Chapter 2

"Damn human" Megatron cursed to himself within the depths of Lucy's laptop, he had to find a reason for her to go away, he originally planned to stay put and untouched until his spark was strong enough to leave and find a better host, he was not comfortable being in this pathetic excuse of a machine and will be damned if he made it become part of him for good. For now though it proved good shelter until his strength was back. The only problem now was the pesky human that this machinery belonged to. He should have thought of a better shelter but time was short back on the battlefield.

Once the All Sparks power took over his body, he knew he was on Deaths Door; the pit waiting for him on the other side. He refused to enter. All that power he gained, all the battles he fought, all those years of being frozen on this forsaken rock waiting till the day he had revenge, he was not about to let that go to waste. With all he had left the robotic overlord was able to realise the remains of his Spark into the atmosphere. Time was very short; he knew he couldn't keep this up for long at all. He desperately searched the city, though all he had was a very weak heat sensor vision, finding a host was nearing impossible...until. He picked up very faint heat signal, but it was there, only a few blocks away, with everything to lose, the unseen force ripped through the city until he found what he was looking for. With no hesitation and time practically up, he allowed his spark to absorb the small machine and shut down until recharged enough to know what move to make next.

His rest was disturbed when that darn insect turned the machine on. He couldn't believe his stupidity. The heat signal was obviously of human origin, but at the time the thought just didn't process, he simply saw a ticket to save his life. He was weak at this moment in time and was not planning on getting exposed. He didn't know who this human was, nor did he care, but for all he knew she could very well be working for the Earths government who would not be pleased to know his death was a fraud, which lead on to the question of his body. Where is it?

Sam recalled the city, which he, Mikaela, Bumble Bee and Ratchet not long ago leave. It was left in a state, he really felt for the poor people that lived there and unfortunately got involved, but he supposed that was all part of war, even if it wasn't theirs to begin with. Optimus and the others remained at the site only just after a quick repair and break, there was much to be discussed and damages to be repaired, Sam was kinda thrilled that Optimus wanted to help clean up straight away, he really is such a great guy and an amazing leader. Optimus requested that Sam, Mikaela and Bee went home; Bee requested to be Sam's guardian and was granted it, Sam was truly happy that his good friend was coming home to stay.

Poor Bee was in a mess though, but thankfully according to Ratchet it was nothing he couldn't fix, the medic-bot fixed Bee once plans was decided, but just like any good doctor he took care of his patients and decided to pull Bee home, little guy was in need of a rest. Mikaela, who also was asleep slightly fidgeted against Sam. It was true, the good guys did get the girl in the end, he still couldn't she was there with him the whole time and now here in his arms. He mentally promised himself he would make this work at all cost.

The journey so far was proving to be smooth and relaxing within riding Ratchet; he felt sorry for the good doc and sure hoped he got some rest to upon arrival at Sam's place.

"Hey Rachet, your gunna stay aren't you…even if it's just a little while, you know give your self a little back up?" Sam asked

"How much I would love to, I still have a duty to fulfil and promised Optimus I would return as soon as possible."

"Ok that's cool." Sam replied "Typical" he thought, he kinda knew the bot would decline his offer, the guy's loyalty to Optimus really showed and talking of loyalty he couldn't help but wonder what happened to the Decepticons who bodies could not be found, you would think a true brother in arms would return for their leader and other soldiers, but this was the Decepticons Sam was think off, he doubted loyalty was one of their strongest traits.

Another thought yet sparked from his mind, "I wonder what was to be done with Megatron?" he pondered for a second guessing that Ratchet may have had an answer.

"Rachet, Do you have any idea what's gunna be done with Megatron and the other Decepticons?" he asked

Rachet thought for a moment, no doubt back at the city Prime and the others were discussing this "I'm not to sure Sam, knowing Optimus he would want their bodies to be disposed off."

"He won't let Sector 7 take them? I can imagine they are dying to dig into them." Sam questioned

"So that another event like today could occur? I highly doubt Sam that Optimus wouldn't allow it. It would be best if the bodies were disposed of for good, leaving no evidence of their existence behind." Rachet replied ninety nine percent sure that Optimus would do just that

Sam queried Rachet's answer, but he supposed it did make sense to destroy the evidence, he imagined his fellow earthlings would not take kindly if they all discovered that giant alien monsters just fought their war here. Yes, for it all to be forgotten would probably be best. Sam knew he never would, how could he? But none the less he planned to live a normal human life. With no more thoughts occurring in his mind, Sam also decided it was time to get some rest; he couldn't wait to get home.

