Chapter II -rewrite

Amelia and Abby dumped the contents of their bags on the desert sand except for the things that might come in handy like water, food and tools. Abby had packed a rope for some random reason as well as a flashlight. Amelia on the other hand was in possession of only one useful thing, a Swiss army pocketknife she had gotten from her dad last year. After dumping their schoolbooks they set of in a random direction, in the hope of finding a small community so that they could buy some snacks and whatever else anyone had to offer to them.

It had been early morning when the two had first set out, now it was close to dusk and there was still no sign of any life except for some old, nasty looking grasshoppers, which hid themselves amongst scruffy dried out bushes. Amelia stopped and scanned their surroundings for the millionth time that day, Abigail sighed. Amelia had been pushing her to keep moving, telling her that they had to make haste if they were to have any chance of surviving in this hostile environment. She ended up carrying Abby half the time as her condition was not half as good as Amelia's, but she never stopped. Abby plopped herself down on the spot and was, by the looks of it, not going to get up anytime soon, so Amelia decided that they could rest for a few minutes before they set out again. She checked her army green watch, it was 9:30, they had been walking for over 13 or so hours. Amelia smiled to herself, she needed the exercise because she did not do any sports, and 13 hours of walking sounded like she a lot of miles. Placing herself silently next to a now sleeping Abigail, she watched the night sky. It was a clear and quiet night. She watched the stars twinkled softly in the pitch-black skies, it was almost as if they were singing to her, it sounded like a quiet lullaby, it hummed to her softly and soothed her from the inside out. That night, she let her friend sleep for as long as the lullaby lasted. She, on the other hand, would stay up and stand guard for any lurking dangers until her friend awakens. The night passed by peacefully, nothing unusual or strange happened. Amelia woke her sleeping friend at about 5:00 so that she could get some sleep herself. Abigail was amazed at the tough of Amelia staying up the whole night for her but Amelia just waved it of because she felt like she was going to drop of on the spot.

To say that she had a rude awakening would have been an understatement, Amelia had been awoken by a loud terrified scream. Her friend was nowhere to be seen. She got up and looked around franticly, her searching stopped when she laid her blue eyes upon a large metal foot. Slowly she looked up at the large mechanical being to whom it belonged. It only took Amelia a second to identify who and what this thing standing before me was. It was a Cybertronian, it had glowing red eyes therefor it was a Decepticon, it was black and white and she could see the words To punish and Enslave printed on its shoulder, this meant it was a Decepticon called Barricade. He had an unconscious Abigail in his grasp, and with a swift move, he plucked Amelia off the ground as well. As far as she could see, Abigail was out cold. She was pail and had a little stream blood trickling down the side of her cheek but thankfully she was breathing, so at least she was alive. Amelia was not going to go easy on the Decepticon and decided she would at least try and pry herself out of its iron grasp. After a minute of squirming and wiggling, Barricade decided it had been enough and squeezed Amelia so hard, a rib snap. In response to his actions she cried out in pain.

"Shut up and stop struggling, fleshling" Barricade hissed at her. Amelia did what she was told, she stood no chance against this giant and if she tried to get out of his grasp her efforts would most certainly result in more pain and suffering.

Barricade was happy with the little younglings he had retrieved, he had originally come out here to some energon scouting but found the two seemingly lost humans in the middle of the desert and though it would be a good idea to bring them back to the Decepticon base. And besides, they needed to know more about these species if they were going to take over this planet and make the inhabitants there slaves and make them rebuild there home planet, Cybertron. He looked at the two humans in his servos, the one he had knocked out on sight, had still not regained consciousness, but he had no worries, as the human's vital signs were ok. The other human he had collected seemed to have drifted of into some kind of slumber as well, so he woke it up. He shook the servo the human was in and got the reaction he was looking for.

Amelia woke up with a start and whimpered in pain as Barricade shook her a little to violently. He looked down at her, the evil grin that had spread across his features caused her to shudder. The bot had not stopped walking ever since he had collected them. After a minute passed, and the tension in the air had practically become so thick you could cut through it with a knife, the Decepticon spoke up.

"So Human, what is your name?" Amelia just looked at him in confusion, she was not sure what to do. Barricade narrowed his optics at her and repeated the question.

"What is your name Human?" he growled this time, a hint of annoyance in his voice. She then spoke up.

"A-Amelia "

"Hmmmmm" barricade said thoughtfully as he chocked his head at the frightened human. In the time he had spent walking towards there base, Barricade had been thinking, he would indeed not mind having a human as a pet, and this one seemed young and able enough to serve him. But if he were to have this youngling as a pet he would need it to have a suitable name. Human named their young words that did not exist or have any specific meanings and he did not like it. He had gone through a list of Cybertronian names, and his scanners indicated the human was a femme, so after a moment of though he decided upon a seemingly fitting name for his new pet.

"From now on, fleshling, you will be referred to as Starglider." Amelia nodded curtly and then looked down at the fast moving ground. She could feel the Cybertronian looking down at her, but she was to frightened to look up and meet his deathly gaze.

"You will be my pet, I am your lord and master and you will serve me." He spoke the last words slowly and clearly, as to making sure Amelia understood him. She nodded again but did not take her eyes from the, still fast, moving ground.

Barricade smirked happily in the direction of his new pet human. This was going to be fun. He had had a human before but that one was a male and it was not very cooperative so he ended up squishing it. But this one seemed to be just perfect for him. He thought of the things he would do to it he would upgrade his pet when he arrived at the Decepticon base. He would definitely make his pet armor as well so that it would not get squished to easily and he was also planning on making some 'changes' to its DNA. This was because he wanted this fleshling to stay young and fresh, so he could have it for longer. He was also going to make some changes to his pet's physical appearance, so it could withstand and survive in hostile conditions, such as underwater or in the sky, where oxygen was scarce and/or the pressure was high. O, what plans he had for his flesh pet. As for the other human, he would just donate it to the lab along with Starglider so they could do some testing on them.