Okay yeah I know, BAD Kalli BAD. Why are you starting another Transfic when you already have a bumblebee one to finish! BECAUSE I WANT TOO. Well that and I'm fresh out of ideas for it. Actually I'm going to somehow mold and mix it into G1 series as well. This means I'll be doing some rewriting over the summer. Oh goodie. You know I probably wouldn't even be writing this if it weren't for my little Transformers Marathon today. I found my old Transformers: Cybertron. The ultimate collection DVDs and well as I said, had a marathon. [Just saying, I HATE this series of Transformers, but hey a fan girl needs her stuff. Actually, I bought a G1 series DVD but my friend KAIMALER [GIVE THEM BACK L] is borrowing them. [ and has been for months. { Anywayz, as you all serious, or very informed, Transfers out there know, BumbleBee, or Goldbug [which ever you prefer], does not appear in this series (at least to my knowledge, I'm only on the 3 and 4th disks out of 7) only Hotshot does.
On top of that, I grew up watching Transformers: Armada. Which ALSO, instead of Bumblebee/Goldbug, has HotShot. :] SO naturally, he was one of my favorites. In fact I think he was my first Transformer/Autobot I liked (Until I saw Starscream for the first time.).
ALSO I MUST NOTE THAT I WATCHED THIS EPISODE (CALLED CARNIVAL, its #7 I believe in the Armada series) THAT MY CHARACTER IS INTRODUCED IN. I'M NOT SURE WHY BUT IN THE SHOW CARLOS CALLED HIS SKATEBOARD SURESHOCK NOT GRINDOR. Which is weird because Alexis calls her scooter Minicon Sureshock too. BUT WHEN I SEARCHED FOR SURESHOCK ON SEVERAL DIFFERENT SEARCH ENGINES, THE IMAGES THAT CAME UP WERE THE ONE OF THE SCOOTER NOT THE SKATEBOARD. I AM SO CONFUSED. CAN ANYONE ENLIGHTEN ME ON THIS MATTER?
Anyway, ufntil then, I'm making the skateboard Grindor and the scooter Sureshock. It makes more sense to me.
Chapter 1: The Carnival
*Beep*
*Beep*
*Beep*
"Ugghhhh" I groaned. My cell phone's alarm clock beside me went ballistic as I reached over to the annoying phone, still in bed, with my eyes closed. Finally after many failed attempts, I opened my eyes groggily, and forced myself to sit up. The sun shone brightly in my eyes, causing me to blink rapidly, and rub my eyes.
*BEEP*
*BEEP*
*BEEP*
I looked to my red and white colored slider phone annoyed. It started to shake violently from ringing so long, as if it were getting impatient and annoyed. Sometimes I think the stupid thing had a mind of its own. Ha! Like that's possible. It started to ring even louder. Finally I picked up the phone from the nightstand.
"Yeah yeah, shut up." I muttered to myself shutting off the alarm on my phone and climbing out of bed. I went through my morning cycle, brushing my teeth, getting dressed, brushing my hair, etc.
"HEY BROOKE! YOU UP?" my father shouted from downstairs. I could faintly smell burnt bacon through my door that I had left cracked open last night.
"Yeah I'm up!" I yelled back in response.
"Good! I made breakfast! Hurry up! Or else we'll be late for the carnival!" He yelled as I came downstairs yawning.
Suddenly it hit me.
"Oh yeah that's right, the Cosmos Go Research Center's carnival is today!" I said happily. The carnival was always fun and every year they would have newly updated technology on display, games and other stuff. I, being the science/engineer/mechanic geek that I am, personally enjoy the technology part.
A plate of food, if you could call it that, was dropped in front of me. My face contorted into a disgusted face. The bacon was burnt, the eggs were…green? And the strawberries had white fuzzy stuff on it. There was NO way I was going to touch that.
"Here eat up so we can leave" Dad said grabbing his keys and walking out the door to the car. I looked back down at the food.
