DMK: Argh! I've had this old version of this chapter since like, last year... it's not detailed or anything...

Inferno: I smell a rewrite coming on...

DMK: as you should! Anyway, I just own the idea, Hotshot94 and Cobalt own themselves but have lent themselves to my fic! So yay! And a note to Ashana and The-Crab, you'll be in the next chapter, I promise! It was just too long as is and I had to change the POV from first to third person or whatever... so yeah...

Inferno: ::quiets DMK and starts the fic for her::

Chapter Four

'BING!'

"Haha, perfect…"

Already one of her friends had been on the computer when she logged on. It was Brent, also known to other fanfiction author's as Hotshot94.

Hotshot94: Hey! n.n!!
DMK005: sup?
Hotshot94: nothing. You?
DMK005: Sorta. I need your help.
Hotshot94: What about?
DMK005: …you wouldn't believe me even if I told you…
Hotshot94: try me
DMK005: …ok then…. Well…my laptop got hit by lightning and uh.. remember that fanfic I had been writing?
Hotshot94: ..you mean the baby one?
DMK005: yeah... .;; It actually CAME TRUE IN THE REAL ARMADA WORLD!
Hotshot94: Oo''
DMK005: yeah yeah, im a nut, so what else is new? Look, I've been pulled into it, and the bots are outta control... like really
Hotshot94: …you want me to help, don't you?
DMK005: …would you…? Even if you don't believe me, I got loads a' proof.
Hotshot94: it sounds freakign wierd but HELL YEAH! ..how do I help?
DMK005: uhh…. I emailed you with the link code thingy… I'm gonna log off, go back to the Armada world, and then click it. It's supposed to open a portal or somejunk, i dun know if it works, Alexis told me it should work or something. Give me oh, five minutes. I'll meet you there.
Hothsot94: ..alrighty. anyone else comin?
DMK005: I PMed Cobalt on Seibertron, so she's gonna come too.
Hotshot94: cool. See ya then
DMK005: see ya!

Caitlin logged off then, and quickly warped out of her basement, back to the cave that she had arrived in before, and waited for the next five minutes. Leaning against a nearby stalagmite, she stuck her headphones onto her ears and turned on some good Sum 41. About halfway into 'Still Waiting', she felt a tap on her shoulder.

"GAH!"

Caught totally off guard, she stumbled backwards and threatened to drop her CD player. Quickly, she shut it off and looked up at the darkened form that had tapped her shoulder in the first place. "…who are you?"

That's when the light shifted, and a teenage boy of about 5'9'' with 'crazy' red hair and emerald eyes looked down at her, wearing a crooked grin. He wore a plain orange T-shirt with baggy, faded blue jeans. One hand was jammed deep in his pocket while the other hung at his side. "I take that back...are you Brent?"

He smirked and nodded. "Yup. That's me."

"Well I'm Caitlin… Nice to meet you."

"Nice to meet you too." He then looked around. "So... this is real, isn't it?"

"Yyyyyup."

"OOH OOH OOH! So is Jetfire here?!"

The two snapped around and saw a brown haired girl bound down the cave to them. She was 5'8'', and wore an Air Force ROTC uniform shirt along with a pair of black jeans. Cait seemed just a bit disgruntled at the fact she was several inches shorter than both of the newcomers, but nodded. "A' course Jets is here. He's a bit rambunctious, but aside from that, he's been good. You must be Cobalt, right?"

"That's me!" she announced, stepping forward. "But you guys can call me Sarah."

"Well then Sarah, 's nice to meet you. I'm Caitlin."

"Feeling's mutual."

'Hotshot94' stepped forward to introduce himself to her as well. "And my name's Brent, nice to finally meet some of my fellow fanfiction-dot-net writers."

Sarah smiled. "Nice to meet you too."

"Well, now that the introductions are out of the way, lets go inside the base." Caitlin interrupted casually.

'Cobalt' cheered. "Yays! This is gonna be cool!"

- - - - - - - - - -

Caitlin led the two other Transformer lovers into the Autobot base, and was instantly greeted by the sensation of being hit by a pickup. "Ow. Again."

"WOAH! THEY ARE CHIBIS!" Brent just stared at the five foot, young, and incredibly heavy Sideswipe as he sat on top of the first teenager, and hugged the life out of her as well.

"THEY'RE SO CUTE!" Cobalt squealed at the sight of him.

"Cute, but VERY HEAVY!" Caitlin squeaked out, watching the 'little' Transformer as he unwittingly started to crush her. "Sideswipe… you're…. Choking me…"

The young mech shrugged and got off of her then, and ran off to go play a game of tag with the other bots in the room. (Scavenger, Blurr, and Optimus were more than likely sleeping still) That's when DMK and Cobalt heard Brent give a shout and a heavy thud came soon after.

