Jade was sitting in the garage. Tonight was the night she'd have to go out and race for Sierra's freedom. She'd informed both Diamond and Sierra of the event and they agreed to help. Later on, when Sierra was having a shower, Diamond said he'd go with Jade was Diamond then said he'd go to the base with Arcee and Cliff to try and get the others to help.
Jade agreed. She was sitting down in the garage, waiting for Vince; she'd meet up with Diamond at the races. She wore a pair of black leather pants and a shimmering green overcoat.
It was then that Sierra walked down the stairs.
"I'm coming." Was all that she said and needed to say as Jade didn't stop her. This was her fight, and she wasn't letting them take it all on for her.
Vince arrived at about 10:30pm. Both Jade and Sierra followed him via Jade's old racing motorbike, it looked like Arcee's form, but a few years older and the paint job was metallic green. Jade had kept it hidden under a rain cover.
Once they arrived, they found Diamond and Adam in a heated glaring contest. Adam was the first to spot them as they walked over.
"So you didn't leave town." He sneered down at Sierra, who stood her ground. Adam addressed the crowd. "Get to your markers, folks."
Everyone dashed off straight to their cars.
Knock Out arrived just as Sierra walked out to start the races.
It was then that Sierra paused. She beckoned someone over from the side lines, a female, a hot one by human standards, walked out over to her and took her place, while Sierra ducked over to the passenger side of another car.
Knock Out felt a little hurt, but he had no time to complain as the girl gave the signal.
As they raced, Knock Out managed to see who was with Sierra.
Oh... no, the Autobot, Bumblebee. Not good. Did the 'Bots know about Sierra? Scrap, Knock Out had to save her. He managed to get up close to them. He pulled out his alterform's blaster, and opened fire, aiming for the tires.
Bumblebee smoothly ducked out of the way and zoomed off the race track. Knock Out followed him.
Arcee, Cliffjumper and Bulkhead were watching Raf and Miko on the playstation.
Cliff looked around. "Where's Bumblebee and Diamond?" Diamond had arrived with them at base, but after a while he disappeared.
Once the question was asked, both Miko and Raf froze, their cars on their game even crashed.
"Err..." Bulkhead looked around.
"They went out for patrol." Miko lied, quickly.
"But tonight is Optimus' turn." Arcee pointed out.
Before another word could be said, Bumblebee called in, letting of several bleeps and whirls.
"You're being chased by Knock Out." Raf translated, horrified.
"Bee, where are you?" Arcee questioned. "Is Diamond with you?"
Bumblebee gave a reply and Cliffjumper went wide eyed.
"Why the hell are you racing?!"
Another set of beeps.
"Fine, tell us later. We're on our way."
Miko, while everyone was distracted, tapped Raf on the shoulder, "What about, Jade?"
"She's blocking, so Dad doesn't see what's going on. I'm doing the same." Raf told her.
"Can't Optimus feel that you're blocking him?"
"Only if he tries to use the bond, and he normally doesn't check on us, until after patrol. Mainly so he can focus on what his doing."
It was then that they heard the ground-bridge additive behind them; they looked over to watch the Autobots leave, before racing over to the monitor.
*5 minutes later*
Optimus entered the base, he was greeted by Raf and Miko, to which he greeted back.
He went off to his quarters, but he paused at the door. Something seemed off, he took a quick walk around the base.
When he reached the med-bay he found Ratchet.
"Ratchet, where is everyone?"
Ratchet frowned, "They should be around the base, somewhere. Why?"
"Because I cannot locate anyone, but Raf and Miko." It was then that Optimus tried to see Raf through the bond, but found it blocked. He narrowed his eyes. "Please excuse me Ratchet." He walked out of the med-bay and out to Raf and Miko. "Raf, Miko, do either of you know where the others has gone?"
Miko was the first to answered, "Why no, sir, we do not know."
Raf had his eyes to the ground when he said: "Miko is correct, we do not know." His voice was stiff, as if trying to keep his voice normal.
"Why would we know?" Miko added, her voice trailing off a little at the end.
Optimus raised an eyebrow, completely unconvinced. "Raf," His tone was that of warning. "Do not lie to me, now stop blocking me and speak the true."
*2 hours later*
Jade had crossed the finish line. As she stood off her bike she could hear the roar of the crowd in her ear. As much as she had the urge to throw her fist up in the air, she was only hear for one thing. Sierra's freedom, and the money, with that Sierra had the choice to leave town. Of course, Jade would have to get Fowler's help with that.
"Been a long time, since you crossed that line." Adam sneered. "And it's been a long time since I landed so much money. You sure your just hear for the brat?"
"Pretty sure," It was then that Jade notice that everyone was leaving, only a few adults were left.
"Too bad," Adam then pulled out a knife and swiped at her.
Jade jumped out of the way, narrowly avoiding the blade. "What's the deal?" She barked.
"I told you, years ago, that if you came back to racing, I'd cut you in half." He kept swiping, and Jade kept dodging. "Get her boys."
The others pounced on her, but they were knock out by someone behind them.
"Fowler?" Jade's jaw dropped. What was she doing here?
"Jade, please step aside." Fowler polity ordered, so she could take on Adam.
"Oh? So you follow the black bitch's orders?" Adam let off a sick smirk.
Fowler gave him punch to the gut, so fast that even Jade had trouble following it. It had to hurt as Adam fell to the ground in total pain. As soon as he fell, Fowler kicked him in the face, knocking him out. "That's for calling me a bitch." She then turned on Jade. "You mind telling me, how you're here?"
Jade quickly explained herself and then asked what Fowler was doing here.
"After moving the Autobots here, we started note something about the law enforcement here, I got a tip, and came to look." Fowler pulled out her phone. "You'd better get home. I'll take care of these guys."
