The next morning Carissa woke up to a hum. She opened her eyes and saw she was sleeping on top of Optimus's chest and the hum was coming from inside him. When she tried to get up a hand was holding her down. She let out a sigh and laid there…that was until a yell sounded through the base.
"YOU LITTLE RODENT!" The voice belonged to Ironhide and Optimus quickly woke up and put Carissa on the bed and ran out. When he came to Ironhide's room he looked inside.
"What's going on here?" he asked.
Ironhide looked to his leader and yelled, "THIS LITTLE RODENT WON'T STOP BEING ANNOYING!"
"HEY! I'M HUNGRY AND THIRSTY AND I HAVE TO PEE! SO DON'T MESS WITH ME BUCKET HEAD!" yelled Rowan.
Optimus let out a sigh and looked at Ironhide and said, "You're supposed to treat the human with great care and I don't care what your excuse is."
Ironhide let out tons of grumbles and picked up the human with not any care at all and took her to the restroom and went to get her some food and a drink. Optimus stopped by Bumblebee's room and saw Kit sleeping on Bumblebee's desk on a mattress he had made. He saw Bumblebee sleeping on his bed. He shook his head and made it back to his room where Carissa was waiting on the pillow curled up.
He chuckled when he came in and went to his desk and turned on his computer. He heard the small girl turn over and he turned to look at her. He chuckled yet again. Humans were very interesting, but he didn't know why the Decepticons want these humans in the first place. He looked from the screen as all the images from the cameras looking around. He then a familiar face…Laser Beak.
"What do you Decepticons want with these humans?" questioned Optimus mostly to himself.
There was a knock at the door and Optimus walked over and opened it. When he didn't see anyone he looked down and saw Kit. She quickly ran between his legs and hid under his desk. He walked over to her and bent down and asked, "What's the matter?"
"Keep me away from Bumblebee! Don't let him find me! Please don't! He thinks I wear pink!" squeaked Kit.
"Kit? Why are you here?" a tired voice from Optimus's bed sounded.
"Hiding from Bumblebee. What are you doing?"
"Trying to sleep, but you're ruining it."
"You ruined my sleep earlier." shot back Kit.
Then suddenly there was another knock and Optimus went over to answer it and yet again……a human. Rowan…Rowan had gotten away from Ironhide…or Ironhide got rid of her.
"What did Ironhide do now?"
"Being a grouch like always, so I ran off and he's looking for me."
Optimus covered his face. He didn't know why the humans were running away from their guardians at the moment. Of course his hadn't ran off….yet. He didn't want to jinx himself so he said nothing. He radioed Ironhide and Bumblebee quietly and told them the humans were in his room. Next thing everyone knew the two Autobots came in the room. Kit looked directly at Optimus and exclaimed, "YOU!"
Optimus looked down at her and then picked the two stowaways and said, "Laser Beak is here for the Decepticons…."
At that time a video popped up on Optimus's computer and it showed the Decepticons in California. Optimus looked at everyone and said, "We're getting out of here and we're going to slit up so that the Decepticons will have to split up themselves to go after us with the humans."
Ironhide and Bumblebee looked at one another and went off to tell Ratchet the plans. The humans had gone with their guardians and he looked over at Carissa who was tired, but couldn't sleep. He walked over to her and picked her up. She didn't seem to notice. For some reason she was tired…….she had slept well that night. He knew because he checked on her periodically. Ratchet then came in about to ask Optimus something, but Optimus said something first.
"Ratchet is something wrong with Carissa?"
Ratchet did a scan and said, "She's low on iron. She'll be fine. Her sister is now driving Bumblebee nuts."
"How is that?"
"Well…..um….she's chasing him around and she had found the hot pink paint."
Optimus's optics went wide when he realized what she was going to do to Bumblebee. He carried Carissa in his hand until he came and found Bumblebee with hot pink legs. When Kit saw Optimus she quickly dropped the bucket of paint and said, "It wasn't me."
Optimus sighed and said, "Bumblebee I'll take Kit with me."
"Thank you sir."
