Ack! Sorry for the update being late! Schoolwork, flute lessons, video games, etc, got the best of me for the past couple of weeks.

If I confused some of you lovely people last chapter, I want to make it clear that Laserbeak called SOUNDWAVE Sire. And to answer other lingering questions, no, Soundwave is not actually Laserbeak's sire. He just calls him that.

By the way, this chapter is currently the longest I've written. You have been warned.


"Tree, tree, dirt, rock, rock, another rock, leaf…" Bumblebee named everything his eyes were able to pick up. "... A very nice leaf."

Him and Arcee were out on patrol someplace that had a partially forested area, walking down a barely faded road that lead through the middle of it. It wasn't anything special; just a look out for anything suspicious and maybe locate Energon somewhere in the process.

Arcee looked over her shoulders at the yellow scout. "You just love hearing yourself talk, don't you?" She said with a smile of amusement.

"Well, when the only thing that once came out of your vocalizer was bleeps and bloops, wouldn't you be glad to use actual words?" He answered back smiling.

"Point taken. In spite of not having wheels anymore, I'm really happy for you, 'Bee."

"Thanks, Arcee. I do still miss having them, though at the same time, it gives me time to slow down at look at everything in a new perspective." He then sighs, stuffing his hands in his hoodie pockets. "Although, getting by on foot isn't exactly a thrill."

"I hear you on that one." Being a human is great and all until having to experience some downsides of being one:

Walking isn't necessarily a problem, the real problem is having to walk for MILES long. Sure, twenty feet tall robots can easily do as such, but when they shrink down, their legs and feet does the same. To add on to that, it's even worse to do recon in places with extreme temperatures. Let it be boiling hot or shivering cold.

Thank Primus there is need to go in the arctic yet. Arcee dreads the day.

At least today wasn't a bad day. The trees provided shade from the sun's rays, and even so, it was the start of October. Every breeze of air was cool, leaving a nice feeling on the Autobots' faces.

Arcee had to take a short break. There's an annoying feeling inside her boots and it's driving her crazy. Propping herself against a tree, she zips off her left boot off first, emptying it out of any contents that slipped in there. "What?" She asked Bumblebee who was staring at her exposed foot.

"I forgot that our shoes are removable."

She scoffs. "Again?"

"That and we have toes." He said, kneeling down as he gently pinches each of Arcee's toes saying, "This little piggy went to the market, this little piggy stayed home, this little piggy had roast beef, this little piggy had none…" During this, the femme raised an eyebrow, confused why the scout is doing this and where he got it from. "And this little piggy cried 'wee wee wee' all the way home." He ended his little song by tickling the foot.

"'Bee, stop," Arcee stifles a snicker as she then watch a devious grin appeared on his face.

"I didn't know you were ticklish."

"Oh, no. Don't even think-" Too late. Bumblebee ruthlessly tickled the biker femme's foot. "Hahaha!" She laughs, trying to kick Bumblebee off while balancing herself on one foot which is very hard to do. Her back couldn't leave the support of the tree unless she wants to risk falling on the ground.

"This is not patrol behavior, Bumblebee!" Really hard to sound serious when she's laughing. Bumblebee eventually stopped tickling Arcee, allowing her to catch her breath.

"Next time, I'm going to throw my shoe at you." The whole time while she was being tickled to death, she'd held onto her shoe involuntarily.

"Ah, you don't mean that." The yellow Autobot scout smiled as if he didn't do anything wrong.

Their time of laughter were spoiled by sounds of a rustling bush, a few feet from the left of them. Too loud too had been the wind, Arcee quickly slips on her shoe, hands transforming into blasters in response. Bumblebee did the same as he slowly approach the shrubbery and waits for whatever that's hiding in it to come out.

Back at Autobot HQ, it was just like every other day at base. Ratchet was on the computers as usual, the same silent swears escapes the medic's mouth every time this blasted machine decides to be a pain in the aft to him. All was settled after he professionally bangs on the keyboards with his fist and got it functioning again.

Yep, that always seem to work.

The only thing that was off was that Miko has been… quiet. Not like, 'I'm in a bad mood quiet" rather, "I'm hiding something and I won't tell you what it is yet" kind of quiet as everyone was present in the main room. Jack and Raf are the only two in the room who knows the secret. Most were wondering why they were called in. Smokescreen asked as he got the same answer as everyone else, "Just wait until Arcee and Bumblebee get back."

