A/N: I know this chapter is really late but I purposely did that. Due to a lack of interest and lack of reviews from previous chapters, I had originally decided to quit writing this story. But Mikaela-the-Cat/AndromedaAI helped convince me otherwise. So please review, especially if you really like this story.

I did ride the Transformers: The Ride 3-D in Universal Studios Hollywood. I got a picture with Optimus Prime and he touched my shoulder! He didn't touch anyone's shoulder, just mine!

Warning: This chapter has scenes that might frighten younger readers. I'm not responsible if someone has nightmare 'cause of this chapter!

Note: This chapter is longer than the first one.

Anyway, enjoy the story!

Abduction

Chapter 10

Devastation

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There are many places that I haven't been to in life. Sure I've wanted to go to many cities around the US, but I've never really gotten that chance before. I'd thought that it'd be a peaceful and fun vacation to Chicago. But we were most likely stalked by Bumblebee, I had freak dreams of Ironhide and Soundwave, the Willis Tower was attacked by an insane werewolf named Said (who wants me dead), we were rescued by the Decepticons not the Autobots. Then Barricade took us to San Francisco, and now he literally forced us out and drove off without us. His chilling last words to us echoes in my head "Get out! Get out now! They're coming! You have to run! You're on your own now." A shiver runs down my spine despite the warmth of the air. I can feel the humidity in the air, and taste the saltiness of the air. We're near the ocean. I haven't been near the ocean for a long time, the last time I was near it was when I visited my dad in Canada.

But that was up north, I'm in California, still in the US. But I'm still in an unknown city…to me at least. I've never been here before, and neither has Mel. And Carmen, I know nothing about her. She's a complete stranger to us. She was just a normal everyday girl, a bystander who happened to be there with at us at the wrong time. She was dragged here with us. Everything is going downhill now. It's even worse since Barricade left us here. He didn't even tell us what's going to happen.

Maybe he wants us to be scared because he might come back to kill us when we least expect it. … What the heck am I saying? I'm going crazy with these thoughts in my I just can't trust Barricade or any Decepticon like that. I'd trust the authorities, the military...the military! The Autobots! Yes, I'd trust them. But…we have no way of contacting them. It's too bad that they don't sell any AllSpark shard necklaces in real life. I would've gotten one. But maybe that would've ended entirely different that what had happened before. The Decepticons would've come to Chicago, abducted us, taken the AllSpark necklace from me, and then killed us. I'm most certain that would've happened. The Decepticons are ruthless and evil, and want to enslave us humans just to restore Cybertron. And once Cybertron is rebuilt, they'll just kill us all.

I glance at downtown San Francisco. If whoever "they" are and if "they're" coming, then we'd need a place to hide. And in the downtown there's sure to be hiding places and many people as well. They'd never found us in there!

"What do we do now? Barricade just left us here with nothing than ominous last words to us." Mel says.

"Who's this 'they' he was talking about anyway?" Carmen asks.

My stomach drops and lurches with the thought. I think I know who "they" are. …The Twilits…Said! The thought makes me sick. Who or what else would make Barricade leave us suddenly other then the Autobots?

"The Twilits." I say.

"What? Sophia -" Mel starts, but I cut her off.

"The Twilits," I say again, feeling my face heat up as if I'm feverish and feeling nauseous at the same time. "They are the ones Barricade was talking about. That's why he left. Said is also a Twilit. He's coming here." That last part was barely audible, but I know Melry and Carmen had heard me.

Mel gasps. Carmen just looks at me like I'm crazy, then she seems to remember who I was talking about. "Oh hell no! There's no way in hell they're kidnapping me again! I'm out of here!" And with that, Carmen runs off in to the Downtown. I just stare after her. Then Mel starts running after her. I just stand where I am. I look in the opposite direction, down the street, for no reason. The sun glistens off a distant car. From the way it glistens, I can tell the car is really shiny. It might be Barricade or another unknown Decepticon. And with that, I tear down the street away from the car and after Carmen and Mel.

Oh shoot! I forgot that I'm not the fastest runner! And Mel is a track runner, who happens to be one of the fastest. And Carmen took off faster than I thought! I'm lazy and I hate sports. I won't be able to catch them. But then the thought of the car being a Decepticon comes back to my mind, and I continue to run.

I slow my pace down once the crowd of people starts to thicken. I walk over to where a crosswalk is, and stand by the pole with the button to push for the crosswalk. I don't push it. I know someone else must have pushed it before I came. But I can't help but feel lost. I have every right to feel lost. Melry and Carmen ran off, I'm in a city I've never been in before, and there might be a killer Decepticon coming after me.

