Chapter 36: We Start Again.

Blitz-Gear walked along side Ali,he had yet to announce her presence to Prime but decided to let her have a break first and show her that not everyone in this war was interested in the humans because of their value against the other side. Ali had pretty much passed out from exaustion on the ride to the base,after a much heated arguement with the car,she had finally come to the comprimise that she would go with him as long as he promised to do something for her later-he agreed to that though had yet to find out what Ali wanted in return. As much as she hadn't wanted to be dragged to the Autobot base,she didn't want to die even more which was half of her reasoning,the other half was that she was just too tired to care at the point the confrontation had taken place. Now,rested and feeling more like herself,Ali found herself being lead to meet the Autobot leader-something she was almost looking foreward to,she'd seen Megatron and wondered if this guy was anything like him,either way,she was sure that her life would be forever more complicated now that she was there. It hadn't taken her long to begin to wonder if they would have the unfortunate luck to run across the two people she knew was there and did not want to run into if she could help it at all-if Crusher or Liane saw her there, there might be a bigger problem for them all then what seemed apparent.

'Where is everyone?'

Blitz-Gear pondered aloud to himself as he realized that they should have run into someone by this point,it wasn't like he had walked in through the main entrance,they had entered the base through one of the little known emergancy exits that needed more security then a small easily overridden password locked door. Ali glanced over her shoulder,eyes narrowed as she tried to think of what might have happened and figured that perhaps they were going to be ambushed because the Autobots thought they were intruders.

'Is something going on? Or maybe everyone finally grew a brain and packed up and left'

She commented with a snicker but Blitz-Gear shook his head 'No',though he did ponder if maybe the human had a point about the something else going on to distract the Autobots there. Coming to a stop, he placed one foot infront of Ali before looking down the corridor ahead of them,there had been a faint noise that caught his attention. There was another hallway that conjoined onto the one they currently walked only three yards ahead of them and whatever was causing the strange noise was coming from down that hall-the pair fell deathly silent as they tensed,not knowing what to expect. Ali glared as she balled her fists tightly,she may be only a easily squishable human but she was not about to act it, she would attack whatever it was even if it happened to be a fifty foot robot.

'EEEEEEEEEEE!!!'

Blitz-Gear tilted his head slightly as the sound began to grow louder and closer, what the hell was that annoying noise? Lowering his stance, he readied himself for an attack-whatever that was was not from any Autobot he had met,it must have been a real intruder.

'HELP!'

Skidding around the corner was a human boy,running at top speed with a very freaked expression on his face-he looked slightly relieved to see the red and silver robot and red headed girl-though he had absolutely no idea who they were.

'Please! Help me!'

Curtis flew between Blitz-Gear's legs and dove for cover behind Ali-who spun around glared down at the strange boy.

'Okay!'

She bent down and gave him several punches,all hitting the same spot causing as much pain as possible-Curtis yelped in surprise,what was this girl doing? Blitz-Gear watched as what the boy had been running frome rounded the corner as well and wasn't all that surprised-Ramhorn seemed to be after the boy for some reason. Charging straight at them the cassette bot seemed to not even care that there was a larger bot in his way,he was in a type of frenzy.

'What did you do!?'

Blitz-Gear muttered as he bent down to form a barricade between the humans and raging rhino,also bracing himself as he prepared for the impact.

'Its not y fault! He shouldn't be sleeping around dark corners!'

'Stop whining and face him like a man!'

Ali punched Curtis two more times before she felt that it was enough for now-Curtis was still confused as to why the girl was attacking him. Ramhorn slammed into Blitz-Gear,taking several steps back he was going to try to jump over the larger bot but the car reached out and grabbed the cassette before he could do that.

'Calm down Rammie-Trust me,that human isn't worth your time'

'Hey!'

'What? You perfer I'd let him impale you?'

'uh...no'

'Right. Then lets go get this guy back to Blaster then'

Blitz-Gear swung Ramhorn onto his shoulder before standing again and beginning to walk foreward, at least that answered one question-the base wasn't under attack. Curtis stood up and tried to straighten himself before falling to the robot walking away.

'You're going the wrong way. Blaster's with the others in the conference room waiting for Bumblebee's return'

'hmmm? Why?'

Curtis furrowed an eyebrow, didn't this guy know what was going on? Ali smacked the boy in the head again and growled in away that ment he'd better give them answers.

'Ouch! Okay,okay,geez-I'll tell you if you get this crazy girl away from me!!''

'CRAZYY!!'

Ali smacked Curtis again,harder this time and frowned when she heard a strange pop come from him.

'Okay,Ali...we don't want to maime him so badly that he can't tell us what's going on'

'Yea,listen to that guy'

'What-Ever'

Ali growled and stormed away from the strange boy, Curtis sighed,expecting another attack but when none came, he sighed again and was more relieved.

'He's bringing Holly back-She's the one with the thing everyone wants,incase you didn't know'

'Really. Then we should head in that direction'

Blitz-Gear was amused, but it was Ali who was more surprised by this news-what was Holly doing there? Why was she there? Had she really betrayed the Decepticons? And where was Chris?

'C'mon,I've got to head there as well'

Curtis began to jog back down the hall the two he had just met ran into had come from-Blitz-Gear nodded and followed,Ali moved as well though her mind was no longer on what she was doing.

'Do either of you know Holly?'

