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Ch. 4: This Isn't Over

Parker's P.O.V.

"Ughh…my head" I groaned while laying on my back.

Slowly I opened my eyes, only to quickly shut them again when the painful bright light seeped in through my slit eye lids. Slowly forcing them open, ignoring the stinging pain and the flashes of colors everywhere I looked, colors and shapes gradually came into view.

I realized that I was staring up from the bottom of what had to be a forest, bright and dark green leaves mingled all together above me, extending past the point of my peripheral vision.

Grunting harshly while moving into a sitting position, I just sat there, hoping the longer I sat there the faster the prickling pain all over my body would eventually become less irritable. My body felt weird too, like I had a hard time moving my arm's too fast, and I felt sluggish. 'Maybe that's what happens, when your soul goes to the vision of the Primes.' I thought kind of crankily. Then it suddenly hit me. 'The Primes!"

Maybe it was just a dream that occurred while I was unconscious, maybe my imagination suddenly decided to play a trick on me. I sighed. It would be so easy to say that I had dreamt it up, I've been a soldier in war for so long maybe my tired, weary mind decided to wonder a bit.

There was that word, 'Maybe.' But I knew it was just wistful thinking at best.

It was far too real for it to be a dream, and how could I even possibly come up with all that? It was real, I was pretty damn sure, but I wasn't sure if I wanted to tell Demetri about it just yet, at least not until I had partially figured out or had a basic idea of what it had meant. Speaking of which….

"Demetri, are you okay?" My deep male voice rang out through the speakers in my helmet, bouncing off the air in the forest.

"Yah, yah,-sigh- I'm good, but you…not so much, I mean, it's nothing you can't handle…..but."

He cleared his throat-not that he actually had one- and proceeded to tell me that I have; Four broken ribs, a deep gash on my left side right above my broken ribs, a badly sprained ankle, and one hell of a headache, otherwise than that, just a few bruise here and there.

'Oh-fucking- Terrific' I thought agitatedly. Today was certainly just not my day.

"I'm a bit worried about that your cut on your side." Demetri admitted. " It's been going untreated for so long that it's getting worse. You'll need to get it treated soon or your going to get an infection." You could hear the frown in Demetri's voice.

"I know." I felt the sudden familiar feeling of medi-gel spread over my body, and in response felt my muscles relax as the pain started to ease away. I sighed knowing I had to get up and move, but my want to just sit there and try not to move was increasing every moment I did just that.

I struggled getting up a bit, my hurt ankle was swollen but my left side was in worse shape so I just bit my lip and had no choice but to move on.

The gash on my left side was freshly torn open just the slightest bit, but it was enough for the blood to slowly trickle down the side of my stomach and down the left outside of my thigh down my leg in a slow motion. I didn't have any fabric that I could tie to cut off the flow with, so I would just have to settle with my right hand and apply pressure. Again.

About fifteen minutes into the limping walk I'd developed I started to realize something. This wasn't like Harvest's forests. In Harvest's forests the trees were mostly back to back, you couldn't drive a vehicle through even if you wanted too.

Here, the trees were spaced apart quiet a bit, with more room to walk around. You could probably ride horseback through here without the worry of bumping into a freakin tree everywhere you look!

"Demetri."

"Yah, I'm thinking the same thing. I'm already a step ahead of you. Running scanners."

A few moments of silence went by while he checked for any nearby systems nearby that could tell us where the location that we were at.

"That can't be right." He said in a stunned voice.

"What is it?"

"I'm in. My scanners have found a satellite in working condition, though, the technology it's made from…it could almost be considered ancient. Almost. The security codes were exceedingly simple, child's play. As a matter of fact I bet a young child could do it! Even better, I bet a child could make a security system ten times more complicated than the idiot's who thought that was hard to decode!" He scoffed.

"Strange. So…..Where are we?" I stopped my limp walking for a moment, and stared up at the sun-set colored sky as if would reveal the anwer.

"That's the thing, I'm having trouble wrapping my head around this. My sensors indicate that we're on…..Earth."

My chest felt like a hundred bricks sucker punched it, my mouth suddenly went dry and I'm pretty sure that my heart skipped a few beats.

Earth. I had lived here as a child until I was six and half years old, then….well, the rest is history. Being so young when I was taken I hardly remember much of it. Funny, since all the years I've served and all the ships I've been on, I had passed Earth plenty of times. And every single time I would pass it, I would always stop and admire the beautiful, calm scenery, always admiring from far away, the home planet of the human race…..Earth. I haven't been back to visit Earth since I was taken, but I've always wanted to return someday. Whenever I think about the home planet it always brings a tired but happy smile to my face, one that would quickly get replaced by a frown today though.

