So, yeah just realized chapt 2 was shorter than Chapt 1...my bad well here's where we see more of Rachel and warning this chapter is definitely longer than any others...possibly my longest chapt. Anyway...enjoy...

Chapter 3

The Autobots transformed back into their cars and started to drive. Rachel ran back to her car and followed the line of the oddest group of cars down the street. A semi, a truck, an ambulance, and two sports cars.

Anyone who sees this now will wonder "what the hell?" Rachel thought.

She couldn't believe out of suspicion she'd followed Ironhide into that alley. It was almost ironic, out of all five Autobots she could have followed, she'd followed Ironhide. They all pulled down an alley between two houses and they all stopped. Rachel kept going, parking around the corner and walked back to see Sam and Mikaela talking.

"I need you to stay here alright?" Sam said.

"Okay," Mikaela said getting out of Bumblebee.

"You gotta stay here, and you're gonna watch them," Sam said quickly.

"Okay, okay," Mikaela said evenly.

"Do you hear what I'm saying?"

"Yeah, okay,okay, okay," Mikaela said overwhelmed.

"Five minutes, alright?" Sam said.

"Okay."

With that Sam dashed across the yard to a two story house, which Rachel guessed was his. Rachel approached Mikaela who was standing, not knowing what to do, next to Bee.

"You followed us?" Mikaela asked with a little edge in her voice.

"Only because I think I can be of some help. I know the Autobots, and there is a lot to learn, but I've known them for a while. I really just want to help, Decepticons are bad ass, and not to mention dangerous. But I understand if you don't want me around, that's fine, I really don't care," Rachel said, and she did mean it.

Rachel started to walk away. She knew somehow that even if she did walk away now, gigantic, alien robots would not go unnoticed for long. She would find them again.

"Get a grip and get back over here," Mikaela said.

Rachel turned around, her eyes widened as she saw Optimus transform and stand up. Mikaela gave her an odd look, so she pointed at Optimus.

Mikaela whirled around to see Optimus, "Oh, God," she moaned.

Sam walked back from the house to see Optimus walking into his yard.

"What are you doing? What are you doing?" Sam asked as Optimus walked to him.

Optimus walked right next to a concrete bird bath, and Rachel had seen this too many times before, she knew what was about to happen.

"No! Watch the path, watch the path! Please, please, please!" Sam begged.

Too late, Optimus' foot barely touched the top of the birdbath, but his weight crushed it instantly.

"Oh...no!" Sam yelled.

"Oops, sorry, my bad," Optimus said.

Rachel watched as the rest of the Autobots made their way toward Optimus and Sam.

"Oh...you couldn't...You couldn't wait for five...You couldn't wait for five minutes! I told you to stay! Just stay! God!" Sam yelled.

Mikaela and Rachel walked into the yard and Sam ran up to them.

"I told you to watch them. I told you," Sam told Mikaela.

"Okay, you know what? They seem to be in a little bit of a rush," Mikaela said.

"Oh this is bad," Sam said.

Rachel started to laugh, but a little Chihuahua ran past her.

Oh, crap, Rachel thought as it ran right up to Ironhide.

"No! Mojo! Mojo! Off the robot! God!" Sam yelled as the Chihuahua peed on Ironhide's foot.

Rachel laughed, but felt sorry for the poor dog that was about to be a pile of ash.

"No, no, no, no, no! Easy, easy!" Sam yelled picking up the dog before Ironhide crushed it.

"Hold on! Hold on! This is Mojo. This is Mojo. He's a pet of mine. He's a pet," Sam stammered as Ironhide pointed his guns at Sam and the dog, Mojo.

Ironhide humphed.

"That's all, could you just put the guns away... Put 'em away. Please," Sam begged.

"You have a rodent infestation," Ironhide said.

"A what?"

"Shall I terminate?" Ironhide insisted, keeping his guns aimed at the "rodent" Chihuahua.

"No, no, no, he's not a rodent. He's a Chihuahua. This is my...This is my Chihuahua. We love Chihuahuas, don't we?" Sam stammered asking Mikaela and Rachel.

