Primus was late. Later than I wanted him to be. While he was late I wrote my nightmarish daydreams in the Covenant. Something hit me then in one of my daydreams. "Trion was locked away in the Hall of Records." I told Bee. "He asked to be locked away because he didn't want to watch his brothers die at the hands of The Fallen."

Primus came soon after my explanation. The night air was chilly and the wind made it colder. The man I expected wasn't a man at all. He still had boyish features and he was my age.

"You must be the one always pissing everybody off," Derek put out his hand with a grin on his face. "My kind of woman, I say."

"You're cocky. Not my kind of man. I'm Elsa. This handsome car here is Bumblebee. Don't piss him off. He's got quite the temper."

Derek put his hands up in a surrender. "Okay, okay, I get the picture." He almost sounded like he wanted to laugh.

"Who's next on our list?" Bee asked.

"Nobody," I dog-eared the page in the Covenant and threw it in the passenger side. "We're going to Canada."

"Wait, we aren't getting anybody else?"

"It's not wise, Derek. Unicron is after us, after all of us. He's afraid of the Thirteen still."

"A big bad transformer is afraid of a bunch of humans?" He laughed. "Why?"

I opened my mouth to answer but Primus beat me to it. "Because the Thirteen can destroy him. He's afraid you'll be successful so he's trying to destroy you first."

"It's better if we keep him on the run. And it's better if we keep separated too." I realized aloud. "So I guess you are going to Canada."

"No. Girls should go to Canada."

I huffed. "Fine, if you're such a tough-" The explosion was almost like a censor. Bee protected me like he did all those years ago, with his back toward the enemy. I looked around him and I saw the smallish Scourge. "Bee, he found us!"

"How?" Primus was protecting Derek. I wouldn't have thought of Primus as the protective type.

"I don't know. We need to destroy these things."

"Don't have to tell me twice, sister." Bee punched the first few that came at him and started shooting the rest with what looked like missiles. There were a few that got past him that went straight for Derek. I trusted Primus to take care of them while I shot the rest of them that came at me. However the more we destroyed the more that came at us. Where were they coming from?

My head rang suddenly and before I could process what had happened my ribs hit the asphalt. Bee's foot stepped in front of my view of the horizon making me jump back. Something tugged at my leg. Half of one of the robots still moved. I screamed and kicked it until it let go. Bee scooped me up and back up until he hit Primus' back.

"What now, genius?" Derek spat.

"Running is a very good option." However, we were surrounded. Where could we run to?

Almost as suddenly as they came they fled in the same direction as if they were being called on by a higher being.

"Um…what the hell just happened?"

Nobody could answer Bee. What did just happen? Why did they suddenly flee? They were easy enough to beat for the most part but they had the upper hand. "Luck?" I finally answered but I knew that wasn't the reason for them to suddenly flee.

Bee started picking up everything that dropped when he transformed but he wouldn't let me on the ground.

"What were they?" I finally asked.

"I don't know." Primus and Bee answered in unison.

I watched the way they left. They left eastward. What was happening in the east? I wished Prime or Crosshair or Hound was with us so I could ask them to check it out for me. Maybe Bee would take me.

I almost grinned and looked up at Bee. "I want to know where they went," I told him.

"You read my mind." Bee transformed around me and took off before Primus could, if he wanted to, object. With the speed he was going we caught up with the back end of the group but we tried to stay as far away from them as we could without being seen or heard. They suddenly stopped in the outskirts of a forest and so Bee stopped too.

I got out and took out the gun. "Stay here, Bee." Slowly I went closer, ready to fire if I needed to. I could hear someone screaming. It was one of the girls but I couldn't see which one. I hid behind a tree and watched the scene I had seen in my daydream unfold.

The girl was no older than maybe Alisha and she had left her back wide open for attack. Before she knew it she was knocked to the ground and pinned.

A sound like a jet flew overhead and landed in the dark part of the forest. Scourge emerged from the area and silently picked her up. "Who's next?" He mused aloud. The girl's screaming was hushed suddenly. She must have fainted. "A little more to the east you'll find more. Go."

They didn't need any more instruction than that. While they made a buzzing sound like a swarm of wasps I ran back to Bee and got in. "They got another one. That's why they left us. They were having an easier time with her than with us." We couldn't just go to Canada and hide and I had a feeling Bee was thinking the same thing but what else could we do? I called Alisha.

She answered on the first ring. "Well this is a surprise." She didn't sound surprised she sounded mad and sarcastic.

"I don't have time to fight with you, Alisha." I rubbed my forehead. "I need to warn you." My mouth suddenly felt dry. No, of course I didn't warn her. I had nearly forgotten.

"Warn me about what?"

"Warn you…about…never mind, it's probably nothing to worry about. Make sure you can fight well, okay?"

"Oh…" she sounded disappointed and I hung up on her before she could ask any more questions.

I sighed an irritated sigh and rubbed my jaw. "Unicron…would be out in the desert wouldn't he?"

Bee made a sound, a worried sound. He knew what I was thinking.

"Yeah I know it's stupid," I rubbed my eyes and screamed. "I don't know what else to do, Bee! I can't protect her…but I have to. I don't know what else to do." I laid my head on the steering wheel.

Bee started moving.

"Where are we going?" I whispered.

"Well first I'm dropping you off where they won't find you."

