Hi guys. Sorry for the wait on this chapter. I've been busy and started to get nervous for my results from my exams as well as work Experience. Hope you enjoy this chapter. The links for the dress and mask Scar wears in this chapter is on my profile page. Take a look.
Garbage in, Garbage out and Cousin's Party
It was mid-day and the bots were sorting out garbage for the barges as me and Sari tried to not breathe in much of the stench that was been given off by the rotten garbage. The bots where complaining as I texted Lottie about going to the party at the manor later on which was being hold for her birthday.
"That stinks," I said as I finished sending the last message. "Why do you guys have to do this again?"
"Because the garbage bots have gone haywire and we need to remind the city that we mean them no harm," Optimus replied. "How come you're not at work fixing the problem?"
"Love what ya want me to do?" I asked him. "Jackass Powell won't let me into my office unless I agree that I will build military weapons which are not in my contract with Sumdac Systems."
Optimus sighed before we heard some commotion. Looking over we saw that Ratchet was having an argument with an old man about his car being under a pile of rubbish. I sighed before I started to walk over to them as Ratchet dropped the car in the lake.
"My car," the man said. "You'll pay your over-sized tin can."
"Sir, I will get my cousin to give you a new car as long as you stop insulting my friend," I told him.
"You're the Mayors niece," he said. "I want to report this tin can to you."
"Sorry but I do mechanics not reports," I replied before walking away with Ratchet. "Have a nice day."
The others were watching as before Optimus started to talk to Ratchet. Both Sari and Bee was talking about something before Optimus called them over.
"That's enough Autobots," Optimus said. "Ratchet you need to learn more people skills."
"I feel sorry for the sucker with that job," Bee loudly whispered to sari making them bot laugh before quickly stopping. "Oh you mean us."
I laughed as I looked at their faces before my cell went off.
"Miss Danfold I would like you to present the new the mechanical biological garbage microorganisms, that we will be presenting for the mayor this afternoon," Powell said the moment I answered.
"I thought that it wasn't until tomorrow," I said.
"Well we have moved it today so I suggest you get to the bank of the lake by five this afternoon," he replied.
I nodded before I turned my phone off and turned to the others.
"Hey guys can someone give a lift to the river bank before five?" I asked them.
"You can go with Bee and Ratchet to help Ratchet with his people skills," Optimus replied to me.
I nodded as the bots transformed. I quickly climbed in Bee seeing as the last conversation with Ratchet would be picked up again. Bee quickly speeded away leaving Sari with Hatchet.
"That was mean," I told Bee. "But still funny."
He laughed before we stopped on to the high way. It was busy and Ratchet was mumbling insults about that they should move out of his way. The comm link was on and I could hear Sari talking about him before a man with spikey brown hair moved in front of him.
"Help my wife is about to have a baby and our car broke down," he said looking at Ratchet.
"What do I look like?" Ratchet asked back gruffly. "A taxi service."
"You're an ambulance Ratchet," I replied. "Help these people it will help with your people skills."
He grumbled something before his doors opened. I sighed as I pressed one of the buttons on the door for Bee's window to pull down and rested my hand on Bee's steering wheel so that it looked like I was driving.
"So what is it that you've doing?" Bee asked me.
"I have to present the new garbage micro-organics to my uncle to get his approval on using them across the city," I replied. "Powell just wants some more money to use them from the Tax man."
Bee mumbled something in reply as we drove. I heard my phone beeping and saw that it was Lottie responding to my message and my friend.
"So what are you and Lottie doing later?" Bee asked.
"We're having a party at the manor to celebrate her birthday," I replied. "Hey what's that?"
In front of us stood a orange and white robot that had picked up a police car. Bee stopped and I got out as he transformed. The couple that had gotten in to Ratchet walked off and I went over to them as the other three tried to make sense on what was happening.
"I'm guessing you're in labour," I said to the blonde. "I can help. I did some work on the birth back in high school last semester."
She just nodded and I told her to breathe before my phone rang again. I growled slightly as I plugged in my head phone and listened to Powell again as I told the woman to breathe deeply as her husband had his hand squeezed to death by her. He said something about the garbage micro-organics being stolen by the Angry Archer and that I had to find them. I sighed before I turned to the couple.
"If I call a cab you can get to the hospital," I told them. "If they ask for money tell them to call me. Just say Scar Danfold to them."
