Chapter 9: Education:
During what would have been the end of Spring break for the teens Agent Fowler found that he would not be able to enroll the now fourteen children into any college around the base. As all the colleges ran on Semesters, so unfortunately they were going to have to wait for the fall to actually be back in college classes. That is until Fowler and Ratchet came up with an idea that they could teach the math, English, and sciences while Fowler would teach the AV boys at a local military base.
For everyone this seemed to be another way for Ratchet to be overprotective and watch their every move. However as there were only two days before they would have started the next quarter at there old school Breanna realized she still had something that she needed to do at her old school.
"Prime I need to at least go back there I was in a club and I was the historian they were having trouble getting people in the ASL club to join unlike previous years, and they had a hard time filling the officers spots so they allowed Freshmen to fill them. I was the Historian and I still have a duty to that club as they still are counting on me if people at the school don't think I'm dead then allow me to go…."
She waits for him to respond with no answer.
"I was signed up for ASL 153 a harder language course, and I don't think Ratchet knows sign language I would at least like to be able to finish my language core, and also be able to finish the year there, I mean the clubs original President dropped out I don't want to be like that we still need a vice President in that club, being a officer I did have to swear that I would perform my duties in the club. But I feel I can't finish them I promised the members that I would stay till the end of the year please let me at least take that course there…." Stopping and puffing under her breath hoping he wouldn't ask her to have this "If you want I'll go with a guard or something. Besides the class is only an hour long besides the stuff we have to do outside the class and club I could still do that stuff. At least till the years done then I won't be involved in anything back at my old school. I just can't let what I promised to do go to waste plus when I sign up for stuff I give it my all and run it through I don't quit."
"Prime you can't be serious if she needs to learn a language."
"Yes but on Earth they do have requirements to graduate, she obviously loves this language and it is not one you can learn verbally. She is dedicated from what we've seen in the past two weeks, she definitely has dedication in everything she does. And she feels she still has a duty to uphold in this club. But…
Oh no not the but, he's going to say that I will need and escort each time won't he…Ugh I didn't want an escort I'm to indepent for an escort I'm not a little girl. But then again the AV boys have to get escorts to there classes and are not allowed out besides that so if this is my only way to get fresh air and a little bit of my old life to hold onto I guess I will take sometimes I feel like everyone is trying to smother me with protection because I am Cliffjumper's daughter, I don't know why not just me but all my friends have to be treated like children were young adults and need to be treated like we are. But I guess from what I learned about Autobots life span that I am still a baby as they live for hundreds and hundreds of years and being that my friends and I all are Halflings by me giving them the power they two are supposed to live as long as a transformer It's just weird. Sighing.
"She shall have an escort each day."
"Fine if she must, who shall be her escort?" looking as if he knew the words and Breanna at the same time gave the disgusting look.
"You shall old friend at least give her coverage to transform into her vehicle and human self. Breanna do you know places that you would be able to change to your human self"
Nodding her head "Yes several old buildings or places that I can change or transform. But can it change people will wonder why I'm always around a Emergency car even if I am in Witness Protection Services.
"Yes very well Ratchet will get some days off and either a friend Ratchet or I shall take you, do I make myself clear."
Nodding her head and looking childish "Crystal clear I have no problems."
"You know I don't get why some people don't move away from a ambulance its like they are hard of here." Came Ratchets annoyed talk as Breanna speed behind him hoping no cops ever catch her.
"You know Ratchet people have lives and some feel those lives can be better spent without moving from emergency cars as they are trying to rush to their jobs." She laughs and finally gets Ratchet to get her joke she found that oddly they were starting to get along as Prime ordered them to get to know each other more before she left for school in the Spring and would constantly be escorted by him.
She found the back or the Library to transform at as many passing kids were texting, on the phones, reading books, or listing to ipods while walking to or from class she ran to the stairs but found she had enough time to take the elevator, she waited as she saw a familiar face look as it they had seen a ghost. "I thought you were...de…dea…dead!"
"Dead yes so did a lot of people no I was taken into witness protection program but I begged them to let me return for just this class so I get escorts here from the plane they fly me in here. I wanted to finish my job as a historian in the ASL Club as I had pledged I would and also wanted to finish sign language as the schools around me our on semesters so they are having use homeschooled at where we were placed and I wouldn't stop bugging them so they finally gave in and allowed me so its kinda a privilege and if I mess up I'm out kinda thing. I'm going to have to tell this to everyone aren't I Tom?"
"Yep you know you will…"
"Great" rolling her eyes as they enter the elevator
"Yep now there's the Breanna the group missed now how did you pass the final test."
"Oh the Government people asked him sometime while I was in custody to pass me so he knows I'm alive and by now that I'm returning if he has looked at the roaster So how are the wife and kids doing Tom?"
"Oh there great kids as usual" and the two laughed
"So they are still screaming and doing screaming games." Nodding his head as a yes as they both laugh.
The next they were in class everyone stared and Breanna had to explain the reasons she was back, alive, and they could tell anyone outside of this campus that I was indeed alive, which made it official when Agent Fowler showed up and explained that I could still do events and they would be watching people in this campus closely if they tried to reveal that I was still alive to anyone or at least back in Washington for this class, the club, and club activities. They would have to answer to the government.
Breanna rolled his eye's when he came Of course Prime sent Fowler to make sure no one including myself messed this up I'm so yelling at him when I get back that so does not help me fit in at all, especially since my Sign Language teacher worked for the government for a time being made it and even more awkward for me to fit in awkward. Everyone is staring at me like a ghost why couldn't Prime trust that I could handle such things? He better be ready for the argument he is going to have he's never been in an argument with me and when I ague it is like a war has come. Smirking at the thought.
When she made her way across to the chimpoziam and behind it she Transformed and turned into car mode speeding on the road tying to find Ratchet as she is driving furiously. "Fury why are you speeding so fast what happened?" came Ratchet's worried voice.
"Oh Prime is having an argument coming now why didn't he trust me and have to send agent Fowler in front of everyone I was so embraced, college unlike what people say is like high school and people judge on embarrassing moments like that and I was totally embarrassed. Ugg why did he have to embarrass me like that really I'm not a kid I'm a young adult I know how to handle myself."
"Ok Fury first you need to blow of steam here I'll take you to a long road a found you guys on that one's good for blowing off steam. Second kid your still a teen and in Autobot terms you are a child barley a toddler, you are still a kid to the rest of the Autobots because they swore to protect you. Kid we treat you like a child because we are Cliff Jumpers family your fathers family in a way, thus we are your family. We wernt' there to see you grow up although I have been able to see since the first day I met you that you are older mentally then you are on the outside which is a good thing too. But Fury, your letting your rage and Fury get to your head, this is showing your arrogance and likeness to your father he seemed to let these moments get to his head too. Come over and will talk.
"Fine but only cause you asked me to!." As Fury stops and skids to and angled turn.
"Fury lets drive on this open road and talk, I know you don't like me as much because I'm overly protective and for good reason. You can we stop here for a bit you can transform I would like you to see this." As they come to a stop Fury drops at what she sees it is her old 2001 Volvo S60 that she loved so much as she got it free from her Nana in her will she asked to be her car, she loved it more when she found out it was a racing car. Her car was flipped and burnt to a crisp, she looked at the truck that was a far enough ways from the accident that she's surprised they all survived as it was totaled and was just the frame both cars were just the frames. On the ground she was standing there were the painted marks for where their bodies had been.
