Ok, this should of been out way sooner, unfortunately I got held up by work experience last week, which kinda left me too exhausted to think when I got home and just ended up playing ARK every day, oh well, chapter 11 is now done, so, I give you chapter 10! Oh, and Nova really has to get used to human terms, and, it hasn't really been seen previously very much, but Nova and Bee? Squabble just like every over older sister younger brother do, trust me, I live that same relation. We rarely don't get into a metaphorical squawking match. Like yesterday, 'accidentally' hinted at who one the F1 yesterday, and he did lay off till this morning.

Anyway, I'm rambling, hope you all enjoy! Normal disclaimers, you've seen them enough times! I trust you to know by now!

Chapter 10

"Ladiesman217? …The frag is this username?" Novalight mumbled, looking over the 'eBay' website her brother had sent her, she was currently cloaked, having fixed it on the way to Ohio, where her little brother was waiting for her. Bumblebee was currently sitting in his altmode, a Camero he had spotted in a junk yard.

Had anyone seen them, well, Bumblebee, they would have just mistaken him as an old abandoned car, sitting on a Cliffside looking out at the surrounding scenery.

"He doesn't exactly look like one does he?" He joked over the bond, opening his driver side door to tap her crossed pede.

She snorted. "You're gonna stalk him aren't you?"

"Nope, you are. Prime's orders after I told him that you made contact." There was such smugness in her little brothers voice at that.

She jumped up and pointed at him accusingly. "You little snitch! Gah! You are getting my fist to the top of your helm for this!" She warned, shaking her clenched servo at his bonnet.

He peeled out of there faster than she could grab his bumper.

"Good luck sis!"

"Frag you Bee!" She shouted after him, only then realising she probably shouldn't have been that loud. "Scrap… hopefully didn't wake up Big… Pede or something? …Seriously, what is with the humans obsession with that poor creature?" She mumbled, before turning and setting her sights on the Coastal state of California. "I so don't want to case a human who has a user name like Ladiesman217…" She groaned, but took off non the less, transforming and blasting off towards her destination.

The next day

"Bored… Bored… Bored… Bored… Bored…"

"I get it! You don't need to keep repeating that Nova!" Bumblebee groaned over the bond, sitting pretty and rusty somewhere in the city as Nova sat parked on top of the schools roof, cloaked and her holoform peeking round the corner of the building, blonde pixie cut hair with purple tips wafting around in the pleasant breeze, but her borderline unconscious expression was testimony to how little she wanted to be on the ground.

"But I am bored! The kids trying too…. Oh Primus! He's actually trying to sell the Glasses to his classmates… Ha! B-! I woulda given him a D at most!"

"Since when were you versed in the human grading system?"

"Since I realised it was alphabetical! And you thought the symbols dictated the overall level!"

"I'm not talking to you for a good day now."

"Awww… come on little buzzy bouncing Beebee!"

The sheer irritation which flowed from his end of the bond greatly entertained her. "… You're trying to get back at me aren't you?"

"It took you this long to realise that? Oh, and what's all this with you still talking to me? I thought you didn't want to talk to me until a planetary cycle has gone by?"

"Just… gah, you should be focusing on the human!"

"Oh scrap! See yah!" She shut the bond after that, eyeing the crowd of human teens as they practically sprinted out the building with the force of a stampede.

Novalight however, was more focused on scanning to see where a certain 'Ladiesman217' was, who had, currently, not shown up.

"Hey? You ok over there?"

The sudden voice had her holoform jolting and letting off a startled squawk, turning to meet a human teen, long black hair, sun kissed skin and a figure which, had she been a mech, could have left her jaw on the ground,

There was an awkward moment of silence between the two of them before the unexpected human cleared her throat. "I… I was heading to my house and I saw you just standing there, are you waiting for someone?"

Finally Novalight was able to pull herself back to reality. "Err kinda, sorry, you just surprised me, kinda zoned out there…" She tried to act human, rubbing the back of her head with her hand.

