Update that is extremely late, but on Sunday no less! I try here, guys! Anyway, guess who has a Facebook page! That's right, Lily! Check it out if you want to. You don't have too, but I probably will be spoilers for some chapters, and future chapters on there! I'll post the link on my page too!
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This is not proof read, I apologize for that, but I wanted to get this out! Hope you enjoyed, and don't forget to (1) ReViEw, rEvIeW, REVIEW, and (2) vote on the poll on my paaaaaaaagge! :D
It took all of two weeks for Sarah to prove that she knew absolutely nothing about cars. I wanted to start working on Rookie, and when I asked her what to start with, she responded with 'the car...'. She also suggested we look at Sideswipe's engine to see the problem a week ago. Apparently, she thinks that (1) you can see what's wrong with a car's engine by simply looking at it, and (2) she thinks that Lamborghinis have engines under the hood. Plus, she doesn't know what "mid-engined" means. Turns out, Sideswipe spark plugs wore down, so I had to order new ones, which meant he couldn't leave the base for three days. Oh joy; he didn't complain at all during that time.
I asked her why she got this job in the first place, and said she needed a job. Not really an answer to my question, but I wasn't going to ask again, so I rolled my eyes, and got started on starting with the frame.
Sideswipe helped with his holoform as often as possible, but now a lot of them were going on Energon scouting missions. They hadn't picked up much of a Decepticon signal in a while; I couldn't decide whether that made me thankful, or nervous. We had the frame back intact, and I ordered a 429 engine. I could create an engine, but that would take a lot of my time, and I still had a lot of stuff to fix with the bots. It would be here within the next two weeks.
I found out that Ratchet is ticklish; Optimus has a lot on his shoulders, so every once in a while I make him take me for a drive to relax; Ironhide was apparently skinny when he was a young mech.
Sarah hasn't gone back to her snooty, proud ways, and she acts like a little puppy now. It's nice, I guess. She learns kind of quickly, but doesn't know much about cars, so it's almost like teaching a kindergardener how to recite numbers from one to one hundred. She's been wearing more appropriate clothes, and even Galloway was impressed with her progress. Galloway. Thedore Galloway, the world's largest asshole!
Right now, Sideswipe went with Ratchet, Hound, Ultra Magnus, Bumblebee, Ironhide and Jazz for a mission on a different continent, and it was Saturday. So, I found an extra chair in a supply closet, opened the back hangar door that faces the corn fields that reside on the outside of my town, and propped my feet up on a stool to watch the sunset. Lennox and Epps had gone with the others, so I didn't have much of anybody to talk to.
I probably bothered Prowl to the edge of him forcing himself to glitch just to get away. Optimus had fallen into recharge, and I hate waking him up because he needs the sleep.
I must've stayed like that for two hours, before someone came up behind me.
"What are you doing?"
I rolled my eyes; why couldn't he have gone on the scouting mission too?
"Well, the person who replaced me is off today, and most of the bots are gone on the scouting mission, so I'm watching the sunset." I said, not really bothering to move my eyes from the horizon.
"Lily, I'm sorry. I didn't mean what I said." he insisted
"I don't really care."
"It doesn't matter, you need to know." he said, walking to crouch in font of me, "I didn't mean what I said. If I had, Lily, I wouldn't be standing in front of you right now." he reasoned.
I scoffed, "I thought that every word the all mighty Sunstreaker speaks, he means." I sneered
He clenched his jaw for a moment - I could see him wanting to explode, but he didn't - , "Lily, if I hadn't said what I did, you would've been killed. Megatron would've shot you then and there. you wouldn't be here if I hadn't said what I did." he explained.
"And why, pray tell, would you care whether I died or lived?" I challenged; his jaw reclenched again, and he took a deep breath in.
"Because I do. Look, I'm sorry for what I said, and I didn't know whether you'd take it seriously or not; I didn't intend for you too." he apologized, and I scoffed, standing up to leave. Just go somewhere away from him.
"Lily, please, wait." he caught my wrist before I could get a substantial distance from, "Please, just, for-"
He cut his sentence off, and I turned to see with closed eyes, "Just, forgive me. Please, Lily." he begged, and I turned to look at him.
