Chapter 2 - Me & My Gang
Authors Note: My goal is to title every chapter after a song, and hopefully that song goes with the chapter. I don't own Transformers, Hasbro does. Song: Me & My Gang by Rascal Flatts.
After following the yellow Camaro with custom black racing stripes, Lauren started to realized that it was getting really late and it was getting dark out. She also didn't know where they were heading; she didn't recognize this area at all. She was beginning to feel uncomfortable especially with the fact that she didn't know the person who was supposedly driving her brother's car, and what were the person's intensions. She quickly glances over at Angela who usually has a calm, cool expression on; that's usually why she enjoyed spending time with her friend, she always made her feel calm and relaxed during stressful scenarios, but right know Ang looked just as stressed as Lauren felt, and that didn't settle her nerves. The girls continued to drive in silence, unable to really grasped what was going on or more importantly, what was going to happen if they continued to follow this car.
"I feel like we're in a horror movie," randomly spoke Angela.
Pulling Lauren out of her thoughts, she replied, "Huh? Where did that come from?"
"Well, we are in the middle of nowhere, we don't know where we're heading, and…wait, they stopped." Both girls looked to see what was going on, Lauren stopped the van and just as the two girls were about to get out they noticed only Sam and Mikaela got out of the car. What, no driver? Curioser and curioser … thought the two girls as they walked towards the young teens. Just when Lauren was about to ask her brother about what was going on and why were they here the most incredible, the most unreal thing occurred. The little yellow Camaro transformed in to a giant robot!
"SAM! WHAT'S GOING ON? WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?" yelled Lauren out of pure fear running to her little brother. She didn't know what to think, how was this even possible? Was this some kind of a sick joke her brother and his friend were playing on her and Ang? She could feel her whole body go numb and start to shack, she turns to look at her biffle and notices her usually brave friend was white as a ghost and was holding onto her for dear life, and to make things worst Angela wasn't saying anything, she always has something to say, this really can't be good! Thought Lauren, just as Sam was about to open his mouth to answer his sister, four meteors, or what seemed like meteors, were falling out of the sky and were heading right towards them. The two teens were in awe while the two young adult seemed to want to run in the opposite direction. They noticed that one of these "meteors" landed in a field near them, while the other three scattered throughout the city. All of a sudden, the giant robot turned back into the yellow car once again.
"Lauren. Angela. Are you coming or not?" asked Sam with a slight smile on his face as he was about to get into the robot/car.
"…" Lauren didn't know what to say, she was blank.
"Lauren? Let's go," whispered Ang as she pulled her eyes away from the car to look towards her friend.
"Now you're talking. Ok when we get home…"
"No. I mean let's follow them again. I want to know what's going on and I think well, I just want to go ok. Think of it as a wild adventure." interrupted Ang as she made her way to The Mothership. "Are you coming than LARN? Hurry your ass up, they're leaving without us!" Angela sat in the van waiting for Lauren with a huge smile on her face while clapping her hands, why am I friends with her, she's so weird laughed Lauren as she made her way into to van and started her up.
They followed the Chevy through a shady part of the city without their Glee CD on, which for them was a huge deal, that's how serious they were about this. The girls noticed the little car turning down an alleyway. Odd, they both thought, suddenly the car stopped and out walked Sam and Mikaela. Putting the van in park and opening the driver's side, Lauren could now understand why Ang thought this whole scenario reminded her of a horror movie; four young people in an alleyway, at night, by themselves with a car/robot thing which was totally unpredictable. You do the math. The girls walked their way towards Lauren's brother. "So what's going on Sam?" asked Lauren.
"Honestly you know just as much as we do." replied Sam.
This gave the girls a lot of confidence. Not! "Well we must be here for a reason, so yellow car, start talking." Angela said while walking to the Camaro. She never got to the car though because Lauren had grabbed her arm to stop her friend.
"Ang stop, ok you don't know what you're doing. Besides…"
"Besides, he can't talk. Well he can but only through the radio, you won't get any straight answers from him," interrupted Sam.
"Who are they?" asked Lauren pointing towards a group of vehicles coming their direction. All heads turned to look at the group of assorted cars, the group consisted of a silver Pontiac Solstice, a yellow Hummer H2 emergency vehicle, a black GMC TopKick with custom stacks, and last but not least a Peterbilt with a custom red and blue paint job with flames along the sides, came pulling up in front of them.
"Wow." said Ang. Just as she said that, all five vehicles changed into their robot form, one by one. The four humans stood in awe at these incredible beings in front of them. The Peterbilt ended up being the biggest one and gave off the leader kind vibe, he bend down towards Sam and asked, "Are you Samuel James Witwicky? Descendent of Archibald Witwicky? "
"They know your name." whispered Mikaela.