The human female looked her over, taking in the Dog tags and weird carved tooth around her neck, the spaghetti strap purple top with a white strip running down the front with gold stitching, then the mechanics jumpsuit, the upper half tied around her hips in a way which showed off the curve of her figure, the grey, smudge covered, singed and at some places outright missing fabric looked like it had been worn for years, likely a hand me down that had seen more work than most. The jumpsuit was then replaced by thick steel caped boots, which looked as scuffed and well used as the jumpsuit that was tucked into them. The teen in front of her even had a bunch of oil smears on her face which looked like they'd stained and refused to come off.

It was an odd look, but she just guessed she'd literally had not had the time to change before she got here. "You a car mechanic or something?" She enquired, her interest at another good looking woman in the trade spiking.

Novalight shrugged. "Not exactly, I'm mainly a weapons inventor, maker, fixer, and well, I'm fighter jet mechanic. I was sent here by the top brass to have a 'rest and relaxation' and try and understand life outside a military base." She tried to cover, not sure she'd gotten her cover story simple enough so not to sound suspicious.

"Oh! That does explain the dog tags, I'm Mikeala Barnes." She introduced, extending her hand, which Novalight was surprised to find was actually quite calloused.

Novalight quickly shook it, the gesture familiar. "N…Narisa Hidia. Jeez, you got a good shake, you do labour too or something?" She asked.

Mikeala nodded. "Yeah, I know my way around a car better than most."

"Sweet… Oh sccccshit! I was meant to be looking for that guy who was meant to show me the way to his house, the assholes never gave me his address so I've been waiting here since ten for him! Damnit all to… hell! Hey, I gotta run, really nice to meet you Mikeala, hope we can talk again another time?!"

She nodded. "Hey! There's a lake party later tonight! If you want you can come! We can talk then!" She called after her as Novalight quickly made a show of running towards the back of the school, all whilst the engines of her alt mode silently fired up and shot away from the building, her holoform flickering out of existence the moment she was out of the human, Mikeala's view.

"Sure! If I can find this place!"

"Errr Bro? I lost him."

"This is why I'm the scout, and you're the one who blows scrap up, I'm tailing them now, they're heading to the local Business Park, with talk of buying him his first car… And I already have a plan."

"Let me guess, you're gonna pose as a car and make it so that he has to buy you?"

"…"

"I really do know you that well Bee, despite how little I may show it sometimes, I taught you how to throw paint grenades! With have a link beyond the sibling bond, don't underestimate that!"

"… Nova, shut up."

"Hmmm…. Don't want to… I'm…"

"If you say you're bored, I am transforming right here in the middle of the road and shooting you in the nose cone!"

"Ha! I'd like to see you try! You can't shoot what you can't lock onto!"

"Can we focus?"

"Alright, let's focus… what the frag is that bird doing there?!" She was referring to the Ostrich she'd just spotted, ignoring Bumblebee's 'I give up' and focusing on what she'd just seen, the large bird was in a small enclosure within the run down car dealership, and looked like it was half starved. Not really thinking she landed in the field next to the dealership and activated her holoform next to the small cage. "Heya there big boy." She tried to soothe, the bird squawked at her once, before calming down, tilting its small head to the side as it leaned down, and pecked her.

She would of reacted had it hurt, but instead she just reached up and stroked the birds chest. "Hey, hey, don't worry, I'll get you out." She wasn't going to just take the bird, she knew she had to do this legally, so, quickly sent a written complaint about the birds mistreatment to the local animal authorities, they'd come get the bird, she hoped, she'd been taking pictures of its malnourished state throughout and attached them to the message.

Turning round, she spotted a three quarter empty bag of low grade chicken feed, disgusted at the poor diet she reached forwards and cupped her hands so as to pick up a large serving of the seeds, before holding it out the bird.

He quickly started snapping at the seeds, making a bit of a mess in the process, but Novalight didn't mind, her holoform was just concentrated energy, nothing more.

However, the sound of a door slamming startled the both of them, causing the seed to scatter and the Ostrich to bolt towards the far side of his enclosure.

Slightly peeved, Novalight turned to take in the sight of her little brother removing his door from an ancient looking yellow Beetle.

