ThornRush and Knockout flew for a couple hours before arriving at a small town west of New York. Before entering the town they landed and transformed from there they made themselves human. Damion's stomach loudly groaned.
"I'm dying." He cried out. Amanda laughed at him.
"No silly you're hungry, let's go eat. I have a hundred dollars left, enough for a good meal." They walked into town, it was small and quant it definitely fit the profile of the fifteen people the sign said lived there. A man with dark brown hair and plump in a well put suit walked up to them.
"You must be visitors." He said politely in a southern accent.
"Is it that obvious." Damion blurted under his breath, Amanda jabbed him in the side with her elbow.
"Yes We're just passing through for a bite to eat." She answered.
"Welcome to our small town. I am the mayor of this fine place." Amanda and Damion looked around only to see a few shops some houses and a restaurant.
"Your place is very lovely. Is the restaurant open by any chance?"
"Twenty-four seven. Jennabell runs the place, I was going there if you would like to walk with me." Damion went to open his mouth but Amanda gave him a death look.
"That would be great." She replied. The two followed the mayor and were surprised to see most of the towns people there.
The mayor walked in and spoke "Jennabell we have some visitors." A strawberry blonde woman, with a picnic table pattern dress walked out of the kitchen.
"Oh, hi ya'll why don't you get yourselves a seat and I'll be right with ya." Her accent was heavy and kind. The mayor walked off to his own seat near a woman and the two walked over to an empty one near the window.
"Nice night, maybe we could go for a walk afterwards." Amanda said gazing at Damion. He only answered with a 'ya', he was to busy paying attention to his groaning stomach. Jennabell walked up with a couple menus.
"Go head and order whatever ya'll want it's half price night." Damion snatched up the menu and opened it. The woman just looked at him.
"Sorry miss he's starved." Amanda spoke apologetically.
"Don't be so formal you can call me Jennabell." She handed Amanda a menu.
"Thank you." Jennabell left to serve another table and Amanda turned to damion.
"You didn't have to be so rude."
"Sorry, my...uh...stomach is yelling at me." Amanda sighed, no matter how hard she could try she would never be able to remove the decepticon that was inside of him. "What is this stuff." He said pointing to the menu.
"Food, it's what us humans eat to refuel, just like energon for you transformers." She said not looking away from her menu. "I think I'm going to get the sated salmon with the marinara sauce. You?"
"Which is best?" Jennabell walked back up to them with a small notebook.
"So what have ya'll decided to get."
"Two Sated salmon dishes with the marinara sauce." JennaBell wrote on her paper tablet and walked off.
Amanda and Damion sat at their booth talking about random things until their food arrived. As they talked Amanda was in her own world, she just couldn't get over the fact that the one con that kidnapped her and and turned her into a transformer is the con she fell in love with and is now running away with from the decepticons, in fact she never in a million years would have imagined something like this ever happening to her. She was snapped back to reality when she smelled the fish.
"enjoy." JennaBell walked away.
"So what do you think?" Damion asked her.
"Think what?" said Amanda taking a sip of water.
"kids, what do you think." The water she had taken sprayed back out onto his face. He wiped it away. "Well if I knew that is what you thought I would have never asked."
"I am so sorry, you just caught me off guard."
"Weren't you listening?"
"Not really my mind was on something else." She took a napkin and wipe the water off of the table." She was surprised he asked her so soon, even at all since he didn't seem like the type of guy who would adore kids.
"It's all right, I was just asking." They ate there fish in silence. After they were done Amanda payed for the food and they left.
"I'm sorry if I embarrassed you back there, you just caught me off guard."
"Don't be sorry, it was an accident."
