Title: Unexpected Life

Rating: T

Pairings: Sunstreaker/oc, Jazz/Prowl

Disclaimer: I own nothing but the plot, everything else belongs to Hasbro.

Yeah, another chapter here for everyone to read. Hope you enjoy!


Waking the next morning Alex found that she was alone in Prowl's room, sitting up and leaning back against the wall. She ached all over the place, the berth not the most comfortable thing she had slept on before, rubbing at certain spots.

Just then the hiss of the door sounded and she looked to see the black and white mech walk in carrying a cube of energon in his hand. "Bumblebee will take you home so you can change and then take you to school, where he will await you and Sam through out the day." He told her as he set the cube down on his desk.

"Come, I will take you to him," coming over and holding out his hand.

Alex climbed on as he brought her up to his shoulder so that he could have his hands free as he picked up the cube and a few datapads. They didn't meet or see anyone of the walk to the rec room, where Bee, Sideswipe, Mikaela and Sam waited for her.

The camero came over and gently picked her up, Alex waving to Prowl who inclined his head and walked out as Bee and Sideswipe changed into their alt modes.

Alex hopped in with Mikaela as they rode in Sideswipe who lead the way out of the base and back to the city, towards. She then waited outside with the red mech, neither saying anything as they waited for the other girl.

"Sunny isn't as bad as he seems," spoke Sideswipe through his radio breaking the silence.

"Then why does he hate me so much?" she asked angrily.

"No one has ever been real kind to my brother, due to the fact that he's not very sociable. He has the ability to destroy anything who should harm his family."

"Namely you.

"Yes," he answered.

"But, what have I done to make him not like me."

"He doesn't hate you Alex, he just afraid to get close, especially in war. He once had a femme who called him a murder after something unpleasant happened.

Alex felt bad for him. "I'm sorry," she whispered. "I probably shout not have asked to have a new guardian then."

There was a stunned silence that followed that and she wondered if he had blown something. "Is that why Sunstreaker was called to Prowl's office this morning?" he asked.

Alex felt horribly guilty now. "It might be. I'm sorry Sideswipe; I didn't mean to get him in trouble. I'm so sorry, I feel so horrible now," she cried out as Mikaela got back in.

Her friend looked back and forth between Alex and Sideswipe's radio, wondering what had occurred after she left the car. Neither said anything as they left the house and made their way to Alex's.

Neither Christy nor Cameron were home which was fine by Alex as she quickly changed her cloths and freshened up before running back outside. Bumblebee and Sideswipe quickly took them to school arriving just before the starting bell rand as the two girls found their seats.

They were halfway through the class when Mikaela passed her a note. 'What happened this morning?' Alex read.

Looking towards the teacher she wrote back. 'I may have gotten Sunstreaker in trouble this morning.' Handing the piece of paper back to her friend.

'So, he's the one who should be apologizing.'

'Yeah, but Sideswipe explained why he acts the way he does and I feel bad in a way.'

'What does he do?'

'It's because he's afraid to get close at least that's what Sides says. Whether it's true or not you would probably have to ask him.'

'What are you going to do?'

Alex sighed writing back. 'I'm going to talk to him and apologize for what trouble I got him into.'

'What of Prowl?'

'That's for him to decided and do with as he sees fit.'

'You should tell Prowl before he does reassign you to another autobot.' Mikaela wrote.

Alex looked out the window as she pocketed the scrap of paper knowing that what her friend wrote was right. She did need to talk with Sunstreaker and then go see Prowl if the yellow Lamborghini did forgive. Sighing she turned back to the board and began writing down the notes wanting the day to go faster so she could get out.

During lunch she sat listening to Sam and Mikaela talk about an upcoming date they were going out on, not sure if they wanted to see a movie or go to the fair. They had asked for her for an opinion, but when they got no answer they left her alone to her thoughts, which were becoming very confusing.

When the last bell finally rang Alex was more then relieved as she walked out with her friends, only to stop short when she spotted a yellow Lamborghini parked next to the other two. "I think I'm going to walk home," she mumbled turning to leave.