Ratchet thought it was time to contact the two and bridge them back in the process if there are no troubles.

"Arcee and Bumblebee, report. Is everything okay?"

:: Everything's fine, Ratchet. We haven't found anything out of the ordinary and- Bumblebee, no. We can't take that! I don't care if it's cute. Don't give me that look! ::

A few bewithered eyes were laid on the screen Ratchet was talking into. They all heard Arcee talking back to the scout.

"What is going on over there, Arcee?" Jack questioned.

:: Let's just say that something got attached to Bumblebee... ::

Raf frowned. "Oh, no. Is 'Bee alright?"

:: Yeah, he's fine… ::

"Then what's the problem?"

:: Ratchet, can you send us a bridge? It's better to show you guys that way. ::

Effortless, the groundbridge portal lit up. Arcee entered out of it first and then Bumblebee.

"Oh for the love of…" Ratchet shook his helm, shutting and opening his optics repeating to be sure he wasn't imagining things.

Bumblebee's arms are carrying a small, dirtied yellow kitten. The scout was making a fool out himself when he cooing to the small creature. "Who's the cutest kitty in the world? You are!"

"So that's what you meant by attached…" Raf chuckled. The cat meowed and licked Bumblebee's face.

"Bumblebee, no pets are allowed in base. You know that!" Ratchet only thinks of a cat as a creature that cause more mess and trouble than Wheeljack, Bulkhead, and Miko combined.

"I know, but look at him Ratch," Bumblebee raised the feline up in the air, its innocent emerald eyes meeting Ratchet. "How can you say no to this face?"

"Like this: 'NO!'" Frightened, the cat burrowed itself back into the scout's arms. "Now, you are to return him."

"But, but, but, but…" Bumblebee sounded like a sad, broken recorder.

"No 'buts'. Take him back where you found him." Ratchet pointed to the groundbridge.

His head drops down and mumbles, "Okay…" If Bumblebee still had his door wings, they would have sunk down in disappointment.

"Bumblebee can take the cat back later! I am not waiting on him again to tell everyone the news!" Miko intervened.

Bulkhead scratched the back of his head. "I'll listen to her, Ratchet."

Groaning, Ratchet pinch his nose guard as his tolerance for Miko was at it's tipping point. The medic wasn't in the mood to argue with the Asian either. "Fine. What is this all-so important news that you can't wait to share?" He crossed his arms.

Miko pulled out tickets from her pocket and fanned them out showing everyone. "Tada!"

"Please say those aren't tickets for us to go to a monster truck rally." Arcee is aware of Miko's love of destruction of oversized vehicles and smaller ones..

"No, that's reserved for me and Bulk," She said in a matter of fact. "We, and by 'we' I mean Jack, Raf, I, and a little help from helicopter mom, all of us pitched to pay for the amusement park tickets."

"Sadly, she couldn't come. Turns out she was called into work today." Jack said, though he didn't sound too distraught of his mom not coming with them.

"But," Miko jumped in, " she has trust in you guys that you'll keep a good eye on us."

Smokescreen raised his hand. "What's an amusement park?"

"Only the most awesome place on Earth! There's food, games, and rides that goes really fast! One of the things the brochure didn't lie about Jasper."

Bumblebee liked the idea and it showed. "Ooh! I want to go to the amusement park! Um. If it's alright with you, Optimus." The scout hoped that the leader will allow them to go.

"We have a ticket for you too, Optimus." Raf mentioned. Optimus mused over the option. There was no Decepticon activity, not since the last time in Hawaii with Starscream and his troops.

"Come on, Optimus." Miko's ponytails bounced as she ran up to Optimus, a cheeky grin plastered on her face." This is a HUGE part of human life, don't you want to experience it?"

Well, Optimus did say they must learn from the humans.

"I suppose there's no harm in going. Afterall, I believe everyone deserves a break from their hard work." The leader's approval caused a wave of happiness and excitement within the room.

"Then that settles that," Miko faced the direction of Ratchet's workstation, seeing the medic busying himself on the computers. "Sorry Ratchet, we would take you too, but there's a strict 'No Robots' policy. I know you'll understand."

