Unicron:

Whipping, striking, punching, kicking, blackmailing, slashing, beating... all of it for such great pain.

"I will ask one more time--"

Unicron punched the Predacon's face one more time, who ended up spitting the energon covering his dentas off. But what the Warmonger got were tired laughs, of disliked ways to interrogate anyone. He knew that Unicron wasn't going to get what he wanted. Or demanded.

"Where are the Guardians of the Stones?" Unicron spat for the Predacon, grabbing his chin roughly while bringing him closer. He knew his name as Crusher, but his expectation of getting him or the other Predacons turned out difficult and useless. He couldn't get a single word out of them. Solar and Stormwave kept their mouths shut also.

For the rest of the Cybetronians... even thinking of them makes Crusher double time angrier and more denyal.

"Go and... frag yourself." Crusher grimaced, but earned another rough punch on his faceplate. His entire frame was hanging of the ceiling above by tight chains and it wasn't pleasent. He had cuts and bruices all over his body, but would even greet death than tell where his sparkling was.

Or tell that he didn't know where he was.

Will had disappeared, and so had Rosalie and Sebastian along with the other humans.

Into the unknown.

"Splitter--" Unicron called, his subordinate --which reminds more of a deat-bringer -- stepped into the room, his humongous cutting blade with. "See if you make better job of it."

"Yes, Master." Splitter agreed, raising his blade up. Crusher bit his denta, only way he was gonna survive of this was thinking of Will, and he did. Remembering the spended time with him.

Unicron exited the tormenating hall, entering the one he leads the most. Not long did it take as he felt presence near, and stopped by it.

"You seem to have something to tell for me." The Warmonger tempted, seeing with corner of his optic how small human stepped out, her arms folded. "Any discovers, Annabelle?"

"None to make." The red haired girl replied, switching to stand on her other leg. Amnesia, Unicron thought. What an amazing skill to create powerful allies of his. "Your humans have like vanished from this planet's surface, not even none of their hair remains." She said, making her Master pleased by the information.

"Which means that our problems are solved." Unicron walked the stairs up, Annabelle followed in deep curiosity.

"Do you mean--?"

"We no longer have to deal with Guardians of the Stones." Unicron answered for her, nextly opening up his humongous doors for his Kingdom. He went for his throne and sat down, witnessing how pleasently Annabelle knelt down in front of him like his subordinate. "Primus knows he has failed, so he searches for new ones in order to defeat me."

"At first it was Galvatron..." Annabelle growled, this satisfying Unicron also. The only loyal servant of Galvatron's was now serving Unicron very greatly. She was a great asset with Zero.

"But now, I; the ultimate evil of all time shall rise again, and finish what I have planned." Unicron lent back down, dominating was his goal. And he had it. "Now, no one can defeat me!"

Annabelle knew the Cybetronians which guarded each Guardian of the Stones were gone, because Zero and she herself slaughtered them like lamps. The girl was ready to leave as she nodded in respect for her Master, exiting the room. Each step she took felt pained, like she was a gooner.

Iris was mad.

"Mom."

Annabelle froze on her spot for further going down the hall, looking back. Zero walked towards her, carrying something heavy looking. Now the red hair girl had to force smile on her face, and greet her boy like she usually did.

"You going for the storage?" He questioned, even though Annabelle had some clue of how things were she loved Zero very much, nodding.

"Actually I am, making sure that you have your daily dose." Annabelle replied, Zero smiled right back. He showed a broken machine-part which once belonged probably to Splitter... and for his interrogation tools.

"Will you take this with you... Unicron requested my presence and I can't be in two places at same time." Zero pleaded, easily Annabelle did snatch the box from him. "Thanks." He made run for it then.

"Oi, no running down the halls!" His mother called, sheepishly laughing once Zero showed thumbs up for her. Then Annabelle continued while dragging the box with her. Stairs were to meet up with her, and she had to nod in greeting manner for two Cyber-Forms coming pass her.

Finally, she reached the storage.

Only one able to go in there was she herself.

So Annabelle made her spell that the doors open up, and then entered into the darkness. By dropping down the box she kicked it away, tensing when someone growled out in pain by it.

"Sorry... my bad, Luce." Annabelle apologized. There were two claps of her own and the lights were on, showing indeed the jumping girl; servant of Galvatron's now holding her toe. "John--" But the man nearby already pulled her into a deep kiss, which the girl couldn't exactly back off either. She passionateky kissed back, before breaking apart after witnessing Galvatron's pained face. "The heal didn't work?" She teased John, leaving him there as she herself jumped to see her real Master's wounds. She had tended them for quite some time already.

Holded them down there in secret.

Amnesia, he says.

Annabelle knows dark-magia. Technically she's a witch. No one can make enough powerful medical inject to make her forget something. Especially so important and family of her own.

"It would seem not..." Galvatron's voice had switched like a normal Cybetronian. Annabelle got into work again, placing her hands above the bleeding side of his Master as she sealed it temperarely this time.

"Ugh, our food's done for." Emily looked into the freezer, and almost shit in her pants after a fleshy deer leg dropped on the ground.

"There you have it." Annabelle said, leaning back as she admired the work of art she had done for her Master. Galvatron stood up carefully and placed Annabelle down, moving his arms and pedes in order to get his energon fload back normally. "Better?"

