Chapter III

It had all seemed like a dream; the strange boys, mostly. Isis woke up on the cave floor. Dina was sleeping across to the other side, but the two boys were missing. Maybe it really was a dream. She slowly got up and looked at herself. She was still in her bathing suit and covered in mud. Isis looked to the side and saw her clothes and Dina's clothes separated from each other and curled into a ball on top of a high rock like it was a shelf. She walked over to Dina who looked like she was in the same condition as Isis. She nudged her a bit and Dina woke up.

"Nn…What?" she groaned.

"Time to wake up. And this time we don't have a dad to do it for us," Isis joked. "You might want to rinse off before you put your clothes on."

Dina moaned and groaned some more and she was finally sitting up-right. "How did we get here? It'll just seem like a dream if I tell you what I saw."

"Then I don't know how we got here," Isis admitted. She walked out of the cave and dipped her body into the pool. She looked down and saw nothing but rocks. Last time she remembered there were two giant robots at the bottom of this spring. Ignoring it, she came back up and grabbed her clothes. She looked around and noticed something weird.

"Uh, weren't there diamonds and stuff in this cave?" she asked, putting on her pants. Dina looked around like she was stretching.

"If there was, then there aren't any now," she said. She got up slowly and stretched as she stood. She dragged her feet to the pool and dipped her whole body in.

"That's cold!" she said shakily, coming back up. Isis chuckled and handed her her clothes. "Did you see two boys here? One with white hair and the other was black-haired and looked like he went to the gym most of his childhood?"

"I thought I did," Isis said. "But if they were here I want to know where they went. I'd like to thank them."

"But…could they even talk English?" Dina replied. "I don't think they did."

"Crap." Isis paused for a second to think. "Well, we might as well try to get back home. I don't know if my dad would've stayed here or went back home to call the police."

"Good call."

The girls walked out of the cave and tried to find their way back to the trail. For about an hour they wandered around looking for it. Dina started complaining and got the idea that they were walking around in circles. Isis tried to ignore her by playing a song in her head, but Dina kept shouting at her and she had to plug her ears.

"You got us lost again!" she screamed. "I'm wet, I'm cold, I'm starving, and I wanna go home!"

"Just think about warmth and you'll feel it," Isis explained. "Then do the same with food."

Dina sighed and tried it. She felt only a little bit of warmth and her stomach was suddenly half-full. She thought of a few more things to put into her stomach and nearly felt sick with all the hot fudge sundaes she dreamed up.

"Are we there yet?" she complained some more.

"Now you sound like me when I was five!" Isis shouted back. "If you see campfire smoke or hear people, tell me! Okay?" She stopped and a dreadful thought entered her mind. "Wait. If we can't hear anybody…and we don't see the smoke…do you think we actually lost even further in the woods?"

"Ah!" Dina covered her ears and closed her eyes. "Please don't say that!"

"It was just a thought!" Isis shouted.

"Well, it sucks!" Dina shouted back. "Think of something else! Something happy!"

"Uh…No one has their campfires going at the moment?" She tried and failed to make her happy. Dina slumped and sat in the mud.

"We're screwed!" she said, throwing her arms up. "Dad, I'm sorry for the time that I lied to you about the cake in your car. That was me, not Jay. And Mom, I didn't mean to mix up your perfumes. I was only six!"

"Stop it!" Isis interrupted. "You're not making me feel better either."

"Then we're even," Dina said, crossing her arms. Isis looked up to the sky, thinking an airplane might come by. Wait! She'd seen on some kind of survival show about something like this. All they had to do was get into a clearing and wave when they see an airplane! She grabbed Dina's arm and pulled her along the trees, running to search for a large patch of grass.

"Isis, you're hurting me!" Dina whined.

"Suck it up!" Isis snapped. "I'm getting us out of here!"

Dina flinched and looked to the right. "Gah! What was that?!"

"Don't distract me!" Isis ran faster, afraid of whatever Dina might've seen.

"Something's following us!" she screamed. "It's right there!" She pointed and Isis dared to look. A few trees away there was a black figure racing through the canopies.

"Crap, there's one over there!" Dina pointed to the left. It was the same thing; a black shape jumping trees.

