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I seriously don't know what to do in this 4 year span.
Did you know that general Morshower in the movie is acted by a man named Glenn Morshower? I find it cool!
It was fairly easy to find some of the Autobots. Ironhide was following me, but I think he was trying to get to Prime. He was in front of me in his robot mode.
"Hey Optimus." I said as he crouched down.
"Hello Melissa. I presume your flight went well?" his deep voice boomed as he held out a hand for me to climb into it. I climbed into his hand as he brought me up to his chest level. I looked to Ironhide, who was standing in front of us.
"It would have gotten better if your weapons specialist didn't become a pervert." I crossed my arms as I gave Ironhide a glare. He gave me the eyebrow and a look that clearly said 'this means war'.
"Ironhide, is this true?" Optimus looked to him. "Did you make Melissa uncomfortable?"
"Prime, I didn't do anything she didn't want me to."
"Wha-Liar! Optimus, don't listen to him! He's lying!" I squealed from his hand.
"Ironhide, is this the truth?" He gave him a look. "What did you do?"
Ironhide gave him one of those looks that said they talked through those comm. link things. It went on for a couple of seconds and then Optimus handed me to Ironhide's palm. Optimus then nodded and went in another direction.
"What was that about? Did you lie to him again? Remind me not to trust you anymore." I crossed my arms.
"Oh Mel, please, spare me." He huffed, clearly annoyed of my stubborn side. "Your uncle should be here in a couple of minutes, the plane is approaching."
"…Does Annabelle know about you? I mean, in this form?"
"No. She still sees me as a truck." He said, exiting the hangar and we looked to the plane landing trail. You could see and hear the plane coming onto the lane and landing swiftly. It soon stopped and the door slid down. Ironhide put me to the ground and transformed into the Topkick. I walked towards the plane as we walked alongside me.
It was funny that a huge truck was going beside me, but most of all it was epic, let me tell you that. Maybe I could scare people, like, look it's a magnetic attraction! He'll follow me wherever I go!
But then, I'd have to be metal too. Oh well.
Soon, Uncle Will came out of the plane, Sarah too with Annabelle holding her hand. Annabelle has grown up. As soon as Uncle Will took notice of me, his eyes widened. I quickly ran towards him and glomped him. He didn't know what hit him. He rolled on the ground after hearing him lacking breath I let go of him.
"Oh, Uncle Will, I've missed you so much!" I exclaimed, hugging him tightly. "I haven't seen you in a year!"
"I know, Mel, I know, but I'm not the only one who missed you." He said as I looked up, to see a giggling Sarah and Annabelle in front of me. I leapt into Sarah's hug.
"I missed you guys so much!" I exclaimed as she held me tightly too.
"May May?" little Annabelle spoke up as I let go of Sarah's hug and looked down at her.
"Where's my favorite girl!" I picked her up in one smooth move, making her laugh. i brought her up in the air before cuddling her into my chest. "Oh, I've missed you so much Annie!"
"I missed you May May!" she exclaimed as she hugged my neck. I saw Uncle and Aunt patting Ironhide. I guess Sarah and Will missed him too. I carried Annabelle to Sarah, who was somewhat familiar with the base, and she left with Ironhide. Uncle stayed here to talk with me.
"How're you doing, Mel?" Uncle asked as he started walking somewhere, so I just followed him.
"Great. I've finished the first year, three more to go." I smiled. "You?"
"You see I got a bit of a surprise for Sarah, but don't tell her that." he gave me the finger on the lips, to keep me shushed.
"Sure. What is it?" I kept my voice quiet as we entered another hangar.
"Well, you see, I bought this land on the ocean."
"Wow!"
"Shh!"
"Sorry. Wow. That's so cool Uncle Will. What are you going to do with it?"
"Well, I was thinking of building Sarah that vacation house she always dreamed of. I finally got my hands on the land, and I was thinking of getting the 'Bots to help me."
"Aren't people going to see them on the ocean? Doesn't salt water rust metal?"