"You see that was were you were, the broken glass was all over you were laying on the broken door, glass all around you but noting penetrated you skin, the fire and car exploded and you were not hurt. You see kid, we all know you can take care of yourself, especially after this, Prime didn't want me showing any of you this as it was horrendous enough he feared the way some of you would take it. You see we treat you like a child not because you are or aren't one but because you were his daughter. You were a member of this family, you see know Bumblebee is a million years old on earth figmitivily speaking it helps to joke like that when your a bot my age but he's more like a thousand give or take a few hundred years but the point is he's still treated like a kid in a way. Look Breanna we love you as we see you as Cliff Jumpers daughter we see you as his baby. Breanna" surprising her by using her birth and earth name while in Autobot form "Breanna your father was wreck less, we treat you as a child because we don't want you making his mistakes your to good of a child too. He loved you and knew he was going to die in a wreck less fight on his own. He didn't want you living the same life. Breanna…"
He looks to the sky at the birds flying over then resting a hand on her shoulder, he lets the silence and birds fill the air before he continues. "Huuu, Breanna when I pulled you unparticular from the wreck I thought. I thought you were dead all your friends did the only thing was none of you were burning. Breanna you nor any of them were breathing, that's when I picked you up. For I was afraid I had failed my mission everyone you were trying to save was died including yourself. I knew who you were by then and cried when I picked you up, for I felt we had lost Cliff Jumper all over again to the con's. You see your death would have hit the Autobots hard when your father died hardly anyone cried for we felt there was a piece of him still out there. The only one who cried was Arcee but even she didn't escape that feeling and held on to it." Pausing for what seemed like hours "Arcee she was mad but she couldn't help the excitement when she found a peace of Cliff Jumper had survived all these months, years, and his death. For Breanna you were that piece that was missing. Everyone cares for you just like your father and would risk their lives to protect you, for they don't want to loose him and you all over again…"
"Ratchet how am I alive now if I stand before you here today."
"That's the thing is when I picked you up and thought we had lost another comrade, friend, and family; that's when it was almost as if I saw him the distance then I felt something and your leg began to glow all your friends glowed to and you all began to breath. I knew then that something else was keeping you alive. You see you needed to come in contact with a Transformer, for you transformers selves to come out but it was what protected you from the fire and explosion. You're a special girl you the first Halfling Transformer and you are the first way that may allow us to survive if more of that stuff is ever found. Breanna, Fury everyone thinks of you as their daughter, you have much to learn and have to enter the war so young but later then most of the new recruits as Bumble was just days old when he entered. Your not that much different from your dad, you have is face, his eyes, his smile and laugh. You worry like him and seem to know what's coming while living in the moments of life. You're so innocent yet proud. Definitely got his strong opinionatedness, but you make up for it in spirit and mind. I love you like a daughter, I felt a strange bond like that since I saw you driving then saw you laying dead. The rest of the team feels similar ways Bumblebee connects with you like a Brother as I saw the other day he got on your nerves as you got on his but you to made up like siblings would. Then Bulkhead he feels like a older brother around you and feels the desperate need to stand up for you, protect you, and pick you up and get you back on your feet. Arcee she feels like a sister, aunt or mother and feels very protective of you for that reason both of us don't want you being harmed or killed by a Decepticon again, you see they all know about what happened I told them all that you did die but was still alive. Then agent fowler thinks of you as a niece as the only autobot he got along with before he was tortured by the Decepticons was your father. And that brings me to Optimus, who feels very fatherly towards you and wants to protect you as much as I do. You see you mean the world to the team and everything they do is to protect you. Embarrassing things at schools is not as much thought of since the Golden days which I remember and had been humiliated here or there and that's how we learn. We do these things cause we care so much for you and don't know how to protect you, unless we do these things, for we can't protect you in a class in your human form. This is how we show you we love you and don't want this happening or becoming you again."
As he finishes Fury looks to him, hugs him and says "I love you to Grandpa." Kissing him on the cheeks and he holds her in the hug. So Ratchet and Breanna finally understand each other and have a peaceful moment, they Transform and head back to base. As they arrive there a familiar figure approaches the her vehicle and pats it on the hood. "Fury, no Breanna I'm sorry If I embarrassed you in class I saw the look on your face. I know how it is being your age in college and wanting freedom from moments like those I give you my fuel apology." Breanna roars her engine at his apology need.
"Thanks for the apology but none was needed." As she quickly transforms into her Transformer mode then human and jumping to give him a big hug with giggles as she whispers, "It's ok Ratchet, Grandpa explained everything and I'm all good now I understand the reasons now better then ever."
My Life has been a constant War and struggle with Education!
Besides normal college courses, Ratchet had to teach them everything and all that was Cybertronian, everything that a Cybertronian would know. There were geography lessons which did no good as Cybertron was dead at the moment and not coming back. There was some weird kind of science that Jake found fun in just blowing things up to get on Ratchets bad side, although something told Breanna, that those two had a father sun relationship between them the way he did it for certain protection but then Ratchet would willingly clean up after him. Though they still resented each other everyone knew they had a love hate relationship even Jake and Ratchet admitted it. As for the other closes he started teaching them Cybertron history of all Cybertronians. Which was fun and boring. Then there were some other classes that were to complicated for words.
When it came to everyone learning they didn't have a problem or most didn't, as everyone but Breanna had a learning disability. School was something she loved but had to work five times as hard as any of her friends, she had given up on her social life for work in grade school and college. Breanna would feel the occasional jealousy towards everyone being able to get everyhting done quickly and she would have to work three times as long or take the whole day. After classes with Ratchet, Arcee, and Prime Breanna would trail outside to the cliff and just sit in the sun. She would climb a trail she had found and have her drawing paper, sratch piece of sheet music, a book, and a jornal to write stories in. She found herself drawing landscapes or things that she remembered or loved, even things she made up. Her songs were never finished but just the words she was feeling, while her stories would be short ideas she would think of from time to time.
But most days she would just sit there with her flowered Old Navy beach bag and not take anything out. On these days she would sit with a knee pulled up to her chest as she wraped her arms around this knee and watched the world and life go bye. The sun would move and the occasional desert animal would scurry through the valley bellow people in Jasper, Nevade would be out in the distance or driving the highway or freeway. It would be when she listend to the still quiet away from life and the worries she had always had to fight. A tear would soke the ground as Breanna would sing songs and watch the world with the eye's fo a child filled with hope, fear, knowledge, happiness, joy, tenderness, sadness, defeat, bravery, loss, conquered, silence, wishfulness, cares, and prayers.
Her eyes were watery but happy as she would think of all that had happend to her in school and now would have to go through her education with people who did not understand her battles she had faced already in her life, what gave her strength and courage to face anything, was because of her wars in grade school for she had to fight to get what everyone else got in grades, without being looked at as a dumb kid, she had to fight to be known as normal as she already wasn't weather she was a hundered percent human or not. Tears would float down her face each day she would rethink these memories, she would let them drift off into the valley and lose herself in the beauty she saw, this is when she would sing to herself and just think of life how innocent her childhood years were before she knew and saw death. How happy she used to be, she never felt that she was happy like she was back then, but she would think of family and friends the joy she has had in her life and ask the Lord to take her hardships that befolded her in school and lock them up for now, but each day she would come to this spot for a few hours of her free time and lose herself in the valley trapped by its beauty and her thoughts of what had befallen her educational life, before remembering the joy she's had in life and her family at large.
