"SSSSUUUMMMMMMEEERRRRRRRRRRR! SUMMER SUMMER SUMMER! VACATION! HAHAHA! NO HOMEWORK! FREEDOM! YES! YAHOOOO!" (*FireFlare/Freefel gets annoyed and gives me a sudden NCIS-Gibbs-head-slap*) Sorry 'bout that.

I eventually managed to convince Frenzy to hide between my grandparents' two cars in the driveway. Barricade drove up behind, which efficiently trapped me. A car in front of me, a car behind me, and a hostile Decepticon on either side. Lucky me.

"Ok," I stated, "So… Waddaya want?" Frenzy chittered in response, "ShortCircuit." Said femme bobbed her head in a gesture that clearly meant 'I'm right here!' and I spread out our wings for emphasis.

Frenzy nodded and continued, "We wanting is ShortCircuit to be now coming us with." He talked funny. But sounded cool.

"Uh, where?" I asked cautiously, and Frenzy scoffed and looked away in a superior manner. I rolled my eyes and said sarcastically, "Riiight, secret. Got it."

"You do not need to know where," rumbled Barricade, and I jumped in surprise; that was the first time I'd heard him speak!

Frenzy snickered at me, and I resisted the urge to slap him. It'd probably hurt my hand anyway. ShortCircuit hissed at me for even thinking of such a heinous crime as harming her sibling with my flimsy little human-hand.

Just then, I heard Freefel come out the back door and call, "Seekjei? Where are you?" On instinct, I almost called back to her, but clamped my hand over my mouth just in time.

"Seekjei!" Freefel continued calling, "Our Mom's almost home from work! She just called on the phone!" (Our mom does that a lot.)

"Ah!" I gasped, "Oh no, if my mom sees you guys…! C'mon, please go hide behind our house in the woods or something? Then I'll tell you whatever you want."

Frenzy glowered at me, incensed that a human dare tell him what to do. I considered hiding under one of the cars.

Finally, Barricade growled, "You will go with us there as well, and tell us everything we want to know. If this is a trick, you will not even have time to beg our forgiveness. And no human will ever discover your remains."

I nodded, relieved but a little indignant. What could one little brain-damaged human girl do to a giant Decepticon? Hit 'im with a stick? I don't think so!

Anyway, I shoved a ton of rocks into a thin irrigation ditch (which my family had dug a while ago to drain out extra rainwater) so that Barricade could easily drive across without his tires getting stuck. I saw Frenzy suspiciously poking the rocks as I led the two 'Cons to the back yard.

Then I led the way toward a clump of pine trees that bordered the woods in our back yard, which would provide excellent concealment for the Decepticons.

"Almost there," I said.

'Please don't kill me,' I thought.

Just as we passed the Wisteria tree near my grandparents' apartment, I heard a loud gasp from the back door. I spun around in time to realize that Freefel was there.

And that she had seen us!

"Iiiiiiiit is Summer Vacatioooooonnnn! Thiiiiiiss is so marveloooooouusssss! Iiii- Oh wait, there's a crisis in the story. …*shrugs* Oh well. Iiiiiiiiit is Summmmmerrrrrrr!" (*FireFlare/Freefel rolls her eyes, considers slapping me, reconsiders, then starts singing along with me.*) "Suuuuummmmmmer Vacation is heeeeeeeerrrre!"