Five Bots
Chapter: 2
Title: Five Bots & The Doctor
Rating: PG
Summary: Ironhide traumatizes a doctor.
Disclaimer: Don't Own, Am Broke. Created by a fan for fans not for profit.
Characters: Sam/Mikaela, SamxBee (one-sided), Ironhide, Annabelle, Robert Epps, OC's- Dr. Stone and a surprise Decepticon. Flashback: Sara, Will, Young Simmons, and Mrs. Simmons.
Author's Note: This is where the story changes from the original. I have added a lot more story and character to the story. This is an entire new chapter, some of the character's and relationships are more fleshed out in this chapter. Enjoy.
Sam sat quiet and still in the driver's seat of the bright yellow camaro. Mikaela frowned in the passenger seat knowing how disappointed Sam was to hear that Bumblebee would not be going to Law School with him.
"Sam, Optimus and Ratchet have researched the best schools for..."
"When were you going to tell me?" Sam asked angry.
"You wouldn't let me; you just kept talking about how great it would be at UCLA that I wasn't able to tell you."
Sam turned his head away from the wheel and the autobot symbol and stared out the window. He felt Mikaela's fingers slip into his hand trying to sooth his broken heart. He turned to look at Mikaela and decided that maybe it was a good idea to separate from Bumblebee. Maybe he was too attached to his alien-robot car. He sighed and looked back at the autobot symbol on the wheel and slid his hand along the dash.
"I forgive you Bumblebee. I shouldn't be selfish and keep you away from taking care of Annabelle or your duties as an Autobot." Sam stated feeling better by the second as he tried to convince himself.
"I promise to visit after we establish the base." Bumblebee stated, both happy and sad at how the confrontation had gone. He thought Sam had given up too easily or maybe he hadn't been mad enough. Was he disappointed that Sam wasn't begging him to stay or should he be happy that Sam was smiling again? Bumblebee brooded silently as he continued to drive the two to their destination.
Break
"Welcome Mr. Ironhide, I'm glad you were able to make it. My name is Dr. Stone. Is this Annabelle?" The young perky female doctor asked as she bent down to look at the young girl who was clinging to Ironhide's body.
"Yes this is Annabelle. She is not sick." Ironhide stated making sure the doctor knew that he was not happy with the implications of Annabelle's meeting with the doctor.
"Of course not." The doctor smiled, not really paying attention to Ironhide's words. She observed that the young child would not look directly at her and that she clung tightly to the man's clothes. "Annabelle, would you like to see my doll collection?"
"She never liked dolls." Ironhide spoke for Annabelle as the girl shook her head tucking it under Ironhide's chin and closing her eyes.
"Really." The doctor stated unbelieving.
"She had a collection of toy cars." Ironhide explained.
The doctor's eyebrows went up in surprise and smiled. "Why don't you let me and Annabelle have a talk in the other room, you may wait in the waiting room. I'll come out for you in a few minutes after we talk."
Ironhide wanted to protest but he knew deep down that Ratchet was right, Annabelle needed to start speaking. Annabelle's inability or her refusal to speak was a problem that the Autobots could not solve by themselves, no matter how much they wanted to. Ironhide slowly pulled Annabelle from his grasp. He made sure she looked into his eyes as he spoke to her. "I want you to talk with the doctor for a few minutes, I will be right here if you want to see me. I promise I will not leave you."
Annabelle looked about to cry however Ironhide shook his head and smiled at her. Annabelle smiled back raising her chin slightly as if getting courage from just Ironhide's trust of the doctor, she nodded and turned around. The doctor put out her hand to Annabelle. Annabelle placed her hand in the doctor's and walked with her into the next room. Ironhide sighed and sat down on the uncomfortable waiting room chairs.
After 20 minutes Ironhide began to pace back and forth in the waiting room. Three other children had been released from behind the door, they had been greeted by their respective parent or guardian; they seemed to be unharmed and smiling. However Annabelle had not come out and Ironhide was becoming impatient. He sat down as the door opened he didn't want to seem too impatient, however as a doctor came out towards him with her fake smile his hackles went up. Immediately he was suspicious.
"Hello Mr. Ironhide, I would like to speak with you about your niece." The Doctor said.
"Doctor.." Ironhide started to speak, the doctor interrupted him.
