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The New Age - (Market Commodity book II)	By : Scienceteacher Category: Transformers > G1 > Round Robins Views: 6401 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter contributed by : ToonQueen

***ReVolt*** Posted by ToonQueen, Transformers Animated/ G1ish sneaks in there
***VIRUS/NEW AGE STORY***
Thanks to StSE for writing most of the scene when two clones run into some two other well known clones. (And she re-edited and added the intro)
This is connected to Tale of Kaon and ReVolt. You'll start to see more connections as it goes. :3 If anyone picks up on any already yer awesome.
The playlist I made for this story is here:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=E125DE5DF2FBAEA8
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Intro
I looked across the hills now green with forests. A haze crosses them and the vision of dead red forests covered in ash takes their place. This was how this place once was. Nature has healed its scars - but nothing can repair mine.
There was a time before now. A time before the death and chaos of super volcanos and virus driven clones. There was a time when I thought clearly.. When I truly lived!
I delv into my memories banks now, cherishing even word and smile of my children. My children who were taken from me. My children who grew up, lived and died so long ago - without me. They are what I live for - these memories.
The sadness and despair lifts as I sink further within the deep recesses of my primary memory banks. This is my story... This is my history... This is - all that was taken from me by the virus...

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“Model 28371-Z-8899-SDT activated, registered owner – Jessica Carver,” I blurted out the information pulled from my meta. My body uncurled, and in a moment I was standing. I then smiled at my master. She had brown hair and beautiful green eyes. The information in my processors said she was mid thirties in age.

“My, you are a cute one!,” the woman chuckled, “Gwen was right, you are adorable model!”

“Thank you Master!,” I beamed a wide smile. My model was known for being adorable! How great was that! I had a feeling of pride in my processors. I wanted to hug her, but had not been told to do anything yet. I stayed still till I was given orders. And who was Gwen? A friend of my Master’s I guess.

“Now.... lets see what all the fuss is about you bots,” my Master smiled as she took my hand and lead me out of the room I had been activated in. It looked to be her bedroom. As she lead me to the bed I noticed that her home was small. I didn’t mind it though, I liked it! It made me feel big! She sat down on the bed. The sheets on her bed were light blue. I liked that color. It was so soft.

“I think I need a designation first Master,” I explained. She gave me quite a confused look. She looked like she was thinking of a name.

“Can’t we do this later? I’m sure I can think of a better one after a long night’s sleep,” my Master said as she sat on the bed, “I’d actually prefer to be called Mistress...”

She smirked, her face kind of pouting but I think she was trying to make a seductive look. My programming ran through human expression translation. My thoughts were correct but I was still confused. Should I go right beside her or wait for her to tell me to come to her. She said she wanted the title “Mistress.” My programming told me this meant she wanted to be the lead in the relationship, so I should wait for her to say something.

“You can come over here,” she chuckled at me, “You had such a serious face there! Just relax.”

“Oh- oh okay,” I replied and then smiled. I came over and stood in front of her. She climbed farther on to the bed, leaned up against a pile of pillow and beckoned me to come up to her. I did so kind of shyly I guess. One moment I thought she wanted to take lead, and now she wanted me on top! I got on the bed and came up to her. My hands were down on the bed at each side of her. My Mistress kissed me very strongly. I liked it and returned it eagerly.

She started to undress herself rather awkwardly so I tried to help. She chuckled something about not being able to decide of she should kill or thank her friend Gwen for getting me. She put her hand on the back of my head and leaned me forward to kiss. I kissed her deeply back. My pleasure nets heated up. I wanted this from her so bad! Humans were so soft, and I liked that.

I liked it a lot. I felt the curves of her breasts with both hands before taking off her bra. She gave me a light kiss on the cheek and my pleasure programming went through my processors. I was made to be with humans, but there was something more to it. I liked that my Master’s body was different from my own. I felt so curious as I touched down the smooth curves of her body. She took my lips again and kissed me long and hard. She released from the kiss after a moment and looked at me expectantly.

“Ah... Master? Is there something you want me to do?” I asked her. She had her hands on the sides of my waist. Her soft fingers resting on crevices on my armor. I wish she would explore. I wondered if she would be as curious as I was.

“Well, first of all, call me Mistress, not master,” she told me. My Mistress was heated as I leaned over her, “Now, how do I get you started?”

“Ah.... what dimensions would you like Mistress?” I asked her. She chuckled.

“Wow, how silly they have you word that question. How about seven by three? And you can take it gentle and slow, right? I’m not new to this, believe you me, but you know..., the whole robot thing is kinda new,” My Mistress explained to me. I nodded and smiled.

“Whatever you want Mistress,” I replied with a light smile. I kissed her lightly. It made sense to be careful. Humans seemed so small. But I wasn’t much bigger than her, not at all! But I had the feeling. So I took it slow, be gentle like she said. It made sense to. I released my own bonding cable and went to the size she had asked for. She put her arms around my back.

It felt so good! Such pleasure as I gently pressed into her. I wanted to do whatever she wanted from me. I ran my hands down her soft organic sides as I thrusted lightly into her. The little noises My Mistress made were lovely. Her arms moved for her hands to grip on my shoulders hard.

The soft warmth was so good. She breathed for me to go faster, and I did. I was still gentle though. My fingers tried to explore her fleshy hips as I felt blinded by pleasure. I wanted a chance to touch everything that made her different from me. My pleasure nets were burning. I heard My Mistress come to peak right before I blacked out.

When I came back online I was still in the bed. My Mistress was getting dressed. When she saw I was online she spoke, “Oh.”

“Can’t you just turn off when I don’t need you?” my Mistress asked me, “I have a really busy life. I don’t have the time to always have you online.”

“Yes, I can shut down for most the day if that is what you prefer Mistress,” I replied. I felt kind of funny having to turn off. If that was what my Mistress wanted I didn’t mind.

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I was being activated. Usually she did not turn me on till late evening. My internal clocks said it was around eleven am! I must have had a wide smile on my face at being on so early.

“Its not for what you think,” my Mistress stated, “I need to run to the store and I need you to make sure the kids don’t burn down the house.”

“Kids?” I asked confused as she grabbed my arm and lead me downstairs. I heard many young human’s voices. The living room TV was on extremely loud.

“Tyler! Give Sissy back her doll!,” My Mistress yelled at two children in the hallway that lead to the kitchen. The boy quickly handed the doll back to the younger girl and then followed us to the kitchen.

“Oh wow Miss C! You have one of those robots? My aunt has one! He can cook! Does your robot cook too?” asked the young boy that had been called Tyler.

“What? He’s going to watch the house while I go out grocery shopping,” she then directly looked at me, “Just stay here and make sure they don’t play with the stove, or anything else dangerous!”

“All these are yours?” it made sense now why all these months My Mistress made me shut down for most the day. She had so many children to take care of. She couldn’t always have time for me.

“No no. God FORBID. I watch them for their parents. Now you make sure they don’t burn down the place. She lead me to a kitchen chair and made sure I sat down in it, “and make sure none of them go outside.”

“Ah,” I raised an arm to get her attention, “Aren’t children not supposed to be left alone?“

“I’m not leaving them alone! I’m leaving them with you silly,” My Mistress said as she then disappeared down to the entryway of the house. I stayed sitting where I was in the kitchen and shouted out to her.

“HOW MANY EXACTLY ARE THERE?!” I needed to at least know how many small humans I was keeping track of.

“Don’t worry, you’ll do fine!” she replied as I then heard the slamming of the front door. I sat there a while with a very confused look on my face. The boy that had followed us to the kitchen was still staring at me in awe.

“If you don’t cook, what do you do? Do you tell stories and race like Miss C’s friend’s bot does?” Tyler asked me curiously. I blinked and looked down at the redheaded child.

“Ah no. I just stay in,” I paused. Saying what my job was with my Mistress was not really something that should be told to children, “I clean Mist- Miss C’s room a lot.”