"Yeah, I think I lost my appetite" I muttered to myself, and discarded the food in the trash. I sighed, wishing mom was here. She always had made the best blueberry pancakes…
I walked out the door and got in the car.
"That was quick." My dad commented putting the key in the ignition and backing out of the driveway. I shrugged.
"I wasn't hungry." Was all I said.
The drive to the carnival was very uneventful and boring. My father and I never really had anything to talk about, other than mechanics and the latest technology of course.
As soon as we got her my father had met up with his friend and his friends little 5 year old boy, Aron. I, having no patience for children or that natural motherly instinct for some odd reason, went my own way. I didn't feel like entertaining him while my father and his friend had all the fun.
Not only 5 minutes after I had left them, my stomach growled loudly. People around me glanced in my direction. I blushed in embarrassment and quickly made my way over the nearest food stand, which happen to be Pizza.
"Watch out! Hey coming through!" I heard a Mexican looking kid wearing a yellow jacket and a red helmet riding on an abnormally large skate board yell at me. I looked to my side and gasp, jumping out of the way quickly barley in time to missed being run over. My Pizza fell to the ground, and I landed on my butt.
"Sorry about that!" a blond-haired guy riding on a blue bike, wearing a blue helmet, khakis, a white t-shirt, and a blue jacket, yelled at me as he passed me by. I huffed, blowing stray strand of my dark chocolate brown hair out of my face, and glared at them.
"Hey wait up Carlos!" I heard him yell as they turned a corner. I quickly got to my feet and looked at my fallen pizza.
"Oh they'll pay for that." I growled and took off running in the direction they had left in.
Soon I came to the edge of the Carnival, woods lined the outside, and there was a path that went through.
"Robots!" "Wow look!" I heard children shouting and looked to my right.
A small crowd had gathered around three short robots, one peach, another yellow and the last one was silver and blue. Completely forgetting the stupid jerks, I walked up to the crowd in awe. I'd never have though they would have researched and come up with actual complex robots!
"Gee, I didn't know they were doing robotics development here at the observatory." I saw my father's friend comment. Little Aron sat on top of his shoulders staring at the robots.
"Yeah but these models are probably just using a preprogrammed chip. Pretty low tech junk" my father commented back, acting as if he knew all about robotics.
I rolled my eyes. He was good with mechanics sure, but it was all cars and junk, he knew nothing about more high tech stuff like robotics. I on the other hand was on my schools robotics team and I was studying to become robotic and/or mechanical engineer. I knew all about this stuff. And trust me, this was anything but low tech.
"Ahh low tech Yeah right." I heard the familiar voice of the jerk that knocked me down.
"Well I guess this means we can stop worrying and have ourselves a good time" Blonde said back to him.
'Okay now THAT'S suspicious. What do they mean not have to worry?' I thought to myself. Hmph, time to investigate. I smiled mischievously, and then remembered my forgotten pizza. Well at least I have a motive to talk about.
I put on an angry face and stopped my way over to them through the crowd. They hadn't noticed me.
"Ahh yeaahh, but still it would have been fun to surprise someone with our buddies though" The black haired one, Carlos I think Blonde had shouted, said a little disappointed.
I was about to walk behind them and confront them, but stopped as the skateboard and the bike started shaking, and making beeping noises. Immediately my curiosity peeked. I stayed behind them.
'Carlos' and Blonde panicked a little and suddenly the board and the bike slide out from under them, moving on their own. Suddenly, they started moving, rather transforming. They transformed into robotic things, very similar to the other robots from the carnival.
"Ahh no!"
"High wire!"
"Grindor!"
"Why'd you have to get into the act?" The blonde one finished.
I gasped loudly in shock. They turned around.
"Oh crap!" Carlos said.
The two robots started to run off to the crowd.
"Hey get back here!" Blonde called, failing to get the two robots attentions. He turned back to me.
