"Dude, you look like fucking hell came and ate you, spat you back out and you got run over by a truck. What happened?" Ellie fixed her friend with her dark eyes.

"Um, bad sleep, I guess." Leon shrugged. "New place and all that."

"Did you get your iPod?" Ellie pulled a shirt over her head.

"Crap. No. I got...lost."

"You got lost." The mocha-skinned female snorted. "Why am I not surprised?"

"Uncle Will and Uncle Rob found me. And I'll have you know," Leon threw the towel in her hand over to the corner where it landed in a damp heap. "They have horrible taste in boxers."

"Really?" Ellie asked, not terribly interested in their uncle's choice of underwear.

"Yes. Hearts and ducks." Leon threw a black wife-beater on over her bikini.

"Why are you wearing your swimsuit?"

"I have to wash the...cars." The brunette shrugged, pulling on her sneakers and waiting for her best friend. The two left their room in silence, walking down the halls to the cafeteria and joining their sleepy uncles at their table.

"Morning." They greeted, stuffing their faces with eggs and bacon. Will muttered something before his head drooped and nearly hit the table.

Soon enough, Leon and Ellie split ways, the mechanic heading for the Autobot hangers and Ellie for the human infirmary.

"Um...Morning?" Leon called to the seemingly non-suspicious vehicles.

"Good morning! Good morning! It's great to be awake! Good morning! Good morning, to you!" Bee gave a small wave from the smaller side hanger, where he was seated criss-cross-apple-sauce style.

"Good morning, Bee. I can call you that, right?" He nodded, vigorously.

"Oi! Femme!" Ironhide yelled from beside Optimus. "Come here." Leon shuffled over. The door opened of it's own accord, and a stocky man with a considerable amount of muscle stepped out. A large jagged scar ran across his left side of his face, and his eyes were bright blue.

"Uh...who are you?" Leon squeaked.

"I'm Ironhide. Get over my holoform and pay attention. I've got a rock stuck in my gears. Get it out will you?"

"Where is it?" She sighed, pulling her still damp chocolate hair back into a ponytail.

"Under there, about a third of the way back." he grumbled before dissolving into thin air.

Leon blinked couple of times, and the Topkick shifted impatiently. The mechanic grabbed the skateboard she had used on Bee yesterday to rid him of rocks, lowered herself onto it and slid beneath him.

It was easy to find the rock as it was a dull brown in his otherwise black underside, but it was wedged pretty far in.

She felt around for her tool box a moment, before reaching inside and grabbing a pair of small pliers from their spot, and attacking the earth stuck inside the weapon specialist.

"Frag it, femme! That hurts!"

"Sorry."

She tugged it again.

"OW!" Ironhide shuddered, rolling forwards slightly.

"I would appreciate it if you would stop moving, you big baby!" Leon snapped, having been doing this for twenty minutes now, when it could have been done in ten. "If you stop moving, I can get it out faster."

"OW!"

"Stop complaining. You call yourself a weapons specialist." The brunette snorted.

"Girl, you assed out!" Mudflap's voice yelled from across the room.

"Gotta bail!" Skidz joined his brother.

Ironhide growled, screeching metal erupting around her ears as though he was going to transform. Leon grabbed a couple of wires and pulled...hard.

"FRAG!" Ironhide snarled, stopping.

"I know ninety-seven ways to take you apart with a screwdriver." She warned before yanking out the rock, and sliding from beneath him. "I'm not afraid to do it either."

Ironhide roared backwards, swerving around Optimus and parking himself in a corner to sulk.

"Damn, shorty," Skidz appeared behind her. "You good."

"That threat applies to you too." She whirled on the red twin. "And I want my iPod back. Now."

Mudflap transformed and she snatched her device from inside before moving to Mirage, who had a pretty nasty dent on his driver's side door and a chunk of paint missing. There weren't many repairs, but the younger -smaller- twins were slightly faded.

"Oi, Bee." Leon strode over to the scout. "Where's the hose, buckets and soap?"

Bee pointed to a cupboard behind him, transforming quickly and chirping.

"You first?" She snickered. "Fine. Since you're really nice." Bee rose on his axles before settling down again.

When Will found her later, Leon was standing on Optimus' wheel and washing hid hood. The other cars seemed to nearly sparkle around her.

"Wow." Lennox crossed his arms, looking impressed. "Nice job."

"Thank you." Thankfully Optimus had warned her about her uncle coming, so she didn't hurt herself like normal. "Optimus is the last one, then I'm done for the day."

"Ellie could use some toning down." He laughed, passing her the hose to wash the last bit of soap off the Autobot commander. "The lagoon is pretty nice."

"You trust us to go to a beach." Leon fixed him with a blank stare.

"Yes."

"Filled with possibly single military men."

"Yes."

"In bikinis."

"Yes- Wait!" Lennox cried, eyes widening. "No! Epps and I will come with you!"

"Uh huh. That's what I thought." She snorted, lifting the bucket filled with soapy sponges beside her to put it away.

"Grazie." Mirage revved his engine as she passed and she patted his newly shiny hood.

"No prob." She threw the sponges into the cupboard and followed her uncle out towards the infirmary. Leon could already hear Ellie yelling at someone again. The brunette marched in, slapped a hand over her friends mouth, and started pulling her out.

"I'm terribly sorry, gentlemen and ladies." She snickered. "I'm afraid I'm kidnapping your nurse for the rest of the day."

"Keep her." One particularly pale woman rolled her eyes. "We can sleep now."

Leon nodded, shutting the door behind her with her foot and managing not to fall on her face in the process.

"Ellie," She began, scolding in her tone. "I thought better of you. Now you know why I don't come to your hospital."

The mocha skinned woman pushed Leon's hand off. "Sure. Maybe it's just the fact that -even though you fall up and down the stairs every day- you have insanely good luck with not hurting yourself enough to need a hospital."

"This is why I love this base. I don't actually have to go up or down stairs." The brunette snorted, tugging her friend into their room, and down to the closet and bathroom, only to fall down the stairs.

"Spoke too soon." She growled, glaring at the problem. Ellie chortled as she descended, and helped up her friend.

"Why are we here anyway?"

"Oh. Right. Get your swimsuit." Leon dusted herself off and began looking through the drawer that held her underwear. "We're going to the lagoon with our uncles."

"Um, why?"

"Cause they don't believe it's a good idea for us to go alone."

"No. I meant, why are we going to the lagoon?" Ellie snorted, but pulled out her yellow bikini anyway.

"Oh. No idea. Sounded like fun." She shrugged.

"Riiiight. Fun."

Grazie- thank you