Chapter 2: Guardians

Rafael Esquivel, also known as 'Raf', was currently playing with his RC car in a drained human-made canal, when his foster mother rang. "Just five more minutes?"Raf asked through the phone . He didn't want to go back to a place where people hardly noticed him. He soon hung up and started to play again.

It was then that a motorbike jumped above his head and into the canal. On top of it was Jade Darby, a girl from his school, breathing heavily. She was quite nice to him, when her ex-boyfriend, Vince tried to bully him, she'd come along and tell him to get lost and leave Raf along. Jade also worked for Raf 's foster mother at her café.

However Raf never knew that she did stunts on motorbikes. "Wow," He breathed.

Jade heard him. "You have no idea," She was shaking all over, she unhooked her hands off the motorbike and she fell to the ground, her knees felt like jelly.

Raf ran over and helped her up, she was still shaky but she was able to walk.

It was then that the two car from before showed up the same way Jade did. However the cars started to shift and transform into robots, tall ones at that.

"Get out of the way." The voice from the motorbike ordered, which Jade and Raf happily obeyed. They ran over to the side of the canal as the bike also transformed. It then dressed the others. "This ends here, Decepticons." He snarled, well Jade thought it was a guy, it looked like one, and sounded it too.

"What are they?" Raf questioned, hiding a little behind Jade's leg.

"I don't know. Robots that can transform?" Something then made her freeze. 'Wait,' She thought, 'where have I heard that? Transformers?'

*Flashback*

"Come on, Mum, tell me another story about the transformers."

"No, it's bedtime, Jade." The woman smiled at her daughter. Her gold wings on her back spread a bit as her daughter pouted.

"Will you be here tomorrow?"

Her mother didn't answer.

*End of Flashback*

It was then that the yellow muscle car came onto the scene. It got into a fight with the Decepticons, once it had them on the ground, it stepped back. Crunch! Something went under its foot.

Its eyes went wide and he looked down to see, Raf's RC car in pieces. It turned to look at Raf and it let off some beeping noises.

Raf smiled, "It's ok," He came in front of Jade a bit to talk to the creature. "Really-" He didn't get to finish as the Decepticons, blasted the yellow 'bot in the face, sending flying backward. When they went to fire again it was Raf that yelled at them. "Leave him alone!" The Decepticons then pointed their weapons at him and Jade. "Please?" He added in.

Jade bent down beside him. "I don't think the puppy-dog look is going to work on these guys, Raf."

It was then that one of them started to walk over to the human duo. "Time to go," Jade said grabbing Raf by his hand and running for the storm drain.

Once they were in they started to run but they stopped when they heard a bang and crash. Turning back they saw the yellow 'bot again. He let out several beeps.

"Thank you," Raf smiled. The 'bot left and Jade urged Raf to keep moving.

"Time to go, Raf." She breathed, still thinking of how she got a flashback from the battle.

"What are they?" He questioned again.

"Nothing we should worry about." Jade answered, she then changed the subject. "Come on, I'll walk you home."

Arcee and Bumblebee got into a fighting stand as the Decepticons advanced on them. A horn beeped behind them. Bulkhead.

He transformed and landed with a large slam onto the ground. "Who's ready to rumble?" He smirked. His eye glued onto the Decepticons, who then transformed and drove away at top speed.

Once they were out of sight Bumblebee let out a huge sigh of relief, anymore and the poor guy would have been knocked out cold.

"What took you?"Arcee barked at him.

"Traffic," Bulkhead shrugged sheepishly.

Arcee then looked around, "Where is the human?"

Bumblebee answered him, (They went through a storm drain to get away from the Decepticons.)

"She's gone?" Arcee roared.

"What's got you so upset?" Bulkhead questioned. He then noticed that Arcee's scar was gone. "And what happened to your scar?"

"That's why I need to know where that human went!" He then explained his story to Bulkhead and Bumblebee.

"So this human healed your scar by singing?" Bulkhead roared with laughter. "That's the craziest thing I ever heard!"

(Maybe we should speak to Optimus and Ratchet first before we go laughing at Arcee.) Bumblebee spoke up.

"Fine," Bulkhead shrugged, he still had a grin on his face.

"Are you sure, Arcee?" Ratchet asked, once Arcee told his story to Optimus and Ratchet. When they were back at base.

"I'm as sure as I'll ever be," Arcee huffed. "I don't know why, but she had healed me by using her voice."

"Then she may be a member of the second race of Cybertron, the guardians of music. It is said that they helped cast out Unicron. They also have the power to heal and expel dark energon from a Transformers body. But that is all the information I can remember." Ratchet explained.

"Wait, I thought guardians had wings?" Bulkhead butted in.

"They do, but they are able to merge their wings into their backs."

(Why would they hide their wings from us) Bumblebee questioned.

"Think about it, Bee." Arcee answered him. "That girl had no idea what I was. So she must have lived her whole life here. Imagine not knowing what you are or who you are, because you are different to everyone around you. Of course she'd hide her wings. She wants to belong somewhere. But the main question I want an answer to, is why is, she on Earth and not Cybertron?"