"Over dramatic much?" She mumbled, listening in for a few before the sound of a radio tuning could be heard. "Oh scrap." She was quick to shut off her audios and ears, simply watching the carnage of glass shattering, caused by her little brother releasing a sonic wave, something Que had created a generator for when they were younger.

"Four… Four thousand!" The dealer yelled, declaring that the deal had been made and he wanted them, or her little brother, out of his little establishment.

She chuckled, watching as the human teen slid into her little brothers driver's seat and fired him up waiting for his father to finish the documents with the shabby dealer, both of them shaken, her little brothers engine purposefully sputtered for a moment causing his exhaust to let out a cloud of smoke has he rolled out of the lot, followed by the teens father in his own car.

"Not a word."

"Wouldn't dream of it." She cooed, lifting off the ground and silently circling around to keep herself from stalling. "You should let Ratchet check you over when we meet up with the others, you know, that did sound nasty."

"Shut up and let me focus on the road! It's not as easy as it looks!"

"Nor is flying! You think it's easy adapting to a new planets wind currents and weather?! Not to mention avoiding going so slow one simply falls out of the sky!" This was a debate they had often when bored, which type of alt mode was more difficult to use, but as neither of them were triple changers, they couldn't experience the other to get an idea, and so, when it happened, the debate would last until one of their either dropped it, or in the more likely case, Nova would simply fall into recharge mid-point, having once again worked to much with too little energon. Something Ratchet and their sire was frequently on her aft about, to which she wafted them off with a groan or mumble before getting back to work.

Which often lead to her helm firmly planted on the desk and someone having to carry her back to her berth room.

Most of the time that job fell on her sire, what with him being one of the few who she couldn't so easily knock out with one of her recharge punches.

They weren't common, but she'd knocked Jazz into stasis once when she was nine vorns old, and the job had then on only gone to the thicker helmed mechs.

Or Flareup.

Novalight had pondered a few times herself if her aunt had a death wish, but, she was hardly any saner half the time.

She didn't show it, but the sounds of explosions rarely left the back of her helm, only when she was working on something did they leave, and right now, all she wanted to do was find a nice abandoned area, and blow something to oblivion.

Her still dented wing was now a dull pain, the sensor net having recalibrated so that she could still fly, and was compensating for the slight roll to the side it gave her.

They were going through a very well off part of town now, Bumblebee turning up onto a driveway and killing his engine, allowing the teen to slip out and run inside.

Content that her little brother could take care of the human, she banked away, her plan was to do some research into human parties, what with her now being invited to one.

Bumblebee sent her a shove of confusion, having picked up on her leaving the area, to which she'd given him a brief explanation before focusing back on her research.

3 hours later

Novalight peaked round on of the thick trees which sat around the lake, filled with sparsely clad humans as they frolicked, shouted and all-round had fun.

She felt her holoform's fingers twitch… Ratchet had made their holoforms waterproof when he found out how much of Earth was made of the stuff.

"Hey Narisa!" The call had her jumping, heading slamming against a branch sitting oh so innocently above, causing her to hiss and rub the stinging area, thank Primus she'd gotten enough hits to the helm from Ratchet's wrenches to be used to it.

She tentatively turned to see Mikeala standing there, and a wall of meat next to her, tattooed arms crossed and beady eyes looking her up and down, what was with everyone and doing that the moment they saw her? Was her holoform that unusual? It fit what she did, and what she did was hard labour making seriously dangerous weapons which, due to her 'education' lead to many engulfing her in blast radiuses, or being sent into oblivion on purpose, but still… sometimes she wondered if the holoform wasn't wearing enough protection! But, she'd mull over that later.

"You ok? That looked like a nasty hit." Mikeala asked, stepping closer before Novalight waved her off.

"Don't worry about it, I've hit my head on harder stuff. So… this is… this is the first party I've been to honestly… you know… that doesn't involve a paint war." She chuckled, causing the two to look at her in confusion. "Yeah, that was a one-time thing for a reason… took weeks for everyone to return to the right colours, I actually took three months!" She declared proudly.

Mikeala chuckled before patting the wall of meat next to her on the arm. "This is Trent, my boyfriend, Trent, this is Narisa, I invited her earlier today, thought she'd be fun to get to know." She looked back at Novalight then, taking in her bright smile. "And I think I was right, so, want to hit the lake? You got a costume under that overall of yours?" She asked.