The crosswalk red hand doesn't change, so I can't runaway if it turns out it is a Decepticon. Oh, man. What else can go wrong? I glance around the street, at the skyscrapers. Then I look at the sky. There are no clouds in the sky. It's a pretty day for everyone else here, expect for three girls: Melry, Carmen, and me. I notice that a small patch of the sky is wobbling, like faint smoke floating up into the air from a campfire. Where have I seen that before? The area around the wobbling patch of sky starts turning dark, no black. It's getting bigger, and as I realize this, I can't hear anything but the beating of my heart in my ears. Soon it's covering the whole sky, and I suddenly have the feeling that I'm not the only one watching the sky turn black in the middle of the day! Once it has fully covered the whole sky, it then looks its opening up somehow. A large white object starts to lower out of it. No, it's black and white. And I can tell it has turquoise markings on it. Then I see its bright green wings, its tail, legs and head. That's I realize what it is. It's a werewolf - Said!

I can't move. I can't even move my arms or even my eyes as I continue to watch him lower to the ground. He doesn't actually touch the ground, I can see that. He's hovering above the ground and he suddenly starts flying towards where I'm standing. He flies by so fast, that the wind whips me in the face, almost knocking me over, and blows leaves and dirt in my face. I cover my face with my arm and wipe the dirt away from my face with the material on my jacket. It's the same from the movie The Hunger Games so it's made out of parachute material.

The ground shakes violently. No, not like an earthquake shake. But rather like something heavy had hit the ground. That kind of shaking was..er, is what I'm feeling! I shiver as I start hearing people screaming around me. I move my arm away from my face, and I gasp at what I see. I don't know how to explain it, but the thing I'm looking at is a black tentacled being whose body (which looks very human-like) is covered in a very strange pattern. It's wearing, I guess, a mask which looks a shield. Then it hits me. This strange being I'm looking at right now is a Shadow Beast! Just like the ones from Twilight Princess! But that was a video game! What is a Shadow Beast doing here in the real world anyway?! It dawns on me that they're obviously working for Said!

Another jolt from the ground knocks me down on the ground, I land on my back. I look up the Shadow Beast and the black and white human Twilit. Wait, human Twilit?! That must've been one of the humans from Chicago. Since Said had covered the entire city with Twilight, it's no surprise the humans turned into Twilits when exposed to Twilight. That's why Snow refused to take Carmen back to Chicago.

I crawl back away from them, still looking up at them. They watch me then head towards me very quickly. I scream at them, then I quickly get up and run away from them. They're chasing me. I know they are. I run even faster. My legs are burning but I push them to go faster. I decide to tear down an alleyway. They don't follow me in here. I stop to rest, but it isn't peaceful. I still hear people screaming, cars and glass breaking, and even hearing the sound of the asphalt breaking apart from the street I was on.

After I give my legs some rest, I continue down the alley. It smells of urine. I pick up my pace and quickly head out of here. When I come out of the alleyway, I'm on a different street. I look up and down the street. It's damaged a bit. There's abandoned cars everywhere. People are fleeing from them. I notice a shiny silver car parked nearby. I head to it. I gasp once I notice the model and the make. It's a Mercedes Benz SLS AMG! It's abandoned that much I know. And the windows are tinted so no one can see in it. I don't think anyone is inside it. Maybe I can use it for safety, and find Melry and Carmen. Then we can drive out of the city.

I try the handle, but it's locked, much to my dismay. I see a small piece of asphalt on the sidewalk, pick it up, and start hitting the window as hard as I can with it. But no matter how hard I hit it, it doesn't break and shatter. What kind of glass is this? I never heard of glass that's unbreakable for normal cars, even if this is an expensive car. The cars that have unbreakable glass are government cars. Or FBI and SWAT team cars.

I drop the asphalt piece on the ground by my feet, looking at the Mercedes with dismay and sadden. One chance and I lost it. I give the car one last glance, before taking off down the street. I sense that something is chasing me and I run even faster, then the ground below my feet suddenly explodes and I'm sent up into the air. I land several feet away on my back and side. Pain runs through my back, but I ignore it the best I can as I get up and run down another alleyway. A large piece of a building lands nearby, just barely hitting me. My breath gets caught in my throat and I stop running before I suffocate myself. I cough a few times, before I can breathe normally again. I notice someone running towards me on the other side of the alley. No, there's two people. They're not Twilit humans. Just normal humans. They're girls! They get closer and I recognize who they are. Its Carmen and Melry! I run towards them.

"Melry! Carmen! You're okay!" The words escaped my mouth without my permission. I didn't mean to say it, but it's a big mistake on my part. The Shadow Beast and Twilit human from before blasts right through the building near us.

Someone is screaming. It might be me. Or it might be all of us, but I don't care. My legs automatically run in the opposite direction, the right direction. We all are. We run out of the alley, and onto another street. I'm horrified at what I see. The buildings on this street are in ruins! It's pretty barren now. There are no cars or even people here. I trip and I fall to the ground. I hear Mel screaming at me to get up.

