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Cover Me
By Black Dragon Queen
Author’s Note: Happy Monday! Yet another wonderful chapter of COVER ME! Please enjoy the chapter!
PAIRINGS REVEALED THUS FAR:
Wheeljack x Ratchet, Inferno x Red Alert, Sunstreaker X Sideswipe, Past Prowl x Jazz
Font Index: “Speaking”, ‘Thinking’, “-Radio Transmissions-”, “Cybertronion” “:Link:”
Chapter Thirty-Four: Introductions and Integrations
When the Autobots reached a rather secluded rest stop on one of the cliffs overlooking the ocean, Miles almost didn’t want to get out of Bumblebee as he looked at the three trucks apprehensively. While he had managed to get use to both Barricade and Bumblebee, from what Sam had told him, these were older and higher-ranking Autobots that were now transforming and waiting for him to emerge. “What do I say to them?” he whispered to ‘Bee.
“Just say ‘nice to meet you’ and then let them do all the talking,” ‘Bee told him as he swung open his door for the boy. “Optimus sometimes never stops.”
Miles was still a little nervous but nodded nonetheless as he unclasped his seat belt and took a step outside. He stared up at the other three in complete wonder as he took in the different looks of their original forms. The first thing that came to his mind was just simply ‘tall’. He had only seen Bumblebee in his other form at that had only been for a few moments, so it was quite impressive to see these giant alien robots up close. The few images he had seen on the web before they were deleted were usually blurry. So impressed by the sight of them, it took a while for Miles to finally realize that the three were all staring right back at him.
With a small flush, Miles backed slightly to lean against Bumblebee who had yet to transform himself. Sam quickly walked over to him and Mikaela did the same, taking one of his arms and patting it comfortably as they all turned towards Optimus to wait for what he had to say. None of them had really discussed how they were going to explain how Miles learned the secret of the Autobots. They had been more concerned with keeping Barricade a secret, so none of them quite knew where to begin; so they waited for Optimus to finally break the silence.
Optimus sighed as he looked down at the three humans who were all waiting apprehensively for him to say something. The fact that ‘Bee had yet to transform showed just how nervous the young ‘Bot was. Clearly ‘Bee didn’t want to face him just yet. Shaking his head, Optimus turned back to the children before he glanced over to where Judy was leaning back against the guardrail, watching the proceedings intently. She lifted an eyebrow and simply waited; apparently the woman thought this was their problem and wasn’t about to interfere. Smart woman. Now if only Ironhide could follow her example.
“What were you thinking?” Ironhide bellowed. “I understand that Miles is Sam’s friend but we have to think of our survival first and foremost on this planet! Of all the crosswired mistakes…”
“Ironhide, shut up!” Ratchet growled. “Let them try to explain before you go shooting off at the mouth.”
Ironhide snarled but turned to Optimus instead. “Well? You agree with me right?”
“I don’t agree with anyone just yet,” Optimus announced. “Let’s just hear what they have to say first.” Turning back to the others, he looked down at ‘Bee, “’Bee, you can’t stay in car mode forever,” he drawled and the yellow car sighed as he backed a little ways away from the three humans and with a few clanking sounds, transformed into his mech form.
Miles turned to stare up at the now taller ‘Bee and the yellow mech tried to give him an encouraging smile, but the boy could tell it was rather forced. ‘Bee turned back to the other Autobots. “I’m sorry that we didn’t tell you sooner about the breech in security,” he said as calmly as possible.
Ironhide snorted. “A little late, don’t you think?” he snarled.
“’Hide, to quote Ratchet, ‘shut up’,” Optimus shot at him. Ironhide gasped in surprise at the command but didn’t say anything more as Judy began chuckling. Turning back to Bumblebee, he glanced back down at the humans. “Just tell me that it wasn’t Starscream,” he finally asked apprehensively.
The whole group jerked in shock. “Starscream?” Sam called up. “Where did you get that?” Bumblebee just stared at his leader surprised and watched as the stiffness he hadn’t even noticed seem to flow out of Optimus.
