Chapter Ten: Moving Day

A week later at Alexis's old house…

"Bee I can carry some things!" Alexis protested as the current box that was in her hands was taken and carried by Bumblebee who was walking beside her.

"No, you can't," Ratchet called grudgingly as he too carried a box out to his alt form.

"Best do as the doc says," Bumblebee grinned and walked off with the box leaving Alexis standing in what used to be her living room with her hands on her hips.

"Doesn't do you any good to argue with him Sis," Sam called from the top of the stairs a bright grin on his face. "Now we know where you get it from,"

"Get what from?" Emily questioned coming out of a room carrying a box which she handed over to Sylas who was waiting for it.

"Lex's stubborn streak," Sylas grunted as she set the box down on top of another to pick them both up. "She's huffy because Ratchet's not letting her do anything,"

"Oh shut it Sylas!" Alexis barked irritated, which Sylas in turn flipped her off as she picked up the boxes.

"Why don't you come help me put stuff in boxes Lex?" Emily questioned leaning over the railing to look down at her friend. "Everything else has been packed up but these last few things in here."

"Less you're just in a jolly good hurry to get out of here," Butterfly stated walking back in the door looking around at the humans in the room. "I am leaving soon though; have some business to take care of before I head back to base if anyone cares to join me?"

Alexis noticed the pointed glance Butterfly tossed in Sam's direction and grinned. She knew as well as everyone else basically that Butterfly had the hugest crush on her brother. Sam being the ditz he was when it came to other people's feelings hadn't noticed a thing.

"Sam, why don't you head out with Butterfly?" Alexis questioned and almost laughed when she caught the look on Butterfly's face. "It's getting late and we're pretty much finished here as Emi's already stated."

"Alright," Sam said with a shrug and no real objections. He jogged down the stairs and stopped next to Butterfly who was still contemplating Alexis.

"Later," Alexis said with a bright grin and walked away and up the stairs to help Emily with whatever was left to do.

"Bye!" Sam called as the two walked out the door and they heard Butterfly's engine rumble to life.

"My brother is an idiot," Alexis muttered as they all turned back to finish packing.

"Pretty much," Emily agreed with a nod.

"I still think he'd do better playing for the other team," Sylas commented as she turned to walk down the stairs with her boxes. "You know how many guys watch his ass every time we go out?"

"That's nice Sy," Alexis called as she turned to walk in to her bedroom to check that she had everything as Emily put her last box out for Sylas.

As Sylas reached the bottom of the stairs Bumblebee was back and jogged up the stairs to Alexis's room.

"Speaking of nice asses," Sylas called with a wicked grin as she watched Bumblebee jog up the stairs.

Bumblebee turned a bright red as he realized who Sylas was talking about and paused to turn back and face her and sheepishly said: "Thanks,"

Sylas laughed. "You're welcome. The only gent who's made me consider my sexuality and he's with my best friend, figures,"

"Hands off Sylas!" Alexis called from her room.

"You're hands belong to me Sylas!" Emily called out in a sing song voice which caused Sylas to laugh again and head on out the door with the box she had.

Alexis shook her head at the other two and looked around the room she was in to make sure she had everything she needed. The only things left were the bed, her bookcase, the desk in the corner and her dresser, everything else had been packed up to move to the base with the Autobots. Not like she'd had much to pack up anyway, she thought with a sigh as she realized how little she'd actually had that she could say she owned.

"What's wrong?"

Alexis jumped and turned when she heard him speak only to spot Bumblebee standing in her doorway watching her.

"Nothing important," Alexis shrugged. "just realizing that I'm leaving all this that we worked so hard to have. This was our first place Emily and I; did you know we met in high school?"

"No,"

"Yeah, took forever to manage the first house payment," Alexis laughed at the memory. "It was hell for a few months after I dropped out. She was still in school and working and I was working full time out at the shop. Ha, so many times I was coming home right as she was getting up, but somehow miraculously we made it, and then along came Sylas, and well things got even more hectic. We had barely gotten on our feet completely when I met you. Been one hell of a year this year,"

"You don't seem too upset about it," Bumblebee pointed out as she looked around the room one last time then turned to leave it.

"I've got better things going on in my life now than to worry about leaving the house." Alexis said with a grin. "I'm sure it'll be here if I ever want to return. Besides, I've got you and Butterfly and the others now,"

Bumblebee grinned and Alexis smiled and she walked out of the room shutting the door behind herself and look at Bumblebee with a happy smile. Bumblebee returned the smile and threw an arm around her shoulders and squeezed them affectionately.

"Are you two coming sometime today?" Sylas yelled up the stairs at the couple.

"We're coming Sy," Alexis called rolling her eyes.

Bumblebee suddenly smirked and nodded towards the door: "C'mon, let's go for a ride,"

Alexis smirked and the two headed down stairs to meet their friends. Sylas had just slipped into the driver's seat of her old red pickup truck that she owned and Emily was nervously standing next to Ratchet.

"Alright let's go," Alexis said closing the front door behind her and locking it. "Ratchet, you still okay with Emily driving?"

"As long as she calms down," Ratchet's voice originated from his radio. "Her heart rate has skyrocketed,"

"She's nervous," Alexis said and Emily nodded in agreement.

"Very," Emily said in a small voice. "Lex, I've never drove anything in my life! I'm not so sure I can drive all of the way."

Alexis grinned and walked over gently putting her hands on Emily's shoulders and looked her straight in the eyes to calm her down.

"You can," Alexis assured her. "Bee and I will be just ahead of you and Sy not ten feet behind you, and no doubt Ratchet can handle a bad situation."

