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Ava was sitting back at base with Miko, and the bots. Her mom was still captured by the decepticons and they were wondering, why they were after Ava and her mother, Mikko refused to leave her side. "Ava," Optimus said looking sadly at the girl, when Ava looked at the prime he continued.
"We will do everything in our power to make sure Carly is brought back safely. I will not let you lose another parent." Nodding her head Ava wiped the tears that fell from her eyes, and giving Optimus Prime a small smile.
"Thank you Optimus. I'll help in anyway that I can." the Witwicky child replied. When Raf gave her some tissues she nodded and said "Thank you Raf." everyone could tell this experience took a toll on the child. Her usual optimistic personality and smile that could light up a room vanished after Carly Witwicky was kidnapped by the decepticons.
"Ava do you have someone that could stay with you while we look for your mother?" Ratchet ask calmly surprising
the children except for Rafael.
Wiping tears from her face she replied "Y-Yes, I-I do. I'll c-c-call M-M-Makaela, when we meet she was very kind, she even knew my dad. I guess I could see if she could come and stay." Ratchet nodded slowly at Ava's reply.
WheelJack and Ava were sitting in the parking lot of the airport a city away from Jasper. "So, why are we waiting in the parking lot instead of you in the airport lobby?" questioned the wrecker as he moved the side view mirrors to see Ava
"I didn't want to be alone." Ava looked away from the wrecker "that and I told Mekaela that I'll be in the parking lot with a white car that has red and green lines on it. She should be here soon." Ava replied looking back to the door for Mekaela.
"Considering what happened I'd be more surprised if you weren't a little shaken up." WheelJack explained "Say Ava since Mekaela was a friend of Sam's do you think she knew the others, knows about the autobots and the cons?"
"I don't know Jackie. If she did she was probably told not to tell me, since I was not supposed to know about you guys." Ava pointed out. Looking up she noticed Makaela walking up to them, standing up straight from leaning against WheelJack she hugged Mekaela.
So how have you been?" she asked with a smile to the girl.
Looking at the wrecker then back to Makaela she said "I've been better." Ava replied "but I'm alright." that last statement was more directed to WheelJack then to Makeala. Ava got into the driver seat feeling weird, normally she would sit in the passenger seat and WheelJack would drive. Now Makela was in the passenger seat and Ava had to pretend that she was driving her guardian and friend.
In the desert on the way to Jasper
Ava was nervous, Makaela knew her father and WheelJack brought up a good point, since she knew Sam back then maybe, just maybe she knew the autobots. There was a chance that she didn't know the bots and just knew Sam; and road in BumbleBee, without even knowing that the car she was riding in was a sentient being.
"So Ava, pretty neat car you have." the girl in the passenger side of the car said
Nervously Ava nodded "All those jobs I got in different cities." She replied giving her Autobot guardian a nervous look. The driver seat heated up a bit then cooled down as if to reassure her, since he couldn't talk cause they didn't know if Makaela knew about the bots. After that the car ride was silent With Makaela not knowing that Ava knew her car was actually an autobot and Ava not knowing Makaela knows the same exact thing. Once Ava dropped off Makaela at the house she told her that she would be hanging out with friends till later. When Makaela gave the okay 'Ava' drove out of the drive way.
Once they were in the outskirts of the town Ava crawled into the passenger seat. "So...I ah..." WheelJack started "I heard you singing when I first picked you up, and the other times I've been a late. You sounded ...nice." WheelJack complemented his charge.
"Oh thanks, Jackie." Ava said with her first smile since her mother was kidnapped by the Decepticons. The smile soon faded from her face after a while.
"Maybe I can take you for a ride in the JackHammer, later on. Sound like fun?" WheelJack offered When she didn't answer he added "We'll find her don't worry"
"I know what you're trying to do Jakie." Ava said "Look its not that I'm ungrateful. I truly am grateful for what you guys are doing. Its just...just that huh... I guess its just on how the last thing that happened before Megatron kidnapped her; was us fighting, and me telling her that I hated her." Ava replied
"Look Ava, you were upset. I know you didn't mean it, and you know what. I know that she knows that you didn't mean it either." Jakie explained to his charge. "you know what maybe you can be a wrecker like Mikko. We can be the four wreckers." at this Ava started to laugh, smiling brightly she looked at wheelJack and shook her head.
"Four wreckers,Huh?" she lightly chuckled "sounds like a plan. That is if when we get my mom back, and we can stay." Ava's smile seemed to vanish at the thought of her missing mother. When they entered the base, Ava exited WheelJack's alt. mode so he could transform.
Optimus looked at the child and sighed "WheelJack?" the prime asked and before he could voice his question.
"Ava's been fine Prime. Got her to smile a while ago, but it quickly faded when she thought about her mom."
the wrecker pointed out. "We need to find her fast, I have a feeling that Megatron will use her against us."
