It didn't take too long until a knock was at the door. Piper bounds up to the door and opens it. Both Will and Epps stood at the doorway with their bags.
"Come on and load, it's time to fly," Epps ordered. Putting away my book and my favorite blanket in my suitcase, I was ready to leave. Ruby was already packed and waiting for us. Charlie was still asleep on the floor in different position. Kevin was watching T.V with his bag in hand.
Piper jumps on Charlie and tries to wake her up. Charlie groans and goes to push her off but stops when Piper accidently knees her in the stomach.
"I'm getting up, I'm getting up," Charlie groans before pushing Piper off. Both of them go off to pack their things.
Finally everyone was packed and ready to hit the air.
We left the hotel with our normal position from before. The time on the dash read 9:32, if it's even right and I was still tired from before.
The two aliens pulled up to the ready cargo plane. We all hopped out while the other soldiers helped Ironhide and Bumblebee load up.
The plane shook with its rattle and the whine of the landing gears.
This plane ride was longer then the last. Most of what I did during this ride was sleep or play games with the others.
The back hatch started to lower and the sun beat down on us. With the sun so bright, it forced me to cast my eyes away. Getting my eyes adjusted quickly, I thought my eyes were deceiving me. Bots like Starscream, without the red eyes, stood tall and power radiating off of them.
A sudden thud brought me out of my trace. Without having to look back at the noise, I stop moving down the ramp.
"Kevin?" I requested. There was no response. One of the bots rushed forward. His paint job is of a neon yellow/green with stripes of red mostly on his upper portion of his body. His head was slightly of a hexagon with a nose looking piece of metal in the middle of his face. He goes to pick him up but I stopped.
"He's fine. He faints when his brain can't comprehend something." He glimpses at me with confusion before gently picking up Kevin and moves away.
"Wait! Where are you taking him!?" I called after him. He continues on his way without saying anything. Glancing over to Will, he mouth's 'its fine'. With one peek over to the fading bot that has my friend.
"Kevin will be fine. Ratchet is a medic and will take care of him," a deep baritone voice reassured. The biggest and baddest bot spoke to me. It scared me as I didn't suspect him to do that.
Inspecting the largest bot, his paint job was of red and blue flames. He had to stand at least 30 feet tall. Even though I don't care about heights, it scared me a bit about how tall he is. Something hit me, if didn't watch were he stepped, any of us could go squish.
"Everyone, these are the kids who are need of a guardian," Lennox announces and continues," Gabriel," he points to us when he calls out our names," Ruby, Charlie, Piper, and the other kid that Ratchet took is Kevin." Ruby was standing next to Charlie to make sure she is fine since the bots are very tall and intimidating.
"So these are the good bots?" I inquired to Lennox. He turns his gaze over to me and nods.
"Yep. That reminds me that you guys need guardians," he comments. I gave a bark laugh to him and a 'really' look. "What about it?" Shaking my head to dismiss his question.
"First we need to know their names," Ruby pointed out. Good point.
"The leader of the group is Optimus Prime," he starts while pointing to the bots he names," Prowl is his second in command; Jazz is his third command; then you got Sideswipe and Sunstreaker, the lambo twins; then Mudflap and Skidz, the Chevy twins." Not too many names to remember.
"Could we pick our own guardians?" Piper questioned. Lennox peers up to Optimus.
"Sure, pick wisely, you can't change it after this," Lennox offered. We all flicked our eyes at each other with large smiles on our faces, even Ruby.
"Prowl, would you like to be my guardian?" Ruby started. Prowl appeared surprised but agreed with her.
"I'll use my manners too. Ironhide, would you like to be my guardian?" I offered. Ironhide stared at me for a few seconds before assenting a signal. Charlie was fiddling with her fingers in nervousness.
"I know Ratchet isn't here but do you think he could be mine?" Piper requested. Lennox approved her request.
"Kevin would like Jazz," Ruby chose for Kevin. "If that's alright with you Jazz."