"Ahh No what are we supposed to do now?" Carlos said a little panicked.
"Okay. WHAT just happened? What were those?" I questioned, putting my hands on my hips. Now that they knew that I saw them, I had the right to demand answers.
Blonde and Carlos looked at each other uneasily.
"Uhh uh we can't tell you!" Carlos said making up a pitiful excuse of a lie. I raised an eyebrow.
"Oh and why not?" I questioned in doubt, "I saw those robots transform! And I'm smart enough to know that man could not have possibly developed such advanced technology. Those things had a mind of their own!"
"Ummm it's classified?" Blonde said in a weak voice. God, these two were so easily intimidated. Well that just makes it all the more easier for me.
"Liar" I stated and started towards them, "tell me."
They remained silent. I sighed in frustration.
"I promise that whatever you say will not leave me lips. Whatever stupid secret you guys are keeping is safe with me." I said putting my hand over my heart swearing.
"Plus you OWE me for making me drop my breakfast." I glared at them. Finally they caved.
"…alright I guess you deserve to know. BUT you can't say a word about them." Blonde said. I nodded.
"By the way I'm Rad White. And this is Carlos." Rad said, I nodded again and motioned for him to keep going.
"A couple of days ago..." he began telling the story.
[I'm not going to go on into the whole detail part because I'm lazy and I'm sure you ALL know the story of the Autobots and Decepticons already. Otherwise you wouldn't even be reading this now would you?]
"So now do you see why it's so important to keep it a secret? Our worlds depend on it!" Carlos exaggerated, waving his arms in the air. I nodded.
"Yeah okay sure. I won't tell" I paused as they let out relieved breathes, "but on one condition." The both snapped their heads up at me.
"What condition is that?" Rad asked hesitantly, or was he nervous? It was hard to tell.
"That I join you guys." I said and then added, "I want to help, and it seems with the repairs on your base, that I could be of some use to you guys. I'm studying to be an engineer in mechanics and robotics." I smiled.
Carlos and Rad looked at each other, a little hesitantly.
"Well I guess, but you'll have to ask Prime himself." Rad said thoughtfully.
I nodded and smiled.
"Alright then. Let's go!" I said standing up from my sitting position. They stood up too.
"Wait, right now?" Carlos asked.
I nodded, "Yes, now."
Did I sound a little demanding? Oh well.
"But what about the carnival, we need to look after the bots. And make sure they don't give us away or anything" Rad asked.
I sighed, a little disappointed.
"Okay let's go"
We ended up playing games and eating popcorn for the rest of the time. After a while we went to the top of a houses porch.
I looked around worriedly.
"Should we even be up here? I mean this is someone's house." I said, but they didn't seem to hear me.
"Look at those clowns! Their stealing the show!" Rad said popping a piece of popcorn into his mouth. I looked down at the parade. Sure enough those 3 robots from before were marching in the parade. High wire and Grindor started beeping. I wish I knew what they were saying.
"What that guys? You guys thinking about show biz?" Carlos said laughing.
"Maybe you guys want to because it's new to you, but as far as I'm concerned the transformers are way more interesting." Rad said putting another popcorn piece in his mouth.
"Yeah I agree with Rad, you guys are way better." I said and stole some of Reds popcorn.
After a while we made our way down from the house. We were currently standing against the corner of the house where no one could see us, or at least we thought they wouldn't.
"I think we should be getting Sparkplug and the others back soon." Rad said, making us all stop.
"Aww already? But we have plenty of time!" Carlos said trying to convince Rad to stay longer.
I smiled. Maybe I'd get to meet Optimus Prime!
I crossed my arms and put on a serious look.
"Rad's right, this is risky enough already. I think we should head back to base." I said.
"You're only saying that because you wanna see the base and meet Optimus." Carlos argued.
I grinned.
"Yep" I replied to his accusation.
Sparkplug beeped something.
