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Going for a Drive
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PLEASE READ! I have to tell you something about the base. This is past when the Autobots previous base had gotten turned to dust, and they are in a new base. . It sounds like the old base because it is like it, *Clears throat* Mine and Autobot Slipstream's idea was that they were relocated in Nevada, near another small town, that was near a second missile silo, because they knew the Decepticons would not look in the same state twice and they would move on thinking that they were located somewhere else. If you have any questions feel free to PM me or Autobot Slipstream and we can answer them for you.
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Friday: 0700 hours, Autobot Base,
Aquanette sat on the edge of the large silo, to most it looked like a rock, but to her and the others inside, it was a living area. She sighed and set her helm onto her servo, to tell the truth, she was missing home. No one around her really understood how she felt, first she was plane flights away from her family who were in Texas, and now, she's a universe and plane flights away from them.
"No rest for the weary." She silently said looking out into the desert, nothing but dirt, rocks, and a few cactuses, plus one blazing sun that was making her metal hot to the touch.
"You ok?" A voice asked behind her and she snapped her helm around to see WheelJack looking down to her with a half smile.
"Fine." She replied smiling for a split second before looking back to the desolate scene. "Kinda bland here, isn't it?" She said with distaste in her words as WheelJack sat next to her and set his elbows onto his legs and smiled.
"Ya, worst scenery ever. . . I swear the Milky Way was a more interesting sight then this." Aqua looked up and diverted her optics from the scene so she could look at him.
"You saw the Milky Way!?"
"Well, I didn't really know what it was called since Cybertron is a long ways away from seeing it. But after a bit of research on the human internet I learned."
"But Still, ya saw the Milky Way?"
"Sure, the JackHammer has brought me tons of places around the stars."
"Who's the JackHammer?"
"The JackHammer is my ship, rusted and broken, but works like a charm." Aqua chuckled and looked back out to the desert. "Ya know if you need a break, I was about to go on a drive. . . Wanna tag along." She let out a deep breath and smiled.
"Sounds relaxing. . . But, I'm not the best on transformin'."
"It's not that hard, I can show ya." He got up from his place and she followed him down to the where the ground-bridge was held. "Hey Doc." The red and white mech growled trying not to slam his servo onto the desk and jerked to face the two.
"I told you not to call me that." WheelJack shrugged and folded his arms.
"Sorry Ratch." The medic huffed and Aquanette shuttered out a small laugh at his reactions. "Can we get bridged somewhere." Ratchet rolled his optics and typed in a few random coordinates and pulled the lever down. Aqua's optics widened at the sight of the green swirling with other colors. She was frozen in place, it awed her, but also scared her, more or less what was waiting at the other side of it. "You comin'." She snapped out of her thoughts and looked to see WheelJack already halfway in. She scanned her optics around it before walking behind him and disappearing to the other side.
On the other side it was quiet, desert like, but had the familiar smell of a horse and cattle farm. Aqua took in the whole area and let out a long relieved sigh. She could tell that they were back in Texas, and close to where she would have lived in the previous universe. Smiling, the femme let herself relax for a bit before fully letting herself just fall into the silence of the area. If she was right, they were on the edge of private property and far from any road, so any chance of them being seen was blown away.
WheelJack walked up to her and smiled.
"Happy?"
"Sure, it's always nice to see home again, well, ya know what I mean." She punched the side of his arm and smiled. "Ya sure do know the way to a girls heart. . . Well, spark." She silently laughed as she looked around the dusty place.
"Never been to Texas before."
"I can show ya around if you want me to, this is just a farm area so not much will be around, wait till you see the cities."
"Sounds great."
"But first, you're gonna to have to show me how to transform." WheelJack cleared his throat as if he was about to begin a long thought out speech. Afterwards he transformed and sped off. Aqua gasped and surprise and turned to see nothing but dust scattering from under his bumper. Her comm. system fuzzed before his voice blared into her audio receptors.
{Lesson One: Everyone transforms in their own unique style, find yours.} Silence passed over her as she watched him disappear into the distance. {Oh and. . . Catch me if you can.} Aqua laughed a bit, but covered it in a deep growl before getting a head start. If he was going to make her learn this herself, she was going to learn, and then she was going to kick his butt so hard he would have dents coming for years.
Optimus looked around before he knelt one knee to the ground and clapped. Claws could be heard scratching against the cement and a large dark grey cybertronian dog showed up from one of the corridors. He ran towards the Autobot leader but stopped just before him and sat still. Optimus smiled and pet the creature.