Harvest was a three- week trip out from Earth. 'It's impossible' my mind instantly supplied. How could go from being knocked out on a cave on Harvest, only to simply wake up on some random forest on earth?

'Hmph, something about me and forests doesn't mix well.' I sourly thought.

"Earth? Demetri, are you absolutely sure?"

"Affirmative"

"Fine. What is one of the closest civilian houses in the area?" I replied in a determined voice.

"Six miles to the south, and two miles to the east. Why? What exactly are you planning to do?"

"I'm sick of stumbling around when we don't have any idea what we're doing." I let out a frustrated breath from my nose. "I'm gonna go get some damn answers, that's what I'm going to do."

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I walked south for a good four and a half hours, I was covering pretty good ground for a limp-walk if I do say so myself. So far I had covered four miles which meant only two more to go.

I stopped.

"Do you…..hear that?"

"Yah, what do you think it is?"

"I'm not sure, it sounds like metal and…..and something hitting the ground, maybe?"

Whatever it was, it was drawing closer. I immediately scrambled for a thick tree to hide behind, I initiated a combat scrambler that you use to throw off your enemy if their using their sensor to find their enemy if the opponent is not exactly in plain sight. I figured if I had heard metal that's what they would be using, something to detect their enemy, something that might as well have a big red arrow sign above my head saying 'Hey! I'm over here!'. At least, that's what I would use.

I sagged against the hard bark of the big oak tree, took a breath and peeked around the side. By now the sound of metal against the ground stopped, and from what I could see without exposing my head there was nothing out of the ordinary, everything was peaceful and quiet. I knew better though.

I felt a rumbling right under my feet and heard bark snap in half, the tree I was hiding against was suddenly being ripped from the ground. I looked up and saw a black metal hand firmly clasped around the perimeter of the tree and watched as it was ripped from the soil.

It seems that I couldn't keep my balance during all of this. I scrambled on my back and moved backward, this metal being didn't exactly seem friendly, he was black and grey and had a disgusted but intrigued gleam in his evil red eyes, and sadly they were pointed directly at me.

He gave a rumbled laugh. "Hmmhmmhm, look at what we have here. Lost, alone and injured are we? Are you scarred fleshling?"

"Run! Definitely run now!" Demetri yelled in my helmet.

I fumbled with my shotgun, his giant hand was coming down toward me going for my torso blocking his face from my view.

I fired.

He yelped and backed up a step, retracting his hand and checking the damage. I got up as fast as my injured body would allow me to and ran. I clipped off a grenade, pulled out the clip and dropped it behind my tracks.

He growled and took off after me, his metallic feet thumping and shaking the ground after me. His fast strides didn't take long to catch up to me, but with my well timed grenade he was right on top of it when it went off. The only thing I didn't exactly plan was that with the momentum that he was running and the explosion only adding to that he flew head over heels forward…..which made him that much closer to me.

I swung forward and slid on my right side, coming to lay on my stomach. After the mini earth-quake his landing caused, I was immediately on my feet and taking off like a bullet. I think I heard him mutter something in a strange language, though I didn't stick around to find out.

Again I heard sloppy footsteps and I knew he was in quick pursuit again, my adrenaline was still in full charge but my injuries were starting to sting a bit, my footsteps were becoming sloppy and I tripped on a root and stumbled but righted myself and kept on.

"Parker, behind you!" Demetri's voice rang out.

I glanced behind me and once again saw his metallic metal hand-his unharmed one- stretching out for me. Though of course I still had my shotgun. By the time I raised my weapon he was already upon me.

Unlike the last time he tried to grab me, this time, I felt cool metal fingers harshly squeeze against my midsection from behind, arms helplessly pinned to my sides. My armor against his metal fingers protested as he squeezed harder and brought me for closer inspection to his face.

I cried out against the pain of my broken ribs and my cut being squeezed like a rag doll.

He growled menacingly, sounding much like an jungle cat as the vibrations went through his arm and seemingly down my spine.

'I've been in much worse situations, he not that bad or at least scary enough to send me into shivers, I've never been afraid of death so why start now?'

"Hmmmm, you're one lucky human, if you weren't so valuable I would love to slowly crush you to death with my own hand and watch you suffer." He increased his pressure to emphasize his point.

I didn't say anything though I badly wanted to test his patience. Instead I settled with just keeping silent and glaring through my helmet even if he couldn't see it, I hoped my helmet could somehow convey it.

"Hahaa, that's unusual." He mused, inspecting me.

"A quiet human, no incessant screaming, no threats….never heard of that before."

"You said I'm valuable…what for?" I demanded.

"Oh? So the animal can speak. Let's just say, you have something I need."

I knew what it was, but I needed to be sure. The Primes didn't exactly tell me who I needed to fight, who was my enemy.

"Well, walking tin can what exactly is that?"

