Disclaimer: Ello! This is my first TF story and I hope it turns out okay. I've been seriously in the mood for Transformers and I've been inspired to write by reading so many other awesome TF stories. I will bring in some original characters but the story won't just be around them. I have a bunch of ideas in my head and battles planned out. Also I plan to bring in… well I'll leave it at that. I will try my best to keep people in character. So on with the chap. R&R (I own nothing that belongs to transformers only the idea for this story)

Flaming Marshmallows

It was a regular hot day in Tranquility, two months after the battle with the Decepticons in Mission City. It was Friday night and one teenage boy was having his own battle, himself verses two pages of Functions and Relations homework. Sam, after the battle, had found it very difficult to go back to school like nothing happened and had to act like everything was normal. Right, like having thirty-something odd foot alien robots for friends was normal. This fact was also why he was having a hard time studying, for having a car that can transform can be a little distracting.

"Argh!" Sam exclaimed while smacking his head off his desk in frustration. He would do anything for a distraction from the evil subject known as math and was almost to the point where he wished Starscream would randomly show up and attack… almost.

No one knew where the Decepticon air commander had flown off to, but they all had a sinking feeling that he would come back sooner or later. Plus Barricade was still off somewhere as was Scorponoc. Although there was peace at the moment the Autobots and humans feared that there was a big battle ahead of them. Just as Sam was thinking this, the phone rang, however it wasn't coming from the home phone.

"Yes! Distraction!" Sam jumped up from his chair and dived for his bed, snatching up the cybertronian phone that the Autobots had given him. "S'up."

"Hey Sam." Mikaela's voice came over the phone. Sam still couldn't get over the fact that his girlfriend was Mikaela Banes. "I just got a call from Bee."

"Yeah…" Sam replied, a little confused on why that was so important.

"He wanted to know if the two of us would like to go spend the weekend at the base. We'd be outside for most of it so he said to bring camping equipment. He'd take us at around 8. He said he'd tell you but I offered to call for him."

"Sounds cool. Maybe I can get help on this stupid math homework."

Mikaela laughed. "Maybe."

"So…I'll see you round 8 then?"

"Yup! Talk to you later Sam."

So Sam spent the rest of the day getting ready for the weekend. He got all his supplies together and made sure to grab his book bag, just incase he could convince a member of the Autobots to assist him with homework. He told his mom about his plans and after she triple checked that he had everything, she aloud him to go.

Sam's parents had been introduced to the Autobots shortly after the events that took place in Mission City. She nearly freaked when she found out that Sam had been nearly killed from William Lennox, who came to help Sam explain things. At first his parents had been a little scared but after talking with them they grew to like them.

At around 7:30 Sam piled all his stuff into Bumblebee's backseat and went to the store to get food for the weekend. Marshmallows were a must as he planned to make a fire and no way was he going camping without roasting marshmallows. When 8 o'clock came around Bumblebee and Sam went to go pick up Mikaela. Once she was in and her stuff was put in the back they were off.

The Autobots had needed to find a base if they were to stay on earth. With the aid of the military, that supplied materials, and Will's team along with Sam and Mikaela, the Autobots had been able to create a fairly good-sized base. It was on the outskirts of Tranquility. It was placed in an open field with trees outlining it. The field itself was about 10 km away from a cliff, that if stood by you could look over the city of Tranquility and see the sky quite clearly at night. Also beyond the trees behind the base there was a big lake that the kids at least, appreciated during extremely hot days.

It took them about an hour but Sam, Mikaela and Bumblebee finally arrived at the makeshift base, pulling up a little ways away from the main door. Sam and Mikaela got out and started unloading their stuff when the door to the Autobot base opened and out came Ratchet with Ironhide behind him.

"Hey Ratch'!" Mikaela greeted.

"Hello Mikaela. Sam." Ratchet replied, nodding his head in greeting at each of them.

"S'up?" Sam asked while dragging more bags out of Bumblebee.

Ratchet, after figuring out what he had said meant, replied. "Well, there have been no replies from any other Autobots yet. Nor has there been any sign of Starscream, Barricade or Scorponoc."

Sam shivered slightly at the mention of Starscream. "Well, maybe they'll stay away, now that Megatron's gone."

"No, they'll be back. For revenge if nothing else and I fear that they will find other Decepticons to assist them." Ratchet replied truthfully.

Bumblebee, after everything was unloaded transformed. "Perhaps, but they will not be returning for a while so stop being so depressing. This is supposed to be a fun weekend."

Bumblebee still found it strange to be talking normally without the use of song lyrics.

"You're right, I apologize."

"Should we set up our tents then, before it gets any darker?"