Novalight halted for a moment, she'd looked up how to swim, and a suitable costume, which she did in fact have under her outer clothing layer.

Now it was just the question of if she wanted to show so much 'skin' whilst surrounded by strangers.

With a shrug, she stepped behind the tree, not wanting the wall of meat to get any ideas as she untied the knot which the arms of her overals made around her hips before sliding them off, as long as she was within range of them, in other words a few human kilometres, they wouldn't phase out of existence. Her shoes were simply kicked off, the laces undoing themselves.

They fell away to reveal a pair of short womens trunks, purple with white hibiscus flowers on the left leg, her spaghetti top followed revealing the tankini underneath, the straps going over her back and forming a braid which attached to the back of her costume, the fabric keeping her decency well enough.

Once that was done, she stepped back into view and spun. "Do I look good?" She enquired.

Mikeala nodded, having taken off her own outer layer whilst meat wall, as Novalight had decided to refer to him as, admired the view they both offered.

Mikeala chuckled. "I assume your dad doesn't know about this?"

Novalight chuckled. "If he did, he'd have a gun trained on every me-guy here, and mom would blaze a warpath all the way here with intent to destroy." She joked, even though she knew that was likely the outcome of such an event.

Both of the humans looked at her, a little worried for their own lives. Meat wall finally speaking. "You parents sound crazy."

Novalight smirked. "Oh trust me, they get it from me, I'm not known as the purple devil for nothing! It's called tricking two friends of mine into believing they had been decapitated, and had a pregnant ghost trying to kill them, those being separate events of course, and those were only some of the first I pulled on them!"

Now they really looked concerned.

Novalight shrugged. "Crazy upbringing in the middle of a warzone, now then, we gonna swim or not? Eh, if not I'm gonna go enjoy myself!" With that she sprinted towards the water, racing past two guys who almost fell over themselves trying to get out of the way of her before she launched herself from the side of the lake , arching through the air and into a dive which soaked a group not too far from where she landed.

She swam around for a bit, glad that she'd remembered all the stuff she'd downloaded, being sure to rise to the surface every minute or so to make a show of breathing, not that she needed to, before diving back down, her pixie cut hair fluttering around her face.

Mikeala joined her a while latter in the surprisingly clear water, her long black hair putting on a bit more of a watery show than her own due to it being far longer, she waved before pointing upwards, Novalight following after so that they could break the surface and tread water.

"So, where'd you grow up?"

Novalight shrugged. "Bunch of different bases, met a lot of people, honed my craft from age seven, blame my aunt and uncles for that, or and my parents, they're the weapons specialists in my unit."

Mikeala nodded. "Siblings?"

Novalight nodded. "Little brother, Benji, but we all call him Bee," She responded, the two now swimming in a loose circle.

Mikeala hummed to herself. "Sounds like one hell of a life."

She nodded, flipping up onto her back. Starring over at the empty cliff her altmode sat on, cloaked. "What about you?"

"Mom passed away when I was a baby, dad did all he could to raise me, not the best life, but there's some good memories." She responded, following the holoforms lead. "Favourite vehicle?"

Novalight smirked. "Classified."

Mikeala huffed. "Favourite food?"

"Whatever the cafeteria workers cook that doesn't try to kill you. You?"

"Oooh, chicken fillet with BBQ sauce, grilled or smoked, both devine."

"I'll have to try that, only been in the states for three months, barely had time to take it all in."

"Really must off given you whiplash randomly walking up to you and inviting you to this. What with us just being random strangers."

Novalight chuckled. "Trust me, a bit of kindness goes the distance… my… dad's a testament to that… the first thing I remember solidly about my childhood was him pulling me from the rubble of my home, putting a gun in my six year old hands, and telling me to either shoot, or get killed… when we made it back to the base he was stationed, he and his girlfriend tied the knot so that they could adopt me, I love both of them as my real parents, and it was that single moment of kindness which saved my life." She explained.

Mikela was now just staring at her. "Oh god… you must of seen some real bad things."

