"So what now?" I asked, still laying on top of him and fiddling with his hand. He seemed content enough to the point I thought he fell asleep, since he had closed his eyes and rested his head on the short grass. I looked around, and Ironhide had apparently transformed into the black Topkick and stood still near the oak tree.
"Mmm, you just lay still and relax. Enjoy the moment." Ron said as I settled back onto him. I sighed happily.
"If I do that, I'll fall asleep." I brought my hand to his neck and caressed it gently. He chuckled.
"I never knew you could be so caring." Ron took my hand that was caressing his neck and kissed it.
"I never could have imagined you to be a soft guy on the inside. You look so untouchable." He hummed in acknowledgment and then hummed some tune of his that was soothing, but I never heard it before. I closed my eyes as my head was still resting on his chest and… just relaxed.
I knew, right now, that I would be remembering this moment for the rest of my life. Taking in the surroundings, the feelings, taking in the scents… taking in his scent. It was a mixture of beautiful perfumes, mostly of Carolina Herrera's 212 VIP and a pinch of motor oil, but that wasn't anything important. The point was that he smelled badass and I just happened to have that perfume as my favorite.
This moment was so beautiful and so very serene. It was really peaceful and we knew nobody could disturb us. I laid a kiss on his chest once again, after hearing him chuckling again. He was like a teddy bear. All snuggly and just waiting for you to hug him and never let go. He was very caring and it was quite contrasting from the what he led on, on the outside.
It was no wonder I fell for him. I loved the soft side of him.
If I suddenly got hit by a truck or something and had amnesia, this would be the moment I was going to remember forever. Us so perfectly in each other's arms, with the weather being ever wonderful. I closed my eyes, inhaling his scent once again and enjoying every bit.
I think I fell asleep, because I woke up on the couch what seemed to me minutes later. I stretched myself and got up slowly and stretched once again and looked for a clock. It was so dark inside the house, so it had to be somewhere in the middle of the night. As I got to the kitchen, finding the time on the microwave indicating it was 04:27 in the morning in neon green. I sighed.
Great. Just my luck.
I hadn't a better idea and I missed my beloved already. I got out of the house very quietly and got to Ironhide, who was in his truck form, parked neatly in the vertical part of the L shaped driveway. I came closely to his hood and kissed it. The engine suddenly purred from the inside. The driver's door opened quietly and Ron came out. My heart skipped a beat at the sight of him.
He embraced me in a hug, his arms resting on my waist. "Why aren't you sleeping?" He inquired in a whisper, making sure he was quiet.
"I slept the whole day. Did you put me on the couch?" I asked him, and heard him hum to me in approval. He suddenly went stiff. "What's wrong?" He stood silent as I took a step back, but remained in his embrace. It took a couple of more seconds of silence before he spoke up.
"Nothing you need to worry about. We are just expecting a new arrival crash landing on our field."
"You mean the meadow?"
"Yes, our meadow." He said, brushing his nose with mine. I have him a tender kiss on the lips which he returned evenly. Suddenly, behind the truck was a 'vroom' sound. Definitely the sound of a sports car. I looked at Ron and he just said with a frown. "Sideswipe." He turned towards him and I just followed. "You slagger! The humans are sleeping!" He berated the silver car as it parked behind the Topkick, and the door of the silver sports car opened on the driver's side.
The good looking guy in jeans and a silver jacket shot a sexy grin at me. "She isn't." He pointed out as he closed the door with a loud 'thump'.
"I slept the whole day, Sideswipe." I said normally. He shrugged and sat on his hood.
"Sunny should be here, he's the one who's crash landing." Sideswipe told this to Ron as he crossed his arms. My my, Sideswipe's holoform did look really nice.
"Primus no. What makes you think he's the one arriving?" Ron asked.
"He said so." Sideswipe said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"His comlink is down."
"We have a twin bond, you outdated model." He mocked Ron.
"I will turn you into scrap." Ron growled and I tried to intervene right there.
"Okay, guys, whoa. Stop it. No need to throw rocks at each other." I turned to Sideswipe. "So when is this 'Sunny' arriving?"
He stood silent for a small while. "In a day or so."
"Good." I had an idea miraculously find its way into my head. "Sideswipe?"
"What, fleshy?"
"Can I… See how your interior looks like?"
"No."
"Please?"
"I'm not letting a squishy into me."
"Sideswipe, you will let her or I will give you a few explanations." Ron growled, clearly alluding to the 'explanations' being a good beating.
"Fine. But be quick, you organic." He just sat there on his hood, eyeing me carefully with his ice blue eyes narrowed. He watched my every move like a hunter would. I opened his door, which he didn't lock because he was given ice cold glares by Ron. I slid myself into his black interior. It was a leather interior, it was very clean inside and it looked factory new.
I put my hands on the steering wheel and Sideswipe's holoform moved. I mimicked I was driving a racecar.