"See you heard Grindor, he wants' to stay!"Carlos said.
"Drop it" Rad replied in a commanding way, "Come on hurry up and transform back into vehicle mode."
The robots talked amongst themselves, seemingly disappointed and then shifted back into a skateboard and a bicycle.
Carlos and Rad got onto the Minicons.
"Hey what about me?" I complained, not having a Minicon partner of my own to ride on.
"Here, hop on and wrap your hands around my waist." Carlos said.
I looked at him disdainfully, but did it anyway since there was no room on.
Later, we found the rest of the Minicons surrounded by a group of kids still. We all stopped and Rad and Carlos started a fight with the little kids, trying to get them to leave the mini cons alone so that we could go back to the base. I wasn't really paying attention to what they were saying. Rather I was paying attention to the two approaching figures. Sure enough Billy and Fred showed up, holding a net and a rope. Oh god, what exactly are they going to do with those! My eyes widened, imagining the worse.
"Hello boys" Billy said in a teasing way. I glared at him. Then again I don't think he even saw me.
"I see you got yourself some pretty decent looking hardware." Billy said.
"I bet that skate board and the bike are robots too aren't they?" Fred said pointing.
Carlos and Rad tensed up.
"We saw them back there!" he said.
"Saw what? Back where?" Carlos said.
"Don't give me that. You know exactly what we're talking about." Billy said. I gritted my teeth. The nerve of these two. Ugh, they were jerks!
"The alien that came from far away to invade our planet" Fred said accusingly.
I rolled my eyes, 'Oh lord.'
"Fred you're such a loser." Billy sighed.
"Billleey, follow you gut instincts" Fred complained in the most annoying tone I think I've EVER heard.
Billy looked at him with a 'wtf?' face and the sighed in frustration.
"Why don't we just fast forward to the part where we capture them." Billy said. My eyes widened. Kidnap? Really? These guys are messed up in the head!
All of us took off running while they were still looking at each other. I looked back at them for a sec.
'Good lord, I swear their gay.' I thought to myself as I ran with Sparkplug. We and two of the other bots turned left while Carlos and Rad went right. I looked behind us, Fred and Billy were running in place talking, and then they started running after us. I gasped and looked forward again. I was beginning to fall behind, so I ran to keep up with Sparkplug. We ran through various of stands. Somewhere is the mix Sparkplug and I got separated. I ran through the crowd of people trying to find at least one of them. If I couldn't then I would lose my chance! They wouldn't be able to contact me or find me!
Squinting my eyes, I looked into the distance for a familiar face, or bot. Behind a wood stand I spotted two head poking out. I ran to them just in time, because before they could say anything we all heard a tire screech behind us. Our attention turned to a yellow car. It was beautiful. Its coat shinned in the sunlight, and its design amazed me. I'd never seen another car like it. Maybe it was a foreign one? Whatever it was it must be expensive! I stared in awe.
"Hot shot! Man are we glad to see you!" Rad said. My eyes widened. Of course it was an Autobot! That's why I've never seen the model before! He was from another planet! A Grin appeared across my face.
"That's an Autobot!" I yelled in excitement. I could feel goose bumps rise on my skin. Hey who wouldn't be excited? It's not every day you meet an alien race from another planet that's intelligent and doesn't want to dissect you or destroy you're race!
"Yeah! That's Hotshot." Carlos said to me.
"Oh Cool!" I yelled again.
Suddenly the car door opened. A girl in white pants and a peach-red top got out.
"DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT KIND OF TROUBLE YOUR IN?" she said in the pissiest and nagging voice I think I've ever heard. Forget Fred and Billy she was even MORE annoying. Rad and Carlos gasped and shrunk in fear; both of them had guilty looks on their faces. I snickered, this must be Alexis.
"I KNOW EXACTLY what the two of you have been up too! Let's just say a little birdie told me." She said pointed upward and a little mechanical bird thing landed in her hand.
