Ron and I dragged Sunstreaker and Sideswipe's holoforms to their still car forms, opening the doors and throwing them in. Even as holoforms, they had body mass and muscles. Sunstreaker looked exactly like his brother, no wonder there, but he sported a golden jacket and dark brown hair, whereas Sideswipe had a silver jacket and black hair. So that was the only difference. And there was the personality, too. I haven't figured out Sunstreaker yet, but Sideswipe was exactly like him before he got his twin back.

All 'get away from me squishy, fleshy, organic' and stuff. Now, Sides is happy-go-lucky and he actually allows me to call him Sides!

After Ron and I did our handiwork, we got into the house where Jen and Maddie were already awake.

"Mel! Where were you?" Amanda asked, handing me a banana for breakfast. I took it and started eating.

"Oh, I… found some friends."

"Can I meet them?"

"Uh, I don't think that'd be a good idea. They don't really… well, one of them doesn't like us."

"Who is us?"

"Never mind. Here, Ron can tell you about them, right Ron?" I fished for him. He seated himself on the couch and turned on the TV. He pretended not to hear me. "Ron." I called. He didn't do as much as blink. I got to him and seated myself next to him. "Ron, would you tell Amanda about our friends here?" He hummed and looked to her.

"We brought some friends with us." He said and returned his attention to the TV.

"And?" Amanda asked. "Where are they?"

"In your driveway." Ron said nonchalantly, not even glancing to the window. Amanda approached the window with an empty, plastic coffee mug in her hand. When she got to the window, she stood frozen. A gasp escaped her mouth as the mug fell to the floor. I stood up and got to her side.

I looked out the window and the sight was beautiful. Two sleek, sexy cars were parked in her driveway. A Vette and a Lambo. They were a perfect combination, and I didn't know which one was more beautiful. I'd say the Lambo was more beautiful, but the Corvette is sweeter. In every way.

I shook Amanda from her trance. "Maddie? You okay, girl?" She just gave me a wide eyed look filled with glee.

"Okay?! I'm feeling ecstasy! Where the hell did you meet these guys? Oh, they must be mega-rich driving these babies! Oh, Pete and Dave have got to see this! They'll pass out!" She had grabbed me by the elbows shook me all this time.

"I'm sure they will, but if you keep shaking me like that, I'll pass out." I said as she stopped shaking me.

"Where'd you meet them?"

"Uh, they're actually Ron's friends, so…" She leapt to Ron.

"Where'd you meet them?" She got into his personal space. He scooted away, but she followed him. He got up and she did as well. "Well? Aren't you going to tell me?"

"No." He sternly said as he walked towards me. Then Jen got out of the kitchen and started approaching her daughter.

"Come on, Amanda, I'm driving… you… to… Who's cars are those in my driveway?" Jen asked, storming out of the house. Ron and I leapt out of the house, Amanda falling behind.

"Jen, um, these are our friends." I told her.

"Are you sure? How? I mean, how do they have such expensive cars?" I looked to Ron and she did the same.

"Get out you two." Ron said as the doors slid open, both of them opening upwards. The concept Corvette had doors that were a mixture of gullwing doors and Lamborghini's scissor doors. It had the same door opening style like of the SLR McLaren. Two gorgeous men got out of the cars, each sitting on their car's hood. I smiled to them as Sunstreaker kept his look on Amanda and Jen and Sides winked at me. He was a nice guy, but only when his twin was around.

Sideswipe took his opportunity, since the two women didn't move, to sweep them off their feet. I stood to Ron, putting my hand in his, hiding them behind our backs. He looked to me as I briefly nuzzled my head into his huge bicep.

"Hello, ladies." He said in his deep voice. Come to think of it, Sunstreaker's voice was… I guess more mature? I didn't know the right word, but mature got most of it covered. It was definitely just a bit deeper than Sideswipe's, but otherwise, they were identical.

"Hello…" Jen gasped as Sideswipe approached her. "Who are you?" She managed to utter.

He put his hand in front of himself. "We are friends of Melissa and Ron's." He said casually as they shook hands.

"Oh, that-that's nice. Friends are good, right Amanda?" She absently said as he let her hand go. He came towards Amanda, who looked like she went to heaven. Two hot studs with even hotter cars were every girl's dream.

"H-hi." Amanda uttered. I muffled my laughs with my hand, my forehead pressed on Ron's arm. They were so in love with them.

"Sunny, you aft, introduce yourself." Sideswipe told Sunstreaker. Sunny frowned as he reluctantly got up from his hood and approach Jen.

Then he looked to Sideswipe. "Do I have to touc-"

"Yes." His twin cut him off.

"Fine." Sunny muttered and crooked a ghost of a smile towards Jen before taking her hand in his and shaking it. He went to Amanda and did the same, not wanting any more contact or conversation with them than necessary. "There, happy?" He growled.