"Brmmmm, vroooom!" I squealed inside. "Man, you have a great car mode, Sideswipe." The engine revved in agreement as I got out. I closed the door gently and gave Sideswipe a look. "See? That wasn't so bad now was it?"
He rolled his eyes and sat back on the hood. I kept giving him a stern look until he confessed. Seeing my look, he put his arms up as if surrendering. "Fine, it wasn't." He said as I got back to Ron. There were a few moments in silence, before something swooshed over our heads and Ron gripped me.
"What the hell was that?!" I whisper-yelled at the two of them. It looked like a comet too close for comfort.
"I guess our new arrival is a day early, wouldn't you agree Sideswipe?" Ron gave him a look of clear annoyance. Sideswipe just shrugged as he disappeared into thin air and his car's headlights turned on, along with his engine. I got into the truck along with Ron and he started driving behind Sideswipe. We went at a pretty high speed, well over the limit. Sideswipe, from what I gathered right here, loved going fast. His alt mode only confirmed it.
As we neared the end of the road, Ironhide got onto the grass effortlessly, while Sideswipe just stood there. Ironhide revved his engine in irritation and Sideswipe carefully and slowly got onto the grass and we started driving towards the crash site. Funny how there were no flames and such things, since I could clearly see some kind of pod transforming and behind it, was a hole trailing to the pod.
The sun was starting to rise up, meaning it was somewhere around 5 to 6 in the morning. As we neared to the location of the now fully gone pod, a metallic being stood up proudly, looking down at us with blue eyes. Sideswipe gunned his engine and sped up to the point I thought the engine would die. That's how hard he sped and how high the RPM number went. He transformed in the blink of an eye and tackled the robot that emerged from the pod. The two figures rolled on the ground.
I exited Ironhide and sat on his hood where Ron followed me. We held our hands behind our backs, intertwining our fingers. I leaned to Ron and whispered to him. "Who is that?" I asked as I looked back at the two robots. Sideswipe hugged the second robot on the ground as he was the one over it. He even snuggled his face in the crook of the other robot's neck.
"Sunstreaker."
"Is that his girlfriend? He must love her a lot." I noted as Sideswipe hugged the other robot again for a long time, even though they were on the ground.
Ron laughed out loud at that. I just stared at him, but couldn't help but laugh myself, and I hadn't even known what I said! "No… That is his twin brother."
"Oh." I face-palmed myself. "So why is he so excited?" I saw them rolling over each other, the dirt of the ground getting all around them and flying in the air.
"The War separated most of us. It separated the two of them as well."
"Oh yeah, you told me about that." I remembered. Finally, the two robots got up, arms sloped around each other. Ron took his hand to him as I did likewise. I approached this 'Sunstreaker'. He had an awesome name, but then again, all of the robots had awesome names.
Sideswipe grinned from beside his brother. "Sunny here's the-"
"Don't call me that." Sunstreaker's deep voice interjected.
"-fleshy that I let into my interior today!" Sideswipe exclaimed, his behavior completely different now that his twin was with him.
"Hi! I'm Melissa, Captain Lennox's niece." I said, approaching the two robots. The other twin didn't have any car parts on him. Well, not any Earth car parts, anyway. "You must be Sunstreaker." I said, holding up my palm in front of me. He seemed to look at my palm and at me for a second, a very strange look he gave me. He leaned to whisper into Sideswipe's ear and Sideswipe said something back in their native language.
Sunstreaker then skilfully crouched, Sideswipe's arm leaving his shoulders. "Fleshy." He acknowledged my presence. "I will touch only this time, just because I don't want to ruin the moment." He said, putting his finger in front of me. I put my right hand on it, and then my left one. Then I embraced his whole finger in a hug. His whole finger was maybe half my height.
His finger froze stiff when I hugged it. I let go after a couple of seconds. "Uh, this never happened." He said, flabbergasted. He didn't expect that.
Sideswipe hit him on the shoulder brotherly as Sunstreaker rose up. "Come on, Sunny, she ain't that bad!" Only now I realize that Sideswipe was the happy-go-lucky one, and Sunstreaker… I really don't know what he's like.
"Whatever." He looked at himself and his brother and then groaned with disgust once he saw the grass, dirt and mud all over the both of them. "Sideswipe, you idiot, we're filthy! And I need a new alt mode." He turned towards me and crouched again. "Squishy, do you know where I can get an alt mode? Preferably a very fast one."
I thought for a while, putting my slim finger to my full lips. I remembered, there was this rich guy on some hill just outside of town. "There's this old guy, but he drives a Lamborghini. It's a golden one and I think you'll love it!"
He seemed to be silent for a while. "Perfect." He said, getting to his feet again. "Let's go."
