I promise you this chapter is pretty much angst free! Yays! I think...

I don't own Tranformers. Damn I wish I did though... Anywho on ta da chapta!


Chapter 6: Luck

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Same day 11:30 P.M.

Torri groaned as she entered the quiet house. It had been a long day at the ER and her legs ached. She noted the distinct lack of activity. Mercy's car was in the driveway, so she knew she was near by... But where was Annabelle? She made her way up the stairs an opened Anna's door. The girl was asleep at her desk, her head resting on her curled up elbows. Torri sighed as she tapped her niece on the shoulder.

"Anna... Come on Anna wake up."

"Mm.. Wha?" Anna blinked as she opened her eyes to look up at Torri who smiled. "Oh hey Torri..."

"I figured you would like to move over to your bed?"

"Thanks." the girl mumbled as she sat up straight and stretched her arms, her back popping from sitting in the chair. "Ow..."

"Have you seen Mercy?" Torri asked as she gazed over Annabelle's desk. Her yes Narrowed on the two slightly askew lids on a pair of boxes. One of the boxes was roughly nine inches long and four inches wide and about two deep... but what caught her eye was the item she could see under the crooked lid. "Annabelle."

Annabelle glanced at her aunt nervously. Torri only used her name when she was in trouble. "Yes?"

"Tell me. Where did you get this?" Torri asked as she pulled out the eight inch hunting knife.

"It was a gift from my father and uncle Ironhide."

"..." Torri mutely turned around and walked out of the room.

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A Little bit earlier...

"Hold still damn it." Mercy growled as she kicked Blue's armor. She was currently standing on his shoulder as he was laying haphazardly down the best he could in the garage, while she was checking over the wires and cables the led to his helm. "I don't want to get electrocuted by you like poor Ollie."

Oliver had taken the chance to go rest after Mercy had talked Bluestreak into letting her try to find the loose wire that the twosome had been trying to locate earlier. So far luck had been Mercy's favor and she had pulled on anything wrong yet.

"It was an accident..."

"You know in all rights I should be going nuts by now." Mercy chuckled. "After all It's not everyday you meet an alien. I think I've found it... Ouch! Hold still or I swear I'll beat you with my torque wrench." she growled as she cut her arm on the metal of his helm.

"S-Sorry." the mech apologized. He hissed as she fiddled with the wire, while he tried to still his servo which was tapping in the concrete.

"... Hell."

"Is something the matter?"

"The wire's pretty much severed in two, I'm going to try to reattach them... Hopefully your systems can take care of the rest once I put them together..." She growled as she pulled her arm out and began digging in her tool belt. "I just need to get something out of my belt... Aha!" She found the item. "Duct Tape the universe's best universal bandage." she said before returning to her task on hand.

"I can only hope that it works." Blue grumbled as he felt her wrap the tape around the wire in question.

"There." she said as she pulled back to stand upright on his shoulder. She glanced at her arm where she nicked it with a sigh. It wasn't a deep cut so she shrugged and wrapped it with the duck tape. "I'll clean it when I get home." she muttered as she took and stepped on Blue's offered servo. She noted that the other one was still tapping against the concrete.

"What's with the morse code?" she asked with a sigh. "Because you're starting to annoy me with it."

"How did you know it was morse code?"

"I learned it once in summer camp with Torri. We didn't want the other kids to treat us anymore like freaks than what we were so we learned to do morse code so that we could talk with out creeping out the other kids."

Blue frowned. "Why would they call you freaks?"

"Really? You haven't noticed that me and Torri are identical twins? It was bad enough that we look and sound alike. We used to talk to each other up here all the time... not so much anymore." she tapped her head. "We also synced quite a bit back then too..."

"On our world twins such as you we considered Split Sparked. It meant that the twins in question were two halves of a whole. They were literally one being in two bodies. They were very rare. Very rare indeed..."

"You don't say so..." Mercy said as she smiled up at him as she got back to the original subject. "You still didn't explain to me the whole morse code thing."

"I don't know if you noticed but I kinda talk a lot. Well a little while after I met Oliver he told me that I would probably would stand out being a 'motormouth' as he put it. And so he taught me morse code to kind of try to keep me quiet." Blue shrugged.

Mercy raised a brow. "Huh... You don't really talk that much."

"Trust me I do."

"Whatever you say..." Mercy said before let out a hiss as a wave of anger hit her. Her gaze shot straight to the direction of her house. "I've got to go." she said as she jogged out of the garage.

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Couldn't they just e-sign this shit instead of forcing me to go through and approve or deny this shit? Will was groaned inwardly from under yet another pile of paperwork, when his cell phone went off in the desk drawer. HE nervously glanced at the drawer before pulling it out and answering it. "Hello?"

"ARE YOU FREAKING INSANE?"

"Uh... Hello... Mercy?" Will said cautiously.

"This is Torri you ass!" She growled fiercely into the phone Will's eyes widened slightly, Torri wasn't the one to get angry about anything. "What the hell were you thinking sending her a knife?! I swear I'm going to kick your ass!"

"Aunt Torri please calm down! It was only a gift!"

"It's a weapon. And you know my rules about weapons Annabelle."

"Torri!" Mercy must have entered the fray on the other side of the phone. "Torri you need to calm down!"

"Do you know how unlucky it is to be given a knife?!" he heard Torri grumble over the phone to the others.

"Uh... Hello?" He spoke into the phone.

"Besides we decided no weapons!" Torri was not yelling at him at this point and must have pulled the phone away from her ear.

"Could you at least put me on speaker phone?" Will said into the phone.

"Like that rule really stood true. Aunt Mercy has several guns up in the attic plus my paintball guns are up there." Annabelle said clearly for him to hear before Torri growled "WHAT? Mercy!"

"Uh... Torri you've gotta calm down-"

"When I get my hands on you-" There was a clatter as the phone was dropped. Will slightly felt sorry for Mercy as the sounds of the two fighting could be heard.

"Torri! Just calm down- Argh! No!"

The phone was picked up several seconds after the sounds of arguing retreated into the distance. "Hi dad." Annabelle's voice came over the phone.

"Hey there sweetheart. How've things been for you?" Will smiled.

"Besides the usual school and homework? Not bad. Though I've been trying to get them to agree to letting me have a car... Aunt Mercy's a go but... Torri's adamant about not letting me have my own car."

"Ah, you'll get one. Eventually Torri will break down."

"Well... I doubt it'll be anytime soon. I haven't seen her this mad since aunt Mercy took me tornado chasing that one spring break. But either way, tell Ironhide I love the knife. And Thanks for the necklace."

"It was your mother's wedding ring." Will said quietly. "Annabelle?"

"Yeah?"

"Are you still mad at me?"

"... I can't be you are my father..."

"You're making it sound like it's your obligation to love me." Will accused her slightly hurt by her words. Several minutes passed without reply and so to make sure she hadn't hung up, Will called her name again.

A sigh passed over the earpiece as she finally said, "Maybe it is." before hanging up on him.