"I have been observing your niece's interaction with my colleagues." The women explained.
"Where is she, is she alright?" Ironhide asked immediately, his senses on alert. He immediately scanned the building finding Annabelle's familiar heartbeat and making sure he knew exactly how far away she was.
"Annabelle is a remarkable young child. She is very smart and observant, however she will not speak." The doctor answered.
Ironhide was only half listening to her words as he suddenly heard Annabelle's heart rate increase exponentially. Then he heard a scream from beyond the door. "Where is she?" Ironhide asked angrily.
"Sir, we have an obligation to Annabelle. We would like to observe her overnight. She is too attached..." The doctor tried to explain but Ironhide pushed past her and beyond the door.
"Annabelle?" Ironhide called going straight for the room he could hear her heart rate in. He tried to open the door but it was locked.
"Mr. Ironhide please..." The doctor was about to reprimand Ironhide when they both heard a scream from inside the room.
"Ironhide!" A child's voice screamed in terror.
The doctor suddenly frowned and looked very worried, she attempted to open the door. As she touched the door knob she jumped back in surprise, she looked at her hand it was burning. The door nob was hot. Ironhide did not have the patience for the Dr. Stone's human methods of opening the door. He phased through ignoring the consequences.
When he formed in the room he immediately noticed a figure in a white doctors rob leaning over Annabelle. The figure looked like it was preparing to use a needle on Annabelle.
"Settle down young lady I just need to get your blood so we may make sure your healthy." The man tried to explain.
"Don't touch her." Ironhide said in his deepest voice, making sure that the doctor knew he meant business. He reached out for the doctor but he seemed to slip out of his hands.
The doctor looked at Ironhide his eyes glowed red before they suddenly went dark. The hologram that had surrounded the Decepticon's skeleton like body disappeared. "You will not be able to keep her safe for long, we will take revenge on the humans that helped killed Megaton."
Ironhide growled and jumped for the Decepticon, it was too quick and jumped out the small window that was slightly open to let in fresh air. Ironhide would have gone after it if he didn't feel like Annabelle was in danger. If the decepticons knew where she was she was not safe.
Annabelle immediately reached for Ironhide as he came to the side of the bed. He picked her up and went to the door. It opened with a loud bang.
"Mr. Ironhide we need to talk."
"I'm done talking to you. We can take care of Annabelle on our own." Ironhide stated and pushed his way through two male doctors, what looked like a very fatigued security guard and Dr. Stone.
"Don't let him leave with her, he is dangerous." Ironhide heard Dr. Stone yell as he ran down the hall. He felt Annabelle cling to him and he held on to her tightly making sure she knew he wasn't going to let her go.
He ran down the stairs as quickly as he could holding Annabelle. He broke the lock on the emergency exit and ignored the blaring alarms as he ran out the building. The topkick was waiting engine revving; Annabelle knew what to do. She sat down quietly in the passenger's seat of the topkick as Ironhide's hologram disappeared and the wheels screeched to a start.
As Ironhide drove through the busy traffic streets trying not to look too obvious he sent a message to all the Autobots. Jazz was the first to pick-up.
"Hey Ironhide. Tell me what happened." Epps spoke.
Ironhide explained as he drove out of the city and into the desert, where their temporary base was located.
"All right I will go and talk to the doctors and try to explain the incident. Make sure you don't phase in front of civilians again Ironhide its going to be hard to explain. Also lets meet at the base afterwards to get our stories straight, we want to make sure we're telling everyone the same information." Epps stated.
"Okay I'll tell everyone of the rendezvous." Ironhide stated.
"See you soon Ironhide." Jazz stated as the connection died.
Break
The autobots stood around the human liaison as he talked to them about their new identities and how they were to live with Annabelle.
"You will need to keep your story as easy to remember as possible and not too intricate. Ironhide since you already told Mrs. Witwicky that you are Will's brother we'll keep it that way." Epps spoke looking at Ironhide. "Jazz and Bumblebee you will be friends of the family who are renting out two rooms in the house. I saw the house your looking at Ratchet it is huge." Epps said with a smile. "Optimus you will be Will's adopted Uncle, Ratchet his younger brother." Epps seemed to have everything figured out. He sighed trying to remember everything he needed to. "You will have to age like Annabelle, change your appearance and clothes. You will need to expect questions; especially since Annabelle is the only female in the house."
