Okay, I decided to update this one more time before I go back and work on my other stories. I have bad news though: I'm getting sick...I think. So...updates may be delayed...longer. So...I apologize. Once again thanks to all of you who have been reviewing.
Chapter 3: Base
Aurora led the autobots through the backyard and out to the gully. It was the first time in a long time since she had been out there, but there really was no reason why she should visit. The gully was a barren and empty wasteland. It had trees hither and thither, the grass was never cut and grew rather high, and it had numerous small, but steep hills. The best part was that there was no one around to see them build this base.
"Welcome to the gully," Aurora stated, "Please watch your step there are gopher holes."
Red Alert took out a small computer device and began scanning the gully. Aurora watched him for a couple seconds until Optimus paused beside her. "Does anyone besides you ever come over here?" he asked.
"Just Angelique and me, in the wintertime to go sledding, never in the spring, summer, or fall," she answered.
"Then I do think that this will make an ideal location. We'll see what Red Alert's scans say first and we'll go from there."
Aurora was quiet a few moments and then said, "Do you think that Angelique will be okay? We did leave her alone with the decepticons."
"Does she know how to scream and runaway?"
"She's a pro at that."
"Then she'll be fine," Optimus remarked, "Let's go see what Red Alert has to say."
Aurora agreed and the two of them went over to Red Alert just as he finished reading the results from his scans. He looked over to Aurora and Optimus explaining, "If we're going to build a base here, its best we build it underground. The dirt is soft, yet sturdy, and there is a lot of limestone, but that shouldn't be a problem."
The autobot leader nodded, "Then it's settled. We'll go get the decepticons, draw up a design for the base, and then start building it. Now, who's going to go fetch the decepticons?"
The autobot troops pretended to make themselves look busy. Red Alert was putting his scanning equipment away, Hotshot and Override had a conversation going on about racing, and Jetfire and Wing-Saber were arguing about the shape of a cloud in the sky. Optimus felt an optic twitch and sighed. Aurora chuckled a bit, "I'll go get them for you."
"You will? Thanks Aurora, I owe you," Optimus exclaimed.
Aurora nodded and started back to the house.
Angelique flinched when she heard someone pound on the door. Ransack and Crumplezone looked up from their game to glance at the door. They then glanced at Angelique and then went back to their game. The girl noticed Crumplezone had an arm around Ransack. Her eyes widened a bit as she thought, "Either they're really good friends, or they're really good friends."
The pounding sounded on the door again, but this time it was accompanied by Megatron's voice demanding in a rather bittersweet tone, "Let me human, and I'll let you live to be my pet."
"You got that line from the movie!" Angelique called back.
"Don't get me anymore angrier than I am now."
"Or what? You'll huff and you'll puff and you'll blow the door down?" she retorted.
"That's the last straw!"
"Nice pun."
The door made a horrible ripping noise as Megatron yanked it open, no help whatsoever by Starscream. Angelique felt her jaw drop when she realized just how strong Megatron truly was. Ransack and Crumplezone turned away from the game they were playing to see what happened.
"What are the chances that you won't hurt me?" Angelique asked.
"There are no chances," Megatron answered stepping into the room.
Angelique jumped off the bed attempting to keep that between her and the very angry decepticon leader. Starscream leaned against the door frame watching with a gleeful smirk on his face. Megatron easily saw how he could catch the human, but he figured he'd give her a chance and said, "Come to me now and receive your beating, don't make me come after you."
"What did I do to deserve a beating?" Angelique inquired taking a step towards Starscream and the door.
"You made me mad," the decepticon leader replied.
"Look, when I tackled you I was only stopping you from getting into one huge mess. As for the alliance, well, it doesn't have to be permanent."
"I still don't like you, and for that, you shall pay," Megatron exclaimed. He was just about to lunge at Angelique when Aurora suddenly shoved past Starscream into the room.
"What's going on here?" Aurora demanded.
Angelique glanced to Megatron and then turned to Aurora and said, "I made him mad, not purposely though."
"Oh, well, at least you didn't burn the house down."
"Megatron's about to slag me and all you care about is the house burning down?!" Angelique remarked.
