Thanks so much to anyone leaving reviews/favs/alerts/C2s and anything else I missed.

I'd love to note that going back to the reviews (because I really love getting any kind of feedback... because my writing REALLY needs it)... Great minds must truly think alike. I'm actually surprised that I don't have a lot of errors in the first and second chapters where the letters g or n are missing because of the poor condition my keyboard is in and how I tend to only skim over my work a little.

Took a little longer to make this chapter than I'd expected, and I wanted to make the story about 4 chapters but I guess I ran out of ideas.


Sari VS. Sitter

Chapter Three- Not done well, but done

TWENTY FIRST MOVE: A SURPRISING, OR NOT SO SURPRISING PLAYMATE.

"Cara I told my friend she can come over."

Cara idly wondered if she should really agree with Sari's declaration but it had been a relatively calm morning, she must have finally asserted herself with the past night's trip to the car wash.

It wasn't until after she agreed that she remembered something Mr. Sumdac had told her; Sari didn't have any human friends… so then who was she talking about?

Cara glanced outside and noticed the blonde girl standing next to Sari. "God must hate me." She spoke in a whisper. Somehow Sari and Alyssia had become friends, the somehow probably had to do with Sari's tapping of her cell phone. Alyssia had always been hard to deal with, granted she wasn't Sari's level of evil Cara feared the outcome of what a friendship would be between them.

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"So Sumdac, what have you tried so far?"

"Everything from being a pain in the butt, launching rogue attacking house appliances too trying to turn all my friends against her."

"Cara always was persistent, but fear not Sumdac this is day four isn't it? She can't be too far from cracking." Alyssia smirked "I think I should go say hello to my old caretaker."

TWENTY SECOND MOVE: TO QUIT OR NOT TO QUIT?

Cara had finally had it; no amount of money could be worth the trouble the two girls were causing. They had practically destroyed the living room and kitchen, and Cara feared for Sari's father's lab with the two running around so uncontrollably. She would have called the Autobots in for help but a live TV broadcast showed them fighting some rogue robots in town. Cara reached for her cell phone, she knew when she'd been beat. She'd just have to call Mr. Sumdac and apologize in advance for her failure.

She was distracted from her cell phone however; something was knocking on the window. When Cara turned around and saw the flying robot it started yelling "Give me the sparkling filthy organic!"

Okay there was no getting past it, Sari and Alyssia had occupied themselves tracking mud indoors, and even if they hadn't there was no way the girls could fake this. Cara screamed at the top of her lungs when the thing broke through the window.

"Give me the sparkling! I know it's here I tracked the energy signal!"

"I – I -I don't know what you're talking about!" Cara stumbled over her words

The Decepticon seemed to sigh "I'll make this easy for your tiny processor to configure… the yellow haired girl, where is she?"

"You don't mean Alyssia?" Sure she was a demon but Cara decided it was better not to turn in someone's child to evil-talking-transforming-alien-robots.

"Oh so that's what they're calling her now."

"Wait a second you can't take off with someone's kid!"

"Her guardians told me to keep her for a few days!"

"Why would any parents in their right minds do that? There's no way I'll believe you!" Cara opened her cell phone but the Decepticon blasted it out of her hand

"Hey that phone coasted 300 bucks and I had fifty people in my address book!"

"I do not care about your primitive technology; I care about not getting shown up by a brat! If she gets that all-spark key then the others will lose all the respect they have for me!"

"What are you talking about?"

"The key the child wears!"

"You're not making any sense!"

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"As much as I hate being in this position, we'll have to both team up against the brats… myself to keep Switchflick from getting the key… and well you're mostly involved because you really have no other choice, but I guess you'd still gain some respect from the Sumdac brat but even if you wanted to say no you can't."

Cara sighed, she did not sign up to be threatened by evil-talking-transforming-alien-robots or be told that her former charge was one of those evil-talking-transforming-alien-robots. "At least I can say I didn't willingly help."

TWENTY THIRD MOVE: FRIENDS RIGHT?

"Sumdac this is getting boring." Alyssia yawned "Anyway you know of that we can step up our game?"

Sari thought for a second about telling Alyssia about her key, she never had to say it was all powerful after all right? "Well, there is something; I used it before but I guess I could've done better."

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"Okay organic, what I want you to do is be a decoy."

"No way you be the decoy!"

Starscream laughed "Yeah right; I think you're forgetting who's in charge here!"

Cara rolled her eyes, so maybe it would be nice to get revenge on the bratty child but this seemed just a little crazy.