"Oh cool! What's that? Is that another Minicon?" I asked aloud, but she seemed to either not hear me, or she was just ignoring me.
"Owe, busted. Thought we could get away with it." Rad said looking at Carlos.
I huffed.
"And just HOW were you going to explain me?" I inquired. They both shrugged in an 'I don't know' manor. I rolled my eyes and sighed.
"Yeah you would think that, and get these guys back to the base on the double okay? And about her, well we need her to speak to Optimus. I'm very disappointed in you guys" she said in a motherly like tone, her hands rested on her hips and put her chest out slightly in an authoritative manner. Oh please.
"What should I click my heels together 3 times? You got all the ideas, you do it." Carlos said turning around and looking at the ground.
Alexis sighed.
"Let's just go find the others" Alexis said.
Hotshot transformed and we started walking around the place looking for the Minicons.
I walked behind a little, not really knowing what to do. And I will admit to being a little intimidated be the two newest people, especially the Autobot. He was HUGE. Bigger than I had imagined him to be, then again I was thinking only a little taller than Minicon size. Alexis and Hot shot fell back a little, putting me in the middle of them.
Alexis looked at me, and smiled. I smiled hesitantly, not really knowing what to do.
"Hi I'm Alexis. I'm sorry those Buffoons had to get you into this mess." She said glancing briefly at them to give them a glare.
"Oh it's nothing! It wasn't their fault actually, I was the one who insisted they tell me after I saw Grindor and Highwire transform." I said nervously. I laughed a little.
"Oh…and you didn't think to tell anyone, or that they might take over the world?" Alexis questioned.
I shook my head.
"Well at first I wasn't sure what to believe, but…I don't know. I'm an opened minded person, and I don't like to judge or come to conclusions before I fully understand the person or situation." I paused as she nodded at me and then I added, "I'm studying to become an engineer in Mechanics and Robotics. So I was sort of intrigued by the bots even before I knew. And then after hearing the whole story…I sort of thought that I could be of some use, with the repairs and stuff."
"Really? That would be awesome" I heard a mechanical voice speak from beside me. I jumped in surprise and looked up at the big yellow robot. He was smiling down at me.
"huh? Oh sorry, I didn't mean to scare you." He apologized faltered a little.
I smiled encouragingly at him.
"No it's okay; it was just the first time you've spoken to me yet. I wasn't really sure what to expect." I said.
He grinned again and stopped. Turning to me, he held of his finger.
"I'm Hotshot." He said. I took his finger in my grasp and shook it.
"I'm Brooke Emerson." I said.
"Hey love birds! Hurry up and catch up!" Alexis's annoying nagging voice yelled at us from ahead. I blushed.
'Love birds? What the hell?' I thought a little annoyed. Just because we we're talking amongst ourselves didn't mean we're 'love birds.'
I let go of Hotshot's hand and ran to catch up with the guys who were stopped, waiting for us. I heard Hotshot following behind me.
Soon, we found Jolt backed against the wall, Fred and Billy cornered him. A bunch of kids surrounded Jolt, trying to fend them off. Hotshot walked up and kneeled behind Billy and Fred. The little kids got scared and ran away. Hotshot Grinned as Fred slowly turned around. He got scared and quickly faced the front, and then spent about a minute getting Billy to turn around.
"Scuse me I'm not interrupting anything am I?" he asked in an over confident voice. He started reaching for Jolt.
"Sorry guys but it would break my CPU to see Jolt go, friends like him are hard to come by" he said smoothly. I laughed; he certainly did live up to his name.
All the sudden, Jolt transformed and carried the two frightened bullies off. They screamed as Jolt flew around and then finally they fell onto a hot air balloon.
"Hotshot you've gotta get them down!" Rad yelled in worry. I don't see how, I mean they were idiots for messing with highly advanced robots from outer space.
