KnucklesRedFury207.2: You have your answers and hints –chuckle-
BABY BUMBLE BEE:I meant for her new school friends. Although Vector Prime may make an appearance.
Pachysam: I think I am (or will) use come of your ideas, Thanks for mentioning the name of a Counsel bot, oh and a couple of her classmates…I think I will use Kup.
Mulan 2:Awesome! I think I will use that science teacher quote in an upcoming school/chapter. I like your definitions of the Screamer clones.
Professor Starkay: Isn't that the truth, Jazz is really cheerful. The Blackarachnia stuff, interesting hmmm.. About the Dinobots, me thinks so.
Air Marshal Ra: I know, but she hasn't actively fought against him (yet) and there's another…reason… Why.
Professor Darwin: Cool names, maybe, maybe, and yeah. My computer won't let me look at the cite you mentioned. –pouts grumpily-
Dragon260: EEEK! Ok, ok I won't have Unicron directly in the story, although I may have Primus… Decisions and thoughts…Hmmm.-ponder, ponder-
Major Simius:I think I will use some of your ideas, I like them, and anyone who sends any thoughts they have in. They do, and will, Sari will too. When not getting shot, (no don't tell bad me!) Wasp…Wasp's fate may play in this story, may not, but he may play a different role like Sentinel has and perhaps will…
Master Phant: LOL! I like it, Sari would be interested in Cybertron's history, knowing little about it. I like the Crosswise thingy too.
Dr-fan/mai-lover: Maybe, but references to them fighting in the past and indirectly in the current (or rather future) timeline of this story, Yup she does! And both of them find out about her uniqueness.
For you to find out: I'm curious about Steven and his origins may be similar to Sari's but not the same.
Lieutenant Mango: -cackles- they do, to both, and She might…
Dr Dodus: Maayybbbeee. I can't get to the cites you or anyone has listed (I haven't gone to youtube yet) I've tried a couple of times. –Grumbles about computer-
Master Rex: He might, He might not, I tried typing (and copy/pasting) the cites and my computer won't let me. Argh!
Perceptor woke up with a head splitting processor ache, and a wickedly grinning Sari, who looked delighted about something. "Hey Red! The Mad Scientist is awake, ya want to check to make sure he hasn't fried anything else?"
Red Alert walked over to the head scientist and ran some scans with a machine that Perceptor knew only resided in the med bay. "How long have I been out, and where am I?"
"Well I had my first day of Elite Guard School yesterday and you are in the med bay. What were you messing with, nitroglycerine and tar?" Sari replied, wondering how many times, something like this had happened, because everyone who found out ahead laughed for a good long while and had said that Perceptor had out done himself this time.
"Well Sari you'd better be off soon, come on I'll take you to there." Hot Shot reminded Sari brightly.
Sentinel marched into the room and said to Wheel Jack, "It's nearly ready. A couple of hours and it'll be finished." He noticed Sari and looked at her, bent down and whispered "I'm sorry for being such a jerk earlier, but listen, I'm trying to get the tapes of what made Bravirin so grumpy and anxious. Thanks for saving Ultra Magnus, he's a good leader."
Sari blinked up at him, his genuine apology and veiled prod about trying to help her, touched and startled her." I accept your apology Sentinel. I got to go to school now, could you please make sure that those two," she said lightly "Don't try and blow themselves up again today? They haven't fully recovered yet, probably, and I don't envy whoever has to clean up that horrible mess."
Sentinel chuckled and replied with a smile, "You bet kid, take care."
"Yes, Sentinel, I will. Don't worry!" Sari airily replied, not knowing what the Fates, and Primus had in store for her.
After being dropped off by Hot Shot and Red Alert, she found her friends Astro and Chrome. She asked them how their afternoons went and if they finished their homework. They were passing a particularly noisy group, when a voice that reminded her unpleasantly like a whiny Starscream asked petulantly. "Hey new femme, how come you know so many Elite Guard officers? Who are you anyways?"
""My name is Sari." She growled, facing her opponent scowl fixing onto her faceplate, but most of it couldn't be seen by her ever-present facemask. "How I know them is none of your concern, what's your name by the way? Is it by any chance Starscream?" she taunted, but drew confused looks from everyone around her.
