AN: My first attempt at a multi-chaptered story! Please review, I love reviews ^_^


Sun poured through the windows of the GMC Topkick speeding down a highway in the western United States. The eighteen year old girl pretending to drive it sighed and closed her eyes, the light breeze whipping her blonde hair around. She reached up and pulled her sunglasses off of her face, placing them on the dashboard.

"I can't believe I'm finally done high school!" laughed Annabelle Lennox.

A deep chuckle came through the radio. " Really? You have only said that approximately eighty times!" replied Ironhide sarcastically. "And you are not finished school yet, you still have to attend college for some time yet."

Annabelle sighed. "Don't be a dream crusher! Let me enjoy my two months of freedom!"

"I'd hardly count working on a military base as 'freedom'." Scoffed the weapon's specialist.

"Well, you have a point." She giggled. "You sound like my friends. But I have to earn money to go to university somehow, and this isn't exactly the worst job ever." She ran a hand through her curly blonde hair. "How far do we have to go anyway?"

"Approximately eight hours of driving, then we board the aircraft carrier to Diego Garcia." Ironhide replied. "You seem very excited."

" I am!" Replied Annabelle. " I haven't seen any of the other Autobots since Christmas!"

"They are all excited as well. Optimus says Jazz has barely talked about anything else since he heard you were coming."

Annabelle and Jazz had become close while she had spent a week on the base when she was fifteen. He had watched over her while the rest of the NEST team was off investigating a Decepticon attack. The blonde teenager smiled, peering out the window at the town they were approaching. "Hey, can we stop at that gas station? I'm starving!"

After hours and hours of traveling, the pair finally arrived at the NEST base. Annabelle jumped out of the truck and stretched, gazing around ecstatically. "Wow! Its bigger than I remembered!" She ran off towards the hangar.

Ironhide followed after shifting to his bipedal form, amused at the human's behaviour.

Once they entered the hangar they were greeted by Will Lennox, who embraced his daughter with a grin. "Belle! I missed you Sweetheart!"

"I missed you too, Daddy!"

Just then, Jazz barrelled into the room. "Yo, Annabelle! Long time no see!" he held out his hand, allowing her to jump into it. He held her up to his face. "Hows it going?"

He was closely followed by Ratchet and Optimus Prime. "Hello, Annabelle, it is good to have you back on base!" said Optimus, grinning. He turned to Ironhide. "Come with me please, I have something we need to discuss." The Commander and Weapons Specialist of the Autobots left, leaving Annabelle with her father and Jazz.

"I have to go help Epps with some sort of report, can you show Annabelle where shes staying?" Will asked Jazz, who seemed very enthusiastic about this idea.

"Of course!" he looked at Annabelle. "But first, do ya wanna see our racing course? I betcha any money Sunny and Sides are out there already!"

She nodded, and they headed back out into the sun. The teenager smiled to see the Corvette Stingray and Lamborghini Gallardo speeding around the S-shaped course. She and Jazz watched in amusement as Sideswipe skidded around the corner, and ran into Sunstreaker, who immediately stopped and changed into his robot mode, checking himself for scratches. "Slag it, Sides! I told you to be careful!"

Sideswipe stopped as well and headed over to his brother in bipedal mode. "Primus, calm down!" He noticed the robot and teenaged girl standing off to the side and excitedly rolled over. "Hey, Anna! You're finally here!"

She blushed. "Well, we got held up in a traffic jam for about an hour, so we got here a little later than I hoped. " She smiled up at the silver robot. "Did you miss me?"

He laughed. "Well, maybe a little.."

"He hasn't stopped talking about you all day!" Scoffed Sunstreaker, making his way over. "I almost offlined him."

Sides looked embarrassed. "Not ALL day.." Annabelle blushed again, looking at her feet and giggling.

Suddenly, her cell phone rang. She checked her caller id and sighed. "Crap! I promised my mom I'd call her the moment I got here. Shes gunna be pissed. I'll talk to you guys later, okay?" She turned and headed back to the base, holding the phone to her ear. "Hello? Yes, I'm alive. Sorry I didn't call…"

The three robots watched her leave, Sunstreaker noticing Sideswipe smiling as the blonde returned to the hangar.

"S'wrong with him?" whispered Jazz to Sunny.