Holy Primus guys...I don't know WHAT happened with this chapter. It's like I just ran out of ideas... I wasn't going to upload it, but seeing as I'll be in Louisiana all next week, I won't be able to upload anything, I wanted to give you something to chew on. Please don't give up on me, I swear there's a good plot coming up, i just need to figure out how to get there!
The house we were to stay at looked just as I remembered: with it beautifully decorated rooms, with the theme of a country house. It was even more beautiful with the twilight sun reflecting on it. There was a giant barn that was converted into the garage, which fit Optimus, Knockout, and Soundwave's jet form (the roof opened up to let him land). While the trio was in the home, they had to have holoforms.
Soundwave had on a light grey suit with a black tie. He wore red sunglasses over his eyes and medium length silver hair. His mouth seemed to be in in a permanent straight line. In fact, I don't think I have seen his mouth move once.
Knockout's holoform was, indeed, a hunk. He dressed like a guy from the city, in a black shirt, maroon short sleeve jacket, and dark jeans. He also wore a silver watch and dog tags. His hair… Oh geez, his hair. I fell weak for his hair. It was thick and red, like the color of his jacket, and was spiked up, making it look like he spent hours on it.
Optimus smiled as he watched my awed face when I entered the large home. Upstairs, Knockout and Soundwave got the rooms next to each other, and Optimus and I got the rooms next to each other, with two rooms between.
"Knock knock," Optimus said as he walked into my room. I was sitting on my bed, unpacking the few mementoes I saved from the tornado. "What are you doing?"
"Just looking at these old photos… I somehow saved one from when Akila and I were in Egypt, years ago. Check it out," I said, handing him the photo. It was probably taken a bit before we saw the Autobot/Decepticon battle, because we both had smiles on our faces. Akila had her black hair, which was much curlier back then, in pink tails. She had on an orange scoop neck shirt and black shorts on. I had on a Lion King on Broadway shirt and jean shorts, with my blond hair cut up to my ears. You could see the pyramids in the background.
Optimus smiled at the picture and sat down on the side of the bed. "This is cute," he said. He leaned over to me and looked at the other pictures. The others were more recent, such as the photo strip of Bee and I. Finally I got to the framed picture of Optimus and I from homecoming and it made us both smile.
"That was a fun night," I told him, my mind filling with memories of that night. Of course, I got some weird looks, what with Optimus looking a bit older than other people's dates.
Optimus lay back on the bed and I went down too, with my head resting on his arm. "I'm glad everything is peaceful now. It gives everyone a chance to relax and look back on things," he said.
"Agreed," I said. Now that I look at it, my whole adventure of my mother being gone seemed like it happened so quickly. But when I was in the action, it seemed to happen so slowly. "And I'm glad you're not so stressed anymore." Optimus always had a serious leader tone in his voice, but ever since the war ended he seemed to have calmed down.
We sat there for a while until I finally got up and looked around. "It's getting dark. I need to call my mom."
My mom was, to say the least, freaking out. She threatened to end her book tour early, but I wouldn't let her. She always dreamed of publishing a book, so I wouldn't let her end it for any reason.
"I'm fine mom, Optimus will watch out for me," I told her.
Mom chuckled a bit and said, "Oh yeah. Just remember that you're only seventeen and don't need a baby."
"Oh my gosh, mom!" I yelled. "Y-You gotta stop with all these references! Do you not trust me?"
"Oh no, I do," she said, "but no teen PLANS a baby, now do they?"
"Bye mom!" I yelled in an annoyed tone, and shut off the phone. Optimus looked concerned as I put the phone away. "My mom's being weird, that's all."
Optimus then zoned out, as he did normally when he was getting a communication from another Autobot. His face turned to a stressful look and finally to confusion. "I have to go," he said, getting off of my bed.
"Where are you going?" I asked.
"I have to get Mirage, Sunstreaker, Sideswipe, Sean Holden, and Robert Danna out of human custody," he groaned.
I gave him a look. Everyone, I could see them in human custody, but Sean? Quiet Sean who was a geeky guy? And it just got dark, how could they have ALREADY gotten arrested? I hugged Optimus goodbye and he went to go bail them out.
Since he was gone, I went downstairs to see what Knockout and Soundwave were up to. When I got downstairs, the lights were all off and there wasn't a single soul. "Knockout? Soundwave?" I called out. No answer.
I went from room to room and no one was there. It looked as if the house was deserted. My heart began to race: What if Knockout and Soundwave were really still Decepticons, and now that Optimus is gone, they're going to kill me?
I looked around one was time. I had to get out. This was really freaking me out. Suddenly I heard a crack in the floor behind me. Electricity built up in my hands and I readied myself for battle. Then I turned around and raised my hand to fire.
"Now, now, save that for REAL Decepticons," Knockout purred as he grabbed my hand which was buzzing with electric power. Soundwave was leaned against the wall with his regular pursed lips, and, through his sunglasses, I could see that he was focused on me.
"Where in the Pit were you guys?" I growled to him, cutting off the electricity to my hand.
"You know, here and there, everywhere. Why do you wish to know?" Knockout purred again, almost as if flirting with me.
I looked him in the eye, trying to be impervious to his flirting (Which was hard because, as stated earlier, he was really cute). "I like to know where all of my Autobots are," I lied. Wait, did I just say 'my'? What was I, Optimus?
Before he could reply, my stomach gave off a low grumble and he smirked. He then put his arm around me and led me to the kitchen, with Soundwave following us. "Do you mean that you like to keep track of all your ex-Decepticon Autobots, right?" he asked.
"What? No, it's not like that, I mean-"
"Relax, I would be worried if I were you too. You never know when we could," he leaned down and whispered in my ear, "get a little rough."
I almost fell to his charms but then I backed away from under his arm. "Look, I know you're trying to flirt, but I'm-"
"Prime's girl?" Knockout interrupted. "Yeah, I know that. But you can always have some fun."
"Whoa, whoa!" I yelled, pushing him back. "I don't play like that. I'm with Optimus, and I will always be with him. So…just back off." I looked over at Soundwave. "Um, are you going to do anything?" I asked. He just looked at me and said nothing. I groaned and walked to the kitchen.
Knockout moved and sat on the kitchen counter. "So why don't you trust us, hm?" he asked.
"I do trust you."
He chuckled and said, "Right, that's why you almost electrocuted me."
I groaned and grabbed an apple from the fridge. "Sorry, it's hard to imagine the people I've been fighting against being on my side," I explained, even though I didn't know Soundwave a year ago. In fact, I only knew him from the databases before I found that he was on a mission every time I was with Megatron.
"Well start getting used to it," Knockout said, "because we're here to stay!"
I groaned. THIS was going to be an interesting time here…
Also, just PS guys, PLEASE don't tell me that I should pair my characters with someone else. I've gotten about 3 or 4 reviews on things 'What I Takes To Be a Hero' related about how I should pair the characters up with other people. It's my story and I chose to pair these characters up with who they are paired with. I don't mean to rant, but it's getting kinda annoying...