"Yeah" replied Sam.
"My name is Optimus Prime. We are Autonomous Robotic Organisms from the planet Cybertron."
"But you can call us "Autobots" for short." said the other yellow robot.
Lauren and Angela looked at each other with disbelief in their eyes, could this really be happening right now? Thought Ang while returning her attention back to the "Autobots".
"What's crackin' little bitches?" said the smallest Autobot who used to be the Pontiac. Optimus Prime turned to look at the robot. "My first Lieutenant, designation: Jazz."
"This looks like a cool place to kick it," replied Jazz as he sat on an abandon car with his arms crossed.
Lauren was so confused. "Wait how did he learn to talk like that?" For an alien species, she thought they'd be a little more proper or something because aren't aliens suppose to be highly intelligence or something along those lines. And here was this one swearing and talking in slang. Maybe she was dreaming. Yes, she thought, I'm definitely dreaming. I've got to remember this in the morning though so I can tell Ang. "Ang, pinch me ok." whispered Lauren.
"What? Why?"
"Because I have to be dreaming right now because there's no way robotic aliens/ cars are talking to us. They know by brother's name, that's not cool. Ouch!"
"What? You asked me to pinch you, so I did and I take it you're not dreaming then." replied Angela with a cheeky grin on her face. "Anyways, as you were saying, Optimus; was it?" continued the little brunette taking a step towards the huge Autobot with her arms crossed in front of her chest.
"We learnt Earth's languages through the World Wide Web." He answered. "My weapon specialist: Ironhide." Pointing to an Autobot who was much broader then the rest. He looks pretty badass, thought Ang I can see why he'd be their weapon expert.. Ironhide pulled out his weapons on his arms.
"You feelin' lucky, punk?" asked Ironhide pointing his weapons at them while doing a very good Clint Eastwood impersonation. He looked at the four humans in front of him, only one really caught his attention though. She was much shorter then the other three, yet she looked a lot tougher then them. My kinda femme, he thought.
"Easy Ironhide." hushed Optimus. Ironhide turns to look back at his leader. "Just kidding, I just wanted to show them my cannons."
"Our medical officer: Ratchet." Optimus pointed to the other yellow robot. "The boys pheromones suggest he wants to mate with the female," observed Ratchet. The Autobots remained silent looking between Sam and the three "females".
"Well that must be you Mikaela, you lucky girl," piped up Ang while looking towards the taller brunette who looked very uncomfortable at the moment.
"How did you come up with that conclusion?" asked a confused Ironhide.
"Well the red head is Lauren, his sister. He doesn't even know me so if he wants to what you call "mate" with me that's just fucked up, so the only one left is Mikaela here," said Ang in a matter-of-fact voice.
"And you've already met your Guardian: Bumblebee," finished Optimus, when he finished, music started to play through Bumbelbee's stereos, Second to none, s-s-second to none, and he even started to dance to the music.
"Bumblebee? So that's your name? You're my Guardian huh?" asked Sam.
"His voice processors were damaged in battle,"
"I'm still working on them," said Ratchet as he pointed a laser to Bumblebee to emphasize that it's still a working progress.
Breaking the awkward silence among the humans, Mikaela asks. "Why are you?"
"We are here looking for the All-Spark, and we must fine it before Megatron does," replies Optimus Prime.
"Mega-what?" asked Lauren.
All of a sudden Optimus projects a holographic view of Cybertron and then continues his explanation. "Our planet was once a powerful empire, peaceful and just, until we were betrayed by Megatron, leader of the Decepticons. All who defied them were destroyed. Our war finally consumed the planet, and the All-Spark was lost to the stars. Megatron followed it to Earth, where Captain Witwicky found him…"
"Our grandfather," said Lauren and Sam both.
"It was an accident that intertwined our fates. Megatron crash-landed before he could retrieve the Cube. Captain Witwicky accidentally activated his navigation system. The coordinates to the Cube's location on Earth were imprinted on his glasses."
"How did you know about the glasses?" asked Sam.
"eBay," replied Prime.
Ang couldn't help but laugh, "eBay," she said.
"If the Decepticons find the All-Spark, they will use its power to transform Earth's machines and build a new army," added Ratchet.
"And the human race will be extinguished. Sam Witwicky, you hold the key to Earth's survival," finished Optimus.
"No big deal," said Angela sarcastically.
"Please tell me you still have those glasses," asked Mikaela.
