Chapter two, it's a bit longer than what I expected and I'm a bit fearful that it might be a little boring at the end, but it was necessary, anyway, once again I'm sorry for my grammar, English is not my original language and although I know that's a lame excuse I also don't have much time to understand how beta readers stuff works.

Thanks for the reviews, and enjoy! :D

By the time she woke up again, the car was still driving, she drowsily blinked a few times, yawning and stretching before looking out the window and seeing a vast landscape.

"Good morning" the voice came so suddenly she actually jumped in her seat before remembering every single detail and why she was inside a moving car with no one driving it.

"M-morning…Bumblebee was it?"

"Yes, how was your recharge?" She raised an eyebrow, these robots talked funny.

"Recharge?"

"Er…sleep I guess."

"Oh…it was okay…you got really nice seats by the way…my back doesn't even hurt so much anymore." She said stretching her limbs to feel any of the bruises from the day before and see if anything was overly serious, fortunately it didn't seem that way.

"Your back was hurting?" he asked with a slight note of concern in his voice. "Sides and Sunny didn't accidentally hurt you did they?"

"Oh!No no no no no no! They helped me actually…I just had a….well sort of a fight back at school, its…complicated…"

"You get picked on?" came the blunt question, almost as if he knew this too well.

Damn his good…

"Well…yeah….I guess you could say that…."

"You guess?!" interrupted Sideswipe's voice through the radio in an almost revolted tone. "They fraggin' ganged up on you! They were seven! If we hadn't meddled in you would be done by now!"

"No I wouldn't, I would simply have a few more bruises. Nothing too serious."

"NOTHING TOO SERIOUS!? SUNNY ARE YOU LISTENING TO –" his voice however was cut off, but the red lambo was still following them on the road so she suspected Bumblebee shut the communication.

"Sorry about that, he just has good intentions." Said the yellow camaro softly. There was a long pause and she knew he just had to continue the conversation, even if that was the last thing she wanted. For the first time she was actually making friends, she didn't want them to know who she was or what she was.

" You really shouldn't let people pick on you"

"Its easier that way, if I don't fight back they end up getting tired sooner and leave me alone, if I fought back however it could get more violent and take a lot longer. Not to mention there's a higher chance of involving others in it by accident."

He seemed to ponder on this for a while and didn't question her further.

"Are you hungry? There's a gas station in a few minutes, we could stop there for a while." She raised an eyebrow studying the dashboard critically; she was sure he felt somewhat intimidated by her observation for she felt the seats going a bit tense.

"You really are used to being around humans aren't you?" he half chuckled half sighed in relief and started heading for the said gas station.

"Yes. I have –had, a human charge for a while, so I learned a lot about you humans during that time."

"Had?" she asked with some apprehension, what happened to this human?

"Yes, he no longer seems to need any sort of protection, our enemy isn't targeting him anymore and he has collage to go to so I can't be with him for some time." There was a bit of sadness in his voice.

"You miss him." She declared.

"I…yes…I guess I do."

"Oh come on! Your totally lovesick with that boy, you sound like a mother who just let her baby go on adventure!" there was another pause in which she was trying not to laugh at the visual image her own phrase made her imagine.

"you humans make no sense at all…" he said after a while, to which she just rolled her eyes patting the dashboard.

"Keep telling yourself that." Bumblebee however did miss sam, he was like a little brother for him, something he never experienced since he was the youngest of his race.

Five minutes later the four cars parked at the said gas station, she was about to get out when the lock went down shutting the door.

"Before you can…dig in as my charge used to say, I need to clarify some things."

She turned back to the radio and shrugged her shoulders to indicate she was listening.

"First, there's a few clothes in my trunk from my charge's girlfriend, you can use them for now." She nodded and waited for the rest " second, you can't talk about us, and third, if you need anything or if anything goes wrong in there, just…give us a call" and with that his glove box popped open and a tiny device came out, she picked it up to find it was a cell phone, it had vaguely attempted to look like a human cell phone but it was clearly not, there were special symbols in it instead of numbers.

"I don't know how to use it" she said trying to decipher the symbol's meanings.

"Oh that's easy" and for the next ten minutes he explained how the bloody phone worked until she was finally free to go.

The four cars watched her leave seemingly with some reluctance.

"You sure this is a good idea?" Sunstreaker asked, eyeing some motor bykers stopping nearby.

"Ashley needs to refuel herself, this is one of the places humans do that when on the road, she won't be able to handle as much time as we can without refuelling." Bumblebee explained.

"Man…humans are troublesome."

