SCIENCE!!

chapter one

Earth, 2035

11:00 P.M.

I live in a world where humanity has developed so much high tech that we were able to see the day Project: Transformers was made.

Their goal was, as you've guessed it, was to create a fully-functioning transformer, and eventually, once they've gone through trials and errors, they were going to create an army of them for profit.

To sell them to the general public and to advertise them as your friendly vehicle capable of human-like interaction just the way its clients want it. For them to function just like in the movies. Them your Bumblebee, you their Sam Witwicky. Or Spike. Or Charlie Watson. Or Raf Esquival. Whichever continuity you prefer.

I live in an apartment with my family who believes it was impossible to buy such "waste of money metal scrap" for entertainment purposes, according to my brother during dinner time, when the TV was on the news channel, covering the recent debut of the first ever man-made transformer in existence, whose design was based off of one of my personal favorite characters in the franchise: Nightbeat.

Honestly the first time I've heard they were working on this project I had expected they'd build bigger names like, Bumblebee for example.

They used his IDW design for reference to this first ever man-made transformer, which got me interested in what else they plan to do for this project.

And they named him after the character he was based off of too, as they should.

Nightbeat, when he first debuted back in 2030, surprisingly, didn't cost much as most would've expected. Me included.

He didn't even cost as much as that million dollar real-life James Bond car in a clip I saw on the internet. Which raises a few questions. Few that involved the reputation of his inventors, and the company in general- called the Blue Alloy- (corny name) that took the role as its manufacturer that readied him to be sold off for the lucky customer.

He only cost $1,000.

If you're gonna have to dedicate your time and ideas to a project with a hefty budget needed, you're gonna need more than that amount of money to consider it a success, right?

Or maybe I'm just too busy piecing together the puzzles by constantly judging their financial greed that I might've not realized his creator and Blue Alloy were not in it for the money?

I had a lot of assumptions in mind, one including the possibility of his inventors planting cameras within his armor, or optics, whichever goes best, to spy on his first ever owner. But that only added more questions than answers. And I didn't have any evidence to begin with, anyway. I just theorize. And most of the time my theories don't even make sense.

To this day, those questions remain unanswered. Nightbeat now belongs to a Californian family in LA. I should know, I see these updates all the time. Mostly by choice rather than by seeing fake articles of it everywhere across the internet and on TV.

I've even seen a few fliers posted around town.

Five years later, they, the inventors, and Blue Alloy, were able to do as promised. To create an abundant amount of these man-made car robots. There are now potential transformers everywhere.

Right now, though, I sulk around the pavement within the area of our subdivision. There wasn't much fun to do, and my brain has had enough of the joy-forsaken daily routine these days.

It is nighttime, my arms are crossed and I'm leaned against the cold surface on my back of the building wall, beside the entrance. Clad in a white shirt underneath my blue, long-sleeved sweater hoodie. My bottom was a simple pair of black fitting pants, and a pair of cozy, brown boots, with a pair of grey socks beneath as well.