One groundbridge later (still no one could drive), Team Prime arrived yards from the amusement park. Even from a distance, they could spot some of the taller attractions. One of them was a rollercoaster that circled almost around the park. More of the other rides caught their attention, the ones that were easy to spot, but Bumblebee's attention was primarily focused on the people screaming that could be heard from miles around from the carts riding down the very top of the roller coaster.

"The many times we've been here, we never noticed this?"

Bumblebee shrugged to Arcee's idle inquiry. "I guess we've been too busy chasing down Decepticons to notice."

"Why are you guys standing here for? The place isn't going to come to us, you know." With or without the team, Miko sprinted to the entrance.

"Miko, wait up- and there she goes." Jack's shoulders slumped down as he sighed. The rest followed the energetic female to the entrance, showed their tickets at the people at the front gate and permitted entry.

The place was surprisingly crowded. Then again, it was a saturday so it only makes sense.

Jack and Raf were smart enough to have gotten a map of the area up front.

"So, what to do first?" Bulkhead asked, looking over the Jack's shoulder to look at the paper map.

"Well, we got rides, games, food. Take your pick."

"I want to go on the rides first!" Enthusiastically yelled both Bumblebee and Smokescreen.

"Yeah! What's the closest?" Miko yanked the map from Jack's grip. "Ooh! Let's try this one." Bumblebee, Smokescreen quickly ran after Miko as she ran off, leading the way.

Arcee volunteered to supervise the three young Autobots. "I'll keep watch on them. Don't exactly want the destructive trio on the loose, right?" She hurried off to catch up with the trio.

"Now that they're gone," Jack began. "Who's up for some rides?"

"You guys never had anything like Amusement Parks back on Cybertron? How lame is that?"

The four were waiting in line to ride the Soul Spinner, an inverted roller coaster that's fairly big in size. Not the biggest in the park, but large enough to not be a bore.

"We had coliseums that had gladiator tournaments." Bumblebee responded plainly to Miko.

"In the Pits of Kaon." Smokescreen added. "Never actually been there, but I always wanted to. Well, if the war wasn't going on at the time."

"Bummer. Wait, wasn't Megatron a gladiator?"

"Another reason why I didn't want to go."

Finally, the ride stationed back with it's riders, some with air defying freaky hairdos. They got off when they were allowed to and Bumblebee found it funny that a few humans stumbling on their own two feet walking off for the exit.

The next wave of people got onto the ride next, including Arcee, Miko, Bumblebee and Smokescreen. Sitting down on a the chair, allowing his feet to dangle, Smokescreen began to get pre-ride jitters.

"So, um… We won't fall out right?" He asked Miko who was on the right of him.

Arcee was sat behind Smokescreen, Bumblebee next to her, detecting uneasiness in the newbie's voice. "Smokescreen, don't tell me that you're scared?"

Smokescreen didn't need to look back- not like he could in this position- to know Arcee was taking in delight from his anxiety. "Pfft! Me? Scared? I don't even know the meaning of the word…"

"I don't know. You sound pretty scared to me." Chuckled the yellow and black Autobot.

The white haired teen rolled his eyes, retorting, "Bumblebee, I think you need go see Ratchet. There might be a problem with your audio receptors."

"Tch. Scaredy cat."

After the people who worked at the ride made sure everyone was scrapped in properly, they retracted back to their post. Smokescreen immediately clings onto his safety rails on his seat with the ride accelerated forward out of the loading dock, amusement park grounds visible to everyone on the ride. It soon escalated steadily upwards, similar of getting on top of a hill. But, like all hills, you have to fall from them after getting to the top.

Miko squealed in excitement, finally reaching it's peak. "Here we go…" And down it took them, more like the coaster dropped it's victims in a freefall and lets the G-force kick in.

"That… was… AWESOME!" Smokescreen high-fived Miko. They had another gotten off and are in search for their next destination.

"I told ya it would be fun, didn't I?"

"Though, the femme behind us was screaming awfully loud."

"You mean Bumblebee?" The two burst out laughing. Bumblebee folding his arms, mad and flustered at the same time.

"That was Arcee screaming." Bumblebee tried to defend his remaining pride, even if it means blaming it on someone else. "Ow!" Something had hit him on the back of his head. Really hard.

"'Bee, man up and admit that was you." Arcee came from behind him. She originally wanted to frown at him, but him screaming in terror on the ride was humorous.

"You didn't have to hit me, 'Cee…" Whined 'Bee.

