Nightmares and Monsters

Part 14

(Jazz's Alt. Mode in Cali's parking spot.)

Chapter 14

It had been a few days since the Battle of Mission City, and everyone was hoping to spend whatever down time we were allowed off of Base. I was relaxing on my bunk when I was alerted to a familliar vehicle outside of my dorm, peering through the window I shook my head with a snigger... there in the empty parking space for my personnal vehicle was a very shiney and sleek looking Solstice.

As I turned to let the curtain fall I noticed the flash of the headlights on the car indicating that I had been spotted and giving the car a quick wave from the window I grabbed my shoes, light weight jacket, wallet and Anubis - who was in his phone Alt. Mode sleeping. Gently placing Anubis into my jacket pocket I locked the door to my dorm room and slid the keys into my pocket on the other side of my jacket.

Hopping down the steps three at a time until I mad it to the door and then jogged to greet a very good friend. Reaching the Solstice, I ran my hand gently over the hood of the car and gave the front fender a slight pat before reaching for the door that opened of it's own accord.

"Thanks Jazz, glad ta see tha' da Doc let ya away from his ministrations for a while huh?" I asked as I made myself comfortable in the drivers seat. I looked up from my wallet and jacket that I had placed on the passenger seat when Jazz spoke through the radio.

"Well... ah dun know abou' da Hatchet letting me outta his Optical range, let alone his ministrations willingly... Ya could say tha' I snuck away ta come and see ya and Anubis. I was goin' crazy listenin' ta Ratchet going on and on about how slaggin' stupid ah was fer goin' up against Megatron." He said as we headed out the main Gate and then out towards the National Parks Area where we could go deep enough for Jazz to be in his true form and not scare the crap outta normal folks.

I could pick up in his tone that there was more going on then what he was saying, but I let it be for now as I stretched and yawned. Even after we had gotten back from the Battle at Mission City, I had tried to sleep since I was completely exhausted, but I just could not sleep. I truly believe that the scene of Donnely being killed by that Mechanical Scorpion in Qatar, constantly playing through my mind when I tried to sleep didn't help any, I knew it was just a matter of time before my body decided to take the matter into it's own hands and either 'shut me down' to sleep as Ratchet had said or drive me insane. I truly hoped that it would sort itself out before that ever happened, but I was never going to take the Medication that would be prescribed for the situation, especially after seeing what it had done to a friend in Boot Camp.

Jazz noticed that I had been quiet for longer than normal, and decided to try finding some music to distract from the silence that had filled the cab of his Alt. Mode. After settling for some sort of smooth jazz, which made me laugh at the irony, after a short while I decided to ask Jazz the real reason for his visit to me on Base.

"So why did you really sneak away from the Medico of Doom to see meh, Jazz? And don't try ta lie ta meh, it doesn't belong between friends, and I count us as such after what we both went through at Mission City." I said as I felt Anubis move around in my jacket pocket before he settled back down. I had really connected to Anubis after Mission City, and I would be torn up badly if anything was to happen to the small bot, I could be classified as his 'mother' now since he has attached himself to me and almost refuses to go to any of the others that Jazz and I know except Ratchet and then only because Ratchet spoils the lil' guy and that was probably because Anubis is currently the only Sparkling/Youngling to be 'conceived' by the AllSpark in Millennia which meant that Bumblebee was now no longer the youngest 'Bot on Earth.