"Mel, you have to run! You have to! You can still make it! Go on without me!"

Before Mel can answer an engine revving gets our attention. I look over in the direction the noise came from. I'm shocked to see it's the Mercedes car from before. And it looks like its driving itself. The car swerves hitting the Shadow Beast's and Twilit human's legs. Launching them in the air before landing hard on the ground on their sides. The Mercedes stops right beside us, and opens the door closest to us- the passenger door. Then I realize that the Mercedes is actually Soundwave.

"What's going on here?" Carmen asks.

"He wants us to get in." I answer.

"What? Sophia, he's a Decepticon!" Mel screams.

"I'd rather have my chances with Soundwave than with the Twilits. He's gonna help us." I look at the two seats and I see that there's a backseat as well. Strange, I didn't know the SLS AMG even came with a backseat. "Just get in."

I climb inside, and sit in the driver's seat. I buckle the seatbelt around me. I look at the passenger seat, seeing Melry sitting there, and Carmen settling into the backseat. Soundwave puts himself in gear, and drives away. I notice in the side view mirror that the Shadow Beast and Twilit human have got back on their feet and are chasing us.

Soundwave drives down the street, picking up speed. I notice that from his speedometer. I start to panic when the Twilits are catching up fast.

"GO! Go! Go! Go!" I yell at Soundwave, hoping he'll go faster. But he doesn't. What's he doing?! Trying to get us killed?! That's when I realize we're in a Decepticon! A Decepticon! He might be working with the Twilits without Megatron, Starscream, Barricade, or any other Decepticon that's alive (that I don't know of) knowing it!

Something hits the back of Soundwave, or rather like something fell on him. Or something is trying to climb on him! I look in the rearview mirror and I see the Twilit human starting to climb on top of Soundwave! My heart beats even faster. I hear screaming, it might be me or it's all three of us.

Suddenly, Soundwave swerves so sharply that I hold onto the door handle to keep from falling over. The seatbelt somehow tightens around me. I hear a thumping sound, and I see that the Twilit human had lost his grip on Soundwave, and landed several feet away. Soundwave then speeds away just as quickly as before. I'm having a panic attack right now! My heart's beating so fast and hard it feels as though it might break out of my chest any minute.

"We're gonna die! We're gonna die! We're gonna die!" I hear Carmen screaming. Her screaming is so loud it's like she's yelling right in my ear! Oh, maybe because she is...almost. She had climbed out from the back seat and joined us up front. But there's no third seat for her here. I notice that she's laying down on the divider, sort of. I guess she's too scared to be in the back since the Twilit human had been there trying to climb on Soundwave.

"No, we're not! We're not going to die!" I shout back at her. Mel echoes my words. I look at her, before turning my attention to see where Soundwave's heading. My heart drops but it's still beating just as quickly as before. He's heading straight for a glass wall or window!

"We're gonna die!" I yell. Soundwave drives right through the wall or window, glass shattering and scattering everywhere. We're in what looks like to be an abandoned building. It's pretty much barren. There's nothing even in here. I don't know what Soundwave's plan is, but I guess it's to shake them off our trail. It seems that's what he's trying to do. He swerves here and there, and eventually he manages to get them off our trail. The two Twilits had tripped over their own feet and fall into a wall that looked to be made of cement.

Soundwave manages to find an exit he can go through safely without getting the Twilits' attention. The sunlight is gone. Strange, I thought its daylight out. Then I remember the Twilight covering the Downtown. It's almost like being under a cloud. One part of the city is shady and the other part is sunny. Soundwave heads to that part, I'm guessing. But he chooses to head an abandoned construction site. There are piles of rubble and dirt and several small hills. There's also a nearby building and a cement path. It's almost like an alley way. Soundwave drives past it, but he abruptly stops and reverses into the alleyway-like path. His front is facing out, with his back against the wall but not touching it as I didn't hear it bump against the wall. The doors suddenly lock, first on my side then on Melry's side.

"We're locked in," she says.

I start to relax, hoping my heart would stop beating so hard. It's almost like Carmen, Mel, and even Soundwave can hear my heart thumping against my ribcage, making it difficult for me to breathe. My heart starts calming down finally, and the seatbelt unbuckles itself from me. I feel almost totally calm when I see the Shadow Beast and Twilit human come into view, instantly my heart races again, and I almost can't breathe. The two Twilits don't notice us in here, or rather Soundwave in here – in the alleyway-like path. He's invisible to them; they just walk on by without even looking this way.

