Cover Me 114
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blkdragonqueenA bit of a post and run! I'm sorry that I haven't replied to anyone but we had a bit of an incident last night regarding a broken down car and crazy tow truck drivers that we're still dealing with today. (Not my car but still).
Chapter One Hundred Fourteen: Dinner And a Show
After all the excitement in California, the trip through Oregon was surprisingly tame. Other than the small surprise with Perceptor, nothing happened. At least not in the first two hours or so, but Optimus should have know that it wouldn’t last long.
“Are we there yet?” Sunny whined tiredly.
Optimus sighed. “No,” he told them.
“How ‘bout now?” Sides asked after a few moments.
“No,” Optimus replied.
There was another pause. “Now?” Sunny asked again.
“NO!” Optimus and Ironhide snapped.
They drove in silence for a while. “Now?”
“JAZZ!” The three older first arrivals barked.
“What?” Jazz asked innocently. “I’m bored too!”
“Guys, behave,” Optimus sighed.
“We didn’t do anything,” Sunny protested.
“Yeah! We haven’t done anything yet!” Sides added.
There was a groan from Sunny as Ratchet and Jazz started snickering. Optimus just groaned again while Ironhide growled. “It’s the ‘yet’ that has us worried,” he snarled at Sideswipe.
“What?” Sides asked innocently.
“This is fun,” Perceptor announced as he wandered in between the other Autobots, oblivious to the tension as he weaved in and out. “I can see why you guys like spending time in this form.”
“Give it a day, you’ll change your tune,” Ironhide drawled.
Will just chuckled as he leaned forward and gave the steering wheel a small pat. “Honestly Ironhide, let him enjoy the moment.”
“I’m just saying,” Ironhide huffed. Will laughed again as he leaned back, his hand still slowly running along the wheel. Ironhide hummed softly, relaxing a bit as he and Will just traveled in silence for a while. “How are you doing?” Ironhide asked softly.
“Mmm,” Will sighed. “Tired.”
Ironhide mentally frowned at this admission. “You’ve been tired a lot lately.”
“Mm hmm,” Will agreed, his eyes closing momentarily. “Just been a long trip,” he sighed.
“We’re almost to the next stop. Perhaps you’ll feel better once you get some food in you.”
“Mmm.” Will just shifted a bit and got more comfortable.
“Are we there yet?” Sunny called out again.
“For the last time, no!” four voices shouted as Optimus, Prowl, Wheeljack and Ironhide all cringed at Sunny’s rather innocent question.
“Actually, we are,” Ratchet chuckled as he spotted the city coming up on the horizon.
“What?” Optimus jerked in surprise as he saw the city of Portland ahead of them. “Oh… well apparently we are there.”
Ratchet snickered. “Told ya.”
“So we’re going to stop here?” Wheeljack called out.
“Well we kind of need to get some food ourselves,” Ron chuckled.
“Ohh! Let’s go through a drive thru!” Perceptor called out excitedly.
“-Can we actually go somewhere where we can get out?” Miles asked pleadingly. “I think I need to get up and walk.”
“Same here,” Sam sighed. “No offenses,” he said to Barricade.
“What do I care?” Barricade answered.
“Well, that looks like a nice restaurant,” Steve stated as he pointed to a rather large grill and bar establishment.
Ron glanced over at his friend in disbelief. “Hooters?”
“No!” Epps yelped and everyone jerked in surprise.
“What?” Will said in disbelief. “It’s like your favorite place to eat.”
“They have too many nice cars,” Epps said with a snarl. “Probably tricked out to the nines too.”
“What?” Will seemed confused but as Sam looked at the cars in the parking lot, he instantly understood where Epps was going and he glanced at the rearview mirror at the two mechs in the back seat.
Dark red optics looked up at him. “What?” Megatron asked innocently.
Barricade groaned as Sam shook his head and leaned towards the speaker. “Can we go somewhere else?”
“There look good,” Ron announced as he saw a rather family friendly restaurant. “And they have a large parking lot for trucks.”
“That’s good,” Optimus chuckled. “It’ll be nice to actually take a rest.”
“How can you be tired?” Ironhide chuckled. “You’re younger than me and I’m still willing to go on.”
“You’re not pulling a giant trailer!” Optimus nearly wailed.
“Baby.”
