Sorry for my year long vacation. I was trying to get a chapter, but it didn't wanna come out. Then, my brain decided to forget about it entirely. Well, with some help from Dark Maiden95, I'm back. Promise I'll upload less than a year. LOL. Enjoy!

Day Three of Vacation…

Theresa was finally warming up to the place, but not enough for her to enjoy the wilderness behind the cabin or even the front yard for that matter. She wasn't scared; she just thought the wilderness wasn't for her. Her mother tried to coax her out, but the saying goes "You can take the girl out of the city, but you can't take the city of the girl". The girl was now dreaming about her friends and their window-shopping trips. Since all of the group's families didn't have enough money for a 1,000 dollar handbag, they would just stare at the mannequins until either the manager or owner would come and shoo them away.

On the other side of Theresa's bedroom door, Cedric was grinning and struggling not to laugh. His parents just left for some boring luncheon with this couple they met while they were shopping for groceries the other day. Knowing both of his parents, he would have at least five hours to do whatever he wanted to do. His braids were twisted back into corn rows and black rubber bands were tied off at the ends. Despite the semi-cold home, he wore red/white basketball shorts and a black beater. Like his father, he had a high resistance to cold. His mother and sister would always complain about them turning up the air conditioning well beyond the average temperature.

Cedric turned the knob very slowly and cautiously walked through the doorway. He pressed his right foot down, but stopped when he heard a squeak coming from the floor. He froze and looked up at Theresa in her bed. She let out something between a growl and a groan. The "ninja" took off into her direction. His feet galloped across the floor which caused his prey to open her eyes and stare at him. Before she could ask what he was doing, her brother leaped and collapsed onto her bed. She was sandwiched between the matress and her brother, who was now laughing and gasping for breath. "Ugh, you're heavy, idiot! Get off!" Theresa pushed her brother on to the floor.

While Cedric was still laughing, Theresa was rubbing her sore legs with her hands. She glared at him with a scowl. She hated herself for thinking he won't do anything painful or unusual to wake her up. In New York, he used a mini-blow horn so she could go to the basketball court. "Why can't you be a normal brother and wait 'til the clock wakes me up?" She screamed.

Cedric got to his feet and brushed himself off. "Get up and get dressed. We're going on a walk."

"I'm not going anywhere, Cedric. I'm tired and if you jump on me again, I'll throw your skinny butt out there." Theresa pointed out the window.

When the parents are away, Theresa's ticked off personality unleashes. She claims her brother purposely pushes her "buttons" and she has to retaliate. She says somewhat hurtful things to her brother, but she doesn't have the audacity to do them. It's her way of venting without physically destroying something. Cedric just smiled and ran out of the room. His sister was about to chase after him, but she'll eventually get back at him like she usually does.

Theresa decided to not go back to sleep because Cedric probably has something worse than jumping on her. She dragged her feet over to the small closet, taking it as slow as possible. "Oh, Terri." Oh, God. What he want now?

Theresa hadn't turned around so she was taken by surprised by the sudden cold and wet feeling on her back. She gasped and her eyes widened. "You are so dead, boy!" Her voice deepened.

The brother let out a mocking feminine gasp. He fanned himself like he was going to faint. "I'm so scared. " He giggled.

Theresa spun on her heel and marched over to the door like she was going to do something. Cedric dropped his smile and ran out to the front door. Satisfied by his reaction, she turned around and used the heel of her right foot to close the door. She glanced over her shoulder now and again just in case "Chuckie" decided to come back with a bazooka or something. The white thick sweater and black vested jacket matched her light blue jeans she picked out from her closet. Figured it's going to be chilly and a bit windy, she dug into her duffel bag for her black gloves with faux fur at the cuffs. All dressed up for "adventure", she forgot that her tennis shoes weren't actually "forest-ready". The rubber soles weren't thick enough for rough terrain, and they would be giving her some painful sores later on.