The human child gave me a weird look. There was a moments awkward silence again. All these months it had been only my Mistress I talked to. I didn’t know how to talk to other humans, especially small ones!

“Just her room? Why doesn’t she have you clean the whole house?” Tyler asked me. I looked around the kitchen I was in. There was an interesting shaped stain of macaroni and cheese on the nearby wall.

“Um... I don’t know?” was the only response I could think of, “Do you know what I should be doing, you know, to watch you guys?”

“Normally she has Andy watch us, but her mom hasn’t dropped her off yet today,” Tyler explained as the little girl known as Sissy walked up.

“Kevin isn’t allowed in the kitchen! He put fireworks in the stove once!” she informed me with her nose turned in the air.

“Tattletale!” Tyler replied as he then grabbed Sissy’s doll. The girl huffed and reached out for it.

“Give it back! Give it back!” the smaller human complained. I looked over at Tyler.

“Are you the oldest one here?” I asked him as I stood from where I was sitting.

“Me and Kevin, when Andy’s not here,” the boy replied. He still held Sissy’s doll while the little girl pouted.

“You can watch the kitchen while Sissy introduces me to everyone,” I said. I hadn’t even asked for him to return the doll to the girl but he grumbled and did so. The little girl suddenly had a wide smile on her face.

“Why should I take orders from you?” Tyler said as he glared up at me.

“Ah, Because Miss C left me in charge,” I replied to the human child. The boy crossed his arms and sat down in the chair I had been in.

“Well, Sissy... show me around!” I smiled at the little girl. She smiled and walked down the hall to where the living room was. The living room was a disaster. There was at least five kids not including Tyler and Sissy. There were little plastic blocks everywhere. The off white carpet looked like it was meant to have rainbow sprinkles on it. Two kids were busy playing some sort of video game. A third was watching them quietly.

“Um, so which one is Kevin?” I asked now curious which one would be most likely burn down the house. Sissy pointed to the bigger boy playing video games. He looked around Tyler’s age and size. What age was that anyhow? I gauged it as being around nine or ten, but I could have been completely wrong.

“And then there is Fletch,” Sissy pointed to the boy that was the most quiet out of all the children, “And Hailey,” she pointed to the boy playing video games with Kevin. She was having a fun time playing, but was not good at it at all. It was making Kevin frustrated I think.

The two other children that were playing with blocks noticed me and blinked.

“Wow! A robot! Is it Miss Carver’s?” one of the block playing children asked Sissy. She giggled at the girl who was a bit older than her.

“Why don’t you ask him?” Sissy replied. She sounded amused that the children were asking her about me. The two boys playing video games looked over a moment. They didn’t seem excited about me as the others were, and went back to playing their game.

“Yes, I’m Miss Carver’s robot,” I answered the block playing girl before she asked me. The boy that was playing blocks with here came over.

“I’m Becca and this is my brother Conner,” the block playing girl introduced herself. The brother looked really young. He had his thumb in his mouth, “whats your name?”

“Uh...,” my processors picked up that even after months time my Mistress hadn’t given me a name! She hadn’t done it on purpose. She was just always so busy and could never think of anything, “I don’t have one yet.”

“He’s watching us today. Andy isn’t here,” said Sissy. I raised an optic brow confused. Was it normal for my Mistress to leave the children alone like this?

“Oh, when are you going to make lunch?” Becca asked me.

“Huh? All she told me was to make sure no one burns down the house and not let anyone outside,” I told the children, “She didn’t say anything about lunch.”

The two girls looked up at me, confused like. What did my Mistress leave me with?! I guess I could figure out how to make lunch.

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It wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be. Well, each of them wanted me to make something different for them! I told them they all had to have peanut butter and jelly though. I really didn’t know how to make anything else.

I made sure all the younger kids had a nap. That seemed like the appropriate thing to do. Kevin and Tyler played their video games in the other room. I liked taking care of them. I was busy reading through a cookbook to get ideas of what to actually make next time. Then I was about to meet Andy for the first time.

I then heard the lobby door open. I left the kitchen and headed to greet my mistress. It wasn’t her though, but instead a girl in jeans and a red t-shirt. She shut the door behind her. She acted like she belonged there.

“Ah.... Hello!” I spoke out to her. I saw the boys didn’t react like she wasn’t supposed to be there, “Are you someone else I have to watch?”

She raised an eyebrow at me. I think she was surprised to see a robot but didn’t want to show it.

“Wow, I’m late one day and she replaces me with a bot,” she said as he brushed past me and went into the kitchen, “Did you make them lunch already?”

“Yes! Um, I’m not here to replace you! My Mistre- I mean Miss C had to go to the grocery sto-“ I tried to defend my owner.

“Oh no, she’s probably out with her boyfriend,” the girl replied, “My Mom PAYS her to watch me, and I always end up watching the rest of the kids for her.”

“Boyfriend? She has a boyfriend?” I asked, concerned with this new information. She looked at me like I was a few steps behind her thinking. Unlike the other children she knew what my primary function was.

“Don’t worry, I promise you won’t be out of a job with her soon,” the girl rolled her eyes. She seemed to know about my Mistress’ personal life, “So what’s your name? I’m Andy.”

“Oh! Tyler mentioned you,” I smiled, but then pouted, “I don’t have a name yet. My Mistress hasn’t gotten around to it.”

“Yeah, she’s a bit of a scatterbrain. Ugh, and don’t call her that,” Andy said as she went to the fridge. She poured herself, “It’s good she has you helping out with the kids. Believe you me.”

“Actually... this is my first time out of her room. I think she only got me to help today because you weren’t here,” I said as cheerful as I could. Though my slumped body language said I wasn’t happy. Andy noticed. She wasn’t acting tough anymore but seemed sympathetic.

“You liked helping with the kids huh? I could ask Miss Carver to let you help every day, even when I’m here,” Andy offered. I beamed a smile.

“That would be wonderful! Thank you so much!,” I replied. She smiled back. She had warm hazel eyes.

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Hailey came up to me upset. She wasn’t crying but she looked like she would soon. I looked to the boy’s playing video games. It was Tyler and Kevin playing the game at the moment. I was braiding Sissy’s hair for her.

“They won’t let me have my turn! I was supposed to play winner!” Hailey complained.

“Boys, let her play,” I said not wanting to get up from where I was to enforce anything.

“She sucks at it. What’s the point? She gets beat fast anyways,” muttered Kevin. Sissy wrinkled her nose at Kevin as Hailey looked at me to do something.

“If she gets beat fast anyways then it shouldn’t be a problem then, “ I replied, “Hey Sissy, would you like to play the game too? You’re really good a button smashing.”

“HEY. HEY. Thats not fair!” Kevin replied to my recruiting more of the younger children to play. Sissy and Hailey both giggled.

“I guess I could take over in the kitchen and Andy can join you guys too. Now I know she’s pretty good at it,” I added, “You’d be waiting a long time to play winner.”

“UGH FINE, Hailey can play next,” muttered Kevin as he took Tyler’s controller from him. Tyler gave Kevin a look but sat back to let Hailey play next. I noticed the boys seemed to obey Kevin’s commands if Andy was not around.

“Can you do my hair next?” asked Becca. I noticed the girls always seemed into doing ‘girly’ things with me. Andy was more into boys stuff so I was the only older girl figure they had. It was strange, but I guess I could be a girl too. In a way. But not really.

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One day Andy was making sandwiches and packing them up in a bag, “Its nice out today, so we’re going to the park with the kids.”

“Outside? I’ve never been outside,” I said trying to not have panic in my voice, “My- Miss C never said I could go outside.”

Andy glared at me. I know she wasn’t angry at me, but she would sometimes get upset at My Mistress, “She never said you couldn’t either. “

“But... what if I get dirty? What if that makes My Mistress upset?!” I complained.