The days she would not touch anything would sing while being lost in thought that she found herself reaching for one of her things in her bag maybe laying it on her lap holding the pencil or somthing tapping it, fliping it like she did in school before color guard later that day remembering her rutiens. Then she would jus let the pencil drop and lay on the notebook or on the ground besides her possibly rolling before she let it stop or it found some flat ground that forced it to stand still. The silence of the wind always caught her ears and was what she listend to. She had no problem being by herself as she had been an only child she was used to going to a movie on her own especially when her friends were busy or the fact that they were with there other parents or that they didn't go to movies unlike her family who where movie goer's.
She found it peaceful to be by herself as she was a very social person who made friends and kept friends easily, it was just school work took over her life, and when she could have a moment to swing on her Rainbow playsystem back hom the days she didn't fear the rain she would take it or jump on her trampillien before it got ripped, she would take strolls through her neiborhood even walk Barbra dog Mac or as his full name was Mackentosh, she nicknamed him Mak . He seemed to love it when her dad or her would take him on a walk she was asked by her mom in third grade when she complained about her daughter not exercising (which she did esp. in gym it was just when she had homework to do it would take hours) but she told her of the couple she was introduced to in there new neiborhood that had a dog that didn't get walked often. He was a black Scottish Terrior with thick black curly hair and some weired smell to him that would fill a room she named it Maks smell or old person smell for dogs, it was so thick it was like his own cologn.
But she also took walks downtown only when it was convieniant before she had her license then she would just drive since her car rarly ran out of gas but exactly every month in a half you'd have to fill it up. She enjoyed driving and going through places she used to go as a kid but driving her car, she sometimes wished that she was on a straight road with no one around and she could go how fast she wanted with no one to scold her. Sometimes before her audition choir just to get her thoughts out and feel free for a couple of seconds would go zero to eighty on the backroad that the police someimes stoped at, but there hiding place she could see, as the single road of a new development, they lived at the bottom of a small hill that connected them and some older neiborhood on the top of the hill and went to the main road to Poulsbo. She made sure each morning she did this she there were no police then quickly gliding to a slow fifteen to take the sharp turn up the steep but small hill, everday she rethought her moments of freedom that she loved her moments without arguing or the duties to be the wise person in treble choir as she was the oldest and had to be responsible or in color guard as a captian for a few moments driving she felt everything she always wanted freedom from life. She loved that backroad no one would travel but few it was her own Road Less Travled (like the poem) as she felt so free driving it, this gave her the feeling she had when she sat on this hill looking out in the distance, it gave her the freedom from life, freedom to feel like everything in the world her worries and stress that she always could handle but would cause most everyone she knew to break at the compasity she would take, every bit of that would go away and she was by herself, not living up to anything but being free and feeling like she was flying (she would sometime open all her window and open the sun roof) to feel like nothing bothered her not how messy her hair might get nor anything just the feeling of a short bit of freedom. She didn't have to worry in her moments of freedom if her parents would be worried of her being gone to long (unlike in college when they wanted to know everything as they missed her and worried but knew she wasn't going to do anything bad) nor she have to worry about teachers and school her responsibilies, this was her moment of freedom she would feel this as she would always go to that small piece of property on an island the family owned she called it since her child hood days the island it was her cousins and hers own treasure island they had a beach they had large area to run a small park the family built tennis court and basketball large fields.
But the treasure was the mountians in the distance of the small island in front owned by military and was some base as no that was secret it had a road to get to the island but everything on the other side of the road was blocked off no one was allowed in there were gates and you would not land on the shore that you would see from the family property, no it was not that which made this place magical to these cousins and families nor the fact that her dad and his two older sisters would come every weekend (as he wished he could do with her) since they were born, nor was it the fact that the house that her grandparents and aunts and dad had lived the weekends and holidays in was now what they called the haunted house, as the only house not new or rebuilt of the four houses their family owned and used on this land with the exception that no one went in this house or rarly did for how old it was and the entrance was falling apart, it had nothing to do wiht the fact that each part of this familyowned a house her Mimi (grandma) having the mobile home they always stayed in and when her Bapa was still alive Mimi lived in all year around, her dad's oldest sister and uncle owning the small beach house and her two first cousins both of whom were married wiht kids the daughter being the closest to Breanna's age in the terms of first cousins just having her first, her other aunt and uncle owning the main house they used when the whole family came as to have dinner and hang in it was the largest being two stories and having a basement (this was besides the old house), then her dad had the house he grew up in and was hoping as her mom was to rebuild this house and make it a different house and make it the house they retired in he was doing everything in his power to make sure that would happen but found the dificult with the economy, they decided to wait to year before selling there house and starting this house after Breanna graduated high school, no it was not that fact what made her whole family feel free here was the mountinas in the background looked purple and made the island seem unreal and magical, the oldness to the small store that still sold candy and icecream at the prices her dad and mom spent on candy, the old military bases that children would run and play in but people need to add lights for the insides are like a dark maze her older first cousins always scared her and her second cousins inside the dark old military bases and got them to run out scared.
Besides this place Breanna sat everyday that was the one place her thoughts of freedom took her, that was what she would draw, she was as content on the top of this plato or hillish mountian as she was at The Island, no fears and everything is off your sholder. She even found a spot that reminded Breanna of the indent in the rock on that beach her dad had found as a child and called it the sitting rock she always found herself going there but because of the salt water would not take anything to do but maybe her dogs if they would follow her, for she would sit there watching the waves and mountians as she sang and the wind was the music and sound she listend to. Every day she came up to this place of a plato she felt like she was back home and home at the Island where her family was most conent, everyday she would think about her ways to get freedom from life and would trail off to her memories of the island and then family and friends would link in to this made her content, and happy, but each day her tears fell for this and for the wars she fought in school. She felt this was the one place no one could take from her at the moment for she knew it would be a while till any of them could go back home but until that day she would come here, and when she does go home she knows and hopes her dad will take them to the Island to get away from the world for a couple days if she couldn't wish for forever.
It was only two weeks into the Spring quarter of going to ASL classes and the Autobots teaching the teens their regular college corses and about Cybertron and things that they would have been taught there. Withen these two weeks the main Autobots started noticing how Breanna would disapear for a few hours witht the same bag of stuff with not to much done with them. All her friends knew what she was up to as her best friends knew her to well, especially Genie who was along sides her while she was a captian and was one of her best friends in high school they both had the same kind of ideals of needing to slip away from the world, in band camp they would slip away with the rest of the group of friends to a field no one could see and think and just watch the world being there as friends, in high school when Breanna drove herself to school she had a off school grounds lunch pass as many seniors had when they could drive to school, but she knew she took drives to get her lunch and to feel free and content before returning a few minutes later with lunch to hang with friends. She herself found a part of the cave to slip away to but not for long time more like half an hour or an hour.
Livia had known Breanna most of there lives although there friendship bond had been following them throughout life always bringing them together, this did help since they were neibors for many years before both moved to other parts of the county. But as Liv grew up she also had a learning disbility that wasn't as bad thus having different struggles then Breanna's was, she saw her having to give up things she wanted to do because of hers she saw her having to strugle ot be different and not like the average ADD people in there schools who were slakers or had no self confidences and chosen to just not care and give up, she struggled to be an A student even getting better grades then her. She always knew she had her moments that she needed time when they were seventh graders that sumer they went up to Whistler as Breanna's dad had to do something for the radiostation he worked for and creat a comercial for the new hotel that they got to stay in. They had adventures but at times Breanna kept her nose in Huckleberry Finn which was an upper level book, she would do this for an hour to have moments to herself, even though she had awesome adventures she knew it was due to what she had gone through that past year as so much happend.