"Who is Starscream? Why do you speak in such an insolent tone to me? I am the son of-" Began the pompous youngling when Sari's snort of contempt interrupted his talking.
"Sari," Her two friends whispered urgently, "He's the most popular kid in the school, you can't talk to him like that?"
"And why not?" asked Sari, who didn't bother trying to keep her voice down. "I've met politer Decepticons. All right they've tried to annihilate me and some of my friends to get- ah never mind." Sari finished quickly, realizing her near slip. While she hadn't been forbidden (by those who knew what it did) to tell anyone about her key, she certainly didn't want a lot of bots knowing that she had her key, a potential bargaining chip with Decepticons for those who were afraid, or spy.
The three friends continue to bicker all the way to their next class, which was science. Sari looked around at the class. It was a lot like Perceptor's and Wheel Jack's laboratories, but with different colored things in the glass stuff and a lot less of that out as well. The teacher looked like a normal teacher, but something about him, set off her internal alarms. She didn't know what it was, but it was something. By the end of the uniquely difficult and frustrating lesson she knew what. The teacher was a tyrant who rivaled Megatron.
She had understood all of what he had said but angered at his highhanded nature and haughty manner that he treated the class with. She'd quickly taken him down a peg or two by answering the questions (they were about organics in general a topic, by the confused looks on her classmates' faces meaning that they hadn't gone over the subject, let alone some of the more subtler parts), but he bounced right back up when no one else could answer.
Sari's day didn't get any better. The next two lessons were just as difficult, and frustrating. It was near torture for Sari who was unfortunately filled with energy because she had to sit still and the teachers were cruel and annoying.(a/n example a mix of pompous Sentinel and Random Blitzwing) The teachers she had the day before were a pleasant lot and acted like Autobots, bot cranky Decepticons. During their brief lunch (or rather study) break Sari asked, "Are they really that bad all the time?"
"No, They're usually quite nice. " Astro replied, a puzzled expression on his faceplate.
"Astro's right Sari, they are usually like the teachers we had yesterday. Why do you always have your battle mask on?" Chrome chimed in.
"I don't know how to retract it, I've always had it on in this mode for as long as I can remember." Sari replied thinking /Well it's true, all of it, I think. Just got to keep that in mind, I wish I could tell them, but I don't know how they would react, and anyone could see me transform and I don't think that organics are generally accepted here. I'd be in a word of trouble then. /
Optimus was in the front of the group as they hurtled towards the place where the "fireball" had landed. It was, when they got there ten minutes later, a ship. He heard a few grumbles from his teammates when they saw the insignia. But who came out, surprised them. The Jet twins, Jazz and Yuketron stepped down from where they were standing to the ramp and they transformed into their alt modes and contacted Optimus with this message. "We need to meet privately, I know you have a base from what Jazz and the twins have told be about Earth, among other things."
Optimus stated that they were friendly and that they meant no harm and followed them, quickly taking the lead to show them where their base resided. Once there, Yuketron had explained that The Decepticon ship had landed on Earth, presumably with the prisoners that they had.
"One problem, they can cloak their signatures, but we have a way around that, but it's not a far reaching thing, and we believe that they are in a place that naturally dampens their signal. There are several places near Detroit, the organic city we're in, but we've only managed to thoroughly check one of them because of the twists, turns, and length of the caves we have to search." Optimus explained quietly.
"And as they are probably all or mostly all fliers, following them undetected would be a near impossibility at this point." Yuketron finished for the young leader, smiling at the surprised and strangely relieved look on the young Prime's face. "I understand that you probably help the organics of this planet, among other things so you are quite busy and don't quite have the time, though you've probably been trying."
A startled "Yes" from aforementioned Prime escaped him in confirmation.
Prowl was unsurprised unlike Sentinel, or even Ultra Magnus, Yuketron knew that others didn't have endless time on their hands that they frittered away. "Sir, Master Yuketron isn't like many other leaders that you've come into contact with, as long as I have known you."
"That is quite obvious and refreshing. The Decepticons don't usually stay quiet for long." Ratchet grumbled, brusque as usual.
