"One more." Lydia mumbled as she searched for her remaining things.
"Ya almost done?"
"Shh Skids I'm thinking."
"Hurry up 'Dia! Sunstreaker's mighty scary when mad."
"Sunny will be fine while I search for my last box! I know I put it here somewhere..." She growled to herself.
"Ya sure one of us can't come with you?"
"Sorry Skids, they don't let Freshmen have car's on campus. Besides, you guys are more need by boss bot then me right now. I know what Barricade said had you guys worried, but nothing's happened, beside's if I can get through collage and graduate, I could become the Autobot's new Liaison."
"Man dat Galloway's a jerk!"
Lydia nodded her head in agreement, ignoring the fact that while talking; Skids was jumping on her bed. Bed's fascinated some of the bots, seeing as they sleep on metal slabs they call births or whatever. Which, to her, doesn't seem very comfortable in her opinion.
"Come on, Lets go!" She briefly heard her father shouting downstairs as she peeked out the door to see Ron running around with some boxes. "Frankie, Koda out! Come on Kiddo we're on a schedule." Ron said as he power walked through the house.
"Slow down." Lydia pouted as she expertly dodged the two dogs running around her feet. "Why are you in such a hurry to get rid of me? Did you rent the room out?"
Ron paused, giving her a look before shaking his head. "No." He started. "I've got other plans for your room and it rhymes with home theater."
"Your so mean to your favorite child." Lydia sighed, ignoring Skids as he poked and prodded random things in the house. Ron chuckled before the two of them heard a sniffle coming from the stairway. "Oh no..."
"Look what I found." Judy, who was holding up itty pink baby booties, cried. "Your itty baby booties."
"Aw mom..." Lydia sighed before hugging her mother.
This was all she needed before Judy began to blubber. "My little baby bootie girl!" She wailed. "Y-you can't go!" Judy then proceeded to squish Lydia's face with her hands.
"Ow, ow, ow mom!"
Ron chose that moment, stepping in before snickering at his daughters dilemma.
"You see this daddy? This is how you are supposed to act when the fruit of your loins goes out into the cold cruel world to fend for herself." Lydia squeaked as she flailed and squirmed for freedom.
"Uh huh, my heart is bleeding for you honey." Came his voice, thick in sarcasm. "Collage, bummer."
"You have to come home EVERY holiday! Not just the big ones either." Judy demanded. "You have to come home for Halloween."
"Mom." Lydia laughed. "I can't come home for Halloween."
"Well...We'll come to you."
"Mom.." Lydia sighed before growling at Skids. "Skids! Stop messing with that you'll-"
CRASH~
"-Break it.."
"We'll dress up!" Judy continued, ignoring the clumsy Autobot as she walked over his now crashed form on the floor, his hands frantically trying to fix what he broke.
"No, we're not going anywhere." Ron entered the conversation.
"You'll never know it's us, we'll be in costume."
"Would you let the girl breath for crying out loud? Com on, go pack! There is no way you are packed for a month long trip. Com one! Let's go." Ron started shooing Judy up the stairs. "March young lady!"
Ron smacked Judy's butt making her laugh and turn around flirtatiously. "I like it when you call me young lady; you dirty old man."
"Heh, you haven't seen nothing yet."
"PAPA!" Lydia blushed.
Skids, who was messing around with all the neat human trinkets once more, had blinked his holoform optics before rushing to cover Lydia's ears with his hands to try and salvage whatever innocence she had left.
"Yo! Dat's gross!"
"You know Lydia." Ron picks Skids up and throws him easily out the door before slamming it shut, smirking at the little 'AHH!'
" Ron picks Skids up and throws him easily out the door before slamming it shut, smirking at the little 'AHH!'
"Your the first Witwicky to ever go to collge-" Ron continued as if nothing happened.
"Now I'm crying again!" Judy wails from upstairs. "This sucks!"
"You'll be okay mom." Lydia laughed before turning back to her father who looked like he was trying to hide the fact that he was tearing up. "Papa?"
"You know..." He shuffled Awkwardly. "It's just going to be, you know... hard for her to accept that her little girl is all grown up. You know... going out to handle the world all on her own."
