Joz001: She will very soon. In this chapter or the next. Practice and/or against Decepticons.
Knucklesredfury207.2: Thanks, and it will!
Pachysam: Thank you for the praise and for the information.
Mulan 2: thanks for that; it might, once I get to see it.
Super-Chimp: Thanks for the clarification, and –heh- Oh yeah.
Kerra Quigley: Do you mean Sentinel or Bravirin? And thanks!
DR. Dodus: Thank you for reviewing!
Air Marshal Ra: I think that 1, and 7-11 way figure into the story, but Megatron doesn't want Sari dead he-check previous chapters when "Longarm" tried to talk Sari into, well read it and you'll see.
Proffesor Starkay: Yes, but I also think that part of her reforming will have to be in forgiving Optimus at least. ( I would include Sentinel, but I no like sentinel) So that's what their combined form is called. Thank you for Perceptor and Wheel Jack's alt modes, and so that's what that massive thing that Ultra Magnus turns into is called. What does Jazz turn into?
Dr-fan/mai lover: Uhhh… Didn't get that one, I got Sari and something about Decepticons and the matrix.
Happyfish: You KNOW I am working on the next chapter wacko!
"I think that Sari should meet some youngsters about her own age." Wheel Jack stated to Perceptor. (Sari was in the other room looking at one of their many inventions, though this one wouldn't explode)
"I was thinking the same. We'll see how she interacts with those around her own age, and she may make a few new friends." Perceptor murmured, enthusiastic about the idea. But then a thought struck him "She'll have to be in her other mode, we don't want a panic."
"True, but I have a theory. We'll tell Sari of what we're planning and ask her to try and use her key to help her set her potential class mates at ease. Which one should she go to?" 'Jack replied pensively.
"I think that she should go to all of them. Two days in each school. To see which crowd she gets along with the best, and so on. She could go to any school she liked on her own. So very powerful, graceful too." Perceptor mentioned thoughtfully.
"Hey Sari, we want to talk to you about something." Perceptor called out.
Sari came into the room and asked, "What do you want to talk about?"
"Well, we thought that for one of the tests we would put you with other youngsters your age. Autobot youngsters. There are different schools; science, medical, Elite Guard, Autoboot camp, scouts, and spy. We thought that we would send you to each of the schools for two days a school and see which group you get along best with. Before you ask about your form, we were wondering f you could manipulate it using your key." Wheel jack explained to Sari who, by the end of it looked excited and happy at the prospect.
"That sounds great, I'll try now!" Sari exclaimed excitedly. Taking in a deep breath and calming herself she had a firm thought of what she wanted./ Robot form normal form, human form alt mode, robot form normal form, human form alt mode/ Sari moved her key towards her spark chamber and both her spark and her key glowed a brilliant bright white. A minute later she opened her eyes and saw that her arms were different. Metallic and orange. She danced around happily "Guy, It worked, Yahoo!"
Perceptor and Wheel Jack smiled at their newest friend, happy that she was happy. Then Perceptor realized that the things on her back were wings, tucked against her back like seekers held them when they weren't in flight. "Sari," He asked cautiously "Do you know that you have wings?"
"I do? I didn't know that. I guess you learn something new everyday!" Sari replied brightly.
"Now, let's see if you can fly yet, or if they aren't developed yet." Wheel Jack offered to Sari who seemed eager to test out this newfound ability. Sari had started out a little uncertainly and nearly crashed a few times but got it. Soon she was doing loops, flips, turns, dives and swoops, all well controlled and she was having the time of her life.
Sari fidgeted nervously. She was about to be seen by a bunch of bots she didn't know and go to a school for the first time in her life. She had never seen so many in one place before, except when she had been in the infirmary, but most of those bots were badly injured and those who weren't, were not focused on her. /Why oh why am I being introduced in front of the entire school?/
Perceptor was speaking and she decided to listen. "Sari you are in the Elite guard's school. Usually you are only introduced to your classmates, and only then class by class. I'll ask the principle why."
"Principle Arlot, why is Sari being introduced to the entire school body?" asked Wheel Jack, who had heard what Perceptor had told Sari.
"You to take care of her do you not? And I have heard that she is taken care of as well by the Elite Guard Ninja Jazz, and by the leader of Cyber Ninjas Yuketron. Is that also true?" Arlot asked politely.
"Well…Yes… I suppose so… Why?" Wheel Jack replied, puzzled.
"She must show that she is worthy of such company by proving her courage." Arlot replied smoothly /among other things/ he thought craftily.
Sari was extremely annoyed. This pompous excuse for an Autobot was questioning her courage?! She had faced Decepticons several times bigger and much more powerful (when she thought she was human) than her and defied and insulted them! Sari was quietly steaming and about to show the principle bot in question one of her powers in the most painful way possible when Sentinel showed up.
