《(Old) The Time of Night is Midnight》Chapter 33

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Multiple days have passed since my arrival back at the base. Not one of those days have I allowed myself to sleep, there wouldn't be anyone for me to run to. Once again in this terrible world called earth, I'm all alone in the world once again. No one to run to for safety for the peace of mind.

At the moment, I'm hanging with a new friend. Her name is Kollette; she is a sweet, caring girl and always makes sure she isn't overstepping my boundaries. We are playing a game called Mario Kart, the same game the Terror twins usually play with each other, mostly go against each other.

Stop thinking about them, they don't care about you anymore and you don't either. My mind couldn't accept it though, they haven't said a word to me since my arrival and giving me side glances when I'm around. What made my scales boil in anger is the sight of them hanging with that damn Femme bot named Starcatcher. You're Jealous, Night. They hate you and they have every reason to. That's what you wanted in the first pl-.

"Midnight! Are you alright?" Kollette worried and snapping me out of my trance. Clearing my throat and standing up off the pile of blankets we are using, I turn away from her, hiding the tears rolling down my face. I was afraid to say anything and my voice cracking in the middle. This is what I mean; they show the world my weaknesses and it's them!

Kollette lays her hand carefully on my shoulder and gave it a tiny squeeze. "Um, yeah. Just overthinking things, you know the usual," I lied while acting causal like it was nothing. It wasn't nothing, it was entirely everything. I have gotten too close with Sides and Sunstreaker, causing the bond to happen and giving another weakness to add to the pile.

The girl is a smart girl too could see through my façade and forced me to face her. She crossed her arms over her chest and stuck her hip out just to be sassy. "Don't play me as an dumbass honey. I know you're lying but I don't know the reason. Yes, you only met me a couple of days ago and you don't trust people a lot but please give some information about what is happening with you," Kollette requested. My guard has been lower the moment those damn twins got past my barrier. My heart tells me to trust the sweet, kind girl in front of me while my mind tells me to kill her, it's always like that.

Shaking my head to get rid of the not-so-nice thoughts worming their way into my head, I drop my gaze to the floor. Oh, look the floor is super interesting at the moment. She continues to urge me to tell her but keeping her distance from overstepping my boundaries somehow.

Fed up of her bugging me, I slash out with my teeth baring. "Fine! Since you want to know so badly, I'll tell you but, this is a threat, I will kill you if you ever repeat the words that come from my mouth..." I take a breath to calm myself down before continuing the storytelling. "I had grown close with Sides and Sunstreaker during my stay here."

"To me, that is a big no-no. I already have a weakness that can easily kill me if gets in my bloodstream. But having three that lead to my death before my mission could be fulfilled was even worse. The worse thing is they could easily get killed by a stray missile and lead me to my own demise if the connection continued to grow."

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Before I could continue with the story, she interrupted kindly when I had stopped. "What do you mean by mission if you don't mind me asking?"

"My mission?" I threw back to make sure my ears heard her right. She nodded her to answer my question. "Revenge. To kill all those part of Jasper. They knew what they were getting into but that didn't stop them from torturing kids from ages of five to twenty. I was including in that group of torturing, my own family member allow for this to happen"

"Anyway, with that question answered, I need to keep my weaknesses down to only being one. In need to fulfill my mission, I need to be in the tip top shape and condition to kill everyone who is part of Jasper. Yes, it's evil but I'm an evil monster created by them and it all needs to stop. They forced us to kill each other to become stronger in the arena." I shocked myself from telling someone else then my father, especially someone I had met two days ago.

Surprise and horror washed over her face and her mouth dropped down. "They forced you to kill each other? In general, forced you to kill!" She gasped and placed her hand on her mouth. Shrugging my shoulders and turning once more away from her, I kept my head low to the ground.

"Yep. Well they waited until you passed the tests of a level one subject and had to be over the age of ten. Let's just say it wasn't fun to have to live in an environment like that," I commented and started to walk away.

"Midnight?" she called out to me. Stopping in my tracks and turning my head to the side, I hummed for her to continue. "Do get some sleep; you look like you haven't slept in the past couple of days." That sure was an understatement.

Continuing my stroll out of the Rec. room for humans, I wave my hand in the air as if I was physically pushing it away. "Yeah, yeah. I'll think about it. See you around Kollette and remember what I said about telling anyone, I wasn't kidding," I raised my voice for her to hear from the distance between us. She shouts back a 'you better' before I left the hangar.