“We were worried that perhaps the way Miles found out was because Starscream attacked and you had to defend yourself,” Ratchet explained as he stepped forward. “As you are all functional however, clearly this was not the case.”
“I would say not!” ‘Bee turned to Optimus, a little hurt. “You honestly though I wouldn’t contact you if we saw Starscream?”
“Well, if you were injured and couldn’t contact us, I would understand but,” and here he glance back down at Sam before he turned a rather harsh glare at ‘Bee, “considering past incidences, I was unsure.”
Both ‘Bee and Sam shifted guiltily while the other two Autobots glanced at Optimus a little confused. “What?” Ratchet asked as he looked over once more at the youngest Autobot who was staring down at the cliffs edge as if he would love nothing more in the world than to go over it.
“Nothing,” Optimus told the medic. “Right now I would like to hear what ‘Bee has to say regarding Miles discovery of him.”
“I would like to know how Keller knew before us!” Ironhide called out from where he was sitting at the edge of the small clearing.
The other two glared at him before Optimus turned back to ‘Bee and glanced back at Miles. “Hello,” he said gently. “My name is Optimus Prime, the leader of the Autobots, but you can just call me Optimus. This is my medical officer, Ratchet.”
The other yellow mech in the group just smiled and waved at the boy, now knowing after being on earth for a few months how rather tactless his last introduction with the humans had been. “Nice to meet you,” he said instead.
Miles hesitantly waved back at the ‘Bot. “Um, you too.”
“And this is my chief weapons specialist Ironhide, and no cannons!” Optimus shouted this last bit of the sentence as it looked as if Ironhide was going to repeat his earlier scenario from the ally where they had first met Sam and Mikaela.
Ironhide nearly pouted but refrained from whipping out his cannons and stating the old Dirty Harry line. Instead he too just gave a short wave and a quick “hello” to the boy.
“Uh, hi,” Miles waved again.
Optimus smiled back down at the boy, trying to look as unintimidating as he could as he towered over the human. With a final smile, he turned back towards Bumblebee who was trying his best to look as inconspicuous as possible. “Well?” he asked.
‘Bee glanced down at Sam who gave him a rather helpless look in return. They both felt a large lump of guilt eating at them for having to lie to their friend and, in ‘Bee’s case, almost caretaker and leader, but they couldn’t very well tell the truth. It was bad enough that they hadn’t told him about Miles learning about ‘Bee, but if they learned that Trent had seen ‘Bee in ‘Bot mode as well… yeah, that wouldn’t be a good thing. Especially with Ironhide around considering the time they had run into the jock when he and ‘Bee had gone out with Will and the Top Kick once before.
After a rather long stretch of silence, ‘Bee finally turned to speak when all of a sudden, Miles himself spoke up. “Um, excuse me sir?” All of the three older mechs turned to look down at the boy and he gulped a little in nervousness. “I’m afraid it was my fault.”
The three mechs looked at one another surprised by the admission and Optimus turned back to the boy. “What do you mean?” he asked.
Miles shifted from foot to foot, something that Sam and Judy instantly recognized as a movement that Miles only did when he was desperately trying to think up a lie, but the Autobots didn’t know this. Sam glanced at Mikaela with a small, worried look. Miles was never the best of fibbers and usually was always tripped up easily in the lies he came up with as people questioned him. That Miles spoke up worried Sam but there was nothing he could do now. He only prayed that Miles didn’t get flustered and accidently mention Barricade. After Optimus had basically ordered he and ‘Bee to not get in contact with the Decepticon, that was the last thing they needed.
“Um, well you see…” Miles trialed off as he swallowed nervously; this was rather intimidating, speaking to these large creatures. ‘How am I going to pull this off?’ he thought nervously. He knew that these were ‘Bee’s friends and yet they couldn’t know anything about Barricade living in Sam’s garage. But how did he explain how he found out about ‘Bee without mentioning the ‘Con? ‘Well, when in doubt tell at least part of the truth,’ he finally thought before he turned back to the waiting Autobots. “Well, Sam has been acting weird ever since he got his car and it’s just that I was getting worried about him and all because he never spent any time with me. I mean,” he paused here to glance over at Mikaela and Sam who both gave him encouraging smiles. “I understood when he was dating Mikaela but when he continued to avoid me even after they broke up well,” he shrugged.