"FASTER!" Isis screamed and Dina obeyed instantly. These girls were terrified out their lives! The figures picked up their speed as well. Isis couldn't breathe and Dina felt like she was going to pass out where she was. The figure from the left jumped towards them and was suddenly following ten feet behind them. Dina looked back, letting Isis steer them, just to see what the monster was. It was a boy, a dark-skinned boy with white hair. He was dressed in white and black and his eyes were covered by blue visors.

"Run for your ever-loving life!" Dina screamed eight octaves higher. Isis didn't a need a repeat and kept her eyes forward. It felt like they were running at least twenty miles per hour! Dina looked back again and the boy tried to say something to her, but the wind caught it and dragged it away. Dina looked forward and this time she sprinted in front of Isis.

Isis looked back to see what her friend saw and shouted. "What do you want?!"

The boy didn't seem to understand. Great! That was all she needed! Another boy who couldn't speak English. The figure from the right jumped as well and got in front of Dina. He turned around and stopped right in front of her!

"Brake!" Dina screamed, but she wasn't fast enough to stop. Her feet kept moving and she crashed into the boy. They fell backwards to the ground and Dina sat up. The boy was dressed in black with gold lining. His eyes were also covered by blue visors and his hair was dark brown. Isis caught up with them and the dark-skinned boy stopped too. Isis took Dina's hand and lifted her up. She shouted at the boy on the ground.

"Freak!" she said. "How would you like it if I stopped like that in traffic!"

This boy didn't understand her either. The dark-skinned boy behind her said something in another language to the gold-black boy. He nodded his head and stood up.

"You mean…they can't understand us, either?!" Dina gasped. "Good God! What is wrong with this forest?!" The boys just stared at her with blank expressions.

"Uh…Lake!" Isis said, trying to speak to them. "Take us to lake!" She pointed to her and Dina and then back to where she thought the lake would be. The dark-skinned boy took her arm and walked in the other direction. "What are you doing?! It's that-a way! Hello! Earth to bunny boy! Dina, help me out, here."

"I don't think there's much I can do at this point," she shrugged. The gold-black boy grabbed her arm as well and followed the dark-skinned and Isis. "Hey! Watch it, buddy! I bruise!"

They didn't seem to care, or even notice.

"Want to give them names, too?" Isis grinned.

"Sure. Speed and Sparky. How about that?" Dina said in a displeasing tone.

"I'm thinking Black for the one you jumped on, and White for the other. You know, because of how they're dressed."

"Doesn't that say all?" Dina said sarcastically. Obviously she didn't feel like talking, so Isis just kept her mouth shut and let the boys drag them away. Hopefully they were going in the right direction towards the lake. But that thought went away when Dina realized where they were going.

"Uh, yo! Blackie Chan!" Dina said. "The lake's the other way. Hear me? Other way." Black didn't pay any attention to her and kept following White. "This guy's not listening!" She nudged Black again. "Yo! Black Beauty! It's this way!" She pulled in the other direction to lead him to the lake. He pulled back to the direction they were going and continued marching. "Isis, the lake's the other way!" she shouted to her.

Isis turned her head to look behind at Dina. "Just go along with it for now," she whined. "We can't do anything, so there's no point in fighting them."

"Damn," Dina mumbled. The boys kept walking until they found a large clearing and stopped at the edge of it. They looked up to the sky and found a jet plane.

"Rescue!" Isis screamed. Both girls released themselves from the boys' grip and ran into the clearing. The boys came forward to try and stop them, but they dodged them and kept running. They flailed their arms about and shouted "Over here! Look down!"

The plane was about to go away, but it turned around and came low and fast at them.

"Uh, I don't think that's rescue," Dina gasped. Isis started to believe her when the jet shot purple missiles at them and barely missed her.

"Run! Get out!" Isis screamed. The girl ran back to the two boys and dodged every attack the jet placed upon them. Both girls ran into the boys' arms and looked as the plane retreated and flew to the right of them. White uttered something that made Black laugh and he hoisted one of the girls onto his back. Black did the same and put Isis on his back.

"Piggy-back ride!" Isis said in a five-year old tone. Dina laughed and the boys sprinted forward across the clearing, going somewhere around forty or fifty miles per hour. Dina shouted with joy and Isis raised her hands up as if she were on a roller coaster, but put them back on Black's shoulders when she felt she was about to fall backwards.

