Mi-chan: Not much to say about this chapter except that it has more humor, and Megatron doesn't like being bugged XD
Warning: This story is rated M for a reason, future chapters will be more intense with some scenarios.
Chapter Four:
Fun and Games
It was the next morning, and Emily's parents had gone to work by the time she had gotten up. She wasn't planning on going anywhere.
Soon enough, she walked outside and looked to Ironhide who was parked down the street, waving toward his alt, letting him know that it was safe for him to come over.
Ironhide's holoform quickly appeared on the porch behind her, clearing his throat slightly to let her know of his presence.
Emily quickly turned around to look at him, sighing "I don't think I'll EVER get used to that..." she muttered before she walked past Ironhide, and into the house.
"My parents are gone, so we can talk more freely now." she informed him as she closed the door behind him when he walked inside of the house.
"I don't know what there is to talk about exactly..." he stated "Bumblebee and I went our separate ways. He went to look for the others while I went looking for you and Miranda."
"Ah, I was wondering who else was here." she said thoughtfully before heading for the backyard. She just needed a good swim and to just be lazy today.
He observed her remove the pool cover off of her pool in the backyard before she walked into the bathroom, and eventually walked back out, now changed into her blue and green colored bikini.
"I take it we just wait until Bumblebee gets in contact with you?" she wondered as she eased into the pool.
"Yeah." Ironhide responded, quickly replacing his current attire and materializing swim trunks and sunglasses onto his holoform. He sat down and watched her swim around from a chair nearby the pool.
Emily lazily floated on her back in the pool, suntanning, and just enjoying the relaxing moment.
After awhile however, Ironhide growled slightly before he got up out of his chair, looking at her in the pool, standing nearby the edge "Not to be a nuisance Emily... but I'm f*cking bored... Got any way of entertainment besides this?"
Emily lifted the sunglasses that she was wearing to look at him, raising an eyebrow slightly "That depends... What do you want to do? I honestly don't care, I have free reign to go wherever I want when my parents are at work."
"I couldn't tell you... Just something other than this." he said before turning and walking inside the house, boredly looking around her house.
Emily felt her eyes roll slightly "I'm on summer break before I go back to school for my 12th Grade year, give me a break dude... Summer is meant for being lazy." she thought before she rolled off of her pool floatie and climbed out of the pool.
She wrapped a towel around her before she walked inside to the area of the house where Ironhide was "Well, there is that gun range at the other end of the city... Or we could go and see a movie or something. I dunno..."
Ironhide had wandered into the basement area where her PlayStation2 was, raising an eyebrow as he crouched down and grabbed the War for Cybertron game case, looking it over.
"What... is this?" he asked standing up fully and holding it out to her.
Emily laughed "It's my Transformers: War for Cybertron video game~. You've joined our dimension Ironhide, to the world where you're still just a character from a popular franchise created by Hasbro. You have no idea just how much merchandise of Transformers exists out there."
Ironhide looked at the case with a raised eyebrow "Really now? ...Then, do you mind if we play this? I'm rather intrigued now..."
"Sure. Let me just go and get dressed." she chuckled, turning and walking over to her room, and then closing the door to have more privacy as she got dressed.
When she exited her room fully dressed, she set the game system up "We'll just start a new multiplayer career." she commented, starting the game after she had explained the game controls to Ironhide.
The more Emily and Ironhide played the game, the more Ironhide got the hang of it. And the more Ironhide played the game, the more surreal it became for him as well.
"I cannot tell you how... strange... this is." he told her as he continued to play the game.
"No doubt. You have no idea how strange it is to be playing one of my favorite games, with one of my favorite main characters of said game sitting beside me." she said, casting an amused glance at him as she played.
Ironhide smirked "Favorite main character huh? Why is that?"
Emily grinned at him "What is there NOT to like? Hello?! Weapons Specialist anyone? When I saw the first Transformers movie in 2007, when you greeted Sam Witwicky with your totally iconic 'You feeling lucky, PUNK?' line, and showing off your undeniably AWESOME cannons, I couldn't help but squeal!" she blushed slightly "I always was a gun-loving kinda girl with a passion for the military, so it's only fitting that you're one of my favorite characters in the entire Transformers franchise~."
