All I own is my character Sabrina Tucker and her family. All other Transformers Prime characters belong to their respective company.
Sabrina's POV
I wish something interesting would happen in Jasper. This small town is ideal for families since everyone is nice, well, except for Vince that is. I miss my mom, she was deployed overseas two months ago. She asked me to help my dad take care of the house and my four-year-old little brother Brandon. Dad texted me during lunch to tell me I had to pick up Brandon from preschool today. I'm sitting in band class playing the violin my parents bought me for my tenth birthday. My teacher, Mr. Howell, told the class that Friday is the tryout day for the first chair in each instrument. I was close last year, but my rival, Priscilla Collins, distracted me. She nudges my side with an elbow so I'd play the wrong note. I finished playing the final measure of the song I'm going to play at the recital next week. I look up at the clock to find that I had two minutes to pack up my things.
I lower my music stand and I put my violin into the case. I close my music book, put it into my book bag and carefully put it on my back. I pick up my violin and start to leave the room, looking over at Mr. Howell. He nods and motions for me to get going.
Dad, this would be much easier if dad would buy me a car. I have my driver's license for Pete's sake,
I walk down the hallway to the front door. I'm about to open the door when I hear Vince call out his famous taunt, "Hey Band Geek." I don't have time to fire back a response since Brandon is waiting for me. I knew Vince was annoyed when I saw him walk up to me from the corner of my eye. Then he yanks my violin case from my left hand.
I quickly turn around and try to get it back, "Vince, give that back, please. I have to pick up my little brother from Preschool."
"Sorry, Tucker, no can do," Vince says with a smirk.
I know my dad would get mad at me if I start a fight. I growl through my teeth before I stomp on Vince's right foot. He winces in pain and I quickly catch my instrument as he stumbles trying to regain his footing. Then I dash out the door doing my best not to look back, so Vince didn't get another chance to steal my violin.
Twenty minutes later I arrive at Little Ram's preschool. Brandon is standing outside with his teacher, Mrs. Sampson. I go to the door. Brandon gives me a bear hug.
"Hey, little brother, how was school?"
"Great, I made you a picture in art class." Brandon answers.
"I can't wait to see it, but could you let me breathe."
Brandon nods, releasing me from his hug and takes hold of my free hand. We walk up to Mrs. Sampson. She gives Brandon's lunchbox back to him,"Don't forget this."
"Thank you, Mrs. Sampson," Brandon says.
"You're welcome." Mrs. Sampson says.
"Come on Brandon. We should head home. I have a lot of practicing to do if I want to make first chair violin this year."
"I know you'll make it this year sissy. You're the best violin player ever." Brandon says.
I smile and start to mess up his hair, "Thank you for the compliment Brandon, but what have mom and dad told you about bragging?"
"That it's impolite."
After we say goodbye to Mrs. Sampson and start going down the sidewalk. We get two blocks away when I start to get a little on edge when I see a purple car with a strange symbol on the grill following us from the corner of my eye. I let go of Brandon's hand and knelt down in front of him.
"Brandon, you remember what mom and dad told us to do if we ever were followed by a strange car?"
"Yes, we run and try to find another grownup to help us."
"Right, I want you to run and get help, okay?"
"Sabrina, I thought you said the people living on this street don't like kids."
Darn it, now what do we do?
"Sabrina, the car just turned into a robot that has blasters," Brandon says in a shaky tone.
I figured his imagination was working overtime since cars can't do that. I turn around to make sure that he is telling the truth. I feel Brandon give me another bear hug, this time I didn't care as he squeezes all the air out of my lungs again since I know he is frightened. I was too, but I do not want him to see that.
"Go, buddy. I won't let this thing hurt you, I promise."
I set down my violin case and take out the pepper spray dad bought me. He usually is a 'tad' bit overprotective. Right now I'm hoping this will work on a giant metal robot that's about to kill us. I start to take off the lid when I see a red Dodge Challenger with two horns on the hood speed up. It crashes into the purple robot, knocking it to the ground. A few seconds later I feel Brandon start to loosen his grip. I turn around in time to catch him before he hits the pavement.
Why is this thing attacking us?
I slowly stand up, cradling Brandon in my arms, chuckling as I hear him mumble, "I'll protect violin. " I walk over into the alleyway and set him up against the wall behind the dumpster. Leaving to retrieve my violin. I ran up to the case and picked it up. I turned around to see the purple robot had called for one of its friends, then a new robot runs up to me and it's about to snatch me off the sidewalk. Before it has a chance, I see a blue motorcycle drive up and turn into a robot. This one has a different logo on its shoulder.
"I don't think so Decepticon."It says as I watch it repeatedly punch the one that had tried to kidnap me.
I know I have to check on my little brother, but this was too cool, I wanted to see who would win. I watch the match a bit longer before I run back to the alley. A smile came to my lips when I see my little brother run up to me as I approached the dumpster, handing him the violin.