"Papa." She smiled before hugging him.
"I still remember the cute little girl that kept bringing little critters home asking if she could ke- Koda!" Ron suddenly yelled, startling Lydia. "No dominating Frankie! Get the hell off of my couch you filthy beasts! You'll see a lot of that in collage."
"Wha?" She blinked before turning red. "You know I'm not looking for someone right now..."
"Dat's cause she gots a crush on the Doctor~" SKids started singing from outside the door only for Lydia to quickly open it.
This caused Skids to fall into the room with a loud 'ouch!' before she glared down at him. "Shut up!"
"Doctor...?"
"Yeah! Doctor Chett! She can't got five seconds wit out blushing when she steals glances." Skids started laughing hysterically as Lydia turned red. "See?! Just mentioning him and she goes red!"
"Hmm." Ron observed his daughters red face. "I'd like to meet this... Doctor Chett."
"Wasn't he the nice man who was hugging you when we picked you up from the base a while back?" Judy, who had been listening in, came down curiously.
"I-I... you!... SHUT UP!"
"Awww Ron look! She's nervous! I wanna meet him! I wanna meet him!"
"No! Mom!" Lydia fumbled for the right words before huffing and storming upstairs to grab the last of her things, but before she went into her room she withdrew a wrench and threw it down the stairs and hit Skids in the head with precise and perfect aim.
Letting out a laugh she grabbed a few more things and then heard her phone going off.
It was Miles.
"Hello?"
"Hey! Today's the day huh?"
"Yeah." She muttered as she went to snag her hoodie, the same she had worn in the mission city battle.
"Are you nervous?" Miles asked, letting out a yawn.
"A bit yea, but once Collage is over I can be a liaison to the Autobots!" She smiled to herself as she added mentally, and be near Ratchet more often.
Since she left, Ratchet would periodically call to check up on her but he never showed up to the house. She didn't completely understand why but at the same time she knew that the feelings they shared... as she assumed he shared too, were going to be difficult.
"Their Liaison? Come on Dia don't you want to be something else?"
"No." She responded as she folded up a few more shirts. "I want to be the Liaison. I... well I like it a lot being around them."
"And what if they, I dunno, decide to pack up and leave you?"
"... T-then that's their choice." She murmured. "But I think, with Cybertron dead, they will stay."
"You need to have a normal life Dia, with your family. With me."
"Miles, How many times do I have to tell you-"
"-You don't have feelings for me I get it." He snapped.
Lydia went quiet, Miles had been acting rather strange lately, snapping whenever it came to the Autobtos, acting not like himself. It was scaring her to be honest...
"Miles I- Woah."
"What is it?"
Lydia pulled out a metal shard that had been in-bedded in her sweater, how had she not noticed it before? She picked it up and stared at it, her vision blurring and focusing rapidly.
All sound disappeared, all feelings went away, and her mind went blank before images began rapidly racing through her head. Symbols she'd never seen before flashed, bots and cons fighting, planets and stars... Space... information... it was over loading her mind! She felt herself twitch a little.
Then again... suddenly she was convulsing on the floor, foaming at the mouth as her body started gong through a seizure.
Skids walked in a bit later before giving a shout of shock as he raced over and tried to grab the shard only to be harshly burned.
"OW!" He cried before staring at Lydia when pain filled the bond. "Dia! WAKE UP!"
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"Lydia Witwicky."
Lydia opened her eye's as she found herself in a smokey plane of existence, voices surrounding her and speaking all at once, creating a voice of many as one.
"W-who is there?" Lydia asked fearfully, whipping around to peer everywhere.
"Fear not young one, we will not harm you. We are the souls of Cybertron as one." The voices, though a bit scary. Comforted her with its honest tone.
"W-why are you here?"
"To guide you... and to warn you."
"Warn me?" Lydia looked about, glancing to the left and then right but still not seeing anything. What could they possibly warn her about?
"Long ago, before the war, you were born; Stargazer of Vos, the new well-to-be and the sparkmate of Megatronus."
"Mega...tronus?" She frowned at the familiarity running through her.
"Before the war, before corruption, and before he became Megatron," She gasped in fright before the voices continued ", he was introduced to one whom would become his secret mentor, known to all as The Fallen."