"Well, they aren't going to bathe in it. They're not stupid. Well, most of them aren't." he said, as we were inside a hangar filled with soldiers and some Autobots. "I was going to talk to the general and ask him for permission to use the Autobots to help me. Optimus is already in on it, and the Autobots offered their help, too."
"Well that's great Uncle Will." I grinned.
"Okay, gotta hurry, I have that meeting with general Morshower, so I'll see you later Mel. Epps!" he yelled for his partner. "Show her around, will you? I don't want her to get lost." Uncle finished as Epps got to his side in mere seconds. Epps nodded as Uncle scrambled out of the way, he really had to be at that meeting with this general Morshower.
"Hey again. What do you want to do now?"
"Well, could you show me 'round? Is Nicole here?" I suddenly asked for her name as her face popped in my head.
"Actually, she is. Bee and Sam are here too. You wanna see something cool? It's going to start in a couple of minutes anyway."
"See what?" he started to walk so I simply followed him out of the hangar and into a vehicle. He turned it on and drove us to a faraway hanger. He stopped the vehicle and we both exited it as he started to walk to a hangar. I wasn't far behind, but there were all of the Autobots in there, which I found weird.
They were standing in some sort of circle around something or someone. "Yo Boss Bot!" Epps yelled. Optimus turned his attention to the black man. "Give us a hand, 'eh?" he yelled some more as Optimus crouched down and brought both of us to a platform.
"What's going on? And who's that? And why's Nicole standing on it?" I asked Epps.
"Okay, so here's the deal. This fella over here died some time ago. Nicole is going to revive him by using her powers. She's standing on him because she needs to put the energon and electricity into his spark." Epps slowly explained. I knew about energon and sparks and all that. Ron taught me.
"What powers? I heard she was special, but… I don't know, what does she do?" I asked him as I looked down. She was sitting on a silver robot, as Ratchet was standing nearby with all sorts of scanners and tools in his hands, almost hovering over the 'Bot. Optimus was next to him, looking carefully over the reading the scanners received. The rest of the Autobots were around the yellow table which I learned to know was a berth, and they just looked at him. And I still didn't know who the robot was.
"Scanners indicate the procedure is ready. You may safely proceed." Ratchet said, taking his scanners closer to the chassis of the fallen Autobot. Who was he? Suddenly, Nicole flashed two blue somethings that hovered from her palms.
"Wha-what is that?!" I grabbed Epps's arm.
"Whoa, easy girl. That's Nicole's power."
"W-what is that?"
"They are some mumbo-jumbo stuff, if you ask me. Some kind of energy ball or I don't know. I guess it's supposed to bring the dead back, but it wouldn't work like the Matrix."
"Matrix? Please tell me about it." I let his arms go, seeing no threat from Nicole.
"Stop." Ratchet said, as his scanners began to beep.
"Well, that's this… weird-lookin' thing, that can bring the dead robots back to life. But you see here, our friend needs some sort of pulse first or something... I wasn't really listening to Ratchet when he was explaining it to us."
"Proceed."
"But why Nicole?" I asked as she emitted the spherical things again from her palms. They looked like things full of some energy and they had some liquid thing and lightning bolts around it.
"Well, those energy balls of hers, or whatever she calls 'em, can bring robots to life. It's weird. But she should be able to revive him."
"Revive who?"
"Prepare for contact." Ratchet warned as the robots stood a step back. "Proceed." Ratchet said, taking a step back as well. Only Bumblebee stood near Nicole, ready to grab her at any moment.
"Ready Bee?" She looked at him, nearing the open chassis of the unknown robot. Bee nodded and whirred as she placed a rather big sphere into the chamber in the robot's chest. "Now!" She screamed as he picked her up and leapt way to the back of the room.
The robot started to go through some kind of electrical shock, before he leapt from the berth and onto the first mech in front of him, which was Sunstreaker.
