Avery was walking home under the moonlight. He was holding all the Transformers movie series CDs in a packet tucked under his right arm. Today was the day he was going to have an all-nighter and see all the Transformers movies the tenth time.
The smile on his face never wore off.
He had a 5 11' build, black hair, brown eyes, and was wearing a black t-shirt and camo pants. He was a person who you will forget about after seeing him once.
Here's some information about him -
Avery was an orphan. He had been chosen by someone when he was very small and was raised in a martial arts dojo. His foster father was a professional martial artist since he was a retired army general. Since Avery's childhood, he had been trained in martial arts, army training(gun shooting, strategies, etc), and mechanics.
Why mechanics? Because Avery had always been interested in mechanical stuff and his foster father encouraged it as a "side subject". Since he was 10 years old, Avery was recruited into the army as a mechanic. He was the youngest known mechanic ever recruited. His ranks in the army had skyrocketed because of the contribution he had made to the army.
Back to reality,
Avery walked for a few minutes and was just across his house when...
He saw one old lady walking on the pedestrian crossing. He was about to help her when he saw a truck heading towards her.
Avery, with his eyes wide open, started running towards her at full speed and told her to get out of the way of the truck. But it seemed she could not hear and see properly. His heart was beating fast but that did not stop him. Time seemed to slow down as he dropped the packet and ran towards the lady. Just when the truck was about to hit her, he pushed her and was hit by the truck.
Upon collision, his body was flung for a few meters before coming to a stop. Before he died, he did not regret never seeing his father or his position in the army or money or anything else.
He just regretted that he would never be able to see the transformers movies the tenth time.
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After a long time, Avery felt himself.
'What's going on...I didn't die...?!!'
He was sure he was hit by the truck. But he was alive, what was going on?!!
He tried to open his eyes but he could not. He tried to move but he could not.
And before he tried to do anything, he heard a voice, "Bot X5400294399030-22, wake up and head to the respective destination."
It was a cold, metallic voice that would send chills to anyone listening to it. When Avery heard it, he felt his back go cold.
Suddenly, Avery "opened" his eyes and could see everything. Avery went in shock with what he saw.
But the same voice woke him up, "Bot X5400294399030-22, wake up and head to the respective destination."
Avery focused back on reality. What he saw seriously stunned him. He was in a factory. A factory that produced robots...
Wait...robots?!!!
Yes! They all looked humanoid and looked like...like...LIKE THE BOTS FROM TRANSFORMERS!!!!
His breathing started increasing. The gears in his brain were overheating. He could not believe it but the reality was right in front of him. The bots were all made in different colors. Some were short, some were tall, some were like animals, and some like inhuman creatures. Avery shook his head and focused back on the task on hand.
He needed to see how he looked like. Through his "eyes", he saw his body. His arms and legs were metallic black and sharp. He felt his body was made of gears instead of normal living things. When he moved his arms or legs, he could hear gears working. He was around 32 feet tall and was completely black except for his nails and legs, which were silver, and his eyes were blue.
He looked human and really, really cool.
'Did I...'
But before he could anything, many memories merged with his soul. The pain his soul was facing was very strong. He tried screaming but he could not due to the immense pain he was suffering.
After 2 minutes of torture, Avery learned something about where he was.
He was in Cybertron(Yes...in Cybertron!!). Cybertron was created because of the all spark. It first created the thirteen robots, who built other bots. The first thirteen robots were called The Thirteen Primes. They rule the whole Cybertron. The robots in Cybertron are a very advanced type of carbon-based lifeform. Due to all spark, robots were built very fast and in bulk. Soon, Cybertron had its own army of bots. They conquered many planets and were also be able to travel to other universes. The resource for all spark was a special type of metal called Cybertronian steel. It was the hardest metal in the current universe. Although there are metals stronger than cybertronian steel, they were very few and hard to find. If you provided all spark with cybertronian steel, any number of robots could be created.
Avery suddenly heard, "Bot X5400294399030-22, wake up and head to the respective destination. This is the last warning!"
The voice had a hint of killing intent.
Avery started moving without provoking the voice anymore.
He looked very weird while he was walking. After all, it was his first time as a robot.
It took a few minutes of walking and he became a professional.
Another thing was that his eyes kept zooming in and out.
He knew that his "eyes" were nothing but vision sensors.
It took Avery a lot of time to get used to it, just like how much time it took him to get used to not-breathing(He was a robot and robots did not need to breathe).
He had an AR map in his vision.
He was walking towards whatever destination the voice told, just like the robots around him were doing.
He, now, started focusing on where he was.
He was walking out of the factory and heading into an army base-like place.
His "eyes" were trying to absorb everything around him.
It was dark in Cybertron but robots had night vision, so they could see everything.
After half an hour, they finally reached the army base.
This base was the biggest base in Cybertron.
The leader, a female transformer, was standing facing them.
The leader was in pink and grey color, she was 17 feet tall and had killing intent radiating from her.
The bots knew what to do and started forming lines.
Avery followed them too.