Lydia felt shivers run down her spine at the title, the name made her cringe back and feel afraid just by hearing it.
"Megatronus was slowly poisoned by his mentor, turning dark from the inside out with the hatred that The Fallen implanted within him."
"But-"
"But with his spark full and kept from darkness by his sparkmate, Megatronus could not be fully tainted and so began the plot to kill the one light in his life."
"He wanted Stargazer gone..." She murmured.
"Indeed he did little one. During a great battle, while her spark yearned to be with the autobots but her loyalty to Megatronus keeping her by his side, she came upon some information she could not believe, a plot so devious that it would shake the planet to the core. A plot to destroy all new life, and set the world into sorrow."
"All new life? Y-you don't mean babies... Do you?"
"Fearing for the life within her that she had yet to tell Megatronus, Stargazer began to plot her escape until one day an Autobot struck her, killing the precious life within her. Megatronus found out about her hiding that she had life within her and grew angry and the darkness in him began to spread as he began to get paranoid. Stargazer fled with her closest friend. You know him as Ironhide."
"I thought Ironhide was her brother?"
"Ironhide was not the sibling of Stargazer, You know the mech that is her true sibling. Her sparktwin, Starscream."
Lydia gasped as flashes lit around her. The femme she saw before stood loyally by a calmer and less menacing Megatron and Starscream who looked just like her but very different then he looks now.
"This was Starscream before his own corruption."
Starscreem stood tall, proud, with a confident smirk. Gone was his groveling posture, his screechy voice. His coloring was silver, red and black and looked nothing like he did now.
"The Fallen had sent one of his own after the fleeing Stargazer and Ironhide, posing as an Autobot. Once they reached the Autobot hide out, that follower killed her. Pinning the blame on Starscream to the Autobots, and pinning the blame on the Autobots to Megatron. After the death of his sparktwin, Starscream could no longer stand himself, no longer could he keep reminders. Starscream allowed himself to be changed by a decepticon scientist by the name of Shockwave. Forever changing, twisting, and corrupting who he once was. Megatronus, led by the Fallen to believe the Autobots murdered his mate, was quick to become Megatron. He was twisted into the dark mech you know now."
Lydia tried stopping the tears that were flowing as she felt emotions rise, emotions that were not her own.
They were Stargazers.
There was so much pain and sadness.
"With her destiny cut short, Stargazer's spark began to drift through space. Eventually she found a place, Earth. Out of all the humans on earth, she could sense who you would become, who you could be. She could see the kindness in your soul and so, she gave you her gift and her life span."
"H-Her life span?!"
"Should you choose, you will live as long as any cybertronian would. You are not fully human Lydia Witwicky. It is up to you to discover more about your gifts."
"Who is the Fallen exactly?" Lydia wondered.
"Nineteen thousand years ago, the Primes and their warriors arrived to earth as a part of their attempts on harvesting sun's for energon. However, they learned it had already been inhabited by a small primitive race, Humans. And so they did not continue with the task, for they could not take the sun of a planet inhabited with life. Despite this decision, one of their numbers later known as The Fallen rebelled against his brothers and sought to activate the device and steal the system's sun. This led to a terrible conflict where Transformer fought Transformer and The Fallen fought against the Primes. Before The Fallen could use the Matrix of Leadership to activate the device, it was stolen by his six brothers. Unable to defeat The Fallen in battle, they decided to sacrifice themselves to hide it, and used their own bodies to form a tomb, the location of which was hidden from all Cybertronians, the Primes fading into history, their only legacy being their descendants, who formed the Dynasty of Primes. At some point in the next few thousand years, the Seekers were sent to find the tomb by The Fallen, but they were unable to locate the Tomb, only learning a single clue: "When dawn alights the dagger's tip, three kings will reveal the doorway". When they failed, he abandoned them and they eventually went into stasis from a lack of energon. "
"He abandoned his own comrades." Lydia whispered sadly.
"Lydia Witwiky, when the time comes, heed the call." The voices said her. "And know, The Fallen shall rise again."
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"-dia!"
