A/N i thought about it and i really did think about, it was hard but i came up with this during the whole insecticons armada, arachnid, starscream, autobots, basically a full on battle royale i thought about what was happening with the kids.

Armada and the deserter

Don't you just hate that clock that constantly ticks away? And it ticks as slowly as it can just to annoy you, i didn't mind certain classes but maths wasn't my favourite I'll tell you that.

Yeah, i'm in school and the only enemy here was time, i was a doodler when i was bored from class, those kinds of doodles that start off as a diagonal line then end up as a weird looking creature with a flower for a tail.

Tick

"Come on." I thought looking at the hands on the clock.

Tick

"Your almost there." I was anxious, it was seconds away from the end of the day and i was going nuts.

Tick

You are a second away from the twelve.

Tick

Yes!

Tick

...wait what?

Tick

"Choke on your lies you stupid clock!" i then thought...wait did i say that out loud?

The teacher looked dumbfounded at me as well as everyone else in the room due to the sudden breaking of the silence.

"Sorry, i got a paper cut." I said sitting down slowly.

Snickering and rolling of the eyes was the response, as the bell finally went off.

I scowled at the clock, "oh you're a worthy adversary school clock."

Naturally the whole class charged for freedom as i normally head to the back to avoid congestion, jack remained at the back with me too.

"Not known for patience are you?" jack said to me.

"I can be, it's just this weather, nice weather is fine and stuff but high temperatures get me on edge, there's not even a breeze." I said.

"Well i brought this..." jack said going into his bag and pulling out a handheld fan. "Here ya go." He said putting into my hand.

"What a mercy." I sighed relieved as i closed my eyes to the cooling breeze of the fan on my face, "ah, that's the stuff, thanks." I said walking blindly down the hallway as jack escorted me.

"We're meeting miko and raf outside." Jack said.

"naturally." I said in a trance.

As we came closer to the exit through the already empty hallways, we heard the distinct sound of miko's voice, as we came out; her and raf were sitting on the stairs.

"Hey guys!" miko greeted as raf gave a small wave.

"Hey, erm have any of you heard anything from the others, like say, when they're going to pick us up?"I asked what i hated more then the heat was being made to wait in the heat.

Miko and raf shook there head as jack shrugged.

I couldn't drive home because...well i eventually fixed my bike and all, but when i went to grab my gloves to take it for a spin, bulkhead...stepped on it...by accident and my bike was so beautiful, now its a squashed fly standing in line of everything else that needs fixing, so it'll be a long while before ratchet eventually gets round to it.

"Anyone got any cards or something?" miko said, now slouching on the stairs.

An hour and a half went by and all staff had gone home before we did, even the janitor. I threw my arms up in defeat, "they are taking us for a ride here, i feel like a damn fool." I griped sticking myself to the only corner of shade in the whole of town, literally.

"We might as well have walked to base." Miko moaned. "That does it, i'm going home, time we'd get to base the time we'd have to go back anyway." miko said standing up.

Then the ground rumbled beneath our feet, i know miko's annoyed but that's getting a bit too angry, "mini earthquake?" raf said.

It went as quickly as it came, "smallest earthquake in history?" i said.

"I don't think it was an earthquake." Jack theorised. "Did anyone else hear a buzzing sound?" he then said as he stood up.

We shook our heads.

"Inside the school i thought i heard it." Jack said eerily pointing inside.

"Doors locked anyway." i said shrugging.

"No problem." Miko then said as she pulled out a hair clip, and fiddled about with the lock for a few moments, the door clicked and miko with a single finger swung it open. "Ta-da." She said bowing.

"Let's just hope she doesn't use those powers of hers for evil." Jack jested to me and raf.

Miko ran on ahead, pretty anxious actually.

"miko." I called out.

"Hurry it up you three." Was her reply, seriously I've never seen her so on edge.

As we moved through the hallway, miko kept turning corners in a hurry, "miko will you slow down." Jack said as our school had so many corners to turn, we lost her instantly.

We all stopped as we caught our breath, and our shoulder slumped; only miko can make us exhausted like this. "I'll go find her." Jack offered getting ready for another jog.

"We'll try and find what caused that shake." Raf then said.

Jack looked at me uncertain, "I'll look after him." I said. i was actually impressed with rafs eagerness, he's getting confidence.

With that jack turned and started his search for miko, his echoed feet trailed across the hallway, leaving me and raf in the silence.

"Sooo, where do you wanna start?" i asked raf.

"Well, we can't check the classrooms; the blinds are blocking our vision of the inside." Raf said.