"Be glad it was my hand."

In the game area of the park, because that's where Raf wanted to go after they got off 'Total Domination', one of those tall tower rides that takes you all the way to the top and drops suddenly. Bulkhead screamed like a little girl and Optimus was being… well Optimus during the heart-stopping ride.

"To be clear, we are not saying a thing about that to Miko." Miko still tease him about the scraplet incident. If she hears about this, she definitely won't let him live this down.

"Our lips our sealed." Jack promised and Raf did the closed lips motion with his two fingers mimicking a zipper across his mouth.

"Thanks…"

"Hey, you guys, there's a concession stand not too far from where we're at. And I'm getting a bit hungry. I know Raf was dying to get here, Bulkhead, mind watching him while Optimus and I get snacks?"

Bulkhead nodded. "Sure thing. Bring me back somethin', will ya?"

"Ooh! Can I have some popcorn, Jack?" Raf then asked.

"No problem. We'll be somewhere over there just in case there's a hold up in the lines."

"Gotcha. Come on, Bulkhead."

The army Autobot followed the techy boy. "I didn't know you were into stuff like this. You strike me more of a arcade kid."

"I'm not a big fan of game booths, but I promised my sis I'll win her back a stuffed animal since she couldn't come and all." Bulkhead thought it was nice of Raf to get his sibling a toy from the park.

After a few minutes of a picky twelve and a quarter year old scanning for the prize he wanted, eventually something caught his attention. Hanging on display were arraw of plush toys, primary cats each in different colors. There was one in purple with black stripes. It was absolutely adorable and colors favored by Raf's sister.

It was a simple game; throw balls that they provide you and hope you'll hit a target. To put a twist on it, the targets will be moving. Raf paid the guy in charge for his round of ammo and in return he received a small basket circular projectiles.

The targets moved in various directions on the backboard wall, making it hard to pinpoint it's next location as it suddenly turns off in the next direction. Raf threw two of the balls. No luck. The third one he threw did manage strike a random target, even if he was off aimed of the target he was aiming for.

"Try again." Spoke the booth guy.

"What? He totally hit that!" Bulkhead protested.

"Correct me if I'm wrong, sir. But did the target break? No, it did not. The goal is to break the target, and clearly it didn't break." He snided. Bulkhead's eyes met the other, engaging in a glaring war.

"You know what Raf? Let me try this one." Bulkhead took the last ball out of the basket. With all his might he threw it. If you blinked, you missed the ball zipping through the air.. He hits the target- correction, puts a hole through it and the wall behind it with a circular outline.

The guy's jaw dropped down in a comically fashion. "Wha…"

"Now, I think my friend here wants that one," Bulkhead pointed to one of the cat plush dolls.

"Y-yes, sir. Here you go, little guy…" He hands Raf the purple and black doll, still in complete disbelief how someone puts a hole through a wooden target and the wall behind it. 'The Hell...' Looking for a logically solution at this point just made his head hurt and decided the phenomenal was caused the man's muscles.

Jack and Optimus were having a swell time waiting in line for food. Was Optimus having fun? Well, he was glad that his team were having a good time, and he was happy for that. He did like how lively the place is, reminding him how happy and peaceful Cybertron used to be before the war broke out.

For a place that suppose to be a cheerful one, there was a lone child by himself, crying silently. Does no one else notice the crying child? His inner sense of moral tempted him to approach him.

"What's wrong, youngling?" Optimus kneeled down in front of the young child, about six years of age.

The redheaded child wipes his tear stained eyes and faced the taller man. "I-I'm alone and I'm scared…"

"Where are your caretakers?"

"My brother took me here and ditched me to be with his friends…" He sniffs. "All I want to do is ride on the rides, but I don't want to do it by myself..."

"Then perhaps I can be of some help. Would you like me to go with you on the rides?"

A hopeful expression came to be, sadness quickly depleted from boy's eyes. "Really, mister?"

"That's right. Afterall, you should be enjoying yourself."

"T-thank you."

"What is your name?" The red and blue Autobot asked as he stood up.

"Jamie. What about you? What's your name?"

"You may call me Optimus."

He giggles,"That's a weird name."

"Yo, Jack!" Miko hopped over to the black haired teen, Smokescreen, Bumblebee, and Arcee right behind her.

