Starlight (Transformers: Prime)

Chapter Two

Chapter Two

Sign of Something New

Too much curiosity might as well kill you.

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It seemed so impossible, as if some daydream or apparition.

But it was real. Very real and, as Natalie was soon shown very closely, quite dangerous for all the bystanders; when one of blue, plasma-like missiles darted right next to her ear, hitting a big rock not far behind. Shards hitting her back weren't of pleasant sensations. At all, and those were only small ones, since bigger rocks didn't, thankfully, make it even halfway. And that was what made her realize that it would perhaps be better to hide somewhere. Especially if she wanted to avoid possible injuries; and to hide somewhere fast. Still slightly stiff after most recent shock, she crept, stumbling slightly, behind one of bigger rocks; but still, every once in a while, she was peeking out to look at this very unlikely happening. Who cares she could get hit with absolutely anything? It was, at least for her, way too interesting experience to run away fearing for her own life. She could technically record it, yes, but what for? It's not like she was going to show anyone a recording of fight of four huge machines; and even if, it would connect to highly unpleasant and even more unwanted consequences. What would have happened, had this hypothetical movie gotten into hands on some kind of 'government' organization? Everybody know just fine that organizations like those are very, very uncomfortable to be around with. And they like to ask many uncomfortable questions. But luckily in this moment, in this canyon there's absolutely no 'government' organizations; and good. But four eagerly fighting, huge robots were.

First pair just kept trashing each other faces in most traditional way possible, trivially speaking. One of them was colored in rotten-green, rather short and very wide, perhaps even fat, and the other one, blue with red face, taller, slimmer and somewhat more muscular, if those were right terms for robots. Second pair, however, danced some weird boogie-woogie; because as much as yellow-and-black robot, that just kept bringing a bee into thoughts, was trying his best to land a hit, that much had the red robot just jump away shrieking and kept spewing swear words no worse than a sailor.

After a while of looking at the robots, what was not really made easier by the fact that they were constantly moving, Natalie concluded that them, most likely, belonged to two different fractions and thus was the reason of them fighting. How had she came up with it? Well, it was easy; they had emblems on them, that somehow looked like faces; one was more square-ish, wider and the other, seemingly done on a base of a triangle, getting visibly narrower the closer to the bottom and kinda looked like head of a fox. And it looked like square-faces were in conflict with fox-faces, and vice versa, because if it was something, then it was not a friendly sparring. Not with yellow bee-like robot (square-face) trying his best to shoot down the red one (fox-face). Green robot had a square emblem, too, and blue one – triangle emblem. But all in all, that was all Natalie could see from that distance and with them so mobile.

Luckily, she had stayed unspotted by anyone, and it didn't seem as if she would be anytime soon; perhaps even if she started yelling and running around them (which she did not intend to do). She'd rather not draw any attention to herself at all, unless it was of absolute necessity. She suspected that if she did, she might just get hit with some pretty, cracked boulder the size of at least small car. She even managed to imagine herself the macabre scenario of her date with flying rock; she would be turned into a bloody puree, Happy End. But, even if sometimes it seemed just otherwise, she was not hurrying into the grave at all. After grandfather, yes, but way before grandmother and parents? Never. Trip to the other side was a bit much interfering with her future plans, so she just decided to not to venture there.