“You figured out that something else had to be going on,” Ratchet supplied for him.
Miles nodded, thankful that they were not only following him but seemed to be buying into his act. “Exactly!” he said. “So one night I decided to just follow him, you know to see what it was that he was up too and when I found him at Look Out point with this giant yellow robot I kind of panicked and um… fainted.” Miles face blushed crimson at this and he dug his toe into the dirt.
Optimus chuckled softly at this. “Understandable considering,” he told the boy.
“What’s ‘fainting’?” Ironhide whispered loudly to Ratchet.
“I’ll tell you later,” the medic hissed back.
Everyone else chuckled at this, though both Sam and ‘Bee sounded a little strained. Optimus turned back to Sam. “So how did you end up explaining it?”
Sam shrugged as he glanced over at Miles. “Well, after he had seen ‘Bee I really saw no point in lying to him anymore. I just went ahead and told him the whole truth.”
“The whole truth?” Optimus asked surprised and a little worried now at this point.
Sam nodded. “Yes, the whole truth, including how all of our current electronics were invented by reverse-engineering a frozen Megatron as well as what really happened in Mission City.”
“I see,” Optimus murmured as he looked back at Miles. “And you were okay with this?” he asked the boy.
Miles shrugged again. “Well, I was a little upset at first but after Lieutenant Epps explained it in less complicated terms-”
“Wait! Hold up! Stop everything!” Ironhide suddenly shouted. “Epps knows you know?” he demanded. “What about Will? Er, Lennox?”
Miles glanced back at Sam fearful that he had let something slip, but Sam shook his head. “They would have found out anyway,” Sam whispered so Miles turned back to the rather gruff Ironhide and nodded his head in affirmation.
“WHAT?” Ironhide bellowed and all four humans had to cover their ears. “He was at the base only a few days ago and he said nothing!” he whirled to Ratchet. “Why didn’t he say anything? I mean, I understand why he might not have told you,” and he gestured to Optimus. “But to not tell me?”
Ratchet shook his head as he gave his friend a heavy pat on the shoulder. “Crushing when you’re the one left out of the loop isn’t it?” he chuckled. “But that’s another part of having a relationship…”
“Yeah,” Ironhide muttered. “Wait? What? What are you talking about? I keep stuff from Inferno all the time and he’s my best friend, but I don’t keep potentially major secrets from him.”
Ratchet sighed as he shot a helpless look to Optimus. “I tried.” Optimus nodded understandingly while everyone else just looked rather confused.
“Huh?” Ironhide looked back and forth at his friends. “What are you two babbling about now?”
Optimus chuckled. “When you’re ready, we’ll let you know.”
Ironhide just looked gob smacked. “What? Tell me now!” he whined petulantly.
Most everyone just began laughing hysterically but Sam and ‘Bee were looking at each other more relieved than they thought it would be possible. Sam was never so grateful that Miles had been able to pull off a lie so well. Thankfully there had been no slip about Barricade either. Sam and ‘Bee knew that sooner rather than later they were going to have to tell Optimus about Barricade’s presence in Sam’s garage, but that would have to wait until everything calmed down at the Autobot base and when they were able to speak to Optimus alone.
As it was, they still had time considering the others were still trying to update the old military base and were still in the process of contacting the others… speaking of which. “So, how are things going on at the base?” ‘Bee turned to ask his friend. “Is everyone settling in? How are the twins doing? Were there any complications with Sunny after that?”
Ironhide snorted. “There are always complications where the twins are concerned.”
“True,” Optimus agreed. “But for the most part, everyone seems to be adjusting fine.”
“Well, mostly,” Ratchet muttered, remembering the small whispers and hushed conversations the others had been having that seemed to be mysteriously over whenever one of them caught a glance of him looking their way.
“What?” ‘Bee said worriedly. “Did something happen?”
“Hmm?” Ratchet turned back to the youngster surprised as he was pulled out of his musing. “Oh, nothing important.”
