AC: Here's the third chapter of the story.
Chapter 3: Casual day and special night
In the garage, the vehicon finished recharging after the sun rose up in the sky. He was aware of his surrounding and he used his detectors. He was glad that the autobots, most likely them and not the decepticon since nothing is destroyed, didn't try to search at the garage. He was also glad that they were gone. He relaxed and he felt at ease. Fir the first time, he felt truly safe in his existence.
He looked calmly at the garage and he finally noticed something that he hadn't last time since he was focusing on finding energon and panicking when he was spotted by the human. The garage was huge. He should have realised it when he was sitting on his arf in the garage last night. He stopped looking around for a while and he waited there. He guessed that nothing will happen today and he will spend it with no work at all.
He was wrong about that.
He heard a sound of a door opening and he saw the human walking at his direction. It was Albert. He entered in him and he started the car. He took out something and clicked on it. It was the remote control of the garage. It slowly opened.
"Hello Albert...Rest well?" He asked to the human.
"Oh! Hello...Yes. Sorry...Kinda forgot about the fact that you were a giant robot." Said Albert nervously and apolitically.
The vehicon didn't take it the wrong way.
"Where are we going?" Asked the vehicon curiously.
"It's my day off and our fridge is empty. I'm in charge of the groceries today." Said Albert. The garage was open and Albert drove the vehicon out. He then pressed the switch and he started rolling at the direction of the town.
"What is this...groceries?" Asked the vehicon curiously.
Albert wanted to ask him what he meant when he remembered that he was a vehicon.
"The groceries are food my father and me needed to eat if we want to life. There is also water that we needed to survive." Said Albert to the vehicon.
The vehicon used his processor and entered in the internet and he checked more about it while the human explained him the best he could. He could do both at the same time since he let the human control him for a while. He understood the meaning of this and he knew he would be alone in the parking lot for a while. He didn't really mind that. He will be able to think a little more about his situation.
When they arrive, they were in the middle of Jasper and Albert walked out at the direction of the grocery store. The vehicon was alone and the doors looked. No one except him enter in him.
He started to think about his situation. He knew Albert will be confuse a few times about him in his vehicle mode...He noticed that he was a little sleepy when he came to him with his eyes a little unfocused until he remembered him and his emotions accelerate the waking up procedure. He felt lucky that the human was opening to him and welcome him into his life...Even if he entering in his a little brutally in the beginning.
He was also surprised that the human didn't ask how he knew about the artificial spark. If he asked him...It would have been bad for the vehicon. He didn't found out the good way...Even worse than the bad way. He just told him the consequence...Existence crisis that never end, just postponed. He then changed his mind and he wondered what next. He lived with him for now, but what will happen in the future? He didn't know and that terrified him. Will the decepticon win the battle for the Earth, will they lose against the autobot or will the Earth be destroyed like Cybertron? He couldn't know...But he hoped he will not be caught in crossfire eventually.
Little did he know, Megatron was gone for now. He wasn't in the Nemesis and Starscream was in command. The worst case scenario couldn't happen right now.
He was trap in those thought until Albert came back with the groceries he putted on the back bench and he sat down at the driving spot. They then rolled away back home.
"After this...I'll show you around the town so you can be familiar with it." Said Albert.
"What about the older human?" Asked the vehicon.
"Him? I'm not worried. Dad knows I'm an adult now. I can do what I want as long as I don't end up in trouble...Which never happens." Said Albert.
"...Does he know about those races?" Asked the vehicon.
"..." Albert was now nervous and sweats a little on his forehead. "Well...Gosh...No." He admitted his eyes moving to the right for a second in embarrassment, until he remembered he was driving.
"So...Responsible." Chuckled the vehicon and teasing him.
"Well...Yeah...It's a hobby." Said Albert. "Anyway...Let's go home so I can put the groceries." He added to end the subject.
The vehicon knew he didn't want to talk anymore about this...But he wasn't sure if he could let it pass. It was the only pleasure he had found for now. He said nothing in the end and reached home. Albert unpacked what he paid and he returned to the car a while later and they were up to the road once again.
They said nothing for a while until they reached Jasper. The vehicon started to look around more carefully and he observed the place. It was calm down, compare to everything he saw, calm was easy for him to see. He looked around and he saw the high school.
"What is this building?" He asked about the high school.
"That's the high school where I was going until I graduated. It was a nice time. I sucked at most of the sport and never try to do my best. I preferred building things..." He said nothing.
Nostalgia was in his eyes and a combination of anger and frustration. The vehicon guessed that something happen in there, something not good. He didn't press on it. He looked at the architecture and found it not that bad before they continued to travel. The passed in front of a library where they could borrow book, which he was too big to read...It he was curious about it. They continued the tour and they passed in front of the police station.
"What is this place with a star?" Asked the vehicon curiously.
"That's...the police station." Said the human uneasy about the place.
"Why are you uneasy?" Asked the vehicon.
"Vehicon...I got no trouble with the cop...But some of my friend did." Admitted Albert. "The cop in there is kinda...He's corrupted. He is a little soft and very careful in his corruption. He seemed good to anyone...But do not let him fool you. He arrested my friend last year because he didn't like their face...And their car confiscated...To his mansion." Said Albert furiously. "He's a thief."
"...No one is doing anything about it?" Asked the vehicon.
"No. We cannot do anything about it. He would just arrest us and keep us silent. He might even try to kill someone if he feels on the fire." Said Albert. "It's just best to let it go and wait for the FBI to do something...If they could."
