Terra

Are You Trucking Kidding Me? Part 1

Soon enough we were pulling onto the property. I was riding in the tow truck, directing the driver to the barn. Once inside I helped the driver position my truck in its final resting place. I thanked him once he detached his tow. As I left the barn I saw Tessa yelling at Cade, "A truck? Dad, please tell me you didn't spend our money on this." "Oh, no, don't worry, he didn't. He spent my money, a hundred and fifty bucks of it." Lucas cut in looking pissed. "First of all, its an advance on your paycheck, and second" "What paycheck? When will I ever see one?" Lucas had cut Cade off. "Never. We're broke." I started to make my way over to set things straight. "I knew it," Lucas grumbled. Cade looked at Tessa disheartened, "Sweetheart, could you please not drive a wedge between employer and employee." "Hold on. I thought we were partners." "No Lucas. Cade and I are partners. You are a disgruntled employee. Secondly, Tessa, I bought the truck. Cade is going to help me fix it up."

I gave Tessa a pointed look, goading her into challenging me. When she looked away, I turned around and returned to the barn to start my work. I first started working on clearing away any debris that's on and in the truck. While I was working away, the others came in. Tessa still harping on Cade about money. I lifted a shell out of the cab, "Why do you let me pay for some of the bills?" "No!" The two yelled at me. "How does that answer my question?" I grumbled to the truck. I climbed back down to grab some cleaning supplies to work on the truck's interior. It was so dusty and grimy. As I was cleaning inside, I would glance up ever so often to see Tessa and Cade were still talking, Lucas was being a pain. I worked and worked into the night when I heard a shout. I looked out the front window to see Cade putting out a fire.

I climbed out as Cade started to talk out loud, looking around. "Unbelievable. Unbelievable. God! Something in here needs to make this family some money." I gave Cade a pointed look when he looked at my truck. His mood changed as he saw my look. "Come on, you old wreck. Judgment Day." Cade pulled on his tool belt as he approached my truck. All night we worked on the truck; when we pulled out the radiator we saw the huge hole in it. 'What happened to you?' I thought when I turned to my truck.

At some point I fell asleep, luckily, I was in the cab of the truck. As I sat up I saw Tessa and Lucas walk in following Cade. I really didn't want to get out of the truck as Cade climbed up the makeshift scaffolding. I watched as Cade connected the wires from the engine to a working battery and the truck started up. I jumped in surprise as a voice called out, "Calling all... Calling all Autobots." I heard Cade say, "Oh, yeah. I don't think it's a truck at all, I think we just found a Transformer." I stared at the radio of the truck. I saw that Lucas and Tessa running out of the barn with Cade following after them. I started to really look around the cab of the truck to see if I could see any differences from a normal truck.

Cade came back in intending to work more on my truck. I don't care that my truck is actually a robot, as long as they don't have red eyes, this truck is my truck. I opened the door to get out as Tessa yelled at Cade, "Twenty-five grand! It pays for my college. It pays for the house." "Besides, you used my money to buy the truck, right? So technically, that's my truck. Don't you think?" Lucas asked, slightly panicked and excited. Cade aggressively turned to Lucas, "You also signed a contract regarding all research lab I.P. You signed it and now you're competing. Any idea of yours is mine. Any thought you have, I own it, so basically, I own you." I was about to correct the entire conversation when Cade started to speak again. "Alright. Bring the torch over and help me with the pulley arm. I think the shrapnel took out its power core. Oh, and, Tessa, you see this?" Cade started to hit my truck's front bumper with a hammer, "Would an alien killing machine let me do that? Look, I'll make the call, we'll get the money. Just first let me see if I'm right. You want to hide in the house? Go ahead."

Tessa took off as I climbed back into the cab, I was about to start looking at the wiring under the steering wheel when I saw Cade holding a missile. I yelped when the missile took off. Cade, Lucas and I froze in shock. I was about to open the truck door when I heard things starting to shift and I was thrown out to the ground. The truck had transformed into a robot as I had been sitting inside, "I'll kill you! Stay back!" He yelled as Tessa ran in. Cade started to panic but Lucas, being a dumbass, started to run while yelling "Call 911! Run!"

I couldn't help the burst of laughter that escaped me as Lucas got hit in the head with the cannon the robot was holding. I felt eyes on me from above, so I looked up to see the bots eyes, "Blue eyes," I meekly spoke. Cade's voice broke the two of us out of the small trance, calling out to Lucas as he started to move again. "Stop!" The blue eye bot above me ordered. He stumbled back and muttered, "Weapons systems damaged." Cade approached with his hands up showing he wasn't a threat. "A missile hit your engine, and we took it out of you. You're hurt really bad. I'm just trying to help you. You're in my home now. I'm an engineer, my name is Cade Yeager."

"Cade, I am in your debt. My name is Optimus Prime. My Autobots, they're in danger." Optimus fell to his knees in pain, I quickly scrambled up instinctively wanting to support him. "I need to go. I need to go now." I frowned at Optimus, shaking my head. "How far do you think you can get?" I asked him, my voice dripping with worry. His eyes meet mine. "What happened to you?" Cade asked. Optimus looked away from me, "An ambush, a trap, set by humans. [he starts coughing] I escaped and took this form." Tessa meekly spoke up, "But you're on our side. Why would humans hurt you?"

"They were not alone. My Autobots can repair me." Optimus spoke. I looked at Cade as I lifted up the piece of Optimus that fell off his head. "If you can reach 'em. What about us?" Cade gestured between the two of us. Optimus looked at the two of us before he sat back, nodding in agreeance. I turned to Lucas, "You should get some ice on that." I poked the bump, earning a yelp and a glare from him. Cade started working on a list as Tessa brought out an ice pack for Lucas. I started to move things around, so Cade and I could move around Optimus better as he got into a comfortable position. Once I saw that Cade was done with the list I followed him outside as he was handing off the list to Lucas. I stayed in the door to the barn keeping Optimus insight while watching the two. I heard Cade threaten Lucas, "Not a word to anybody. Do you hear me? Not a single word. Nobody." I called out to Lucas, glaring at him, "If I find out you called to get that money I'll chop off your dick. That money doesn't exist." As he paled and started to drive away I yelled, "And he's NOT YOUR TRUCK!" I walked back inside, letting Cade through the doorway. "Let's get to work."