"Much better…" Lucy sighed as she wrapped a towel around her self and hair that much needed shower was bliss, she was relaxed and clean, the cuts on her hands and legs were also finally clean. They weren't too deep mostly so she hoped they would clear within a few days, but none the less some antibacterial cream was needed. Searching through her medical cupboard in the bathroom she found what she was looking along with some plasters, even though they weren't too deep it would be wise to put some on her hands, just in case. Her mother always did say "Better safe than sorry." Last thing Lucy wanted was to get an infection on her hands, so she obeyed her mother's old advice. Another air of reminder that hit her was her poor broken glasses, upon putting them on she startled herself from the crack on the left side, making her believe for a second her sight worsen. Her second pair was in her bedside draw luckily, but even though these were broken she wouldn't dare throw them away, they will truly hold a memory of today for the future…along with the recordings.

Once she left the bathroom she immediately replaced her glasses and slipped the new pair on and was then greeted by the site of her laptop back on and running normally. She walked over and had a good check around the system, everything seemed good! Smiling from relief, Lucy decided she was in need for some good old British tea which her mother sent her regularly. Once that was over she planned to re-visit the events of today.

Not long after the kettle was boiling and the young woman decided to slip into some pyjamas. She says pyjamas but in fact consist of an old vest top and shorts, this time of year was rather hot at times, the nights were sticky and thick, so she preferred to dress as lightly and as comfy as possible. Sitting by her desk, Lucy began to load the videos from earlier, it seemed she caught one long one and a shorter second one, the first consist with her running through the streets of Mission City and the second watching the light that engulfed it. She opened the first video.

Whilst she watched the recording she decided to towel dry her long hair. It began with her simply running through the streets whilst explosions and screams took place and before she knew it she came across the four robotic forms, as she watched she paused on the best shot she could find and began to analyse. The forms were to far away for her to judge what they were made of; she couldn't really make out anything, she decided to give up and continue the recording.

Moments later two more bots appeared much closer this time and she decided to pause yet again. She was able to recognize the closer machine from earlier due to his colour scheme, but the further one was not at the battle earlier. This sadly was the only thing she could really pick up on; nothing seemed to be really recognizable.

"Damn, I know for a fact this is going to become my new obsession." She thought to herself, knowing that she will spend many of months and maybe years trying to figure out these machines, she un-paused the video and continued to watch but hardly seconds later the two forms spoke.

"Autobot? Decepticreep?" Lucy questioned, pausing the video writing the two names down on a nearby note pad, when suddenly…

"DeceptiCON! Human!" Roared a voice from her laptop

Lucy screamed and pushed away from her desk so hard her chair tumbled back taking her with it, she manically began to crawl herself away from the laptop and hide behind her bed. After a few quick moments she peered her head from the bed looking upon her laptop which stood still and showed the pause video on screen. Did she imagine it? Bravely she took very small quite crawls towards the machine.

"Hello?" She called and received no answer, maybe she did imagine it, it couldn't have been from the video she paused it. After a few more quite moments she decided to try again but slightly louder, what if it was someone in the apartment? "…H-Hello?"

"I heard you the first time weakling!" The laptop rudely answered

"Holy shit!" Lucy screamed returning to the 'safeties' of behind the bed trembling, she wasn't imagining it! Her laptop clearly spoke to her!

After a few seconds of processing of what could be happening, the most reasonable explanation would be that her Skype account logged in without her consent, but this then raised the question of who? The only people she had on Skype were her parents and a few friends from England, none of which had a voice so powerful and intimidating and at that would greet her so rudely.

"Are you still there insect!" The machine asked in a demanding tone causing the poor girl to "eep!" out loud and peered very slightly and slowly from behind the bed

"Could it not see me?" She pondered "If it could surely it would know I was hiding?" she peered even more from the outskirts of her bed "Y-Yes…" she answered nervously, she really didn't want to answer but there was a high possibly this was the only way she was going to get answers.

"Pathetic cowardly creature, though I suppose this works in my hands." The growl like voice said, there was no denial though, Lucy was terrified, she most likely looked like a puppy right not cowering to the ground

"Who are you? What do you want?" She asked slowly peaking even more from the bed

The voice from within her laptop let out an evil chuckle and replied "Oh I am someone you should fear and what I want is of none of your business, but I let you know now, I will be using your…primitive machinery as a home for now."

"Primitive machinery?" Lucy angrily thought "No one calls my work 'primitive'!" and with that an unknown courage raged within her and she stood up to defend her work "Now you wait just a minute! That piece of machinery is far from primitive, I would know cos I made it myself and I you piece of no good hacker, am a Mission City Computer Science graduate!" she stormed to the machine, refusing to listen to this…thing which she could now only presume was a cheeky hacker, why someone would hack her she did not know "So come on! Spill it! Why are you hacking my computer?"

Megatron couldn't believe the nerve of this human, if he was in his old form he would have squished her like the insect she is, but he was realistic and was not in his old form, but neither was he going to accept the form he was in now or her attitude towards him.

