Universe: Same as last chapter.

Characters: Fallout – Elvy – Mathew

Pairings: None

:AN:

Basically the continuation of the last chapter. This will probably be the last ficlet about this group of characters I post.

Elvy stood in the door way to the bridge. She felt like an intruder here. Was she? After all, it had been Livewire who'd been sent to his room in effect. Granted Fallout had told Wire to 'take the humans with him,' but it wasn't really their fault. It wasn't as if they'd snuck aboard or anything. They'd actually thought that Fallout had known.

Fallout had his back to her, concentrating on the various readouts on the monitors, none of which meant anything to her.

She was about to clear her throat to get his attention, though she didn't really know what she was going to say yet, but Fallout cut her off without turning around or looking away from what he was doing.

"I thought I told you to go with Livewire." He said gruffly.

Elvy bit her lip nervously, but made no move to leave the room. Finally Fallout did turn from the screen and look down at her. He didn't look as angry as she thought he might be. But he looked very serious.

"Well?" he said, raising an optic ridge.

Elvy shrugged, feeling nervous like she had the second time they'd met. She'd known by then that he wasn't going to step on her or vaporize her or otherwise kill her. But she also knew that she was directly disobeying him. Oh well, it was this or go back to feel even more awkward caught in between the shouting match Matt and Livewire were currently having.

"He and Mathew are… talking about it. Very loudly in fact." She said, fidgeting a little.

Fallout scoffed and turned back to the displays. Elvy stood there a while longer, feeling more awkward then ever.

"I uh, heard about your plan. Finally." She muttered. Fallout didn't move. "For what it's worth, it sounds to me like it would have worked. Matt thinks so to."

"If you thought it was such a good plan," he asked at length. "Then why are you on my ship?"

Elvy frowned. "Fallout, Livewire didn't even tell us that you had a plan." She said. Fallout slowly turned in his seat. Elvy now had his full attention. "What?" he asked, sounding somewhat shocked.

Elvy took a deep breath. "He told Mathew and I that you had both come to the conclusion that it would only be safe for us if we came with you. Matt and I went through a lot of stress actually, because we had to come to grips with leaving our home. Well I mean, not just our home obviously. But like, everything we've ever known. Even the pop culture we've grown up with."

Fallout went from looking shocked, to furious. "He told you… That fragging glitch!" Fallout pounded the computer consol. His hand slammed down with an ear splitting metal on metal sound. Then he stood up.

"Elvy I want you to do me a favor." He said, striding over to her. Elvy had to Crain her neck to look up at him.

"Alright, what is it?" she asked.



"I need you to watch the monitors for me. I have some things to discus with Wire. I'll be sending Matt out as well."

Elvy shrugged her shoulders. "Alright what do I look for?"

Fallout bent forward and Elvy let him lift her up and carry her over to the monitoring station he'd just been sitting at. He set her down on the consol top. She would never have been able to reach the controls if he hadn't.

"Just watch these screens. If anything changes, or if it starts to blip at you or something, push this comm button and let me know."

Elvy nodded and watched as Fallout turned and left the room. Sighing she turned back to the screens. Nothing. Nothing… More nothing. But she supposed that was a good thing. More nothing meant that no one was close enough to actually be trying to kill them yet. A few minutes later Elvy heard very muffled, but raised voices shouting from somewhere down the hall. 'In wires quarters, where else?' she thought.

A moment or two later Mathew stomped into the room looking as dark and angry as a storm cloud.

"Got kicked out of the 'let's yell at Livewire 'till we're blue in the face' club?" She asked with a faint smile. Mathew grunted and leaned against a bulkhead in full on angry teen mode.

"Needed some air anyway. Besides, I don't think Livewire's getting it any better from Fallout. He looked pretty ticked off when he stormed in the room. What are you doing anyway?"

Elvy shrugged. "Fallout told me to watch the monitors while he chewed Livewire out for essentially tricking us into leaving our home world and dragging us into the middle of an intergalactic robot space war. I'm supposed to sing out if there are any changes and or whatever. Wana help?"

Mathew shrugged and strolled over to the consol. Elvy helped him climb up and he sat letting his legs dangle over the side. Elvy sat with her back against one wall and kept an eye on the screens.

"This is all your fault you know." He said suddenly. Elvy turned to look at him.

"My fault? How is this my fault?" She asked incredulously. Mathew cast her a side long glance and continued to swing his legs.

"Well if you hadn't been so darn adorable maybe Livewire wouldn't have wanted to freaking adopt you."

"Us." Corrected Elvy, nudging her brother playfully with her foot. "He freaking adopted both of us. What do you suppose he's going to tell that Optimus Prime guy when we get back to their home world?"

Matt chuckled. "They followed me home! I swear!" he said, throwing his hands up defensively and waving them.

His sister laughed outright. "And he won't get any help from Fallout that's for sure." She stuck her index finger out and shook it sternly. "They are your responsibility from now on Livewire." She said in a mock deep voice. 

"You have to feed them and clean up after them and love them and take care of them blah blah blah blah."

Matt smiled, then his face clouded over.

"Yeah. Cybertron… I guess we're really going to see another planet huh?"

"Yeah." Said Elvy absently. She was both excited beyond belief and scared out of her mind by the prospect.

"What's…" She trailed off. Then seamed to build up the courage to ask her question. "What's going to happen to us when we get there?" She asked timidly. "I mean… We'll be surrounded by soldiers. Giant robot soldiers. Think they'll take kindly to us popping up with Fallout and Livewire?"

Mathew thought for a few moments, then shook his head and shrugged. "I really don't know El. I mean, If Wire and Fallout are any indication we should have nothing to worry about. But I really don't know. I guess we'll see when we get there."

A long thoughtful silence descended on the two. After a while Elvy spoke up again. "Jeez, having your future a complete mystery, I mean, more a mystery than it usually is, is really the suck."

Matt smiled. "Yeah… it really really is."