Hey guys, thank you for the encouraging reviews! If you're wondering, yes I made a few mistakes by leaving some parts out of the first chapter, but if you go back, you'll find them amended. Here's the second chapter update! Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own Transformers, however Project Seven is my own little creation so no stealy stealy!

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"I can't stay here, and you can't go back there... You're in a lot of danger, and I don't think I really need to remind you of that. It's bad enough that you're even outside of the lab, let alone have the public lay their eyes on you... I'm going to give you what you'll need to live off of for a few days, but you'll have to find a life of your own after that... You're going to be one of the most hunted people in the country right now..." she wasn't exactly sure if she should just leave the girl by herself and hope for the best, like leaving a bag of kittens on the side of the road and hope they find a good home.

The girl had stopped eating completely and looked up at Lillian with a questioning face.

Lillian pulled out a small, black, plastic bag and handed it to the girl. She almost didn't accept it but she, reluctantly, took the small bag.

"It's about a thousand dollars. You're used to going without food for long periods of time so you're going to have the stretch every dollar as far as you can. After that, you'll have to find a way to either make some money or... Well do what you have to do to survive, but I have to ask you not to hurt anyone unless you're in danger... Just as long as you understand how important that is, then I'll feel a little better knowing that I've done the right thing..." Lillian's voice grew more and more quiet, but she knew no matter how quiet she was, that the girl would be able to hear her.

There was a brief moment of silence before the girl finally said the first thing in six years.

"Why..." the first word was raspy, but the girl managed to squeak it out.

Lillian looked up at the girl, and noticed that she had completely stopped eating and was focusing her sky-blue eyes right into hers.

"W-What? What did you just say?" she asked, feeling enthralled that the girl had spoken to her.

"Why do you want to help me?... You... You're one of them..." the girl asked.

"The people of this country need to know what their government has done to children like you... It's time things started to unfold... And it needs to start with you..." Lillian replied quietly again.

Before she could explain any further, the sound of a car running slowly along the road near the two women made itself known, and Lillian looked behind her to see that it was a police car. Lillian made no haste in explaining her next task.

"Listen, I know that you've probably grown very tired of being poked and prodded at, but I need to do something before I leave you..." Lillian reached in her pocket and pulled out a small pocket knife.

The girl watched the woman unfold a small, sharp knife and she sat farther back, now aware that something bad was going to happen.

"No, please, don't be scared. Listen, you've got a tracking bug in under the skin in the back of your left hand, and in order for them not to find you, I need to get it out. If I don't, you'll be found in the next few minutes and we'll both be in big trouble. It'll be a small cut, I promise," Lillian pleaded.

"Well she got me out of that place... If it's to keep me from going back..." the girl thought as she outstretched her left hand.

Lillian took the girl's hand and between the thumb and index finger, made a small cut. The girl jumped a little at the pain, but she had felt much worse than this, so she stayed as still as possible. In just a few seconds, a small, blue chip emerged from the girl's hand and landed on the table. The girl brought her hand back and rubbed at the small cut.

"There, that should do it... Consider yourself free!" Lillian said as she folded the knife up again and put it back in her pocket.

"Okay, that's all I have for you I'm afraid. I'm going to leave this in a creek nearby so they'll lose track of you. But you have to get away from here right now, as well as myself... I'm surprised there's no one here already!" Lillian gathered the empty box, and gathered her car keys.

Just before Lillian left, she looked back to the girl with saddened eyes and said, "Get yourself away from here as fast as you can, but don't let anyone see you running, you're not exactly something that the people are used to seeing... Good luck... Seven..." and she turned back again and hopped into her car. In seconds, she was gone.

The girl stood and watched as several police cars began making their way into the park.

"...She was right... They were here faster than I thought they would be... No more time to waste! I have to leave here now!" and she was off.

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It didn't take long for the girl to find shelter under an overpass. It was a secluded and dark place. It would have to do for now. She looked up at the sky and saw the bright orange colors as the sun was setting. She was dazzled by all of the things that the world outside of her prison had to offer. It was so relaxing, that the girl drifted off into a deep slumber.

BOOM

A loud noise jostled the girl from sleep. Her mind raced as she quickly as she could jump to her feet. It only took a few seconds before a helicopter and several police vehicles blew by her.

"They found me! Damn! How the hell did they find me?!"

The girl was about to make a run for it, when she noticed that everything had blown right past her. She was, of course, hidden. But she still wondered why it was that she was completely ignored, not that she was complaining. She watched as the vehicles drove to the other side of another overpass. The helicopter flew underneath it several times as well. The girl, soon, heard the sound of a car, racing to the overpass from the other side. It passed the police vehicles and...

The girls' eyes widened at what she saw next. The helicopter passed underneath the underpass and she saw two figures, seemingly falling to their doom. But before they did, the speeding car... just seemed to transform out of the figure of a car, and into the figure of...

"A robot?!" the girl watched as the giant robot managed to grab the two figures just as the helicopter passed through. It landed and skidded crossed the cement before coming to a stop, carefully placing the two figures down on the ground.

"Humans? The robot risked itself for humans?!" The girl's confusion turned into curiosity as she jumped from her spot and quickly ran to the other overpass.

