Chapter 5: The Drag Race
"I look great! Now I got the need for speed!" Flashdrive said to herself happily. Her armor was polished to perfection. That's one thing she and Hot Rod had in common. "Okay, ready to go!" She headed through the door and made herself to the control room. Arcee had just finished practicing in the training room. Flashdrive happened to bump into her which scared them both.
"What the heck!" Arcee shouted at the top of her lungs. "Another femme! I-I mean, I'm sorry." Flashdrive stammered. Arcee picked up Flashdrive by her servos. Flashdrive tended to be clumsy most of the time. "Sorry for bumping into you! I'm Flashdrive. What's your name?" Arcee smiled, "I'm Arcee, nice to meet you!" Flashdrive had to process her name for a nano click. "Wait wait wait. You're the Arcee. The brave and courageous femme warrior. Smart and intelligent and…" Flashdrive went on and on. Arcee chuckled, "Guess I'm famous on Cybertron huh?"
"Famous? No you're a war hero!" Flashdrive excitedly shouted. Flashdrive always wanted to meet Arcee. In the autobot boot camp Flashdrive wanted to join the femme unit, which consisted of Firestar, Moonracer, Chromia, the famous Elita One, Greenlight, and Lancer. Arcee was in their unit, but chose to go with Optimus Prime instead. "Well, I better get going. I'm missing an episode of Vice Principals." Arcee exclaimed. Arcee walked down the hall and waved goodbye. "Wow, she watches the same show I watch." Flashdrive said to herself.
The happy femme went to the control room and saw Bumblebee patiently waiting for her. "You ready to do some racing!" Bumblebee excitedly shouted. Flashdrive plastered a wide grin on her faceplates and nodded. Flashdrive went over to Ratchet to hear his say so on the race. "Luckily for you, speedster, when you transform the tank stays in the backseat of your alt mode. As a matter of fact, we have some cars in the back that you can choose from." Ratchet informed the femme.
"Thanks Ratchet! You have made my day, better yet, I'm going to call you sunshine for now on." Flashdrive hugged Ratchet as hard as she could. Ratchet just grunted and continued to type on his computer. "C'mon Bee! Help me choose an alt mode!" Bumblebee followed Flashdrive to the base's garage where she saw many cool cars. "What's something that will fit me Bee, sleek and sexy," Flashdrive wiggled her optic ridges, "-Big and buff," she then stood up like bodybuilder, "-Or, nice and nerdy." She then made an innocent smile.
Bumblebee laughed, "Something that will fit you huh? I think you should go with…" Bumblebee scanned the room and saw a motorcycle with Flasdrive's name on it. "That motorcycle is nice!" Bumblebee said while pointing to it. Flashdrive walked over to it and examined it. "It's sleek and sexy, and it's blue and gold, wow!" Flashdrive scanned the motorcycle and transformed. "So Bee, how do I look?" Bumblebee gawked, "Not to sound weird as your close friend, but I might have good dreams, if you know what I mean."
Flashdrive giggled, "Okay Bee, I take that as a very good compliment." Flashdrive transformed and the two friends headed out of the base's garage.
Sideswipe was in the training room shooting down targets and dodging paint. "Alight 'cons, I'm taking you down." He shot down 15 targets and didn't get splattered with paint. "Now, that'll teach you not to mess with Sides." He blew his gun and put it in his gun pouch. Just his luck a beautiful femme and her friend happened to see him train. Bumblebee's optics widened, "Wow, that was amazing!" Flashdrive rolled her optics, "He's not good as Optimus though." Sideswipe came out of the training room to see Bumblebee and the femme he met from earlier with the little incident in the wash racks.
Sideswipe smiled at Bumblebee, "Hey kid, watching the pro do some sweet moves." Bumblebee nodded, "Sideswipe you did amazing out there!" Sideswipe smirked, "That's what long war experience does to you." Sideswipe then looked to the femme who had an impatient look on her face. Sideswipe smiled, "How do you think I did, sweetspark?" Flashdrive's faceplates turned bluer than her dark blue armor. "I don't know, I guess you did okay. But I think you aren't better than anyone else around here."
'This will be good,' Sideswipe thought to himself. "Like you could do any better." Sideswipe shot back. Flashdrive frowned, she hated when other people undermined her talents. Next to Moonracer, she was the best sharpshooter in the universe. "Is this a challenge?" Flashdrive asked smirking. "Maybe." Sideswipe smirked at her back. Bumblebee rolled his optics, "You guys can flirt when we come back, but Flashdrive and I are going racing tonight."
Sideswipe's optics shimmered. He thought that Flashdrive was a beautiful name. "Drag racing, huh? Well why don't we start our challenge from there. All three of us can enter the race, and if I beat Flash here…" Sideswipe winked at the reluctant femme, "Then she has to shout at the top of her lungs that I'm a better autobot than her and she has to do everything I tell her for a week." Flashdrive's optics widened, "That's going to far!"
Sideswipe's smirk became even more sinister, "Can't take a simple challenge, Flash?" Flashdrive got even more bluer and hotter in the face, "I accept your dum challenge, Swipey." Sideswipe liked his new nickname. "Fine." He said. "Fine!" Flashdrive shouted.
"This is a pretty bad area. But the fastest racers always meet up here." Bumblebee told Sideswipe and Flashdrive. Flashdrive's hologram had a biker helmet on wearing a dark and light blue biker suit. "So guys, where do we start?" Bumblebee drove over to a tough looking guy wearing all black. Bumblebee's alt mode form was a yellow Volkswagen Beetle with black stripes. Not exactly the drag racing type style but it went faster than a race car.
