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Disclaimer: I don't own transformers, or any other trademarked name or product in this story. But I DO own project Seven.
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After the day's light was spent, the three humans had managed to light a fire, and the Autobots went into recharge.
"So how are you guys going to try and find this source of life that they need for their planet?" Seven asked, laying near the fire.
"We're not sure... The glasses that had the map on it were destroyed, so I guess just try searching for it a different way of finding it... We have to hurry though," Sam replied.
"Oh? Why's that?" Seven asked.
"Our families were arrested... They took my dog for crying out loud!" he replied.
"Who took them?" Seven wasn't sure who "they" were.
"The same people who are after you... They found out that we had contact with these guys and came straight after us..." Mikaela explained.
"...I'm really sorry to hear that... Hopefully they're only going to question them then..." Seven replied.
It was quiet for a moment before Sam and Mikaela started whispering from the other side of the fire.
"What's all that about?" Seven became annoyed with this.
"I... I mean... We just wanted to know..." Mikaela started.
"Mikaela-" Sam was going to interrupt.
"Know what?" Seven was now curious about what the other two were curious about.
"Do... Do they hurt?..." the girl finished her question.
"Does what hurt?" Seven was confused.
"Nothing, don't worry about it," Sam cut them off.
Seven was still wondering when she looked down to see her exposed robotic arm.
"Oh..." she said with a sigh.
"You don't... You don't have to-" Sam started before being cut off.
"Every damn second of every damn day..." Seven replied looking down at the ground.
There was another brief silence before Seven came back out saying, "But it's kind of funny..."
The other two looked up at her solemnly.
"It's funny how after so many years of living with the pain, "Seven continued as she overlooked her arm, "You get used to it... Even though it's always with you..."
Another brief silence.
"So... What exactly is this source of life that you're looking for?" Seven asked.
"They called it the "Allspark". It holds enough energy to keep their entire planet going, but they had a war. The war between the Decepticons and the Autobots. The Allspark, somehow, made it to Earth, and they were hunting for it a long time ago. Their leader, Megatron, crash landed on Earth and was frozen. My great grandfather, Archibald Witwicky, found Megatron. When he did, Megatron accidentally imprinted the map on how to reach the Allspark on my grandfather's glasses... Which was the map that we were going to use to find the Allspark, which was destroyed. After that, Megatron and the Allspark were stowed away somewhere by the government," Sam explained.
Seven's mind suddenly went back in time as her eyes grew wide.
She climbed in and began crawling through. It didn't take long to get to another vent, where she could see out of, and into a room where there was something she had never seen before. There at the end of the room, stood a giant... Well the only thing to call it was "Robot". It was covered in hoses, which seemed to be pumping out liquid nitrogen, which seemed to keep the beast in cryostasis. The thing towered above anything else in the room, it's shining metal gleaming from the lights above it. The technicians only reached the things ankles as they strode in and out of the room, each with clipboards.
"They... Found Megatron?" Seven asked, staring into the fire.
Sam and Mikaela looked up to the girl.
"Yeah... And we don't know what they did with him from there. The Autobots are sure that he isn't dead, but as for how the government managed to keep him a secret, no one knows... Why?" Sam asked, confused.
"I... Uh... and this Allspark... It has an unlimited source of power?" Seven asked again, her eyes seemingly getting bigger by the second.
"Yeah, it's some giant cube, thing... It provided energy to everything on their planet... What are you getting at?" Mikaela answered this time.
Seven's memories from her childhood were mostly memories that she did not wish to relive. However she did remember something from when she had been taken through certain rooms in the facility where she was at. She remembered hearing about a source of energy that the technicians had discussed about it like children going on about a win in a sporting contest or something.
"The energy of this thing is absolutely off the charts!" she remembered them going on.
"So... That was Megatron?..." she asked herself out loud.
Sam and Mikaela looked at each other and walked around the fire, looking at the girl while she dazed off into the light of the fire.
"What was Megatron? Hey... Hey!" Sam shook the girl's left shoulder to shake her out of this state.
"I can't believe it..." Seven looked away from the fire.
"Can't believe what?!" Mikaela was worried about where this was going.
"This entire time I lived in the same facility with the same things that you're looking for! I... I saw Megatron! He's at the same place I lived!" Seven declared finally.
"W-What?! You what?!" Sam didn't know if he could believe what he was hearing.
"The Allspark is there too! I heard them talk about it! They're both there!... Wherever the hell there is..." Seven realized that she had no idea where it was that she was at.
Sam shot up from where he was sitting and ran to the Autobots.
"Guys! Guys! Wake up!" he yelled, giving Bumblebee and a couple others a knock on their hoods.
The Autobots' engines fired up and they quickly transformed back out of their car modes.
"What is it Sam?! Are we under attack?! Have we been found?!" Optimus yelled as he and the others prepared their weapons.
"No no! Guys! We're not under attack-"
"Sam..." Seven tried to interrupt.
"And we haven't been found!" he continued excitedly.
