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KristalShaga – Don't worry if I didn't have my own ideas, this story wouldn't exist, and I am very interested in your ideas, one I already planned and a few I'm really considering. Of course I can't tell you what my ideas are, or which ones of yours I'll be using however you'll find out what they are very soon. Thanks for your ideas and comments!
Laura sat in her new classroom; thankfully the teachers didn't bring new students to the front of the room, because she wasn't good in front of a large crowd of people.
With a heavy sigh, she looked out the window as the teacher, Mr.Fleshour droned on about timetables, what supplies they'll have to bring for tomorrow, and the course fees.
"Course fee will only be ten dollars, this pays for the subjects you will be personally dissecting."
There was a small hubbub that began to pick up at the mention of dissection. Even Laura grimaced a bit, oh well, if it's for the world of science and learning, she can't avoid it.
Glancing out at the open school grounds, Laura wished lunchtime would come and she could sit down and relax in the sun. Upon looking away and actually paying attention to her teacher, Laura misseda student coming towards the school with another figure running alongside him
"OK, we're almost there Grindor!" the boy looked over his shoulder at the blue figure, his form reflecting the sharp rays of the sun. In reply, the being spoke a series of beeps and strange whirring sounds.
"I know I'm late! Just transform so I can get you into the school unnoticed." The blue figure suddenly seemed to have just twisted itself into a strange way and took upon another form; a skateboard.
"You might be a little cramped 'till lunch, but no worries," the boy picked up the skateboard, "you'll be able to stretch at lunch with the others."
Laura glanced out the window once more and saw the boy with the skateboard. Who was he talking to? She quirked a brow and pushed the thought aside.
"We'll be starting our class off with Genetics; can anyone tell me what genetics is?"
No hands were up.
"Don't make me pick a random name off the list."
Still no hands took to the air.
"OK then," he paused and began sucking his teeth as he scrolled through the list, "Tanya Sherrings… can you tell me what genetics mean?"
Tanya lifted her head from her desk and pulled her blonde hair off her glasses, "It's the study of heredity; where traits are passed onto one generation to the next."
"Thank you, Tanya." Everyone seemed to roll their eyes,"Now I'm going to hand out your text books. Please go to page 6, 'An Introduction to Biology."
Laura groaned, suddenly she wondered why she even took this class.
The bell screamed through the halls and classrooms. Yes, it was lunchtime. Collecting her things, Laura briskly walked out of math class. Who hands out homework on the first day? Her math teacher does! The first two morning classes weren't too bad, Laura thought as she headed out the front doors, things will probably be more interesting when I get to know people. Sitting herself onto a bench she pulled out a granola bar and began slowly picking at it, looking at all the students without making herself look like a total idiot. She picked out the jocks, the populars, the nerds, and then the neutrals. She considered herself to be a neutral. She wasn't Goth, she was fairly smart, she knew how to dress without looking like a nerd, or too out of style, and most important of all, she had class. She wasn't the type to steal a boyfriend or backstab a friend. However she wasn't really concerned about that at the moment, she was interesting in getting friends.
Finishing off her lunch, Laura stood and threw what little trash she had, into the garbage.
Having no luck around here she decided it was maybe best to head around the school and see if other people were there.
Making her way around the corner, Laura spotted two guys by themselves; they were playing cards and seemed to be pretty bored. Perfect.
"Billy I'm hungry." A bigger boy whined, while he looked over his cards and a small pile to his left.
"All you think about is food Fred. Maybe if you stopped thinking about that, then you could win a game. Queen of hearts?"
"Go fish… mmmm fish, I like fish sticks." Fred grinned to himself.
"Hello, mind if I join you two?"
Both Billy and Fred looked up to an older girl; suddenly they seemed to have frozen. She looked nervous andbegan to lookaround a bit and lightly kicked the lush green grass.
"Oh, uh, yeah you can hang with us." Fred nodded, "though were only playing go fish."
"No! We're playing Blackjack," Billy stood up quickly, his face a light pink, "My name is Billy, and him down there is Fred." He shot his hand out
"Laura, pleased to meet you." She shook his hand and they both sat.
"Blackjack eh? Doesn't look like it." Laura smirked
"Erm, we were playing blackjack though I decided to go easy on Fred and play Go Fish."
She smiled, "Cool, hey know how to play spoons?"
They both shook their heads and she began to explain, grabbing two sticks she laid them out in front of them. When they began the game, it didn't take long for the winnertobe Fred.
"Nice job!" Laura laughed, suddenly the bell rang and she paused, "I'm new around here, and… I don't have any friends." She looked hopeful, maybe, just maybe these younger guys will let her hang out with them.
"Hold on." Billy grabbed Fred and they turned their backs to her, "This could be a problem." Billy whispered, "she'll want to hang out with us but what about the Autobots? She can't find out."
"I dunno she is cute; I'm sure the Autobots won't mind meeting her." Fred grinned, glancing back to Laura who stood waiting impatiently, "guys we've got like, five minutes…" she felt a little hurt, they had to discuss between themselves wether to be her friend or not? Thats comforting.
"OK," Billy nodded as he turned towards her, "you can hang out with us."
