Yep, I give you permission to kill me. Ya know, I wasn't gonna update after awhile. I have a bad tendency to just write a few chapters of a story then just… well… let it die. Well anyway depending how well this chapter goes I might continue it. As for everyone's ideas I'm sorry if I don't use them or anything, it's been awhile for me.

Laura began to worry when her and Sideswipe were driving inside the mountain which was complete with full metal lining and a blaring siren. It was eerie, or so Laura thought, as the fluorescent lights mixed with crimson red, and the walls reflecting odd shadows.

"We're almost there."

"We're almost where?"

"The command centre, that's where."

Laura nodded slowly, surely it just wasn't him? He mentioned Optimus, and Decepticons, it's just what she didn't get is how long were these…robots on Earth for anyway? It's not like she's ever seen them before, then again, this one was disguised as a car.

Suddenly Laura's weight was thrown to one side of the seatbelt as Sideswipe skidded around the corner and into a large room, where two double doors closed behind him.

With a big sigh of relief Laura began to wind up for a string of complaints, until a deep voice cut in.

"Welcome back Sideswipe, it seems you have brought a visitor?"
"I'm sorry Optimus, sir, but I couldn't leave her outside when the Decepticons are around."

Optimus nodded, he understood perfectly, "The Decepticons are in our base. I don't know how they managed to pin-point our location, but they did."

Sideswipes door opened and Laura stepped out, looking up in awe at Optimus Prime, she couldn't help but feel, not fear but shy around him.

Optimus looked down upon her with his golden optics and had his mouth not been covered, Laura wondered if he would be smiling.

"My name is Optimus Prime, and you're name might be?"

"Laura." She nodded.

"You're probably wondering who and what we are, however we've got a very serious situation on our hands and your questions will have to wait. Sideswipe?"

"Yes sir?"

"I want you to stay here with the children, the others and I will deal with the Decepticons ourselves."

Sideswipe transformed intorobot modeand saluted, "Yes sir!" and with that Optimus took his leave.

"Well that sucks."

The Autobot looked down to Laura, "sorry?"

"Well I mean Optimus and the others go off fighting but you're stuck here watching me and the… what others?"

The base rumbled and a few humans popped their heads out from around a corner.

"Laura?"

She turned to see Billy and Fred, "uh hi guys." She waved slowly. Another rumble shook through the base.

Sideswipe turned from the group when Optimus' face came up on screen, "Sideswipe! Get the kids out of here!"

"Young adult, I'm a young adult." Laura mumbled.

"Right away, sir! Get in kiddies." Sideswipe transformed and his doors opened up.

Laura growled as she climbed into the back seat, the two boys taking the front. Straps flew across their chests and off they were.

After a few harrowing skids around corners and the golden embers from scattered fires caressed Sideswipe, they were basking in the light of day. With Billy and Fred clutching the seats, Laura found herself hanging onto the seatbelt with her eyes shut tight.

"This is not what I was expecting for a day after school!" she cried out.

"All I asked for was a cheeseburger and I got this!" Fred whined.

"You guys hurt my audio receptors!" Sideswipe yelled.

As for Billy, he was too busy screaming for dear life to say anything.

After a few more minutes of screaming they skidded to a halt at the end of the mountain.

Everyone's heads seem to pull back and launch themselves into the seats once more.

"Holy shit, how often do you guys tend to do this?"

"All the time!" Sideswipe answered with a cheery tone.

The other two didn't answer until Fred mumbled from the seat, "I need to pee."

"Not yet, we need to get farther away." Fred groaned and they were on streets, heading away from the mountain. Poking his head from around the seat Billy peered at Laura, "you can open your eyes."

"I know, but I don't want to open them until we're away." She waved her hand dismissively.

"I think we're away now."

Slowly opening her eyes she looked out the windows to see houses slowly going by them and children playing hop scotch on the sidewalks or skipping.

"So," Laura straightened up, "can someone actually tell me what you are," she dug her finger into the seat, "and the Decepticons?"

"Sideswipe, Optimus and any other nice transformer you meet are called Autobots." Fred explained.

"Yeah, and the bad guys are called Decepticons. There are mini transformers call minicons and they came to Earth and now the Autobots and Decepticons are trying to get them." Billy nodded as he eyed an ice cream truck.

"Transformers? What are they?"

"That's us, giant robots that can transform into things."

"Oh," Laura paused, "well are the minicons good or bad?"

"Well it depends who gets to them first."

"Are there any ice cream truck transformers?" Billy grinned.

Sideswipe didn't even answer that one.

"Just drop us off here, Sideswipe."

The car stopped and allowed Billy and Fred to hop out. With a wave they ran off to Fred's house. Slowly, Lauraclimbed into the driver's seat, the doors closed and Sideswipe set off.

"Where am I takin' you missy?"

"A field or something, I don't know."

"How about home?"

"Egh, don't start with that. I'm not ready to go home quite yet."

"Alrighty, a field it is."

There was a long silence between them as Sideswipe drove. Once in awhile he would ask if she was hungry or if she needed to go to the bathroom, since us organics do it a lot. Or so Sideswipe claims. Laura refused any offer, she had no money to eat and she certainly didn't need the bathroom

"Alright, here we are." They began down a dusty path and long grass sprung up on either side of them.

"Where are we?"

"Just a wee field no one seems to be near anymore."

"Oh. Come here often?"

"Sometimes, when I'm by myself."

Hanging a left he drove right into the grass, stopping once they were a little ways off from the path. Hopping out of the vehicle Laura stretched her limbs.

A series of metal scraping metal and other sounds drew Laura's attention to behind her.