Cade even knew Breanna needed her moments like this as they shared stories of these kind of moments and places that help them such as Japenese Gardens, or snow and valleys for him it was flying, he knew her for so long he had seen her struggle and before she told him about her disbility he thought she was a normal kid and in Junior high he knew that is she never told him he would have still thought of her as a smart teen he still thought of her as one with all the things she went through and was able to face as a human being he knew she would be a great leader and asked her to be for that reason. Even her roomies had simular things like that and stories wiht her, all the AV's did too. They all figured the Autobots knew, but refused to tell them when they surprisingly found out differently for they knew these moments everyone needs to be by themselfs unless there with friends and having those moments together.
The Autobots were flustered to know where she went they did not want any harm coming to her but were sure she wouldn't go far as she was told not to leave the cave and must be just somewhere outside it walking or something. Little did they know she was above the base a bit bellow the plato that the base was built into. While each of the teens slept one night which was around the end of the first two weeks of the Spring Quarter (for them), the five main Autobot gathered wandering were she would be going of too even Optimus wondered but he easily could recall being young and even being a leader he used to find some place to have moments to himeself normally when he was having to face something very troubling. He noticed each of the teens having such moments every now and then were they sat in silence by themselves in some empty place far away from everyone. He thought that there could be some reason to connect but was unsure why she would go every day. "I'll be outside the base tomorrow afternoon there are a few places I can be where she wouldn't see me if she indeed goes outside, I'll go out sometime in late morning and wait for her to come out in mid afternoon, I'll see where she goes off to, for I fear there must be something troubling her and I think it best to see where she goes off to as we all are wondering. I feel she leaves to go and think, but I'm not quite sure if that is true or not but she has been through alot within the past couple of weeks if its not that then there could be something going on that she needs help with."
"Prime it's always after she finishes the lessons with us she goes to her room then comes out a short bit later with that beach bag. I just think there is somthing about school that she hasn't told us about it could be somehow connected I mean why not do her work first or wait till its later, why after lessons and school courses with us?" Ask Arcee seeming to be deep in thought.
"This girl is like her father and is very emotional, she deals with loads of stress that would even be hard with an Autobot and it dosn't hurt her and carrys it like a feather, her parents tell me that she's only broken because of stress when it seems the world crashes around her and everything dosn't go the way she hopes. But I agree with Arcee, for one thing the girl is complecated already as she is but she easily talks to anyone, she has been through alot even before she was known to be an Autobot and yet pulled through without anyharm her spirt grew up to fast as many have said due to what she had to face. I saw her work and her friend they are done withen a short time well most are at least she takes hours or the night she stays up late working, and even when I've was teaching them anything it takes longer for her to jot down notes, she takes longer to do anything we give her and yet goes above and beyond. I don't know if she over does thing or what she seems fine in her ASL class but what is it that causes her to do take so long. Hu" he lets silence take the still dark night ridden base.
With a second deep sigh he looks back up befor looking at his feet filled with sorrow "The day I took her to her class two weeks ago, she was furious that you had sent Fowler and she told me that she was very embaresed in class as she was had people she knew well in there and didn't need this attention. Well when class was over she bolted out of there before I could even get from where I was to where we were to meet, she just transformed and Speed through the streets. I know you told me not to do this but prime, I know she wasn't going to harm anyone as she's a great driver I still was scared she would though or something would happen, so I reasoned with her on the radio and was able to get her to slow and drive with me somewhere where she could speed if that would make her feel better I took her to a road that was North quite north of the school, some farm land, I drove fast with her trying to get her to explain things and calm down I led her to the place you told me not to. I showed her were they all actually died for a minutes but her gift of giving friends the ability to be transformers saved them as me picking her up was the same thing that trigured them to awaken the gift they were given and the ability she was born with, even though they were dead you know they had the ability before because none of them were scorched in the firer it kept there bodies even dead from being burned but it was Breanna's gift to them and her own genes of not being a halfling that brought them back alive. I explained it all, during that talk she eventually opend up and said she had so much happen in her life but only told me a few I asked about the others she seemed to bite her lip like she was afriad of being judged by what she was going to say but I believe its something to do with why she takes longer to accomplish task or something." Ratchet said as if he was thinking to himself but out loud only seeming to be talking with the group when he confesed that he had told her and shown her what he was ordered not to.
"What I don't get is why her team, I mean her friends won't even tell us why everyone of them seemed surprised that we didn't know." Bulkhead said as if trying to think if anyone had said something in the past that made this the reason they wouldn't say.
"Hu I guess all we can do is wait for tomorrow and I'll watch were she goes. I'll talk with her and hopefully she'll be as open to discussing as she has been in the past. Well just have to wait and see."
The next morning things went normal for Breanna classes were just as time consuming as they were without her having an IEP she feared the idea of taking a test as she needed her IEP inorder to have extra time or she will flunk for the regular college courses actually counted on their college GPA's and she always strived for an A although she got this in her Winter quarter back at shool she had only three A's and none of them were in a GE and she flunked out of Engilsh 101 as the teacher leaving two weeks before confused her especially when she had to be gone because she was sick, her teacher was a brand new teacher who was planing to attend a school the following year to teach children who don't know English.
But this teacher was so hard at grading almost every paper she was asked to redue. Breanna wanted so much to finish her english in her Freshman year but had to now wait to do that until the fall as she did not find out her grade until the teacher looked at her paper that she had to resend so she now had to retake and relearn the same thing with simular essays, kinda a bore to her as she didn't want to wait for fall to take 102. Luckly the teens had gotten the Autobots to teach the specific cources they would be taking and with the same materials so classes would be like they were actually in them with the same test and such. As the day ended for Breanna at two since she had just one course with everyone on some Cybertronian history which was sort of interesting, cause Ratchet had them watch some movie that was on the Golden days before the current war, all the teens jocked how the Golden Ages in history we learned in high school was the same in a way.
As everyone left the class Breanna talked with her friends for a bit before everyone headed to there own rooms to do whatever and as always she went to hers got the stuff she she liked to have up in the little area she went to think, she put it in the same flowered Old Navey beach bag, and left her room. She snuck out towards the base and cave entrance and took the walk down the long road that lead to the exit. As she walked she listend to the echo as she hummed a song Jesus Take the Wheel very lightly before switching to I'll Try a song she loved to sing she remembered from Disney's Peter Pan two, as she walked through the long passage she didn't think much about school as she usally did and decided it would be best today to wait till she got to the spot. It was weird for her to hear no one but herself but that's why she always walked the passage instead of running for she injoyed it she enjoyed having some of her own time as she didn't hate herself, and this walk always made her feel good and clear her head for a bit and just think of nothing before thinking of everything.
She saw a bright light and had to squint her eyes as she came upon it as the darkness of the entrance didn't give her time to adjust to the difference. She made it out to the humid Nevada air, she turned to the right of the entrances and steped on the rocks that were almost like stair however naturally were on the mountian that way, but couldn't surpass the feeling that someone was watching her and gently tilted her head and thought she saw a flash of red and blue behing a rock but decided to let it go and continue. The air was warm but nice and although there was smog in the distance she knew the air smelled cleaner today then most. She climbed up on the trail that probably was made by the people who originally lived in the bass when it was used by military. As she got to the large flat area bellow the plato that was big enough for a couple of large houses to be built on she knelt and rested her back against the rock she normally rested against, and just looked out to the view. Her left knee as always came up to her chest as she circled her arms around it and sat in thought with the occasional tears of things she would have to over come with her disability and things she had, she thinks of the island and prays for the lord to take her worries from her for a few days and let her be calm. The thoughts of playing on the island helps her relax and be content, while she looks out at the town she begins to sing.
