AN: I think I'll be uploading chapters every Monday morning from now on since my free time is usually the weekends. I almost slipped into a writer's block but luckily I motivated myself to finishing this chapter last night. Transformers is the property of Hasbro. Reviews mean I know people are reading!
Delusion Chapter 7
Starscream quickly began his search for Camille. It was proving to be more difficult than he anticipated. At least Area 51 was built with high ceilings made easy for Cybertronians to navigate through. The earth military would attack from around the corners, waiting for him. Yes but that was the least of his problem, he had no idea where the "far wing" was. Of course there were signs to guide anyone around anywhere - who could read the human's language. Time was against him. It frustrated the seeker.
How am I supposed to know if I'm going in the right direction?
As if Primus answered him, Starscream found Alexis' necklace on the floor and securely tucked it away in his cockpit. In the distance, his audio receptors picked up a faint scream.
I'm close!
He had enough of navigating through a seemingly endless maze. The former second in command barged through the walls in the direction where Camille's scream might have come from. He stopped at what looked like a laboratory; the human-transformer chamber was there. At first he stopped expecting to find human soldiers to open fire but they laid scattered unconscious around the room. Camille was nowhere to be seen.
Camille's vision was very blurry; she could barely walk straight and couldn't grasp at what was going on around her. Her head was spinning and her body felt like it weighed a ton.
All I want to do is sleep.
It was all she could think as she awkwardly made her way out of the lab she came from. A hazy memory played in her mind.
No! She screamed and banged on the bulletproof glass chamber she was in.
It was gone in an instant. She sluggishly used the walls for her balance. Her mom ran from out of a hallway, a concerned look on her face as she made her way to her daughter. Lazily Camille greeted her mother with a smile.
"Oh..Hey mom," Her voice croaked.
"Oh good God Camille Rhode," She gasped seeing her weak state.
"Listen and listen good - you're likely in a state of hallucination right now so pay attention. You're life depends on it."
"Sure...Go ahead."
"Your body is going to be rejecting food from now on so don't eat or drink anything. Your transformation will be a slow process as your body becomes mechanical and your brain becomes cybernetic..."
All Camille could do was give a blank stare at her mother. The back of her mind was screaming to pay full attention but her body ached to just rest.
"Did the doctors give you the dose of Nutrient Innovator?" Dr. Rhode suddenly asked.
"Umm..."
A bright light with doctors holding her down with a syringe above her arm filled her mind.
"Yeah..." She answered tiredly.
"Good, it's imperative everyone takes that dose or they'd die from not
developing properly-"
"Do not move!" Ordered a herd of soldiers surrounding Dr. Rhode and Camille.
He crashed a wall with his arm to find Camille and her mother surrounded by the military. Starscream fired lasers at them until no soldier was left standing.
"Thanks," Dr. Rhode smiled at him.
"No," He picked up a weak Camille. "Thank you," He chuckled heading out of Area 51.
"Hey!" Starscream heard Dr. Rhode yell.
Now to get out of here.
Blasting his way out wasn't going to be easy as his last visit here. He easily fended off the human military with his reacquired hostage. He was close to the exit. So close - until his next turn had him facing the Autobots.
"This is as far as you go Starscream!" Optimus Prime declared.
Standing beside the Autobot leader was Hotshot and Blurr.
"Don't try anything if you know what's good for the human!" The seeker ordered holding out Camille.
"You coward! Let her go!" Hotshot fumed stepping forward.
"Easy," Blurr cautioned him.
"Coward?" Starscream grit his teeth and fired at Hotshot.
Blurr and Optimus rushed to his side seeing their comrade injured. Their distraction was enough to give the seeker a chance to escape. He transformed, blew open the ceiling and flew out nearly escaping the blasts of the Autobots' lasers.
Now that I have my first recruit, I must wait until she completely becomes one of us. Then she'll be of great use to me. Starscream smiled at his thought.
He observed Camille weakly sitting in the cockpit, she hadn't tried to fight back the whole time or even object to coming with him and now she was making that noise humans called "singing" again.
Maybe it's just a human thing.
He picked up as much speed as possible to get away from Area 51. The former Decepticon knew from past battles that the Autobots would be hot on his tail to get the human back.
It seemed to Camille as if everything was happening in a dream she had no control over. As she sat in his seat, she was beginning to recall what has happened. She was able to grasp what was going on but that didn't help how her body felt. She quietly sung to herself to cope with her excessive concern of what will happen to her.
I can't believe I'm going to be one of them. Well, this wasn't how I wanted to be influential as Alexis but I guess I'm just going to have to make the best of it.
As Starscream flew through thick clouds, the turbulence was making Camille more uneasy. She tried taking deep breaths but it wasn't settling her stomach. She regretted eating more food back when she was at home.
"Starscream...can you pull over? I think I'm going to be sick..."
The instant he heard her words Starscream bolted for the ground.
No way is this fleshling going to ruin my cockpit. Fragging earth creatures...
He descended down to an abandoned city park. Starscream transformed and almost threw out his sick passenger. He turned away after she bolted to the nearest bush.
This city appears deserted. Let's just hope I didn't land in a place infested with wild humans.
The "wild humans" the former Decepticon was thinking of were the humans who hated all of the Cybertronians that lived on their planet. He heard they referred to themselves as the Anti-Alien Army (AAA). They annoyed him, the AAA were scattered and hid mostly in abandoned cities far away from any transformers as possible. They had even more primitive weapons than the human military; though they were weak they would attack in masses. They had no mercy for humans who turned into Cybertronians, as he heard they were infected.
The more Starscream processed it, the tenser he became looking at the abandoned structures around him.
I don't like this place. I don't like it at all.