“I can clean you up afterwards if you’re so worried!” Andy replied as she gave me a pat on the shoulder. She always thought of everything!, “I’ll ask her later if you can come with us when I take the kids out. If its not okay with her, we’ll just do it anyways and not tell her.”

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Baseball is so much fun! Especially since I can run bases really fast! I would go slower when playing with the kids in the park though. Ever since Andy talked to My Mistress I was allowed to help watch the kids. I got to go out a lot too, like today at the park. As long as Andy was with me. There were some days Andy was late or didn’t come at all, then I had to stay inside with the other children.

But anyways, this wasn’t one of these days! Not only my children but other kids at the park were playing a big game of baseball. I wasn’t the only bot here either. Our opposing team had TWO bots on it, but we were still winning!

At one point I was sitting on the bench waiting for my turn to bat. Andy was sitting beside me chewing gum. Two of our boys were trying to chew as much as they could fit in their mouth and having a contest about it. I was bored waiting for my turn. I was about to ask Andy to try some gum before one of the bot’s on the other team came up to me. He smiled so warmly at me. He was blue. For a moment my memory echos seemed to show the bot I was cloned from knew the bot he was cloned from.

“Hey, good game so far. I’ve seen you out here before. My name is Kerouac,” he offered his hand for me to shake it like human’s greet each other, “What’s yours?”

“Uh, Hi, Um, I’m..,” I took his hand to shake it. Though my body was standing still I felt my processors twitch all crazy like. All these months and I still didn’t have a name yet. When I mentioned it My Mistress would say she was always bad at naming things, and to give her a few days. It had been months since then. I got all nervous. It was quite embarrassing to not have a name!

“His name is Sunny!” Andy spoke for me. She must have noticed how I locked up at the question, “The kids and I call him Sunny, because of his sunny personality, right Sunny?”

I smiled and nodded vigorously while releasing the blue clone’s hand. Andy was so smart! The children had gotten sick of calling me ‘robot’ so they had names for me, Sunny being one of them.

“Sunny eh?” Kerouac smiled at me. I noticed his horn was painted white instead of the usual black, “That name suits you well. I thought I’d say hi. You seem to be the only bot other than me that’s here without their owner, of sorts.”

“Uh! No I’m not! Ah- She’s uh.. HERE. Nearby!” I lied. I knew the children weren’t supposed to be left alone with me. Andy started to say something to but Kerouac interrupted her.

“Hey now, don’t worry,” Kerouac smiled, “I would be in trouble too you know. Well not with my lady, but some humans are trying to pass laws against leaving bots unattended. Do you keep up on the news at all? Sorry if that came out sarcastic, I really am curious if you keep up on anything or not.”

“Uh... aheh,” I wondered why this Blurr clone took such an interest in me. I didn’t know what to make of it, “I sometimes watch TV.”

“You should watch the news sometime then. I guess I won’t suggest what channel is the best. That is a WHOLE other discussion and you don’t want me to get on a tangent,” the blue clone warned me. I just nodded, still confused by his attention to me. I think Andy chuckled at my awkwardness in the situation, “Holdonasecond.”

Suddenly Kerouac went so fast he was a blur of blue light. He quickly caught a ball that my team had hit into the outfield. He could of used his super speed to tag Tyler out when he still tried to go from second to third base but he didn’t. Instead he tossed the ball to the kid at third base before coming back up to me again.

“So,whatwasIsaying?,” Kerouac paused as he seemed to take a moment to slow down. The Blurr clone smiled at me. My jaw must of been to the ground when I saw his speed, “ Oh, watch the news.... Have you tried using your powers? Some of us have the powers of who we’re cloned from.”

“Wait, you guys have powers?” Andy asked curiously as she looked at Kerouac and then back to me.

“Yeah, I’m still learning how to go that fast in my vehicle mode,” Kerouac grinned at me.

“Vehicle mode?” I questioned again, “Oh you mean when the flying Decepticons turn into planes. I’ve seen that!”

“You can turn into something too?” Andy asked me and then looked back to the Blurr clone, “I just kinda assumed he didn’t because he never did.”

“We can all do that! Well, not planes for us. We’re both really fast cars. I think you should ask your owner to go through your manual, or maybe you should do it yourself,” suggested Kerouac.

“I can do it when we get back to the house,” offered Andy. She stood as she was called to be up to bat next. The Blurr clone waited till she was gone.

“Hey, there is this thing you should come to,” Kerouac smiled and handed a small rectangular piece of paper to me. It was like he pulled it out of thin air. I looked at it and saw it listed a location, but was more of a riddle. “We meet, some of us with our humans, but if you don’t tell your owner and you come alone, its not questioned. Its just a club meeting of sorts. We talk about our different models, different mods, the bots we were cloned from, sometimes there is, well I wouldn’t call them contests... more like showing off abilities.”

“Oh... alright...,” I had no place to put the card so I put it in Andy’s backpack that was under the bench. Kerouac smiled and then zoomed off to the outfield position. What an odd bot.

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“Lets see here.....,” Andy started to look over the manual. All the younger kids were napping. The older boys were playing video games. I was in the kitchen with her. We spent a lot of time in the kitchen. She started ready off some things while I was putting clean dishes away. She had started reading out loud and then suddenly got quiet, “Do you like Miss C?”

“Yes! Of course!” I smiled wide, “She’s really nice to me. I love making her happy.”

“Are you happy though?” she asked me concernedly. I wondered why she was asking these things. What had she read in my manual?

“Of course!” I said again, “I’m happy taking care of the kids when she’s gone with her boyfriend. I’m happy hanging out with you.”

“But.. thats not the point... ugh,” Andy got frustrated and closed the book, “Forget doing the work she’s supposed to do. Lets go to the garage and see what your car mode can do.”

When we got to the garage I changed into car mode. It was really easy to do. I thought for sure it was going to be hard, but it happened so naturally. Andy smiled and then opened the garage door. I quickly changed to bot mode. I felt weird being seen in car mode outside!

“Why don’t you go for a drive down the block?” asked Andy, “I’m sure its good for you.”

“No, no, I might get messed up for Miss C,” I could imagine how the roads would affect my shoulder tires.

“You’re more than just a plaything for her. You’re based on a robot that has a car mode. You’ll probably like it I bet. Go on! Just to the end of the block,” commanded Andy. I hesitantly went back into car mode and did as she told me.

It did feel great! I knew I couldn’t speed though. With all the neighborhood kids playing I didn’t want to hit one accidentally. I did speed up to u-turn though, and the feeling on my tires was exhilarating. I went back to Andy who was waiting in the driveway for me.

“See, was that so bad?” she asked me. I chuckled lightly as I turned to bot mode.

“Wanted to go faster. We need to go some place where I have the room to do it,” I informed her. She smiled. I think she was glad that I did enjoy it.

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I was playing video games with Kevin and Tyler. Fletch was there too. Fletch was always excited to watch us play our video games but rarely showed interest in playing. It was really weird. Sometimes he would read his school books on the couch and just glance up from time to time.

Fletch’s last name was Fletcher. But no one called him by his first name, they just called him Fletch instead. He seemed to enjoy being called a different name. half a year had gone by and I still didn’t have one officially from My Mistress.

“Andy hasn’t been here in a week,” I pouted, thoughts of names made me think of her. Sissy looked up at me.

“I think I heard Miss C say she’s only here in the summer. School started for her,” Sissy told me.

“But Miss C only lets me take you kids out if Andy is with me,” I replied, “Why didn’t she tell me this?”

Sissy shrugged and sat down with Conner, Becca and I. We had been playing house. I sat on the floor while they sat in chairs at their small plastic table. Conner always got to play the baby. I would normally play the father with them, but Andy was not here to be the wife.

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“Its just a minor upgrade! Don’t be such a baby! Its childcare programming you’ll be getting. Don’t you want it for the children?” My Mistress said as she held one of my arms with both hands. I felt like a small dog being lead to the vet.

