As promised here is chapter 2! I hope you all enjoy Bea's adventure, and if there is something you don't like, or understand don't hesitate to ask. im always open to new ideas too!
first and for most I would like to thank Jimmy144, FlorLove152, WolvesandFae, and SkyrimPlayer for being my first reviwers on this story! Thanks a lot guys I really appreciate it!
I got my idea for this story from WolvesandFae's story So not fair, which I really recommend reading, its a great story! Also you'll have to ask them if you want to use their ideas for your own fanfic! :3
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All characters and plots associated with Transformers belong to Hasbro, or who ever they really belong to :3
Project M, and all characters in association with it belong to our very own WolvesandFae, who thankfully let me use her idea. THANKS A LOT HUN!
All I own are my OC(s), GenIV, and partial storyline. please enjoy and tell me what you think in the reviews!
Chapter 2
It's been three days since I initially woke up, and found myself in my robotic form. Three days since I've had any contact with anyone. No one came to my cell, no one spoke to me on the speakers, nothing! The only way I knew it had been three days was because the lights brightened and dimmed at the beginning and end of every day respectively.
Happily enough though the scientists kept their word and the second day, I awoke to a large shiny metal robot looking at me. I almost shouted in surprise, but when I realized it was just my reflection I quickly stood up and looked at myself. My thoughts of me now being some big bulky stereotypical looking robot, were quickly diminished. My body or well whatever this form was called was all silver, slender, and curvy. One large round dome covered my chest area before shrinking down and covering half my torso. The other half was full of exposed wires. All of my legs, with the exception of my knees, were covered with the same shining metal as the rest of me. My feet looked a little strange though, because the fact that I had no toes, and because they curved into a half moon shape, with the flat part on the floor. I lifted my foot and peered at the bottom, where I found a large rectangular hole. I looked at it in confusion, but shook my head and looked back at the mirror. My arms were a mixture of covered in metal and random wires, but they merged together so that they actually looked like an arm. But it was my head that intrigued me the most. My face looked human enough, except for you know the fact that it was made of metal and I was missing all my hair. I had a small nose and thing lips just like when I was human. My eye were now circular beaming blue lights; if anything I could say they were now my favorite feature. My entire face and head was surrounded by a helmet like structure. All in all I my figure resembled something like I used to look, with the exception of my waist which was in my opinion way too small.
By the third morning I knew something was wrong as I should've been feeling pangs of hunger by now, but like before I felt nothing. I came up with the conclusion that when the scientists ran the tests on my, they put something in my…system that clouded my senses. It wasn't bothersome, but it made me feel paranoid for some reason. Now as I was saying, it was the end of the third day after the lights had been dimmed when everything changed for the better.
I was laying in the corner of the room curled up in a fetal position, when I heard someone walk in. Looking up, I saw the white man from before jogging over to me. I was about to ask him something but when he held a finger to his mouth I raised an eyebrow, or whatever was there. When he was nearer to me I sat up in curiosity. He was walking towards me but was looking over his shoulder towards the wall opposite to my location.
"Listen, can I assume you don't want to be trapped here?" he whispered. I opened my mouth but he quickly put her finger to her mouth again, so I simply nodded my head. "Good, now I have to inject this into your system. It will basically wake you up again." He said before pulling out a syringe. I shrugged my shoulders and tilted my head in confusion. "Before you woke up from your transformation we gave you a chemical that shut down all the programs you have within you. Every night since then, someone has been giving you a small dosage, to keep it that way." He said with a little guilt in his voice.
"Like the pain program." I asked as quietly as I could. He gave me a warning glance, but nodded his head and gestured for my arm. "Why should I trust you? You who made me into this." I whispered almost angrily.
"I'm not saying I'm not regretful of some of the things we did, but now this project is pushing the boundaries, and I want no part of it!" he stated before gesturing for my arm again. Hesitantly I brought myself closer to the man. "Let me warn you now all the pain, and other feelings you haven't felt before will come crashing into you but you must stay quiet through it all. It should pass relatively quick, and when it does your vision should look different, almost like a computer screen, though more high tech. There will be tabs somewhere in your line of sight, to select one all you have to do is focus on it. The tabs will have different name but you must choose the one that says H-702-579-500. Afterwards you have to leave here and go through that door, the pin is 1419-540-713. You will only have a few minutes to find your way out before the alarms go off. Whatever you do don't stop, you have to keep moving. Once you leave the building run in any direction that you must. There are a few cities a couple dozen kilometers to the west and east. The ones up north and to the south are far closer, so they'll go looking there first, just a warning." He said quickly before pushing the needle into an almost translucent tube in my arm. There was a green liquid that suddenly rushed up to the rest of my body.
"I wish you the best, and don't forget don't stop moving forward." He said.
