humm ya' know... just because that typo is so funny I'll have to let it stay. lol
Anyway here's the last chapter.
Enjoy
Cara and Carl watched the ninja speak with Bob through his comm. link.
Carl pointed to a certain shed and got Prowl's attention.
"Oh … you know what, yeah I think Mr. Sumdac is right near you now actually, why don't you step outside?"
Cara looked horrified and frantically whispered "What if he's got a gun." She started shaking Carl "Does he have a gun? Does he have a gun?"
"He's got a gun but he's better with his fists," Carl muttered. "He couldn't hit the broad side of the moon."
Cara looked somewhat relieved, but not overly so. Frankly this day was getting more and more hectic as it went on. First she had to run off from work, which would no doubt get her fired, and go with this large alien robot to go find a girl whom she never wanted to see or hear of again. And now, for all she knew, Cara herself might get killed. That would be just a swell end to her day.
Prowl was cutting off his comm. link. "Well what are we going to do, he's gonna come out here point his gun like all over the place… Bullets ricochet you know!"
The cyber-ninja ignored her.
The door started to open and it seemed like before Cara could blink Prowl had pinned someone down. "Hello there Bob." he sounded chillingly calm… Carl was glad he'd stopped being part of the operation earlier he would not want to be in Bob's position right now.
Bob stayed speechless for a few seconds until he managed to get out a bit of gibberish. "You, you don't wanna hurt me! Come on I wasn't gonna hurt her… I just needed money! I- I- I-… I'm gonna' die aren't I?"
"Just tell me where Sari is," he growled. Of course he had no intention of harming Bob, but if the human crook did not know that, then Prowl was more inclined to get the information he wanted.
"S-she is in there!" Bob said, turning completely yellow now that he was completely defenseless.
"Um, I'll get her," Cara said, if for no other reason than to put some distance between herself and Prowl, as well as these two bozos. She went into the building through the front entrance, and it wasn't long before she saw the all-too-familiar red-haired kid, sitting tied up in a chair.
"Hello there... demon child."
"Hey Cara! What brings you here?"
Any normal kid would have been scared; maybe in tears… no normal child would be humming a song and smiling! "I'm here because I was forced to be."
"Oh so you got kidnapped too?"
"Yeah by your Ninja buddy out there."
"Ow!" At least she had a normal reaction when the tape was ripped off.
"You owe me big time kid, big time!" Cara was rolling the tape into messy balls.
"How much money you want?"
Cara gave the child a sideways glance. She put her pinky to her mouth "Three billion dollars!"
"Huh?" Sari obviously didn't get the movie reference. Cara shook her head. "Oh never mind joking around… I want you… to stay as far away from my life as possible. That includes giant-talking-transforming-robots!" The two were now walking outside
"But, what happens if Decepticons attack the city and you're right there ad you have no other way of living and-" She put a hand over the girl's mouth as they both stepped outside.
"I'm not speaking hypothetically here!"
Cara looked up to see Fanzone shaking his head "Really, don't you think the child's been through enough today."
He wasn't even kidding. Shouldn't he know better than anyone besides the Autobots about the daily exploits of this kid? She sighed, what did it matter anyway she had to try to get back to work and see if reasoning with her boss was even possible.
Cara glanced around, relieved to see that Bob had already been put into the back of the police car, handcuffed and scowling. Carl looked nervous and fidgeting, and Bob seemed to be shouting something about "traitor" and "conspiracy", although no one seemed to be paying him any mind.
"Look, since you ended up helping the kid… I'll let you off easy this time, even though you both have a criminal record," Fanzone was telling Carl. "But if I see you do anything the least bit suspicious, I'm taking you in and you can share a cell with your bro. Understood?"
Carl nodded. "Yeah, I get it. But I got dragged into this, I swear!"
"Save it!" Fanzone snipped. "Look, I already know everything I need to know, and I don't need any excuses from you. So just get out of here before I change my mind!"
With that, Carl was gone in a flash.
Cara took a few steps forward, glancing from the police chief to Prowl. "Can I go now?" she asked them both. "Or do you need me for something else?" First she wanted them to tell her it was okay to go. Then she was going to give Prowl a piece of her mind, to make sure he, the demon child, and the other Autobots never ever came and bothered her again.
That is… if she felt brave enough.
"Nah you're pretty much free to go."
"You work at the clothing store nearby Shakey's right?"
She nodded already fearing that the name of the pizza place had come up
"Do you know anything about a yellow Volkswagen illegally parked behind Shakey's Pizza? I was told someone matching your name and description would know."
She bit her tongue "Please don't tell me it got a ticket!"
"No."
Sigh sighed
"You got towed."
This day just kept getting better and better!
Prowl glanced down at Sari, she was putting on her innocent act.
"So, what did you learn?"
She was quiet for a second before smiling "Never go play in downtown Detroit without a can of mace on hand?"
She almost thought Prowl was willing to accept this answer.
She was wrong.
"Okay fine you win; I can't best a ninja-bot babysitter!"
"That's correct." Sometimes Prowl was so uncool!
"One thing, do you think maybe; we don't have to let my dad know about this?"
"Do you think maybe we don't have to let Optimus, Ratchet, Bulkhead and especially Bumblebee know about this either?" the cyber-ninja seemed to be on to something.
"Nah I guess it's not too important!"
Prow was still cool.
A day later the others had noticed a change in Sari's behavior.
"Do you think… she's broken or something?" Bumblebee carefully asked Bulkhead.
"I don't know… she's really… quiet. Is she reading one of those book things too?"
Bumblebee nodded "There is definitely something wrong here!" He quickly ran to Prowl's room.
"Prowl! Sari's acting weird!"
Prowl, who had been sitting on the carpet in front of his giant tree in his meditative stance, sighed at Bumblebee. "What do you mean?" the ninja bot asked.
"She's been very quiet! And she's just sitting on her bed reading! Come and see!" With that, Bee bolted out of the room, obviously expecting Prowl to follow.
Prowl got up and walked to Sari's room. He peeked inside and saw her flipping through a thick pop-up book, looking completely content. Prowl took in the sight, then glanced at Bumblebee. "So?" the ninja finally said, seeing nothing wrong.
"So?!" Bee echoed. "She's never been this quiet, especially since she came here to stay with us while her father's gone!"
"There is nothing wrong with her," Prowl said. "She has, I believe, simply learned her lesson." The corners of his mouth curved upward ever so slightly as he added, "Finally."
Yay accomplishment!
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