“I don’t need it though! I do just fine!” I whined, er but not childishly! The tech lady at the office seemed amused by the banter My Mistress and I had for the last twenty minutes.

“Now you do know, this program is no substitute for still having a human caretaker there was well. This by no means lets you leave him unattended with children,” the tech explained to my owner. My Mistress nodded.

“Of course, of course! I wouldn’t do such a thing,” My Mistress replied. I rolled my optics. I guess it wasn’t noticeable.

“Now calm down and sit still. It doesn’t hurt at all to download a program. It isn’t even like a human shot,” said the medbot clone on duty with the human tech. I whined some more. I saw my options for exits and darted out a door. I could here My Mistress calling behind me. Luckily I was fast! Maybe that Blurr bot has been right about powers.

I then crashed into another bot. It was a really hard crash. I fell back on my rear and rubbed my head. I looked up and saw the Bulkhead clone I had ran into. He was the same size of me, sorta, but my memory echos made the impact into him feel much bigger. Since I guess, Bumblebee was much smaller than Bulkhead in reality.

“Sorry there Buddy!” the Bulkhead clone said to me as he offered a hand to help me up. I took it and stood.

“No need to apologize! I’m the one that ran into you!” I chuckled. He chuckled as well.

“I guess your right,” the Bulkhead clone said as he released his hand from mine. It gave off a green spark that tingled a little, “Oops, well that was my fault that time. Thats why I’m here to get repaired. I’ve been sparking all the time.”

“Oh, I guess that would be annoying,” I replied. The Bulkhead clone nodded and then pointed behind me.

“Are those friends of yours?” the Bulkhead clone said as he pointed to the tech and my Mistress behind me.

“Oh uh! ...... darn,” I realized there was no point in running.

“Comon, I promise it won’t hurt,” My Mistress said as she took my arm. A bot nurse came out to lead the Bulkhead clone to his room.

“Uh! Hope you get fixed right!” I called to the Bulkhead clone. That sucked to be malfunctioning. At least all I was getting was an upgrade.

“Er, you too? Oops! Sorry!” the green bot replied to me and then apologized to the nurse bot when he accidentally stung her with a green spark too.

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When the older kids started school they wouldn’t be around all day. Some of them though had to be watched a few hours before their parents got home. I would wait at the bus stop for them. They were old enough to walk home alone sometimes. If I was busy cooking and wasn’t there, they knew to walk home. One day I was making stuffed green peppers. I know one or two kids would complain about the green peppers, but I’d still try to get them to try it. I did have baked potatoes as back up just in case.

Tyler came running into the house, dumping his backpack at the door, “HEY! KEVIN IS IN A FIGHT!” the boy said as he ran into the kitchen.

“What?” I said as I turned off the stove, “Where? At the bus stop?”

“No, they waited till the bus left. But yeah. The other kid has a clone waiting for him too. He wasn’t helping in the fight but he might! Fletch told me to come get you. Comon!” Tyler urged me back out the door. I didn’t think I could even find another clone if I had to.

“Wait, I.. I.. I can’t fight! I don’t think I can!” I complained as Tyler grabbed my arm. We ran out to the corner, nearby the park. There was a bigger kid with a bloody nose. Kevin was on the ground and the bigger boy was holding his shirt while he was punching Kevin in the face. A green bot kinda the same build as me was making sure no other kids were joining in on the fight. It seemed like he was standing guard. Fletch looked bruised up too, like he had tried to stop it while Tyler was going to get me. His glasses looked a bit bent too.

I couldn’t imagine Fletch hitting anyone. I’m sure all he did was try to pull back the bully’s arm. I knew Kevin could hold himself in a fight, and probably started this fight. Fletch though, he just wouldn’t hit anyone. I gave a glare to the green bot, that I saw was a Wasp clone. If that clone had helped hurt any of my children I would be sure to dent him up!

“HEY! Stop that!” I yelled at the big bully. My programming wouldn’t let me touch him. I knew I wasn’t going to beat him up, but for some reason I seemed locked from pulling him off of Kevin. He stopped punching Kevin and looked up at me. He laughed.

“Oh, you think you can get your little bot to beat me up?” the bully said as he let go of Kevin. The boy groggily sat up at the bully came towards me. The Wasp clone uncrossed his arms, like he was waiting for some action, “You can’t do anything. If I could get this bot here to beat up little brats I would have it done ages ago.”

Fletch got up and helped Kevin get up too. Tyler stayed by me like he was thinking what to do next. The bully shoved me, but my legs kept me standing. I could be shoved but I wasn’t going to fall easily.

“Just go home!” I yelled at the boy. He just laughed and grabbed Fletch as he was walking with Kevin towards me. I saw one of the neighborhood kids at the bus stop run off. He was probably going to tell an adult.

“Make me. Tha’ts right, you CAN’T,” the bully replied at me as he held Fletch in a headlock. I doubt Kevin was able to see straight, but he was about to try starting to fight the bully again. Tyler held him back though.

“Let him go!” I growled as I then shoved the bully back. Fletch squirmed away but his glasses fell off. The bully looked surprised at me. The Wasp clone’s optics were wide in shock. He came closer to help his human, but then stopped. He looked kinda afraid of me. He knew there was something wrong with me and he didn’t want any part of it.

“Sweetums! Get over here,” the bully called to his bot. Tyler held back a laugh. With a name like that, it was obviously the bully’s mother’s clone.

“Sweetums?” I raised an optic brow at that. Maybe its a good thing I didn’t have an official name yet. The bully then tried to urge on his bot to attack me. ‘Sweetums’ was having none of that though. He seemed rather annoyed.

“I need to take you home,” was all the Wasp clone replied, “Your uncle sends me to keep you out of trouble, not get you into more.”

“Yeah Sweetums Junior, you should go home before you get in more trouble,” snickered Tyler. The bully glared at my kids but did not say anything else. He turned and left with Sweetums. I had a feeling that bot would of fought me, that he could if he wanted. But he was avoiding me, for some reason. I saw a few green sparks trickle down my hand.

“Tyler, help get Kevin to the house. Fletch, how did this start?” I asked the boy I knew would tell me the truth. Tyler started speaking though as he held Kevin back. Kev was cursing at the bully as he left.

“Jacob hit first!” Tyler spoke way too quickly, giving me the bully’s name, “Right when we got off the bus he did!”

“Really, for no reason at all?” I turned back to Fletch, I knew he would be honest. Fletch was busy fixing the bend in his glasses as he spoke.

“Kevin was talking about his Alamo project and Jacob called him a spic. Tyler called Jacob a dumbass because Jacob is part spanish too. Then Jacob said they two must feel so smart since they hang out with a chink all the time. I then told Jacob I was Korean not Chinese. Jacob got all quiet and when we got off the bus Kevin hit him first.”

I looked over at Kevin who would definitely have a black eye, probably a few other bruises. I sighed and wondered what Andy would say to them. She would have better disciplining words for them, but she would have also put a few punches on that bully too.

“Alright, never repeat those bad words again, and never hit first,” I said to the boys. They all nodded Kevin checked to see if any of his teeth were loose as we walked back to the house.

“If you cooked anything gross we’re ordering pizza,” Kevin stated.

“Ha. Fat chance of that,” I replied with a chuckle.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

It was late at night. I came online for no good reason. My Mistress as on the other side of the bed. I always thought that when I offlined she would have her arms around me. I ran some fingers through her hair lightly. I didn’t want to wake her.

I went downstairs. It was three am. I don’t think I was ever online at such an hour. I went outside out to the deck. I looked up at the stars. I wondered if Andy was awake at this time. I went out in the backyard to my box of things in the shed. My Mistress never told me I could never had my own things, but I liked keeping them secret.

I opened it and pulled out Andy’s cell phone number. I noticed the blue business card still in there. I grabbed that too.