They both nodded as I quickly dialled the number before I ran to the others.
"So what's the plan?" I asked them.
"Ratchet insulted the bot who said he was created by an All spark fragment," Sari replied. "Stupid bot."
I smiled before I told them about what Powell had said to me. The sound of police cars made the bots transform as me and Sari got into them, swapping each other.
"Ratchet we have to find that bot," I told him. "He has the new Sumdac product."
Ratchet muttered something before he put his siren on as he drove to catch up with Bee and Sari. There was pillage of garbage as we drove and we followed it until we arrived in a air field where planes where parked and we found a garbage truck that was spilling garbage everywhere and had a orange liquid glowing in it.
"I'm guessing we found it," I said as we approached the vehicle. "Ratchet be nice."
The truck transformed and I could see that he had the garbage on his back and was not that bulky with the front of the truck that hold the head light on his chassis` along with his face having a radio like think around it.
"I am Wreak Gar," he said. "I am a decepticon."
"Err… not good," I said as we heard the sound of transformation behind us to see Lugnut there as well.
"Crush the puny autobots and their friends," he said.
I grabbed Sari as Bee and Ratchet used a magnetic pulse against him as Wreak Gar pulled out garbage from his back and started to chuck it in different directions.
"Ratchet do I have any weapons?" I called as I did a forward roll while holding onto Sari.
"Flex your left arm and find out," he called.
I flexed my left arm and gasped when a small silver sword appeared that had a purple outline; Sari let go of me as I quickly sliced through some delicate wires that where on Wreak Gar's feet servo's so that he fell down but with no major damage to the rest of him.
"Hey, I'm not going to hurt you as long as you stop chucking garbage at me," I said to him, getting rid of my sword. "The name's Scar. And I kinda need that orange liquid you have in your garbage dispenser."
He nodded as I quickly stopped the leaking of the wires so that he could sit up. He reached behind him and got the canister before handing it to me. I frowned when I saw a dent in it that was leaking and gasped when it touched a pile of garbage close by and made it smaller.
"That cannot be good," I said as I looked at it in shock. "Powell you are insane and a ruthless man after money."
Ratchet walked over and scanned the pile and looked at me in shock.
"Scar that is dangerous," Ratchet said. "If that makes contact with human flesh or anything organic it will eventually kill it. It cannot be used across the city."
"So you're telling me that Powell has spent half the company's money on something that cannot be used?" I asked. "Great we are going to go bank rupted at this rate. Hmm… Unless I can change the way it works so that it only reacts to rotten flesh and any ting that is garbage. Would that work?"
"You would need a monitor that you would need to see what the liquid was on to so that you can activate it or deactivate it depending on the materials or particles," Ratchet said.
I nodded as I fiddled with my phone before I pressed a button and the orange liquid quickly slide back into the canister before I sealed it up. The others had been watching us as Ratchet transformed so that I could present it and then go home for the party.
I sighed as I left the shower with steam rising from when it met the cold air of my bedroom. My uncle had accepted the new product and said that it would be put in use the moment I had got a bigger version of the device up and running. Pulling my under-garments on, I plugged in my curlers and looked at the dress Lottie and Tina had ordered me to wear. The theme was the Victorian era masquerade and my dress had a sort of Gothic theme to it in red and black along with a mask that was on my desk as I looked at the necklace they had told me to wear. (A.N: see the link on my profile page for the dress and link). I sighed knowing that my two cousins where up to something at the party when I heard a knock on my window. Quickly looking at my door, I walked to my window and opened it to see my friend there, hiding from view as he looked into my room.
"Hi what's up?" I asked him.
"Wonderingifyouknowanythingab outtheillegelstreetracingaro undhere," he replied.
"No, I haven't," I said. "How come. Is it to do with the allspark?"
"Idon'tknowmaybe,"he told me. "Ibettergo. Prime'scoming. Getdressed, DayDreamer."
At those words he transformed and disappeared as I went to get into the dress and figure how I was going to breathe and dance with it without falling over in it. Hearing a knock on my door this time I walked over to it and opened it to see Optimus' hologram that looked at me, hiding the slight blush on his face at the fact I was my towel with only my under-garments on.
"Stop the blushing Prime," I told him. "And your hologram isn't dressed for a Victorian theme masquerade party."
