I am going to spare you the details that dad woke me up every two hours as told by Ratchet. The only good part of my awful night was that dad got the meat lover pizza with extra spicy Buffalo wings. Dad let me sleep into to nine, which only left me an hour to get ready. When I walked downstairs in a black shirt and pair of wash faded jeans and my boots, I pulled out my silver water bottle filled with strawberry lemonade in it, which I did at two am. I also pulled out a chocolate chip granola bar out of the pantry and parked my ass next to my dad on the couch.
"Shouldn't you be outside waiting for prime?" He asks taking a sip from his coffee.
"I can't sit here and enjoy your company?" I ask nipping on the granola bar.
"Right, sure you can. Listen when you get back I will or might be sleeping, I am back on shift tonight." He informs me.
"Thanks for the warning." I tell him biting into the granola bar, "Well I am going to wait for optimus." I tell him getting off the couch and stuffing the rest of the granola into my mouth.
"Fine don't get hurt stay safe and don't do anything dumb of anything that will get you arrested I won't bail you out." He warns smirking into his coffee.
"Thank you dad." I wave heading outside. I stretched out like a cat, spotting Sunstreaker outside going through his mail.
"Morning Sunflower." I yell waving at the blonde and going over to him.
"Moring Scar, how you feeling?" he asks tucking the mail under his arm.
"As fine as someone who has a concussion can be." I tell him with a warm smile on my face.
"That's good I can tell dad that you're not feeling ill in any way shape of form." He mutters running a hand through his blonde hair. "Where you off to?"
"Me and optimus are going to Gold Rush for a bite." I tell him
"Gold Rush any reason why you two are going there?" He asks looking and sounding confused.
"No, just wanted to get out of town for a bite. Seeing as I can't work for a week." I tell him hearing a truck horn. Looking over my shoulder I saw a red truck pulling up.
"Well that's my ride see you around Sunflower." I say running off.
"Morning optimus." I say climbing into truck.
"Morning Scar, shall we?" he ask driving off. And so we did.
The drive to Gold Rush was about an hour drives from Red Sands. Also another cute fact the deed of Gold Rush was owned by the Red Sands museum and another way for the town to earn money. We pulled up to the parking lot I jumped out of the truck,
"So this is what happened to my beloved hometown?" A voice ask I nearly jumped out my skin.
"For fuck sake Megatron don't do that." I hiss, seeing as it was just me Optimus.
"Oh I am sorry child I didn't mean to scare you." He mockingly say, "But you didn't answer the question."
"Right well Gold Rush is a tourist attraction." I tell him walking off. The three of us approached the iron sing that held the town name in it.
"Do either of you have a clue what we are looking for?" Optimus asks
"No clue what about you?" I ask the ghost.
"I don't, maybe." He mutters running off.
"Come on." I tell the male as we followed the ghost through the town. With every twist and turn we took I could tell that Megatron was getting closer to what we were looking for. Megatron came to stop, causing me to crash into the solid body of muscle with OP crashing into me.
"Why did we stop?" I whine rubbing my face.
"This is why." Megatron says pointing to the building. It was medium sized building made out of wood with a clock tower jetting out from the top. In front were two large windows, and single door, a wooden porch with red white and blue banners on the railing. And written into the top of the porch were the words 'Town Hall.'
"In here?" I ask watching as Megatron went into the building.
The first room was set up like a waiting room. The floor was made out of dark type of wood, with a single desk in the middle with lighter colored chair behind it, with an old grandfather clock sitting to the left of the desk. On the desk was an old ink well. Against the wall were line of chairs, and last of all was door that read 'Mayor Cyclonus' the plague it was on was made out of bronze. Megatron just went right through that door and into the office, now the office was rather nice. The floor had a deep purple color rug with some gold in it. On one wall was large collection of books and knickknacks, along with pictures. On the other wall was bar with dusty old booze and cups.
In the center of the room was large desk with an oil well, on it a name plate and some books. In front of the desk were two chairs, and in back of the desk was another large chair. But behind the desk is what got me. It was an old painting of Cyclonus sitting down in red plush chair with his cane between his hands, standing on either side of him were Megatron and Galvatron.
"My father made us stand there for three hours to have that damn thing painted." Megatron mutters with hint of affection in his voice.
"He seems like a nice man your father." I tell him
"Thank you child what we sneak is behind the painting." He tells us.
"Behind?" Optimus asks
"Yes behind, my father didn't trust anyone let out his own secretary." That was good to know. With great care Optimus removed the painting and behind it was a wall safe.
"What is the combination?" Optimus asks
"9-17-84, a simple little thing." Megatron tells us leaning up against the desk. Inside the safe were four old legers, some old money, a couple bottles of whiskey, one bottle of scotch and ring box.
"I think this might be it." I tell optimus as he takes the ledgers. I opened the ring box to find a men ring. The ring was gold with half dozen or so sapphire lining the top, the inside band had ivy vines on it and at the bottom was one word, 'Orion'.
"My ring, how in the world?" Megatron asks looking at the ring then at his right ring finger to see that it had tan line for a ring but no ring.
"Whoever took wanted someone to find it, or didn't want anyone to steal it." I tell him putting the box into my pocket.
"But who?" he asks
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