"Well, quite honestly, I think you could use a minor slagging once in awhile," Aurora confessed, "especially when you lie to me, steal my stuff, don't do as I say, and hit me for no reason."
"So? Now, why are you here anyway?"
"I'm here because Optimus wishes to speak with Megatron and the rest of the decepticons. Speaking of the rest of the decepticons, where are Thundercracker and Thunderblast?"
"Megatron ordered them to go make love in your room," Angelique answered causing Ransack and Crumplezone to snicker, Starscream's optics to widen, and Megatron to scowl.
Aurora crossed her arms annoyed, "Seriously."
"I don't know where they are. For all I care, that witch named Thunderblast can stay gone."
"ENOUGH!" Megatron finally bellowed, "Now, we will go meet with the autobots as you say, um, whoever you are."
"My name's Aurora."
"Whatever, decepticons, follow Aurora out, take Thundercracker and Thunderblast with you," Megatron ordered.
"My sister is coming with us," Aurora remarked.
"I never said she wasn't," Megatron returned.
Aurora glared at him and then left the room with Megatron's troops. She found Thundercracker and Thunderblast watching TV in the living room, and they followed Aurora outside as well. Angelique glanced at the door and then back to Megatron, "Well, its nice meeting you, I'll be leaving."
"Hold it human," he declared and Angelique froze, "Walk with me."
"That…I can do."
Angelique led Megatron out of the house and they started walking towards the gully. Megatron then asked, "Is it true, that you do those things that your sister says?"
"I guess."
"Tell me, who do you like better, autobots or decepticons?"
"Decepticons all the way, I hate the autobots, especially Hotshot, Optimus, and Override. Red Alert, Jetfire, and Wing-Saber are alright, but I much rather prefer the decepticons."
Megatron smirked, "Which decepticons don't you like?"
"Thunderblast and Crumplezone. Ransack looks like a little teddy bear, Thundercracker is just plain awesome, Starscream is annoying, but yet very attractive, and you're just plain sexy—I mean evil," Angelique explained and then wanted to slap herself.
Megatron glanced at Angelique, and to her relief he didn't say anything. They then arrived to the gully where Optimus and the rest of the autobots along with the decepticons were waiting.
"What is it now?" Megatron asked sounding annoyed.
"We need to decide on a design for the base," Optimus answered.
"Right…the decepticons get the bigger half."
"The autobot and decepticon sections will be equal in size."
"Fine, we get the better half," Megatron argued.
"Each half will be just as good as the other," Optimus shot back.
"Oh wow," Aurora exclaimed watching the two leaders argue, "This is going to be one heck of an alliance."
"You said it," Angelique remarked, "Shall we go break them up?"
"I suppose…even though that sounds wrong."
"Pervert."
Aurora and Angelique then stepped between the two leaders distracting them from their argument. "How about this," Aurora piped up, "The autobots design their half and the decepticons design their own, then we'll link them together into one."
"That's reasonable enough," Optimus exclaimed and then looked up to Megatron who also agreed.
The two factions then came up with their designs. Aurora helped the autobots out while Angelique worked with the decepticons. A few minutes later each faction had there designs done and agreed to put them together into one. The neutral zones would be in-between the two designs, linking them together. Aurora and Angelique were allowed to design the neutral zone, which they did. They had it built complete with a game room, bedrooms, bathrooms, and by request, a hot tub.
Once the designs were complete, the base construction began, and to the surprise of both the autobots and humans, the decepticons helped. Since Aurora and Angelique weren't really of any use, they went back to their house to finally eat breakfast.
It was about eight o'clock that evening, Angelique was in the bathroom drying her hair since she had just taken a shower, and Aurora sat out in the living room reading her AP Biology book feeling like she hadn't made any progress. Angelique had yet to start her AP English book, but she planned on starting it the next day.
Flipping to the next page in her book, Aurora listened as Angelique turned off the hair dryer and started brushing her hair. She then heard someone knock on the door. Setting her book aside, Aurora got up and answered the door. "Oh hey Jetfire and Wing-Saber, what's up?" she asked.
"The base is done and we're wondering if you and your sister would like to take a tour of it," Jetfire explained.
"Of course we would!" Angelique exclaimed coming up from behind Aurora.
Aurora glanced over at her sister and said, "You're only in your pajamas."
