Okay so far so good...I hope.
I've been catching up on all the writing I should've been doing but of course, I'm too damn lazy for own good sometimes!
Anyway...Tai will be appearing in this chapter...kind of.
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Chapter two
What's the plan, Sam?
After what felt like a mile long hike, Sam reached the door to Prime's quarters.
'Hey Optimus! Open up!' He knocked, or rather banged on the large metal door. 'Ow...metal!' Sam whimpered, shaking his hand. He noticed he seemed to be hurting himself a lot today, but that wasn't his fault. At least, he thought it wasn't.
The giant door opened which made Sam feel very small. A very large, majestic red and blue head appeared and look around in confusion. 'Yo, big guy! Down here!'
Optimus looked down and a very friendly smiled graced his face plates.
'Oh hello Sam.' He said pleasantly. 'I wasn't expecting to see you today...come in.' Sam walked into the giant room where he saw a huge computer screen, a desk, a recharge bed type thing, and many other various Autobot leader things.
'Hey...can I talk to you?' Sam decided to cut right to the chase.
'Of course.' Optimus said with reassurance, lifting Sam up onto his large desk so they could talk easier. Sam was grateful for that, his neck was starting to hurt from looking up. It was like talking to a redwood tree. A giant, metal red wood.
'Now...' The Autobot leader began, sitting down in his huge chair. 'What is it that you need?'
Sam took a deep cleansing breath and once again pondered his words. How would he explain this without it sounding very stupid?
'Okay...well you see...a family member of mine, who I care about very much, is coming to live with me and my parents.' He paused again, trying to think again on how to say it.
Optimus raised his eyebrows, if he had any, but he did have a look of confusion on his great metal face.
'Well that doesn't sound so bad...' Optimus said reasonably. 'But what worries me is why you seem so upset about this...I know you said you care for this person but do you two get along?'
'What? Oh..Yeah! We get along great, we're pretty much like brother and sister...it's just I'm not so sure how she'll react to...' He trailed off.
'Us?' Optimus finished with an amused smile. Whoa...Déjà vu. Sam thought with a chuckle.
'Yeah...so how do you want to do this?' Sam asked in a slight panicky tone. 'We need a plan and we need one like, right now. Because if she see's you guys without me explaining to her, she'll go insane! And I don't want her to chase me with a bat again!'
'Calm down! Calm down!' Optimus said in alarm, stopping Sam before he had a full blown panic attack.
'Sam, how about this? When you bring this person by, we will be in out Alternate forms. Than after you explain everything to her, we'll transform and introduce ourselves.' That calmed Sam down immediately and he gave Optimus a look of amazement. He always came up with the best ideas!
'Wow...that was incredibly helpful and specific! We'll go with that! Prime...you are a genius!' Sam was so excited, he almost walked right off the desk without thinking. Luckily Prime was there to catch him.
'Sam...please be more careful! You humans are fragile!' Optimus placed him gently on the floor.
Sam laughed nervously, blushing. Man that was embarrassing!
'I'm good...Thanks again for catching me...come on..! We have to tell the others! Tally-ho!'
Sam ran out of the room with Optimus thundering behind him.
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A few minutes later:
'Hmm...cousin huh? Sounds interesting.' Rachet said, pondering and most likely looking up what exactly cousin meant.
'So is she a cloned version of you...only in femme form?' Ironhide asked, polishing his precious cannons...he actually sounded remotely interested in something other than destruction and mayhem.
'Uhh...not that I know of...' Sam said, trying very hard not to laugh at the thought. Tai was always talking about clones ever since they saw Star Wars. 'But talk to her about that...it'll be a very interesting conversation.'
'According to the World Wide Web...a cousin is the offspring of a shared ancestor like an Aunt or Uncle...who in turn is related to the mother or father of the said cousin.' Rachet managed to shed some light on the subject.
'Okay...I'm slightly less confused now.' Jazz said with a nod. Bumblebee nodded in agreement.
'Sam...why don't you tell us about her?' Optimus suggested helpfully. Sam smiled and nodded, watching the Autobots sitting down. He walked over to Bumblebee and sat on his knee.
'Well...what to tell...what to tell...' Sam wondered aloud. He than proceeded to tell them about her life or what he could remember.
