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Through the massive doors revealed an intricate amount of hallways, rooms and other sorts in the passageway. Just like the hangar before the shiny steel coated every nook and cranny of the place.. unless some sort of keypad looking thing or another device was stationed there in its stead. Although the ceiling was extremely high, which I supposed it was for the 40 foot tall robots to have their freedom to come and go.

E'yup.

It really was awe striking, me being a normal person mixed up in this whole alien race because of some stupid picture. I shook my head at the stupid decision I made, noting to myself to not be so curious about certain things anymore.

Sideswipe and Sunstreaker idly chatted with each other as they carried me along to God knows where, which I was hoping they wouldn't take much longer to get to whomever I was supposed to speak with. I had a test to make up, a job to get to my—well my apartment was completely trashed so that was a not an option.

I started to wonder about those poor people that were caught in the crossfire because of me.. A knot formed in my gut at the memory of those poor people almost being killed because of Skywarp. Internally cringing as they most likely thought their lives would be over.. And where would they live now? It wasn't like those apartments were expensive or anything, entire families lived there too.. With a quick shake of my head I decided to think of other things, such as—

"Alright we're here." Sunstreaker said as he gestured to an impressive looking door with another robot sitting outside it. I couldn't see his eyes since there was a visor there. But.. He didn't look very friendly, quite frankly. A shiver ran up my spine as he spoke next.

"Is this the human?" He said not even looking at me.

"Yeah, Prowl.. it's not like we bring in humans in like strays or anything." Sideswipe huffed and presented me to him without much regard of me.

Prowl bent over to take a closer look at me and I could only stare back with a stupid expression. I didn't know what to say. 'Hey, how are you? I know you probably don't like humans so don't kill me please!'

"Optimus is ready to see her." He stated curtly and the doors opened behind him with a swooshing sound. Kind of like in the movies..

The red 'bot carried me in and set me on a massive metal desk. Complete with a computer and everything! It was pretty much a gigantic office for whoever worked in her. Standing up I went a 360 to take in everything as quick as possible, finally stopping when a pair of massive blue orbs were set upon me.

"Rica Diogaurdi I presume." The friendly yet stern voice greeted me. Huh.. This guy sounded familiar..

"I-I-.. Yeah, that's me." I squeaked out as the robot came into my full vision. He was positively.. just.. huge. HUGE. Even bigger than the twins! He sat in a chair behind the desk, his face covered by a faceplate so I couldn't see an expression on him.

"I'm sorry for what had happened to you, I know you must also have a lot of questions about this whole ordeal.." He went on, trying to make me as comfortable as possible it seemed. "I will be happy to explain everything, but first there's a few things I must say. First of all, I am Optimus Prime. Leader of the Autobots." He paused to let the words settle in before continuing. "The Autobots are beings from the planet Cybertron and we have come to Earth to fight our enemies, the Decepticons."

"The Decepticons are the guys that tried to attack us, right?" I piped up.

"Correct, Ms. Diogaurdi. And it seems you discovered something that you humans weren't meant to see.. You need understand that our race is disguised among yours, trying not to cause a panic among the nation."

"Does the government know about you?"

"They do, but they aren't quite happy with the arrangement, I must say. But we're their only chance against the Decepticons."

"What do the Decepticons want then?.." My voice was fairly even though the conversation, though it cracked a bit sometimes due to my nervousness.

"They wish to conquer the universe, and Earth was one of their main targets since this planet is full of a resource that our race depends on to survive. Energon. There are many energon mines throughout your world, but never discovered since they're all hidden extremely well."

I nodded along dumbly, managing to put most of the pieces together. Swallowing back my fear, I finally asked the question that was most important to me.

"What's going to happen to me now?"

Optimus paused and watched me carefully. It seemed the response that he was going to give.. May not be something I would like. I bit my bottom lip and awaited that dreaded reply.

"It.. would be safer if you would stay with us, Ms. Diogaurdi. The Decepticons want the keep their existence hidden as well, and humans are just a burden to them. I will be blunt, with you.. They will try to kill you." He said gravely.

Rubbing my temples I took a couple of deep breathes, trying to calm myself down.

"Okay, so.. I need to stay with.. with you guys. How will that work? I have a life! A job, I go to college, how about my family?"

