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Ch. 10 The Party Has Arrived
*Bee's PoV*
I arrived and parked in the garage when Sam's sparkling drove off. I wanted to get some recharge to waste sometime before the celebration. I was so overjoyed to see the sparkling was unharmed from her time overseas. Sunstreaker and Sideswipe kept picking on me for being an over worried mother hen and were surprised that I didn't fly over and kidnap her from her training. I couldn't tell them I was very tempted on doing so when I had not receive any update on her or the other sparklings. Though, Sam almost let me go find them with him, Will ordered us to stay and I swore I was tempted to disobey him and go after her myself. Only problem with my plan was that Prowl threw me in the brig and Ironhide wrestled me down.
I was disturbed from my recharge time and thoughts when the younger twins commed me.
"What is it, Skids and Mudflap?"
"We didn't mean to make her go this far!"
I was confused.
"Yeah. We were on patrol and saw her and wanted to go on a race and the sparkling..."
My guardian protocols went off as soon as I heard sparkling because no Cybertronian would call Sam's, Will's or Epps' kids 'sparkling' unless to them in affection or one/all were in danger.
"What happen? Who's hurt!?" I demanded. Please don't let it be Alex. Don't let it be Alex. Primus! DON'T LET IT BE ALEX!
"Bee! You got to stop Sam's sparklin' before-"
"Before she hits the lake!"
I activated my holoform and grabbed the other motor bike in pure panic and brought it to the backyard. I saw Alex drive pass the house when I was about to start the engine. I drove after her and tried to catch up quickly before it was too late. I waved at her to grab her attention and yelled to the best of my damage vocalizer could let out. Even after the slaggin' war, it's still acting up in my holoform more than in my bipedal mode. I saw her move her head to the mirror and then look straight again. I sighed a relief and began to slow down. She probably noticed the lake then slow down to go around the lake... Then she sped up faster. No! No! No! NO!! I tried to speed back up after her, but I still didn't know how to use this blasted vehicle and what was worse, I was too late. She touched water and... zoomed over it?!
"She just... She's.."
"Riding the water!" Jazz and the twins said in amazed unison.
I stopped and saw she made it to the other side of the lake and began doing spins and fist pumps in the air in joy. I chuckled. Just like her father whenever he was successful on doing something dangerous and crazy or as Carly would put it simply... Show off. I saw Marcelle come out from under the porch and ran to Alex yelling in amazement. I smiled and drove back to the house. I have a feeling she won't let this action go for a while... I just hope she just doesn't do anything more crazy stunts while she's home.
*Mars' PoV*
I was watching TV with Uncle Jazz while my family were out shopping for the party later in the day. We were watching American's Funniest Home Videos when his cellphone went off. He grabbed it off the coffee table and answered it.
"What?!"
I jumped in confusion and he jumped up and ran to the backyard. I was confused because there was nothing in the backyard except the trampoline and the new lake. I followed after him and stood next to him to see Alex ride over the lake with ease and drive on land then fist pumped the air. She whooped and did a doughnut while yelling in excitement. I ran out to her and left my shocked and awed Uncle Jazz.
"That was so awesome, Al!"
She turned her head towards me and turned the engine off and removed her helmet. She got off her bike and hugged me in a bro hug.
"I know! It was probably really dumb, but who cares! I rode on water!"
We were speaking incoherent and incomplete sentences to each other, we didn't realize that Uncle Jazz and the hill billy twins came walking up towards with concern on their faces.
"Al! You a'ight?" Skids asked in complete concern written all over his face.
"Course! I'm alright but did you see what I did?!"
"Frag yeah! That was awesome!" Uncle Jazz answered while fist bumping her.
"Now about that bet..." Alex started with a mischievous grin while staring at the twins. The twins pouted and mumbled.
"What was that?" she asked while smirking.
"Yeah, yeah. You won, Witwicky, but we'll win next time!"
"Yep! Count on it!"
Al and I laughed at their ridiculous counter. Uncle Jazz shook his head and chuckled.
"So what was the bet?"
Al grinned like crazy while the twins went wide eyed in terror.
"They bet if they win they want me to scare Mr. Hide and Mr. Chet, but when I won-"
"We said IF!"
"Yeah, yeah. Uh-huh. WHEN I won they have to do anything for me for four days without complaints or backing down."
Uncle Jazz laughed and patted both of them on the back.
"You two are so slagged!"
They both sighed in defeat. Alex and I laughed harder, but she stopped.
"Hey."
She turned to me with a serious look.
"I got a question."
"What's up?"
She grabbed me by the shirt collar and pointed at the lake.
"When did you get a lake?!" she shrieked.
I sighed at the common Witwicky high pitched confused/scared voice.
"Yeah. Mom did some landscaping while we were away."
She nodded, but frowned.
"A heads up would've been nice."
"It would've been nice if I got a heads up on the race!"
She shrugged in defeat and I shook my head.
"So what do you want to do now?"
She thought about it and was about to say something then shook her head.
"Yeah. I got nothing."
I rolled my eyes.
"We could go to the forest," I suggested.
The forest was a mile away from our home and beyond that was an old abandon factory that Alex, Ann and I would sneak into. Alex nodded, but the twins and Uncle Jazz shook their heads no.
"Sorry, sparks, but me and forest don't mix," Uncle Jazz said while waving his hands in an X-form. The twins nodded in agreement. I looked at Alex in disbelief while she shrugged in confusion.