"Yeah I know, but it'll take some time since I can't use my own guns around here." He said and then looked around for something he could use. He spotted the shooting cage games.
"Aha! I've found my weapon." He said and walked over to the kid who was currently playing the game.
"Hey kid mind if I borrow that for a second?" he asked, and took the gun/cannon. He started to twirl it, doing all these tricks with it.
"Show off" I muttered smiling.
The kid watched in awe and then ran to his mother trying to tell her how he saw some big yellow robot doing tricks. I laughed. How cute.
Hotshot took the gun and shot it at the hot air balloon. He transformed, back up and then sped off. Suddenly he went off the road, using the side as a ramp, headed straight for the hot air balloon.
He transformed in mid-air and as the hot air balloon popped, he caught Billy and Fred in his palms.
"Jolt over here!" he called and the small Minicon attached to Hotshot's back, allowing him to fly to safety.
I watched with my mouth open, gawking. That had to have been the coolest thing I'd ever seen…then again I never really did get out much, I was always content alone with a good book or something…
Hotshot landed in front of us four, and then gently put Billy and Fred down.
"Maybe you should be the idea guy" Billy said to Fred while rubbing his head.
Suddenly the same group of kids ran up.
"Hey that was cool!" one said
"NO it wasn't just cool it was hot!" Another said.
Hotshot kneeled to them and grinned.
"Hey thanks kids. My friend Jolt here would like to thank all of you too." He said. I rolled my eyes but grinned anyway. Such a crowd pleaser.
The kids started bombarding Hotshot with questions about Jolt and himself.
"I don't believe this." Billy muttered.
"Well you should." I said turning to them.
"Yeah and you can't let anyone know what happened here today, and they mean anyone." Rad said.
"Cuse who's to say if you decide to blab." Carlos said.
"Let's say for instance-"Fred started but I interrupted him.
"Honestly do you really want to make him mad?" I said pointing at Hotshot.
"Yeah let's just say you don't wanna mess with his temper." Alexis added.
Billy and Fred looked behind them at Hotshot.
He laughed at something the kids said.
They turned back to us.
"We promise" Billy said
"Not to tell a soul about what happened here today." Fred finished.
"Alrighty kids." Hotshot started.
"AT YOUR SERVICE!" Billy and Fred shouted at the same time.
"This transformers punching out for the day" Hotshot saluted and transformed into his car mode.
"Stand back kids! Don't want anyone to get hurt!" he said, "and remember all bots are equal!" He said. Alexis jumped in his front passenger seat and I followed her example, jumping in the back. We drove off, leaving Carlos and Rad to ride home on Grindor and Highwire.
I stared at their figures, rapidly disappearing into the distance.
After I could no longer see their silhouettes, I sighed and sat back into my seat. Surprisingly, Hotshot's interior was very comfy. The material was different than I thought it might look like (Not that I spend a whole lot of time thinking about his interior. That would be a little creepy. Thinking about being inside of him I mean). In fact, it didn't even look like it was of Earth material.
'Well, that sort of does make since.' I thought to myself. He wasn't from Earth after all. The material was soft, but very sturdy. It also had these tiny patterns on it, making it look like nothing from this world.
I took my attention off of the seat, losing interest in it and looked up at the front. Alexis had her ear buds in her ears, and was playing with her cell phone. I decided not to bother her and turned my gaze to the window, resting my head on the doors seal. I stared out at the forest of trees that past by us, and started tracing the patterns on the seal out of boredom. It was probably my imagination, but I could almost hear a soft purring. It was probably just me.
Maybe I should go get that checked out...
After some time, I watched as the forested tree's soon turned into shrubs, which turned into rocks and sand.
I sighed. We had been traveling in Hotshot for at least 20 minutes now, and I had nothing to do. I considered just taking a nap, but I had no idea how far away we were from our destination.