"I wanna be someone. I gonna give something, I'm taking it on I'm taking it on, It's going to be my life, so I'm going to live each day and each night taking it onl taking it on, cause I can't keep hidding..." the thoughts of her struggles in school and how she has to work harder then most school students to get her grades she had and all the negative commetns teachers gave her fills her mind, her trying to be someone other then just a learning disabled kid but a smart girl who gets A's and be known as a smart girl, then the teachers who treated her like nothing more then dirt fill her mind.
As she begins to have tears form and gradually sink into the red clay of rock, her chin now rest on her knee as her arms still circle and hold eachother around the leg, her right leg is out infront of her just relaxed and still. "no I can't keep hidding and I can't keep runing away, so I'm going to be stronger and I'm going to be better made, and I'm gonna give everything just to bring me back again." silent for a second watching as she see's a desert fox chasing a desert hair, and the hair getting away by jumping in a whole and escaping
"I'm gonna be a braver soul then this I'm going to jump at all those many chances that I missed I'm going to live my life beyone all these fears and forms of cowardice that keep leading me on. I'm going to shine out like a beacon in the night I'm gonna wrap my fingers around the stars tonight, cause I'm taking it on, cause I'm taking it on." as she beggins to sob thinking of all these things she has to face in education and not wanting to face and argue with people, no the Cybertonians, the Autobots here on Earth who are like family if not are her biological family in a certian way, she dosn't want to have to face them like she had to face alot of teacher. She knew the song she was singing would make her think this way but its because this song she knew reflected her life and what she went by in finding a way to live like anyother normal teen and not be thought of as dumb but smart and if not well known which is not popular but known to be nice and not by her skill level or her mental illness as everyone would have said in grade school the word she would not let anyone call her nor anyone she knew retarde or retardedness.
She continues as the tears come down a little faster yet were still slow making the red rock clay look more different either being orange or darkish redish rust color. "No I can't keep hidding no I can't keep hidding and No I can't keep running away. So I'm gonna be stronger, gonna be better made, and I'm going to give everything. Just to bring me back again! So I'm gonna be stronger, I'm gonna to be understood, and I'm gonna give everything Just to bring me back again!" wipping the tears from her face before her hand returns to its previous position "Cause I can't keep hidding, no I can't keep hiding, and I can't keep running" taking a huff into the air "Away..." she lets more tears trickle down her eye's as she continues to watch a cloud and the small criters running through the valley and deserts...
***Prime***
As Prime is hidden behind a giant rock in his Autobot form he see's the girl dosn't even look to see if anyone's following like she had inside, he see's she climbs the rock that would be to small for his feet as they could break but for a girl with abnormally child size feet for her age he figgured they were fine as she used them like stepping stones or stairs.
As she stops not far from the top of the base entrance, he see's what appears to be a small man made walking trail that appear to be gently leading up the plato, he knew immediatly that this was one of those trails that he had heard about that were made by the soldiers who worked at this base when it was used for military purposes it would lead to the plato or some flat area befor the plato that would have been used for watching and lookouts.
As he watched her climb he figured out the area she could be walking too, as there was another way there that was a bigger trail that he could walk or drive on so she could have her moment by herself without thinking someone is following her, but he was positive he knew the area she would be headed to if not near at least.
He came upon the other side of the plato, as this was the first time in a few months actually in this earth year that he or from what he knew any of his team had walked up this trail. He was carful not to make noise, as he came upon a fork on the trail with one trail slanting slighly highter he would take the part of the trail that lead to the top of the plato which this one lead up faster.
There were a few shrubs and such where he appeared on the top of this tall and long ravine looking at where he was sure to find her, he came upon the place of which outlooked the gorgoues valley of Japer Nevada and looked out to other plato's to the west and the mountians to the far sounth west or outlin of mountains. He came upon the spot that if anyone told her where it was that she would visit sometime. For here was the place the team had been many months ago in November saying goodbye to a good friend, here is were they laid his horn into the ground as the Decepticons had taken his body and killed him before using it as a test. As the sun was in the Mid afternoon sky the object glowed and shown in the sun but even as he approuched it no one laid there nor was there any sign that anyone or any human had been along here since the Autobots last morned here. Optimus looked dissapointed and his face seemed to drop into a more disapointed guilty sad experestion as his eye's filled with worry and thought. He sinks to his knee while the other leg stays bent he rests his left elbo against this leg, as his left hand and goes along his face before resting his chin on his fist.
He sighs one deep long sigh "Hu, I should have followed her instead of coming here" sighing agian "hu Clif Jumper your daughter gets more and more like you everyday of all the bots to have a actual Halfling and the first it had to be you." he says sarcastically
"We miss you old friend, but I'm afriad like you, your daughter seems to wonder off and is imposible to find, her friends won't say where she goes for they do not know and even though she hasn't told them they already know why she does this. What is the reason she has done this for the past couple weeks, hu, that girl you can't figgure out she is so hard just like you were, she's so tough, yet so gentle. I could swear I see you in her everyday I almost feel like I'm talking to you when I talk to her, she stands and acts like you in a huge way, she keeps alot of secrets I can tell, I can see she's had a hard life even as a human. But I just wish why she trails off since she started school with us. I remember you used to come up here before and after everything, I came to find you once and found you here you loved to think up here as it seems your daughter does somewhere around here. I see too much of her in you, everyone has begun to feel protective and close to her, in a different way then were used to but I guess that's what you felt when you would go back and see her grow. I guess thats the feeling earth families have of children, the team feels that way of her because she is your child but I guess you knew this to would happen to her adventualy she would have to join us and that we would all feel this way about her."
Sighing and looking sadly to the sky brushing his hand tot the back of his head before resting his chin back on his fist. "Hu, I fear that someday she would have the same fate her mother and you had, I just pray on the allspark she dosn't for she is to young she is a child in Cybertronian and a child still here on Earth, she is so immature while she is mature, I feel like I see a woman instead of a teenager in her but then she becomes more a teenager when she does things like this. Hu Where would she have gone? Hu if you were still alive you probably would have known where she would have gone, I thought she came to see you but I guess not. I just hope she's safe whereever she may be. We worry for her and its hard for us not to worry all this time and not find answers, for everyone fears her hurting herself the tiniest bit I know she isn't a baby and shouldn't be babie'd, but she's the first of her kind and with her mom and you both dead no one...No one want's to see you die over again."
Looking back at the grave as what appears to be a single tear floats from his opticles to the ground around the horn before it vanishes. "She's to much like you if she were to die it would be like losing you, it would be harder for everyone for they wouldn't have just you but your own daughter who in everyway is like you, it would be especially hard on her team as they care for eachother like siblings, and I don't know how they would stay together without her near it would gravely hurt them, then knowing how five more had joined the team a few weeks ago there would obviously be more out there and it would be hard to convince them when the person who gave them the powers is dead. We all miss you Cliff Jumper are truely missed in everyones heart I even see your daughter seems to miss you for she must have believed she would always meet her real father, but in a way she met your familly. I guess I will try to find her tomorrow, I hope you've found all the happiness you deserve and maybe found Lynnea up in Primuses spark" sighing with a small perky smile as he is looking down "Hu I hope you found your El within the depths of the allspark you too deserve the happiness that you too could not have in life together. Good bye my old friend." looking sadly at the horn that once sat upon Cliff Jumpers head he thought how Breanna as Fury has something that looks simular in a way but is called a pony tail and is long like her hair but holds the same tint Cliff Jumpers horn held.