When the lines were formed, the female transformer said, "Listen up! I am only going to tell you this once and no more. You may ask the questions at the end, understood?!"
"Yes, ma'am!", all the bots including Avery screamed.
"Good! My name is Elita One and I have the highest authority here. My words are your command. Understood?!!"
"Yes, ma'am!!"
"Alright let me tell you this. You are a newly created bots and every newly created bot is made from Cybertronian zens. You are all too weak and have no battle experience. In this army, the better position you have, the stronger metals will be used on you. Here you can choose to have any of the three types of job. The soldiers, mechanics, or collectors. Soldiers are the bots who will fight in the front. Mechanics will be the ones who create and repair broken bots or machinery. And the collectors are the ones who will collect the battle loot after the battle. The more you contribute to the army, the better position you will have. Keep in mind that no matter which job you choose, you will get basic soldier training. You become a family once you join here, you will look out for each other here. If you betray your friends, you will get a punishment worse than death. You are created to work for the Thirteen Primes, and only them. Is that understood?!!"
"Yes, ma'am!"
She stopped here and looked at each and every bot here.
Avery knew about the different types of Cybertronian metals.
Starting from the weakest to strongest, they are - Cybertronian Zens, Cybertronian Trinium, Cybertronian Chromaton, Cybertronian Osnium, Cybertronian Irisium, Cybertronian Sterium, Cybertronian Alloy, Cybertronian Steel and Cosmic Alloy.
Although they had similar names to metals on earth, they were completely different.
She continued, "Now then, on my right, I have the soldier base. Whichever bot wants to become a soldier, go there."
After she said that at least 85% of the bots went there.
"Right behind me is the collector base. Whichever bot wants to become a collector, go there."
Then most of the remaining bots went there. Less than 2% of the bots remained back.
"Head to the mechanics base to my left.", she said to the remaining bots.
All the remaining bots including Avery started heading towards there.
It took them 10 minutes of walking to reach the base.
The mechanics base was very huge and they were at least a million bots transforming into jets, helicopters, trucks, cars, and so on. Many of the helicopters and planes kept taking off from the runaway.
The newbie bots kept going straight and Avery tried keeping up with them.
He tried his best to not jump in excitement and joy.
When they reached the base entrance, a loud voice told them, "Newbie bots, head to dock tier-1 where your nicknames and your affinity to vehicles will be tested."
All the bots now looked excited.
Avery was no exception.
Then, all the bots started looking for Dock tier-1.
After 10 minutes of searching, they finally found it.
It was 500 meters tall, 300 meters wide, and in a dome-like shape.
When all the bots entered the facility, they were in shock.
From inside it was at least 5 km tall and 3 km in width.
Avery did not understand how this was possible but neither did the transformer's existence was also possible.
Suddenly a voice called out, "Line up in a straight line."
All the bots came back to reality and started forming a straight line.
When they formed a line, a grey color, 19 feet tall transformer came.
He went to the front of the line and removed a cube-like object which had many letters of an unknown language imprinted on it.
"Put your hand in it.", he said in a metallic voice.
The first bot put his hand in.
A few moments later, a blue-color translucent screen appeared.
The grey robot read it and said, "Solar Moon. Air."
Then he moved on. Solar Moon was excited and the nickname was really suited to it. It was completely dark blue with orange hands and legs. It was humanoid in shape.
Then, the grey-colored transformer went to the second bot. The second bot put his hand in the cube and after a moment later...
"Dirt Automaton. Land"
Then the grey-colored transformer moved on. He kept doing this when it was Avery's turn. Avery put his metallic hand in the cube. The grey-colored robot had a surprised look when he read the screen.
"Night Shadow. Air, land, water, or living?!! Living?! What does living even mean?!!!"
Everyone froze and looked at Avery. Even Avery was shocked. Wasn't a bot supposed to have only one affinity? How did he have all three of them?! Plus, what the hell is living?!! The grey transformer suddenly took a device and spoke into it.
After 10 minutes he said, "Welcome to the Cybertron Mechanical corps., Night Shadow. My name is Cloak."
Cloak smiled and extended his hand. Night Shadow shook it with an awkward smile. Even though they were all bots, they couldn't help becoming envious of Night Shadow's luck.
(Author's note: I will now use Night Shadow instead of Avery from now on)
Suddenly, Night Shadow heard a ding in his head.
[Ding! Synchronizing with the host....]
[1%....5%.....75%.....100%]
[Synchronization complete...]
[System booting up]
[Congrulations to host for completing mission]
[Mission-
Join the Cybertron mechanical Corps.
Grade - F
Rewards - System start-up, 100 Points, 100 XP, skill related to class and Class 'Mechanic' has been chosen]
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[Name: Night Shadow
Level: 2(50/100)
Race: Carbon-based
Points: 100
Attributes: STR 50, DEX 75, INT 75, LUCK 15
Stat Points: 15
Skill: Deconstruction lvl 1(0/50), Absorption lvl 1(0/50)
Status: Materials used for the host are weak, many parts are damaged
Transformation: Human
Storage: Not used
Time until war: 15 years]
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