"Okay," Emily said letting out a deep breath. "I can do this,"

"You can," Alexis nodded in agreement. "Ratchet's a good teacher, it was either him or 'Hide,"

"Don't remind me," Emily said with a groan as she thought about it. "So many things could go wrong with 'Hide,"

"Let's go!" Sylas called from her truck. "We're losing daylight here!"

"We'd best get going," Bumblebee said in agreement and Ratchet flashed his headlights in agreement as well.

"Optimus is expecting us," Ratchet said closing the conversation and opened his door to allow Emily in.

"Remember she really doesn't know how to drive Ratchet," Alexis warned him. "Don't be a grouch and scare her,"

With that Alexis walked over to the Camero that waited eagerly for her to climb in the driver's seat as the holoform that had been with her all afternoon had disappeared with a simmering display of light only seconds ago.

As soon as Alexis slid into the seat the engine roared to life. Alexis smirked and gently pushed her foot against the gas pedal causing a whine to be heard over the radio from Bumblebee. She was teasing him and he hated it, he was ready to go.

"Let's go Bee," Alexis said with a laugh and within the next moment they were gone.

Once to the freeway Alexis looked back to see where the others were. Emily was less than two cars behind her and Sylas was right on Ratchet's tail easily keeping up with the slow pace that Emily was keeping.

After a moment or two Alexis deciding to relax leaned back and then relinquished her control over to Bumblebee for a little while. The seat instantly reclined to accommodate her as she relaxed just intending to enjoy the ride and she closed her eyes as the radio flipped on.

Alexis relaxed for nearly thirty minutes before sitting up and looking around their surroundings to see where they might be.

"Bee?"

"Yeah?"

"Why're we taking the long way around again?" Alexis questioned seeming bored as she leaned forward to lean on the steering wheel and watching the road.

"Because Emily is needing to learn to drive?" Bumblebee questioned seeming to be caught off guard by the question.

"Oh, right," Alexis said bemused.

She sat that way for a few moments more before she suddenly sat up straight and was watching out the side mirror focusing on something.

"I think we're being followed," Alexis said after a moment or two. "Bee, mind if I drive for a moment?"

Almost instantly the control was turned over to Alexis who suddenly jerked them into the lane beside them and watched her mirror to see if she'd been followed. The little black viper that had been tailing them for about twenty minutes instantly switched lanes right along with them.

"Damn,"

Sylas, who had been too busy listening to the music she had playing, suddenly noticed that Alexis and Bumblebee was no longer in front of them.

She scanned the road for them only to spot them two lanes over and watched as Alexis almost instantly switched lanes again weaving in and out of traffic. She watched this for a few minutes as she followed Bumblebee closely to see what Alexis might be switching lanes so quick for, then she spotted the little black viper that was playing catch with Alexis.

"Fuck," Sylas stated as she watched her friend helpless to do anything.

Alexis fumbled with her phone as she concentrated on the road ahead of her. She finally was able to dial Emily's cell number and held the phone to her ear with her shoulder.

"Lex?" Emily questioned sounding confused.

"Bee and I have a tail," Alexis explained. "I dunno if they recognized you guys as well or if it's just us, but let Ratchet drive and be careful."

After that she hung up and gunned it switching lanes again trying to scissor between traffic to lose the viper but he was right on their tail. She finally broke free of all the traffic and had a clear stretch ahead of her.

Dumping the clutch and slamming her foot into the gas pedal the tires screamed as Alexis took off leaving the traffic in her dust. Only seconds later she heard the same scream of tires as the viper behind her dumped his clutch as well and took off after her and Bumblebee.

Alexis taking just a split second looked in her mirror at the little black viper that was so close to their bumper to see if she could see who it was that was driving.

No one was driving.

"Shit!" Alexis said as a cold shock swept through her as she realized who it was tailing them.

It was exactly what she was fearing would happen if they took the long way around. A Decepticon had found them, and recognized Alexis and Bumblebee. Alexis took a deep breath to calm herself and then was instantly thinking of somewhere they could go to maybe loose the car behind them.

There was an exit up ahead. Instantly Alexis turned towards it and continued to push on the gas pedal pushing Bumblebee to his absolute limits that they could achieve in the car.

All of a sudden there was a loud crash of metal on metal and Alexis looked back only to see the grill of a Dodge Challenger that she had come to know quite well recently. Butterfly had slammed into the side of the Viper throwing them both off course.

"Bee, now's the time to pull out all the stops," Alexis said as she noticed the Viper straighten up from the slam and pull ahead of Butterfly.

Instantly the Camero jumped ahead jarring Alexis back in her seat as she was caught off guard by the sudden speed change.

The exit was coming up and Alexis braced herself to take the exit at the same speed they were currently at. The exit came and Alexis was easily able to pull them off and instantly had them sliding around a corner to go in the other direction trying to lose the car.

They spent over thirty minutes trying to outrun them before Bumblebee abruptly took control of the driving and charged them into a park before opening his driver's door and dumping Alexis onto the ground as he transformed.

Only seconds later Sam was sprawled out on the ground next to her as Butterfly also transformed with a whir of her cannons warming up, which appeared out of nowhere and were pointed at the little viper.

"Show yourself," Butterfly growled her voice deep and commanding.

Almost instantly the Viper began to transform in front of them and became the shape of a Decepticon that neither Sam nor Alexis recognized.

Instantly the whir of the cannon's stopped at Butterfly looked at the other bot in confusion and Bumblebee relaxed a little as well.

"Sunstreaker?"

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