Chapter 5: The Fight

I groaned, rubbing my head as I finally became conscious. Underneath me I felt the dusty material of some thing and an article of clothing cover me like a blanket.

"Sel? Sam she's waking up!"

Flinching from Mikaela's voice, my eyes fluttered open and saw that I was in some abandoned room laying on an old mattress with Sam's jacket over me. I saw Mikaela with a relieved look on her face and Sam running up, crouching down beside me.

"Sel? Are you okay?" He placed a hand on my forehead to check my temperature.

Seriously, Sammy? I gently swatted his hand away and raised an eyebrow, "Sam I fainted, I'm not dying from a high fever and a cold."

He sighed in relief. We all know Sel's okay if the sass is present so if anyone ever finds me unconscious on the ground then be ready for some serious smoking towards you when I wake up. Just kidding, I love you guys. Or do I? I just woke up, random thinking is not something I should be doing. The two gripped my arms and helped me sit up, the world slightly swaying around me and my head being weighed down by a terrible aching.

"Anyone got some ibuprofen?" I said as I pressed a palm to my head and wincing.

Sam chuckled, shaking his head, "No just your idiot cousin, sorry Sel."

Smiling, I sighed, remembering what had happened just a little while back. Optimus was gone. Megatron had killed him. I felt fury but also sadness rise in my chest recalling Optimus' optics dimming down and bit the tears threatening to come out back. Mikaela placed a hand on my shoulder, a sympathetic look on her face.

"There's nothing you could've done, Sel," She expressed to me.

"And you did your best with the shield too," Sam remarked, casting his eyes down and shaking his head, "It's my fault. Optimus had came to me earlier this week and...I just shrugged them off thinking I wanted a normal life. Not only that, but I shouldn't have pushed so hard on you with your shield. Now it's taken a toll on your health."

His eyes were full of a mix of emotions. Anger, sadness, despair...guilt. Now, me and Sam don't get along a lot but ever since the war we had realized we needed to work as a team in order to survive this alien war hell that breaks loose a lot. Ever since then...I had grown to care so much about so many other people that I never thought I would have been capable of doing. I had always been Sel, the girl who doesn't give two shits on who you are or what you do with your life. As long as you stayed out of my way, you wouldn't be my main prey to kill. Okay that sounds kinda brutal but it's the truth just explained in...Sel way! Heheh, anywho!

"Stop. Everyone needs to quit moping right now, me included. Yes, Optimus died but it can't be just that. They're robots for godsakes, not human lives! There has to be a way to revive him or...or something! I feel like there's more, that there's a reason why all of this happened," I got up, exclaiming to the two.

Sam thought deeply but also nodded, "Sel's right. These...these symbols in my head, they've gotta stand for something."

"So what do you suggest we do?" Mikaela asked curiously.

"That's what we're going to find out. Come on!" He grabbed Mikaela's hand as I stayed behind, taking a check at my clothing and grimacing at the sight. They were all dirtied and ripped, my knees popping out at a new hole in my jeans. Aw man these were my favorite! Remembering I left some luggage in Bee, I ran outside and saw him parked beside the fire Sam was building. Patting him on the trunk, he popped it open and I grabbed the small duffle bag. "Sel, where you going?"

"I need to change, I feel disgusting!" I called back, entering into the abandoned building and into a room.

I peeled off my camisole and jeans before slipping on a pair of denim high-waist shorts with a baggy, black graphic tee of 'Jaws' tucked in underneath and folded at the sleeves. I also pulled on a pair of my favorite leather combat boots that were colored black. I fixed my big ass ponytail (considering my hair was thick and long) and smoothed down the baby hairs popping out of them near my temples. I took Bee's necklace off and decided to keep it safe in the duffle bag. Who knows the next time I'm thrown somewhere and I lose it. Oh lord, please don't throw me anymore anywhere. Satisfied with my look, I went back outside and saw Sam, Mikaela and Bee sitting around the fire pit. Leo was sitting down on the side, looking out to nowhere until he caught sight of me.

