Everything's gone to the pit. I don't know where I am exactly but I hate everything about it. Even the small parts that remind me of cybertron. This place isn't cybertron. It's not even the wretched mudball planet Earth. It's a twisted and mangled version of the both of them...but not.
It's difficult to explain, though in all of my travels I have never come across a planet as uninviting as this one.
The ruined buildings and even some of the lifeforms seem cybertronian in decent but I don't recognize any of them. There are organic lifeforms here too, like the trees of Earth. They're about as plentiful here as they were on the human planet, though the ones here change colors.
I've watched them shift from a dark blue or purple to a bright red or yellow in a span of a few klicks. Some even have gradients, where one side is one color and the other is a completely different one. It can be quite pretty at times but with the...things that lurk in their shadows you can afford to admire them for long.
The things that inhabit this planet...I can't describe them in any other way. Big, disgusting, techno organic….things. They look like someone tried to create life by smashing together cybertronians with the animals of Earth...and failed gruesomely.
They have a metallic skeleton but a loose outer covering of organic goo that appears to have once been skin. It's covered in patches of fur but you can hardly tell that now. There is little of the organic outer casing left and what does remain hangs off, mangled and torn in a gruesome display.
They are revolting, fascinating, and terrifying all at the same time.
Thats not even the worst of it. The creatures are impossibly fast, even for me, and them seem to know exactly how to move about without being detected. I can't even pick them up on scans. If i hadn't been attacked by one myself I probably wouldn't know them existed at all.
I woke up in the basement of one of the ruined buildings, confused and disoriented. I ventured up to the surface without much thought. I didn't wonder where I was, how i got there, or even if I was alone. I just walked. I had needed to see the sky. The room I had woken in had been small and cramped and my wings would twitch with each step as the claustrophobia started to slither its why into my spark and make itself at home.
The first thing I noticed when I emerged was that the building the bassment belonged to had been in ruins, the basement and small chunks of the base of the wall the only things still intact. I remember feeling relieved at the ruined building for it let me see the sky immediately after emerging from the underground. The sky is what finally snapped me out of my trance.
It was purple, a deep sinister purple. The shock at finding an eerie purple when I had expected a pleasant blue was enough to make my wings fall back in unease.
I finally had enough of my processor back to glance around at my surroundings. That was when I noticed the ring of bright white light that I seemed to be in the center of. It gave be a wide berth, empompusing the entire base of the ruined building, but the place I woke up definitely seemed to be at its center.
The light reached up to the sky so far that I couldn't see it's end from me place on the ground. I approached it, curiosity latching onto my scientific side of mind and not letting go. I got close to it. Not close to the point of me being inside of it, but close enough that I could have reached out my servo and touched it.
With the closer range I was able to see that what i had previously believed was a solid opaque beam of light was infact a transparent barrier consisting of many much smaller more solid beams of light that traveled up it in short intervals. They moved up the beam in a sort of checkerboard pattern and you could see the other side of the barrier through the gaps it left.
I had never seen anything quite like it before and for some reason my scientific side of mind told me it would be a good idea to reach out and poke the unknown energy field that I had no idea what was or did. And for an even more unknow reason I did just that.
My palm rested on it for maybe a klick before the entire thing flickered a few times and vaded out of existence. With the light no longer hindering my vision I was able to see the remains of two more buildings situated in the same clearing mine was. The surrounding forest was dark and uninviting in comparison to open to the sky clearing but the beams of light scattered around in every direction within it drew me closer.
I didn't get far, maybe a few steps, before the one I was looking at flickered and faded out like mine had. I stared at the place it had been for a bit before glancing at where the others were. One of them had already flickered out and another disappeared under my gaze. They didn't seem to be disappearing in any particular order or specified intervals, just at random.
I had seen twelve when I I'd woken up but i couldn't be sure there hadn't been more that had already disabled. I saved the image of the lights in my databanks, making a note as to where the missing ones had been, and started heading in the one I'd been drawn to first.
My flight systems were still offline so I was forced to start the first half of the journey on foot as they rebooted. Not five steps into the forest and I hear the growling.
It sounded like a series of low pitch clicks that got more strung out and higher pitch as it went on until it cut off abruptly. I remember the sound striking fear into my spark in a way Megatron never could. I hadn't even seen the thing yet and I was already stiff with unease. I glanced around the dark bushes that surrounded me, desperately trying to find whatever it was that had found me.
The creature seemed to be purposely rustling the leaves as it circled me, but still managed to be somewhere else when I jerked my head in that direction. I ran a variety of scans but picked up nothing on them all. Was there really something out there or was his processor playing tricks on him again?
The clicking sound erupted from the shadows again, as though trying to convince me it existed. I activated my weapon systems, drawing some comfort from the soft hum my null rays gave off. I clenched my fists ready to fire as I glanced around determined to show whatever it was toying with me that I was no plaything.
That is until I see it.
Plz review i have the self confidence of a parsnip ;w; ~Firefly