"You've never had to say sorry before, have you?" I asked.
His eyes diverted to the ground, and he sighed.
"I've never had a reason too." he muttered
"Why not? Everybody has to apologize for something in their lives." I said, but he shook his head.
"Not everybody; any apology I've ever had to make were half afted, and I never meant them." he said.
I couldn't really respond to that - don't you just hate it when people say something and you don't know how exactly to respond? -, but thankfully, there was a loud bang that resounded inside the base.
"Lily! We need y'ur help!" a voice said loudly, and I turned around only to sigh.
"Shits, what did you do?" I whined
"We didn't mean tah! We- Shits? Ah ain't a shits." he asked
"Hey! I need help!" Mudflap yelled from behind.
These two idiots, one green and one an off orange, managed to - by the looked of it - glue themselves together somehow. Dumbasses.
"What did you do?!" I asked, and Shits here, smiled sheepishly at me
"We don't really kno'."
"Okay, what do you expect me to do?" I asked, rubbing my face.
"Un-stuck us." Mudflap called
"Un-stuck you? Nobody can un-stuck you; that's not a verb." I pointed out.
"Please!" SKids pleaded
I sighed, "Why don't you wait until Ratchet comes back?" I asked
"Because they aren't coming back until tomorrow." he whined, and Assflap nodded.
"Fine, get to the Med Bay, I'll be there in a second." I sighed
They turned around and found a way to stumble in to the Med Bay, so I turned back to Sunstreaker.
"I gotta go."
"No wait, please just forgive me." he pleaded, his grip tightening on my wrist.
"I-" I cut myself off for a second, "I forgive you, Sunstreaker."
He let go of my wrist, and relaxed a little bit, before I turned around to go follow Shits and Assflap into the Med Bay.
Skids and Mudflap have got to be the stupidest, absolute stupidest mechs I have ever met! Honestly, how does one glue themselves to their brother? How? Please, enlighten me, becasue I can't figure it out.
Stupid, I had to get one of the new recruits to drive me into town to get thirty two bottles of glue remover. Thirty two. THe people at the hardware store must've thought I was a druggie or some stupid thing like that; not that I really cared. They probably wouldn't see me again.
"So, you're the mechanic?" the recruit asked
"Yeah. Lily, who are you?" I asked
"I'm Graham."
"Why'd you decide to join NEST?" I asked
"Well, I didn't think I'd wind up working with massive robots that are close to thirty feet tall, but my Dad was in the Army, and I wanted to follow in his footsteps." he said as he turned a corner
"Did he die in the field?" I asked
"No, he retired when he was fifty something." Graham said as he pulled into base.
"That's good, was he negatively affected?"
The guards let us through, and the fence closed behind us.
"Nope, he said he was actually glad for the experience." Graham said as he shut the truck off
"That's good. thanks for the ride, Graham." I said, hopping out.
"No problem." he said as I headed into the Med Bay. The idiots were still in there, I could hear them, but when I actually got into the room, I froze.
"What the Hell did you two idiots do?" I asked
The room was trashed. Berths were flipped, tools were everywhere, liquid and solid chemicals were poured everywhere, and there they were. Skids was face first on the floor, with Mudflap on his back, trying to stand up for both of them.
"Lily! We need yah help!" Mudflap yelled
"What did you two do? I was gone for thirty minutes, tops." I said, circling them
"We tried to pull ourselves off." Skids said, trying to push himself up.
"Can yah help us?" Mudflap asked
I sighed, then smirked; I walked into Ratchet's office and placed the glue remover on his desk, then locked the office door on my way.
"You two made this mess, you two can explain to Ratchet why his Med Bay is like this." I said, heading towards the door.
"Bu' he won't be back 'till tomorrow." Skids whined.
"Then I wish you two a good recharge on the floor. Try not to die." I smirked, and opened the Med Bay doors "Good night." I smirked, watching them call for me as the door slid shut, and I locked it for good measure.
"Lily!" one of them yelled from behind the locked doors as I headed down the hallways
"Lily?" a voice called out.