Sentinel had seen Sari leave the Autobot headquarters. Normally he would have been furious that Sari had been allowed to leave headquarters, but he had gained respect for the odd little organic. She had selflessly helped a lot of bots by healing them and even bringing a few back online. "Sir, leave Sari alone, trust me I have witnessed her courage and kindness first hand."
"Nevertheless Sentinel Prime, she must prove herself once more." Arlot replied belligerently. /These three have no idea what she is about to endure. Courage? From a Femme? Hah, not likely./
Sari looked up at her three allies, although one had surprised her by trying to help, and smiled reassuringly up at them. "It's alright, I've faced worse than a roomful of Autobot kids, haven't I? Remember Sentinel?"
"Yes I do remember kid, no if any of them try to give you a hard time, please leave the unfortunate bot in one piece please? We don't want the medics trying to put them back together now do we?" Sentinel asked lightheartedly. He didn't know what Sari could do, but she could probably kick some skid plate if she really wanted to. "I truly pity the person who annoys you, then has to in the same class as you for the next hour."
"Thanks, I'll try and not, if they try and get me, but no promises. If I have to I'll leave them in big chunks or fix them myself. If I feel like it." Sari replied just as casually as Sentinel was, who enjoyed the puzzled expression on Arlot's face. Sari winked up at him mischievously. /May Primus have mercy on Arlot's spark if he does manage to truly annoy her./ thought Perceptor, Wheel Jack and Sentinel at the same time.
Arlot went into the room first and started speaking. After a little while he gestured for Sari to come onto the stage, which she did and looked out at the sea of faces staring up at her. Almost all of them were mech, but a few were femme. "Now, new recruit why don't you introduce yourself. Name, where you are from, and what, if any, combat experience you have." Arlot ordered.
"My name is Sari, I am from Earth so far as I know, but I may be from Cybertron. I have fought several Decepticons, and have escaped from one of their bases with others, though I was the first to escape and I freed the others." Sari informed the crowd and Arlot. He and many of the students were skeptical of this pretty, and small femme's story. But a few noticed the steel in her optics and the way they flashed when she mentioned their long time foe.
A mech, who seemed sever stellar cycles older then sari and about three times as big landed, if not gracefully, then powerfully, onto the stage and cried out maliciously, "I challenge you to a match of arms against arms!"
"What do you mean?" a confused Sari asked, "Do you mean, you wish to fight me, with our various abilities?"
"Yes I do mean with our abilities, and against one another, until one of us is unconscious or calls for the match to end." The student mech replied, a touch scornfully.
Sari had noticed the scorn and her eyes narrowed into slits. /This idiot is so going down./ She replied "I accept your challenge. What are the terms?"
"If I win, you tell us all your full story, and if by some miracle you win, I will leave you alone for the duration of your stay."
"You're on. Who starts?" Sari replied, the light of battle entering her optics, which had turned a dark sapphire when the other had started to speak. "By the way, what's your name?"
"That is no concern of yours." Replied the mech and, without warning, he attacked. Sari easily danced out of the way of the downward blow, flipped over him, and struck him in the back of the knee with one of her aqua colored blasts. He whirled around to face her firing one of his laser guns directly at her spark chamber, but she ducked the blow by coming towards her opponent delivering a stinging kick to his midsection and causing him, along with another aqua blast to his other knee, to over balance and fall to the floor. Sari noticed the green energon knife that he was about to throw, and fired her grappling hook whipping it back like she had seen her friend Optimus do many time to hold his knife in her left hand as her war hammer popped into her right, startling many. She jumped up, her jets caught and she gracefully swooped down on her unfortunate opponent and smacked him soundly across the back of the head, knocking him clean out. She left the mech's knife in the ground beside him. She was panting slightly from her exertion, but she was mostly happy that she had defeated the rude and annoying creature that was now at her feet, knocked unconscious. Her hammer disappeared into it's niche and she turned to face her schoolmates and principle.
"Anyone else want to fight me?" She asked, almost sweetly, which terrified some of the other bots who had signed up to be a possible opponent for this strange femme, glad, for once that they weren't picked to do a special task. Others were ecstatic, the mech in question was somewhat of a bully and they were glad that someone had finally beaten him. (He was a very good fighter, but no match for Sari's speed and agility, his success was mostly because he usually beat down his opponent with sheer brute force once he got a blow in.) The latter group burst in to applause and wild cheering.
Arlot on the other hand was flabbergasted and very annoyed that Sari had beaten on of his top fighters, not only in a couple of minutes, but with such grace and ease, it seemed. The cheering students had too noticed her grace and seeming ease, but didn't care. She was one of them as far as they were concerned.
