REALITY

What.

Seriously. What. Was. That. Barely a few hours earlier she was home, scrolling through her newsfeed on Facebook. And now Felicity had managed to sneak by her drunken mother into the bathroom. She took a hot shower and managed to get some new clothes without any of the other family members to notice her activity.

"Should I tell Nora about this?" she thought as she was putting on her pyjamas inside her room. "She's a nice girl, but she's still only seven years old. There's too much of a risk that she would tell mum or something."

Felicity gently sat down by her bed, and looked out the window. That thing was out there, doing something. And there she was, knowing about it, but not doing anything about it. She was just remaining silent in all her shock.

Trying to stop thinking about, she prayed while lying in her bed, hoping she one day would find out more about that creature she just had seen.

Closing her eyes, she quickly fell asleep.

(O)

The silence was broken by a haze of gunfire and a row of explosions.

"We must leave, Bumblebee!" Ironhide screamed. "Hurry up!"

Bumblebee looked at the destroyed planet. The cybertronians were screaming and shooting, the buildings had large holes and were burning as the war kept destroying the once peaceful planet. Life was a mess. Was it worth living?

"Come on!"

After some hesitation, Bumblebee quickly ran through the battlefield and entered the escape pod.

After closing the hatch into it, he fell to his knees, as he screamed out loud in pure frustration.

(O)

Felicity's eyes opened, as she quickly analyzed where she was. Home, in her bed. It was 1:00 AM.

"Freakin' nightmares", Felicity said as she closed her eyes once again, and fell asleep again.

(O)

Once the engine started, things were looking pretty good, as a start. Bumblebee traveled in safety the first half of his journey.

But then it went worse.

The engines were starting to give, as Bumblebee had a wound that needed to be taken care of. He managed to stop the leak and fix some more energon, but he wasn't if the pod could make it much further. It was very abused, and needed a ton of repairing. Things were looking pretty bad for Bumblebee.

"I wonder what has happened to the other Autobots", he thought, and closed his optics for a few seconds.

A break. He needed a break. From the world and its awful reality.

(O)

This time Felicity didn't actually know why she woke up.

"What the hell..." she said quietly to herself, as she decided to fall asleep once again and ignore the weird dream.

It was 1:16 AM.

(O)

It was in this moment that Bumblebee realized that driving an escape pod with closed optics wasn't such a great idea.

The escape pod had entered an unknown planet's atmosphere and was now heading directly towards the ground.

"Scrap!" Bumblebee screamed as he grabbed the steering wheel and tried to slow down the speed.

He quickly flew through the clouds and now saw that this planet wasn't just some rock. It was mostly blue, but also green, with many other colors. It was beautiful, and full of life. An organic version of Cybertron.

But he couldn't focus on that in such a moment. He had to take control of the escape pod and land properly somewhere.

He used all his force and managed to plain out the direction pretty well, but he knew he couldn't land very peacefully.

He quickly noticed a spot, filled with some kind of liquid. He could use it to slow down his insane speed.

So he headed directly towards it, and the pod spun around many times as it hit the ground, before it finally fell into the liquid pond with a large bang.

(O)

Felicity barely moved in her sleep. All she could do was to take in the information she received.

(O)

Bumblebee managed to open the hatch once again, and quickly got out of hit.

His glowing optics helped him scan his surroundings. He did at first not bother to scan on what was above the surface.

The liquid did luckily not harm him in any way, and it wasn't even close to make it slightly freezing for him. For him, it was a surprisingly neutral heat.

It didn't take long before he spotted the little organic fall into the water.

It seemed to get frightened as fast as it saw Bumblebee and escaped as fast as it could.

Bumblebee remained in the liquid for a moment, just thinking about the peculiar organic, before he finally left the pond of liquid himself and decided to explore the planet he had landed on.

(O)

Felicity woke up with a jerk.

She looked at the clock. It was 2:01 AM. All the others were sleeping.

She considered her crazy thought for a second, before quickly sneaking down the stairs.

This time, she didn't forget to put on some warm clothes.