Tatyana Topaz Witwicky was Sam's Uncle Rob's daughter on his fathers' side. His Uncle was his fathers twin but the total opposite. He always seemed to be laughing or playing with Tai whenever he got the chance to.
He always came over to visit much to Sam's delight. He and Tai would play for hours or until one of them fell asleep. Ironically, Space Robots was one of their favorite games as kids.
It was just her and her dad. Sadly she never got to know her mother, Rowan. She died giving birth to Tai, so that made her birthday always a hard day. But she had the best birthday parties.
But what always was weird to Sam was that she and her Dad would always spend time on this old blue car her dad found in a junk yard.
It was a 1966 Dodge Dart. But for some reason, it was unbelievably fast. Even faster than his Dad's tiny Porsche. And it was big and roomy. Sam caught her hugging the grill one day but he thought nothing of it. He just assumed she was a car lover.
But than at the age of eight, Tai witnessed something that no eight year old child should ever have to witness...The death of her father. It was some sort of freak accident...but somehow, thankfully, Tai survived with a broken arm and cuts and bruises. But her dad didn't make it. So not only had she lost her mother...but her beloved dad.
Sam quickly wiped a stray tear away, making sure the bots weren't looking but with no such luck.
'Are you alright Sam?' Optimus asked in concern. Bumblebee clicked sadly.
'The memory for him is a painful subject.' The young scout explained for his charge who nodded gratefully.
'Do you wish to discontinue your explanation?' Ironhide asked.
'No..no...I'm okay...I'll finish...it gets slightly happier.' Taking a deep breath, he composed himself and kept going.
After that, his parents tried to get custody of her...but the state wouldn't let them take her. To this day, he still couldn't figure it out.
So she was in the foster care system for ten years, how she found happiness in singing, dancing, and performing music with her father's old guitar that Sam's Dad sent with her.
Ron Witwicky never really recovered from his brothers death...especially since no one but Tai really knows what happened...but she didn't like talking about it.
She was allowed to visit them every now and than but very rarely. They wrote each other every weekend though.
He remembered her telling him that her recent family and the state agreed to let her have a dog...for moral support. After that, the system always picked homes with dogs.
If he remembered correctly, it was a harlequin Great Dane who she named Psyche.
Typical Tai...naming her dog after some sort of mental problem. He remembered her Guinea pig named Blurr...why she named him that, he had no idea.
'Wow...sounds like she's 'ad an eventful life...' Jazz said, leaning back and putting his feet up on the couch.
'Yeah...she's been all over the place...Sometimes I was jealous over all the cool places she got to go to...but than I remember she would probably trade everything and anything to have what I have.' Sam said with a shrug. 'But I think you guys will like her...Oh! You know, I think I have a picture of her!'
He dug out his wallet and looked through it.
'Aha! Here it is!' He exclaimed, a small wallet sized picture of her that she sent in one of their many letters.
Optimus reached down and carefully plucked the small picture out of Sam's hand.
In the photograph was a very unique but pretty girl, with hair that looked like it had many colors, not like Mikaela's hair that was just a solid color.
This girl's hair colors consisted of white blonde and black...she had lovely facial features and a very pretty smile. And from what else the Autobot leader could see, she has a silver ring in her center of her nose and on the side of her lip.
He also noticed that her eyes were nothing like Sam's...they were bright silver blue...they looked almost inhuman.
'Well she is very...unique.' Optimus said, handing Sam back the picture. 'But I can see similarities between the two of you...you both have the same nose.' He said, pointing to his own nose plate.
'Ah yes...The Witwicky curse my dad and I like to call it...long and narrow shnozes...' Sam joked light heartedly.
Just after he put the photo back into his wallet, his phone went off loudly, making everyone in the room jump slightly...even Ironhide.
Sam groaned, flipping open his phone and giving the Autobots the 'hold on' sign and he answered.
'Hello?'
'Sammy?' His mother's shrill voice answered, causing him to flinch.
Sam took the phone away from his ear and made an annoyed face.
'Hey...Hey Mom...what is it?' Sam asked, making faces at the Autobots, causing Bumblebee to click and whir in amusement, Jazz to stifle an amused snicker, and the much older bots to gaze at the young human with amusement and confusion.
