What you recognize I don't own asterisks are foreign and alien languages italics are thoughts unless the language changes while in conversation. For the first part it might be a little rough to read which is why I won't make it last too long and also why I rate my fics T. I also have the character not know how much time has passed but there's a good reason why just not like the last time. Oh and the first part has some major flashback going on as well different periods of time for each flashback, though one will be really short the other, not so much. Military time will occasionally be in use and if it's after noon will be translated. Oh and one last thing a sport will be mentioned much later that is not referenced to before because it happened during a three year peace period that the character would rather not recall if at all possible and thus doesn't mention it often if at all
The person was weak, weaker than they had ever felt before even while being captive for however long it had been though they knew it had to have been at least over a year by that point, they thought back to at least ten years back when for several years they thought that all hope was lost
At least ten years earlier
"So any ideas for food this time kid?"
"See that snake?"
"What of it?"
"That's a Black Racer, that equals food"
"How does a five year old know all of this anyways?"
"Who raised me until five months ago when I lost my entire family?"
"Oops forgot you were an EDC" (Earth Defense Command) "kid raised by the Cybertronians, still hard to believe that for five months you had the rank of Lt. and outranked everyone but the President, and you had the training too"
"Not my fault I was born with powers that activated at the age of four"
"We know, it's just still hard to believe that after a full year of training in both your powers and the military the President decided to give you the rank of Lt."
"Yeah well if not for that rank many of the lower ranking officers and enlisted would be dead by now, as it is since I gave them the order to retreat and try to go underground we have no clue just how many are alive"
"What about the fact that they all have SERE" (Survive, Evade, Resistance, Escape) "training? I thought that would help keep them out of trouble"
"Only if they managed to join the fast forming resistance groups or made one themselves in the early days and according to reports even those are dwindling pretty fast"
"Guess you're right, hope we can free earth fast"
"We will, with time and effort we will, I just don't know how fast that will be or if it will even be fast enough"
"Well I guess all we can do is try"
For seven years they fought to free Earth, more specifically at first America but they soon realized the whole world needed freed so they set their mind to do that as well. Plus thanks to underground schooling everyone was pretty much where they should have been if things hadn't been so interrupted, though classes were often interrupted and students kept missing classes. But thanks to the system set up where some students will have classes on certain days and the other students the other days everyone managed to always get either the lesson or at least the homework which meant they were all at the proper grade level. A year before earth was free the EDC revealed themselves and the Cybertronians to be alive as well, they had gone even deeper underground then everyone else but had been the ones leaving things behind for one very special person to learn from
Present time
"That was a wonderful day finding out my family was alive, too bad the peace only lasted three years stupid Quintessons teaming up with a new enemy. If only we had thought of that my unit would be alive and I wouldn't be prisoner"
Unknown amount of time
In Iran things were so desperate that they called in the EDC who in turn decided it would be best for the American military to start out with so that if they were ordinary terrorists they wouldn't be overwhelmed too fast. Ultimately though the EDC did have to get involved and even more Sara was called in by the President to serve in a Marine unit
"So think you can handle this kid?"
"Seeing as how I was part of a resistance three years ago yeah I think I can handle this, everyone old enough to remember that time period could, though no one but me due to special circumstances is allowed to join before seventeen with parental permission and eighteen without"
"Well we've got patrol so let's go"
The patrol was attacked three weeks later and initially everyone was taken prisoner and they all followed the code of conduct set before them when they first joined the military and took basic SERE training, sadly though they lost superior officers one by one until only Sara was their prisoner. She gave them lots of trouble for it though and they weren't very appreciative of it seeing as how they brought in their secret allies, allies that could drain Sara of her special powers and send in a perfect double due to their ability to copy memories perfectly, also a persons personality was copied as well and then the copy was sent back to the unsuspecting military
Present time
"I've got to escape, but I'm so weak, they're constantly draining me of my powers, soon I'll either lose my powers or be killed, but maybe just maybe I still have enough power to use on myself to be able to escape though it's dangerous as I've never tried such a thing before"
She looked deep within herself and then made herself phase through the chains that held her back once she was out of her bonds she made herself tangible again and also very, very weak but she knew what she had to do at that moment and that was too escape. And escape she did, for five days she walked through the desert just trying to get to a safe location because it didn't have to be an American base, she could walk into a Canadian or United Kingdom base and be safe while she recovered enough to go back to the American base. What she didn't know during that five day period was that events were coming together that were making people wonder if she was a traitor or not and then a few days later wonder if she was even alive or not and they wouldn't have answers for twelve whole days. Five days after she escaped she made it to a Canadian base who took her in to treat her, waiting for her to wake up so they could figure out who she was seeing as how she no longer had her tags on her