Series Title: Mecha And Armor
Chapter Title: A Strange Night
Disclaimer:I don't own either Ronin Warriors or Transformers characters. I'm not making any money on this
Rating: PG-13
Pairings/Character: Sam/Bee/Mikaela, Ryo, Hound, White Blaze, Rowen, Sage, Sai, Kento, Will, and Ironhide
Summary: Hound is learning the lay of the road when he stops to help a human with directions.
Notes: This isn't beta but I'll gladly accept any offers of help. It took me three times to rewrite the beginning because Ryo and Hound wanted to actually meet and I didn't want them to meet that soon.

Hound tried to sniff out the strange energy source that he had caught earlier. He traveled the back roads, looking for any trace of that flicker of energy but it seem as if nothing lead to the source. With an expression of exhaust, somewhat like a human sigh, the mecha headed for the camp area next, to check on the few humans that were staying there. The few tents and trailers he passed in the lower level of the camping grounds for dark, his sensors showing the humans in recharge. It was another aspect that he would need to talk to the humans about.

Hound was nearing the edge of the camping grounds when his sensors picked up the heartbeat of two organics. Slowing to a stop, his head lights showed the small site, tent, a small ring of stones, and two shadows inside the tent. He wondered if this was the human and his friend. He was tempted to transform and check, but he didn't want to scare the two humans.

He let his shocks sink a little. There was so much he wanted to learn about the humans. He had thought about asking some of the humans that were paired with the humans but hadn't had a chance to approach them. He started pulling off, deciding to speak with Captain Lennox the next morning, after he checked on the camp grounds again. "Hound reporting to Autobot Base. I wasn't able to find anything on that energy release."

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Sam leans against the car/best friend/lover/alien robot, while watching Mikaela adjust the focus on the telescope. "That should do it," she said. Taking the computer cable, she hooked it into the telescope. Sam stepped away from the car, moving to wrap an arm around Mikaela. "You sure this will work, Bee?"

The familiar sound of shifting metal as Bumblebee transformed into his robot form. "I'm not sure," Bee said, taking, the end of the cable from Mikaela's smaller hand. "We might not be able to join Will and Ironhide with meeting the newest arrivals but this should let us track them as the enter atmosphere." He paused a moment before plugging the other end of the cable into a port.

Mikaela lean into Sam, letting her lover offer comfort, before the pair broke apart to climb into Bee's hand. It was still an hour before the Autobots would be visible over their section of the sky. "Has there been any word on what happen to the other Autobot?"

Bee's blue optics dimmed, "No," he said. "After the mayday that Bluestreak was able to send to us, we haven't been able to get a link for him." (Somewhere in Japan, a grey bot gave a robotic sneeze, drawing a worried look from the tricolor hair teen that stood next to the setting glaring brown hair teen at the computer.) He looked down as he felt his humans running their own hands over his fingers, offering their own form of comfort for the yellow bot. "Prime and your human leaders are using everything to try and find him…." He shivered as small fingers slipped between joints and stroking the cables in them.

"They'll find him, Bee," Sam said, his voice carrying a fierce belief in it.

"And trust Bluestreak to find a way to contact us," Mikaela added with the same fierceness.

The blue optics brightened into what the human pair have come to know as Bee's smile. His optics shifted and he lowered his hand back down to the ground. "They are starting their decent."

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Will held the cell phone to his ear, letting his hand rest lightly on the wheel as Ironhide followed the incoming signals. "Don't worry, Sarah," Will said into the phone. "Once we get these to bots to Prime, Ironhide and I will be heading home." He nodded his head. "I'll let him know. Love you."

"I will never understand you humans and repeating words," Ironhide said.

"It's in reassurance, Hide," Will said. "It's our way to let our love ones know in words what we know in our hearts." He placed the cell phone back into his pocket. "We don't have that telepathy type thing that Prowl describe about bonded Transformers." He could feel the truck tense. "Jazz still hasn't recovered."

"No," came Ironhide's reply to Will's question. "Prowl hasn't left his side, except to get energon. Ratchet has given up on getting him to recharge in his own room at the base."

