She's Just a Human | Transformers

6: They're Here

It's been a few weeks of having Bumblebee, and things a have been going surprisingly smooth. I never thought I'd be able to say his, he's a great friend.
I guess both of us did end up needing the company.

I hop out and close the door, and I can hear how Bumblebee locks the doors himself.

"I'll be back soon." I tell him, as I always do when I get to work and all he gets to do is remain parked for some hours. That's also why when it's my lunch hour I always come back. Promised I would keep him company, after all.

"~Don't have too much fun without me." And that's what he always says.

"I won't." I smile, fixing the backpack strap on my shoulder.

I walk a block to get to the small repair shop I work at. As I step in, I notice there are already a couple people inside. Fairly early, which is unusual. I'm not even five minutes late and there's already customers?
With a small 'good morning', I head to the back, where I leave my backpack and take my tools out. I look around at the small room where we usually have our breaks; there's a small wooden table and a couple folding chairs, with an old fridge and microwave by the far end. I can't help but remember how everyone I knew in college and back in Chicago always told me I was crazy to move back to Oregon where I'd just be wasting my 'talents' in electronics and system management. I was never sure I believed them, but even Lennox was honest like that and told me the same thing. He always said there's a reason why he wanted to recruit me in NEST. But I couldn't. I couldn't be part of that war. It already took too much.

Taking a breath, I step back out to the main counter, where my boss is, looking at a computer that looks like it was literally ran over. The customer is gone.

"Caelyn," my boss calls.

"Yeah?"

"The customer that just came in told me you fixed this a few weeks back but that it's not working anymore?" He speaks looking down at the destroyed thing.

"What?" I step forward, trying to see if anything is actually recognisable. My boss gives a small step aside, letting me take a look. It's honestly a surprise that the thing is even holding itself together. The screen is cracked, the keyboard is broken in half with several keys missing, and if I tried to pick it up I'm not certain it wouldn't completely shatter. But somehow it survived its way here, I guess. "I don't remember this." I respond, grimacing as I turn this mess of a computer around. "What did the customer looked like?"

"Just some guy in a suit." He responds, with a confused look mirroring my own. "Nothing particularly characteristic about him."

As I stare more closely, I notice that there are some things that don't add up. There are wires where there shouldn't be any, somehow most of the parts are still attached when this amount of damage shouldn't allow it, and the wires are... strange. Thick and they don't seem to have the usual covering. I only remember seeing this in... oh no.

"Wait-" before I'm able to give any sort of warning, the computer transforms. The machine shifts, whirrs and screeches, and a small, razor-sharp Decepticon is what's now in front of me.
It lunges forward. I dodge to the side, making the 'Con slam against the wall behind me. I stumble with my boss beside me, who curses under his breath, grabbing onto the counter so we both don't go down. I regain my balance and run towards the opposite side of the wall, trying to round the counter to get out of the store, but the 'Con jumps on my back, making me scream. It crawls above my head towards the front of my face to latch onto the collar of my jacket, red optics staring right into my eyes.

"Where is it?!" The thing screams.

I grab the first thing at my side and smash it against the 'Con. The glass from the frame that I snatched from the wall smashes onto it, and it throws him off me. I taker a ragged breath, looking at the ground, where it simply stands up again and lunges forward. An old CPU hits it in the head, and I turn to the side, where my boss keeps on throwing things at it. I run to the room on the back, trying to find something that can help, something, anything.