Lorraine Baines: Decepticon Disciple

 

It was like something out of a B-movie: aliens from outer space invading some idyllic 1950s American town in the middle of the night, except in this case the aliens weren't little green men from Mars or looked like Michael Rennie, they were robots. The Decepticons (as they would come to be known) were as big as the tallest buildings in Hill Valley, with steel bodies were impervious to any sort of attack the military fired their way, and forced any sort of plan of resistance to quickly dissipate. The townsfolk surrendered without a fight, and herded like cattle into large facilities that these invaders had brought with them. Among the captured stood teenager Lorraine Baines, who like her fellow residents watched in shock and terror as the robots relayed their master scheme.

Believe it or not, the quaint little city of Hill Valley, California had been established on a large repository of a strange material called Energon, a form of fuel which the Decepticons survived on. The humans were no fools when it came to figuring out what exactly the invaders had in mind for them, but had no chance to protest before being shuffled onto a conveyor belt which led deeper into the facility. Lorraine panicked as the belt led them into a pitch-black room, unable to see the people in front or behind her. From the darkness of the ceiling lowered hundreds of robotic arms, each holding a small metal headband in it's claws which neatly snapped around the foreheads of every person to pass underneath.

She reached up to touch the strange object, but two beeps emitting from all the devices within her earshot caused her and everyone else to suddenly freeze. The second the gadget activated, Lorraine had become a blank slate. There were no more worries about school, no thoughts of friends or family, nothing in her personality that had once made her a unique individual among the millions on Earth. Her face had no emotion as they crossed into the light of next chamber, her body standing straight and at attention like the rest of the converted. Given a figure-hugging uniform bearing the insignia of her masters, Lorraine stepped out from the facility and onto the streets of the Decepticon-controlled Hill Valley. Immediately she departed for her designated position in front of the old courthouse, assigned to process and load the Energon cubes for distribution among the alien authority...

This was a "spur of the moment" creation upon reading the first issue of IDW's Transformers/Back To The Future crossover comic the week it was released. In the book, Marty McFly finds himself in a Hill Valley that is under the rule of Decepticons, who force the denizens to harvest Energon for them. While there's no mind control or latex uniforms in the actual comic (they actually wear something closer to a pilot's jumpsuit), I took the basic concept and added my own little twist to it.

(Above): Lorrraine discovers resistance is impossible while wearing the Decepticon-designed headgear.

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