Nightshift at KO
Beccalovesbumblebee- I know I haven't been active in the past couple of months. I have been having a hard time, and my writing kind of suffered. This is something I have been playing with, about two OC's in the Prime verse. This is the intro to Erick, and Bonecrusher. I do not in anyway own Transformers Prime in any way.
Chapter one
Erick was walking to Knock Out burger for the beginning of his shift. Jack Darby was just getting off for the night, and he waved casually at Erick as he put on his helmet and mounted his bike. Everyone noted the small grey sports car sitting in the parking lot of KO burger. No one knew who the car belonged to, but they all admired it before continuing home, or into Jasper's trademark fast food chain.
It was a slow night even for Jasper, and for Erick his shift couldn't end sooner. He just wanted out. It was warm, well hot in the kitchen of KO burger. A fresh sweat plastered Erick's forehead. He was hot, but you couldn't complain it was the beginning of summer and compared to what the heat would be in late July and August this was like they had the air on.
Flipping patties was the last thing that Erick wanted to spend his Thursday night doing, but he realized that if he was at work he would rather be working than standing around and doing nothing. He worked the front counter, and when it was time to shut down the dinning room he scrubbed tables, scraped gum from under the tables, swept, mopped, and did the bathrooms. His friend Emily was working sandwich board and manning the drive thru.
"Hey, Emily. How much longer we got?" Erick asked, walking out of the clean bathrooms, and back into the kitchen.
"Did you was your hands before returning to work sir?" Emily asked pausing to check her headset and wink, "You have ten minutes, I have to wait for the manager to come and take over." She yawned loudly.
"You sure you can cook, or are you going to take another nap on the grill?" Erick asked teasing her.
"Haha, you are so funny Rick. I am just going to nap in the clean bathrooms, or on one of the tables that you cleaned like a maid." This was the usual banter between Emily, and Erick, who were best friends outside of work.
At that point Emily walked into the dinning room to look out the window. "That car is still there." She looked at Erick's perplexed expression and continued. "That grey sports car that was parked in the lot before our shift started, no one has come back for it yet."
"Well here come those guys," Erick said pointing at the near black cars that seemed to patrol the area every night.
"What the gang?" Emily asked.
Erick nodded. He had a bad feeling about those people they were always in this area, but no one ever saw their faces. "Go back into the kitchen," Erick said in a tone that was as close to commanding as he could get with Emily. The cars pulled into the parking lot, and were checking out the car that had been sitting there all night without a problem. Erick felt himself being propelled forwards. He reasoned that if it was his car that he would want someone to stop it from being stolen, or vandalized.
Erick pushed the door open, and was about to go out, when Emily yelled at him. "Are you nuts? That is a gang! You are going to get yourself killed, and then who is in here to help me if they come in here after me?" Emily questioned.
"Don't open the door for anyone. Just clock me out," Erick said without a worry in his voice. "I will be fine." Before she could say anything else he walked out of KO burger and towards the grey vehicle.
Bonecrusher was sitting in the parking lot trying to figure out where she was going to go. This was the closest thing to a city that she had found since she crashed landed on Earth. Throughout the night a few people had observed her, but from their stares she could tell it was purely admiration with tinges of jealousy here and there. Bonecrusher was watching the sky, and waiting for the patrol of vehicons to head her way again. A fight was the perfect way to end her day. That was until that boy from inside the building came out to her rescue, just as the cons were ready to finally strike.
"Boy what in Primus' name are you doing?" Boncrusher's feminine voice muttered to herself. This kid approaching her just made her escape plan 100x more complicated, because now the Decepticons would perceive this boy as her ally, even though the boy had no idea what he was actually doing. She made sure that her doors were unlocked, and that it looked like there was a key in her ignition.
Erick walked to the driver's side door, and looked at the surrounding vehicles. "I don't know what your problem is, but this is my car," Erick yelled at the vehicons. They responded by turning on their headlights, and slowly moving closer to him, and Bonecrusher. The driver side door opened behind him, and hit him in the back.
"I really hate this idea, but get in kid," Bonecrusher thought to herself. She almost said it to the boy, but honestly didn't want to scare him just yet.
It took him a minute of staring into the car, before he got the message and finally climbed into the driver's seat. Erick noticed the key in the ignition, when he touched it the key seemed to turn itself.
"Come on kid, grab the wheel," Bonecrusher thought, trying to couch him through this.
