Hey, it's TKDrift.

Sorry for the delayed update. As explained earlier. Some Autobots have been added to the roster from the toyline. But not to worry, I'll make it that there's not too much Autobots. But here's the list of the new bots:

Knock Out

Skyhammer

Breakaway

Silverbolt

Air Raid

Enjoy the story. Just a reminder, I do not own anything.

Chapter 3: The New Autobots and a NEST babysitter

It had been 2 weeks since Carly's first babysit and Annabelle had gotten to like Carly better than Mikaela. The five-year old noticed that Sam seemed a lot happier than when he was before, and so was she.

So one day Carly came alone, as Sam was still in College, and after picking her up, they were driving somewhere. When asked, Carly simply replied she was getting a 'check-up'.

"Why do I need a check-up? I already went to the doctor last time. " Annabelle told Carly in the car.

"Technically yes,but this is a different kind of doctor, so to speak"

Annabelle was about to ask what kind of doctor until she saw her favorite trigger-happy Autobot waving from the building they were about to enter.

Being one of the few that could fly, Breakaway found himself very uncomfortable being in a building. But Ironhide insisted that this was the only way for him and the rest of the "newbies" to be seen by Colonel Lennox's daughter, the NEST personnel and no one else. Silverbolt and Skyhammer didn't seem to mind but he and Air Raid were desperate to be outside and fly freely. Knock Out simply stated that he would leave if Mikaela was still with the Colonel's offspring, obviously still pissed at her for kicking him out. Wheeljack and Mirage were here too, but Mirage had been quiet ever since they got here and Wheeljack was working on some sort of human device. But all that stopped when two humans, both with blond hair stepped in to the building.

"Ironhide!" The short one cried, running over and hugging the now-crouching-down old veteran's face.

"Hello, Annabelle." Ironhide replied, smiling. "The reason I asked Carly to bring you here is so that you could meet the new Autobots"

Annabelle looked at the new bots, wide-eyed with curiosity. She looked at all the bots; other than Ironhide, she had never seen them before. Coming closer to them she nervously said "Hi"

The blue and white Autobot lowered his head down, and with a gentle and old voice, said "Hello, Annabelle. I am Skyhammer" And gesturing to the other Autobots starting from the red one, he said "And this is Mirage, Wheeljack, Breakaway, Silverbolt, Air Raid, and Knock Out."

As she looked around, the red one that was Mirage simply nodded his head. Wheeljack who was blue gave a more grandfatherly wave, Breakaway and Air Raid (each brown and red/black/white) simply said "hey", the Twins gave a regular wave, Silverbolt (grayish-brown) bent down and gently patted her head with his finger, and Knock Out smiled.

"Hey hey, don't forget about me!" a scruffy voice suddenly came from behind her. Annabelle turned around and saw Carly with an African-American Soldier, and another Autobot, or rather Mini-Con due to his size being a little smaller than Wheelie.

"Hey. My name's Brains." The Mini-Con replied with the same scruffy voice. Annabelle looked at him closely. Like Wheeljack, Chromia and Jolt, he was blue. Also, it seemed his head was about to catch on fire due to the constant smoke coming from his "hair." But unlike Wheelie, his eyes were blue.

Grabbing his head and shaking it, she said "Hello. My name's Annabelle Lennox."

"My best buddy Wheelie's told me a lot about you. " Brains carried on. "I hope I didn't scare you"

Giggling, she said "No, it's ok. I'm fine"

"Oh I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Private Marcus Bradley" The African-American replied. "I'll be your babysitter for today. Carly has to go to a job interview."

"I'm sorry Annabelle, but this is really important for me" Carly said, kneeling down to the child's height.

"It's ok" she replied. At least she was leaving just for today and not forever.

"Be good ok?" Carly asked.

After seeing Annabelle nodding in agreement, Carly gave her a quick hug and then left for her interview.

Two Hours later

"Ironhide, where are your cannons?" the five-year old asked after the Autobots returned from Target Practice. She had basically sat down with Private Bradley drawing the Autobots while they went off shooting, and she had noticed that her favorite truck no longer bore the twin set on his arms.

"Well, you see Annabelle; my arms were getting tired from having the cannons on then. So Wheeljack made them into this one gun." The old mech replied, showing her his new gun, forged from his two cannons.

"Ok" And with that, he left because he had to deal with "paper issues". So Annabelle found herself alone. Mr. Bradley had went to the bathroom and it was quiet…..until there was a gust of air and Silverbolt, Air Raid and Breakaway flew in from the landing ground. Running over to them, she asked "Where were you?"

Dusting his arm, Breakaway said "we were flying nearby. Just needed some fresh air"

Slightly shocked and confused, she asked "I thought Autobots didn't fly?" As far as Annabelle knew, it was like a rule for every Autobot to be a ground vehicle, with tires and to drive on the road. But these three seemed to be out of that entirely.

Chuckling, Silverbolt knelt down and replied "Not necessarily, little one. Some Autobots fly. We give our ground based friends cover from above. Personally, I am the Air Commander and Second-in-Command of the Autobots, but unlike Starscream I don't want to be in charge."

Nodding in understanding, the five-year old then thought to herself. She always had wanted to fly ever since she saw a video of planes in school. And these 'planes ' were the safest to ride as far as she knew. Taking one step toward them and hoping they were as nice as the rest of the Autobots she asked "Can I ride one of you?"

All three Aerialbots blinked at once. According to Ironhide, the colonel's wife would scrap them down and remake them into trophies should Annabelle get hurt. And they weren't going to take that risk, at least most of them weren't.

"Sorry, Annabelle" Silverbolt began, "We-"

"Can definitely give you a ride!" Air Raid suddenly announced as he transformed.

"Wait, what?" Breakaway asked as he saw the five-year old human joyfully climb into Air Raid's cockpit. "Air Raid, you can't-"

But all the two remaining Aerialbots got in response was a swoosh and Air Raid, along with the youngest Lennox, was gone.

"Well" Silverbolt said "this isn't going to be good".

So, yeah. Instead of driving away, Annabelle has 'flown' away with another Bot, and Mrs. Lennox is not going to like this. Let's hope Air Raid knew the consequences of his actions.

Again, I apologize for the late update. School's been way too tiring and a girl I liked rejected me so I was also in a state of heartbreak. Sorry

Please review. They are appreciated, thank you.

This is TKDrift, signing off.