"Don't you think Zeus might get a little jealous of this?" Isis shouted to Dina.

"I'm sure he wouldn't mind," Dina laughed. "He didn't mind leaving me, that's for sure!"

Isis returned a laugh and looked forward, hoping Black wouldn't ram into any trees. The boys stopped fast in front of a thick layer of trees. Dina and Isis got off theirs backs and looked. This must've been the middle of the forest; deep, dark, and creep the daylight out of anyone. Black said something to White and the dark-skinned boy nodded. They walked forward, pulling the girls with them.

"No way in Hell am I going in there!" Dina said, slapping her hand away from White. The boy sighed and grabbed her arm. "Okay, that's the third time you've done this. Don't make me hurt you!"

"I agree!" Isis spoke up. "We've gone too far in here. We wanna go home! You understand? HOME!"

The word echoed across the forest trees and scared a few birds away from their branches. A low growl emerged from the woods and all four of them stared into it. Dina did a 180 degree turn and started walking. White grabbed arm again for another time and spun her around.

"Forget it, boy!" she screeched. "It's too damn scary in there! And if you don't let go of me, I'm-a put the hurt on you!"

"Dina, forget it," Isis gave up. "Whatever's coming to us is coming…But I still don't like these boys' habits of grabbing ladies' arms."

Black seemed to understand what she said and smiled at her. He turned to White and the boys nodded to one another. They took their first steps into the darkest part of the forest, White and Dina following them.

"We're going to die!" Dina whined softly. Isis rolled her eyes and looked ahead. The trees looked like they were glaring at her and it felt extremely uncomfortable. The song Haunted was going through her head and couldn't help but cry in fear. This was way too creepy, even for a girl going into eleventh grade.

"Is it too late to turn back?" she whispered to Black. She didn't care if he understood her or not. At least she was talking to know she was still alive. She turned around and saw Dina clinging to White's shirt sleeve tightly and looking frightened as she stared at the tops of the trees, waiting for something to swoop down and grab her. White noticed it and wrapped his arm around her.

"I still don't forgive you," she whimpered. White smiled at her, but she didn't look at him to notice. She kept her head on his chest and closed her eyes so she wouldn't look out into the black trees. Isis saw that even she was grabbing Black's arm tightly and he nearly shouted from the pain of it. She let go of it and kept gawping at the trees.

"Are we there yet?" she cried. Black took his free arm and stroked her hair as if to tell her that it was okay. She certainly did not feel okay! She was anything but. Black stopped dead and White did the same. Dina looked around only to find the same black trees.

"Uh…Is it cool to turn back, now?" she said.

White whined to Black about something, but Black had disagreed. White sighed and turned Dina so she was looking at him. Black kept shouting at him to try and stop him from doing something, but White ignored him. He grabbed Dina's face and kissed her full on the mouth. Isis felt her eye twitch and Black slapped his hand to his face. White let go of Dina after ten seconds and breathed.

"Whoa, dude…" he sighed. "That was freaky."

"He speaks!" Dina screamed. White looked at her.

"Mind if you don't shout so much?"

"He speaks!"

"Dina, seriously," Isis gasped.

"He speaks!"

"All right!" White shouted. "I ain't deaf, ya hear?"

"How'd you do that?!"

White looked over at Black. The boy sighed and did the same exact thing to Isis! The girl flailed about, trying to escape. He had one of his hands on the back of her neck, making it impossible. He let go and Isis shouted "PERVERT!"

"For a good reason!" Black screamed at her. He glared at White. "Satisfied?"

White put his arms behind his head. "It's cool."

"Can someone tell me what the frick is going on?!" Dina shouted. "Starting with you, White!"

"Who?" the boy asked. "Oh! Me? First off, the name ain't White. It's Jazz. And I can't say anything more than that."

"Jazz?" Dina said, raising an eyebrow. The boy nodded and she continued on. "Is there a last name to go with that?"

"Nope. Just Jazz."

"And what about you? What's your name?" She pointed to Black.

"My name is Prowl. I'm not authorized to say anything either," he answered.