As soon as Erick's hands touched the wheel the engine of the car revved, and the wheel turned, the car sped out of the parking lot. He wasn't controlling the car, it had a mind of it's own literally. Erick was getting nervous, and Bonecrusher could feel it. The radio made a crackling noise as it came alive.
"Take it easy kid," Bonecrusher finally spoke to Erick. She was focused on losing the Cons, but she knew in her spark that she needed to calm this kid as well.
He jumped at the sound of her voice. "What are you!" Erick yelled in a panic.
"No need to yell, kid. Let me lose the baddies that are tailing us, and then I will explain," Bonecrusher said calmly trying to distract him. "What's your designation?"
"My what?" Erick asked his confusion, only slightly masking his panic.
"Uhh your name," Bonecrusher stated. "Just hang in there, kid." She took a sharp turn off of the road.
"Where are we going?" Erick asked.
"You didn't answer my question," Bonecrusher stated.
"You haven't answered any of mine," Erick retorted.
"I will answer all of your questions, but right now I am kind of busy." The sass was evident in Bonecrusher's voice. The cons were closing in on them, and fight was evident.
"Then why ask me questions? If you don't have the time to talk." Erick sounded slightly hurt.
"I am just trying to keep you talking, and calm. Ever heard of a distraction." Bonecrusher was really angry, and Erick could hear it in her voice. She couldn't stop herself from sounding mad at him, but she felt awful about it as soon as she did. A sigh could be heard through the radio. "I'm not angry with you, I am angry with them."
"What are they?" Erick asked.
"They are like me," Bonecrusher stated simply, avoiding the real answer to that question.
"Talking cars." Erick shook his head.
"Yeah, I guess you could say that Kid," she really wasn't in the mood for explaining. Erick could feel her accelerating, the guys that were tailing us were falling behind.
"I think you are losing them lady," Erick sounded relieved.
"I'm no lady, and no they are calling for reinforcements." She stopped suddenly, and Erick hit the steering wheel hard.
"Hey! What's the big idea?" He asked.
"Get out, and hide," That came out as a stern command. Bonecrusher's door flew open. "There is a gap between those cliffs, big enough for you to get in, small enough where they can't." The bad guys were heading this way fast. "Run, hide, and keep your eyes closed if you know what's good for you." Erick ran to the hiding spot, and sat down in there. He listened to her for the most part, but he watched what happened.
Bonecrusher transformed, and got ready for the vehicons to come back. There were about ten of them.
"You guys really know how to make a femme feel welcome, now don't you?" Bonecrusher cooed at the cons.
Erick couldn't believe what he was seeing, the car turned into a robot! A giant freaking robot! The "gang members" were also robots. "What have I got myself into?" He asked himself quietly.
He looked at the grey cars body, and she was a lady. A lady that was about to get her ass kicked by a bunch of men. Erick couldn't watch, but as he turned away he heard the fight break out. Lady was kicking their asses, without much effort.
"No wonder Lord Megatron mass produces you jokers," Bonecrusher spat. "You need twenty of you guys to do any type of damage."
After she wounded most of them, and killed a couple they retreated. Bonecrusher went back into vehicle mode, even though she knew the kid had saw her. She just wasn't ready for him to see the scar on her face, and the blind optic she tried so desperately to hide. She pulled up to Erick's hiding place, and urged him to get in, this time in the passenger's seat.
"Come on, Kid." He came over to her slowly, getting in the car.
"My name is Erick, by the way," Erick introduced himself.
"You will laugh at my designation, but they call me Bonecrusher. BC for short."
He didn't laugh. "Not a very pretty name for a lady."
"After fighting in a war, no one is a femme anymore," She paused, "or a lady as you would put it."
Erick fell silent after that, he didn't really know what else to say. Bonecrusher started driving back the way that they came.
"Where are you taking me?" Erick asked.
"Back to where I found you," Bonecrusher stated cooly.
"Well, where are you going to go?" Erick questioned.
"Don't worry about me, Erick."
He opened his mouth to speak as she pulled into Knockout burgers parking lot. "Get out Erick. Trust me, it will be a lot safer for you if you stay away from me. Just forget what you saw," Bonecrusher commanded. "And if you see those cars again, stay away from them. They are the bad guys, they will kill, or torture you. I really don't want to see that happen."
"Then, why are you leaving?" Erick pleaded. "They may come back."
"They will come back if I'm around."
"You said you would answer my questions," Erick stated trying to stall her.
"I lied Erick. Now get out." The door flipped open. "Be a good kid."
He got out, and before he could say anything else Bonecrusher was gone. Erick stood there and watched her speed away under the half moon and a sky full of stars.