It was the weekend again and the girls had decided to spend it at the Autobot base, it looked like their training would resume, all of the girls were still recovering. Chloe limped inside the main part of the base where a huge TV had been set up. A news reporter had caught the attention of everybody.
"In other news Sandra Crawford was found dead today, cause is strangulation. The woman owned an orphanage and was found dead in the play room, there was a struggle."
Chloe gasped, that death hit really close to home. Aella turned to look at Chloe having heard her gasp.
"What's wrong Chloe?"
Chloe looked down at my feet "that was the woman who raised me"
Nikkei tilted her head "you mean you're an orphan?"
Chloe nodded "im with a foster mother now"
Aella took a few steps towards her "you mean no one has adopted you yet?"
Nikkei frowned "you seventeen, you should have been adopted"
Chloe shrugged "I never really fit in, most parents want an out going child, im shy"
Aella shook her head "that's it, what a lame excuse, your great"
Chloe smiled sadly "thanks" she said quietly.
Aella and Nikkei walked forward and hugged Chloe as best as they could. It was then the Autobots came in, they smiled at the hugging girls but scans showed that they weren't doing it out of fun of joy.
Optimus knelt before them "what's wrong?"
Aella pointed to the news caster who was repeating the death "that"
Ironhide watched it and looked at the girls "I don't get it" once again the whole story was repeated and the bots finally got it.
Chloe later asked to be driven home, she wanted to be alone for a while, Optimus fully understood and drove her back and told her he would pick her up tomorrow. Aella and Nikkei were worried about her and made her promise to come back tomorrow. Chloe nodded and said that she would.
Chloe got in just in time to hear the phone ring. She grabbed it and cradled it between her shoulder and ear.
"Hello" that all too familiar voice came on
"honey, its time for you to go to a new place, Sandra is gone and you have some one else lookin' after you now, they say they have found a nice place for you"
"No" Chloe whispered "im staying here" she said firmly.
"Im sorry, some one will pick you up in two days, good luck" Chloe hung up the phone; tears were streaming down her face. This day was just getting better and better, her new found joy was just too good to be true, all hope was diminished.
Chloe decided that she needed a walk, so as quietly as she could she got on her bike and rode to downtown. There she could shop, that would get her mind off things.
Once in the main part of town she parked her bike nicely and headed down the street where a large blinking light advertised a clothes store. Chloe had her hands in her pockets and head down, she was minding her own business when a hand grabbed her shoulder and dragged her into a back way. Chloe made a small shriek but a hand cut off any further protests she might have had when it wrapped around her neck forcing her to be quiet.
Chloe's eyes darted, what was happening? Was this rape? What was she going to do? The last question was easy, Chloe wasn't going to go down without a fight. With a backward jab of her elbow she made her captor let go of her. Chloe whipped around to face her attacker but what she saw made her gasp and trip back into the wall. There in front of her was an almost exact replica of herself. Had Chloe not been in an alley way she would have thought she was standing in front of a mirror. But closer inspection showed that the not Chloe had age lines and a paler complexion. She looked dead on her feet, almost gothic in the lack of light.
Chloe was about to shout at her to go away but the girl charged her. Chloe sidestepped her not wanting to fight. She wanted to just get away, Chloe didn't even have to know why the girl was attacking her she just wanted to get away. Chloe was charged once more; she didn't have enough time to move fully out of the way and was decked hard on the side of her face. Chloe blinked a few times and then growled. No ONE hit HER! Snarling the two women faced each other; their fists were raised and looked ready to kill.
Chloe did as her instructor told her and waited for her opponent to strike first; it was one of the most important rules of fighting. Her opponent obviously didn't know that rule because she ran forward again, her fists were raised and were coming for her face fast. Chloe brought up her hands and lashed out with her foot. She effectively blocked the attack to her face and took it with her arms, her foot hit the others leg hard. Chloe's toe hurt but at the moment she had a bit more on her mind then a sore toe.
