This is my first sequel. I hope you all like it! Also for most of this to make sense and to see how it all started don't forget to read Love Times Two! Please sit back and enjoy, also be gentle...still working out some kinks in the story. :)
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I IN NOW WAY OWN ANY SONGS OR MEDIA USED IN THIS STORY AS REFERENCE OR OTHERWISE I.E; NAME BRANDS, MUSIC, ANIME/MANGA REFERENCES (THERE MAY BE A FEW) OR OTHER SUCH NONESENSE! AGAIN PLEASE DONT SUE!
I do own Arabella, Tia, Kyler, the sparklings, and any other OC's I add later!
TFSTARFIRE: Again congrats on your baby girl! And thank you for the compliment! I hope you like this chapter!
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Text: " = normal speech heard out loud, sparklings included.
[Text: "] = Family bond/twin bond/quad bond/spark bond :)
{Text: "} =Com. Link/text message/ phone call. (specified)
S.S: " =Twins speaking in unison (or quads... i.e F.P)
N.P.F.M: " =Quads speaking in unison
YDaddy = Sunstreaker
RDaddy = Sideswipe
R&YDaddy = Twins speaking in unison from sparklings pov.
Bella's pov
A few hours later
After I introduced my "uncle" Lou to the bots, dinner became amusing. It started with everybot, save for Hide, Bee, Tia and I asking various questions about the fine art of barbeque. I.e. "What kind of meat is that? Should it bleed? Doesn't the shape appear to be vulgar? Why do you cook it like that? Is this relatively healthy?"
Thankfully the more incriminating of those were asked over com link and the rest were asked openly to the grill master; Uncle Cobalt. He regarded the questions with a mild look of horror, especially when Jolt told him that we were kept on a strict "no red meat" diet. So seeing that it was highly unlikely that we would have red meat again anytime soon, he made sure that we got our fill. Restraint is nearly a four letter word with these guys and human food. After we had our evening "protein shakes" The bots pigged out. And I mean they pigged out. Arcee demolished the grilled chicken breast, Chromia had like two 12oz steaks, Jolt and Tia ate a rack of ribs, Bee enjoyed the spicy smoked sausage, and Ironhide loved the brisket. They hadn't even gotten to the side dishes yet, of which my aunt Lou Ann reminded them were there. With wide eyes and sheepish gestures, they turned to the table containing Cole slaw, potato salad, baked beans, baked macaroni and cheese, collard greens, and corn on the cob.
{Me: "Guys, restraint! Seriously they're begging' to look at ya'll like you've never had food before."}
{Jazz: "We haven'! An' everythin' tastes so good!"}
{Me: "Still, calm down. It aint goin' nowhere, and Cobalt already said he'd make more."}
I said as they got up and calmly retrieved their side dishes. As for me and the twins, right now we're trying to get the Quadruplets to finish their second bottle. For whatever reason, they didn't want to drink. I think it has everything to do with the fact that my aunts stuffed them with jello salad. The more we tried, the more they whimpered and grabbed at their stomachs. This does not bode well. Call it maternal instinct or whatever you want, but I thought it would be a great idea to take them back to our room under the guise of changing them and my clothes. Boy am I glad I did. Because right after Sides closed the door, the awful odor began.
Sunny: "Primus! What the slag is that?!"
Sides: "Ughhh! That stinks! Phew! Are they okay?"
He asked as he held his nose. The wet, bubbly farts were gross, especially since they had what is only know as, a major blow out. We had to put them in the tub, we couldn't put them anywhere else. While I tried to calm them down from their crying fit, Sides called Jolt. Jolt walked through the door a couple of moments later, his face bunching up at the smell. He came over to where I was kneeling next to the sparklings and narrowed his eyes in a scan.
Jolt: "Their systems preformed a waste dump. Whatever they consumed, their systems could not handle it. The odor is from partially digested energon."
Me: "Well…are they going to be okay? What do we do with the evidence, surely having energon in the local dump isn't good for the environment?"
Jolt: "You are correct. We will send the discarded waste back to Diego Garcia. Wheeljack has a waste disposal for items like this in his lab. I'll com. him while you change them."
He said as he left the bathroom. I looked to the twins who were slowly backing out the door. "Oh no you don't! You aint making me change them and bathe them by myself!" I scolded. "But they smell awful!" Sides whined as he took another step back in while Sunny stayed right where he was. "You. Get over here and help!" I said. "They reek!" Sunny snarled. I leveled him with a glare. "You two wanted to be dad's? This is part of it! Helping care and comfort our sick sparklings is part of the deal. That means taking care of a smelly waste dump." I said as they trudged back into the room and scooped up two of our kids.
Freezefire and Pulse whimpered and grabbed at their tummies again as the twins undid their diapers. With a soft braaaaaaap, they let out more waste, making the two gag. I couldn't help but smile to myself as I recorded the moment. It was one of those sweet moments that makes a family laugh later. I stopped recording so that I could change Nightsinger and Maverick and place them back in the tub. A minute later Jolt came in with a couple of trash bags. One for the clothing, the other for the diapers. Once he left, he entered the small groundbridge portal in our room and came back shortly with a small needle.
Jolt: "This should stop the pain, and repair their systems. I don't think they'll perform another waste dump after I give them this. But as a general rule, no more gelatin for them. Specifically, jello. That is what their systems dumped, and why they appeared to be leaking a rainbow."