Will understood in a way what the black and white must have been feeling. Will had seen that ramrod straight posture of the mecha as he stood beside the table that the silver mecha one lying on had mirrored his grandfather when he had stood by his grandmother's deathbed. "Remind me to tell you about what we humans call soulmates," he said to Ironhide. Looking up at the sky, he could see the two comets coming in hot heading in an easterly direction. "Looks like some more of your family just arrived."

Ironhide turned off the road, speeding for the area where the pair hit. The first signals came across the channel and a groan pass through his cpu. Why in the pit did he have to be the ones to greet the twins?

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Kento spoke to his other three friends over the phone, getting them to meet him online when they got home. He ran a hand through his blue-grey hair; bring up the stick cam on his computer. He opened up his video messager, seeing that Sai was already on and sent a request for a private channel. "Yo, Sai, how are you?"

"Doing well, Kento," Said said, red-brown hair still damp from his swim in the ocean. "I'm worried about what Ryo might have stumbled across."

Kento shook his head. "Wish I was there if it's the Dynasty that's got Ryo on edge." Another window popped open, this one revealing a blond teen, some of the hair falling to hide one of the violet eyes. "Hey, Sage."

"Hello, Sage," Sai said. A head with blue hair appeared over Sage's shoulder. Sai gave a smile. "Pot roast night, Rowen?" he asked the pair.

"Hey, I have to eat and his mom make the best Pot Roast," Rowen said.

"Mother asked him to stay after helping my sister with her math homework," Sage said. He moved over slightly as Rowen disappeared from behind him. The blue hair teen slipped into the new chair he brought over next to the blond. "Any ideas on what it might be?"

"Nope," Kento said, "he just said to 'meet' him tomorrow."

From the tone in the word meet, the group knew how Ryo wanted them to meet. Sai's eyes took on a worried look. "Is it that serious?"

"Not serious, but he said that we had to see what ever he had seen."

Rowen looked thoughtful. "I'll call Mia and see if we can use her lake cabin." He pulled out his cell, dialing Mia's number.

While Rowen was speaking with Mia, Sage asked the question that they all were thinking, "If it is the Dynasty or something as serious?"

"If it is, then we teleport there and kick some evil's butt."

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Hound slow to a stop at the camp site again, the sun light just starting to color the horizon, and he could see the first moments in the tent. He brought up the hologram in his jeep form, seeing the tent opening up. The first thing that came out was a large four legged…cat? Hitting the World Wide Web, he put in a search, and found the cat was a tiger. A White Tiger, that should had been in the country of Russia or in the humans' zoos. The tiger tilted its head, staring at him, while his hologram stared back at the tiger. He almost didn't notice the teen he had seen yesterday come out from the tent too.

Ryo froze as he saw the drive parked at their camp site, staring at White Blaze. 'Oh no,' he thought. "Um…"

Hologram Hound broke eye contact with the tiger and looked up at the black hair teen. "Is he yours?" he asked. He watched the teen blink blue eyes in shock at him before slowly nodding his head. Hound really wanted to transform so that he could get a closer look at the tiger and ask the human how he came to have it.

"Um, what are you doing here?" Ryo asked.

"I patrol this area," Hound said. "I station at the base outside of Tranquility." Tilting the hologram's head, Hound asked, "I'm still willing to take you into town."

Ryo was about to protest again but White Blaze bumped his head against his leg before moving over to the jeep. He watched White Blaze stare up at the soldier before giving a defeated sigh. "Looks like Blaze doesn't want to walk into town." He began to pack up the tent, fitting it back onto his pack, and walking over to the jeep. "You don't mind?"

"Nope," Hound said, watching the human teen open the back door. The tiger hope in with the teen placing the pack after the tiger. "The names Hound," Hound said, as the teen got in on the front passenger side.

"Oh, my name is Ryo Sanada," Ryo said, thinking that the Soldier had a strange name. "That is White Blaze."

"It's nice to meet you both," Hound said, pulling back onto the trail and heading for the main roadway. "Why are you walking instead of driving?"

Ryo gave a sheepish grin, "Just trying to decide what to do with my life." He pointed to the tiger in the back. "He didn't want me to go by myself."