Nightmares and Monsters

Part 25

Chapter 25

Back in Egypt somewhere...

As we were traveling along the sandy roadways, I was listening to Sam and Simmons talking inside Bumblebee over Jazz's Comm. Link which they were keeping open between them so that we could converse with each other and not need a pair of walkie-talkies to do so.

"Okay, let's go over it again." came Simmons voice over the radio an before Sam could say anything I rattled off the riddle that Jetfire had given us.

"'When the dawn alights the Dagger's Tip,the Three Kings will reveal the doorway.' That's what he said. You know what it means?" I added to the rest of the group to see if we could get a few different views on this, I mean it really is annoying, we knew where and what the 'Dagger's Tip' was but the rest of it was currently kicking our afts.

"No, what does it mean?" came Simmons again and then Sam's voice could be heard answering in a negative, "I have no idea."

Everything was going slightly better once we had rested and taken a quick bathroom break as well as eating a few energy bars and trail mix packs, and rinsing them down with a few bottles of water from my pack that I had removed from Jazz's trunk when we stopped.

We were now back on the road heading towards the 'Dagger's Tip' and the riddle that Jetfire had told us was still giving me a hard time - almost to the point that I almost missed the chatter over Jazz's radio from Bee's passengers of, "Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Checkpoint. Checkpoint. I don't have my passport."

"Passport!" the guard called out as he walked down the stairs from his viewpoint and once he made it to where I could see him better, my mind automatically for whatever reason started playing the Oompah Loompah song from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory from back in the '80's.

Shaking my head I reached into my bag and pulled out my Military ID, along with my Passport and hoped that that was all they would require from me. We pulled up in front of Bee's Alt. Mode and showed our paperwork whilst explaining in fluent Arabic that everyone in the cars behind us were with us on a trip to see historical sites. Hoping that everything went as I had hoped Jazz and I were allowed through the barricaded checkpoint and stopped a few feet on the other side so as to wait for the others.

Listening in via Jazz we could hear everything that was going on back with 'Bee and the group. "They got cameras at the top." That had to be either Leo or Sam stating a fact about checkpoints here in the Middle East and I just hoped that we didn't get made by INTERPOL because of some idiots in the cars.

"All right, chill. This is espionage now. I can handle it. These are my people. I'm one-thirty-sixth Arab." came the voice of Simmons, he and I were going to have a looong conversation later about keeping stuff like this secret from those of us who could us this information to better our situation. It didn't take me long to to start laughing though as I heard Wheelie muttering, "Great, a fricking Munchkin. Little people are mean. Tell him he's tall."

I felt Jazz's form stiffen at the comment by Wheelie about little people being mean and to tell him he was tall. I gently murmured to him that he was just the right height for being my Guardian and that he was just as dangerous as Prime, Ironhide or Ratchet when fragged off. After hearing him acknowledge that I was right about that, we settled back in to listen to the rest of Simmons' conversation.

"Me and my family. This is my family. This is my son, my other son, my daughter and my Cousins in their cars behind us." I tried soo hard not to laugh when he indicated that Mudflap and Skids were transporting his cousins. "We're tourists, from New York." he added as if that would do anything and what surprised me was the fact that it did in fact work.