"Alright. So what were you talking about back there."
"Nothing much, I had just asked how many kids you wanted, if we or when we settle down."
"First you'll have to get past my dad and his shotgun."
"WHAT!"
"Joking, my father is just a little antsy on who I come home with."
"you've had other boyfriends?" He spoke defensively.
"A few, some I regret."
"Like what?" She sighed and sat down under a tree.
"Well I met this one boy in school, he was handsome." Damion gave her a look. "Don't worry, you're better looking." He sat up straighter with a smile on his face. "This boy, was nice and he had hit on me a couple times before he got the balls enough to ask me out." Damion looked at her confused. "It's a human term that I am not explaining. Anyways, he asked me out to dinner one day and I said yes. That night after dinner we were walking back to my house and a car rammed into him, he got sent to the hospital right after. The next day I went in to go see him and he completely blamed for the reason he got hit. I regret ever setting eyes on him, and after that when he came back to school he would always give me dirty looks as we crossed paths in the hallway."
"ouch.. serves him right."
"Ya, sometimes I thank the driver, just because it saved me from heartache later on. So did you have any girl troubles on cybertron...No wait you were a player weren't you?" She said pointing a joking finger at him.
"Got me, as a teen and young adult I used to be a player, how did you know?."
Amanda started to chuckle. "Random guess and anyways you seemed like the player type. Let me guess you stopped after the war started."
"No I stopped after one of my player antics got a femme killed." Amanda sat quiet regretting she even brought that up.
"I'm so... sorry, if I knew I would..."
"Don't be you're not the one who got her killed."
Amanda brought her knees up to her chest and wrapped her arms around them. "What happened." She heard him sigh and she felt she hit a nerve.
"It was eons ago, I was a young adult testing my limits. I met a femme one night while I was out picking up parts for a new invention I was creating. She was beautiful, her helm was a dark knight lavender with hints of yellow, her body was the same." He looked out towards the moon.
"What was her name?"
"Shadow crawler. I remember meeting her that night and falling in love. We met the next day and the day after that, finally we decided to go out. I chose the place and being a mech I chose the most dangerous place I could to show her I was brave. This place was deadly and no-one in their right processor would go there, it had trenches miles deep and the walking paths were good enough to fit half a transformer, though on the other side it was the perfect dating spot... We were out on a ridge laughing and making up crazy stories of past cybertronians who visited that place. And then it happened, the ground beneath her feet became to weak and crumbled falling into the trench taking her with it. I rushed home scared and acted like nothing ever happened. After that I dedicated myself to working as a doctor and as a decepticon."
"Did you ever get over it?"
"Ya after a while I completely forgot about the incident until tonight." She rested her head on his shoulder.
"We should get going if we want to reach Washington by the afternoon tomorrow." They stood up and walked to the edge of town. "Plane or car?"
"How about car. A race would be nice."
"Sounds good." They made themselves into transformers and then took car mode. "Make this a clean race. We'll go about two miles." Amanda stated revving her engine.
"You apparently have never raced with me."
"I'll count. 3...2.."
"GO!" Knockout drove off leaving ThornRush in the dust. She grumbled and sped off in hopes to catch up to him. Every time ThornRush would attempt to get in Knockout's tail he would swerve and cut her off.
~Jerk, if he can play dirty then I can too.~ ThornRush swerved herself out of control, when she skidded to a stop, she transformed and held her leg. ThornRush cried out and Knockout came to her aid.
"What happened!"
"I was driving and I hit something, I think it tore a piece of my metal off." She pointed with her free hand over near a rock.

