Here is the next chapter of 'A New Beginning'. I will start writing a new chapter for 'Broken Souls' after this update. I need an idea from the next episode of Transformers Prime. There is going to be a time skip of 4 years where the Autobots will start taking care of Sam.
Chapter 3: First Day of School
"YOU FOOL!"
Starscream whimpered at the loud roar, coming from Megatron. Even through they're communicating from Cybertron to Earth, it's still quite frightening to hear Megatron's lashing even if they are not faceplate-to-faceplate.
Reason for lashing was that Starscream had reported to Megatron, who was located on Kaon in Cybertron, that the Autobots have manage to rescue the humans that Starscream was ordered to capture. The results caused a certain Dark Lord to be very angry at his commander.
"YOU LET THE HUMANS ESCAPE WITH THE AUTOBOTS?!" yelled Megatron.
"Forgive me, Lord Megatron, but I was outnumbered and there was no way I could even continue to search for those pesky humans with them around." Starscream cowered.
Megatron snarled at the pitiful excuse Starscream gave. He knew he should have given the job to Soundwave, his communication officer, to complete it. One may underestimate Soundwave and his fighting abilities, but what no one knows is that Soundwave was also a gladiator around the same time as Megatron before the war started and he has proven himself to Megatron that he is capable in defeating a dozen warriors without having to break a fuse. He would have surely completed the mission.
"I should've given the mission to Soundwave instead. At least HE wouldn't have such a problem handling such a simple mission." Megatron spoke his thoughts out loud to himself not even caring who heard him.
Starscream seems very furious by his words. He just stated that his strength was far weaker than Soundwave's who happened to be a lower rank than he is. How dare he compare the Mighty Starscream to a low-ranking officer such as Soundwave. He would surely make him eat those words.
"I'm giving you one last chance, Starscream. If you don't have that boy captured by the time I get back to Earth, you'll become Shockwave's new guinea pig for his science experiments!" threaten Megatron. That was the last thing he said before cutting of the transmission.
Starscream just stared at the blank screen with full of hate and anger. He then smashed the blank screen with his clenched fist, wishing that it was Megatron he smashed instead of the screen. "Just you wait, Lord Megatron," Starscream said with a sneer, "soon, I'll make you regret those words. I will become the new ruler of the Decepticons and all will kneel before me! It's a shame that you won't be able to witness my raise to power." He laughed darkly at the possibly of seeing Megatron destroyed and being the new ruler of the Decepticons. He then turn to leave the main control room but suddenly screamed in surprise when he saw Soundwave right in front of him.
"Soundwave! You scared the living scrap out of me!" He placed his right hand over his spark to try and calm down its rapid beating.
Soundwave just stood there, staring at him. Starscream is starting to get creeped out by Soundwave's stare. Who wouldn't? Soundwave has no mouth, no optics, and the type of faceplate he has is that of a upside-down triangular visor. What makes him a bit more frighting is that he doesn't even talks. He's more of a quiet type.
"Well then...," Starscream said with a nervous chuckle, wanting nothing more than to escape Soundwave's presence, "I better start working up with a plan to capture the 'special human' for Lord Megatron." Starscream sprinted out of the control room, leaving Soundwave by himself.
But what Starscream didn't know was that Soundwave had eavesdropped on his rebellious ranting after his talk with Megatron. He played some random mixed recording before going back to his own work:
"Soundwave... superior... Starscream... inferior."
Four Years Later
"Please, Bulkhead?" A little kid pleaded.
"No."
"Why not?"
"Because it's dangerous."
The small boy cross his little arms. "It's dangerous or you don't want to be yelled at by Ratchet?" the boy said with a smirk on his face.
"Both." grumbled Bulkhead.
The boy just sighed and shook his head. "Come on, Bulkhead. Ratchet doesn't need to know everything, does he?"
"It doesn't matter Sam. As your legal guardian, it is my job to keep you safe and not doing something that might hurt you."