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Sari had tried as well as, or even better than any kid could not to brag about her key but it ended up happening. "And it can fix almost anything mechanical!"

"Really now?" Alyssia raised an eyebrow, Sari nodded. "Then in that case I've got an idea."

"Really?"

Alyssia nodded. "Hand it to me."

"I probably shouldn't, I'm not supposed to give it away even for a minute."

"But, you can trust me can't you? We are friends right Sumdac?"

"Well…"

TWENTY FOURTH MOVE: SKIP STAGE 3 OF THE WAR ITS GONE STRAIGHT TO STAGE 4

"Switchflick!"

"Sari!"

"What?" The two girls turned their heads to see Cara and Starscream.

Then Sari lanced back at Alyssia "Did you just answer to that?"

"No way Sumdac! Isn't that one of those evil robots? Quick use the key to do something!"

"I don't know Switchflick…"

Alyssia growled not seeming to notice Sari's use of the name Switchflick "Of course you know! You've fought this guy before now do something with the key Sumdac, if you don't I will!"

"No way!" Sari jumped a few steps away from the girl "You just answered to the name again!"

Starscream stepped behind Alyssia "That's because it's her name, her real name!"

Switchflick punched Starscream "Thanks for running my plan you stupid piece of slag! If I'd gotten the key I could've helped all the Decepticons" Switchflick transformed revealing herself in her original robotic mode.

"Well your guardians didn't want you running around in public yet!"

"The end would have justified the means!"

Cara glanced at Sari and Sari glanced at Cara, they finally agreed on something "Let's go."

Sari and Cara started to run out of the tower but it wasn't long before Switchflick yelled "Starscream you idiot she's getting away with the key we have to go and get it!"

"No I have to go and get it!"

TWENTY FIFTH MOVE: ARMISTICE AND TEMPORARY ALLIES

Sari used her key to further bolt down all the electronic locks in the basement while Cara took care of the manual padlocks.

"This is not going to hold up for very long." Sari sighed

"But long enough right? You have your phone don't you?"

"No it's upstairs… I was hoping you had yours."

"No that Starscream thing, kind of blew it up."

"Well that's just perfect!" Sari showed her sarcasm

"I know right? Three hundred bucks down the drain; and all my friends' numbers gone."

"I think you missed my point."

"Are you sure you didn't cause any of this?"

Sari scoffed at Cara's question "As if I would ever work with those Decepito-creeps!"

"Well you are quite a little demon so I'm not so sure."

"Only to you because I don't want or need you around."

"So you intend to prove that by acting like a demon child?"

Sari shrugged "Pretty much, worked with all the others. Anyway, I wonder how long Starscream and Switchflick are going to waste their time arguing."

"Yeah, with all the arguing they were doing we probably could have taken them out ourselves."

Sari laughed "Yeah we-" she paused "Yeah we can do this all I got to do is use my key on the security system again!"

"Okay then and that'll give us the chance to get more help and… wait a second." Cara sent a glare at Sari "What do you mean use it on the security system again?"

"N-nothing."

"Yeah right, nothing!"

"Temporary armistice?"
"Temporary armistice."

TWENTY SIXTH MOVE: STALLING FOR TIME

"Once I activate the security system bots we'll have an extra five or so minutes. In that time I can get a hold of my phone can call for some help."

"But isn't it upstairs?"

Sari nodded and Cara sighed "This is going to be really dangerous. I am so fired."

"At least you didn't quit?"

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Meanwhile Starscream and Switchflick had progressed very little in acquiring Sari's key.

"When your guardians are informed about this!"

"I'll just blame it on you!"

"Oh yeah? Well I'll just blame it on you!"

"Oh yeah? Well I'll double blame it on you!"

"Oh yeah? Well I'll triple blame it on you!"

"Oh yeah? Well I'll blame it on you times infinity!"

"Infinity plus one!"

"That's not even possible! Infinity, is beyond every possibility adding one to it doesn't change the fact that it's infinite, and therefore adding one is irrelevant!"

"Don't tell me what's impossible, you're just a sparkling!"

And that's when the security droids invaded the halls.

TWENTY SEVENTH MOVE: HELP AT LAST

Sari and Cara managed to make it outside of the tower with Starscream and Siwtchflick not too far behind.

"Bumblebee says they're on their way!"

Cara never knew she'd actually be relieved to know that talking-transforming-alien-robots were on their way, but in light of the evil-talking-transforming-alien-robots they were being chased by, she couldn't complain.

