How long had it been? Days? Hours? Years?! Terrwyn wasn't sure. A sigh left her lips, as she stared into the mirror before her. Once again, she was in her room. The white room with nothing interesting at all, which could be used as a prison too. They did not trust her, she knew... They would not give her back her freedom... They wouldn't let her do anything until she gave them what they desired. Those answers she couldn't give for her father's sake.
The Decepticons... If only she'd let that name slip, Dylan would be hurt. Perhaps her friends too... Terrwyn didn't know. Alice had already been declared dead, while Megatron had mentioned her. Would they have killed her? There was no body found. Terrwyn honestly thought they had murdered her close friend.
Her eyes stared back at her from in the mirror. She looked young without make up covering most of her face. Her skin was pale, and her expression empty. The girl had cried enough in these past few days, or however long it had been. There were no more tears left, no more worries to scream of.
By now, she had accepted this position. But at what cost?
"I feel... as if I lost myself." The blonde whispered as she pulled her knees more into her chest. In this position, she looked so fragile... It made her continue to stare. Was this really her? After all she had tried, this was what she had become?
"Miss Gould?"
Her blue eyes darted up to look at who it was, using the mirror to see his reflection. Someone she hadn't seen before. The man looked young, and had a very dark skin color. Obviously comes from a foreign family. His head was pretty much bald. While his face... He looked just as insecure as she was, hanging half into the door opening to peek inside, hands being on the wall to keep himself from falling.
"You've come to bring me food?" Terrwyn asked, being sure to speak up a little. It was all they did lately... Come to give her food and water. At least they watched the calories!
The male shook his head at that, smiling softly at bringing her good news.. "No, actually... Optimus Prime has called for you."
This made her jump around, onto her knees. "Really?! That big robot has finally decided to get to know me a little?!"
Was that boy happy to see her a bit more lively. It had been his doing! "Yo, that's right!" A little slip up instead of using his respectful army voice. Terrwyn didn't care. She hopped onto her feet and pushed up into a standing position, her arms stretching into the air to prepare her body for a walk. "It's about time!"
Without even requesting permission to leave the room, she ran into the hallway. Freedom at last! Even if she had to bear the ugly white clothes for a bit longer! Of course, beside that they had cared for her looks. She had been allowed to shower, brush her hair, wash herself... Those kind of things.
The boy grinned as he grabbed her arm kindly and began to lead the way through the maze of hallways.
"You're new here, aren't you?" Terrwyn moved her arm a bit, hoping to have him release it, though that didn't really work out. His grip was a strong one, even if it was without a technique. Like how the other soldiers did it."
His brown eyes turned away from the path in front of them, and glanced down at her excited face. "How could ya tell?"
"Way of talking, moving." She shrugged, her ponytail swaying a bit as they kept a firm pace. 'Oh, and you have a rather... weak looking body. For a soldier that works here..."
"I can still beat you in a fight, any day." He laughed, mocking her obviously. As if he'd let a little girl tell him that!
True, Terrwyn would agree that he might be stronger, but if he was smarter... She doubted it!
It didn't take long for them to reach those same big doors that Terrwyn had been led through before. Into the hangar again, she guessed. Must be the place for those Autobots to stay. Wasn't like they'd fit into the rest of the building.
Two guards opened it to let them through, and many fell silent once the girl was brought inside. The white of her clothing stood out between all that green and grey of the place.
"Look who we have here!" Lennox smiled as he took her from the young soldier, patting the boy on his back. "You've done well, kid. You're dismissed."
The young one nodded happily before releazing his mistake and saluting his commanding officer. "Sir, yes, sir!" After which he quickly ran of to whoever knows what...
"Danm, I liked him..." Terrwyn shifted her weight to her left leg as she kept an eye on the leaving boy. How old would he be? Eighteen? Nineteen? Not much older than she was, she could tell.
She was very startled when all of a sudden something pinched her in the back. The blondine jumped forward to get it away, then sprung around to see what or who did that.
What she found was two familiar looking bots laughing loudly. One was green, the other red.
"Ya saw tha' face, Skids?!" The red one roared in sheer amusement.
"She go' a lo'ely face, yo!" The other replied, hitting his friend on the shoulder and trying his best to stay on his feet.
The female glowered at them, and if looks could kill they'd be dead within just a few seconds. Not like it stopped them...
"Wha' a cute lil' face!" Skids even had tears of oil coming out of his optics.
Mudflap tried to reach down and pick her up, but Terrwyn jumped out of the way. Not a great landing, as she fell on her back. This only encouraged the red one more, his fingers coming down to grab her slowly. She kicked up at him. "You insolent little idiotic robot that can't even talk properly! How dare you?!" Oh yes, she was angry as he lifted her up from the ground. It only caused more struggling.
The sound of many curse words and a high pitched female voice caught the ears of many others. They would stare to enjoy it at first...