The part of Sari's face that they could see blushed madly and she looked down at her feet. Arlot noticed the modest gesture and asked, "Why do you not enjoy the adoration of your schoolmates?"
"All I did was defeat this guy. I don't know why I should get all this in return for defeating one recruit Elite Guard. You'd think I took down Megatron, Starscream, and Blitzwing down at the same time single handedly and then I freed them all, instead of that." Sari replied, her modesty had Arlot giving her grudging respect.
"Alright, alright, settle down. Now off to class with the lot of you!" ordered Arlot. They all obeyed, except for Sari, but she didn't know where to go. Take the first door on your left out of this hall and the third door n your right is where your first class is. You will be assigned two classmates that have the same schedule as you do, and they will show you to the rest of your classes. Here is your schedule." Arlot told Sari, handing her a small data pad. Sari read it. She had fighting, history, PE, and mechanics. She didn't read what she had for the next day because she was too busy trying to get to her first class in the crowd of kids in the hallway she entered.
The classroom looked like what classrooms on TV ( aka normal classrooms). Everyone seemed to have an assigned seat, so Sari stood off to one side, looking for the teacher. She heard one of the others grumble to his friend "I hate this class, why do we even have to learn about the past? It already happened." The kid noticed Sari and repeated the question.
"Because those who do not learn from the mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat them. We learn so that we do not try to do what others have done and fail, like they did then, or cause disaster." Sari replied, her answer, startled the two and confused them slightly at her rather cryptic (to them) answer.
Finally the teacher came in and introduced Sari. Then the teacher pointed her to an empty seat in the third row from the front. The bots on either side looked cheerful and friendly, so Sari went without complaint. For most of the class they copied notes into their data pads, but then The teacher stopped and handed out assignments on another data pad and stated, "You may work with up to two partners on your assignment, but you will only speak quietly. Any work you do not finish becomes home work."
Sari looked at the questions and immediately started on answering them. She talked to the two beside her, and found them to be funny, nice, and cool to hang out with. Then the three of them found out to their delight that they had all of the same classes. "Astro, do you know what nineteen is?" Astro answered her question, and she, Astro, and Chrome finished the thirty-question assignment first. So she asked them where they were from, and how long they had been at the school. Chrome was from Iacon, which was an Autobot controlled planet, and he had been here since the start of school, which had been a couple of weeks ago. Astro had also been going since it started, but he was from Cybertron.
"Who are your creators Sari?" asked Astro curiously. (They were moving classes now, because the bell rang for their next class, PE)
"I don't know Astro, who are yours?" She replied, knowing what they meant and saddening at the thought.
Astro told her his creator's names, and so did Chrome. PE was fun, but hard. Mechanics was fascinating, and then they got a quick lunch of energon and nonalcoholic oil. Sari and her new friends worked on their unfinished Mechanics homework (Which was a lot like health but also how to fix others). Three others drifted over to their table, and Chrome introduced them. "This is Whiplash, Coil, and Shiny." The three seemed friendly enough, and by the end of lunch, Sari had three more friends.
Fighting class was interesting, and so far Sari's favorite. When the last bell rang her friends out to the waiting area to be picked up by their caretakers and/or creators pulled Sari along. To Sari's delight Jetfire and Jetstorm showed up to pick her up.
The two sang together "Please be coming along Sari! We are needing to show you something soon!"
"I'm over here you two!" Sari called out to her friends, and hugged them affectionately when the three met up. They were attracting a lot of stares and Sari asked, "What these to goofballs are some of my friends and they're allowed to pick me up today." After that pronouncement the rest of the school turned away, not noticing that three jets powered up and took off.
"So how was your day being?" asked Jetfire curiously. Sari explained her day. By the end of it, both of them were happy, annoyed, and startled.
"We were not told to fight when we were in the school for the first day. I am wondering why you were." Commented Jetstorm, frowning in confusion.
"I am wondering that too brother and Sari. Perhaps we will ask Perceptor or Sentinel Prime sir." Added Jetfire. The rest of the flight was fun, but they wouldn't tell Sari the something that they wanted to show Sari. Every time she asked they just smiled and said "You will be seeing when we get there."
When they got back to Autobot HQ Sari saw Jazz and Yuketron. Grinning broadly she swooped down and hug tackled her two ninja friends, who were expecting the hug, but enjoyed nonetheless. "So what is the something you two wanted to show me?"
"That all four of us are back. We found out what happened, but our communicator was broken. We have to go back out. We had a couple hours overlay so we decided to wait for you. We have a half hour left until we must leave again." Jazz informed brightly.