"Daddy!" A shriek was heard from behind them where Annabelle lay on a make shift bed.
Everyone looked at each other. Ironhide's hologram was first to her side with Epps coming up close behind him. Ironhide softly touched her arm and she sat up suddenly eyes red with tears and nose noisily sniffing. "Annabelle are you..?"
"Don't let them get me, keep them away." Annabelle said her voice filled with fear as she curled up in Ironhide's lap and shivered her head hidden away from the others.
"Don't worry we wont hurt you." Ironhide said soothingly.
"No not you, you are safe. Daddy told me to trust you, its the others the ones with red." She looked up and pointed at Ironhide's face and eyes. "They are the ones who want me."
Ironhide instinctively pulled Annabelle close trying to reassure her that no one would take her away from them, from him. No one was paying attention to an Ipod that Epps had placed on a table when he had entered. It slowly transformed into a small naked skeleton robot the size of a pigeon. It's red eyes watched the scene unfold with practiced ignorance and then turned opening its wings it flew out of the open window into the night.
Break
"Are you all right young man?" The gentlemen asked as he helped Will get up from where he had fallen to the ground.
Will nodded trying to get his voice back. "Yes I am."
"Where are your parents?" The man asked.
Will looked around and could not find his guardians. He shrugged and looked up at the man. "I don't know."
"Do you have a number I may call? Maybe we can reach them to tell them where you are."
"Yes, Denise gave me this." Will stated handing the man a laminated card with numbers on it.
"Okay, come with me over to the jungle gym you can play with my Sara until I find your parents." The man stated a friendly smile encouraging Will to follow.
Will saw a large intricate looking gym structure surrounded by benches. Many kids were playing on it. One kid stood out from all the others, a young girl who Will was fascinated by. The man called out Sara's name and the girl started to walk over to Will.
"Hello father, who is he?" The girl asked curiosity making her stare back as much as Will was staring at her.
"This is..? What's your name son?"
"Will." Will answered the question.
"Will he has lost his parents, I am going to try and call them to tell them where he is." The father explained.
"All right. Do you want to play?"
"Sure." Will responded.
Sara suddenly frowned and looked at Will sadly. "Your hurt." She said surprised.
Will looked down at his leg and saw a small scratch on his knee where he had fallen down. "Let me put a band-aid on that."
Will would have rejected the offer if he wasn't fascinated by her so much that he couldn't refuse. She took a band-aid out of a small bag on the bench. The band-aid had pink flowers and hearts on it. She opened it and proudly pressed it against Will's cut. She smoothed the band-aid out slowly making sure it was not bumpy.
"Thank you." Will stated not at all embarrassed that he had a pink band-aid on his knee.
"Your welcome." Sara beamed and smiled at him.
"Well young man it sounds like you live down the street from us. Why don't we walk the young man home Sara."
"All right but we have to stop and get ice cream first."
"Of course, I promised." The man smiled and held out his hand to his daughter. "Your invited too, Will."
"Thank you." Will stated and took the man's hand.
Will enjoyed his ice cream with Sara. They talked a lot and almost forgot about Sara's father until he reminded them that Will needed to go home. When they got to Will's house Will's guardian Denise began to talk to Sara's father. Will invited Sara up to his room, he showed her his car collection and she was able to name the car he had not gotten to finish his collection. He then showed her his movie collection and they were about to put in a movie when their parents called them down stairs.
"Your in luck Will." Denise stated smiling. "Sara will be going to your school next week."
"That's great." Will said happy to know someone at the new school.
"Yeah, I can introduce you to all my friends." Sara stated happy to have a new friend for a new school year.
"Say good-bye to Will, Sara we have to go."
"Bye Will see you tomorrow."
"Tomorrow?" Both parents asked.
"We agreed to ride our bike's down to the park together." Sara explained.
"She is going to show me how to get to school." Will explained so that Denise would think the trip was not just recreational.
"Okay," Denise smiled at how friendly Will had become. He had been very shy to the few children she had tried to introduce him to, she was happy he had found one friend.
"See you later." Will said. Sara waved as the door closed.
+~+~ 7 yeas later
Will woke up for school and remembered what day it was. He showered and got dressed;. He rushed down stairs he didn't want to be late for his first day of High School.
