Transformers Galaxy Force: Thunder Storm

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Bio Update:

Author's Note: I'm giving three Transformers from G1 a guest appearance.

Three cheers for all those who submitted ideas for the name of Bud's girlfriend. The names also helped me with another character's name.

- Hot Rod (Male Transformer, 500) – A friend and advisor to Override; bartender of The Last Pit Stop in Track on Speedia.

- RC (Female Transformer, 485) – A friend of Override; wife of Hot Rod, RC sometimes helps with keeping the bar her husband owns running.

- Mirage (Male Transformer, 200) – Assistant to Hot Rod; admires Override, but is too scared to ask her out.

- Leena Naomi Fox (Female Human, 14) – Bud has dated 14 girls previous to Naomi, but unlike all the others who fell only for his money, Naomi could care less about the fact that he's a multi-millionaire. A bookworm, Naomi believes that all of the answers to life's questions can be found in fairy tales and legends. She is the best English student in the entire school, and often helps Bud write scripts for future movies he hopes to make. She carefully records everything she sees in a small notebook she caries in her pocket. Since she has only dated Bud once, they don't consider their relationship serious. However, she secretly cannot deny that she enjoyed the one time she "accidentally" kissed Bud as they left their math class, and in front of Coby and Lori to boot. She prefers to be called by her middle name, only allowing close friends (cough Bud cough) to call her Leena.

- Nicole Hanson (Female Human, 45) – The mother of Coby, Bud, and their older brother Tim, Mrs. Hanson is not a woman to cross. This is not because she gets mad, but because she gets even. She is fair and firm, and is hard to fool – something Bud and the Microns have yet to learn. She is somewhat indecisive about the true nature of Coby's relationship with Lori. Her motherly instinct says that they are too young, but she knows in her mind and in her heart that her son's relationship with her daughter-in-law will make her proud of them both, not to mention the fact that they probably would have eloped anyway. She understands Coby's determination to protect, and is more than willing to let him take Lori on an adventure. Besides, she has plenty of adventures herself, trying to keep Bud and the Microns out of mischief.

Part 6.0 Speed of Darkness, Black Nitro Convoy.

Chapter 48

"For some reason, I get the feeling that it was just too easy," Override told the bartender. "He wins the first race, aborts on the second, and then won't even show up for the third."

She was at the bar she normally went to after completing a job, The Last Pit Stop. It was one of the few clean ones in Track, so long as no one threw up on the floor. Unfortunately, the same thing couldn't be said for the bar's restrooms, which the bartender would end up cleaning three times daily. The Last Pit Stop was almost what you would call a "family oriented bar". It offered twice as many non-oil beverages as it did oil beverages, and had a few good meal options.

"Yet another reason why I don't think your client can be trusted," the bartender sighed. He passed Override a drink, saying, "Don't worry, there's no oil in it this time." To Transformers, oil was like raw alcohol. More than once, Mirage, the bartender's assistant, had slipped some into Override's drink. Override didn't mind the fact that Mirage had his eye on her – lots of male Transformers did, she was used to it – but she found it appalling that Mirage was cowardly enough to try and get her drunk.

In spite of her friend's reassurance, Override scanned the drink before picking it up to take a sip. "You keep saying that I shouldn't trust my client, Hot Rod. Why is that?" she asked the bartender.

"…I looked at her,
She was so sweet!
She looked better than,
An oil-soaked treat!...
"

"Shut up over there!" Hot Rod yelled at two obviously drunk Transformers who had begun to sing ballads at the top of their air compressors. They didn't stop singing, but they quieted down. The bartender nodded in satisfaction and turned back to Override, "To answer your question, I was in the alley when you took the job. After you left, your client contacted someone in Fire Space."

Override's optics widened, "The Destron sub-dimension?"

Hot Rod nodded, "I don't know if your client is a Destron or not – I couldn't see him – but whoever he is, he is working for them."

"… So I spat at him and drove away
Saying, 'I'll beat you another day!'…
"

"QUIET!" Hot Rod roared at the singers.

"Why don't you just let them sing?" asked a voice. Hot Rod and Override both turned to see Hot Rod's wife, a gentle Transformer named RC, standing there.

"Sorry, RC," Hot Rod grinned, "but I don't allow profane drinking songs here."

"I know," RC said smiling as she began climbing the stairs that led to their apartment above the bar. "I like that about you, and I intend to prove it tonight."

Hot Rod's face went scarlet as his wife vanished. He turned to Override and said, "If I were you, I'd do as your client asked. Take Rodimus Convoy to him, but stay by Rodimus Convoy's side until they can verify if he is who they're looking for or not."

"I'll do that," Override nodded. "I feel like such a fool."

"You're no fool," Hot Rod said.

"…Goooooolllden Oil!
Gooooolllden Dreams!
If ooooonly I kneeew
Where there are those streams!...
"

"Your next five drinks are free if you get rid of those two," the bartender offered.

Override grinned, "With pleasure."

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AN: To answer SupremeStarscream's question for everyone, it is my understanding that first base is the first date, second base is the first kiss, third base is going steady, and home plate is set for life. So as far as I'm concerned, Gasket got to second base, and then tried to cut across the field to home plate and got tagged by the ball.