I went back in the house and grabbed the phone. I dialed for Andy. It rang forever. I thought she was going to be asleep. I heard the ringing stop and some scuffling as she answered it. I could picture her half awake in bed answering it.

“Wha.....?” she muttered, “Hello?”

“Hey,” I said quietly, “This is Sunny. Um, hi.”

I heard more shifting, she must of been sitting up.

“Is something wrong?!” she replied. The number was for emergencies. More for when she wasn’t here and I was watching the kids. I wanted to tell her no but my faceplate suddenly felt warm. Some memory echos...

“Yeah, um, you’re not here,” I chuckled nervously.

“Oh God Sunny, “ the laughed lightly, “Didn’t Miss C tell you I’m only ‘watched’ in the summer? Is she leaving you alone with the kids now? I just guessed that when I wasn’t there she actually did her job. I’ll be there around the holidays.”

“Yeah... but.. want to go to that thing, that Blurr clone invited me to, tomorrow night? I think I figured out where it is,” I replied. I didn’t want to go alone without a human! And I didn’t want to tell my Mistress.

~~~~~~~~~~~~

“What are you so happy about?” My Mistress asked me the next morning. I must have been smiling wide.

“Nothing, nothing,” I replied, “Just waiting for the kids to get here.”

“Its 5 am! It won’t be for another hour or so,” she replied. She looked happy I was so eager to help her watch the kids though.

She gave me a kiss and I kissed back. Something was different though. My pleasure circuits didn’t ask for more. I normally was willing and ready! What was wrong? Making My Mistress happy was starting to become a begrudging task.

~~~~~~~~~~~

“How can you be here if your parents don’t know? You should of asked themmmmm!” I panicked. I didn’t know asking Andy to come with me would mean she had to disobey her parents.

“Well, aren’t you here and your owner doesn’t know,” Andy replied. I chuckled nervously. This was true. I guess she thought to do the same because I was doing it, “My parents won’t notice me gone. My mom is out of town on business, and my step Dad doesn’t give a fuck.”

I never heard her swear before. I guess she didn’t because we had the kids always around us. I chuckled lightly for a lack of what else to do.

We were at the place now. Andy had met me at a public bus stop and we took the bus near it. I now wondered if I put Andy in danger. It looked like a nice office building. There were two humans and a bot at the doors. I didn’t see anyone else around, and they seemed to be guarding the doors.

“You know, maybe this isn’t such a-“ I started but Andy already came up to the doors excitedly.

“We hear there was a bot convention here, right?” she spoke to the people at the door. I rushed up to her and chuckled nervously at the three door guards. Their expressions were a bit confused.

“Ah, I got this,” I said as I showed them the blue card I had been given.

“Go right ahead in then,” one of the human door people smiled. He held the door open for me and Andy.

“I hope this isn’t something I should of dressed up for,” Andy said as we walked into the lobby. There was an auditorium. I guess the place was more of a hotel with places to host parties. We went in. Some people were dressed casual and some were fancier. There was a lot of clone bots there too. It was kind of odd to see other Bees like me. While I was figuring out what to do next Andy grabbed my arm and headed over to the free food.

I saw that we may have accidentally cut a few people in line and waved an apology. Andy loaded up a plate with a piece of cake and several other sweets. I raised an eyebrow at her.

“What?” Andy said, “My Mom has me on this stupid diet. Since I’m with you here, I’m making the most of it.”

