J: Ello me duckies! Just as I promised in my little News Flash I have provided yet another update. But I must let you know now, this one may be the last update for a few weeks to come. I currently have a lot of work to get cracking on, but do not fret. I may use my free time for work,but I will be using most of my suppose to be class time to be writing, as in, I will go to class and hear what we're talking about, but I'll be writing at the same time. So once all my work is done and gone you can sure to look forward to a lovely bunch of updates :3
THANKS TO(including reviews given for the one shot): Thatgirlbehindyou ("Raises eyebrow at Starscream affection" Glad to have made you so happy lol. Don't worry, there will be some spark whispering in future chapters "snicker,giggle,snort" You'll get why I'm trying not to laugh out right i the future xD)
Supergirlprime (Sadly no, Galloway needs to stay online for just a bit longer, but don't worry, he'll get his :3 And the mental imagery of Megatron wearing a suit and toupe is quite hysterical xD - Annnd Tools loves that tune by the way, he thanks you for reminding him of it as Roxie is hiding somewhere blushing lol.)
Lightwolfheart (Are you recovering well? And sorry to give you so much to do, but you know you love it :3)
Latina Shewolf (I'm glad you enjoyed your one shot gift :3 And as for your questions let's see which ones I can answer "scanning" Sadly, the man does not have it in him to actually do anything...yet, give it some time and something might happen ahha. Ironaft30 thanks you for your love of his art, and thank you for your insight on the title :D)
Ultimateanime12 (Lol, like he cares, he's a medical officer, he can do whatever he wants cause he fixes them after anyways LOL!) Standout4Christ (Your foresight astounds me! Did you hack into my processor some how? Well anyways this chapter should please you then :3 And thank you for the grammar reminders, I still haven't gotten around to looking into a beta ahha. - Yea, it might take a while, but her finding out about him finding out is inevitable lol.)
Dontgotaclue88 (And I look forward to any future reviews :3 Keep enjoying if you can!)
Tailsdoll123 (Cute? Hm, wasn't aiming for cute but if that's how you saw it then I shall not correct you xD And consider this an early birthday gift from me to you :3 HAPPY BIRTHDAY FROM MYSELF, ROXIE AND TOOLS!)
J: Thought a change up with the THANKS might be appreciated, shall I keep it this way? As well from today on I'm changing the genre of this and to all you Decepticon fans there will be a showing of them in the NEXT CHAPTER! PLEASE REVIEW, WILL LOVE YOU EVEN IF YOU DON'T BUT WILL LOVE YOU MORE IF YOU DO!
Chapter Thirteen - See Simmons, See Simmons Run
"No more Galloway, no more hiding. Now what should I do?" Roxie was in the mess hall sitting at the same table as Beth, Alice and Tools. Roxie couldn't helo but notice that both of her new female friends constantly glanced in Tools direction, she had a feeling a lot of other females on base did that as well from a distance. If she hadn't promised herself to lay off me for a while she would be among, only not as openly.
"Since you don't have any duties you can do pretty much anything you want. Or you could help us clean dishes. Stupid rotating duties has us both doing mess hall cleaning this week." Alice tore her eyes away from Tools to give Roxie pleading puppy dog eyes.
Making a dead pan expression Roxie replied," I like you, but not enough to sacrifice freedom for pan hands. Any other suggestions that don't include work?"
"If HE ever heard you ask a question like that HE would make you do triple the amount of work to earn your keep." Beth,a woman with a rather dark touch to her words put extra emphasis on the generic noun.
"Which is why HE doesn't know Roxie is on base yet." Tools knew who Beth was talking about and made sure to share his intel on the situation.
"Who is HE you people are refusing to name? He's not another government worker is he?" Roxie did not want to play hide and seek with another suit. Galloway's presence already put her nerves on edge, if there was another she would have to make arrangements to be protected from the Decepticons on some other island.
"HE is-"
"Roxie! Will you come with me? There's a couple of people I want you to meet." Alice had been cut off from revealing the identity of the mystery 'HE' by Will calling out to her from the other side of the mess hall.
"Uh sure Will, I'll get that name from you later." Roxie went over to where Will waited after a quick wave to Beth and Alice. Tools, like the puppy he'd been acting like since that morning, went along with Roxie, depriving the two female soldiers of their eye candy.
