Blue Monday|Transformers.

Chapter 17: Blue Monday.

[Title: Blue Monday - New Order.]

Fear seemed to be good exhaustion. Noah and Elena kept an eye on Clara until she fell asleep, but she hadn't woken up since then, no nightmares, nothing. They were taking that as a good sign. Optimus and Arcee kept their distance from the young doctor after what they discussed last night. Arcee liked her a lot and part of her worried she might tell her, Optimus was worried he was growing too attached to her. However, when Clara woke up, there was no sign of Elena and she frowned. She stood from her cot and grabbed her jacket as she peered around for her. That was when she caught the sound of voices in the distance. Clara turned and began following them where she spotted Airazor and Elena speaking to each other in the middle of the field. "Is everything alright?" Clara called out worriedly when she reached the two.

"I'm not sure." Elena shook her head, but Clara could see and hear the concern. "I think she's in pain, something happened." She whispered to Clara who frowned and turned her gaze to Airazor who was grunting and twitching in pain.

"Airazor? What's wrong?" She asked the Maximal.

"I can feel Scourge." Airazor groaned in pain as she flinched. "He's..." She whipped around suddenly, her voice distorted and her optics flickering between yellow and orange. "...in my mind." She looked like she was fighting, whatever Scourge did to her, however, he was invading her mind. That's how it looked to Clara. The sound of a horn blowing suddenly grabbed the two girls' attention and they turned to see one of the villagers in the distance blowing on a horn. Clara looked back at Airazor when she suddenly rose in the air with a loud screech. Clara's eyes widened and she shoved Elena forward as the other girl screamed in fear.

"Elena, go!" Clara exclaimed in panic.

"Elena, Clara, run!" the voice of Optimus hollered urgently. Clara's gaze flickered over when she and Elena fled as Optimus rushed over, aiming his canon at Airazor who was flying away.

"No!" Primal shouted and shoved Optimus's arm down before he could fire. Airazor disappeared into the mountains in the distance with a screech while Primal stared ahead in shock. "Airazor." He uttered as Clara and Elena stopped running when they reached Noah and faced what was happening when the rest of the autobots ran over.

"Are you okay?" Noah asked both of them quietly but worriedly.

"Yeah, we're fine." Clara nodded and answered for both of them while the breathless Elena nodded as well.

"They found us." Optimus alerted them. "Everyone, defensive positions!" He ordered the autobots while Clara looked at him and Primal breathlessly.

"She said something about Scourge being in her mind, I don't..." Clara struggled to find the words while Optimus sighed.

"It is difficult to understand sometimes, Clara." was all the Prime could offer before she and Elena shared worried looks. Clara watched autobots pull out their weapons and she felt rush over her again. They had gone from relative safety to this in hours. However, her gaze was quickly caught by the sight of Primal approaching Noah and holding out the transwarp key.

"Noah, guard the key." He told the young man as he held it out for Noah. "Take Elena and Clara and find someplace safe to hide. Keep Clara and the key away from Scourge at all cost, we do not know what Unicron and Scourge have planned for her." Primal instructed Noah who nodded determinedly. There was no way in hell he was ever gonna let anything happen to Clara and Elena. Noah took the key from Primal carefully while the Maximal leader turned to the autobots and remaining Maximals. "We must protect the humans." He ordered when suddenly one of the terrorcons flew from nowhere and slammed into Primal, knocking him to the ground.

Primal crumbles to the ground with a shout of pain and Clara's eyes widen at the sigh of the familiar purple terrorcon. "Miss me?" She hissed at Primal, activating swords from her arms before flying at Primal who quickly rolled out of the way.