"Good boy Thunder." The dog barked and started to pant. Second later he barked again and licked the mechs face and ran off in the other direction. A small laugh came from behind the Prime and he looked to see Arcee. "I did not know you were here." She shrugged and wrapped her arms around his neck making her stand on the tips of her pede's.
"I'm pretty sure that's what sneaking around is meant to do." He let out a short huff and partially smiled. She smiled herself and let her servo's go and then wrapped them back around his waist so that she could stand flatly again. "Sooo." Silence passed over them and they started to feel awkward.
"Do you know how the new recruits first night went?"
"It went fine, all of them feel a little homesick, Aquanette a little bit more than the others. I think a few more days to get to know their bodies and surroundings they'll feel better." Arcee felt his arms wrap around her waist and she smiled. "How was your first night back?"
"Even though being a human was a new experience, and I learned much of their race. . . I am grateful that I am back to my normal self." She smirked and raised an optic ridge making the Prime sighed. "My first night back was great." She smiled and kissed him. They let it linger for a few seconds, but stopped when they heard a pair of pede's walking towards them.
After a few moments of nothing but the reverberating sound, Jade showed around one of the corners and smiled a relived smile when she saw Arcee. She hurried her pace, but stopped just before the femme who was a couple centimeters taller than her.
"Cee, I haven't been able to find Aqua anywhere, and I've searched all the places I know." Arcee furrowed her optic ridges and frowned as she turned to face her. "Have I interrupted anything?"
"Not at the moment. . . And now that I think about it, I haven't seen much of WheelJack today either." She lightly tapped her chin and hummed for a few seconds until Optimus spoke up.
"Ratchet informed me that the two had gone out for a drive."
"We all barely know how to fully transform, I mean adrenaline helped us the first time, but now that we have to think about it." Jade shrugged and the Prime nodded.
"I believe his main prerogative was to teach her how to transform." The pink femme nodded and smiled before walking off in the other direction to leave the two to themselves. Arcee watched her go and turn around the corner, but her gaze didn't move, and she just stared into the darkened part of the long hallway. A gentle squeeze around her waist brought her optics back to the mech in front of her, but the stare was still distant. "Are you alright?" She snapped out of the trance and looked into his optics.
"I'm fine."
"You seemed as if you were lost somewhere else."
"I just. ." She paused and looked to the ground. "I was up all night, last night, thinking."
"About what?"
"Well, I used to be the only femme here, besides Miko, but she's human." Arcee started, as she fiddled with her fingers nervously even though they had just been latched around his waist again. But now, all the girls from my sorority are here, and I feel like getting back to my normal life isn't going to happen."
"The moment we found ourselves in the alternate universe, we all knew our normal lives, once we returned to it, would never be the same." She sighed and nodded in an 'I know' manner. "But." She looked him in the optics and saw a tender smile forming on his face. "That doesn't mean we should stop what we're doing and give up, this is a new experience and opportunity, who knows, your." He cleared his throat. "Sisters, as you like to call them, may be just the upper hand we needed in winning this battle."
"You're right." They went in for another kiss, but both were interrupted when their comm. systems fuzzed in.
{WheelJack comm'd.} It was Bulkhead. {he and Aquanette ran into a few Decepticons, and get this. . their in the forms of StarScream and his trinemates.} Arcee and Optimus looked to each other before the Prime answered.
{Tell Ratchet to get the ground-bridge ready with their coordinates, we're on our way.} The two hurried down the hallway and to the central area. Phoenix saw them and ran up to Arcee, and stuck to her pace.
"I heard, can I come?" She asked hope filling her voice.
"Phoenix, you guys haven't even started training yet. . I think if would be best if you all stayed here for this one."
"Awww, but Aqua's got in it."
"Ya and once we get there she's coming back." The other femme huffed and folded her arms, but still kept her pace. "Maybe when you all have enough training, then we can get you out on the field, but right now risking your lives with three imbeciles is not exactly what we should be doing."
"Awww, come on." Optimus turned his head to look at Phoenix.
"Arcee is correct as of this moment, putting your lives out in danger when you are not trained will not end well with any of us." She sighed, but still walked with them until they reached their intended destination.
Ratchet, upon seeing Arcee and Optimus, set his servo onto the lever, but they were all interupted when two voices called out in unison.
"Can we come!? Please!" The gathered crew looked to see StarDust and StarShadow practically pushing each other aside to get near the others.