He gets up and slowly turns away walking back to where he came up from. As the horn has rings of yellow light that come up and zinged into the tip making a zinging sound like someone scaping against some metal starting at a very low tone and ending in a high pitched metal sound, but was not heard by Optimus nor anyone else as this was more a heavenly sound not ment to be heard by the ears of the living unless they were ment to hear it. As the silvery yellow ring touched the tip the sun came out from a small cloud it had been hidden behind around the time Optimus arrived at the top of this large plato. As the sun came out into the gorgouse blue sky it hit the tips of this horn which ricocheted into the distance and hiting Optimus Autobot sympol reflecting onto the ground which Optimus did not notice for a second unill he moved his left hand he thought No this can't be its just the reflection of the light bouncing off the shine or his horn but he could not help wondering why something like this was hitting him from at least thrity feet and the symbol streached almost all the way towards the horn he thought It's worth a try it could be nothing but maybe she's there and maybe this is no conisedence and is somehow Cliff Jumper telling him that she's there.
He walks to the symbol and stays far enough away as to not startle her if she indeed is there. Sure enough as he peers down he see's a elegant medium-long brown hair with blonde streacks wavy culy haired and very white skin for Nevada girl gracefully walking towards some rocks, he makes sure he is far enough away his shadow wouldn't be seen although he was over five stories high at this point, and as she puts her bag down and sits leaning against a rock he see's her cry but wouldn't have noticed this if the rocks near her did not have spots of orange and red.
She stays there in silence obviously in thought. Optimus could not help but notice, no matter how she had her knee to her chest and arms around it nor the way she was softly crying or tearing up, he could not help but notice how content she seemed. She stared off into the distance of what seemed to him like a long time, as she looked out she suddenly began to sing and quite beautifully he recalled she humed and sang quitely in the caves as she was closer to the ouside of the base but that was a bit normal singing when she got far enough away that the sound would'nt ricochet back but forward for he had heard each song she humed and each word she sang.
By now he knew that she sang because singing was a huge part of her life, he knew she was good but she seemed to not sing much while everyone was out for he guessed she didn't want to distract or annoy anyone at least some of her friends said that as it was unusual for her not to randomly sing. This had been the first time he heard her sing without it being a echo in the base or out of sight and he could tell she was extremly good if not excellent and a possible proffessional. The song he felt she was singing on the way she felt he had been told by her two friends Livia and Genie who were the newest members, that she sang songs she knew sometimes on how she felt or just because she wanted to sing any song, but they told him that singing was her way to show and let out her emotions without judgment sometime even a way to tell people what she was thinking as some songs she would sing were connected to things that were going through her mind.
She stoped shortly after begining and he saw her look out at the world before her but had no clue what she was looking at her expression seemed to become sadder before she picked up again and he saw the rock around her become filled with more circles of water as more tears streamed her face. She looked out once again to something he could see as a fox chasing a rabbit before the rabbit outsmarted him and jumped in the hole. She went on with her song as she did he noticed her stop again near the end and allow herself to begin to sob and she wiped these tears and finshed her song she continued to stare into nothingness before taking out a notebook filled with artist paper and grabing a pencile and drawing something Optimus could not see. As he got up and thought of talking to her later that day he began to turn around as the light shown brighter on his symbol and reflected on Breanna's paper, by which she notices and turns her head around, he knows now that this would be the time and place to talk to her since she has already seen him.
***Breanna/Fury***
Breanna thought many things before deciding to draw somthing so she grabs her paper and pencil with the other art pencils nearby she starts to draw whatever it is she does not know just she begins to draw something. All of a sudden a bright light reflects of her paper, she squints before seeing the Autobot symbol, this causes her too quickly turn around, she see's the siloette of a big tall brightly red and blue flamed Autobot, and smiles as she knows who it is.
"What song was that, that you were just singing, you sang so beautifuly I'd say thats the first time I heard you although your friends told me about you singing."
"Hey Optimus, that was "My Delcaration" by Elizabeth Bennett its from a movie I love called Inkheart, and thanks I've felt that song describes what I had and have gone and am going through in so many ways I loved it the instant I heard it. My parents told me when I first could talk at the age of three, they went to someparty and I hogged the mic singing songs its been a part of my life since I was I kid I always feel better after singing or dancing or color guarding, all three have been a part of my life I could never give up." she says in such a deep tone.
Sighing almost sounding like her father Cliffjumper when she sighed, "Hu, I figured it would be sooner or later someone would try to find me." taking a deep sigh and staring back to the landscape looking like she is looking back at memories "I guess you want to know why I started going off and coming up here."
"Is it allright if I join you down there?" Optimus asks, she nods her head, so he carefully slides down the short distance but in human terms would be five stories. "Yes, the five of us have started to wonder and your friends seemed surprised we didn't figure it out, and refused to tell us why you would go off, we all worried as we trust you but wanted to know and make sure your safe." he genlty sits against the rock wall of the plato as Breanna grabs her bag and puts the nootbook and pensil back in and climbs the rock she leaned against and walked to the rock wall so she was closer to be able to speak to him and look at him while they talk.
"Yeah they probably figured it out with everything that I've been through with them in school and what they know about me they would have figured it out." she says smoothly and understandingly, before taking a deep breath staring in the distance lost in thought before staring at Optimus's big blue out of this world blue eye's that they all had in there Autobot form the same color and she supposedly had for two years as a baby before her eye's strangly changed color over night and have done so since, even more freaquently since she was in her Junior year of high school and for sure everyday since the day she found out she was an Autobot.
"Your scared of something arn't you?" looking at him as if he had read her mind she nods her head and turns her face into the dark sunken face it had been. "May I ask of what?"
She pauses unsure what to tell him for she does not want to be judged by what she is, her eye's fill with water but do not cry. Sighing she finally looks back up at him and crosses her legs in criss cross applesause "I'm scared because I don't want to be judged." sighing "I'm different and have always been different then others at school since day one."
"Yeah you have been different but everyone is different you were especially different for you are a Halfling but I know you mean something other then that."
Nodding her head "My parents noticed I was different in learning from day one, I didn't do things like everyone else it took me longer to complete stuff." smiling and with a laugh "In first grade around thanksgiving we made pilgram hats in class when I did mine I made it twice as fast within seconds but I made it completly inside out, it was upside down and backwards." again looking back off to the distance as she brings her legs up
"What kind of disability is this?" he asked knowing she had no clue Cliff Jumper had said it in the video he recieved over two months ago.
Looking at him surprised he notds his head as if telling her he knows, "I have two actually short term memory and ADD?"
"Yeah and what's that?" Optimus askes agian knowing the answer.
"Attention Deffisite Dissorder, my bio mom well I guess I should call her mom or Lynnea seing as that was her name, but she I guess had genetically gotten it from her dad and he got it from his so it was passed from generation to generation on her fathers side. Well I've also had it my whole life besides the fact that this was one of the few details she told my parents of any genetic disease I still worry about other diseases that I could genetically have in me. My parents noticed differences immediatly and I had to go to a speech therapy one of which I would take until sometime like fifth grade or somthing. But they noticed in 1st grade and Kindergarten differences, and wanted to get me tested for it as soon as I was in 1st. I've been battling a war my whole life not your kind of war but a personal war."
"What kind of war have you been fighting."
