"With the Cons calming down and are going quiet, I will allow for you to go back to your house," Will allowed with a hint of nervousness evident in his voice. That doesn't sound good; usually when the bad guys go quiet all of a sudden, it means they are preparing for something big. Or that's what happens in the movie and we all know all that isn't true.
"Yes! Finally!" I turned to Ironhide who is with us in the main hangar, "you owe me that free trip to Baskin n' Robins. Better pay up now or I'll annoy you until you take me." Ironhide had his arms crossed over his chest, listening to our conversation and grunted to acknowledge me. Then he transformed into his alt. mode, passenger side door open for me with the tailgate down for the dogs to jump up.
When his tailgate dropped, the dogs, who were with us at the moment, hopped up from their laid down position. They rushed over to the back of Ironhides alt. mode; Kodiak was able to jump on his own while Vivian placed her front paws on the edge, waiting for me to help her up. She has tried before to get up in mine but sadly failed and learned she can't get up that way.
Vivian whimpered for me to help her and gave her pathetic puppy eyes in my direction. Sighing deeply and shaking my head with a small smile on my face, I strolled over to where she is and helped her in the back. I close his tailgate carefully and hop in the front passenger seat reserved for me.
The seatbelt slithered over me and clicked into place, securing me safely inside of Ironhide's alt. mode. He closes the door like a gentleman-er mech with the window rolled down; Lennox walks over and gives Ironhide's holoform (Ian) a pointed look. "Any sign of Cons, get here back here immediately. I mean it Hide, sh-," Will lectured but was interrupted by Ironhide.
"Yeah, yeah, we get it. Could we go now? I need to get back before training starts." Will hesitantly nodded his head and stepped back, allowing us to leave. We thought it was going to be the two of us until a pair of Lamborghinis pulled up behind us.
The air around me hardens and it was coming from Ironhide, he most likely didn't want them to come with us. "What do you think you two are doing?" He didn't sound happy at all and the tone of voice expressed that.
"Whoa, Hide. Sounds like you got a rusted pipe up your aft," Sides teased; that didn't settle well with Ironhide as his engine revved deeply like a growl. "We are Brey's guardians by Boss Bots orders and have to be with her at all times." I don't think that how guardianship works but rather not argue with thirty foot tall sentient robots.
"I have it covered. Now get before I shove one of my cannons up your aft," Ironhide threatened.
"Wait, Ironhide. Just let them come with us. I'll keep them in order if they start to act up," I proposed, setting a hand on his and giving him the famous puppy eyes Vivi like to give me.
Conflict could be seen inside of his eyes and a sigh left his mouth. "Fine but if they annoy me once, I get to kick their afts into the next deca-cycle."
"I don't think that Will would like that very much but sure. Though don't reel me into the trouble if you get busted by him." After our disagreement was settled, Ironhide took off with the Terror Twins following us to Baskin Robins.
It was a quick trip to Baskin Robins and Ironhide makes me hurry up so he could get back for training. Those poor, poor soldiers dealing with Ironhide does not seem like they have a good time with him.
At Baskin Robins, I got Birthday cake and Chocolate Chip Cookie dough and Ian pays for every cents. Don't know where he got the money or debt card to do that but not going to question that as I get free dessert out of it. "Hey, Hide. Why don't you head back to the base and we can take her back home?" Sides offered.
Sides didn't want to be left outside so he dragged his brother with him inside and followed the two of us. Ironhide wasn't happy about them following us and it took some great wording from me to calm him down and get on buying my dessert.
The weapon specialist's holoform glared at the red twin. "I don't know why Will allowed you two to be her guardian. As if I would allow you two to escort her home," Ian scoffed, leaning back in the metal chair (we are sitting outside while I eat the rest of my ice cream) and crossed his arms over his chest.
When he mentioned Sideswipe and Sunstreaker being allowed to be my guardian, I shied away and kept my gaze down at the ground. "You didn't hear, Brey pick us to her guardian," Sides faked being surprised and loudly gasped, putting a great show on.