Oh here we go.

He gave me a wolf whistle, "Someone cleans up well."

"Go fuck yourself, go fuck yourself," I merely chanted to him, passing by him with the middle finger raised up in the air with pride.

I saw Sam staring into the fire, his fists clenched as Mikaela sat behind him, rubbing his shoulders. He was probably still feeling all the pressure and guilt that was in his head from earlier. Beside them I saw two Autobots who I have never met before bickering with eachother, one red and the other green. Walking up to them, they looked down at me curiously.

"Whoa, you cute y'know for a human femme," The green one nodded in approval.

I chuckled, "Thanks but...have I met you two bots before?"

The red one thought deeply, "Uh...nah I don't think so at least!"

"You stupid aft! We're new here rememba?" The green one smacked the red one in the back of the head.

"Aye! I didn't know, jeez! The names Mudflap and the green one, Skids," Mudflap nodded to the other robot.

"Sel," I simply replied, smiling softly.

"Uh, Sel, if ya don't mind. I'm not really sure how this goes 'ere in Earth but uh do you wanna go on a...date?" Skids gave me a cheeky smile.

"Maybe, after all 'this'-" I waved my hand around, "-is done. You seem like a decent bot to chill with."

"Heheh, thanks," He gave me a bashful look.

"Aye, Skids, you blushin'?"

"No! Shuddup, asshole!" Skids once again hit Mudflap on the back of the head.

I shook my head, jogging over to where Sam and Mikaela were at. I sat down on some tires, warming my hands.

"Sel...please don't freak out at what I'm about to say," Sam looked at me seriously.

Oh you know damn well if someone says that to you, it is perfectly time to freak out! I scrunched my brows, "Sam...what's going on?"

Him and Mikaela glanced at each other then back at me, "Well...a Decepticon sent out an entire news source to exchange us...for the survival of the human race."

My eyes widened, a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach. Or maybe I needed a bathroom. No, no, no, that's not it! Jeez, Sel get your mind outta the gutter. Taking a shaky breath, I tried my hardest to steady my voice, "So...so now we're..."

"Wanted, Sel. We're wanted fugitives."

I gaped at him, still processing what he had said. Great, there goes my college application for Harvard as well as I don't know, my entire freaking life! The last thing I needed was to follow into my still-missing mom's footsteps and here I am for something I haven't even done! I didn't even kill anyone and that's something everyone expected me to do!

"Oh well that's fantastic! Absolutely great!" I exasperated, pulling at my hair.

"I'm sorry, Sel, I shouldn't have dragged you into all of this," Sam said, in deep thought as he stared at the ground.

"Sam it isn't your fault. Like we said earlier, you couldn't have prevented any of this," Mikaela assured him, kissing his head.

I saw Bee playing a couple of stations that agreed with what Mikaela said. Sam looked at him in despair, nodding his head. "I gotta make this right, Bee. To everyone."

Easing closer to him, I looked at him confused, "What do you mean?"

He took a deep breath, "I have to turn myself in."

"Sam that isn't the solution," I stated, seeing Bee get up and transform into his alt. form.

'We...We've gotta stick together!' He played through his radio, 'Everything we've worked for will be gone within a day.'

Pursing my lips, I nodded, "Bee's right. Optimus wouldn't want us to do this. He can't just die for us to give up."

We all sat quiet for a minute until Sam pulled his sleeve up, inspecting the symbol he had drawn onto his arm. His head popped up as a strike of an idea hit him. Turning to the twins, he showed them the symbol. "Hey! Do you two know what this is?"

"Oh that? That some...uh...Cybertronian!" Mudflap rubbed his chin thoughtfully.

"Cybertronian?" I rephrased the word to them.

"Yeh! It's some old school kind though!" He pointed to Sam's arm.