I thought Soundwave would wait until they're completely gone and left the area, but I'm wrong. Soundwave's engine purrs to life, then it roars and drives out of the alleyway path, right past behind the Twilits and into the middle of the site. Soundwave swerves for some reason and at the same time the passenger door opens and we all slide out onto the ground. I landed on my side which aggravated my back. It yells in protest at me for it. I groan in pain, and glance at Soundwave. His car mode is suddenly folding inward on him, parts moving around so fast, I can't keep an eye on just one piece of metal or part of his atl-mode. He's done transforming and towers over us. No, he's towering over us by being so tall but he's not looking down at us. When I see where he's looking, all the blood from my face drains. My eyes widen. The Shadow Beast and Twilit human! The Shadow Beast runs right for Soundwave and tackles him to the ground. The Shadow Beast starts throwing punches at Soundwave, mainly his chest as far as I can tell from where I am. Soundwave seems to be struggling to get it off of him. I'm torn inside. One part of me is screaming at me to do something to help him, but the rest of me wants to help but I don't know how I can help him.

Before I can do anything, Soundwave throws the Shadow Beast off him and the Beast lands several yards away us. It seems to be growling at us, then the Twilit human just appears out of a black cloud which I think is Twilight. The Twilit jumps down from the Beast's back in front of it. The Beast runs forward right towards Soundwave, the Twilit human follows the Beast. The Beast yells something at Soundwave, then knocks him away with what looks like a sword of some kind that the Beast suddenly got. The Beast rams itself into Soundwave and they both fall onto a small wooden building.

We scramble to our feet, and hurry away from the Twilit human. I don't know if it's chasing us or not, but I suddenly get the air knocked out of me when something rams into me on the side. I land on my side again on the dirt, my back screaming protests at me for it. I struggle to get free, but I'm turned over onto my back. If my back was screaming at me before, it's hollering at me now. I try to push the Twilit human off me (who else would have tackled me like that anyway?) but I underestimated how strong it is. It overpowered me, and pins my shoulders to the ground with his knees. I finally get a good clear view of him. He has yellow on the outer part of the eye, where it's normally white. And his irises are red. Just like a Twili from Twilight Princess. He's yelling at me, I'm not sure if it's the language of the Twili because their language sounds like they're moaning but this Twilit just sounds like he's yelling gibberish at me. His teeth are razor sharp and are bright green.

There's nothing I can do, I'm trapped under his grip on me. He has me pinned to the ground. Just when I think I'm done for, I hear a buzzing noise. It's getting louder, like it's coming towards me. I hear Mel's voice scream, "GET AWAY FROM MY FRIEND!" That's when I realize the buzzing noise is actually the sound of a chainsaw. The Twilit looks away and it's knocked off me by a buzzing chainsaw. I realize that Melry is the one holding the chainsaw. She starts striking the Twilit human with it. Some kind of black liquid comes out of the Twilit's body. But it's not a lot. Whatever it is, it's not blood. Or normal blood for that matter.

I get up, my back screaming once again at me. I look down at where the Twilit is. Seeing him laying there, bleeding that black liquid is enough to make my stomach churn and lurch. I refuse to throw up! I refuse to!

"Not so strong now that you're bleeding yourself, huh?" Carmen asks mockingly at the Twilit. I watch as she takes the power downed chainsaw and stabs the Twilit in the chest. The Twilit howls in pain. Then he stops yelling abruptly and his body goes still. His body turns completely black, and then it explodes in a cloud of Twilight. I step away from it.

"Careful," I say, still backing up. "Remember that stuff is dangerous to us."

They follow me, and we head back to where we left Soundwave. Oh no! Soundwave! I hope he's alright! I run to where I think he is, but I'm stopped in my tracks when I realize that the Shadow Beast could still be around here and alive. I was just thinking this when Soundwave suddenly appears before us on a hill. I look at him. He seems fine, albeit for the occasional small sparks shooting faintly out from various spots on him. Mainly, it's his chest and shoulder(s) that are shooting out sparks, but other than that, he seems fine. Then I take notice of his face. It looks as though his face is swollen, especially around his eyes. But maybe that's just me.

"Ar-are you okay, Soundwave?" I ask.

"Yes, of course I am."

"You sure? You look injured."

"My face hurts a little, mainly around my optics. But I've been through far worse than you humans can imagine."

"What are you doing, Sophia?" Carmen asks me.

"I'm just asking if he's alright," I say.

"Well, he and a freakish monster just duked it out in a 'battle to the death' match."

" He got injured protecting us. The Eagles from before had most likely coerced the Decepticons to help us. Why else would they be nice to us when they're normally hostile?" I say.

"What? You are the strangest girl I've ever met."

"It seems that you don't know who I am, miss. I'm an Autonomous Robotic Organism from the planet Cybertron. Designation Soundwave. I'm the Decepticons' communications officer. I'm basically like a hacker as you humans say it." Soundwave explains.