Ironhide smiled at her softly "It seems I have a fangirl... Thank you for those kind words and compliments."
"You're welcome." Emily smiled, soon pursing her lips slightly with a growl "Oi... Was I ready to kill Michael Bay after seeing the third movie though..."
"Who..? And... Why?" he asked, quirking an eyebrow in confusion.
"Michael Bay, he directed the three Transformers Movies in 2007, 2009, and 2011. I was ready to kill him because he killed you off in that series! And it was such a cowardly death too! You should've went down going against like, thirty Decepticons! Not shot through the chest by a traitor and eaten by Cosmic RUST!" she spat the word 'Rust' like it made her sick, scowling darkly.
"I see... Unfortunately, things such as that have happened in my dimension with other comrads... Due to cowardly moves by the Decepticons. Thankfully, those weapons have been disposed of." Ironhide turned to look at her "I do not remember most of these occurrences that you're talking about from your movies... It is likely that the... 'storyline', isn't the same."
"Thank Primus for that! Michael Bay screwed over so many of the characters... Like really... At least he kept Peter Cullen as Optimus' voice. There is no one else that does Optimus' voice like Peter Cullen. Well... Except for Optimus..." she facepalmed "This is going to take forever to get used to..."
Ironhide put a hand on her shoulder with a chuckle "Don't think about it took much."
Emily shook her head vigorously "It's one thing to imagine and play around about meeting you guys... Meeting you in real life is another thing entirely." she murmured before jumping slightly as the phone rang.
She quickly got up and ran to grab the phone. It wasn't long until she was on the phone with her Dad, finding out they needed a secretary at the yard since they had gotten a package of vehicles in, being fairly busy.
Emily sighed "Alright Dad, I'll be over in a little while..." she informed him before she hung up the phone, walking back over to Ironhide "Well, that just screws over my lazy day... They need a hand over at Brock Salvage since they've gotten a package of vehicles in." she told Ironhide before she began to gather her things "So, you're probably going to end up following me, seeing as my parents don't know you're here..." she trailed off thoughtfully.
Ironhide stood up "Maybe I can get your father to let me help, so you can get work done faster, for free. I'll say it's volunteer work or something to pass the time..."
She shrugged "Maybe, seeing as Skylar and Kyle aren't there today, Jamie and Shane are hauling, and Dave's on holiday... It's just my Dad and Howie there right now. So, he would probably like the help."
"Then lets go."
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Miranda had been sitting in Barricade's alt in the front passenger seat, reclined back, trying to take a nap. But she couldn't... She was so freaking bored.
"What is it human? I thought you were going to sleep."
Miranda jumped slightly at him speaking suddenly. Though she soon relaxed again and sighed, looking to his holoform in the driver's seat.
"I don't mean to be obnoxious... but I am FREAKIN' BORED."
Barricade quirked an eyebrow as he looked toward her "Then go find something to occupy your time in the farmhouse."
She cast him an incredulous look "Who lives there though? It's too well taken care of for it not to belong to anyone... I'd rather not get caught in an awkward situation." she slumped in her seat slightly "And I don't even know who's been there and touched what... it's kinda disturbing..."
"Don't know. Don't care." Barricade stated simply "When Lord Megatron and I arrived here, the place was abandoned. No one was here, and no one has returned the entire time we've been here tracking you and that other female down."
"Well, I guess that makes me feel a BIT better... But I've already explored the house regardless... There's not much to do in there." she said with a bored look before she suddenly thought something, instantly perking up as if a lightbulb had gone off inside her mind.
She got out of Barricade's alt-mode and walked toward the place in the farmyard where there were a lot of rocks/pebbles. She scooped up certain ones into her hands and then began to creep toward where Megatron was most likely recharging; the Quonset.
She grabbed a ladder, and placed it against the Quonset, making sure the ladder was near the opening or window toward the top of it. She climbed up the ladder carefully and peeked into the opening, seeing Megatron recharging peacefully. She took a decent sized pebble and threw it at him, quickly ducking out of way of the opening after she did so.
"I'd be careful human. You do not want to incur Megatron's wrath..." Barricade warned, even though there was a smirk in his voice.
