The following Saturday, Jack and Sinead were leaving work. He had just finished talking to his mother on his cell phone when he noticed the motorcycle that Sinead had seen. "Hello beautiful. Where have you been all my life?" He got on the bike, totally oblivious to everything else around him.
Sinead gnawed at her lip, shifting her weight from one foot to the other. "Jack, come on. I really don't think that's a good idea." He ignored her and carried on talking to the motorcycle until two girls came along. One of them was Sierra, who they knew at school. Sinead didn't particularly like her, and couldn't understand what Jack saw in her. The fact she hung around with Vince didn't help.
She sighed and looked around. As she did so, she caught sight of a pair of purple and black cars.
Sinead's pov
Vehicons, what are they doing here? I had to shield my eyes as their headlights suddenly shone full beam at me, Jack and the motorcycle he was still sitting on, sending Sierra and her friend running off.
Jack gave a shout as the bike revved its engine and went up on its back wheel before standing back down and drawing level with me. "Hop on, and don't let go."
I quickly did as I was told, and we headed straight for an abandoned alleyway where Jack and I dismounted. He was shaking uncontrollably, voice trembling as he asked. "What...what are you?"
"I don't exist." The motorcycle replied sternly with a rev of its engine. "Tell anyone about me, and I'll hunt the pair of you down."
Jack could only nod. "Sure thing," I confirmed. 'Is it my imagination, or is her voice familiar?' I couldn't help wondering.
Normal pov.
They both headed around the corner, only to be spotted by the same two cars.
Sinead was a skilled archer, and for some reason had brought her kit along. Notching an arrow to the bow, she took aim and fired. She watched as the arrow flew through the air and burst a tyre on one of the cars, before taking off after Jack.
"We don't know her." He shouted as they ran down the street. The motorcycle appeared, landing on the bonnet of one of the cars.
"Where'd the other one go?" Jack couldn't help but ask.
"I fired an arrow at it, bursting one of the tyres." Sinead admitted.
"What?" He couldn't believe what he'd just heard.
"Get on." The motorcycle demanded. Sinead got on first and Jack sat behind her.
"Are you crazy? What were you thinking?"
"Well, obviously I wasn't. And as for your first question, if you had the parents I do, you'd end up crazy too."
"You're a pretty good shot." The motorcycle remarked. "Name's Arcee."
Sineads pov
Arcee? My optics widened. I thought her voice was familiar. She seems more temperamental than the last time I saw her. Of course, that was I don't know how many millennia ago. Who else is here? "I'm Sinead and this is Jack."
Our conversation was interrupted by the vehicon behind us starting to shoot. "Why is that guy firing at us?" Jack asked.
"There's no us kid, and that isn't a guy." Arcee replied.
As I glanced in a side mirror, I noticed a yellow and black muscle car appear, immediately going on the attack. "Is that a friend of yours?"
"Family."
Family? This confused me, the only family I remembered Arcee having were her sisters, Ariel and Chromia.
As we drove, we came to a part of the road that was under construction. That didn't stop Arcee though. She sped up and jumped, causing Jack to yell out. We landed and the two of us dismounted.
"Woah." A voice behind me exclaimed. I turned to find Raf, another of our classmates standing looking shocked.
"You have no idea." Jack muttered while I focused my attention back to the action. The car I'd fired at had caught up with the other and both came towards us, transforming as they did so.
Arcee also transformed, eliciting gasps from both boys. "This ends here, 'cons." She snarled and went on the attack, jumping at one of them, and knocking them to the ground.
"What are they?" I heard Raf ask.
"Talking cars that can turn into robots."
"Other way around." I corrected, not taking my optics off the action.
"And just how do you work that out?" Jack demanded, with a suspicious look on his face.
"Simple observation."
As Arcee fought, the other two opened fire. She managed to dodge the shots, but one hit her in the chest and she fell. I was readying another arrow when the muscle car appeared, transformed and punched one of the 'cons in the face. My optics widened again. Bumblebee?
As he stepped back, he stood on and crushed a toy car that Raf must have been playing with. "Sorry." He buzzed as he turned to look at us. Wait, what happened to his voicebox?
"Not a problem," Raf responded.
"BEHIND YOU," I shouted in alarm, pointing. One of the 'cons had got back up, and was preparing to fire. Unfortunately it was too late. The shot was fired, hitting 'Bee in the chest and sending him flying. He tried to get back up, but was stopped by a gun being pointed at his head.
"LEAVE HIM ALONE." Raf shouted, and the 'cons turned towards us. This time, I did let an arrow fly, hitting one of them one of them in the face.
"Bad call, both of you." Jack warned. "Come on, lets go."
We ran towards a sewer pipe and headed inside. One of the 'cons reached in towards us, but was pulled back. Bumblebee appeared, looking in at us. "You three need to get out of here."
"Sure, thank you," Raf acknowledged. We turned and started walking. "What did we just see?" He couldn't help asking.
"No idea; And it's not a good idea to find out."
"Speak for yourself," I retorted. "I'd like to find out."
Jack looked incredulously at me, opening and closing his mouth as he tried to protest, but I ignored him. I meant it, I wanted to know.
Of course, they say be careful what you wish for as it might just come true, and little did I know mine was going to.
At the missile silo
Normal pov
Arcee was giving her report. "The 'cons were scrapped, but things would've been a lot easier if I hadn't been distracted by humans."
This word immediately caught Optimus attention, and he frowned. "Humans?"
"Two boys and a girl," Bumblebee confirmed.
Optimus folded his arms across his chest as he came to a decision. "If the Decepticons are targeting us, then anyone believed to be our allies will be in danger. I request that you bring them here tomorrow once they finish school so that I can explain the situation."
Arcee waited until the others had gone before approaching him. "Is something wrong?" He asked.
"I think the girl knows about us."
