Title: How Quickly Love Turns To Hate
By: Moonlit Sea
Summary: "I don't wanna see or hear from any of you ever again. As far as I'm concerned, we've never even met."
Chapter One
A young woman with shoulder length brown hair sat reading a book on the now empty train, not that she would know since this part of the train was always empty at this time, as she waited for her stop. She heard a soft dreamy sigh and looked up, her brown eyes scanning the compartment, there was no one there. She shrugged thinking it to be her imagination and went back to reading her book. The train pulled into the station, she got off and had barely walked a few steps when a voice said, "Hey Honey." And got pulled into a hug. She heard a gasp from behind her and looked back seeing the train go off without its carriages, she thought that was strange since it had another route to run. She looked back at the young man whom she knew well and hit him over the head with her book. "What have I told you about calling me that." She said annoyed.
"Ah come on, Sis. It was only a joke." The guy chuckled "You know what they all say."
"That you're an annoying pain in the ass at times." She said still annoyed. "Joe…"
"Okay, okay. I'm sorry, now let's get going, huh." turning to leave, he'd only walked a couple of steps when he realised that she wasn't following he looked back at her. "Sis? You coming?"
She sighed as she looked in the direction the train had gone. "No, you go ahead. I'll catch up later." And began to walk off towards the forest.
Joe watched her as much as he wanted her to come he knew that there were times that she needed to be alone, he also knew when something was bothering her and decided to ask her later about it as he didn't want to be late and set off for his destination.
The young woman found a quiet little place, sat down at the base of the tree and began reading her book again. She'd only been there a few minutes when a voice said. "Excuse me." She looked up but only saw a light grey train on the tracks in front of her, which she hadn't noticed before she looked round but saw no one else. She looked back at the train a slight look of confusion on her face. Did that train just talk? She wondered to herself.
"Could you come with me please?" The voice said again.
She placed her book down and leaned forward slightly. "And you are?"
"Rapid Run, and I need you to come with me." He repeated.
"Rapid Run?" she said trying to think where she'd heard the name before. "You're an Autobot." She stated.
"That's right." He replied.
She got up and headed toward the train, she got in and he headed off. "So where are we going, Rapid Run?" she asked.
"Call me Rapid, and we're goin' to help Midnight Express." He replied as his face appeared on the monitor.
"Midnight Express?" she asked confused.
"The three thirty you took a few minutes ago."
She was surprised that the train she normally took was an Autobot. "But why would…" she began, confused as to how she could help, after all she wasn't an Autobot just a simple human. She suddenly remembered how her cousin was helping them out and decided to wait and see what she could do.
"Mind if I ask you a question?" Rapid asked.
"Sure."
"Who was the guy that met you at the station?" he asked.
She blinked for a moment not really expecting the question, "You mean my brother? Brown hair, blue eyes, real pain in the ass at times." She chuckled at her own little joke "Yeah, he and I are close. In fact, we're so close people say that if we weren't related we'd be dating, which is what people who don't know us think. He thinks of it all as one big joke and calls me 'Honey' or 'Dear' or whatever whenever he gets the chance." She explained. "Why do you wanna know?" now curious as to why he asked.
"Midnight's kinda got a thing for you." Rapid Run replied.
"Hmmm, that would explain the uh…'special treatment' I kinda get and why he sounded kinda upset." Now realising why her compartment was always empty.
"Special treatment? Upset?" he asked both curious and intrigued by what he just heard.
"Yeah when my brother called me 'Honey' I heard a gasp and then he went off… your friend that is, not my brother." Avoiding the 'special treatment' subject.
"What's your name?" Rapid suddenly asked, realising he hadn't asked yet.
"Sara." She replied.
Just then another face appeared on a different monitor, "Rapid Run, where are you? Midnight's…"
"On my way, Rail Spike. Had to pick up someone." Interrupting the bullet train leader.
Rail Spike smiled softly at seeing the human female and gave a small nod, "I'll see you when you get here."
"Who was…" she began.
"That's Rail Spike, you'll see him when we get there." He answered.
"Oh… are all the trains Autobots?" she suddenly asked then felt stupid for voicing what should have been a thought that stayed in her head, her face turned a slight shade of red.
Rapid Run laughed, "No, there's only Rail Spike, Midnight Express and I. We're Team Bullet Train."
Sara searched her memory trying to remember where she'd heard that name before. That's right, they were the guys who saved my cousin on that train that went out of control. She decided to change the subject and find out more about this 'thing' Midnight Express had for her. "So… how long has… Midnight Express?" she asked mid-sentence wondering if she got the name right, she saw Rapid give a nod and continued. "How long has he uh… liked me?"