"Okay. Then we're on our own," Alex said while folding her arms. I nodded and we hugged Uncle Jazz and the twins goodbye and they went back inside. I went to the garage and grabbed my Honda CRF250L dual sport bike and helmet. I rolled the bike out next to Alex and got on and placed my helmet on.
"Ready?"
I nodded and we were off to the factory. It usually took an hour or two to walk their or run to the forest, but it's shorter to ride there. We stopped in front of a fallen tree that blocked the road to the factory. Alex pointed at a small gap that we could fit through the tree and we parked our bikes. We stood at the entrance of the gap and looked at each other.
"Well, looks like we walk from here."
She went through first and I followed after when she called back it was safe. She helped me out and we continued our trek to the factory. We walked in silence after an hour in until Alex spoke up.
"Have you ever noticed something off about the hill billy twins?"
"You mean the same off-ness as Uncle Jazz? Then yeah."
She was right, but this topic was always brought up.
"But somehow we can never figure out what that off-ness is though and you know that," I stated.
She knew the three of us would talk about how our family would act and never understood why they acted so strangely to certain holidays, events, activities, shows, people or anything mundane in a person's life.
"Hmm... Even Uncle Tim acts weird. Remember on the plane, he kept changing words on us."
I recalled him doing that, but I didn't pay attention to it really. I nodded hesitantly.
"Did you also notice how Mr. Hide and Mr. Lennox when Ann brought up about hidin' something?"
She nodded.
"But what though? What is this secret? What are they hiding?" Alex asked to no one in particular.
I shrugged.
"Maybe you could force the twins to tell us what they're hiding? After all, you said no backdowns or complaining on the bet and to work for you for four days."
"Maybe... Hey, do you hear something?"
We stopped and listened. I didn't hear anything and was about to respond when I heard it.
"Yeah... What is that?"
"Don't know. Sounds kind of like..."
She went wide eyed and gulped in fear.
"Screaming."
Then I realized why she was reacting that way.
"That's Ann's screaming voice!"
We ran after Ann's screaming voice which was heading to the old factory. We looked around us to see if Ann was anywhere then after a few minutes of panic and concern we started yelling for her.
"Ann!"
"Belle!"
"Ann!"
"Lennox!"
"Annabelle!"
"Nurse!"
"PUT ME DOWN!"
We heard her yell over our heads. We looked up and couldn't believe what we were seeing: a giant flying triangle robot flew over us with Ann in it's hand.
"That's-"
Alex put her hand over my mouth and shoved me behind a bush.
"Mrph!"
"Shh!"
She pointed up at the thing in the sky then where we were standing. I was about to move her hand and tell her off, but my voice got stuck in my throat when a weird one-eyed spider looking robot came crawling out of the bushes. I went wide eyed and dead silent in fear. Alex had a calm expression, but I knew she was freaking out due to her hand sweating and squeezing over my mouth. I don't know what's more terrifying to think at the moment: Al's sweaty palms on top of my mouth or the freaky spider thing. She pulled me closer to her and moved us away from the bush to stay hidden. It was getting closer to us and it's eye seemed to be going crazy with zooming in and out, but it stopped halfway to our bush then ran off to the factory and after the triangle robot. After a few minutes had passed, Alex let go of me and slowly stood up and looked around. She helped me up after the coast was clear.
"Di-Did you see.. see that.. that THING?! It was massive!"
She nodded and seem to have a confused expression.
"I think I've seen that thing before..."
I looked at her like she just went crazy.
"What?"
"Yeah. From the sister village two years ago. The triangle robot was called Starscream while the weird looking spiders were called drones, but they each had a different name for them."
I nodded and knew this was a serious topic if she brought up what happened two years ago and that incident. Then a thought occurred me.
"Wait! Starscream? You mean like the terrorist that our parents are fighting?"
She was quiet then sighed.
"I don't know, but we can't sit around here and wait for the answers nor can we go back and get our parents for help. We got to get Ann back."
I agreed, but was still scared at the thought of fighting the thing.
"Yeah, but how?"
She shrugged and walked off towards the factory.
"The sooner we find Annabelle, the quicker I can plan," she answered over her shoulder.
I sighed in defeat and walked after her.
"Should we tell our parents at least? Like text message or call them? They seem to know how to handle this situation better than us."
She stopped dead in her tracks and turned her body fully to me and looked at me in complete disbelief.
"Are you serious?" Oh no.
"You cannot be serious about asking me that!"
I groaned and face palmed. What have I done?
"Marsy, we are soldiers! And not just any kind of soldiers! We're high ranking soldiers!"
She put her arm around my shoulders and walked me forward with her.
"Let me tell you a story of the life you could be living if you didn't become a soldier." Oh dear God. I've unleashed the over confident Witwicky monster on me.
"Your life would be as a school teacher/nun by day and at night a can-can dancer trying to seduce married rich men who hate their nagging wife."
"Hey!"
"And you also date your manager in your career. One day you end up living on okay lifestyle then to cheese and crackers at the hookah bar."
I looked at her in fear and disbelief while she smirked without regret in her words. I groaned and face palmed again.
"I'm doomed..."
"No, not entirely. You still get that dream as an amazing dancer and somewhat rich husband."
I glared at her while her smile grew bigger like a cheshire cat.
"I hate you so much right now, Witwicky."
She laughed and she continued pushing me forward.
"Sticks and stones, Epps, sticks and stones."
I sighed in defeat. Hope Ann's doing better than me.
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