" Wait 'till you find how they are mentally…that takes quite a while to get used to."

Nothing in the world could taste any better than the half fresh orange juice and the dry sandwhich she bought there. All right maybe not everything, but what would one expect from gas station food service? It was crap and expensive, and she wasn't exactly holding a lot of money. There were some travellers here and there, everyone staring at everyone else. The bar lady kept chewing her gum while watching the daily news on a small TV.

By the time she was done a group of bykers came in and started ordering their food. She took that moment to glance at the clothing she borrowed next to her, she had been quite reluctant to wear it, but really what choice did she have? The girl Bumblebee knew must have been one of those hotties-and-happy-to-show-it type of girls, for next to her was a pair of mini shorts and a simple yellow tank top. She sighed trying not to imagine herself wearing that while heading to the bathrooms.

A few minutes later she was staring at herself in the mirror, and hoped this wasn't her. How was she even supposed to get out of that place? This was sure to get attention.

"What is TAKING so long?!" Sunstreaker whined for the hundredth time.

Bumblebee and Sideswipe both sighed for lack of patience.

"Sunny, these things do take time! Besides she's been all night in my seat, she probably needs to be out for a while."

"How do you even know she's still in there? For all I can see she could have gone through the back and ran away," the three bots would have raised their optic ridges at the yellow lambo had they been in robot mode.

"Are you actually worried Sunny?" Sideswipe asked in a teasing tone.

"No" came the curt and rude reply of his brother. "I just don't want our secret out, I don't want to have to change to another alt mode." Blurr groaned just at the thought of that, it had taken ages for sunstreaker to choose his alt mode, and eventually sideswipe copied him.

"Then try turning your heat scanners on, you can see them pretty clearly that way" Bumblebee said having done so since the girl left. Just as he said that he noted someone else was joining her in the restroom, he observed for a few seconds noting she took a few steps back and was probably staring at the one who entered, there was a small pause in which none did anything and then without warning he saw the larger figure lunging at her while she tried to take shelter in one of the cubicles.

"We've got trouble" he warned the others " turn on your holoforms."

Ashley really hated these clothes now, she had been just about to leave the bathroom when a man had gotten inside, at first she thought he entered the wrong place by accident, but then she saw his dirty smirk, his clothing was dirty and ragged, obviously one of the motor bykers from before.

Trying for a desperate escape she tried to lock herself in one of the toilet cubicles but wasn't fast enough, a tight grip caught her wrist and pulled her back, an arm tightening around her waist and pinning her arms down, the other covering her mouth to muffle her screaming. Kicking and struggling didn't seem to be getting her no where though, she knew this man wasn't like the school kids, his intention wasn't to beat her up.

To make matters worse there seemed to be a commotion outside for a lot of racket had started. Taking the man's momentary distraction she swung her leg backwards with all her might. The arms let her go almost immediately and he backed away with a whine of pain holding onto his crotch " Hope you weren't planning on reproducing soon" she said grabbing her bag and darting for the door only for it to be opened by someone else.

Unfortunately…it was another guy, and she wouldn't go for the bathroom mistake a second time, she backed up raising her fists for protection and glaring at him defiantly.

He had light blond hair and clear blue eyes, a tan skin and should be around twenty.

"He stared at her with a rather rude glare and then spared a moment's glance at the guy still whining in the corner of the bathroom holding onto his crotch. He made a disgusted face and Ashley couldn't believe how fast she recognized it.

"Sunstreaker?!" he turned back to her and grabbed her arm with a bit too much force pulling her out of the bathroom and into the confusing bar, where another guy just like him but with red hair and redish clothing was tossing chairs and fighting the bykers like a monkey, with him was a younger boy, blond as well and with a tan yellow hoodie with black stripes on it, and another around mid twenties wearing light blue jeans and a racing shirt, he had odd light blue hair with a stripe of darker blue in the middle.

"No way….are those…?"

"Yes, now hurry! We have to get you out of here before this gets out of control"

"You don't call THIS out of control?!" she asked when they had to duck to avoid an incoming chair. He snorted in reply heading for the exit.

"Trust me, Sides and I can make things a whole lot more chaotic than this…this is nothing compared to our brilliance"

"Narcist" she grunted as he pushed her out the door

" go back to our true forms and stay there, we'll be right with you."

"But-"

"Just go!" She reluctantly went back to Bumblebee's alt form and was relieved to see the door lock was open, but she didn't enter, she wouldn't until they came out themselves.

What the hell am I thinking?! How did they become human to start with?! Were they even robotic cars to begin with?!