I turned back around to the front, getting bored of watching the scenery outside. I mean, who watches rocks and sand and doesn't get bored of it. Alexis was no longer playing with her phone, and her ear buds were gone. She was looking at me in a bit of a daze.
"Umm...yes?" I asked awkwardly. She seemed to snap out of whatever trance she was in.
"Oh! Sorry, I was just trying to figure out what we're gonna do with you," she said, "I mean now that you know our secret…" she trailed off.
"What do you mean what are we going to do with her? Oh course we're going to let her stay Alexis." Hotshot said.
Alexis turned back to the front.
She shrugged.
"Well okay, if you say so. I mean you do know Optimus better than I do."
There was silence for a while. I'm not sure for how long, but I seemed to go into a daze, thinking about the Autobots, the Minicons…the Decepticons. All this stuff seemed to come so fast…so much to comprehend. I guess I was just now coming to the realization of it all.
All the sudden I felt my pocket vibrating and my cell phone started playing the "Super Mario Brothers theme song".
Alexis looked back at me from the front seat. I smiled sheepishly and took the cell phone out of my pocket and checked the caller ID.
'DAD' appeared on the screen in bold letters.
'Oh crap! I totally forgot about him! Oh no, he must think I got kidnapped or something!' I thought in a panic. I hesitated for a moment. Should I even pick it up? I mean I was never really on good terms with him. Ever since mom left, he'd sort of drifted away. We never really had much in common (other than technology) and hardly talked as much. Even if he did seem distant though, I could tell he still loved, or cared, about me. So of course he would be worried.
I decided to pick it up. Oh god, what was I gonna tell him? I looked up at Alexis, who was staring at me strangely, a questioning look on her face.
"It's my dad! What am I going to do?" I said panicked.
Alexis thought for a moment.
"Tell him you met up with a friend from school and that you're spending the night with them." She suggested.
"And who is this friend? He's going to want a name!" I asked.
"Well duh, me of course!" she smiled, pointing to herself.
I hesitated for a second, but then pressed the answer key.
"Hello?" I asked hesitantly.
"BROOKE! Oh my god! Are you okay? The robots went a little hay wire and there was this huge panicked crowd and-"he freaked out into the phone. I cut him off, wanting to prevent a heart attack.
"Dad it's okay. I'm fine. I actually ran into my friend" I looked at Alexis, she was watching me. A grin appeared on her face, "from school. I couldn't-"I was unable to finish because my father cut me off, seemingly calmed down a little.
"You made a friend from school? That's awesome hunny!" I blushed from embarrassment. It's not that I wasn't unsocial or anything. I mean don't get me wrong, I do have friends, just not close ones. So I rarely ever have any friends over. If I do it's either to work on a robot, or some school project. Plus, I never really took the initiative to find one either, I always did prefer to be alone, with my work and such. I enjoyed the silence.
I sighed.
"As I was saying, I couldn't find you, so she said that I could spend the night at her house." I finished.
"What's her name?" he inquired, "when am I going to meet her."
"Her names Alexis dad" I said, "and I don't know."
He was silent for a second, he was hesitating.
"HI Mr. Emerson!" Alexis yelled to my phone from the front.
"Oh, is that her?" he asked excitedly. Honestly, I just think he is dragging this conversation on just to talk to me. Now that I think about it, this was probably the longest conversation we've had in about a month or so.
"Yes, dad. So you don't mind if I stay the night?" I asked him.
"Yeah sure it's fine, stay as long as you want to with your new friend!" he said excitedly. I wasn't sure if it was because he would have the house to himself, or if he actually cared that I had a new friend. Although at this point I didn't really care.
"Okay then, bye" I said and hung up. I released a breath of air that I hadn't noticed I'd been holding in.
"Hey girls, put your seat belts on, we're about to arrive at the base!" Hotshot's voice came out of the radio.
I jump in surprise.
He chuckled through the speakers as I quickly put on my seat belt. Alexis seemed to have already put it on beforehand.
