Chapter Two: A new day, Bad feelings

The first thing she noticed as her mind slipped out of the dark abyss of dreams, was how safe she felt-it was the first time in a very long time she had felt this way. A large smile slowly crept across her face, she didn't want to move from the spot - nor deal with the outside world, to lay there for a little longer would just be nice. Juas a few more minutes...She slowly felt herself slipping back into unconciousness

'Holly?'

Came Hammershot's voice, jarring Holly back awake, she wondered how the Hummer had known that she was awake. As her eyes focused, she noticed that she had been running her hand along the backseat-she must have been doing it subconciously while half asleep. Giggling lightly, Holly rolled onto her other side to face foreward.

'Mornin' Hammershot'

Holly yawned and stretched slightly, receiving a light chuckle as a response from the mech.

'Its a little late to be morning.'

'Oh, whoops..what time...'

'Afternoon...How are you feeling?'

Sitting up Holly stretched a little more and looked around, recalling the events of the day previous and frowning slightly.

'I...Don't know...'

She answered honestly,now that she was fully awake, she could feel everything she had been bottling up hit her conciousness again. She opened her mouth to say something when suddenly her eyes went wide and she shook her head.

'What's going to happen now?'

Hammershot didn't reply, it wasn't that he didn't know, as he had a fairly good idea of what would happen but he wished Holly would stop worring about it.

'Now...'

He began slowly, letting his voice trail off a little and felt as Holly gave a small shiver.

'Are you-'

'Sorry. I'm just a little wrestless'

Holly smiled. Hammershot sighed, slightly grateful for the oppertunity to change the subject.

'Why don't you get out and stretch. I'm sure the backseat wasn't comfortable to sleep on for so long'

'Oh no, it was. But I probably have been a pain for you to watch over and make sure I have a safe place to sleep as well...'

Holly slipped out the back door of the Hummer and stretched-Now that daylight filtered into the tunnel she saw how big it was and that it wasn't as scary as it'd looked the night before.

'Heh. Its not like I was going to let you sleep on the cold dirty ground'

Hammershot replied as he transformed, kneeling on one leg an tilting his head slightly, watching Holly as she moved to his side.

'If you had, I wouldn't care...'

'Do you really think that I'd be that cruel to you?'

'Heh. I am only human after all.'

Holly replied with a smirk, looking up at the robot, she then placed a hand on his leg,

'And you're...'

She was cut short as Hammershot suddenly moved foreward, making his face only feet from her's-Holly had taken a few steps back. Mostly out of uncertainity as to what he was doing, but there was still some fear in there as well. Scared that she had said something wrong, but the look on Hammershot's face was a smirk, he let his voice drop to a light growl.

'You may be only human...But you're my human...And THAT...Is only one reason why you will never sleep alone in the cold again.'

Holly tilted her head to rest slightly on one shoulder, slowly a shy smile crept across her face and she lept foreward a little. Careful to not impale herself on Hammershot's pharoah beard, as she caught herself by raising her hands and coming to a stop on one side of his face. Before she even knew what she was doing, Holly leaned foreward and gave a light kiss on the smooth metalic face,before her. Almost instantly her face went a brilliant shade of pink, feeling it grow an intense hot, Holly pulled away. Had she been looking at the Hummer and not the ground, she may have noticed the look on his face. Holly became very rigid, she could blame her actions on stress and not being in her right mind-maybe that would work? Then she thought of how she'd just kissed a giant robot...what the Hell was wrong with her!? She felt like running and crying and hiding-she was scared, scared of what she did and of what it could mean. Trying to calm herself down, she tried to assure herself that what she'd done was only equal to a dog licking its master's face-an act of gratefulness-nothing else, or so she tried to force herself to think.

'Holly...'

'I'm sorry,I'm sorry,I'm sorry'

Holly began to almost chant as she backed away from Hammershot, still not looking him in the eyes.

'Holly...'

'I didn't mean to, I didn't, I...I...I'm sorry...I...'

"HOLLY!'

Hammershot's voice was sharp but not in a tone of offense or anger-more like he was trying to speak and catch the spazzing girl's attention. It worked. Holly fell silent, but instead of being told off like she expected to be, Hammershot transformed back into a Hummer. This confused Holly, but it was moments later that she heard the voices approaching-why'd Hammershot transform? Maybe to catch the intruders by surprise if they were up to no good? Holly's nerves were frazzled, what were people doing there? Probably the same t hing she would be if she didn't have other things going on in her life. Moving closer to Hammershot, she readied herself for the worst...

'Nooo...But...Isn't this dangerous?'

Came a very reluctant boy's voice, he sounded nervous and unsure of what was going on.

