We Didn't Start the Fire: Part 2
The next morning, I hadn't gotten over my disagreement with Optimus about what I was going to do if the 'Cons showed, but I had let the subject drop. This was mainly due to the fact that no one could really anticipate what was going to happen and that all either of us could really do was try to be ready. I wasn't to thrilled that they wanted to come back and start some thing else, and Prime wasn't to thrilled that I wanted to take my part. It just wasn't worth fighting over though, like I said we couldn't control it. So we got over the spat for the most part and went to bed on good terms.
We got up, got dressed and headed for the commissary. I AM NOT, a morning person. To be perfectly honest, neither is Op'. For the sake of every one under his command he'd been doing a good job of faking it for the last few million years. I on the other hand didn't even try. Sideswipe caught on to this as I headed over to get some caffeine in my blood and began to needle me a bit.
"Good morning sunshine," he smiled at me.
"Uh huh," I muttered and headed over to sit down next to Prime.
Siders seemed to find my discomfort that much more amusing and laughed all the way to his table over there by his brother. Sunny found it amusing too and had a good chortle at my expense. One that he kept up until the moment he saw Alyssa's parents walk in. The grin fell and he got his typical frown back. Siders followed where he was looking and an identical look appeared on the red twin's face. I raised my eyebrows at Optimus over the display. He only shook his head at me and shrugged.
"Hey Sunny?"
He turned to look at me and the frown faded some, "Yes mam?"
"Don't call me mam," I growled.
Sideswipe grinned and elbowed him, "Told ya."
Sunstreaker actually flushed, "Sorry Miss Angel, what do you need?"
"I was wondering why you're suddenly so protective of Alyssa. I mean she did …" I trailed off.
"Hehe," Sunny grinned, "Well yeah I guess she did, but I won at pong."
Sideswipe looked up and rolled his optics.
"I thought you'd be mad at her."
He laughed, "How can I be mad at any one who's THAT good at gaming, I mean really?"
"Well I'm glad you guys can get along then, just do me one favor will you?"
"Sure," He nodded.
"PLEASE try to at least be tolerant of her Step dad? I mean he is her step dad after all."
Sunstreaker rolled his optics and shook his head, "if you say so Miss Angel, but I still don't like him."
"Thanks Sun'" I smiled at him and he actually blushed a bit.
While all of that was going on across the room, several other autobots that hadn't been sworn to good behavior were letting Alyssa's parents have it with both barrels.
"And exactly what gives you the right to call us any thing?" Mirage glared.
"Yeah," Tracks added, "Do you have any idea how messed up your own world is?"
"What do you mean by that?" Her mom asked.
"Oh please," Jazz told them, "All you seem to do here is fight with one another."
"That's not true!"
"Not to mention trying to cram things down people's throats," Bluestreak called.
"Yeah," Smokescreen added, "Why do you humans think your way of thinking is the only way? And what right do you have to tell us were going to the Pit?"
"I never!" Her step dad shot back.
"No," Jazz continued, "But you're the type that would."
"Well I'm sorry you think that, but really…." He tried again.
"But really nothing!" This was little Cliffjumper, "We're out there getting our hides smeared all over the place trying to keep you lil' creepy crawlies safe from the cons and what do you do to try and thank us? You turn on us the second we even look at you cross eyed."
I caught this and looked across the commissary, "This is going to make me crazy Op."
The leader shook his head and then turned to look at his men. All of which visibly wilted under the look he gave them.
"That's quiet enough now."
All of them looked a bit sheepish, but no one apologized. I guess no one had ever really taken into consideration that they were out there trying to help us. The government had never done any thing to try and hurt them, but they hadn't exactly taken a liking to them.
It pretty much should have ended there with the guys being called down and Alyssa's parents left with some things to think about. It didn't however; no in fact it got worse. It got worse when they saw the aforementioned girl and her engineer walk into the commissary arm in arm. Arm in arm, and Wheeljack shrunk down to human size. That one caught them off guard and left them there gaping as she walked over to get her coffee and he changed back to his real size. Alyssa turned back with the cup in hand and suddenly caught the look on their faces, one that was some where between shock and amazement.
"What's the matter?" She asked.
"How… how did he..?" He mother stuttered.
"How'd he what?" She blinked and then it registered, "Oh! You mean how did he get down to human size? Hehe he's an engineer mom, he's got all kinds of fun toys" She winked.
"But, ahh… okay."
Her Mom sat there for a second and thought about it, then some thing else occurred to her. I could tell that it dawned on her as the look of utter horror slowly crept over the woman's face. She looked at Alyssa and then looked at me, and then looked back to her daughter.
"Oh no," she muttered softly.
"What?" Her husband looked up.
"Something just occurred to me," She kept that look on her face and stared at us some more.
"What just occurred to you? You look about like I feel over this whole mess."
"It's just; I mean I was wondering something."
I motioned for her and caught her attention. She got a bit of a panicked look and then jumped up and headed over to the human sized table I was sitting at.
"Angel," she got deadly serious.
"What's on you mind, you look like you just swallowed a bug or something."
She nodded almost frantically and set down beside me, "I need you to tell me something Angel, and I need you to promise to me that you're going to be honest, because if you're going to lie to me then I don't want to…"
"Just ask me mam," I sighed.
She shook her head, "Okay, okay, what I need to know is where you and Alyssa stay."
"Come again?"
"Where do you two sleep at night?" She demanded.
I wasn't catching on to where the woman was going with all of this so I just shrugged and answered, "Our rooms."
"And those are where?" She prompted.
"Well, I stay with Optimus and Alyssa is with Jack."
All the color faded from the woman's face and her eyebrows jumped up to her hairline like she'd just seen a rat or something.
"YOU stay with THEM!?"
"Uhhhh… yeah…" I still didn't see any problems.
"Alyssa stays in the same ROOM as a GUY!??"
Now it finally hit me and I had to giggle over the reason she was flipping out.
"You're worried about that?" I snickered.
"And your not," she seemed out raged.
"Why should I be worried? I mean really." I sighed at the woman. "Don't you think you're over reacting just a bit?"
"I AM NOT OVER REACTING!!" She raged at me, "My daughter and a guy are sharing the same ROOM!"
I blinked at the woman a few more times, trying to guess what the problem was. Frankly, I thought she was being goofy. I mean really, all things considered, that was the last thing the woman needed to be worrying about. Still she turned around to light into Alyssa and I put another notch on my weird meter. I was thinking that things couldn't possibly get worse after all of this. I was to be very quickly proven wrong.