"Jen? Don't you have to take Amanda to college? And when am I going?" I asked her, because I didn't know when I would be starting my college education.

"Oh, Amanda, right, yes. Come dear. You? In a week or so. I have to get your papers ready, but until then you're stuck here." She explained as she and Amanda got into her car in front of the house. They got in and drove off. I sighed and rested my head on Ron's shoulder.

"Well that was close." I said. "Now what?"

"Sides, how am I going to clean myself? I mean, there's this dust and frag stuck up my aft and I can't transform." Sunny whined.

"I can give you a wash." I offered. He shook his head.

"A squishy touching me? No."

"I want to!" Sides exclaimed approaching me. "Can you wash me, Princess?" He said, grinning at me. Ron cleared his throat. "Fine, Ron's Princess?" I pretended to think about it.

"Yeah, I guess I could." I said to him. He smiled and got back to whisper something to his brother. "How are things at the base going?" I asked Ron as we sat on his hood, and rested our feet on the bumper. In nudged him a bit with my foot.

"Not well." He grimly replied.

"Why?"

"Classified."

"Me knowing about aliens isn't classified? You can tell me."

He sighed. "I'm afraid I cannot."

"Come on, just tell me." I pushed.

Sideswipe's engine roared. We turned to him. "Hey, Princess, am I getting that wash or what?"

"I don't know. You want it now?"

"The golden frag right here messed me up when we were rolling over." He said as his golden brother gave him a death glare, but he was right. He had mud and gunk all over him. "I can't stand being like this." I nodded as I went into the house and grabbed some mega-sized sponges, I knew Amanda had them in her bathroom and got a bucket of warm water.

It was soon time to let the show start. I got outside where all the men sat on their hoods. I got to Sideswipe. "Listen, it'd be best if you move from the hood." I said as he got up and sat on his twin's hood. I got the sponge out and crouched. I dabbed the sponge into the water and began scrubbing the fenders, wheels and rear. I heard his twin snickering as I did the rear, but I shrugged it off.

Crazy robots. Since Amanda didn't have a hose, I had to wash the windows and hood by hand, which was hard, seeing as the water stains on the tinted windows would dry and leave gray marks which was ugly.

As I was done with the windows, making sure the dried water marks were invisible, now the only thing that remained untouched was the hood. The Corvette's hood was really long and wide, and I had to climb on it, setting myself on my knees. I figured that a giant robot's hood wouldn't dent so easily. I glanced to Sideswipe who looked like he had gone to heaven. He nodded at me, as if reading my mind and I started scrubbing the hood.

Suddenly the hood shook along with the rest of the car, and I found my butt on the ground, landing with an 'ow'. "What the hell Sideswipe?!" I yelled.

"What are you doing?" He gave me a look.

"Trying to clean your hood, that's what! Why'd you throw me?"

"You are going to dent my hood!"

"What? No, I'm not. Why are you such a baby?"

"Ha! She just called you a sparkling!" Sunstreaker mocked.

"You're not helping."

"Wasn't my intention." He replied casually. I rolled my eyes.

"Alright break it up." Ron came.

"Fine, I'll just leave your hood like that. And I won't even rinse you out." I teased.

"No, sorry, rinse! Please do!" Sideswipe said. "Don't make me rust!"

"Maybe I'll just let you rust in the sun." I mocked.

"No, come on Princess!" He pleaded, standing right in front of me. "I know you're good human." He gave me charming grin. I couldn't say no.

"Oh, alright. But you better not throw me again or Ron will kill you."

"What is it between you two, anyway?" He asked confusedly. I shrugged as I scrubbed the remaining dirt and I took the whole bucket of warm water and splashed it over the Corvette. It shined beautifully in the sun. The silver paint glistened under the wonderful sunlight.

"My work here is done." I said, grinning at my work. The car looked very shiny, very expensive, very awesome.

"Sunny, you gotta try it!" Sides urged.

"No."

"It's so wonderful, humans are so gentle."

"No way in Pit, Sideswipe, so stop it."

"But-"

"No."

Sides finally gave a groan. "Fine. Your loss, I don't care. Thank you, Princess." He hugged me briefly and then let go.

"Welcome." I smiled as Ron muttered about something or another. "Sides?" I got his attention once again. "How would you describe your brother in one word?" I fished for an answer, because I knew I wouldn't get one from Sunstreaker.

"Narcissist." He said, without thinking.

"As if." Sunstreaker snorted. We ignored him.

"Thanks." I said, getting back to Ron. "Wanna… go to our meadow?" I smiled to him.

He swept me off my feet. Literally. I was in his arms, my feet just barely touching the ground. "We can be here as well." He said, whispering to me.

"And have those two to-" What was that word again? Ah, yes. "Glitch?" I chuckled.