"Autonomous Robotic Organism. From Cybertron," Carmen murmurs. "What are you? A Transformer?"

"Precisely," Soundwave answers. We're all quiet for a bit. Then for some reason Soundwave looks like he's frantic. Why would he be frantic for? He's a Decepticon. He just killed that Shadow Beast…didn't he? Soundwave then transform into his alt-mode - the Mercedes SLS AMG. He opens his passenger door. "Quick get in!"

"Come on. Let's go." Melry says.

"And go where?" Carmen asks.

"When you're all grown-up, and you look back on your life, don't you wanna say you had the guts to get in the car?" I ask, almost sounding like Sam when he said a similar line in TF1.

"Don't you dare try to mimic that quote by that dick-head from the first Transformers movie, Sophia!"

Well, that went about as well as expected. I don't know how else to convince Carmen to get in Soundwave.

"Why are you acting so frantic, Soundwave? Where are you gonna take us? What's the rush?" Mel asks.

"Said, the werewolf that's after you is closing in on the city. We have to get to higher ground to evade him!" he responds.

"Alright. Let's go!" Carmen shouts as she hurries over to Soundwave. So it took Soundwave to explain the situation just to get Carmen to listen and get in him? She is the weirdest girl I've seen. Not to mention that she acts like a brat and seems shallow a bit. At least I think that's how shallow is. If not, then I take it back. But she does seem rude. Almost like Jessy in a way. But it's my opinion. Or just how I see it.

I hurry to Soundwave anyway. I climb into the passenger seat this time; Carmen took the driver's seat. Mel climbs into the backseat. Once we're all seated, Soundwave closes the doors and speeds off to who-knows-where. Well, wherever he has planned I hope it's safe. Its higher ground after all so it should be. I don't know he's planning, but he chose to drive through part of downtown San Francisco … or what's left of it anyway. It doesn't look anything like San Francisco ... not the one I saw when Barricade brought us here then left. It's different. It's…destroyed. The Decepitcons wouldn't be able to do that much damage. Then again this city is "smaller" than Chicago. Chicago had more buildings, San Francisco doesn't have that much. And the number of buildings dropped. I only hope everyone made it out alive.

My only hopeful wish was destroyed right after I said it. There are dead humans littering the streets. They have blood on their faces. It's like something out of a horror movie! Then a new thought comes to mind. The Autobots would be here! Or should be here soon! There has to be an Energon Detector in San Francisco. I know they put them in all the major cities. But my hopes are crushed once again. Laying there on the ground is the destroyed remains of an Energon Detector. Another damaged one is jammed into a man's chest. My heart drops. The Energon Detectors probably wouldn't notice Twilight in this city. It's not made of Energon. The Autobots wouldn't notice until after the Energon Detector(s) was destroyed.

"Oh no." I thought that was me speaking out loud, but it was Soundwave's voice. He sounded just as worried and freaked out as I am. "We better get out of here!" He yells, and quickly picks up speed.

Finally, we head out of the rubble that was once San Francisco. I'm once again clueless about where he's heading. I try to calm myself by looking at the ocean. I keep staring at it when I notice something at the horizon. It looks like a lump of something. Whatever it is, it's getting bigger and bigger. That's when I realize what it is. It's a tidal wave! At the same time that went across my mind something else does as well. On top of the wave is Said! It looks like he's riding the wave. Or rather he's controlling the wave with his power!

Before I can warn the others, Soundwave already seemed to have noticed before I did. He speeds up, and I see where he's heading. I see a big red suspension bridge up ahead. The Golden Gate Bridge! That's his plan! Get out of the city! I can see that there are mountains on the other side of the bridge. Soundwave hits his brakes, so abruptly I would've hit the dashboard with my face if it wasn't for the seatbelt that suddenly wrapped itself around me just then. I was gonna ask him why he did that, but I see the answer before me. There's traffic from here all the way to the bridge, and even on the bridge itself! Everyone must be trying to evacuate the city. Well, those who managed to get away from the Twilight Invasion anyway.

"Hold on," Soundwave announces. He jerks forward with a sudden jolt just like Barricade did and just like before all I see is black and hearing clicking and whirring sounds. I'm suddenly falling to the ground but right before I actually hit the ground, I land on something…more desirable then the ground. It's warm and curved a bit. I notice that I'm in Soundwave's hand. Carmen and Melry are in his other hand. "Hang onto my fingers or my hand." I do as he instructed. I hold onto his hand. He then starts running through the traffic. The cars around us are honking at him. They must be surprised to see a giant robot running through here. But they can also be freaked out and scared as they do not know whether Soundwave is good or bad. Or is a Twilit. I know he isn't a Twilit. If he was, he couldn't transform! I'm certain about that but not the first one. He could still easily turn on us. He might be wanting to make us feel safe then kill us. Or he might even throw us off the bridge for us to fall to our deaths!