“Ratchet!” Optimus gasped.
“That’s what you’re acting like!”
“Like we need another one with two already on the way,” Jazz chuckled.
“Yeah… two…” Ratchet muttered under his breath.
“I knew he had to know!” Optimus cried triumphantly.
“Knew what?” Wheeljack asked as he quickly pulled up to where the First Team was driving.
“Er… Nothing,” Ratchet said quickly.
“No really, knew what?” Wheeljack insisted. Steve and Ron shared a quick glance before Ron began chuckling. “What?” Wheeljack asked again.
“Nothing,” Ratchet insisted. “Now get in the right lane before we miss the turn off.”
“Oh right.”
“Well that was close,” Barricade chuckled to his few passengers.
“-You do realize that we now have three mechs with sparklings on a potentially dangerous trip?-” Soundwave spoke through the ‘Con’s private channel.
“Why we had Keller get the extra gear,” Barricade responded. “It was only a matter of time before those two got a little surprise of their own.”
“I think Wheeljack is going to have a spark failure when he finally realizes that Optimus and the others kept this from him,” Sam shook his head.
“It’s Ratchet’s place to tell him,” Barricade retorted as he pulled into the parking space.
“About time,” Rumble sighed from the back seat. “What is with this planet? We should have been there by now.”
Barricade chuckled. “Unfortunately, not only are we at the mercy of the planet’s surface varieties, but also the human’s imposed speed limits.”
“What’s the point of having diplomatic license plates if you can’t use them?” Rumble frowned.
“We can’t risk it,” Bumblebee told the smaller ‘Con.
“Indeed,” Barricade agreed. “Not with Thirteen still out there.”
“Whatever,” Rumble huffed as he sat back. “All this sneaking around and hiding… We may as well have stayed with Starscream, as insane as he is… OW!” Rumble jerked forward as his head was whapped.
“Do-do-don’t say th-th-that,” Frenzy surprised everyone by speaking. Barricade would have thought that it had been Megatron.
“Say what?” Rumble asked with a frown. “Starscream and the others are probably way ahead of us by now.”
“Doubt it,” Barricade chuckled as he pulled into one of the free spaces. “Later,” he said to Sam.
“Yeah,” Sam nodded as he climbed out, quickly making his way to where Miles and ‘Bee were. He said something to the disguised Autobot before following the four older men into the restaurant.
“As for you two,” Barricade snarled. “You stay in the car.”
“Can’t we at least go talk to Soundwave and the other?” Rumble huffed.
“P-p-please?” Frenzy added, clamping his hands together pleadingly.
Barricade held out for a few moments before he just sighed. “Just don’t get caught,” he commanded.
“We won’t,” the two chorused as they slipped out and began heading towards the larger ‘Con.
Barricade just sighed after they left and was getting ready to slip into a nice recharge when there was a chuckle over his communicator. “-For a ‘Con, you sure are bright spark.-”
“Bite me,” Barricade growled. Bumblebee just chuckled from where he was parked a few spaces down.
“What was that about?” Wheeljack asked, shocking Barricade who hadn’t even realized the Autobot had pulled up next to him.
“What are you doing over here?” Barricade grumbled. “Shouldn’t you be with your husband over in the big car lot?”
“I drew the short stick,” Wheeljack muttered.
Barricade puzzled over this before he heard a small snicker and realized that Sunny and Sideswipe had managed to get the two parking spots on his other side. “Oh hell no,” Barricade muttered. With a quick check, he quickly backed out of the spot and made his way to the other side of the Wheeljack to slip into the empty space between the engineer and where ‘Bee was.
Bumblebee glanced over at Barricade’s appearance in surprise. “Why'd you move?” he asked the ‘Con. Barricade just growled.
“What was the point of that?” Wheeljack asked a bit bemused. “You only moved one spot.”
“It’s better than being surrounded by Autobots,” Barricade huffed.
“Um…”
“Oh just admit it, you’ve been corrupted,” Barricade snapped at the yellow mech. 'Bee didn't argue the point.
“You two are weird,” Wheeljack huffed from Barricade’s right side this time.
“At least I’m not stuck between the Lambos,” Barricade huffed.
Bumblebee just chuckled but didn’t deny it. “You want to go speak to Soundwave?”
“He’s fine,” Barricade told him.