Its hard to explain what it was like. There were other rooms too, with speakers talking. There were tables selling modifications too. Apparently some humans wanted more customized bots. Not ones that just looked like we were cloned from. Andy was busy listening into one of the speakers’ rooms from the doorway while she stuffed her face with cookies. I started to wander off to look at some of these strange mods.

~~~~~~~~~~~~

“Sunny!” I heard a familiar voice call out. turned and saw the Blurr bot from the park. “You finally came! I haven’t seen you at the park anymore. Why’s that? You just had to come here on the one day my lady isn’t with me. Oh well. Maybe you’ll meet her next time.”

“Oh, the park....,” I suddenly felt like it was a bad thing to tell him this, “Well, if Andy isn’t with me I’m not allowed to go out with the kids. We stay at home and play in the backyard or play video games.”

“Ah I see. So, do you like my new mod?” Kerouac grinned as he turned around. I wonder what he meant. I then saw he had something to his design that Blurr clones didn’t have. Down the bottom of his back he had what looked like metal coat tails over his aft. My memory echos showed a bot that had such a design, but it wasn’t a Blurr bot at all, “Right now they’re soild blue to match me. I was thinking about having the edges painted white another day.”

“Its nice...,” I didn’t know what else to say. It looked so odd on him.

“They look nice and they’re functional!” the Blurr clone turned around to face me again, “They’re sensors in a way. They let me know if someone is coming up behind me. Its really hard to explain in detail, long story short, they’re sensors.”

“Oh,” I replied. I didn’t really know what to make of this. At all.

“Want to see what they have? Comon, comon!” He put both his arms around one of mine. I went with him willingly but it all seemed too weird, “Haven’t you ever thought about making yourself look a little different from the bot your cloned from?”

“Er... not really,” I replied as Kerouac lead me to a booth. I looked up at his white painted horn that I had noticed last time, “Is that why you painted your horn white?”

“Yes. In a way,” he started to reply, “My lady wanted a way to tell me apart from other Blurr bots, so I did it. She’s also a sci fi and fantasy writer, and has this whole things about unicorns. She’s my fair maiden and I’m the unicorn you see. It’s a pet name thing.”

“Oh... kay...,” I replied. My Mistress still hadn’t even named me yet, and that just reminded me of that fact.

“Are you here, with your... owner?” the Blurr clone seemed to take a moment to chose his words, “I should of told you there was merchants here if you wanted to buy something.”

“I’m here with Andy. She’s over listening to one of the speakers,” I answered.

“Oh, hm. Would you like to meet my children?” Kerouac asked me. I think he was noticing I was uncomfortable. He released my arm, “You can go back to Andy.”

“I can meet your children,” I smiled. It was nice to hear that Kerouac had kids he considered his own too. Maybe there was nothing wrong with me. Why did I just think there was something wrong with me? There had to be, I was here without My Mistress knowing. The Blurr clone smiled at my response. He looked liked he wanted to hold my arm or hand again but didn’t do it.

“Comon, follow me,” he said as we moved around some booths, “They should still be at the Sumac Systems display. They have some really interesting mods and upgrades.”

As we got closer to the large booth the Kerouac was talking about he waved to two bots. One was a Prowl clone, and the other was a Bee clone, just like me. Why was Kerouac so insistent in talking to me if he already had a Bee clone to talk to? The Prowl clone held a young girl. Toddler age I would guess. She looked half asleep with her head rested on the Prowl clone’s chest.

“This is Gabriel,” the Blurr clone pointed to the Bee clone, “And London,” he then pointed to the Prowl. Kerouac then smiled at the sleepy child, “And this is Mika. I have another son too, nut he’s with his mother right now.”

I was kinda confused that he considered the two clones to be his children. We were just clones, we weren’t special enough to be children, I don’t think.

“Hi!” Gabriel smiled and offered his hand to shake. He was the same model as me but seemed to smile differently than I did, “I heard so much about you.”

I shook his hand. I don’t know what Kerouac could have told. There wasn’t much. The Prowl clone was quiet but smiled. He then looked to Kerouac, “We were gong to go back to the hotel for a bit. Can we have your key? Gabe already lost ours.”

Kerouac chuckled as Gabriel started to protest ti was not his fault that he lost it. He then pulled a key ring out from a hip pouch this he was wearing, “There. And don’t lose this one.”

“Hey what happened with that Seeker earlier?” asked Gabriel. It must have been something that happened earlier before I met up with Kerouac.

“It was an accident, there isn’t much else to say,” the blurr clone replied. Kerouac had a whole ring of keys he took the hotel key off of. I noticed he had several different car keys.

“You have your own car?” I asked curiously.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

“And this is my car. Isn’t it beautiful? It’s a SSC Ultimate Aero EV. My wife gave it to me. It was a present after I almost died, “ Kerouac said with a soft chuckle. He used his little key chain controller to open it. The car was dark blue, it matched the darker blue areas on his own body. It made a simple beep noise when it opened, “I hope you don’t mind if I call my “owner” of sorts my wife. She is my wife, not my owner. Just in public I have to be careful what I say. Have you ever driven before?”

“N-no thats fine. I don’t think we’re allowed to?” I replied t. I suddenly felt warm. Like blushing, but not. This whole night had been awkward, and now I was completely alone with him, “Drive that is. Driving.”

“There are two states that allow us to have a license, kinda. Luckily, I live in one of them,” the Blurr clone grinned, “So, you’ve never been behind a wheel of a car before?”

“No...ah...,” I wanted to say more, but I didn’t know what. I should really get back to Andy. Yet, I was still standing here! He opened the driver’s side door for me. It slid upwards like a futuristic car in movies.

“Get in,” he said to me softly. His face was close up to mine. Kinda invading personal space for a moment. My faceplate heated up, something I never had happen before. I felt like I was shaking. Kerouac chuckled lightly.

“I’m not expecting you to drive now. Aren’t you curious what it feels like though? I’ll just turn it on for you. We’ll stay parked,” the Blurr clone smiled and put the keys in the ignition. He then stepped aside to let me enter. I sat down in the car seat. He then closed the door for me as I reluctantly put a hand on the steering wheel. In a moment he was getting in on the passenger side, “Go ahead and turn it on.”

I was hesitant, even though he said we’d stay parked! I turned the key and felt the hum of the car turn on. Kerouac grinned wide. He put his hand on my upper leg, “Hit the gas.”

I did so and heard the engine rev. I couldn’t help but smile at the feeling. I hit it again, harder, to hear it roar more. I never had an interest in driving before, and now suddenly I did. I had echos of speeding so fast. Not in bot mode, but as a car. A full sized car. The curves of the road! I bit my lower lip and revved the engine one more time. I then felt Kerouac lean over and touch my horn closest to him. I took my hand off the gas petal. My systems felt shocked by the intimate touch from a fellow bot.

“Ehah. Sorry, couldn’t help myself. You looked so happy in thought, and I...er. Are they sensitive? My one horn is. They’re sensors. When speed bots go at such blinding speeds, literally, its hard for them to see. These help us ‘see’ when we are going fast,” Kerouac tried to give an excuse for the violation of space. For some reason I knew that there was more to his touch than that. My systems seemed to be upset, that bots shouldn’t be with bots! Not like this.

I looked out the front window of the car. We were pretty far back in the parking lot there seemed to not be anyone here. It was dark anyways. I turned a bit in my seat to face Kerouac. I looked up at the white horn on his head.

“Can... I touch yours?” I asked him. His optics dimmed slightly when he smiled again.

“Sure,” Kerouac replied. He tipped his head down so I could reach it better. I stroked lightly at the base of the horn. I could hear his engine revv very softly, like how a cat purrs. His optics were off as I stroked at the top corner where the horn turned and headed back upwards on his head. Kerouac has seemed kinda pushy and to know exactly what he was doing all day, and no all of the sudden he seemed so weak.

With the car still running I leaned forward and kissed the base of the horn lightly. His optics shot open and he actually pulled away from me! He looked surprised but then smiled again, “Sorry, I didn’t expect that.”

There was only a second of awkward silence before he leaned back in and kissed me! My faceplates heated up, and my pleasure nets starting to react for a fellow bot! This was so wrong! Yet I put an arm around him and pulled him closer. I didn’t even know him, this was my second time meeting him!

But I was going along with this. I started to kiss him back! He grabbed one of my upper legs and turned my body. I was still in the drivers seat but turned facing him. He had one of my legs at his side. I moved the other away from the pedals and to the other side of him. I was under him with my legs straddled at each side of Kerouac. He was leaned over me, the cup holder center of the car seemed to be in his way but he didn’t care. He broke from the kiss and nuzzled my neck. The car steering wheel was cramping my arm closest to it, but it didn’t matter.

“What do you want?” He whispered near my audios. I was confused by this question. What was he really asking? He wanted to know what I wanted to do next?! I didn’t know what there was to do next! My pleasure nets were on, but my processors didn’t have an files for pleasing another clone. If anything it felt like it all wanted to shut down on itself, but wonderful at the same time.

“W-w-what do you want?” I asked the question back to the Blurr clone. He chuckled lightly. I think he muttered something about the ‘blind leading the blind.’ He then gave me a short light kiss.

“Well... is your owner female?” he guessed correctly. I nodded with my face less than an inch from his, “Has she ever touched your front port?”

I shook my head. I was always ‘male’ with My Mistress, and usually on top. This situation in the car made me feel completely the opposite, but it felt more right! Or didn’t it? I didn’t know.

“Then... open your front port, please,” Kerouac asked of me. My processors lagged and were hesitant, but my body didn’t pause a second to open for him. He kissed me lightly again as he pressed a finger lightly into my port. I let out a sound that was a combination of a squeal and a gasp. Just the tip of his finger was in and my whole port was on fire. I didn’t push him away though. My hands rested high on his waist and pulled him closer.

He ran his finger lightly in and out, just slightly. I moaned. He tried to pull back to sit up a bit. His tall shoulder armor hit the roof of the car with the sudden movement. He chuckled something about the sports car not really being built for two clones to make out in. My hands on his waist tried to pull him back down close again. My body bucked up against his fingers, wanting them deeper! He resisted my pulls back down.

“Hey... I just want to see the work I’m doing, alright?” he said heavily with a smirk. His optics focused at watching his own pointer finger go into my port, a bit deeper this time, and then pulling back out slightly, “You like that?”

“Y-y-yes... more!” I whined. One of my legs wrapped around his back and I could hear our metal scraping together here. He pulled out his finger slightly.

“Sit up more... if you want to see too....,” the Blurr clone faded as he asked me. I could tell his faceplates were as heated up as mine. His white face seemed to be blushed like a human’s would be. I sat up again the driver’s car door and my head almost banged against the glass window behind it. I had one hand gripped on the steering wheel to the left of me. I looked up at Kerouac expectantly. He pushed his finger back in, and I saw it disappear all the way past the knuckle. I squirmed slightly as he pulled it out lightly. Some sort of liquid was on his fingers from my port. Of course Andy and I had skipped over that part of my manual.

“B-bl-,” I almost said the name of the bot Ker was cloned from. Instead I bit my lip hard as he thrusted his finger in again, deeper this time. I bucked up against it hard again, “more!”

“More.... as in faster? Or maybe...?” instead of finishing his question he pulled his pointer finger out again. When he pushed back it it was joined with his center one as well. He then picked up a pace with both fingers going in and out of me. I couldn’t watch anymore My optics offlined as I felt pleasure rush up my spine circuits. He leaned back over me as he pumped his white fingers in deeper, in and out. He kissed up my cheek. I could feel the warmth between us. It was so amazing.

And then I heard a loud boom. At first I thought it was from us. Kerouac’s touching me had stopped though. I onlined one optic to peek. It was now clearer that the boom was more like fireworks. And then a few alarms of cars near us went off. We would soon has some attention drawn to us, and Ker wouldn’t have a chance to .... finish what we were doing! He pulled his fingers out of me. From the angle he was at he looked like he had seen someone from the rear window of the car. He muttered something about someone being jerks. In a blur of blue he was out the passenger side door and I think going after whoever set off the fireworks.

I blinked, still in a daze. I was there, still laid back, my open port dripping, and an wide open passenger door. Had had he really just went to chase down some people and left me here?!? My heated systems were still trying to come down from this sorta, strange bot on bot experience. I sat up more, using the steering wheel and head of the seat as leverage. I felt like one of those horror movies, where they guy goes to check out a noise and unintentionally leaves the girlfriend to get eaten by the monster. I need to stop watching those movies with my boys.

As my imagination wandered to those horror movies as I went to take the keys out of the ignition. I was sure it was not good to leave the car on. Before I could grasp my hand on it a voice startled me from the open passenger door.

“Boo!” said a voice. It sounded like a Decepticon! Even though my processors didn’t care about those factions I let out a lame scream that could be mistaken for a femme’s I’m sure. I opened the driver’s side door and raced in the direction I thought I saw Kerouac go in.

“KEEER! Wait for meeeee! THE MONSTER, IT’LL EAT ME!” I never went so fast in my bot mode before. I realized I had wheels at the sides of my feet. How could I never known this before? I thought I saw him go into the convention building. It was so far away though. We had been so far out in the parking lot. By the time I got to the buildings doors Kerouac was being escorted out.

“ButI’mnotjustherefortheconvention! I’m a guest here! I have to speak in two hours!” I heard Kerouac fuss with the humans.

“I’m sorry sir, but we can not have someone speeding around like you were. You could have ran into someone and seriously injured them,” one of the humans that was showing Ker out said.

“But, there were these bots! They, we.... And they inter- I was just going after them,” I thought he was going to say what the two of us had been doing. It made me realize my port was still open and I closed it before anyone noticed. Kerouac stopped talking and looked defeated and grumbled. He saw that I was there and half smiled but still looked upset, “Fine...hey Sunny... lets go back to the car for now. I just have to make a few calls so I can be let back in for my panel.”

I nodded and followed Kerouac as he walked back out to the parking lot. He was unusually quiet. He then looked up at me, “Do you have the keys?”

My optics must of gone wide like saucers. Without saying anything he knew I didn’t have them. He rushed out in another blue blur of light to his car. I did my best to follow. I knew now I could go fast, but I didn’t have the ‘powers’ he did. But I knew I was faster than average. When I got to the car Kerouac was there. The front of his body was leaned against the driver’s side door. His arms were sprawled out on the car’s ceiling and he had a disappointed pout on his face.

“Those....CRETINS,” he came to life to rant to me, “My keys, and my cell phone, are LOCKED in the car. I need to find a pay phone... call On Star to open it or something.”

“I’m sorry!” I pouted. This was partly my fault. I tried to focus on the situation to help him, but I couldn’t help but feel the ache in my port from being unfinished. He looked at me and sighed.

“Its not your fault at all. Lets see if they’ll let us back inside to use the phone at least,” he muttered. He put an arm around me for a minute and nuzzled against my neck, “And I promise we’ll finish /that/ before the end of the night.”

