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Chapter 4
Troubled Heart
Rachel came to a rest, her dark eyes glittering in the hot, yellow sun.
Epps plunged the dipped into the well that lay by the telephone line and poured the water over his head, gasping.
Rachel looked over at Dog and Ritz, asking," So, can you make a connection with the Pentagon?"
"We sure as hell are gonna try, Stare-down." Ritz responded, calling her by her new nickname.
Dog was paranoid, looking around and occasionally muttering a prayer from the rosary.
Rachel looked at him with sympathy… but then, she felt it. A rumbling from the ground that almost seemed surreal… and suddenly, she knew, Epps was the target.
"GET DOWN!!!" she screamed as she launched herself at Epps, who was reloading his gun.
A huge, sandy and metallic form rose up from the sand like a leviathan, diving back into the sand, narrowly missing Epps and Rachel.
"WHOA MOTHA- What the Hell?!"
Ritz cocked his gun, eyes huge as he yelped," What the hell was that?!"
He never found out.
The Leviathan-like creature exploded from behind him, skewering him with a scorpion-like tail and diving back down into the sand, dragging the solider down with him.
Dog screamed," RUN! RUN!!!!"
They started running, Rachel screaming," Where the HELL is the nearest town?!"
Epps screamed back," SHUT UP AND RUN!!!!!"
Rachel screeched back," DON'T TELL ME TO SHUT UP!!"
Boomer, a quieter soldier, suddenly bellowed," BOTH OF YOU SHUT UP OR I'LL KILL YOU MYSELF!!!"
They kept running. Rachel suddenly felt a tug, and she knew, without a shadow of a doubt, that a communication line was near.
"THIS WAY!!" she screamed, taking the lead, her long, powerful legs propelling her ahead of her friends.
To her surprise, there was a town, an oasis in the middle of a wilderness.
The others took refuge behind huge, broken down walls, firing everything they had at the creature that attacked them. It looked like a robot…
Rachel bowled into one of the houses, seeing a frightened family, she approached them as gently as she could," Telephone? I need a telephone!" she made a fist and kept her pinkie and thumb up, holding her hand by her ear.
Recognition broke on their faces and a young girl raced from behind the mother, holding out a cell-phone.
Rachel bellowed," THANKS!" as she started pushing buttons. She screamed as the phone read "NO SIGNAL"
"No… no!" she snarled. She didn't know it, but her eyes went from black to pure red, as she glared at the phone. And the "NO SIGNAL" was replaced by a dial tone. The Signal was making it out.
Rachel didn't question it, she only ducked her head to the phone as she listened for the pick-up, ready to call for help. They were in the fight of their lives, and nothing was going to shut her up… not even a strange, impossible, metallic foe, like the one she and her comrades now faced.
***
Sarah sat in the office, waiting. She had never been so scared in her life before. It had turned out that her mother was doing drugs… illegal drugs that is. Sarah silently hid her face in her hands, trying to keep back tears as her heart constricted, feeling tight in her chest.
The police had taken her to their clinic and she had given them a DNA sample. She was waiting, knowing that they wouldn't find a trace of the chemicals that her mother had been busted for.
Shaking her head, she looked at the door, her mind wandering as she realized that she had always suspected it, but had never wanted to find out for sure, feeling safer and happier in ignorance.
As the lab tests came back negative, they let her go.
Sarah walked back home, hands in her pockets, she didn't notice her camaro riding up behind her, Leigh in the driver's seat.
"Hey Sarah!" Leigh called.
Sarah turned and stared," Leigh? What the hell?"
Leigh laughed," I thought I'd pick you up! Come on!"
Sarah stared a little before climbing in," Leigh, are you ok? You had caffeine, didn't you?"
"Yeah…" Leigh chuckled," As a matter of fact, can you drop me off at my house?"
"Sure, sure…" Sarah muttered as she drove to Leigh's house, which wasn't far.
***
The DNA sample that had been taken from Sarah caught attention.
Not just any attention…
A police car, new and slick, drove slowly down the street as it made it's way to her house.
***
Sarah waved slightly as Leigh got out and she quickly drove… but not back home. No, not just yet…
She sighed as she murmured," I need to get out of here… I HAVE to…"
Suddenly, the wheel became stiff in her hands, turning unexpectedly. The gas pedal was pushed down without her help. She gave a little gasp as the camaro raced down an empty road, out of the small town she lived in, heading towards the local lake.
The radio turned on, and she stared dumbly as the song played," Why don't we, just up and leave it all behind? Maybe a change would ease the mind, for a time… leave it all behind!"
Sarah swallowed slightly, as the car parked in a rather romantic spot. It was quiet, and the sun was setting. It was very beautiful, with the lake turning golden in the light, clouds lazily turning into cobwebs of moonlight and the trees swaying slowly in a cool summer breeze. She got out of the car, walking to the front, she looked down at the hood, and then an ironic smile touched her face.
"Ok, you know what? This is really weird… but I'm not going to question it… I feel too giddy and emotional right now to question anything. Thank you… Bee."
The radio chirped and whine as the station changed to another song," Sometimes in our lives, we all have pain, we all have sorrow, but if we are strong, we there is, always tomorrow,"
She sang along with the song, smiling faintly," Lean on me! When you're not strong, and I'll be your friend, I'll help you carry on, for it won't be long that I'm gonna need, somebody to lean on!"
***
Rachel screamed as a building behind her was hit.
She ducked down, as the operator on the telephone gave her hell.
"NO! No, I don't want a-GAH!!!"
She screamed as the nightmare from three nights ago came back… this time, in the daytime.
The chopper-bot (she knew that sounded weird, but hey, it was accurate at least) pointed its gun straight at her, as with it's other hand it grabbed her and shoved her into a compartment in its chest.
She screeched, the phone falling back to the ground, landing, surprisingly, near Epps, who picked it up and made contact with the American government.
But by this time, Rachel was gone… being carried across the desert to heaven knows where.
Rachel found herself strapped down in the cock-pit. The helicopter robot had transformed back into a helicopter and was flying back across the desert, leaving the others behind.
Rachel screamed," What do you want from me?!"
"Be quiet, fleshling… you have something that is needed."
She stared, it was talking to her… the damn helicopter was talking to her!!!
" You killed my brother, didn't you?" she responded as she thought," Ok, the copter can transform into an evil robot, I guess it makes sense it'd be able to talk…"
"Killed? No. Terminated? Yes." The metallic voice responded.
She screamed, struggling with the straps that held her down as she roared," You Mother-F*** I'll F*** kill you!"
A metallic chuckle seemed to rumble from the helicopter as it dryly replied," I get that a lot…"
OK! i may adlib a bit, i don't know everythin about Transfomers, so suggestions are welcome!!! My humble and deepest thinks to both Carter457 and MaraGen, for proofreading and bouncing ideas back and forth!!! thank you SO MUCH!!!!