Autobots 101 Chapter 5
Authors Note: YAY I GOT LOTS OF REVIEWS!
"Lord Megatron we have received Information that target 'Sam Witwicky' is leaving the campus and is escorted only by Autobot 'Jazz'". Starscream could really care less but he knew that Megatron would punish him if he omitted one little detail… Anyways simply working for Megatron was punishing enough.
"Ah excellent" came Megatron from the speakers "Since there were 'complications' in my first plan to manipulate Sam Witwicky it would seem that a new plan is in order". Both Starscream and Blackout shuddered. "If we cannot manipulate the boy using his own will we will strip him of it". Megatron explained his plan and Starscream and Blackout were relieved.
"Jazz, where are you taking me?!?" asked a very frantic Sam. Jazz simply turned up the radio.
"You'll have to speak louder Sam, I can't hear you!"
"Oh real mature"
They drove around the town until the car stopped at a Sorority House. "Oh Hell no!" said Sam
Ratchet knelt down repairing the spark transferal machine. It had a few minor bugs that were probably wear and tear related. He hadn't realized how much maintenance the machine would need. He finally finished and just sat staring at his work. Everything was in order… yep… the machine was fixed… the spare drones were still functional… just incase someone's body got damaged… of course they could be used to make a new body…
Finally after much internal debate Ratchet decided to leave the room. Better to remove temptation right? Anyways he would be betraying Optimus' trust. But still…
"Where is Sam?" asked Optimus. Class would start in five minutes and he still was not present. "If he misses class he will be behind"
"With all due respect Optimus, Chill out" said a completely nonchalant Bumble Bee. "I'm sure he will walk through that door any minute"
A minute passed
"Yep any second now"
A minute passed
"Sam wouldn't skip class"
A minute passed
"Where the hell is he?"
A minute passed
sigh "I'll go get him"
Blackout and Starscream both arrived at the sorority house about 5 minutes after Sam and Jazz. Soon after exiting their vehicle the police car discreetly drove itself out of sight. The two stayed at a strategic distance first observing their foes and listening to what they have to say.
"Jazz please, you don't understand" said Sam. He was easily labeled as frustrated.
"Come on Sam, go in there and get a girl… if you don't" teased Jazz. His radio turned on very low just loud enough that Sam could hear it.
I'm a Barbie Girl, In a Barbie Wo-o-orld
"Please no Jazz" begged Sam.
"Sam, College is an experience you only get to live once. What's the point of going through it if you don't have fun?". In Jazz's research on college he had come across several social events. Promises of lifelong friends, doing life changing things, and having the best time in your life. The first day of school proved to Jazz that those things wouldn't come by themselves, they had to be prompted.
"Jazz, you don't understand… I think I might like someone else…"
Both Starscream and Blackout crossed their fingers and prayed it wasn't them.
Jazz turned off the music and began listening. "And who is this Sam?"
"It might seem strange…" said Sam. Blackout was prepared for self termination. "but you know that Katie girl?" Blackout disarmed the self destruct function.
"Reaaaly now" asked Jazz.
"Yes Jazz and if you respected me you would take me back to school and let me be with her" chided Sam. To tell the truth, most of those words were simply to get Jazz to take him back to school but still. He wasn't lying when he said he liked Katie.
Starscream quickly sent a data report to Megatron about his recent discovery. " abort your current mission then and return to campus. It looks like we are just going to have to use the string to control the cat"
Sam had been gone for the entire class when he and Jazz returned to campus. They were met with a rather unhappy Optimus. "Where have you been?" asked Optimus in his quiet voice. Optimus did not get fired up when he was mad. No, he was like a Mother whose child had been out past curfew kind of mad.
"It was my fault" said Jazz. "I decided that it would be more fun to skip class and to party with some girls than go to class". Surprisingly he said that with a straight face… er well…
"So was it fun?" asked Optimus.
"No… In the long term I was only hurting Sam's education… and lovelife"
This caught all the other Autobots off guard. Even Optimus dropped the bad cop act and asked "What is he talking about?"
Sam's face grew red and he broke eye contact
"cough Katie cough"
"Cars don't cough Jazz" said Sam.
"Is this true?" asked Optimus.
"Pound it" demanded Bumble Bee
"Yes…" said Sam meekly
"Hmm… I suppose I can forgo punishment this time" commented Optimus to no-one in particular. "But see that it does not happen again"
The group returned home in Jazz figuring they would give Ratchet the time off.
Upon arriving Ironhide yelled "YO RATCHET WE'RE BACK!" a clanking noise and the sound of a giant robot falling over were heard.
"Slag it! You snuck up on me!" yelled an annoyed Ratchet
"Sorry dude" apologized Bumble Bee.
"Ratchet Report" commanded Optimus.
"I fixed the machine and Ironhide should be able to return to his normal 'beat em up and blow em up' self.
Ironhide growled a little.
Optimus checked the newly Improved machine and realized that one of the spare drones was missing. "Ratchet where's the last drone?"
"I'm repairing it" said Ratchet. He felt kind of bad. While it was true he hadn't done anything rash he had taken one of the drones to examine again in his private quarters. It couldn't hurt to pretend right?
After a few minutes all the Autobots had returned to their normal forms. "Damn it feels good to be me again" said Ironhide unfolding his cannons. Sam laughed.
"I should probably head home. Bee?"
The giant robot transformed into the car and revved its engine. It was ready to roll.
Meanwhile,
Blackout was forced to resume that cursed form he had tried to seduce Sam with. It felt so… defiled. At least this time his target was of the opposite gender.
Katie was walking to her dorm. He knew it was a little ways away and seeing as she didn't have her car nearby it gave Blackout a lot of time to intercept her and make his move. With all his books in his hand he began to run in her direction as fast as the average human would. She noticed him but since he didn't make eye contact with her she took him only for a rushing student. When he had strategically passed her and was about 5 feet in front of her he feigned tripping and let all his books fly in every which way. "Oh shoot" said Blackout scurrying to pick up the books. As planned she began to help him.l
"Here you go" said Target Katie.
"I'm so sorry to bother you. Thank you for the help"
"No problem. I'm Katie"
"I'm Mark. Nice to meet you" He was hoping she would notice the anime magazine he had dropped and comment on it. Frenzy had surveyed her room and found out that she was rather fond of it. She didn't notice. He decided to comment on it. "Ah I'm glad my Shonen Jump didn't rip"
"Oh you like anime?"
"Yeah I love anime"
" Me too! What's your favorite"
"Um… hmm well I like a lot of them. What's yours?"
"I like Gundam! I love giant robots"
Blackout was sure there was some irony in this situation but decided not to dedicate the cycles to finding it.
"Actually I have two tickets to the Anime Weekend Oklahoma, want to go?"
"Sure!" said Katie giving him her number. "Well see ya later!"
"too easy" thought Blackout as he sent Megatron his report.
"Excellent…"