Chapter 3: That…

I sighed as I sat back in the passenger seat of the sunshine yellow Volkswagen beetle and watched as we passed various buildings, heading to the outskirts of town where the Theater resided. Bored, I started tapping my fingers on the dashboard. The car seemed to shake.

"Quit that, it tickles!" Bumblebee protested.

"Sorry 'Bee" I apologized holding my hands up defensively "Don't get your metal twisted"

Jaden's voice came through Bumblebee's speakers "Hey, Jody?" she called.

I picked up a CB type thing from the bug's dashboard "Yeah?"

"What movie are we going to see, we're all curious" Jaden said.

I sighed "We're going to go see Bambi" I said sarcastically.

"That wimpy deer?" asked Hot Shot.

I looked out my window to see the yellow mustang and stared.

"What, I can't watch People T.V.?" He asked.

I rolled my eyes "No we're going to see Zombieland" I said.

"Oh, I saw the previews for that; it's going to be so funny!" Josh exclaimed.

"Shh, don't spoil it" I hushed.

"Oh right" Josh said and mimed, zipping his lips.

Me and Jaden shook our heads and looked forward, paying our attentions back to the road.

x~X~x

Starscream and Jetfire landed on the airstrip of the airport. Making sure to draw little to no attention. A man climbed out of each craft. The one coming out of the Spruce Goose was tall, wore a Crocodile Dundee outfit, had reddish brown hair, green eyes, and a masculine frame. The man from the jet wore a black outfit which included, black jeans, tank top, leather jacket, and shiny shoes. Along with his outfit, he bore misty blue eyes and a sleek shiny crop of suave ebony hair.

The two looked at each other for a moment.

"Nice outfit, Crocodile Hunter" Starscream snickered.

"Like you look any better Starscream" he retorted, putting his hands on his hips.

Starscream looked down at himself, then glared up at the Vice commander.

"Shut up" he growled and walked off the airbase.

Jetfire laughed and followed.

x~X~x

I sighed and rolled out of the Volkswagen beetle. I stretched a little as I watched Jaden and Josh approach me.

"So how are we going to split the spendings?" Josh asked.

"Ok, Jaden and I will pay for tickets, you get snacks" I told him.

"Aye, Aye, Cap'n" Josh said, saluting.

I smiled and looked around. Optimus and Jazz had already let their solid holograms out of their vehicle form. Ratchet's hologram came out along with Red Alert's. They looked the same, except Ratchet's hologram was taller, had a bluish suit with a gray derby on, had hazel eyes and graying brown hair. Whereas Red Alert had a brown suit on, was shorter, had bluish gray eyes, a plaid hat and faded chestnut hair.

Ironhide grumbled as his hologram got of its black GMC. Ironhide's hologram looked just like I thought it would. An old man with squinted eyes that wore gray trousers, black suspenders, a red flannel shirt and had a crop of balding gray hair. I laughed at Ironhide but stopped myself, nodding my approval to the three. I looked over to Hot Shot and Bumblebee.

"Well, come on guys, let's see you" I said folding my arms over my chest.

"But we look weird" Hot Shot whined.

"What he said" Bumblebee agreed.

"Get out here before I make you" I growled, pointing at them threateningly.

"OK, OK" they said, not wanting to know what I would do to them, if they did not comply.

Out from Hot Shot's driver's side came a mid 20 year old blond hair, blue eyed boy. The boy wore a black T-shirt and blue wrangler jeans upon his person. Bumblebee was not much different. But he had more of a sandy blonde look, and wore a white shirt with black jeans. I giggled.

"See, we look stupid" Hot Shot said, putting his fingers in his pockets and kicked the ground slightly.

"Nonsense, girls would drool all over you" I said.

I stopped and looked over at Jaden who stood their staring at the two. I sighed and rolled my eyes, shutting her mouth with a flick of my wrist and beckoned the now hologramed Autobots to follow me, then stopped. I spun around.

"Wait, where is Starscream and Jetfire?" I asked.

I looked to them, each of them shrugged. I took a deep breath and let it out in a long deep sigh. Suddenly I felt someone hug me from behind and swing me around in the air. I screamed in surprise and looked over my shoulder to see that some dude that looked almost like Fonzie from Happy Days had bear hugged me from behind. A guy similar to Crocodile Dundee standing next to him, his arms folded over his chest.

"Do I know you?" I asked.

"It's us Jody" Jetfire said nonchalantly.

"Oh" I replied.

"Well, are we going or what? We have the gang all rounded up lets go, go, go, go" Josh said jumping up and down, hopping his way over to the theater entrance.

I laughed at his hyperactive behavior; he always got like this when he was going to go see a movie he'd been waiting a long time for. Starscream put me down and we all walked across the vast parking lot, which was pretty empty, that could be because of the fact that it was early morning. Jaden and I went up to the window first. A girl with blond hair sat there behind the glass reading a Celebrity magazine. I grimaced at the girl but shrugged and tapped the window to get her attention.

The girl did not look up at me. I narrowed my eyes and tapped the glass harder with the tip of my finger.

"Please refrain from tapping the glass" she said with a big indication of boredom and flipped a page in her magazine.

"Um, excuse me, but we would like tickets for Zombieland, please" I said, trying to be friendly.

"Sorry, we're closed today" she said, flipping another page.

This time I completely glared at the girl "Like hell you are, it's Saturday, you're open from 10 am to 10 pm…" I was cut off by a group of preps and jocks from Josh, Jaden, and my school, pushing their way to the front of the line.

"Hey, Brandy, like, can you give us some tickets for Zombieland?" a girl with bleach blond hair asked her friend behind the window.

"Why of coarse" she said, throwing her magazine away and pulling out ticket after ticket from the slot producing them and gave them to the group.

In return the bleach blond girl gave her money and snagged the tickets away and headed into the theater with her friends. The girl from behind the glass smiled and flipped the sign from open to closed and ran out of the ticket room.

I glared at the scene and clenched my fists, indicating a fit of anger coming on. Josh saw this and tried to calm me down by making me laugh, but to his dismay, it was not working.

"What the fuck was that?" I yelled and raised my hands in the air "We were here first, we were going to see Zombieland, and she tells us it's closed. Then she goes and lets those damn populars in, how the hell is that called closed?" I roared.

Everyone backed away from my ranting form, afraid I'd beat them.

"Damn Brittany, that blond bimbo has been a thorn in my side since the god damn first grade, what I wouldn't give to just wring her little 'perfect' neck and cut her precious blonde hair off" I growled holding my hands in front of me and clenching them tight over and over again.

All of the holograms looked at me, then looked at Josh and Jaden. The two sighed.

"It's just school stuff" Jaden said.

"Yeah, the preps and jocks, or the so called 'populars', ignore and don't include people that they think are under them, we being the lowest as Goths and Emos" Josh explained further.

The holograms frowned.

"That doesn't seem very nice" Optimus said.

"Well, to us, no one really is" Jaden said.

"That's High School, well, any kind of school, Drama, for you" Josh thought.

I sighed, taking a deep breath to calm myself. I turned and strolled away, my shoulders slouched, my down-right depressed form sluggishly making its way back to the car I had arrived in. The others watched me with sympathetic faces. I stopped for a moment and looked over to the big semi taking up two parking spaces, and looked over my shoulder at Optimus' hologram with begging puppy eyes. The hologram only nodded.