"Hacker I may be, but not the kind your thinking…" he answered almost to coolly

Lucy snapped out of rage and slipped into confusion "What other kinds of hackers are there? A hacker is a hacker." She said in frustration, she didn't like get toyed with especially when it came to her property being messed with

"I guess you could say I'm more a…Virus? But I assure you none of your pathetic little firewalls will keep me at bay." He answered "I think it may be best to accept your fate" he cruelly answered, if he could grin he would.

And just like that once again Lucy became agitated by this thing "Listen you! I'm not taking crap from some jerk hacker from god knows where so that he can torment me! Some man you are bullying a woman behind a screen! I'll let you know, if you want a hacking contest then so be!" and with that Lucy picked her chair up, slammed down on it and began to type and search fiercely through every single digit she could get hold of within her computer, she was going to find this parasite and teach him the definition of a true hacker.

"Once I find where he is, I'm going to hack and destroy his computer from the inside out, I'll make sure no one can repair it" she slyly thought grinning at her skills

Unknowingly to her within the depths of her machine Megatron thought of it very amusing as she rapidly searched to find no trace of anyone and after a few moments Lucy began to realise this.

"Ok…you got me, this is very weird. I can't find any source of your connection." She said in confusion her past confidence declining very quickly "How are you doing this?" she asked

"I told you, I'm more a Virus if anything." He smugly replied

"B-But, how are you communicating? You would have to be connected to the internet to be able to…" She questioned

Megatron was becoming very bored and tired of this, why won't the darn creature except his not going anywhere anytime soon, it then struck him…"Would you like me to prove my existence?" he asked

Lucy hesitated for a moment her fear returning, she really didn't like the tone of his voice and the way he used it in his question, but did she really have a choice in the matter? It seemed the situation wasn't going to be solved any other way.

"Yes…" she whispered

Within the depth of the machine, Megatron would have grinned "Then place a single finger onto your machines touchpad…" he instructed

With even more hesitation the young woman slowly brought her hand forward and stretched her index finger towards the machine. She was frighten, it was like something out of Sleeping Beauty, where the princess pricked her finger on the spinning wheel and feel into an eternal sleep, though she stopped believing in fairy tales a long time ago it sure felt like it related and with that she gently placed her finger onto the pad.

As soon as Megatron felt the connection, he allowed an extremely small dose of his power ripe through the machine and into the human before him. With a wail of pain Lucy desperately tried to pull her finger away from the machine, put the connection would not allow it. Shaking from the electricity that soured through her entire body all she could do was cry in pain and before long tears began to fall. When Megatron thought that he had proved his point well enough he seized the flow of electricity and the woman collapsed on the fall gasping for air.

"Is that enough for you? Tell me fleshing can your so called hackers and viruses do that?" Megatron asked in victory, even in this fail of a machine he got his point across

Lucy who now had finally caught her breath and stopped twitching slightly sat up and looked upon the machine with fear

"What do you want from me?" she trembled

"Good she learnt." Megatron congratulated himself "I want nothing from you pest personally, just this machine for now and for you to keep your mouth shut!" He demanded

"Dear god why was this happening?" Lucy thought to herself desperately, which then came with a thought "Let me get this right, you're temperately stuck in my laptop and only, I'm guessing to do with a need of power?" She asked

"Yes, and what?" Megatron carefully questioned "What is she up to?" He wondered

"Bingo!" She thought and quietly got up from the floor and made her way slowly to the machine "Oh, only simply because…" and with that she slammed the laptop down putting it on stand by "You're not welcomed" she laughed

She got him there…due to his weak and unwanted state he could do nothing but explode with anger and curses, unheard by the woman. He was going to make her pay for that, though he doubt she would be stupid enough to allow him access anytime soon, all he could do now was think and plan his next move.

The next morning Lucy awoke from a rather light sleep, disturbed with the occurring memories of events that occurred yesterday. She decided to sleep in the spare bedroom due to the fact she was to scared to touch her laptop, she really wasn't really feeling of getting another electric shock and no doubt whatever it is in there is not happy with her. She was so nervous about it that she decided to not even spend the day (and hopefully evening) in her apartment but to go and visit a friend instead.

When she got to her bedroom door, her nerves kicked in, she closed it on her way out the night before and now looking upon it shrouded her in fear. She loves her bedroom; it was her haven, a place where she sat for hours on end repairing and upgrading computers, it held memories to, some bad ones, but mainly good and now here she was standing before it not wanting to enter, but she had to if she had plans of leaving the house. So with a deep breath Lucy slowly opened the door.

It creaked ever so slightly sending a chill up her spin, if she wanted her entry to be secret the door sure messed that up for her. She peeked her head in, eyes looking straight at the laptop…nothing. She slowly entered her whole body in, eyes not leaving the laptop and crept her way to the wardrobe and bathroom. She quickly picked up some jeans, a long plain white vest, along with the other usual stuff and a brush, toothbrush and toothpaste and just as quick as she entered she left, shutting the door completely behind her.