He said as he gave the shots, which made the quadruplets cry louder. Sunny and Sides went into overload as they cooed and rubbed their backs soothingly. The quadruplets stopped wailing, but they still cried softly as we cleaned them up. By the time we got them dressed (and after one last waste dump) we were able to rejoin the party. When we returned the bots having heard what happened took the quadruplets from us so we could eat. I grabbed a burger and sat down in between my twins who both had a huge slice of chocolate cake.
Me: "Shouldn' ya'll be settin' a good example for the bitlets by eatin' protein first?"
I asked as I bit into my quarter pound of beef, cheddar and bacon. They looked at me in awe for a moment before they started laughing. "Geeze bae. Forgot you could put it away like a man!" Sides chuckled. I swallowed hard trying to contain my giggles. "I do not!" I pretended to pout. That's one of the things that the twins always found funny about me when I was human. The amount of food I could eat in a sitting, versus how little weight I gained from eating it.
Stanley: "Ya'll makin' fun o' my niece fo' liking her burger?"
Sunny: "Hardly! It's one of the things we love about her."
Aunt Mae: "Oh?"
Sides: "Yeah. Looks like a super model but eats like a man! That's something you don't find in a lot of girls."
Me: "An' addiction to chocolate aint something found in many guys. But I love ya for that too."
I said pulling them together for a hug. "Uh huh." Riley said as he passed by. I'm not surprised that my family is skeptical about the twins and my relationship. I expected it. But proving to them that we do love each other isn't going to be easy.
After dinner, we continued with the planned activity. A dance. We always play music through the barbeque, which typically leads to a dance before we split up for the game of capture the flag at sunset. I picked up Pulse and Maverick and swayed to the jazz that my dad and uncles were playing. They both loved it squealing joyfully when my dad started playing the trumpet portion of Feels so good. "Ya like grandpa's playin' huh?" I cooed at them as they snuggled into me happily clapping their little hands. "We had no idea that he could play." Sides said as he came up on my side holding Nightsinger and Freezefire who were cooing up at him. "Ya haven' wondered who taught Kyler how to play the piano?" "Or drums?" He said as he walked up next to Sideswipe. "Any other talents you guys haven't shared with us?" Sunny asked from my left as he took Maverick to bounce softly. "Welcome to our secret lives." Kyler laughed as the party music returned. The electric slide. A classic.
Arcee: "What are they doing?"
Me: "Getting' ready to do the lectric' slide. C'mon it's fun!"
I said as I joined the line following the steps flawlessly. Kyler laughed wickedly as he joined me, throwing his own flare into the steps. Pulse squealed happily as he waved his little arms in time with the beat. The other bots started laughing at Jazz as he joined us, before joining in themselves.
{Me: "Didin' know ya had this much rhythm Hide!"}
{Jolt: "Heh heh. Yeah, it's shocking!"}
He laughed at his reference to the song. I watched Nightsinger and Freezefire wiggling along to the beat while Maverick laughed as Sunny tried to hold him and dance. Overall it was sweet to see how much fun everyone was having when the song ended. Like I said previously, this day couldn't get better.
HONK HONK!
Or can it? I know that horn anywhere. Everyone turned to the drive to see a familiar red and blue flame decaled Semi pulling in alongside a Mary Kay pink Cadillac. Out of the corner of my peripheral vision, I saw the small legions that are my cousins slowly approach, water balloons in hand.
"Hold it ya'll!"
I yelled making them jump and look at me. I gave them my best "try it and die" glare of which most returned with sheepish or apologetic looks. Whereas some gave me the usual "You don't want us to have any fun!" glare. Walker and Jerald most notably giving the glare. "Walker ya know better! An' ya should be settin a good example fo Mary!" I scolded quietly as Prime and Elita's holoforms walked up the hill to where we were. Prime (who's holoform is actually shorter than Hide's by a few inches) was wearing jeans and a navy blue t-shirt that complimented his "so blue its black" hair, while Elita was wearing a white halter and jean shorts that went well with her strawberry blonde hair. Naturally, all of the Bots fell in and saluted them smartly, myself included after I put Pulse down. "Who the hell are they?! More city slickers?" Jerald asked next to me. I stopped my salute to grab him by the shirt and look him in the eye.
"They are my commanders." I snarled as he paled. I let him go and he immediately saluted with us in fear. Optimus chuckled deeply (as usual) before giving an at ease. "Are you all not on personal leave?"
Hide: "Old habits die hard you know that."
Dad: "Heh, what brings Ya'll to this neck o' the woods anyhow?"
Elita: "Oh, we were just in the area and decided to stop by."
{Prime: "And we heard that the quadruplets were not feeling well. Is everything alright?"}
{Sides: "A mild allergy to jello. They seem to be fine now though."}
{Sunny: "Aside from the teasing, razing, and questioning behavior, they seem like normal annoying organics."}
{Me: "I resemble that comment. And I love you too."}
He smirked as we walked back up the hill. Introductions went smooth, which is nice. I feel like I'm always introducing one party of people to another. Maybe that's why I'm so good at it. Naturally everyone had plenty of questions but thankfully Mom and Dad kept them at bay, though that didn't stop my nosy uncles and aunts.
Cobalt: "So…Optimus. How exactly did you mean my nephew in law's?"