"Yeah, it would be cool it hang with the lil' man," Jazz commented. Charlie was the last one to choose her guardian. She appeared to be nervous and scared.
"Optimus," she started, it was surprising she choose the largest and tallest out of all the bots, "would you like to be my guardian?" Optimus smiles kindly down to her.
"Yes. I would love to," he agreed.
With everything settled. Optimus allowed us to hang with our guardian. Well Piper and Jazz head to the something called the Med. Bay. Ironhide took me over to where some people shooting off guns, which are loud and hurting my ears.
A few soldiers were practicing; the gun shoots making me flinch each time. We continue to move over to be the bots usually practice; I don't think any humans would want to practice over here.
Ironhide hands me a headset to cover my ears from the loud noises. Thanking him, he sets up his guns and starts. Even with the sound dampeners, it still was loud and scared me.
Sitting down, not knowing how long this will take, I watch him never miss a target. It was amazing how well he can aim at a target small and far away.
After a few minutes, he pushes a button which caused three of the targets start to move. With them moving, he continues to shoot the targets. Still not missing a shot. My jaw dropped to the floor. I couldn't even make a ball of paper make it into the trash can that's five feet away from me.
Closing my mouth before a fly or bug could fly in, I watch with amazement in my eyes.
Ironhide gives me a quick look and a smirk grows on his face.
"You want to try," he offers. My eyes grew to the size of dinner plates. Me gun = trouble, big no-no.
"Nononono, bad idea," I declined. He gave me a confused expression.
"I have never held or seen a gun before. I'd rather not be in trouble for shooting someone," I explained. He slowly nodded his head before getting back to the task at hand.
He continues to shoot for about fifteen to twenty minutes before he decides to do something else. Sparring with the lambo twins for this match.
Ironhide sets me on the ledge of a crate that was for some reason out here. It gave me the opportunity to look at my surroundings more. The sun still high in the sky with patches of clouds littering the sky. Barren land surrounds us with nothing but sagebrush and sand under our feet.
Back to the action, the three are in the middle of a practice battle. Ironhide was having trouble holding himself against the Lambo twins.
The two, from what I could tell, are holding themselves back. Not striking their wrist blades on Ironhide too hard.
In the end, Ironhide got his ass handed to him; maybe I choose the wrong guardian. The Lambo twins are super cool.
"Maybe next time, old mech," Sunstreaker teased. Ironhide huffed before getting off the ground. The two were already on their way over to me. Well Sideswipe was the one really coming over here, Sunstreaker stayed behind with a grumpy expression. Like someone stepped on his cat.
"You our new fan?" he badgered. A smile grew on my face and I gestured with my head as a yes.
"You guys so cool. You sliced and diced him. While Sunstreaker kept him down." While I was explaining, moved my hands to demonstrate what he and his twin did. His smirk only grew to what I was doing.
Sunstreaker and Ironhide strolled over here, in a conversation.
"Hey, Sunstreaker! You were so cool! Able to keep the big bot down," I praised his ego. He stood up taller and puffed out his chest. Ironhide rolled his eyes and scoped me off of the crate he had set me on.
He takes me away from the two with a scowl on his face. Before we got too far away from them, I waved at them in a see ya later. Sideswipe returns the gesture while his twin gave me a small dip with his head.
We make it past the huge hanger doors of what's called the Rec. room. Kevin and Jazz are in here, playing a game on a console. By the sound of it, Jazz is winning.
The game has these weird characters in these karts, racing each other. A green turtle-looking shell hits the person on the bottom screen, most likely Kevin because he growled in annoyance.
Ironhide didn't say anything. He went over to where a chair his size and sat down with me on his shoulder.
Gabriel chooses Ironhide, unsuspected. With her personality, it's going to be a rough and bumpy ride for the both of them. It's kind of funny with Kevin's fainting thing though, he might need to get that checked out by Ratchet. Hope you liked the chapter!
Let the wolf howl!-MidnightHowling