"You want a piece?!" The robot yelled as he drew out some huge weapon from his arm.
"Whoa, whoa!" Ironhide said as he immediately jumped into action and moved the robot from Sunstreaker, but he still had struggles.
"Paint!" Sunstreaker gasped.
"Hold your fire! He's an ally for God's sake!" Someone yelled, though I think it was Epps. I've been too awestruck to notice.
"Jazz, calm down!" Sunstreaker yelled at him, and the mech slowly started to stop with his harsh movements. "It's me, Sunstreaker." He calmly said. The silver robot moved away, realizing that he was with his allies.
"Sunneh? Sorry mech. What am I doin' here?" he looked around. "What happened to Megsy? And, more importantly, what happened to me?"
"Megatron retreated somewhere, and you were torn in two." Ratchet said. "Are you feeling any pain? We sure missed you." Ratchet formed a smile.
"Nah, I'm fine Doc Bot. A bit o' pain on the sides, but I'm fine. O' course ya missed me." He looked around and he saw me. "Hey lil' lady. I'm Jazz, Prime's trusty and first lieutenant. And who would be you?" he smiled at me.
"I'm Melissa. I'm Ironhide's charge." I crooked a smile at him.
"Psh."Epps rolled his eyes as he commented.
"Shut up." I freely said. He and I both chuckled as I returned my attention to Jazz. "Jazz, you should thank Nicole. She brought you back to life."
"Who? Ah thought t'was the Matrix? Didn't Prime carry one all the time, ya know, 'cuz he's a Prime?" he looked to his comrades.
"There's a lot you're missing out on, old friend. You need to say your thanks to the young human female." Optimus said, putting a reassuring hand on his lieutenant's shoulder. Bee emerged with Nicole in his hand.
"Nicky!" he walked to her excitendly.
"Jazz!" she exclaimed as they both recognized each other. "Damn, I was so worried when Megatron split you in two."
"Well Ah'm back now, lil' lady." He stroked her with his finger. "Thanks for bringin' me back to life." He smiled at her.
"Anytime, bro." She winked. I heard Bumblebee growl. "Chill Bee, I'm your girl." She kissed his hand, earning a 'woohoo' from him.
I shook my head at the two lovebirds. But I couldn't say any different for myself, could I now? Well, I don't think anyone except me, Ironhide, and the twins knew about me and Ironhide. At least, I thought so. Nobody asked me anything, except for Epps when Ron started to be chivalrous. That was close.
"Uh, anybot got energon? I'm kinda low." Jazz said, looking through the Autobots.
"Sure thing, Jazz. I gave you a small amount of energon so you wouldn't go into stasis the moment you onlined. Come with me." Ratchet said, walking away somewhere with Jazz following him.
"That went well." I said as Optimus scooped up me and Epps and put us to the ground so very gently, as if we were made of glass. We hopped out of his hand as he stood back to his tall figure. Nobody really took notice of me saying that, so I just ended up following Epps until I came across Bumblebee's holoform and Nicole, just sitting on his hood and talking and laughing. They were so happy together.
I got to them as Epps wandered off to his daily duties or whatever. "Hey guys." I approached Bumblebee's hood. "What's up?" I said as Nicole scooted over to make me more room to sit on. How his hood didn't dent from both of them sitting on it, I'd never know. "You sure?" I asked Bumblebee as he nodded, approving of the action.
I sat on his hood, which was warm, of course and looked at Nicole. "Nic, can you tell me… what was that blue thing you had in your palms?" I asked her.
"Oh these?" she just drew up one to hover on her index finger. "This is something I call energy balls. Not very original, but hey, it works. See the liquid here?" she pointed with her other finger. I nodded. "That's energon, the lifeblood of the transformers. And see these lightning like things?" she pointed her finger again, indicating the little lightning bolts surrounding the liquid.
"Yeah?" I answered.
"That gives some kind of shock to the spark, which can activate the spark, like the Matrix." She finished, extinguishing the blue sphere. "So that's pretty much it."