Sam and Bulkhead had went out for a drive for some fun time alone. When they had reach at the edge of a cliff, Sam suggested to drive down the steep, rocky cliff. Bulkhead disapproved at that suggestion for being quite dangerous for a small human to take down a dangerous path, even if the said human is inside a green SUV powerhouse Autobot.
"You're right, Bulkhead. I don't know what was I thinking." Sam sighed in defeat. "But maybe Uncle Cliff and I can do this kind of activity." Sam thought suggestively. "After all, he is the Fun Uncle in the family."
Bulkhead's engine started to rumble at the thought of Sam enjoying himself with Cliffjumper. Not only that, Sam just said Cliffjumper was the fun uncle right in front of him.
"What?" Bulkhead said in a low and dangerous voice.
"Hmm? Oh, I was saying that Cliffjumper would gladly drive down this cliff if I ask him to. He is the fun uncle, right?" He looked at Bulkhead (which happens to be the Autobot's symbol at the steering wheel) in an innocent look on his face. On the inside, Sam was grinning madly that he was able to provoke Bulkhead by bringing up Cliffjumper. He knew that the two said mechs have a 'competition' to see which one of the two can be the funnest uncle for Sam.
Bulkhead revved up his engine and shifted his driving stick. "Hold on kid, this is going to be a bumpy ride!" Bulkhead started driving down the steep cliff, but not on a fast pace, while Sam was laughing and enjoying the ride from the driver's seat.
"Where are those two?" growled an impatient Ratchet.
"Calm down, Ratchet. They will be arriving shortly." Once Optimus finished his sentence, Bulkhead and Sam have finally arrive.
"About time you two! What took you so long? I sent you a message about an hour ago to come back to base immediately!" cried out Ratchet.
Just as Bulkhead was about to answer, Ratchet interrupted him. "Never mind, that's not important now. We need to have a word with Sam."
"Umm, yes?" said Sam as he felt nervous when Ratchet said they needed to have a word with him.
"Relax boy, it's nothing bad." Sam let out a relieved sigh knowing that he wan't in any trouble.
"Then what is it?" questioned Sam.
"You have become at age where human kids such as yourself must go to what the humans calls a 'public school' where kids can go and learn new stuffs." informed Optimus.
"School? Why do I have to go to school? I thought I'm getting enough education from you guys." exclaimed Sam. Ever since Sam started walking and talking, the Autobots had started teaching Sam how to read and write both English and Cybertronian, math, and little human history. His vocabulary has improved quite a lot at the level of a sixth grader.
"That is true, but according to Agent Fowler, you still have to do what other humans do with their daily life and going to school is one of them." stated Optimus. But it worries him that Sam won't be under the protective gaze of the Autobots. He can assign one of his teammates to look out for him while at school, but for some reason, he feels lonely at the thought of Sam not being around with them for almost the whole day. Maybe because Sam has been with them the whole day for the past 4 years.
"Really?" Ratchet and Optimus nodded. "Alright. What am I suppose to have for this 'school' and when do I start?"
"Your stuff are already at your room and you start on Monday since today is Saturday." answered Ratchet.
Sam went to his room to check on the stuff that was given to him for school.
Once Sam was out of sight, Ratchet looked at Optimus seeing he's feeling, what humans say, 'down'.
"Something the matter, Optimus?"
"I fear that letting Sam go to school will not only danger Sam's life in danger, but the lives of others."
"Don't worry, Optimus," assured Bulkhead, "the gang and I are going to be there with Sam from any Decepticons that might find him out in public." The others agreed on what Bulkhead had said. It made him feel less anxious about letting Sam stay outside with the humans for so long.
"Very well. I'll assign each and every one of you to go and escort Sam to School and from School and you are to stay there by his school until it is time for Sam to come home." ordered Optimus. Everyone nodded at Optimus's orders and everyone continued to their work.