"Yeah we better, the sun's already below the horizon." Mikaela stated gazing at the spot where the sun had gone down.

"Yeah."

They had all decided to go to the cliff and camp out there, but keeping a good ways from the edge. When they got there the two of them set to work, the Autobots watching them curiously. Mikaela had her tent up in no time flat, Sam on the other hand was making things more complicated then they were. Mikaela, after laughing to her self, went to assist him. Soon it was up and then Sam asked if they had firewood or anything and just as he asked Bumblebee, who had left while the two were setting up their tents, walked up to them and dropped a big pile of freshly cut wood in front of them. Sam thanked him and then got a fire going. By this time Optimus had come to join them, and now Sam and Mikaela were sitting in front of the fire with the Autobots around them. Currently the Autobots were staring at the kids as they were putting marshmallows on camping forks (the ones that extend if you know what I mean) and cooking them in the fire.

"Why are you setting fire to these… marshmallows did you call them and then eating them?" Ratchet asked, watching the children closely, worried they mind burn themselves.

"Cause they taste good." Sam explained simply while blowing out his marshmallow as it had caught fire. "Ouch!" Sam had tried to take it off the fork but it wasn't cool enough so he quickly put the tip of his finger in his mouth to cool it off.

"Are you alright?! Why on earth would you touch something that was on fire seconds before?" Ratchet scolded. He had been about to jump up and see to Sam's injury out of habit but a quick scan was enough. "You are lucky. It could have been much worse had you not pulled your hand back so quickly."

Mikaela started laughing and Ratchet looked at her cocking an optic ridge. "Sorry Ratch'. So what are we going to do tomorrow?" she asked after her giggles subsided.

"I say we go fishing!" Sam suggested excitedly.

"What's fishing?" Bumblebee asked.

"Huh? Well you have a fishing rod. It's really long and has a string attached that goes down it and is connected to a reel." Sam explained demonstrating with his camping fork that had a flaming marshmallow on the end, but he failed to notice. "The string hangs down in the front and on the end there's a hook. When you get to the water you swing it back…" he demonstrated "and…"

Splat!

Sam stopped mid sentence and brought his fork forward and inspected the end and noticed that the marshmallow that had been there moments before, was gone. Sam turned his head around to look behind him and swallowed hard as he looked at the scene behind him. Upon swinging his fork backwards the flaming ball of a marshmallow was sent flying. The fiery projectile had flown and landed dead center… on Ironhide's forehead.

The Autobots and Mikaela had seen it go flying and were now staring at it as it sizzled and slide down Ironhide's face. Then everyone broke out into hysterics, Mikaela was clutching her stomach as she was laughing so hard, even Optimus joined in.

"…eep." That was about all Sam could say as he stared up at the weapons specialist, fearing his fate.

Ironhide slowly raised his hand and slowly whipped the sticky charcoal from his face and calmly whipped it off on the grass beside him. This only caused Sam's face to lose even more color a he anxiously awaited Ironhide's reaction. Ironhide was being so calm and not raising his canons as he usually would… and this was very unnerving for Samuel James Witwicky.

Ironhide then shifted his gaze to look at the teenager sitting a few feet away from him. After a few moments he spoke, in a cold deadpan voice "Run."

Not needing to be told twice Sam jumped to his feet and ran in the opposite direction of the cliff, screaming for his life. "AHHHH!! Help! He's gonna eat me!"

"You wish that was all I'm gonna do to you!" Ironhide shouted after him angrily while rising to his feet and charging after the helpless teen.

"Sorry pal, you're on your own for this one!" Bumblebee shouted. Then he and everyone else proceed to laugh as the Weapons specialist chased after Sam, shouting out all the things he planned to do to him once he caught up with him.

"AHHHHHH!!!"

: Next Morning:

"Owww." Sam groaned rubbing the small bump on the back of his skull.

Mikaela chuckled remembering the night before. Ironhide hade eventually decided that Sam had screamed enough and had grabbed him in his hand, Sam yelling for help all the way. Ironhide then smirked and lightly smacked him on the back of the head with his finger.

"It's not funny!"

"It's not if you're you."

"Yeah! I thought he was gonna blast me into a million pieces." Sam replied.

"Why on Cybertron would you think that? Have we not been allies long enough for you to realize that we would never harm you?" Ratchet stated seriously coming up behind them.

"Expression." Mikaela and Sam both groaned out.

"Is this right Sam?" Bumblebee asked.

"Huh! Yup that's good." Sam replied. "Looks great."

