Author's Note: Chap. 6 was longer than my previous chapters. I hope to make chapter 7 that way.
Chap. 7: Escape
A few days had gone by. I had allowed Megatron to download all that info about transformers into my CPU. Now I knew why Megatron didn't want to answer that question. The main difference between the autobots and decepticons: the autobots were the good guys and the decepticons were the bad guys. And the leader of the decepticons was literally holding me prisoner.
Ever since I had found out this information I stayed in my quarters and didn't come out. Megatron would stop by every now and then and try to coax me out, but I refused to leave the safety of my room. I was not about to be among untrustworthy murderers whose goal was to enslave the universe and destroy anything in their way.
During these last few days I found out why transformers are called transformers. It was because they had an alternate form as a vehicle. Mine? I was a jet. There was a mirror in my room and I saw my wings in it. And I saw my face. My face was light silver, almost white. My eyes, they were red. Just like the devil, I thought again.
Also during these last few days I had been formulating an escape plan. Since I could fly and I knew how to transform, I could take Starscream's advice and fly up. Except I had no place to go, just to the autobots. Problem is I don't know where the autobots are.
If only I could go home, I sighed thinking. I hated being this thing I was now. Somehow I would find a way to turn back. There was a knock on my door.
"Go away Megatron,"
"This ain't ol' Megs sweetie,"
"Thundercracker then, go away,"
"Look, can we just talk for a few minutes?"
"No,"
"Alright suit yourself. I just thought you would like some questions answered about this whole mess your involved in,"
"What do you know?"
"Quite a bit I think,"
"How'd you find out?"
"I overheard a fight between Megatron and Starscream the other day. I thought about it and figured you should know what they said,"
I thought about letting him in or not and after a few minutes of debating I went over to the door and let him in. Thundercracker came in and the door shut behind him. I offered him a seat, which he took, and I pulled up a chair and sat across from him.
"Well?"
"I'll cut to the chase. Starscream was demanding to know what Megatron's purpose was for you. After Megatron kept refusing to answer him Starscream blew a circuit and tried to punch him. Megatron dodged it and a whole brawl ensued,"
"And this concerns me because?"
"Megatron did answer Starscream's question, and he said other things to Starscream before he got the chance to ask them,"
"Get to the point," I said getting impatient.
"Megatron said he was going to use you to replace someone but he didn't say who. He said he didn't recruit a different transformer because they don't have the same qualities as you, whatever that means,"
"I'm confused,"
"I know, but if you actually came out of this room and knew what was going on you probably wouldn't be so confused right now,"
"No way, I don't trust you decepticons,"
"Then why are you here? Why don't you run?"
"I have nowhere to go,"
"Well there is the autobots, but Primus knows where they are," he glanced at me, "You could go to your human family."
"I wish, but no,"
"Why not?"
"I'm not a human anymore, duh,"
Thundercracker lowered his voice, "You didn't hear this from me, but Megatron did say to Starscream it wasn't impossible for you to go home."
"Megatron told me it was—
"That's because he wants you to stay here. Look Astrid, you can transform into your old human body and go home."
Go home. Those words were music to my ears. This was almost to good to be true though.
"Are you sure?"
"Absolutely. All you have to do is figure out how. Now I best be going before Megatron notices I'm missing,"
"Alright, thanks Thundercracker,"
"Anytime Astrid,"
With that he left the room. I locked the door behind him and then looked at my reflection in the mirror. I would figure out how to transform into a human, no matter how long it took me.
I let my optics go offline and thought about being human. Suddenly I felt my body start to fold. When I opened my eyes to see what had happened my eyes caught my human reflection in the mirror. I looked myself over and indeed I was human again. Tonight I was finally going home. I laid down waiting for tonight to come. I was about to doze off when another knock sounded on my door. Quickly I transformed back to my robot form.
"Astrid, open up, that's an order,"
"Megatron, I'm not coming out and you're not coming in,"
"Don't make me break down the door,"
"Why do you have to come in?"
"Why can't I come in?"
"Because I don't like you,"
I heard him curse under his breath and footsteps. Thinking he had left I went over to peek out the door when a fist came through it. If I had been human, I probably would have wet my pants when I saw that. Instead I think I jumped a mile high.
"For the love of Primus, Megatron you nearly gave me a spark attack,"
He pulled his fist out of the door and I peered at him through the hole. He put his face down in front of the hole.
"Let me in,"
Freaked out, my fist reacted before I got the chance to control it. Before I knew it, my arm was through the hole in the door and my fist was planted on Megatron's nose. Quickly taking my arm back I moved away from the door.
"Curse you insubordinate femme, you'll pay, just wait until I get my hands on you,"
Oh crap, I thought as he walked away for real this time. I had to leave now before he came back for me. I opened the door and not looking back I transformed into my jet mode and flew towards the exit.
Once out of Megatron's lair and in the vastness of the sky I finally felt free. That was until a few minutes later I noticed a green cargo plane flying behind me. I flew faster trying to lose the plane, but it only caught up to me and flew directly above me.
"I've never seen you before. Autobot or decepticon?"
An Australian 'bot? What next? I wondered deciding on what to say to the transformer.
"Neither,"
"Then why did we detect you as a decepticon?"
"I've been their prisoner for the last few days. I just got away from them, please, I don't want to go back to them,"
"What's your name?"
"Astrid,"
"I don't recall any autobots named Astrid,"
"Look, whoever you are, I'm not an autobot or decepticon. I mean no harm to anyone,"
"Anyone could say that,"
"Well then if you don't believe me when I say that you won't believe me at all,"
"That's not true. Why did the decepticons take you prisoner?"
"Alright you got me. I wasn't their prisoner, I just felt like I was since I was being kept with them against my own will,"
"Well why were you with them?"
"I don't know. I only heard Megatron wanted me to replace someone, who I don't know,"
"Were you injured in anyway?"
I paused, "In a matter of speaking."
"What do you mean?"
"What's your name?"
"Jetfire,"
"Okay Jetfire, I used to be human, and then Megatron turned me into this,"
"A human?! There's no possible way—
"I can prove it to you,"
Jetfire was quiet a couple seconds then said, "If I get permission from Optimus, would you mind coming to the autobot base so we can figure this out?"
"I guess not,"
Jetfire spoke via comlink to his leader, "Optimus, I have a femme here with quite a story. I request permission to bring her to the base."
"Permission granted Jetfire. We'll be waiting for you,"
Author's Note: Not quite as long as chapter six, but not as short as my other chapters. Anyway I'll try to get chapter eight to you asap. Until then please review!!!!!