"What will happen to them?"
"Prison, one far way from Jasper."
With that knowledge, Jade left. Picking up her motorbike she drove off back home.
On the way, she decided to speed up a bit.
Suddenly a ground-bridge opened in front of her, she pulled on the brakes, but she still went right through the ground-bridge, she found herself in the Autobot base. Everyone, but Optimus, was there, even Sierra and Vince, and the Autobots were in robot mode.
Sierra walked up to her. "How did it go?" Jade explained what happened and Sierra nodded. "Works for me,"
Jade then looked to the others. "What are these two doing here?"
They gave they're side of the story, how Knock Out took both Vince and Seirra.
"Your father ordered for you to go see him Jade," Arcee told her.
"Word of warning," Miko grumbled. "He's dishing out punishments. He already took my guitar."
Jade sighed, now she was in trouble.
"Dad?" Optimus looked down to see Jade standing at the door.
"Up here, please Jade." He gestured to a large square slab that stood next to the berth, acting as a bedside table. Jade flew up and stood on top of it, facing him.
"Please explain your side to this story, Jade?"
Jade sighed, before briefly going through what had happened. "And Fowler has dragged of the three of them off to jail somewhere."
Optimus gave a sigh; he had never expected this from Jade. It was then that he noticed her outfit. "Jade, what are you wearing?" He knew the outfit.
Jade gulped. "It's my old racing gear. When I was in about grade 10, Vince gave me his old bike, I then got involved in the street races to help out, Sierra. Mum gave me the overcoat, before I left."
"I had heard about that, continue."
"Yeah, after a while I had an accident, something went wrong with the bike. I crashed; I was bleeding like mad, so I raced home. Adam told me to never enter a race again, not that it matter."
Optimus was complete focused on her. "What do you mean by that?"
"I had a fear of bikes after that."
Optimus nodded. "On to other matters, Jade. Although you did this to save a friend, you still didn't tell me that you would be doing something rash. So your punishment is to CLEAN the base from top to bottom once a week."
"For how long?" Jade asked.
"Until I say otherwise." Was his answer.
*Meanwhile*
"What?!" Knock Out shrieked. "Replacement?!"
"You have been leaving your post too much," Starscream waved her off. "Your sister shall be taking you place as chief medical officer."
Soundwave stepped up beside Knock Out and showed Knock Out's and Flatline's profiles. He zoomed in on both their stats showing that Knock Out was far more qualified then Flatline's when it came medical and science.
"Well put, Soundwave." Knock Out mentally smiled at silent 'con. She hoped that would win the argument.
"She may pass Flatline in areas of study, but she lacks the disappeared needed for the spot. My word is final." He turned his back on them and stalked out of the med-bay.
Knock Out felt like she was hit with cosmic rust, she lost her job and to Flatline, of all 'cons.
"Change at times can give you the edge in battle."
Knock Out looked at Soundwave in surprise. "How did you know those words?"
A voice that seemed to echo off itself came from Soundwave. "Because, he said the same thing to me."
Knock Out turned to her master, whose body still lay on the medical berth. She sighed, a ping then sounded off on her data pad, she checked it. Soundwave had sent her a new location to check out.
She frowned, as she had work to do... wait, work that had to be done by the chief medical officer.
*5 weeks later*
Jade was sweating, she slumped against the tree.
"Why'd you stop?" A male voice purred behind her.
Web shot out and lashed onto her feet, making her lose her balance and fall to the forest ground. Airachnid appeared above her, ready to kill.
Arcee awoke from the horrid nightmare that just ended. But in a sick way, it wasn't over, Airachnid was now on Earth, and he had meet Jade. Thankfully, he only thought her to be human.
Arcee shuddered; there was no way Airachnid was going to get near Jade. He'd make sure of it.
*Later that day*
Jade slapped down a four on the pile of cards. "Pick up four, Vince." She smirked.
Vince slapped down a four of spades. "Raf, pick up eight."
Raf looked over to Sierra, as he placed down a four of heart. "Sorry,"
"Meh, just a game, Raf." She slapped down the last four of the deck. "Besides, Diamond shall be the one picking up sixteen."
Diamond muttered under his breath, cursing the game of 'Twos and Fours', as he picked up sixteen cards. [2]
They were all at the base as it was now the Christmas holidays and they were just hanging out together.
After the events of the racing, Vince had stopped picking on them, and started to help them out. Like if Raf got his lunch money taken off him, Vince would get it back, same went if something of Miko's, Jade's or Sierra's got thrown into the boy's LOCKER room, he'd go in and get it back.
Seirra, after the events, got closer to Diamond, as she was now living with Jade at the warehouse. She was really happy to know the true about him; she loved his wings, and his snow tricks.
"Optimus," Ratchet called out over to the Prime. "I've located the Decepticon warship."
Everyone in the room froze, the card game was put on hold as all the Guardians, and humans ran over to Ratchet.
"Rad," Miko grinned, "How you get passed the shields?"
"I didn't," Ratchet muttered. "I was experimenting on different frequencies, when I stumbled upon it."
Arcee smirked. "We could cause some serious trouble for the 'cons if we ground-bridge up there."
"Wait," Ratchet typed in a few things, "I've also found an Autobot emergency beacon."
Everyone looked to Optimus for his orders. To which he ordered for Ratchet to grab her medical kit, as he and Ratchet were to ground-bridge to the Autobots in need of rescue.
While Optimus and Ratchet were gone, the others were working out a battle plan for the 'cons. After a while, a clang was heard everyone turned to Raf. He had dropped his laptop.
Racing over to the ground-bridge control panel he typed furiously at the human keyboard.
Eyes then turned to Jade as she gasped. "Dad!"