Meeting Blackout

I was never quite safe after I took the allspark that day. I should have known he would find me. Too late do I realize the extent of the Decepticons ability to seek out a desirable (or destroyable depending on what you think the context is). It took all but 6 months for the cons to find me. But I really should not say cons, I really should say one particular con that took my act of escape too literally. I was in my final year of community college and was headed out on another day back home to my cruddy apartment. When he showed up. From then on let's just say I am kind of going with the flow.

{Outside Northbrook Community College}

Nala [Friend of Taiya] – "So what did you think of Mr. Robertson's test?"
Taiya- "It wasn't too bad but I think he should have given us more multiple choice questions"
Nala – "Oh well we are both going to pass this stupid class" . . . "I mean who in the heck is going to need sociology anyway?"
Taiya – "I don't really know, but it may come in handy one day"

{In the background a helicopter sound approaches}

Nala – "Oh cool, I think I hear a chopper"
Taiya – {Just freezes and thinks oh no}
Nala – "Hey you alright?" "You look really pale."
Taiya – {stuttering} "Yeah. I … will be okay"
Nala – "You sure, you haven't been the same since you went to LA."
Taiya – "It's nothing … really"
Nala – "I know you were there when the attack happened, maybe you should talk to someone"
Taiya – "No…no…hey I uh gotta go…see you next week" {nervous laughter}

I ran as hard as I could to get back home; I was never more appreciative of the wooded areas around the college. I raced down the path and I could hear the helicopter sound gaining. {thinking, "OH SHIT, NOT HIM, IT CANT BE, SHIT I AM SOO SCREWED, CALM DOWN CALM DOWN, IT'S JUST A HELICOPTER} I got to a clearing and just as I got to the middle of the field I could hear the helicopter pass overhead and the oddest sound I have ever heard screeched out. And a mass of twisted metal began to reshape itself and landing as the biped I saw back in LA slammed down onto the earth. I stumbled back and fell to the floor.

Taiya – "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!' {I dashed for the path and dropped my books and just like that, as I started to move the biped had outmaneuvered me and stood to face me again} "I'M GONNA DIE!" "IT'S OVER FOR ME" {I ducked down and covered my head} "PLEASE DON'T KILL ME!" {I pleaded with the menacing form}

But to my surprise the giant robot did not attack me.

Biped – "It took me several nano cycles to find you"
Taiya – "If you want that cube I took …. YOU CAN HAVE IT JUST LEAVE ME ALONE" {pleading}
Biped – "Negative, I do not want that accursed artifact"
Taiya – "Wait…WHAT!" {I was confused, wasn't that what they wanted?}
Biped – {remained silent}
Taiya – {thinking oh crap, he wants revenge} "YOU WANT TO KILL ME RIGHT, I AM SORRY I DIDN'T MEAN TO PISS YOU OFF"
Biped – "No, I do not want to harm you'
Taiya – "THEN WHAT DO YOU WANT?"
Biped- {remained silent, he just stared at me like a fish in a tank}
Taiya – ? "What and HOW DID YOU FIND ME?"

I was shocked to see a large metal object fall from the biped's hand. It fell very hard and I could feel the shake of the earth below me. I stood completely awestruck by what appeared to be a FBI MAINFRAME?! You could see the serial stickers all over it.

