Never Thought (Transformers prime smokescreen)

Rescue

Laura was waiting for Smokescreen to come pick her up. She figured he must've been caught up in a mission. But then she heard a rumble of an engine and rushed down the stairs and out the door.

But she wasn't expecting to see another vehicle. It was white outlined with red and green almost like Christmas colors.

"Sorry about the unexpected visit." It said.

"A-are you an Autobot?" She asked backing up.

"Yes I am don't worry, Optimus sent me to pick you up. He needs to talk to you about......something." He said his voice dropping.

She felt something was wrong so she rushed to the door. She looked around inside. This car was nice.

"He's been hurt hasn't he?" She asked worriedly. The seatbelt seemed to get tighter as if a form of comfort.

"Optimus will explain everything." He said softly.

.......

They pulled up to base and the side opened. He opened his door and Laura got out looking at everyone. They all looked worried and tense.

"I'm wheeljack by the way." He said. She nodded but didn't look at him. She was worried. Where was smokescreen? What was going on?

She was picked up by Optimus who took her to a more unpopulated area of base."Laura do not worry."

"How am I supposed to worry when I don't even know what's going on?!" She raised her voice. All she wanted was straight answers.

"We were on a mission and we had to retreat. Smokescreen was behind us and we had not realized until we were in the safety of the base. Smokescreen was taken by decepticons." He stated. She clenched her fist. She wasn't going to cry. Especially not in front of Optimus.

"Thank you for telling me." She stated. She was looking down.

"We have the location of the decepticon war ship and are going to attempt to raid their base." He stated. She looked up and nodded. He walked back into the room with her in his servo. She had a plan that she would keep to herself for the time being.

"Autobots prepare for battle." Optimus ordered. "Ratchet open a bridge." The light appeared brightly In front of them. Laura slowly snuck towards the light and when no one was looking she ran through. She was going to find her guardian.

......

She ran to the other side praying to god no vehicons were on the other side. If they were she would use her smallness as an advantage. She ran through and got rid of the bone shaking feeling. She dived behind a beam that was right in front of her. Laura watched as the vehicons walked passed her. She got out of her hiding spot and started using her 5 senses. She started hearing voices and listened. "The prisoner in the brig is relentless, he won't break." A vehicons said. She smirked. 'So he's in the brig' she thought. She followed right behind a vehicons pede. Hoping he was going to the brig. Just her luck. He was in a dark room with many bars and energon stained berths. She almost purged. She new blood when she saw it. She hid in the shadows as the vehicon walked back out. She ran into a room that had maybe 2 lights. That's when she saw him. He was strapped to a berth glaring at a red mech typing on computers. "We'll get the information out of you one way.....or....another." He grinned Evilly activating a saw he had transformed his Servo into. He was about to strike Smokescreen with it so Laura thought fast. She picked up a piece of energon stained metal and chucked it at the back of Knockouts helm. "What the?" He turned around and she hid. He looked up and walked over. She made a dash for the table and climbed up while he was distracted. She jumped on Smokescreens chassis. His optics widened. She started tugging at the energon cuffs. "Well scrap I'm not getting you out this way." She said running one hand through her hair while the other sat on her hip. She let out a huff.

"What? Getting me out?! Your not getting me out your gonna hide." He glared.

"What are you my daddy?" She asked.
He gave her a pointed look. "Don't answer that." She said. That's when a red painted fist slammed on the table next to her.

"Well hello fleshling. How'd you get up here." He grinned mischievously.

"I followed the glow of your ugly red paint." She smirked.

"Why you stupid-" he started but she stopped him.

"You don't want to finish that sentence." She said.

"Oh? Why not?" He smirked.

"Trust me you just don't." She said. He looked confused. She looked behind her and noticed Smokescreen had the phase shifter on. She grew an idea. She smirked.

"Why not?" He challenged. She thought.

"I'm just playing. I'm tired of hearing your annoying voice." She said smirking. He growled and made an attempt to grab her. She jumped out of the way and instead of grabbing her he grabbed the Phase shifter activating it. Smokescreen smirked and pulled himself up. He got into a fight with knockout and ended up face first into the floor ruining his "precious" paint job. Smokescreen ran and picked Laura up in his servos and ran out of the room. They both heard shooting and realized the autobots were here. They ran out and all the autobots looked shocked. "Go! Go! Go!" Smokescreen yelled. They all ran back through the ground bridge.

.....

"And then when he made a grab for her she jumped out of the way and he actually grabbed the Phase shifter. That's how I got out. Then I have him a pounding. He won't stop complaining about his paint job for days." Smokescreen laughed.

Optimus looked at Laura who was wrapping a bandage around her leg. She had scraped it when she "jumped out of the way". "It was unnecessary what you did not to mention foolish." Optimus's baritone voice stated. She just continued to wrap her leg.

"Listen I was just trying to help. I took all precautions. I hid and stayed out of the way. I only got hurt because I tripped not because a Decepticon hurt me." She stated not looking at him. A servo was put under her chin. Optimus gently lifted her head to look at him.

"But , you have shown a true sign of bravery and you have done something us autobots couldn't have done as fast as you had. You brought one of my autobots back and for that I thank you. We all thank you." He stated. She looked around and saw smiles on all of the autobots faces. Even Arcee. Arcee nodded and smiled. Jack put a hand on her shoulder and looked behind her. Miko, Raf, and jack all nodded and smiled at her. They then had a group hug.

One thing was for sure. Laura was starting to feel like this place.........was home.

A/N: so what do you think of Laura? She's definitely a heroic type figure huh? Lol happy late new year!