Prime: "Ah the twins. I remember that day. Their town was in turmoil, and they had lost someone close to them recently. We had come through to bring relief and they approached me, demanding that I let them join us. I didn't say yes right away, but I did some research on them. Standard protocol. I found that they were forced to fight illegally for most of their lives. They needed a chance to get away from it, they needed a place to belong. They have been my finest frontliners since then."
Riley: "Ya'll fought illegally?!"
Sunny: "Not by choice, but yes. And we couldn't escape, previous attempts by others proved that."
Susie: "Well what's in the past is in the past. No need to dwell on that."
She said looking sadly at the twins. "Agreed. Dance with my bae?" Sideswipe asked. As he lead me onto the floor. I wish that my family could know the truth. The real truth. Maybe one day I will be able to tell them.
[Sides: "You should tell them."]
He said looking at me, a small smile on his face.
Third person's pov
Bella couldn't resist her husband's smile as they danced the jive all over the floor to Kiss you. The two moved in perfect sync with each other, Bella's blue dress billowing out with every twist and turn. Even the sparklings got into the song standing gently on their little feet and dancing with each other. Her aunts cooed an awe at their niece's bliss and her adorable babies who were dancing poorly. After they danced and some R&B came on her uncles began to keep a closer eye on her comrades. The one named Jazz and his friend, the mute named Bumblebee seemed to enjoy lip syncing Ignition (remix) to their daughters. Those two were shameless flirts, but not terrible guys. Optimus watched his underlings closely seeing joy that he hadn't seen in such a long time. It wasn't the same joy he saw when something funny happened on base. It was the joy of being free of responsibilities, not having to worry about missions and reports all the time. He wished that they could be like this more often, but with the Decepticons having gone underground they couldn't lower their guard for even a moment.
Trestinia: "So, Optimus, Elita, are you going to stay for the festivities?"
Elita: "We wouldn't want to impose."
Prime: "As it is we should head back to base soon. Meetings wait for no one."
He said sadly. After all, even the Prime wanted to have fun and play at times too. "Prime at least stay for the game of capture the flag!" Ironhide said cuffing him on the shoulder. "Capture the flag?" He asked innocently.
{Bella: "Call it a mental health moment. C'mon stay! They won't miss you for a few more hours!"}
She called over the com. link as Sideswipe dipped her. "Well, it would be a great learning experience if nothing else." Elita whispered giving her sparkmate a squeeze.
{Bella: "That's the spirit!"}
She squealed from where she was now dancing with Sunny and Sides. Optimus let out a soft chuckle remembering the song. Come on Eileen. Her uncles looked at him strangely before he explained the song's significance as the last song she heard before she found that she was pregnant. This was the straw that broke the camel's back. There was something odd about those two, demanding their leader hire them after they left the underground illegal fighting ring? And why marry both? Just who were Sunstreaker and Sideswipe Brinks? Cobalt had the most against them. He always saw Bella as his own daughter, especially after his was taken from him in his own front yard when she was only two.
Pulling their youngest brother aside, the Thompson boys confronted James.
Cobalt: "James, I thought we told you to keep them away from her!"
Stanley: "And just who are they? That illegal fighting ring? Did you know?"
They began. James knew it was bad seeing that their accents were gone. He shrugged casually as he looked back at his pride and joy being carried off by her husbands as they sang "COME ON EILEEN!" at the top of their simulated lungs.
James: "Well, yeah. Of course I knew about it guys."
Reggie: "And you fucking let her marry them?! What the hell is wrong with you?!"
Riley: "Have you lost your damn mind?!"
James: "No. Guys she's happy, and they love her more than anything!"
Cobalt: "Seems to me that Sunny boy loves his car more than her!"
Lou: "Hell, she bought the special for herself and all her friends!"
Reggie: "I say we poke around, see what we can see when the kids go to bed."
James shook his head chuckling. He would remember to warn Bella when he had a chance alone with her. Poking around under the hood of a normal car is one thing, but doing so to his daughter and her notoriously mischievous husbands?
James: "Nuh, uhh. That's a bad move on your part guys. I really think you should leave them be. And besides we already have a mutual agreement that if they hurt her, Kyler will hold them down while I castrate them. Time zone or no they will not hurt my little girl."
Cobalt: "Like hell they will!"
James: "Really they wouldn't hurt her, and if they did they would feel so awful that they'd probably allow me to kill them."
Lou looked over to his pseudo niece and smiled watching her hug her husbands as her babies tried to dance nearby. He always hoped she would be this happy, but at the same time, his friends were right, there was something odd about those two.
Lou: "Well, if ya'll wanna investigate them, so be it. Keep me posted, but James has a point, they don't seem like they want to hurt her."
He said as they all watched the two sneak a kiss with her. Cobalt was having none of it. He stormed over and tapped Sunstreaker on the shoulder. "Yo Sunshine! If ya'd like to come up fo' some air, we'd all like to get started on capture the flag." He said teasingly, unaware that his niece had heard the whole conversation.
The teams met at their designated meeting areas before they stormed into the forest with their paint guns at the ready. After Kyler set their flag in a tree Bella began her briefing.
Bella: "Okay, let's not dwell on the obvious. It's my uncle's land he knows it the best. Our advantage is our experience as a team, and that we do this for a living on the daily. Who wants to guard the flag?"
She asked, surprised to see none other than Prime climbing the tree then smiling down from his vantage point hidden well behind the flag's branch. "Overgrown youngling." Hide chuckled, as he Jazz and Bee began to move west looking for the flag.