"Sabrina, is it safe to go home yet?" he asks.
"I'm not sure buddy. Stay here." I answer.
I tiptoe back to the entrance of the alley and peak around the corner. I hear the distinct sound of a semi truck horn as it drives up to the other robots, and the semi turns into a robot as well.
"Hey, Boss." The red robot says.
"Cliffjumper, you were very lucky that you didn't cause any damage to the buildings in this area." The Semi Truck robot warns.
Then I see Brandon run out of the alleyway towards the robots.
"Brandon! Get back here!" I shout.
Brandon ignores me and keeps running towards the robots. I was happy to see that he checked for any other cars before he hops down off the curb to go into the street.
Okay, this is officially the weirdest day of my life.
Even though these robots saved us, I couldn't be sure if they liked humans or not.
Normal POV
Cliffjumper sees Brandon running up to them. The four-year-old is about to run into Arcee's leg, so he picks him up.
"Hey, kid, watch where you're going." Cliffjumper says.
"Sorry, Mr. Red Robot, sir. Thank you for saving my big sister and me." Brandon says.
"Who's your big sister?" Cliffjumper asks.
"She must be that girl hiding in the alleyway over there. "Arcee says.
Sabrina still has no clue what is going on. She tries to remain calm as Arcee approaches her. She sees the robot kneel down in front of her, "Relax, I'm not going to hurt you."
"Thank you for all your help, ma'am." Sabrina says.
"Call me, Arcee, okay, kid? "Arcee says.
"Okay, Arcee." Sabrina says.
Sabrina slowly steps out of her hiding spot. They walk over to the other robots. Arcee sees Sabrina's eye nearly pop out of their sockets when she sees Brandon on Cliffjumper's shoulder.
"Brandon, be careful. If you fall dad will ground me till I graduate high school." Sabrina says.
"Don't worry Sabrina. Mr. Cliffjumper won't let me fall." Brandon says.
"So who is the semi truck robot?" Sabrina asks.
"I'm Optimus Prime, and you and your brother will get a better explanation of why my teammates and I are on your planet tomorrow." Optimus says.
"Aw, I can't wait that long." Brandon whines.
"Sorry Brandon, but we need to get home." Sabrina says.
"Cliffjumper, you will escort Sabrina and Brandon to their home." Optimus says.
"Yes, Sir." Cliffjumper says.
"Yeah, I get to ride in the front seat." Brandon cheers.
"No, you won't. You're not tall enough or old enough to ride shotgun." Sabrina says.
Cliffjumper takes Brandon off of his shoulder and places him on the ground next to Sabrina as he transforms back into a car.
"Sabrina, please, I won't tell dad, I promise." Brandon begs.
"I said no. " Sabrina said in a stern tone.
The Autobots are confused when they hear Sabrina finally say yes, after Brandon makes his eyes sparkle and quiver his bottom lip.
"Now I regret ever teaching you that look." Sabrina sighs.
Sabrina and Brandon walk over to the car. She opens the passenger side door and helps him up onto the seat. After she buckles him in, and sets her things down on the floor in front of her brother's seat, she looks up to see the seat belt start adjust to fit him properly.
"Whoa, Cliffjumper, why didn't you tell me that you could do that?" Sabrina asks.
"Don't know I guess I forgot that I could. I also can turn off the passenger side airbag too." Cliffjumper says.
"That would be great." Sabrina says as she closes the door.
Then she sits down in the driver's seat and buckles herself in and places her hands on the steering wheel. The only thing on Sabrina's mind as Cliffjumper starts to drive away is.
Okay, Mr. Genie, sir, who granted my wish for something interesting to happen to Jasper. Could you take back my request, please?
Sabrina's POV
I unbuckle my seat belt after Cliffjumper pulls into the garage door and he asks, "Sabrina, humans call this a driveway, right? So, why am I parking in it?".
"The humans who invented the word were confused too, I guess."
"Don't human kids usually have two parents?"
"We do, but our mom is in the military. The past three months without her have been hard. So, I've been helping my dad out around the house, and looking out for Brandon."
"That seems like a lot of pressure to put on a kid your age."
"Maybe, a bit, but my mom asked me to help out in her last letter, so I'm not going to let her down."
I get out and walk over to the passenger side. I open the door and watch Brandon hop out, and gather our things.
"Thank you again for saving us, Cliffjumper."
"You're welcome."
I close the door. Then Brandon and I head inside, and watch from the living room window as Cliffjumper drives away.
"Sabrina, do you think we'll see him again?"
"I don't know Buddy. How about I make some Mac and cheese for dinner?"
I put my things down on the coffee table and head to the kitchen to start making dinner.
I wish there were another way I could thank Cliffjumper for what he did for us - I mean he saved our lives.