"Would you feel better if I grabbed some slippers too?"
"Never mind, we're coming," Aurora responded and both girls slipped into their sneakers.
"Is it cold out?" Angelique remarked.
"Not really," Wing-Saber answered, "If you get cold, you can always lean on me."
"Aw, how sweet."
"You fall for the sappiest of lines," Aurora stated.
Angelique stuck her tongue out at her and the two of them then followed Jetfire and Wing-Saber to the gully. As they were walking, Angelique couldn't help but exclaim, "I feel so free being in my pj's."
"Well, at least you're not naked," Aurora retorted.
"Like I said before, you sure do know how to ruin a perfectly good moment," Angelique replied.
"Do you two always argue like this?" Jetfire inquired.
"Pretty much, yeah, but we're sisters, what do you expect?" Angelique questioned.
Jetfire shook his head and didn't say anything. They then arrived in the gully and the two autobots showed the girls into the base. Once inside, the two girls gawked at what they saw. The base looked similar to the autobot base in the Cybertron series, but smaller since the transformers were human-sized.
"Holy," Angelique exclaimed.
"More like holy crap," Aurora added.
The two autobots chuckled and proceeded to show the two girls around the base, the autobot and neutral sections anyway. Jetfire and Wing-Saber were leery about taking the two girls into the decepticon section without Megatron's permission. The last stop on the tour was the game room, complete with a bowling alley, bar, games, couches, and a dance floor. Aurora and Angelique weren't sure what role the dance floor was going to play since neither of them could dance.
The four of them all crashed on one couch, squeezing together to create as much room as possible. "This is so awesome," Aurora remarked, "This is so going to be the best summer ever."
"What about the decepticons?" Angelique asked.
"I wouldn't recommend going over there without ol' Megsie's permission. He gets mad at the drop of a hat," Wing-Saber explained.
"More like pissed," Jetfire added.
"We should get him drunk and see what happens," Aurora piped in.
"Oh Primus, that would be to die for," Jetfire explained, "We could probably make him do some really crazy stuff that we could video tape and the best part is, he would never remember."
"Until we reminded him," Wing-Saber chuckled, "We'll have to try this sometime."
"Aw, leave poor Megsie alone. Now if you excuse me, I have to go to the bathroom," Angelique claimed getting up from the couch and leaving the room.
Jetfire, Wing-Saber, and Aurora stared after her for a moment. There was silence until Wing-Saber said, "I thought there was a bathroom in here."
"Last time I checked there was," Jetfire returned.
Aurora quickly put two and two together and jumped up from the couch saying, "That sly girl! She's obviously not going to the bathroom; she's going to check out the decepticons half of the base."
Jetfire and Wing-Saber looked at each other and then jumped off the couch themselves. The three of them quickly went off after Angelique.
Angelique knew it was only a matter of time before Aurora, Jetfire, and Wing-Saber figured out she wasn't going to the bathroom and came after her. Thus, she ran down the hallways until she finally entered the decepticon section. She glanced about realizing it wasn't much different from the autobot section, just darker.
She walked around aimlessly, taking in the sites. Angelique then came upon a room and heard Megatron addressing his troops inside. The girl relished the sound of his voice; she was elated he hadn't tried to kill her yet. She paused outside the door for a moment and jumped back when it suddenly opened. Thundercracker stood in the doorway looking at the startled human. "Hey boss man," he said, "I think we've got ourselves a visitor."
Angelique swore she heard Megatron smirk when he answered Thundercracker from within the room, "Show her in."
Before the girl could react, Thundercracker pulled her into the room. He then positioned himself in front of the door so Angelique couldn't escape. The girl glanced at Megatron and asked, "How'd you know it was me?"
"I figured no autobot would have the guts to come into the decepticon section of the base without my permission."
"I'm dead aren't I?"
"If you would like to be, I'll have that arranged," Megatron said grinning evilly.
"N-No thanks…I think I'll just be going now," Angelique remarked taking a step towards the door.
"Not so fast girl, don't think I haven't forgotten the beating that you were supposed to get earlier."
"Erm…what does it mean if I forgot?"
"Nothing," Megatron answered, "Now, for your…punishment."