“Barricade. Open up.” A voice hissed and Barricade glanced down in surprise to find Ravage waiting for him to open his passenger side door.
“What are you doing over here?” Bumblebee asked curiously as he spotted the large cat mimic.
“Rumble and… Frenzy,” Barricade and Bumblebee knew instantly that it wasn’t Frenzy Ravage was talking about, “are busy playing that strange whee game.”
“Wii,” Bumblebee corrected as Barricade opened his door for the smaller 'Con.
“Whatever,” Ravage snarled. “Open a window.” Barricade rolled down the back window for the cat as it stretched out in the bench seat. “Perrrfect.”
“You dig you’re claws into me I kill you,” Barricade warned.
“Understood,” Ravage sighed contently.
“Quiet,” Wheeljack suddenly hissed. “Sunny, Sides! Shut it! Here come humans.”
All speaking aloud halted as a car pulled into the spot recently vacated by Barricade, right between Wheeljack and Sunstreaker. Barricade didn’t pay it much mind until there was a sudden thumping sound and a yelp sounded over the radio. Ravage lifted his head as he and Barricade listened to the sudden chatter on the comm. line.
“-He hit me!-” Sunstreaker was saying in disbelief.
“-What?-” Sideswipe shouted stunned as Ravage quickly leaped out the open window.
“-On purpose! I think he scratched my paint!-” Sunny paused as he did a self check with his side mirror. “-Worse! He dented me!-”
“-I’ll kill him,-” Sideswipe snarled.
“-Don’t you dare!-” Wheeljack snapped. “-Wait until he goes into the restaurant and we’ll have Ratchet check you out. Do not do anything.-”
“-Too late,-” Barricade sighed as the driver, a rather young man with his two friends turned and found a rather large black cat seated right behind them. There was silence for a moment until Ravage let out a rather large toothy grin, and then the three guys screamed like there was no tomorrow. The screaming only got louder as suddenly Laserbeak and Buzzsaw appeared and landed on the roof of the jerk’s car, having been summoned by Ravage over the ‘Con’s private line.
“-What the matrix do they think they’re doing?-” Wheeljack yelped astonished.
Barricade mentally shrugged as Bumblebee groaned beside him. “-Having some fun,-” he said as the three smaller ‘Cons lunged for the three men who all scattered in different directions.
The few humans who were in the parking lot watched in stunned disbelief as a panther and two condors started chasing three guys around the parking lot. Ravage made a quick leap and managed to get a mouth full of the man’s hind quarters and there was the sound of fabric tearing that was clearly heard by the one ‘Con and four Autobots. It didn’t take long for the shouting and screaming to begin taking on a horrified tone.
“-What the slag is going on over there?-” Optimus shouted over the line from where he and the others were in the large vehicle lot.
“-Nothing we can’t handle,-” Barricade announced rather cheerfully.
“-You hush!-” Wheeljack snapped. “-Optimus, we have a problem.-”
“-Those jerks hurt Sunny!-” Sideswipe yelped.
“-Will you three get back here!-” Wheeljack shouted.
“-Soundwave, call off your team!-” Optimus ordered. Barricade glanced over and could see Rumble and Frenzy standing in the open doorway of the larger 'Con watching the three animal mimics in surprise.
“-I do apologize Optimus Prime,-” Soundwave didn’t sound at all apologetic. “-However when Ravage takes a mission, he ensures that he sees the mission to the end.-”
“-This isn’t a mission, he’s chasing innocents!-” Prowl yelped as he and Jazz appeared from around the other side of the building where he and Jazz had gone to be alone.
“-He doesn’t see it that way,-” Soundwave told the Autobot commander.
“-Slag it!-” Optimus yelped as he watched the two birds began dive bombing the three humans. Laserbeak managed to snag one’s baseball cap on one dive and was methodically tearing it to shreds with beak and claws.
“Go Laserbeak!”
“SIDES!” Prowl yelped as he started heading towards the group.
“What?” Sideswipe shouted back.
“STAY BACK!” Barricade suddenly commanded, surprising the older 'Bots. Barricade just continued to communicate with Prowl. “-A police car arriving at the scene with no police officer? Get out of sight before you make things worse!-”
“-What?-” Prowl yelped outraged.
