My father had some doubts about leaving me with Ironhide for the rest of the day while he went to the shop. They were dispelled when Ratchet promised he would keep an eye on us. Once my dad had left Ironhide and I dissolved into laughter. Once we calmed ourselves I turned to the elephant in the room.
"Why did you guys leave?" I asked, relishing the way Ironhide held his arm around me.
"Ironhide was pathetic, moaning for you, blaming himself." Ratchet said, I looked across at Ironhide. I raised an eyebrow.
"How could I help myself? I missed you." He said, shrugging.
"You have a severe blaming yourself diorder." I remarked, letting him draw me closer.
"Ah-hem." Ratchet coughed, reminding us that there were others here. The doorbell rang, shocking us both out of our affection.
"Who in the hell could that be?" I asked, Ratchet moving forward to answer it. Several hasty knocks accented their rush to get in. Man, whoever it was must have wanted in. Ratchet pulled the door open revealing two young men, who looked exactly like each other.
"Yo' Ratch! Hey is 'Hide here with you?" One of them said.
"Skidz, Mudflap what are you doing here?" Ratchet asked, lightly cuffing them over the head as they walked in. I was shocked to see Skidz and Mudflap, mainly because I had never seen their holoforms before.
"Well you see it was like this, after you guys left you'd of thinked Galloway blew a circuit! He rantin' and ravin' and finally he gets so mad he got Lennox and those guys locked up! Arcee managed to get away before he had the rest of us Autobots locked up! We saw them coming for us and just went hell no and sped outta there as fast as we could." Skidz said, flopping down in the chair that Ratchet had so recently occupied.
"So, Optimus, Sideswipe, Jolt all of them? Locked up?" Ironhide asked, I was to shell shocked to speak. I heard their voices but I couldn't comprehend their meaning. I saw Optimus, his kind face with his bright blue optics, Jolt and his flashy paint, Flareup, all of them. I pictured chains around them but than I figured that they must have just locked them in their vehicle forms, yet you could also do that with chains.
"Is there any chance that we can get in there to them?" Ratchet asked, glancing hastily my way.
"See, that's what we were thinkin' so we sent Arcee to go find Bumblebee." Mudflap said, turning to look at me. Then I realized why they were looking at me. It was my fault. if I hadn't spoken up, if I hadn't met Ironhide then this wouldn't of happened. My breathing became shallower as the guilt racked through me.
"I-I'm the reason for all this. It's happening because of me." I stuttered, burying my face in my hands. It felt like a great weight was on my shoulders, the weight of their safety, their lives, their freedom.
"Alisha! I never want to hear you say that again! We get enough of that with Ironhide blaming himself." Ratchet admonished, causing me to laugh a little. I felt warm hands on the sides of my face and soft lips upon my forehead.
"You have done nothing, Galloway is an ass." Ironhide said, stroking my back.
"But how will we get to them?" I asked, looking up.
"We'll think of a way. With those of us here we will get them back." Ratchet said, looking more determined than I had ever thought he could look.
"Yeah, you know what with old 'Hide here we'll be kicking so much ass we won't know what to do with it." Mudflap said, clapping me on the back. Waiting occupied most of the day, waiting to see what Galloway would do, if he would send soldiers after us or not, waiting for Bumblebee and Arcee to show up. Finally I could take it no more. I needed to do something and I needed to do it NOW.
"Ironhide, come on. We haven't put your rims or brush guard on yet and we can do it here. My Dad's got all the stuff we need in the backyard." I said, getting up from the couch. Tossing my crutches aside I pressed a little weight on my injured leg. It held. I limped out of there, Ironhide had withdrawn to his body and was pulling around, but as I limped out I barely heard Ratchet's comment.
"Primus, she gets more like him every day." He said, causing me to smile. I actually could see myself like Ironhide, rather stubborn according to Ratchet. Not that I wasn't pleased with this comparison. I was actually happy about it.
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Bumblebee pulled slowly out of Sam's drive, keeping an eye out so that no harm would come to his three occupants. Sam and Mikaela had decided that they had wanted to go to base today and see Alisha and Ironhide. Leo had just tagged along to have something to do. Just as Bumblebee managed to get himself orientated in the road a pink Ducati 848 motorcycle came flying by, it's dark haired rider encased in white leather.
"Arcee, looking good." Bumblebee said over their COM link.
"Bee cut the crap. We've got a problem." Arcee replied hurridly.
"Decepticon?" Bee asked, revving his engine with concern.
"Worse, goverment officals. They locked up everyone after Ratchet and Ironhide went after Alisha." Arcee explained.
"Why would they need to go after Alisha? Wouldn't she be at base?" Bumblebee questioned further.
"Grrr, this would have been so much easier if you were there! Galloway came and he fired Alisha, Ironhide went crazy and he and Ratchet took off. That was the excuse Galloway needed for him to declare the Autobots a dangerous and out of control faction and lock us up! Skidz and Mudflap made it out, but no one else did." Arcee told him rather depressedly.
"Man I hate it when these things talk and we can't hear them!" Leo complained from the back seat.
"Where are we going then?" Bumblebee asked, ignoring Leo.
"Alisha's father's, we're headquartering there." Arcee said, speeding away. She was closely followed by Bumblebee. Sam rapped hard on Bee's dash.
"Bee, what's going on? Base is the other way." He reprimanded.
"Change in plans." Bee replied, grabbing a stray pice of audio from teh many radio stations.
"What is it?" Mikaela questioned further.
"Grrr, this would have been so much easier if you were there! Galloway came and he fired Alisha, Ironhide went crazy and he and Ratchet took off. That was the excuse Galloway needed for him to declare the Autobots a dangerous and out of control faction and lock us up! Skidz and Mudflap made it out, but no one else did." Bumblebee said, replaying Arcee's explination.
"Fired?" Leo said, "My hot little babe got FIRED?"
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