Ironhide had given up on attempting to change my 'bad attitude'. He allows me to roam around without the stupid harness. The rule is, if he can't see me, that's too far.
In the beginning, after the twins and I were released, Ironhide tried to get me to be his little pet and listen to his every command. He wanted me to train with the soldiers again but instead I sat down, away from the group, and relaxed. He yelled at me for a few minutes before giving up.
The soldiers are going their training like normal when Optimus makes his way over here. Charlie is sat down on his shoulder, somehow not freaking out about how high she is.
"Ironhide, Gabriel, could I please talk to you two?" Optimus interrupted Ironhide's training. I groan in annoyance of having to move from my spot. Following Optimus a little bit further away the group of soldiers, I listen to what the big bot needs.
"With Gabriel's disrupting behavior and Ironhide's ability of not able to control her, I'm sending both of you to New York City to get better with knowing each other," Optimus explains. My mouth drops in shock but then I started to back away.
"Please no, not with him," I pleaded. Optimus shook his head no.
"This is what happens when you continue to be disruptive, Gabe," Charlie stated from her spot on Optimus' shoulder. I sent a glare her way.
"Send the Lambo twins with her, they have more of a bond with her than me," Ironhide pawns me off. Optimus also declines his request.
"In two days at 5:00 am, both of you will be leaving at that time. Be ready by then," with that, he leaves us to fully comprehend what is going on. Ironhide slowly turns around to face me with an angry expression. At that moment, I knew I had fucked up. He puts his hand up and started to count down.
Taking the couple seconds to escape, I dash away from him like a demon out of hell. It took about two seconds later before the loud rumble of an engine to start and scare me to speed up my pace. Out of instinct, I scream out Sides name. A few seconds later, a red blur barreled out of a nearby open hanger towards me. Sides stop around twenty feet in front of me with his door open.
Upon making it to Sides open door, I jump in, not the correct way. He takes off with squealing tires and almost getting rammed by Ironhide. I settle down in my seat and door closes behind me. Taking a few moments to calm down from my high adrenaline rush and thank the bot that saved me.
"Anytime but what did you do for him to chose you like that?" Sides questioned. A sour expression spread out on my face and I pout from what Optimus had told Ironhide and me.
"This might sound bad but at the moment I'm hating your leader. He wants to send me and your greatest friend in the world, Ironhide, to New York City for some 'bonding time'," I grounded out. A laugh erupted from the bot's car form I'm inside of.
"Shut up," I growled. That makes him laugh at my antics.
"Sorry but dang, that sucks," he responded. I glare at the center console before getting smashed into the door as he takes a sharp turn. We wiz by the open gate and speed down the old and bumpy road that connects to the base.
Settling back down in my seat and buckle the seatbelt around me, I glanced behind us to see Sunstreaker right behind us. He speeds past us to get in front of us.
"Could you tell Sunstreaker 'hi' for me?" I questioned with a sweet tone to convince him.
"Hello, squishy," Sunstreaker voice spoke through the speakers of Sideswipes car form. It's kind of cool of how they do that. All of us stayed quiet before Sides decides to fill the silence.
"Ironhide is in the brig being talked down by Prowler and Optimus with Ruby and Charlie." That still didn't help my tensed muscles; Ruby is right, Ironhide would have of killed me if I didn't shout for Sides.
"Why did you call for my twin?" Sunstreaker queried. That's an amazing question, why did I?
"I don't know, it came from my mouth before I knew it. Plus if I didn't, you wouldn't be able to see your favorite human," I threw a joke in there. I could feel the eye rolls from the both of them. No one spoke after that and my eyes wandered to look out the window. The scenery blew by as the twins speed way over the speed limit.
The desert is calm with no wind but even though Sides is blasting the A/C, it still feels as if its a thousand degrees inside his car form. Not a cactus in sight and sagebrush plodded the lands here and there. Hills raised as the horizon almost all around us. A couple of spots dip back down to ground level.
While admiring the lands spread out all around us, Sides interrupts my peaceful state.
"We should head back. Is that all right with you, Gabe?" Taking one last deep breath of peace, I had to answer Sides query. They slow down and turn around to start to head back to base. They easily reach their speed they were maintaining from before.
In no time we reached the base and the guards let us back in. There's no sign of Ironhide anywhere and the soldiers are walking around, minding their own business. It seemed like nothing had happened about an hour ago.
Sideswipe opens his door and I jump out to watch the two swiftly transform into their robotic form. Still need to figure out what the scientific term is for it. Their transformation is more smooth and calm while Ironhide's is more rigid and angry looking. Most of the time when he transforms is when he is pissed off at me or someone as annoying.
"Gabby?" Sides questioned. He brings me out of my dream land and I realize my eyes were caught on to the two of them. Quickly changing my gaze to a nearby hanger, I dip my head to hide my blush of embarrassment.
"Well thanks for saving me and all but I should see if Kevin or Piper wants to hang out." With that, I rush away to the cafeteria hanger to see if anyone of the groups there.
The smell of food made my stomach rumbled from the lack of food. Ironhide didn't let me get any food this morning or yesterday night.