Knockout went to investigate but before he was halfway over to the rock he heard a someone transforming and driving off. He looked over to where thornRush was and saw she wasn't there instead she was driving off away from him.
~Ahh, so the femme knows how to play dirty.~ he gave a out a slight laugh and transformed into car mode chasing after her.

ThornRush heard the roar of Knockouts engine as he gained on her. She pressed on the gas petal even harder and tried to lose him. She looked into her rearview mirror and saw he wasn't there, she slowed down in hopes to make sure he wasn't hurt, 'big mistake'. Knockouts car form leaped from the hills that surrounded them and landed in front of her. He sped off and she swore she could hear him laughing at her. She got up her speed and came up beside him.
"At least of I don't win I'll make sure we tie. But that's only if I don't win." She changed gears and left him. She could see the second mile marker and knew she was going to finish it. but before she could Knockout zoomed past her and yelled back.
"Rocket boosters, installed them a week ago." He crossed the marker and slowed to a stop. ThornRush immediately followed "no one can beat me I'm to fast." He got out of his car mode and ThornRush did the same.
"Don't get so high on yourself, I will beat you next time." She gave him a glare.
"Ha try me."
"I will." she yawned and shifted her weight.
"Tired?"
"What do yo think? We should probably head farther into the dessert and get some rest."
"what about a hotel?"
"I don't have enough money for one, and we need to save it for food and supplies."
"Understandable." They walked aways until they felt far enough to where they wouldn't be seen. Knockout sat down and ThornRush sat next to him. He wrapped his arms around her and laid down. ThornRush laid next to Knockout feeling his warm spark, she loved him and never wanted to let go, she just hoped that they weren't found in the night.

Morning came quickly and ThornRush turned over on hopes to sneak a kiss out of Knockout but when she went for his lips she suddenly realized he wasn't there. Shooting up onto her feet Fear struck her and she panicked.
~What if they found us and took him, what would they do to him. I have to look for him. But what if I can't find him, what if they killed him and hid his body away or worse cut it up and scattered it.~
She stood there with wide optics thinking of different possibilities that could have happened. She screamed and jumped when she felt a tap on her shoulder.
"EEE."
"You scream like a girl."
"I am a girl." She whipped around and Knockout could clearly see that something had been worrying her.
"You ok?"
"Am I ok? AM I OK! You leave without telling me and then ask if I am ok." She yelled flaring he arms.
"Calm down it was just a before you ask I was out doing something."
"Doing what?"
"It's a surprise. Let's go get some breakfast, I'm starved." She sighed heavily.
"Ok."

Both assumed human form before entering town, they walked over to the restaurant and ordered breakfast.
"You seem a little more happy today, something is up. I can tell."
"You women and your 'I can tell' words." She rolled her eyes at him. When their food came they ate in silence. After breakfast Damion spoke up.
"So I made you something."
"What?" she asked swallowing her last bite. He handed her a small gift wrapped box, and she gave him a look. "What is this for?"
"I just thought of being nice. Is that a crime?" She took off the paper and found the box to be locked with a code.
"It's locked." she said plainly.
"Oh sorry about that, how about you try and guess it. I'll give you a hint, it's a certain date." She typed in her birthdate but nothing, the day they first met nothing, the day they escaped nothing, she typed in a few others but still nothing. After a while of getting angered at the thing she typed in todays date and she heard a small noise from the box. She opened it and he eyes started to fill with tears. She looked up at knockout who was on one knee, he took the box form her and spoke lovingly.
"Amanda, the first day I met you, I thought of you as just another person to be around. But as I got to know you more and more I realized that the feeling was more than just that, I felt I loved you. So as a way of saying I want to be with you forever I created this ring. I did not want to buy one because I believe that true love is worked for not bought or forced." He paused for a moment. "I guess what I am trying to say is will you Marry Me?" Tears were streaming down her face as she nodded and hugged him. He slipped the ring onto her finger and the people in the restaurant clapped. She got a closer look at the ring, it was dark metal with no coloring except for hints of silver in it, the ring had a three small diamonds set on it and carved into the ring was cybertonian writing which read 'I will always love you forever'.
"Let's go get you home."
"Ok." They stood up together and walked out with a few congratulations. After walking out a mile out of town both assumed their robotic forms.
"From what I have gathered we are about one-thousand-nine-hundred-and-eighty miles away from Washington. Would that be car or jet for you."
"Jet would be faster."
"How long would you estimate."
"My aunt flew this way a while, she said it took her four and a half hours to reach New York. I would take us the same, otherwise we could drive, that would take us about one and a half days."
"I'd rather fly, even though I'm a grounder."
"I like the ground too but the faster we get home the faster I can see my family again."
They used their rings and took jet form, after getting a head start both transformed and took off into the skies.

