"Before time began, there was the Cube. We know not where it comes from, only that it holds the power to create worlds and fill them with life. That is our race was born. For a time, we live in harmony. But like all great power, some wanted it for good, others for evil. And so began the war. A war that ravaged our planet until it was consumed by death. And the Cube was lost to the far reaches of space. We scattered across the galaxy, hoping to find it and rebuild our home, searching each star, every world, and just when all hope seemed lost, message of a new discovery drew us to a unknown planet called Earth. But we were all ready too late." Optimus Prime
~~~memory~~~
I was in the car with mom and dad when dad swerved, flipping the car over and sliding into a black semi truck.
I was knocked unconscious from hitting my head on the window.
"up"
"wake up" I hear when I come around and see that I am still in the car.
I look up to the front seats and see that dad wasn't responding to mom's calls.
"mom, is dad.." I stumble off as she looks at me
"Heather, He is and I fear I don't have long." mom tells me
"please don't leave me, mom" I say as she gasps for breaths
"Heather, remember that we love you, sweetheart" mom says before she takes her last breath and dies
Not to long after they died, I was pulled from the car by a police officer and taken over to ambulance.
"She's got a mild concussion. She'll be fine" I barely hear a paramedic tell a officer.
"miss, what is your name?" the officer asks me, but I barely heard her until she waves a hand in front of me
I look at her, "yes?"
"What is your name?" she says and I see her lips move, but hear nothing
"I-I can't hear you. I can't hear" I say as I watch the officer say something to the paramedic.
She than thrust a notepad at with these words on it, "what is your name?'
I take the pen and write my name, 'Heather Rose Witiwicky'
'Do you have any relatives living?' she writes on the pad
'yes, June and Ronald Witwicky. they are my aunt and uncle' I write on the pad
'Would you know where they live?' She writes underneath my aunt and uncle names
'Nevada and that's all I know, Offficer' I write back as I struggle to keep from crying
'How old are you, Heather?' she writes
'I'm 8 today. We were going to Seattle, to the Space Needle' I write back
'You will be taken to your aunt and uncle tomorrow and Happy birthday' she said before she leaves me
~~~memory ends~~~
I wake up with a start, gasping for breath.
I look over at my alarm clock and see that it is May 10th, my birthday and the day that my adoptive parents died in that car crash, leaving me almost Deaf. It was determined that without hearing aids, I am completely Deaf, but with hearing aids, I have about 70 percent hearing.
'School will be out next month and if Sam gets his third A today, we both will be getting a car.' I think to myself as I lay back, waiting for it to hit 6 o'clock so I can get out of bed and get ready for school.
I lay there, trying to remember who my real parents were when I had a flashback
~flashback~
"Ratchet, please keep your wrenches out of Starella's reach. She likes hitting bots with them when they ignore her" Carrier tells Sire
"Starella, you know better than hit bots" Sire tells me as he takes from Carrier.
I giggle at Sire and wave Sire's tool.
"Ratchet, I don't want our creation to learn how to throw wrenches." Carrier says
"Firestar, I can't guarantee that" Sire says as I curl against Sire and fall into recharge
~flashback ends~
'where did that memory come from?' I think to myself as I barely hear the alarm go off.
I turn it off and put on my hearing aids so I can hear better.
I brushed my hair, putting it into a braid and than slipped on jeans and a green low cut tank with a red undershirt underneath and white flats.
I grabbed my backpack and headed downstairs to see Sam already up and eating breakfast.
I grabbed a blueberry and ate it while waiting for Sam to finish eating his breakfast when uncle Ron came down.
"Ready to go, you two?" uncle Ron asks
"yah" I mutter as Sam and I follow him out to the car. I get in the back while Sam gets in the passenger seat.
Uncle Ron drove us to the high school and dropped us off.
I headed to my first class of the day while Sam met up with Miles.
~time skip~
I was in my last class of the day, history with Mr. Tanner, ugh
"Ms. Witwicky, Mr. Witwicky, you two are up." Mr. Tanner says and Sam and I walk up to the front to present our project.
"Sorry, I got a lot of stuff." he says.
"ok. For my family genealogy report..."Sam starts, but than Trent throws a rubber band at him
"ok who..who did that? People, responsibility." Mr. Tanner says as I look at Trent and give him a glare.
