To Learn or Not to Learn Ch. 4
Sid: Making friends. Everywhere that you go, just making friends.
-Ice Age: The Meltdown
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"It's wonderful to be back, Optimus," the blue and white one said in a New York accent.
"Oh yeah, Thundercracker. Home sweet home. You wouldn't believe how much space junk we encountered on the way here," the purple and black one addressed to Optimus.
"Explain to us, through, Skywarp, why Soundwave and his creations are with you? And why does he have a human on his shoulder?" Elita One, Optimus' mate, asked.
"It's best if Soundwave explains why he and his creations deflected. As for the human, well, we got lost," said the one with all the tattoos. Everyone turned their heads to a visored midnight blue "mech", as they called themselves remembered Miles, surrounded by a giant metal cat, two condors that were red and black and yellow, a purple bat, and two slightly shorter than human mechs, one a silver color while the other a slightly darker silver color. The human was a little girl that looked like she was at least eight years old with dark skin, black hair, and brown eyes that just sparkled with mischief and warmth.
Optimus nodded his head. "Very well, Starscream. Soundwave?"
"Reason for leaving: Megatron. Explanation: beginning to go mad," came the monotone of Soundwave. Two warriors in the back, Sam recognized them as the other two warriors the first day that they arrived, spoke up.
"I thought that he was already mad?" the red one mused.
"No, Sideswipe, he was crazy. Now he's going insane and we have to let him rust in peace!" the yellow one sarcastically shot back with a whack upside the head.
"Back off, Sunstreaker!!" Sideswipe snarled.
"Enough you two or you'll be sent to the brig." Optimus' calm voice rang out over the crowd. The two warriors grumbled at each other and didn't continue. Optimus turned back to Soundwave, but the story was started up by the dark silver human-sized mech.
"After Dad found out that Megs was goin' mad, we all packed up and followed the Seekers here. Ravage, Laserbeak, Buzzsaw, Frenzy, and I stayed safe inside, but Ratbat got curious and wanted to see the planet outside the hold." When he said the names, the dark short mech pointed to the person the name was associated with, Ravage being the cat, Laserbeak being the red and black condor while Buzzsaw was the yellow condor, Frenzy the silver human sized mech, and Ratbat being the bat, naturally. The cat telepathically continued the story.
Rumble, the dark silver one waved, was the only one who thought that something might happen. Ratbat was caught in the gravitational pull of Earth and crash landed in the northeastern sector of this continent, in a place called Maine.
The little girl waved one of her hands and piped up, "This is where I come in!! Right?"
Soundwave cupped a giant hand around her as an impromptu hug and said, "Yes, Kiara, this is where you come in."
"H-h-it it-t-t, g-g-girl!"Frenzy stuttered. Kiara drew herself up and started on her part of the story.
"It was after eight at night and Mama was asleep on the couch. I was cleaning the dishes when a big fireball came down in the backyard!! I went outside to see a big bat lying in the dirt and he looked really bad. I snuck into the garage, got my wagon, and helped him in. I hid him in my room, but Mama woke up while I was fighting with him."
At this she sent a glare to Ratbat, who looked sheepish. I was hungry!! He telepathically whined.
"That doesn't mean that you should have motor oil when you're sick! You would needed plain energy sources, nothing rich!!" she scolded. Ratbat pouted relentlessly.
"How did you know that motor oil would have been too rich for him?" Ratchet asked. Kiara's face saddened at this.
"Because he was acting like Mama when she was drunk," Kiara quietly said. The humans knew what she was talking about and immediately bristled.
"Then Soundwave and the rest of the gang arrived soon after Ratbat got better, and they were hopelessly lost," Kiara continued. Ratchet glared hard at the Seekers. Skywarp shrugged, embarrassed.
"Our navigation systems crashed upon impact, sorry!"
"Anyways, after picking up Squeaky and Kiara with the directions, things kinda went downhill from there, since we were connected with comm. links." Starscream shuddered. Kiara, Rumble, Frenzy, and Ratbat looked at each other with wicked grins and started to hum "100 Bottles of Beer on the Wall". Skywarp shot up from his place from the couch where he flopped on it.
"WHO'S HUMMING THAT?!" he screeched, terrified. Soundwave quickly tapped Kiara on her head and hissed, "Behave."
The humans laughed as soon as they heard the humming and Skywarp's scream. They could just imagine the scenes that happened throughout the trip.
"After a couple of detours in which we found out that Rumble and Frenzy should never be alone in a parking lot," Rumble and Frenzy snickered at Thundercracker's comment, "we finally made it here!"
"Hooray! Alright! Way to go!" Various Autobots cheered and spouted congratulations to the trine and single creator with the seven kids.
"Anyways, how are we humans gonna be with all of you, amigos? We can't survive without some essentials, like clothes, shelter we got, and food. Particularly Momma's fried alligator tail. MMMM."
"NO, FIG!!!!!!" roared Sarah, Will, and Epps. All the Autobots looked surprised while the rest of the humans looked on with curiosity and horror.
"There's no way you can trick me into eating barbequed crickets either!" Epps shouted. Hound and Mirage looked at their human in amazement while Molly made a grossed out face. Jazz laughed at the look on her face while Prowl gave a small twitch of a smile.
"Fig, there is no way that we are letting you near a kitchen," Sarah growled. Will nodded in agreement while everyone else wondered if they should back up. Some actually did back up, like Miles. He scrambled up Beachcomber's armor and perched on his head.
"Miles, man. Can you please get off my head?" Beachcomber asked. Miles shook his head no while saying, "No way! The last time I was in the cross fire of a kitchen argument I was almost hit with a spatula!"
Mikaela and Sam tried to stifle the sniggers that were threatening to come out, but failed. Miles threw a look at the couple that would of spelled 'horror' for others that didn't know him but for Sam and Mikaela spelled 'petrified'. They cracked, laughing so hard that they could bust a gut.
"It wasn't funny!" Miles yelled, but his face threatened to smile.
"You got off easy! Sam and I have to deal with his MOM!!!!!" Mikaela yelled back. Sam groaned.
"Don't remind me."
Firestar grinned from being in-between Inferno and Red Alert. "Is she that bad?"
Sam groaned again while flopping on Bumblebee's shoulder. "The worst."
"His dad has a rule that no feet touch his backyard grass," Miles unhelpfully piped up. Everyone stared t him. Mikaela giggled.
"It's the truth!" She held up both hands. "We swear!"
Jazz and Molly laughed while Prowl looked like he was going to crash. Soon the rest of the groups of mechs and the small group of humans were laughing with them. Even Soundwave had a twinkle in his eye, though he didn't really laugh.
"Seriously, what are we gonna do about my folks?" Sam asked. "Do you have anything that you guys can do? I know my back window is still open, but that might not be enough to distract them."
"Sarah and I are out; we need to get stuff from our house," Will said.
"I'm no good with parents because most try to kick me out for trying to recruit their kids," Epps added.
"I'll go!" Fig volunteered.
"Fig, you'll scare them!" Sarah groaned. Annabelle giggled.
"I can do a holoform!"
Sam and Mikaela turned as best as they could to stare at Bumblebee.
"WHAT?!" Sam and Mikaela yelped.
"Na, lil' Bee. Best to send an official figure." Jazz said. Sam shook his head.
"No, Bee can do just fine. We just need something for him to talk about."
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A/N: There's the reason! What will Bee talk about? Wait and see!