"I could care less about them. You're only one that matters to me." He said, going in for the kiss. I returned it, just as tenderly.

"You really mean that?" I asked, looking him dead in the eye. He gave me most honest look any human could.

"Of course." He nuzzled my nose. I felt like I died and went to heaven.

"You mean a lot to me, too." I said, kissing him again. He grinned a happy grin at me. "Come on, enough lovin'." I murmured as he set be down to the ground, and I just took his hand in mine.

Tomorrow, mid afternoon…

As I was done with my shower, I got dressed and ate some snacks from the fridge. The days were peaceful, except when Amanda wanted to hang out with Sunny and Sides. I had to make up some things because apparently, these cars liked to rev their engines when somebody touched them without the owner's permission. Amanda went all crazy with ideas living cars and all that jazz. I gave up on listening to her. I just couldn't anymore.

So Amanda left off with some of her college friends after I declined the offer to go along with her. Those were her friends, anyway, not mine.

Her friends went crazy when they saw the sleek cars in her driveway. But I waved them off as Amanda and her friends went to the mall or somewhere where they could have a group outing.

It was quiet and peaceful, these two days. There were no attacks or any accidents, but most of all, I felt overprotected. I had three alien bodyguards sitting in my driveway. One was my boyfriend, the other a schmoozer and another was a narcissist. Talk about diverse. Just my luck.

But I was also lucky enough to end up with someone like Ron. And I thanked God for that.

Ron still didn't tell me what was going on at the base and I haven't heard from Nicole and Sam since. Maybe they were just busy with college and stuff like that? Not that I wanted to put my two cents in.

Then again, I didn't hear anything from Optimus, Bumblebee or anyone else from the base. Did they all just vanish? I talked to my uncle yesterday, but he didn't tell me what was going on at the base either. I have a feeling they're hiding something from me. I don't know what, but whatever it is, it's not good. I am going to get my answer, my stubborn side will kick in. Now, I just have to find Ron and interrogate him.

Finding him was easy, all I had to do was get to the truck and give it a good pat. But taking the information from him was the hard part. He was such a hard-ass when he wasn't supposed to.

As I made my way out of the house and into the driveway, I immediately spotted Ironhide. He was parked happily on the grass, while the twins had the privilege of relaxing their axles on the paved concrete. I got to him and patted his hood. He blinked his headlights at me lightly and the figure of Ron got out of the truck and gently embraced me in a hug. I returned the hug and took his hand, getting to the back of the truck.

Ironhide must have figured out what I was doing so he opened the trunk and we both got in. Ironhide closed the trunk door and I laid in the truck bed with Ron, lying on top of his holoform to be exact. I was going to get that information out of him, no matter what.

He was lying on his back and I was lying on him. "Hey there." I said, acting all sweet. He didn't know what was going to hit him.

"Hello." He said, putting his muscle-packed arms behind his head casually.

"Can you take off your jacket? I want to see those beautiful muscles of yours." He raised an eyebrow as the jacket simply disappeared. "Wow." Escaped my mouth. I don't know if it was from the size of his muscles, or from the jacket disappearing. He had a T-shirt, which gave a me pretty good look at his biceps.

I put my hands on his chest. "So… How are you today?" I played with his shirt a bit, gripping it, tugging it, then letting it go and patting it back into place.

"I'm very well. You?" He said, his deep voice giving me the slight chills.

"Oh, just fine, don't worry about me." I said, moving my hands to his biceps. They were rock hard. "Mind flexing them?" I asked, as he stiffened them and they just popped out. I grinned as I moved my hands to his neck.

"In a mood, today, aren't we?" He said as I started to gently run my fingers under his chin and throat.

I chuckled. "Maybe…" I said. Okay, time to get down to business, although I still wanted to sweet talk to him. "Say, Ron…" I started moving my head closer to his. "Is there something…" I whispered to him. "Anything at all…" I pursed my lips. "You want to tell me?" I finished, blinking my eyelashes at him.

He chuckled and then a mischievous grin formed on his face. In one smooth move, he flipped me over to my side and he was towering over me. "There are so many things I want to tell you…" I looked up at him. "But, now may be too soon." He said as he kissed my nose.

"You're being too sweet for a guy that's supposed to be a weapons specialist." I mocked.

"Now is that so?" He gave me the eyebrow.

"Mhm. You need to toughen up."

"Maybe I need to toughen you up." He pinched my arm and I squeaked. "See?"

"You're funny, Hide." I don't even know where that came from. Hide? Bravo Melissa.

"Don't call me that, sounds like I am some kind of human play toy."

"You are my play toy. You're my teddy bear." I said, pushing him off myself as I took control once again. "I know you'll never live this down if I say it out loud." I mocked again as I flipped my leg over him. I sat on his waist, my chest pressed on his as my arms were around his perfectly built back.