"urgh…I'm getting a headache…" just then the noise seemed to quiet down and she looked up to see four people walking out of the gas station, a bit roughed up but otherwise they didn't look too bad for someone who just came out of a big brawl.

Sunstreaker and Sideswipe from what she could manage to hear were discussing 'glorious' moments in the fight, Bumblebee just chuckled at their excitement and blurr was keeping quiet, out of the four he seemed to be the most observant and collected.

Their attention turned back to her though once they were close enough, both Bumblebee and Sideswipe got worried expressions which made her tense, she didn't like it when people showed compassion, it was never a good sign, and the fact that they were humans wasn't helping at all.

" Oh thank Primus! Are you all right?!" Sideswipe asked reaching to grab her hands in a worried manner, she backed away though and glared studying him carefully. "What's wrong?"

"How come your human?" was her cold question, the tone was so heartless it actually made him flinch.

"We're not Ashley, Don't worry," Bumblebee interrupted pushing Sideswipe back since he was a bit stunned with her actions. " These are Holoforms, is similar to a hologram, a holoform however is a bit more advanced, we cant touch and feel in these forms, but we do have a short radius for them." She still looked at him sceptically. "Here, I'll show you" he said holding out a hand."

"No…I'd rather not…I'll believe you" she said taking back another step. He thought this reaction was a bit strange even though everything was now explained, something else was behind this and looking back at his comrades he could see they thought the same. "Very well, but its best we stay like this for the journey, we don't know if this will happen again."

"B-but-" she stuttered suddenly looking horrified.

"Its safer this way. No one will be able to hurt you as long as we're around. Now go get your clothes in the trunk, we need to leave before those guys recover." He said motioning to the gas station, she quickly did as told and went for the passenger's seat since Bumblebee's holoform sat in the driver's side.

They took off and she hadn't said a word for over an hour, this was troubling Bumblebee quite a lot, he didn't get to see if the man had done anything to her, but if he had then Sunstreaker would have probably blasted the guy, he wouldn't show it, but the others could see how the yellow Lambo had gotten attached to the human just as much as his brother. It was just his personality not to show it, and it was amazing how fast that happened in less than 24 hours…He turned to look at the young girl wearing Mikaela's clothes, they suited her, but it didn't seem like she was too happy about it, and who could blame her? He'd seen how males reacted whenever Mikeala walked around like that, pheromone levels darting off the charts everywhere.

"Did that man hurt you?" he asked turning his attention back to the road, pretending to be driving.

"No…" ok that was plain lie, but right now she didn't care, she wasn't comfortable with the human holoform next to her, why couldn't he keep being a car? Or robot? Or whichever!

"Your troubled…" he stated, to which she rolled her eyes " Tell me, please, maybe we can help you."

"There's nothing you can help me with." She replied coldly, the same tone she had used for sideswipe.

"Your not a particularly good liar you know? You can trust us" he reached out a hand and rested it in her shoulder, to which she flinched trying to move away. He raised an eyebrow at this. " are you afraid of contact?"

Damn…right on target… this guy is dangerous, he sees me too clearly.

"…"

"You are." He stated bluntly. "is it because I'm just a holoform like this?

"What? No! I mean…yes and no…"

"Explain please" he said patiently, looking back to the road.

"Well…its more like human touch rather than your holoform, and you look and feel like a human right now." He turned his gaze back at her, but she was staring out the window, making a point that she was embarrassed by the subject.

"Your afraid of other humans then?"

"Who wouldn't be? I've been running away from my own kind ever since…" she paused as if to think of the time " well it only got serious when I was ten, but it was always there…"

"Why did this happen though? Did you do something?" he asked a bit apprehensively, a person could easily take this question as an insult and at the moment that was the last thing he wanted.

"No…I was just myself…and that irritated them, those guys aren't as free as they like to show. That's why I never fight back, its just not worth it, in the end they were just kids from somewhat rich families and who never got any attention from their parents, so they get that attention any other way they can"

"I don't get where your going with this, many children grow up like that don't they? And many of them don't end up that way."

"Well I suppose you could say that, not my town though, they sort of influenced each others, and no one was there to teach them to be otherwise, so it sort of grew like a threatening society…John was one of the leaders of those groups."

"John?" he asked, not having heard of the name before.

"Yeah, basically he's the one that targeted me. We're in the same class since I was ten, people actually pay that guy to be his friend…but most of them are just either lousy cheats or brainless followers who don't want to be in the target lines."

"Sounds like a few bots I know…" he commented with slight amusement.