"Yes?" I asked, turning around and looking up to see that new 'bot, Hot Rod, leaning against his door frame with his forearm against the top of the door frame- subsequently causing his metal bicep muscle to show off a little bit.
"What happened?"
"The idiots happened." I said
"Which idiots?" he asked in amusement
"You know which ones." I smirked, closing my bedroom door.
Sideswipe called that night to make sure I was okay - worry wart - but I didn't tell him about Skids and Mudflap. I wanted that to be a surprise!
Blurr was really the only one who managed to find a way to need to be fixed, but it was mostly cosmetic, so I made Sarah do that, although she thought she was just fixing his car.
It's absolutely fantastic when you can make someone else do the work you don't feel like doing! So I ended up hanging out with Bluestreak for the rest of the day, and I learned a lot. He talks a lot! I thought he talked a lot before, holy crap!
Then, Ratchet came back sometime around seven that night. And, oh, I am so ready for this.
"Yo, Ratchet!" I yelled. He turned around once he transformed up, and I smiled. Hot Rod laughed from somewhere behind me
"Yes?" he asked
"I think you may want to go check out your Med Bay, and the bots in it." I smiled
His optics widened, and he turned and sprinted down the hall. A red and orange car stopped in front of me, and immediately, I recognized him as Hot Rod. I hopped into the passenger seat that he opened the door to reveal, and took off, following the CMO.
"Record his reaction." I said, and his laughter rang through the speakers.
"One step ahead of you, human." he said, and a beeping sound resonated.
Ratchet plugged in the security code and stepped in to the room, and Hot Rod followed, letting me out as soon as he stopped. Ratchet looked around angrily, before finally noticing the two idiots, who were now awake and looking for a way to get up until they saw their angry CMO
"Hey... Ratchet." Shits smiled uneasily, and Assflap turned them over.
"Oh, he-"
"What did you slagheads do! My Med Bay, do you have any idea how dangerous this is? All my tools! The- you- dumbaft, stupid, fragheaded, idiots!" he yelled, looking around quickly.
"Ratchet, what hap-" Sideswipe stopped himself as he walked in. Everybody followed suit, and Prowl looked around
"What exactly did you two do?" Prowl asked
"We was tryin' to get unstuck." Skids tried to explain.
"Skids, Mudflap, I can't believe I'm saying this to you two, but three days in the brig once you two are separated." Prowl ordered.
"N'aww man!" Skids yelled
"Slag it."
"You two deserved it. I told you to stay put, on the berth while I went to get the glue remover, and you didn't listen." I said, crossing my arms.
"Did you manage to get the glue remover?" Ratchet asked.
"Yes, your desk, second drawer." I said, and he nodded, heading into his office.
Two arm wrapped around me, and I turned around to hug Sideswipe.
"I missed you." he said into my hair.
"I missed you to, although I gotta admit, that was pretty freaking funny." I laughed, and his shoulders moved up and down in a laugh.
"I know." he said.
We wound up in my room, laying on my bed and watching the last few minutes of Wolverine. I heard Prowl bringing the stupid twins down the stairs to the brig. I knew where it was, Sideswipe and Sunstreaker had been down there plenty of times, but the reason why they were heading down there made me laugh into Sideswipe's holoform chest.
I felt myself doze off, and the duvet suddenly covered me as Sideswipe's holoform slipped next to me, and I tossed my arm over his abdomen. The TV made a clicking sound to shut off. The lights went out, and I fell asleep
"Lily!" Lennox's voice called out, and I looked up from Jolt's hood. Today was October 31st. Halloween. I hadn't gone out for Halloween since I was nine. Over ten years. Thankfully, yet sadly, Sarah took the day off to go out with her new boyfriend
"Yes?" I asked, closing Jolt' hood
"Two things!" he said, "One, your engine for Rookie is here." he said, and I beamed.
"Seriously? It wasn't supposed to be here yet!" I smiled
"Wait! Here's my proposition. I will hand over your engine for your car if you take my and Epps' daughters out for Halloween." he said.
Damn it, shit damn fuck, there' always a catch.
"I paid for the engine with my money." I retorted
"Yes, but I went to pick it up from UPS." he smiled.
Damn.
"I was captured by the Decepticons and only got back about a month ago." I pointed out.