"The rest of the Autobots and you obviously have seen me take much longer even on the Cybertronian lessons then the rest, I've been batling a war with my education in school and against teachers, well to get, hu well I'm no ordinary mentally disabled kid but one that went above and beyond to be the same as any other child. My war has been a constant struggle since first grade and That! teacher to college to be as normal but smart as I can be and not be known as the girl with the disability for if I was labled that I wouldn't have met half of my friends and be able to say I would keep them most kids with disablities stay with their own kind as their labled as geeks, nerds, and outcasts I was different and could fool everyone that I was a smart regular girl, unless I told them, I did keep friends who had disablities, but most of my Junior high before I went to the older high school which had better classes, well the people I went to Elementary with and Junior high who had disablities like me were called Lazy Slackers Unmotivated geeks UNfullfiling, and the one word I never can stand that I will fight someone who says the word REATARD." a tear streams down her face she says that teacher and explains the words people would say to others like her "I tried to stand up for some but it didn't help I never allow someone to use the word reatard, for that's what I have had to fight against being a Reatard."
"But Breanna your not." putting a hand against her back like a father would she knew if she was her transformer self right now he would probably be patting her shoulder but she had a feeling he was rubbing her back like a father would because in a way he almost treated her like a daughter kinda how Ratchet treated her.
"I know but I have been fighting against the words I was once called. You see I have since first grade fought against the words of my first grade teacher, you see I mostly stayed after reeces to finsish work that we were doing before recess and she threatend me with detention and expulsion if I stayed in during one more recess to finish work. More then once she called me a first grader of all things a child Lazy, Stupid, Reatarded, worthless, bum, couch potato, and much more even some bad words through the two years I had her for first and second grade. I never told my parents she told them the same they never knew she told me that to my face and more then once. She was a older lady and at the time I was young it was still hard for people with ADD to get equality in school or anywhere as many didn't believe in such things my doctor which my mom worked as a medical secretary for he didn't either. Well after my test came back and I was one above which back then one above wouldn't count for the help having ADD." looking off to the town and watch a cloud cover it in shadows.
With a huge deep sigh she rests her arm back as Optimus keeps his hand rubing her back fatherly "It took two years till I was in third grade and for me to get a new doctor for both my third grade teacher and the new doctor believed I had ADD and there was no question about it, thye demanded the testing people give me a different test. This test ended up saying I was one hundred percent in need. I new I was special or different because I went to the cool resourse room which we did easy stuff and games and all this fun stuff. It wasn't until the summer of my seventh grade year before I started seventh grade my mom dicussed or should I say told me one night before I went to bed that I had ADD. Which I still remember freaking out thinking it was AID's virus that we had learned about in fifth and sixth grade" laughing at her stupidity at the time.
"But since then something chaged within me I never payed attention in Ellementary school and I guess from what mom and dad tell me I never passed any of them maybe I did sixth grade but barley, all I know is they tell me I did not do that good which makes me think I failed or got D's or somthing I know the grading was different then the A-F's we had thru out Junior High and high school I still don't remember the grading system except being very confussed by It I know I passed music and gym very well I think I did ok at typing computers I've allways had some issue with which seems funney now that I think of it. But From then on I kept the goal that I made as a young girl to get A's and be known as a smart kid and A student I wanted to attend college since I was four and that dream was going to happen I wanted alot of colleges to be intersted in me." Pausing watching a school bus way off in the tow stoping at the school and some kids getting on.
Sighing as she watched the school bus drive off, looking down on the ground away from Prim and looking down at the Cliff, Prime wished he could hug her while she stayed in her human form but knew he couldn't without hurting her. "So I stived for A's and didn't get one F in 7th grade then 8th grade rolled around I did super good the first quarter in math which is one of my specialties. And then my teacher she hated my class she even said if I didn't do one assignment that was the poetry thing she wanted everyone to do and got really mad at me all of a sudden I was flunking, even though I got A's and B's on my tests and did most of the homework it confused me. But the following year every grade but one I think and that was computer skills which I think was a B+, but I got A's and reached my goals in high school that goal continued to be mine and mostly I succeded using the advatages of my IEP to succeed It was high school I had to fight the most to get A's or have teachers follow my IEP and allow me certian things like extra time on assignments which you unfortunetly don't get in college extra time on test which I did get in college and cannot live wihtout, and several other things like testing in quite room on my own, with notes or stuff like that. But even to graduate High School I had to fight for I had mostly A's but I was diagnosed with my disability when in Reading, Writing, and English so you see I always had to fight and stand up to suceed in Engilsh, I had to get something turned in to my English teacher the day before I graduated to pass luckly that thing raised my grade up all the way to a B+ so I got what I have mainly kept my grades at A levelish it was this past English last quarter that I had failed misserably but she was a new teacher and alot of people didn't pass her class she graded so tuff, I got three A's out of my five classes my first quarter none of which were my main classes. For I was not used to the college life or schedual so I was kinda late for some classes and I got sick as I always do ugg Its what made my senior year hard as I got super sick and kept on getting really badly sick both my coach and teachers worried and didn't like it, but I missed some stuff and wasn't in some of the end of the year routines for percusion show because I got sick again in May I couldn't help getting sick so much but it was my stupid immune system it just hasn't been the same since that pankreatitis attach to years ago and last year. But my war has been in education." she tells her story with tears coming through her eye's she rarly laughs and talks so sad will having her arms around her knee which she has up to her chest.
"So why have you been coming up here then?"
"Don't you see it's because I have had to fight what people think of me I have had to fight the words of that teacher my first grade and second grade teacher who were the same person I had to fight her words for even I knew the lies in the words. I made that day she threatend me I swore to myself that I would start getting good grade be known as the smart girl and I would be known as normal for even then I knew that kids with IEP most often where thought as stupid and outcasts as a child, I became who I was in school because her words shaped me I had to fight against them cause they weren't true she thought I was dumb for years till my mom rubbed my ninth grade grades in her face figmativily speaking when she ran into her in the grocery store one day, she said something like "Huph I was wrong I guess." she was so hard and evil in what I thought on me. That's why I made the goal that I would be a captian of a sports team be in an auditioned choir which I did and didn't, I would be in clubs and be a leader in a club be known as smart all of which I have done because of her!" stoping letting herself calm down and look solmn and sunken in wiht sadness like before.
Tears stream down her eyes as she sobs and Prime continues to stay there unsure what to do to help wishing he could help the girl more but knowing this was all he could do at the moment. "You all have wanted to know how I grew up as a child I know you guys all seem to look at me when I sound adualt I know you wonder how I grew up so fast mentally, why I sound like a thrity year old when I speak and the stuff I say the wisdom words of an adualt."
Sighing again as she sniffles the snot in her nose back up and brings her right knee up hiding her face in her legs. "Its because of her and that inevitable day, I grew up then I was counted as weired in school because I grew up and wasn't exactly a child or childish as I should have been when I found out what I was in seventh grade thats when I believe I became a girl who smiled less. That is why I grew up, My father..." Optimus for once was shocked cause for the first time she reffered to Cliff Jumper as her dad and not by name or Bio father
"My father may have tried to keep me out of war or at least this war till the Decepticons found me but he didn't keep me out of war as the war of education and disabilities found me and has been my war since I was born its been my struggle I've won time and time again. He wanted me to live a normal life and not grow up that fast and grow up menatlly fast and physically like a normal child, but he couldn't keep me out of every war and he didn't as one war found me as it was bound to happen and I think somehow he knew some war would find me especially at a young age which it did, and he could not stop that no matter how much her tried." pausing letting silence fill the air as they both sat still and Breanna watched the shadows of clouds cover the city agian in the far distance.