‘Bee was still confused but let it go and put the soft statement under his file labeled “Strange Adult Muttering” and promptly forgot about it. Optimus gave his medic a searching glance as well but refrained from saying anything either, instead turning back to Bumblebee with a large smile. “While we’re on the subject I have something to tell you.”
Bumblebee turned to Optimus curiously as he saw the rather large grin on his leaders face. “Oh? What is it?”
“Oh! Let me tell him!” Ironhide said excitedly.
Unfortunately for him, Ratchet beat him to it. “We heard from Prowl!” Ratchet exclaimed ecstatically.
Ironhide promptly deflated. “Damn it Ratchet, I wanted to be able to tell someone!” Ratchet simply grinned back at him smugly.
Bumblebee meanwhile was having Spark Failure. “What?” he cried. He glanced at Sam who showed the same surprise he was sure he was wearing on his own features before turning to Optimus to see if it was true. “So soon? I thought that they were farther away than this. And I thought the transmitter was down. How did you get in touch with him?”
Optimus shrugged, though his grin had gotten wider. Though how this was possible, Sam was unsure. “Luck.”
“Luck?” the humans repeated, confused.
“Yup,” Ratchet agreed. “Mostly just through luck. Wheeljack was testing a new fuel combination and when the transmitter came online, there was Prowl’s voice on the other end. It was quite a shock, I can tell you.”
“It was quite a shock that the thing just didn’t up and explode!” Ironhide chuckled. Ratchet jabbed him in the side with his elbow.
“Well this is wonderful news!” Judy cried, startling everyone. She had been so quiet during Miles explanation that most of them had forgotten that she was even there. “You’ll be able to see your friends again!”
“Yes, we’re all very grateful that we are able to reunite so quickly,” Optimus smiled at her. “We can only hope that we have such luck when trying to contact the others.”
“Others?” Mikaela repeated. “There are more of you out there?”
The four Autobots all nodded. “There were at least a half dozen teams of five that were split up searching for Energon, and that isn’t including the few groups that had gone after the Decepticons. I would say about a hundred or so of us, not including however many Decepticons that survived.” Ratchet explained.
“I just hope that no one else ends up dying in recent Earth months or before we manage to contact them,” Optimus said suddenly seriously.
Judy blinked surprise as she thought. “Wow,” she murmured. “I just hope we have a wide enough range of different cars for them to imitate.”
The four Autobots chuckled. “I think that would be the last of our worries,” Optimus chuckled.
Judy shrugged. “Just thinking aloud,” she told him teasingly.
Optimus shook his head in disbelief as Bumblebee posed his next question. “So what did Prowl have to say?” he asked excitedly. “I mean, who did he talk to?”
Optimus shrugged and jerked a thumb over his shoulder towards Ratchet. “He was the one in the hanger while Wheeljack was working on the transmitter. I just know what he told me. Which wasn’t much…”
“There was nothing to say,” Ratchet protested. “He was trying to contact us when the transmitter activated. After that, Wheeljack just barely managed to send out the Earth’s quadrants before the connection went dead.”
“So once again, we have no idea where they are, which direction they’re coming in and how long it’s going to take them to get here,” ‘Bee said sourly.
“That’s pretty much the gist of it,” Ironhide affirmed. Bumblebee just groaned.
“I have Wheeljack working on making more of that fuel mixture to see if we can’t get a hold of them again later today before the planet faces the opposite direction. If not, we’ll just have to try again tomorrow.”
Sam glanced up at his guardian and instantly could tell that ‘Bee desperately wanted to go back with them to the base. Sam struggled for a moment. While he knew ‘Bee would like nothing better than to go back with his friends, he also knew just how seriously he took his appointed duty to protect Sam, and with a rather bored Decepticon in the garage he also knew that ‘Bee would be hesitant to leave him alone even though they had gotten to know Barricade in the past few months he had been camping out in his parents garage. While the four Autobots were discussing the likelihood of contacting the others by the end of the day, Sam had sneaked back over to Mikaela. “Just how damaged is that toaster?” he asked her.