Ian snapped his head in my direction and his eyes widen in shock. "Please tell me he lying." I shrunk back behind my cup of ice cream and didn't make eye contact with him. "Why in Primus's sake would you pick these two pit spawns?"
A scared smile was pushed onto my face and I finally found his eyes. "W-well, it's uhhh, I… I-it was the only name one the paper I knew. He didn't seem that bad when I first met him," I stuttered while playing with my hands nervously and tore my gaze away from him.
Disappointment was rolling off of him in waves and out of the corner of my eye, I saw him shake his head. "Anyway, come on, Hide. Please, we'll even take the dogs off your servos," Sides begged with hopefulness in his eyes. His brother slightly perked up at the mention of dogs; he must really have taken a liking towards Vivi.
He grunted, arms still crossed over his chest and glare pointed towards the two of them. "Whatever, make sure she gets home safe and sound. Will would have my aft if anything happened to her." Ian lowers the tailgate and both dogs come rushing towards us. He grabs my bag from the back and sets it down next to me.
"Lay down." I ordered, voice firm so they could understand this was a command. They both listen to my command and lay down on the sidewalk. "Thank you Ironhide!" He gives me a wave before taking off and leaving me with the Terror Twins.
Sides takes the new empty spot next to me and places his arm over the back of my chair. "How's your ice cream going?" he attempts to make a conversation with me.
"Pretty good, haven't had ice cream in forever. Wait, could your holoform process human food?" I question, hopefully of wanting him to try ice cream. He gazes over to his brother who was paying no attention to us and gazing out at the tree line on the other side of the trees
"I think Ratchet told us we could. It would be transferred into energy but not enough to keep us online," Side explained to the best of his knowledge. That gave me an idea; I got up, grabbed a spoon from inside, and rushed back to my spot. "What's got you runn-mpf!" I stuffed a spoon of birthday cake flavored ice cream in his mouth mid-sentence.
His hand wraps around mine and we stared into each other eyes for a few seconds. Then a wave realization and embarrassment came to mind and I attempted to retract my hand from his grasp. Sides realizes that I wanted him to let go and releases my hand. "So-sorry, I sh-should've asked," I apologized; a blush was covering my entire face.
A soft smile appeared on his face and he gently grabbed my hand. "Don't be sorry. It tasted really good; nothing that I have ever tasted before. Next time we are out and about, we'll stop here," Sides offered then released my hand again, feeling the slight tense of my muscles.
"That sounds great. What do you think Sunstreaker?" I included the quiet mech into the conversation and gave him a smile in his direction. There was a small glare thrown my way but it disappeared a few moments later.
Sunstreaker shrugged his shoulders and kept his gaze away from us. "Whatever," was his only response then he got up and returned to his alt. mode. His brother gave me apologetic look before grabbing my trash and throwing it away for me. I thanked him for the kind gesture and followed him with my bag in hand to his alt. mode.
The dogs followed me until Vivi ran over to the passenger side of Sunstreaker and did her bitch bark. The butterfly door opened on its own and Vivian jumped up into the black leather seats. It closed, locking her inside of the vehicle safely.
Kodiak was put in the back of the red Lamborghini and wasn't happy his sister wasn't with him. He got over it when both of the windows rolled down and he was able to slightly stick his head out of them. Sides and Sunstreaker took off in the direction of my house quickly; I was beyond happy and ready to be back home.
Once they pulled up to my three car garage, I finally noticed the storm clouds rolling in from the east. "It's going to rain tonight, you guys can park inside of the garage if you want," I offered, putting in the code so the large garage door would open.
It wasn't surprising when Sunstreaker immediately pulled in when the door was only halfway open. Sides waited until it was fully up and pulled in next to his brother. They let out the dogs and their holoforms appeared; Sides grabbed my duffle bag from inside his alt. mode and followed me inside of my house.
"Come on bubbas, dinner time," I called to the dogs and pressed the button to close the garage door. I opened the door that leads to the inside of my house and both of the dogs rushed passed me to where their empty bowls are.