"That's so cool. Wish I had something like that, too."
"Well, it's freaky even to me. You know, people just leave you out." She looked to the side, I guess remembering some even. Bumblebee caressed her arm assuring as I patted her other one.
"Nic, please, if they knew you saved the world, they wouldn't treat you this way trust me. I absolutely love you the way you are."
"You don't think I'm a freak?" She looked at me, those big brown eyes of hers digging into mine.
"Wha-NO! Of course not! Why the hell would you think that? Nicole, please, I'd never treat you any different or specially. Trust me." I looked at her, dead in the eye. She suddenly gave me a hug.
"Thank you. It means a whole bunch to me." She suddenly turned to Bumblebee, who somehow got her attention.
"Ask her." He asked, giving her a smile.
"I can't ask her now. School's just over." Nicole retorted.
"If you don't I will."
"Yeah right." She rolled her eyes.
"What Nicole wants to ask you is, will you be willing to let her join-" Bee started, but Nicole cut him off.
"Bee!" she squeaked. "Don't!"
"Then ask her." He said.
"Ask me what?" I just kept looking from one to the other.
"Well since my dear, stubborn ass boyfriend here, is harassing me, I have to ask you. You can answer any way you want, no hard feelings at all." I nodded at her. "Well, uh… would you… let me join your dorm? I mean, let me be with you in the same dorm?" she shyly said.
Well this was unexpected. She wants to live with me and Amanda? Sure. Not like we have anything much to do in there anyway. The more the merrier, I say.
"Of course. All you needed to do was to ask." I smiled at her. She hugged me again and squealed.
"Thanks so much Mel! You know I love you, right!"
"Of course I do." Bumblebee said.
"Wasn't talking to you Bee." She said.
"I think I know you love me now." I hugged her back. "Bee will know where to find the dorm, he and Hide can arrange something." I looked to him as he nodded.
"Well, it's settled then! Where are you going for the summer?" She asked me.
"Not a clue, I think I was just going stay here." I shrugged with a smile.
"I have a great idea! What if, since you let me stay with you in your dorm for next year, what if I ask mom and dad to let you come to Greece with us!"
"What? Greece? Nicole, I can't possibly agree to that."
"She's starting to talk like Ironhide." Bumblebee said as he got off the hood and into his car.
"No, no, no! You'll love it! Our family goes there like all the time, so we're not tourists! Sam and I are always bored as hell there, so this would be great!"
"I'll uh, have to talk with my Uncle first. Though I'd very much like the idea." I grinned at her.
"Great. Oh, there he is. Let's ask him." She gripped my wrist and dragged me to him. "Hey Lennox!"
"Hey Nicole. What are you and Mel up to?" he gave us the eyebrow.
"Well, Uncle Will, uh… Nicole wanted-"
"I want to take Mel to Greece!" She said.
"Greece? What would you be doing there?" he crossed his arms. "I thought Mel was old enough to make her own decisions."
"I am, I'm well over eighteen now. As a matter of fact, I'm almost twenty!"
"Yeah, in August." Uncle said, not unfolding his arms.
"Can she go?"
"We'll have to check with Optimus and Ironhide." He quickly said, looking to the side, as if looking for them.
"Why?" She and I said at the same time.
"Optimus, because we need to know your whereabouts and if there are and-or were any Decepticon attacks or intrusions, and Ironhide, because he's Mel's guardian and he goes wherever she goes." He said flatly.
"Oh." Nic and I both said. "That's cool." I added. "So is that a yes?" I grinned at him.
"We'll see. Go and gave fun." He shrugged and let us be. How the hell are we supposed to have fun on a military base? Play hide and seek with aliens?
Huh. Good idea…
"Nicole? Let's play a game with the 'Bots."
"I'm in." she smirked as we went to rally the Bots.
This, was going to be fun.
Haha! I don't even know how to play Hide 'n' Seek with aliens. God help me, please. Review if you can, please! :D