"Okay Dragonfly, let's get going." Dragon half transformed showing only her head. I unhooked my bike from the rack, and starting pedaling away.
"Wait someone is calling you," she said buzzing in my hand. I answered the call. Dragon fly lipped the callers words.
"Erica?" Said a familiar voice.
"Thats me," I took a seat on the bike and watch people.
"It's Speedy, Hana told me, well accidentally told me, that we're going to build something." Speedy is another family member I made along with his brother Sparky. They are my little helpers.
"Yeah, Dragon told me there's a place we could check on."
"Ah, okay. Pick us up on your way there." His voice was fast but I understood.
"Okay, I'll get you both but be on the lawn so I don't have to go inside." I started pedaling again.
"Okay! See you home!" The phone went off and Dragon transformed back completely.
"Ratchet!" My foot stepped onto the S.S Marylee. This can't be true... I heard from my mom, but I didn't believe her. How could Rachet get caught? I thought I hid him pretty good, and his life was in my hands. Damn! I can be such and idiot.
"Rachet? It's me!" I called out. I stopped in my tracks to find blacken holes in the boat.
"No..." I can't believe this. I'm the one who let him die. My knees dropped to the wooden floor. I started to cry from my idiocy. My phone started to play our band song Naughty. I wanted to ignore this call,but I knew who it was. I quickly straighten myself and coughed out my voice. I answered.
"Hey Pierce!" It was Aiden, best friend since the fifth grade.
"Yo! Sorry I'm late! Mom keep me at home looking after the kids for a little bit."
"It's fine man, just checkin' in with you. Just hurry up a bit Paul and Felix is already here."
"Okay, okay I'll be there," I looked down to my leather watch, "in five, see you guys soon."
"No less than five minutes!, later," I hanged up the phone first. My hand grazed into my ridiculously dyed hair. I didn't want to move from this spot. I hang around a bit longer; waiting for Ratchet to signal if everything is safe. Nothing. He's gone forever. My brain stopped working for a while until somebody called out to me.
The two brothers were outside in their alt form waiting for me. A hot wheel car and a lighter. I quickly picked them up and Firefly rolled in from the garage in his alt form.
"You want to come too?" I whispered to him, trying not to be suspicious. The flashlight shook a little which I guess signaled as a 'yes'
"Okay, i'll get the sphere also. I want to start working on him right away." I grabbed the sphere from it's hiding place and quickly went back to pick up my fallen bike. And stashed them in my backpack.
"Dragonfly coordinates please,"
"Alrighty," she whispered, "I sent them." x and y coordinates showed up in my head, and I quickly started to figure out where this place is.
My bike passed the dock where Ratchet died. I picked up speed until I saw two figures on a boat bickering. I stopped and tried to listen in.
"This is a classified area you must leave at once," this man had a deep voice, and from where I could see he was one of them men in black people from last night.
"If it's a classified area how did I get in here so easily?" His voice sounded familiar, but I wasn't sure who it is.
"Just leave now!" The men in black guy voiced boomed across the dock. He started to take the boy by his collar until he swatted his hand at him. The sunglasses guy looked pissed now. I need to do something quick. I needed to amplify my voice.
"FIREEE!" I shrieked at the top of my lungs. Continuing to scream, people started coming out the door to see if there is a fire, or to see what the hell is going on. Somebody tapped on my shoulder.
"You're good," I turned around to meet a green eyed boy.
"Pierce?" He looked at me quizzical look.
"Do I know you?" I shooked my head no, but pointed at somebody running at us. That black suited bull was coming right at us.
"Shit! I pedal and you hop on the back,"Ordered Peirce. I did what I was told and got on as he was ready. "Hold on tight!," he pulled on my hands which wrapped around his torso. I didn't have time to react as the bike went to unbelieve speed. My eyes shut close because of the wind hitting it so fast. I felt lefts and right until the road changed to gravel then dirt. The bike finally came to a slowing stop.
I slowly opened my eyes, "Where are we?" There was scrap metal everywhere, and if I looked around more I could see cars stacked on top of each other. And a warehouse that loomed over the whole place.
"Welcome to Rudy's Auto Shop and Repair. Well it use to be Ruddy's place until he died and nobody wanted it. For now it's just a scrap metal junkyard, or in our case a practice place." His face turned sour.
"Our?" I questioned
"Okay well it's the Crimson Icee practice place," he took a pause to gather his thoughts, "and nobody is suppose to see it unless it's one of girlfriends. It's kinda a band member thing."
"Oh?" this sounded interesting.
"What's your name again?" he asked
"Erica Lu-."
A voice interrupts me, "Pierce! Where have you bee-," his eyes traveled to me. There was a short silence, "Oh my god, Pierce finally brought a girl! Guys check it out!" Two more girls came out from the ancient warehouse. one of them was Cassey and the other looked like Lacey Ryder. Another male with black hair came out also.
"Erica?" said Cassey I sheepishly waved at her. Pierce let out a long sigh.
"Aw come on man you finally brought a girl!" His brown hair flopped to one side of his face and he flipped his face back to get out of his hair.
"This isn't my girl Felix, I just needed a ride…" Felix looked at my sad looking bike on the ground. Lacey stood close to the black haired boy and said nothing. But then he spoke up,
"Then who is she?"
