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'Psy-link'

Blood and Energon:

Ch2 Home and Run

Bethany got back to the borrowed house she and Roderick were staying at just before dawn. The humans who owned the two story cabin were currently vacationing at the beach or something. Roderick should be able to tell her when they were heading home as she asked him to keep an eye on them.

She stepped out and away from her new car. It was surprisingly fast despite being beat up so bad. All the way here she had been driving at breakneck speeds of around 180mph! Though she got a strange feeling the old Saleen could have gone faster if she had pushed it. Deciding to start working on some of the damage since Roderick wasn't here yet, she headed to the garage.

Looking at her one wouldn't think she knew anything about cars or mechanics, but she had always been interested in how things worked. It was no wonder she had been gifted with the ability to understand machines after she had been turned. Leaving the garage she decided to work on the most obvious dents first as they would be the easiest to fix.

Two hours later Roderick was returning from a late night (Or early morning) hunt. The first thing he noticed was the cop car. "What the?" He saw Bethany working on it and knew she had heard him. "Isn't it illegal to steal a cop car?"

She laughed as he walked forward. "As far as I know it's illegal to steal any kind of car."

He sighed as she turned toward him for a second, smiling brightly. "Took your time getting home didn't ya?"

"Bethany." He whined at seeing her blood red eyes. "What would grandfather say?"

She turned back to the engine quickly. "I'm not a newborn anymore. Besides, those lowlife child rapists deserved it." At this sentence Bethany felt an odd twist in her stomach. Disgust and anger. 'How could anyone do that to a youngling? Not even Megatron would harm a sparkling!'

Bethany jumped back from Barricade. 'Whoa where did those thoughts come from?'

Roderick watched Bethany's strange behavior. He wouldn't miss a couple child rapists that was for sure. But he blanched at the thought of taking human life. For him however it was most likely because of his strong empathy. He would feel all his victims emotions and, if he couldn't keep calm, there physical pain as well. "Something up?"

"No I'm fine." She set back to work wondering about sparkling and Megatron. 'Did I here the car?'

"Alright. I'll help you then?" Roderick couldn't get mad at her. She had saved his life after all.

They worked in silence for a while. The silence only broken by Roderick occasionally asking for directions. With the sun up Bethany couldn't help but to stop and admire the diamond-like reflections she cast everywhere. No matter how many times she had seen it, it still made her want to stop and stare. However most shiny or sparkly things made her stop and stare. Though not as bad as when she was newborn.

"Mom?" Roderick snapped her out of her staring session. He only called her mom when something was up.

"Yes?" She looked at him quizzically.

"There's someone coming." His face was scrunched up in concentration. He could feel that whoever was coming, it wasn't the owner of the house they had borrowed. This man felt more military. Strong, courageous, and oddly friendly for a soldier.

"Who?" Bethany knew it wasn't who they had been expecting, or he wouldn't look this worried.

"I can't tell much. It's all fuzzy and far away." Though what he heard was happening at that moment, he was having issues connecting. It was like something was blocking him.

Roderick closed his eyes and concentrated. Soon he was able to make more of the conversation out. 'Alright everyone! Prepare to move out!' The man was a leader. A man who was looked up to. 'Ironhide where's Sideswipe?"

At this point Roderick knew someone was answering, but he couldn't hear. It was like whomever it was made his mind go completely black. "We need to leave. For some reason the military's heading this way."

"Right." Bethany ran into the house and grabbed the bags they always kept by the door.

"We'll be faster without the car." Roderick complained as she put their bags in the back. Then she fixed a few last things with the engine and closed the hood.

"Nope. We're not leaving him." Her sudden use of him confused her momentarily.

"Him?" When Bethany didn't answer he just got in and stopped asking.

They drove quickly. Bethany was tempted to see just how fast the car could go. However when she reached 220 Roderick complained that even with her reflexes, the overcrowded freeway would get the better of her. So she slowed down for him, back to 160. The big chicken.

It was odd for her driving the car ever since she heard his thoughts. Now that she was sure he was intelligent she was dying to find out what he was. So many questions raced through her mind that she was sure she was the cause of Roderick's sudden headache.

"Bethany what is so damn interesting?" he held the side of his head in one hand.

"Sorry. I'm just working on a problem." She swerved around a particularly slow driver.

"Well you could talk to me about it." He was still feeling for cops. They all had a similar sense about them.

"Well honestly, I think this car's alive." She said it matter of factly.

Roderick looked at her like she was joking. "Alive?"

"Yeah. Though I'm not sure what exactly he is, because I know he's not really a police car. They're not alive obviously."

"Obviously." Roderick knew she wasn't joking about what she felt. He had no reason to disbelieve her, which made him very uncomfortable sitting in said car. "How do you know it's a 'he'." That made Roderick's mind do several successive double takes. "Whatiflivingcarsdon'thavegender? Whatifit''swhythey'reafterus? Whatifit'sanaliendeathcarthat'sgonnakillalllifeonEarth? "Yousawthesayingontheside! Whatifit'sjustusingyoutofixitthenit'llkillyou?"

Bethany sighed as Roderick started talking fast enough no human would understand him. Judging by the sense of annoyance from the car he could. "Roderickshutthehellupamoment!"

"Sorry." He slowed his speech down. It was hard for him though because he was rather hyper.

"Remember, you're supposed to be practicing. Speak slowly enough that humans would be able to understand." She shook her head, though she was smiling anyway.

"Right." He was smiling to. "But how do you know?"

"Well about the first one, I just know." She grimaced for a moment. "But I don't know about the other questions."

They started to pull off road and into a lightly wooded area that not many people went near. Roderick still couldn't stop thinking about the questions. They pulled over and, got out. The trees offered enough cover no one would see them.

"Well this is nice. Better than the time we were stuck underneath a dumpster in an alley for a whole day." Bethany tried to get Roderick's mind off his questions.

He laughed. "Yeah that was pretty bad."

Bethany would try actually talking to the car in a little bit. Perhaps he would answer her questions. The only issue was if he would tell the truth. She was starting to feel odd around him though. It was unnerving her.


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