I hope you like this story. It takes place after the first movie. I would love feedback! I have read fan fics with Jazz and Maggie and I think they make a great couple. Disclaimer: I do not own the characters. Hasbro does.
Story...
It was brilliant day in the Nevada desert. The heat was stifling. Maggie took a huge gulp of her chilled water. She had been stuck in the black government van for over an hour and the heat did not help with her patience. She looked down at her watch. Another half hour to go before she got to the new Autobot base. She was excited to see her friends. Maggie wished her driver would speed up and get there already. She sighed and leaned back and watched the scenery change as they started to descend into a canyon. Maggie got lost in her thoughts.
She had been ecstatic when the government gave her a job right out of high school. Yeah the government pay sucked but she got legit access to top secret projects. She was one of the best computer analysts in the world and she could have been rolling in big bucks working for a firm. She almost had decided to go to the public sector only after her second month on the job. The government regulations had been driving her up the wall. She craved the freedom and flexibility on her own terms. In the end Maggie was glad she kept her job because now she was going to be the senior analyst liaison for the Autobots. She was finally getting her chance to shine while still being midely challenged at the same time.
The van started to slow. They had reached the bottom of the canyon. High bluffs blanketed out the sky on either side. Blocking out the heat of the sun with shade. She opened her window and drew in the cool refreshing air deep into her lungs. They had stopped at a gate. She watched though the window as the NEST driver got out and approached a high barbed wire fence. A notorious government property sign that said "Wildlife Sanctuary-Stay out".
Hiding in plain site. Maggie knew better though. There had to be at least a dozen cameras locked on her vehicle. The driver unlocked the gate and opened it. He climbed back in to the van and drove it through the gate. He closed it on the other side. It would be another 5 minutes before they reached the outskirts of the base. She had been there once before when it was being constructed for the first time.
A month after Megatrons's metal carcass was dumped into the ocean the NEST team was formed where the humans worked with the Autobots. They had built a small network of buildings and warehouses down in this canyon as a temporary base that was an hour or so out of Las Vegas.
After another minute they stopped because in front of them was a parked shiny and sleek Pontiac Solstice. Maggie held her breath. Even with it being cast in the shadows the car sparkled. It also looked odd for such a high class car to be stuck down here in a dusty dirt hole. She opened up her door and walked over to the vehicle. Her high hills crunching the little pebbles underfoot. She placed her hand on the parked vehicle and followed the curve of the hood with her hand.
"It's good to see you Jazz" Maggie's Australian voice echoed softly off the rocky walls around them.
"It nice to see you beautiful" Jazz said. Maggie blushed. Jazz was definitely the charmer of the Autobots.
"You feeling better?" Maggie asked with concern in her voice. Jazz had been brought back from the matrix after he had been ripped in two at the battle in Mission City. He had not fully recovered emotionally.
"Never better! Hop in and I will take to your new home.".Jazz said while opening the driver's side door. Beconing her in.
"How nice! You're my welcoming party!" Maggie smiled. The driver that had picked her up at the airport in Vegas nodded his head letting her know he would follow at a distance.
Maggie eagerly climbed into the Autobot vehicle. It was always a magical experience riding in the bot. It was almost like an electrical energy that was addictive. Maggie had used her keen intellect to try to figure out why but it always eluded her. She guessed it felt thrilling to be driving around in something so ancient and powerful.
She took a deep breath in and chuckled because Jazz smelled like Cucumbers. Her brainiac part of her mind was racing. Was it an air freshener? Jazz had started his engine and was heading down the road.
"What's so amusing?" Jazz's voice spoke soothingly from the speakers. Maggie bit her tongue. She was not sure if telling an Autobot that they smelled like a salad from Olive Garden would be an offensive.
Ah hell. Her tongue slipped out before she could stop herself.
"Why do you always smell like Cucumbers or a Salad?" Maggie blurted out. Curiosity getting the better of her.
Awkward.
Jazz gave a little chuckle. "It's my new air freshener. You should wait and smell the rest of the Autobots. We got a matching set. Optimus smells like a Tomato, Ratchet smells like Ranch Dressing and Ironhide smells like those little crunchy things they put on salad." Jazz stated.
Maggie cocked her head. Really? She thought. Why in the world would they do that? Was it a weird Cybertronian fetish?
Jazz was outright laughing now as he viewed Maggie's face." I am kidding! It is interesting that you could pick up on it though. Tell me? Do any of the other Autobot's smell unique to you?"
Maggie spent a couple of seconds shifting through her memory trying to figure out a way to answer this strange question. "Come to think of it. Optimus does smell like Cotton Candy and Ironhide smells like burnt rubber" Maggie wanted to smack her self on the head for starting this. Her curiosity often lead her down weird paths. She was defiantly an odd ball. Only she was capable of starting off this strange a conversation with an alien on how he smelled.
" What about the others like Bumblebee or Ratchet?" Jazz asked. The seriousness of his voice surprised Maggie.
" I don't remember…Um, why is it important or something?" Maggie asked.
Jazz was silent, " Next time your around them take note of what they smell like and let me know. I am conducting an experiment and I would be very interested in knowing what you pick up."
Maggie sat there "Ok". Talk about weird. Why in the world would Jazz be doing an experiment like this? She was tempted to ask but decided to keep it to her elf. Before she had come out here Optimus had warned her that Jazz was a acting a little strangely. She bit her lip as she looked out the window. The canyon floor was starting to get wider. She could also see the glinted metal of tin roofs in the distance. It was the base.
Once again she started to day dream of the last few months. She had been working off and on with the Autobots helping them with various projects. She did everything from helping to bridge the gab between the Cybertronian and human technology to developing software to pick up Decepticon communications. She had even been around when Jazz was resurrected.
It had been a month after the first attack and the Autobots were still at the Hoover Damn. She had been working to integrate some of their systems with human technology; and of course she had gotten the work done several weeks ahead of time so she had helped Ratchet with Jazz. Ratchet had found a way to revive Jazz by studying some human medical techniques over the internet and adapted it to bot form. Maggie at first thought it was some sort of Frankenstein crap that would have ended badily.
Luckily she had been wrong. Bringing back an Autobot was a very tricky thing to do but it was possible. Ratchet had explained to her that before the war they would have left their loved ones at the hands of Primus. But with so few of them left if it made sense to bring them back online if possible. It was condoned before the war because bringing the dead back always had some sort of huge cost both emotionally and mentally for the ones that were revived. Ratchet had confided to Maggie that Optimus had spent days regretting his decision but it had to be done if they were going to protect Earth from the Decepticons.
Maggie had been there when Jazz had awakened and had befriended him since. Maggie involuntarily squeezed the arm rest on the door. She hoped that now she had a permanent position on the NEST team that she would stay and help Jazz though this. She decided at the first available moment she would talk to Ratchet and see if he had any advice with Jazz.
They arrived. Despite her worry for Jazz she plastered a smile on her face because the tall figure of Optimus Prime stood before them in greeting. Finally! Maggie though. I am home!
To be continued...