Title: S.O.S. Save Earth

Short Summary:
A what if story that Autobots never reached Earth on time before the Decepticons got to the All Spark. What would have happened if they had not come at all? Answer; The Earth becomes a dark, enslaved world ruled by the Cons. Rated M.

Pairings:
Annabelle L./Ironhide (not romantically), Sam/Mikaela/Bumblebee, Optimus Prime/Elita One.

Warning: Story contains implied and/ or scenes of: strong language, strong torture, attempted rape, angst, adult scenes, strong violence and probably more…

Disclaimer: I do not own Transformers or any characters.

::Chapter Nine::

For the next few days, Anna learned how to live in the cavern among her fellow humans. She learned exactly how busy it got around the Nest, helping people a lot as well. She saw it from the first night and first day she started living among them. She saw how much the DATAR rushed around doing things. They were constantly active with making plans of how to destroy the Decepticons or their reserves to making sure that everyone in the cavern survived. The DATAR soldiers were constantly raiding Decepticon facilities and bringing back food for everyone.

From morning to night and even through the night, all 150 members of the DATAR were working. They worked around the Nest to make it more hospitable and homely for them. They worked on the weapons, trying to enhance them so they could kill the Decepticons. It was mostly there did Anna see Bumblebee. He was constantly showing the soldiers his weapons system so they could work on their own for offense and defense. He even helped with the means of security to protect all of the humans he was around. He did quite a lot to help the humans. She even voiced her opinion about how much he was doing around the Nest and how unfair that he didn't the credit that he deserved. Everyone mostly ignored her and Bumblebee shrugged if off and told her that he didn't mind it so much. It was as long as he could be useful and protect Sam, her, and all of the humans that mattered to him. It was all he cared about.

Anna's main chore around the Nest was being around him so she could translate whatever he said. It was due to the fact that she was the only one who could understand Cybertronian. She had tried to teach Glenn how to understand the language but even she couldn't speak it correctly. Bumblebee even commented to her that her way of speaking Cybertronian was kind of crappy. That left her quite annoyed at him for a few hours.

Still, Anna did a lot of hanging out with Sam and Bumblebee. She found herself growing very close to them. They were both very kind to her, as was Maggie, Glenn and Epps. She found all of them kind and caring about everyone's needs and always went out of their way to make sure people were fine and living comfortably.

Especially Bumblebee.

Anna found that the Autobot was very cheerful and he was always greeting her in the mornings. She found herself adoring him every time she saw him.

However, among all of the people in the Nest, there was really only one person that Anna really wanted to get to know and that was Will. She really wanted to talk to him, learn about his history and just to get to know him. But he never seemed to have time to deal with her. He always had something to do other than even say hi to her.

Every night, Anna would see Will gathering a group of people; mostly Epps and the soldiers and go out on nightly raids. And every morning, he would return, get some rest for a few hours and then go back to work on maps and plans. He never seemed to have the time to talk to her. It hurt a little but Anna understood why. Will was the Leader of DATAR after all. He had so much on his shoulders right now that he couldn't afford to get distracted. Especially not by an 18 year old girl. So, she mostly she kept her disappointments to herself, even though that her friends seemed to see right through her. There had been a few times did Maggie or Epps try to get Will to say a few words to her. But it never seemed to help.

Unfortunately, Anna soon learned that she did not have a lot of fans among the Nest.

There were a few people who were uneasy about her, due to the fact that she was Starscream's favored slave. They all knew that the Second In Command of the Decepticons would not give up his slave very easily. And Anna soon learned that the news of her disappearance did not sit too well with her former Master.

As far as she understood and had heard about, Starscream was above ground, speeding across the skies, searching for her. He had been so angry that she had gone missing. A few of the DATAR scouts who kept a look out during the day had reported that they had seen Starscream a few times, screaming across the sky for Anna. They reported that he was pretty much going mad by looking for her. That really didn't sound too good to her and she knew that if Starscream ever found her, there was going to be a whole lot of trouble for her.

But above all of those few who didn't seem to like Anna, there was one girl that she figured that she should try her best to staying away from.

Her name was Alice.

Alice was a little older than Anna, if not just in her mid twenties. She was a very pretty blonde with sun-streaks in her hair. She had rather gorgeous hazel eyes, though they were constantly glaring after her since her first meeting with Alice. And that first meeting had not gone so well.

Anna had been talking to Sam and Bumblebee, telling them about all of the training sessions that she had been going through with Starscream. She had been somewhat walking backwards, which was dumb enough for her. She hadn't really been paying attention to where she was going when she backed right up into Alice, knocking the young woman back and causing her to trip over a bag she'd been standing over. The young woman fell flat onto the floor before she whirled around and glared up at Anna.

"Oh, my God! I am so sorry!" Anna immediately apologized as she whirled around and looked down at the woman. She quickly reached out to help her up.

But Alice yanked her arm back and slapped Anna's hand to the side. "Don't touch me!" She snapped before she pushed herself to her feet. She glared very hard at Anna, who winced and backed away a little.