Taiya – "DID YOU STEAL THAT!?"
Biped – "Yes, it was essential in the location of you" "You gave me quite a bit of trouble" "Somehow you managed to slip past what this country calls Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the so called Central Intelligence Agency"
Taiya – {silent}
Biped – "It was quite easy once I took their files and crashed all mainframes relating to the incident in Los Angelis" "Needless to say I think they will be back logged for quite some time"
Taiya – "WAIT A MINUTE; THE FBI HAS A FILE ON ME?"
Biped – "Yes but your identity was hard, you have very common traits among other females here" "Brown hair, Blue eyes, and what your society says Caucasian skin tone" "That brought up 156,329 files alone in the west coast" "But they do not have Decepticon technology do they?"
Taiya – "Wait, wait, wait, I remember Secretary Keller talking on the news, saying YOU GUYS ARE THE ENEMY"
Biped – "AN ENEMY TO WHO'S STANDARDS? The Autobots? Don't make me laugh" "It is all about Perspective"
Taiya – "You expect me to believe that?" "I'M NOT THE ONE WHO KILLED OH I DON'T KNOW ABOUT A FEW THOUSAND"
Biped – "I could have killed you by now, couldn't I?"
Taiya – {thinking he is right}
Biped – "Listen, I know you have the allspark, and tell me little fleshling, why haven't I told my leader about you or why haven't you been killed yet?"
Taiya – "I don't know, YOU'RE THE DECEPTIVE ONE HERE!"
Biped – "Well you are right about that one" {a little chuckle}
Taiya – "But … how did you find me among at least a million people?"
Biped – "I noticed during our brief meeting that you have a scar on your top left portion of your head" "I then sifted through billions of photos in school records and found you that way" "Not a common trait among the selected with your common traits" "Only 4 results came up, It was very easy then"
Taiya – {I touched the almost 20 year old scar} "SO BIG GUY WHAT ELSE DID YOU DIG UP ON ME?"
Biped- "Plenty"
Taiya – {eyebrow raised}
Biped – "It said you have a twin, by the name Stephen" "He also shares similar traits with you" "however, his scars are common among children who climb a lot" "You also went to camp together" "And from then on since you were 12, you have been separated by something called divorce"
Taiya – "Anything else you want to tell me Decepticon?"
Biped – "No, and it's not Decepticon! My name is Blackout"
Taiya – "Blackout? Is that even a real name?"
Blackout – "I chose a name that suites my attitude and abilities, you humans however do not"
Taiya – "So besides that, why is it you didn't want to allspark?"
Blackout – "THAT horrid object has turned my home into a barren wasteland, nothing but destruction and death all around, war forever" {A saddened look appeared to be on this Decepticons face?}
Taiya – "Your home?"
Blackout – "Cybertron, a planet far away from here, several light-years away"
Taiya – "Cyber-tron?", "Well it sounds like a technological nirvana"
Blackout – "It used to be" {sirens in background} "We should go"
Taiya – "WHAT WITH YOU?"
Blackout- "Like you have a choice"

The Decepticon known as Blackout then transformed into his helicopter mode and told me to get inside. I was ever so scared to touch anything while inside. He said on a speaker that it would be okay to sit down in the co-pilots seat.

Blackout – "It would be best if you put on the flight jacket in the closet to your right" "I hope it fits"
Taiya – {Put on the jacket that had the numbers 4500X on the sleeve and had a purple logo on the back}
Blackout – "Don't worry I never crash"
Taiya – 'Are you sure I can sit on you?"
Blackout – "If you are scared of hurting me, don't count your luck, it would take more then a tiny bit of weight to harm me. I am used to hauling fellow Decepticons around, AND they weight a heck of a lot more then you"
Taiya – {Carefully sat down in the co-pilots chair and was a little taken back by the figure of a man sitting in the pilots chair]
Blackout – "Don't worry, its just a hologram, I can talk through it if you want"
Taiya – {I nodded, and the mouth of the mustached pilot began to talk]
Blackout – "So your name is Taiya"
Taiya – "Yes" . . . . "So what did you mean by I don't have a choice?"
Blackout – "Well it looks like me and you are now permanently together"
Taiya – "Permanent? Just what are you getting at?"
Blackout – "Lets just say I have taken a liking to you, and I refuse to see you either destroyed, maimed, and or left" "I don't know why but I liked that kiss you gave me, so I did my research and found that humans give kisses to people they find likeable, so that means you like me, I was a tad bit surprised, when most beings see us they attack us"
Taiya – 'IS THAT WHAT YOU THOUGHT, THAT WAS AN ESCAPE PLAN'
Blackout – "liar"
Taiya – "how do you know?"
Blackout – "My sensors indicate that you are lying"
Taiya – "I AM NOT!"
Blackout – "Yes you are, you can not lie to me. You like me and I like you, so what is the malfunction?"
Taiya – "Great, I have a Decepticon stalker, WOULDN'T YOU WANT SOMEONE I DON'T KNOW BETTER LOOKING?"

Blackout stopped dead and hovered.