Alice watched them leave with a sigh," Why does the prettiest guy have to be so drawn to weird things, people included?"
"At least they make a matching couple with their flame tops. I hear Sunny and Sides have a betting pool going on them getting together and when. I bet together in the next month." Beth pulled out the human sized data pad receipt proving her wager on the bet.
"Oooh! I want in on that action. Be right back, start my sink for me please!" Alice, a woman that loved putting people together, dashed off to find Sideswipe since no one but Tools, Will and Epps could get anywhere near Sunstreaker.
"Who am I meeting?" Roxie asked this for the third time, Will and Tools refused to reply and only smile while leading her on to the communication bridge, somewhere she hadn't been yet.
"Maybe she's a mutant, what if she has two heads? Which one would I talk to?" As they climbed up the stairs Roxie caught some of a male voice.
"Glen, how many Red Bulls did you drink?" A female voice with a heavy Australian accent asked this of the male voice.
Getting to the top Roxie was met by a gorgeous tan, blonde haired young woman not but a few years older than her. Next to her was an African American guy quite on the heavy side in a sports jersey and a can of Red Bull in his hand. A tight smile on her face the blonde stepped forward," Hi, I'm Maggie. You must be Roxanne."
"Yes...It's nice to meet people that don't have a gun strapped to their back. And from what I heard you must be Glen." Roxie shook hands with Maggie and then wit Glen who she was sure was blushing.
"Maggie and Glen are the lead members of our encyrption team. Ratchet invited them and a couple other people he thought you might like to meet. But they won't get here until later this afternoon." Will added this information while Tools went over to Glen and gave him a hug and pat on the back.
"You mean my man Sam and Mikela? What about Leo, is he coming too?" Glen and Maggie had been invited to the main base for the first time in over a month, they hadn't been told why specifically but didn't turn it down either. Both techies loved hanging out with the Autobots whenever they could. They'd thought for sure that the government would have taken away Maggie's job and thrown them both in jail for making her security breach and Glen being a hacker. Instead the secretary of defense gets them put on the NEST encryption team before retiring.
All the young people turned their eyes to the Major, trying not to laugh at the big puppy dog eyes of hope they all had he confirmed the question," All three are going to be getting here by the afternoon. Until then behave, especially you Tools, you know how Mikela gets when she finds you in the brig." Tools nervously laughed while Glen and Maggied snickered, Will ruffled Roxie's hair then went off to do a surprise inspection. No one said he couldn't have fun.
"Who are Sam and Mikela?" Roxie hadn't heard any of the soldiers or the bots mention these names, then again they never mentioned Glen and Maggie either.
"Sam Witwicky and Mikela Banes are two civilians like yourself that have known the bots since they arrived on Earth. Sam attends Princeton University and Mikela works at her dad's autoshop in Tranquility city, so they don't come out here often." A very natural happiness came into Tools' expression when he spoke about Mikela. For some irritating reason Roxie felt a small heart pang of jealousy.
Wanting to shake the feeling Roxie quickly asked," That explains them, but what about you three? How did all of you get brought into the world of the Autobots and Decepticons?"
"That's a really long story to tell while standing. Let's go get comfortable." Maggie hooked arms with Roxie and took the lead to the beach with the lawn chairs. Glen and Tools followed the girls talking about what they'd been doing lately.
Slowing down to put a decent amount of hearing distance between them Glen asked Tools," You dibsed Roxie in front of a witness, right man?"
"What?" Tools stopped at the question.
Tugging him forward to keep moving Glen told Tools," Don't you remember? Last time all of us guys were together we made the Dibs Law. You gotta call dibs on a girl in front of a valid witness or another guy cn make the claim and try and win her man. Bumblebee even recorded us making the Dibs Law."
"Slag, Leo will jump on Roxie the second he sees her. Glen you're my witness. I call dibs on Roxanne Glitch." They had reached the beach by this time and the girls had claimed the two closest chairs for themselves.
"You're lucky I don't like red heads." Glen gave Tools a pat on the arm and plopped down on the sand between the chairs. Maggie had just started to tell Roxie about the attack in Quatar and how that lead to her and Glen getting involved.