Soundwave then runs onto the Golden Gate Bridge and stops right in the middle of the bridge. I hear a loud whooshing sound. It sounds like…water? A wave… A wave?! Oh shoot! Said! I look in the direction the sound's coming from. Said is right there, heading right for the bridge! I can't tell, but I think the wave already hit downtown San Francisco!

Soundwave pulls me to his chest. No not just me. Melry and Carmen have also been pulled to his chest. He's holding us to his chest as if we were plushes…or a shield! No, what am I saying. He's holding us like plushes. He holds us a bit tighter and closer to him then he turns to the other side of the bridge, runs to it, and jumps off it! I try to yell at him for doing that, but my voice is lost to the rushing loud echo of the wind. Cold wind blows at my face. I hear the sound of metal crunching, smashing, and breaking apart. I hear the splashing of water before feeling it. Icy cold water runs over me, rushing through my veins. The saltiness of the water is tasted on my lips. I can hear big objects falling into the water around me. I'm still, and then I'm moving. But it's not me that's making my body move. Something is. I feel warmth behind me, on my back and around my chest. That's all I remember. I fall into the darkness, giving in.

…

When I come around, I am on dry land. I hear small waves lapping at the shore. I smile. I remember I how love that sound. But what am I doing here? I try to remember. The last memories I had come rushing back to my head. I was with Soundwave. And he jumped off the bridge with us. … Wait, we jumped off a bridge?! I open my eyes in shock. I'm on a little beach of some sort. There are thick trees beyond the little beach. I look in the direction of where I suspect the Golden Gate Bridge to be. But…it's not there. The bridge is gone! I remember before I passed out that I heard the sound of metal smashing and breaking and big objects falling into the water. Those pieces… they were pieces of the bridge. Said had destroyed the Golden Gate Bridge, one of the Seven Wonders of the World… Past the spot where the Golden Gate Bridge used to be is a large piece of...ice? Is that a piece of ice…covering the city? It looks like it but I can't really be certain. The sun's casting a golden light, glistening of the 'ice' covering the city. It normally wouldn't do that.

It's afternoon or rather late afternoon from the way the sun is giving off that faint golden glow. Its setting over the sea and with the Golden Gate Bridge gone I can watch the sun slowly descend into the ocean. I smile, remembering how I used to watch sunsets with my parents and some of their friends in Los Angeles when I was a little kid. I sit down on the sand and watch the sun slowly descending into the horizon.

I don't know how long I've been sitting here, but I soon hear footsteps coming to me. I look in the direction of the footsteps, expecting it to be Mel or Carmen. But it's Soundwave. His armor looks a little bit wet, and his eyes are dimming to a dull red color. The salt from the ocean must be irritating his eyes. And his 'bruised' face as well.

"How are you, Soundwave?" I ask, trying to be my casual nice self around him.

"I've been better," he says. He looks at me. "Is your name Sophia Stojanov?"

"Uh, yeah. How do you know that?"

He smiles. "I hacked into government files. And Megatron told me to look out for you. I'm your guardian from now on."

Uh –huh. "What happened before? We fell from that bridge. I remember a few things before I passed out."

He kneels down on one knee to get closer to my height I assume. I'm thankful for it. I don't want to break my neck just to look at him. "I had to. Right after I jumped Said crashed into the bridge, damaging it. The bridge then fell into the bay. The pieces were from when Said himself smashed through it. You passed out before I even got to the surface. I thought you had died, but you didn't. Your heart was still beating, but not fast. It was at a steady rate. You were just passed out. I quickly swam here as fast as I could."

I'm surprised. He actually saved us? From Said no less? But I have another question for him.

"Is your face alright? Your eyes are dimming."

"The course salt in your planet's oceans is irritating my optics. And my wounds on my face, but I'll be fine."

"You sure?" I ask.

"Yes. You worry too much. Remember I'm a Transformer. We're a lot alike but different in many ways. To you this would be a problem, but to me it's not."

"What about your legs?" I ask, suddenly feeling scared that he might end up limping from jumping of a bridge.

"You worry way too much. Like I said, it didn't affect me at all. If a human like yourself would've jumped they'd most likely have died. Or have a very small chance of survival. And maybe even broken their legs. But it didn't affect me."

"You're not gonna start…rusting are you?" I say the word 'rust' with emphasis. Ever since Ironhide was killed with Cosmic Rust in DoTM, I've had this…sort of… 'fear' of rust. It sends a shiver up my spine just looking, hearing, or even seeing the word rust or even rust itself. I shiver with fear as the thought of Soundwave rusting and dying here is seen in my mind. That was why I could not dare to see DoTM in theaters. Ironhide dying like that. It's horrible to see. Having that happen to Soundwave too? After he'd just rescued us from Said? Even if he is a Decepticon, I could not forget that. He'd died protecting us. Without anywhere for us to go, we'd die out here in a matter of days.