"Alex, you really need to talk to him," Mikaela said pulling on her arm. Alex struggled until Sam grabbed her other arm and began pulling as well, until they were standing in front of their three guardians.

She kept her gaze on the ground before Sunstreaker, while her friends opened their doors and got in. When they were secure Alex turned and ran, hearing the roar of three engines as she disappeared hopping to lose herself in a crowd of people that walked the streets.

She wasn't sure why she was running all she knew was that she didn't want to talk with her guardian at the moment.


Alex only stopped running when she was a few blocks from the school leaning back against a wall and trying to catch her breath. When her breathing back to normal, she began walking not sure where she was going, only that she continued to do so.

Frowning, she looked back the way she had been walking not spotting anything familiar. Slightly scared she began walking again hoping to find a police station nearby.

After turning down the seventh street Alex began getting frantic looking every which way for a sign of something familiar. A tap on her shoulder had her jumping and a scream emitting from her mouth.

Turning she saw a familiar face, throwing her arms around his shoulders and collapsing against him completely. She felt his arms wrap around her holding her close.

When she felt a bit calmer Alex looked up into Ironhide's green eyes and gave a small smile. "Why are you so far from your guardian?" he asked as he headed over to his alt form.

He helped her inside the topkick form before taking off. She looked down at her hands in her lap as he drove. "Because I felt terrible for getting Sunstreaker in trouble and when I saw him in the parking lot, I just kind of.." trailing off.

"Do you want something to eat?" he asked as he continued to drive. She nodded her head forgetting that he couldn't see her, but he stopped at a Taco Bell anyway.

She got out, as did his holoform, following her as she headed inside and stood in line and waited for an open cashier. Alex grabbed her mead and followed him as he led the way to a table. He took a seat next to her in the booth, putting a protective arm around her shoulders.

They sat quietly as she ate her food, although she didn't enjoy it as much as she should have, still feeling a little guilty.

"Ready?" he asked as she finished her last taco. Looking down at the try, she realized she had eaten all of the food without realizing it. Nodding she slid out as he took the try and placed it with the others before walking out and to the Topkick.

"Where are we going?" she asked once back in the truck.

"I am going to take you back to your house so that you can be with your family. I am sure they are worried for you right now," he explained.

She nodded watching as the scenery passed by and then came upon her home a while later. "I will stay guard at your house tonight and tomorrow Prowl will pick you up."

"Why him?" she asked as he pulled into her drive.

"Because he would like to speak with you and decided what will need to be done."

"Thank you for today," she whispered as she climbed out. Walking into the house, arms instantly wrapped around her.

Christy pulled away from the hug. "Why didn't you tell me you were involved with these things?" she gestured towards Ironhide.

Alex gave a small smile. "His name is Ironhide and I couldn't tell you because I had promised to keep their secrets. Besides would you have believed me if I told you?"

"That still doesn't make it right for me to worry."

"I'm sorry Christy, god I feel like I'm saying that to often," running a hand through her hair.

"You hungry?" asked Christy walking towards the kitchen.

Alex shook her head. "No Ironhide stopped so I could get something, I'm just going to go upstairs and work on my homework," she said turned and heading up the stairs.

Once in her room she grabbed a pair of p.j.s and started up the bath for a nice long soak to relax a little. She stepped out of the tub when the water turned cold, wrapping a towel around her and walking out into her room, taking a seat on the bed.

A tap on the window made her get up and walk out onto the balcony and found herself face to face with a pair of deep blue optics.

"Oh," she breathed as Sunstreaker pulled away a little bit. Alex could tell he was angry as she clutched her towel tightly and backed up away from him making sure he couldn't reach her through the window.

A huff came from his vocalizer as he changed into his alt mode and sat next to Ironhide in the driveway. She quickly closed the door and turned off the lights before climbing into bed and falling asleep.


A constant stream of beeping woke her the next morning as she shot up out of bed and onto the balcony. "STOP IT, THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE TRYING TO SLEEP!" she yelled down at the three cars now in her driveway.

