The Adventure of a Lifetime
I don't own transformers, but I do own Kirsten my character. Oh and this is based off the movie and the book together.
Romance/Adventure/Friendship
The romance is a secret, but I will give a cookie and thumbs up to anyone who can guess it right.
Ok so i had this chapter planned out but i just could not get my mind to type it up. I think it was writers block for this story, plus the fact that school has been driving me crazy. Sorry for such the over due up date. Anyway check out my other story if you haven't already.
On with the story.
Chapter Four: Questions and a Damn Bike
Kirsten followed the sleek Camaro pass the gates it pushed open with a sign that read "Stop". The car stopped a couple yards away from the gate and Kirsten pulled up next to it as Mikaela got out on the passenger side of the vehicle. It was strange that the robot brought them there but then she looked over to Sam and Mikaela huddled close together and looking up at the sky.
Pulling her helmet off she looked up to see one big bright light. The light looked to be that of a comet but then as it got closer to Earth it separated into five pieces. They were close and getting closer. Kirsten felt her heart beat just a little faster as she watched one fly right by them to land on the other side of a hill close by.
She turned back around hearing the grinding of gears to see the Camaro had transformed back into his bipedal form and had begun to walk in the direction the comet had landed. Kirsten followed him eagerly while Sam and Mikaela trailed behind her. When she was over the hill she saw the gouged ground that led to what they had thought to be a comet lay. A tree nearby was a bit on fire but nothing bad so they got closer as the robot stayed on the hill.
Half way down the hill Mikaela said, "Ya know, maybe we should be walking fast in the other direction."
Sam looked at her while Kirsten looked at the mechanoid standing not far away. Sam then said, "I think if there was any danger he would have stopped us from coming with him."
"Oh that's just fine," she said back to Sam. "I didn't know you two were on speaking terms, especially since it – since he can't talk." She pointed to the 'bot behind her.
"Come on Mikaela. Where is your sense of adventure and curiosity?" Kirsten asked as she walked on not paying attention to Mikaela's response. Kirsten was itching to see what the robot wanted to show them and to see why. The heat that came off the object bothered her only like a pesky fly in her face. She was used to it with riding her bike in pants in the summer and wearing a jacket to keep her from getting serious injuries. So she took the heat like it was nothing.
She looked at the object to see it was actually metal as light from some small fire reflected off it. It was almost egg shaped and at least twice her size and it made her adrenalin pump a little. Suddenly there was a hiss and components started moving and shifting. Soon there was a metal foot and another along with two arms a body and a head. There in front of her stood a giant silver robot. It turned its head to where Sam, Mikaela, and their robot friend were. Then it suddenly looked down at her with piercing electric blue like eyes.
The robot saw the small creature and saw how it didn't back away, scream, or even blink. It just stared at him with its brown optics. Their optics made contact and held as he sensed a beat with in the creature's body beat faster.
The robots sensors picked up a machine and then took a step back and began to jog away looking back at the creatures and the yellow friend.
Kirsten watched the robot sprint off after having made eye-to-eye contact. It was strangely amazing and surprising how just staring at its eyes made her adrenalin pump faster than it ever has. It was just amazing.
"Kirsten come on he wants to take us somewhere else," called Sam as he got into the yellow Camaro, with Mikaela looking past her.
"Right," called Kirsten back up and ran up the hill to her bike. Placing her helmet on she started the bike and looked back as the Camaro pull out and then Kirsten not too far behind.
They pulled into an alley and went down it to the point no one would see that anyone or anything was there. Kirsten pulled up to Sam's side of the car as it stopped and took off her helmet. She got off her bike and Sam and Mikaela got out the Camaro to stand in front of the disguised robot. There was either steam or smoke further down the alley but she saw lights coming through it and the slight roar of a huge engine and through the smoke appeared a Peterbilt 379.
Then the sound of more engines and a siren behind them came to her ears and she turned to see a Pontiac Solstice GXP, a GMC Topkick truck, and a Hummer H2 Search and Rescue SUV coming towards them. She looked back to see the Rig stop just a foot away. She noticed the same red face like symbol at the top of its grill that she had seen on the yellow robots steering wheel. It suddenly gave a whir and it started to shift its components. Then the other vehicles stopped and started to transform with the Camaro. Kirsten looked up at the tallest one and saw something in his eyes. He or what she thought to be a male robot eyes seemed to be working like a down load.
The robot then leaned down and started to talk. It was not a beeping noise or a radio being broadcasted. It was a language that was for sure.
"Was that Chinese?" Mikaela asked/suggested. "Classical Mandarin?"