I groaned, knowing what that meant. Remembering some history lessons from Ratchet, I had recalled the Decepticons were here way before the Autobots. Otherwise the Autobots would've been able to decipher what Sam was seeing by now.

"And I'm guessing you two don't know how to read it?" I gave it a shot and asked.

"Oh uh, nah, we don't do much reading," Skids laughed sheepishly.

Rolling my eyes, I saw Leo come up breathlessly. The twins were the first to take a good hit of insults at him.

"Oh look who came coming back!" Mudflap teased, Leo glaring at the two of them.

"Hey! I needed some time to relax and get my mind together! You don't understand the amount of stress this all is!" Leo rambled on as I began getting bored of what he was trying to say and made 'go-on' gestures with my hand.

"No, it's cause you a pussy!" The twins fist bumped each other, me snickering.

"Shut up! Listen, Sam, you need someone to read those symbols?"

We all leaned in, attentive to what Leo was trying to say.

"Robo-Warrior."

After me laughing at the name Robo-Warrior for a good hour, everyone soon headed off to get some rest. Apparently, Robo-Warrior was some alien-obsessed computer geek who goes against Leo's website. The "Real Effing Deal" I heard was the name and let's just say Leo probably hated me for the rest of his life when I heard that. In the corner of my eye, I saw Mikaela and Sam in one of the second floor rooms looking out of the window. The twins had went to the other side of the building for some rest due to humans being like 'helicopters' when they snore. Now, I was sitting on Bee's hood just staring off into the fire pit which was slowly losing its flame.

"Sel?" I jumped when I heard Bee's radio say my name.

"Huh? What is it?" I looked over my shoulder before turning back to the flame, "I know, I know, 'you're an idiot for going off base Sel' or 'you put your life in danger you stupid girl'."

I heard the driver's door open, footsteps following. Oh great. Rather than yelling at me in his robot form, he'll yell at me at my human level! Just what I honestly needed. He sat beside me and sighed, pulling a strand of hair that had fallen from my ponytail behind my ear. After a few minutes of silence, I heard him speak up, "Sel I'm not mad at you but I'm also not so happy with what you did."

"Well then what did you expect me to do? Sit back and do nothing?" I snarked back at him, getting off the hood and glaring at him.

He frowned, shaking his head, "No, Sel! Why can't you just let us take care of this for once. Primus, you could've gotten hurt or worse..."

In a way that was true. I did almost get myself killed from multiple things at once today, from that blonde bimbo to mister grumpytron in the forest. Bee had every right to be protective of me but at the same time I cannot believe he was treating me as if I was some type of baby!

"Bee, I'm a big girl I can handle myself thank you very much," I huffed, the anger beginning to rise in my chest.

"I know that! It's just...you can't just do this or that or whatever you please to do!" He slammed his fists on the hood of the Camaro.

"And who are you to tell me what to do?! You're not my father nor the boss of me!" I retorted, jabbing him in the chest with a finger and towards me.

"I'm not! But I also don't want you getting hurt-" I had already begun walking away before Bee grabbed my arm, yanking me to face him.

"Stop! Why don't you just stay on taking care of Sam!" My anger was already beginning to melt as I felt my eyes water.

"Because I care about you too! You're just too full of yourself to see it!" He exclaimed, the furious expression he had had shifted to realization at what he said. "Sel...I didn't mean to say-"

"Stay the fuck away from me."

With that I pulled myself from his grasp and ran around the corner of the building the other humans were in and into another one. Not sparing a glance back at Bee I entered the building, slamming the door shut in fury. I wanted to scream, I wanted to wail, to cry and just lay here and never wake up again. The nerve of that bot, he doesn't understand what I've gone through, what hell I went through in my life to get here. For the first time in my life, I felt like I hated Bee...no, I couldn't hate him. That's too much. More like the first time I didn't want to see him at all and it hurt...it fucking hurt. Sitting on an old couch, I laid down and just let it all out. The room was filled with my sobs as the night took me too.