Mikaela and Miles both turned away from listening to the Autobots talking and just stared at Sam. “What?” Mikaela asked him.
“You know,” he made a small “come on” gesture with his hands. “The toaster that kept burning everything to a crisp. Just how damaged is it?”
Mikaela continued to give him a “what the hell?” look before realization suddenly dawned in her eyes. “Oh! The toaster! Oh yeah! That actually isn’t that bad. Just some parts that I need to reorder for it.”
“Are you in need of a toaster?” The three humans jumped as Ratchet wandered over. “Because we have an extra one if you do.”
“Oh uh,” Mikaela glanced at the boys. “No, thank you. I like my toaster.” Ratchet smiled before going back to the conversation.
“Why do they have a toaster?” Miles whispered.
“One of the mysteries of the world,” Sam shrugged as his mother wandered over.
“Sam, we really should be getting home now,” she said as she looked over the cliff at the sight of the sun beginning to set.
“Mmm,” Sam nodded as the Autobots ended their conversation having over heard her. “’Bee, why don’t you just drop us off then you can head out with them to the base.”
“What?” ‘Bee stared down at his charge. “But I have to stay with you!”
Sam smiled at him. “I think I can take care of myself,” he insisted. “Besides, I know you really want to go. You haven’t even visited with Sunny or the others…”
“Yeah!” Ironhide grinned. “You haven’t even tried out our new gun range!”
“But what about Starscream?” ‘Bee protested. “We don’t know when he might try and attack!”
“But my location has been deleted from any web sites or any databases. Keller saw to it, you know that. So I should be fine,” Sam insisted.
“Yeah, I doubt that Starscream would attack anytime soon.” Mikaela put in.
“But… but what about the… toaster?” ‘Bee finally said.
The three older Autobots glanced at one another confused. “Um, is toast that important to humans?” Optimus asked.
“Oh vital,” Judy agreed. “Toast is part of a healthy breakfast don’t you know.”
“Um…”
“I think we can survive without toast for a few day,” Sam chuckled.
‘Bee still did not look convinced and he glanced at Optimus apprehensively. “I think it would be good for you to come out and see everyone,” Optimus agreed.
Bumblebee hesitated for another moment before he gave a small nod and looked back at Sam a little hurt. He knew that Sam was just trying to do the right thing, but he still wasn’t sure just how well Barricade would behave if he was alone with Sam. Sam was the one who killed Megatron, which was why ‘Bee tried to ensure that Sam was never alone with him. If he went to the base… “Why don’t you come with us?” he asked. “You really haven’t gotten to know the others either.”
“Oh,” Sam turned to look at his mother but surprisingly it was Mikaela who frowned at him. “Book report,” she growled. “We have a book report due tomorrow!”
Sam cringed. There was no book report but he knew that Mikaela wanted to try and weld some of those hanging frames on Barricade’s undercarriage. She was going to do it today but with the appearance of the three Autobots that had been put aside. “Oh, yeah,” he muttered before turning back to Bumblebee. “Forgot about that.”
‘Bee frowned at Mikaela but nodded. “Don’t worry, I know school is important to your culture.”
“Perhaps you could visit this weekend,” Optimus suggested as he looked over at Judy who nodded.
“You have your vacation next week right?” she turned to Sam. “You could stay at the base from Friday to Wednesday. We’re going to your fathers parents early Thursday morning.” Sam tried to keep himself from cringing and thankfully his mother didn’t really notice. There were really no cousins his age, most of them really young or much older than him with their own kids.
“Well then, that’s perfect. You can meet everyone then,” Optimus smiled.
“Do you really think Prowl and the others would be here by then?” Ratchet asked.
Optimus shrugged. “I’ve pretty much given up trying to figure things like that out. It never happens like how we plan anyway.”
“Ain’t it the truth!” Ironhide laughed.
~*~
“Well, you were out a long time.”
Bumblebee looked up as Barricade poked his front bumper out of the garage door he had opened after he realized that ‘Bee had returned alone. “Only for a moment,” Bumblebee replied tersely. Barricade instantly recognized the tone and chuckled darkly. ‘Bee glared at him.
