Chapter Seven

They were heading around the corner and into the main part of the building. Optimus was turning and the girls did their best to ignore it when he stared down at them. Cameron grabbed her friends arm and made some distance between them and the vechicon.

"I saw that in the sound booth there was a camera and in Blues they had one too. I think if we're gonna make this work were gonna have to find the security room." She spoke seriously. Jacklyn carefully picked at her words like a piece of chicken at Thanksgiving.

"This just seems to get worse and worse...alright one of us needs to get him talking once we spot the Security office. I'll head to the restroom and I want you to take him back to one of the Autobots and let him ramble while I sneak in to the office. Got it?" She whispered as silently as she could.

"Yeah. Yeah, I got it," Cameron nodded. "I'll give you the signal when it's safe to go."

"Good thinking. What's the word?" Jacklyn asked. Cameron struggled to think of something.

"Uhh...pineapple." Cameron stuttered.

"Pineapple?" Jacklyn gave her dead pan look. Cameron expressed a sheepish smile.

"What? I couldn't think of anything else." Cameron shrugged. Jacklyn sighed in defeat.

"Just...make a distraction. Trip over something, make racket," Jacklyn rolled her eyes. "You're good at it." Cameron scoffed at that.

"Uphead were going to turn into the middle part of the building where the Mighty Weapons Specialist, Engineer, and Ratchet stand. Pity to see they no longer are as 'Mighty' as they once were," The vechicon chuckled. "The black lacky on your left is wearing many targets for you to sho-."

"Sir?! Vechicon!" Jacklyn shouted and began bouncing on her heels. The vechicon sighed deeply for being intruppted but turned to look at her. Jacklyn had managed to glimpse into the room on the left side of the building and saw the office with big bright bold letters on the door. It was right in between Bumblebee's and Cliffjumper's grassy area on the right and Sunstreakers alt mode off to the left where he was dented, scarred, and colored on. Mirage next to him.

"What is it, insect?"

"I...uh...wow this is awkward," She bit her lip. "I have to go to the bathroom." She said and ran a hand through her hair.

"Follow me," the vechicon slumped slightly. His optics turned darker as he began walking past Optimus and into the left side of the building. Jacklyn followed quickly and Cameron looked at the fence around Optimus thoughtfully as she walked into the left room. The vechicon pointed to a pair of doors on the side of the hallway leading to the left room where the office was. Jacklyn thought this was too good to be true. "Right over there," he motioned with a servo before turning on his heel. Jacklyn hurried to the women's door and opened it. She glanced at Cameron and Cameron nodded. Jacklyn held the door and stood behind as she waited.

"So, mister vechicon guy," Cameron started a little nervously. Her eyes glanced to Bumblebee's and Cliffjumper bright blue optics that stared curiously at her. She gave a small wince of a smile. "How long did this place take you? To build I mean," She asked as she casually walked back to Optimus and leaned on the fence. The vechicon straightened at the question and a proud glint was in his drone like optics.

"A few months. Our technology in construction is much more efficient than yours. We have made many many replicas to the Constructicons and used their abilities to make this place. What would have taken about a year for you humans is merely a couple months for us." The vechicon bragged happily. Cameron nodded and let her arm push the fence back farther.

Jacklyn so owes me.

Cameron hit the floor with a clatter of the fence and she could have sworn she saw Optimus flinch. The clattering metal echoed and the vechicon grew angry.

"Pineapple!" Cameron screamed in distress. Jacklyn facepalmed behind the door. "That hurt!" Cameron yelped and began picking herself off the floor but made herself trip and knock over more of the fence. The vechicon grumbled.

"Clumsy fleshlings." He ground out and walked past Bumblebee and Cliffjumper who watched him. He entered the main room and pushed her to the side with his servo and began picking the fence back up. Cameron chuckled nervously.

"Sorry about that, dude. Why don't you just continue on in the other room? Show me that Ironhide guy." Cameron said as she began stalling. The vechicon sighed.

"Fine, let's go. It is your friends loss she can't shoot at the black mech because she has to go to the bathroom." He spoke in disgust. Cameron paled a bit at those words but followed him nonetheless into the middle room in the back. Cameron let out another cry of 'Pineapple!' As she disappeared around the corner.

The women's door opened slowly and Jacklyn scooted out. She looked around and saw they were gone. She looked up and saw a camera was focusing on Sunstreaker and Mirage more rather that Bumblebee and Cliffjumper who were on the opposite side of the room. Jacklyn quickly ducked and ran over to Bumblebee and Cliffjumper spot. They looked down at her.

"I would stop what your doing kid," Cliffjumper spoke quietly. Jacklyn looked up and saw the two. She couldn't help the cringe. Cliffjumper wore a large ring on his nose and his servos and pedes had large hooves on them. He wore a tail on his backside that matched his red paint and a large rope around his neck tied to a fence to his side, forcing him to crouch. Having never seen him before she couldn't tell if the horns on his helm had been there before. Either way, he looked like a massive bull now...except he was red.

Bumblebee had a few small but terrible changes. He had more black stripes on him and they ran horizontal almost every 12 inches. His doorwings were colored black and he had a stinger glued to his backside. He held a sign that read:

LOOK, I'M A LARGE BUMBLEBEE AND MY NAMES BUMBLEBEE. HOW FUNNY! GET IT?

Jacklyn quickly shook her head. "No. I'm not giving up on you just cause you gave up on yourselves." She  hissed and ran to the wall. Cliffjumper exchanged glances with Bumblebee. Jacklyn pressed herself up against the wall and looked up and saw the handle was much too high for her.

Jacklyn cursed.

It looked much smaller farther away. She felt dumb for not thinking about it befote that it was for vechicons and vechicons were like a Skyscraper in height. She looked around for anything to use. She saw a large hay stack by Cliffjumper pedes and ran to it. Cliffjumper backed up, offering no help whatsoever. Bumblebee hesitated but he grabbed it and threw it to the door. Jacklyn paused before looking up at him and smiling gratefully. Bumblebee only nodded. She ran over to it and climbed up, reaching up and opening the door.

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I'll probably touch this up later.

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