A note from the author: The romance hasn't shown up yet as one of the main romancers has not been introduced yet so NO, there is no slashiness. Also, I don't own Transformers.
-
After Ben's harsh remark, the two had not spoken until they had finally gotten out of the forest.
"Look, I'm sorry that your brain was violated, but that's no reason that we can't work together…" Shellback said timidly, remembering how Ben destroyed Pompeii in a fit of Rage brought on instantly. He certainly didn't wish to cause something like that on an undefended planet.
"Shut up, Dion." Ben snapped, back still to Shellback.
However, the two noticed something that lifted their spirits a bit: out from the forest was a city.
Ben looked at Shellback and the two nodded. They were to head for the city, as night was coming soon, and no one, not even an Archangel and a Transformer, need to be out in the wilderness of a strange planet at night.
About halfway to the city, a female voice called out to the two.
Ben looked back and saw a humanoid female in her prime, gesturing towards them invitingly.
"Don't do it!" Shellback whispered in Ben's ear.
Ben ignored him and strode up to the girl.
"Amazing. She looks just like a human…" Ben marveled quietly.
"Actually, I'm what you would call an alien, although you are the visitor on the planet. Odd, really." The woman said calmly.
Ben jumped back in surprise, and nearly fainted.
Shellback ran up to her. "How do you speak English?"
The woman laughed. "On my home planet, we see and hear English every day. No, I'm not an Earther, or even a Cybertronian. My species is called the So-Li, and this is one of our colony worlds."
"So…what is your name?" Ben asked, still wary.
The woman bowed. "Glinn Rei."
"My name is…" Ben started, but Glinn raised her hand to stop his speech.
"I know, Ben Kiritomi of Earth, also known as Archangel Ben. Trust me, I know." Glinn interjected.
"How did you know? Are your people mind-readers?" Ben asked warily.
Shellback quietly drew his stun taser, in case the woman was a threat.
Glinn only laughed.
"We know you because of the Divine Mirror, the source of our beliefs." She said plainly.
"Divine mirror?" Shellback asked, really confused. "My data banks don't have any information on that!"
A fresh youthful light came into Ben's eyes. "I'm not surprised. Even though you received a copy of my memories, you did not get all of them. The Divine Mirror is a construct, older than Primus, that we created to record history. There should be one on every planet. However, there was a glitch in them that made them less used in our culture: They recorded Earth's history, none other."
Shellback folded his arms. "Hrrumph! Doesn't sound like good artifice to me!" he snorted.
"What's his problem?" Glinn asked Ben, who could only shrug in return.
Shellback raised a brow. "At least your girlfriend got Primus right before she kicked the can." He muttered, and then covered his mouth.
Ben's eyes turned crimson, and his war-hammer appeared in his right hand.
"Right, right! Calm down before you kill the planet!" Shellback said in a soothing voice.
All he got in return was a hit to the face with a war-hammer. Sparks flew everywhere, and Shellback was on the ground, covering his face, wailing in pain.
Glinn could only stare at the aggravated Archangel dumbfounded. The evil grin on Ben's face as he kept hitting Shellback probably was a bad sign of Ben's pent-up anger issues, but it's safe to say that neither Ben nor Shellback were thinking about this.
Finally, Shellback screamed out "I take it back!" and only then did the hammer-blows stop.
"Owwww…." Shellback moaned, engaging the Energon Recovery System, or ERS as the Autobots called it.
"My, you do have a temper…" Glinn said quietly, not even meaning for Ben to hear her.
Lucky for her, Ben's eyes were back to normal. Otherwise, he might have lost his temper on her, which would not have been good.
Ben quickly let his anger go, visibly drawing back. "My mistake…" He said quietly.
Glinn looked him over with a confused eye, but sighed and decided to leave it at that.
Ben turned his head to look at her. "What?" he asked, shrugging.
She laughed. "You're trying to impress me."
Ben's cheeks reddened visibly. "No I'm not!"
"Yes you are!" Glinn said in a sing-song voice.
"NO!" Ben said, stomping his foot like a child.
"Yu-huh!" Glinn giggled.
"NU-UNH!" Ben yelled.
"Yu-huh!" Glinn said, falling over laughing.
Ben wagged his finger in desperation frustratedly for a few seconds, but no words came out. No woman had ever gotten Ben to be speechless.
Well, there was Tranquility, but she was calm and logical. This girl seemed to be her opposite: loud and childish.
Ben sighed. "So, is there a place for two Autobot adventurers to stay in this town, or do Shellback and I head back into the forest?" he asked calmly, trying not to sound flustered.
It didn't work. Glinn burst into laughter again. Then, just as fast, she sobered up.
"Yeah. There's an inn. I'll take you there." She said in a lucid tone.
"Lead the way." Ben said, picking up Shellback and putting the ten-foot Autobot on his shoulder as if he weighed nothing.
-
The group got to an inn whose name is roughly translated "The brick of happiness".
"What does that say?" Ben asked, pointing to the Inn's sign.
Glinn sighed. "It says 'the brick of happiness'" .
Ben scratched his head. "Do they mean bricks like we mean bricks?"
Glinn nodded. "Yeah. They just have a weird love of bricks. It's almost as bad as Kinsei's love of explosives. Almost, but not quite."
Ben laughed at this, not because Glinn meant it as a joke, but because he knew Kinsei very well. He had, after all, created it by accident. As for the love of explosives… the Kinseisians, the native race of Kinsei, thought of Ben as their father, so they used what he used…and he tinkered around with explosives in front of them a lot…so they adopted widespread use of explosives. Surprisingly, they haven't blown up their planet yet, but there is a LOT more tectonic activity than there should be on a tropical world.
As he laughed, his eyes caught hers, and he stopped laughing. Somehow, he got trapped in those eyes, those pools of green, orange, and black. The eyes entrapped him, and he could do nothing but stare. A chill worked its way up his spine, and he stepped forward.
"Glinn…" Ben said.
"Yes?" Glinn asked, seemingly locked in his eyes as well.
"Uhh…" And then Ben's natural nervousness started up again. He fell over, dropping the Autobot on his shoulders.
"Are you OK?" Glinn asked as Ben got up from the dust cloud the fall had caused.
Ben stood up, but something was different. He felt his face.
There they were, taunting him once more.
His blasted glasses!
"Damn, I thought I got rid of these long ago!" Ben hissed at the glasses.
"Why? They make you look honest." Glinn said warmly.
Ben then blushed. "Really?"
Glinn also blushed a little this time. "Yeah."
"AWWWW…Look at the lovebirds. Now, if you'll get your feet off my chest, maybe I could stand up!" Shellback taunted.
"SHUT UP DION!" Ben yelled, stomping on Shellback's face.
"OW!"…
-
R&R!
3