Jack was holding two bags of popcorn under his arms, one for Bulkhead and one for Raf. For him, he was eating a corndog, the worlds best convenient food. "Miko, with our bots still in one piece. You guys having fun?" As if he needed to asked. Though, he should have seen Arcee before he asked that.

"More or less…" Arcee didn't even face Jack or anyone for that matter. She cast her view to the side. Jack knew the femme was slightly pissed.

"Arcee, why are wet?"

"We went on a water raft ride and Arcee was the only one to come out of it drenched."Miko snickered. "Where's the others?"

"Bulkhead and Raf are off playing games and for Optimus...I don't know where Optimus is at. He was right here a second ago…"

"Found him… On a children's ride…?" Smokescreen voiced raised slightly to hint confusion. Out of all the things that he can't believe is that his leader is spinning freely in a giant rotating tea cup…

"Are you sure it's our Optimus?" Bumblebee shared the same uncertainty.

"Let's see, tall, kinda muscular, short brown hair, red jacket- and yep, Autobot insignia on shirt. Do you still think it's a fake?" Yep, it was Optimus.

"We should ask what's going on… After I get myself an elephant ear." At least Miko got her priorities straight...

"An elephant ear?" Bumblebee sounded almost disgusted.

"It's not an actually elephant ear; it's just dough basically." Miko clarified. "You guys seriously need to experience more human food. And what place is better than here? Cotton candy, popcorn, funnel cake, you guys haven't begun to live if you haven't had any yet."

"This won't end up like the last food incident, right?"

"Not at all. You have my word."

"Oh. There's Raf and Bulkhead. Hey you two." Jack and everyone else greeted the approaching child and green Autobot. "Got your popcorn." Jack handed the two their bags of popcorn. Rafael thanked Jack and tossed some in his mouth.

Bulkhead remembered there was something he needed to say as they returned to the group."We saw Optimus in a giant teacup, anyone know what's up with that?"

"Thank you, Mister Optimus!" Jamie smiled, swinging his feat from his seat on Optimus shoulder. On the child's wrist was a string of a red balloon securely tied that Optimus got him after their time ended on the spinning teacup.

Optimus gave the youngling a small smile. "You're very much welcome. What's wrong?" There was a shift of Jamie's emotions. Looking forward at what Jamie was staring at, it was another redhead, taller and clearly teenaged. He also bears some resemblance to the child on his shoulder. The teen was with some others, clearly they were his friends.

"Is that your brother?" Optimus pieced everything together. Jamie nodded slowly.

"Hey! What are you doing with my brother?" Called out the older brother who spotted Jamie on Optimus shoulders. He underestimated how tall Optimus really was until he approached them with a look of unsatisfactory, causing all of the to shrink down in fear. The child smiled at how short his brother was compared to him now.

"I take it that you're Jamie's older brother?" As Calm Optimus tone may be, it was his glare that was sending chills down the teen's spine.

"Y-yeah… What about it?" He tried to be tough but faltered at the taller man before him. He would appreciate his friends backing him up, unfortunately, they already hightailed out of there when Optimus was close.

"Then you are the one responsible for leaving Jamie by himself. I found your little brother, alone and scared. As his big brother, you should be there in his time of need, to comfort and protect him. Hearing that you're the one that left him there is, without a doubt, an intolerable action. What if something were to happen to him?"

The older redhead rubbed his arm in guilt. He was right. If someone other than Optimus found Jamie alone...

"Family stick together and never abandon each other. Ever. Do I make myself clear?"

"Yes… Sorry."

"I'm not the one you should be apologizing to." Optimus lets down Jamie as he presented himself to his big brother.

"Jamie," He shifted uncomfortably, not being able to eye his little brother for a while. "I was an idiot leaving you alone back there. You still mad at me?"

Jamie smiled. "No. I'm not mad at you, Caleb." That is probably the sweetest sibling on Earth to forgive his brother like that.

"Thanks, and thank you too for bringing him back to me." Caleb said that to the Prime as he only nodded. "Now then, still want to go on some rides? That is what we came here to do, right?" The teen smiled, taking Jamie by the hand.

"Uh-huh! And I won't tell mom what you did either. I don't want you to get in trouble."

There was a pause.

"... You're a good kid, Jamie…"

"What did we miss?" Said a familiar female voice. The source was Miko, the others around her.

