Ari walked over to her workstation to see one of her favorite outfits. It was simple yet comfortable and fit her fashion style better than the boring black mechanic suit she wore to work. It was a pair of black 'Nightmare Before Christmas' pants that hugged her and a form fitting shirt that was black with lace short sleeves and a tied up chest area. She brushed through her hair and pulled her hair pack into tight pigtails. She was as fresh as she was going to be in the short amount of time she had given herself to meet the redhead.

She slipped on her clashing hot pink converse before going up to meet the redhead.

James was still in his guard spot when she exited the employee bathroom. She snickered slightly and it brought his attention to her.

He threw her his keys to his old pickup. "Take my car and don't ride with him. You are a smart girl, kick his ass if he tries anything fun."

Ari looked at the older man as he stared her down, his blue eyes that were getting duller, reminding her that despite his lively attitude he was getting on in years. The black haired woman leaned up and kissed the old man's cheek affectionately. "Thank you for always caring James. I'll be home later tonight."

James pushed her off and wiped his cheek as if she had left some unwanted residue. "Get outta here, and let me know when ya get back or I'll have ya working shop by yerself." He gruffed at her pushing away from the shop and making his way to his own home.

Ari giggled at the man, who was acting childishly towards her affection and made her way out towards the red lamborghini. Sides had in his impatience taken up residence on the hood of the car and was popping his lips while looking towards the sun that was getting lower in the sky.

"Did I take that long?" Arianna called to him. She watched as he faked a jumping motion, his car shaking strangely under him.

"Oh is it time to go Princess?" He grinned easily, thought she could see he still wasn't fully relaxed.

"Don't call me Princess first of all. Secondly, yeah. I'll lead the way if you want."

"I don't mind, Sweet Spark."

Arianna questioned the strange term of endearment. But she figured that maybe english wasn't his first language and some words were lost in transit. Maybe if he stuck around long enough, she would ask him about it. She turned to the truck and swiftly got in.

Pulling up to the lamborghini she made sure her purse was next to her and secure. As soon as the car beside her was turned on and revved she rolled out from the garage. Her mind was on the man in the car behind her as she pulled off the main road to a lesser traveled road.

Arianna knew that this was a dumb idea. Moronic really. But she was of the habit of making idiotic desisions. She looked at her rearview mirror to keep the red car in her sight.

The woman parked in the field that was surrounded on most sides by a slightly thick forest. The locals around here knew that this was a deer trail. Though this late in the day it was unlikely that anyone would come by. She stepped out of the truck only to find that Sides was next to the truck. It startled her enough for her to take a step back.

She looked at the Lamborghini that was parked almost ten feet away and then back to the driver. "You are pretty fast."

His easy going smile faltered and he looked like he had made some sort of mistake. "Well, I'm a Lamborghini." He gestured behind him.

"What was it you couldn't tell me at the shop. Cause this" she pointed at him and then around herself. "Is an incredibly stupid desision on my part."

"It's about Sunsteaker...the golden Lamborghini." The words coming out of the man's mouth were startling and immediately made her want to flee. He knew about the car in her garage. Her hand went to the canister that she had shoved in her back pocket shortly before exiting her car. Gripping the pepper spray in her back pocket she took a step back.

"How do you know about that?"

"This next part is going to be...startling." He said hands up in a placating manner.

Ari didn't say anything, just took another step back. Her grip on the pepper spray tightening. If she was quick enough she could get back into the truck and drive out of here before he could react...but he was fast he had made it from his car to her door without her noticing.

"No wait. I really am not gonna hurt you. I need your help." She froze and cursed. He sounded so lost in that moment, so indescribably sad and haunted. Like the sun had been taken from his world and he was left in darkness. She knew the sentiment all too well. "I really wouldn't have bothered you at all but I don't have anyone else. I need Sunstreaker patched up and he won't be able to survive if you don't help him."

"Sunstreaker the car…" The pigtailed woman asked slowly trying to understand

"Wait. If I show you what I am talking about,will you promise not to freak out?" He seemed like he was dancing a fine line and Ari wasn't sure if she wanted to cross it.

"I will try to keep an open mind but you have to stay over there." Ari said. She didn't want to seem scared of him but he did seem like he was desprate for her to tell him what he wanted to hear and desprate people did stupid things. She knew that from personal experience.

"Okay." He said softly and vanished in an explosion of blue zips of electricity. She let out a muffled gasp of surprise and stumbled slightly. Whirring and metallic scraping were heard from the car as it unfolded into a humanoid shape. It was large and had wheeled feet. It looked red armored and stared down at her with bright blue eyes. Arianna fell back crawling back away from the giant, but no sound escaped her lips as she gaped at the creature as he bent down and picked her up, bringing her up to his eye level. She let loose a scream and swiftly sprayed the creature in his eye glass. Though the creature didn't seem hurt by it he held her away from his face.

"Put me down!" She yelled at him kicking out at the wrist that held her. The creature brought her to the ground and let her go gently. He moved away with his hands up similar to the pose Sides had had earlier when he had exited the...car creature.

"Hey, it's me. Sides." The voice sounded the same but she couldn't understand what was happening. "Will you let me explain?"

"E-xplain? How do you explain this?" She squeaked and hated herself for that. She looked at him with suspicion. "What are you?"

"I'm a Cybertronian. That's a planet that is...a very long way away from here."

"So you like an Alien who is made of metal?" She was shocked beyond belief, with a much steadier voice. The thought was much more believable when she thought about how much more advanced he was than even Japan. If the Earth had this kind of tech they would definitely sell it as some high class item.

"Yes." The metal man, Cybertronian, squatted down keeping the distance between the two of them. She seemed to be calming down but he didn't want to frighten her and cause her to bolt before he could find out where Sunstreaker was. "My brother is my twin. He looks like me, except a little bit more armored and he has audio fins instead." His black hands came up to the side of his head as if to demonstrate what they look like.

Ari just sat there on the ground and looked at him. Her mind went over the fact that this 'alien' was talking to her and how he had asked her earlier to fix his brother. What the hell had she gotten into? Her chest began to feel tight and vision slowly began to blacken around the edges. This was too much. She just wanted to fix up the stupid car, because it was pretty. Never in her life would she have thought that the car would be an alien or that it...no his twin would show up for him.

"Hey, vent. Organics have to vent to survive...Breath, you need to breathe." Wasn't she breathing. Her chest felt too tight to take in any air. She gasped in a gulp of air, which was much harder to do than it should have been. Then again and again. "No, No that's too fast. Princess, too fast. Please don't offline on me."

"D...Don't call me...That." She gasped out her, counting in her head to help stabilize her breathing. She closed her eyes and brought her knees up to lean her head against. 1,2,3,4. 1,2,3,4. The woman closed her eyes drowning out all else except the numbers being repeated over and over again in her head. When she finally felt she could look up at the metal man without freaking out she did. He was crouched down balancing on the balls of his feet, staring down at her.

"Are you okay?" His voice was soft as if he were talking to a frightened child. Which she probably seemed like to him.

"Yeah just a little too much." She said airily.

"I can buy you some food and we can go to the 'park' to finish talking if you want?"

"Why would you want to do that?" It didn't sound bad somewhere she could relax and ask her questions. But the concept was an absurd one coming for the alien.

"The internet says that food and a quiet and attractive environment will help ease tension and stress when you are talking about an unpleasant subject." Ari coughed on her own laughter despite the situation. "Is that a no?"

"It sounds fine, Sideswipe." She said, getting up and moving towards the door of her truck. "But you're buying right?"