Transformers: the bonds of family chapter 3
(Emerald's POV)
Driving the children home was surprisingly easy and uneventful but I still kept my guard up. They began talking about their ages. Lauren was 17, Terry was 15, Kyle was 13, Lisa was 11, Darcy and Marcy were 9, Kayla was 7, and Brandon was 5 years old. They had not yet told me or Jazz or any other Autobot of their parents' deaths until I asked.
Lisa was the one who answered "They were on vacation and were accidentally killed when hiking. We don't like to talk about it."
I decided not to ask any more questions regarding that subject as I pulled up to their home. The kids all got out and I remained in vehicle mode, scanning the area and watching. Jazz said good bye to me and drove out of sight. I watched the kids go inside and scanned the area, making sure that no threats were around. Thank Primus there weren't any but I was not taking any chances. I stayed up the whole night, watching and waiting for the 'cons to strike…
The next morning I was driving the children back to the ship; as it was "Labor Day" their schooling did not start until the next day, which was "Tuesday" according to the info I had found on the Internet. That was when Terry asked for me to roll down a window. I soon found out why he had asked that. He leaned out and "threw up" as it was called as I stopped outside of the ship.
"Gross." I muttered.
Ratchet immediately came to see what the trouble was, taking the oldest boy into the medical bay and giving him a bucket. Jazz wiped me off with a rag while the other children got out, with Lauren lifting Lisa out of the van and Kyle getting her wheelchair so that his younger sister could sit in it.
"Next time drive slower please." Lisa said, slightly annoyed.
"Lisa." Lauren sighed. "Sorry we didn't tell you about Terry getting carsick."
Jazz finished cleaning me off and I transformed into robot mode. "Well, it could have been worse." I replied, as I led them into the ship.
"I can't believe how disgusting all of you are." Ironhide muttered.
"That may be but we're used to it." Darcy came up with a good retort. "Besides, one day I would like to be a doctor and I'll have to deal with things like that on a daily basis since I don't get grossed out as easily as the rest of my siblings."
I was as surprised as our resident weapons specialist was but didn't say anything about it.
"Emerald, are you all right?" Optimus asked me, concern filling his voice.
"I'm fine sir." I replied. "What about Terrence?"
"He'll be fine; he just needs to rest." Ratchet said as he came up to us.
Everyone sighed with relief as Optimus Prime took the kids aside and began explaining Cybertron's origin to them as we had been told since we were sparklings.
(Switch to 3rd person POV)
"...it was then that Primus created 13 Cybertronians to help defeat Unicron." Optimus was saying. "They were Prima, Alpha Trion, Vector Prime, Nexus Prime, Solus Prime, Liege Maximo, Alchemist Prime, Amalgamous Prime, 2 others whose names I do not know and one who would later betray his brothers and sister and later become knwon as The Fallen."
"Whoa, what happened next?" Brandon asked. He and the rest of his siblings were extremely interested in the story at this point.
"The battle was long and violent and is difficult to describe as it was said to be 'beyond good, beyond evil, beyond one's imagination'" Optimus replied. "Unicron was defeated though the peace that came while the Cybertronian population grew was not to last. The Fallen revealed his betrayal and was eventually imprisoned, although several of the original Primes lost their lives. The few that were left continued the duties assigned to them by Primus and many other things happened eventually leading up to the war still fought between Autobots and Decepticons in the present time."
Lauren was amazed at how terrible things were for the Autobots; the many things that humans had done to each other did seem much worse though. Various ways of killing each other, violence in general, and so many other things. She immediately got up and began walking down the hallway of the ship. Being reminded of anything horrible made her wonder if it was worth being human...
(Ratchet's POV)
Ratchet was surprised that Darcy had followed him to the medical bay, wanting to ask him about Transformers' medicine.
"How do you guys make each other?" the human girl asked.
"It's complicated and certainly much different than how nonmechanical beings do so." the medic replied, then began telling her the details.
The 11 year old kid genius paid attention the whole time, very fascinated as she often became when hearing about something new.
Meanwhile, her siblings were talking with the other Autobots and everyone was getting to know each other very well. Unfortunately, good things never last, even for Autobots and potential allies and that was proved with what happened next...
Author's note: Got writer's block again. *sighs*