A Ghost Town From The Past Ch. 2
A/N... Since most of you, (I mean all of you) wanted me to continue this story I am. And a thank you Izzy-dragon-rider for pointing out that I used Longarm instead of Strongarm. I fixed the mistake now so everything should be spelled right. Thanks again and if anyone else sees anything wrong, just let me know.
Sideswipe's View
As the ground bridge closed a red Autobot ran out, looked around and crossed his arms. This place was a lot better than the volcano but it was still boring. He glanced at the other Autobots and it looked they weren't impressed either but Bumblebee seemed happy. The leader vented and said, "See? Isn't it beautiful?" Sideswipe rolled his optics, when will Bumblebee see how boring this is? Earth can't beat Cybertron in beauty, no planet in the universe could. Cybertron is a special place, with cool mountains, awesome caves that were dug out by Insecticons long ago and a special bot. Not a lover no, but a brother, his brother. His twin.
Sideswipe noticed Bumblebee rub between his optics, 'That is so weird,' he thought. "Oh come on! This is great, you can go as fast as you want out here." 'That is the only thing that sounds good, a long fast drive.' Strongarm frowned and crossed her arms, "You could if there weren't so many holes out here, they could cause a lot of damage." His helm snapped over to the femme. He jumped forward and pointed at the femme, "Wait, so you don't like it out here?" Strongarm's optics narrowed and slowly nodded in agreement. Sideswipe grinned and transformed in his alt. mode, "In that case I love it here!" His tires spun and he shot off in a cloud of dust. As he was driving away he heard Strongarm say, ""Sideswipe wait! You don't know what's out here." 'Oh Primus, she needs to loosen up.'
He floored his gas pedal when he heard her transform. 'If Sunstreaker was here he would either laugh at me for having a stalker or attack Strongarm for not leaving me alone.' Sideswipe chuckled, 'Most likely both.' He slowed down a bit to think, he really missed his twin. He missed him so much it even started to hurt in his spark. But he didn't say anything to anyone because no one on the team knew he had a twin. Slag his spark hurt. He was pushed out of his thoughts as Strongarm came by his side. In a soft voice she said, "You okay? You're going really slow." His engine growled, "The only reason I slowed down is so I can see you can eat my dust!" He laughed and hit the gas pedal and a trail of dust followed, engulfing Strongarm. "HEY!" She shouted.
Sideswipe laughed and looked around. Giant mountain things were jutting out of the ground, weird. He looked at his scanners to see if there was any life around here and was surprised when he picked up thousands of animals within a ten mile wide radius. He moved his mirrors to the sky so he could look at the blue sky. 'Sunstreaker would like it here, so many things to paint,' He thought sadly. He looked ahead and slammed on his brakes. When he was going slow enough he transformed and skidded to a stop. "Whoa."
Further down the road and down a little hill was a destroyed human town. The damage looked old, maybe ten or even twenty Earth years old. Buildings were blown apart and burn marks still littered the streets. As he was looking at the town Strongarm transformed by his side, "What happened here?" She said. He shrugged, "I have no idea." He put his finger against his helm, "Hey Fixit, got a question for ya." A few seconds later the minicon answered, "But Sideswipe, you are on a vacation! You aren't supposed to be calling me unless one of you are blurt, skirt I mean hurt! You aren't hurt are you? Because they would be bad, should a open the ground bridge?"
Sideswipe vented, "No Fixit, we are all fine but I need you to find out where we are." He heard the minicon pushing a few buttons, "The human data base says you are in a Nevada desert." Sideswipe rolled his optics, "I kind of know that Fixit, but is there anything on a destroyed town?" He heard Fixit type a few more things, "I looked it up on a place called Google and there are different theories on what happened to the town of Casper, Asper," A metal on metal hit could be heard, Fixit probably just hit himself, "I mean Jasper. One report says it was a military project that went wrong and one says it was caused by someone called the Russians and one says, by the AllSpark!" Sideswipe looked at Strongarm and she lifted her finger to her helm, "Fixit, what's wrong?"
A few seconds later the minicon answered, "I don't believe it, in a report it says that Jasper was attacked by metal giant aliens and a few miles away from Jasper used to be a large metal structure that finally destroyed Jasper by firing some type of blast." Sideswipe looked at the town, could this be a result of what happened when Bumblebee was on Earth so many years ago? Fixit spoke up, his voice sad, "It says that over five hundred people died and many of the survivors were injured and had burns on them when they were rescued."
"Thanks Fixit," he said softy. Sideswipe was shocked, he was sparked after the war so he had no idea what war looked like but when he saw this town, Jasper, he was glad we never saw any part of the war. "I think the others should see this," he heard Strongarm say. He nodded and raised his finger to his helm, "Hey guys, we found something," he said softly. "What did you find? A Decepticon?" Bumblebee asked. 'Did he just sound excited?' Sideswipe thought, 'Maybe that was what war does to a bot, they make it so war is all they know, all they like doing.' Sideswipe vented, "Better see for yourself."
As he spoke to his leader he noticed Strongarm look at Jasper with a look in her optics. He couldn't place that look, it wasn't regret but it was something like it. When he was done talking to Bumblebee he walked over to her, "Have you ever seen anything like this Strongarm?" Sideswipe noticed that she glanced over to him, "No, I haven't but I have read data pads on the War but it looks much worse it person. Doesn't it?" He said nothing but he did nod. They looked at the destroyed town until they heard a large engine coming their way. Sideswipe looked behind him, "Well that was fast." He saw Bumblebee approach them and transform but instead of asking what the problem was Bumblebee just walked by them. The look in Bumblebee's optics sent shivers up Sideswipe's plating, it was a look of total devastation, a look of lost hope.
Sideswipe looked at Strongarm and both bots looked worried. Sideswipe turned towards his leader, "Bee?" Strongarm almost ran to Bumblebee, "Sir?" As Bumblebee fell to his knees Sideswipe and Strongarm ran up to him. Strongarm waved her servo in front of Bumblebee's faceplate, nothing. "What's wrong with him?" Sideswipe scratched his helm, "I have no idea." He snapped his fingers in front of Bumblebee's optics, no response. That's when he noticed it, the look in Bumblebee's optics, "Hey Strongarm look at his optics. It's like he's seeing something that isn't there. Hey Boss-bot, you in there?" He waved his servo in front of Bumblebee's faceplate again but that when he heard it. Sideswipe leaned in closer, "What did you say Bee?" Their leader didn't move his optics off the town but in a voice so soft it was hard for Sideswipe to hear he heard, "A ghost town from the past."
A/N... So what do you think? Because you guys loved it so much I'll let you decide who is next, Drift, Grimlock or Strongarm. After I get past those parts I'll try to get to the part where they learn they whole history on what happened to Jasper or something like that. Thank you for all the lovely reviews, they really do help! :)