A sudden cold sensation washed over my chest followed by a burning pain. I shut my eyes and held in the scream, for as long as I could. The fire was slowly and agonizingly spreading throughout my body. It felt like an eternity when it reached the tips of my fingers and toes it vanished, leaving me gasping for air. My eyes were still closed but a dull red light was flashing. When I opened them though I was bombarded with red flashing words.
"Fuel Tanks Nearly Depleted"
"Program V-9506715009 Slot Empty"
"Virus deleted"
"Running on reserved Fuel Tanks"
"Running Maintenance Check"
Etc. etc.
I stared at all the words in confusion, but when I felt a hand on my leg, all flashing stopped, and all words vanished. The scientist looked up at me with a determined look. "There's no more time left, I have to leave, but don't forget what I told you." He said before turning and running towards the door.
"What's your name?" I asked, suddenly.
He stopped at the door and looked at me with an apologetic smile. "That is restricted information, so I can't tell you my name is Archer." He stated before running out of the open door.
I stared at the spot where he was only moments ago, before shaking my head clearing away any of the daze from before. "Now you decide to have a change of heart?" I said to no one in particular.
When I focused back to my eyes all the flashing words came back. After taking a deep breath I focused on each of the little panels. What I hadn't noticed before was the dull blue word 'Clear' above all the flashing words. I focused on it and suddenly all the flashing was gone once again, though this time they didn't return. 'Cool…' I thought to myself, before refocusing on all the little tabs that had been covered before. They were all lined up long the top of my sight, and were the same dull blue color, but the words were all white. I searched for the tab Archer had told me about, but I started to panic, when I couldn't find it. I was searching through all the tabs for the second time when all of a sudden I heard the door open and close. I brought myself back to see who had walked in, and found a man I had never seen before.
"Who are you?" I asked making him jump.
"Oh, I-I thought you had gone to sleep." He said almost like he was afraid.
"No, I can't sleep." I lied.
check your vitals." He stammered. Suddenly a box appeared next to the man. It was something like his profile, with his name, age, gender, and a short bio was posted there. Under this all though was a heart monitor, which read that his heart was racing. 'Lie detected.' A voice pinged in my head. I glared at the man, who took a few steps back. "I'm fine, I don't any check-ups." I said coldly, before he nodded his head and left the room. I huffed in annoyance as the profile box wouldn't disappear, so I ignored it and went back to my search.
After the fourth time looking through it all I groaned in frustration. It wasn't there. I leaned back on the wall and closed my eyes. 'I need to find that stupid program!' I thought angrily to myself. A little ping in my head sounded before a green box popped up.
'Search…?' it said.
'Um what's this?' I thought to myself.
"Searching "UM WHAT'S THIS?' please wait…"
'The hell is-' "No results found for 'UM WHAT'S THIS?' would you like to search anything else?" I grinned to myself, before repeating the code Archer had given me.
"One Result found for 'Program H-7025795' it said before a tab popped up with said code. I took a deep breath before focusing all I had onto that one spot. After a couple of moment of nothing happening I opened my eyes and looked at the mirror. I was still the same.
"Come on, work already!" I snarled in frustration.
'Activate Program 'H-7025795'?"
"Yes." I growled quietly.
'Activating now, please wait.' The voice said.
I sighed and shook my head, taking note of the command for future reference. A moment later and a ping went off in my head, but before anything else could happen I felt a stinging sensation in my head, like a dozen needles buried themselves there. The feeling spread throughout the rest of my body, though it didn't stop. A new, strange sound filled my ears as the needles pushed themselves deeper into my skin. I held in the scream that was desperately trying to escape. Suddenly I felt a tugging sensation from my chest that made me feel like it was pulling my limbs towards my center. I gasped, and when I felt myself shrinking down, I closed my eyes as hard as I could.
When all the stinging, and tugging feelings drifted away I was left with an almost dreamy feeling. Like I was floating instead of laying on the cold cement floor. I pushed myself up into a sitting position and looked around. The room looked a lot bigger now, including the ginormous mirror. From where I was I could clearly see a human woman sitting on the floor looking back at me. Her hair was black and reached all the way to the floor, and she was naked. I looked down at myself and indeed I was no longer wearing clothes. I covered my arms over my chest before standing up. My knees were a little wobbly, but nonetheless I made my way to the door. That's when I realized the my hair actually only reached a little past my hip, much longer than before though.
There was a small keypad next to the door were I started to push the numbers in. Just as I was about to put the last number I heard footsteps from outside the door. They sounded to clear, I could've sworn they were approaching my cell. 'Are they coming for me? Do they know I changed?!' I asked myself in a panic as I took a step away from the door. 'There's nowhere for me to hide!'
