Let's Play Tag

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"Mommy come on! Your being slow!" A little 11 year old girl whines to a 31 year old woman, that looks to be her mother, the 11 year old girl and the woman known as her mother are walking down the streets of Chicago in the 80 degree weather, perfect weather if you ask the weather man, "Mikaela, honey, slow down, you're going too far!" The woman calls chasing after the 11 year old known as Mikaela, the woman's black hair flying back while she chases the young girl.

"You can't catch me mommy!" Mikaela calls, "Micky! Slow down!" The mother calls, using Mikaela's nickname that Mikaela's father, Joshua Joyce gave her, soon Mikaela is short of breath, she looks back and sees a huge crowd of people walking down the cement sidewalk, passing her and most of the time pushing, "Mommy!" She calls running back into the crowd, then she yelps when she is grabbed by her arm, "Oh Micky," a voice says happily, Mikaela's mother, "Mommy!" Mikaela calls sobbing into her mother's arms, "I am sorry I ran away! I wanted to play tag!" "It's alright Micky, Mommy isn't mad, she knows you just wanted to play," her mother soothes, "Come on Daddy wants to have dinner with us, the restraunt he wants to meet at is only six blocks away," the mother says drying Mikaela's tears of sadness with a stroke of her thumb, "Ok Mommy!" The little girl chirps, soon the mother and Mikaela are walking down the street happily, hand-in-hand, smile on their faces.

But that all ends with the ground shaking, Mikaela grabs on to her mother, "Mommy, what was that?" Mikaela whimpers, the mother looks around wildly, "Oh, my, gosh," the mother breathes seeing two robots, one red while the other is yellow, the other people surrounding Mikaela and her mother are running and screaming trying to find cover. Mikaela on the other hand is entranced by these two robots, they were moving gracefully while they killed the other evil looking robots that challenged them. They were entranced into the battle they were in with two of the evil looking robots. Mikaela thought they were dancing a deadly dance for their lives.

The mother grabs Mikaela and starts pulling her down the street, "Mommy!" Mikaela calls when her and her mother are separated, "Micky!" The mother calls over the crowd, "Mommy!" Mikaela calls, Mikaela is grabbed, "Got ya human," Mikaela hears a voice chirp, she looks up and sees the red robot from earlier, he has a strange red face on his chest, "Mommy!" Mikaela calls looking down from the robots hand, then Mikaela spots her mother getting pushed to the ground, "Mommy!" Mikaela calls panicked when her mother doesn't get up, after the crowd was gone, "Come on Sideswipe! We don't have all day!" Mikaela hears a voice snap, Mikaela sees the yellow bot also from earlier, "What's up with the Fleshie?" Mikaela is looking at her motionless mother, "Sunny, we've got to get that woman to Ratchet! She's hurt!" The red one says urgently, the yellow one looks at Mikaela's mother then Mikaela, who is whimpering for her mother, "Let me see the Fleshie," the yellow one growls thrusting his hand out in front is Mikaela.

"Come on climb on!" The yellow one orders, Mikaela quickly climbs on to his hand, the yellow one holds Mikaela close to his chest while the red one grabbed her mother gently. "Don't worry little one, our medic while help your mother," the red one reassures while he and the yellow one walk down the street, the road is messed up from the heavy feet hitting the asphalt, the buildings are either burning or are crumbling from the inside out.

Mikaela clutched to the yellow one's chest making the yellow one growl, soon after awhile of walking the two robots stop, "Hear that?" The red one asks the yellow, "'Con," the yellow one hisses holding Mikaela close to his chest, he and the red one pull out their guns, Mikaela whimpers and tries to hide in the yellow one's chest, then the red one is tackled, Mikaela watches as her mother is set down after the red one kicked the evil robot off of him.

The yellow one doesn't hesitate to gently set Mikaela down, he motions her to stay put but Mikaela doesn't listen, she runs over to her mother, who is now awake and aware of what's going on. Mikaela's mother grabs Mikaela before she could get squished, "Come on!" The mother calls pulling Mikaela along running down the street away from the battle, soon they make it to an abandoned building.

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