I snuggled with him, my head snuggling on his chest as he put his arms on my back, I was mimicking a teddy bear hug. He spoke up. "If the twins ever find out about this, us, I'll make you-"

"Find out what?" Sideswipe echoed. I jerked and looked up. "Hi." Sideswipe said, suddenly, Ron's head peeked out of the truck's bed. "Was I… interrupting something? If you want I can… uh, leave you alone?" He looked at us confusedly.

Imagine him, going to Ironhide's truck, probably to tell him something, only to find his charge on top of his holoform. Very close to each other.

His eyes widened, as if, in realization. "Ha! Sunny, you gotta see this! Hide has a femme!"

"He has a femme charge." His brother corrected him as I completely got off Ron.

"Come here!" Sides called to him. You could hear Sunstreaker groaning as he turned on his holoform and it approached us.

When he came to us, he just stared at us, though I was just sitting next to Ron now, I blushed. I guess Ron didn't want them to know about us or something. I didn't mind, but then again, I'm not an alien in disguise.

"You think they were…?" Sunny started, looking to his brother.

"They were interfacing!" Sideswipe said. What is interfacing?

"We were not!" Ron said.

"You totally were!" Sunny said as both of them bent over laughing.

"That is not the truth." Ron said. "This is exactly what I didn't want to happen."

"Didn't want what to happen?" I said.

"There's too much you don't know." Ron sighed as the terror twins' laughter went away in the distance as they started their talk about something.

"There's too much you're hiding from me." I glared at him.

"I'm not doing it on purpose." Ron defended himself, sitting up.

"Yeah, right." I rolled my eyes as I slowly got out of the truck bed and stood beside it on the ground.

"Orders are orders and I cannot defy them." He said as he stood up faster than me and he was literally towering over me now that he was standing in truck's bed. When I looked up at him, my head got a bit dizzy as I took a step back. I was losing my balance just a bit, but he jumped to the ground hastily and took my hand, not letting me fall.

"Let go." I said as I tugged away my hand.

"Why are you mad at me?" He questioned, standing in front of me.

"Because you aren't telling me anything. Even those two bozos," I motioned to the twins. "would tell me something, but noooo," I made a face. "you just have to keep it a secret, 'cuz it's ooooorders." I prolonged the two words to emphasize my anger. I crossed my arms. "I think you're lying."

"Why, on Earth and Cybertron, would I lie to you?" His brown knitted in confusion.

"I don't know and I don't care! I am your charge and freaking girlfriend, and yet you still won't tell me what the damn problem is! What if I could help? Huh? Did that ever cross your mind?!"

"Mel…"

"Don't you 'Mel' me!" I snapped at him. "What does it take for you to tell me the truth?"

"What about half of your planet? Don't you think they deserve the truth as well?" He crossed his arms and leaned on the truck.

"Don't they?!" I threw my arms up in anger. "You're starting to piss me off." I said.

"You're doing the same to me." He whispered to himself, but as he looked up, he met my widened eyes and their hurt expression. How dare he. "Mel…" He reached out.

I yelled at him. "I'd rather have that human-hating Sunstreaker as my guardian instead of you!" I bellowed at the end as his expression turned blue. My words have dug deep, deeper than I wanted, deeper than I thought I could ever make them. I couldn't watch him anymore.

"Hide, you get the memo?" Sideswipe said, rushing to him. "Prime's in danger, he's in a forest not too far by. We have to hurry. Too many 'Cons." He said quickly as he disappeared and the Corvette's engine roared loudly. I glanced up at Ron one more time and caught his solemn look. He dissipated into thin air as the Topkick and the Stingray rolled out of the driveway.

Decepticons. They're bad. They could kill him. And I was the idiot that had to hurt him more than necessary.

I felt the tears in my eyes, ever slowly forming, as I got to Sunstreaker and got inside his car form.

"What the frag do you think you'r-"

"Dri-ive." I sobbed as my hands pressed onto the steering wheel, my forehead leaning on them. Sunstreaker's engine gave a good rev as we rolled out. My feet were at the pedals, but I wasn't doing anything with them. Every time he would add gas, the pedal would lower. We got to a traffic light.

"Femme, what is it?" He said through the radio.

I looked to the side, outside the window and I saw people looking at the car. Looking at me. "Can you tint the windows, please?" I asked as the windows immediately darkened. "Thank you, Sunstreaker." I said in a weak voice. The light turned to green as we rolled off somewhere.

"Why are you leaking?" He asked through the radio, again. I looked down on myself.

"I'm not peeing myself." I stated.

"No, from your eyes. You're leaking lubricant." He said as he turned somewhere.

"They're called tears, Sunstreaker." I wiped my eyes. "Why do you care?" I sniffed as he kept driving. I wasn't at all paying attention where we were going or for how long.

"I don't care. It's just unpleasant to see a femme cry." He confessed.