"We better hurry, the sun is rising." I said as I got into Ironhide along with Ron, and the two brothers transformed and followed us out of the meadow and onto the main road. We went pretty fast again and it took us quite some time to get there. The town should start awakening itself soon. But we were faster than the sun and we got to the mansion before it fully rose. This man was the richest in town and everybody knew he had only recently bought this new, golden Lamborghini Murcielago. I knew I liked the car very much, even though I saw it only once in my life when it stopped at a traffic light.
I exited the truck as Sunstreaker looked over the gate where the Lamborghini was parked and a blue laser light went from his eyes and lowered to the ground, literally scanning over the Lamborghini. When he shut off the laser thing, his body began to form yellow parts on it and soon he transformed hiimself into the golden Lamborghini Murcielago. He was an exact same copy of this rich guy's Lambo!
It was so shiny I actually saw myself in its reflection. I went to touch it, but the engine growled in anger and then exploded in a rev filled with fury. And being a Lamborghini and having that kind of engine, well, to say I jumped to the moon and back from fright would be an understatement.
"Hands off, fleshy! No touching!" The car spoke through the speakers. I frowned and gave him a growl of my own and crossed my arms.
"I helped you chose your alt mode! In fact, I chose it for you!" I felt a sly grin forming over my face. "You don't want to tell the other robots that a-" What was that word? Ah."'fleshy', picked out your alt mode, do you? I can't imagine the embarrassment you'd feel." I mocked, turning my head to the side, waiting for him to buy it.
"What do you want?" He growled and if he could, and he maybe did, rolled his headlights as if they were his eyes.
"I want a ride in the Lamborghini." I stated.
"Not in your organic little dreams, fleshy."
"Fine. Hey Ironhide!" I yelled. "I know Prime would listen to you and the whole base would, would you please tell them that I picked out Sunstre-"
"Alright!" He growled, coming to my side. "I'll give you a ride for your life." He said, evilness filling his voice as he turned off the engine. I gulped, but he wouldn't dare do anything in front of Ironhide. I think. Does he even know he's my guardian?
He opened the driver's door upwards, the Lamborghini way, and I slid inside. It smelled beautifully of leather, just like in Sideswipe, and it was so expensive, so new. I did the honors of closing the door and put the seatbelt around me. I pressed the engine start button, like in Ironhide, and the Lambo's engine roared to life. I felt butterflies in my stomach from the anticipation and excitement.
I'm in a Lamborghini! An alien one in fact!
I started to drive, as he let me do it. Every once in a while I'd rev up the engine, melting at the amazing sound it produced it. The radio burst to life. "I see you like that sound, do you fleshy?"
"Yeah… And my name is Melissa. You can call me Mel."
"Fleshy."
"Mel."
"Organic."
"Mel." I pushed. He turned on a road that said 'Under Construction'. "Uh, Sunstreaker, what are you doing?" I still kept driving, wanting to see where the road would lead me.
"Giving you the ride of your life." In the distance I could see the road ending, but it went upwards. Like it was used to jump over something.
I suddenly remembered there was a river under that road. That unfinished road.
"Sunstreaker, you better stop or I'll hit the breaks." We went an easy 100 miles per hour and he kept accelerating. "You have one more chance to stop." He gunned his engine to an amazing 150 miles an hour. "Sunstreaker, for love of God, stop going so fast and go back!" I hit the brakes, but nothing. I couldn't stop him. He went to, if possible, a 200 miles per hour and I was afraid I would die, if not from impact then from a heart attack. "Alright fleshy, here's the deal." I gulped as I kept pressing on the breaks, but nothing. "If you survive, you'll have to kiss Ironhide." He smirked.
"What?!" I tried to sound outraged, and I sort of was, for idea of him thinking that. "I'm not going to kiss him!" I yelled. He sped up even more. The road end was very, very near us.
"If you survive will you kiss Ironhide?" The road was ever nearer. My eyes widened in shock.
"Yes! I'll kiss Ironhide! On the lips! And Sideswipe, but on the cheek! Please, let me live!" I begged.
"Very well." He lowered himself on the ground like a cat ready to pounce and we flew off the road. I shrieked and gripped the steering wheel, pressing all the pedals known to man and then just folding myself in a tightest ball I could have.
"Oh, Sunstreaker have mercy!" I squealed. He laughed. He was so dead after this. We were airborne for a couple of seconds before we touched the ground so gently and carefully. He stopped and turned to a 180. I panted and whatnot. "You moron!"
"Watch it, fleshy." He warned. He turned right and kept driving fast and then turned left, crossing a bridge. I saw Ironhide and Sideswipe in their car forms, waiting for us to join them on our way back to Amanda's. "When are you going to fulfill your part of the deal?" He asked, continuing to drive and behind him, Ironhide and Sideswipe rolled.
"My part? What was your part?"
"I kept you alive, didn't I?" he mocked.
"Why did you jump off the road in the first place?!"