The massive mech stood from his seat and 'lightly' braced the end of the desk. "It will all be taken care of in time. But for now, Rica you need to be under our supervision. We can't let a human die because of our war. You will be able to leave once things have settled down. The twins will help you to adjust to the life on base." He paused and settled back down. "I promise you, Ms. Diogaurdi we will make this endeavor as comfortable for you as possible." With that I just sighed, there was no way to argue with the big boss.

Turning I jumped, startled to see Sideswipe still standing there. He offered me a reassuring smile and offered his hand for me to step into. I made a face of concern, but then accepted.. This is what life would be like for now on. Climbing onto his palm I seated myself carefully and clung to one of his digits to make sure I wouldn't fall. With a final salute to Optimus, Sideswipe turned and left the office.

. . .

Sideswipe had lead me to an entire different room after the meeting with Optimus, he had tried to strike up conversation with me but I really wasn't up for it. All I really wanted to do right now was get ahold of my parents, Sideswipe promised to get me a disposable cellphone as soon as possible so I could speak to them. But for now it was a no-go.

The room we appeared in was fairly large, it held two computers and two massive slabs of metal which I guessed were.. Uhh, beds for these robots. Just like the halls and rooms before it though, it was pretty plain. Void from any real special details.. Meh, I guess I couldn't expect anything more though, right?

"This is mine and Sunny's room. Y'know in case you ever need us while you're staying here for now." He paused to regard me, those blue optics flashing a sign of excitement. I guess he was really looking forward to my extended sleepover, more than me anyway…

"Well, that's cool and all.. But where am I supposed to be sleeping?" I asked, giving a light tilt of my head toward him. He hesitated at that.

"Oh, right. Ahh.. hmm. We haven't had any humans stay on base before so.. I guess we're going to have to go out to get you some stuff for all your fleshy needs." With a firm nod he exited his room and started to bound back down the large halls.

"Right.. Okay, I guess that'll work. But I don't have any money, Sideswipe.." That didn't pause him in his trek though he did look down at me for a moment with a mischievous look. I didn't like the looks of that at all.. The way the twins had acted toward the beginning had gotten me pretty suspicious to begin with but this may take the cake with whatever this 'bot was planning.

"That's not going to be an issue for you?"

"Not at all!"

"And why's that?"

"Well, this is the perfect time to try out my holoform and use those little plastic cards Prowl gave us!"

Dead panning I realized that these robots had credit cards. I didn't have a credit card for fuck's sakes! Ugh.. My jealous rage would have to be stored away for now, at least I was getting free stuff. I mean, who doesn't like free stuff?

"Okay, I get it you have a credit card.. But what's a 'holoform'?"

Before he answered he turned to corner an almost collided with another 'bot, with me shielding my head from the near contact I couldn't see who it was until they spoke up.

"Where you takin' the human, 'Sides?" Sunstreaker asked as I pulled away my protect shield of limbs.

"We need to get her fleshy stuff if she's going to stay on base. I was going to try out the new holoforms! Want to come?" He flashed a grin at his brother, whom in return also grinned at him.

"Sounds fun, I'm in."

. . .

After about an hour of pleading with Prowl they were finally allowed to leave base to take me to get me the things I needed. Of course I didn't exactly have a physical list on me, but I did know the essentials for sure.

Thus the process repeated again and I was lead into the hangar where the twins transformed into their sleek Lamborghini forms leaving me again, a bit in awe from it. Red and yellow lined up next to each other and they waited patiently to get into one of their cabs. Though, I hesitated to think. Sunny was rather quiet which was nice, but he played pranks on me.. Sides was a chatterbox, but at least he didn't try to scare the dickens out of me.

With a final decision I moved toward the red Lamborghini and hopped into the driver's seat. Without hesitation on Sideswipe's part he strapped me in with the slithering seatbelt and we were off on the road once more.

"So is there a mall or something around here?" I had asked once I had gotten comfortable enough in the seat, eyes looking out the side window as usual to watch the fields go by.

"A mall? Dunno what that is but there's a human city not too far away, we'll go there first!"

"Sure, sure.. Just wake me up when we get there."

And with that I closed my eyes, ready to get a couple Z's while the two of them drove me to get the things I needed. My last thoughts before I drifted into a restless slumber were; God I hope this wouldn't turn out to be disaster.

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