Raf sat there at the trucking yard, he was a little scared of what was going on. Alex had now been missing for three days and he had been the last person seen with her. It was as if she ran out the door of the dinner and vanished without a trace. He had already been interview by the Jasper police and Grayson, he seemed the most worried about this whole thing. Grayson had been pacing around the base and seemed very guilt ridden. Raf shook his head he was in enough trouble as it was May was coming out here now, he felt bad May had just lost her husband a year and some odd months ago, and Alex became an addict because of it. Why did he have to let her go, he couldn't help but think of all the things that could have happen to Alex. Raf shuddered at those thoughts and pushed them away.
"Rafael?" Questioned May as she walked in the office that Raf was sitting in.
"I'm sorry I didn't know she was a recovering addict, I should have been more aware. It's my fault," He blurted out almost crying.
"Rafael, it was not your responsibility to know that fact, Alex didn't want anyone here to know that she once depended on something to take away her pain. Alex is clean, unless something really pushes her and she has money, I trust she won't go back."
"Before Alex left, she said something about a old muscle car, I think she called it "Adam"," Raf said softly looking at his shoes.
"She told you about Adam, have you found him," Raf shook his head. "Well she wants you to find him, and so do I, I miss that car." Just then a 2012 green Shelby came into the yard, "Never mind Adam found us, Tony dad's here." Raf was shocked May had just called Adam dad.
"W-what, what was that May.. Did you just call Adam dad? I thought he was a car."
"Yes, Rafael every family has secrets… our family just has a lot. Come meet your great uncle Livewire or Adam as you have been told." May turned on a heel and exited the room, Raf followed May out the door and into a separate garage. "Daddy you've changed," May shouted running to the mustang.
"I had to sweetheart, men where following me I had to lose them." Raf just looked at the car the voice was coming from it. Then the door opened at first Raf was relived that "Adam" was just a car then when a person no older than eighteen stepped out, he started to worry again. Who was "Adam" and Who was "Livewire" and why did May said that "Adam/ Livewire" was his great uncle. "Who is this sweetheart," the teen said gesturing toward Raf.
"Um I'm Rafael," he stuttered looking at Adam.
"Oh an Esquival, pleasure to meet you I have never met you family, but I hear it's big." Adam/ Livewire said with a smile on his face.
"Who are you Livewire or Adam," Raf questioned with his phone ready to call base.
"Both, Adam," the man said pointing to himself. "Livewire," the car said extending a tentacle coming out the window. Raf hit the send button on his phone calling base, he didn't trust these people enough to drop this. The ringing in his pocket, then the answer ensured that the Autobots would know of this possible con.
"Bot or Con," Raf said with a lot of authority, trying to cover up fear.
"Oh well neither, how do you know the factions of Cybertron kid? I should just explain it to you, but first who did you call?" Raf didn't say anything in fear that his voice would betray him. Then a ground bridge opened, suddenly he got pushed backward away from the bridge. "Stay behind me," the car said as "Adam" disappeared like a hologram, and a multitude of tentacles extended from the widows charging up.
"It's ok I called them, they are Autobots," Raf shouted trying to get the mustang to stand down. Livewire stopped and lowered the tentacles. "You have to come with me, you have to explain your existence to all the Autobots on earth now Livewire."
"Very well I am tired of hiding Rafael, we will come." Live said pulling the tentacles back inside his chassis, starting his engine he opened the door. May and Tony got in, he slowly followed Raf into the swirling portal.
Her lungs felt if someone made her inhale hot ashes, she was out of shape even with all her running she could never get back what she lost, but she hissed out another breath and blindly struck out toward her target. Tears formed with the acidity in the air, the pain of fresh bruises, then the heat of the flames that were around them. She continued to strike out toward shadows and swirls of smoke, Alex stopped and listened for her target, he laughed thinking she had given up. Her head snapped in his direction, and she lunged, knocking him down she started to choke him with her staff.