The Autobots that were a part of the cranky medic's team flinched, sighed, or rolled their optics in either despair or amusement. Then the proximity alarm went off and they sighed. "Decepticons," sighed Optimus, "Come on, Autobots, transform and roll out!"
So they fought the Decepticons that had decided to show up to stop them from trying to destroy the city for apparently no reason what so ever. Random was up as Blitzwing's personality for the moment and giggled, "Hey there are two Prowl's, and neither are projections! WHEEE!" The seeker swooped down and grinned at an extremely confused and bemused Yuketron and tried to smack him with a fist. Yuketron grabbed the fist and sent him away careening into Starscream and Megatron who growled as they tried to disentangle themselves.
"What or who was that?" asked Yuketron, still confused, and rather curious.
"That was Blitzwing on his Random personality. He has three." Optimus informed the bemused Ninja leader.
"Blitzwing!" Megatron roared, "Don't say ridiculous things in battle and don't crash into fellow Decepticons!"
But Sari was saved from any further questions by the bell and one slow torture session later; Sari was once again waiting to be picked up by someone. "Hey guys, um I'm not sure if I'm going to be here tomorrow. I might be transferring schools. But that doesn't mean we can't keep in contact, does it?" Sari informed her friends, who both looked devastated.
"Maybe we can hang out sometime, I can't tonight because I have so much homework to do. (He didn't finish his work like Sari did at lunch) You never told us where you lived Sari. Where do you live?" Astro replied after recovering from Sari's statement.
"Yeah, I can hang out tomorrow night too." Chrome added.
"Well I, I live in the Autobot Headquarters and the two who take care of me mostly are Perceptor and WheelJack." Sari replied saying most of the sentence very quickly.
Her friends had understood what she had said and asked simultaneously, "What is your alt form Sari?"
Sari looked very pensive and asked, an odd question in Chrome's and Astro's opinions, "Are you afraid, or do you hate organics? How would you feel if you met one?"
"No, I neither hate nor fear them because I have never met one so why should I feel any animosity towards them. If I met one I'd treat them, if they were sentient, like one of my own people." Chrome said instantly. Astro agreed with him, but wasn't quite as eloquent in responding to her questions.
Sari breathed in deeply and transformed into her human form for long enough for them to register what it, what she truly was, then transformed back into robot mode. "That is my alt mode, well this was my alt mode for the longest time, but I did manage to switch the modes before coming to school. If you guys don't want to see me any more I understand, this isn't the only secret I haven't told you two about. I trust you two, even though we have only known each other for a short period of time, I do trust you, which is why I showed you."
Sari would have said more but Chrome and Astro both raised on hand for silence and said simply, "You are our friend, no matter what or who you are. You are good, honest, and say what you mean. I'm guessing the stuff you told us, you found out by fighting the 'cons? Which ones have you encountered?"
"Starscream, Lugnut, Blitzwing, Blackarachnia, and Megatron. Want to know some interesting things about them? Starscream is blustery but a coward; Lugnut is fiercely loyal but annoys his companions with his slavish devotion; Blitzwing has two modes his intelligent one has a plane alt but if you get him angry enough he turns into a tank in his angry mode and crashes to the ground; Blackarachnia will get so mad if you call her bug lady or mention Sentinel Prime, don't ask I don't know myself, and Megatron… Is huge, can fly and enjoys torturing Autobots for fun." Sari informed them, whispering the informational tidbits that might intrigue her two friends.
"Three questions, 1 have you told any higher up dot this, 2 how long have you been fighting them, and three where?" Astro and Chrome asked together.
"Yes, about a year I think, Earth, a small organic planet far, so very far from Cybertron. I have lived there my whole life as far as I can remember. I apparently arrived on Earth as a protoform. I don't know where I came from or if I was protoformed as an Autobot or a Decepticon. I am a techno-organic." Sari explained further.
"Oh. See you tomorrow at HQ if you are transferring to a different school?" Astro and Chrome said in unison.
Sari beamed radiantly and replied "Of course!" They waited a little while longer, mostly in companionable silence as two digested what all the complications of what just the other was, and found that they didn't care what others may think, they liked her as a friend, so a friend she was.