"I don't know, but it makes sense," Sam said to her. "If I was a new arrival on a new world I'd start by trying to speak the language by the largest amount of people."
"It was Chinese." Kirsten stated to Sam and Mikaela still looking at the robot with blue flames on red and red flames on blue. The color was amazing and seemed to even radiate heat off its body, and it felt strong and powerful. Her eyes looked at his and they just felt familiar.
"Of course you would know your dad is in the military," stated Sam dryly.
The robot then lowered his head further and said, "Do not fear. Freedom from fear and all else is the right of all sentient beings. We will never harm humans."
"Glad to hear it. Excellent policy. Stick to that as much as possible. Especially when it involves me." Sam said then added, "And them."
The robot stood to his full height looming above them. Kirsten was just amazed by all of them but him the most. "Are you Samuel James Witwicky descendent of Archibald Witwicky?" He asked in a deep yet none mechanical voice. It was full of power yet genital as well.
"They know your name," whispered Mikaela to Sam.
"Y-yeah."
"I am Optimus Prime, we are autonomous robotic organisms from the planet Cybertron," he said to them in a polite manner.
"But you can call us Autobot's," said the yellow-green Rescue vehicle.
"Autobot's," said Kirsten testing out the name. "Cool."
"A pleasure-I guess, um you speak English too?"
"We learned Earths languages through the World Wide Web." Kirsten nodded her head in understanding and it made sense seeing as they were very advance robots and could no doubt get any type of information off the Internet from anywhere.
"What's cracking bitches," said a voice behind them and they turned to see a gray robot who had been the Pontiac Solstice GXP. He did a flip and landed in the sculpture poison of the thinker.
"My first lieutenant: Jazz." Jazz did a flip and landed on a busted car and leaned on it.
"This looks like a cool place to kick it," he said.
Then Optimus pointed to the black one who had been the GMC Topkick truck. "Our weapons specialist: Ironhide."
The black robot spun something on both his arms and stopped them. They looked to be guns. The robot then said, "Are you feeling lucky punk?"
"Easy Ironhide," said Optimus in a gentle yet stern manner.
"I was just kidding. I only want to show them my canons." Kirsten shook her head and looked to Optimus again. Optimus now indicated with his hand to the green yellow robot that had been the Hummer H2 Search and Rescue SUV.
"Our Chief Medical Officer: Ratchet."
The bot sniffed the air and then decided to put in a comment, "The boy's pheromone levels suggest he wants to mate with the female."
Kirsten looked at Sam to see him whistling and Mikaela look the other way. Kirsten punched Sam in the shoulder and glared at him, "Sam what the hell is wrong with you?"
"Ouch, hey I can't control my pheromones and I bet you can't either."
"I may not be able to control them but come on we are in the middle of a circle of the Autobots who are introducing themselves to us for some reason," said Kirsten as she walked away from Sam to go between Optimus and Ratchet and look up at Ratchet. "And Ratchet, never say anything like that out loud again. That is supposed to be kept to them self and not shared out loud."
Ratchet looked down at the fully covered female to see her walk around without an ounce of fright to get near them, while the Witwicky kid, and the other female companion still hung in the middle still a bit scared of his companions. It was strange at how she acted around them considering that they were frightening to anyone else they first meet. From what his patient had sent, this particular female walked straight up to him without a second thought on if he was dangerous and stood right where she was when one of his companions first transformed. The female was quite brave.
"I am sorry to you and your female companions," said Ratchet with a slight bow of his upper body to Sam.
"A right, and the female next to me name is Mikaela Banes," he said pointing to Mikaela then to Kirsten. "And the one with her hands on her hips is Kirsten Lanford."
The robots looked at Mikaela then Kirsten and she gave a wave to them. She saw Jazz shake his head with a grin on his face and the others shake their heads slightly. "Understood," said Optimus with a nod of his head. "Logged and saved. Mikaela Banes and Kirsten Lanford."
Kirsten nodded her head to Optimus and looked over to the yellow 'bot who had yet to be introduced yet. "You already know your guardian Bumblebee," said Optimus and the words "float like a butterfly, and sting like a bee" came from Bee's speaker. Bee made some of those punching moves a boxer made. It was cute because the name matched him perfectly since he was yellow and black with the car doors looking like wings as well.
"Bumblebee? You're my guardian?" asked Sam as he faced the robot. In reply Bumblebee gave a nod of his head and a little whir in response. When a red beam came out of nowhere and hit what looked to be Bee's throat and started coughing.
"His vocal processor was damaged in battle. I'm still trying to fix it," said Ratchet as he turned off the laser and tapped something on his arm.
"Why are you here?" asked Mikaela looking back up to Optimus.
