"There's alot of Panic right now."

"I don't understand," Miko tilted her head at Pan who was grinning.

Logan snickered in the background.

Pan's grin grew bigger as her amusement grew, 'I said, "You're a crazy girl who, for some reason, always needs an adrenaline rush",' she signed easily.

Miko groaned again as the two cousins laughed.

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"Pass, nuh-uh, Kid in a costume....Balloon....Nope, Uh, hold," Jack said, he, Miko, and Raf crowded around Raf's laptop as Pan sat on the other end of the couch, typing something into her phone.

"The camera sure loves Bee," Jack chuckled, his eyes twinkling with amusement as Pan glanced up.

"What can you do? When you're a superstar, you're paparazzi bait," Miko grinned as she flopped back onto the couch between Pan and Raf. The older girl giving the younger girl a raised eyebrow.

"Wait," Ratchet paused, and looked at the small human sized screen(well, as best as he could), "Is that Bumblebee?"

"On a conspiracy website where users post evidence of close encounters," Raf explained, looking at the mech before going back to his laptop, "But we have it under control, Ratchet. We just scrub and replace Bee with Mars cat says, "take me to your feeder.""

Funnily enough, the usually stoic(or grumpy, whichever way you want to look at it), medic let out a laugh. Three of the four humans all but gaped at him, the medic's charge only smiling towards her guardian.

"Ratchet actually laughed?" Miko asked, her eyes wide as she shared looks with Raf and Jack as the orange Autobot mentally cursed himself, despite the amused grin on his charge's face.

"Uh Um, Optimus," Jack called over to the Prime, who visibility stiffened slightly at the mention of his name, "Do you want to see something funny?"

Optimus barely paused, "No."

Pan hid her quiet chuckle from Jack who frowned. An amused twitch appeared briefly on Optimus' derma before disappearing.

"Don't take it personally," Arcee told the crestfallen Jack, "Primes are built that way."

"Never seen Optimus laugh, cry, or lose his cool," Bulkhead shrugged.

"While Optimus certainly keeps his emotions in check," Ratchet interrupted, "I've known him far longer than any of you have, and he was different before he was made a Prime."

Pan's head shot up curiously at that, and Ratchet barely managed to hide his grin at the sudden sparkle of wonderment in his charge's green eyes, "Optimus wasn't always a Prime?" Raf asked, his own eyes wide.

"On Cybertron, one isn't born into greatness. Rather, one must earn it," The medic explained, an amused light in his optics as he saw the four humans soaking the information in, namely Raf and Pan out of the four.

"So, different how? We talkin' party animal?" Miko asked, an amused grin on her face at the thought of their usual stoic leader going all partyish.

"No, no. Optimus was more like Jack, or Pan," The medic shrugged.

Pan's eyes widened as did Jack's, the male opening his mouth to protest, "What? I'm nothing like Opt-"

"Prime!" a certain Agent's voice cut through the air.

"Those techites my department's been tracking," Fowler paused, continuing when the Prime gave his nod of understanding, "-We figured it was MECH on account of the stealth tactics until moments ago when a security feed at the Pennington ebbs particle collider captured this."

A picture came up on the screen, "Soundwave."

"Raf can swap that out for you with a funny cat," Miko offered, and Pan raised an eyebrow at the girl with a shake of head, thankfully Miko seemed to get the message that it wasn't the time for games.

"The 'Con without a face made off with a cutting-edge phase conductor," Fowler said, bringing up something on the computer, "Here's a punch list of everything else we've confirmed stolen to date."

"Plasma injector, neutron shield, tesseract?" Ratchet listed off, a grim look coming across his face plates, "There's only one thing missing if they are intending to build a space bridge."

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The next day, Pan faced a difficult situation as she looked between Raf and Bumblebee's holoform. Both were giving her puppy eyes, begging her to join them.

Pan but her lip anxiously, 'Did you check with Ratch-'

"Ratchet's fine with it!" Bumblebee interrupted, a smug grin on his holoform's face, "I already asked."

Pan sighed, finally giving in, 'Alright.'

Both boys cheered and Pan shook her head at them, 'Move over then,' she signed, and Raf moved back into the passenger's seat as Bumblebee's holoform disappeared in a burst of sparks.

The Hammer girl shook her head at the two as she easily slipped into Bumblebee's driver's seat, 'So, where to?'

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:[Bumblebee, the team may require backup. They are three clicks north from your current position, just off the highway]: Ratchet's voice over Bumblebee's comms made the two humans look up, small disappointed looks on their faces, :[If you drop Raf and Pan at the exit ramp, I can bridge him back to base from there]:

"Aw man," Bumblebee groaned, before his voice turned apologetic as he addresses the two teens inside his alt-mode, "Sorry guys, I guess duty calls."

"It's okay, Bee," Raf and Pan smiled, the boy speaking for them both, "We'll go racing another time."

'Promise,' Pan signed, her eyes twinkling with honesty, and the two boys chuckled.

"Well, well. A foolish scout has strayed from the ranks."

The hair on the back of Pan's neck rose up, and an uncomfortable feeling ran down her spine. Pan's eyes narrowed as she looked around.

Pan's eyes widened as she glanced in Bumblebee's mirror, horror in her eyes as she spotted a massive ball of purple coming towards them.

Everything seemed to go in slow motion for Pan as she quickly wrapped herself around her younger friend, taking the brute of the hit as time resumed. Purple colouring bright in the humans' eyes as they blinked.

And both teens were unconscious instantly.

Here's Chapter Fouty!

Before ya'll go all crazy on me; I've had this planned for ages. So, sorry not sorry.

I just causally entered this book in Watty's. Lol.

Double update today.
So, be prepared for the next Chapter!
(When I post it laterish(after my first class of the day).

Happy Friday(for NZ)!

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