The sun was beginning to set as clouds rolled across the sky. Thursdays in Jasper, Nevada were anything but, interesting. Who knew the entertainment capital of the world could be so... dull. I yawned as I leaned up against the brick building across the street from KnockOut Burger. I was waiting to surprise my best and only friend, Jack Darby, after his shift at the drive in burger joint. It wasn't the best job in the world, but it paid fairly well for a food business.
I had just watched a cheap, white rycer (that's an import that only has the body souped up), speed off out of the drive through. I was pretty sure they stole the food by the way they took off, and sure enough Jack stuck his head out the window, yelling after the car.
"Assholes." I muttered under my breath. As I pushed off of the building, I watched as two, sleek purple cars that were sitting at the gas station pull out and chase after a black and blue motorcycle, who cleverly pull into the burger joint. The purple wannabe rycers, if you could even call them that, drove past. Curious, I set my green eyes on the motorcyclist, when suddenly she dematerialized.
I hopped on my custom, black, 1000cc Kawasaki Ninja and was about to shove my helmet over my long red hair with purple low-lights that was naturally a brown-red color, when Jack came out. Almost instantly, the bike caught his attention. I laughed as he hung up his phone and took in the bike, I completely forgetting the driver who vanished off the bike. He had always been jealous of my bike that I had my dad to thank for.
Two girls walked up behind him, and I could tell by his body language that he had been caught off guard, sitting on the bike. My view was interrupted by the two purple who the hell who's what kind of car, as they turned and face the group. Instantly, I knew something was wrong and shoved my helmet on as their lights flashed on to Jack.
As the purple twins raced forward towards him the girls squealed and ran away. While the motorcycle Jack was on, suddenly jumped up and turn towards the purple cars in a wheelie, I turned on my engine. Jack look shocked by the sudden turn of events. He yelled as the motorcycle rushed toward its attackers, barely making it through the tight space between the two cars. The motorcycle took off and I followed after it while the other two turned around and followed.
"Jack!" I yelled from behind him. He looked back and again shock was easy to spot on his face, but some relief as well. I caught up with him easily as he look forward again.
"Do not let go." a female voice said sternly, I looked back and saw the two vehicles gaining on us.
"Who said that!" Jack cried as the vehicles pulled up alongside us.
Adrenaline running through my system, I was able to pick up the brakes on the bike squealing, and almost instantly did the same. Both of the bike leaned forward as the back end picked up off the ground. The cars that had been closing in on us slammed into each other, breaking apart to give us an opening. Rushing through it, I followed the black and blue bike through a hard right turn.
I fell behind as the bike in front of me turned around. Jack got off and turned to face the bike that was still upright. I watched as he stumbled away from the motorcycle and into the adjoining alley. Stunned, but concerned I turned into the alley and instantly meet Jack who was running as fast as he could.
"Jack!" I yelled at him as I flipped my visor up.
"Katherine, what are you doing! We have to get out of here!" his voice shook. I stopped against the wall and turned off my engine.
"What's going on?!"I asked just as bewildered. He came over and grabbed my elbows, almost as a support.
"I-I I don't know but we have to get out of here!" he stammered. Suddenly, one of the purple vehicles turned down the alley way and rushed at us. Forgetting about my bike I sprinted along side Jack as we tried to outrun it.
"I don't even know her!" he shouted at the speeding vehicle.
"Gee, thanks!" I said amused a bit.
Jack almost rolled his eyes. "Not you, the motorcycle!"
"What do you mean, the motorcycle?!" I questioned.
Just then the bike in question jumped over top of the purple car and skidded down the front hood and came in the middle of us.
"Hop on!" the female's voice instructed.
Looking at each other, Jack got on first and I sat behind him. Making a sharp left turn back on to the main road that caused Jack to gasp a bit. I held onto him tighter, as we made another turn to the on ramp of the interstate. High pitched gun fire caused me to duck as I looked back to see the purple cars shooting at us. Jack mimicked me and let go of the handles and covered his head.
"Why are those guys shooting at us?!" I asked aloud as we entered the two lane road.
"There's no us kid! And they're no guys!" the female voice explained. I looked behind us and suddenly a bright yellow Camaro with black racing stripes shot out of the on ramp, right in front of the purple cars. Ramming into the side of one of the cause it to crashing into the other one, slowing them down. Meanwhile, the Camaro slid back into a forward direction, racing towards us.