Ten minutes later, Theresa came out with her mom's brown boots on. Since they had roughly the same sized shoe, they occasionally swapped shoes. Just to make sure, she left a note to her parents about the siblings' outing on the kitchen table. While jogging over to the front door, she reached over to the adjacent set of metal hooks. On the first one, the spare cabin key was hanging down by the metal ring that held it. She lifted it off the hook and opened the front door. Before walking out the storm door, she locked the interior door.

While Theresa went into the forest with her brother, her phone was ringing with "dad" on the caller ID. The automated voice began to speak to an empty room. "You have reached 341-52—" The phone suddenly gave off a small explosion from an apparent overload. It wasn't just the phone disconnected; the entire area was cut off from society. The large transformer towers dislodged from the insulated wires, causing them to fall with an eerie screech and groan. Some electronic appliances were damaged in the blast.

Theresa and Cedric collasped as the soundwave blanketed the area, rippling out in all directions. Cries of pain flowed from their vocal cords. The energy pulsated through their ears and brain, temporary deafening them both. Birds in nearby trees were hit the hardest. Their connection to the planet's magnetic field was overcome, causing them to fall from the sky dead. The female teen was hugging a nearby tree trunk before slumping down, scrapping the faux fur onto the rough and scabby bark. Her palms were nicked with scratches. She squinted her eyes and quicky shook her head to shake away the numbing pain. "Ow." She whimpered.

Unfortunately for her younger sibling, he had flipped over the top of a fallen, partially decayed log and rolled down a sloped hole. Just as it suddenly came, the ripples were gone with in moments. When Cedric's hearing came back, he proceeded to stand up, but the fall had caused his knee cap was bruised and it was tender to the touch. His lower lip had a small cut and his clothes were dirty. "Terri!" He shouted.

Theresa turned around at the sound of her name. She pushed off the trunk and walked over to the location of the shout. "Down here!" Cederic said.

Looking down, Theresa glared at her brother. " I'm so tempted to just leaving you here." She said with an underlining growl.

"Just come down here and help out." Cedric retorted.

Theresa scuffed and climbed over the log. Since the slope wasn't that steep, she slid down without any trouble. Her bottom had a dark brown stain, but she could always wash her pants later. She ran a hand through her hair before grasping her little brother's outreached hand. "What the heck was that?"

Cedric hissed with discomfort as he gradually stood up. His knee grinded and popped as his leg straightened out. He flexed the leg a few times. "How should I know? Maybe some jet crashed." He shrugged. Theresa stood there while he held his hand on her shoulder for support. As ususal, his easy going personality was oblivious to danger. Being the "smart" sibling, she knew something was off. If it was some type of crash, there wouldn't be just some soundwave. Since it was felt so close, there would be debris from the explosion. There were no natural explanations for that. "Hey, let's get back home. I rather stick with video games than a hike, anyway." Cedric brought back Theresa from her thinking.

" Then why did you freaking bring me out here? Ugh! If you wanted the 'nature experience', go watch the 'Animal Planet'!"Theresa pushed him away.

Cedric yelped before falling to the ground. His face fell right into a frozen body of anothe victim of the soundwave. Feeling something feathery shoved up his nostrils, he sprang back up again. A pinched nerve zapped a nearby muscle in his leg, sharp pain went through from his knee to his ankle. "ARG! Thanks alot for my broken leg!" He kicked at her with his other foot.

Theresa honestly hated her brother getting hurt. Call it "mother's sympathy" or some psychological thing, but she still had a heart. She groaned. She couldn't throw him over her shoulder like a fireman. She knows that she can't carry him. Cedric looked up at her. "Alright, just stay still. I think I remember some medical thingy from TV." She said before running over to the downward sloped part of the log, which was wedged into the ground. " That sounds encouraging, Terri." He said with an underlining moan.

"Do you want me to leave you down here to be some wolf's next meal? Because I can just go." The girl said, turning toward the embankment. Cedric shook his head. " Nope, I'm good." He smiled with his smeared cheeks showing.