Rachel shrugged, "Ironhide, not cool, put 'em away," she pleaded.

"He's leaked lubricants all over my foot," Ironhide insisted.

Rachel burst out laughing, doubling over.

"He peed on you? Bad Mojo, bad Mojo!" Sam scolded the dog.

"Bad Mojo!" Ironhide scolded.

Rachel continued to laugh, gasping for breath.

"I'm sorry, he's got a male dominance thing, that's all it is," Sam stammered.

"My foot's gonna rust," he grumbled.

Rachel wiped tears from the corners of her eyes that had formed through her laughter.

"I'm glad you thought that was funny, just real funny, huh?" Sam asked.

Rachel laughed again, "He was never going to hurt the dog," she laughed, "He was just messing with you."

Rachel continued to laugh.

"Okay, okay," Sam said to Optimus who was looking at him.

"Shut up and go hide!" he said going back into the house with the dog.

"Just hurry," Optimus said.

"Autobots, recon," Optimus said.

Bumblebee curiously looked through a first-story window of Sam's house. Rachel saw him a little too late, but hopefully no one had seen.

"Bumblebee!" she called quietly, "Bee, please , if they see you they'll go nuts. Bee, away from the window."

Rachel didn't know what Sam's parents were like, but a giant robot looking through the window was a sure way to give someone a heart attack. Or at least attract some unwanted attention, Rachel knew from experience.

Bumblebee backed up a bit, but still was looking through the window. Rachel shook her head, she liked Bee already, he seemed like a cool Autobot.

She laughed at her own thought, They're all cool, duh.

In all her years, she'd never met -or worked with- an Autobot that she didn't necessarily like, but the humans were another story. She'd much rather put her life in the hands of an Autobot than a human, and would much rather be in their company.

What? Rachel thought as she looked back to where Mikaela was.

Optimus had picked her up and lifted her to a second-story window. She saw Sam reach out and help Mikaela into the window. She knew that must be Sam's room, they must be searching for the glasses there. Rachel sat cross-legged in the grass, waiting for something to do. Ironhide walked up beside her.

"There aren't any Decepticons, no need to worry," Rachel said.

"Who's worrying?" Ironhide replied.

Rachel gave a short humph, "Ah, Optimus is a little, I think."

"A little? Eh, he's fine, we only know of one Decepticon roaming, and he's just taking precautions. He's over-doing it a bit, I think," Ironhide said.

Rachel laughed, "Thus is a Prime's nature."

Ironhide chuckled.

Rachel knew that whenever Ironhide was around her, his toughness went away, but only for a second. Most of the time he caught himself and switched back to being Mr. Tough Guy. Rachel laughed at her own thought, Too much time with me I think. Turned him soft, uh-oh.

But she knew Ironhide would never be soft. NEVER.

Rachel let out a small scream as she was picked up by something. She threw a punch at it and immediately regretted it.

"IRONHIDE, I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!" she yelled holding her most likely broken hand.

Ironhide laughed.

"NOT. FUNNY! I probably just broke my hand!" Rachel yelled.

"Oops, sorry, but really, 'I'm going to kill you'? I'd like to see that," he said amused.

"Shut. Up. Right. Now," Rachel said, tears stinging at her eyes.

Lesson learned, Rachel thought, look before you try to punch something.

Ironhide lifted her to the same second-story window as Mikaela had gone through.

"This isn't over," she promised Ironhide.

"Just help," he said, "Optimus is getting on my case."

"Good," Rachel mumbled jumping through the window.

Sam and Mikaela looked at her.

"I'm going to help, but" Rachel showed them her already bruising hand, "I don't know how much."

"What happened to you?" Mikaela asked.

"Long story short, tried to punch Ironhide, not a good idea, don't do it," she said.

"Agreed," they both said.

Rachel started looking through the room, searching for the glasses.

"Maybe if guys actually kept their rooms clean, we wouldn't be in this mess," Rachel mumbled.

Apparently not quiet enough though because she heard Mikaela laugh. She absentmindedly moved stuff around, desperate to find those glasses.

"Sam, he's back," Mikaela said shortly after.

