MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE: Chapter 3 - A Michael Bay Fan Fiction

Chapter 3: The Bold

In the same city elsewhere, there are several large school buildings ranging from elementary to high school.

The sun has barely moved and only a couple of people are outside wandering around the campus. There's a sign that says "Welcome to Cape Colloris's School District!" The middle and elementary school have left for the day but inside the high school in classroom 136, a lonely junior girl rests her head on her desk watching her teacher mark down notes on a marker board. The girl hears giggling and so she turns around to see a group of girls silently conversing right behind her. She politely whispers to them, "Hey Jasmine, what's so funny?" Jasmine, a dark-haired girl wearing a lot of makeup and bohemian-style fashion stops talking and politely smiles at her, "I didn't ask if you could join the conversation, Annie." The girls next to Jasmine giggle. Annabelle shyly responds, "Gosh, I'm sorry Jasmine. I didn't mean to be so rude-" Jasmine cuts her off, "I'm sorry, I have to stare at the only girl in the class who has the personality of a rock. Like, you seriously need to be fixed or something." The teacher yells at them, "Jasmine! Annabelle! Can we please focus on the lecture!" Annabelle lays her head on her desk for a few seconds, but then quickly perks it up and looks towards Jasmine as she whispers, "The only person who needs to be fixed is you 'cause you are a bitch!" The teacher yells back as Jasmine looks incredibly disgusted, "Annabelle what did I just say?" Annabelle responds, "Sorry Ms. Jefferson, I was just reminding Jasmine about the upcoming essay." Jasmine looks confused by her response. Ms. Jefferson replies, "That's fine, but please no more talking. We have twenty minutes left and I still have a lot to teach." Jasmine tries to respond but Ms. Jefferson gives her an aggressive look. Ms. Jefferson dismisses the students and school ends for the day.

Annabelle waits outside at the school parking lot for her ride home when Jasmine and her friends come to greet her, " Hey look I want to apologize for what I said back there. And I thought after...a bit was it really funny what you said back there, Annie. I'm sorry, are we cool?" Annabelle sighs and shakes her hand, "Yeah, things are cool." Jasmine speaks, "Great so, do you need a ride home, or do want to ride the shitty ass Hummer your mom has for a car?!" Annabelle's mom arrives to pick her up with a blue Hummer. Jasmine and her friend start laughing obnoxiously. Annabelle gets in the car and Annabelle's mom is revealed to be a hologram which unphased Annabelle. Once Annabelle and the blue hummer are a safe distance away from any cars and people, the blue hummer starts talking to her throw the radio, but using one singular female voice, "So, how was school kiddo? Graduate yet? Am I done taking you to this shitty place?" Annabelle leans her arm on the car door while looking out the window, "How long have you been on earth for Strongarm?" Strongarm studiously, "I was stationed out here as a part of a small Autobot surveillance team roughly five years ago." Annabelle fiddles with her radio buttons, "Yeah, I know all about that story. And you still have a long way to go with understanding humans." Strongarm studiously, "And the same could be said regarding you Annie. Also please stop pushing my buttons."

Annabelle and Strongarm arrive home and Strongarm parks in a garage. Annabelle's house is a nice two-story middle-class well-kept home. Strongarm speaks, "Hey Annie, when will I be able to limber up and go meet the other Autobots?" Annabelle speaks, "If you guys are quiet and you make sure no one sees you, I'm sure it could be fine." Annabelle sees her mom in the living room on the sofa. With the laptop out. Annabelle curiously speaks, "Hey Mom what are you looking at?" The mother says, "So, apparently, a couple of locals were in a fight with Dr. Arkeville this morning due to him supposedly "stealing" some of their property for his experiments." Annabelle speaks, "But mom don't not like the guy?" Sarah speaks, "Yes, but it's not a matter of whether I like him or not. It's a matter of what facts say. And the fact from the cameras and witnesses that I've personally seen is the case is closed. Sarah curiously speaks, "But anyways besides that nonsense, how was your day at school? Are you and Strongarm getting along well?" Annabelle speaks, "Yeah, everything went fine I guess." The mother cautiously speaks, "But she's still in the garage, do I need to speak to her about anything?"