"Hullo." Sideswipe in full robot mode sat in the grass, looking down to her.

"I still can't get over how big you guys are." She slowly made her way towards him, "and yet somehow you can become a car. Not really compact for us, but I guess a car is tiny to you guys."

"Yeah well, being a giant robot has its advantages. I kinda wish I was organic like you humans."

"Oh no, no you don't," she came up beside his thigh, "we're so blah. We can stink, we have to excrete bodily wastes and worst of all; you can get hangovers."

"Hangovers?" He set his hand down on the ground beside her, though she never stepped on, "what? Still don't trust me?"

"Well excuse me for not getting used to the fact I'm standing beside a thirty ton transformer."

They stared at each other, as though they were challenging each other to a staring contest.

"Fine," she stepped onto his hand and sat down. Bringing his hand closer to his face he asked again, "so hangovers, what are they?"

"They are a side effect of drinking alcohol."

"Alcohol?"

"Oh you have much to learn my big man. It's a type of drink that makes you drunk, which is getting light headed and sometimes fun. Other times people can get quite rude when they are drunk. Everyone is different."

"What are you? When you're drunk."

"Me? Oh… I tend to get sad."

"Why?" he tilted his head.

Laura sighed, "I don't have much freedom, and a bad family life."

"Oh…" he trailed off. He never knew too much about human relationships, though he suspected if it makes her sad, he shouldn't prod any farther. Not just yet anyway.

"Well at least you aren't a transformer."

"What's wrong with being a transformer? I mean you probably don't need to breathe, you're free to do as you please, and you're daunting-"

"I'm not daunting." He looked hurt.

"Trust me, to a human you are. Mess with the wrong humans they won't care whether you're nice or not. They'll try and kill you."

"That's reassuring."

"Well anyway, I would prefer to be a transformer than a human."

"You're basically forced to fight, either that or doing something that really sucks. There's always constant war between us and the Decepticons. To be a femme would be an oddity as well, might as well put a big target on your head and say "Take me! I'm a femme transformer!"

A confused look twisted her face, "what?"

"Look, there aren't many femme transformers, in fact it's quite rare to see them."

"Oh," she scratched her head and grinned, "guess that would make her an instant hit with the guys eh? Heheh."

"Yes, I guess so," he grinned, "but, I dunno you're older so you may understand better but, the Decepticons, they are the ones you kind of want to stay away from if you're a femme."

Laura thought about it then suddenly, "ooooh! Eh…" her face was more of a disgusted one, "They…?"

"Yes, let's just say they are deprived."

"Well I would still want to be a transformer, just hang with you Autobots." She grinned, "It would be so sweet!"

Sideswiped sighed, "You humans are funny."

She punched his metal hand but found herself rubbing her stinging knuckles.

"Hah!" he flashed a big grin, then looked over, "oh hey, bro is coming."

"Bro?" Laura turned.

"Hey Sideswipe!"

A bright yellow transformer jumped up from the grass, "oh hey, Laura right?"

Laura nodded, "Hotshot, never thought I would be seeing you so soon."

He gave her the thumbs up, "Well hey, good to see you. I see you've become acquainted with Sideswipe."

"Indeed I have, I briefly met…" she paused.

"Optimus?"

"Yes! Optimus! He seems very nice you know, and you guys are nice…" Laura looked down, she wanted to stay with them, she didn't want to go home, and for once, she never even thought of lighting up any of her drugs which she probably would have done had none of this happened. She didn't want to leave them.

"Well Sideswipe, we need you back at base to help clean up, heard you were with the kids so I decided to come visit. 'Course never thought I would find Laura."

"Young adult." She stuck her index finger up to him, "I am a young adult, not a kid."

Hotshot chuckled as Sideswipe grinned.

"Anyway, we've gotta take you home." Hotshot announced and immediately Laura stood,

"No, I'm not ready to go home, well really I don't want to go home." She then thought of her dragon collection, what if her mother trashed it for not showing up.

"Actually," she hung her head low, "I should probably head home."

Hotshot nodded and transformed into vehicle mode, "Hop in, I remember the place."

Sideswipe let her down to the ground and transformed as she hopped into Hotshot.

"Lets go!" she strapped in and they set off towards her house.

Really it took about fifteen minutes to reach her neighbourhood. Hotshot stopped and allowed her to get out, "Will I be able to see you guys, and Optimus again?"

"Sure! Just come by tomorrow after school." Sideswipe happily chirped in though Hotshot wasn't sure, "Listen you know a lot now that you've seen us and stuff, but we can't risk you getting harmed. If you hang out with us you are put at risk. I think its better if you… I don't know the word Laura, but you do understand don't you?"

Laura nodded, "Hey even if I did hang out with you guys, and something bad happened to me, I don't have much to lose." She shrugged and began walked down the street towards her house, "bye Sideswipe, bye Hotshot. I hope to see you again sometime. I'm sure I'll hear stuff from Billy and Fred."

So the goodbyes were said, and they parted their separate ways, though when Laura came home to a quiet house she was relieved. It was even better to find her dragons untouched. Though she couldn't help but feel empty inside, as though by parting the Autobots, she lost something… this was just the beginning. Laura didn't know whether she would see the two Autobots again, and Optimus. Those eyes.

By the time she went to bed, she couldn't stop thinking about the events today. It was when her chest started hurting those horrible visions of Sideways entered her mind.

It was futile to resist, darkness swept over her senses and she was in her slumber.

This was the beginning of what?

Alright so another boring chapter, lots of flab gabbering though i'm a little interested again so perhaps i'll do another chapter tomorrow. I ahve lots of homework though so i'll try my best for a quick update.