The footsteps where nearly at my door when I backed up into the mirror. There was a small wobble, before it stood still once more. I ran to the end and saw there was a small enough space that I could crawl into, between the wall and the mirror. I stayed there for what felt like an eternity, until finally I heard the footsteps fade away.
'Guess they weren't coming for me.' I thought to myself a little relieved as I got out of my hiding space, and ran back to the door where I pushed in the last number. The moment the door opened I felt all the stress leave my body, only to be replaced with ten times the fear when I saw the man from before standing with his back to me. I grimaced when he started to turn around. Without thinking I grabbed the nearest object, and bashed him over the head with it. Turns out it was a fire extinguisher. I watched as the man fell to the floor with a dull thud. I was still clutching the large cylinder, when the doors started to close on me. I jumped forward and out of their way. After they closed, I looked down at the man and checked for his pulse. It was there but I was faint. 'He'll live…' I thought to myself as I put the fire extinguisher down, and started taking his lab coat off. 'If I'm going to get out of here I would rather not run around buck naked.'
When I saw it only reached my mid thigh I groaned. 'Everyone else here has long ass coats, why do I end up with the only short one?!' I thought angrily to myself as I took his pants too.
After buttoning them up I sat the guy against the wall, and made my way down the corridor. The bright lights from above illuminated my way. All the walls were gray, and the floors made of matching cement, so it was a bit hard to know where I was going. There were very few people around, but if I happened to come across one I would turn down the nearest corridor. It had probably been not even 5 minutes since my escape when a loud alarm went off, and bright red lights started flashing.
I looked around in horror, almost expecting someone to tackle me down. I didn't want to wait for it to happen, so I took off running.
'Hey you got anything to help me escape from this place?' I thought to myself. The small search engine popped again.
"Escape route?" I said as I turned another corner.
'Program 'Escape Route' not found try another entry.' It pinged. I groaned in frustration, and was about to turn another corner, but backed up just as quickly to avoid the oncoming men running past me. They were all wearing military uniform, and holding large guns. Luckily none of them gave me a second glance. Once they passed I turned the corner and ran in the opposite direction from where ever they were going.
"Do you have anything that could help me out?!" I nearly shouted to myself.
"File 'Project M Lab blue prints' found." The voice pinged. I grinned at myself as I continued to run. "Open, and find nearest exit." I said. The vision in one of my eyes suddenly turned blue, but the layout was the same as the other eye. I gasped when an arrow appeared in the blue print eye, telling me to turn left at the nearest corridor. I followed the arrows for a few twists and turns, but stopped when it pointed to a closed door.
"Stair well E." I read out loud as I tried to open the door, but huffed when the doorknob wouldn't turn. "Locked…" I said to myself as I looked around. I was about to turn and run the other way, when I got a sudden message.
'Incoming 3 individuals on you left. Distance 6 meters.' it rang out.
I looked over and saw a corridor not too far from me. I was about to run the other way when a small box next to the door caught my attention. It looked like the one in my cell, but this one had no numbers, only a thin slot, almost like a credit card machine. I quickly patted the pockets on the lab coat, but found nothing.
"Three individuals incoming. Distance 3 meters." The voice pinged again.
"I get it! I get it! Shut up!" I hissed as I shoved my hands into the pockets. When my hand wrapped around a hard plastic rectangle, I smiled, before yanking it out and running it through the scanner. The light was still red. "Damn it!" I snarled before flipping it over.
"Three incoming individuals. Distance 1 meter."
"Shut up, I know!" I nearly shouted as I shoved the card through again. This time the light turned green, and I heard a click from the door. I nearly broke the door down, and slammed it shut behind me. No sooner had I pressed my back the door that I heard footsteps rushing by. I sighed in relief but was back at it again. The arrows told me to go down three flights of stairs, before leaving the stair well, and running though more corridors. My lungs were starting to burn, and my legs were ready to collapse, when the arrows suddenly stopped. I looked around and saw I was standing in front of a door that had the word 'LOBBY' in big black letters. I sighed to myself as I ran the card in the scanner once more. I hadn't even taken a step in, when I heard shouts from the other side. I peeked my head in and nearly slammed the door shut again. On the other side I found was full of military men and women, some shouting orders others on standby.
"Any other exits that don't include dozens of solders?" I said to the mechanisms of my mind.
In the blue print eye, another arrow appeared pointing me down the corridor once again. I groaned but pushed off the wall and followed.
Again I ended up going down some more flights of stairs until I could literally feel the temperature dropping. I had reached a point where there were very few exits in between flights of stairs, and then there were no more. 'Where are you taking me?" I asked, but got no response. After a few minutes I the stairs stopped at a cross road of three hallways, all of them were illuminated by light bulbs every few feet. The arrow pointed me down the one to my left. There were a few doors on either sides of the hall. Finally the arrows stopped, and pointed at the door in front of me. This one had no card scanner so when I opened the door, without any problems I wasn't all that shocked. The room before me was pitch black, and I had no way of seeing anything.
