Sabrina wakes up the next morning to her dad calling her name, asking her to get dressed for school. She hasn't told her father about the strange dreams she had the past few nights of a planet made of metal and the two small robots playing at daycare. The one she had before her father woke her up this morning. She was surrounded by blue light and the half of the robot that has a long beard looking down at her. All it said was you are Cybertronian.
Groaning, she tosses off the covers and slowly trudges over to her closet, and taking out a pink college sweatshirt, a red v neck tank top and a pair of black platform ankle boots. She walks over to her dresser to get out a pair of ripped jeans. As she closes the drawer, her eyes seem to dart to the picture of her and her mother on the wall. She never noticed it before, but she didn't anything like her.
'Could what Vince said the other day be true? Am I adopted?' Sabrina thinks.
After she gets dressed and walks over to her desk, she puts on some waterproof mascara and light pink liquid lipstick. Sabrina heads downstairs and enters the kitchen. The first thing she sees is her dad's furious face as he sees what shoes she is wearing today.
"Sabrina Lilah Tucker! Go back upstairs and put on a different pair of shoes, right now young lady!" He says sternly.
"But Dad, that will ruin my outfit." Sabrina pouts as she crosses her arms over her chest.
"I don't care. You could twist your ankle." He snaps.
"I'll be careful Dad, besides I walked down the stairs just fine, didn't I?" Sabrina says.
"Don't sass me, young lady. Go back upstairs and change your shoes now!" He angrily exclaims.
Sabrina leaves the kitchen and lets out a frustrated groan as she sits down on the bottom step of the staircase and takes off her boots. Carrying them in her right hand, and she mumbles "why can't Dad treat me like an adult," as she goes up the stairs back to her room before approaching her closet.
'He never had a problem with me wearing those shoes when Mom was here. Why is he acting so differently? I'm going to show him, and everyone at school that I can be rebellious.' Sabrina thinks.
Walking over to her bed, she sits down to put the boots back on. She then grabs her book bag, violin, and purse. She is happy that her time management skills are top notch because she finished all her homework in school yesterday, so she has enough room in her bag to store the violin case safely inside in the second pocket away from her back. She zips it closed and puts it on her back.
Then, as quietly as she can, she walks over to the window and opens it. After removing the screen, she takes out the fire escape ladder. She places the ladder onto the window sill and quietly unrolls it. She slides her left shoulder underneath the strap of her purse and climbs down the ladder. She lets out a big yawn before she glances down at her watch and sees that it's 5 am.
'Dad, just because Mom is in the military, that doesn't mean you need to wake me up before sunrise. I don't even have to be at school till 8:15.' Sabrina thinks.
Sabrina decides to take a morning walk to clear her head. Once she is three blocks away, her cell phone starts to vibrate. She removes it out of the front pocket of her purse and sees her father's number on the screen.
"I'm sorry Dad, but I don't want to talk to you right now." Sabrina snaps, ending the call before he has an opportunity to reply.
She shoves it back into her purse and keeps on walking. Once getting to the stop sign, in the corner of her eye, she sees Cliffjumper drive up towards her. He stops and opens his passenger side door. Looking around to ensure that no one's around, she gets inside, quickly takes off her book bag and purse, sets them on the floorboard before then buckling up.
"Hey Cliffjumper, what are you doing here?" Sabrina asks.
"I was on my morning patrol, and I saw you." He says calmly in his western tone.
"It's too early to go to school. Do you think that we could go back to your base? I want to get a bit more sleep." Sabrina says, through another big yawn. "My dad thinks I function better if he wakes me up before sunrise."
"Why are you walking around Jasper this early?" He asks.
"I got into a fight with my dad. He didn't want me to wear my boots to school." Sabrina replies.
A few seconds later Sabrina hears a rumble of thunder and sees some dark clouds rolling in from the reflection in the rearview mirror. She lets out a sigh in relief realizing she'll be safe from getting soaked. She leans back and closes her eyes before falling asleep instantly as Cliffjumper pulls away.
Cliffjumper activates his holoform and looks over towards the passenger seat as he soon pulls into the base. He sees Sabrina fast asleep. After he tries and fails to wake her up, he picks her up. He then carries her over to where the TV is before laying her down on the couch. He turns off his holoform after he gathered up her belongings and put them on the table beside the sofa. After transforming into his bipedal mode, a few seconds later Ratchet and Arcee walk up to him.
"Why did you bring that human here?" Ratchet asks.
Cliffjumper puts his finger to his lips, "Shh, Ratchet you'll wake her up. She needs a place to sleep other than her house."
"How come?" Arcee asks.
"She said that her dad freaked out about what she was going to wear to school." He whispers to the two of them.
Arcee walks over to the railing and sees what Sabrina decided to wear to school.