"We could help fight!" StarShadow said lightly bouncing up and down on her pede's.
"Like we told Phoenix, you guys aren't ready to fight, training hasn't even begun for you."
"But we've been fighting in one of the spare training rooms." Optimus looked down to the girls with a stern but kind look.
"We understand you want to help fight, but quarreling between siblings and fighting enemies is two different things. Family won't hurt you here, but outside with our enemies, they won't hesitate to kill you on spot, especially if you show any signs of weakness."
"But we're not weak." StarDust said in an informative tone."
"None of you are." Arcee piped in. "But, as Cybertronians, the Decepticons are not to be played with. . . As humans they had regulations of what they could and could not do, but as themselves, they are free to do as the please."
"Not today." Optimus said as he nodded to their medical officer and he nodded back as he pulled the lever down allowing the green swirling light to come through. Optimus, Arcee, and Bulkhead ran through the portal leaving the rest behind until the returned.
As the group reached the other side they looked to see nothing but desert. But it was for the better since they were in their bi-pedal forms. The three heard fighting and looked over to see WheelJack defending off StarScream and his brothers. They heard something of yelling, definitely coming from Aquanette, but the next thing they saw made their gears stop, something had hit the ground and exploded, engulfing the five.
WheelJack and Aquanette had been driving as fast as they could ever since Aqua had finally figured out how to fully transform. They would pass through towns, and WheelJack had even shown her how to use her holoform, so when they hit the city they were able to enter a few buildings.
When they had gone back out to the desert like area of the state, Jackie had decided to show her how to create her own grenades, to which Aqua didn't refuse.
Aquanette felt really close to him, and wished that night wouldn't have to come. Something about him just made her feel a jittery, and happy. Granted any kind of explosion did that to her, especially if it was created by her, but this was different, really different.
As they work another grenade exploded in WheelJacks face.
"And here I thought I was gonna be the one makin the mess." Aqua said as he laughed and wiped the soot from his face with a rag that looked like it was ready for the trash.
"Sometimes you get the wiring wrong. . . In my case, more than usual." this time Aqua laughed. "Ya know, it's nice havin someone to teach, usually everyone wants to stay away from me when I'm creatin my grenades." The femme smiled and looked to the ground, she hoped that in her new form she couldn't blush because her cheeks would of been a bright red.
"It's nice havin someone who wants ta' teach me, mostly people say that I'm a girl and I shouldn't be messin with this kind of stuff." WheelJack waved his hand as if he was waving off an invisible person.
"Who cares what those people say, you're great at makin bombs, and I'd be proud to teach you even more." Her invisible blushing grew and she bit the outside of her lip while looking away.
"I hope this day never ends." She said looking back to him and he smiled at her making her smile back. Before any more talking could happen the sound of jet engines erupted above the two. They looked up to see three F-16 fighting falcons. WheelJack jumped up from his spot as the three transformed and landed onto the solid ground. The purple one lost his balance for a few seconds, but regained it and set himself into a snobbish stance.
"Well, well, well." WheelJack looked back to the leader of the three who was none other than StarScream. "We only go out for a tour, and what do we find. . . WheelJack and his new found pet."
"PET!?" Aqua stepped a pede forward but WheelJack held her back with his arm.
"What do you want StarScream?" The mech acted like he hadn't heard them as he looked at his talons.
"Nothing much, I just thought that I could show my new found brothers how us Decepticons fight."
"Starting a fight for nothing, doesn't really sound like you." The wrecker paused for a second. "You just want t' show them who's boss of you three, don't you."
"Somewhere around that line." Aqua tried to push past WheelJacks grip but she lost, so she stuck with using her mouth instead.
"Go back to the hole you crawled from you stiletto heeled freak." The seeker huffed something of a laugh and folded his arms.
"Was that supposed to be a insult, you understand that I've heard much worse."
"You're gonna feel worse when I get over there and kick you sorry, ever living -" WheelJack cleared his throat and Aqua glared at the seeker.
"Quite a girlfriend you've got there."
"Go away screamer, there's nothin for you here."
"Scared for a fight."
"I just don't want t' hurt you." The wrecker said shrugging, but keeping his grip on Aqua tight. "Now leave before I change my mind."
"Sure, enjoy your day with your. . Pet." Aqua's optic glitched and she pushed past the grip that was holding her back. WheelJack grabbed her wrist, but she didn't fight, instead she grabbed a grenade from the ground and threw it at the three before they even had a chance to transform. They were thrown forwards and knocked to the ground.
