just came back from studying abroad in Roswell, New Mexico, and about a dozen other things, but I definatly want to hang out soon."
"Kk! Talk to you later!"
"Bye Daisy. I'll text you later."
With that, Daisy got up, hugged me, or should I say squeezed me half into oblivion, and walked off while waving. I checked my watch and saw that it was time to get going.
"I'm so tired! I've been at my parents for about 5 hours!" I exclaimed.
I had just driven away from my smiling and waving parents about 20 minutes ago. Thankfully it was a Monday night, so there were not a lot of cars out and about. I decided to listen to some music on the radio. I turned it on only to hear some loud and weird noises coming from the side of my car.
"What the heck was that?" Barely had I gotten the words out of my mouth before the front half of my car got smashed in. "Good thing I slowed down when I heard that noise," I muttered under my breath. I quickly checked myself for any obvious injuries. I found none. I started to climb out of my car only to fallback in when I see what crushed my car. It was a giant robot!
"Oh my gosh! This cannot be happening!"
When I finally was able to get out of my car the robot was about 100 yards away from me. I squinted my eyes to see if I could make anything out but all that I could make out was a large robot and a smaller robot battling. I started to run in the opposite direction when I heard and explosion. I turned around to see a softball sized piece of asphalt hurling towards my head. All I could do was scream and then everything went black.
I opened my eyes. I was laying on some sort of giant table. Or maybe it's bed. It's kind of hard to tell. It was all white. "I must be in the hospital," I thought grimly as I remembered what happened. I turned my head when I heard a door open and close with a soft click. When I saw who it was, I screamed. I screamed as loud as I possibly could. Right there standing before me was a giant red and white robot! After I stopped screaming for a moment to catch my breath, it spoke.
"Must you scream so loud?" the door opened again and I hid under the blanket that I just noticed was on me.
I heard a deep and calming voice saying, "Is she okay Ratchet? I thought I heard a scream."
"You did. She started screaming when I came into the room."
I heard footsteps come my way and I could see his outline through the thin blanket. He (at least I assumed it was a he) was looking at me.
"Are you okay?"
I pulled the blanket off my head and saw a large face with a blue helmet staring at me and blinking his light blue eyes. I opened my mouth to speak but all that came out was a squeak. I saw a glass of water next to me so I grabbed it and took a sip. The cold water felt really good on my scratchy throat. "Yes I'm okay. My name is Rebecca by the way. If you don't mind me asking, what are you?"
"My name is Optimus Prime and we are autonomous robotic organisms from the planet Cybertron, also known as Autobots."
"Okay. What am I doing here?"
"I Brought you here because you got hit in the head by a piece of asphalt."
"Okay. Who is he?" I asked gesturing towards the red and white robot that had now moved next to Optimus.
"His name is Ratchet and he is my medic."
"Are there more of y-" I was cut off by the sight of three more robots, each carrying a human in their hand.
"Ooh! She's awake," said the Asian looking girl with black and pink hair standing on the big green robots palm. "Bulkhead, can you put me down please?" After the robot put her down the girl ran towards me and kept asking me a bunch of questions. She talked so fast I could hardly keep up.
"Miko, don't scare her," said the boy with black hair now on the ground standing next to the blue-purple robot.
Then I heard some beeping coming from the yellow and black robot. "He says that he hopes that you feel better," said the small boy with glasses and spiked brown hair.
"Thanks," I said, "I'm beginning to feel better. Can I get down?" I asked Optimus.
"That would depend. Ratchet, is she well enough to get down?"
"Let me scan her one more time just to double check that she doesn't have a concussion. I felt a slight tingle as some blue light passed through me. "There are no signs of a concussion. You may get down."
"Thanks," I mumbled after he just walked away. Optimus put his hand on the table and I climbed into his palm. Then he kneeled onto the floor and slid me off of his hand. "Thank you Optimus."
"You are welcome Rebecca."
"So what are y'alls names?" I asked gesturing towards the other robots.
"My name is Bulkhead," spoke the large green robot, "and that is Miko, the girl with pink and black hair."
"Hi Bulkhead, hi Miko," I said.
"I am Arcee and that is Jack," the blue-purple robot said as she pointed towards the boy with black hair. "Hi," he said as he smiled.
"Nice to meet you Arcee and you Jack," I replied as I waved.
Then the boy with glasses spoke up. "I'm Raf and this is Bumblebee," the boy said as he pointed to the yellow robot. "Hi Bumblebee and Raf!" I said as I waved. Bumblebee started beeping again as he waved.
"Why can't he talk?" I asked turning to Optimus.
"His voice box was badly damaged in the war."
"What war?" I asked.
"The war with the Decepticons. That is why we are on your planet and is also why you saw me fighting last night."
"It was nice meeting y'all but I really need to get going home. Where is my car anyways?"
"Your car," Optimus said, "Isn't exactly drivable at the moment." That was when I realized that my car was the pile of blue scrap that was in the corner of the room.
"Oh. Well how the heck am I supposed to get home? What time is it anyway?"
"The time is 6:30. I would prefer if you stayed here until morning so that the Decepticons can not harm you," Optimus replied.
"I thought you just said it was 6:30. I still at least need to go home real quick so I can get a change of clothes. These are singed half black and half blue," I gestured to my blue shirt and blue jeans that were half black half blue.
"It is 6:30 in the evening," Optimus said to me and then he turned to Ratchet, "Ratchet, can you please open the ground bridge to- where do you live?"
"I live Akron, Ohio."
"Ratchet set the ground bridge for Akron, Ohio."
Author Note:
I will try to update once a week or so. thanks for reading! Please review! Anyone who reviews gets a free energon cookie. :D