"And i don't really want to do the whole 'break in and entry' i'm not subtle with that, plus the cat burglar has darted off somewhere so we can't use her powers." I added.

"Well let's try what we..." the lights then started flickering as we both went on our guard, i'm getting a headache from the constant flickering, and then it went dark, real dark. The only thing you could see were those red lasers lights on those security boxes...when are those activated by the way?

"Oh great, power cut." I said checking the light switches.

"d-do you think whatever caused the shake did that?" raf asked slightly nervous.

"Maybe, but don't worry, just stay close to me." I said, as i got a mini flashlight out of my bag. "It might not be a power cut per say it could just be the lights that are affected, but let's consider the possibility." I said as i guided us through the hallway, "Let's check the biggest room first, if whatever has truly cut the power they would need to go outside to get to that source, so lets find the source of entry first, say the gym?" I said.

"o-okay." Raf replied as he stayed close to my side.

We cautiously walked the halls as running through the dark can be a bit of a disadvantage, darkness can always leave one slightly wary mainly because we're afraid of what we can't see.

We came across the double doors that led straight in to the gymnasium, no wait, i was hoping there would be doors except these doors looked like they'd been torn off their hinges and had taken a bit of wall with them, i darted my flashlight around the area as the two doors were lying on the ground with debris surrounding it.

"I think it's safe to say our culprit came from the gym." I said to raf.

"How did it get into the school?" he asked.

"Hmm." I said as i slowly walked into the gym, i put a grip on rafs shirt out of instinct. Shining my light around the large room, i shined the floor and the ceiling, the climbing ropes were pretty eerie looking in the dark especially the way they swayed, the tiled floor wasn't helping either as your steps were very exaggerated on sound.

As we got more to the middle of the room, there were small traces of debris as it crunched under my feet, concrete debris that became larger as we got closer, finally because of my almost falling in. We found a large hole that looked like had been dug up from below.

The hole itself looked about 20 feet long all around, and upon inspection my flashlight didn't even find the bottom.

"It can't have been a decepticon miner, there drills aren't big enough to produce such a hole, then i knelt down to the markings that surrounded the inside of the hole walls. "Hmmm, clawed digging." I said.

I felt raf grip my arm tightly, "c-clawed?"

I smiled at raf reassuringly for his sake, for what i fear is that we may have an insecticon on our hands, but if he's gotten outside...

"raf i'm going to find a safe place to put you, okay?" i said to him.

"Why what is it?" raf asked.

"I can't say for certain but either way i need to find it." I said as i took a hold of his hand and ran for a door; raf was struggling to keep his feet on the floor as i broke open the door of where the gym equipment was kept, i motioned raf to get in.

"Now don't come out until i come back for you." I told him.

"We've always travelled as a team before, why is this different?" raf asked.

"This is more than just hacking, running from zombie cons and dealing with mech. This is an insecticon, a beast that doesn't give anything a second thought its only purpose is to destroy and if you were to ever get in its path, it will kill you when given the chance, i won't give it the chance." I told him.

"We have to try and contact the others." Raf said.

"I've tried contacting base all i'm getting is static it may be because of this buildings power lapse, but we...i have to stop that insecticon from getting any further past, this, school. Or allot of people are gonna die." I said as was about to close the door on raf.

"How are you going to do that?" Raf asked.

"All you need to know is that things will work out." I said as i closed the door, despite my theory i still attempted to contact base every so often, still static. "Come on." I hissed. As when i came out into the hallway and turned the corner at the end i didn't need my flashlight anymore for there was a slight glow of natural light that came from the direction of the exit...well there used to be an exit now it looked like a bulldozer had come through the school, i guess if you were ever looking for an insecticon take note that they aren't the most dainty of beings.

I pressed my back against the wall as i cautiously peeped around the corner as brick debris crumbled onto my head.

I saw the insecticon and the schools power supply that was on fire and for some reason the fenced wire that surrounded the source, the insecticon was chewing on it, then it started tearing it apart like paper...erm okay, is this an insecticon or a toddler?

As i watched on his odd behaviour it begun sniffing the air as its mandibles twitched slightly in response, it then threw its head back as it let out one of its ear wincing screeches, it got on all fours and started sniffing away like a dog, great i'm like a cornered mouse waiting for the strike of the rattle snake, it was about eight metres from my position and as i looked closer its head had a huge dent in it, perhaps the source of its...odd behaviour.

it turned slightly so i was out of its vision for now, so i made haste and slid around the wall to outside, with every step my face cringed in fear something would alert it of my presence i slid myself down the side of the wall to around the corner of the building out of sight of the insecticon and to see if being outside will enable me to contact base.

