Transformers Prime Memory is the key

Chapter 10:: Air ducts and cyber cats

"Come on slowpoke you can do better than that!" exclaimed the others voice brightly. I opened my eyes and sat back up sighing heavily as I stifled a yawn. It appears as though you two aren't going to let sleep tonight either I sighed. Well I can't just sit here might as well do something productive especially since my virus is finished I thought as I began to fold up my blanket. As I folded the blanket my mind wandered back to the dream.  

I couldn't understand it. All of them seemed so real yet surreal at the same time. Perhaps they were memories they seemed real enough. No they were just dreams. They had to be.... But if that's all they were why do they keep coming back?! I mean this was the sixth one this week for heavens sake! 

I had been having dreams like this for the past couple of days now. Some showed clear pictures and others bleary faces. Some I just heard voices but I could never make out the names. The girl, the one from my dream the one that looked like me. She was in most all of them, but this was the first mention of a dream. Why had she tried to make the other girl promise never to leave? Who was the other girl? She sounded so familiar. Was she me or someone else?  

I had official established that the young girl was indeed my sister but the others: The man, the children, that girl and those three boys. I had no idea who they were. The boys' faces were always shrouded in darkness as where the children's and the man's. What am I supposed to do? Maybe Orion could help. No. The big guys got enough on his plate as it is.  

He hasn't been sleeping a lot lately and he's been acting rather strangely ever since we had returned to his station a few nights ago. He's still a bit skittish when it comes to anything to do with the terminal. Which is understandable but he was a little bit more wary of me as well. He barely let me out of his sight. I don't know why. My only guess is that Orion knows something, defiantly more than he's telling. I just have to believe that if Orion is keeping secrets it is probably for a good reason. I just have to be patience he'll tell me eventually. 

I heard a soft moan and looked up to see Orion fast asleep on the terminal. His helm lying on his arms mumbling some nonsense. I smiled softly at the sight though I had no idea how he was sleeping like that. He really does need more sleep if he's falling asleep standing up I thought as I chuckled to myself silently. For a giant robot the big guy was just so cute sometimes and his big baby blue optics only made it worse. I snapped a quick picture before I took the data pad I had constructed out of old pieces of scrap metal and wires earlier that afternoon out of my bag and sent the virus I had coded over an email so that all I had to do was plug the data pad into the system and upload it. I also installed the program that my glasses had helped me to complete.  

The program would purge the virus from the datapad's system and wipe the memory clean after the virus was uploaded. In theory the plan was fool proof. There was no chance that Soundwave could trace the virus back to me. In all honesty it seemed like more trouble than it was worth, but I didn't want the con without a face to trace it back to me or the repercussions that would follow if he did.  

I checked over and through all of my things to make ensure I had everything I would need. I pulled out one of my long sleeved red funnel shirts and my brown boots with a blue crystal on the front that cut off just a little before my knee and tugged them on over my blue jeans before standing up and stretching. I tied my shirt around my waist before hefting my bag on my shoulder. I wrote a small note telling Orion that I was going for a walk and would be back soon before hopping off the terminal and walking out the door into the corridor. It was around six, or seven at night and I was overly pleased that it was a Friday. I believe I finally understood what Miko had meant when she said TGIF.  

I smirked. Despite their ignorance and annoying habits the three young human's innocence was refreshing and I truly did enjoy their company. It had become increasingly difficult not to allow myself to consider them friends. I had to constantly remind myself they were the enemy. Rafael made this incredibly difficult. The boy was kind and thoughtful and always made it a point to speak to me. It broke my heart at times that I couldn't respond but he never seemed to care. Jack wasn't bad. He actually reminded me a lot of Orion. And as for Miko....Well if I must be perfectly honest with myself she scares me. I can't say that I am overly fond of close proximity to people and she for one does not respect my personal space in the slightest. Her mere presence makes me paranoid I don't know why I just think some things going to break or explode the second she touches it or even looks at it. It probably has something to do with the fact she has on multiple occasions tried to remove my glasses from my face in the middle of class.. I always knew when she was going to try and take them because she was incredibly noisy and not stealthy in the slightest, but the fact she was trying made me nervous. It's not that I don't like Miko it's just people in general make me nervous loud people that burst into song at random especially. It was all I could do at times not to freak out in the middle of class. I was not only in an enclosed space but I was in the same room with over fifteen people at a time. I often found myself trying to find some way out when the class was given time to talk and socialize. I just didn't know how to deal with it I had spent months teaching myself to be wary of every action and to avoid human interaction and now I didn't have a choice but to interact with them. I honestly don't know what I'm going to do. I've never had to deal with something like this before. It was just far too loud not all like the forest.... I stopped. Am I really comparing a school to a forest?..... I really have been in the woods too long. I thought as I continued to walk down the hall.