Miranda continued to throw pebbles at Megatron's helm, it barely registering to him. Every once in awhile, Megatron instinctively scratched where some particularly larger pebbles had hit his helm before he put his servo back down, dozing peacefully.
Miranda frowned, huffing slightly when she saw it didn't really do much to him. She climbed off of the ladder and gathered rocks that were roughly the size of a human hand. She took two of them within her grasp before she made her way back up the ladder, and toward the opening again.
This time, when she chucked one at his helm, he grunted slightly, and shifted his position in his recharge.
Miranda grinned evilly at this, chucking the last one even harder at his helm, and hiding out of view.
But just before it could hit his helm, Megatron brought up his hand, and caught the rock, his optics flashing online angrily before breaking the rock into powder.
"Who dares disturb my recharge?" Megatron growled.
"SSSHHHIIII-T!" Miranda thought, panicking and sliding down the ladder quickly, running as fast as could away from the Quonset.
Megatron growled, letting the residue of the rock cascade freely out of his hand as he stood up, stalking out of the Quonset with a glare.
"Has something disturbed you, Milord?" Barricade asked, fighting not to smile at the human's antics.
"Someone was throwing ROCKS at me as I recharged..." Megatron said, raising his voice a little, growling softly "And I suspect it was the human female, with such disregard for her own life."
Miranda kept running until she was in the woods on the outskirts of the farmyard.
Once she reached the woods however, she burst into laughter.
"What's so funny, fleshy?" Starscream questioned the amused human female, leaning against the barn as he looked toward her.
She simply responded by giggling slightly and looking up toward him with a wink, putting her index finger to her lips.
Starscream then glanced back to where Megatron was grouching, and then looked back toward Miranda, his look of confusion melting into a smirk.
Miranda smiled to herself and chuckled every now and then, leaning against a treetrunk to try and catch her breath.
She soon, however, became saddened. She only wished she could share this moment with Emily...
Starscream noticed her change of demeanor, and raised a curious optical ridge at her "Why the sadness, fleshy?" he asked quietly, quiet enough so that Megatron wouldn't hear, but loud enough to where Miranda could hear him.
Miranda looked to Starscream, before glancing toward Megatron as he stalked back into the Quonset to recharge once again.
"I can't stand the fact that I can't see my best friend... and in all honesty... I want the Autobots and Decepticons to be at peace." she said gently "But I already know the chances of THAT happening..." she looked to Starscream "Don't know if you understood anything I just said though..." she murmured.
"Ah yes, the other female... That's just what happens when people are on two different sides of a war. I don't understand why Megatron just doesn't let it go myself... This war has torn me away from friends as well. Especially seeing as I am the Decepticon's Second-in-Command. It would cause more harm to the Decepticons if we were to fight with the Autobots at the moment, seeing as we are in your dimension and not our own. And if our kind is revealed to be truly existent it could cause pure chaos with many of the 'TransFans', as you've called them..."
Miranda looked to Starscream a bit surprised, but the surprise soon melting into a soft understanding smile "Yeah, I know..." she said before sighing, looking toward the Quonset "All that Megatron does now is lay on his lazy aft and do nothing but recharge..." she said with a slightly annoyed look about her.
"It's how he plans... As strange as it is, it's the truth. He gets his ideas when we're not bugging him, due to him being in recharge. He just doesn't know what to do, seeing as the only Autobot accounted for is the Weapons Specialist. The Scout is probably somewhere on this planet as well, but we have not gotten a definitive yes or no to whether he is here or not." Starscream paused before looking toward the Quonset with a thoughtful look on his face "War is all Megatron knows... And without his rival Optimus Prime here, he doesn't know what to do with himself."
"Maybe so..." Miranda stood up fully and walked out of the forest area, looking to Starscream "But I think he's out of ideas to be honest..." she looked back toward the Quonset, determination written all over her demeanor "It's time to give him new ones..." she said matter-of-factly before she began to walk toward the Quonset.
"Be careful fleshy..." Starscream warned her as he watched her walk toward the Quonset.
Miranda stopped and looked in his direction "That's kinda getting old... Call me Mi, Mi-chan, or Miranda or I won't let YOU sleep either..." she said sternly before continuing to the Quonset.
Starscream smirked "I like this fleshy... Got some spunk to her." he said thoughtfully.
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