He sighed, as he looked towards my dress.
"Nice dress," he said, walking to look at it. "Too formal for you though."
"Hey," I pouted. "Honey as much as I love you do never diss my dress sense or my dresses that my cousins choose for me to wear. And besides I like it."
"I do to," he replied, wrapping his arms around me. "Want some help getting into it?"
"How come? So you can help me get out of it later," I teased, laughing a bit, as he looked at me in shock.
"Your father would kill me," he replied.
I sighed as I grabbed my curler to do my hair. From the corner of my eye I could see that Optimus was looking at a photo I had of my family when we went to Nevada two summers ago for our vacation on a road trip across the Nevadan state. He smiled, before he looked at me as I looked into my mirror as I did my hair, hissing whenever I caught my hand on the hot curling iron.
"Let me help," he said, taking the device as he parted my hair and started to curl it.
I closed my eyes before I heard him turn off the switch and I looked at my hair in the mirror. My brown hair now hung loosely in curls that went down to the start of my back as I slipped in my dress as Optimus tied up the strings on my corset. When he was done he left the room so that I could put on my black ribbon wedges and my jewellery that my cousins had picked for me. Placing on my red lip-gloss and then placing in the red and black hair grip I smiled in satisfaction as I left the room; stopping to look at myself in the mirror on my wardrobe door. I had on the dress that came to the ground with just the small glimpse of my shoes, the corset showed the thinness of my waist and the puffy selves stopped just on my shoulders leaving my arms bare showing the golden tan I get from my hiking in the mountains with my family every year. I grabbed my clutch purse before going to find the others and check their holograms. Bee pulled a face at me as I straighten out his tie and jacket; Bulkhead just looked uncomfortable; Ratchet looked grumpy but smiled at me when I did his bow tie right for him; Prowl stood still; Sari looked cute and I let her burrow my golden charm bracelet which she promised she wouldn't break; Optimus just smiled and I had to look away as the others sniggered.
The drive way of the manor was half full as we got there. Jones the door man opened the door for me as I got out of Optimus and told me that I was needed in the drawing room before the start of the party and that I had to take Sari with me. I smiled and nodded before Optimus took my hand and we walked up the steps to the main doors and I had to giggle at their faces. The manor was covered in golden lights and had balloons and drinks along with food on trays everywhere as we walked around. I could see my friend talking to Rhiannon and had to smile when he kissed her before she walked away, smiling at me as she went.
"Optimus me and Sari are needed in the drawing room," I told him. "Hey Bobby could you keep an eye on them for me?"
The person I had called looked up and nodded as he came to hug me.
"No probs gal," he replied. "See ya in a bit."
Entering the drawing room I could tell that something was wrong. I looked around me. Lottie and Tina was whispering to each other, Stacy and Rhiannon where watching the other door, while Erin and her twin Amber seemed to be arguing about something.
"Guys what's wrong?" I asked them, keeping Sari to my side.
"We kinda have a problem," Lottie said. "Our stuck up cousins Emma and Drake are here and well let's just say they never like the way we do stuff. Remember?"
I groaned and picked at my dress which made Erin yell at me to not do that. Sari was confused but didn't say nothing until Tony and Sam came into the room, moaning about people; two specific people.
"We need to get back down there," Tony said. "Nice dress lil cous."
He tugged my sleeve and I shot him a glare making him laugh.
"Watch it," I said. "So what are they doing now?"
"Emm, well Emma is flittering with your man," Sam said, making me clench my fists. "But he isn't bothered. He just walked away with his friends."
I nodded, and smirked at Emma as I wrapped my arms around Optimus and whispered into his ear about what Emma and Drake where like. He nodded before the music started up again and some of my girlfriends grabbed my free hand as we started to dance, being careful of our dresses. Lottie had told me that until her father went we had to look nice and when he did we're going to the meadow for the parties we always do. I nodded, before Optimus took my hand and we danced.
I sighed as I entered my room after the party. It had been fun. Lottie had managed to get her boyfriend Chris to do the DJ for us when her father had left. Slipping into my pyjamas I looked up to see that Optimus had entered through the side door that lead into his room or mine, and had made his way to my bed as I quickly get in next to him. He wrapped his arms around me and I snuggled up to him.
"Night," I whispered. "Love you."
"I love you too," he replied as he kissed my head. "Sleep tight."