Soundwave seemed to have noticed that I shivered when I said that. "No, I'm not gonna rust from your oceans. We Transformers only 'rust' when we have very little Energon in our systems, we get infected by a disease called Cosmic Rust, or we get hit by a blast of it from a weapon."

"You're not gonna rust?" I repeat myself, just to make sure he isn't lying right to my face.

"No! I'm not gonna rust! Not from the ocean, water or anything like that!"

"You sure? 'Cause in the first Transformers movie, Ironhide complained about his foot…er, I mean his toe rusting after Mojo, a Chihuahua, pee'd on it."

He seems to snicker at that. "Ironhide was just being a Sparkling. His foot or toe didn't rust from that."

"Oh." I was gonna say something else to him, but I sense someone behind me. Soundwave, I notice, doesn't look past me at whoever it is that's behind me. A familiar voice yells my name and hugs me from behind. I smile. It's Melry.

"Sophia, you're alive!" she yells with excitement. I look at her. "Are you injured, Sophia?"

"No," I answer. "Bewildered and surprised, yes. But injured? No."

From the corner of my eye, I notice Carmen standing there. Just standing there, watching the two of us. She doesn't bother to hug to me. Or even to say I'm alright. Or even to check for herself if I'm telling the truth or not. Or is she just afraid of Soundwave? No, she's not afraid of him. I can tell that she's not afraid of him. I think she just doesn't want to be around me.

I turn my attention back to Mel.

"Where'd you guys go to?" I ask.

"Well, we woke up before you did. Soundwave told us to find out if this is an island or a peninsula. It's a peninsula by the way. And also to find a path back to the mainland. We recognized the surroundings and made it back here. It isn't that far to mainland. The trees might be a problem to you, but I know our way through."

"And I," Soundwave says behind me, startling me a bit with his voice. "I just took a little walk around the beach here. I didn't want to leave Sophia's side, so if she woke up I'd be here or at least nearby."

I look at him then back at Mel. I notice the golden glow is getting well how I say it? Brighter? Duller? More golden? I glance at the sun, noticing it's gotten fairly closer to the horizon, almost reaching the ocean. It's getting late.

"Let's go before it gets dark and we won't be able to see anything," I announce as I start heading off the beach towards the trees. I hear the footsteps of Melry and Soundwave following me almost as soon as I finish my sentence. I pass by Carmen who's still standing there. She didn't even glance in my direction as I walked by. What's with her anyway? I think to myself.

I continue on walking, ignoring Carmen. She can follow after Mel and Soundwave once they pass her. I just as I enter the "woods" I sense as if someone is watching me, lurcking behind the trees or in plain sight. I stop walking. The others stop behind me. Why do I feel this way? Mel, Soundwave, Carmen and I are the only ones here. Who else could be here besides us?

It seems I'm not the only one feeling this.

"Said's coming!" Soundwave screams, his voice echoes amongst the trees. That's the first time I actually heard an echo. I don't dwell much on it, 'cause just as I thought that sentence, something smashes into the trees nearby, causing the earth to shake violently. Melry runs right past me once the ground stopped shaking. Even though I'm not as fast as she is, I run right after her. Distance is quickly put between us as the trees start smashing around us. A tree explodes nearby. Odd, why did the tree explode like that? Then I get it. Soundwave's sonic cannons! A blast narrowly avoids me, hitting a tree instead. Is Soundwave trying to kill us?! Did he join sides with Said?! A fireball suddenly explodes right at my feet, launching me in the air. I land several yards away, again landing on my back. My back's annoyed with me right now because of it. I'd finally given it a chance to heal, and again I aggravate it.

That's when I notice that that fireball wasn't from Soundwave's sonic cannon. It was from Said! He opens his mouth, preparing to shoot another one at me. I get up as quickly as I can, running away from him. I hear the tree snapping and fire crackling. Dense smoke starts bellowing from the fire that Said and Soundwave had caused. The smoke irritates my eyes, almost blinding my vision. I continue to run, determined to find Mel.

I manage to find her, standing under a tree, just as I hear Said howling in pain. I stop running, not realizing how much my legs are aching, and look back at where I came from. Soundwave had managed to jump onto Said's back, and he's trying to strangle the wolf. Said looks like he's trying to throw Soundwave off him, but he notices me through the smoke. He stops moving a bit, and suddenly a fireball is fired from his mouth. It misses me, flying several feet above my head. What lousy aiming he has! He has no chance! I hear the blast of the fireball hitting a tree behind me, fire cranlking from it. I turn slowly towards it and stand frozen in place. The blast had hit the tree that Mel is standing under! The branch that took the hit is breaking, lowering to the ground slowly. Sagging. I stare at it a little, then I take a step forward. At that moment the branch buckles and starts careening down towards Mel. I immediately take off towards her.