"Woo-hoo!" I yelled in excitement fist pumping the air.
"Friend of yours?" Jack asked.
"Family." she put simply.
We continued on until I realized the road we were on. "Hey, um, guys you know the road ends soon, right?" I asked hopeful. I received no reply from either of them only the wind rushing by us. Jack had a look of horror on his face as we approached the barricade in the road. The motorcycle took off up into the air, over the side of the barricade, and down onto the dirt siding of the road. The slope came to a concrete drop off and we landed on the ground below. The motorcycle slid around and face the wall with once quick movement.
I jumped off and took off my helmet. "That, was AWESOME!" I yelled running around the bike.
"Whoa." came a voice behind me, and I turned to see a small boy with brown spiked hair and red, square framed glasses smiling at us. That's when I realized I still had my black leather riding gear on, I smirked.
"You have no idea." Jack said as he took a shaky step away from the bike. The sound of squealing tires came to me and I looked up to the road above us.
"Um, guys, I don't think this is over." I said as I watched two pairs of headlights spot us. We all looked to the top of the hill as the two purple vehicles raced down the side and then... transformed into two giant robots. All three of us stood there, too stunned to move. Then the motorcycle did the same. She transformed and glared at the two robots in front of us.
"This ends here, Cons." she growled at them. Before she took off we ran off to the side and observed the battle before us. She rushed forward at the two purple robots whose hands had turned into gun shaped objects and they fired at her. Neatly dodging all of the fired rounds, she jumped into the air and slammed her foot down onto the chest of one of the 'Cons'.
He instantly fell back and as she landed on her feet the other one next to her opened fire at her. She back flipped out of the way and landed a kick on him and he went down as well.
"What are they?" the boy asked.
"Taking cars that turn into robots. Or the other way around." Jack replied nervousness edging his voice.
"Other way around." I commented as I continued to watch.
One of the two purple robots, both of whom had a 'v' shaped red visor, as well as silver and purple armor decorating them, was continuing to have punches thrown at him, forced him back. We watched as she last hit sent the 'Cons' head to the side and he tilted it back to look at her. She tensed up but, back flipped several time to avoid being hit by the shots being fired at her, until one land square in her chest. I gasped aloud as she was knocked backwards, her metal armor scraping the ground.
"Are you ok?!" I yelled to her.
"Yeah. Don't sweat it, kid." she looked back at me and smirked. More squealing tires from above alerted us to a yellow Camaro that transform and landed in front of the 'Cons', punching one squarely in the face just has he rose. The motorcycle turned back to the fight at hand, grabbing her head and standing up. Meanwhile, the yellow and black Camaro to a step back and a loud crunch was heard.
Lifting its foot up we look and saw a yellow toy car in bits and pieces. The yellow bot turned and beeped and whirled noises at us. It took me a second as I realized he was apologizing.
"No problem, really." said the boy.
I turned to see one of the purple robots advance towards the yellow Camaro. "Look out!" I yelled, but the warning came too late as the 'Con' fired a shot that landed on the Camaro. He flew back landing on his chest, as he tried to get up, he was shoved back down by the one of the robots.
"Hey!" I barked at the 'Cons' who had him pinned.
My sentence was finished by the boy next to me, "Leave him alone!.. Please?" he said as the guns that were on the yellow bot turned towards us.
"Bad call." Jack said as we heard the cannons charging up, then one started after us.
"Come on, come on!" Jack yelled as we made our way around the corner. I threw my helmet on for safe keeping. I spotted a piece of metal rebar next to the wall, picking it up I jumped up to the large drainage pipe Jack and the boy went through. I waited til it bent down, as though to grab us and I swung at its visor as hard as I could, a crack formed through the red material and as it look back at me I shoved the metal bar as hard as I could into the crack.
It phased the robot long enough that I ran and caught up with Jack and the boy. Just when I thought it was going to grab me, it's arm was yanked back , various crushing noises were heard and we looked to see what happened. A familiar face of the yellow Camaro greeted us as he beeped and whirled noises at us.
"You guys ok? You need to get out of here." I realized he was saying.
"Thank you." the boy said.