{Prime: "You know I must always must be taller than you old friend!"}
He teased. Chromia smiled as she, Elita and Arcee left in the opposite direction to begin their search. Before she could say more she found that Tia and Jolt had also taken out posts in the trees near their flag tree. With a shrug she looked to her parents, brother and husbands and began to move south. On the way they silently knocked out Tony, Shayla, and Tina. After what seemed like an eternity (which was more like 20 minutes) They grew closer to the enemy flag.
Sides: "Bae? Why do you keep looking up?"
Bella: "Cause. My uncles are notorious for- "
"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Her uncles screamed as Riley and Reggie jumped down from their tree. Before they could land, Arabella and her team painted them up good before spinning to shoot at Stanley and Lou as they tried to finish the ambush.
Bella: "That's why. They're known for their tree ambushes."
Kyler: "A lil' too known."
He laughed as he and his father left with her uncles. Though they avoided the brunt of the attack, Kyler and James did not go without being hit. The twins looked to each other before shrugging and moving forward with Bella and her mom once again. They hadn't taken three steps when they heard a shout of pain. The three turned around to find Arabella's mom on the ground swearing in French, English, and surprisingly in Cybertronian. She tried to stand only to gasp and bring her left foot up.
Bella: "Mom! Your ankle- "
Trestinia: "I…it hurts. It really fragging hurts!"
She winced. Sunstreaker frowned as he came over to take a look at it. He picked her up bridal style and looked back to his wife and twin. The silent meaning evident. As he carried his mother-in-law off to the waiting medic in training. Sides and Bella pushed on, eventually finding Cobalt. Following her plan, she tried to distract him long enough for her husband to get the flag, but Cobalt saw right through her plan. Bella held her own for quite some time, before her uncle disarmed her and took her out. After which he went after Sideswipe, who didn't fail to dodge his shots and eventually get his weapon away from him. Just as soon as Cobalt had him pinned, he felt a soft wet thwack hit the back of his head. Standing off to the side stood Sunstreaker, smirking victoriously.
Her uncle knowing when he was beaten sighed, a sad chuckle escaping him as he handed over the flag to the twins. They walked back together. Jolt and uncle Riley were tending to Arabella's mom, while the others sat laughing at old baby pictures of Kyler and Arabella.
Bella: "Ah c'mon guys!"
Kyler: "Noooo! Not the baby pictures! Seriously?"
S.S: "Awww. You look so cute Bella!"
"GIMME THAT!" Bella and her brother shouted in unison as they lunged for the books only for their uncle Reggie to pull it out of their grasp. Bella groaned as the others laughed.
Arcee: "Look at her! Bella your hair!"
Tia: "Her attitude! Look at that face! You look like you wanted to punch someone out!"
Stanley: "You should see them in motion! We have the home movies ready for when we get back up to the house."
Susie: "Optimus, Elita, we'd be happy to have ya'll fo' the night if ya wanna stay."
Optimus: "We would love to; however, we have to get back. Meetings to attend, troops to command. My apologies."
Cobalt: "No worries. Glad that ya'll could stop by! It was a pleasure to meet ya!"
He said shaking his hand. After Optimus and Elita left, and after several hours of mortifying home movies, everyone went to bed. Well not everyone.
Sunstreaker's pov
All in all, Bella's family isn't so bad.
"Shhh!" "Quiet!"
Of course once I say that her uncles have to go and do something stupid. And by stupid I mean attempting to move the three of us to the barn. Now you're probably wondering if I let them. The answer is yes, because even I'm not stupid enough to reveal myself, even if Bella wants them to know the truth, now isn't the right time. Too many other organics could see. But that doesn't mean that Sides and I made it easy for them.
They got Bella into the barn, somehow. But that doesn't mean that they're going to get us up there.
[Bella: "Let them move you."]
[Me: "What?! Why?"]
[Bella: "They don't trust you two. They just want to poke around, is all."]
[Sides: "Yeah, and take us for a joy ride!"]
[Bella: "Yeah. My nosy uncles don't know when to leave things that aint their business alone. Seems to me that they need to be taught a lesson."]
[Sides: "Are you saying- "]
[Bella: "So long as you get recorded footage of it, I don't care. Get em' good."]
She said as they popped her hood and began to dig around under it. She wiggled slightly as they touched sensitive wires making them stop and look up. Once they got us into the barn they slammed Bella's hood closed, making her lash out with her door to smack Stanley in the butt. He yelped and jumped about a foot forward as he looked back to see nothing. Sides couldn't help but laugh, which came out as a rev, making them all jump. This is going to be fun.
Cobalt: "There is something up with those two cars."
[Sides: "Huh, he breaks accent like Bella does. Interesting."]
Reggie: "All right, let's see what's under the hood of these pretty little Lambo's here."
He said as he slammed his fist down on the tip of my alt mode's hood, making it pop open. Not gonna lie, it hurt, and who the hell opens a car's hood like that?! Especially government owned vehicles! I looked over to Sides only to see Riley do the same.
Riley: "Mmmm. Not bad. Pretty nice set up here."
Cobalt: "Hey, ya'll notice something strange about these cars?"
Lou: "Aside from the fact that their plates don't show up in any system, or the fact that their tags are out of date, or the fact that they don't belong to a Sunstreaker or Sideswipe Brinks?"
Cobalt: "I was going for the strange boxy face on their cars. What kind of hood ornament is that? Lamborghini symbol on the back but this on the front?"