"Sam..." Mikaela also tried to interrupt.
"The Allspark! It's with Megatron!" he announced happily.
"WHAT?!" Four of the Transformers all shouted, Bumblebee just giving a surprised glance.
"It's... It's... Well I mean, Megatron is near the Allspark, but... but... It's actually here!" Sam continued, not making himself very clear.
"How is it better that Megatron is even close to the Allspark?!" Ironhide asked angrily.
"No.. I mean, they're together, but he's not... Or I mean... The Allspark is really here!" he tried putting his words together.
The Autobots sighed and rumbled heavily.
"We know it's here on Earth Samuel... That is the reason why we are here," Optimus reasoned, "However the map was destroyed..."
"Ah! But what I'm trying to tell you is, "Sam replied as he ran over to Seven, putting his hands on either side of her head, "We have a new map!"
The Autobots all looked back at the girl, wondering what Sam had meant by that.
"SAM!" Both Mikaela and Seven yelled for the boy.
"What?!" he looked to the two girls.
"Why did you just do that?" Seven asked sourly.
"Do what?!"
"You just got them all excited about something to which we still have no idea about..." Seven explained.
"What do you mean?! You said that you've seen them!" he said, still excited.
"She's seen the Allspark?! And Megatron?!" Ratchet asked.
Seven sighed and said, "Yeah, I guess I have... However the fact remains, Sam, that I don't know where that was!" Seven reminded him.
"Yeah!... But... Oh yeah..." Sam said sitting down on the ground, his happiness suddenly dropped.
"But... You have seen them?" Optimus asked.
"Well if what's been described to me is true, then yes... But it still doesn't matter! I don't know where exactly it was..." Seven said again.
As they were discussing this, someone... No, more like something had overheard them. A small device within Mikaela's purse moved around just a little bit as it began to transmit something.
"Starscream... Starscream, come in, this is Frenzy!" the little device transmitted.
A second after a few muffled signals came back, one made itself clear.
"This is Starscream, go ahead!"
"We have a possible lead on the location of the Allspark. I'm sending the coordinates right now!"
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Lillian packed a few items for a long road trip and got into her car in the middle of the night.
"I have to know that they didn't find her... I have to go back and make sure that she's okay. Although if she was spotted, her training would tell her not to go back to the same place twice, so this may be harder to do than I originally thought..."
Lillian was filled with concern and worry as she got into her car and drove off, to which she thought she was trekking alone.
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"No! No, no, no, no, no, absolutely not, NO!" Seven shouted with her arms crossed and an annoyed look on her face.
"But what if we figure out where it is?!" Sam asked angrily.
"Good! Go and find it then!" she replied.
"But you've seen where it is, you could make this go so much easier!" Optimus tried to reason.
"Forget it! I'm not going back there! If there was one good thing that my training taught me, it's that I should never return to the same place twice! And I'll be very happy not to go back to that hell!" Seven replied.
"But you went back to Los Angelas to get something to eat for us! What about that?!" Mikaela made a point.
Seven looked shocked. She did seem to blow off that rule in order to get them food... But that was something different!
"That was different! I... You guys needed food!" Seven pointed out.
"It's the same thing and you know it!" the other girl snarled.
"No! A calculated risk like that is nothing compared to what you're asking me to do!"
"But it's not-" Sam started.
"NO!," Seven turned her back to the group and sat down, looking into the fire. She pulled her knees to her chest and put her arms around her legs like a child would.
"Asking me to go back there is like asking me to jump into a fire pit! I managed to get away from there once, however it is that I did it the first time... I can't take the risk of going back... I'm not going back and you're not going to make me!" Sevens' eyes softened by the light of the fire.
The others were silent for a moment before Optimus spoke.
"You may think that you were alone when you live in that facility, "he began as Seven looked up at him, "But we're going to be with you, every step of the way."
Seven looked to everyone in the group, the Autobots giving her their confident nods, as well as Sam and Mikaela. She thought very deeply, looking back into the dying fire, while everyone else looked to her with great anticipation.
She gave an even more annoyed look and said, "You know... I... Fine! I'll go!"
Everyone sighed in relief.
"I guess this means you'll be staying with us for a while?" Sam asked, hopeful for the help.
"I don't have much of a choice, now, do I?" Seven snapped back.
They all had a good chuckle as they settled back in for the night.
"I hope you guys know what you're getting into... I hope I know what I'm getting into..." the girl thought as she laid down to try and sleep.
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Chapter Teaser!
A man in a torn, black suit was running down a hallway, holding his right arm. He was sweating bullets, blood running down his face from deep scratches. He stopped and sat down on the floor, breathing rapidly after he rounded another corner of the darkened corridor. He hoped that he had gotten away when a dark figure appeared directly in front of him, holding an arm up with a gun in it's hand.
"N-No! Please!" the man yelled as he put his own arms up in front of his face in defense.
The figure smiled evily, and he could barely make out anything but the smile and those bright yellow eyes.