"Nothing at all. A simple conflict that is resolved now." Optimus didn't label the issues to be massive. In truths, it really wasn't, but even the littlest matters need to be solved to prevent bigger problems. "I take it that everyone else is enjoying themselves?"

"You bet! The rides are fun and the food is great!" Bumblebee's face was stuffed with all types of food that Miko was generous to pay for him and Smokescreen. They especially loved the cotton candy. Arcee just settled to herself with a slushy.

"But what's up with the weird cat mascot thing?" It's not like Bumblebee dislikes cats, as earlier events would proved that statement wrong to the ground, although, lifesize mascots of a cat walking past him was just off putting.

That was Miko's cue. "I'm glad you ask, my yellow friend. You see, the mascot's name is Stitches: The deadliest feline on earth."

Our scout was unfamiliar with the term, 'curiosity killed the cat' as he then asked, "What makes the cat so deadly?"

"Okay, everyone gather around as I tell the spooky tale of 'The tail of Stitches'." It took Bulkhead a good second to sort out all the 'tell's' in that sentence.

"Many years ago, while the park was still new, two teenagers entered the park's campus, looking to have a good time. What the two boys did stumble upon was Stitches, the park's mascot, sleeping peacefully. Thinking that it would be funny, one of them grabbed ahold of the feline while it was off guard and tore off its tail." All she needs now is a pitch dark background with a flashlight in her hands.

"That's messed up… Why would you do something like that to a kitty?"

"Wait. It gets better. Little did the teens know that Stitches was a demon cat. Angered and crossed at the teens, he vowed revenge. And he had the purrrfect plan in mind." Jack painfully groan at the pun. "Stitches was following the teens every move up until they arrived at one of those indoor tunnel rides. But then, the lights flickered off as the teens were seated in the front of the ride. No one knew what was going on; all were either in panic or confused as they were told it was a technical difficult and to remain seated." Miko paused.

"And do you know what happened to the teen that ripped Stitches' tail off? His own head was CLAWED off his body all before the lights came back to life! The other teen panicked seeing his bloody beheaded friend. Although, what the friend failed to see was a lone white tail resting in the lap of the now deceased teen. And that is the story of Stitches."

By the time the tale was over, Bumblebee, having been shaken up by the story, trembled in pure terror. A few others were maybe a little creeped out, but not like Bumblebee was. Smokescreen and Bulkhead was a close second.

Jack and Raf knew it was a hoax, a fib that Miko made up just to scare everyone. That was proved when the girl was laughing, her ponytails bouncing in delight. "Oh my god, you should have seen the looks on your faces!"

"Aw, man! I knew this was a lie!" Smokescreen recovered fast.

"It's up to you if you want to believe it or not. Anyway, if you want to know the ride the guy died on, it's right over there." A finger was pointed- and would you believe it, at the biggest roller coaster ride in the whole theme park: The Talons. A part of it was obscured in view in a tunnel, gradually leading it's riders up to an opening on a hill before it drops into a freefall with loops, turns that will jerk you around, everything that's needed to have the scariest coaster around.

Bumblebee suddenly wasn't in the mood to ride the biggest rollercoaster.

"If you think I'm lying, then you will have no fear getting on it."

"You know what, Bumblebee and I will take you up on that." Bumblebee yanked his head towards Smokescreen quizzically.

"Hold up, what?" When did he get dragged into this?

"I'm not doing this alone. Besides, we're Cybertronians; been in war, nearly had our Sparks extinguished a few times, and we can't handle a few minutes on a ride?" A few were amazed of how something logical came from Smokescreen's mouth.

It was enough to persuade Bumblebee. "When you put it that way..."

"Great to have you on board. Let's go before the lines get too long." Miko pulled the two younger Autobots with her.

"The story is made up, right?" Bulkhead asked after Miko and her victims were out of sight.

Arcee raised an eyebrow. "Don't tell me you believe in a demonic cat?" She shakes her head.

"I just want to verify it to be a ghost story…"

Bumblebee, waiting for the line to progress, felt as if he was put on death row. It would be a lie to say he wasn't terrified out of his fragging processor. Smokescreen hid most of his anxiety internally. To be honest, he was having second thoughts about this.

Once the trio was inside the tunnel entrance, it was only a matter of time before the screeching brakes halting the returning cart to a stop. The safety bars which held its riders in lifted up automatically. Don't know what was worst; seeing some of those people kiss the ground in joy or seeing the others traumatized as if they encountered Death. One guy looked like he was going to puke.