Aurora, Jetfire, and Wing-Saber arrived to the decepticon section and glanced about it warily.
"What are the chances your sister hasn't come across the decons?" Wing-Saber asked.
"Well, Angelique has the worst luck in the world so…I'm betting she's already come across the decons by now," Aurora explained.
"Wonderful," Jetfire remarked, "What do you say we just let the decepticons have her? She's made it quite clear that she wants to be with them."
"Hey, Angelique is my sister and I don't want to see her getting slagged by them, especially since, well, I can't really say."
"What do you mean?" Jetfire continued.
"Well, you didn't hear this from me, but Angelis has the biggest crush on Megatron."
Both Jetfire and Wing-Saber burst out laughing, "She's got a crush on him?" Wing-Saber questioned before he burst out laughing again.
"I don't see what's so funny about it," Aurora answered crossing her arms, "I mean, when a girl's in love, a girl's in love."
"Does that mean you're in love with someone?" Jetfire inquired.
"Me? In love with one of you robots? Ha! Now that's a laugh."
The two autobots managed to cease their laughter and Wing-Saber persisted with Jetfire's question, "Aw c'mon Aurora, there's got to be someone here that you at least like."
"Not really," she answered, "Now don't ask anymore questions. Oh, and promise me, without crossing anything that you won't tell anyone about who Angelique has a crush on."
"We promise we won't tell only if you tell us who you like," Wing-Saber exclaimed forcing Aurora into a tight spot.
Aurora sighed, "Even if I did have a crush on someone, it wouldn't be either of you. Now, if I absolutely had to end up with one of you transformers, I wouldn't mind being stuck with either Hotshot or Optimus."
"Secrets out of the bag. Now, we promise not to tell anyone who Angelique has a crush on, or you," Jetfire and Wing-Saber both promised.
Aurora nodded, "If you should ever break your promise, the two of you are in for hell, now, let's go rescue my sister."
The three of them headed deeper into the decepticon section of the base.
"You belong to me human, as a slave or pet, whichever one you prefer to be called," Megatron declared.
"Bull crap! I've got better things to do than sit around and wait on you, like summer homework. Now, if you excuse me," Angelique stated moving towards the door again.
"Hold it human," Megatron remarked, "You are not to leave this base, and my word is final."
"That's nice…apparently you don't realize that we are currently in the United States of America, a free country where slavery is illegal," the girl explained, "Everyone must follow the laws and you don't have diplomatic immunity."
"Wow, she's good," Starscream exclaimed earning a glare from Megatron.
"We shall see human, but you still belong to me."
"What are you going to do? Piss on me and mark me as your territory?"
Starscream, Ransack, and Crumplezone sniggered at this statement. Megatron clenched his fists and glared at the human. Angelique had a feeling that she was screwed now. The decepticon leader got up from his throne, marched over to Angelique, and grabbed her by her pajama shirt collar. He was just about to say something when suddenly the door burst open and Aurora, Wing-Saber, and Jetfire shoved their way into the room.
"Hey! Get your hands off my sister!" Aurora declared.
Megatron looked over to Aurora and said, "No, she belongs to me now."
"I don't think so," Jetfire remarked, "Humans have their own free will."
"This human is an exception," Megatron stated.
"This human is no exception," Jetfire persisted, "Let her go and we'll be sure doesn't bother you again."
"Besides, it's way past her bedtime," Aurora chimed in.
Megatron gave a quizzical look to Angelique who nodded innocently. He growled a bit and let her go. Wing-Saber, Jetfire, Aurora, and Angelique left the room, and the decepticon section of the base.
Aurora glanced over to Angelique, "So, did you learn your lesson?"
"Yeah, I need to start eating my wheaties."
Aurora shook her head while Jetfire and Wing-Saber chuckled. She then said, "No Angelique, you need to think more, stop lying, and do what you're told."
"That was my next guess."
"Sure it was."
Aurora and Angelique then thanked Jetfire and Wing-Saber for all the things they had done and then went back up to their home to sleep.
Megatron sat glowering in his throne. "I'll get that human," he thought, "She will pay."
Yep, another cliffie provided to you by muah. ; ) Anyway, I'm exhausted/not feeling good and I'm going to bed. Please review!