While running the girl thought, "I wonder if it's the same as the one that I saw back in the lab?! Was that one donating itself for human experimentations?"

She poked her head down into the underneath, and saw many police vehicles surrounding the yellow robot. She saw the human vehicles attach steel lines to the robot as it struggled to get free.

"Why doesn't it just destroy them? It could do it so easily!" The girl thought to herself.

Just as she questioned this, she saw the two humans run for the robot.

"NO! GET OFF OF HIM!" One of the humans yelled.

The girl couldn't understand why it was that these humans and the robot were defending each other, but she didn't like how this was looking so she jumped from her spot and ran halfway under the overpass.

One of the agents from the group of police noticed the girl and walked forward a little, in disbelief.

"YOU!" he yelled in anger, pointing a finger.

The girl just stood there as her temper began to flare. She knew this man... He had, several times, watched over her as they administered "tests". The girl immediately knew that the robot and the two humans defending it were in trouble, and they needed help. She wasn't sure why, but she decided that she was going to help these strangers.

The girl clapped her hands together and touched the ground. Everyone had stopped what they were doing in this group as they felt earth shake beneath them.

"What is this?!" Several of the agents asked, trying to balance themselves.

A giant wall of concrete appeared between the robot and the humans, with the exception of the two humans that the robot had tried so hard to save. The wall rose to meet the bottom of the overpass and stopped. The robot and the two humans were in a daze. The barrier had managed to cut the steel lines that were attached to the robot's limbs.

"W-What just happened?" One of the humans spoke up.

"Run!" The girl shouted to them.

The three turned to her, unsure of what had just happened, and unsure of what to do next.

"Didn't you hear me?! Get out of here!" She yelled again, as the robot was shaken from it's daze, and picked up the two humans near it, running towards the girl.

The robot approached the girl and stopped. The two humans' faces were now clear to the girl. One seemed to be a boy, and the other a girl. The three stared down at her as the robot extended a hand down to her, apparently motioning for her to climb aboard.

The girl backed up and realized that she had gone against the advice of the woman who had broken her from her own hell. She then turned and began to run from them.

"What have I done?!" she thought as she turned to see that the robot was walking towards her a little more, with it's hand still outstretched to her.

Thinking that her fast legs were going to be able to carry her away from all of this, she looked back ahead of her just before running into something very hard, hitting her head against it, whatever it was. The girl fell to the ground, only hearing the noises around her grow less and less audible.

"Who is she?" she heard a voice.

"I'm not sure, but we don't have time to waste, we must-" and that was the last thing she heard before drifting into unconsciousness.

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Her sharp, sensitive nose was first to take in the scents all around her. She could feel soft material beneath her. Her eyes slowly opened, the blurry vision slowly beginning to take shapes and forms of her surroundings. She saw, what looked to be a steering wheel. The soft material she was laying on took the shape of plush seats. Slowly starting to sit up, but not without feeling a strong pain overtake her head. She put her left hand on her head, rubbing her temples, trying to rub the pain away. Without any luck, the girl sat up the rest of the way, looking out of the windows from over the steering wheel.

She saw, what looked to be, a fire, and several smaller vehicles surrounding it. There were two sports cars, the yellow one she recognized as the one that she had seen earlier, then a dark grayish one that had a different body style to it. As well as there were two SUV type vehicles, one with lights over the top like an emergency type of vehicle, and the other some sort of pickup truck. Looking back at the yellow sports car, the girl saw the two humans from earlier asleep inside.

Looking out of the side window of the driver's seat of the much larger thing that she was sitting in. Looking over the nose of the thing she was inside, she saw that it was a large, blue semi truck with flame decals. She looked below the window and saw the handle to the door and slowly took hold of it, gently pulling on it. The door slowly opened, as she didn't want to alarm anything around her and give herself away. She jumped from the driver's side and onto the ground, not bothering to re-close the door. She looked around and noticed that they were no longer in a large city, they were in an open desert. She noticed that the sun was just barely beginning to rise, and she could start to see the colors in the sky.

She hadn't realized it before, but she was actually outside of her prison. Breathing the air of the outside was just as great as it had been described to her. She could smell all different kinds of scents around her. One of them was the smell of the dying fire. It's embers were blowing away in the little amount of wind that the girl could feel against her cheek. She had never thought about how free she was now...

"Free..." she remembered Lillian telling her that word. Up until now it was just a word that she had read once in one of her tutoring books. A word that she had remembered she hated, because she was something that she would never be able to grasp... Just then, she realized that she wanted to know if the woman had managed to escape the clutches of the police...

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The sun had begun to rise, and in the same park that the girl had been left by Lillian, there were several black SUV's surrounding the area. Men in black suits, and others in white lab coats. Two of the men in lab coats approached one man in a black suit. One of them held a small, blue chip up to the man, handing it to him.

"This is all that we found, sir. She's not here... She must have found the tracking chip and tore it out of herself..." one of them spoke.

The man in the black suit took the chip from the other, and held it up to see the dried blood leftover on it.

"There's only one way to find her now... Call back to base... Tell them... To release Number Eight..." he ordered as he turned and got into an SUV and screeched away from the rest of them.