"I can't deal with this," Sam grumbled walking to the window.

All Rachel heard was an exchange of words between Optimus and Sam, and then something about Sam's mom's temper. Then she saw Optimus walk away.

"What is the matter with you!" she heard Optimus whisper sternly to the Autobots.

"Can't you be quiet? He wants us to be quiet!"

She heard scuffling as the Autobots tried to retreat.

"You should probably go too," Sam said.

"Sure, but why?" Rachel asked.

"'Cause if my mom finds you up here with me, she'll think..."

"Whoa! OK! Enough said, I'll go," Rachel said.

Rachel went to the window.

"Ironhide!" she called.

"What?" Ironhide said.

"Take me down! Don't ask why, just do it, please," Rachel said.

Ironhide came to the window and hopped in Ironhide's hand. He gently put her on the ground.

"Thanks," she said sliding to the ground.

Rachel ran after the retreating Autobots. Then she saw a disaster waiting to happen.

"Ratchet! Watch out for the-!"

Too late, Ratchet ran right into electric wires stretched between the poles.

His sirens blared and his lights flashed as he fell. Rachel jumped out of the way just as Ratchet crashed to the ground.

"Wow! That was tingly! You gotta try that," Ratchet said to Ironhide.

"Yeah that looks fun," Ironhide said sarcastically.

Rachel got up to see the lights in Sam's house flicker and go out, as did the rest of the houses on the street.

"Uh-oh," Rachel said.

"Rachel!" she heard someone call her name.

She looked up at the window to Sam's room, it was Sam calling her name.

"What?" Rachel called back.

"Meet me at the door in a minute! My parents- God!" Sam yelled.

He went back inside. Rachel braced herself up against the house. Soon the Autobots had come back and Ratchet was pointing his lights in Sam's room.

"What's with the light? You gotta stop the light," Sam told him.

Rachel found herself standing under Ironhide, which was somewhere she did not want to be.

For a few minutes she didn't hear anything then Optimus moved away from Sam's window.

"Oh, parents," he said walking to the other side of the house.

"Whoa!" Optimus exclaimed stepping back so quickly the ground shook.

Rachel squeezed up to the side of the house, trying not to get squished like a bug.

"Quick, hide," Optimus said.

The Autobots scrambled to hide anywhere they could. Ironhide "hid" on the other side of the house.

"Where?" Jazz asked looking for anywhere to hide.

"Oh, oh, no man!" Jazz exclaimed quickly hiding in the first story of Sam's house.

Optimus -being so big- could only press himself against the side of the house.

"Judy!" Rachel heard a man yell.

She guessed it was Sam's dad.

"Better call the city, we got a blown transformer!" he called.

Rachel laughed, blown transformer. He had no idea.

"Power poles sparking all over the place! Oh, man. Yard's a waste! Trashed! Gone!" he yelled.

Rachel saw Ironhide draw out his cannons, looking up at the window.

"The parents are very irritating," Ironhide said.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah," Ratchet agreed.

"Can I take them out?"

"Ironhide, you know we don't harm humans! What is with you!" Optimus whispered sternly.

"Well, I'm just saying we could," Ironhide shrugged. "Its an option."

Rachel laughed until her sides hurt. Ironhide -though as he was- was shot down by Optimus' words in seconds. Rachel knew that Optimus was a good leader, if anyone could make Ironhide behave they had to be good.

There was silence and Rachel heard Sam's mom say something about the kitchen.

"Be right back!" Rachel called to Ironhide and ran to the door.

She knocked on the door once and a woman answered.

"Hello," the woman said in a high-pitched voice.

"Hi," Rachel said smiling. "Is Sam home?"

"Yeah, he's in the kitchen," Sam's mom said letting Rachel through.

"Thank you," Rachel said going into the house.

She spotted Sam going into the kitchen.

"Sam!" she called.

He turned and smiled, acknowledging her, and then walked into the kitchen. Rachel followed him. She saw his backpack was set on the kitchen's island.

"Oh, yes, yes," he said pulling a black case out of them.

Mikaela stood next to him smiling, Rachel stood across from them.