On the way back to Lauren's and Sam's house, Ang just couldn't calm down, she felt like she just ate a pound of chocolate and now she had a sugar buzz from it. Actually she kind of wished she had a chocolate bar right about now. They drove in silence without their music blasting through the stereos for the second time that night. Sam and Mikaela drove in Bumblebee, dirty pun not intended, in front of them while the rest of the Autobots followed from behind The Mothership. Lauren kept on tapping her fingers against the steering wheel, something she always did to calm down her nerves.
"Lauren stop your tapping, it's annoying,"
"Oh, sorry you know how I get. I can't help it. You should know that by now."
"BTW, that TopKick is a pretty hot piece of ass," Ang said randomly.
"The vehicle or the alien things because I have to be honest with you Ang and I'm only saying this as your friend but…if you think a robot has a nice ass, then you definitely have a sex addiction alright. Don't hit me!" said Lauren.
"No, no, no. Definitely the vehicle, can't say robots are the key to make me hot if you know what I mean," laughed Ang. They continued to sit in silence until Ang smacked Lauren across the head.
"WHAT WAS THAT FOR?"
"I wasn't going to hit you but you brought it up. It's your own fault really," smiled Angela.
When they pulled into the drive, all four humans noticed that all the lights were on in the house. Not so much a good sign if you have five alien robots with you. When Ang and Lauren left the van and started to make their way to the group, they saw that Sam had already made his way to the house but got stopped by his father before he could get inside. Angela couldn't quite wrap her head around the events that had transpired so far, she actually doesn't like change or adventure in her life. She's somewhat of a control freak actually. If she had a routine, one that she did everyday, then she'd be more then happy to NOT change a thing about it. It didn't even matter what the routine was, change was just bad in Ang's mind. So this, whatever you wanted to call this, was just not floating her boat right at the moment, but something made her want to be apart of it. Maybe it was because it wasn't everyday a robotic alien species came into her life, but whatever the reason was she was staying.
Standing beside her shorter friend, Lauren was extremely excited, and also very nervous. This is what she's always wanted; adventure. Sure having a boyfriend who loved her and having an extremely odd yet amazing best friend was an adventure on its own but it just wasn't always enough for her. She always thought that her life outside of school was boring. At school she was one of the must haves you wanted at your parties, she was fun and outgoing, well once she wasn't shy around you. She actually wasn't a real people person but she tried and Ang was actually one of the main people who brought her out of her shell. But here, at home, she was practically a nobody that's why she wanted this, NO, needed this right now. She just wanted an escape…
"Alright so let me get this straight," started Ang as she started to walk around a little bit, "You need these ancient glasses to fine this cubby All-Sparky thing because it's very important because it holds a lot of power?"
"You got it sweet-cheeks," replied Jazz.
While Sam was still talking to his father, the Autobots decided to transform, apparently things weren't going as fast as they wished. There was nothing the three girls could do; arguing with giant robots wasn't really on the To Do list at the moment. Optimus started to walk through the yard, attempting to not be seen, and Bumblebee was around the corner of the house looking at Sam. When Sam saw Bumblebee, he was still talking to his father. Bumblebee didn't know what to do so he pushed his finger to his mouth to make a shushing gesture to Sam so he wouldn't draw attention upon himself. Ang and Lauren were trying so hard to not laugh at the seen that was in front of them, while Mikaela looked really stressed out at the moment.
After finally pulling away from his father, Sam went towards the three girls and Autobots. "What do you think you're doing? I asked you guys to wait for five minutes."
Just as Sam had said that he heard a noise from behind him, Optimus had stepped on the bird bath that was in the middle of the yard. Lauren just couldn't hold it in any longer, she started to laugh so hard, here was her father and mother trying so hard to make the place look nice and kept on telling Sam to "stay on the path" so he wouldn't damage the grass. But all it took was one robot and BAM, the yard was destroyed. Priceless. Her laughing had stopped just as fast as it started though, all the Autobots eyes were on her, staring at her like she just grew a second head. I'm going to have to teach them the meaning of irony and not to mention a sense of humor as well, thought Lauren to herself. Out of nowhere Mojo; Sam's dog, came running out of the house. Lauren was just about to grab the dog when, too late he got to Ironhide, and to make things better the dog decided that now would be the best time to state that he was the alpha male, which means he peed on the robot.
"You have a rodent infestation," said Ironhide as he drew out his cannons and aimed them at Mojo.
"A what?" commented Sam.
"Shall I terminate it?"
"No! No! This is a Chihuahua. We love Chihuahuas," yelled Sam as he tried to grab the dog away from Ironhide.
"I'm going to have to agree with Ironhide on this one. Those dogs are rats, they have no purpose to them and they're ugly as fuck, unless you get a long haired one, those ones just look like a squirrels," said Ang while watching the scene unfold in front of her.