"The reason I have been coming here is because I don't want to have to fight for my education, like I did in school I've wanted that war over more then anything but it won't be until I graduate college I know that now. But while I'm taking the classes and courses with you guys if I have a test I need extra time double time or larger, yes I take longer to do things that's why Cade or my roomies may say it always seemed like I was studying or trying to relax after the exahstion I went through. I did grow but I think it was for a good thing I became strong, independent, self suffisent, dreamer, achiever, over active achiever all because of that women who changed me because of her words and threat. I am what I am I just never wanted you guys looking at me stupid or like I couldn't do something cause I can it just takes me longer, I also sing and have sung for so long because singing memorizing songs and sight reading are the one thing no one understands I get right away but I always remember stuff when singing and I guess it's the Lords way of giving me relief but a way to remember things as being someone who genetically has it and may have also gotten it because Lynnea told my parent that I may have it from my father that he would at least have HD Hyperactive disorder, so the hardest thing I rarly tell people is being genetically born with it there is a part of your brain the focus part and that is when you born, born not working or in a way not alive so I have one small part of my brain that's dead, then another small part that's kinda dead as I was born with short term memory." letting tears to stop but slowly come down the now wet face.
She sniffles and looks to Optimus with her now swollen red eye's from the tears as he is shocked by her pain. "So that is the reason why I came here I've been trying to figure out how to explain to you that in school I needed special treatment to pass and I will still need the extra time on test, occasional extra time to do assignment, etc you can look up my IEP after everything that's happend I can't remember everything on there as I used to have it memorized, I'm sure with my file in lock up and under succure protection they have all the info on my IEP and such. What makes me come up here is it is hard being the only one for the first time in my life who has an IEP, except Liv has certian accomindations but someone who has one full one, For the first time in my life its really hard cause everyone of them know I have ADD and short term memory they know I will need and will have special treatment because of this and that feels awkward for me as I don't want them thinking it because I'm the first Halfling but I need this treatment to be able to get the grades that I have to work five times as hard to get or come close to, I'm sure they won't think that though and that it's just my over worriedness talking." sighing and taking a deep breath reaching for her bag as she watches the distant mountians she pulls out a water bottle.
As she drinks the still cold iced water, she lefts some of it drible down her lips as if she is hidden within her thoughts and not focucused on the living world around her. "I didn't not know how to tell you for I didn't want to be treated differently that's the one reason i wanted people to think of me as smart and not dumb or special just cause I was a normal girl and didn't need any special treatment in society. I did not want to be treated like I was stupid or looked upon as a Mentally Disabled kid as people have lookded upon my both ways and I dislike being treated like I've been known as one of the most different children that my case managers or IEP advisors had seen beacuse of me having suporting parent which most don't have but how I would directly fight for my basic human birth right to be looked at as normal and nothing else." Looking at Optimus in the eye's as a tear moves super slow as if a take by take picture or really slow motion.
"Breanna how could we ever think you were dumb your a smart girl with or without a diability, I knew you had ADD and short term your father told us in his video the first one we got. And as for everything else your right we did not know how we were suposed to help you learn for there are few if any cases of such a disability in Cybertron history and as for you different you are special cause you are the first of many things but you are in no means dumb nor will you ever be thought of that by any of the Autobots. Your mothers probably right Cliff Jumper probably did have ADD being the first, yes I just looked up the test and it looks like he wouldn't have passed it maybe thats why he paid more attention to girls and women when we sent him to learn." he smiles at her "Breanna you are as much like family here as you are to your parents and cousins and no one will treat you like you are worthless or dumb for we love you as a daughter, we wern't there to see you grow but know you have seen as much as a warrior on Cybertron twice your age bieng both affected but still able to act your age. You are an incredible girl who is smart and has nothing to prove to us. The others now know at least why you have been so mysterious latly but you were scared of not being scene as the inteligent girl you are and I think that is great of a reason as any and you had everyright as anyone to feel the way you did and come up here. Your not the only autobot who would run off from that base and run to the main part fo the plato to think."
"Yeah who?"
"Your father I went looking for him just like I went looking for you and I had a chat with him just up there just like we are having now, even more then once. And you know what every day I see you, you remind me more and more of him by the things you do, you truely are your fathers daughter and every day you do something he would have done its almost like you too are exactly alike. Except he never sang your mother did from what he siad and several other things but you have is independent free willed spitit and his love for life and his determination and fighting side." she smiled at him as he told her more and more of her father.
The next second she swiftly turned her body towards him jumped up, ran and grabed his arm that was rubbing her, all of a sudden a smaller hand now rubbed her back she had turned Optimus human with her powers and he knew she had. They hugged like a father and daughter hug or an uncle does his neice, she just sits there and cry's into his shoulder.
Suddenly she relizes he's human "I'm sorry I don't know what happend."
"I know I know little one now it's ok, you will not be judged at all for your disablity for to me I'm staring into the face of the most normal human girl, Autobot girl, Halfling teen I have ever seen." He rubs her back in circular motions like her dad does when she cry's.
"You remind me more and more of a father figure each day I'm here almost like your my second adoptive dad, that my father let you adopt me when I was ready for the war." she jokes and says seriously through broken tears knowing he would let her crime into him for a long time.
"And you are like a daughter to the team and you feel especially like a daughter to me, we care for you the same way a human cares for there daughter and are trying to protect you the same way." he says in tender words.
She finally looks to him and see's he has brown hair with those unreal bue eye's his body looks like a military sargent that was in his late thirties and he is dressed the same way except with the colors being red and blue instead of brown, tan, green, and dark green. He could tell she noticed "It's ok, you were upset and you were trying to hug me it was your feelings that you just told me that changed me I'm here for you till you want to go." She smiles at him knowing she had found a home away from home and a man or Autobot that was everything like a father as any. Although he neglected without her knowing, to tell her that her father was burried not far from this smaller plato bellow the main one he decided it be best to wait to show her and tell her of the two strange events he choosing this place bellow the grave of her father and the fact that her father had come here too when he faced his first trial on earth and had disscussion of something that had bothered him. He held her tighltley like a father would as he conforted her tears and told her everything was going to be ok. And the two stayed on this ledge for hours talking as he comforted her, before seing the sun was setting and finding the mood had become happier and she found the fatherly feelings she had for prime and he held onto the daughterly feelings was Breanna able to change him back into a human as they reached the bottom of the Plato to where she started clibing when she took the steps on the rock and when she had successfully changed him she changed inot Fury and they both raced back to see everyone in the base, and she now officially felt like she had found herself and second family who worried as much like her parents but were partially her genetic family and that althogh she never met her father nor mother had one half siter who was just human and that was it as the rest of her biological parents and siblings were dead, she for one did have a biological family as they were the Autobots and they felt the same about her for now she was content and happy again.
I do not own the rights to the main Autobots or people from the show as Hasbro and other people do. I own the rights to this story and the characters including the new autobots, a new character that is only a minor not important character Tom.
Also this story does talk about the day Ratchet rescued them as you can tell Breanna and the rest of her friends or the Racers have been getting tempermental with the Autobots treating them like children this explains the reasons especially the reasons why they are so worried about Breanna and treate her like a six year old or somthing. Breanna/Fury will get extremly close to one of the most unlickly "people" and it's not who you think it is I just added that part of the story because the next chapters jump I wanted to explaint they did have a education will in the base during the Spring but wanted some conflicts with what could be taught and had to be learned through actuall school. I ment this to be a heart warming tale were we see Breanna's kind yet mad personality more and see her grow as a leader I will make a sub story off Education as Breanna has ADD I wanted to show the conflict she has to face at the base a teach the Autobots of ADD. But felt that didn't fit with the flow of the story and decided what I have here flowed beter there will be other stories that go off of what happens during the Spring which will be added soon. I've seen the way as I still needed Breanna and Optimus to connect and she must already be going through alot and we finally see her addmitt she has been troubled but not what you may think so I remade this into the ADD portion of the story.
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