"You gotta give it to her, she's got guts." Sideswipe spoke as he grinned to himself. He might like this one... After all, he was one of the few that didn't have a human friend yet!
"Guts? I call this foolish behaviour." Ironhide didn't like the show of this. Did they really have to start babysitting now? "Why does Optimus even want her here? We should treat her like the rest of those Decepticons and blast her into the sky."
Sideswipe used his wheels to quickly slide to the other side of their weapon specialist, just to get a better look at the show. "Come on, 'Hide. Don't be so harsh on her. We don't even know what happened to her yet."
A small 'hmpf' was all he got in reply. The place fell silent again anyway as Optimus had loudly spoke up to tell the twins to let go of the human girl.
Terrwyn was very dazed as she fell into the large hand of the Prime. "I feel shaken, not stirred..." She said with a groan... Even now she tried to have a sense of humor. Or perhaps it was just her personality.
"Tha' kinda obvious when yo tal' like tha' secret agen'! Wha's his name again?" Mudflap gave his brother a questioning look, expecting an answer.
"I dunno man, you gotta ask her!" The green one raised his arms before pointing at the girl who was being cradled by their leader.
Not like Gould minded at the moment. She was glad to be on something steady, and her vision was partly black anyways. All she knew was that she clung to something hard and metal...
"I might just throw up..." She mumbled into herself, one hand reaching up to feel how bad her hair had been tangled after that. "I'm gonna kill those bastards..."
Her voice wasn't very clear, but everyone could hear enough to be enjoying her once again.
Sideswipe glided over to their leader, staring into the hand to see how she was doing. The Prime complied, moving his servos towards his underling's face a bit so he had a better view.
Terrwyn was on her back by now, and her vision slowly came back. This only made her stare at the silver robot, which she thought looked quite handsome for an alien...
'Terrwyn, what the hell are you thinking?' She thought to herself, her mind being more active than her body. 'He's a robot! Though a better looking one than the rest... No, don't think like that! He's the enemy either way. Besides, it's not like you can have a relationship with one. That'd be weird. Now I'm thinking about relationships... Between humans and alien species... Oh gosh, kill me where I stand. Or lay. Doesn't really matter.'
"Are you alright, miss Gould?" The booming voice from the Prime catched her attention, and the blondine tried to look at his face. Which was hard, as that handsome one was in the way.
"I... guess so?" It took her a moment to get oriented again. And to realize she wasn't on steady ground at all... "Are you holding me?!"
"I apologize for my unwanted behaviour." The leader spoke as he carefully brought his servo's to the ground and seperated them to let her fall through, making sure she had a soft landing this time.
"You better be sorry!" Her voice creaked a little, which made her realize to stop shouting so much. It wasn't good for her throat...
All optics and eyes were on her now, though she had gotten used to it by now. "Whatever, at least you didn't throw me around like idiot and retarted over there." Her hand motioned into their direction.
"Retarded?! I'll show ya!" Skids tried to go down and grab her again, but Bumblebee was quick in keeping both away from her small body. He beeped for them to calm down. Even if the femme was rude, he'd care about her!
"Wai', which one of us is tha retarded one, anywa'?" Mudflap was caught in thought now. He surely didn't want to be!
Terrwyn tilted her head backwards, seeing all upside down from that position. "You're the idiot, greeny over there is retarded. He's got ugly teeth."
Again, this caused an outburst between them, but Bumblebee was faster than they were. The girl smiled to herself. They really couldn't hurt a human.
"All of you, please." Optimus Prime saw it fit to come between them again, before crouching down before her.
The blonde faced the huge robot, and had to admit that he still looked somewhat intimidating as well. Different than Megatron had been, however... She couldn't tell what set them apart.
"Miss Gould, I would appreciate it to speak with you in private."
He looked like a little child asking for candy, or so envisioned it. His face was all with innocent curiosity waiting for an answer. She grinned dumbly at the thought.
He mistook it for a look of fear. "Do not worry, you shall not be harmed. Only the Decepticons take such measures."
Victory! She was right! They couldn't hurt her at all! "I'd love to have a chat with you..." Her eyes turned mischievous. Maybe she could talk her way out of this prison... Complain a bit about how bad she was treated.
The tall one nodded, transforming into a truck right after.
"Wait, what are you doing?" One man asked, being all dressed up in a suit. "You're not allowed to take our prisoners outside!"
Not like Gould cared. She was eager to get out, and it showed as she climbed to her feet and hopped into the truck. Sure, her actions were still a bit wonky, but she managed to get in. The door would close as soon as she had placed her butt onto the passenger seat.
"Do not worry, mister Galloway. We will be under constant surveillance by your military sattelites." It was surprising to hear his voice so loudly, even if she was sitting inside of him. "The human female is in need of fresh air."
Agreed to that! Terrwyn could use this thing called Optimus Prime...
The engine started. Luckily she had done this before in that police car, so it wasn't all that weird anymore to see a hologram form beside her that seemed to be driving the car.
