This came from one of many plot bunnies that seem to want to make my life harder.

I do not own Transformers. All original Transformers belong to rightful owners! I only own my Oc Arabella, and anyone else I add.

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ThePegasusDevice :It's not... you will see why.

Text:" =Two way conversation out loud for extended time.

{Text: "} = Com link, text message, phone call

Normal point of view

I don't know why but something told me to call Optimus. Something told me that it was the right thing, it was a feeling like something bad was going to happen, a disturbance in the Cosmo's if you will.

Me: "Hey Tia, grab your things you're going to sleep at my place for a while."

Tia: "Okay!"

{Prime: Optimus Prime here."}

{Me: Hey Optimus, it's Arabella.}

{Prime: "Arabella? Where are you? The twins have everyone looking for you. We are as humans say "worried sick" about your safety."}

{Me: "I had to run back home to help a friend of mine. Sh..she lost both of her parents in the last 24 hours and she's only six. Tell everyone that I am okay."}

I said as I grabbed the notes from Tia's dad, and gazed out a window near the front door. There across the street sat a police cruiser. I hadn't seen it earlier, probably because it was so dark out, but it was sitting there. "What were they doing? Why hadn't they come to the door?" I asked myself.

{Prime: "Ms. Brinks, how did you get to Albuquerque by chance?"}

{Me: "I went through some portal thingy Wheeljack made, please tell him I'm sorry for threatening him, and that I'm okay."}

{Prime: "I will assure him and everyone else of your safe arrival."}

Tia: "Coach? I'm ready to go."

Me: "Okay sweetness, go wait by the door we'll walk out in a sec."

I said as I took pictures of the two letters.

{Prime: "Arabella? Who is this "sweetness" you are talking to?"}

{Me: "That would be my friend that I am helping, we are going to spend the night at my house, so we're heading there now."}

I said as Tia and I exited her house. It was creepy outside, for some odd reason none of the lights on her street where on. I know she lives in the bad part of town and that they sometimes don't have power, but something felt wrong about it.

Tia: "This is Halloween! This is Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! In this town we call home, everyone hail to the pumpkin song!"

She sang. It was not helping my feelings of dread, although her timing is pretty good. It's that awkward time between Halloween and Christmas, (also known as Thanksgiving) where advertisers and t.v channels have yet to give up Halloween but try to embrace Christmas.

{Prime: "Ara..bel..a..there i..de...t..on..ne...r..st..ay...p..t..! ides..nd...unny..ming!"}

{Me: "What was that? You're breaking up."}

{CALL DROPPED}

Me: "Shoot! Come on Tia lets get to the bus stop."

Tia: "Who was that?"

Me: "He is a friend of mine, the ones I told you that I would be staying with remember?"

Tia: "Do the two pretty boys that used to visit with you at practice live there too?"

Me: "Heh, yeah they do, the two goofballs."

Tia: "Are you dating them yet?"

Me: "You could say that..."

I said as I took a better look at the Cop car. It looked normal, although it was empty. Maybe the officer had left to find a ground line, since this was a dead zone. "Huh, that's concerning." I said to myself. The car looked kinda like Prowl, but where his slogan of protect and serve was, was a slightly different one. "To punish and enslave?" Tia read aloud. "That's strange." I said putting a little urgency in my steps. That's when I saw it, on the license plate there was where the Zia symbol normally is a different symbol. This symbol looked kinda like the Autobots symbol, but it was pointy and sinister looking. The most important thing though is, that it was purple. Sunny and Sides had shown me that symbol before. That cop was no cop, it was a Decepticon, and Tia and I were in trouble. I flinched when the cop car turned on and began to follow us, still without a driver.

Me: "Tia.. I need you to run to the farthest bus stop from here, I then need you to go to my house and get inside. When you get there, take my phone and speed dial 1. A man by the name of Optimus Prime will answer, tell him that you are a friend of mine and that you need protection."

Tia: "But-"

Me: "Tia! No buts! Just run! Run for me, please!"

I said shoving her away as I heard the bot behind me transform. I tried to run away, but was caught quickly by a massive hand. The owner of the hand squeezed me tight. So tight that for a moment I thought that I was going to pop.

Bot: "Are you Arabella brinks?!"

Me: "Who wants to know!?"

Bot: "Myself and the so called "Giant flying Dorito."

Me: "Oh, ha ha. He does resemble the snack food. You on the other hand resembled a friend of mine, at least when you were in your alt you did. Now, I know he is far more attractive than you."

I said mentally face palming myself. Why would you tell a giant alien robot who is an enemy of your friends and loved ones that he is unattractive?! Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid...

Bot: "I am nothing like that weakling Prowl! I am Barricade, destroyer of mechs and devourer of snack foods!"

He said licking his lip plates tentatively.

Me: "Eh..excuse me?"

Barricade: "You said that my comrade resembled the snack food, so I am here to see how you like being snack food."

He said licking me. Let me go out on a limb and say that alien saliva is nasty. I felt all oily from where he licked me.

Me: "Don't you dare! My friends no doubt will be here soon, and will not be happy if I am harmed!"

Barricade: "And how will they know where you are? last I scanned, you don't seem to have a tracker on you and that sparkling ran off with your phone!"

WHANG!

Tia: "PUT HER DOWN! NOW!"

Me: "TIA! NO! GO GET HELP!"

Tia: "NOT TILL HE PUTS YOU DOWN! IF HE WANTS TO HURT YOU THEN HE HAS TO GO THROUGH ME FIRST!"

She screamed as she threw her backpack aside and picked up another object to throw at my captor.

Barricade: "I can go through you easy... (STOMP!) See? That was easy! Aww, I have organic on my foot!"

He said as he scraped the remains of Tia onto the street. All that was left of her was her backpack. I began to scream and cry and kick. My little buddy, who had probably the worst childhood ever was stomped on by a giant robot, and it was all my fault!

Barricade: "Ah, now where were we? Oh, yes! "

Me: "Bite me you slagger! I hope you go to the pit for taking an innocent child's life away!"

Barricade: "Obliged!"

He shouted as he put me in his mouth and bit me in half. I felt my spine shatter and then everything went dark. Well, that's it, I'm dead. Or so I thought. I opened my eyes to see blue-gray light. I was floating, and I mean literally floating, I didn't have legs. I just had a wispy tail. "Where the heck am I?" I whispered.

Tia: "Coach! Coach Arabella!"

Me: "Tia?! Oh my God! You're! you're? we're! we're? I... I am so sorry!"

I said as I started to cry, which for some odd reason caused her to smile. She was nearly translucent like a ghost. Yet she seemed so happy. "No more crying Coach, you're beginning to shimmer." She said calmly. I looked down to see that I too was translucent but that my skin was shimmering with flecks of blue and silver.

Me: "Tia why are you so happy?"

Tia: "Because I got to see my mommy. She said that she loves me and thanks you for trying to protect me and for taking care of me when we were alive."

Me: "It was my honor. I am truly sorry that you didn't get a longer life Tia."

Disembodied voice: "That is not true. You both shall live again."

Author's note: Again a cliffhanger! I know, I'm horrible but some say that good authors leave cliffhangers. I aspire to be a good author so here we are! Hello to all you nocturnals out there! Hello to everyone who is supposed to be doing something else but is reading this! I'm glad that this story is the subject of your procrastination! If you wouldn't mind procrastinating a bit longer, would you please vote on the Sparkling poll or Rate, Review, Follow or Favorite? Pretty please? I need feedback on what happened to Tia and Arabella. Love ya and as always

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