Annabelle speaks, "Yeah, she is. But it sounded like she was about to leave for you know what." The mother then goes into the garage just as Strongarm pulls out of the garage. The mother waves her down in which Strongarm comes back inside and closes the garage again. Strongarm angrily speaks, "What, do want Sarah?!" Sarah calmly responds, "I wanted to thank you again for taking care of my daughter every day after school even though you guys don't get along that well." Strongarm politely accepts her kindness, "Yeah, well it's no big deal. But don't you think she's a bit too shy? I saw a couple of other humans who seemed to be bothering her when I picked her up." Sarah curiously responds, "She's never told me anything about that." Strongarm quickly finishes the conversation, "Well maybe you should look into it. Anyway, I gotta get going. You know I got my usual deal." Sarah perks up, "Ah yes! Good luck!" Strongarm drives away.

Annabelle goes to a small tent in the backyard where she unzips it and sees an older man who is sleeping in just a Hawaiian shirt and white underwear. He wears a tinfoil hat on his head and is using newspapers as a blanket. Annabelle joyfully shouts at him, "Hey Grandpa Kelly, wake up!" Grandpa Kelly jumps up a wake and sees Annabelle staring at through the tent's entrance, "Don't do that Annie! The robots may be here, and come to probe us!" Annabelle happily talks to him, "I'm sure they will gramps, I sure they will!" Grandpa Kelly speaks urgently while waving his hands, "No seriously like last night I was reading his website...what the hell was it... with leaked government documents one user said...4chan!" Annabelle's cheeks turn red, and puts her hand in her face, "Oh my god." Grandpa Kelly is now getting out of the tent and pointing to his underwear, "It's the reason why I took off my pants earlier and I'm just wearing my briefs now. User hunkermuffin68.9 said you don't attract alien robots if you're just wearing underwear and if they haven't been clean for at least five days." Sarah then walks up and speaks very intensely, "You haven't cleaned your underwear in five days?!" Grandpa Kelly speaks very studiously, "Actually, they haven't been cleaned in over a week. You got to remember we're fighting a war here against alien robots, Sarah."

Sarah gets very mad, "Firstly, they left the planet years ago. Secondly, clean your damn underwear, Dad!" Annabelle taps on Sarah's shoulder, "Um Mom, you might want to look over there." Sarah looks in the direction where Annabelle is pointing and sees her neighbor staring at them. She waves, and they wave back. Sarah speaks very awkwardly, "Hey Todd, how are you doing today?" Todd speaks with a very cheerful attitude, "I'm doing pretty fine Sarah, but it looks like you guys are in quite a pickle. Do you need any help over there, Mr. Kelly?" Grandpa Kelly flicks Todd off, "Piss off Todd! I know you and your wife are both shapeshifting alien robots!" Sarah gets very offended, "Jesus, Dad!" Todd cheerfully speaks, "It seems like you guys are fine, so I'll see you guys later." Sarah, very frustrated, speaks and points towards the house, "Dad, go inside the house and clean yourself up." Grandpa Kelly, now upset speaks, "But we need to be like this to protect ourselves from alien robots." Sarah angrily speaks, "Do it or you are no longer allowed to live here anymore!" Grandpa Kelly walks inside the house. Annabelle getting defensive perks up towards her mom, "Did you have to be so rude to him? He means well." Sarah calms down significantly and whispers to her, "Look, I just want him to be a good influence on this family. And it's not like I happen to take into account the fact that we have a robot in our garage. But to handle that kind of knowledge, he needs to be a responsible person and he clearly isn't showing it right now." Annabelle pulls out her cell phone and sees her home screen of a picture of all three of them together smiling. Sarah puts her hand on Annabelle's shoulder, "No matter what happens, we will always be a family." Annabelle speaks cautiously, "But what if Grandpa Kelly is on to something? What if the Decepticon's return?" Sarah reassures her, "I doubt it. No one has seen a transformer on earth for the past six years. And Strongarm feels confident they will never come back after their most recent loss. So I'm pretty sure the Decepticons are gone for good."

Somewhere in the Badlands, South Dakota, Daytrader is seen leaving a scrapyard, waving his hand at a few people he recognizes, "Appreciate the deals we made. Next time I'll be sure to get my hands on some of those premium-grade Cybertronian parts." He walks into his very old junky spaceship and gets the pilot's seat while messing with the control panel. Eventually, after pressing a couple of buttons the ship's engine gives a very bad shake that is felt throughout the entire ship, "Woah, I probably need to oil up some of those parts." In the back storage room at the ship, a bunch of Cybertronian stuff falls off the shelves, including a couple of shards left over from the Allspark spark. One of them manages to stab itself into a metal head-like object: the head of Starscream. The head suddenly begins to transform and re-develop the limbs with the parts around it. Starscream awakens.