"Not quite sure, Rail Spike and I only found out a few weeks ago." The train replied. "After we did found out though, he wouldn't stop talking about you."
Sara felt her face begin to heat up with embarrassment again. They arrived a few minutes later and she got out. "So where are they?" she asked looking round but seeing no one.
Rapid Run transformed and placed a hand on the ground for her to climb on, which she did and began to walk in the direction of the others. "This way."
They reached a clearing divided up by rocky mountainsides and trees and saw the two other Autobots.
"Wow, preeeetty." Sara said in a low voice thinking she was saying it in her head as she saw who she believed to be Midnight Express.
"You realise you said that out loud, right?" Rapid Run said looking at her. She looked up at him and went red with embarrassment looking down at the ground as he walked over to the two trains. "Hey Midnight, I brought someone to cheer you up."
Midnight Express looked over at Rapid Run a slight confused look on his face, then saw that he was carrying someone. As soon as he saw her in Rapid's hand he froze.
She smiled at him and waved. "Hi." After getting no reaction besides staring she looked over at Rail Spike.
"My names Rail Spike." The white and blue train said.
Sara stood up and held out her hand, "Nice to meet you Rail Spike, I'm Sara." Shaking the Autobot's hand/finger. She turned back to Midnight Express. "So you must be Midnight Express." She said, to which the white and dark blue train fainted being caught just in time by Rail Spike. She looked up at Rapid Run "What'd I say?" she asked confused.
After Rail Spike lay Midnight Express down Sara sat back down on Rapid's hand while the two Autobots sat on the ground, telling them a bit about herself.
"So you don't have anyone?" Rapid asked curiously.
She shook her head. "No, because of my closeness with my brother they all think we're dating. As I told you earlier." She sighed sadly, "Would be nice to have someone though…How's Koji?" suddenly changing the subject.
"How do you know Koji?" Rail Spike asked being both curious and cautious at the same time.
"He's my second cousin. I went to see him two days after the Predacons took his dad. Poor kid."
They heard some movement and looked at Midnight Express, Sara gave a small evil smile and looked at up Rapid Run. "Think it would be mean if I was there sitting on his chest when he woke up."
Rapid Run gave a small chuckle, "I would like to see his reaction to that. What do say, Spike?" looking over at the bullet train leader.
"I don't know…" he replied hesitantly as he thought, "He might offline again."
"Come on, you know you're just as curious as I am to see what he'd do." With a sigh Rail Spike gave a nod and Rapid carefully placed the young woman on Midnight's chest. Sara couldn't help but chuckle as she saw the trains 'eyes' begin to light up.
When Midnight Express powered up his optics the first thing he saw was her sitting on his chest "Hi." She said and smiled "Your not going to faint again are you?" he shook his head and she smiled happily. "That's good. What happened anyway? All I said was s…"
"Sara." Rail Spike interrupted making the female look over at him "Perhaps you should let Midnight sit up."
She looked back at Midnight and gave a nod, "Sure." She crawled on all fours towards the edge of the train's chest unintentionally giving him a good view of her rear and embarrassing the poor bullet train even more as he watched her while also trying to ignore the snickering chuckle coming from Rapid Run. As she reached the edge she hung her legs off the side intending to jump down when a blue hand appeared beneath her, she looked back over at him and smiled "Thank you." Then dropped slightly to the hand, which carefully helped her to the ground.
Just as Midnight sat up a voice said, "Well look what we have here."
"Sky-Byte!" Rail Spike said.
"What do you want, Fish Face?" Rapid Run asked insultingly.
"What, can't a shark just fly around?" he asked trying to sound innocent.
Before anyone else could say anything Sara suddenly said, "Hey you, you pain the ass flying freak."
Upon seeing the human female Sky-Byte suddenly became terrified, "Oh no!" and started to fly off but Sara followed him shouting insults along the way.
"Sara, come back." Rapid Run shouted but she didn't hear him.
Sara kept following the shark until she ran into a blue flying squirrel, a red frog and a black skunk. "What do you three want?" She said insultingly.
"You're coming with us." Gas Skunk said.
"Yeah right, if I ain't afraid of that idiotic shark then I'm sure as hell not going to be afraid of you."
The three transformed and Slapper picked her none to gently "Did we say you had a choice."
"Put her down, Predacon." A voice said.