"W-what?" Lydia burst up from the floor, dropping the shard that she had held tightly within her fist onto the floor. It began seeping through her rug and smoke began to rise. "F-Fire! FIRE!" She squeaked before running out of the room for water. "PAPA WE GOT FIRE!"
She quickly filled a glass with water before running back to poor it on the flame, only to notice Skids who had just stomped it out. "I uh, got it."
She gave a puffed sigh of relief before turning as her door opened and mini decepticons peeked through. "CONS!" She yelped when they raised their weapons and began to fire at her and- Did that one seriously have a penis gun?
She didn't take the time to see before rushing out her window with Skids, ducking as she spotted Ron walking out onto the grass looking up at them. "Lydia?!"
"DUCK DAD!" She shouted as she rolled off the roof and Skids' holoform disappeared. She hid behind the fountain as the minicons were shooting over and over at them.
"SUNSTREAKER!" Lydia screamed when one grazed her ever so slightly.
Sensing her panic, Sunstreaker burst from the garage and transformed, his arm turning to his weapons and he began firing at all the cons. Once all were taken care of he glanced over the area and took notice that he had, unfortunately, destroyed Lydia's room.
"Quick! Hide! She hissed as alarms in the distance began blaring. Sunstreaker huffed in annoyance, before turning back the the garage as Judy began wailing about a waffle iron burning her hair.
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"Oh my gosh! Look at this place, I feel smarter already! Oh Ron, can you smell it?!" It was safe to assume Judy was excited,
"Yeah, smells like four thousand dollars a year."
"Oh hey Cheapo."
Lydia giggled at their banter as she lifted up one of her boxes, giving a nervous smile at the large and intimidating building in front of her.
"Hey, go ahead, We'll uh, we'll get your stuff. Just go ahead and check out your room." Ron told her as he smiled sadly.
"Okay papa." Lydia nodded before going inside. She dodged person after person, making sure not to drop her things if she bumped anyone to hard before looking at a room that she would be staying in. Luckily for her she was the first one there and so she quickly chose her preferred side and began decorating it to her liking.
When she got really into it, a clearing of the throat startled her. She jerked around to see a rather cute boy looking at her.
"Hey." He greeted while He leaned against the wall observing.
"Oh uhm hello."
"You must be Lydia right? I'm Leo."
"Nice to meet you..."
And Que the awkward silence.
"..."
"..."
"You know what this is?" She started nervously. "This is that awkward moment. Yeah, see, you're trying to see if I'm a normal person. I'm trying to see if you're a normal guy. Balanced, unmediated, nothing under the crawl space."
"Good personal hygiene, wont stab me in my sleep." Leo smirked as he joined in.
"No criminal record, won't steal anything."
"Including girlfriends."
"Especially girlfrien- wait what?" She looked at him confused.
He threw his hands up in surrender as he chuckled lightly. "It's known to happen."
"You got a boyfriend?" He asked.
"I do. You got somebody?" She thought to Ratchet before clearing her throat.
"No, not a chance. Hey, you a techie?" He asked.
"Kinda."
"Sweet! Sharksky, Fassbinder, where we at?" Leo clapped his hands before walking out of the room, leading his neighbor with him to his room.
"Server's almost online." A nerd said from a computer.
"Network's up and running." Another spoke from his spot in what appeared to be the Ultimate nerd hide out.
"Beautiful, that's what I like to hear. That's Sharksky, that's Fassbinder, my IT gurus. Welcome to my empire The-Real-Effing-Deal-Dot-Com. That's me, I'm sure you've heard of it."
"No I haven't" She sighs.
"Well, that sucks." Sharksky muttered."
"What's all this for anyway?" Lydia asked, looking around at all the nerd tech. She briefly heard him going on and on a kit starting with kitten calendars before she heard one of the nerds yell something.
"Leo! Got brand-new Shanghai vid!"
"Post it! Go, go, go! FTJ! FTJ!"
"What's FTJ?"
"FTJ! Feul The Jet! LEGIT! Did you see that? Did you?"
"Look at this, Half of Shanghai gets wrecked and China says gas leak. Don't believe the hype bro." Leo says as Lydia looked horrified at the screen.
This was not good.
"Just like the alien robots in LA two years ago that everyone covered up."
