So Alive: 3 homigard

Ash was feeling rather awkward after hearing her brother yell outside, but was doing quite well to not let it show, since Sarah couldn't tell. At least, that's what she had thought.

"Ashlyn, are you alright? You seem distressed."

Ash blinked at him, how could he tell?

"I'm fine, Bee, don't worry."

"I have to ask, were you in the military as well?"

Ash tilted her head to the side at his question, "You've been asking a lot of questions about me and my life, Bee," she said, "Why the sudden curiosity?"

"I uh…"

"Yes, I'd like to know why you're bothering my sister-in-law so much Bumblebee," she said leaning over the kitchen counter and winked at him.

Bumblebee searched the web for Sarah's reasoning and flushed.

"Ah, I-I'm not attracted to lieu- I mean Ashlyn."

Ash shrugged her shoulders and went back to playing with her little … machine?

It was a tiny machine. It was a tiny spherical machine, with two small blue eyes and tiny flaps that would flap furiously to stay in the air, while small chords would come from it's sides to latch on to her hand. Ash had made it in the lab when she was bored, but how it came to life was the interesting story.

Sarah stared at Bumblebee before chuckling and turning away.

Ash was smiling to herself as she watched the small machine try to untangle her shoulder lengthed braid, when Will ran in.

"Er, Ash, can you come talk with us outside?"

Ash looked at him blankly, her blank stare losing its affect as the tiny machine swung from her bangs.

"Now, please?"

Ash sighed and walked out with him.

"Okay.. So… Someone talk."

Ash had been sitting in the back of the black GMC TopKick truck for the last five minutes, and not a single word had been shared.

"Lieutenant Lennox."

Ash's back straitened and her body stiffened. Everyone noticed, even the truck she sat on.

"What?" she asked a bit perturbed.

Ratchet sighed.

"You were working with Sector 7, am I right?"

Ash looked at him suspiciously, but nodded her head nonetheless.

"I worked under Sector 7 until last year- Ah, Will um.. What's going on?"

Will Lennox's frown deepened, "That's what I'd like to know myself."

"Ashlyn Lennox, you have memorized given blueprints and come in contact with the AllSpark."

"The whatsit?" she asked.

"It was a really big cube."

She looked at Will oddly but nodded her head.

"I was second in that project, but I was decommissioned from Sector 7 last year, after an incident."

"One that involved contact with the AllSpark."

She nodded her head slowly, "Yeah, I had gotten hurt a day from some scientist messing up in the lab, and I had gone to check up on the … AllSpark.,," she trailed off and her eyes looked up in thought.

"And..?" Bumblebee urged.

"Some malfunction," she frowned, "I don't remember much from that day, but I was sent to the hospital and was decommissioned the day after.. Why?"

"Ash," Will groaned but continued, "Apparently, you took a piece of that AllSpark with you or something like that, and it's in you."

Ash stared for a moment, and broke out with a laugh and shook her head.

"Impossible," she said, "I would have noticed, you realize how many tests I've gone through, since last year? Something would have popped up."

"Um, the AllSpark, is beyond normal," Will said, "I don't think it would show up in simple medical scans."

Ash looked at him like he was insane.

"Will, are you alright?" she asked.

He shook his head, "Ash, this is serious!"

"No, this is serious? Will, if this is a joke, I- No, I'll just go home."

Will grabbed both her arms and fell on his knees.

"Ash, this is serious. Beyond compare serious."

"W-Will."

"I've seen these.. Transformers.."

"What?"

"Do you remember that beat up robot thing you saw..?"

"Yes.. Will what-"

"There are three of them here, right now." Will pointed to the Autobots.

"They're the Autobots the good Transformers.."

Ratchet and Bumblebee's human forms disappeared.

Ash took a step back and walked into the truck. It shivered at the contact and began shifting. After a series of shifting and whirs Ash was staring at three large robots.

"Homigard.."

Will took a deep breath, "Yeah."