OPaTFs ch1 a new friend

CometRacer, the autobot camaro drove  along, up the road to the ark.  Casey, the young human she rescued, had fallen asleep in her passenger seat.  Comet could only imagine how tired she was after being attacked by starscream, saved by a talking car and driving out of state.  the camaro approached the autobot base.  "wake up sleepy head. we're here."  said cometracer.  the human grouned and slowly opened her eyes to see the huge space ship embedded in a volcano.  "that's the ark?" she asked grogily.  "yep! you'll love it here, everyone's realy nice... well almost everyone." said comet. "almost everyone?" casey asked nervously.  "don't worry, just look out for the Lamborgini twins and red alert. the twins are pranksters that get under everyone's gears. and Red's just a  little highstrung... scratch that, nausious with paranoya is more like it. but other than that it's cool here." comet reassured her.  they drove in the giant doorway and were greeted by a yellow mech.  this mech was much shorter than cometracer, at least a few feet taller than an average adult human man.  "hey bumblebee, brought back a little friend" comet greeted him.  "good to hear, can't wait to meet her, comet." bumblebee replied happily.  "cometracer opened her door and casey got out as the camaro transformed into robot mode.  Bumblebee seemed friendly enough, Casey approuched a few steps toward the almost human-sided mech.  he held out his hand. "hi I'm bumblebee, what your designation?" he greeted. "my what? oh my name, uh.. Casey... Casey Catalina. nice too meet you bumblebee." she greeted, shaking his larger hand.  "she says Starscream said megatron wanted her for some reason.  I contacted Optimus to arrange a meeting, he also wants Ratchet to take look at her.  Can you take her to the medbay?" comet asked him.  "sure thing comet, it'll give me a chance to get to know her more." he said cheerfully. "thanks bee." she said as she left the room.  "follow me Casey, just be careful. Ratchet's tending to the twins again, those two realy get under his gears." Bee joked. casey smiled as she walked beside the friendly minibot. "he has quite the temper huh?" she asked.  "yeah, but don't get me wrong. Ratchet's the best medic on Cybertron as long as you stay on his good side." he replied.
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In the conference room, Optimus Prime sat at one end of the table and cometracer at the other.  to Prime's right was second-in-command and tatican, prowl.  To his left was third-in-command and sabotour, jazz, who is also cometracer's special opperations commander.  CometRacer had just finished the story of Casey's attack and bits of info her gathered on the way back to base.  "Both creators left on a space mission to a starne planet and left casey with her elder sister." summerized Optimus.  "yes sir, she also has a mate, though she prefers to call him a boyfriend.  if megatron wants casey, then he'll want her sister or boyfriend as well." said comet.  "we can't possibly keep three humans under the srk's protection, it's too dangerous.  the logical thing to do is figure out what megatron wants from her and put a stop to whatever he has planned." said prowl.  "aw come on prowler, the girl's parents are somewhere in outa space and megatron's goons are after her.  the least we could do is let Casey stay here for a while." said jazz.  "we can arrange someone to gather human supplies for her if she is to stay under our protection, she also needs a gaurdian to teach her the rules." said Optimus.  "i can be her gaurdian, since she already seems to trust me and i'm new around here too, she learn with me." suggested cometracer.  "I'd happy to get what the little lady needs Prime." said jazz.  "the base isn't ment for humans, and not all the autobots here are 100% friendly." added prowl.  "she'll adjust, she told me her family traveled a lot." countered cometracer.  "hmm... alright, she can stay, we just need to inform her sister. as soon as Ratchet reports in we'll explain to casey the dangers she's in if she dissagrees with our dicision." said Optimus.
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Bumblebee and casey walked into the medbay in time to see a red and white mech yelling at a red mech and a yellow one that looked just like eachother.  "YOU TWO ARE IDIOTS!!!! WHY WOULD YOU PLAY CHICKEN WITH THE STUNTICONS!?!?!" yelled the red and white mech. Casey figured he must be Ratchet and the other two were the lamborgini twins, sunstreaker and sideswipe.  "hey Ratch, I brought a friend for you." bumblebee said.  Ratchet turned to his visitors then back to the twins. "you're repaired AGAIN! now get out beFORE I REFORMAT YOU INTO TOASTERS!!!" he yelled.  the twins ran out fast as they could, sunstreaker, unfortunetley got a wrench to the head.  "now what can I do for you?" he asked in a slightly calmer voice.  "Optimus wants yau to look Casey here over." Bee said.  the CMO picked her up and set her down on the large metal bed called a berth.  he shot a glance to bumble bee then back to casey.  Bee knew that was his cue to leave. "well you around casey." he said as he left. Ratchet took a lazer pen and a data pad then walked back to casey. "stand up please." he said. she obeyed, not wanting a wrench to fly her way.  The medic's blue optics glowed brighter as he scanned the human, Casey felt a little uneasy at being scanned again.  His optics dulled back to normal and he wrote down some notes on the data pad. "are you taking any medication?" he asked.
"no."
"any allergies"
"no sir."
"been in any accidents?"
"does falling off my skateboard count?"