They talked for a awhile, about what they would do once they arrived back at washington, they also discussed a few wedding plans. Though on cybertron, cybertronians didn't have much weddings a few vows here and there but they did not have parties, outfits, (granted they would get a few touchups on their bodies,but nothing like ThornRush was talking about). Cybertron weddings never had many people attend, family and a few close friends to prove of the wedding, they never had every family member and friend attend. Knockout would chuckle to himself every time ThornRush spoke about who they could invite. He knew his family and friends would harm every person if he had any, the decepticons were merle co-workers nothing more. Except for breakdown who was like a brother to him although he died and left Knockout alone on the ship.

Four hours passed slowly for both Knockout and ThornRush, He was to eager to be back in car mode when she was to eager to arrive and see her family again. They landed at the same place they arrived when they went to go find a car base for ThornRush.
"Why here?" Knockout asked.
"This place is pretty secluded no one can see much, and sometimes tester jets are seen to land here so no one will find it odd. Mostly in the summer though sometimes in the spring." She answered Changing into bi-pedal mode, Knockout did the same. They walked into the forest and took human form.
Amanda stretched her legs and arms. "Oh. my. gosh. that was the longest flight ever."
"I agree, a little to long." As they walked farther into the forest they started to hear music. "Where is that coming from?"
"Ssshhh." Amanda turned her ear to the music and listened carefully. "I would know that song anywhere." She raced into the clearing that they had used before as a hideout. As they entered Amanda and Damion heard the music coming from the treehouse. Amanda jumped up and down like a child on christmas morning about to open their presents. "Stay here for a minute." She climbed up some wooden planks that had been nailed into the tree.
Amanda climbed up and as she got higher her heart started to beat faster. She knocked on the door that was located on the bottom of the tree house, she could hear voices inside and she could tell who they belonged to. Amanda knocked on the door again and listened.
"I'll get it, but turn down the music." One girl said.
"I sure hope it's not your little bother again." Another one said exasperated.
"Brother."
"Bother." Amanda heard the door being unlocked an lifted. She stared up at the orange haired, green eyed and freckled girl wearing a red T and overalls, that lifted the door. The girl got a good look at her, screamed and then fainted back onto a bean bag chair.
"Jesse. What could of made her faint like that." Said another girl with beach blonde hair, blue eyes, a semi-tight light blue shirt with a bird on it, she also had on skinny jeans and flats.
"Me." Amanda pulled herself up and stood up on the wooden floorboards. As if it was planned all of her friends screamed, a girl with brown hair, green eyes and a long summers flower patterned dress fainted and landed next Jesse. The bleach blonde girl walked up to Amanda and smacked her.
"Kandy, what was that for." Amanda held her face where Kandy had smacked her.
"That's for disappearing like that." Kandy then hugged her. "And that's for returning."
"You remembered us!... How did you get back?" A girl with black hair, brown eyes, a green shirt with a doodle on it, and flared pants on asked. She also held out her hand to Jesse who had sat up now with the other girl, asking her to pay up.
"I had help Vanessa, in fact here he comes." She looked at Jesse who was getting out some money from her wallet.
"He. Ooooo." Vanessa said.

Damion stood in place as Amanda climbed up the wooden planks. He couldn't hear any talking but he for sure heard girl screams coming from the tree house, he decided to make sure Amanda was alright. He set his hands and feet on the planks and ever so carefully started to climb up. He usually wouldn't mind this kind of climb but his body was so fragile now it made him cringe every time he looked down. He reached the top and was given a helping hand by Amanda, he saw that there were five other girls there besides Amanda.