"Sumdac you might as well stop running now, your organic servos are inferior to ours; you're only wasting your energy." Switchflick smirked but was slapped by Starscream

"Shut up! I do the taunting, that's my job! Give up now and I might consider letting both of you live."

"If you want it so bad why don't you just take it already!" Cara was getting more than frustrated with this.

"Cara! What are you saying?" Sari looked at the teenager as if she were stupid

"Yeah, Starscream, Switchflick… you want the key right? Well why haven't you taken it already? It's right here, we can't fight you off, you've had plenty of chances."

"Cara!"

"Yeah Starscream why haven't you?" Switchflick glared at him.

"I thought you were going to get the key."

"Well I thought you didn't want me stealing the glory from you!"

"I thought you didn't care."

"Well of course I care, it's my master plan, my job, and my glory!"

"I'll be glad when I'm rid of you!"

"Well if I get the key it'll prove I'm mature enough to not need to be watched by idiots like you!"

"Really? Now I'm intrigued… as much as I hate to say it;" Starscream paused and quickly mumbled something.

"What was that?" Switchflick asked

Starscream yelled "I said we'll have to share the glory and we both get what we want."

"Fine then. Let's get the key."

Sari glared at the teenager "Way to go Cara!"

"Well I didn't see you coming up with anything!"

Starscream was about to swoop down but was intercepted just in time.

"Woo! Optimus!"

Cara stood frozen as Sari cheered only managing to get out a few words "That thing. Almost. Hit. Us."

"Just get inside already!" Sari and Bumblebee ordered. Cara somewhat reluctantly did as she was told.

She clung to the steering wheel and placed her foot on the gas

"Don't try to drive! He's does all of that himself!"

"I'm not comfortable getting in a car that drives it's self!"

"Too bad get comfortable!"

TWENTY EIGHTH MOVE: TALK ABOUT ANTI-CLIMATIC

Bumblebee made a sudden stop.

"Why are you stopping? You're going to get us killed!" Cara was well past the point of calming down and hadn't noticed the silence outside.

"They just left." Sari opened the door and hopped out, Cara stepped out not long after and took a good hard look at Sumdac tower

"So, does insurance cover home damage caused by security drones and alien-robot battles?"

Sari simply shrugged "Dad'll handle it somehow."

"Your father is an incredibly brave and patient man." How did he do it? Cara sighed "you know we still have to do some cleaning right?"

"You mean, you have to do some cleaning." Sari started to laugh a bit but her laughter ceased when Prowl picked her up "Uhh hi Prowl."

TWENTY NINTH MOVE: FINAL MOVE

It was Sari's job to round up all the broken security drones, the Autobots volunteered to handle most of the larger damage; Cara was stuck with the mud from earlier.

"Sumdac better pay me for more than just babysitting."

Suddenly a security drone came from behind her and Cara suddenly realized.

The war was only on a temporary Armistice; Sari Sumdac wouldn't have given up so easily, she was at it again.

THIRTIETH MOVE: CONCLUSIONS

"So how did it go?" It was funny that Sumdac would bother to ask given that Sumdac tower still had a considerable amount of damage to it three days later.

Cara almost considered saying it was great; maybe he'd pay her more if she lied. However in the end all she could say was.

"I'll take my paycheck now… don't call me next time."

The last three days had probably been even worse than the first four and Cara would try to wipe them from her memory all tougher.

The professor sighed taking a glance at Sari who now appeared to be trying to pull off the 'angelic' look. "And another one bites the dust." he handed Cara a check, she decided to wait until she was down the street to look at it.

She was quite pleased.

But it wouldn't matter how much she got paid she'd never do it again.

As for Sari, all things considered the war was a tie; she may not have driven Cara away before her father came home, but Cara definitely wouldn't be back. She thought she might have even been a bit disappointed, she might even consider future babysitters too easy to get rid of.

That is…

As long as the other babysitters weren't Prowl, Sari wasn't quite ready to take on the ninja-bot just yet.

The Autobots were glad to see the fiasco come to an end and hoped Issac wouldn't be leaving again anytime soon.

And Issac? It was back to business as usual for him; he had a lot of insurance papers to fill out.


I don't know if I'm 100% thrilled with how I ended this but I couldn't come up with much else so I hope it's good enough. At least Switchflick served her purpose as a plot device? Hopefully I didn't make any gaping errors or forget to edit something in here correctly and cause gaping plot holes. (If I did please let me know)

Anyway it won't be half bad to be able to move on to some of the ideas I have for new fics for TFA... they involve more Autobots than this did.. even though I originaly jumped in to this story intending to give them more page time that I actually did. I'll have to make it up in the next one.