Chapter 3: The sleeping giant
Elista wakes up the third time at night. Outside the surrounding is covered by the thick fog, making it cold and wet.
If this continues ,they will find a corpse in this car tomorrow because of this ridiculous frozen temperature!Thinking like that, she tries to find anything to do that can warms her, even a little.
Actually, inside this car is not old like its appearance. Although the seat is a bit worn out, it still can be used. Leaning over the front seat, she cleans the dust covering the steering wheel. And on the surface of it, a symbol captures her eyes.
Impossible! She mumbles many times this denial to calm herself. It's the symbol on the old man's necklace!
Hurriedly taking the bag, she takes out the old necklace. Because of the cold around her or the thrill growing inside at this moment, she shakily compares the two symbols with each other.
They are perfectly identical! Too shock, she accidently drops the necklace. The car echoes a metallic sound in the quiet surrounding.
Maybe somebody just loved the symbol and wanted to place it in here…Not like I'm inside a giant robot right now..right?
There is the sound of a car slams in the junkyard.
-Elista, where are you ?- her mother calls her, tired but so much worried.
Mom!- She stands up, her head hits a roof pretty hard. Ouch!
_Mom!-She opens the door, running to her mother with tear in her eyes.
_Why are you hiding in here?- She hugs her daughter who is shaking uncontrollably by the cold.- You can tell me anything you know.
_I'm scared…- She says- The girl threw my bag away and I just…
She can't say anything else. It's like the words stuck in her throat that don't want to come out.
_I know..- The mother says gently. Her eyes soften slightly when she sees the scared on her daughter face.
Putting a jacket on Elista, she steadily guides her to the car . Because of the hungry and tiredness, Elista falls asleep at the moment she lays down.
The images of the yellow car with a special symbol appear in her dream all night, also with a sight of a giant shadow from far..far away…
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Because of the violent action, she is forced to stay at home for a month to change herself before coming back to school. Her mother doesn't say anything about that. She just tells her to go outside and play .
In this morning, when surfing the web, she accidently finds some information about the giant robots. It shows that the giant robots really existed on the Earth in many years ago and the symbol in the necklace is the thing to distinguish them. And the more shocking thing is the car she found in the junkyard which is actually a giant robot!
The name of the robot- no- the name of the Autobot is..Bumble Bee.
"How to fix a Transformers who happended to be broken?"
The question posed by her on a forum about robot immediately has many answers.
Mostly it's about "You really have a Transformer?", just a few have the answers she needs. And all of it gathers to the thing called "Matrix".
Elista leans on her seat. There is too manythings she doesn't know about. Maybe she must find somebody who is good at this.
"Hello Annie! How are you ?Still investing a giant robot?"
"Yeah. Do you need me to help you something?"
"Ah..yes. Do you know about a thing call Matrix?"
Having a friend who is a professor about a giant robot is really convenient, just 1 hour and she already has the information she needs. The Matrix has been in the control of the army in Washington D.C after Optimus with other autobots leave the Earth.
If we have Matrix, we can fix Bumble Bee..
But it will be a big trouble if the army finds out. And I can be arrested because of this.
Mom will be really really disappointed…
But Bumble Bee needs me right now…
Just like that, she can't go to sleep when all this thought in her head.
I will give it back when I finish. It will be okay!...right?