"Yeah, I saw them and they did this, like, firing thing an came down and toasted this woman. She was li-"
"Looks fake." Lydia quickly muttered.
"NO man, I've seen them. They're these robot-"
"It's fake. Look, I wasn't there so I cant comment or speculate."
"Comment or speculate? Oh come on babe!" He wrapped an arm around her. "How we supposed to hang? Don't be sucking the sack."
"For one." A dark voice snarled from the door way causing everyone to freeze and look over and see Sunstreakers holoform. "Get your filthy hands off of her. For two? That's sick."
"The Sack? What sack?" Lydia was confused.
Sunstreaker almost face palmed, but he knew Lydia was innocent compared to these... filthy flesh bags.
"Ball sack." One explained, watching Lydia's expression turn to disgust.
"... What kind of tool are you?" Fass exasperated.
"Mainstream media sack. Their lying to us. It's aliens."
"Fake." Sunstreaker scoffed as he dragged Lydia back closer to him, both watching the dorks whining about some Robo-warrior stealing their video.
"Oh, here we go." Rons voice came from out the door.
"We made it. Hi." Judy laughed. "It's just like Hogwarts. Hi!"
"Is this Co-ed? This is a Co-ed dorm." Ron grumbled before looking into his daughters room and not seeing her.
"Hi dad, just getting to know my neighbor." She glared at Leo who was still fearfully staring at Sunstreaker. Said mech was giving him a death look.
"Wanna meet my neighbor?"
"Yeah." Judy was eating brownie-
Where did she get those?
"Some real swell guys."
"Hey, I'm Leo." He shook their hands.
"We're the Witwicki's. I'm Judy."
"Hey, you have a great daughter, you really do."
"Ass kisser." Lydia grumbled and Sunstreaker nodded in agreement.
"Well aren't you the sweetest thing!"
"Yeah, real sweet ma. What is that in your hand?" Lydia pointed to the brownies in suspicion.
"I got this at the bake sale for the environment that those boys were having. You know, you don't often see white boys with dreadlocks."
"Mom?"
"Yeah, it's a hundred percent Hawaiian green for the environment."
"... How many have you eaten?"
"Mom, drop it."
"Yeah, they baked it with reefer in it."
"No it's hey!" Everyone started talking at the same time.
"It's my cheat day! I can eat what I want!" Judy started shoving another one in her mouth.
Oh man this was embarrassing, Lydia bit her lip in nervousness.
"-freak out! Please do something right now dad. Please do something." She put her hands on her head, completely embarrassed.
"I did, I trie- Judy!" Ron ran after Judy.
"I can eat all the freaking brownies I want!" She yelled as they ran down the halls. "Handsome guys! Hey, Hey! You! hi! My daughter lives in this dorm. You should go make friends with her. She's Lydia!"
"Glad she ain't my Mamma."
"She's a good Mom so shut the hell up!" Lydia barked causing them to shrink back.
"Oh She is such a good girl! Never been with a guy before!"
Lydia groaned, hiding her face in Sunstreakers shirt, She really needed EVERYONE in school to know she was a virgin. Thanks mom...
"Oh but she has some naughtyyyyy doctor dreams."
"MOM!"
Sunstreaker peered down to Lydia who was completely red now. "Oh really?"
"Shut up." She growled at him.
"FRISBEE! WHOO!" Judy bolted after a Frisbee and tackled the guy holding it.
"Ma!"
"Waaah! ah! Gimmie! MINE! MINE! MINE!"
"You want it?" one guy laughing at the scene asked.
"I want it. Woo!"
"Judy... just put it down." Ron attempted to calm her.
"You really got to control your mother." Someone told Lydia.
"I don't know who this woman is." She muttered.
"Hey, professor, I'd do anything for an A."
This was worse then the butt slap!
"All right, Grace Slick. WE got some snacks in the car. Let's go. Did you get the booties? All right." Ron had enough and threw her over his shoulder.
"I'm upside down!" Judy began laughing again. "Weeeee!"
"Welcome to collage." Leo smirked from next to Lydia who groaned again.
"Can I run away with you?" She asked Sunstreaker who smirked in reply. "Drat."