“-He’s got a point Prowl,-” Optimus admitted. “-Stay back with Jazz. Maybe we can minimize this…-”
“-Um…-” ‘Bee looked over where Soundwave was still parked; his side door open and mysteriously empty. “-That might be a bit harder than you think.-”
There was more screaming as the driver of the car whirled around and started running the other way as he was suddenly pounced upon by two humanoid robots who began ripping off his clothes while cackling madly.
“-Heart’s on his boxer shorts. Can you get any more trite?-” Barricade chuckled as one of the other humans whizzed past him, Ravage right on his tail.
“Shit.”
Everyone looked up at Epps words and stared at the ranger puzzled. “What?” Will asked him with a frown as he dunked another fry in his ketchup.
Epps said nothing but jerked his head in the direction of the window as he bit down into his sandwich. “They’re at it again,” he said between bites of chicken and bread.
“What?” The other three adults looked out the window in shock as a young man ran past the window screaming. They were confused for a moment until a dark shape bounded after him.
“Was that Ravage?” Will asked stunned.
“Yup,” Sam nodded as he took another sip of his soda and went back to his own burger.
“There goes Laserbeak,” Miles chuckled.
“Actually I think that was Buzzsaw,” Sam said with a frown.
“Oh…”
Will, Ron and Steve turned to just stare at the three still calmly eating. “What are you doing? We have to get out there!” Will yelped as he tried to figure out how to get out of the booth over Epps and Miles.
“Nah,” Epps shook his head as he took a sip of his coffee. “We’re almost done anyway.”
Ron and Steve looked at their sons respectively, as they tried to figure out if they should get out of the booth or keep eating as Epps finally sighed and shoved the last bit of his sandwich in his mouth, poking Miles with his elbow.
Miles and Sam who were both on the end grabbed what they could carry and took some last sips from their soda while Epps dropped some bills down on the table. “Okay, let’s go,” Epps nodded, Miles and Sam already making their way to the door as they finished off their food.
“It’s about time,” Barricade muttered as he saw the group emerge from the restaurant.
“I’ll go get them,” ‘Bee said with a laugh. “Another dine and dash!”
“This is becoming way to ordinary!” Barricade called after him with a laugh.
“-Perceptor, go get Ron and Steve,-” Wheeljack called out as he couldn’t get out due to the small group of humans just standing around the parking lot watching the goings on.
“-Got it!-” Perceptor called out happily as he and Ironhide quickly moved near the front of the restaurant.
“WE’RE LEAVING!” Barricade shouted as loudly as he could.
Soundwave sounded his air horn and the five smaller mechs responded instantly. All of them quickly ducked and darted around the other cars and jumped into the larger ‘Con as the larger vehicles were already re-entering traffic on the highway. Barricade activated his hologram and quickly turned on his siren and the group of humans instantly dispersed as he, Wheeljack and the Lambos took the opportunity to get out of the parkin spaces and quickly darted back onto the main road.
They sped down the road, passing the local police as they tore down the road in the opposit lane, headed for the restaurant they had just left. “-I highly suggest we take an alternate route to Washington,-” Prowl finally broke the silence. “-And get out of here.-”
“-Agreed,-” Optimus sighed before his anger was suddenly let lose. “-What the slag were you guys thinking?-” he bellowed.
“-The pathetic human had it coming!-” Ravage snarled over the comm..
“-Ravage,-” Soundwave said sternly.
“-But that was fun!-” Laserbeak chuckled.
“-And we didn’t get to do anything in the last place!-” Buzzsaw argued.
“-What are you talking about?-” Ratchet asked suspiciously.
“-We just can’t take you guys anywhere, can we?-” Epps chuckled from where he was riding with Will and Ironhide.
“-What happened anyway?-” Ron asked curiously.
“-The human hit Sunny!-” Sides told them angrily.
“-And the ‘Cons went after them, it was awesome!-” Sunny laughed.
“-Did any of you even think that those humans may have recorded that little incident?-” Optimus snapped.
“-Oh slag,-” Jazz moaned. “-If Thirteen finds that footage…-”
“-SLAGGING ‘CONS!-” Ironhide yelped. “-DID YOU EVEN CONSIDER WHAT YOU WERE DOING?-”
“-Ironhide,-” Optimus snapped. “-What’s done is done. There’s no undoing it. If the humans got footage then we’ll know soon enough.-”
“Already on it!” Barricade called out.