Novalight shrugged. "Used to it, I took my first life a ten; he'd threatened Bee's life with a knife… I put an entire cartridge through his brain." She was still haunted by that memory, what would have happened if she hadn't reacted so fast, the mech hadn't been expecting a scared youngling to go berserk and pull a high powered rapid fire cannon on him. "Nine years later, and I've killed more than can be counted. I'm technically on leave for a bit, but due to the battlefield being the only home I know, I'm kinda lost here, it's too quite… not enough perils to ones life… we really need to get onto a more positive topic… what the hell is that idiot doing in that poor tree?!" She finished off with an exclamation, moving to tread water again to see the shaggy haired blonde try and fail to climb, yet alone stay on the branch of the tree, and behind him, a certain human and her little brother, who gave her a confused shove over the bond.

"Sis? What are you doing here?"

"I was invited to this by Mikeala here, been trying to relax for a change. Why in the name of Primus are you here?"

"My 'owner' wanted to come to gawk at a femme called… Mikeala…"

"You have got to be fragging kidding me."

"I'm not."

"She's got a boyfriend, a meat wall, but a boyfriend."

"I'm aware, he's aware. Heck his carrier's aware, but that ain't stopping him."

"Primus, humans are weird."

"Tell me about it, that Miles guy he brought with him is whacked out, I think he was dropped on his helm at some point in his younglinghood."

"He's up a tree trying to impress human femmes, I think that's an understatement in regard to processor trauma."

"Just go back to enjoying the water, I'll keep an optic on the humans. Have fun with your human."

"She's not 'my' human!"

"You've made contact, you gotta watch over here, Prime's orders."

"Son of a glitch."

"Language!"

"Oh like your any better, fine, just don't do anything stupid."

"That's like the pot calling the kettle black."

"Huh?"

"Human saying, something you clearly haven't paid attention to."

"I would noogie you if there weren't humans present."

"Well then, I should thank all these humans for being present."

"But Prime said not to show ourselves to them."

"Something you went against already."

"Blackout had already been trying to kill them all! What do you…"

"Narisa? You want to get out or something?" Mikeala asked, interrupting the conversation she was having with her little brother.

Shaking her head slightly, and sending a splatter of water at her human companion in the process she answered. "Might as well, need to get home at some point, primarily before dad gets home and finds out that I was off gallivanting about with strangers. No offense, but that's how he might take it."

They both waded towards the shore, ignoring the looks they garnered from the males around, Mikeala because she was used to it, Novalight because she wasn't even aware of why they were looking, and couldn't give a scraplets aft about it.

Once fully on the shore, Mikeala watched as Novalight shook her holoform, the water flying off in a few directions before she stopped and walked over to her clothes, pulling them on effortlessly despite the friction her wet costume and skin caused.

Mikeala, deciding better of looking like a dog, pulled out a towel from her bag and began drying it off, she assumed Narisa had come from the Middle East, her tanned skin clueing her to that.

She had to respect this teen, she looked at most nineteen, yet she was already a hardened soldier.

With a fun streak.

"Hey babe, nice show." Trent declared, draping an arm around Mikeala, but he was staring at Nova. "Didn't realise they could bounce like that."

Novalight had no idea what he was talking about.

Mikeala did though, glaring at him before giving him a shove. "Trent, leave off her! I'm right here!"

Novalight tilted her holographic head to the side. "You Americans are an odd bunch." She mumbled. "Honestly, you make things to complicated." With a shake of her head she moved to fall against the tree behind her, resting her chin on her fist, which in turn rested in her lap.

The two looked to her, before going back to bickering about something she couldn't work out, bored, Novalight turned to where her little brothers human was, watching the little squabble between Meat wall and Mikeala, hope being evident.

"Sly bastard." She mumbled under her breath.

"Gah! That's it! We're done! Goodbye Trent!" Her head snapped back to see Mikeala stomping away, she got up to follow, only to have a hand grab her.

"Hey, c'mon babe, don't you want to spend some time with…" She didin't let him finish, she spun, grabbed his head, and brough it down on her knee, then promptly slammed her foot into the dip between his legs,, finished off with her grabbing the back of his head and, by using his own weight against him, threw him into the tree she'd just been sitting against.