Curtis asked,trying to make conversation as they went,Blitz-Gear shook his head, he had only heard of her through his 'contact'. The truth was Blitz-Gear wasn't staying at this base, he was actually stationed with another group of Autobots. And it was through his 'contact' that he even knew what was going on here,but it didn't seem to matter much now as it seemed that Optimus had what they needed. He wondered if Magnus had even gotten a chance to contact the Autobot leader to let him know that Blitz-Gear would be arriving-otherwise it might be harder for him to explain why he had randomly shown up with a strange girl connected with the Decepticons.

'I do'

Ali replied darkly after the question had sunk in, she would finally be able to give Holly a piece of her mind, THEN she would find out what was going on with her friend.

'Cools! She'll probably be surprised to see us then!'

'Keh..right...'

Bumblebee walked ahead of the humans,he had been instructed to escort them to the conference room where probably half the Autobot team awaited them. He didn't know if that was a good plan but he sappoused that htey had no idea what had been planned earlier. Holly walked with her head hung, to her left was Chris who was carefully tracking the way they entered incase they had to flee again. On the right of Holly was Amber who growled angerly the whole time they walked-her eyes were still clouded but it was obvious that in another day or two she would see properly again. All were quiet,and probably lost in their own worlds, but now was not the time for that. Bumblebee came to a sudden stop and glanced down at the humans, they were almost at the conference room-he wanted to make sure everyone was alright first.

'You guys ready for this?'

'What does it matter, I'm...'

'Holly,Shut up'

Chris snapped suddenly before turning his gaze upon the robot.

'It doesn't matter if we're ready? Are you?'

Bumblebee nodded, glancing to the girls looking as if he wanted to say something else but decided against it and continued onwards-he had a feeling that everyone's nerves were going to be worn thin in the next couple of hours.

The doors swung open to reveal the normally spacious room to now be crowded by several bots-Optimus,Jazz,Prowl,Ironhide,Blurr,Blaster and Pomperous all turned as they noticed Bumblebee enter. Now looking defiant, the humans stood behind the camaro,glaring at those in the room.

'Move aside Bumblebee so that the humans may enter'

Prowl spoke as he and Ironhide stepped forth-Bumblebee glanced back before doing as he was told.

'Itsheritsheritsher-whathappenedwhyisshelookingatuslikethatthatthat!?'
'Shut up,Blurr'

'Maybe she doesn't like yer ugly mug'

Blaster joked as he slapped Pomperous on the back,who only scowled and moved away from the other.

'What I want to know is why those slaggin' Decepti-creeps let her out of their sights'

Ironhide muttered,shutting the door behind the humans.

'If we jump down her throat,she won't tell us anything'

Optimus said calmly as he kept his gaze fixed upon Holly-scowling even more,she was surprised to find herself feeling more uneasy about being trapped in a room with the Autobots more then she had when it had happened with the Decepticons.

'Yah,Like who is this fellah with her'

Jazz smirked,looking directly at a very disgruntled Chris,he didn't do more then pull a long face and shook his head a little. The humans came to a stop near the center of the room,feeling rather intimidated by the surrounding giants-Amber didn't seem bothered but kept her head bowed so that the expression on her face was harder to read, she was waiting to see who would mension the code first. Optimus approached slowly,holding out his hands in a gesture that showed that he ment no harm to the two new humans.

'I am glad that you are alright,both of you. My name is Optimus Prime and as leader of the Autobots,I would like to welcome you to our home. I don't want you to think that you're being kept here as prisoners-you may go where you wish as long as its within the safety of our base. Feel free to ask me any questions or don't be afraid to come to me if you would like to speak about anything. I will help to the best of my ablities.'

'Okay...'

Holly shifted her weight to one foot and crossed her arms over her chest-her look of anger towards the Autobots never ceasing.

'If we're so 'free' then why is it we're trapped inside of this dump'

'I already told you-its dangerous up here, and I'm not worried just about the-'

'I'm not a baby. Stop treating me like I need someone to always be looking over my shoulder to make sure I'm not doing something I shouldn't!'

'No one is treating you like anything less then you are'

Chris snickered but was ignored as Holly's growl drowned him out.

'Now I don't know if you're insulting me'

Optimus looked as if he were about to say something in his defense when Pomperous stepped foreward.

'Listen,human,Learn your place and act a little more grateful. If it weren't for Optimus you wouldn't be here and you'd be dead'

'Pomperous,enough'

Optimus growled, knowing that the subaru wasn't making the situation any better, Holly's scowl darkened and she looked like she might actually attack one of the Autobots.

'No,Prime-We all know she's only useful for one thing-'

'Pomperous'

'And if she wants to act like a snotty nosed little brat then she should be treated as such'

'Enough!'

'We should stop wasting time and just get the-'

There was a loud 'Pop' as Pomperous was sent to the ground in a heap,all optics and eyes quickly trained upon the one who had shut the ignorant bot up.

'What? He had a spider on his back'

Jazz acted surprised that everyone was now starring at him, there was a collective nod of gratitude and none seemed to care about Pomperous. Optimus turned his attention back to Holly and sighed,he understood that she wouldn't give them what they wanted right away as she probably didn't even trust them and after the subaru's outburst she had a right not to. It was vital and it wouldn't be long before Megatron had figured out that the girl was with the Autobots and would do anything to get her back,he also knew that Megatron would kill the girl for what she knew and he had to keep that from happening as well. Optimus decided that he wouldn't press the girl for it, and would let her take her time,however he couldn't risk having something happen to her while she was with them.

'I hope you understand my concern,and until you feel more comfortable I'll have someone escort you'

'Ah,Freedom where did you go'

Holly replied dryly, this time Optimus had nothing to say to her comment, he figured it would only push her further away from him. He also had to decide who would be best to keep an eye on the girl, someone who wouldn't bug her about the code and she would feel comfortable around...someone like...