Sunday has arrived and the base has become more rowdy. Due to Sam having to go to School for almost the whole day, the Autobots, mainly Cliffjumper, Bulkhead, and BumbleBee, had started fighting over who gets to spend more time with Sam. But for Sam wanted was to stay at the base and be with the whole group. Ratchet angrily stated that everyone was going over their heads, acting as if Sam was leaving them forever. They can still have fun the whole day, but only when it's the weekends and holidays.
Night has come by fast and Ratchet had basically ordered Sam to go to sleep early so he can get up early in the morning for the first day of school. Sam has no choice but to obey or else he is gonna have to face Ratchet's deadliest weapon known to Autobots: 'The Wrench'.
Sam is now lying on his king-size bed, unable to sleep. The Autobots had built his room when he started living here. His room resembles that of the inside of a house. He has two floors inside his room. The first floor contains a living room with a t.v, a nice kitchen with a fridge, an oven which he is not allowed to use until he's old enough, and a bathroom. The second floor is basically his whole room with another t.v, a closet full of clothes, and an empty room in which hasn't figured out what to put in.
The giant door to Sam's room opened and there stood Optimus by the doorway. Sam sat up quickly and greeted Optimus while he does the same.
"Good evening, Sam. I just came by to check on you if your sleeping. But it appears that I have woke you up. I apologized for disturbing you." apologized Optimus.
Sam waved his hand to dismiss the apology. "It's aright, Optimus, you didn't woke me up. I was having trouble going to sleep. Big day tomorrow." Sam smiled but Optimus could see it right through.
"Is something bothering you?" Optimus gently stroke Sam's brownish hair to soothe him.
"Well...," Sam started, "I'm going to feel lonely without you guys at my side. I'm going to meet people that I'm not familiar to."
Optimus picked up Sam and and pull him close to his chest. "There is nothing to fear about, Sam. I'm going to have one of the Autobots to be with you for the whole school hours. And if you still feel lonely, I got something that might help." Optimus pulled out a small headset and gave it to Sam. "Wear this during your free time and you can contact whoever is near you at that time." Optimus gently placed Sam back to his bed.
"Thank you, Optimus." Sam placed the headset at his nightstand and quickly laid back to bed. "Now, if you don't mind... I need to get some sleep. I'm looking forward to this school now."
Optimus chuckled a little before making his leave.
"Good night, Sam."
"Good night, Optimus."
Monday morning has finally came and Sam was up early in the morning eating his waffles. Today is the day that Sam is finally going to school and he's already anxious about going.
Once he finish eating and packing up, he went straight to the control center where the Autobots are waiting for him.
"Ready for today, kid?" asked Cliffjumper.
"Ready!" yelled out Sam. "So who is gonna take me?" he asked.
"BumbleBee insisted on taking you to your first day. He stated that as your older brother, he has the right to see you off on your first day." Optimus smiled at seeing a overly excited Bumble for being able to take Sam to his first day of school.
"Awesome! Ready, BumbleBee?" BumbleBee chirped happily and transform into his yellow camaro vehicle and Sam sat at the passenger seat. BumbleBee then sped off quickly before anyone can say a word.
The two had finally reached Jasper, Nevada and now heading towards the kindergarden school that Sam was suppose to go. BumbleBee parked close to the school fence are so he can keep an optic out on Sam.
Sam got out of the passenger seat and hugged Bumblebee's hood. "Thanks for taking me to school 'Bee. You're the best." BumbleBee lightly nudged Sam as his way of hugging back. Sam let go of BumbleBee and ran off to his new school.
"Alright class! Settle down, please." said the teacher. "Today, we have a new student." The class started to murmur at what the new kid might look like. "Alright, you may come in now."
Sam walked in and the class became quiet. "Hi, my name is Sam Witwicky. I'm new to this school." The students all said 'hi Sam' in sync.
