Luna giggled "Sorry bumblebee, but I don't play video games."

bumblebee made a small pout but backed off, the whole group moved towards the back of the base, and as they exited the base she looked in astonishment at the playground sized space in the back, she saw what looked like a large ring and another spot with what looked like fighting equipment, as she gazed at the large space she noticed that jazz had wandered over to the ring, she looked as moonbeam came out of the base and went over to him and he started to talk to her, curious Luna went over as everybody else went to practice.

"You see beams, this is where we practice our Circuit-Zu, ill show you a few slick moves, 'kay? Moonbeam nodded as jazz backed away to the other side of the ring and took on a fighting stance, he pulled out his nun-chucks and began to twirl them, " 'kay beams, your turn." he watched as she spread her legs, and leaned back on one ped, she pulled out two Sai and held one near her helm, the other outstretched towards Jazz, both facing him, then she nodded.

Jazz smirked and winked, motioning for Moonbeam to make the first move.

Immediately Moonbeam leaped forward, landed beside him and slashed.

Jazz was taken by surprise at her smooth agility but blocked her Sai by batting at them with his nun-chucks, but grinned as she moved forward, forcing him back, but then he caught his nun-chucks and hopped over her, twirling in the air and landing behind her, he then attempted to wrap the attachment to one of his nun-chucks around her neck, but she ducked and backwards somersaulted behind him, and kicked. He was fast enough to spin and grab her servo, but she twisted onto her front and kicked him with her other ped, knocking him off her ped and out of the ring.

Luna stared in amazement at how Moonbeam took down Jazz, and Luna could tell it was Moonbeam's first time in the ring, she gave a small cheer and clapped

Jazz stared in surprise, then he grinned and entered the ring again "Nice moves beam's, seems ta me you know a lil more than you first seemed, guess were gonna have ta find out how much, aren't we?" he grinned and took another battle stance, this time with more power, Moonbeam crouched slightly holding her Sai in a circular ring around her, and the match began.

Jazz quickly moved forward, faked a left then twirled to her right, Moonbeam fell for it and he passed her, to retaliate she cartwheeled away and made a low spin to knock him down, but he easily jumped over it and without stopping she swung the butt of one her Sai at him, he used his nun-chuck to block it and struck at her with his other, she ducked and rolled to the side, she sat in a crouched position then somersaulted forward and attempted to slash at his ped's, he quickly flip-rolled over her back to her other side and she rolled away to avoid his downward slash with his nun-chucks.

Luna felt entranced at the display of agility both showed, as she watched she didn't notice Sari come up behind her until lynx growled. Quickly she spun around and smiled at sari, who was watching the fight with Moonbeam and Jazz.

"Shes very peculiar, she cant be older than a year, yet she already is a master at Circuit-Zu..." she looked as jazz attempted to get behind Moonbeam, but she kept circling him, blocking his attempts.

Luna watched also then looked at sari "Sari...where would I sleep?"

sari blinked in surprise before face palming "Oh, I ALMOST forgot, here, ill show you to where you'll stay" she said blushing.

Sari led Luna through the base until they came to the rec room, where bumblebee was playing a video game with a race track.

"C'mon, c'mon" he muttered, swinging the remote which ever way he was turning until the game bleeped and he jumped up waving his servos in the air " and the crowd goes WILD! haaaa!" he said, imitating a crowds yell.

Luna smiled until lynx made a loud yowl, sending bumblebee into a crazed frenzy, which included falling over the couch in front of them.

Luna winced and glared at lynx, who seemed poker faced as ever. "s-sorry about that" she said as bumblebee scrambled for his dignity, " are you okay? Any dents?" she said, setting lynx and Splitz down and began inspecting him.

"I'm fine, just a lil scratch, nothing big" he said, standing.

Sari was giggling madly at how he had fallen but sobered up and smiled "hey bee, sorry if we were interrupting, but we need a ride to Sumdac Towers, Luna is going to stay with me and dad." she said happily.

Luna immediately broke into a grin "R-really? I'm going to stay with you?"

Sari cocked her head to the side smiling "Will it be a problem?"

Luna shook her head happily, "Its no problem, that's great." she said, smiling.

Bumblebee, Sari, and Luna went outside the base and bumblebee transformed into a yellow compact car. Both girls piled in with Luna carrying her toys and he drove them across Detroit.

Luna watched outside the window as the broken down buildings turned into well taken care of stores, houses, and factories. She watched with fascination as they drove through the now crowded streets, people bustled in the streets, hot dog bots were selling hotdogs, and robotic trash cans were getting rid of taking care of the garbage. The whole view was fascinating and she pressed against the window to get a better view.

"Hey! Could you lighten up on the window? Your fogging it up." bumblebee said sounding slightly put out.