"Yeah, thanks dude." I said smiling at him.
"Your welcome, now go!" he said in a light hearted tone.
"Don't look back." Jack said as he kneeled to the boy.
"What did we just see?" he asked to Jack.
"No idea and I'm not sure I want to find out." I rolled my eyes at his answer, uber creative Jack.
"What do you think! We just witnessed a giant alien robot deathmatch " I replied grinning from ear to ear. Which earned a glare from Jack and a smile from the boy.
It didn't take us very long to find our way out of the maze of tunneling drainage pipes back to into the city limits. When we made it out we had introduced ourselves and found we all went to the same school. Finding my bike again I walked with Jack back to get his bike as Raf ran to get home on time.
Home wasn't too far since the city wasn't large. I met Jack at his house since we lived across the street from each other, you could almost say I lived with him. My father had always been in the military, and when my mother died when I was five, we packed up and left traveling all over the nation together. When we landed in Jasper my father decided I was old enough to take care of myself and that I need to settle down into a good school to graduate.
Inside the house Jack flopped down on the couch and sighed, "Man, what a day." I sat in the recliner next to the couch and nodded my head in agreement.
*Elsewhere*
"And the Cons would have been scrap metal if I hadn't been distracted by the human." Acree finished with a sigh.
"Human?" Optimus questioned.
"Yeah, 2 boys and a girl." Bumblebee inserted.
"I guess the third once caught us in action... I don't know, I was a little busy at the time." Acree said somewhat harshly.
"If the Decepticons are targeting us, anyone perceived as our ally will be at grave risk." Optimus pointed out.
It was the end of the school day and Jack and I were leaving the building. Walking down the steps of the school I watched as he turned and found Raf sitting under a tree. I followed as he walked towards him.
"Raf, hey. Look let's just keep this between us and forget anything ever happened ok?" Jack stated.
A car horn caught our attention. "Jack!" Raf gasped as he saw the yellow Camaro turned roll up to us.
"Ah, not again!" Jack exasperated. The car door opened to reveal the inside to the sleek yellow muscle car.
"Hey Raf, Katherine, would you please get in?" he asked us through the radio in robotics.
"It wants us to get in?" Jack asked. I shook my head.
"No just me and Raf. Hey, I've got my bike, how about I follow you on that?" I asked. A whirl of 'alright' came through.
"How do you know that?" He asked
"It said so. Your's is over their." Raf pointed to the light blue and black motorcycle next to mine.
"Look I really don't think.." but Jack never finished.
"Hey how's it going?" Raf question as he got in and the door closed.
"Wait! Stop!"Jack said as the yellow car took off leave him in the middle of the street.
Jack rolled his eyes and turned away walking into the alley behind the school while the Camaro took off with Raf. I ran over to my bike and geared up before catching up with Jack. Apparently the motorcycle followed, because the next thing I know she rounded the corner, and slid to stand in front of us.
"Relax. I just want to talk to you." she explained.
"Don't you mean you and your new friend?" Jack said sarcastically. I glared at him, he could be a bit nicer.
"Kid there's a lot you don't understand." she said as the rider disappeared from sight.
"I- I get it. The first rule of robot fight club, is you don't talk about robot fight club." He answered as he backed up and made his way to the end of the alley. I couldn't help but laugh a bit at his comment of 'robot fight club'."What you don't understand is that I don't want a bunch of crazy, talking vehicles following me around, trying to get me killed." He finished.
I watched leaning up against the wall, as the motorcycle transformed into a bipedal robot. I was going with whether Jack did or not.
"Look. Jack is it? Your personal safety is exactly why Optimus Prime has requested your presence." she tried to explain.
"Wait, Optimus, who?"
"You may be in danger because you are the few, one of the only that have ever seen us."
"Dude! What are you waiting for?! Go with!" A new voice said excitedly. We looked over to see a young Asian girl leaning around the corner. She had a streak of pink through her bangs and two bon-bon with pink ends sitting on the top of her head.
"Smooth." I said turning back to the motorcycle almost giggling.
"Scrap." she almost growled almost annoyance.
Thanks for reading, I'll finish the rest of this in the next chapter. Please comment, and tell me how you like it so far, (even though I didn't add very much). Thanks again! :)