"Your mom's so nice," Mikaela said.

"I want you to distract my parents while I slip out and give these glasses to them," Sam said to Mikaela and Rachel.

"Okay," Rachel said.

The doorbell rang, stopping Sam in his tracks. Rachel looked around the door of the kitchen into Sam's living room.

"Sam, there's guys in black suits, we might wanna stay here for a sec," Rachel said.

"What?"

"In my years of working with the Autobots, guys in black suits are not a good sign, just trust me, okay?"

Rachel heard words being exchanged between Sam's parents and one man in a black suit.

"We're the government. Sector Seven," the man said.

"Never heard of it," Sam's dad said.

"Never will," the agent said.

"Ron! There's guys all over the front yard," Sam's mom said to Sam's dad.

"What the heck is going on here?" Sam's dad asked.

"Your son filed a stolen car report last night. We think it's involved in a nation security matter," the agent said going into Sam's living room.

Rachel had a bad feeling about these guys.

"National security?"

"That's right national security."

"My, God, Ron, they're everywhere!" Sam's mom said.

"There's guys in suits all around the house," Sam's mom said.

The Autobots! Rachel thought.

-Must have escaped, there would be more commotion if they were still here. Where did they go?

Optimus would take care of them, she knew, after all he did have the power to control Ironhide. Rachel laughed at her own thoughts.

"They've got to get their hands off my bush!" Sam's mom yelled holding a bat.

"Drop the bat, ma'am," the agent said. "I'm carrying a loaded weapon."

Sam moved beside Rachel. Rachel grabbed his wrist.

"Don't move," she warned him.

"You've got to get those guys out of my garden, or I'm gonna beat the crap out of them!" Sam's mom said.

Rachel laughed, Your mom's cool, she mouthed to Sam.

"Rachel, let me go," Sam whispered.

"Sam," Mikaela whispered.

"Fine," Rachel said letting go of Sam's arm.

Sam walked out of the kitchen, Mikaela following, Rachel behind them.

"What is this?" Sam asked.

The agent passed Sam's mom's bat to another agent.

"How you doing, son? Is your name Sam?" the agent said smiling.

"Yeah," Sam replied.

"Well, I need you to come with us," the agent said.

"Whoa, way out of line," Sam's dad said standing in front of Sam.

"Sir, I am asking politely. Back off," the agent said.

Rachel did not like this man one bit. He made her uneasy.

"You're not taking my son," Sam's dad said.

"Really? You gonna try to get rough with us?"

Sam's dog, Mojo, started to yap.

"No, but I'm gonna call the cops because there's something fishy going on around here," Sam's dad said.

"Yeah. There's something a little fishy about you, your son, your little Taco Bell dog and this whole operation you got going on here," the agent said.

"What operation?" Sam's dad demanded.

"That is what we are going to find out," the agent said.

At that moment a bald headed agent walked up to the other agent and whispered something to him. Rachel didn't feel good about people whispering, not since-

The agent gave the man speaking to him an odd look, like utter shock and took a small machine from him.

"Son?" the agent said.

"Yeah," Sam replied.

"Step forward please," the agent said.

"Just stand?"

The agent waved the machine in front of Sam, like he was frisking him at an airport. The machine started to beep wildly.

Uh-oh, Rachel thought, that can't be good.

"Fourteen rads. Bingo! Tag them and bag them!"

Rachel, Sam, Mikaela, and Sam's parents were overtaken by agents handcuffing their hands behind their backs. Rachel knew this all too well. She really wanted to kick the agent holding her and run until she found the Autobots -who she knew couldn't be too far away. But she knew she couldn't do that, she'd risk too much. They were lead out of the house to a parade of black SUVs parked outside Sam's house.

"You hurt my dog, I'll kick your ass!" Sam's mom yelled at the agent leading Mojo on a loop stick.

Rachel was forced into the back seat a black SUV, Sam and Mikaela were shoved in after her. The black SUVs sped off.

Uh-oh...they're in trouble now...what will Rachel do? Why does she know so much about guys in black suits...has she run into Sector 7 before?

New chapt comin your way soon...I'm still working on it

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