Shabam! New freaking chapter hot off the presses courtesy of a half crazed muse and an author wondering if she's been inadvertently poisoned by her family (My bottled water tastes like fabric softener... XP ) ... And the awesome beta of course.
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Many thanks to my beta Khalthar for helping me out!
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Word count for this chapter coming in at a smooth 2050
Chapter 14: It Begins
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~Cassie~
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"Cassie."
Cassie growled and burrowed deeper into her pillow as the hand that had shaken her repeated the action. "Cassie come on! Judy said that if you want to eat you need to get dressed and come downstairs."
"Go away." she hissed.
"Cassie are you feeling well?"
"If I say yes will you go away?"
"No. Besides it's 7:00, and you never sleep in."
Cassie sat up quickly; almost head butting Bee as she snatched the alarm clock off the counter to glare at the bright red numbers in disbelief. "T-That's not possible... I slept in... I actually slept in." Her eyes shot to the corner where Crescent was talking quietly with Jazz. Crescent smiled weakly at her. Cassie tossed the clock back on the night stand and stretched.
Bee turned away and made his way to the door. "Well anyways Judy says come get it while it's warm." He closed the door behind him quickly.
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~Bee~
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Bee tried to ignore the inquisitive glance that Sideswipe shot him from the other side of the table as he sat down with his bottle of energon. :What?: he narrowed his eye at him.
:She's up right?:
:I woke her up, so she should be coming dow-"
Sam screeched as a door upstairs slammed against the wall. "Cassie what the-"
"WHERE THE HELL ARE THEY?!"
"CAN'T YOU SEE THAT I'M BUSY?!"
Judy smiled as she sipped on her coffee, cradling the cup of warm Joe between both hands. She turned that smile on to Ron who had glimpsed over his newspaper to meet his wife's happy gaze. "See this is why we should have had more children..."
"I KNOW YOU TOOK MY CONTACTS; NOW WHERE THE HELL ARE THEY?"
"I'M USING THE FREAKING BATHROOM HERE! GET THE HELL OUT CASSIE!"
Ron mumbled something about his wife needing to lay off the special brownies before returning to his paper.
"NOT UNTIL YOU TELL ME WHAT YOU DID WITH THEM!"
"YOU'VE GOT GLASSES, WEAR THEM!"
"YOU KNOW WHAT, FINE! GOOD LUCK WIPPING YOUR ASS!"
"HEY!" A minute passed. "CASSIE! MOM! DAD! BEE!"
Ron glanced at his watchless wrist. "Will you look at that? I'm late for work." Ron said as he quickly fled the dinning room.
"ANYBODY BUT CASSIE; HELP!"
Judy shook her head as she chuckled. "Toilet paper is in the hall closet." she called out as she began to clean up hers and Ron's plates.
Bee sighed as he went to go 'save' his charge.
Sideswipe was laughing over the commlink the whole damned time.
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~Cassie~
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Crescent and Jazz was watching Cassie as she was torn between growling angrily and laughing manically as she was currently working on the project that she had started several days ago. "Jerk thinks he can win he's got another thing coming to him." Cassie grinned evilly as she checked the barrel of her new toy.
"Why does tha' look like a gun?"
"Because it is one... Nice touch adding the pneumatics; now it's an automatic..." Crescent eyed the gun.
"I just have to remember to buy uncle Ron an new nailgun for Christmas. Crescent add that to the list."
"Cassie… is it safe to come in or are you still working on being diabolical?" Sideswipe called into the garage.
"It depends; did you bring my superglue?"
A bag was thrust into the opening. "And the duct tape."
"You may enter."
"Have you at least packed your overnight bag for the weekend?" Sideswipe asked as she swiped the bag from him.
"Yeah." she nodded at the backpack on the counter beside her.
"Bee just picked up Sam so we should get this stuff all put away don't you think?" Sideswipe eyed her invention.
"Hm... I suppose." she grinned before pulling the trigger and shooting him in the head with the soft projectile.
"Hey." Sideswipe caught it and held the soft cotton item, frowning at it.
"Had to make sure it works." she giggled as the sound of Bee's engine pulling into the driveway. Cassie grinned broadly as Sam screeched her name.
Sides raised an interested brow as she motioned for him to follow her. Sam was currently fighting with the flag pole, which she had greased the rope that he was struggling with, trying to get his batman boxers down.
"Damn it Cassie! This isn't over." Sam growled.
"Of course it isn't; you haven't given me my contacts back. Once you return my eyes; I'll leave you alone. Until then you can expect absolutely no quarter from me." Cassie crossed her arms.
"You ain't gonna win." Sam began to bite at the knot, grimacing from the taste of the grease.
"When you want to admit defeat, just let me know."
"Never." Sam sat as he finally freed the rope from its knot.
Cassie smirked. "Have it your way."
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~Timeskip~
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Cassie sighed as she focused on counting backwards from a thousand in her head trying to ignore the speedometer. Sideswiped hadn't blindfolded her this time, having opted for darkening his windows so that she couldn't see out. Jazz and Crescent had ridden with Bee to help keep track of any possible countermeasures Sam might be plotting against her.
"I'm surprised Judy let you come along with us with little protest."
"Yeah well it's not like I was grounded this week... though I'm sure she's worried about me." Cassie sighed as she noted that he was going roughly 95... "Maybe I should have taken my anxiety meds..."