"I'm glad one of us still has our heads on, Bee."

He dropped me off at a hotel in Canada and I watched him speed away. Wherever he was going I trusted that he would come back for me. The hotel was pretty secluded but not so secluded that if anything happened it wouldn't be on every news station in the country.

The hotel was actually pretty nice but the mattress wasn't too comfortable. Outside I watched time pass me by slowly. Slower than it should have. Finally I turned on the TV. Almost everything was in French except for one news channel.

They talked about the kidnappings of everyone and how random they seemed but that it was happening at a steady pace. Suddenly they cut the woman off to talk about something happening now. I covered my mouth as I watch it. I couldn't believe I was watching it. My own sisters kidnapping and worse still is the TV wouldn't shut off when I tried to turn it off. I had to finally unplug it and I sat in my room the rest of the night crying quietly.

I had just talked to her hours before. If only I had the guts to warn her of her fate.

My eyes were red by midnight and I watched for any signs of Bee that never came. Where could he be?

I watched the window all night and most of the morning but I fell asleep until midday. I probably could have kept sleeping too if it weren't for the screaming outside of my hotel room. I opened the door slowly. The halls were clear and as quickly as it came the screaming ceased.

The mini Scourges dragged a middle aged man across the hall. I ducked behind the door when I heard more footsteps. It approached my door. I looked around for my alien gun that I had parked on the other side of the room. With nothing else I prepared for my knuckles to be broken but the fight would be worth it in the end.

The door shut suddenly and I just punched. Whatever I punched was extremely squishy and not at all what I expected.

"Ow! Hey! I don't usually hit women." He punched me square in the nose and it forced me to look up at him. This was no robot but a man and certainly not middle aged. He looked kind of geeky, actually, but he was a lot stronger than he looked. His hair was jet black and obviously thick and his skin was pale but not like he'd never been in the sun for months it was more like the type of color that simply couldn't tan no matter what he did.

"I think you broke my nose," I whined while I held it.

"Shh! They'll find us." He opened the door a little and peeked outside. I peered over his shoulder. The robots were still on the hunt for someone.

"They're after me," we whispered in unison and gave each other a weird look. "After you?"

"Why would they be after you, girl?" He shut and bolted the door locked and proceeded to move things in front of the door.

I folded my arms. "My name is Elsa. Why would they be after you? You aren't one of the Thirteen."

He looked like he wanted to laugh. "The what? Thirteen what? Every cop is after me."

"Those aren't cops."

"Don't those transformer things help cops?" He looked genuinely confused.

"These aren't the rights ones." I opened the window.

"You never did answer my question, Elsa."

"And I'm not going to." I gathered my things and threw the sword to him. "At least defend yourself on a level playing field."

There was a pounding noise at the door and slowly it was being nudged open. I didn't wait for him to decide whether to stay or to flee and simply jumped out of the window. The landing was hard. The geeky boy had an easier recovery time when he jumped and was smart enough to roll. A two-story jump wasn't the best thing for my possibly already broken bones. How had I not died yet?

We ran in the same direction away from the hotel. The boy veered off slightly but I didn't notice, I just wanted to get out of there. A car cut me off and I nearly ran into it. The passenger side door opened. "Get in!" He ordered but I was already in by the time he finished. He punched on the gas and we were off out of the town.

My lungs burned and I could swear I squeaked when I breathed.

"You aren't used to running, are you?" But he was just as out of breathe as I was.

After a long time of sitting and catching our breaths I finally said. "Elsa…My name is Elsa."

"You said that already. You must not be too bright."

My jaw locked and I huffed. "This is the part where you introduce yourself."

Something washed over his face. Embarrassment maybe. He turned a light pink color. "Ky. That's all I'm saying."

"Well, it's very nice to meet you, Ky. Sorry you kind of got dragged into this."

Ky shrugged. "I got dragged into a lot worse and a lot more boring jobs. What's up with the alien robots? You said they were after you."

"That is a…a very long story." I combed my hair with my fingers. How would Bee find me?

Ky shrugged again. "I've got time and apparently so do you."

He was right about half of it, I did have time but I had a very limited amount of time and my story would sound so fantastical to someone like him. Would he believe me? How much should I trust him? Could I even trust him? I studied his face, his posture, his body language but he showed nothing but interest.

"Well…. I'm friends with some transformers. That's the short version."

"Okay but back there you said something about thirteen?"

My face got hot. "Right that, well, just forget about that. It was nothing."

"I get it you don't trust me." The fact didn't seem to bother him at all. "So I ran for nothing then, I guess."

"I wouldn't say that. Who knows what they'll do to the rest of them." Deep in my stomach I knew who they were looking for and possibly found. I didn't want to think about it. Maybe my gut feeling was wrong. "I need to find Bee."

"Allow me to help. Is he a brother of yours?"

"In a manner of speaking."

"Where is he?"

I shrugged. "Just drop me off at the nearest city once we cross the border and I'll find him on my own. Eventually."

Ky laughed as he drove. "Not a chance. I'll help you look for him. What kind of a car does he drive?"

"Um…a yellow one."

He rolled his bright green eyes. "That narrows it down. Do you at least know the year? Or the logo of the car company?"

"No," I half lied. I still didn't trust him enough to tell him the truth. For all I knew I was being kidnapped by a psychopath serial killer.