"Welcome, Sam. I am your teacher, Ms. Clair Redfield, but call me Ms. Redfield." introduced Ms. Riedfield. "There is a empty seat at the back of the class. Your partner is sick today so you have to sit alone for today." She pointed at a empty table at the back of the room.
Sam walked to the back of the room, ignoring the stares he's receiving and sat down at the empty chair. He spotted a name tag on the left side of the table which means everyone has assigned seats. The name tag reads 'Jackson Darby'. He decided to ignore it for now and paid attention to the teacher now.
The first day is finally over. Sam rushed out of school with the other students and gave one big desperate hug to BumbleBee. "Hey, Bee. I'm sorry I didn't have time to talk to you. We didn't know that it might sprinkle and we are forced to stay indoors."
BumbleBee chirped at him saying that it's alright. Sam got in the passenger seat and they drove back to headquarters.
Once they arrived, Sam gotten out of his seat to stretch and allowed BumbleBee to transform. But his stretching was cut short when he was suddenly swept off his feet, causing him to yelp out in surprise and get smashed, not to harshly, to a red chest.
"My little sparkling! I missed you so much!" cried out an overly dramatic Cliffjumper.
"Uncle Cliff, you almost gave me a spark-attack for that stunt you just pulled off!" Sam glared at Cliffjumper.
"I can't help it," wined Cliffjumper, "I missed my favorite nephew."
"I'm your only nephew." grumbled Sam. Sam was once again swept off from Cliffjumper's hold and into the hands of BumbleBee, who was now glaring and fuming at Cliffjumper for scaring his baby brother. Cliffjumper was feeling frighten at the angry scout but was saved by Optimus and the others who started to join.
"Hello, Sam. Did you enjoyed your first day of school?" asked Optimus.
"It was ok. We didn't do much since I'm the new kid and I really like the way my new teacher teaches us. Much better than the way Ratchet teaches me." Sam grinned playfully at the offended mech who was now growling at Sam.
"Did you made any new human friends." wondered Arcee.
"I don't think I should make any human friends."
"Why not?" Bulkhead asked, worried for Sam for not being able to make new friends.
"Because, I'll only put them in danger if the Decepticons were to use them as hostage in order to get to me." Sam already knew that the Decepticons are after him because of his 'specialty' and they were the reasons that his parents are dead. If he were to make human friends, he'll only put them in harm's way.
"That's is very sweet of you to put aside your happiness for the safety of others." Arcee placed her forehead on Sam's to comfort him. Everyone agreed to Arcee's words.
"Thanks, Arcee. Now if you guys don't mind, I need to get started on my first homework. I could finish it easily and we can all hang out later." Everyone agreed at the plan and allowed Sam to run to his room and start on his homework.
It became night very fast and Ratchet had once again ordered Sam to go to sleep early or face his wrath. Though he knows Ratchet would never harm him but that won't stop Ratchet from giving him painful check-ups once he becomes a teenager.
Today went well, but tomorrow will start a new day and maybe he might learn new stuff instead the ones he knew already. He met all the students from his class but there is one who hadn't showed up today. He wonders what kind of kid is 'Jackson Darby' or Ms. Redfield calls him 'Jack' for short.
He should get some sleep and see for himself what kind of kid Jack is.
Here is the next chapter for 'New Beginning'. Hope you enjoy this chapter. Next chapter is where Sam meets Jack Darby, one of the main characters from Transformers: Prime series.
I won't be updating 'Broken Souls' for a while since I haven't gotten any new ideas. Also, I might update late because something has suddenly come up. By something, I mean today I got the new Resident Evil 6 Archives and I plan on playing it which also includes a Resident Evil 4 HD and Resident Evil CODE: Veronica X HD game as well for XBox 360. Also on Sunday, Pokemon Black and White 2 comes out in US and I also plan on playing it. BOTH version. In a week or 2, I will start writing the chapters. So wait for a while ok? Thank you so much for time and review please?