Three soldiers stand in line, waiting to get their own food. One person is serving and is taking his damn time to load a plate of Sloppy Joe. From my spot in line, Kevin, Piper, Charlie, Jazz's holoform, and Ratchet's holoform are sat down at a table. Kevin, Piper, and Charlie are eating their own food.
The man finally finishes with my Sloppy Joe and hands me my meal. I saunter over to the group and plop down next to Charlie.
"Hey Gabby! Glad you aren't dead, yet," Kevin teases. I roll my eyes at him and whisper 'scheissekopf' at him.
"Gabriel Grace!" Ratchet scolds. Shit, forgot that they know German with the cuss words. Kevin places his hand over his chest with a fake hurt expression.
"You're mean, you butthead," he throws back. This time, I act all butt hurt and burry my head in my hands and fake cry.
"Oh boo hoo, I'm sorry I hurt your feelings." I gaze back up and stick my tongue out at him.
"Children," Ratchet whispers under his breath. Kevin and my eyes dart to Ratchet and we both glare at him. We blow him off as if it was nothing.
Two days later- 4:32 am
The loud shout of my name from Ironhide brought me out of my state of peacefulness. He is still mad at the situation of today. Optimus still hasn't changed his mind on sending me and Mr. Grumpypants to New York City. But I'm going to take this into advantage for this. Sacramento isn't the nicest place on the world. Plus any of the group never, ever left our little place in the city.
Instead of getting up, I roll over on my mattress and pull all my blankets over me. Ironhide, in return, pinches all my blankets and pulled them off. I tried to grasp them again but only air was all my hand could grab.
"Get up, the sooner we leave, the sooner we can get back," Ironhide growled. I groaned in annoyance and stretch out all my limbs. A dinosaur sound escaped my throat as I spread out my limbs.
My guardian forces me to leave my comfortable bed and change my clothes out of the sight of Ironhide. I did my normal routine in the morning and we loaded up right at 5.
The plane ride to New York was long and boring; many times I annoyed Ironhide for the fun of it. In retaliation, Ironhide threw me up in the air, scaring me half to death, and yell at me to go away. After the fifth time, it even got boring to mess with him and left to do something else.
The plane lands and we quick left for our, more or less my, hotel room. Lennox explained that I have a five thousand dollar limit to buy whatever my heart wants. Which when he said the amount that he gave to me, I about passed out from shock.
The first day we stayed at the hotel room since he didn't want to leave. His holoform was inside with me, most likely watching over me.
The second and third was about the same while the fourth day he allows me to go outside.
The city is huge and almost threatening. People upon people upon people are everywhere. It scared me so much that I held Ironhide's hand; he ripped his hand out of my grip the multiple times. Finally I gave up as it was useless.
We went into an over-populated store as there some junior clothes in the window. At first it was fine but the further we got into the store, people are pushing past us and in matter of seconds, Ironhide is no longer anywhere in sight.
Ironhide isn't sight and with way too many people that are unknown to me around, my anxiety begins to rise. Sitting down right on the spot, I hold my knees close to my chest and tears are streaming down my face.
Third point of View
No one stops to help the crying child, instead they moved away from her as a disease.
Her guardian is in a frenzy to find the now missing child. He attempts to ask if anyone has seen his charge, with no luck.
It had been thirty-five minutes later before Ironhide heard the sobbing of a child. He rushes off in that direction to only trip over something in the way. He picks himself up and checks the thing his foot caught on to see his charge starring back at him with redden eyes. He wanted to get mad at her but with those puppy eyes, he felt quilt swell in his spark.
Ironhide stands up and picks up Gabe gently. She warps her arms around his neck and wraps her legs around his waist. Her tears wetted his holoforms shirt and she continue to think about she could have been left for dead if he didn't come back to find her.
He walks over to where he could sit down and relax against the chair. He decides Gabe had clingy for too long and tugs her tiny arms off of his holoform body. She allows him to and continues to let her tears run down her face.
Though they are getting weird looks from everyone, it's kind of strange for a ten year old to straddle an older man who looks nothing like her, Gabe starts to pout again. She begins punch his upper body in anger; if Ironhide allowed her to hold his hand hence they wouldn't be in this situation.
Her guardian grabs her tiny wrists to stop the assault on him.
"You left me alone!" Gabe cried. Ironhide rolled his eyes at her, thinking how it wasn't his fault.
"You're fine. Let's go shopping to cheer you up," he offers. He picks Gabe up as he stands off the chair and strolls out of the store. Gabe moves to his back for a piggy back ride and gazes above everyone with a smile spreading from ear to ear.
The holoform leads the girl into a somewhat fancy store for kids. The store is lined with racks full of cute clothes and fake jewelry to go with whatever is there.
Gabe is beyond ecstatic and wants down from her spot on his back. With this store way less crowded and busy, he allows her to jump down. She takes his hand and leads him to what catches her light grey eyes.
At the end of this shopping trip, Ironhide's arms are sore and hurting from carrying twenty-five bags. He didn't care though if the little squirt is happy, he is to.
Yay! Another chapter to add to this book! At least the two are getting better with each other until Gabe decides to prank him someone again. Hope you enjoyed the chapter!
Let the wolf howl!
-MidnightHowling4