Luna blushed and backed away, and giggled a bit at the face indentation that temporarily appeared on the window, then faded.

"How long until we get there?" she asked, looking around more, but was aware of the glass.

"Not long, were almost there, look." sari said, pointing towards a ginormous building, it looked like a giant spark plug and it had the double pronged space bridge on the top of it, just like how shed seen from inside Jetstorm.

"Woow" she said in awe, the building's design was genius and fascinating, she looked up as they approached, but instead of stopping at the front door bumblebee sped right into the building, surprising Luna, until he transformed, and she found herself sitting on his shoulder, holding her toys.

"Welcome to my home." sari said enthusiastically, "this is where the magic happens, and some explosions." she giggled at the last part, but it made Luna feel uneasy, explosions?, she wondered if sari was telling the truth or just joking, shed have to figure that out for herself.

Sari said goodbye to bumblebee and he left, transforming as he drove out. Sari then turned towards Luna and smiled.

"Lets go meet my dad, he should be in his lab." she said happily, and she led past the receptionist, who Luna worried about because she seemed a bit off, and into an elevator, Luna shuddered and almost back away, but she forced herself forward and into the elevator, she looked around, every move, every bump, it frightened her, and Sari took notice.

"are you okay? Your not claustrophobic are you?" she said with an anxious tone.

Luna just shook her head.

"N-no, its just that...i don't like moving spaces, i-i had a bad experience, that's all." she knew it was a lie, but it was partially true, enclosed spaces, just didn't do well for her.

To lighten the mood Luna asked about Sari's dad and why the reception-bot, Sari answered that the reception-bot had been affected by her all spark key a few years back and hasn't been quite the same since, as for her dad she explained he was a technological genius, but was a bit clumsy, and gullible, but a great guy.

Luna listened with interest, and smiled, though a dark though plagued her, about her own dad, but she pushed it away as the elevator doors opened and they stepped into a long hallway that went past the elevator doors. Both girls stepped into the hallway and Sari went to a room directly in front of the elevator and went in, Luna followed. Inside the room was A-LOT of junk and machine parts, partially finished inventions lay scattered on the tables and machines with multicolored buttons that blinked lined the room. Luna looked around, utterly amazed by the sight of the complex machinery and works, she approached a table and peered at what looked like a little spider robot, and picked it up, inspecting it.

"That's one of dad's latest inventions, or works in progress," she explained, "hes been having trouble with it though."

Luna inspected it, then she set down her toys, the cat looked at what she was doing, and the truck rolled forward and backwards slightly, as she looked at it she opened It and began to fiddle with the pieces on the inside.

"Oh hello Sari." a voice with an Indian accent said, he was a short round looking old man with a lab coat and rubber gloves, he had large Einstein black hair with a silver stripe up the front, but he seemed tired and looked to be well over 50.

"Well, who is this?" he said, looking at Luna.

Lynx stood and made a small rumbling sound, facing the man.

"Hi dad," Sari said, " this is Luna, and her toys, lynx and Splitz.", she said motioning towards Luna and her toys.

Sumdac came over and looked at what Luna was working on, he watched as she moved parts in the tiny robotic spider and then closed it, but as soon as she set it down she looked at Sumdac and yelped, falling on her bottom.

Sumdac also was startled and stumbled back into one of his tables.

"Oh! I am VERY sorry, I did not mean to startle you." he said nervously.

Luna blushed and stood up.

"I-i should be the one apologizing, I should have payed attention...erm, I'm Luna." she said, holding out a hand to shake.

He gladly took it and shook lightly.

"My name is Isaac Sumdac, I am pleased to meet you." he said kindly before letting her hand go, he then turned his attention to the little robotic spider, "What might you have been doing with my prototype? I'm sure it seemed very interesting." he said smiling.

Luna looked at it, then she flipped a small switch on it and it began to crawl around, surprising Sumdac.

"That is amazing, how did you do that?" he said, going over and inspecting the miniature arachnid.

"it wasn't much, all I had to do was rewire the input of the energy flow, it was going a little too fast, and was short circuiting the motor, and the memory chip wasn't directing the program direction properly, so I rerouted that too." she said as if she'd rehearsed it.

Sari looked at her, surprised, and Sumdac was still looking at the little robot.

"interesting..." he said, " where did you learn you knowledge on mechanics?"

Luna shrugged lightly "I just read books, and had tinkered with robotics when I was little."

Sari blinked, still in shock, "Wow...that's amazing, I mean, wow." she looked at Luna curiously, then grinned, "your going to fit into this family better than I thought."

at that Sumdac dropped his little gadget.

"oh, clumsy me." he said, picking it up," Huh? What was that you said Sari? A new member of the family?" he said curiously, looking at Luna.