Theresa rolled her eyes before looking over the thickness of the branches. The "thingy" she was talking about was a splint that some hardcore survival guy talked about. She didn't remember his name, but she figured she can fix one up. While she was trying to snap off the branches, Cedric looked around the hole. There was a hollowed out tunnel, but by the looks of it, it was pretty deep and no light shined through it. "Hey, do you got any flashlights on ya?" He asked without looking at her. "No. I wasn't expecting to stay out before dark. Why?" She said between the grunts of frustration. She finally got some that were strong enough, but some splinters were stuck under both of her palm's surfaces.

"Take off your shirt. I need something to tie with." Theresa said, looking at his black "tank top".

"What? Come on. Can't you find some root or something?" He turned to look at her. " It's bad enough I can't walk, but now you gotta take away my clothes?" He plead with his big brown eyes.

Theresa glared at Cedric and crossed her arms. " Suck it up. It's just a tank top." She said, holding out her other hand, which was empty of sticks.

Cedric sighed and groaned. He crossed his arms and gripped on the bottom of his shirt. As he was pulling over, there was clicking and skittering echoing from the depths of the tunnel in front of them. "Seriously, 'kids lost in the woods, one of them gets hurt, mysterious noises..' what's next? Big Foot's gonna come out of there? This is like some stupid 60s' horror movie!" Theresa complained.

Cedric had stopped mid-raising of his arms. He lowered his arms and froze in place. While Theresa was going on about how she hated being here and blaming him for dragging her along, bright red lights creeped along the walls of the tunnel. "Terri..." She stopped in the middle of a word and looked at her brother, who then pointed at the once empty tunnel.

The lights grew in intensity when they came around a slight bend in the tunnel. Smashing Roots of different sizes and width drew shadows at the floor. The shadows drew long, thick lines like daggers, aiming at both teenagers. "I don't remember Big Foot with anything glowing. Did you?" He laughed nervously.

Theresa dropped the sticks in her hand and ran over to her brother. "Not gonna stick around to find out!" She knelt down and wrapped her arms around her brother. She started to pull the 120lb boy, but Cedric was a bit to heavy. "Come on! Help me drag you up the side!" He had been staring at the lights, but shook his head to get the daze out of him.

Cedric pushed off with his leg and the added leverage only helped a little with his sister dragging him. Blood pounded in both of their ears. Sweat was starting to seep through Theresa's pores. Crunches from the undergrowth in the tunnel echoed outward to the opening. By the sounds of it, they were possibly two of "them". Whatever "they" were. "You better hurry!" Laughing joined in with the taunting, scratchy voice.

The sun's rays casted down between the towering trees. It shined down at the foot of the tunnel, which glistened when clawed, metallic feet hit the bend of light. Cedric stopped struggling, but Theresa didn't stop until she lost her footing and slipped right down on the slope. She was moderately out of breath, but the small of amount of oxygen was squeezed out when she looked up at the top of the hill. While her brother was looking at the smaller forms of Rumble and Frenzy, she was staring at huge pedes of something VERY huge. She tilted her head up to see the overwhelming and intimidating form of the symbiote's creator, Soundwave. His helm was more angled at the top and the face mask met at a razor sharp edge. Unlike many other Decepticons, he didn't have any optics. He had a visor with bright amber light source behind. He stared back at her, taking in her biological information in. By the looks of her, she was capable of grunt work. Her arms were thin and her body mass was about average for her age.

Megatron was taking in the information being transmitted from his third-in-command into his CPU. He smiled and bared his fangs at the marroon scaled screen. Starscream and his trine of brothers should be finishing up their " Autobot base attack" right now if everything was going as planned. Take the femme, let Rumble finish the wounded fleshling off. Megatron's cold hearted words were sent to Soundwave's private comlink.

"Rumble: terminate male. " The teens didn't know if it was the voice or the words spoken that scared them the most. Soundwave had no emotion expressed vocally, but his visor glowed a darker shade of amber with red shades blending in.

This is why I hate nature. Theresa moaned with fear written all over her face.

Thank you for reading and please review. Sorry if my chapter isn't the greatest. Don't shred it up into swiss cheese (if it's not already); please no flames. I don't need Simon Powell or Chef Ramsey screaming at me. XD (Thank you, Dark Maiden95!)