They were outside within no time, and the truck was smart enough to search out a less populated area for their conversation. The way there had been a silent one, for Optimus Prime had waited for her to speak up as she seemed occupied and he he didn't wish to disturb her. With what? Well... she was enjoying the outside air a bit too much. Hanging her head out of the window and taking it the fresh smell of city and nature. Whatever they would pass.
Eventually they reached an empty parking lot, where they would stop. Terrwyn glanced at the steering wheel, though didn't know why that would be equal to his face to her.
"...Are you liking the fresh air?" He hesitantly asked her. It actually sounded cute. Terrwyn had to chuckle a bit. He was just a big baby... "I did."
"...Very well." His answer didn't show he was sure of what he was saying at all.
"You've got a nice... car form." However it had to be called! Terrwyn patted the seat. "Can you feel this?"
"I can, yes."
"Is it pleasent?" She had to wonder...
Silence filled the space around her.
"Well?" She wanted an answer! "Don't be such a child."
"It was." Though he seemed awkward about it.
Terrwyn chuckled, her elbow leaning on an armrest in the door. "What if I'd scratch you and tear apart the chair?"
"I'm afraid that wouldn't be appreciated..."
Was he really that socially awkward? The female had to wonder... Though, it that would hurt him... She might have a way of bothering them! All of them, uncluding Decepticons!
A moment of silence later, it was time for her to speak up again. "So, what did you want to talk about, big boy?" Great going, act like you've known him forever. It was merely to hide the fear and worries that were still inside. She had to push them away.
"Miss Gould. Whatever has brought you to carry out the actions you took, it must have been quite convincing." He started carefully, not wanting to act as if he blamed her for anything she did. Yet they had been her doing... Even if someone told her to do it.
That's what this was all about, what else? Terrwyn kept quiet, wanting to hear more from him. Besides, she couldn't just give away the Decepticons...
"Neither could they have been normal civilians, for our base is highly protected against intruders."
"That really shows, if a sixteen year old can break in whenever she wants to." Her eyes rolled in annoyance as she leaned against the door, her arms now crossed. "I am smarter than you think." Like those red and blue colors? They fitted him! Though... maybe he should consider pink...
Was … all she could get from him? It took a few minutes before he even replied again!
"What of importance is there in our computer that a sixteen year old would need?" He was curious about that. If it hadn't been the Decepticons... They never found real evidence of that.
"Maybe I found a site on the internet talking about alien robots and I would have loved to meet them, but knew they wouldn't just let me in and broke in just to find out where those aliens were hiding exactly so I could go and find them?" She said that all in one breath, just to confuse him a little. Don't blame the Cons, Terr, however much you want it...
"I see... May I inquire what site it was?" So they could take it down to prevent any further incidents.
"Yeah, sure... Something about the real effing deal... It had a terrible name only losers would come up with. Losers smart enough to get videos of you all." Now she tried to remember, she was sure she had seen this truck passing in one of them...
"Thank you."
"You're not very talkative, are you?" Another smile crossed her lips. Big baby indeed. Way too polite, way too easy to manipulate and convince of things.
The truck rumbled a little. "Actually, I was using my link to the world wide web to look up the website you menioned and send the information back to the humans. I cannot concentrate on two things at a time. My apologies."
"That is too bad." She patted his seat again. It was fun to do, knowing he actually could feel her fingertips tracing his insides. Which actually sounded very wrong, though she didn't mind a whole lot.
It was as if the vehicle shivered under her touch. "Miss Gould, I-"
"Call me Terrwyn." Was she flirting with him now? Maybe. Playing sounded more like it.
"Very well, Terrwyn. I would request you to not do that."
"Why not?" She chuckled, kicking him softly. This must be torture!
"It is... rather unpleasent." More like uncomfortable. There was a reason he rarely carried humans.
Terrwyn shoke her head. "But you just told me that it felt good!"
Another silence. A laugh escaped her. "You're so much more fun than Megatr-..." Oops, a bit too much... Her cheeks lit up bright red as she could feel him freeze right in the spot.
"What did you say, Terrwyn?" His voice was stern now, and a little harsh. She hadn't expected that...
"Nothing at all! I wanted to say you're much more fun than Megatroniaris! It's like... a fashion group of people that... only wear pinks and whites on saturdays!" Great going there. She could hit herself against the head. "I'm like a VIP there!"
… "We should head back to base, now." The engine was heard as he drove backwards and out of the parking lot.
"What, did I do anything wrong?!" Of course she did, though she wouldn't admit to that. "I was talking about fashion you... urgh!" He didn't really deserve to be scolded. The seatbelt tightened around her, urging for her to be silent.
"You gotta be kidding me..." Now she had a problem, didn't she?
A bright light caught her eyes, and before she knew, there was dirt flying all around them.
"Megatron..." Optimus mumbled to himself as he sped up.
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