Suds in the Bucket: Part 6

The next morning came and this found Alyssa and Wheeljack getting up, getting presentable and then heading out to the airport to at least meet her folks there. I was pretty sure that the woman would have rather faced down Megatron again then deal with what would most likely be coming from her step dad. I like him, sorta, but I think he'd enjoy life a lot more if he weren't so serious all the time.

Taking into consideration that this mess was partially my fault to begin with, I thought that I should go with her and do the best I could to keep any serious damage from happening. Optimus of course wanted to come with me, so all four of us headed out to the Portland International and waited for the every one to make it there. Or rather this is what we intended to do in theory. In fact we nearly had to threaten to tie Alyssa up and drag her there, to get her to agree to go.

So rather than her parents walking out into the parking lot to meet a pair of rational young women, they came walking out of the terminal to find me leaning against a "Truck" looking exasperated and Alyssa standing there yelling at a "Car" at the top of her lungs.

"I didn't want to do this I CAN'T believe that you made me come here!"

"Alyssa," That made her move the glare of doom from the car over to me, "Some one had to be here to pick up your folks."

"No they didn't." She snorted.

That was when they walked up and caught sight of her.

"Alyssa?" This was her mom.

My friend visibly winced and turned around to meet the gaze of her parent. "Hi mom."

"Uhh.. Hi," The woman blinked and then looked over at me, "Hi Angel."

"Hey there," I waved and continued to lean against Optimus.
That was when her step dad marched up followed by her real father.

"There you are," Her dad chimed, "So come on now, where is he?"

They spent a few more seconds getting every thing caught up and every one filled in on what had happened and where I had disappeared to. Her step father demanded to know why she felt compelled to get involved and tried to go into some rant about her not being trust worthy. Thankfully before he could get very far into that, her mother chimed in again.

"So there's just one thing I want to know," She asked.

"What's that mom?" Alyssa asked.

"Why were you standing out here in the middle of the parking lot yelling at this car? And by the way where did you get a car in the first place."

She swallowed and looked at me; I just shrugged and shook my head at her. Alyssa turned back to her folks and proceeded to come clean.

"Its," She motioned to the car, "My boyfriend."

He mom didn't get it, none of them did, "okay first off, that doesn't explain why you were yelling at the car, and secondly …When did you get a boyfriend?"

She took a deep breath and then started over, "First off, I met my guy when I went off to find Angel."

This resulted in me getting some strange looks from all of the parents concerned. I merely smiled, waved and nodded for her to continue with her explanation.

"As for the car, I didn't say that it belonged to my boyfriend I said I was my boyfriend."

Now she got blank looks again as all three of them tried to process exactly what this might mean. I stood there and grinned at Optimus wondering how long it would be before the hurricanes hit. It didn't take long.

"WHAT do you MEAN the CAR is your boyfriend!?" Her step dad finally roared.

"I mean exactly what it sounds like I mean." She told them.

"But what do you mean?" Her real dad got out.

This is when I came over and interjected, "Hold on a second."

All eyes turned to me.

I swallowed and then continued, "I think that it would be easier to show you than try and explain it all to you."

"Show us?" her step dad echoed.

"Yeah," I turned to face Optimus and Wheeljack, "Go on you two, do your stuff."

I couldn't see their faces in their alt modes but I know both of them must have had evil grins plastered there. A few seconds later they were there in their real modes and again despite the masks, I got the impression that they were grinning ear to ear.

"This is what she meant." I motioned up to them, "I'd like to introduce Wheeljack and Optimus Prime."

Three mouths hit ground Zero and I felt compelled for some strange reason to keep on going. What my problem was I have no idea, and we'd all have been a lot happier if I'd just kept my trap shut. But I felt that they should know what was going on and so I leveled with them.

"Their Transformers." The grin of the smitten crossed my face, "Jack' Is with Alyssa and Optimus is mine."

"Your's?" Her mother echoed, "Wanna tell me what you mean exactly by yours?"

"Mine, You know as, significant other, spouse, husband, want me to keep going?"

For a second I thought the woman was going to faint, I thought her step dad's head was going to do an impression of the guy in "Scanners" and I don't know what look her real dad had on his face. It eventually morphed into some kind of strange lil' grin and He shook his head at us.

"Well I guess I can't complain too much, I mean he is a guy." He grinned wider. "That's pretty much all that's required."

"All that's required!" Alyssa's step dad proceeded to explode, "What do you mean that's all that's required. He's …. He's some kind of metal freak! They both are!! Its just plain sick that some one would want to have a relationship like that!"

Now I turned and almost snarled at him, "Watch your damned mouth you creep! That's my husband you just called a freak!"

"I don't care what you say! He's no good for her! NIETHER of them are good for either of you!!"

"And how pray tell do you know that!?" Alyssa finally demanded, "Do you have any idea what he did for me?"

"What are you talking about?" Her mom got out.

"This person that you seem to think is a bad influence on me," She turned to glare at her step dad, "This person that you think is no good for me, SAVED my life!"
Now once again all three of them were stuck there staring at all of us.

"Come again?" He Mom managed.

"You heard me, Wheeljack saved my life." She folded her arms and glared at them, daring any of them to top that.

"And just how pray tell did he do that?" Her step dad snarked.

"He fought Megatron," She told them, "He kept him from killing me and gave Angel time get back into the base and find some where to hide."

"What pray tell is a Mega..what ever you said?" He real dad asked.

"Megatron, He's the one that was trying to kill Angel and Optimus." She narrowed her eyes and continued, "I was there helping and we were trying to get Angel out and away from the bad guys when He surprised us."

"And this guy stopped him from killing your friend and you?" The real dad prompted.

"That's right," She turned to glare at her step father some more and started up again, "If your right and he's so wrong then tell me Mr. Self righteous, Where the heck were you when I was getting guns big enough for me to walk in, pointed in my direction? Oh yeah, and where were you when my best friend went missing and I had to find her? Huh?" She took a deep breath and lit into him, "This guy took me out to find her, YOU wanted me to abandon her and let them have her. Well I've got news for you! He's one of the best things that has ever happened to me, you hear me! And if you don't like it you can take a flying run and go and kiss off!"

Every single person there gapped at her as she whipped around to face Jack.

"Transform," She demanded.

He did what she wanted and a few seconds later she got in and took off. I watched her disappear and had to laugh at the whole mess. Optimus thought the thing was pretty funny to and we both got a good guffaw out of the looks on her Mom and step dad's face. She'd never told them off, and they just stood there in awe of her. She'd done some thing that no one had ever seen coming and enjoyed it. I hoped that she stuck to this and tried to remain by what all she had told them in her little rant.

Optimus transformed and we followed them back to the base. As we pulled up along side of them I got a good look at her. She had her shoes off and her bare feet sticking out of his window, enjoying her self and snuggling into his driver's seat. She no longer cared what any one had to say at that point and I didn't either. It was really great to see her happy and I hoped that every one would stay this way for a while.