Mi Vida Loca: Part 3
Optimus and Angel had to call in Prowl and some of Autobot security to come in and get what was left of Motormaster. While the two of them spent time talking to every one and telling them what was to be done with the wayward leader of the Stunticons, Alyssa and I hung around and listened to what the first cop's superior had to tell him about the whole incident.
"BUT SIR…" he tried.
The
older officer laughed at him, "Look kid, personally I think you're
a moron. Every highway patrol man all up and down ever interstate in
this nation knows who that semi is. Every one except a rookie like
you it seems."
"But!" The younger one kept on.
"So you go and pull him and his Human lady over. You're lucky that they didn't wind up giving you the treatment. I got that when I pulled him over a few years ago."
"Treatment sir?"
The older one smiled again, "Wait till you made him get up on the scale and then transform. Throws the scale all out of whack, throws it out of whack and the state government makes you pay for having it fixed."
I had to laugh as I watched the rookie cop realize that he had just missed having about a year's pay docked from his check by about a hair's breath. I kept watching them for a few seconds longer and then turned back to where Optimus and Angel were finally finishing up.
"So that's it then?" She asked him.
"That's it as far as I'm concerned for now." He nodded, "Though if some kind of exchange for him can be arranged with the Decepticons, the two of us might have to go back to the ark a few days early."
"I think I could probably live with that." She nodded.
"I HEARD THAT!" Alyssa yelled from where she was beside me.
I looked down at her, "Mind telling me what that was?"
"She doesn't want to go kayaking with me." Alyssa shook her head.
I watched Angel and Optimus move over to talk to the cops for a minute and then turned back to Alyssa.
"So you haven't explained this Kayaking thing to me yet." I told her.
"I thought I told you all about it!" She looked up at me in shock.
"You told me about it but it still doesn't make any sense to me." I glanced up to see Angel now tearing into the cop with great gusto, and then had my attention drawn back to Alyssa as she started talking again.
"Well what doesn't make sense?" She blinked, "it's a sport."
"Okay lemme see here, you want to drive up a mountain with two flimsy pieces of plastic taped to my roof. So you can get in said flimsy pieces of plastic get in the water and float down the mountain. So you can hike back up the mountain carrying the aforementioned flimsy pieces of plastic. So you can strap them to my roof again and drive back down the mountain." I looked at her.
"Yah? Yer point?"
I had to stand there and stare at her for a few seconds, "and humans do this for sport?"
"Some of us do yes." She grinned enthusiastically again.
"I'm sorry baby, I just don't get it." I had to give up.
I might have been one of the most qualified engineers of the whole population of Cybertron, but for some strange reason I couldn't bring my self to grasp this one concept.
I finally gave up and shook my head at her.
"Well it's your vacation Alyssa; I'm just along for the ride here to meet your dad's family."
"Hehe… oh you're here for a whole lot more than that sweetie. Besides, I'm sure you've seen humans do things that are a lot stranger than going on a river expedition."
"There is that," I nodded.
I looked back and saw Angel walking away from the cop with a very smug look on her face and the younger of the two looking completely cowed at the thought of what he had done here and just who it was he had managed to tick off. Optimus kept on talking to the older one for a few seconds, giving the person the assurances that someone would be along to help them repair the damage that had been done and that he was sorry that the weigh station got dragged into this whole mess.
"So?"
Alyssa asked, "Did ya let him have it?"
"Well some what,"
She sighed, "What I would have liked to have done isn't legal."
"Now,
now," Alyssa grinned at her. "You can't go around offing
cops."
"Who's said any thing about offing him?" she
asked, "I was thinking of putting Jell-O in his short and having
Optimus make him stand there until it melted."
Alyssa got a strange look on her face and tried really hard to not crack up.
"You
weren't going to use green Jell-O were you?"
"No as a
matter of fact I was planning on using blue."
Alyssa snorted and grinned again, "That's just evil."
Finally Prime came back over and found all of us.
"The officer's say that we are free to go and they apologize for holding us up in any and all ways," He told us.
"Well it's about bloody well time," She sniffed, "What did that little twit think he was doing any how?"
"Oh don't be so hard on him;" I told Angel, "The kid was just doing his job ya know?"
"Well he can do his job some where far, FAR away from me."
"You really don't like cops do you," I asked.
"Please
don't get her started," Alyssa groaned, "You get her started
and she'll regale us with all of her cop horror stories."
"OH
I will not!"
"Which will lead into the tales about her
sister…" Alyssa kept going.
"HEY!" Angel put her hands on her hips.
"Which will probably prompt her to start talking about her Mom and Dad and about how they have NOOO life," Alyssa smirked.
"OKAY! We get the picture!" Angel huffed.
"Oh come on! I was just giving you a hard time Angel." She cracked up. "Don't take every thing so seriously."
"Hmmph, You try putting up with all the nut cases I have and see just what you start thinking about it?"
I looked over their heads at Prime who was hiding a smile some where under there but was still trying to make him self LOOK serious.
"Well then ladies, now that this is all over would you like to get back on the road and get in some more traveling before night hits?"
"I think the two of us could live with that." Angel nodded.
"Ditto," Alyssa agreed. "But let's find a cute lil place to spend the night."
"Yes Mam," I grinned at her.
"Awww," Angel gushed at us. "That's so cute!"
Both of us blushed but didn't deny it as we got ready to head back out and finish up what traveling we could today.
