Rise of Unicron
After Sam and his family leave for college and Paris, Mikalea's cousin, Terra, comes to take care of Frankie and Mojo for the Witwicky family. Her life is changed forever…the story is better than the summary.
When Terra finally got to the Witwicky house everyone had already left. "great." She mumbled. She was already late because her crappy car had broken down for the second time that week. She was as plenty capable with cars as everyone else in her family, but the fact is she would just rather her brother do the work on the cars, seeing how she does near everything else. She got to the door and pulled out the spare key when she smelled smoke. "Oh-no, no, no, no…" she flung the door open to see Frankie and Mojo 'playing' on the couch, ignoring them she ran to the source of the smell to see the backyard destroyed, a small pile of smoldering metal, what looked like a mangled toaster, sitting close to the home.
As usual the firemen's sour view of their paycheck is reflected in their work. She thought. She grabbed a garden hose and quickly put it out before she headed to the front door for the list, Mojo happily following her every step of the way. Finding the list of needs the home had on the hallway door next to the front door she headed to the kitchen.
"Okay, let's see what I am supposed to do for you today…" she said as Frankie jumped off the couch to join Mojo at her side. Terra then began to read the list Mrs. Witwicky left.
List of needs for Frankie and Mojo
Call us on this number when you get here. ***-***-****
Dog food is in the kitchen under the sink. Feed whenever bowls are empty.
Feed Sam's fish up stairs in his room a small pinch of food once a day
Water plants outside every day (stay off the grass please)
Bring in mail every Thursday
Rules for house
No parties. (Are allowed one person if we know them.)
Do not let Frankie or Mojo outside all night long
Do not answer the door
Take messages on phone
No pleasure calls on phone please
Please eat anything in the fridge or it will likely be rotten when we get back
Please leave garage door open when you see Sam's car outside. (A friend is borrowing it for a while.)
The next few were written in by hand.
Please excuse the mess in the backyard and Sam's room. The electric heater in the attic short-circuited and blew up. Please be careful and watch the repairmen as they come through to fix everything, I don't want to find that my house had been ransacked while we were on vacation. Thank you so much for volunteering to watch the house for us and we will pay you big time for your troubles …
p.s. keep an eye on the electronics and call us immediately if anything strange happens. Thank you so much for this.
Yours truly,
Judy Witwicky
Terra picked up her cell and dialed for Mrs. Witwicky's cell phone number. When they answered Terra got the strangest greeting she had ever heard.
"Heeelllooooooo? Ha-ha! I'm hearing noises again! Ahhh! Ron what happened to you hair? I can't braid it anymore!" Mrs. Witwicky sounded as though she were a child on a sugar rush. "Um, Mrs. Witwicky? Are you alright?" Terra asked.
"Huh? Wha? Oh no, I don't want any broccoli right now, I'm fine."
"Um Mrs. Witwicky it's me, Terra?"
"Ohhh. Hi Terrrraaa! What a surprise! You look wonderful today! How have you beeennnnn?"
"Um… are you alright?" terra asked.
"Oh I feel grrrrrreat. We arrre at the flying place now and we are gettiing a tiiiimmme ouuut because they are meany jerky facezz!" she sounded as though she were yelling at someone.
"Judy! Give me the damn phone!" Terra heard Ron yell at her over the phone.
"no! It's my phone! Mine!" Judy yelled back.
Ron apparently snagged it from her and started talking.
"Hello?" He asked sounding impatient.
"Uh-um, Mr. Witwicky?" Terra asked hesitantly.
"Yeah, who's this?" he asked.
"It's Terra. Terra Banes?"
"Oh! Terra. Hey Terra sorry about Judy, uh, she got a hold of some bad sweets, uh, so hey sorry about the mess at the house, you alright being there still? 'Cause I mean we could get someone else if you want."
"No-no I'm fine. I'm just about to feed the dogs…" Terra walked to the sink and opened up the cabinet below.
"Um... On second thought I will be going to get the dog food later, it seems as though the bag was ripped to shreds somehow."
"R-really? Huh, well we'll pay you back when we get home. Sorry."
Terra chuckled, "no problem. I'm getting dog food for spike on the way home anyways, and it's a 'buy-one-get-one-free' kind of thing so think nothing of it."
"Well okay, but uh, Try and be careful okay? There was a bit of a gas leak and well there's a lot of sharp metal out there and I don't want you getting hurt okay?" he sounded distracted for a moment.
"Odd, the letter says it was the heater in the attic."
"Er, it was. There was a leak in the heater in the attic, you know because it takes gas." He stammered
"I thought the letter said it was an electric heater…Who puts a heater in the attic?" Terra began to mumble.
"Judy! Come back! Gotta go Terra talk to you later!"He hung up before Terra had time to say anything.
"Uh okay, well then I guess I should do what's next on the list seeing how I can't feed you guys, besides, your food bowl is full still. Okay let's see… Feed Sam's fish up stairs in his room a small pinch of food twice a day."
Terra walked upstairs to Sam's room to find a giant hole behind Sam's door where his room used to be.