"Yah why come to Earth? Surely not just to play switch back and forth between vehicles and your actual forms?" asked Sam also looking back to Optimus as well.
Kirsten looked up to the robot leader and saw the sad look come on to his metallic face and his eyes expressing so many things even though they were glowing lights. It was amazing to see machines show expressions and at the same time of seeing the look on Optimus face made her ache to see that look disappear.
"You are quite correct, Sam Witwicky. We are not 'playing'. We are in search for the All Spark, and we must find it before Megatron," said Optimus solemnly.
"Mega- what?" asked Sam confused.
"Megatron use to be one of us till he lost his way. It was no longer enough for him to control himself. He turned those who were with him against us and they became known as Decepticons for their betrayal." Optimus put a hand to his head and a three dimensional image appeared. The ground looked to be breaking up showing lava. Kirsten was so convinced that she backed into Optimus foot falling on it. The scene changed to show metal limbs scattered across the ground and a ship coming down to transform with its back to them as the figure lingered over a crippled Autobot. The dark figure then plunged his hand into the Autobots metal chest to wrench out a flickering orb of energy and the Autobot fell lifeless to the ground.
The one thing that went through Kirsten's mind when she saw that was that is what kept them alive. The scene almost made her want to throw up, but she held it in. She had full respect for theses alien beings having to have gone through that. The orb in the evil beings hand flickered and fad making all three of their hearts wretch.
"In the course of fighting we flung the cube out into space. My companions and I along with Megatron have been searching for it since. Now we have tracked the All Spark to your planet. When it crashed here on Earth it transmitted a signal that reached not only us but Megatron as well. Megatron was the first one here and only by a stroke of luck his arrival was imperfect and landed and succumbed to the ever-shifting ice."
"Archibald Witwicky found him and accidently activated his navigations system."
"My great-great grandpa was telling the truth," said Sam as he stared in amazement.
"Yes, it imprinted the All Sparks location on his glasses," replied Optimus.
"How'd you know about his glasses? Asked Sam a bit confused."
"eBay," was the simple answer from the leader.
Sam Shook his head in amazement as Mikaela look on, Kirsten giggled a bit at the fact that they found Sam by the use of eBay.
"I told you someone would need those glasses more than me," stated Kirsten as she turned to Sam giving him a smile. The Autobots watched her interact with the boy. She was very animated towards the boy. Her smile was so wide as she spoke that is was a wonder she wasn't hurting herself.
Optimus then told the teens what would happen if the Decepticons got a hold of the All Spark before them; the end the all organic life on Earth. They would transform all of Earth's machines to create their army and destroy their world. "Sam Witwicky you are the key to Earth's survival."
There was silence as everything these foreign beings began to soak in. Then it was broken by Mikaela turning to Sam to ask, "Please tell me you have those glasses."
"I do, they are back at my house. If we go to my house I can find them and give them to you," said Sam as looked from Mikaela to the Autobots.
"Then let's get a move on it," said Kirsten as she walked back over to her. Sitting on it she started it up to hear the engine purring before it started to sputter. Looking down she realized that it was so low on gas that there wouldn't be enough to get her back to Sam's house much less the closest gas station. "Aw dame, I was chasing you for most of the day and going around in circles that I didn't realize how low I was on gas."
Sam came over to look and she was indeed on empty. He watched her curse as she pulled out her cell phone and dialed down a number.
"Hey Axel I need you to pick up my bike. I ran out of gas without realizing it and there is no way I can wheel this girl to the closets gas station. Just pick it up, I'll be leaving it hidden seeing as I have to go with Sam to do something. Well he has a car Axel, not a truck. Thank you," Kirsten said as she looked at her companions. She gave him the street names that he would need to locate her bike and told Axel she owed him one.
She then pushed her bike over to the wall of the alley. Biting her lip she looked to the Autobots and asked if they could move something to block it from view. Optimus moved one of the pallets that were lying around and carefully place it over the vehicle.
"Thanks Optimus, um I know this may sound a bit strange, but could I ride with you? I am curious and would love to ask more questions if that's alright," asked Kirsten as she looked up to the giant Autobot. She was even more curious about him then all others. She watched as Sam and Mikaela got into an already transformed Bumblebee.
"Of course you can Kirsten," replied Optimus. He had to admit he was a bit intrigued by the young femma in front of him and he too wanted to know more about her. Transforming back into his alt form. He sensed her approach him and opened his door for her. She was smiling as she climbed into the driver seat and buckled herself in.
"Thanks Optimus, now let's go save your home!"
Sorry if there were any mistakes. I have been slowly getting better at my english. Anyway was it good, bad, please tell me and once again sorry for making you all wait.