Barricade transformed his flail and held out his arm. Wasp disassembled it and Wheelie drug it away when it hit the ground.
"Can I at least keep my sword?" mumbled Barricade.
"Nope." said Wasp who was enjoying dismantling the new turncoat. "You heard Optimus. No weapons of any kind until you get back to NEST."
Sari looked at the weapons stockpile. To her it was awesome. Who knew a single bot could hold so much weaponry? One of them, Barricade's heavy blaster, was especially interesting. She wanted to get a closer look. She took one step towards the pile when two metal feet stepped in her way.
"And where do you think your going'?" asked Skids with his arms crossed.
"I just want to look at the stuff." begged Sari.
"Yeah right!" shouted Mudflap. "We may not be smart but we're not smart. Oh wait I mean.."
"What's wrong with you?" yelled Skids to his brother.
"Oh like you can talk any better slag-head!" growled Mudflap.
Skids yelled some Cybertronian swears before slamming his gun in Mudflap's face. Mudflap dropped his gun then pounced.
Sari side-stepped their fight and headed to the pile. She immediately drug the blaster out. What a cool weapon.
It had a modified barrel with a solitarium hose for energon input.
How did she know that?
She tried to pick it up but it was heavy. As she struggled to lift it, she heard a humming sound. Suddenly a powerful shot came from the blaster.
"WHOA!" shouted Bumblebee as he dodged the blast. He looked on as the plasma hit the ground. The Twins were sent flying. Wasp and Barricade fell from the tremors. Wheelie was flung through the air and slammed against Bumblebee's face.
The wide-eyed Sari quickly dropped the weapon and placed her hands behind her back hoping to look innocent.
88
Knockout changed into his protoform and lifted off the moon. Laserbeak swerved past him. Soundwave was waiting for him. Laserbeak landed on Soundwave's arm and the two entered the med bay.
"Laserbeak reporting." stated Soundwave.
Megatron stood straight to hear what his little assassin had to report.
"The girl is still well." said Laserbeak. "I would grab her myself master but she is protected by her Autobot friends and Barricade."
"That traitor will receive his punishment soon enough. Why haven't you contacted the other teams?" growled Megatron.
"Swindle's com link has too much interference from his equipment and Starscream is not accepting my transmissions."
Megatron snarled and clenched his fist which Scalpel narrowly dodged. "I knew Starscream couldn't be trusted."
"Permission to apprehend him master." said Soundwave.
"No Soundwave. There already too many Decepticons on Earth. We don't want the Autobots to suspect an invasion. Not yet. Laserbeak, continue your operations on Earth and keep track on those Seekers."
"As you command Lord Megatron."
88
"So the rumors are true." said Barricade picking himself up.
"How did do you do that?" asked Wasp. "That blaster needs some sort of energon input to fire and you just gave it a massive charge."
"I-I don't know." said Sari inspecting herself.
"The Decepticons claimed she's basically a walking Allspark." said Wheelie. "Guess they were right."
"Uh is it okay if we just head back to base?" asked The Twins simultaneously.
"What? Why?" asked Bumblebee.
"Oh nothing, we just don't like the idea of carrying around the most dangerous thing in the universe!" shouted Skids.
"Hey!" shouted Sari. "I'm not an it! I'm a she!" She started to walk towards them. The Twins backed up in fear as she got closer. After stumbling on each other they transformed and fled.
Sari stopped in her tracks. They were right. She was dangerous. She quivered her lip trying to hold back tears. They came out despite this. She suddenly turned around and ran.
"Sari!" Shouted Bumblebee.
"Barricade, you and I'll get Dumb and Dumber while Bumblebee, you get Sari." said Wasp.
88
The sun was going down. Sari just ran. She didn't know where to go. As far as she knew she was a danger to everybody. She almost just killed the only friends she ever had. Wait a minute. They weren't here friends. Skids and Mudflap just wanted an adventure and this was all just a job to Wasp. And Bumblebee, Bumblebee just.. Just. Oh she didn't have time to think!
She ran into a fenced area and crawled under the chain link fence. She eventually found some old bleachers. Evidently this was an old race track. She crawled under the seats and cried.
"Sari!" called out Bumblebee. "Where are you?" Bumblebee heard a sob. Now he knew where she was. "Sari your eighteen. Don't you think this is a little immature?"
He reached his arm down and picked the bleachers up.
Sari didn't even look at him.
"Sari we need to hurry. That pulse might of…"
"This is all just a job to you isn't it?" sobbed Sari.
"What?" stuttered Bumblebee.
"My whole life I had no friends. My dad kept me in that stupid factory. Then you came along. I thought "finally something exciting" then when you agreed to go with me I thought I finally had a friend. Now I see that its all just a freaking job to you robots!" Sari cried.
Bumblebee kneeled down next to her.
"I hate this job. Yu know that?" he said calmly.
Sari glanced at him with an angry tear filled expression.
"On Cybertron I was a scout. My job was to go ahead and alert everybody of what the Con's were doing. I had friends but no one was my peer. To them I was the young bot that proved his metal but still had to pulled out of the fire. I couldn't just talk to anyone. Then as fate would have it I was the first to land on Earth. Right away my rank changed from scout to guardian. My job was to protect a kid named Sam Witwicky. We became close friends. I finally had someone to talk to. Someone to just hang out with. Then he had to move on. He had grown up. You humans have such short life cycles compared to ours. It won't be long till Sam joins his ancestors and I'm still alive. That's why I hate this job. It is just too easy to become attached to the ones I'm meant to protect."
He turned his head towards Sari.
"And your worse." he said.
Sari wiped away a tear.
"There's just something about you." Bumblebee stuttered. "There's something different about the way I feel towards you then the way I felt towards Sam. I don't want to get so attached to someone else only to loose my only friend again."
Sari stopped her crying. She crawled close to Bumblebee and placed her hand on his knee.
"Stop being so selfish." she managed to chuckle. "You're the first real friend I've ever had. You shouldn't avoid me just because you'll loose me. Tell you what. I'll find a way to live as long as you okay." She knew this wasn't possible but she was trying to cheer Bumblebee up. It seemed to work.
Bumblebee smiled and sat down next to her.
"I have the Twins." said Wasp through the com link. "Do you have Sari?"
Bumblebee looked down at the girl then looked at the sky.
"I'm in pursuit but it may take a while." he said. "We'll meet up with you."
He turned his com link down to muffle Wasp's orders. His hand landed next to Sari with an open palm.
"Let's take a break from this little road trip for a few minutes." he smiled.
Sari smiled back and sat down in his hand.
Meanwhile, Laserbeak spied on the two from behind a pole.
"Disgusting." he spat.
(I would like some feedback on that little tender moment. I need to work on emotional scenes like that for my book and need to know how I can get more emotion out of things. I want tears coming out of the reader's eyes. So far all I got is the guy admitting his feelings and the girl saying "ditto". I know it's horrible. That's why I need the feedback.)