Reggie: "Maybe it's their unit's symbol. Bella's car has it too."
Stanley: "Nuh uh. I keep tabs on all special forces. I have never seen this symbol before."
Riley: "Things are good under the hood, but in the glove box? No license, registration, insurance, hell! There aint even a manual in there!"
He said. Maybe that will keep them from taking us for a joy ride.
"Well. That's a shame, guess we'll have to be a little more careful." Cobalt said deviously as he got into my driver's seat. Ughhh. Muddy boots? Ewwwww. And he's smearing grease and grime all over the place!
[Sides: "I thought it was common curtesy to wash one's hands before touching something that wasn't theirs?]
[Me: "Not with this group."]
[Sides: "Ughhh. They smell. You'd think they lived in the barn!"]
[Me: "Fragging farmers!"]
I groaned as we pulled out of the barn. Sides and I let them drive for a while, and they knew what they were doing surprisingly. Driving through cornfields at 150 miles per hour would be fun, if it wasn't for the corn, and the mud, and the fertilizer. I swear if I have a dent after this I will be beyond livid. After doing several doughnuts in a muddy field, they drove us into a field filled with cows.
[Sides: "Ughh. Gross! There is slag everywhere!"]
[Me: "I swear if one of those bovine- "]
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNK!
MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
The cow in front of me squealed as it kicked out falling over like those around it, hitting my bumper. At least I got off better than Sides, the one next to him freaked out and preformed a rather unfortunate waste dump, most of it landing right on his hood and right door.
[Sides: "I think it's time we got back at them."]
[Me: "Yep. Turning off."]
I said as I killed my engine. Cobalt swore as he got out of me and went around to the front of me. Right before he could smash his hand into my hood I popped it open so fast that he stumbled backward into the cow he scared. "The hell?" Reggie called as Sides did the same. He waited until he was in front of him until he did the same as me. Right when they began to intently look at our engines we started back up, making them grumble and curse as they slammed our hoods down to get back inside.
Cobalt: "Stupid cars. Aint what worth whatever they paid for em'."
He said smacking my dash. That's when I extended my steering column to lightly smack him in the fore head. Not hard enough to bruise but enough to scare the living slag out of him.
Cobalt: "St…Stanley…"
He asked as we revved our engines angrily.
[Sides: "Watch this!]
He said as he folded his seat inward forcing Reggie and Riley to kiss his steering wheel and dash board. Cobalt's phone rang, it was Riley.
{Riley: "Uhhh…guys I think we have a problem…"}
[Me: "Watch this!"]
"Muhwahahahahahahahahahahahahaa!" I chuckled darkly, slowly making it into more of a demonic laugh. (Snicker) I never knew that a person of Bella's complexion could turn so pale. Sides was laughing so hard that his frame was shaking.
{Riley: "P…p…please tell me that was you Cobalt. Please!"}
{Sides: "It wasn't."}
He whispered to them making them scream so loudly that the other cows began to run from us.
Stanley: "Let me out! Let me out right damn now!"
Cobalt: "I can't! Th…the door won't open!"
He yelled as I locked the door, allowing the sound to echo making them freeze, their eyes widening when Sides came on over both my radio and his with his own evil laugh. We both backed out of the field so fast that their heads slammed into the head rests when we stopped.
{Sides: "Please keep all limbs inside the vehicles at all times."}
{Me: "We are not responsible for any loss of appendages, sanity, or the finding of your chosen holy deity."}
{S.S: "And please try not to purge while inside the vehicle!"}
We shouted as we pulled ourselves up on two wheels and raced down the road. Their screams got shriller as we pushed 250 miles per hour, which is really nothing compared to what we can do. This is going to make them regret the way that they treated us.
Cobalt: "Puh…please! I beg of you! Whoever you are! STOP!"
He cried. And we did stop. We stopped and then threw ourselves into reverse doing 300 miles per hour, while also blocking their phones from making calls. Once we were back on four wheels Sides decided to tease them a bit.
{Sides: "Silly humans! You should know better than to have driven us out in the middle of nowhere!"}
{Me: "Where no one can hear you scream!"}
I chuckled as we continued to race through the corn fields and back onto the main road. "I…I'm gonna hurl!" Reggie cried.
[Sides: "Break time."]
We pulled off to the side of the road and opened the doors allowing our uncles-in-law scramble out and empty their stomachs. Once they were done, they tried to run away.
"MOVE!" "GET OUT OF THE WAY!" "OUTTA MY WAY! OUTTA MY WAY!" "RUN! BEOFRE SATAN'S LAMBORGHINIS COME FOR US!"
Well we couldn't have that! So using what we learned from Arabella we used our seat belts to lasso their legs.
[Sides: "Huh. 'Satan's Lamborghini's'. Has a nice ring to it."]
[Me: "Bee'll either laugh or be jealous."]
[Sides: "Or be proud."]
He laughed.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! PLEASE! I DON'T WANNA DIE! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" They cried as they clawed at the ground trying in vain to get away from us. Neither one of us could resist laughing as we re-situated them in our seats strapping them in tight. We wouldn't kill them. Despite what many perceive about us, we don't completely hate humans, obviously, since we married one. We wouldn't hurt her uncles because we both know the truth. They're just as protective of Bella as we are. However, that doesn't mean that we're above putting the fear of Primus in them.