"Enough…. Alexandria, control," Silas shouted with a frown, "Come here Alexandria." Alex dipped her head in feinting shame. "You can not attack your own like that Alexandria, I shouldn't reward disobedience but I need you head in tip top shape, here is your reward." Alex inhaled deeply the oxygen she had been lacking, in the fight. Alex again dipped her head. "You are dismissed Alexandria, go to the unit I need it for a test run in two weeks, we need the armor on it now." Alex nodded as she walked away. She walked to a large hanger, hanging on the far wall of the hanger was a robot. Black Jak as she called it, around two stories tall with no metal plates covering the wires and servos that would allow for stealth movement. Her eyes showed the emotion that a cloth mask covered, happiness. She was going to be alone for two weeks to outfit the unit with armor and establish her control over it. Slowly she lowered Black Jak to the ground, quickly she pulled on the Kevlar suit over Black Jak, and pulled out strange steel like metal that moved like human skin. It was in small pieces no bigger than five by five square, bending like cloth as she picked them up. Alex's eyes went wide at how light but strong this strange metal was, she had see it although thin it repelled bullets better than bullet proof glass.
She began to wrap the piece she pick, around the unit's arm. 'Will I let him control me, will I just let him make me his lap dog. If I could just fight without effecting others I would. Now I need to bend but not break. He will not break me down, one day I will watch him crawl.' Alex thought as she welded the metal around, the unit's body, she fueled her working with the loathing thoughts of Silas. Before she knew it the unit, Black Jak, was outfitted completely with the strange metal. 'It's time for me to find out if I'll go insane.' Alex moved over to a small medical like bed, laying down she placed wires and monitors over herself. She willed herself to be vulnerable to the machine's neural and processing unit. Everything went black.
'Where am I? What is this place?' Alex thought as she looked around the foreign area, moving slowly around alert, then she heard the soft clicking of metal against metal. She spun around to see a female shaped robot. 'Who are you? What are you?'
"You know what I am Alexandria, who I am you will find out. Alexandria, Primus has chosen you to bring me back to a functioning state," the robot said.
'So I am a necromancer too, goody,' Alex thought sarcastically.
"No, I am not dead, just not awake," the robot said. "you can not deny this, this is what you were raised for."
'Screwed over again, I just can not catch a break can I. My uncle is terrorist, my grandpa is a robot, I was a drug attic. Now some female like robot is telling me that some guy called Primus chose me to rise the dead. Fate and destiny hate me don't they.'
"I'M NOT DEAD," the female robot roared. "I am comatose, Primus selected you Alexandria, someone who is unbreakable."
'Explain.'
"Your father's death, you indulged yourself to numb a pain you did not understand. You went into a coma and awoke with orders to care for your mother and yourself, you followed them with out question. That brought you here and these proved you are unbreakable, for a human. First you did not die from your overdose, second you did not require the extensive detoxification and rehab that most would need if they were like you. You're stronger then you know Alexandria, you protect your family, help me protect mine."
'Fine, I will do as this Primus says I will awake you from comatose. But can you tell me if someone is dead?'
"No I have told you I am not dead, why do you care," the robot questioned Alex.
'I loved him and now I do not know if he is dead or hiding, I fear for his life that is if he still alive.'
"I understand I too have a love, whom I fear that he will soon run out of good fortune. But now you need to leave this place, you are not comatose."
'wait you still have not told me who you are?'
"Best first, goodbye Alexandria may we meet in person soon," was the last thing the robot said before dissolving into smoke like illusion.
'Best first, not much of a name,' she thought as she to turned in to smoke.
Her head throbbed, as she will her eyes open, groaning she looked around to see herself laying on a bed. 'Unless seeing that robot makes me insane it worked, won't Silas be pleased' She moved slowly, she was now Black Jak, a machine that was made to kill.
i'm sure you can guess who the Female Robot is Reviews are very much appreciated