Optimus then entered the conversation. "They were a dying race and the war was not helping, as some had their sparkmates died on the battle field. Soon only four guardians were left, one adult femme and three children, one boy and two girls. They took the smallest shuttle they could to get away from Cybertron. They must have found Earth, a planet that had a mating ways simpler to one of their own."

"One of their own?"Arcee questioned. "You mean they had more than one way to breed?"

"Only two, the human's way and our way," Ratchet snorted.

"You said there was another child with the femme?" Optimus added in.

(A young boy,) Bumblebee answered him with a bunch of clicks and beeps.

"You said the Decepticons saw them also?"

"Yes," Arcee answered that time.

"Then it is best, that we get to the children before the Decepticons do."

Jade sighed as she opened up the door to her so-called 'home'. It wasn't really a home, it was a warehouse. But to Jade it was the closest thing to a home. The warehouse belonged to Jade's boss, Rose, who was also Raf's foster mother. However, because Jade had no wear to live and Rose's place didn't have much space for another child, she gave the warehouse to, Jade so she could live there.

The warehouse was four stories high. The first floor was a huge garaged with a cement floor and walls. 'Probable could fit those Transformers in here…' Jade froze and let out a groan. "You don't even know if they are called that." She scolded her.

She took the flight of stairs up to the fourth floor where her bedroom was. She flopped down on the bed and with her white wings come out of her back, they ripped through her shirt as they came out, but she didn't care at the moment, she just wanted to sleep. It was then that she fell asleep.

Raf, was sitting on his bed thinking about the day's events that had just happened. He wasn't sure why, but he could understand everything the yellow robot said. He let out a sigh. He didn't get it, but maybe he had imagined it. He gave a small shrug. "I'll just talk about it to Jade in the morning." He muttered. After all it was a good excuse to talk to her. She had always like, a second mother to him, or a big sister, who would protect him from the school bullies. He was glad to meet her.

He crawled under his sheets and was soon in a deep sleep, dreaming about transforming robots.

*The next day at Jade's High school*

Jade walked out of the school building with her white bear shaped backpack sung over her shoulder. She wore a dress that ended just below her knees. On her head was a wide brim hat and on her feet was a pair of flats. All of the clothes she wore today were white.

She took a quick glance at the transfer student, Miko, who was drawing something. Before looking over to see Raf, being picked on by Vince and a few other kids around Jade's age.

Jade stormed over to the bullies and stood between them and Raf. "Can't you leave him alone already?" She snapped.

"Can't you stop being a slut?" Trevor sneered back at her. He was a blonde with grey eyes, and he wore black clothes all the time. He normal thought of himself as a Goth. However Jade thought he was just an idiot.

"Why don't you watch your mouth?" A voice growled behind the bullies. It was the man who walked into the cafe just as Jade had finished sing her last song for the day at the cafe. "Last time I checked, women don't like being called that."

Jade had to admit, this guy was cute, he looked strong, a body of an Olympic to say the least and so far he sounded like a real gentleman. However she swore she heard his voice before.

"Whatever," Vince snorted. "However you might want to watch your back from now on." Once they had left Jade turned to the new guy.

"Thanks," Jade flashed a smile at him. "What's your name?"

"Arcee," He returned the smile with one of his own. "Spelt: A-r-c-e-e."

"Cool name." She pointed to Raf. "This is Raf, and I'm-"

"Jade." He finished her sentence for her. "I know, you meet me yesterday,"

"At the cafe?"

"Outside the cafe, you decide to take me for a spin. Also, I forgot to ask, how did you enjoy jumping off that highway?"

It was then that Jade spotted the blue motorbike. Her jaw dropped. She didn't know how but this guy was the robot. Before she could even think of what to say she felt, Raf tug on her dress.

"Jade, look." He pointed at the yellow car that was with the motorbike the other day. It stopped beside them and opened up his door for Raf, who happily climbed in the seat. It then shut the door and drove away.

Jade looked over at Arcee, who was holding out a hand to her. "Care to have another ride? I promise to not jump off things this time."

Jade turned around and walked away from him. Her head held high.

Arcee hung his head. "Are all girls like this?" He questioned aloud.

Jade turned a corner into an alleyway; it was a quicker way to get home. She didn't have work today so she could go home and get her homework done. It was then that Arcee came from behind and pulled up in front of her, his human form on top of it.

"Relax," He told her. "I just want to talk."

"Oh really, just you?"

"Jade, there is a lot you don't understand."

"Oh, no, don't worry I understand. The first rule about you guys is that people don't know about you. I won't tell anyone, lips sealed." She turned her back and walked the other way. "However, you don't seem to understand that I don't want a bunch of un-normal talking robots around me trying to get me killed."

"Look," Jade froze at the coldness in his voice. She turned to see him in his robot form. "I hate to break it to you Jade. But you aren't normal either. Your wings and voice are a prime example."

Jade let out gasp. 'How did he know?' She questioned in her head.

"Look Jade," He leaned in closer to her as he spoke. "You are different from very one here on Earth because you're not from this planet. You voice can heal any injuries we get in battle as well as make us stronger in battle. Please, I need you to come with me."

"Girl, what are you waiting for?" A voice jumped in the conversation, making Jade and Arcee jump. The turned to see Miko standing nearby them, "Go with him!"

It was dead silent until Arcee huffed. "Scrap."