Set after the TRANSFORMERS MOVIE

3 YEARS LATER

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Pairing: Bot/Human

Chapter 1: Meeting the Autobots

“Shit, where the hell is my phone?” groaned 17 year old Megan Banes as she searched for her ringing cell phone; she threw her clothes around her room before finding it under a bra

“Hello?” she answered

“Took you long enough” said a familiar voice

“Mikaela, hey cuz what’s up?” Megan asked her older cousin Mikaela Banes

“Nothing, you busy?” Mikaela inquired

“No, just in my room, on the weekend, bored out of my brains” Megan replied flopping on her bed and staring up the ceiling

“Well good, because Sam and I want you to meet some friends of ours” Mikaela said causing her baby cousin to sit up

“What kind of friends?” she catechized

“You’ll just have to wait and find out” Mikaela teased and caused her cousin to roll her eyes, Mikaela was always doing that.

It was a Banes family trait to tease each other but the banter was always playful. Megan sighed

“When do you want me to come?” she asked her cousin

“Now” Mikaela riposted

“Where do I meet you?” Megan inquired

“Drive to the country and wait for us under the old oak tree we used to play under” Mikaela replied before hanging up.

Megan looked at her cell before closing it; she slipped out of her pajamas and into some comfortable clothes; a white boob tube with red flowers on it and two pink lace lines running down the front, a pair of black hip hugger jeans and a pair of black wedge-heels. Around her neck was her silver cross. Grabbing her shoulder length dark chocolate brown hair, Megan put it in a ponytail letting her fringe frame her face. She grabbed and donned her favorite black cap which read in white: I  Trucks. Megan shoved her phone in her pocket, grabbed her keys and let her room.

She went downstairs calling out on her way out

“Going to meet Mikaela and Sam, be back whenever” and closed the front door behind her.

Megan made her way to her car which was a pick-up truck and climbed in, closed the door, buckled in, started the engine and took off. As she drove, Megan turned on her CD player she had installed when she was 16 and flipped through until she stopped on her favorite song Life is a Highway. Megan drove; stopping at lights, intersections and Stop Signs before she made it to the country side

“Life is a highway, and I wanna ride it all night long (all night long). If you’re going my way I wanna drive it all night long” Megan sang along.

About 20 minutes later, Megan arrived and parked under the large old oak tree she and Mikaela used to play under when they were kids. She turned off the engine but turned the key so only the CD player was on, she hit the palms of her hands on the steering wheel in time to the music of another song Sweet Home Alabama.

It was about 10 minutes later when Megan saw a yellow Camero coming towards her did she sigh in relief

“ ’Bout time” she muttered and then her jaw dropped.

Following the Camero were three other vehicles; an ambulance H2 Hummer, a black GMC Denali Top Pick and bringing up the rear was a red and blue semi peterbilt with flames on the sides. The Camero pulled up about three meters from Megan’s pick-up and out got her cousin 20 year old Mikaela and her cousin’s boyfriend of three years Sam Witwicky.

Megan, smiling, got out of her pick-up slamming the door shut making her way to her cousin

“Hey you” she said as they embraced

“Hey you, how’s school?” Mikaela asked as they broke the hug

“Fine” Megan replied as she hugged Sam “hey Sam” she added

“Hey Megan it’s great to see you” Sam said

“Likewise” Megan said.

Mikaela looked over at her cousin’s pick-up and snorted

“You’ve got to be kidding me, you still have this piece of junk?” she inquired smirking at her cousin

“Hey, I can’t help it if I like trucks” Megan exclaimed

“Honey, trucks have been your hobby since you were three” Mikaela pointed out before hearing a horn beep

“Oh yeah, we want you to meet some friends of ours” Mikaela added pointing to the vehicles including the Camero.

Megan watched as one by one each of the vehicles transformed into a 30ft sized robot, her eyes nearly popping out of her head cartoon style. Once they were done, Megan continued to stare at them as she heard her cousin begin to speak

“Megan Banes, I’d like you to meet The Autonomous Life Forms or Autobots as we call them from the planet Cybertron. The one that is Sam’s Camero, his name is Bumblebee. The Hummer is Ratchet, the GMC Denali Top Pick is Ironhide and the semi peterbilt is the leader of the Autobots and his name is Optimus Prime. Guys, this is my cousin Megan Banes. She’s the same age I was when I first met you” Mikaela introduced

“Making her 17” Bumblebee said

“Yeah, she’s 17” Sam said

“It seems the girl has an infatuation with trucks” Ironhide stated

“She’s obsessed” Mikaela teased earning her a smack on the shoulder from her cousin

“Hey, I’m not obsessed” Megan protested

“Really” Mikaela started before ticking off things on her fingers

“You know the name of every truck invented, you have truck posters on your walls, you drive a banged up pick-up truck, you own a few pieces of clothing saying different things about trucks, a cap which you’re wearing now which reads: I  Trucks. You’ve gone to the Monster Truck Rally every time when it’s in town which is every two years since you were three. And you have toy trucks. If that’s not truck obsession, I don’t know what is” Mikaela finished.

Megan was blushing a deep red as she got embarrassed and stormed off to her truck, got in and drove off down the country road.

Mikaela winced

“Now you’ve done it Mikaela” Sam said as Bumblebee transformed back as the two teens headed for the Camero

“No, you two stay here with the others, I’ll go talk to her” Optimus ordered transforming into the semi peterbilt and drove after the young girl.

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Megan had parked her truck under a really, really, really big tree and got out, she climbed the branches and sat down on a high branch at the top of the 30 ft tall tree staring at the sky. She hated it when Mikaela spoke about her truck obsession to people, or in this case robots, she had just met

“You know, Mikaela had no intention of embarrassing you, Megan” a voice said.

Frowning, Megan turned her head and came face-to-face with Optimus Prime

“I know, but she likes to do it anyway” Megan replied staring at the sky “God, it’s not my fault I like trucks they’re really strangely fascinating especially big trucks” she added

“Like semi peterbilts?” Optimus asked her causing her to look back at him and grin

“Especially semi peterbilts” she responded as Optimus chuckled

“Well then I think we’ll get along just fine” he said

“I think we already are” Megan pointed out.

Optimus held out a hand and Megan hopped on as Optimus lowered himself and gently set Megan on the ground

“Should we go back to the others?” Optimus inquired

“I guess so” Megan sighed slightly disappointed ‘whoa, where did that come from?’ she wondered.

Optimus noticed her slight disappointment she didn’t do a very good job of trying to hide it but he smiled anyway, Mikaela’s cousin was an interesting person

“Or we could stay here a bit longer and talk about trucks” he suggested which got him a smile from her

“I’d like that” she said.

The two sat down and Megan and Optimus began to talk about trucks.