{Sides: "Yikes! What a mess!"}
{Me: "What say you that we get cleaned up?"}
{Sides: "Right behind you!"}
He chuckled. What can we say? Old jokes die hard. We drove at a more law abiding speed as we pulled into the wash, windows down. The cool thing about being a sentient robotic being? We can hack earth's technology way too easily, and since everything was automated, we could control the temperatures, doors, and the patterns certain things move at.
Stanley: "I…L…L…Lou…he…his stuff isn't remote control operated is it?"
Cobalt: "N…nuh…no…it's not…he showed me."
He whimpered as we drove in. Needless to say we all pulled out odor free and sparkling clean a few minutes later. We sped back to the ranch, windows down to dry out our interiors. Our uncles begged and pleaded us to let them go the whole way back, apologizing for whatever they had done to cause this to happen. Looks like they aren't so tuff now. Once we got there we pulled back into the barn and turned ourselves off. They threw open our doors and sprinted out of the barn back to the house nearly smacking into Lou, they drug him inside and then looked at us from between the blinds for a few minutes.
[Bella: "I see you taught them a lesson. Did you have fun?"]
[Sides: "Yeah, but we missed having you there."]
[Bella: "Nah, I tailed you the whole way, got a good external shot for all of it!"]
[Me: "Love you Sweetspark."]
[Bella: "Love you too."]
She said as we slipped back into recharge.
Bella's pov
Next day
My uncles were really cautious this morning. They couldn't look Sunny and Sides in the eye until they blessed their alts with holy water, something about Satan's Lamborghini's. After a big breakfast me and the twins (and a few of the bots) showed the quadruplets the different farm animals. Maverick seemed to like horses more than anything else and Pulse loves cows. Nightsinger and Freezefire liked the barn cats and chickens…I don't know why. I was guiding them away from two horses who were getting personal and into the next stall to find a litter of puppies. Sides immediately cooed an aww when one walked up to him at sat obediently at his feet. Hide smiled down at them and picked the one that was barking at Sunny up before petting it. Everyone (Save for Sunstreaker) gave me the "look" I told them no. We couldn't keep an entire litter of Rottweiler puppies on base, not even for security purposes (Not that I'm opposed to it). Though I'm pretty sure I saw Hide talking to Cobalt about it later after the baseball game.
As tradition dictates we were going to camp out by the lake. We already had the tarp set up for the movie, and dinner was on the way. On the grill, my dad was making s'mores and popcorn to go with the movie while Reggie and Stanley set up the sound systems.
Sunny: "How the frag do you put this thing together?!"
Arcee: "Read the instructions! See?"
She said to my growling husband showing her rather funky looking tent. She didn't have it set up right, but good enough for one night.
Jazz: "Doesn't help tha these instructions are contradictive!"
He snarled as he flipped through the book let again. "TAAA DAAAAA!" I said showing them my perfectly constructed tent. All their eyes went wide at the size as well as the fact that it was furnished by blow up mattresses and chairs. "Take a look inside ya'll, there's cut flowers." I said as I heard a high pitched scream.
Sunny and I sprinted for the forest knowing our little girl's shriek anywhere. What we found was enough to make me scream. Sideswipe was holding a very large, very live tarantula. Maverick was even shying away from it as it raised its front two legs to wave a disturbing "hi".
Sides: "What? It's friendly!"
Me: "P…puh…put it down! NOW!"
Sides: "Why? C'mon hold him! Luther doesn't bite!"
He said walking towards me. I said no, but he kept coming, so I did the next thing that came to my mind, I picked up my kids and I ran. I don't even know how I was able to carry all four, but I do know that I nearly ran into my aunt Anna Sue trying to get away. Who the hell names a demonic, freaky, disturbing thing like a tarantula, Luther?! I had just gotten into my tent and zipped it up when I heard dark laughing from outside. Before I could say anything, Sideswipe un-zipped the tent and peeked in.
PUNCH!
"OOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWW! SWEETHEART!"
He whined rubbing his face. "PIZZA'S HERE!" Kyler sang as he handed the delivery man a few hundred dollar bills. "Don't ever come near me with a spider again!" I hissed as I kissed his jaw. Despite living in farm land, the town nearby still delivers. And they have the best Pizza in the universe. As a human trapped in an alien's body, I'd be inclined to say so. "Kyler, you didn jus hand that boy three hundred dollars for a hundred-dollar delivery!" My aunt Mae shrilled. "Yes I did. I worked there a few summers back, I know how little the tips are. Probably made his month!" "Yeah, but now yo gonna be hurtin' fo that three hundred!" "Nah. With what they pay us, its nothin'!" He said casually as he brought the stacks of awesomeness over to the table. To comprehend how good this pizza is, take your absolute favorite pizza ever and multiply that by 20. You might be close with that. And of course since we don't eat pizza, the bots with the exception of Bee, Tia and myself, kind of regarded it with dread and excitement. "What's wrong with ya'll? Never seen pizza befo'?" My uncle Reggie joked. "Again, we're not allowed to have it." I said.
Jazz: "Since we joined, we've been on the diet. Sadly, we tend ta forget the taste o' stuff, ya know. Our CMO despises the stuff, an anythin' else un-healthy."
Susie: "Kyler…are they?"
Kyler: "Yep, cept fo' rare casions, like when he's away or when Bella bakes we aint aloud to have junk food. Heh. Dude even tried to make Thanksgivin' healthy."
Cobalt: "How ya know that? I thought ya'll only got ta see her during Christmas."
