A/N: I am back with a new chapter, hope you all enjoy this one as we go further into Eleanor's memories! Lets do this!
Chapter 27-Painful Memories Forgotten, Beautiful Memories Created
She remembered watching as the landscape past her as Megatron flew across the light blue sea of the Mediterranean. They were now over the sea having left Europe behind towards the shifting sands of the Sahara, it was plain after some research by Optimus, which took only a second, that what the riddle referred to as the sands of the Sahara.
More specifically, Egypt, land of the Pharaohs were many tombs of kings and queens lay.
But something bothered her, he didn't say where he got the riddle from.
He was hiding something, but why?
Her eyes grew heavy as they crossed the sea, the events of the earlier part of the day were catching up with her so she decided to rest her eyes, if only for a little while.
It was dark, super dark, pitch black. She couldn't see her own hand in front of her face. This is the place the little girl had known for sometime, she didn't know how long she had been here but from hearing conversations from the scientist, she'd wager she's been here for two years.
This room was her room, it had no furnishings, just a blanket on the floor and a toilet in the corner. There was a big metal door opposite of her, but she couldn't really see it.
She had been here, in this facility for two years ...staring at walls, getting little to eat, having...no parents to comfort her.
At this point she could cry anymore...to dehydrated too, and she had only emptiness instead of sadness and anger.
She doesn't know what these men want, why they monitor her vitals and the strange injections.
Yes, the injections.
For two years, three times a day, they would put a needle into her arms and legs, four needles each. It was always filled with a strange liquid, colored purple and blue, the two colors never mixing but dancing around each other.
Three times, four injections, and unending pain.
Every time they injected her with this strange substance she was in incredible pain. Her heart felt like it was tearing itself to shreds, her brain felt like it was melting and her skin felt like it was on fire.
But as time wore on, the amount of time that the pain lasted lessened.
These days the pain only lasted five minutes, before when she first began it would last for hours. And since the pain lessened they gave her more injections, at first they only gave one a day but still pumped four into her limbs, now that she had a tolerance it seemed, they had ramp up to three.
She didn't understand why, what were they doing to her? Why her? Why did they target her family? It was all the burning questions of a 7 year old girl.
The door suddenly opened and blinding white light burst through, momentary blinding the poor girl. She felt her arms being grabbed forcefully as she was dragged out of her room by two masked men, all the soldiers wore masks, none of the higher officials or scientists did.
She was dragged off the a new sector she hadn't been before, it was more orient with marble floors and pillars with paintings on the walls, the smell of lavender hit her nose. Soon they came to a door, large and engraved with the symbol, name and motto of those who held her.
It read; The Order of the Embrace, Embracing the Future of Humanity's Evolutionary Coarse Forever More.
The doors swung open, the symbol, the three linked circles, broke apart as the door opened.
Inside was a lavish room of couches, rugs, paintings, columns, and a screen larger than she had ever seen with a current live look it seemed of a far off city. Standing in front of the screen was a man, back towards Eleanor.
He turned to face her as she was thrown into the room, the doors shutting leaving only her and the man.
The man himself was tall and lean, his pale skin was marked by chemical burns and he wore red spectacles. His entire outfit was black, his trench coat, pants, shirt and even his gloves and shoes were black. His hair was a deep brown that had streaks of white in them.
"Finally, we meet face to face, Eleanor." He said with almost a satisfied tone.
She was surprised, "You didn't call me Subject-24 like the scientists, why?" Her childish voice was horse and rough, it sounded wrong to those who had just met her.
And yes, the scientist never called her by her real name.
"Because, little one, I am not so emotionless as to call a child Subject-24." He smiled lightly, he gestured her to sit on a chair.
She took a tentative seat, he sat across from her. "What do you want?"
"Ah, straight to the point? Well then, you have learned much since coming here two years ago." He sighed and placed his glasses down on the table next to him, his now burning deep green eyes stared at her.
"I brought you here today to congratulate you." She was confused.
"What? I don't understand?" He smiled almost devilishly.
"You are the only success in Project Superior so far, the rate of you're development has been a treat to watch. I only wish now is to see what comes next, oh the discovers still yet to be made." Seeing her confusion he explained, "My dear, you are apart of the next step in Humanities evolution, you are becoming the next step towards a future we have been trying to achieve for years.'
'I guess you also wonder why you were chosen, well you see my dear, your 'Father' was a coward. He and I were partners in the military, together we worked on a way to make super soldiers, but he found the project 'inhumane' while I'll saw the potential of creating humanities next leap towards immortality.'
'He left the project and had his superiors cancel the project, I tried to continue the project but my superiors discharged me from the military. So I created this, the Order of the Embrace, to continue the project towards the next evolution. But it came at a price, my beloved wife had come down with cancer.'
He sighed and rubbed his eyes, 'I pushed my team to the limit and we thought we had discovered the next evolution, but it was not. She died from procedure that you go through three times a day. Of course, I couldn't care for my daughter so I gave her up for adoption. And that's how you ended up with your adopted parents."
Her emerald green eyes widened in shock, "I-I...don't believe you.."
"Of course you don't, but I still can't believe you ended up with him of all people. No matter. I now have you back and you are better than expected."
She couldn't believe it, "Why…?"
"Why experiment on you? Because you are my flesh and blood, when you are perfected I can be too. You've made me very proud." His smirk was pure evil, he was only in it for himself. "Of course as soon as you're purpose is fulfilled I don't need the competition so you will be sold as a weapon to the highest bidder."
He wasn't her Father, he was a monster full of greed and evil. Eleanor's breathing was hard and fast, her hands clenched, sweat down her face. He called in the guards to escort her back, she was having none of it.
She felt something well in her, a fury the child never knew, she felt something unlock within her.
She launched herself at one of the guards with unseen strength she pushed him to the ground and started wailing on him, screaming bloody murder as her eyes had turned pure white. She kept punching and punching, the other guard she ordered to remain and he did as he was told, unable to control himself.
Again, again, again, she kept wailing on him, blood started obscuring her vision, she was starting to get cut up from the bone shards and she started just punching mush.
Blood, rage, power, but the most powerful emotion….
….Fear.
"Eleanor? Eleanor?! ELEANOR!"
She awoke with an ear piercing scream, her emerald-white eyes wide and looking in each direction. Her skin was pale and sweating and she was shaking like a leaf. Soon she started to calm down, and she took in her surroundings.
She was laying on a sandy ground with Megatron staring down at her with wide terrified eyes, he seemed a little battered like he had been in a fist fight. She could hear the waves lapping the shore as the sun was setting.
"W-What...happened?" She asked afraid, he looked at her with worried eyes.
"We arrived several hours ago and you were still asleep so I decided to wait for Optimus on this beach...but than after a while you started mumbling and twitching and than your eyes opened pure white and you started to attack me ...Eleanor...what happened?! What's wrong...how can I help?"
He grabbed her hands, desperately wanting to help. She didn't know what to say so she just said.
"I love you...don't ever change." He smiled lightly and pulled her into him.
"And I will love you forever as well, Eleanor." He pulled back and brought her into a kiss as tears streamed down her face.
And for at least a little while, he made her forget the painful memories…
If only for one night, it was something she loved about him, he made beautiful memories that she cherished.
"Thank you, Megatron."