“-What?-” Bumblebee glanced over at the ‘Con surprised. “-What are you doing?-”
“You mean aside from the jamming signal I sent out after they started running around the place?”
“-What?-” Prowl shouted in surprise at the news.
“-I didn’t even realize there was a jamming signal being sent out,-” Jazz chuckled. “-You’re good Runner.-”
“Well it was only for their low tech cell phones,” Barricade chuckled. “I’m already working on the human’s video sites.”
“-What?-” Bumblebee yelped. He quickly logged onto the net in surprise and was stunned to see that any video being posted from the town they were in was instantly dissolved by the very handle that had had him and the other members of the first team so surprised all those weeks ago when the others had first began arriving. “-YOU’RE ‘‘CON ARTIST’?-” ‘Bee yelped.
Barricade just chuckled. “I had to do something in that garage you know.”
“-Unbelievable,-” Wheeljack muttered.
“-You’re telling me,-” Prowl said with a small huff.
“-That was fun!-” Perceptor chirped.
“-What?-” six Autobots shouted in disbelief.
“-I second that!-” Sides laughed.
“-Third!-” Sunny added.
There was a groan from Optimus. “-I just hope everything is going better at the base.-”
Inferno’s optics winked on ever so slowly to focus on the large square sheet metal that had been used to patch the holes in the ceiling of the main hanger. It took him a moment to gather his thoughts as he turned his head and glanced over to find another mech smirking down at him. “Good morning,” Rollerforce sing-songed.
Inferno just groaned and switched off.
-To Be Continue
Author's Note: Yeah, short chapter but this was one of those chapters where we wanted to see it. Join us next time for chapter One Hundred Fifteen: Making Friends
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Date: 2009-05-02 07:45 pm (UTC)LOL "The Human hit Sunny" Ravage, Buzzsaw and Laserbeak are truly entertaining. Harassing those humans for hitting Sunny. Okay so it also was for lack of any entertainment but it could have been seen as revenge for the slight on Sunny's person. :P I mean I would think that you'd be more in awe and gawking every time you come across a Lambo. Hell if you'd be the one driving a Lambo then you sure as hell would be spitting and be madder than a cat with his tail trapped between barbwire. Except you won't have three chaotic Cybertronians at your side when that happens. ^_______^
And slowly bit by bit the others get a glimpse of Barricade's unique character. And A big yeah for the next chapter where deducing from the Title is about the others making new friends with the shy Dewbot, Escabot and Xbot. LOL I can barely wait.
Kohako_Shadow
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Date: 2009-05-03 05:47 am (UTC)And it seemed highly entertaining to me. It always amazed me that whenever we took out our convertible, we would part all the way at the far end of the parking lot and some idiot would still park next to us and dent the door! >:|
I can see the 'Cons VERY protective of the Sparklings and their "mothers". ^_^
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Date: 2009-05-02 07:46 pm (UTC)Will is pregnant, I KNOW IT!
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Date: 2009-05-03 05:54 am (UTC)Can I tell you my theory?! I might use it for myself because whoa, dude, epic much!
*glomps*
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Date: 2009-05-02 07:57 pm (UTC):D
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Date: 2009-05-03 01:43 pm (UTC)(In the first post, I accidentally deleted the line 'It's very funny.')
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Date: 2009-05-04 12:11 am (UTC)Poor Optimus!
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Date: 2009-05-03 12:53 am (UTC)I loved the way the casseticons unified in their torment of the humans over denting Sunny. That was totally awesome.
Look forward to seeing where you're taking us next! ;-)
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Date: 2009-05-03 05:22 am (UTC)And yeah, I just liked the idea of Ravage just romping through the parking lot.
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Date: 2009-05-03 03:22 pm (UTC)Love Epps, Sam and Miles' nonchalant reaction to the chaos in the parking lot. Business as usual, then.
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Date: 2009-05-03 10:34 pm (UTC)Oh Bee's all corupted now. (g) Go Cade!
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Date: 2009-10-01 08:38 pm (UTC)And the tapes "getting revenge" for Sunny was hilarious. Though I mean who couldn't figure out Cade was Conartist. I mean really!
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Date: 2009-10-01 09:26 pm (UTC)and I love the cassettes chasing those morons. This was written after someone banged Kallipso's brand new car. ^_^