"C'mon 'Bee and Smokey, it's our turn!" Miko dragged the young bots to the ride. Of course Miko made them sit in the front row as it was able to fit three people.

Strapped in and ready to go, the ride moved forward into a even darker part of the tunnel, lights dimming down the further they got in.

'Calm down… It's just a ride… There's no demon cat wanting my head…' As soon Bumblebee manage to recollect himself, something jumped out in the background. The scout yelped, then relaxed seeing it was nothing more than a wooden dummy of a cat. Only wooden.

To add salt in the wounds, some people were snickering at him. Including Miko and Smokescreen.

'What a great friend you are, Smokescreen…'

The tracks have been slanted upward for a while now, indicating this ride is going to be really high up. Higher than he thought it would be…

Temporarily blinded from the seeping light from the two doors swinging outwards, revealing the outside world. Keeping everyone in the dark was a way to hide how high the ride actually took them, a trick on the eyes.

Smokescreen, Bumblebee, and Miko can see the whole park from there.

The carts continues progressing forward, a very steep hill awaiting for them.

"Hey Bumblebee, you know what I forgot to say in the story?"

"Do I even want to know?" Hasn't Miko took the hint that she'd caused 'Bee enough stress?

"Stitches hates everyone and everything yellow since it was the color of the boy's shirt who ripped his tail off."

In the brief silence before the ride plummets downward, the glass of Bumblebee's breaking point was shattered into a million pieces, screaming in utmost terror and fear that would put every other award winning horror movie scream in shame and out of business for the rest of life.

"I told you they would come out alive." If it's all the same, Bumblebee and Smokescreen might as well be the walking dead; all stiff and pale. The only thing that gave them emotion was the amount of fear laced in their faces.

Miko, on the other hand, the girl seemed as if nothing happened. Actually, she was the only one that didn't look as if Unicron came to her place with a gun aimed at her head.

Jack shook his head. "I have to see it to believe it."

Smokescreen and Bumblebee's legs felt like jello. Their stomachs did twist and turns very much similar to the rollercoaster they got off on.

"Are you two alright?" Arcee spotted how sickly green in the face the two were.

Bumblebee shook his head very weakly, fear still embedded in his eyes.. "Y-yeah…" Liar. "Uh oh…" His stomach jumped for the last time. Smokescreen felt that exact sickening feeling.

"Oh scrap…" Smokescreen grabbed the nearest bag, which happened to be a almost finished bag of popcorn from Raf, and Bumblebee ran for the nearest trash bin, both needing to purge.

"Ew…" Jack, Raf, Bulkhead, and Arcee groaned in disgust.

Miko on the other hand, exclaimed, "Cool! I didn't know Cybertronian barf was blue."

"I had Energon this morning…" Smokescreen groaned the reply as Bumblebee returned to the group.

"You guys want to go again?" Miko's question must have triggered something in Bumblebee as he ran off to purge again.

"So, is that a 'yes'?"


Note to self: Learn how to write people telling scaring stories better…. T_T

Thank you WingedWolfAlari for the idea!

I was going to write Miko putting a fake cat tail in Bumblebee's lap after the ride was over, but I thought that would have overkill. Same with her pretending to lose her head… Primus, that scares me…

I'm actually glad I tried to write more of Optimus.

Attention all my readers: I don't know if anyone knows this, but I am a HUGE Ace Attorney fan and the game has came out. So, more than likely, my life will be distracted on playing the game. Meaning, updates will be kinda slow.. (Part of the reason why this update was slow… That and Kingdom Hearts.)

Okay, so next chapter will have the appearance of two new Autobots! If anyone could guess BOTH of them correctly, you will get a preview of the next chapter!

Oh, I want to say HAPPY HALLOWEEN to those that are going treat-or-treating. Be sure to be safe and have fun!

You know, up until now, I really regret not having Dreadwing and Airachnid into this. T_T. And I reeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllly dont wanna go back and re-edit everything. So, if anyone has a logical explanation of where those two may be at, please leave a message at the sound of Starscream screeching.

(And no, I don't pair those two together. I'mmoreofaBreakdownandAirachnidfandespiteallthethi ngsthathappened.)

Please, leave your comments about how you think about this, or improvements I can make. :3 Thank you.