~~~~~~~~~~~~~

“I can’t believe they wouldn’t let us in to just use the phone!” Kerouac said as he picked the lock to the backdoor. I just stood nearby to be lookout like he had told me to do, “And how come you couldn’t still go in?! It was just me running around in the con, not you! You shouldn’t be banned for knowing me!”

“Andy must be worried,” I pouted. Kerouac tried to not have me worry by saying something speedily like, ‘I’m sure she’s fine and doesn’t even realize you’ve been gone long.’ After his comforting words he got the door open.

“We just need to get up to the 8th floor. We’ll just hide out in the room my panel is supposed to be in till my time to speak. Hopefully none of the rent a cops will find us,” he explained the plan to me. We were in a fire escape stairwell. I always thought alarms would go off if someone entered one. It seemed pretty silent though. Kerouac went to hold my hand before we went up the stairs. Despite everything we’d just been through I pulled back again, like I had when we first ran into each other at this place.

“Ehah, sorry,” Kerouac apologized as he then headed up the stairs. I didn’t follow him but let out a whimper. He turned and looked down at me from the few steps he had gone up, “Hey, its alright.”

“.... I... I don’t know what I want anymore!” I cried suddenly. What was I complaining about? Why did my processors suddenly break down about it now? I suddenly felt like I shouldn’t be happy with turning off for My Mistress whenever she told me to. On the weekends when the kids weren’t there. I didn’t want to be off anymore just to be turned on monday morning. Kerouac didn’t know this though. He was confused by my sudden response. I heard the metal of his feet on the stairs as he came back down.

“I’m sorry about this. I didn’t mean to drag you... alright, I did mean it. I’m sorry if I confused you by what happened in the car. Is that the problem?” Kerouac asked me. I wanted him to hug me close but he didn’t, because I knew he thought that the closeness was what was upsetting me. That wasn’t though! I don’t think it was. I was upset at myself. I was betraying My Mistress by even sneaking off to this.. meeting thing. She was probably at her boyfriend’s still. I was supposed to be shut off in her room. I was supposed to be in my pit of nothingness sleep. I was being so bad! I was going against my commands and programs.

“I... i... don’t know!” I whimpered some more. I’m sure if I could cry like a human I would have tears in my optics right now.

“Look.... you don’t have to come with me... I just,” Kerouac sat at the bottom of the stairs and looked up at me, “I don’t know what I’m doing either.”

He sat there and rested an elbow on his leg, then resting that hand on his face, “I had a really bad accident half a year ago. Really bad. My wife probably paid more to fix me than she did for that car she gave me. Before that accident, I had this... energy in my chest. It was an anomaly but it felt so important. After the accident, when I was rebuilt, all my memory was restored... but that was missing. And I’ve been off ever since. Its such an... empty feeling. Have you heard when humans have near death experiences? Its like that, but not just one event. It still feels like its happening every day.”

“Like the movie Final Destination?” I stared at him bewildered. What was he even talking about? He still looked at me and sighed, “... Well, it was a good movie.”

“I bet you’re wondering what that has to do with you. I’m sorry I dragged you into this. Just, ever since then, I still love my wife with all my heart, but I’ve also felt..... interest in other bots. Our programs are made against it, yet, I assume the bots we’re cloned from must couple up within their own kind. Right? It was cruel on their part to not allow us to do something they do. When I saw you in the park.. I just thought, “ Kerouac then stood up, “Sorry, sorry. I shouldn’t of dumped on you. You should go see if they’ll let you in without me there. Go find your human friend. I’ll b-“

I rushed up and hugged him tight. He seemed surprised by my reaction. He chuckled lightly and wrapped his arms back around me. It felt like we were there forever. He released the hug a bit to have enough space to lean down and kiss me lightly. I kept kissing back. He stopped kissing and pulled back a little, but he still had his hands on my waist.

“I must sound crazy huh? A lot of bots and people think I’m smart and come to me with questions, and I hardly know what’s going on myself, “ Kerouac confessed. I smiled lightly.

“Y- you don’t sound crazy,” I said. Truth was, I felt he did sound way to... into things. But thats what made him smart it seemed. He thought about a lot of complicated things, like humans do. What he mentioned didn’t seem too far off. I remembered that strange green energy coming off the Bulkhead clone I had ran into months before. Is that the energy he meant?

“Here,” he lead me over to the stairs he was just sitting on, “Sit down. I’ll show you what I mean.”

He sat down next to me and then opened the metal panel that bumped up right below his windshield. There was a white crackle of energy among the metal and wires. It was a strange energy. It was not like that green energy I was thinking of.

“Its not complete though,” the Blurr clone sighed, “It used to be an orb of light. It was so beautiful. I moved a hand to touch a corner of a panel the energy pulsed down. He didn’t do anything to stop the touch. His optics offlined a moment though before returning on, “Do you have anything like this?”

I wondered how to open my own chest like that. I touched at the metal below my windshield and tried to get it to do something. Kerouac chuckled and touched the top rim of my windshield chest, “See if you can lower this.”

I did so quite easily. I didn’t see anything like what Ker had inside him. He touched the bottom rim of the lowered glass. He stroked his white fingers lightly there, like a pacing wild animal, “May I?”