"I don't see anything wrong with her outfit. It's within the school's dress code." She says as she looks back to Cliffjumper.
"Cee, how would you know what the school's dress code is?" Cliffjumper asks.
"I was doing some research to get to know this planet better when I stumbled upon it." Arcee shrugs.
They walk away from Sabrina so she wouldn't hear any more of their conversation. Hearing a buzzing sound around an hour later, they turn around to see Sabrina waking up. She reaches over to the table and takes out her cell phone from out of her purse. The buzzing sound stops as Sabrina sets her phone down on the table. She slowly sits up on the couch and turns around when she hears Cliffjumper walking over to her.
"Morning, Sabrina," Cliffjumper says.
"Hey Cliffjumper, I take it Ratchet is the orange and white ambulance robot that isn't fond of humans?" She asks even though it sounded more like a statement.
"Yes," Cliffjumper says.
Cliffjumper puts his right hand in front of the couch. Sabrina is unsure what he wants her to do, so she looks over at Cliffjumper with a confused look on her face.
"Am I supposed to jump on or what?" Sabrina asks.
Cliffjumper nods before she hesitantly hops off the couch and lands on his hand. She holds on tight to one of his fingers as he sets his hand onto his shoulder. Sabrina slowly let's go and slides down on Cliffjumper's shoulder before she sits down. Sabrine is a tad anxious sitting on the shoulder of a two-story tall robot as Cliffjumper walks back over to Ratchet and Arcee. A few seconds later, a loud growling sound can be heard.
"What was that?" Ratchet asks.
They look down at Sabrina to see her cheeks begin to turn red.
"Sorry everyone, that was my stomach. I'm a little hungry." She says.
"I can take you to your house," Cliffjumper says.
"No thank you, Cliffjumper. I'd rather pick something up from the diner." Sabrina says. "If you are aliens, don't you want to maintain that a secret from everyone else? Don't you have some program you can use to make you look like a fake human or something? So the citizens won't think we have haunted cars driving around Jasper." Sabrina asks, looking among the three alien robots.
"We do have a program that creates holoforms." Ratchet answers.
"Really?" Sabrina gasps.
"I'll show you what mine looks like," Cliffjumper says.
Cliffjumper sets Sabrina onto the floor before transforming into his vehicle form. The driver side door opens to reveal his holoform. He sees a slightly unimpressed and worried look on Sabrina's face when she sees a twenty-year-old man wearing a t-shirt with a picture of a bull and the phrase, 'You mess with the bull you get the horns' on it, a pair of ripped jeans and black leather cowboy boots with spurs on the heels.
"Not bad, but if my dad sees this walk me to the door, he might freak out and call the police," Sabrina says.
"What do you suggest?" Ratchet asks.
"I think you should try to look like a high school student. Then you could tell him that you graduated early and came back to Jasper when you found out at the college you applied for and attended; the staff didn't treat you with respect, so you had to drop out." Sabrina says, making up the description.
"That is a pretty accurate and long explanation," Arcee says.
"Well, I'm a terrible liar, at least this sounds realistic so that he won't get suspicious," Sabrina says.
"Shouldn't I have a human name so we can keep up this ruse?" Cliffjumper asks.
"How about Clark?" Sabrina suggests.
"Sounds good," Cliffjumper says.
"Sabrina, you might have to help Ratchet with reprogramming Cliff's program to make him look like a high school student," Arcee says.
"Okay, if Ratchet is fine with having me as a temporary partner." Sabrina smiles.
"Fine, fine, let's get this over with, I need to get back to scouting for energon," Ratchet says waving his hand slightly annoyed.
Cliffjumper picks Sabrina up again and puts her on his shoulder. Even though it was her second time, Sabrina still thinks it feels kind of weird riding on the shoulder of a two-story tall robot. Ratchet plugs a cable into Cliffjumper's head, and Sabrina sees the program appear on the screen in front of them.
"What should the holoform look like?" Ratchet asks, glancing at her.
"You can keep the face structure the way it is, but you need to soften a few of the features and a little less facial hair. The hair should part to the left but have it be a clean cut it, and also the hair should be a light brown, and the eyes should be hazel instead of the color blue they are now. Most human boys aren't that muscular, so tone that down about ten percent." Sabrina says giving her viewpoint on what Cliffjumper should look like and smiles as it appears on the screen.
"Anything else?" Ratchet asks.
"Nope," Sabrina says.
Ratchet updates Cliffjumper's program and unplugs him from the computer. As they walk back over to Arcee, Cliffjumper holds up his hand before Sabrina climbs onto it.
"How about we take my new holoform for a test run?" Cliffjumper says.
"Sure Cliffjumper, that sounds like a good idea to me. I need to eat something before I go to school. Otherwise, I won't be able to focus on anything, but food." Sabrina says.