"Alice, it was an accident. Anna didn't meant to run into you." Sam tried to explain.

"Right." Alice said very dryly, though there was a lot of edge to her tone as she continued to glare directly at Anna. She brushed the dirt and tiny rocks from her hands before putting her hands onto her waist. "Maybe she should start watching where she is going so we can avoid 'accidents' like these." She said almost savagely.

Wincing again, Anna swallowed hard and looked into Alice's eyes. "I really am sorry. I didn't mean…." She was saying.

"Whatever." Alice drawled viciously before she shook her head. "Just start looking where the hell you're going, you Decepticon pet."

Now Anna looked rather offended and hurt as she looked at her. "Excuse me?" She demanded.

Alice huffed before she tossed her blonde hair over her shoulder. She actually looked quite smug, yet bitter about whatever it was that she was thinking. "I've heard of you. Who hasn't really? I've heard that you were Starscream's little pet human. You're his little favorite slave. He would carry you almost everywhere he went, take you out, feed you, clothed you and did whatever you wanted to do. I hear he's going mad just by looking for you. He's been searching the entire globe for you." She said dryly. "I hear he's also really pissed off that you ran away. Want to hear the worst part, he's starting to take it out on other humans. You're like some stupid lost pet that he's obsessed himself over to finding. He's not going to stop until he finds you. And if he finds you here and hurts all of these people, you won't need to worry about him. You'll need to worry about yours truly." She said with acid. And then she turned and marched away.

Anna stared after Alice, completely shocked. She couldn't believe that woman. She had just threatened her life and for what? For being Starscream's favorite or knocking her over? It was completely outrageous! It wasn't like she had knocked Alice over on purpose!

"Watch out for that one, Anna. She's got some real sharp claws." Anna heard Maggie said as she walked over. "Alice is a real bitch and she's been like that since she even got here."

Anna glanced at her and Sam before shaking her head. She felt as if her breath had just been sucked right out of her lungs after dealing with Alice. "What the hell is her problem? I didn't mean to knock her over! And I said that I was sorry!" She said angrily.

Sam shook his head as he folded his arms over his chest and watched Alice as she batted her eyes at a passing Soldier, making him hesitate and trip over a crate. "From what we've heard from her, Alice was one of Shockwave's slaves. According to her, she was treated really bad." He shook his head again. "When the DATAR found her, she was covered in blood, starving nearly to death and she was beaten really bad too. Apparently, Shockwave kept forgetting that humans need food to survive and didn't feed her properly. Either that or he just didn't care. Eventually, he must have gotten tired of her so he beat her and then gave her to Reavers. She said she killed every single one of them and escaped after they had attacked her. It was Will and Epps who found her on the streets and brought her into the Nest. She's got a major thing for Will. She's really sweet on him." He explained.

"Pfft!" Maggie snorted as she folded her arms and stuck out her hip to the side. "Will is not the only one that Alice is sweet one, Sam. You're one of her targets too, remember? She's been hitting on everything that has balls since she's gotten here." She remarked, looking at Anna. "She's a total slut. She is a total skankzilla."

Anna just frowned as she looked after Alice who was proving that accusation by talking to two men at the same time. She was batting her eyes at them and running her fingers through her hair as she flirted with them. One of the soldiers looked uneasy about it while the other was grinning like a mad man. However, Alice seemed to have sensed Anna's eyes on her for she turned around and glared directly at her. It was like she just knew that she was looking or she had eyes on the back of her head.

It was right then and there did Anna know that she was going to have to avoid Alice. There was going to be a lot of trouble between them if she didn't. And she was not going to like any bit of it.

For the next few days, there wasn't too much that was different. Anna helped out as much as she could and so far she could only serve as Bumblebee's translator. She did a lot of talking to him as well. She had finally gotten enough courage to ask him about the other Autobots and what she learned amazed her.

For many years, many centuries and many decades, the Autobots had been fighting with the Decepticons. They had fought so much on their original planet, Cybertron, that they had literately killed their world. It was after the planet's death and skeletal remains did the Decepticons decide to leave it to the Autobots and find a new planet to ravage.

Obviously, they found Earth.

The Autobots, however, tried to follow after the Decepticons, knowing that if they didn't, the new world that the Decepticons would find would meet the same fate as their own had. They wouldn't allow it so they tried to chase after them. They had stretched out far and wide across the galaxy, battling with Decepticons on a few worlds and in space but they could never really find Megatron to deal with him and get rid of the Decepticons for good of all sentient beings.

The leader of the Autobots, as Bumblebee put it, was Optimus Prime, a great and noble warrior on the battle field. He had sent Autobot Scouts, Bumblebee included, to find the traces of the All Spark and the Decepticons. Bumblebee had been chosen to check the regions around Earth. Oh, he had found the Decepticons all right. But before he could send out the word to Optimus Prime and the Autobots, he had been attacked by Barricade and then the top secret Government group called Sector Seven, who eventually used Sam and a girl named Mikaela against him. Eventually, Sector Seven had done some pretty terrible things that forced Bumblebee into recharge or stasis for fifteen years. And it was Sam who had found him. Though, Anna had already been told that.