"I thought that the Hatchet was gonna help get you off of your meds..."
Cassie sighed and glanced at the radio. "As much as I say that I don't need them... I do need a couple of my meds... Mainly the ones for depression and anxiety." she said quietly. "I don't really suppose you guys have any real mental problems do you?"
"We call them glitches."
Cassie pondered this and her thoughts kept coming back to a normal computer... "Is it as bad as I think it is?"
"When they come into effect they cause out processors to overwork and fritz causing the bot's CPU to crash. It's actually pretty funny sometimes. There's this bot that I know, Prowl, he's got a fairly complex battle computer, and logical processor so anytime he's presented with something completely illogical he glitches." Sideswipe chuckled.
"Why do I have a feeling you like making him crash?" Cassie shook her head.
"Because he's the second in charge and is a complete stick in the aft?"
So... Jazz is in love with the SIC... wow. I wonder... "Say Sides, how do relationships work out for you guys? I mean do you guys have actually have female counterparts or are you all asexual or would it be bisexual?" Cassie frowned as she thought over the last part.
Sideswipe swerved and his engine sputtered as he screeched to a stop. The interior had warmed slightly and if Cassie didn't now any better she'd swear that he was blushing. "Flustered are we?" she asked as she slowly pried her fingers from the death grip she had put his seatbelt through.
"I-I think that that is a question better saved for Ratchet." Sideswipe choked as he must have gathered his composure and had resumed trying to catch up to the Camaro that had passed him.
Cassie smirked as she taunted the Corvette. "Aw... are we shy?"
"As if. I just don't feel like giving an anatomy lesson to a fleshy. And for the record I am not asexual." his voice was holding an offended and defensive tone.
"Whatever you say. It was just an innocent question." Cassie held her hands up in defeat. "I'm sure you're very... mechly and macho underneath your pretty silver paint."
"I am one of the best and don't forget it girl." Sideswipe preened.
Cassie chuckled and shook her head. Males.
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~Meanwhile with Crescent~
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Crescent was currently engaging in the act of poking Sam in the back of his head while he grumped about Cassie.
"You know; if you would just give her back her contacts, she would probably just leave you alone." Bee pointed out as he sped along behind the corvette.
"Yeah well look what she did to me! And to you! You can't tell me that she doesn't deserve at least some kind of ,payback." Sam crossed his arms as he rolled his shoulders.
Bee sighed. "Look whatever but you two better leave me out of it... Worse, don't let Sideswipe get involved."
Sam winced.
"So tell meh why did we ride with Sam an' Bee again?" Jazz asked as he had also taken to poking Sam.
"Please tell me you didn't." Bee had caught the wince.
Sam threw his hands in the air. "I needed some stuff and he offered to go pick it up for me since he had to go on patrol today."
"Sam..."
"Look it was only a little hair dye..."
"It's your funeral if Ratchet finds out."
Crescent grinned. "Well... mainly to spy on him so that Cassie has the upper hand... though "I'm not so sure I'm going to relay everything the idiot says back to her."
"Why not?" Jazz blinked.
Crescent shrugged. "Because Sammyboy is doomed no matter what if he can't outsmart Cassie." She said as she increased her poking. Sam began to fidget even more in the seat trying to get away from her touch. "Besides I am watching him just like she told me to. Not telling her everything just keeps her on her toes, that's all."
"Sam would you please sit still I can't concentrate with you squirming like that." Bee complained. Just as the Corvette came to a screeching stop on the road in front of them.
"I would love to but -Argh- I can't get this weird feeling to go away..."
Bee let out an exasperated sigh. "Then maybe you should ask Crescent or Jazz to leave you alone."
Sam blinked at the radio. "Come again?"
"You've got a weird tingling feeling right?"
"Yeah..." Sam glanced around the cabin.
"From what I've gathered... That weird feeling is associated with those two."
"..."
"..."
"Gah! Stop poking me!"
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~Cassie~
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She had made her way down to three hundred eighty seven when Sideswipe lightened the windows and slowed his speed to just under thirty. They were coming up on a moderately busy military base.
"We're here."
"Oh goodie." Cassie said as she watched the patrolling soldiers. As they approached one of the larger hangars they were joined by the large black truck that she recognized as Ironhide.
Once inside the hanger Cassie was out of Sideswipe in a heart beat stretching her back, while smirking at Sam who was glaring at her. Of course she couldn't completely blame him considering the fact that Crescent was currently draped over Sam's back like a koala, poking him.
"How was your ride?" Crescent grinned as she waved at her.
Fine... Now could you get off of Sam?
"I suppose... Oh and do keep an eye out for your shampoo."
Noted. Cassie smiled as two soldiers approached her and Sam.
"Hey kid, don't tell me you've ditched Mikaela." the tall bald African American soldier said as he came up and slapped her cousin on the back.
Cassie grimaced. "I'm his cousin."
"So you're the infamous Cassie." the honey blonde soldier said with a smile.
"Infamous?" Cassie's eyes narrowed on Sam who inched away from her.
"Well 'e did kinda forewarn O.P. and Lennox abou' ya comin' ta live with him. Ah was there the day that he told em about ya." Jazz intervened.
"My name is Major William Lennox, and this is Staff Sergeant Robert Epps. We're the guys in charge of the humans that are running around here." Lennox said holding his hand.
"Pleasure to meet the two of you." she said taking the hand.
"Welcome to NEST."
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