"Her name is Erica Lunt, Paul, the new girl from our school" said Cassey as she pinned up Felix's messy brown hair. When I look at them more closely they look quite similar. The black hair guy, or Paul, nodded and went back to seized me up. I slowly started to pick up bike off the ground.
"What what are we doing to do with her?" asked Felix
"Her name's Erica," hissed Cassey. She looked at me with sorry eyes, "This is my twin Felix," he bowed and reached over grabbing my hand. Gently kissing it.
My face reddened, "Twins, huh," Cassey smacked his head.
"Yeah, funny right? We look the same but our personality are polar opposite." Said Felix as he rubbed his head.
Cassey shrugged and took my bike by it's handle. "I got it, you should stay to watch the band practice." All eyes were on me. Felix looked like he wanted me to watch. Lacey slightly glared at me. Paul gave no expression whatsoever, and Pierce just shrugged his shoulder. My phone buzzed I quickly read the text,
Dragonfly
THIS IS THE PLACE!
no way, I texted her back.
Me
Really? What now? There's other people here…
Eyes were still stuck on me.
Dragonfly
This is the only place where it's not to far from your school or our house! It must be here!
I sighed and looked at all of them. "Sure, I can watch for a little bit." everybody seemed to slightly nod as if they have accepted me. All of them started to walk towards the warehouse. I followed with Cassey by my side.
Cassey came closer to me, "Welcome to the band Erica." I smiled and said,
"Thanks...You know you don't have to roll my bike I could do it myself." I started to reach for the handles. She pulled away,
"Nah, I got it." I sighed and shrugged my shoulder. We walked through diny metal doors. There was a concrete floor and a couple of hanging lights. It wasn't much it looked just like an inside an old abandoned warehouse. There were also tools seen in the back of the place. I could use those to my advantage. Then Aiden popped into my head see as he wasn't outside with the others.
"Is Aiden here?" I asked to her. My backpack started jumping on my back.
"He was here bu-,"
I interrupted her, "Where's the restroom?" I started jumping to cover up the jumping on my back. She pointed to a white door,
"Over there... You better hurry to cuz it looks like you're going to pee yourself."
"Yeah, Peirce is a speed maniac." I quickly opened the door and went inside. I set down my wiggling backpack near the toilet. The zip unzipped itself and two little bots job jumped out. One of them had a little flame coming out if his head, while the other have wheels for legs.
"Is this the place?" Speedy rolled over to a wall and knocked on it.
Sparky bonked him the the head.
"No idiot,this is just the restroom the real place is out there." He pointed to the door of which I came through.
"Oh, I see now," Speedy turned to me, "why are we in here when we could be working out there?" Dragonfly got herself out of my pocket.
"Because they're people out there who doesn't know we exist! And if they do know then they would take Erica away from us!" Firefly jumped out and started doing morse code with his light. We all looked at him.
"B-E Q-U-I-E-T O-R T-H-E-Y W-I-L-L H-E-A-R U-S," Firefly can talk, when he wants to, but Morse is only when we use sign language so nobody hear us. We all nodded at Firefly.
"Dragon told me this is the only place where I could build Rachet, being a big place and all." I sign langued to them. Speedy held up his hand,
"We can't do it somewhere else?" I nodded my head 'no' to him. Sparky's flame went a little brighter, like a light bulb lighting up.
"Maybe we could wait for them to leave," he signed. I thought about it then shooked my head no again,
"Not after what I did last night, Robert would kill me." From the other side of the door a drum set was hit and a guitar was strummed. I heard rambles among of the group of people outside that door and suddenly my name comes up.
"Where's Erica?" says Felix's voice.
"In the restroom," Cassey held her breath for a second, "actually she's been in there for a long time." I quickly widened my backpack opening and motion for my little transformers to move it. Steps were coming closer to the door. Speedy whiskey throttle it and Fire zoom in transforming into his alt form mid air falling in. Sparky flicked off his flame and jumped inside. I reached over and flushed the toilet.
"Erica?" Calls Cassey outside the door. Dragonfly landed on my hand and transformed into my phone. I turned on the faucet,
"Yes?" I called over the running water.
"You okay in there?" I turned off the water and opened the door.
"Everything fine," I said with a small smile, "my cousin called asking where I was." I lied under my breath. Cassey nodded,
"That's nice of him to check up on you," She looks over towards the guys and Lacey, "I think they're waiting for us. Come on let's watch." She turns away from me and joggs back to them. I begin to walk until someone nudge at me.
"Hey," his voice was smooth, "nice to see you again." Aiden smiled at me and tugged me along towards the others.
"Same to you," my small smile seemed to lengthen a bit more. He pushed up his glasses a bit closer to his. Dragonfly buzzed me,
Dragonfly
What are we going to do now?
Me
I'm actually not sure… We could wait a bit longer and see what their schedule is and come here when they're not here
I texted back.
Dragonfly
That could work I guess, but how are you going to hide the rebuilding process of Ratchet?
Me
I already have an idea.
A/N
It's been a while since I last updated! Sorry about that… Anywho I hope you enjoy this chapter :) I would also like to give thanks to Anwerthecall who keeps giving me wonderful feedback as this story progress. Please leave a review, criticism, etc. I will always look forward reading them.
-Cedar Fisher