"You guys have any similar situation?" she asked a bit more relaxed now.

"What makes you say that?" he was a bit nervous and his hologram flickered for a short second but she saw it.

"Well for starters, you were running away from a supposed to be police car, but since you lot are transforming cars I'm willing to bet it was actually one of your kind. Why was he chasing you?"

"We…er…have sort of a long history with each other…" she raised an eyebrow.

"You said the words enemy, fight, and the phrase that I might die, if you don't think I'm able to deduce your in some kind of deep trouble from that then you are seriously underestimating me."

"I'm not allowed to tell you that information Ashley, its complicated and it could put you in grave danger." She gave him 'are you kidding me?' glance and laughed heartedly, the first time he actually heard her laugh.

"Bumblebee I LIVE everyday running for my life, you think my life can't get any more dangerous? Ok so you guys are huge and made of metal and I doubt I could outrun any of you, but I'm not an idiot, I know when to keep my mouth shut and when I should hide. Besides, if I have to go on this trip with you I might as well know what I'm up against! How else am I supposed to know when I should stay out of it, or what I should do to hide? Or even to help you guys!"

He turned his piercing blue gaze onto her evaluating every inch of her expression to see how true she was speaking. Her fists were clenched from her obvious frustration and her hair was still a bit messy from the gas station incident, but her expression was clear as crystal, the once void and cold face was now full of hope and life, begging him to let her help them.

"Fine…I suppose you have a slight point….and since you already know so far…"

"YES!" she cheered pumping a fist into the air with glee.

"As the other told you, we are a species from another planet called Cybertron, our race was once a powerful and peaceful empire from what I was told, but that was…until Megatron betrayed us, he formed his own army, calling themselves the Decepticons and weighed war and chaos, trying to take full control over the planet, for at that time he had been ruling along with the Prime. To fight back the decepticons and have a right for our freedom and rights, we formed the Autobots," he said this with a little bit more of pride but it quickly turned to sadness and that became strongly evident in his tone. "But the wars took millennia, the Decepticons eventually were nearing victory, but by then our planet was…"

"Impossible to recover?" she tried to finish, since he seemed to have some trouble doing so. He cleared his throat.

"Yes…but there was one way of saving it….or re-birthing our planet and our species that was the allspark. The source of the first sparks ever to be born."

"Sparks?"

"That would be our heart and soul I suppose, we aren't usually born like you organics, most of us were born from the allspark, though there is the possibility of being born from spark bonding."

"Oh…" she said sounding a bit curious to this part of the information.

"Anyway, Megatron wanted the Allspark, he wanted to rebuild the planet, and to create his own limitless army of Decepticons to finally win the war."

"Then I can guess it was under the autobot possession?"

"Yes" he said turning back to the road; the other cars were always driving very close by.

"Then why didn't you guys create your own army? If you were loosing the war…"

"Two reasons….for one it was against our ethics, we were fighting for rights and freedom, to create a spark just so it was destined to fight and probably die doing so was unfair. And second of all because it would give out the location of the allspark and risk the decepticons finding it."

She nodded slightly " Ok that makes sense….so wait…your basically…in a war? STILL?!"

"Yes…that is why this is so dangerous, a war isn't the same as a gang following you around everyday so they can beat you, if these guys catch you, your dead."

"Then the cop car was a decepticon?" She asked looking out the window apprehensively; hopefully it hadn't noticed her at that time.

"Yes…his name is Barricade, his been my particular foe for a long time actually, he has been here wondering around ever since Megatron was killed."

"What wait, hold up, you said you were still at war, but this megatron dude is dead? Then how come it didn't end?"

"I was getting to that…" he said a bit annoyed for being interrupted. "He was killed by my charge two years ago, so the remaining decepticons on earth sort of…disbanded…they have shown much activity lately though, which leads us to suspect their joining forces once more, we suspect their second in command, starscream, is back with reinforcements. What they plan to do we don't know yet, but its likely the war will go on"

"Is that why your charge stopped being a target?"

"I…yes…I suppose so…I should check up on him soon though…barricade coming after me could also mean he is looking for him." She whistled.

" That can't be very good, especially with a name like Barricade…you guys have funny names…."

"Your kind has strange names as well"

"Touché…" she said turning back to her window and watching the schenery pass by." You got radio?" a grin spread on the boy's face.

Yay holoform crazyness :D I wanted to do something different with them, since most people make OCs love their holograms I made my OC actually afraid of them, its an interesting perspective that she prefers the robot forms to the human ones.