Surprisingly Chrome left first (she had been told that Chrome was one of the last to leave) with his creators. "Hey Ironhide, this is Sari, she's that new friend I told you about yesterday."
Sari looked up at the towering mech and asked, "Weren't you up at head quarters when I first arrived, one of the guards who first burst into the room where he was. When he was injured well briefly."
Ironhide could only stare for a moment in complete and utter shock at the small organic that had healed his commander and many others, but her form was that of a transformer. He still recognized her voice and her fearless stance. "Ms. Sari thank you for what you have done for our people." He said this completely seriously.
Sari went bright red and hid her face in her hands for a couple of minutes, but looked up at him and replied shyly, "T-thank y-you I j-just w-wanted to h-help."
After that awkward statement extremely confused Chrome was escorted away by Ironhide. Ten seconds after they left Astro turned towards her and asked. "What did he mean by that?"
"I sort of well I sort of healed some people with my key. A bunch of people." Sari informed him uncomfortably, "You see I sort of don't want a lot of attention, I just want to help." Then Wheel Jack and Red Alert showed up and took Sari to Headquarters and she talked about her day and asked if what she'd promised her two friends was possible, they both said it was fine with them, but they needed to ask a Prime, and they had a certain one in mind that cared for her, (not that they were telling which Prime it was) so it was probably all taken care of. They also said that they had a surprise in store for her, but they wouldn't divulge a single hint.
The Decepticons had stopped fighting them and flew away, and they made their bruised and battered way to their base and Ratchet started to fix them up, and most of them were in good condition when the time came and Sentinel called out, "Hey, are you guys alive? I need to talk to you!"
"I'm coming, I'm coming Sentinel, hold your horses." Optimus grumbled slightly.
"What is a horse?" Sentinel asked curiously.
"One of the organic animals of Earth. It was just an expression. Is she coming?" Optimus replied.
Sentinel smiled at the mention of her. He really had no idea how he had begun to care for her all he knew was that she was one of his friends and that he would protect her until the Unmaker claimed him.
Sari walked into the room and smiled up at Sentinel. /He isn't too bad, not really. He seems to be a gruff, blustery person, but that's just a shell, he's got a good heart underneath it, he just needed to be reminded that. /
Sari heard a familiar voice ask, "So what have you been up to Sari?"
"Oh I just went to Elite Guard school for two days, in that time I got into a staged fight with the school bully, and argued with the most popular person in school. Sentinel, Hot Shot, and Red Alert, along with 'Jack and Perce' have been really nice to me." Then she explained where she was when she went missing and who had captured her. Then she asked how they were doing and was delighted to see some of her other friends with them, helping them get the captured Autobots. Sari was understandably shocked when she heard that Ultra Magnus was one of those who were captured. They talked about nothing in particular for a while, then Bravirin showed up and ordered everyone to go do their duties and to stop lolling about. Scowling they all did as they were told and Sari's time to talk with her Earth bound friends was at an end.
"Wheel Jack, am I going to a different school tomorrow?" Sari asked curiously, but a hint of sadness colored her voice too.
"Yes Sari, you are. You are going to engineering school." Wheel Jack replied and continued to explain what it was. "Basically you and a bunch of other kids are going to be trained how to fix, and create different weapons, shields, ships, and of course, the space bridges."
"That sounds like fun!" Sari replied brightly, and she was genuinely interested in going to the new school.
Sari woke up the next morning, bright and early. She didn't know what time it was, but didn't want to wake Perceptor and Wheel Jack because they had had a late night writing reports and stuff like that. So she wandered around the base for a while and saw Red Alert and rushed over to where she had seen him, but was startled by what she saw.
"Hello Sari, what a surprise to see you up this early." Red Alert said cheerily, and then noting her shock he turned off the image projector and replied, "That wasn't really who you thought it was, see this thing projects realistic three d picture see?" He explained, turning it back on and waving his hand through the Megatron projection.
"Oh, well it's quite… Real looking, I thought he was in this room for a moment." Sari replied a touch shakily, "When do I leave for Engineering school today?" Sari asked eager to get her mind off the shock she had just encountered.