"You sad ball of insecurities and self-loathing, if only you knew." He snapped.

I felt more than heard the switching of metal plates moving here and there, I could tell he was….. changing, into something. I didn't know they could change into anything at all. I knew if I didn't get down right now, it would be a lot more difficult for me to escape. Especially if he took air, then there would be no way for me to escape.

"Megatron!" A deep baritone voice bellowed out into the seemingly still woods. A jarring force connected to the one who was holding me.

His grip loosened and I went tumbling and sprawling through the air, even managing to hit a thick branch on the way down, landing with an 'oof!.'

My lungs breathed in fresh air unrestricted but with pain. Ignoring that I looked around to get my bearings.

The two metal robots tumbled and clashed, the black one who was holding me and the one who saved me-intentional or not- a red and blue colored one. Their movements caused the ground beneath my feet to rumble, but then the rumbling intensified when I noticed three more different colored robots spilling out from the trees the direction I assumed my 'savior' had come from.

They ran past my spot, to what I determined was their leader. Well I guess they couldn't see me, considering the place I was dropped was blending in with my armor, but I did notice one thing, a yellow robot kept glancing around more than the others, he had a cross on his side in red.

'Maybe a medic?' I thought.

"Parker, get out of there!" Demetri screamed.

Shouts were said, though unintelligible from my position, it was too loud to tell what was said from the two robots in the middle of a random forest having a throw down death match.

Just then, five loud thumps echoed in the forest. Five black colored robots emerged from the craters they formed from impact, as well as five sets of blazing red orbs amongst the cloud of dirt and crap they had stirred up.

Then, all hell broke loose.

They were so involved with themselves that I somehow managed – against all odds- to slip away, running into the already dark night.

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This was bad. Very bad.

Blood, and loosing a lot of it, fast. I clutched my side where my cut was freshly torn even bigger, no matter how much pressure I applied the blood still kept running down the lower half of my body like a red river, leaving little puddles on the ground as I stumbled and fought to keep moving on.

My vision was getting blurry again.

'NO! I refuse to fucking pass out or get knocked out again, I've had enough of that to last a lifetime.' Now I was starting to get angry and bitter at my luck. I quickly cast the feelings aside, they wouldn't help me get anywhere.

Demetri had already sent another spread of medi-gel over my wound but by now it didn't even ease the pain away. We had only two more medi-gels.

"Come on Parker, not much longer before we reach the civilian house."

"…..Right." I huffed.

Was that where I was going, toward a civilian house? Yes, I remember now. I had asked Demetri for a set of coordinates for the closest civilian house in the area, to get answers.

After so long of just seeing green and brown, grey, and blue, trees rock and sky. I finally after so long, broke out of a patch of bushes, and saw little farm house. It was the only house within miles, but I was fine with that, more privacy. It was yellow and white and had a tan roof, but at this point I couldn't care less about what it looked like, it was a sanctuary. The lights were on which meant someone was home, it seemed as if my problems melted off my shoulders right then.

The thought of resting my aching body made my muscles give way and I stumbled as I was making my way to the house. I landed roughly on my left hand and my knees, causing them to ache all the more.

"Parker, come on! Don't give up on me now! Your almost there, just a little longer!" He encouraged.

I pushed up with the strength I still had left, and managed to make it a few more feet only to end up in the same position I was in. The porch was just a few more feet. I looked up just as I heard the sound of a door closing.

There stood a little girl of about the age of eight, in a white sleeping gown with a teddy bear hanging from her right hand. She wore a little gold and silver heart shaped locket around her neck, she had curly light caramel brown hair that went down to the middle of her back in lazy waves and had beautiful grassy green eyes. She was an adorable little girl.

She cocked her head to the side, bright eyes alight with curiosity but caution.

"Oh, no! Your hurt! Are you ok, mister?!" She said in a frightened voice as she rushed down the stairs and to the injured stranger.

She put her small hand on my shoulder and leaned over to get a look at the wound that was collecting an increasing amount of blood in a puddle below. She moved her small feet away as the blood slowly came toward her direction at a slow pace.

I heard the door slamming again, and slowly looked up as a man came rushing out of the house, flying down the steps toward the little girl. He shouted in a frightened tone.

"Jamie!"

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Hey everybody! FINALLY ! THE CHAPTER IS DONE! :)

(kicks back and relaxes) ahhhhhh, glad I updated finally, sorry about poor Parker, she's going through wayyyyyyy to much action lately though don't worry. The next chapter will finally slow up.

Also! SPOILERS! DO NOT CONTINUE IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW!

She WILL finally meet the autobots next chapter, and so that means she and Optimus will finally get to meet! :) Anyway guys, tell me what you think, and please review, it's been a long day so, I'm going to bed, love you all, until next time. ;)

-Blue-Eyed-Protector :)