'Oh Sam...I just got off the phone with Tatyana...she just got off the freeway and....let's see...oh yes!' His mother paused. That was never a good thing.
'I gave her directions to the base.'
Sam eyes nearly bulged out of his head.
'YOU WHAT?!?' Sam yelled so loudly it caused the mechs to flinch. 'That's not...why did...Mom!' Sam stuttered. 'Why do you do this to me? That's not what I planned to do at all!'
'Well why not?' Judy voice sounded offended and confused. 'I thought you wanted her to meet your little friends.'
At that, Sam managed to stifle a small laugh at that comment, since the Autobots were anything but little.
Well except Jazz...and Bumblebee, kind of.
'Alright alright alright...when will she get here?' Sam decided not to fight it, what good could it do now.
'Well she said she was going to stop by a 7-11 on her way there to get a chili cheese dog and a ice-e or something...So I would guess fifteen minutes or so...'
At that comment, Sam took his phone away from his face...he jammed his fist into his mouth as he screamed in panic and a little bit of anger. That move caused the Autobots to question the young human's ever changing moods.
'That's...just fine mom...' Sam sounded like he could burst into an angry fit but he refrained.
'Okay...bye honey...love you.' With that, she hung up.
Hanging up his phone, Sam almost suffered an episode. This was way way WAY too much for him to handle.
'Damnit! Damnit! Damnit!' He cursed, fighting the urge to throw his phone across the base floor so it could hit the large metal and stone wall. 'My mother hates me...it's official! She does this on purpose!'
'Oh boy, here we go.' Bumblebee muttered to himself.
'Now Sam, I'm quite positive that your mother doesn't hate you...' Optimus tried his best to reassure the young human. But he didn't quite understand what all the fuss was about. But he assumed something went wrong.
They all watched Sam pace back and forth, muttering angrily to himself but even their extra sharp audio sensors couldn't pick up what he was saying.
'Sam...calm down now...your heart rate is increasing...' Rachet said in slight alarm, doing a scan of the human as he was pacing.
'You don't understand...my cousin is on her way HERE...right now...as we speak she is getting closer and closer...' As he was speaking, he was making very interesting faces and gestures...he looked like he was hurting himself..but it was only making Bumblebee laugh.
He sometimes forgot how crazy his human companion was.
After ranting and raving, Sam relaxed...not fully but a little. 'Okay breathing...breathing...relaxing...relaxing...okay, I'm fine now...' Sam plopped down onto the stone floor, spread eagle style and just laid there with his eyes closed.
'Sam..?' He heard Optimus say with concern. He opened his eyes and saw all the Autobots staring at him with raised optics.
'Don't mind me...I just want to lie here...and wallow in self pity...' He said, his arm over his eyes.
But before he could just that, his cell phone rang shrilly. 'Oh what now?' Sam whimpered, answering it. 'Hello?' His voice cracked noticeably, he quickly cleared his throat and said again, 'Hello?'
'What up douche?' Tai's voice laughed from the other line. 'Puberty finally reached you eh?'
Sam sat up immediately, all thoughts of panic and despair gone in an instant at his cousins' voice.
'Tai dye!' Sam got up off the floor, leaving the mechs to stare at him in confusion. Wasn't he just upset a moment ago?
'I'll never understand humans...' Ironhide muttered to himself, shuffling away to his shooting range. The others however stayed, listening with interest to the conversation. Bumblebee leaned down so he could hear more; Sam nodded at him as he positioned his phone so he could hear too.
'Yeah funny...about time it showed up...anyway, what's up?' Sam asked.
'Oh no reason...except I may need you to stand outside of the location that Aunt Jude gave me directions too...I'm not quite in the mood to end up in the wrong place. And Psyche is dying to get out and stretch her ginourmous self...'
The relief Sam felt when she asked that was way too much...he could cry with relief but he didn't.
'Sure! Perfect!' He exclaimed making Bumblebee jump.
'Whoa...don't get to excited...see ya skank...' Tai said with a laugh.
'See ya slut...' Sam hung up and leaned against the side of Bumblebee's head with relief.
Maybe he would live to see his next birthday...maybe.
Yay! Chapter two is done and done!
I'm making progress!
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