Once everyone had woken up, Sam being last, the group made there way towards the lake on the other side of the base. The Lake was fairly big and was outlined by trees from the forest. Ironhide was currently sitting against one of the trees, assumed to be steering clear of Sam and any more flying objects. Sam was currently instructing Bumblebee on how to make a fishing rod, then he was going to teach him to fish.

"Okay let's get started!" Sam exclaimed excitedly. He and Bumblebee then walked out onto the wooden dock that people would usually tie there boats too and showed Bumblebee what to do.

"Are you not going to join them Mikaela?" Ratchet asked from where he was standing beside her.

"Hmm, no. I think I'm going to just lie on the grass and enjoy the sunlight. It's gonna start to get cold soon." She replied.

Ironhide sat and watched Sam and Bumblebee as they threw their lines into the water and Mikaela and Ratchet as they sat on shore simply enjoying the warmth coming from the sun's rays. He glanced over to his left as he heard footsteps coming up beside him.

"Mind if I join you?" the strong voice of Optimus Prime asked. The big red and blue mech was standing beside him.

"Up to you." Ironhide replied in a much rougher voice.

Optimus, taking that as an invitation sat down beside him and turned to look at his comrades as they enjoyed the day. It pleased him to see his fellow Autobots enjoying the children's company and perhaps even having fun. "Why do you not join them? Afraid of getting another projectile lodged onto your face?" Optimus smiled when he heard Ironhide grumbling incoherently.

"YOU GOT ONE!!" Sam's voice shouted from further away. Optimus and Ironhide turned their heads to look in on the action.

"Yes… now what?" Bumblebee asked completely clueless as to what to do next.

"Wheel it in!" Sam told him. "Use the thing on the handle!"

Bumblebee looked down at the fishing rod in his hands and proceeded to do as Sam said. He pulled the rod back and wheeled it in while doing so. Until finally he got it all the way in. "Oh."

"Wow…" Sam stared at the size of the fish in Bee's hands. It had to be two feet long.

Just then Sam's line gave a tug and he had to dive in order to catch it. "Holy!" Sam pulled back hard on the line and tried to wheel it in but the line wouldn't budge. He pulled harder and the rod was beginning to bow under the stress. Then he heard a phone start to ring. After the third ring he clicked in to the fact that it was his phone ringing. "Great!"

"I'll get it." Mikaela coming to his rescue was running up to him as he pulled out the cybertronian phone he had. However this was a mistake. Since he moved his hand the strength in which he was holding the fishing rod with slackened, and the fish took its chance. Sam, not expecting it was pulled forward and fell towards the water.

"Catch!" he shouted as he threw the phone for Mikaela just before he landed in the water.

Mikaela caught the phone and answered it. Everyone was silent as she was talking to the person on the other end of the phone. After a few minutes she put her hand over the receiver on the phone and motioned for Ratchet, Ironhide and Optimus to come closer. Sam was now sitting on the dock, soaking wet and Bee was seated beside him.

"What is it Mikaela." Optimus asked.

"It's the Sec. Def." She replied.

"Huh? What's wrong? Is it the Decepticons?" Ironhide asked his canons coming to life.

"No, nothing like that. He wants to know if someone can be informed of your existence." She stated. At their confused looks she continued. "In case of future battles with the Decepticons he says they should try and create new military arms, jets etc. with weapons more suited for the job. He is good friends with the owner of the company that makes all the aircrafts for the military and the owner has a sister who also helps design new weapons."

"Continue." Optimus encouraged.

"So he thought it might be best if she met you so that she would now what we're dealing with and then see your different types of weapons so that they can try and equip them to the new aircrafts. She still doesn't know of your existence aside from the blurry picture of the transformer that was on Mars. He didn't want to send her here without asking you first."

Optimus thought for a bit. "What he says is true. Fighting the Decepticons would be much easier if the U.S. military was equipped for it. However they should not have to fight for our mistakes." He was silent for a moment. "Tell him it is alright to inform her."

Mikaela nodded and told Keller Optimus' answer. After a few more minutes of talking she hung up. "He said he'll have her go to Sam's house tomorrow, then we can bring her here."

Optimus nodded.

"Are you alright Sam?" Ratchet asked looking at the dripping teenager.

"Yeah I'm good."

"Is that yours?" Mikaela asked pointed at the fishing rod beside him.

"Yeah why."

Mikaela stifled a laugh. "Look at the end."

Sam held up the line and looked at the fish that was still attached to it… and he stared at it. All of the Autobots looked too and once again he found everyone laughing at him. His catch that he had fought so hard with was a whopping two inches long. He put his left elbow on his knee and put his head in his hand, mumbling something about pit damned fate. And all that could be heard was the joint laughter of Autobots and humans… friends and comrades.