"OW! X.x …what the…. DUDE! Its Smokescreen!"

As said, the orange and blue Transformer baby was now sitting atop him, grinning in that same, Smokescreen manner. "Wahoo! New friend! !!!!"

Brent would have smiled if his ribs weren't cracking…

"Uhhmm… Smokey, could you get off of him…?"

"Okay!" He grinned and got off Brent quickly. Then, took note of his winded expression. "…no hurt, right?"

"Nope, I'm cool." He said as he sat up.

Then, they heard giggling. Cobalt was obviously having fun with Jetfire, participating in the game of tag along with him.

"Hey! You're back!"

Caitlin turned, and saw Carlos, who still looked a bit ragged from the experience half an hour before. "Sure am. Oh, and these are a couple a' my friends. Meet Brent and Sarah."

"Sup! I'm Carlos, nice t' meetcha."

They both responded something along the lines of 'nice to meet you too', and then got aquatinted with Rad and Alexis.

"Uhh…any of you seen Red around here?"

Then it dawned on Caitlin, and she gasped. "OH CRAP!"

Rad and Brent jumped. "WHAT?!"

"Aw man! Where the heck is RedAlert?!"

"RedAlert!"

"'Ey Red, where are ya?"

"Reeeeeeeeeed!!"

"Hold up, I thought Red was like, serious and didn't like to get into trouble…" Cobalt said to DMK off to the side.

"Well they don't stay the same, sadly…Red might be good, but trouble follows him everywhere."

"Ohhhh…"

He was nowhere to be found. And the longer he was missing, the more of a chance he was either getting into trouble or getting hurt, or both. Everyone, in a panic, agreed to split up and go over the entire base. Caitlin raced along one of the darkened wings of a corridor, passing by the Energon storage room, and caught a tad of blue out of the corner of her eye. Backstepping, she came across the young version of the Transformer Medic, lying beside two emptied containers of the high grade Energon.

"Oh Red," She moaned. There was no feasable way she would be able to move the heavy baby Transformer whilist in that state.

He lethargically picked his head up and only answered with a small, 'hic'.

DMK sighed, and let her hands fall to her sides. She was about to say something like 'I guess I'll just have to stay with you,' when Rad and Brent came running by, and then stepped into the room, staring.

"What happened to him?!"

Caitlin put a finger over her mouth and said, "Shh, RedAlert wandered off to get some Energon for himself and found the hard stuff…"

Brent stifled a laugh, and Rad continued to stare. "Well… what now?"

The 17 year old shrugged, and answered, "I'll watch him… tell the others that I found him, it'll take a while before he will come to…"

"So you're going to watch him?"

She sighed again. "Most likely… Ah, I don't mind… but you know what we have to do…"

Brent blinked. "…ORDER PIZZA!"

She about facevaulted. "Noooo… get MORE reinforcements."

Rad looked puzzled. "What does that mean?"

"I got two or three more friends that want to help… once Red's on his feet I'll go get them…" Caitlin explained.

"You mean Tim and Sally?" 'Hotshot94' asked her, understanding.

"Of course. They'd have a field day here too."

The redhead grinned a bit at that. "Works for me… Uhh, now lets go tell the others that everything's okay!"

Rad agreed, and the two boys left the elder teen there to watch the intoxicated baby Transformer. And he was out cold. Caitlin was lucky to have brought her CD player, because it kept her occupied for the time he was sleeping. When he picked his head up again, he looked both in pain, and still quite stoned. The poor Transformer seemed to have one HELL of a hangover…

The fanfiction authoress scooted over to him, removing the ear buds from her ears, grinning down at him impishly. "Now what have we learned today, little man?"

"No… more… shiny stuff…"

Again she couldn't resist grinning. "Good boy. Now just rest, you're not in trouble."

He smiled weakly and then set his head back down on the floor of the Energon Storage room, powering down his optic visor slowly. "C'n I hava hug...?" Red barely managed in a small voice.

'And here I thought I hated little kids...' Begrudgingly, she got down closer to him and laced her arms around his neck, softly embracing him. As she began to pull back, she felt two strong arms press in around her back and keep her there. She tried to push away and slide out of his grip, but she just couldn't compete with him and let her body relax. With one arm still holding Caitlin to himself like a stuffed toy, the other hand traveled to his face, where he promply stuck his thumb in his mouth and nodded off to sleep. After a few quiet moments, the human sighed. 'Goody... I'm here for the long haul...'

It would be a few more hours before he would wake again...

TBC