"Good morning Will." Denise stated as she looked up from cooking her eggs.
"Good morning." Will said grabbing his lunch and a pop-tart; he ran out the door. He was able to get to the bus stop as the bus was slowing down. He got on and looked for Sara. She was no where to be seen. He frowned they had talked forever about going to the same high school together about signing up for the same classes and sticking together for their freshmen year.
At school he searched for her, but could not find her. The entire day he kept searching. When he got home after school he walked to her house determined to find out what was going on. He stepped up to her door and rang the doorbell. He heard voices inside and then a women opened the door. He was surprised since Sara's father had never remarried after his wife died.
"Hello, I'm looking for Sara." Will stated.
"Sara is busy." The women stated.
"I was wondering why she wasn't at school? Is she sick?"
"No."
Will was even more confused. He heard his name being called from behind the women and smiled brightly as he saw Sara. Then frowned when he saw what she was wearing, a private school uniform.
"Will I am sorry I wasn't able to tell you it happened so quickly."
"What happened?" Will asked.
"My father, he..." Suddenly Will realized that Sara had been crying.
"What's wrong Sara? What happened?" Will asked concerned. Sara's father had always encouraged him, he had acted like a pseudo father to him when he needed one.
"Mr. Gearing passed away last night." The women stated.
"Sara I'm so sor..."
"Young man Sara is too distressed right now to see anyone, please leave." The women interrupted.
"No, Will is my best friend." Sara said pushing off the women's hands from her shoulders. Sara pushed past her and stepped out side with Will. "I'll be back later."
Will didn't argue he just followed Sara down the steps. They didn't speak for sometime each having too much to say and not knowing where to start. "That was my god mother." Sara finally spoke. "She did not approve of what my father was doing with my education or my lessons to become a women."
"I'm truly sorry for your loss Sara." Will stated knowing he needed to say something.
Sara nodded, she was trying to hold back her tears. Will saw tears falling down her cheek silently. He pulled her over to one of the empty park benches and pulled her down to sit. Immediately she tucked herself into his arm and cried on his shoulder. "I'm sorry I should have told you, it was so sudden. She came so quickly after the hospital had declared him dead. I really didn't have the strength..."
"You don't have to explain yourself to me."
"But I do, she wants me to leave everyone I knew at school. She wants me to..."
"Sara!" A yell from down the cobbled stone path caught both young teenager's attention. A young boy about their age was walking quickly down the path towards them. Will immediately saw that he was angry his hands clenched his mouth set in a frown.
"Oh no." Will heard Sara say before the boy came up to them.
Will looked up at him not knowing what to expect. The boy was built as a runner lean and tall. He wore the same Academy symbol as Sara. "What are you doing with another boy?"
"James, I'm not your girlfriend." Sara stated, anger in every word of the statement. She also clung tighter to Will.
Will's senses were on alert, why was this boy laying claim to Sara. She had not even agreed to go out with him.
"Leave her alone." Will stated. "Can't you see she is still mourning for her father."
The kid looked at him and sneered. "You must be her 'best friend'. Well she's running with a new crowd from now on, she has no more time for you."
"What makes you think she would want to be friends with you." Will stated getting up.
"Stop, both of you." Sara yelled getting both of their attentions. "James I'm not your boyfriend, leave me alone."
"It doesn't work like that." The boy smiled. "If you want to get out of this small town and go to nursing school you need to get the right education. Soundhill High is not going to help you get out of here, they only teach hicks and drop-outs. The Academy is the best place to go, you know that. My mother is willing to pay for the education, we sacrificed a lot to move here from the city. The least you could do is be grateful."
"I am grateful and I told you I owe you both a lot for your..."
"I said their was only one thing you could do for me." The boy smiled like a cat who had just cornered his prey and knew they had no way out.
"You don't owe him anything Sara." Will stated anger boiling to a breaking point.
"Your little tryst with Sara is over boy, give someone who will be able to provide for her a chance." The boy stated sneering down at Will even though they were the same height.
"She has a right to choose who she want to be with, it is her life to live." Will said looking at Sara, knowing she was smart enough to make the right decision.
"Will, I'm sorry. I owe Mrs. Simmons and James a lot. I can't say no."
"Sara wait."
"Leave her alone Will Lennox."