Judy looked at the two cars and frowned before turning back to the kids. “Come on you guys, I’ll dig out my own set of keys and take you two home.” Miles and Mikaela obviously didn’t want to leave and miss what looked like to be an interesting conversation but Judy gave them a sharp look at the two slinked off to her small sedan.
Sam glanced at her car before turning back to his mother. “Why did you have Barricade drive you this morning when you have your own car? Barricade is injured and isn’t supposed to be moving around. Mikaela told you that.”
“I didn’t take him racing,” Judy rolled her eyes. “And if you had to pay your own gas, you would insist that he drive you too!” Sam sighed as Judy retrieved her keys and he said goodbye to his friends before his mother pulled out to drive his friends home.
“Your mother’s a very strong individual,” Barricade suddenly said, startling the boy.
Sam gave the mustang a smile. “Yeah, I know.”
“Indeed,” ‘Bee drawled. “I only hope they will still be here when I get back.”
“Oh that did it!” Barricade suddenly snapped, finally becoming completely fed up with ‘Bee’s constant remarks. “I have had it! I’m sick of having to hide all the time! I’m sick of having to put up with all the quips, the sly remarks, the innuendos, and the all out hostility! If you want me gone, just say so!” Sam and ‘Bee stared at the mustang, completely shocked at the sudden outburst and Sam turned towards ‘Bee apprehensively. ‘Bee said nothing for a long time and Barricade took the long silence as an affirmative. “Fine then,” Barricade started pulling out and moving down the drive. “Nice seeing you again Ladiesman217.”
Barricade froze as ‘Bee’s passenger door suddenly swung open, blocking his path. “You swear that you will not betray him to Starscream?” ‘Bee asked with all seriousness. Sam was puzzled as he watched the two cars, worried at what ‘Bee was up to and how Barricade would respond to suddenly having his path blocked.
Barricade was quiet for a long moment, wondering what it was that ‘Bee was trying to find out from him. Finally he decided to just let it out for the bug to hear. “He destroyed Megatron at great risk to himself to save not only his own people, but ours as well. He has my utmost respect both as a human and as an honorary Warrior of Cybertron.”
‘Bee was completely shocked to hear the last part of Barricades statement. There were only a few beings in the galaxy that were honored enough to be called a Warrior of Cybertron. Not even Optimus had ever mentioned giving Sam that title; even ‘Bee himself had never considered to bestow that title to Sam. Yet this Decepticon, who fought against Sam and tried everything in his power to stop him, was humble enough to perceive him as one.
‘Bee finally understood. “I have to go to the base,” he said closing his door. “Prowl and the others might be arriving sooner than we thought. I leave Sam’s protection in you er, tiers.”
Barricade heaved a sigh but stopped trying to leave. “What am I suppose to do if Starscream attacks? Honk?”
“Just make sure he’s out of danger.”
“If it takes the last power of my Spark, he will be safe.”
‘Bee couldn’t even calculate the amount of relief he felt at hearing the ‘Con say that. “Thank you.”
“You know, I’m standing right here!” Both cars looked over at Sam who had his arms crossed and was tapping his foot irritably. “I can hear every word you say. I might not understand half of it, but I hear it.”
The two cars just looked at him before Barricade said in a loud whisper. “He’s the very image of his mother,” the ‘Con said in all seriousness. “I have never felt so sorry for a ‘Bot in my entire existence as I do for you at this moment.”
“HEY!” Sam cried outraged and actually stomped his foot as both Autobot and Decepticon laughed at the childish image he presented, but even Sam was having trouble keeping himself from laughing.
For the first time in centuries, neither one was on the opposite sides of a no longer raging war. They were just two Cybertronions sharing a laugh with their smaller human friend. It was a very good start indeed.
~*~
To Be Continued
Authors Note: Hmmm, ‘Bee’s off to the base and ‘Cade is staying at the Witwicky house… who else thinks this is a bad idea? Well, at least we’re finally getting somewhere. Please join us next week for chapter Thirty Five: A Waiting Game
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