Glaring she turned and walked back inside ignoring another honk of the horn as she slammed her bathroom door shut. When Alex had finished her morning routine she stomped downstairs and out the front door not even bothering to say goodbye to Christy.

"Who honked the horn?" she growled looking back and forth between the three.

Both Ironhide and Sunstreaker backed up a little leaving Prowl before her as she kicked his front bumper, swiftly earning her a sore foot. Alex then proceeded into his passenger seat and waited for him to take off. "Well, what are you waiting for, you got me up?" snapping at him. He backed out of the driveway and took off still not speaking a word to her.

"If I hadn't woken you up you would have been late to school," he said nonchalantly.

"So," she grumbled. "Some of us like to sleep in."

"Perhaps keeping Sunstreaker as your guardian would do you some good," he said sounding slightly amused. He continued before she could say anything. "I hope you know, your little run will not go unpunished." She tensed and did not seem to notice. "After school today you and your friends will come to the base where I will assign you your punishment."

"But, your not my mother," she gaped mouth opening and closing.

"No, I may not be your mother, but as your guardian I think it would be wise to give you some kind of punishment to prevent you from running away again. Lucky for you Ironhide was in the area in which he found you." She slumped in the seat not happy one bit about being punished.

"Look in the compartment in front of you. I have something for you."

Alex opened the glove compartment and pulled out what looked like a cell phone. "Why do I need a blackberry?" she asked turning it over and over.

"It is a specially designed blackberry, to allow you to communicates with us directly. Wheeljack has fixed it so that of you need help, just press a certain number and it will connect with us." He explained as she looked through the phone.

"There are a few other contact's in there who you can call if none of us will be able to get to you."

"Mikaela and Sam have one as well," she mused finding their numbers in the phone.

"Yes, each of you will be able to contact each other as well. Just don't…"

"Games," she exclaimed cutting off his tirade. He sighed as he pulled into the school parking lot and opened the door as she climbed out continuing to play with her phone.

Mikaela came over to her and both began talking excitedly about their phones. Mikaela's was a translucent pink, while Alex had a translucent yellow something she thought odd. She pushed it back however as they arrived at their first class and took a seat, both eager for lunch to come around.


When it did both sat on the grassy area in front of their guardians and explored their phones more, ignoring Sam who had been trying to get their attention. He gave up and ate his lunch looking around extremely bored.

Alex was looking through her ring tones when the phone vibrated with an incoming message from Prowl. Opening it she turned and glared at the tactician before typing something back and pocketing her phone. She saw Mikaela doing the same with her phone, giving Prowl a glare of her own.

After school had gotten out, Prowl escorted them all back to the base. Alex was stuck in the passenger seat as she worked on her homework as much as she could. When he stopped at the entrance to the base, as she scrambled out with her things.

Alex began walking in only to be picked up by the second in command. "Don't think I have forgotten you punishment." He said

Crossing her arms she waited as he made his way towards his office and placing her down on his desk, while he took a seat on the chair.

"Can we just forget that it ever happened and not give me the punishment?" she asked sweetly giving him an innocent expression.

He didn't so much as flex when she did this. "No," he told her bluntly and she dropped the looking instead adapting to glaring at him. "The twins have tried that many times and it didn't work then."

"It was worth a try," she mumbled glancing away.

"Yes as much as it was worth, you will still be punished. She cringed but nodded her head waiting. "We have different shifts for our mech and you will be working with one of them as they watch the security monitors."

"That's all I have to do is sit in the control room and watch a bunch of monitors."

"I could have you cleaning the base with a toothbrush," he said amused.

Alex gave him a sweet smile. "No, that's okay I'll watch the monitors thanks."

He nodded his head. "Good, he should be here any minute now." As if on cue there was a knock on his door, which opened.

"Oh, you've got to be kidding me," Alex exclaimed when she saw Sunstreaker looking irritated as he stepped into Prowl's office. "Why him, he doesn't like me?" she asked pointing a finger at the yellow mech.

Prowl looked down at her. "I can always give you a toothbrush." He said producing said object from nowhere.