When all the Autobots were packed up Rowan was still with Ironhide and the two were bickering like an old married couple. Kit and Carissa looked at them and exclaimed, "If you two are going to keep this up. Why don't you two get married!"
Ironhide looked at Kit and Carissa and started going after them. The two twins went and hid behind Optimus's giant legs. Ironhide stopped when he saw Optimus's face stern and said, "Go back to your human Ironhide."
All the Autobots walked out of the base and transformed. Both Kit and Carissa climbed into Optimus's cab and got settled. The yellow Camaro had a pink butt from where Kit had gotten his feet. Ratchet and Ironhide had also transformed and Rowan was having a hard time opening Ironhide's door.
"Open the door Ironhide or God so help me!" she yelled.
Just as she pulled again and this time Ironhide opened the door and Rowan went falling on her butt. Both Kit and Carissa saw this and went running out of Optimus to aid their new found friend. "Rowan! Are you okay!?"
Rowan got up and looked at the twin sisters and said, "I'll live, but I need to keep Ironhide's door open."
Ironhide's door was still open and Rowan got up to go inside, but he closed it again. "Ironhide! You better open this door or I'll pry it open!"
"Ironhide be nice to the human." Optimus's voice sounded from the cab.
Ironhide grumbled and opened his door for the human to get in. He was half tempted to close the door on her leg, but didn't. Carissa and Kit got back inside Optimus's cab and the Autobots drove off. They were heading out west.
Laser Beak saw this and followed the Autobots to where they were going and reported to Megatron. Megatron heard the message his spy had sent. They were going to be going west to stop the Decepticons….he wanted to kill Optimus, but most of all wanted to get revenge on the Witwicky boy. Megatron looked at his men and said, "We will meet the Autobots and take the humans they have. They must know the Witwicky boy and if they refuse……kill them." The Decepticons nodded and transformed to go and find the Autobots and their precious cargo.
Optimus and the rest of the Autobots were driving down highways with their holoforms activated only Optimus and Ironhide didn't need one. The humans were enough for their cover up. As they drove towards Tranquility to meet up with Sam and see where the Decepticons were at Rowan and Ironhide were having their arguments again. Optimus felt the twins sitting in the seats provided for them and they were arguing over which music to listen to.
"I want Beethoven Kit. We've listened to enough of your music."
"Beethoven! No! I don't want to hear that music. At least have it on Within Temptation."
"Fine, but next time…"
"Yeah I know. We're going to listen to dumb Beethoven."
Carissa leaned back and Optimus felt her body make an outline in his seat. He smiled and he also felt Kit scoot down so she could sleep. If he could shake his head he would have, but since he was in his alt form he couldn't, but he couldn't think on that at the time…Decepticons. He announced the warning to all the Autobots and told them to split up.
Optimus sped up the pace. Barricade had his sirens wailing and lights going round and round. Optimus was dodging past cars and the rest of the Autobots split up. Ironhide and Rowan finally quit arguing. Optimus went way over the speed limit and another cop saw them and went after them also, but Barricade quickly pushed the cops and let them go spinning. "Ah a little fun while chasing Autoscums."
Kit was looking at the cop car and then up at the jet transforming above. She was so amazed. The power coming from those beings…so amazing, she was in awe the whole time. Carissa was clinging to her seat closing her eyes praying that nothing would happen to them. Suddenly Optimus stopped and opened his doors for the humans to get out. Ironhide did the same and exclaimed, "You'll never get my charge Decepticons!"
Rowan was shocked how protective he could be at times….they were usually only fighting and arguing, but when something serious came down…he didn't goof off or do as they did. He was being serious.
Optimus looked at the twins and said, "Grab Rowan and get out of here."
"Optimus those humans belong to me." growled Megatron.
"They belong to no body Megatron." Optimus retorted and charged at Megatron.
Kit and Carissa had gotten Rowan and ran away from the scene. Just where they thought they were safe. "Well, well, well…Three humans trying to hide from Starscream. I think not."
A hand came at them just as they tried to run away from the oncoming hand. They didn't know what to do…..They were going to be dead meat if they didn't find away to get away from the monster.