"You wanna mess with the bull, you're gonna get the horns." StarScream pushed himself off of the ground and shook his head a bit to get the ache that was dully come on. Without notice both he and WheelJack had comm'd for back up. "Now why don't you go back, preferably when you didn't exist." The bluer seeker out of the three, in anger, swung his fist at her.
"Don't talk about him like that." His attack was countered off when the mech behind her soon stood in front and took the punch instead.
"Your carrier teach you it was alright to hit a femme, or did you find that out all on your own." WheelJack threw the next punch and hit the mech square in the face. The third and more purple one of the group came in and soon StarScream joined in. Aqua looked to the ground and picked up a small silver disk, she knew what it was and she wasn't afraid to use it.
"HEY!" The four looked to her and she showed them the device. "If you four don't stop now I will use this and I am not afraid to."
"Oh sure," The purple one said, rolling his optics. "Scare us with a defect."
"Fine." She threw the bomb onto the ground and it exploded on impact. Aqua automatically closed her optics, but WheelJack and the others had not been so lucky. She grabbed for WheelJack and pulled him out of the gas cloud. As she did so she could hear the other three trying to cover their optics, or get the gas out or away from them, and she slightly snickered to herself. Upon getting out she blinked a few times to get any trace of the concoction away from her optics. When she did open them up she saw Optimus, Bulkhead, and Arcee staring at them confused, some less than others. "Hey Cee, what are ya'll doin here?"
"What was that?" Was all the other femme could ask back.
"It's a mix of pepper spray and tear gas, I actually didn't think it would work on you guys, since it's meant for humans, but it does!" She said happily that her little mixture wasn't a failure. She looked to WheelJack and his still closed optics. "Sorry Jackie, couldn't spoil it for the cons." He waved her off and smiled.
"No worries, I'll just have doc look em over." After a few seconds of silence, the gas cleared up to show StarScream and his trinemates still trying to get the pepper gas out of their optics.
"Gah, it burns, it burns." The purple of the two yelled literally scratching at his optics. Optimus turned his gaze from them and looked down to WheelJack.
"Lets get you back so Ratchet can make sure not permanent damage has been done to your optics." The white, red and green wrecker nodded and started to walk, but stopped in his tracks when a throat cleared somewhere near him. A slender servo wrapped around his arm and he could hear the smirk on Aqua's face.
"Bridge is this way." She pulled him over to the left and showed him through the ground-bridge and to the small med bay that was stationed near the portals entrance.
Ratchet rushed over to the berth as WheelJack sat down onto it.
"Please don't tell me you got impaled with more shrapnel from your idiotic inventions."
"Sorry Doc, not this time, got some pepper spray and tear gas mixed in my eyes." Ratchet got his light out and shined it at WheelJack's eyes. "Need me to open them."
"Yes." The mech did so to show that his optics were fully dilated to only show his normal blue color smaller than a pencil dot.
"It's a good thing we have Nurse Darby to help us when we need her, or else you'd be stuck with this for who knows how long." He turned to Jack and asked him to call his mother for a mix of things half the people on the room hadn't even heard of before.
After about a half hour the sound of June's car could be heard. Seconds later she drove in and got out with her nurses bag in hand.
"I've got the supplies you've asked for Ratchet. . . What's the matter?"
"WheelJack here managed to get his optics doused in pepper spray and tear gas." The woman cringed and partially shut her eyes, as she handed the small human sized bag to Ratchet, who took it with care. June walked up to the rec. area and kissed her son on the forehead.
"Aw, mom." He cried and she smiled at his reaction.
"I have to get back to work, see you all later." After she left everyone reverted their gaze back to the wrecker.
"Did anyone else get hit with the gas?" Miko asked leaning over the edge of the rail.
"Ya, Screamer and his trine."
"His Trine?" Ratchet asked surprised by the answer. "They died on Cybertron though."
"I'm not surprise. . . He did have friends back at the other universe who resembled his lost brothers. They and the Alpha's must've come back with the cons." Arcee stated with her arms folded in an angered manner.
"Well." Ratchet let out something of a chuckle. "Good luck to Knockout on trying to get this stuff out of their eyes without any human help. . . They'll have to wait out the blurriness, and pain for the next few days till the mixture wares off." Aqua smirked and leaned her weight to one side. She was definitely going to have to make more of that stuff.
Chapter Written By: ShadowStalker of Cybertron P.S. I changed my name for TFPKO Fan Girl.
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