space girl | bumblebee

ii.

Nearing the end of the ride, the Autobot, Samuel, Mikaela, and Onyxia were in began sputtering and causing glitches in the radio. It began playing all sorts of songs that seemed to be played to tease Samuel. It brought a slight smile to Onyxia's face.

"Sorry, I'm just working out the kinks. You know, it's a new car," Samuel rushed out, trying to stop the radio by bashing it. The Autobot then began playing a song that included the lyrics, "sexual healing". Definitely messing with Samuel. Adding to the bullying, the Autobot shut off its engine and parked itself off the road.

"Look, this isn't something that I, you know- I can't get this radio to stop. Look, I wouldn't try this on you. You know. 'Cause, this is like a romantic, romantic thing that I'm not trying to do." Samuel continued to dig himself a deeper hole.

"Uh, huh," Mikaela replied, tying her hair up behind her head as she prepared to get out of the car and fix it.

"Not that you're not worthy of trying something like this on," Samuel continued.

"No, of course not."

"I'm a friend of yours. I'm not a romantic friend, romantic friends do this. I-I mean, I'm not that friend. I mean, we...I could be." Onyxia scoffed and motioned for Mikaela to get out so that she could.

"Just pop the hood," Mikaela snapped, getting just as fed up as Onyxia was with his constant jabbering.

"I can call a friend to pick us up and you can have a drive," she spoke as she followed Mikaela out. "You understand my car more than I do, it's kind of scary."

Mikaela laughed, "just a talent of mine I got from my dad." She leant over to look at the engine of the car. "Whoa, nice headers. You've got a high-rise double-pump carburettor, that's...impressive, Sam." As Samuel and Mikaela continued their conversation, Onyxia walked away to pretend to take a call. She took control of her alt mode and kept her holoform present, which was a skill she had practically mastered after her twelve thousand years on Earth. She had also mastered the ability to create two holoforms at once, which was something she only ever used in situations like this--when she "summoned" her alt mode around a human.

"How long until they get here?" Mikaela sighed, standing beside the Cybertronian.

"10 minutes, sorry," she replied. "Samuel's insufferable, wish it could be 1 minute."

The girl giggled, "I think he's certainly...different."

"He very clearly likes you. It's sickening."

"Hey!" Samuel screamed as the Autobot's engine revved. The excited boy got back in his car and drove to Mikaela and Onyxia.

"I'll stay, you go with him," Onyxia told Mikaela, who nodded.

"Sorry about how shitty today was," the girl apologised.

"Nah, I enjoyed it. Samuel embarrassing himself is at least somewhat entertaining." The two said their goodbyes before they headed their separate ways.

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Two days later...

"You're kidding me," Onyxia groaned, having finished her search for her school bag when she realised she left it in the Autobot in her haste to get away from Samuel two days ago. She didn't want to go to Samuel's house and interact with the boy but if she wanted her bag and its contents back then she'd need to, unfortunately. She got in her alt mode and began her drive to her least favourite place on Earth but halfway through she witnessed Samuel on a bright pink bicycle moving his little legs as fast as he could away from the very Autobot he "owned".

"Ah, shit, man," Onyxia cursed, snapping her alt mode to the left and doing a u-turn, following the two idiots into an abandoned parking lot. "Samuel?!" she cried, getting out of her alt mode.

"Onyx?!" he screamed back, "Onyx, my car is following me!"

"I know, I saw!" The ear-piercing sound of a police siren echoed as a driverless police car drove towards the two. Onyxia's heart sank in her chest when she realised just what side this Cybertronian was on.

"Decepticons," she said breathlessly, turning to Samuel. "Samuel, you're going to stay away from that police car, okay?!"

"No way! Onyx, my car is following me!" With that, he sprinted to the Decepticon.

"Idiot," she spat, her holoform fizzling away as she, quite terribly, transformed into her bipedal form. She hadn't done it in centuries. Following her transformation, the Decepticon did just as she did and transformed into its bipedal form. Onyxia charged up her blaster and pointed it at her enemy.

"I'd stay away from that human if I were you, Barricade," she boomed, her very presence causing those around her to cower.

"Onyxia," Barricade sneered, making an attempt to grab Samuel but he was already sprinting away from the two Cybertronians. They both chased after the boy, pushing each other away like two children in an attempt to slow the other down. As they neared the end of the lot, they witnessed Samuel tackle Mikaela off her Vespa and the Autobot, still in its alt mode, drove in front of the pair and opened its door. Onyxia hurriedly transformed into her alt mode to follow after them as Samuel and Mikaela got into it and drove off, away from Barricade.

She followed her comrade down a dirt path as Barricade followed closely behind, but the two Autobots were faster and smarter. They swerved into a window into an abandoned warehouse before swerving around Barricade and driving out to the warehouse's exterior area, which included a range of pipes, rails, and concrete. They had managed to gain enough distance that they were able to park in an alley without much trouble. Both shutting off their engines, they watched as Barricade drove past the entrance to the alley, only to stop.

"We need to go," Onyxia spoke through her radio as she turned her engine back on and lead the other Autobot out of the alley just in time to move past Barricade's boot. As she saw the Autobot behind her kick Mikaela and Samuel out, she revved her engine to get the attention of the two humans, but they were too entranced by the act of their saviour transforming into their bipedal mode to notice. Using her holoform, she got out of her alt mode and grabbed the two, leaving behind the Autobot and a recently transformed Barricade behind.

"Onyx?!" the two humans cried. "How did you get here?!"

"I'm that car!" she exclaimed, looking behind her at her alt mode and viewing Frenzy scuttling after them. "Oh, my god," she said to herself, pushing herself to run faster but the two humans with her weren't the most athletically inclined unlike her.

"Duck!" Samuel cried. The two girls did what he said as the Autobot and Barricade tackled each other in front of them. The trio turned around, just narrowly dodging Frenzy as he made a leap for them. Onyxia could hear her comrade and Barricade causing a minor explosion behind her and prayed that this Autobot was good at combat.

"Ah!" Onyxia cried, feeling a strong tug on her arm that brought her to the ground. Her arm, something was wrong. "Fuck!" Mikaela kept running and made her way into a shed so Onyxia prayed to the Primes that she would get something to help them.

"It's got me, it's got me!" Sam panicked.

"Onyxia Pax!!" Onyxia cried, gaining the attention of Frenzy for long enough that Sam could kick him off and run after Mikaela, but not without wounds to show. The small Decepticon leapt onto the Prime's holoform.

"Onyxia Prime?!" he shrieked.

"Yes, I'm Onyxia!" she cried. Her holoform could only take so much damage before it was out of commission for as long as it takes for her to fix it and unluckily, she could feel everything that her holoform felt. It could be classified as a human if it weren't for the fact that it was created by her Cybertronian body.

"Kill!" Frenzy cried, preparing its sharp metal claws to "kill" her.

"Samuel!" she shrieked.