She is right though; my systems are going to fry if I don't at least get an hour of sleep. It would be bad for me to drop out of the sky if my wings weren't strong enough to hold my weight up, that isn't a good thing. Yet, I go against my better judgment and take off in the air, heading off in the direction of north.

My wings take me not as high as wished because the soreness was becoming more noticeable in them. Landing nearby of the base in a tiny clearing only big enough as my wingspan, I venture into the forest surrounding me.

Scents of all the creatures in the forest filled my nose as I strolled through the forest in search of a safe place to sleep.

A tree came up in my sights after a while of wandering through the forest; it's a birch tree with branches sticking out, giving me multiple places to sleep on. I carefully crawl up the tree while almost falling off and laid comfortably on one of the higher, skinnier branches.

Not really wanting to fall victim again to the night terrors but knowing it wasn't good for me, I rest my body comfortably on higher branches. My eyes close out the little light shining down on me and allowed the fatigue of my body to take me closer to sleep. I hope and wish for this sleep to be one of few not to have a flashback. No such luck for me, something much worse happened though.

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My body floated high in the inky darkness of the void. Chains are wrapped tightly around my wings and other limbs, including my neck, giving me a hard time of moving. But what caught my eye sadden my emotions. There wasn't two brightly colored orbs floating to the side of me, only at my chest were the two strings dangled with no color.

Something came over me and a roar was released from my throat. The anger that boils deep inside of me begin to flood my systems and out of control. My scales turned to red and black, signaling what my emotions are at the moment. I thrashed against the chains, attempting to escape from my imprisonment, and of course, from the strength of the chains, it didn't work. It wasted a lot of energy and got me nowhere.

Tears ran down my face freely and I stopped to rest against the chains holding me back. I wanted everything to back to normal: where my brother was still alive; where I wasn't turned into this terrifying creature from hell; where mother won't mess with me or Jeremy; where I had friends who cared for me. In end, it's all my fault for everything happening, it always is.

"?" Primus's voice sounded in my ears. His sudden appearance didn't surprise me or shock me and I only answered his question with a tiny nod of my head. "." He enforced the word 'true' the second time to get his point across.

Horror passed over my face and I shook my head. "No! I can't do either of those. They won't even want to look at me once I reveal my back-story them, they'll hate me for being the monster I am," I cried with more tears running down my face.

The form of Primus's brother, Unicron, appeared in front of me, not scaring me in the slightest as my emotions are already out of whack. "." Even with my emotions out whack, that makes a shiver go down my spine from his last sentence. "."

After Unicron finished his sentence, Primus decided to appear next his brother. "," Primus spoke up and what he said barely surprised me. Instead, I knew where they would send me, back to the nightmare land of flashbacks.

Dipping my head knowing they won't give up just yet, I don't give in to their tricks. The memory of the last time of me being here alone with Unicorn appeared in my mind. I broke through his powers of holding me here and maybe it could happen again. Only problem is, I was angry at him for using me as a pawn in their game. But now, my emotions are so out whack, it would be nearly impossible to through by using my anger towards them.

Another idea hit me, use the other pent of energy and anger towards Mother, the twins, and Starcatcher. I first thought of a lot of the horrible things done to me before taking me to Cyrus. Hitting me for making mistake, yelling at for being a mistake, and besmirching me and my brother. Next, my mind came up at the idea of the twins causing damage to my secure walls around my heart. Last but not least, Starcatcher taking what is mine. I have marked the twins as mine and she should know not to mess with me by the rumors that spread all over the base.

The back of my throat began to burn with the seething anger boiling deep inside of my soul. I thought for once in my life fire was going to shoot from my mouth, that didn't happen though. It aided in spreading the extreme heat throughout my body and melting the chains.

Before the light fully engulfed my vision, I snarled at them. "Don't mettle in my life anymore and leave me alone." Finally, I was drawn back into the real world once more. It wasn't much of a threat but hopefully, they'll listen and never talk to me again. Because now, they know I'm stronger than them in their realm.

My body lays on the branch for a while until the sun rose and lit up the blue sky. I sigh deeply through my nose and stand up, leaning against the trunk if tree as not to fall back to the ground. Crawling carefully back to the ground and landing on my feet, I swiftly take off in the air and reach past the trees.