She caught her breath once she left the room, sighing and smiling at her mission success. Wasting no more time she got dressed quickly and left the apartment, already dreading her return.

Ashley Duet was disturbed by her frantic watching of the news headlines by a loud knocking on her front door, ever since yesterday's tragic event, she couldn't keep her eyes of the TV, she even ended up falling asleep on the sofa, her brother waking her up only a few hours ago.

Once she opened the door she was greeted by her college friend Lucia.

"Ashleeeeeey!" the girl squealed and hugged the plumed hair taller woman

"Lucy, hi!" she hugged back, a little surprised from Lucy's outburst, she was hardly ever like this and found it a little odd "Your certainly happy, how comes?" she asked letting her friend in and closing the door behind and both walked to the living room

"Oh you know, just happy to see you!" Lucy replied, plopping herself onto the sofa she told no lie though, she really was truly happy to see a friendly face.

"So I see…" Ashley queried but decided to let it go "Coffee?" she offered

"That would be wonderful!" Lucy applauded, noticing that she hasn't had anything since the latte and muffin from yesterday "Actually! Can we maybe go for lunch? I'm starving." Lucy suggested

"Sure, but…you do realise we have to go to the next town, you are aware of the news right?" Ashley asked in concern

It all hit Lucy then, seeing her friend actually made her forget the events of yesterday. A worried look took over her face and she peered at the running television that should highlight pictures of their ruined city, it was all too real, all of it was, the battle, the robots and some evil entity that had some grudge against humans has possessed her laptop back at home.

"Yeah I'm aware…" She finally answered "Infact…it's why I came…I was…I was there when it happened." And with that she broke down in tears, all the weight from yesterday falling with her

Ashley couldn't believe what she was hearing and ran to her friend "Oh my god, Lucy!" she said running towards her giving her a comforting hug, "No wonder she was acting strange, she was trying to hide the event" Ashley scowled herself for misjudging her friend's behaviour "Why didn't you call? I would have come straight over!" she asked passing Lucy a tissue

Lucy took the tissue and began to wipe her tears away, she really needed that "I just…I just wanted to get home, you know, I practically crawled straight into bed." She lied, how can you tell someone about your evil laptop, she herself didn't even know what was going on.

"Did anything happen whilst you were at the city? Did you see the terrorist?" Ashley asked, it might have been the wrong question, but she needed to know

"Terrorist?" Lucy looked up at her concern friend "Was that what those machines were…terrorist weapons?" she thought

"Yeah, what else could it have been? Apparently there was a whole group of them in buildings, crazy suicide bombers!" Ashley answered

Lucy couldn't believe what she was hearing, the robots, she knew they were there she had recordings to prove it, but then realization hit her…the recordings were on the laptop and unless she felt like getting electrocuted she doubted anyone was ever going to see them, thus no one to believe her, maybe it was best to play along…for now.

"Oh I had no idea; all I remember is being in Max's family café and everything suddenly exploding around me and before I knew it I was running for my car and then safe at home…" she slightly lied, slow tears falling down

"Lucy…" Ashley comforted not really knowing what to say, she knew her friend came here to be cheered up and decided to leave the subject for another day, she needed to be cheered up and Ashley was going to supply it "Come on you!" she smiled "I'm gunna treat ya! Shopping lunch and dinner sound good to you?" she offered

Lucy smiled at her generous friend "Ok!"

They had a wonderful day together, filled with laughs, memories, shopping, eating; just what Lucy needed to forget everything, at least she did, until she found herself staring at her front door, she sure wish she asked to stay at Ashley's now, but her friend already spoilt her, she didn't feel right asking for more as she wasn't even telling her the truth in return. With one huge breath Lucy slide her key into the door and opened it.

It was dark; the only light came from the moon. She always hated the fact that the first light in the house was by the kitchen and now she dreaded it. She quietly as possible closed the door behind but cursed at the locking system noise as it shut.

Slowly and surely she began to make her way to the light switch, but then when she wasn't even half way there she was greeted by a tight grip around her mouth and body, she tried to scream but it was muffled.

"Welcome home…pest…" A haunting voice whispered behind her.

Author's Notes

*DUNDUNDUUUUN!* So there you have it chapter twoooo! I hope you all liked it :D

I'm going to try and upload once a week atleast for you guys, please remember I am university student so every now and then I may fall behind, but I will try my best to keep you updated, don't worry I also want to know what happens and I'm the author xD

I won't lie I am pretty much making this up as I go along, random thoughts slid into my head during the day and then once I start typing them down it all begins to connect :D

Please review and I will try and get chapter three up sooooooooon!