Nightmares and Monsters

Part 16

Chapter 16

New Jersey NEST Base

It was hours later, shortly after the C-17's had touched down here in New Jersey that all Pit broke loose and it wasn't my fault for a change - the 'Prank' with the frilly pink tutu, wand and silly string on Ironhide's Alt. Mode was soooo NOT my fault, I had nothing to do with it... Honestly! *cough* EPPS! *cough* SIDESWIPE! *cough*

I guess I should elaborate on the whole 'Pit broke loose thing', unfortunate for the rest of us NEST members we had to deal with a rather unsavory character named Theodore Galloway, who for some unknown reason hates all of us here at the New Jersey Base as well as the group on Diego Garcia. He classifies us all as "a complete waste of time and resources that could be better used to eliminate the Global Terrorists that plague our way of life." His wording not mine.

The C-17's that landed here did so, so as to unload the caskets of the deceased from the Shanghai Op so that they could be given the burial that they deserved. Those of us who were present stood at attention as they were brought down the ramp and placed onto gurneys for transport.

As this was happening we could hear over the tannoy system the following request: "Autobot twins, report to Hangar Three." This was because I had finally gotten the so called 'Smart Cars' delivered so that the annoying Twins known as Mudflap and Skids could have a proper Alternate Mode and not some garish Ice Cream Truck. We were lucky that there was a Chevy Dealership in the nearby town and had them on their lot and were willing to take a Cash payment for them. The two soldiers that had gone to collect them for me had had a blast driving them back to Base, running them through their paces, so to speak. Unfortunately for the rest of us we knew that these so-called 'Smart Cars' wouldn't make the Twins smarter at all, which in my mind was a real pity.

I decided that since I had paid my respect to those who had died, that I had better follow the two mismatched Twins, just to make sure that they did what they were supposed to do - pick which of the two new cars were going to be their new Alternate Modes. Should have been easy right? Right? WRONG!This is what I heard and observed when I reached Hanger Three:

"Bad-ass ice-cream truck coming through." said one of the Twins as they pulled up to the Screens hiding the new cars from view and going behind it to seperate into their seperate componants. The rest of the situation went like this:

"- Excuse me! Excuse me! Hello!""- No, I don't..." "- Hold up.""- Those are nice." "-Yeah, baby, it's upgrade time." "-Yes, sir. Yeah!""-Look here, it's my booty call right here!"

By this point I had my face in my hands shaking my head from side to side in shear horror at what was happening in front of me, and I could say for certain that I never wanted to be around these two much longer than I needed to be, otherwise my 'Sanity' may be called into question if I grabbed one of Ironhides Cannons and chased the Twins around the Flight-Line whilst shooting them to make the world a better place.

What they said and did next I would never wish upon my worst enemies, let alone the NEST Personnel who were with me to oversee the Twins new Alternate Modes.

"- Time to get my sexy on with the green.""- Green? No, green is mine!" "- I call green!" "- I got the green."

By this point it had turned into a brawl as to who got the Green 'Smart Car' with the black streaks down the sides, by the time they were done arguing this is what we all heard as they transformed into their respective vehicles.

"- That hurt, man." "- It's supposed to hurt. It's an ass-kicking."

It was after this that the Twins left Hanger Three and I followed them back to Hanger One which is where we were going to be talking to the Joint Chiefs of Staff or the 'JCS' by the Techies here in the Command Center. It was here that I officially felt my blood pressure skyrocket at who I saw talking with Will before Will headed off when a Tech announced that "Secure link to JCS is up, Major. Secure line to the Pentagon is now open.", and I gave a sheepish look towards where Ratchet was sat in Vehicle Mode and mouthed to him "I'm Sorry! But he's a Jack-Aft!" As if he understood me he flashed his headlights at me and I continued my way over past Epps who was standing beside Galloway and up the stairs to stand beside Will to talk to General Morshower and the other members of the JCS. Will and I both understood that this wasn't going to be a pleasant conversation, possibly worse than that if Galloway was here. Which got me to thinking, {"Just who gave Galloway the Security Clearance to be here?"}