Heading in the direction towards California to use up the pent up energy found during my trip to a different land, I head higher, above the clouds. The sun had already risen to shine its light on the land below, giving humans the chance to see me flying in the air. It would not be good for me to be seen by a human, it would draw too much attention to me.

After a while of flying, the clouds dissipated and leaving to the exposure of any human eyes. I decided to land where another forest is to hide until night or where the clouds decide to become a thing again.

Strolling through the forest surrounding me trying to find a safe place to rest at, my ears the noise of many footsteps making their way through the forest. Stopping in mid-step and literally freezing my body, I listen closely to see where they are heading and how many there are. They are heading between north and northwest of my position and there are fifteen of the humans.

These humans aren't hunting because of their rapid movement slightly towards me and the noise they are making. They were attempting to be quiet, yet were failing terribly as they moved closer to my position.

It was easy to tell these humans are of Jasper and hunting me down. What confused was how did they know I was here, I literally just got here and they are in a forest with barely any roads. The trees are too thick for them to make their way through, making me think they probably have a base. Most likely a small base by how many soldiers they sent out. Jasper does have many bases throughout the United States, filled with scientists trying to make breakthroughs in other abilities like mine and guards protecting said scientists and the base itself.

This would be a good thing though; fighting them would let me use up my pent up energy to kill them and hopefully calm myself down for a while. Staying in the same spot and silently place my foot that was in mid-step down on the ground, I turn in the direction of where they are coming and camouflaged my scales to my surroundings, not very well though with the clothes on my body. My eyes watched the direction they are coming from until I see the appearance of the first of the soldiers.

Sneaking quieter than an owl in flight to the right of them, I get on all fours like a cat ready to pounce and carefully watch their movements. They pass me slowly with their footfalls creating a lot of noise and I prowl leisurely behind them, waiting for an opportunity to rise.

One of the humans was slower than the rest, being the watcher of the end and doing a terrible job in the first place. She has yet to see me sneaking behind her and her group; I decide to attack her first. I use the powerful muscles in my legs to push myself quickly towards her and knock her down to the ground. She didn't see it coming as the talons on my hands rip through her throat, killing her swiftly.

The other soldiers of her group turned around quickly and pointed their highly powered guns at me hovering over dead woman's body. They opened fire with bullets flying towards me and I react faster than a cheetah. Ducking under most of the bullets and getting only a couple wounds for the moment, I lunge forward at the closest soldier and killing him the same way as the girl.

More bullets fly my way and struck me in multiple places. I continue to plow my way through the soldiers by killing them while gaining multiple injuries to my body. In the end, the ground is covered in blood, both mine and theirs, and dead human bodies.

Standing over the last of the ones to be killed and breathing heavily, I release a loud roar that echoed around me. I wince in the slightest as my wing moved and pulled at the open bullet wound in the muscle closest to my back. There were at least twenty bullet holes throughout my entire body; it was surprising there wasn't more than that from how many bullets were fired at me.

After catching my breath and calming my buzzing sense down, I faintly limp my way away from the scene and to place where the area is clearer of vegetation. My wings take me off the ground and high in the air, the movement causing pain to spring throughout my back and wings.

A strong gust of wind helped carried my body quicker through the air and back towards the base. Most of the pent energy was gone for the time being and it was time for me to go back to the base. Ratchet is going to shit his britches when he sees the wounds covering my body. Gladly none of the bullets were infused with Red Beryl or there would be trouble for me.

It wasn't too long for me to arrive at the base and hover in front of the open Med. Bay. My eyes caught the sight of Ratchet working on more business that I have to ask about. I announce my presence to Ratchet by saying this, "hey Rach, what are you up to?" Said bot spins around and narrows his optics at the sight of me.

"What in the pit happened to you? Get over here now," he commanded and points to the table in front of him. Rolling my eyes at his typical behavior and making my way over to the table he wants me at, I land slightly roughly and wincing from the sudden pressure on my foot which has a bullet hole in it. He asks once more what happened to me and who did this to me.

"Jasper is going to claim their prize," I coldly answered. He did his thing and make sure all the bullets weren't no longer inside of my body. He wrapped or patched all the holes and orders me to go rest up. I follow his order and literally drop my body on my perch. Sleep came like a dream and this time I wasn't afraid of the gods of Cybertron taking me into their dreamland.

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