"Uh, turn on…night vision?" I said quietly. Suddenly it was like I was in the room in the middle of a sunny day, and not 100 feet undergrown. This room looked like a supply closet of sorts, but along with mops, and brooms, there were boxes piled high around the room.
The arrow pointed me towards the center of the room. I followed but stared in confusion as the arrow suddenly turned and pointed straight down. There was nothing but cement floor.
"I don't get it, this isn't a way out, in fact this is the total opposite of a way out! Now I got myself trapped!" I exclaimed, ready to pull the hairs out of my head.
I ran out of the room, and started up the stairs, but stopped when I heard the sounds out boots stomping down towards me. I couldn't tell if it was because they were so close, or because my hearing had gotten a lot better, but they sounded far too close for comfort. I stood there for a moment, before sighing and running back down and to the room I was in. Once there I closed the door behind me, shut my eyes before sinking the floor.
"Damn it. I was so close!" I muttered to myself.
The arrow was still pointing straight down, but I just rolled my eyes at it.
"That's not a way out! It's just the damn floor! See," I said as I banged my hand on the floor. "Just a stupid…piece…of…hollow?" I said as I banged a little harder. It was true the part that I was hitting sounded hollow on the other side. 'There must be a type of opening down there!' I thought to myself. I scrambled up on my hands and knees and kept hitting the floor until it no longer sounded hollow. I followed this until a large stack of boxes was covering a whole side. When I pushed them over I saw a small handle like hole in the floor. I quickly grabbed it and pulled it with all the strength I had. It opened slowly with a loud creak, as if it were need of a good repair. I kept pulling until it wouldn't open anymore, no matter how much I pushed or pulled. It was open enough so that I could just barely squeeze in. I was patting the ground underneath the tap door, when I felt something cold and hard. I pulled my arm back, and took a look.
"Are you kidding me? This was your great escape route?" I said to myself. I got a closer look and sighed and at manhole cover. "I guess if you're on the run, might as well hit the sewer's first…" I said to myself as I got adjusted and grabbed the cover tightly. When I pulled with all the power I had, I nearly almost flew backwards. Shocked at how easy it was to move it away, I sat back up and looked at the metal circle in my hand. It looked so rusted, but it came off so easily. 'It's also not as heavy as I thought it should be…' I shook the thoughts away when I heard the footsteps once again. I ran back to opening in the floor, and wedged myself in feet first into the darkness below. Luckily my feet had found metal bars on the side of the hole. "Gotta be the ladder." I said as I lowered myself down, deeper. I had half my body down, when it hit me. "How am I going to close the door and put the manhole cover on again?"
The footsteps were coming closer. "Crap, crap, crap…." I muttered to myself as I looked around. After a moment of hesitation, I quickly climb back out of the hole and was about to leave the large rusty circle behind a stack of boxes, when the door suddenly flew open. A man in a military uniform, holding a large gun in his hands stared at me with wide eyes. He didn't say anything for a moment as his eyes wandered a little below my face. I looked down, and felt the blood rush to my face. In my hurry of climbing in and out of the hole, I didn't notice that the lab coat was now wide open. I growled at the man, but before he could say anything, I threw the manhole cover at his stomach. He flew out of the room, and hit the opposite wall with a loud bang. After slamming the door shut, and putting anything heavy that I could find to barricade it, I nearly jumped down the hole. I was clinging on to the trap door when I heard people shouting in the hall way. If opening this son of a bitch was hard, closing it was fifteen times harder. Now the people were banging on the door to the room, and I was panicking. I had just thought about leaving it like this, when a loud crack made me yelp in surprise. I ducked down fast enough to avoid the door whacking me in the head.
Looking back up I saw that the door had come closed. I sighed with relief after trying to push it open a little. It was budged now, completely and utterly stuck. Without a second thought I raced down the ladder of iron rings. Unfortunately I wasn't paying as much attention as I should've been and didn't notice until I was falling that the rings didn't go all the way to the floor. I closed my eyes, and groaned in pain when I landed on my butt. The fall wasn't really that long, but it was the surprise that got me. When I opened my eyes, I noticed that my vision had come back to normal, no more blue print vision.
After standing up, I looked around and noticed the circular hall leading to darkness on either side. I started running in any direction when I heard people shouting above me.
"Can't stop now, I need to get as far as possible!" I said as I ran, not caring which turns I took.
Well that's chapter 2, done and over with! I hope you all enjoyed it, and if you didn't let me know what I can improve on! I'm going on vacation and wont access to internet until like Thursday or Friday. I will try my very hardest to finish chapter 3, but please don't be upset if I'm a day or two late with the next chapter. until then
~Usagi-chan132