He smiled wider, "Already ahead of you, Sunstreaker agreed to go with you as long as our kids don't touch him."
Oh, for the love of every known deity, why?
"I- he- what?" I asked, "You can't do this!" I whined
"You want Rookie's engine or not?" he asked
I sighed, and contemplated it, "Fine, I'll take your little anklebitters trick or treating."
"Perfect! I'll give you the engine tomorrow." he said
"That wasn't the deal!" I cried
"No, however if I give it to you now, I fear that you'll back out and not go out with our kids." he said, and turned to walk off
"Asshole!" I yelled after him.
"Yes I am!" he exclaimed back, then disappeared up the stairs.
"Damn it." I hissed
"Do you not like going out for this so-called "Halloween"?" Jolt asked
"No, I hate it. And, of course Sunstreaker said yes." I sighed, "Whatever. Pop your hood again, I'll keep going." I said.
His hood popped back open and he held it open as I went back to work.
I hate Halloween. Simply put. Since I can remember, I've always hated Halloween. At six o'clock, I slipped on my jacket, boots, hat and headed to Sideswipe and Sunstreaker's room, knocking.
"Hello?" a voice, most likely Sideswipe's called
"Open the damn door! Sunstreaker, let's go!" I yelled.
The door opened, and a yellow Lamborghini drove out of the room. The passenger side door opened, and I got in; the door closed and he rolled out of the base, past the gates, and down the road.
"You know where you're going?" I asked.
"Yes." he said.
I nodded and stayed quiet. We must've drove for at least two hours until he pulled into a driveway, opening my door and putting the holoform out. I got out, walking up to the door, and knocking on it, maybe a little too loudly. There was a squeal inside, and the door was wrenched open to reveal a small, blonde little girl with curls, wearing a tutu. She still looked like the little girl who got lost at the supermarket. She smiled wide, "Are you Lily?" she asked
"I am." I nodded
Then, she gasped, "I remember you!"
I smiled, "I'm glad."
"Annie! Let them in!" a feminine voice called from inside.
"Come." she ushered, and Sunstreaker and I walked inside.
"Mommy's in the kitchen, come on." she said, grabbing my finger and pulling me into the kitchen.
A woman with blonde hair and brown eyes turned around from the counter and smiled, "Lily! You look so much better than the last time I saw you." she smiled
"I would hope so. Last time you saw me, I had just got in to a car accident." I shrugged.
"Annie! Is the Lily here?" another voice asked from upstairs, before a little girl, quite obviously Epps' daughter, ran down the stairs. Holy crap, she looked like Epps. Wow! Did she ever look like Epps!
"Shareeka! It's Lily, no the Lily." Annabelle said, before the wide, brown eyed little girl looked up at me.
"Hi!" she smiled
"Hi. Why don't you guys go get ready, and we'll head out." I said. They both smiled, and push each other around as they ran up the stairs.
"Hey Sunstreaker." Mrs. Lennox smiled. He grunted out an acknowledgement, and I turned around to smack in the bicep.
"Say hello." I said.
He rolled his eyes, but when I raised an eyebrow at him and placed a hand on my hip, his eyes snapped down to my hand, then up over my shoulder
"Hello, Sarah." he muttered.
I turned around to see Sarah smiling at us, "You guys are adorable."
"No, we aren't together." I said sternly as the two little girls bounded down the stairs, "You guys ready?" I asked
Annie wore a vampire outfit, with obvious fake teeth that made her look adorable, and Shareeka wore a mummy outfit. If these five year old girls liked things like this more than princesses, I was going to like them very, very much.
"Alright, let's go." I said, and they ran outside, waiting patiently by Sunstreaker's passenger side door.
I headed outside, and helped them get in safely, that way Sunstreaker wouldn't get pissy because Annabelle's fake blood wouldn't get on his precious paint. I got in, her got in, and we headed into town.
Baby Update: Pain in the booties are both very good; they are still cute little shit disturbers, and have gotten bigger! The boy's bigger than his sister though, but they're still big too!
I hope you guys enjoooooyyed! Next chapter may be shorter, but I'll try to make it nice and long! Have an awesome daaaaayyy!