"um...so for my family genealogy report, I decided to it on my great, great grandfather, who was a famous man, Captian Archibald Witwicky." I say before Sam could
"Very famous explorer. In fact, he was one of the first too explore the Arctic Circle, which was a big deal. In 1897, he took 41 brave sailors straight to the arctic shelf. So that's the story, right? and here we have some of the basic instruments and tools used by 19th century seamen." Sam finishes saying for me.
at that, some kids laughed. 'really, they got to take it the wrong way' I thought to myself
"here's the quadrant, which you can get for eighty bucks. It's all for sale by the way. Like the sextant here, fifty dollars for this. Which is a bargain. These are my grandfather's glasses, I haven't gotten them appraised yet, but they have seen many cool things." Sam says and I hit him on the arm while giving him a glare
"Are you going to sell me his liver, Mr. Witwicky? This isn't show and sell. this is the 11th grade. I don't think you're grandfather would be particularly proud of what you're doing. " Mr. Tanner says.
"I know. This all goes to my car fund. You can tell your folks. It's on Ebay." Sam says.
"hope you get that third A" I mutter right as the bell rings and I walk out of there to where uncle Ron was.
I got into the backseat and waited for Sam to come out
"I got my 3 A's" I tell uncle Ron
"Where's Sam at?" he asks me
"Probably getting a C on his paper." I reply
Just than, Sam runs out to us waving his paper in the air "yes" he says happily.
He sat in the passenger seat, next to Ron.
"so?" uncle asks him
"A minus. It's still an A though." Sam says
"Wait..wait.. I can't see." Uncle says as he looks at the paper "It's an A."
"So, I'm good?" Sam asks
"You're good" he tells him
"How the hell did you manage to get an A?" I ask my cousin.
"I just did, Heather." Sam tells me
"whatever." I tell him
"got a little surprise for you two." uncle Ron said to us
"what kind of sup---?" Sam starts to ask him
"no, no,no,no, dad. You're got to be kidding" Sam says
"yah he is, Sam." I say sarcastically.
"you think that's funny?" Sam said
"yah I think it's funny." Uncle says
"here? you said half a car, not half a piece of crap." Sam says
"when I was your age, I was happy with four wheels and an engine." Uncle tells him.
"Uncle Ron, let me explain something to you. ever seen the 40 year old virgin?" I ask
"yah" he said to me
"ok, that's what this is and that is 50 year old virgin. you want Sam and I to live that life?" I ask
than Uncle Ron says the family motto, "no sacrifice, no victory."
"I know the family motto, uncle" I say in a sarcasm voice as we walk up to the front of the place.
"welcome, I'm Bobby Bolivia. like the country, just without the runs. How can I help?" He says as he shakes our hands
"well, my son and niece here, are looking to but their first cars." Uncle Ron says to him
"you come to see me?" the guy asks us.
"Kinda had to" Sam says as I say "yah"
"that practically makes us family. Uncle Bobby B, baby, Uncle Bobby, Gentlemen and lady" he says I slightly cough
"lemme tell you too something, the driver doesn't pick the car, the car picks the driver." Bobby B says
"this one's got racing stripes." Sam says as he walks over to a yellow and black Camaro while I walk over to a silver Pontiac that looked like it needed a good washing, which was right next to the Camaro.
"yah, it's got racing stripes? what the heck is this? yo, Manny where did this car come from?" Bobby yells out
"feels good" I say quietly as I rub my hands on the passenger seat.
"Heather, this symbol here looks just like your necklace." Sam said to me from the driver's seat, and I look over and see that Sam is right.
"well....considering the semi classic nature of the car, with the slick wheels, and the custom paint job..." Bobby b states
"yah, well, the paint's faded." Sam says
"y-yah, but it's custom."
"it's custom-faded?" I ask
"well it's your first car, wouldn't expect you to know. 5 grand" He says
"Nah, not paying over 4 grand." dad replies
"come on kids, out of the car." Bobby says to Sam
"But you said the car picks the driver." Sam argues back
"sometimes it'll pick a driver with a cheap ass father, now out of the car."
turning around to another car, "now this one here for 4 g's."
"there's a feista over there with racing stripes" uncle told Sam.
"no, I don't want a feista, I want this car." Sam says to him.
just as Sam closes the driver's door, the passenger door opens and hits the punch buggy car, making the car alarm go off.
I look at Sam and uncle.
"It wasn't me. I swear" I tell them as Bobby B says something about pounding out the dent.
"Greater than man......cover your ears" I hear coming from the radio and I cover my ears just as the windows on the other cars break.
"$4, 000" Bobby B says as he wets himself.
Uncle pays him and Sam drove us home following Uncle.