She glared down at the dazed and in pain man as others began chanting to her to continue to fight.

So, she kicked him, then turned and went after Mikeala, who was standing there, starring at the display.

"And the no harming human rule has also been completely ignored! You see?! It just went flying through the wondow!"

She didn't respond, moving to wrap her arm around her human companions shoulder. "He's an asshole, you did well by dumping him."

Mikeala nodded, a smile blooming on her features. "Who taught you how to do that?"

"Mom and my aunties, especially auntie Flo. They made sure I could take care of myself in unknown situations and territories."

Mikeala chuckled. "America is a crazy place." Novalight nodded in agreement, the two now walking towards town, her alt mode silently circling overhead so that her holoform didn't suddenly cut out from lack of signal.

"So, we heading to your place?" Before she could finish, her little brother pulled up, driven by the teen.

Novalight completely ignored him. "What happened to his weird tree clambering friend."

"Got kicked out, he tried to climb through my window!"

"Did he kick him out, or you?"

"He was out before I could do anything."

"What did Prime say about no harming humans."

"Nova, that crumpled pile of jerk back there show's very clearly that you don't give a damn about 'no harming humans'."

"Hey, he started it, shouldn't have grabbed me, I acted out of self-defence."

"That's a load of bullslag."

"Language!"

"Like you're any better"

"I'll only go with you if Narisa comes too." Mikeala's mention of her name snapped her back to the conversation, and the fear in the teens eyes as he regarded her, and the disappointment at not being able to give only Mikeala a lift.

With a sigh he nodded and pushed the passenger door open, whilst Novalight went for the back seats.

"This is weird."

"Tell me about it. We never mention this to anyone."

"I'd rather blow myself up in a combiners tanks then ever speak of it."

"You could have said no."

"Wasn't thinking about how awkward this would be. Wanted to make sure my new friend didn't end up jumped by this teen."

"His designation is Sam."

"Sam? Eh, better than random whiny teen I guess."

After that they lulled into silence.

Nova looked out the window closest, drowning out 'Sam's' horrible attempts to impress her new friend as he continued to drive towards town.

She could be doing so many far more productive things right now.

Like checking in on those humans in Qatar, the news said there were no survivors, which meant they were taking their sweet time getting the message out that they were alive.

Instead, she was here, technically keeping an eye on this teen so that they could get his deceased relatives glasses, thus getting the code for the location of the Allspark.

She was jerked back to reality at the sound of a dying engine, and she noticed the cliff they were rolling up to.

"Bee? What the frag you doing?"

"Having some fun." A song then started flowing from the radio, and the engine fully died, it was a love song.

"I'm so going to kill you for this."

Bumblebee's smugness was all she got in return.

She wanted to kick him. So she did, slamming her boot into the foot well.

"YOWCH!"

I think she hit something sensitive there, oh well, he'll live, maybe, Nova is gonna be pretty slagged off that he dragged her into this. Oh well, hope you all enjoyed! Movies now started, and the balls only gonna get faster going down this hill! Also, I feel no sympathy for 'Meat wall' anyone else? Nova?

Nova: 'giving me a look of 'I don't give a frag''

Me: Ok... well, until next time, Nova... I know I'm gonna regret this but... anything to add?

Nova: 'smirks' Why of course! 'picks me up and drops me in a vat of silver paint' Now you look like your avatar!

Me: SON OF A... NOVA! I WILL TOSS ALL OF YOUR WEAPONS INTO AN INCINERATOR FOR THIS!

Nova: No, no you won't.

Me: 'fuming' I really hate you right now.

Nova: Noooooo... you love me! 'takes anime pose'

Me: I will make Mojo relieve himself on you instead.

Nova: 'pulls out can' got the organic friendly paint remover!

Me: Good, now then, until next time! Hopefully I'll be back to my normal colour by then. Well, until next time, see yah!

Nova: Don't forget to review! 'sees the look I'm giving her' why are you so against that?

Me: Because I want it to be their choice! Not me or them telling them to!

Nova: Oh fine! 'flies off'

Me: Finally.