"So what was your mission, or are you not allowed to tell me?" Sari asked playfully.
"Our mission was to find Ultra Magnus, or find out why he hasn't made contact with us. Well, Decepticons have him, and the bots he was helping out. The bots are headed to Earth, because they're going to hand the lot of them to Megatron. The worrying thing is, they knew that we were coming to try and find out what happened. That can only mean one thing." Jazz said, his voice lowered to a whisper.
"Spy." Said Yuketron and Sari at the same time.
"We were captured by the Decepticon spy at different times." Continued Yuketron.
"The spy is Longarm Prime. But Shockwave (that's his Decepticon name) has a recruit. The recruit was the one who told the Decepticons I was on Cybertron and thus snatched me." Sari informed quietly.
Jazz, Jetfire and Jetstorm were quite startled by the shocking information. Yuketron however, was not surprised. He had been captured by the Prime, and having another under the command of said Prime made sense. If one was captured or too busy pretending to be an Autobot, the other could collect and pass on information. "We must tell this to the as soon as we can!" exclaimed in unison.
"We have no proof. Who do you think they would believe me, or someone who they think works diligently to help them for who knows how long?" Sari asked bitterly. "Remember that one I'm a kid and two I am not exactly normal am I?"
"She has a valid point. We can do naught but be watchful. Yuketron murmured quietly, "When we do not have a mission to complete, which we do now. Our half hour is spent." With that gloomy statement the four departed. Sari took out the data pads that she had been given and checked that she'd finished her homework (which she did) and wandered around Autobot HQ, looking for Perceptor and Wheel Jack.
"Alright Autobots we have to be on alert for anything out of the ordinary. Decepticons somehow captured ultra Magnus and five other Autobots. The Decepticons are handing them over to Megatron, who as we know is here on Earth." Optimus informed the rest of his crew, who looked thunderstruck at his news.
"Uhmm, Boss Bot? How are we going to be able to do that? We can run scans and patrols, but I don't think that that would help too much if the 'cons try and be sneaky." Bumblebee asked and noted. It was just then that an emergency news bulletin had interrupted the cartoon some had been watching. The new caster was reporting a large fiery streak in the sky that was going to land just outside of Detroit.
An hour and a half later Sari found Perceptor and Wheel Jack. One was plastered to the ceiling somehow and the other… was knocked unconscious. /So that explains why I couldn't find them for so long, I wonder what they tried to do know?/ "Hey 'Jack, need a hand getting down?" Sari asked cheerfully up at the scientist. "How did you get up there and why is Perce' unconscious?"
Wheel Jack sighed in a long-suffering sort of way and replied, "I don't know. Perceptor was messing with some chemicals (He wasn't sure which ones) and they blew up in his face. What ever it was he was working on blasted him ten feet back and me up. That was two hours ago. My communicator isn't working and he hasn't woken up yet. How was your day?"
Sari explained about her brief sparring match in front of the entire school, her classes, and the two new friends she had made. Then she explained who picked her up, and the surprises that she had gotten and given immediately after, and where her wanderings around the HQ had led her, before she found the two of them. As she spoke, she flew up to her friend and looked at the tar colored, slightly sticky and smelly substance and sighed. She poked her communicator and called "Hot Shot, could you come into the mad scientists' lab, the one on the third door to the right? I need you help removing Wheel Jack from the ceiling, and Perceptor, probably, from the floor."
"Sure, anything for the gal that rescued me from the 'cons, is Red needed? I'm sure he would also love to help ya, for rescuing him too." Hot Shot replied cheerfully.
"Yeah, probably, I could heal 'em with my key, but we shouldn't take chances." Sari replied, deciding that that was the best course to take.
When Red Alert and Hot Shot came into the room, they nearly laughed themselves sick of the sight that met theater gaze. The lab was in ruins, glass and crystal shards all over the place, glittering like diamonds, some were covered in different liquids so they glittered in different reds, blues, greens, purples, and a nearly black hardened thing that seemed to be in the most abundance. Red Alert was about to touch a bit of the black stuff when Sari called out "I don't think that you should touch that. That stuff looks like the same material that has welded 'Jack and Perce' in the places they are. Perceptor was caught in a blast according to Wheel Jack, who seems to have gone into recharge.
Any other schools that I missed or you guys want me to add?
Also which school do you want me to do next?
Any names of teachers/principles come to mind?
What do you guys want to happen on day two?
Any other classes you guys can come up with? (for any school, help!)
What do you guys want to happen at the next school or do you want me to keep it a surprise?
Who do you want Astro, and Chrome's creators to be?"
Ok, Do you want me to include either Unicron or Primus or both?
Who do you want the five other Autobots to be, or will it just be a surprise for you guys?