Me: "Actually they have special privileges, since I'mma officer now, an' since I had someone's back. She put in a good word for me."
Chromia: "Having my back is disabling an enemy behind me, not taking a bullet that landed a millimeter away from your heart in the back."
Again we were greeted with silence. This does not bode well, my family is always loud and rambunctious.
Mae: "Sweetheart, ya took a bullet fo her?"
Me: "Of course. She's my superior, she's one of many who helped me get through the rough times in the last year, she's also one o' many who trained me. Besides she'd do the same for me. Anyone ere' would and some have. My husbands have."
A few of my cousins started to tear up. My mom did, which is bad. She knows the truth and it must still bother her. My aunts batted their eyelashes trying to ward off tears and my uncles looked solemn. "C'mon ya'll. Don' do this. I'm right here an' I'm okay. I aint paralyzed or nothin'. And besides, we sposed' to be havin' fun remember?" I said showing them the scar on my back, all it is, is a darkened spot. Not much more. Thankfully the quadruplets came to my aid. They had crawled over to my aunts and uncles cooing and patting their legs curiously.
Pulse: "Mommy aba tae!"
He said pointing at my shoulder. "AWWWWWWWWWWE!" They cooed. Thank Primus that none have thought to ask more about how they can (almost) walk by themselves or how they can say small words. I watched as my aunts and uncles lifted them onto their arms smiling sweetly at them and rubbing their backs. That rubbing is famous. It can knock out any infant. I know because I've seen it in action. And no surprise here, the sparklings cooed softly before they settled down. Meanwhile the bots were taking delight in their first taste of pizza, as they should. Pizza is pretty damn delicious!
{Ironhide: "Not my favorite, but it is interesting"}
{Bee: "In that case, can I have your slice? This is fragging fantastic! No wonder Sam and Mikaela love it so much!"}
{Tia: "Really? You've known them for nine years and you haven't once tried pizza?"}
{Bee: "I never had to."}
{Jazz: "I'm gonna tell em' ya said that!"}
{Bee: "Can't! Rule number 4 no bringing home blackmail!"}
Jolt: "Uh, hate to be the buzzkill, but you guys know you probably should consume your protein shakes now."
Sides: "Shut up Jolt!"
Sunny: "Seriously, are you trying to insult their hospitality?"
Jolt: "Fine, but know that Ratch is gonna bust your ass when we get back. Not to forget the others will too."
Tia: "Bae, compromise. We tried not to eat too much junk. And you know that we were very good."
{Me: "I call fresh bull shit on that!"}
Reggie: "Protein shakes?! Again?! The he- "
"Language." Me, my mom, and aunts all scolded in unison. "It's pretty intense stuff. It helps us convert energy better." Sides said after he wiped his lips. "We each have our own blend made specifically for our bodies." Sunny added as he threw his paper plate in the trash. The two then collected the quadruplets, who immediately snuggled into them warmly. Half of my little cousins cooed a soft aww, while a few of the others regarded them with a look of "Damn, and they're good with kids?! They are fine AF!".
"Not bad fo' a pair o' city slickers." Uncle Cobalt said. "UNCLE COBALT! For the umpteenth time, they aint city slickers!" "Sure are to be driving possessed Lamborghinis!" My uncle Stanley said loudly startling the quadruplets and making them cry. Sides smirked to Sunny for a moment before they nodded their heads in unison.
Sunny: "Quando sono solo e sogno all'orizzonte e mancan le parole. si lo so che non c'è luce in una stanza quando manca il sole. se non ci sei tu con me, con me."
Sides: "su le finestre mostra a tutti il mio cuore che hai acceso, chiudi dentro me la luce che hai incontrato per strada..."
S.S: "Con te partirò, paesi che non ho mai, veduto e vissuto con te adesso si li vivrò... Con te partirò su navi per mari che, io lo so no, no, non esistono più con te io li vivrò."
They sung softly. All of my uncles held a look of "Damn. They a'ight". Impressing my uncles is no simple task, maybe they did wind up impressing them, or they accidently gave them a concussion with the sudden direction changes while scaring them last night. Who knows?
Sides: "Quando sei lontana sogno all'orizzonte e mancan le parole.
e io si lo so che sei con me, con me."
Sunny: "tu, mia luna, tu sei qui con me. mio sole, tu sei qui con me, con me, con me, con me."
S.S: "Con te partirò, paesi che non ho mai, veduto e vissuto con te adesso si li vivrò... Con te partirò su navi per mari che, io lo so no, no, non esistono più con te io li vivrò."
The quadruplets stopped crying and calmed down, sticking their fists into their mouths to suckle. That is until I gave them their pacifiers. Who knows what they've touched? "Ya'll know Italian?" My aunt Lou Ann asked incredulously.
Sunny: "Yeah. Of course we do. We are Italian."
Sides: "And we mean that we come from the country. English wasn't our first language."
[Nice lie. Well half lie really.]
[S.S: "Thanks."]
Anna Sue: "Mmmhmmm. They're keepers alrigh'."
S.S: "Grazie, Anna Sue."
They said with small smiles. Consider my aunts won over. Seriously, I don't think I've seen any of them blush in years. "Ya'll done making our wives swoon?" Reggie asked. Sunny actually chuckled at that one as he walked over to the grill to watch what my dad was doing. "Okay, chocolate…marshmallow, and graham crackers…s'mores? I didn't know you liked them!" He said watching dad bite into one. "Bella neva make em fo ya'll?"