"Um, excuse me sir." Bumblebee called to the tough looking guy. "What is it?" He asked toughly. "Well, my friends and I want to join the drag race that's starting in about three minutes." The guy raised an eyebrow and smirked, "How old are you guys?" Flashdrive thought of an age, "I'm twenty one, the guy in the yellow car is my age, and the guy in the red car is twenty two." The human grunted, "Fine. You see that hill. Yeah, you go up the hill and that's where the starting line is. The finish line is all the way at the end of the tunnel down there, see it. Remember, this race doesn't look easy as it seems. Good luck." The human did a sinister smile and the trio drove to the top of the hill.
Once they got to the top the race was about to begin. The autobot trio pulled up next to each other and started their engines. A tanned human guy pulled up next to Flashdrive's motorcycle, "Hey honey, nice bike!" Unfortunately Sideswipe heard the remark. "Hey buddy, that's my girl you're talking to! You really don't want me to get out of this car." He sounded tougher than usual.
The tan guy backed off and looked forward. If Flashdrive could smirk, she would. "Hey, Flash, don't forget about that challenge!" Sideswipe shouted towards her. "Don't need to remind me!" She shouted back over. A human girl with dark long hair came out with a skimpy crop top and black short shorts. "On your mark!" Engines everywhere started rumbling, "Get set!" She held up the flag, "Go!" The cars sped off smoke filling up the air. The racers raced through the forest and whisked past numerous of trees.
Flashdrive was now in front of Sideswipe, "In your face Swipey!" She shouted to him. Just then five humans came out of nowhere and started shooting out paint balls, "What the!" Flashdrive swerved to avoid the paint balls but ended up hitting a tree. Sideswipe laughed, "Might as well go back to base and get my energon ready. I'm going to be starving after this." He said through their comm link. Flashdrive shouted, "Don't count on it!" She sped up past the other racers and tried to catch up to Bumblebee.
Flashdrive and Bumblebee were now side by side, Sideswipe now in first place, Flashdrive in third and Bumblebee in second. "Woo hoo! I'm winning this race tonight!" Sideswipe shouted. The three of them were almost to the finish line when suddenly Sideswipe blew a tire from a nail that was on the ground. "Frag!" Sideswipe shouted angrily. Flashdrive made it through the finish line.
"Yeah! That's what I'm talking about! Nobody messes with the Flash!" Flashdrive shouted at the top of her lungs. Bumblebee laughed and gave her a hi-five. Two human guys came over to fix Sideswipe's tire. "That didn't count. I blew my tire out!" Sideswipe angrily shouted. Bumblebee chuckled, "Guess you're the one who has to do everything Flash tells you to do!" Flashdrive giggled, "I got something perfect Sideswipe can do for me once we get back to base."
"I hope it has nothing to do with cleaning or any femme stuff." Sideswipe added.
Once the trio got back to base Bumblebee and Flashdrive were laughing and joking all the way there, with a grumpy Sideswipe following right behind them. Optimus and Ratchet were waiting right at the base doors with frown on their faces. Servos crossed against their chests. Flashdrive and Bumblebee stopped laughing while Sideswipe had the same frown on his faceplates. "Flashdrive, Bumblebee, Sideswipe. Where have you been?" Optimus asked angrily. Flashdrive was confused, Bumblebee said that Optimus knew they were going to the race, and Ratchet sent her a letter saying it was okay. "Um, we went drag racing Optimus."
Ratchet gasped, "Drag racing! Optimus…" Optimus silenced Ratchet putting a servo up. "I don't permit my crew to go racing. What made you want to disobey the rules.?" Bumblebee spoke up, "Sorry, Optimus. I told Flash that you said it was okay to go racing, and I sent her a fake letter from Ratchet saying that she could race and that it would be perfectly safe. I'm sorry, I just wanted us to spend some fun time together." Flashdrive felt sorry for his friend. He did nothing wrong so she butted it, "No, it's my fault too! I shouldn't have went concerning my safety. I should have said no but chose to disobey the rules anyway."
Optimus nodded, "Sideswipe, your reason?" Sideswipe looked up with a smile, "I went with them to spy on them." Flashdrive and Bumblebee looked at Sideswipe, astonished about how he would lie to Optimus like that. Sideswipe continued and smirked, "Yep, when they left I decided to see where they were going. I didn't want to tell on them just to be nice so I figured that you could just handle them. I commanded them to base so they followed me. Guess they didn't think you would be upset, the way they were joking and laughing all the way here."
Bumblebee stammered, "O-Optimus, that's n-not true at all! He raced with us!" Optimus looked at the trio and shouted, "Silence! I've known Sideswipe for a long time and I know he wouldn't lie! Sideswipe, I want you to escort these two to their quarters, right away." Sideswipe nodded and lead the two "troublemakers" to their quarters. Bumblebee frowned and headed into his quarters, while Flashdrive stopped at her quarter's door and looked at Sideswipe.
"You make me sick." She said to him. Sideswipe smirked, "And why is that?"
"How could you lie on me and Bumblebee like that!"
"Well, maybe if you, yes you, thought smartly, you should've lied and told him we were energon scouting! It's 10:00 now in Earth time. Scouting patrol ends at eleven."
Flashdrive thought about it. She should've been smart and lied about it. She hated the way Sideswipe lied but loved the way he acted like he was the mature one out of the situation.
Flashdrive stuck her helm up in a snobbish way and walked into her quarters leaving Sideswipe laughing.
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