My eyes were wide and i bared my teeth, i placed my phone up against my ear as i speed dialled for base, it rang consistently at least i was getting a tone but the long ringing got me anxious and it was really quiet all of a sudden which made me even more anxious...letting the phone ring i looked around the corner, then pulled my head back, the insecticon was sniffing up against the wall intensely as it made its way near my position.

"Okay if i can't reach base, I'll try ratchet himself." I thought as i speed dialled ratchet instead...it rang, oh thank god; it was only one ring till ratchet picked up.

"Ellen..." ratchet started as i cut him off.

"ratchet." I whispered, "I'm going to be blunt, help, insecticon, back of school." I said as i cut him off.

I slid my phone back into the back of my pocket as i suddenly held that pose, i felt a hot, humid, breath against my whole back and light growling, instead of running i side walked around the beast as he followed me continuing to smell me, ratchet gave me a quick illustration of insecticons and one thing with insecticons when hunting there are all attack, no hesitation, so if i'm still alive this insecticon has lost all sense of instinct, i didn't make sudden movement or loud noise for i had to keep him behind the school, until ratchet got here anyway.

"That's it follow me." I said in my head.

A loud 'oh' was heard from the broken school wall as i saw miko and jack at the exit, the insecticon quickly turned its attention toward the louder noise as it shrieked again whilst running toward them, did it get spooked or something? But even without its normal behaviour it still had its normal abilities for example its speed, it was too fast even too fast for miko and jack to turn around and run, it leapt at them as it made a low shriek not one i had heard before but it fell to the ground as it did so, its head rolled off as its mandibles still twitched as it screeched for one last time, and its whole body just collapsed.

Ratchet had came around the corner in his normal form looking stressed as hell, "how'd you get here so quick?" i asked.

"I had just arrived in town to pick you up just as you called me, how an insecticon got here is beyond me." Ratchet said. "It didn't harm any of you did it?" we shook our heads. "Where's raf?" he then asked.

"Oh yeah, he's still in the gym closet." I said.

"I'll get him." Jack said.

Ratchet scanned the insecticons crumbled body, "hmm this insecticon was suffering from rust, and by the looks of it, it was dying fast and from the inside." Ratchet said.

I thought for a moment as i recollected thoughts, chewing the fence, not attacking me...he was seeking help and its destructive behaviour was that out of the excruciating pain, how sad, my bump to the head theory had been shattered, it was a fatal illness.

Miko on the other hand was taking the opportunity to take pictures, "miko." I said scolding.

"What? When will i ever get a chance to get a picture of an insecticon? Seeing how i never got to go to cybertron." She added under breath though see doesn't quite grasp the art of being quiet.

"Come on lets head back to base before something else happens." Ratchet said transforming.

We had to contact agent fowler for assistance, though i think he had a heart attack at the damage of the school, the excuse for the public news hounds was that the school was suffering with termites which caused the wall to collapse, though no one got a glimpse of the damage inside much to his relief.

Ratchet had brought us all to base for a 'physical' as he put it, and took miko, jack and raf home straight after. Though school was closed for about a week i was having the sudden urge to stay there mainly for the arachnid ornament that was now inhabiting the base, she had the 'no!' face on her and it wasn't a very appealing face either. Turns out Arcee managed to put her into stasis using an insecticon pod, instead of terminating her which makes her the better femme.

And I've been updated even more with the fact megatron has now got a whole hive of insecticons, due to the discovery of them by arachnid, seems that arachnid is able to control insecticons to do her bidding, i think her mom did it with a insecticon or something heh. But when put into stasis that control was broken and now the insecticons returned to the command of megatron.

And on top of that bulkhead has grounded the nemesis, so there will be no rest for a while i predict.

But despite this, the good news is that i miss out on maths for a whole week! Oh and the arachnid problem has been taken care of...That's good news too, and of course the nemesis being grounded giving us an opportunity to attack the thing...but it doesn't compare to the week delay of maths.

Still good news is without the bad news...now if you'll excuse me i'm going to make a plaque for that insecticon.

A/N R.I.P random insecticon who couldn't find help :'( oh my gosh :O only 2 episodes to go and i'll be in a mid-season break myself? .god i say two because i'll be combining tunnel vision/triangulation/triage/toxicity as one chapter seeing how they all happened at the same time...and is it bad i know the title of the episodes off by heart? i hope to await feedback i love your reviews X3 and gives me adreneline when typing lol no joke.