Me: "I tried, but Ratchet kept confiscatin' my marshmallows."
I said as I traded Sideswipe our kids for one. He took one bite and his eyes widened. Looks like I have to try harder to make s'mores for my boys. As the sun set we hunkered down in tents ready to begin our movie night, but before we could start, Cobalt stood up in front of the screen.
Cobalt: "As tradition, its time ta hand out the trophy fo' the annual Ranch games. Now I neva thought I'd be doin this…but hey maybe this is the beginin' of a new tradition. Sunstreaker, Sideswipe come get yo trophy."
He said with a smile, well more of a grin. "Best believe we gonna have yo asses next year!" Stanley shouted above the laughter and applause. "YOU HOPE!" My twins shouted back in unison as they shook his hand.
The movies were great; it was fun to see the others actually acting normal. It was fun to be human again even if it was just for a few days. I miss being around them sometimes. I love my life, but there are times where I wonder what would have happened if I said no that night the twins came to the door.
Well one family reunion down, another to go. And I know that the next one won't be nearly as pleasant. To say that I have family issues is, well, being kind. I only hope that things go well. I will also say that falling asleep in between your husbands in a tent is both uncomfortable and wonderful, because where the ground is hard, it's also great to snuggle up to each other.
We woke up the next morning to soft sunlight filtering into the tent and to loud whooping outside.
Sunny: "Ughhh, who gave Sideswipe black coffee?"
Me: "Gain? Whyyyy?"
I groaned as I snuggled closer to him, enjoying his warmth. "Mornin' babe." "Hey." I yawned. Somebody had thought that giving Sideswipe black coffee yesterday morning was a good idea. The result was a very lovable, hyper-active Sideswipe, who asked way too many questions about horse breeding. (Yeah, it was bad enough trying to keep our sparklings from seeing the stallion's intentions to mate, but Sideswipe was almost worse.)
{Hide: "Time to go love birds."}
{Me: "Seriously? Hide we just came out of recharge!"}
{Bee: "Kyler mentioned something about meeting the bane of your existences. Something we should know?"}
{Me: "(SIGH) Yeah. This is the last time you will see me this genuinely happy for the next four days."}
I said as I got up and began to wake up the quadruplets.
Sunny: "No, let them sleep. It'll be night when we get back remember?"
Me: "Oh, yeah. Forgot about that."
I said as Sideswipe and Kyler helped move the quadruplets from the tent.
Sunny: "Bae, tell them. I can tell that you miss them. Just tell them."
Me: "It's not that easy. I…if I tell them, who knows how they would react? What if they didn't understand? What if they think that I'm nothing more than a monster? Not to forget the danger that they'd be in if the Decepticons found out!"
Sunny: "Bella. I highly doubt they would abandon you for any of those reasons."
Me: "But what about you and Sides? Sunstreaker, I know you don't like humans. It's one thing to accept my friends, and immediate family, but I'm not going to surround you with everyone else because I know they annoy you."
Sunny: "Okay. Well, you are right, I don't like humans, at least not very many. But the ones here remind me kinda of the bots back home, Sides and I included."
Me: "Huh?"
Sunny: "A bunch of crazy, annoying, afts who don't completely understand us let alone each other. Yet somehow I know that life would be pretty fragging boring and downright depressing without them. Just like Sides and I you need your family too Love. The humans here, your uncles and aunts at least, deserve to know the truth. You need them."
He said as we entered the large farm house to collect our things. He's right, but how do I tell them? How could I tell them? I never thought of the repercussions of telling my family my secret until Kyler joined, and then when he got kidnapped. I could have spared him and my parents the risk of being attacked, or taken, but stupid, selfish, me wanted to be normal, and see them. How could I do this to so many others?
Cobalt: "Sweetheart? You okay?"
He and asked as aunt Mae stopped next to him. I didn't even notice I had a tear slipping down my cheek until she brushed it away.
Me: "I…um. I don't want to go home yet. I really miss you guys…and…"
Cobalt: "Shhh, baby girl. Don' worry, you'll see us gain'."
Mae: "Ya aint tellin' us somethin'. What's wrong?"
Me: "It's just…my work…I…"
Cobalt: "Ya do what ya have to. We all support ya a hundred percent!"
Mae: "An' then some. Yer gonna be okay, ya got two wonderful husbands ta back ya up, and comrades that'll stand with ya when ya need it."
Cobalt: "An besides, one day maybe ya can tell us some o' yo scary stories!"
He chuckled rubbing my back gently. I couldn't help but laugh.
Me: "Uncle Cobalt, some o' my stories would probably make ya wet yo pants!"
Cobalt: "Complete lie!"
He chuckled as he walked us all down to our alts. He gave me a hug goodbye and smiled. The twins are right; they have a right to know.
Me: "One day…one day soon, I'll tell ya'll what it is that I do. Heck, might be better if I showed ya."
I said gently to them with a wink. After a few more parting words, we left for home. I'll tell them, but after I deal with the mess that is my mother's side of the family. Now that is a totally different story and adventure to deal with. Primus help me now, because you know I'll need it.
A/N: Greetings from the girl who started her spring semester! I hope all who read this are well, and I hope that you like it. In the next few chapters, Bella and the twins are going to run into every parent's peeve. People who insist that the parent is raising their kid wrong. Sorry if this is rushed. Ever since I started writing Dimensional, my time has been split between here there and, And All That Jazz! Let me know what you think!
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