She smiled, and nodded slowly, "Okay. Well I don't know about you guys but I'm heading back in." Laura turned and began her walk back to the front of the school.
"Wait up!" Billy jumped up and ran to her side, leaving Fred with the cards laid out on the grass.
The end of the day, and Laura could admit, today wasn't a bad day at all. Though going back home probably wasn't the first thing on her mind. Laura wanted to explore the forest, go to the top of the hill and see the town from such a high vantage point. If only she had a bike.
Panting and only halfway there, Laura decided to take a rest. The forest was an empty place, or so it seemed. With a sigh she began her travel upwards again, it was when she heard the snap of a stick. She paused and tried to look in the trees, "Hello?" there was no reply but the slight wind. Laura began her journey upwards once more, this time she saw a shadow pass through slowly from the corner of her eye, it's when she looked it stopped and seemed to have blended right into the trees.
"Hotshot?"
She didn't know why she called the name, maybe perhaps he was in the forest that night, but she waited for an answer.
"You know him?"
Laura walked closer to the tree line, the voice seemed to be coming almost from… above?
"Yes, I met him last night. He drove me home."
"Oh in that case," a huge being stepped out from the tree line
"Oh my god!" Laura stumbled back against a tree, "what are you!"
"I thought you knew Hotshot!" The beingexclaimed in surprise, obviously not expecting that type of reaction from Laura.
"He was a guy who could see, hear, and smell me in a camera! and he could drive a car without being there..." she sounded so stupid, and she knew it.
The huge figure got a confused look on his face, "never mind, look there is nothing to fear, I won't hurt you." He kneeled down and there was a quiet hissing sound and the clank of metal against tree.
Laura swallowed hard and tried to stop her shaking. This guy was huge and she wasn't about to trust him, "What are you?" with a quick look over the figure, she knew off the bat he was a giant robot, like c'mon. He had sky blue eyes, which matched many parts of his armour. His face and body was a cool silver and the rest of his body had golden yellow accents.
The robot seemed to be thinking a lot because he kept humming and hawing, "I'm… a… well…" he twiddled his fingers and looked around.
Laura went to say something until she heard her name, "Hey Laura!" she turned her head down the path where she could just see Billy and Fred. She looked back over to the 'bot to see he was gone.
"Uh guys."
"Billy wait! I'm too tired!"
"C'mon Fred," Billy stepped up to Laura and looked around, "hey… what's the matter?"
She glanced over to the bush, "uh… nothing, nothing at all."
"You look like you've seen a ghost," Fred paused, "you're shaking!"
"No, I'm not. I just got a shudder."
"Hm, well hey we've got something to show you!" Fred smiled
Billy elbowed him in the ribs, "not now you idiot, not now!"
"You guys go on ahead, I'll catch up or whatever." she waved her hand dismissivly, though was curious about what Fred said.
The two boys looked at each other and nodded, "ok, see you later!"
Laura watched them run off and turned back to the trees, "you still there?"
"I know them." A car pulled out of the bushes, and Laura held her place. A car wasn't such an imposing figure like a robot.
"You know Billy and Fred?"
"Yes."
There was an awkward moment of silence until Laura began her way towards the car, "You have a name?"
"Sideswipe."
"Strange," she murmured, "it's a strange name like Hotshot and Sideways…"
"What's that?"
"Nothing," she shook her head, "Are their others like you?"
Sideswipe didn't say anything once more until he finally sighed, "If you trust me enough, I can show you something special."
"Since that doesn't sound creepy." She looked under the car, expecting to see Sideswipes face but it looked like a normal car bottom.
"I'm a giant robot, what do you think I could possibly do?"
"Well you're like an alien species to earth, you could do weird probes and experiments."
"Billy and Fred haven't been harmed."
Laura paused as Sideswipe opened the side door, "Come on."
"Fine." She climbed into the driver's seat where it automatically strapped her in. When they turned to go up the hill, she saw a glint of purple.
"What is that?"
Sideswipe stopped, "What's the matter?"
"Oh nothing, never mind. Probably just my imagination." She resumed looking at nature, "why haven't we started driving yet?"
Suddenly a red jet flew by just above, too close to the ground to be any normal jetand did a sharp turn around the whole mountain, only to disappear out of thin air.
"That was weird."
"That looks like trouble, I can't drop you off here if the Decepticons are possibly in the vicinity," Sideswipe began ascending the path at a rapid speed
"Deceptiwhodicons?"
"Listen you're probably going to see a lot in the next hour or so, but you can't be afraid. You must stay calm and do what the others say, especially Optimus."
"Well where's Billy and Fred? I thought we would have passed them."
"They're probably at the base, took a shortcut through the forest."
"I'm sorry you're confusing me, base? and you mentioned Optimus, who is Optimus?"
"Get used to confusion, and anything else will be explained. Just hold on tight!"
My apologies that was a boring chapter to read I'm guessing? Well it was a boring chapter to write. Things will begin to pick up next chapter, I'm already typing it up as you read this, yay! So please read and review and don't bother complaining how sucky this chapter is, I'm well aware and thank you all who have reviewed so far.