"Pessimistic. I didn't think you were that way." Said the vehicon.
"...I can see now." Said Albert.
"What you mean?" Asked the vehicon.
"I try not to think about him." Said Albert rolling away from the station. "Dad say that you could be stole...They're not a lot of thief here since the cop stole their « job ». The sheriff likes cool car and you are one heck of a car. I hope you don't reach his taste."
"Me too." Said the vehicon.
They continued rolling away from it and they reached a gas station. The vehicon looked at it and he trembled a little at the thought of being put gas in there. Albert felt it and he said nothing.
"What is it?" He asked.
"That...How can you put gas in there?" He asked a little disgusted.
"That's because it the way it does. The gas tank is in there and you can only fill it there." Said Albert.
"Yeah...But from the view of one of my kind...Something not for young audience...If you get it." Said the vehicon.
"You know a few things about our culture?" Asked the human.
"I watch some of your TV...In secret." Said the vehicon. "Some of the show where good and some bad...Some...Horrible and a few master pieces."
"That's the way it is." Said Albert.
"Yeah...I thought about it...The sheriff...Aren't you racer afraid that he'll got you?" Asked the vehicon.
"Vehicon...We aren't dump. We do the race at the best moment. When he is busy and one of us ended up as the watched. He looked at him to be sure he will not suddenly decide to come here." Said Albert. "I was there for two years. It's not that hard to watch the only very corrupted. The other cops are mostly doing their job...But are playing blind with their superior actions."
"...Alright." Said the vehicon.
They continued rolling until the night came. They returned home after the exploration.
After supper, Albert returned to the garage where he left the vehicon.
"Back already. Why?" Asked the vehicon when he was inside.
"I looked in internet and there is a good movie I want to see in the open theater." Said Albert.
The vehicon knew what open theater was. He wanted to go there, but he was too scared to be busted. He was excited.
"What is the movie?" Asked the vehicon.
"I heard it was a good one. It's a horror movie." Said Albert.
"..." The vehicon said nothing.
"Joking. I don't want to traumatize you." Said Albert laughing lightly. "There is nothing that could scare you like that. It's an action pack movie. It will be good."
"Good...I don't want a spark attack." Said the vehicon.
They rolled at the open theater and Albert buy one ticket. He then parked and picked some pop-corn and a soda and he returned in the vehicon.
"Don't drop anything. You will dirt my inside." Said the vehicon.
"I'll clean you if it happens." Said Albert.
"Alright. Just be careful. I hate sticky stuff." Said the vehicon.
"Do not worry." Said the human a little grumpy.
They watched the movie and it was really an action pack one. Even so, there was a good story line for this kind of movie with some believable character. The problem was the female's character too much weak and cliché except the main character which was a kick ass woman.
They rolled away when the movie was over, but not at the direction of home.
"Not a bad movie. Not as good as the critic said, but good nonetheless. The main female character Aiga saved the movie and the story." Commented Albert.
"I haven't seen any movie and I don't know what you mean by bad character during the credits." Said the vehicon.
"They are bad because they are cliché character. The females were blank and empty. You couldn't care about them." Said Albert.
"I never saw them so I can't say it's a cliché." Said the vehicon.
"It's something you always saw like in horror movie: The virgin die last. That's a cliché. The movie is too predictable." Said Albert.
"Cliché is always bad?" Asked the vehicon.
"Not always. Not when the cliché is used well and give characters some personality, more than without it." Said Albert. "Some character could correspond to it in real life after all."
"So...Not use the easy way." Said the vehicon.
"Yep." Said Albert.
"Where are we going now?" Asked the vehicon.
"I was wondering if you ever watched the stars?" Asked the human.
"Of course I've watch it." Said the vehicon.
"On the planet perspective?" Asked Albert.
"...Never...I just saw it when we passed near it in the Nemesis." Said the machine.
They then stopped somewhere desert and near a hill, or a big rock spot for the vehicon.
"I've watched the news for a while. I didn't tell you, but there will be shooting starts tonight." Said Albert.
"Shooting stars?" Asked the vehicon.
"Anyway, we could watch it from the top of the hill." Said Albert.
The vehicon looked at it and he knew he couldn't roll on it. He transformed and he picked the human and he climbed the hill with him on his servo. When they reached the top, Albert lay down on the ground after he was putted on the ground and looked at the sky. The vehicon watched the human and he did the same. He lay down on his back plate and he looked at the sky.
They both said nothing for a while.
"What will happen?" Asked the vehicon. He didn't want to stay too long in case an Autobot or decepticon passed there.
"You'll see soon." Said Albert.
In the dark sky, arcs of light started to appear in the sky as the shooting star reached the Earth atmosphere. The vehicon looked at it and he gasped surprised.
"That's...Shooting star?" Asked the vehicon.
The dark sky was illuminated by shooting star. The vehicon only heard the human answering positively without words. They said nothing and watched the shooting star. It only continued for a few minutes until it ended. The vehicon was impressed by this.
"That's...incredible...I...I never though it looked that way on Earth." Said the vehicon surprised.
"I'm glad you like it. It doesn't happen often and I missed the last one." Said Albert. His voice was sad when he spoke about the last one. "...*Sigh*" He sighted sadly.
"...We should return to the garage." Said the vehicon.
"Yes." Said Albert.
They returned home and the vehicon wondered why Albert was depressed after enjoying the shooting star.
AC: Here's the end of chapter 3.
Chapter 4: Silence tears.
Chapter 5: Of heart and spark
