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Chapter 4 discoveries and practice

I drove around until I found an isolated pull off. Okay now to work on my senses...

a couple hours later I had a head ache [or is that a processor ache] but I had figured out a how to use some cool new senses like radar, sonar AM, FM, and I was able to sense cell phone chatter. I was even able to interpenetrate it. [don't ask me how I don't know]

I then drove to the obligatory lookout point so I could practice transforming, after a couple false starts and not so few face plants. [I need to work on getting my legs under me faster ] I started to get hungry and tired. "I'm a robot how can I be hungry or tired it doesn't make sence"

As I sat against a tree just breathing while I was puzzling out why I was so hungry and tired I looked at my hands where I saw something that made me forget my hunger entirely. I wasn't gray any more. nore were my metal plates as small or as thin apparently my "skin" had changed to a metallic raspberry color and thickened into a type of armored covering. There were very few gaps in the armor that showed the inner workings that I had noticed when I had first woke up yesterday afternoon.

…."Wait why am I breathing again?" I sighed "Damn I have more questions than answers." [What else is new?]

So as an attempt to figure out why I was breathing I closed my eyes to the sunrise and turned my attention inward to focus on my breathing. It wasn't long before I fell asleep. [of coarse I was in robot form at the time,and not very well hidden at that either.]

"Young lady get your but out of bed. It might be summer vacation for you but if you think your old enough to go without a sitter you need to work on your chores."

"UGH! Mom's." "Why can't she let me sleep I got so little last nite because of...THE ROBOT!"

Grabbing a sports bra, a crop top some cargo pants filled with assorted random accoutrements needed in a teenage girls life. [ I refused to lug a purse around I needed my hands] I rushed out the door barely glancing at the mirror as I left the room.

Brown almond eyes in a coffee Au lat skin told of my mixed heritage. My Chinese father and my African American mother made me. Unfortunately my dad was out of town on a business trip and would be for a few weeks. My mom on the other hand was busting her hump to care for me and the house. Something that I was glad to help with on a normal occasion but this was hardly normal I mean giant robots; "Come on this was epic!"

I did my chores as quickly as I could while my mom got ready for work.

"Now Ariel you know the rules I'll see you at dinner MWA."

Looking in the reflective surface of the toaster to make sure mom didn't smear me with lipstick I waited until mom was gone until I bolted out of the house grabbed my bike and started out.

My first stop was across the street where my neighbor was in his bathrobe shaking his head grumpily at his torn up lawn.

"Dang kids." he griped as he sipped his coffee.

"Excuses me. But how tall is your house?" I asked.

He blinked at me a couple times grunted than said "Bout thirty feet"

"Thanks bye" I blurted than started peddling away. [That means that the robot was about fifteen feet tall cool.]

Aside from the torn up yard and tire marks on the road I couldn't follow the car that it turned into so I tried a different track. I started to follow its footprints into the woods until I came upon what looked to me like there was a scuffle that happened.

Cut branches, cut not torn or broken like someone stood just so and swung a sword in an ark over their head and then the grooves leading to a tree from that point as well.

" Does this thing have enemies and if so who and what are they?" Oh this was an adventure I would remember I pulled out my cell phone and took a video of this immediate area and the footprints leading away next stop the internet. And dinner it's getting late.

I woke to the sound of an engine idling near me "Slag I fell asleep."

Glancing around the tree I looked at the couple in the car, teens watching the sunset probably a romantic getaway, and if they saw me I would scare the tar out of them.

And the worst part was I am starving "What do cybertronians eat anyway?" I pondered.

I am not actually evil leaving cliffhangers , it is just a gimmick to get you to come back and read more

GYA HAAHAAHAAHAA (clears throat ) where did that come from?

if your confused about the " obligatory " look out point I find that almost all towns have them espeally in TV and movies. so " obligatory " that and I like the word " obligatory" so there!