The one thing that made Anna very curious was the bit about the girl, Mikaela. She wondered who she was and where she was. She had talked with a few people and none of them had been a Mikaela. She even tried to ask a few people about her and found that hardly anyone knew Mikaela.

So, Anna decided to ask Sam about her instead. She didn't get the answer that she was looking for though.

Sam had gone pretty quiet and somber when Anna asked about the girl, Mikaela. He did not look happy that she even asked about her. He actually looked upset but he made a face to try and hide it. "Mikaela? I haven't seen her for about sixteen years now. I don't know where she's at. The last time I ever saw her was when he got into a huge fight and then I was captured and enslaved to Megatron. I don't know if Mikaela's even alive." He remarked with a sigh. He then faintly smiled as he looked into Anna's eyes. "But it's more than likely she's still out there, alive and all. She was a real tough girl when I last knew here. She could take care of herself just fine. She's probably out there somewhere, free and fighting. She was always like that."

Anna smiled as she watched Sam as he looked away from her. She could tell that he still had really strong feelings for this Mikaela. She could see it in his eyes or hear it the way he said her name. There probably wasn't even a day that Sam didn't think about Mikaela.

Truthfully, seeing that look on Sam's face as he thought about Mikaela, Anna started to think about Pete again. And that just started up the nightmares once again.

Anna dreamed of Pete's death one night. She kept seeing him getting whipped by Starscream and thrown into the Cyber Game Arena to fight the Reavers and Thundercracker. She saw him die over and over again. It was so horrible. Anna knew that she had started crying in her sleep for she could feel the thickness in her throat and feel the tears running down her cheeks,

So it couldn't be helped when Anna bolted up right, gasping from fear and emotional pain. She felt her tears mixing with beads of sweat as she panted heavily. She couldn't believe how vivid that dream had been. Anna glanced around her new dug out room she had been staying in since she arrived. She was completely alone in the room and it seriously creeped her out. She wasn't used to having her own room. She had always shared with Jesse and Judy. She didn't like being alone.

Breathing more slowly, Anna climbed off her feet from the sleeping mat and sleeping bag and walked out of her room. She needed some water to drink. Her throat felt really dry from panting and crying in her sleep. Maybe she could find a water canteen somewhere and probably visit the underground river. She made a face to think that she would need to bathe in the river. She remembered the first time she had been shown to it to get washed up. The water had been almost icy cold and that was all that the DATAR could do when it came to washing up. But she honestly felt like she needed to relax a little in the cool water anyway. Maybe it would help take Pete's death off her mind.

But she doubted it.

As soon as Anna left her room, she found out that she wasn't the only one up, which was no surprise. There was always someone still awake in the Nest. She saw a few people up and going and doing things around the Nest. But what had her attention was a group surrounding one of the large trailers. The one that Anna learned that served as the Nest Infirmary and Medical trailer.

Frowning, Anna made her way over, though redirected herself when she spotted Sam sitting on Bumblebee's car form hood. Sam was looking grimly at the Infirmary trailer. He didn't look too thrilled about what was going on inside. And from inside, Anna could hear weak cries while someone was talking rapidly to another person. It sounded like Will talking to Epps. So obviously, someone was hurt.

"Hey." Anna said as she looked at Sam before glancing towards the trailer. "What's going on?"

Sam looked over at her with the same grim look but he shook his head and folded his arms over his chest. He kept himself propped against Bumblebee's hood and bumper, still looking at Anna. "You so don't want to be up right now, Anna." He muttered before nodding towards the trailer. "Will and some of the others were patrolling the city where we found you and they found a girl. She's in really bad shape. She's been ravaged by the Reavers and half of her has been stripped of skin. She's doing so good at all." He shook his head again. "She's awake, obviously from the pain and Will's trying to talk to her. But none of us can speak Spanish, which is what she's been sprouting out since she woke up."

Anna frowned with a look on her face. "Spanish?" She muttered before she looked towards the trailer. "I know a little. Maybe I can talk to her." She said before walking over. She ignored Sam's soft call to her. She just wanted to see who was injured and maybe talked to her. She didn't know too much Spanish but had learned a little from Jesse.

Anna approached the crowd around the door, trying to push past. Some of them glanced at her and gave her the benefit by stepping back so she could get through. Some of them tried to stop her from getting any closer to the doorway. But she mostly ignored all of them. They eventually just let her through, figuring that it was her own fault for what she was about to see.

But then Anna saw her.

Her breath catching her throat and chest, Anna felt as if she was being choked by horror, itself. She felt as if she was stepping into a complete nightmare. She couldn't believe that She was here! But why? How! She wanted to scream! She wanted to pinch herself and make sure that it was all just a dream! She didn't want this to happen! Anything else but not her!

"JESSE!" Anna screamed in horror.