"MEL! GET OUT OF THERE!" I scream as loudly as I can. Despite pushing my legs to go faster, I'm just not as fast as Mel would be. I don't really make it in the time I'd like, the branch crashing into other branches as it makes its way down to the ground – and to my friend, Melry! I barely made it to her in time, covering her with my body as the tree limb falls on us. I feel a crunch and hear another scream, not really sure if it was mine or not.

I hear fire crackling, trees snapping, heir thick branch crashing to the ground loudly, the sounds of Soundwave's sonic cannon (or cannons) going off repeatedly. I also hear someone grunting and groaning at the same time I hear something smashing into metal. The fighting continues, and I soon hear Said howling. I'm positive it was him howling. I just heard him howl before…before…shoot! The fighting suddenly stops, and I fear fire crackling. I hear footsteps approaching us, along with the sounds of trees, fallen trees, being moved around. Or maybe just moved out of the way of whoever is coming this way. I hold my breath hoping against all odds it isn't Said. But if it was Said then why hasn't he shot at us yet? Waiting for us to think its safe then kill us? Sounds like the thing he'd do, considering he does want me dead.

"SOPHIA! MELRY!" I hear Soundwave scream, I relax a little but his voice sounded hazy and faraway. "Melry, can you hear me? Sophia?!"

I feel a weight being pushed off my back, and hear crying beneath me. I put the pieces of this puzzle back together, remembering what had happened, but am too slow to move.

"Melry, everything's gonna be alright. Sophia? Sophia, are you alright? Please open your eyes if you can hear me." He sounds very frantic and scared.

I hear more footsteps coming toward us, I push myself from the ground and sit as if I'm kneeling, my head feeling a little fuzzy as I do so, and I open my eyes some. Mel is sitting up right next to me, looking scared to death. Scattered all around us are pieces of tree limb debris. I try to stand up, but I'm woozy so I sit back down. What had happened? What was that crunching sound I heard? It wasn't my head, was it?

"Sophia, can you stand up?" I hear Soundwave ask. His voice is filled with an emotion I'd never thought to hear from a Decepticon. Worry.

I don't answer. I shake my head instead.

"Take my hand." I look up to see that Mel had stood up, and is offering her hand to me. I take it, and everything goes blurry for a moment as I stand up, but I wait until the fuzziness passes. When I fully stand up right, I nearly fall back down. I didn't expect myself to be so wobbly on my own two feet. They notice.

"You took a hit to the head?" Soundwave asks, his voice filled with concern. I'd never thought that I'd hear him so worried and concerned. And for a human, like me!

Honestly, I can't remember where that tree had landed on me, or even the impact. So, I decide to lie.

"No, I'm fine, really…I'm okay."

"No, you're not!" Mel's almost yelling at me. I cringe at the loudness of her voice. "I saw that branch falling just before you came and covered me with your body! It hit you on the head, Sophia!"

Even though she's stopped shouting, the loudness of her voices reverberates through my head. It's a very unpleasant thing to experience.

"Come on!" a very annoyed Carmen says oblivious to our situation. "It's gonna get dark soon! We'd better get a move on!"

What's with her?

I hear groaning.

"Hold on." Soundwave says, and he picks me up very gently and holds me to his chest like I'm some plush or an infant. "You won't be able to walk very well if your head was hit by the branch."

I don't complain to him about it. I lay my throbbing head against his tricep. He begins walking, I hear Carmen complaining about how I get to ride in Soundwave's arm while she and Mel have to walk. Mel yells at her. I don't know what she's saying to her. Soundwave doesn't join in, which I'm thankful for. Carmen's complaining is like sandpaper on my raw nerves. I just wanted them to shut up. I close my eyes hoping that would be my best bet. I'm alone with the darkness. Soon, Carmen and Melry stop yelling and I'm at peace. But I can't find myself to find sleep, like something is keeping me from sleeping. Or maybe sleeping soundly.

My body, er I mean my mind has had enough freak dreams. I don't think I can even have another freak dream. Not now. Or anymore at least.

I open my eyes to get one last look at Soundwave. His face had taken quite a beating. The metal around his eyes look like they're swelling. His eyes are dimming to a very dull red color. I hope you're alright, Soundwave. A guardian to us. I smile and close my eyes again.

XXX

Yes, I did use a scene from the first movie. Sorry if you don't like it but that's how it played out in my head when I was planning it out last year. Sophia isn't dead.