Roxie was completely enraptured with the story. No one had told her about the details of Mission City, all she knew was that Megation had gotten free from his frozen state, killed her father and then escaped Sector Seven. Thinking of Sector Seven brough forth one specific detail that Maggie had mentioned in her story that hadn't sunk in. Her voice tart she asked," Did you say Simmons was with you? As in Sector Seven's Agent Seymor Simmons?"
"Y-yea, the guy kept us safe when that crazy little drone they call Frenzy tried to kill us." Glen was getting a bad feeling from the dark look in Roxie's eyes.
Tools noticed not only the dark look but she'd also gone very tense with clenched fists," Do you know where he is or what he's doing now?" Tools was starting to worry, Roxie wasn't sounding like she had when talking about Galloway. 'She's not afraid...She's pissed.' Tools' worry changed from Roxie to Simmons.
Maggie didn't know if it was the smartest thing to do but she still answered," We saw him out by the shooting range not long before meeting you." Roxie was off running the second Maggie finished talking, Tools and Glen exchanged a look with Maggie to say she may have done a very bad thing by answering.
Digging into his pocket Tools took out a device that resembled a blue tooth, putting it on his ear he started after Roxie," Never thought I'd need to use this while on base...Ratchet! We might have a situation. Roxie just took off to hunt down Simmons and she looked ready to shed blood."
'Roxanne? The same girl that runs and hides at the mere mention of Galloway, is going after Simmons? What did you do to her in the past couple of hours?' Ratchet's disbelief couldn't have been more clear if he'd been standing in front of Tools showing it with his face plates.
"I didn't do anything! I think it's another one of those, what did HE do to HER situations. Where is Simmons right now? We should give him some warning." Roxie was still in his sights but she was doing her best to stay out of his reach, Glen and Maggie were following behind just as curious and concerned about what was going on.
'Simmons just lef the med bay and was heading out to talk to Ironhide, who is on the training field. Jolt is with them so I'll relay information to him.' As Ratchet answered he made his way in the same direction.
'Ratchet to Jolt.'
'Jolt responding. What's wrong?'
"It seems Roxie knows Simmons but in a completely different way than Galloway. She's heading for him now, and as much as you don't like him he still needs to be kept safe.'
'Understood, though I doubt she could cause him much physical harm.' Jolt ended the transmission there and looked to the man that had been doing his best to keep pace with him to the training field. "Simmons, have you ever met or known a femme by the name of Roxanne Glitch?"
The ex-sector seven agent stopped, paled and turned wide eyes up to the medic," Roxanne Glitch, formally known as Roxanne Rose Evans? Yea I know her, but how do you? Her files are entirely classified. Tell me what you know right now!"
"What I know is that she's on her way to see you, and she is apparently very unhappy. How do you know Roxanne?" With the knowledge of Roxie's past involving Galloway he could understand her irrational fear of the man. From Ratchet's words Jolt assumed that Roxie was on her way to more or less maul Simmons, which was just as confusing as to why she acting like this.
"That information isn't important. What's important-" Simmons, much to Jolt's further confusion, took off his long sleeved black button up shirt, as well as his shoes and socks. "Is that she doesn't catch me off - OOF!" Simmons didn't finish his sentence because Roxie had tackled him to the tarmac.
Panting hard Tools stopped not far from what he had to claim to be the most vicious tacle he had ever seen.
Simmons, having prepared for it and not out of breathe, easily got out of the girl's reach and got up on his feet in a defensive stance. "Hey Roxie, long time no see. You're looking great." Roxie had gotten back up, and his voice had weakened at the fierce glare she was giving him.
Tools looked up at Jolt to see if he knew what was going on, Jolt just shook his head, 'Don't stop them, they obviously need to work it out...And I'm thoroughly enjoying this.' Jolt sent this to Tools through the comm receiver on Tools' ear, Tools scowled at the bot to tell him, 'If she gets hurt I'm removing nuts and bolts while you recharge.' Maggie and Glen shortly caught up panting and out of breathe as well. "Simmons, we are long overdue for a talk."