"Sorry, didn't mean to scare you." He apologized. I didn't say anything; I was too busy staring at the Rock wall we we're about to crash into. We we're only seconds away from hitting it.
"OH MY GOD! WATCH OUT!" I screamed closing my eyes, and wrapping my arms around my head, expecting the worse.
…
But it never came; there was no crash, no nothing. All I could feel was us going downhill.
I cautiously opened my eyes, and slowly started to unwrap my arms from around myself. My eyes turning into large saucers as we rolled downward into the base.
All the sudden Hotshot picked up speed.
"wwwOOOOOAAAHHH!" I yelled as we approached the end of the downhill ramp at a fast speed. All the sudden we touched onto the flat surface. Immediately Hotshot did a 360 spin, and then gracefully coming to a complete halt. He started laughing at my response, finding amusement from nearly scaring me to death. Alexis seemed to not mind, maybe even enjoyed it a little from the grin plastered on her face.
As soon as he stopped, Alexis unbuckled her seat belt and got out, as if nothing had happened.
Shaking slightly from nearly having a heart attack, I unbuckled my seat belt as well and slowly climbed out of him. As soon as I closed the door, I heard gears starting to shift and turned around to see Hotshot transforming into his natural form. I stared in awe. It was still new to me. He laughed again, making me realize that I was staring up at him, gawking. I shut my mouth, blushing. He laughed again.
"YOU GET IT? YOU WILL NEVER EVER DISOBEY ME AGAIN!" I heard Alexis yelling in a motherly tone. I turned around to see her standing in front of Carlos and Rad with her hands on her hips. She started nagging at them about how they should be more careful and threatening them about consequences and such. It surprised me how she could go from a smiling happy go lucky person to an angry nagging (and annoying) mother. Maybe she was Bi-polar?
"Oh yeah and one more thing I forgot to mention. You guys better get cleaning!" she said.
"Yeah, yeah we heard it before. It's an official base, not our own hang out." Carlos groaned.
"Hey loose the attitude and get a move on" Alexis said and walked away towards me.
"Hey your back!" I heard a loud confident, deep voice say, "Where did you guys go?"
I turned around to see a red, white and blue colored bot walking towards us. He was larger than Hotshot. I supposed this was Optimus Prime, the great leader of the Autobots.
He stopped when he was in front of Hotshot. Hotshot looked up at him.
"Yeah sorry for not telling you. Carlos and Rad ran off with some of the Minicons to some carnival, and we," gesturing to Alexis and himself, "had to go get them before we got noticed or found out." Hotshot explained.
He nodded and then looked down, noticing me.
"I see you brought along a friend." he stated.
Hotshot nodded.
"Yeah, she saw Highwire and Grindor transform and then Rad and Carlos had to tell her. She says she wants to help us too." He said, and then smiled down at me.
"You do?" Optimus asked and kneeled down to me.
I nodded, "Yeah, actually I think I could be of some use to you guys. I'm majoring in Mechanics and robot engineering. This place is amazing" I said emphasizing the last part and looked around. I looked back at him. He seemed to be listening intently.
"I think it would be cool to work with you guys, it'd really help me with my studies, and I think what you guys are doing is great. It sounds fun." I finished. Optimus looked thoughtful.
"Alright that sounds good, welcome to the team…uh" he trailed off as he offered his hand.
"Brooke. Brooke Emerson at your service" I smiled and took his hand (more like finger) and shook it.
"Welcome to the team Brooke." He said happily. I'm pretty sure that if he had a mouth, (or if he had one and wasn't hiding it behind his mask) he would be smiling.
A/N: Okay then, that's the end of chapter one for now. Why? BECAUSE IT'S SO FRICKIN LONG! OH MY LORD. Actually I think this is the longest chapter of any story I've typed out in 1 day! This thing took me like 5 hours (mostly because I was getting sidetracked by cleaning my room). Okay then…Well review and tell me what you think.