"You wanted a ride. I gave you one." He explained.
"I meant a peaceful ride, Sunstreaker." I pointed out.
"Is this peaceful enough?" He said as we were elegantly cruising through the now busy streets of Texas. People looked at the Lamborghini with glee, looking at their reflections in the paint. But it was an utmost pleasant ride. I hummed at him in approval and he kept driving. He could be a jerk, but sometimes he was nice. Just so he didn't get embarrassed.
Eventually, we arrived at Amanda's house, and I presumed that Ironhide told Sunstreaker where it was. He rolled into the L shaped driveway, putting himself into Park and behind him parked Sideswipe and then Ironhide.
"Do your part of the deal." He commanded as he opened the door for me.
"Now?"
"Yes, now." He said as I exited and he shut the door behind me. His holoform turned on as he stood beside me. Somehow, I got used to their holoforms randomly appearing beside me. Ironhide and Sideswipe turned on their holoforms, too, and we stood there on the driveway as the morning sun continued to rise.
Sunstreaker sat on Sideswipe's hood, and as the car was on the left side, Sideswipe sitting on the right side of the hood and Ron was standing by Ironhide's bumper on the right side. I stalled. "Hi Sideswipe." He nodded and crooked a smile at me. He was truly happy his other half was with him.
"Today, fleshy, today." Sunstreaker said, motioning his hand at Sideswipe. Sideswipe looked at him strangely. I looked to Ron and gave him a wink with my right eye, the one the twins couldn't see. He nodded once almost imperceptibly as he saw something coming.
I approached Sideswipe and I stood in front of him. I smiled at him almost apologetically. He shot a risen brow at me. "What is it?" He asked and I looked to Sunstreaker. He glanced to Sideswipe. "What?"
"See, Sunstreaker here and I had an agreement while he performed his little… stunt." I said.
"And you are telling me this… why?"
"I have to do my part, don't I, Sunstreaker?" I looked to him as he nodded. "So, don't think anything of this, okay Sideswipe?" He shrugged, completely oblivious to the thing I was going to do. I winked once again to Ron as I got to Sideswipe's left side and took his right cheek in my left hand, and my right hand under his chin.
I planted a kiss on his left cheek as he, if I think he did this, leaned into the kiss. Maybe. I pulled back and he stood frozen. Then he turned his head towards me and then to Sunstreaker. Then he jumped in the air.
"Get away from her, you Pit-spawned fragger." Ron growled at his sudden behavior.
"That was awesome! Sunny, you gotta try it!" He excitedly said. "Humans are so soft and gentle!"
"Don't get your hopes up, Sideswipe." I said, though I had a smile on my face. I couldn't believe he liked it. Weird. But maybe he overreacted, being by his brother's side and all. "Don't get used to it." I said and looked to Ron, whose eyes were wide as he approached us.
"After this, you may call me Sides. You're a good fleshy."
"Then you have to call me Mel. Deal?"
"Deal." He said as Ron finally got to us.
"What the frag are you doing?" He said to all of us. Though I didn't understand what 'frag' meant.
"She's doing her part of the deal." Sunstreaker said and motioned his head towards Ron. "Now, she has to kiss you on the mouth plates." He said. Wait, mouth plates? As in mouth? As in lips?
Works for me. I snickered mentally.
I came to Ron, my back facing the twins, but I moved so that they could see the moment. I put my hands on his neck, and tilted my head to the side, smiling and gazing at him gleefully.
"Come on." Sunstreaker said hurriedly. I gave him a glance and a smirk, before closing the distance between mine and my beloved's lips. He put his hands on my hips, ever pulling me closer. Our lips brushed a bit, but then we went for the real kiss.
As every time I kissed with him, I felt lighter than air and like I was on the seventh sky from happiness. I noticed something about his kisses. They were never hungry or smothering. They were soft, passionate and tender. We broke the kiss, him resting his forehead on mine and nuzzling his nose with mine. I gave his nose a kiss and hugged him, my face facing the twins.
To say the twins died would be an understatement. Their holoforms laid on the ground like dead men and Ron and I chuckled. Even their engines stopped working.
"I think the twins died." I said. He scratched my back and if I could, I would have purred.
He chuckled. "No, they are very much alive."
"They passed out, then." I concluded.
"Glitched." He corrected as his arms rested on my lower backside. "What was this 'deal' you had with Sunstreaker that included kissing me and Sideswipe?" He gave me an eyebrow of confusion.
"Oh, nothing you need to tire your processors with." I mimicked his speech, earning a chuckle from him. "Let's make up an excuse for the Corvette and Lamborghini in the driveway." I said, taking is hand in mine and walking towards the twins' holoforms. "Where do we hide the bodies?"
This was going to be fun.
I just couldn't have Sideswipe without Sunstreaker. The two brothers deserve to be together!