"OH MY GOD!" she yelled when she saw it. "That must have been one hell of a heater!"
Terra looked up at the clouds directly visible where Sam's roof used to be and saw that the once clear Nevada sky was about to get a small shower.
"Well, strike feeding the fish off the list," she sighed, "I need a tarp…"
When Terra got down to the garage she decided it would be easier to walk through the hole in the wall than to walk around the whole garage to get to the door. She found the tarp, and with great struggle, managed to cover the whole of the hole in Sam's room. When that was done she looked at the list again.
4. Water plants outside every day (stay off the grass please)
She watered the flowers and bushes without any more trouble, and seeing how it was Friday she didn't need to bother with the last one. So she sat down on the couch and pet Mojo.
"Well little guy I guess I will be seeing you and Frankie tomorrow then, huh?" Mojo just laid next to her and enjoyed the attention when Terra heard Frankie yelp outside. She jumped up and rushed out the door to see what looked like a waffle iron attached to Frankie's jewel studded collar. Terra kicked it off, grabbed Frankie, and ran back inside to freak out about what just happened.
Okay, a waffle iron just attacked Frankie! She thought, no, wait a sec, don't go making a loon of yourself just yet. Maybe, maybe he just tripped over it. Terra looked out the window at the thing. Yeah that's it he tripped. No problem, no problem, I'll just clean it up so they don't hurt themselves out there again.
Terra went to the kitchen to get some trash bags with no luck. "Oh come on." She groaned when they weren't under the sink. "Okay I'm a trash bag where would I be?" she asked herself.
"Let's try under the island…" she put one hand on top of the island and squatted down to see into the cabinets. After a few seconds her hand began to feel slightly warmer, she paid no mind to it and kept searching until it began to burn.
"Yeeoowwch!" She yelled as her hand became hotter and hotter until for a split second it began to simmer. Terra screamed and cried out as she fell to the floor in pure pain and agony. The temperature of the wound began to calm physically, but the pain escalated as Terra felt the burning begin to move down her arm and to her heart. "SOMBODY PLEASE HELP ME!" she screamed. The pain becoming worse and worse as it again began to move, this time up the back of her neck and to the back of her brain. She screamed one last time, then she blacked out…
...
Three hours later Terra comes to with the biggest headache she has ever had. (And living with as many siblings as she does, she has seen the darker side of headaches.) She looked down to find Frankie licking her hand. "What happened?" she asked herself. All Terra could remember was that she was looking for trash bags to go clean up the backyard. Terra looked at the island in the middle of the kitchen to find the trash bags behind the bottle of 409 in the back. She picked them up and began to stand when her balance betrayed her. "Oh-oh…ow." Terra groaned in pain. Must have slipped and hit my head on the floor or something…she thought with pain.
Finally Terra managed to get up and start cleaning the back yard. Terra was extra careful with the waffle iron and the microwave because they both looked intimidating for some reason, but wasn't paying enough attention by the time she got to the blender that it managed to sink its teeth into her arm. She threw it into the wall of the house breaking it into pieces. Terra ran into the house, got the first aid kit out of the pantry, dressed her arm, and immediately began to call the Witwicky cell.
"Hola,"
"HI, Mrs. Wit" Terra was cut off by Judy's continuing voice.
"This is Judy Witwicky I am not answering the phone right now because I am on vacation in Paris and will be back in a month. See you then, bon-bonjuway!"
Terra sighed and waited for the beep then began again.
"Hi Mrs. Witwicky? Um I have a big problem, can you call me? Uh, it involves your attack blender and the psycho waffle iron. Yeah, the iron attacked Frankie and the blender bit my arm, so call me back as soon as possible, okay? Bye." Terra looked around for the list. Finding it she decided it would be best if her sister did the chores with her for tomorrow.
...
Terra took Frankie and Mojo home with her that night, figuring they wouldn't like to be alone with psycho electronics, and tells her story to her brother, Danny, while he looks at her arm.
"Well you've got the scars to prove it, He said showing her the wound.
"That was a 'fascinating' story you told me, you seem to believe it was actually real." Danny laughed.
Terra looked at her older brother. His dark brownish-black hair needed a trim, and a comb, his blue eyes filled with the usual amusement at his sister's expense; he had a smudge of dark grease on his left cheek from working on her car when she got home.
"Alright then, Maine will believe me." She stated boldly and went to find her little step sister.
"Yeah right." Danny said following her. "Mary and Maine are eight, and ten bucks they won't even believe you."
"You're on."
They found the red headed twins, Mary and Maine in the kitchen with their little red headed sister, Millie waiting for Elizabeth Terra's younger to make them sundaes. Terra told the story of her day and waited for them to respond.
"Well?" she asked when they didn't.
"Gee terra you always told us not to lie, but here you are trying to make us believe in monster blenders like they're real!" Maine yelled, "Next you'll say Santa is real! And the tooth fairy!"
"Santa isn't real?" Millie asked, tears already welling up.
"Oh no-no sweetie Santa is real-"Terra started,
"See your lying again! Mom! Terra's lying!" Mary yelled.