The two were going to attack one another again when a laughing came from behind them; their attention was diverted from the fight to the laugh. Chloe whipped around her hair flew across her face. She saw a robot that she hadn't seen before. He had a different sort of look then what the Autobots had, he looked really evil.
The robot had a head that was a bit too small for his body, his wings were closed and he glared down at them with red optics. Chloe then noticed his mark was different; he had a purple sign other than a red one. If her suspicions were correct not only was she facing some lunatic girl but a decepticon as well. This was a great day!
"Two humans, two new hostages for the Autobots, they'll save any human" the robot looked down at them he smiled evilly.
Chloe wanted to shout that Optimus and the others would kick his sorry ass but of course that would be when she found her voice again. Chloe was fairing better then the girl behind her, she had fallen on her butt and was trying to get away from that monster in front of her.
Suddenly a large clawed hand wrapped around the both of them, Chloe struggled to get away from the girl who had seized the opportunity to start clawing at her. Chloe pushed with her hands as hard as she could but that didn't stop the nails from grazing her face, Chloe hissed under her breath. That stupid girl was still trying to kill her even though they were being kidnapped. They were supposed to get along but that apparently wasn't going to happen.
Chloe felt herself being brought up, and suddenly with the twisting of metal and shrieking of gears, the attacker and attacked found them selves in a cramped cockpit of a jet. Chloe didn't feel the jet taking off or picking up speed, she was focused on the girl who was currently trying to kill her.
"get away" she screamed. The girl smiled and shook her head. She growled and lunged as best as she could in the small space she had. Her hand wrapped around Chloe's neck closing around it tightly. Chloe fought for breath as she kicked up with her legs trying to get the girl to loosen her grip.
Chloe finally managed to hit the girl off of her with a well placed punch in the chest. She began to kick out rapidly with her legs hitting the girl; she didn't care about form now, just as long as she got away! The tow were so wrapped up in the fight they didn't notice where they were going, they didn't even noticed that the jet had entered a lake and was now 'flying' underwater. They didn't even realize that they had entered the base, they were fighting.
The jet Transformed and caught a girl in each hand. Chloe sighed, at least they were separated. As the jet walked them to their doom Chloe felt her face, when she looked at her hand she saw blood. That girl had cut her deeply. The jet brought them over to cages and placed one girl in a cage and left.
Chloe was huddled up in a corner while the girl stood up gripping the bars, she was just staring at her, and it was freaky.
Chloe glanced at her she shook her head and said "give it a rest will yah, you can kill me as soon as we get out of this."
"I've waited so long for this moment" the girl actually spoke, it was raspy and low.
"what moment?" Chloe sat on her knees she looked at the girl.
"I get to kill the girl who drove me to be this way"
Chloe looked mortified, what had she done to that girl? "what did I do"
"well sister" the girl drew out the word from no where "you drove my mother to insanity, you made me kill my own father and the woman who raised you"
Chloe shrunk back from the girl "I didn't make you do that"
"oh yes you did" the girl shook with anger now "father wanted you and mother didn't, I sided with mother and stole you from your cradle in the middle of the night and dropped you by the garbage, where that stupid woman Sandra found you and brought you to her orphanage. It then later turned out that my mother found that she could not live with me doing such a thing, she also wanted you back but my father found out and he hit her. oh he hit her hard… he said that she was bad" the woman was talking to Chloe as if she was a child, she sounded so immature. "mother then threw herself out of the window and it was all your Fault" Chloe was having difficulty keeping up with the babbling insane person in the cage next to her. but she knew one thing for sure, she was happy that the girl had put her outside, she shuddered to think as to what she would have become if she had lived in a family like that.
Starscream walked down the hallway excitedly, he had more humans to taunt the Autobots with. He walked into Megatron's room and announced what he had done. Megatron was pleased, he sent Starscream away and told Barricade to watch over the humans until the Autobots could be contacted.