'Nah. you worry too much'

Replied a deeper second boy's voice, the pair continued in a small chat as they approached, not everything they said was audible. Holly gave a small growl, these people didn't sound like a threat, probably just some kids on a dare or exploring-but she would wait until she actually saw them before she made her choice.

'You sure this' the place?'

'Yes'

The pair came to a hault, they'd come into view of the Hummer and of Holly, though the lighting wasn't the greatest.

'What's that?'

'Shssss'

The three stood in silence for a long time-Hammershot turned his highbeams on the pair of boys, blinding them while sillouting Holly-hoping to scare them off.

'Who are you-What are you doing down here?'

The second boy demanded, anger seethed off his voice-the first moved over to his side and placed a hand on his buddies shoulder.

'Ty, maybe we should just-'

'Derek...No...'

The two seemed to continue their arguement in tones Holly couldn't quite hear but her eyes had narrowed. Now that she could hear them better, she heard that they had accents,not native to any area around this part of the country-and why did these two seem so familiar? Placing a hand on the hood of Hammershot,Holly tried to let him know that it was alright without saying anything. She then pushed away from him, moving foreward-she hoped that what she was doing wouldn't land her in trouble. Heart pounding, she took several deep breaths-Please let these people be just normal kids wandering around.

'Its okay. I'm sorry, I was out here with my friend when my car Brok...'

'Tsume?'

Interrupted the first boy, he sounded confused but excited at the same time. Holly came to a complete stop, no one ever called her by her online name in real life-well, no one except for a few friends she had met online and chatted to over the phone. But it wasn't possible for these boys to be them? They lived nearly on the other side of the continent...how could they both be there? And why would they both be there?

'Tsume...Tsume? Its me, Derek!'

'I...Uh...huh?'

'And Enoyrt!'

It was them! As Holly stood there in a state of shock, she didn't notice Derek come running towards her for a flying glomp. Instantly losing her balance (what little she had), she toppled over and the two tumbled to the ground ackwardly.

'Tsume! Tsume! Tsume!'

Derek chanted happily as Holly began to giggle and gave her friend a hug back. Ty moved foreward, he looked quite happy now that he knew who the stranger was.

'Who...what are you guys doing here?'

Holly asked, trying to push Derek off of her, he didn't want to let go but eventually he did.

'My uncle just bought the resort'

Ty replied, holding a hand out and helping Holly climb to her feet.

'Awsome! Let's just hope the curse is broken then'

'Noooo. you've jinxed it!'

Derek declared, making his face enlongated and skeletal, which caused his eyes to sink in and give him an almost cartoonish appearance. Ty and Holly glanced to each other with the same 'we don't know him' look.

'C'mon! I've got the keys and I can show you around'

'Awsome!'

Holly gave a pause and glanced over her shoulder to her Hummer.

'Uh...I'll meet you two top side, gotta grab something from my Hummer.'

'But we...'

'Will mee you up there. c'mon Derek'

Ty sighed as he grabbed Derek by the arm and began to drag him the way they'd come. Holly giggled lightly, she was glad to see them, they were okay but a part of her worry returned with full force. As much as she'd looked foreward to the day she'd meet them, this wasn't the circumstances she wanted to be in when it happened-she didn't want anything to happen to them because the robots were coming after her. It was probably best to keep them in the dark and not tell them about Hammershot-if they questioned her being there, she'd already cooked up an answer. Turning, she walked back to the Hummer, who waited until she was close enough before speaking.

'Who are those boys?'

'A few of my good online friends...Uh...from the interenet, from somewhere in the lower states.'

'Don't...'

'Don't worry, they're safe. Nothing's going to happen and I'll be just up there, not far.'

The way Holly was babbling it was as if she didn't want to give Hammershot a chance to protest her leaving with some people he didn't know. Maybe perhaps she was afraid of what he might say-taking a moment to catch her breath, Holly opened her mouth to speak again when suddenly the air filled with static. Feeling stupid,Holly shut her mouth quickly. The static was coming from Hammershot, moment's later a voice broke over the static-it was a message-

'All Decepticons, Be on the look out for any lone Autobots, we have reason to believe the girl is no longer safe in their base and is in transit. The message regarding our three hostages has already been sent out. One has since expired due to his own stupidity but he held no true importance to us any longer.'

There was a pause, as StarScream's voice filled the air, Holly felt sick-her stomach clenched and panic washed over her. Firstly what was Starscream doing alive? Hadn's Megatron blown him to bits? Secondoly...who were the hostages? As if to answer her silent question, Starscream continued.

'The small fembot and human with the annoying mouth are held a safe distance from the following co-ordinates, where the ambush is set to happen. the hostages will be terminated at the end of the day IF we don't get the...'

The rest of the transmission was ignored as Holly bolted away from Hammershot, she couldnt' listen to this any more. She knew who the two remaining hostages were, and knew she was powerless to help them, which really bothered her.