She gulped looking back and forth between the glaring lambo and the toothbrush, before lowering her head and walking towards Sunstreaker. He held out his hand and she climbed on, giving a pleading look to Prowl who ignored her as he looked down at the datapad in his hand.

Neither her nor Sunstreaker said a word as he walked to the control room, the door opening with a hiss as he placed her on a table. There were at least twenty monitors that hung from the walls.

He didn't say anything as he took a seat in the autobot chair propping his feet up on the table and glancing at the monitors, pointedly ignoring her. She huffed taking a seat and opening one of her schoolbooks deciding to do her homework then watch a bunch of stupid monitors.


It was sometime later when she put down her pencil and stood stretching, working out the kinks in her muscles. "How long do I have to stay here?" she asked looking towards him momentarily.

He was still in the same spot he had when he sat, feet propped up on the table, staring pointedly at the monitors.

Her only answer was a shrug as she sighed grabbing her phone and began texting Mikaela to see what she was doing. Her answer came back that Sam and her were out.

Again she sighed and explored the phone, checking out the ring tones again trying to find one that she liked. Noticing none that she liked she went on the web and began looking for ones that interested her.

"WILL YOU STOP PLAYING THAT ANNOYING SONG?" Sunstreaker yelled making Alex jump dropping her phone. She quickly picked it up and turned off Britney Spear's Womanizer, looking up apologetically.

"Sorry," she mumbled putting the phone down. "Um Sunstreaker," he looked towards her annoyed. "Can you let me down I need to go do stuff."

He looked at her for a few minutes before sitting up straight, picking her up and walking to the door, where he placed her on the ground. The door closed behind him as she stuck her tongue out before making her way towards the bathroom.

After that she stopped off in the kitchen grabbing a few items of food, before making her way once again back to the control room.

Knocking on the door, it opened as he stuck out his hand, lifting her up and putting her back down on the table.

"Enjoying your food?" he asked, watching as she ate a chocolate cake having forgot to grab a fork.

Alex smiled. "Chocolate is a girls best friend. She could tell he wanted to say something, but stopped when the door slid opened and Prowl walked in.

He took one look at the cake in her hands and gave a look that told she was in trouble. "Perhaps you should be watching the monitors, instead of letting your partner do all the work." Alex quickly placed the plate down and turned to the monitors, a slight blush upon her cheeks.

"We have been watching the monitors Prowl, she was just taking a short break," Sunstreaker spoke up. Alex tensed not really sure why he had spoken up for.

Prowl seemed just as surprised as she looked to him and back to the monitor, to see Sideswipe walking towards his quarters.

"Very well," Prowl spoke again. "continue on." Turning and leaving.

As soon as his footsteps died away she turned to the yellow mech and regarded him curiously. "Thank you."

He eyed her for a minute or two, inclining his head and turning to look at another pair of monitors to his left. When nothing had been said for a while she turned and look up at him. "I'm sorry," she said looking down at her clasped hands.

He seemed to take a while to answer back. "For what may I ask?"

She licked her bottom lip. "For getting you in trouble when I asked to get a new guardian."

"Is that why you ran yesterday?" his face closer now.

She shrugged her shoulders. "Sort of." Smiling up at him innocently. He seemed to narrow his optics at her. "Fine, I was afraid you were going to yell at me because I've heard stories about you and…" trailing off.

"I save my anger for when it comes to fighting decepticon's or anything else that threatens to harm my ca… brother," he changed last minute. Alex was quick to pick up on it, but let it go.

"What's that?" pointing at one of the monitors that currently was pointed outside the med bay.

Sunstreaker leaned in and peered at it for a minute before a groan escaped his lips. "Sideswipe," he sneered picking her up and running out the door.

They encountered Prowl on the way to the med bay, as the three of them made their way quickly to the med bay.

"SIDESWIPE YOU FRAGGER!"

The three came upon a scene to see Ratchet covered in multiple colored painters, his yellow no longer showing. "WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON YOU I'M GOING TO TURN YOU INTO A TOASTER."


Author Notes: Well, there you have it another chapter down. Not much action in this one, sad to say. But not to worry action will come believe it or not. So for now Please Review!