With the Decepticons
"I grabbed the wrong girl!" Megatron yelled."I should have figured Ava would be about as slippery as her father was. At least I have someone to use against him." As the leader of the Decepticons walked to the holding cell, that held their prisoner he thought about how he would use Carly against the Autobots. Smiling at how he was finally going to defeat Optimus. He said looking at Carly who was a wreck "I will use you human to finally put an end to the Autobots and the fall of their leader Optimus Prime."
Carly silently cried at what she had done, if only she had trusted the bots when she was at the base she would not be here right now.
With the Autobots
Ava had fallen asleep on the couch with her laptop in her lap, and the Autobots didn't want to wake her up. Knowing that she has had a restless night last night.
"Optimus we need to have an excuse as to why Ava, is not home." Jack said looking at the slumbering girl on the couch of the Autobot base.
Looking over to Ava Optimus nodded "I agree Jack." Optimus replied, looking at the human girl that was sleeping peacefully on the couch.
He turned to go out on patrol only to be stopped when Miko said "Cool, thanks" When Arcee attempted to ask what was going on Miko ignored her picked up Avas phone and called her home. When Mekaela picked up Miko started to talk. "Hey Mekaela this is Miko, I'm a friend of Ava's and I was wondering if Ava could stay over at my house tonight. Really cool I'll tell her, you said it was cool." After that she hung up and looked at the bots, and said "I'm staying, here with Ava tonight." this confused the bots till Miko stated "I'm not leaving Ava without a shoulder to cry on. I'm not leaving her here alone." Optimus nodded his head.
"While I admire your loyalty Miko won't your host parents worry if your not back at their house." Ratchet said,
Miko rolled her eyes sitting on the ground she said "It's an old trick. I called my host parents and told them I'm staying over at a friend's house. Then I called Ava's house and told Makaela that she was staying at my house. While we both stay here. As long as we are not caught by either Makaela or my host parents we are fine."
"Optimus I am surprised Megatron has not attempted to contact us to either trade Carly or for something else." Ratched said low enough that Miko did not hear it.
"While you do bring up a good point old friend we have nothing he wants besides Ava. If he asks for a trade I do not doubt it will be one of us Autobots he asks for." the prime replied
"Let's just hope the Autobot he asks for is not Bee. Excluding you BumblebBee is the only autobot to have stolen multiple relics form him and is our youngest member of our team."
"I know Ratchet, but we cannot forget Megatron has stolen things from BumbleBee as well; like his voice and his first charge." Optimus replied gravely
"Think we should tell them that Makaela knows about us or not." Arcee asked
"We best not get her involved again." Bulkhead said "and where is Bee any way?"
"He is taking Raf home." Arcee said "Said he might be a little late getting back because of some of the detours he had to make to get to Rafael's house."
"Let's just hope that the Decepticons ask for a relic that I can quickly make a duplicate of. We will bring both the real one and the fake. We will show that we have the relic and switch it out when we got to trade off for Megatron." Ratchet added
"What if they want one of us Ratchet?" WheelJack asked
"We will deal with that when the time comes, it depends on who he askes for. Since each one of us veries in height, and skill. That way we can make a plan quickly and we won't have to remember six different or twelve if we count the humans that he could decide to take." The medic answered saddily
"He must be sending Decepticons to steal food, but then why haven't we been alerted?" Smokescreen questioned
"They must be sending in sound wave, for stealth and robbing them when there is no human around to alert the authorities. If anything Soundwave might ask about allergies since he only causes direct harm to Autobots and not humans the exception would be slight harm i believe." Arcee said remembering when the kids we face to face with the con and he never caused harm to the kids only some minor scrapes and bruises.
"So he is feeding her?" questioned the young Bot
"So we believe since he would most likely want to trade he for what we something we have and he holds a small bit of respect for her. Not many humans had the guts to stand up to him besides Sam. Unlike Sam thought she stood in his face and stood up to him, Sam just defied him on numerous occasions." Replied Ratchet
"So Ava's parents defied Megatron. So cool. Wonder what happened?" Miko stated
"Miko, you should be over there with Ava." Bulkhead told his charge
"I know but I could not help but overhear on how Ava's parents stood up the the Con leader." She explained
"Yes they were very brave and helped us greatly." Optimus replied "Now Miko if you please go to where Ava is, we have to discuse what we are going to do to get Carly back"
"Alright." She sighed and trudged back to the couch
"Are we seriously going to sit here and wait for him to call, and demand we hand over either one of our teammates or one of the relics we are keeping from his hands." Ratchet questioned "I say I look for the warship and then we storm the Decepticon base and retrieve Carly."
"We will look for the war ship but if megatron calls while we are out on patrol contact us right away." Optimus said as he and some of the other bots headed out on patrol to look for the decepticons.