Perfect Two

Chapter One

Olivia gasped as she heard the high pitched horn honking outside her house. She dropped her math paper and jumped off of her bed, knocking the workbook off of the bed. She grabbed her jacket and ran down the stairs, and opened the door.
"Ah ah ah, where do you think you're going, miss?" Her mom asked from the kitchen, where she was doing paperwork.
"Cee's here, Mom!" She whined, turning to face her mother.
Miko raised an eyebrow at her daughter. "And where is your backpack? Arcee won't take you on an adventure without your backpack." She smiled as Olivia whacked herself upside the head.
"Dang it!" She cried as she ran back upstairs and pulled the bag from under her bed. She dashed down the stairs again, took her helmet from her mother, and gave her a quick hug before running out to the blue motorcycle.
"Almost forgot, huh?" Arcee asked as the thirteen year old jumped on behind her holoform. The girl ignored her, and slipped on her helmet.
"Where are we gonna go today, Cee?"
Arcee chuckled as she pulled out of the driveway.
"I was thinking we could go to the old crash site in Maine." The motorcycle suggested.
"There, again? We went there last time!" Olivia whined.
Arcee pulled to a stop at a red light, and tilted her mirror to see the girl.
"Okay, how about somewhere new? Like, say, the abandoned New York subway tunnels? Or maybe underwater?" She hinted.
"Underwater? But I can't breathe underwater!"
Arcee laughed as she sped through the intersection and out onto the highway.
"There's a pressure suit waiting for you at base. I thought you'd like an underwater adventure."
Olivia cheered happily as Arcee began to speed, holding tight to the holoform and smiling.

Olivia gasped as she stepped out of the glowing green portal and onto the deck of an old ship.
"Arcee, this is amazing!" She gasped, glancing about the ship. Her breathing was very audible, due to the tube connected to her head.
"This isn't even the best part. Come on, I'll show you." Arcee jumped off of the boat and floated down to the ocean floor, Olivia following. The former Autobot warrior led the girl to another shipwreck, but this one was not of human origin.
"Raf just found this one a few hours ago. I've already scouted it, but I didn't really look at anything. I figured if it was safe, we could go through stuff together."
"Is it Autobot or Decepticon?" Olivia asked.
"It's a con ship, Liv. You know what that means!"
Olivia's blue eyes widened. "I get to collect trinkets while you focus on the data archives?"
Arcee smiled at the young child. "No, I can't open the files underwater. The best I can do is shove a chip in the drive and download all of the ship's database."
"So, you have to wait until we're back at base just to see what the ship said?"
"Yeah. It sucks, but our technology doesn't work well underwater, so we just have to deal with it."
"Oh."

While Arcee downloaded the ship's database, Olivia poked around the bridge, searching for smaller objects that she could slip into her backpack, and put up on display in her workshop behind the house.
"Hey, what's this?" She asked, picking up a small round disc with a red display screen.
"That's either a tracker, or a bomb interface panel."
Olivia carefully set the object down, and began climbing up the console. "Whoa. Cee, come check this out. I thought all Cyber-tech was in a single conputer! This all looks like navigational gear." She hoisted a large metal disc from the center of the array.
"That's not navigational gear. Honestly, I have no idea what it is." Arcee stared at the pattern of circles and lines carefully, as Olivia clambered over it. I'm a split second, Olivia stepped onto another metal disc, and the surrounding lines began to glow.
"What? Liv, what did you do?"
"I just stepped on this, and it lit up!" Olivia stepped onto the disc again, and it stopped glowing.
"It's like a puzzle of some sort. Here, take a picture of it." She handed the Autobot a large tablet for taking pictures.
"Step on that one again, and then another one." The robot instructed.
Olivia hopped to another disc and stepped, her eyes widening when it began to glow as well.
"Cee, I think I know how to solve this." Olivia announced, before jumping to another disc, and then another. As soon as she stepped onto the final disc, the platform began to shake. Arcee grabbed the girl in her arms, and together they peered into the hole that had formed.
"Shine your light in, Liv."
Olivia obeyed, and the two gasped in unison at their discovery.
"Oh my god, just a bag?"

Arcee carefully picked up the massive bag, and set it out on the floor. Slowly, she drew the string out.
"What's in it?" Olivia asked.
"Oh Primus..." Arcee slowly drew out a few dull items. "These are from back in the Golden Age! Medical tools, weaponry..." Arcee began setting things out of the bag.
"There's a little trinket box." The Autobot removed the box and opened it. Inside were many different holo-projectors.
"Play one." Olivia insisted.
"Alright. But you have to cover your eyes if there's something you don't need to see on it."

Three holograms later, Olivia's oxygen tank beeped, letting her know that the levels were dropping.
"Here, this'll fit in your backpack. I'll carry this stuff." Arcee quickly packed the bag up. "You're off from school all week, right?" She asked.
"Yeah, it's Spring Break."
"Great. We can come back tomorrow and search another room."

"Miko, I'm home!" Jack called as he opened the door. His wife appeared at the top of the stairs, holding a basket of laundry.
"You're home early." She noted as she came down. "I haven't even started dinner yet."
Jack laughed and took the basket from her, setting it down and kissing her. "Miko, don't pretend you're the perfect housewife. We both know you did the paperwork for the new supply of Energon."
"Ever since the bots left, everything we do involving them needs a mountain of paperwork." She complained, brushing her hair out of her eyes.
"The stress isn't good for the baby." She muttered.
"Miko, Liv isn't a baby anymore."
Miko stared at Jack with wide eyes.
"Umm."
Jack dropped his mouth open.
"I can't believe you didn't tell me!" He snapped.
"I just found out today, okay! I was gonna tell you at dinner!" Miko snapped back. Jack instantly apologized.
"Oh my god, I'm sorry, I didn't know you just found out." He reached towards her, and she crumbled in his arms, crying.
"Miko, please don't cry." He wiped her eyes and gently kissed her forehead.
"I'm gonna tell Bulk you made me cry." She said after a few minutes.
"Please no, he'll squash me!"
Miko looked at him, raising an eyebrow.
"Remember when he came up to me at the reception and took me aside? He looked me dead in the eyes and said 'If you make my girl cry, the last thing you're ever gonna see is my foot smashing you into a pulp."
Miko laughed. "He's bluffing. Remember when we called it off for three days, and he stayed at my house while I cried? He didn't squish you then."
"Still, you Wreckers are really scary when you're pissed."
"Damn right."