Amanda grabbed Damions hand and lifted him up into the tree house.
"And you are?" Another brown haired girl walked up to Damion batting her eyelashes. Amanda grabbed his arm and spoke.
"Taken."
"Dang't." The girl snapped her fingers.
"So what's the taken mans name?" another girl with orange hair and freckles said.
"Girls this is Damion. Damion meet my friends, jesse, Kandy, Vanessa." She turned to two other girls who were standing next to each other, they were identical twins. They had brown hair, green eyes, and both had on the same dresses but different colors. "This is Daniella, and Jacee." Everyone said 'hi' in unision.
"You have been gone for so long we have missed you so much." Jacee hugged her tightly.
"Air Jacee, air."
"Sorry. I've been doing a lot of weight training."
"Why would you have to do that?"
"We've gained a few new bullies at school, I was sick of being mistreated." All the others nodded in agreement.
"Oh. Speaking of school how much have I missed?" Jesse went to go open her mouth but Vanessa covered it.
"Do not get Jesse started on school,she will talk on and on." Jesse gave Vanessa a scowl and licked her hand. "Ew.. disgusting."
"You covered it." Jesse retorted.
The girls burst into laughter and Damion just stood there fumbled.
"So did anything serious happen when you were gone to know if we have to get you to a doctor." Jacee spoke up
"No nothing serious."
"Anything traumatizing?" Vanessa added. Amanda held her arm and looked down.
Daniella spoke up for her.
"Girls we shouldn't ask her anything like that, it was probably hard for her when she was away and doesn't want to be reminded of the past. So no questions until she is ready." Everyone backed off knowing that when Daniella got serious there was no fighting her. "So now that you're back I'm Guessing you would like to see your family?"
"You read my mind!"
"Then what are we waiting for, let's go get you home." One by one they climbed down the tree, once they were all down her friends started to talk with her and ask questions.
"Did they allow you to take baths." Jesse asked a question.
"Only showered."
"O-o-o-only s-s-showers no baths? those villains." Kandy put her hand up to her forehead and acted as if she was going to faint.
"At least I got to bathe."
"I guess, but no bathtubs, that's just pure cruelty."
"Na, but when I get home I could go for a nice long soak."
"Speaking of home, you're going to love it." Daniella said.
"I know I have been gone for a while but it's the same one as before."
"Bout that girl. See after you... disappeared, your parents started a business to help find you. They found countless other kidnapped girls but not you. Let's just say the business boomed and their rich. They decided to move just in case the people would come back for Ian." Damions jaw dropped.
"So you're saying Amanda's parents devoted their lives to finding their daughter?"
"Yes and they never stopped even after the police told them you were presumed dead. They loved Amanda to death." They walked out of the forest and walked up to a couple of cars that were parked on the curb. One was a convertible yellow mustang, and another was a little red bug made to look like a ladybug.
"I call dips on taking Amanda home!" Kandy spoke first.
"Not fair, I wanted to!" jacee said with a pouting face.
"I called first." Kandy walked over to the bug and hopped in, Amanda and Damion followed. Amanda sat in the passenger seat and Damion sat in the middle back. The other girls went with Jacee and her sister.

The drive was about thirty minutes up into the foothills. They drove past an open neighborhood gate and turned on Sparkling Dr. Amanda looked out the window to see mansions and half mansions. Kandy drove up to a mansion and parked in the driveway.
The mansion was modern with huge windows and a white outer layer. You could see inside clear as day. One room she believed to be the living room, that they were parked in beside of was a vintage setting, it had a cream white chandelier and below it the couches and chairs were a vintage design and a beige brown color. It had a large TV planted on the wall and what looked to be surround sound speakers next to it. Fancy decorated Floor lamps covered the area and lit up the room cream colored room. There was a man sitting in one of the chairs facing away from them. Everyone got out of the cars and walked up to the front door, which was a modernized flat door painted silver.
"Care to do the Honors?" The girls moved aside and let Amanda ring the doorbell. Damion stood behind her as they heard footsteps walking towards them and a woman's voice.
"John can you please put that book down and help your son with his homework."
"Yes dear." They looked over to see the man standing up and walking away. A beautiful woman with dishwater blonde hair, brownish blue eyes, wearing a fitting green shirt and capris opened the door.
"How may I help you?"
"It's just us Mrs. Balkrie." Jesse answered politely.
"Oh hello girls what brings you on this fine day." Amanda walked up to her mother.
"They brought me."

So I've decided to make this into a three parter since the actual story would have been around eight thousand words or more. I hopefully will be updating soon with the rest of the story, if I can battle school. Please Review.