"Shhh! Guys please! Gabe is sleeping!" their mother said coming down the stairs, "now, what is all this about?" Their red haired mother's always sweet and gentle ways seemed to calm things down instantly. "Oh my! Terra what happened to your arm?" she asked.
"A blender bit me." Terra stated flatly.
"I see… and what happened to the back of your head?" her step-mother asked.
"Oh is there a bump?" Terra asked, "Because I think I hit my head."
Terra touched where her neck and head join to feel wetness and warmth. She drew her hand away to find blood on her finger tips.
"Oh my." Elizabeth whispered. "Okay everyone under the age of fifteen, time for bed."
The three young girls all groaned at the same time.
"Can we stay up, please?" Maine begged.
"Not if you want to go see uncle mike and Mikalea after school tomorrow." Their mother answered
The trio sighed and slowly went up stairs.
"But I want to see the blood! Can I stay up just a few more minutes?" Mary asked
"Bed!" Terra growled "or you'll be helping me clean Sam's yard tomorrow."
Without another word the girl sprang up the stairs out of sight.
"Danny can you get some food and water for the dogs please?" terra asked
"Our dog or the Witwicky dogs?"
"The dogs that need water!"
"Terra, need I remind you that your head is bleeding?" her mother said.
"Sorry."
"Sit down and let me look at it."
Terra obeyed and soon enough she had a patch on her neck to stop the bleeding.
"Here Terra have a look." Lizzy said handing her a mirror after she finished jokingly combing her brown hair in it.
Terra looked at her face for a moment. Nothing looked out of place; her eyes were still blue, her hair still blonde and resting down her back. she was the only one that looked anything like her birth mother, the only thing that seemed to change is the lock of hair on her shoulder that was a cherry red.
"So. What do you guys think happened?" Lizzy started, "because what I think happened is that Terra is a klutz and doesn't want to admit it or she is a klutz that hit her head and had a funny dream. Guys what do you think?"
"Great, thanks. I'm going to bed." Terra growled.
...
That night Terra dreamed.
Symbols buzzed in her head uncontrollably like insects attacking her. She swatted at them, but when she hit one, six would replace it. Creatures, huge, fierce, terrifying things with blazing red and blue eyes were everywhere. Terra ran. She ran as fast and as far as she could but didn't seem to go anywhere. Out of nowhere one of them would snatch her up and hold her in front of its red eyes, then toss her to another. This one had blue eyes, and was twice its size, but was frighteningly fierce all the same. It held her flat in its hand and stared at her for a long time, just stared, until it spoke with a strange, metallic voice.
"Awaken me."
Terra woke in a cold sweat, gasping for air. She looked at the clock to see it was eleven.
"Great" she whispered, and went back to sleep to repeat this horror for the rest of the night.
...
The next day Elizabeth was dropped off at the Witwicky house with her older sister.
"Why do I have to come again?" she complained carrying the bag of dog food, "I was supposed to go to the shop to see uncle mike and Mikalea with the twins today."
"Because, Lizzy, I was attacked by a blender yesterday and I want backup this time." Terra said, "Besides, I got a call from Mikalea today and she is not going to be at the shop for a while, she is seeing Sam right now, at Princeton."
"Oh. About the blender, not even Millie believed you and she's four."
"And a half!" Terra protested, scratching the bandage on her arm.
They walked into the house together and Lizzy set the dog food down in the kitchen.
"Wow this place looks like it was the scene of a battle or something. You just left it like this?"
Terra nodded. "Well no wonder you brought those dogs home with you. They have insurance right?" Lizzy asked.
"Yes I'm pretty sure… now are you going to help me outside or what?"
Lizzy looked outside at the warzone she was expected to clean.
"I tell you what, if a toaster starts growling at you, give me a call. Otherwise I'm gonna watch some TV."
"Lizzy!"
"What? I didn't want to be here in the first place! You're lucky I don't take your car and leave you here with your haunted house!"
Terra groaned. "You're fifteen! Fine. Just don't break anything… and keep an eye on the TV will you?"
"That's the plan." Lizzy snorted.
A few hours later Terra hears Lizzy screaming for her inside. "TERRA!"
Terra drops the broom she was using on the stone path in the back yard and ran to her sister.
"What? What is it? Are you alright?" she stormed through the living room expecting a rabid attack radio or something.
"Look!" Lizzy yelled, pointing at the TV screen.
Terra froze. There on the screen is the face of the creature that grabbed her in her dream. Its eyes fierce, its face was frozen in a menacing, almost disgusted glare.
"Citizens of the human hive," It growled, "your 'leaders' have withheld the truth. You are not alone in this universe .we have been living among you, hidden. But no more. As you've seen, we can destroy your cities at will. Unless you turn over this boy." The screen then turned to a picture of Sam.
"Oh my god! That's Sam!" Lizzy yelled.
"If you resist us," it continued. "We will destroy the world as you know it."
Terra stared at the screen, horror stricken. Lizzy turned to her sister.
"Terra, what's going on?" she asked like a terrified little girl.
"I… I don't know…" was all she could say.
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Well that's it for the first chapter.
I hope you liked it.
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