I wondered what he was asking to do, unless he knew there was more to do, to find that energy in me. I nodded and he proceeded to touch his hand to the metal beyond the glass. With a soft click it opened something else. I could see the light glow from it dance on Kerouac’s face. I looked down and saw the same pulsing energy he had, but every few moments there was a crackle of green.

“Interesting, I have never seen this before,” he said softly. He didn’t touch it though, but held his hand at short distance. It was like it was a fire he wanted to be warmed but not burned by.

“What.. what does the energy mean then?” I asked curiously. I saw the glow of his chest not that far from mine.

“Well.... I’m not a science bot, I’m a writer... and from a creative prospective... I want to say its a soul,” explained Kerouac. I gave him a funny look. Souls and those things was the weird stuff humans believed in, from what I knew, and from some stuff I would hear about on TV.

“But, we’re just machines,” I muttered. I didn’t know what else to reply. He looked at me sadly after I said that. His hand that had been near my energy he placed on my cheek. My optics darkened for a moment. I liked that feeling.

“You really think that?” he said to me softly. My optics fully turned off as I nuzzled into his hand.

“I-i-i don’t know,” I whimpered back. My optics came back on as I looked up at him. He kissed my forehead lightly.

“How about instead of all this hard thinking... I finish what we started in the car?” Kerouac suggested. That wasn’t a bad idea at all. I nodded. He smiled lightly. Before he could ask me to open my front port again I already had it open. He traced a finger lightly in the outer rim. I leaned back on the stair railing, then remembering we were in a staircase of a building!

“But...what if someone sees!” I gasped, with my optics offlining again.

“I dou-“ the Blurr clone started speaking. But was interrupted by a voice behind him.

“Yeah, what if someone sees?” A Sideswipe clone’s voice said. I probably screamed like a femme for the second time that night. I quickly closed up my energy from showing like I was a naked human needing to cover up. I saw Kerouac had a very annoyed almost enraged expression as he turned to face the interrupter, “Nice rear sensors mod, doesn’t seem to work that well though.”

“Can you just lea-“ Ker looked like he was going to start yelling at the red bot. He stopped as we both heard footsteps come down the stairs. I hoped it wasn’t those rent a police of whatever Ker called them. It was a Seeker clone though, a Starscream one to be exact, with a red ground clone right behind him. A sense of familiarity filled me upon the sight of that smiling Sideswipe faceplate. Almost a sense of relief for some reason… It was like he’d pulled me out of trouble many times before – even though we’d never met. Maybe it was another one of those memory echoes I seemed to always have?

 ”Alright... what? You’re going to gang up on me just because of a simple mistake?!” Ker demanded. Apparently he had done something earlier to offend these bots.  ”Jeez, your awfully cute when your angry,” the Sideswipe clone said to Kerouac, “Actually we were going to prank you again, but we overheard your problem.”

The Seeker clone leaned against the side of the stairwell, his optics seemed to gleam with a strange hunger I’d never seen before. He made a show of slowing scanning our chassis, like some kind of predator or something.

“If you are such exhibitionists that you’re gonna slag each other right here in the stairwell, then I’m sure you won’t mind if we watch,” he purred. His tone seemed strange, almost dare I say seductive. Like those people on the soap operas on TV.

Ker’s entire frame seemed to tense, “Wearenotfreagin’exhibitionistsandI’lltellyouwhatyoupiecesofscrap-“

Suddenly, the Sideswipe clone activated his jet pack and popped over us. His peds hit the stairs a couple of steps below, and casually he leaned against the wall like his cohort was. “Ah, got the Blurr clone so frazzled that he lost control of his speed setting again,” he teased.

Now thoroughly enraged, Ker tried to attack the Sideswipe clone. My lower arms felt warm, filled with energy. I felt like I should have weapons to help, but nothing engaged.

“Ah-ah-ah,” the Starscream clone snickered. I gasped as I turned my head to him. He had pointed his weapons at us! They were warmed and ready to fire! “Now don’t make me null ray your afts for being stupid,” he said with a smirk.

The Blurr clone stopped in his tracks. Turning around as slowly as he could, he shot the Seeker a haughty glare. “You wouldn’t dare. I’m one of the speakers!” he exclaimed.

From behind us the Sideswipe clone snickered. “Yeah, and so’s our owner and I. So what?”

The Starscream clone also smirked. Coming up a step, he leaned forward and stroked my cheek. A power field seemed to radiate from him. It seemed to attract me with its pulsing. He must’ve noticed my interest, for his optics seemed to see straight into my meta.

“Yep, and I wouldn’t miss Jester’s little magic act if I were you. It’s already sold out because your owners seem to love his creativity.” He gave an exaggerated sigh, his fingers drifting to one of my sensitive horns. His smile seemed warm as he looked down at me. “But I’m tired of being his little bitch-bot whom fakes getting cut in half all the time. Perhaps…” His digits stroked my faceplate as his optics seemed to devour my very being. “…Perhaps you’d like to fill in?”

Two hands clamped down on our shoulders then. The Sideswipe clone leaning his head in between us. “Yep, Scream’s paint job kind’ve blends in. But yellow? Yah, yellow’d show up reeeeaaaaal sweet!”

For some reason, Ker didn’t seem like he was able to talk. He was looking rapidly from clone to clone, his optics blinking in total disbelief. “Trak… Trakersly clones?” he gasped.

The one named Scream turned his intense orbs from me, fixing them on the Blurr clone. “You’re not as dumb as most Blurrs, I’ll give you that. Maybe after his performance.. well..” I was shocked as he boldly took Ker’s lips. Faintly, I could hear the one named Jester snickering behind me, but I was fixated. I could feel a wave of energy washing over me as the Seeker and Ker kissed passionately. Was it from me – was it from them? I didn’t know.

They left us there, alone - Vanishing as quickly as they had appeared. The only evidence left was the tickets now in our hands. Tickets that would not only get us back into the convention so that we could use a phone – but also ensure that we would see them again... I was filled with strangely conflicting emotions. Both excited and nervous at the same time! I knew Andy would be thrilled to see me ‘volunteer’ for the clone magician. She liked magic a LOT! But what would happen later… What was the Seeker implying???

Ker stared down at the tickets in his hand, almost as if he was in awe. “Do you realize??? Do you realize we just met HIM!?!” he whispered. His glossa went over his lip components as if he was still tasting the Seeker on them. I made sure my ports and chest were closed up presentably.

“Who?” I had no clue as to what he was talking about. They were just other clones like us weren’t they?

Ker looked up and met my optics. “Scream?!? He’s the true father of the movement!”

“What movement?” I asked.

With a disbelieving shake of his head, Ker stood up. Grabbing my hand, he began to pull me up the stairs. “It is the research that Dr Trakersly’s been doing on him that’s been leading the debates over ethics. Without that – we have no case!” he exclaimed. He now seemed so excited that his peds were almost levitating off each step.

I had no clue at all about what he was talking about. So I just followed along and listened…

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“Where have you been!” Andy said as she rushed up to me. She was no longer eating a plate of sweets, but I could see the chocolate under her nails.

“Sorry! I ran into the Blurr clone from the park!” I said as I looked in the direction Ker went. He was headed to the payphones, “And a LOT happened. Um, want to go to a magic show? I’m going to be in it, I think.”

“Alright... what HAVE you been up to?” Andy crossed her arms and looked at me accusingly.

“I made new friends... I think,” I replied again, “What have you been doing?”

“Listening more than I ever have in my entire life,” she replied, “Magic show eh? That sounds like fun.

“You can sit with Ker, while I’m on stage. I’m kinda excited!” I smiled. I looked over at Kerouac who was still on the phone. Andy smiled strangely at me.

“You two seem to like each other,” she told me. I blinked at her response. She did not seem angry with me, just stating what she saw. I wanted to deny everything but Ker hung the phone and was coming up to us.

“I’ll be right back,” the Blurr clone said as he headed out to the parking lot. He then winked at me, “We have that magic show to go to.”
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