Luna blushed as Sari told about how Luna had been found, rescued, and brought back to the base, she then explained how Luna didn't have anywhere else to stay so Sari had invited her to stay at the tower.

Sumdac listened intently then smiled when Sari finished.

"you are very welcome to stay here however long you like." he said smiling at her.

Luna felt elated at how kind they were to her.

"thank you VERY much, you are too kind." she said happily

sari grinned and moved towards the door.

"come on, ill show you too your room." she smiled

Luna quickly picked up lynx and Splitz and went through the door. Sari lead her down the long halls until she reached another room, she then typed in a pass code and went in. Luna followed and looked around to see the room was near empty, but it had a large window with drapes, a small bunk near the door, and a single, empty shelf near the window with a plain desk.

"We'll go shopping later, this place needs a makeover, but ill send some service bots to clean it up, right now its dinner time." she said excitedly, "Were having steak with salad." with that she left the room.

Luna looked one more time at the room then turned and followed Sari.

"Their going to ask you questions," a voice said, "be careful of how you answer."

Luna simply nodded and hugged her toys closer, she felt nervous, she feared that she would give too much away, and she was afraid they would find out her secrets, she was also afraid that she felt close to them already, that was her biggest fear.

"When will we know we can trust them?" she whispered.

"We don't," the voice said, "so we have to rely on our instincts and logic, I can help only minimally, the rest is up to you."Luna bit her lip as they walked, she knew the truth would come out eventually, but for now, she just needed to bide her time.

Sari led them back down the halls and towards another room, which she entered a pass code into and went in.

"Welcome to my room!" she said happily.

Luna looked around, never before had she seen so much pink! The room was covered in pink lace, pink wallpaper, and even pink paint. She felt overwhelmed for a moment, but regained control ad peered closely, like her room, Sari's room had a large window in the side, showing the view of the city, there was a king size pink bed with lace and an over hang, on it were stuffed toys and fluffy pink pillows, on either side of the bed were bedside tables, also pink, and the room had a decorated desk with a laptop and a few dressers and shelves, there was also a closet and a flat screen TV. In the middle was a coffee table with a horseshoe shaped ring of pink comforters. Never before had Luna seen such a widely decorated room, even the fluffy carpet was pink and well taken care of, it was just too much for Luna and she took a step back.

"Are you okay Luna?" Sari asked, clearly concerned at Luna's reaction.

"I-I'm alright," she said, "just a little...surprised...sooo much pink..." she blinked.

Sari looked at her for a moment before giggling, "Yeah, I have a-lot of pink stuff, its because when I was...smaller I had a little obsession with the color, though I still wore orange clothes." she giggled.

Luna laughed lightly and Sari smiled before going to a panel next to the door and typed in a code.

"the service bots will be up any minute with dinner." she said joyfully. "Yum, I can almost imagine that steak now." at that she licked her lips and rubbed her tummy.

Luna blinked, confused at her display, but smiled and giggled, then looked thoughtful.

Sari noticed her thoughtfulness and decided to ask.

"What are you thinking about?"

Luna blinked then smiled.

"oh, I was thinking about how I thought you would eat, I guess im a little surprised you eat in your room." she said sheepishly.

Sari laughed.

"Ha ha, no, I eat in my room, but sometimes I'll go down into the cafeteria to eat with the workers, but they tend to ignore me, so I eat here." she said, a hint of sadness in her voice.

Luna bit her lip and began to think quickly.

"W-well...i could eat here with you if you want, whenever you think its convenient." she said nervously, she felt as lynx wriggled in her grip, so she set her toys down as she waited anxiously for her reply.

Sari had a large grin on her face.

"that would be great!" she said, "maybe we could eat together every other day, it would be just great." she smiled.

At that there was a knock on the door.

"dinner is ready miss Sumdac" a voice at the door said.

"Oh!" Sari said, rushing to the door and letting in a robot with a pink apron and a chief's cap.

"come on in!" she said happily.

The bot put down three covered platters on the coffee table in the middle of the room then left. Quickly sari approached the platters and lifted one.

"Mmmm, steak!" she said excitedly before putting the lid back on, "wait here, I have to get dad." she said, then she hurried out.

Luna sat on one of the comforters and looked at the platters. They were silver and the smell wafting from them was simply irresistible.

"Remember, answer carefully." the voice said with a warning tone.

Luna sighed and leaned back, she needed to think this through.

after dinner Luna lay in her room, relieved to have withstood the questions handed to her during dinner, from where she came from in Detroit to how she survived, and how old she was, she wasn't even sure herself, but she told them she's 15. the close call was how she knew so much about mechanics. She was sure she had impressed them.

"great job" the voice said

Luna just smiled and rolled onto her side, wrapping her arm around Splitz, lynx sat at the foot of her bed.

"Goodnight." she whispered and fell to sleep.