"A lot." Galvatron replied.

"Any news of Iris and others?" John changed the subject totally, noticing Annabelle's dropped face. She shook her head, looking down.

"Even though we require their assistance in order to defeat Unicron... I'm afraid you need to wait for the new chosen ones." Annabelle admitted, standing up while moving to sit on Venox' ped. Yeah, the other Cybetronians were there too.

"Another three years." Lucy fell down on the couch. On Abigail who slept, and he got heart attack for it.

"Who's attacking!?" Abigail yelled, Mira quickly hit him again to the back of his head so he lost conscious. Annabelle sighed in defense, but saw John not so sure of that.

"Honey... you must accept that Iris is most likely dead or back in her world. There's no way Primus will ever bring them back into this universe while their Guardians are gone too!" Annabelle knew she was responsible of Optimus' death, but had it anymore matter? She send them out of this world, back with the Allspark. Iris was back also... wherever she even was.

"No... because I can still feel them." John was determined.

"They are alive."

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Why....

Such emptiness?

I feel so lost.

"Come on! Wake up already!"

And something sweaty, fleshy-- sticky!

"Eww, Sara!" A girl growled out loud. Her hair was a mess, clothes spinned probably ten times around her in her sleep as she looked deadly after the small girl running away for her life. The girl knew her, it was her cousin. "Wait.... what?"

It was time to wonder what was going on.

First on the bucket-list; get medison for the baddest headache of all time. Second; get some damn ice cube sacks for your forehead and chest since it hurts so much! And on Third for her list; to wonder why?

Something doesn't add up.

"Lalalalalaaa-- oh," An elder woman formed then onto the girl's doorframe, making maybe the biggest smile of all time. "Good morning, sweetie. Sara's gonna be here till the afternoon so you should get up and take her to park already." Then she disappeared with the clothes pile in her hands. "The clock's already 2 p.m, get yourself something to eat from town!"

"Yes, mom...!" The girl growled back. Woah, if this was this day, she wondered what happened yesterday. She reached her face after feeling it really heated up, only then feeling herself tired and her eyes were hurting.

Have I... cried?

For what?

My heart's aching also very badly.

"-- Mom!"

"What is it!?" She was quick to respond back from the end of the hall.

"Tell me I didn't hit my head yesterday!"

There were footsteps heard, until that familiar light brown haired woman again stood on her doorframe. She looked across the room at her daughter sitting on the bed, wondering what was wrong. She never asked her of anything else than money or things she had lost.

"Do you have fever, Iris?" Finally there came her name also, but Iris only sighed in defense once her Mother sat down onto her bed's side and placed her cold hand above her forehead. To check did she have a fever. "Oh my God... you're on fire."

"Your hand's just cold." Iris pointed out strictly. But her Mother ignored that as she stood up, rushing downstairs to get something. "You didn't answer my question!"

Then again the girl holded her head, headache going nowhere. Did she have some damn amnesia, dementia or something, 'cause she couldn't remember almost anything. Everything seemed blurry this moment.

Like she had forgot something.

"Here," Julia --her mother-- came back, handing a sack of ice cubes for the girl laying in bed. "That should ease the hottness somehow... but you must rest this day."

"Didn't intend to go anywhere either..." Iris murmured, but raised her gaze up. Now something started to come back after quite some time of thinking. "Did I... smash my car yesterday?"

Julia gave her a firm look, a sigh left her as she once carefully glanced over her shoulder back to make sure no one weren't listening.

"Josh is currently getting some fuel to it... it would seem you forgot to refuel your car and was left out there in coldness. Be lucky that our neighbour was passing the road in that time... you have no memories of him waking you up and bringing back to us?" Iris just stared at her mother's words, shaking her head. "You must've hit your head also... but we're just glad that you're safe."

Iris curled up a smile.

"Luckily college ends soon too." The girl said, but saw Julia rose a strict finger to her.

"You young woman, are tied to that bed until I say otherwise." Her Mother said, pushing her daughter back to lay in the warm covers as she gave her a blanket ontop also.

"But Sara--?"

"Josh can take her." Julia quickly interrupted, winking down to the brow raising Iris. "So we can have girl's night as mother and daughter, you are officially cancelled from school tomorrow." She stood up, allowing her fancy dress swing a bit. It must've be a hot summer day again. "I'm making us some dinner, try to figure out something to do."

Her Mother sure was quick with her moves; as in closing the lights and shutting the curtains but over all in talking. Iris just blinked in surprise when she closed the door also, leaving the girl in pitch darkness.

But she sighed in defense, starting to rub her pained chest where felt like bruices. Three bigger ones, and dozens of smaller ones. Iris couldn't figure out where they had came from, but something she knew. Even though what her Mother just told her her instincts almost like called out for her;

This isn't right.

Iris took her remote and started the TV up in front, not doing pretty much nothing else than obey her mother's will. She treated her like a child still... understandable while being only child. But her interest of watching series got done for as she took her phone now in charger, starting it up. There were many many notifications and messangers from her online friends, now it was time to check them all.

I do feel anxious.

Not really normal for me...

Since I know that something is missing.

Something really important.

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Hey y'all! Another chap just for you. I'm making quick updates since I've almost gotten the whole story in package. Phew... you'll have a lot to read still.

~keep reading.