Since the stay at the base wasn't as long as I thought it was going to be, there was still a plastic bag of dog food still full. I used that to fill their bowls and also filled their second bowl of water. Right after finishing with the dogs, my phone began to ringing and the caller ID read Zeke. I accept the called and put the phone up to my ear. "What did you get yourself in to trouble this time?" I teased.
Zeke scoffs over the phone. "That's mean Lambert. I was only calling because Lennox told me you're back home. I would come over but Dom and I are working overtime. Hope you had a fun stay at the base," explained Zeke.
"Overtime, that's everyday of a Warden's life. But yeah, I did have a fun stay. I lost a few bets but was able to Baskin Robins in the end," I recalled my time at the secret base.
"You didn't lose any bets, you learned from those bets." Ah, the saying my old wrestling coach would tell me; you win or you learn from your mistakes. There isn't any losing in wrestling.
We talked for a while until Dom interrupted our conversation. It was pretty much the same thing from him and got caught up on a few things between us.
The twins were in the living room, messing around on the T.V and attempting to pick a show to watch that they both wanted to watch. It wasn't going as smooth as you think; they were arguing between each other and wrestled for the remote.
When it slipped from their hands, I grabbed it, picked the show I wanted to watch, and got settled on the nearest couch. Sides's mouth opened with betrayal in his eyes and he pouted on the ground. The yellow twin on the other hand slightly glared in my direction then got up from the ground and sat down on the other couch.
It was quiet watching North Woods Law. All together, we watched that until tiredness took over me and I fell asleep on the couch in that spot.
Sadly, all good things come to an end as a nightmare of my dear brother decided to appear inside of my mind. It was a Con chasing after him, Jerms was losing ground quickly to the giant robot behind him. I was watching from above, unable to do anything to protect or save him.
It was a matter of time before the Con got a hold of him, laughing sinisterly at Jerms misfortune of getting caught. Then started to pull him limb from limb, including his head from his shoulders. I scream and cried, attempting to get to my dead brother. "Aubrey, wake up. For Primus' sake!" A masculine voice called out from within my dream.
I snapped my eyes open and was greeted by the worried face of Sunstreaker. Without another moment, I wrapped my arms around his mid-section and squeezed him tightly. Tears were running down my face as the dream slowly faded away from my mind. "Aubrey, let go," Sunstreaker ordered and tried to push me off of him.
No matter how hard he pushed me to get me off of him, he failed. The lock I had on him was impossible to break and Sunstreaker would never be able to get me off of him. "What is it?" he grunted, annoyed about being in the position he is in.
The nightmare, and my brother was in trouble, but why was he? "My… my brother was, was in trouble by a…" I raked my mind for why he was in danger. The Con! "Jerms was being chased by a Con…. And I couldn't do anything…. And, and the Con tore him apart," I recalled the memory, still fuzzy about the details.
Shit! I need to call him and make sure he's alright but at the same time, I don't want to let go of Sunstreaker. "A Con was chasing your brother?" A nod to confirm his read back. "And this Con tore him a part?" Another nod. "While all this was happening, you couldn't do anything?" The last nod. "It was just a night terror, just go back to recharge."
"I know it was just a nightmare but it felt so real, and… and we haven't talked in a while. We've both been extremely busy with our careers," I excused the reason why I haven't called Jeremy for the past couple of years.
Sunstreaker cuffed me over the head, catching me off guard. "In the morning, call him. Now go recharge," he ordered and attempted to pry me from around his waist. I was holding on tightly and he couldn't get me off so he took a seat next to me and wrapped his arms around me. I slowly fell back to sleep in the safety of Sunstreaker's arms.
So things have changed for the road trip I was talking about. I'm not going since my family realized we wouldn't be able to do anything while there; its in Cali which has a mask thing for everywhere. But I know we're going to go somewhere else, though we haven't planned where. We are thinking of going to our cabin for a week which means no internet. If that happens , then I'll just plan on posting two chapters beforehand. I apologize for this confusion. Next chapter, I'll hopefully have everything settled. I'll keep you guys posted if things drastically change.