The CMO wrote down a few more notes.  "I"m going to report back to Optimus, wait here.  if you have any questions,wheeljack and perceptor's labs here right next door. I'll be back in a few breems." he said, walking out.  "what's a breem?" she wondered. she looked around, admiring the advanced technology and over-sized tools.  Her eyes then fell to the other end of the berth, where she saw a red, yellow and grey boombox.  she walked over and sat down next to it.  she got more curious when she spotted the autobot symbol on the front, she pushed a button but nothing happened.  "hello? are you an autobot?" she asked the human-sized radio. it remained silent.  she took it in her lap and opened the back to see the damage.  "hmm... dad tought me how to fix all sorts of things.  if you are an autobot, i may not be able to get you to tranform, but i can at least get you to talk." she said.  she took her utility pocket knife, she flipped up the mini wrench it had built in and tightened a few bolts and taped up some cut wires.  when she finished, she closed the back and set the radio down, facing her.  a high pitched screach came from it, casey covered her ears from the noise.  after the scream faded,  male, DJ-like voice came through.  "hey i can talk! finally! i thought i was gonna be mute foreva! you're pretty good with repairs girl.  by the way name's Blaster." said the radio.  "nice to meet you Blaster, I'm Casey. thanks, my dad taught me everything about repairs." she replied.  "well i don't know how ta thank ya, I've been stuck as a soundless boombox for earth days, one of which was when hound dover me back from a battle with soundwave. it's like that medbot didn't want to fix my vocal processor." said blaster, making Casey giggle.
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Ratchet entered the conference room with the human's statis.  "Ratchet report." said optimus.  "as the humans say, healthy as a horse. although i did find something strang about her blood cells, i can't identify the problem exactly, but i know she's not like other humans." reported the docbot.  "interesting, I'll have perceptor take a closer look.  for now let's meet our little friend. said Optimus.
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the five autobots entered the medbay to find casey talking to perceptor, wheeljack and a familiar radio.  Ratchet was very suprized to see blaster talking, as he hasn't repaired him yet.  the two sicentists seemed to be very intrigued by casey, as she told them a few stories.  the two autobots and casey turned to face the approaching autobots.  "ah hello there, casey here was just telling us how she managed to fix blaster's vocal processor.  she is quite talented." informed perceptor in his british accent. "yeah, she knows a ton about mechanics." added wheeljack. "impressive. Casey, I am Optimus Prime, leader of the autobots. this is my second-in-command and tatican, prowl. third-in-command and sabotour, Jazz.  you already know Ratchet, our medical officer. and Cometracer, who is now your gaurdian and you will recharge in her room if you chose to stay here." he said. "here? but what about jackie and mike?" she asked.  "I'm sorry, but we can't hold three humans under the ark's protection.  With megatron's seekers after you, we can only get a limited amount of human supplies for you." the trucker replied sadly.  "but we can revise informetion on the digital records to keep your sister safe.  as for your mate--" prowl started. "boyfriend! not mate, boyfriend!" casey interrupted, blushing.  "er.. yes, well your 'boyfriend,' Michel Pyrinski, seems to have many gaps in his records.  such as creation place, creator's names, hometown and much more. It's as if he hadn't existed for certain years in his life. do you know anything about this?" asked the SIC.  "um... not realy, he's a transfer student from some foriegn country, he didn't tell me much about it." said the human.  prowl's battle computer told him she was lying, she knew more than she was saying.  "so wad'ya think girl? it cool to stay here?" asked jazz, smiling. "yeah I'm cool, I'll just have to tell my sis that i'm going to a sleepover with giant, sentiant robots from outer space." joked casey.  all but prowl laughed at the youngling's humour. "i'll contact Jacolin and inform her of your current statis." said prowl, not getting the joke.  "perceptor, I'd like you to examin a blood sample from our friend here." said ratchet.  "is something wrong Ratch?" asked casey.  "just, extra precausion." lied the CMO.  "i'd be glad to, it would be a grand oppertunity to study the human anatomy." replied the microscope, voice full of excitment.
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later that day, cometracer brought casey back to their room.  jazz had brought back a box of supplies, including a CD player and a lot of music along with other miscellanious items.  casey used the blankets to back a little bed atop of comet's metal berth and layed down. she was exhausted form the rescue, meeting many autobots and let perceptor take a small blood sample, in human measurements of coarse.  "comfy hon?" asked comet, laying down next to her.  "yeah, thanks comet." the human replied.  Casey was very excited that Optimus agreed to let her and cometracer return to new york to retrieve some of her belongings.  she also heard that mike pyrinski was moving to the town near autobot base, so he could be picked up by jazz and visit on his run.  "rest up, we got a big day tomarrow." said comet. "you bet!" said casey. cometracer's optis powered off, entering recharge mode. casey waited untill she was sure the femmebot is in deep sleep.  she pulled out a badge that had a green timer symbol on the front that she had attached to a wrist watch band.  she pressed a button on the side and talked softly into it.  "codename PB calling HB." she whispered.  "casey, you okay?" asked a male voice. "yeah, i think they're getting suspicous of you-know-who, think you can make it tomarrow?" she asked.  "sure thing babe, anything for you." he said. the communication disconcected then casey hid the device and joined her cyber gaurdian in sleep.
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meanwhile, perceptor found what Ratchet was worried about.  there were strange links in her dna that suggested that casey was more than human.  he was amazed at his discovery and couldn't wait to tell Optimus in the mourning.

(to be continued)