Cassie's Pov
I hated PC on a Monday morning; it was always the same, read the notices and then just wait for the bell to ring. I looked at the picture I had been drawing, it was a girl called 'Nurse Red'. One of my friends had asked me to draw it and I'd say that I had done a pretty good job. When Kathryn bounced in, she saw that her psycho buddy Kitty wasn't there, her face fell. "Cassie...where's Kitty, she was here earlier, but now she's disappeared, I thought she was in PC..." I could hear the worry in her voice, I stayed calm.
"Did you check by her locker?" I asked, looking back at my picture and adding some detail to her needle.
"Yeah, and everywhere else she usually is..." I stood up, grabbed my things that I had brought to PC and left the room, closely followed by Kathryn. "C'mon this is serious, I know this isn't the first time she's tried to fall asleep in the library, but if she isn't there something is really wrong" my brow furrowed as I tried to find my friend.
Oh did I forget to mention, my friends and I aren't... exactly human? Well that's another story for later.
I couldn't sense her anywhere into the school, not even the voices I can always hear in her head... she's an insomniac and a schizophrenic, so it's pretty easy to find which mind is hers, but right now I can't find it anywhere in the school. "We need to get the others" I told Kathryn.
Kathryn pulled out her phone, and hit a button that caused all the phones to vibrate except for Kitty's, she left hers in her locker during school hours, not by choice of course, just so she wasn't tempted to kill her maths teacher, who usually confiscated it. I heard footsteps running down corridors, as they got louder I saw Rhiannon and Georgia running round the corner, skidding to a halt in front of me.
"What's wrong?" Georgia asked, heaving her backpack onto her shoulder, it would take me all day telling you it's contents, so let's just say it's heavy.
"Kitty seems to be actually missing this time" I told them, walking over to her locker and broke in. I grabbed her phone, and messenger bag which held Kitty's...things. I saw something at the back, hidden behind the bag which made me gasp. I saw a picture that was of us with the Autobots, smiling and laughing. I thought I had destroyed all of this stuff and wiped all the memories from the Autobots and my friend's heads...
"What is it?" Kathryn asked looking over my shoulder, but I shoved the picture deep into one of my many pockets before she could see it.
"Oh...nothing" I shook my head and wandered over to my locker, opening it and grabbing my own messenger bag. "We need to get going, things might be worse than we think…" I had an idea of who had Kitty, but I hoped I was wrong.
"Let me guess, hijack the school's system so we can get out?" Rhiannon raised her eyebrow; she was one of the best engineers/hackers in the world, even if she was only a fifteen year old. I nodded, we were going to need all the help we could get, so I did something I swore I'd never do, something that was about to be reversed, I hoped for the good. I broke the wall I had created in each of their heads, and memories of the old times came back. Memories I had wiped clean 100 years ago.
Kathryn nodded "Alright, so what's the plan?" I just grinned and pulled out my phone out of my pocket.
The phone rang once before I heard it answered "Hello..." there was uncertainty in the boy's voice. "Wait… A boy's voice? What happened to Optimus's normal voice…?"
"Hi Opty, how have you been?" I asked a smile on my face, it was good to speak to the Autobot leader again.
"Good... umm... who is this?" Optimus asked, I could imagine memories flooding back to him I said one word "Pandora" Long ago I had decided that the word Pandora would be the key to the boy's memories from the story of Pandora's box.
Clearing my throat I said one single word. "Remember?" I grinned when I heard the gasp on the other side of the phone, the word I had said only allowed Optimus to remember who we were not what we could do.
"Cassie! Oh my God! Where are you?" Optimus asked in sudden recognition.
"At my school, you remember the Baywater?" "Baywater Academy for the gifted, the school of hell…" "Do you mind picking my friends and I up?" I put on my sweetest voice, as I tried to get a favour.
"Er... Sorry we can't... Something has happened…"
"Why not? What happened?" This was going from bad to worse.
"We um... can't... transform any more... we're..." he didn't finish, I knew now why those new boys looked so familiar.
"Can you meet us by Kitty's locker? Oh and tell this to the others." I told him the word Pandora so that whichever Autobot he told the word to they would remember.
"Sure meet you there" he hung up and I sighed, we were in hell, getting Kitty back was going to be harder than I thought.
Optimus's Pov
"Oh my God!" I thought my mind raced for answers, "How are they still alive? The last time I those five organics, was a hundred years ago..." I ran to Bumblebee's, Ratchet's, and then Sun Streaker's PCs.
"Where are we going?" Ratchet asked as they sprinted down each corridor, our feet pounding on the plastic tiles.
"To Kitty's locker and Pandora" I couldn't help but notice as their faces widened in recognition, just as she said they would.
"HOLY SHIT!" Sun Streaker face palmed, I hit him over the head.
"Don't swear…" I scolded him, no matter how bad the situation was, swearing wasn't needed.
"Yeah, yeah" He rubbed the back of his head.
When we reached Kitty's locker, I could see that something was wrong, Kitty wasn't there "Hey guys" I was smiling "How have you been?"
"Better..." Cassie looked down; she seemed like she was trying to find the right words to phrase the problem, "Kitty's missing..."
"Kitty's not missing, she's just temporarily unavailable" Kathryn grinned, trying to lighten the mood.
"WHAT!" Bumblebee looked at Cassie, a hundred years ago, each of us had to take care of one of these girls, and I guess Bee still thinks that it's his job to protect Kitty.
Rhiannon cringed "We don't know what happened, the last person that we knew who saw her was you..." she looked at Bumblebee.
"B-but I saw her walking to her PC..." Bee mumbled as he tried to remember that moment.
"Hmm..."Rhiannon's brow furrowed "If you guys are humans, are the Decepticons humans too?"
"I didn't think of that..." Optimus said, he remembering that they were there too when this all happened, "They were there... but how would they have known where to find you lot?"
Cassie was in the middle of a shrug when her eyes widened in fear "I know why they took her..." she gasped.
Cassie's Pov
I gasped "God guys I know why they took Kitty!" I told my friends telepathically, making sure I didn't go into any of the bot's minds. "They're going to try to get all of us..." I saw their eyes widened it made sense now, I hadn't wiped the Decepticons minds, on the day we left the Decepticons had just disappeared into the night...
"C'mon we need to get moving, they could be anywhere right now, doing anything to her.." Bumblebee said determinedly,
"We need to figure out our strategy first" Optimus told Bumblebee, trying to calm his nerves.
"We'll meet up at the old abandoned junk yard in 30 minutes" Rhiannon said checking her watch.