"Yea, sure, okay. Then let's talk I'm all ears." Simmons opened his arms to show he was unarmed and open to peace. Roxie stalked forward, reached up and grabbed one of his ears causing him to bend down with a pained expression.
"We'll be talking in private. If any of you follow I will do as much damage as I can to him." Roxie announced this to the gathered people and mechs since Ratchet had also joined the group.
Simmons, though his face showed a lot of pain, waved to them in a sign to not worry. The onlookers were of course worried while they watched Simmons get dragged away. They got far enough away that not even Jolt or Ratchet could hear them. But even at that distance they saw Roxie start to swing at Simmons. He dodged three punches then took an upper cut to the solar plexus. He staggered back holding up a finger to wait, oddly enough Roxie waited to start going at him again.
Jolt and Ratchet, with their medic programming, were able to sharpen their optics to see that while Roxie attacked Simmons she talked or even yelled. Over the years they had found it was quite handy to know what people were saying out of hearing range, as a means to fix that most of the Autobots had downloaded lip reading instructions.
Tools looked up at the medics and found them both frowning," What? What can you see that we can't?"
"Something that Roxie or Simmons will explain in their own time." Ratchet's voice was grave, a clear indication that what was being said was definitely something that not even they could fully grasp.
What Jolt and Ratchet were reading was what Simmons knew he'd hear one day eventually. With every punch and swing Roxie aimed at him she yelled," It's your fault! It's your fault he's gone! He would still be alive if you didn't tell him about stupid Sector Seven! It's all your fault!" Simmons dodged one more swing and watched with sad eyes as she fell to her knees in tears.
When Roxie had cried in Sarah's arms it had been to release present withheld emotions. Crying in front of Simmons was to embrace that which had never fully sunk in. Her mother and father were dead, she had no grandparents, aunts or uncles, she had no family to care and support her through her life of hell.
Simmons went down to his own knees and embraced the girl thtat had wanted to tear him apart. Rocking her back and forth he whispered in comfort," I know my little Rock, I know. It's okay. Cry all you want. You can beat the crap out of me every day until you feel better."
"What the Pit is going on?" The humans jumped at the new voice. Looking behind and up they found Ironhide and Optimus standing next to Ratchet and Jolt.
"I think the best way to describe all that is a really bad reunion." Maggie provided the answer in a quiet voice, something in the air felt as if it had been charged with a lot of tense energy and Roxie's collapse had diminished it.
Just as she had when she was a little girl Roxie succumbed to emotional fatigue once she cried most of her pain out. Simmons scooped her up in his arms and walked towards the group, his face was almost void of emotions, it didn't even show that he was struggling to carry the teenager. Instead of stopping he kept walking right past them but called over his shoulder," Someone do me a favour and grab my things. I'm laying her down in the med bay Doc." Tools, like most people, wasn't best friends with the ex-agent but at that moment he had grown some respect for him. Simmons had deliberately taken a few hits and never once swung back at Roxie. Out of this new respect Tools grabbed his shirt, shoes and socks.
Everyone that had witnessed the 'reunion' followed the human and his unconscious assailant back into the main hangar.
They all waited outside as Roxie was put on a berth to be left alone. Going back out he took his stuff then, much to everyone's surprise, glared right at Optimus," What is Roxie doing here? I should have been told immediately when she was brought here."
"Roxanne was brought here for protection Agent Simmons. As for notification, if we had known you were connected to her we would have indeed informed you instantly." Optimus recognized a subtle undertone to Simmons' tone as paternal worry, something he had only heard from Will, Sarah, Judy and Ron in concerns to their children.
Running a hand through his hair Simmons sighed," Right, you didn't know because that information is also classified. But from now on I want to know EVERYTHING that has happened right up until this point, and anything that happens after today."
"What claim do you have to Roxanne to make these demands?" Ironhide asked with a clipped tone of his own. He didn't enjoy taking orders from anyone, especially not from a human acting like Roxie's care taker.
Meeting the mech's glare straight on with his own Simmons answered back," I am her godfather, giving me full rights to know what is going on with her."
J: Yup, I went there. If you go back to Roxie's memory of from 'Day At The Beach' you can probably guess who he was going to say. Let me know if I got the names of Mikela and Maggie right please! Or if I got anyone else wrong!