"Shut up Ang, that's my dog too you know," contributed Lauren.
"He's leaked lubricants all over my foot! Hmmph!"
"He peed on you?" asked Ang with a disgusted look on her face.
"Bad Mojo. Bad!" Lauren yelled at the dog while pointing her finger at it as if she was emphasizing her disapproval.
"Bad Mojo! Ugh, that's gonna rust," mumbled Ironhide as he walked away from the scenario.
Angela couldn't help but giggle at Ironhide's behavior, it was just so funny. She never would have thought a robot would talk to a dog in that way. Rodent. Terminate. Bad Mojo. Oh my God it was priceless. She was beginning to like the humor on this character already. Alright this guy is my fave so far. He's hilarious! She thought. Poor Mojo looked traumatized though and quite frankly so did her friend. Lauren gave the dog to her brother to take into the house with him. Once Sam got into the house he went straight to his room to look for his backpack, hopefully the glasses were still in there and he didn't drop them or loose them. He turned to look out his window to tell the Autobots to hide while he continued to look for his grandfather's glasses.
"Time is short," said Optimus as he lifted Mikaela and Lauren from his hand into Sam's room. Ang stayed with the Autobots to keep an eye on them, aka she didn't really want to go into her friend's brother's room. While she was waiting around outside, the Autobots transformed back into their car form, Good Lord, like this won't draw attention to them. This place looks like a car show, she thought, well if you can't beat them, join them. She made her way over to Ironhide and asked if she could sit in the bed of his truck. He didn't agree, nor did he decline so she did so anyways. Sam had heard the robots transformed and started to freak out, saying that this was a backyard and not a truck stop. Angela rolled her eyes at his statement. When she heard a noise she looked over to see that the Peterbilt had transformed back into his robot form and was headed to Sam's window…again.
"Hey, Optimus. Don't step on the flowers! Oh, never mind." Well I tried, she thought.
"Umm human. Get off!" said Ironhide very rudely while he transformed like the rest of the Autobots.
"The name's Angela, but everyone just calls me Ang," smiled the small girl looking up at the giant robot.
"Hmmph"
Rude much? She thought.
Helping her brother and Mikaela was getting nowhere. Then again looking around his room she couldn't figure out how he ever found ANYTHING in here, it was so…messy and just boy-like. And having Optimus coming to check to see how everything was making out every minute didn't help, he kept on distracting Sam. When Optimus came this time he stepped in her mother's flower bed. First the yard and then now the garden, her parents are really going to have fun with this, not to mention how fun it'll be to explain how the backyard ended up the state it was in. She wasn't even listening to the conversation her brother and Optimus were having, it was getting late and she was getting tired, all she heard was something about their mother freaking out so they had to hide again. Gah! This is retarded. Glasses where are you? She thought. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Optimus leaving the window yet again, she heard him say fall back to his soldiers. When he said that, Ratchet walked right into the cable wires causing a blackout on the block not to mention, when he fell, the ground shook. Lauren could hear her parents downstairs yelling EARTHQUAKE, if only they knew she thought. The three of them continued to look for the glasses in the dark, not productive, luckily the Autobots shun a light into the room so they could actually see what they were doing once again.
The yelling continued downstairs, then up the stairs into the hallway, until her parents reached her brother's door.
"Sam is that you in there?" asked her parents. "How comes the doors lock? You know the rules! No rooms locked in my house!" continued her father while holding a baseball bat.
"You know he'll start counting," said her mother.
"5... 4... It's comin' off the hinges, pal. 3... 2... stand back!"
"Sam, open the door," whispered Lauren.
"Fine," replied Sam as he made his way to their parents. "What's up?... What's with the bat?" he asked as he opened the door.
"Who were you talking to?" asked their father.
"Talkin' to you."
"Why are you so sweaty and filthy?" contributed their mother.
"I'm a child. Ya know, I'm a teenager. Oh and Lauren's in here too"
"Why is your sister in here too?" their father questioned.
"Sibling bonding. Hey, wait you can't just barge through my door. You have to communicate first, knock or something."
"We did knock. Lauren, when did you get home?" asked her father while looking around the room.
"I got home pretty much when Sam got home," she answered. When Lauren finished answering her father the Autobots had hit the house by accident, causing it to shack once again.
"Earthquack! Aftershock! God I hate these," yelled her father who was taking cover in the bathtub.
Angela had heard everything from underneath Sam's window and she had found it absolutely hilarious. She's never taken anything seriously so why should she take this seriously…
Author's Note part 2: sorry to stop right there but this chapter was getting way too long. I'll try and post the rest of it during the week. Please review