Blackout – "NOT THIS! uhg," "I thought something like this would occur" "Do all you humans have this inferiority complex? I mean its normal for automated beings like me to have this problem but humans are too complex to suffer from such normality."
Taiya – "This isn't an inferiority complex, its truth"
Blackout – "You Humans are so odd"
Taiya – "OH COME ON, YOU KNOW I AM RIGHT."
Blackout – "Wanna bet?, according to YOUR HUMAN LANGUAGE. One, Beautiful – adjective, to be pleasing to the eye. Two, Pretty – another adjective, to also to be pleasing to the eye, also to be pleasing to the senses, that is humorous, and to be fine. Three, your society agrees upon the statement "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder". Right?"
Taiya – "so let me see here, I am pleasing to your eye and sense of humor?"
Blackout – "Yes. Actually I find most of you human females easy on the eyes. I have no idea why your world puts so much pressure on you girls. Males should be less like pigs if you ask me. I guess I can't expect much from a world that has been poorly dominated by them."
Taiya – "a male on my side?" "WOW AM I CONFUSED. And how did you come up with those definitions?"
Blackout – "I have memorized all of earth's languages. However I do not have a word to describe what you did for that human boy back in LA. I want to say helpful."
Taiya – "You mean that Sam kid?"
Blackout – "Yes I know what you did." {I raised my eyebrow} "You saw him fall, Hard, and he dropped the cube. You saw everyone clamor for it.'
Taiya – "Yeah and?"
Blackout – "You were there at a restaurant at the time. The boy was shot at by one of my fellow cons Starscream, you then saw he needed help and took the cube. I couldn't make out what he said to you. Your friend at the restaurant was almost killed by rubble, you saw this, pushed her out of the way and made your way to the boy." {I remained silent} "Your friend took what you did as a sign to run and left you there right in the middle of the battle. What made you run off with the cube though?"
Taiya – "Everyone wanted it so I took it."
Blackout – "Liar." "You took the cube because you felt it was right. Am I right?"
Taiya – "fine you want to whole truth. I SAW HIM FALL, WENT OVER WHERE HE PLEADED TO ME BEFORE HE PASSED OUT "the cube, the cube, the cube" , I took that as a sign to grab it and run like heck. I didn't know who to trust so I just kept running. I bumped in to that soldier on a motorcycle, got scrapped up pretty bad and kept on running. Then you started chasing me. I did what I did, ran away with the darn thing and just as I hit outside the state the cube flashed and hit me with some sort of wave, I collapsed and passed out for a few hours.
Blackout – "But why didn't you give it to the Autobots?"
Taiya – 'I really didn't know who to trust. I don't put my faith in the government. A few weeks later I found out who was who, and that Optimus was ready to kill the hope for your planet. So I kept the cube. Put it away in a safe location and then you tracked me."
Blackout – "I know you didn't want to leave the boy to save the cube. You were never thinking of the cube."
Taiya – "So what that makes me "pretty" and a bit of a liar, big deal"
Blackout – "You are a tad bit deceptive, but this will come in handy when you meet Megatron"
Taiya – "WAIT, YOU MEAN NBE 1?!"
Blackout – "Yes, and if I were you I wouldn't call him that. He would get furious."
Taiya – "BUT, if HE SEES ME I AM DEAD"
Blackout – "Hey don't worry about it, I managed to convince Megatron that the girl we are looking for has blonde hair and green eyes, and is also very tanned, which you are not. He is so angry he just agrees with everything I say, sadly it's the only way to pull one over him, and otherwise he is too concentrated to make a valid decision."…. "ANYWAYS I ASKED HIM A FEW MONTHS AGO IF I COULD HAVE A PET AND HE SAID YES" … "he was a bit frazzled at the time so he just said yes and went on with looking for information on the allspark"
Taiya – "PET? PET? I SIR BLACKOUT AM NO PET! I DON'T BELONG TO ANYONE"
Blackout – "it is just a cover."
Taiya - "AND WHERE MAY I ASK, AM I SUPPOSED TO DO ABOUT LIVING CONDITIONS"
Blackout – "Another thing completely covered"... "I converted an old storage room for you, sort of like what is listed as a one bedroom apartment, you humans sure are easy to maintain, a heck of a lot easier then us Transformers"
Taiya – "You are not serious are you?" "ME LIVE WITH DECEPTICONS!" {Laughter}
Blackout – "Yes I am completely sincere, I also managed to persuade the others to think about pets of their own, sort of like a having something to do while we are here."
Taiya – "But, I HAVE TO MEET MEGATRON?"
Blackout – "Don't worry so much, slag, you humans are soo easily stressed. It's just a meeting after all; you know to get his approval"
Taiya – "So in other words a test?"
Blackout – 'Yes, and maybe even make you a full fledged con. I do believe you may be of use to us here. Sneaking in where robots would be clearly detected. Just a thought though"
Taiya – "Oh great" {Thinking, I am so dead}
Blackout – "There are a couple of rules I should tell you about before we get there."
1. Just keep silent; just let me do the talking.
2. Don't speak unless asked to. Megatron hates it when beings get smart around him.
3. Stay clear of the one called Bonecrusher. He hates everything, and won't hesitate to kill you.
4. Stick with me okay, I don't want you wandering around.
5. And uh. Just avoid eye contact with everyone okay. The Decepticons don't know you yet and I just want to make sure they don't think you are trying to anger them.
Taiya – "So basically keep quite and stick to you like glue"
Blackout – "Affirmative"

It was a long way to the Decepticon base. They choose the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.