"Can you tell us why you just kissed us?!" Isis said, going into hysteric madness.

"To get the language outta ya," Jazz said as if it was something normal. "You mad?"

"Let's see; we're lost in the woods, we've met at least four guys who couldn't spreken ze English, and two of 'em-!"

"Wait, did you say four?" Prowl interrupted. He seemed alert. "What did they look like?"

"Some white-haired guy and another one that was really buff with black hair. Kind of like you guys."

"Who was it, Prowl?" said Jazz. "Is it a D-con?"

"What the hell's a D-con?" Dina butted in.

"Might be," Prowl said, ignoring her. "A know the white haired is Starscream, but the tough one might be either Lugnut or Blitzwing." He turned to Isis. "Did the tougher one act weird in any way?"

"Other than snuggle way too close to Dina, no. But what-"

"Than it's Blitzwing."

"Excuse me!" Dina screeched. Every eyes looked to her and she crossed her arms. "Good. Now that I have your attention, I want to know what is going on exactly. And don't give me any crap about being authorized to do so!"

Prowl and Jazz looked at each other. Jazz removed his arms from the back of his head and sighed.

"Would you believe us if we told you we're aliens?" he said. Dina's eye twitched.

"What?!" she shrieked in the highest note she could manage, but it was almost soft.

"Jazz, don't skip," Prowl corrected. He finished for him. "Long story short. We were in a civil war on a planet that's called Cybertron. You humans call it Planet X. In the war, the Decepticons, the evil ones, were trying to capture the All Spark from us."

"What's an All Spark?" Isis interrupted.

"He's getting to it," Jazz answered.

Prowl nodded and continued with his story-telling. "It's the most powerful Cybertronian artifact in the galaxy. It's believed to give life to the first Cybertronians.

"In the war, Megatron, the leader of the Decepticons, wanted it to gain control of the universe. We, the Autobots, hid the All Spark from Megatron and hoped he wouldn't find it."

"Let me guess," Dina butted in, "he found it?"

"Almost," Prowl answered. "Years ago, we landed here. Decepticon and Autobot alike. Our bodies went offline, but our processors didn't. We created holoform, hoping we could hide amongst you to try and find the All Spark in that way. If we find the All Spark, we can get our bodies back! But it's difficult since we found out the All Spark dispersed."

"You mean it broke?" Dina corrected.

"In a way of speaking. Starscream, the jet from before, found an All Spark fragment and was able to revive his body and Blitzwing's, the other boy."

"So that's why their bodies were gone!" Isis said. "But wait, that still doesn't totally explain you guys. I mean, you guys were speaking gibberish until you kissed us."

"It ain't gibberish, femme," Jazz spoke up. "That was Cybertronian. It's kinda hard to speak it with these nasty little human tongues. After we got out like this, we figured out that we were missing something; your native language. Apparently there ain't a major which made it harder to find the right one."

"Did he just call me femme?" Isis said.

"I think he also said 'nasty human tongues'," Dina added. Jazz sighed.

"You even listenin'?" he said.

"Yeah, you guys had to kiss us to speak to us," Isis said in an angry tone.

"I wondered why that guy slipped me a tongue," Dina sighed. Prowl and Isis looked at him. "Did he slip you any, Isis?"

"I don't think he did," Isis said.

"I didn't," Prowl said. He glared at Jazz and snarled, "Because it's completely unnecessary."

Jazz blushed. "I can't help if I think she's fine."

Dina glared at him the same way Prowl had done. "You're just lucky you're cute."

xXx

Isis: Robots...from outer space!...

Dina: Isis, calm down, you don't need to get so excited.

Isis: *eyes wide and shaking* Robos...!

Brianna: Dina, take a couple of steps back. Good. Okay, Isis, wait until we're out of the room. *tiptoes out with Dina* Fire in the hole!

Isis: WEEEEEE!!! *hops around like a mexican jumping bean*

Brianna: So, Dina...How was it?

Dina: How was what?

Brianna: You know. The little smoochy smoochy.

Dina: What a mature way of saying that...Well, it was...hot!

Brianna: You go girl!

*both hear clattering from Isis' jumpings*

Brianna: Remind me not to give that kid sugar anywhere in the story.

Dina: *writes in notepad* Done!