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'I wish something interesting would happen in Jasper' is the only thought on sixteen-year-old Sabrina Tucker's mind as she looks at the clock in the band room at the local high school.
Sabrina does like living in this small town. It is ideal for families since everyone is friendly, well, except for Vince the neighborhood bully that is and some people live two blocks away from Little Ram's preschool that doesn't want anything to do with children. Sabrina misses her mom a lot; she was deployed overseas two months ago. She asked her to help her dad take care of the house and her four-year-old little brother Brandon.
Her father texted her during lunch telling Sabrina she has to pick up Brandon from preschool today since he has to stay late at work for a meeting. Sabrina looks back down at her sheet music and goes back to playing the violin her parents bought her for her tenth birthday. The teacher, Mr. Howell, told the class that Friday is the tryout day for the first chair in each instrument.
Sabrina was close last year, but her rival, Priscilla Collins, distracted Sabrina. She nudged Sabrina's side so hard with her elbow that she'd play the wrong note. After playing the final measure of the song she is going to play at the recital next week, Sabrina looks up at the clock to find that she has two minutes to pack up her things.
She lowers her music stand and puts her violin into the case. She closes the music book, puts it into her book bag and carefully puts it on her back. She then picks up her violin and starts to leave the room, looking over at Mr. Howell. He nods and motions for her to get going.
'Dad, this would be much easier if dad would buy me a car. I have my driver's license for Pete's sake.' Sabrina thinks as she walks down the hallway to the front door.
She's about to open the door when Vince calls out one of his famous taunts, "Hey Band Geek."
Sabrina knows she doesn't have time to fire back a response since Brandon is waiting for her. Vince is annoyed since she never responded to him, so he walks up to her and yanks the violin case from her hand.
"Vince give that back, please." Sabrina snaps quickly turning around and jumping up into the air trying to get her violin back. "I have to pick up my little brother from Preschool."
"Sorry, Tucker, no can do," Vince smirks.
Sabrina knows her dad would be furious with her if she started a fight. She growls through her teeth before stomping on Vince's right foot. As he winces in pain, Sabrina catches her instrument and dashes out the door, doing her best not to look back, so Vince doesn't get another chance to steal it again.
Twenty minutes later, Sabrina arrives at Little Ram's Preschool. Brandon is standing outside with his teacher, Mrs. Sampson. As soon as Sabrina gets to the door, she is attacked by Brandon who gives her a bear hug.
"Hey, little brother," Sabrina chuckles, "How was school?"
"Great. I made you a picture in art class." Brandon answers.
"I can't wait to see it," Sabrina groans as her brother hugs her tighter, "But could you let me breathe."
Brandon nods, releasing his big sister from his hug and takes hold of her free hand.
"Don't forget this," Mrs. Sampson says handing Brandon his lunch box. "Have a good rest of the day you two."
"We will." Brandon smiles as he happily pulls his sister down the sidewalk. "Thank you, Mrs. Sampson."
"You're welcome." Mrs. Sampson says.
Meanwhile aboard the Nemesis, Knockout types away on one of the computers in the bridge, the Decepticon is a bit confused when the scanner picks up a faint energon signal moving away from the preschool.
"That's odd," Knockout mutters as he hits a few keys to change the camera to show a picture instead of a thermal image.
"What did you find, Knockout," Megatron asks as he walks over to the medic.
"Our scanners picked up a faint energon signal." Knockout replies.
"What is the source of this signal?" Megatron asks.
"It appears to be a human female youth." Knockout answers as he moves to his left to allow Megatron to see Sabrina on the screen.
"We must bring her here to see why this human is giving off an energon signal," Megatron smirks.
Sabrina and Brandon get about two blocks away from the school which is the area filled with senior citizens who hate children and loud noises. Sabrina starts to get a little on edge when she sees a purple car with a strange symbol on the grill following them from the corner of her eye. She lets go of Brandon's hand and kneels in front of him.
"Brandon, you remember what mom and dad told us to do if we ever were followed by a strange car?" Sabrina asks.
"Yes, we run and try to find another grownup to help us." Brandon answers. "But, Sabrina, we're in that part of the city where the people living on this street don't like kids."
'Darn it, he's right, now what do we do?' Sabrina thinks.
"Sabrina, the car just turned into a robot that has blasters," Brandon says in a shaky tone.
Sabrina figures that his imagination is working overtime since she knows cars can't do that. Sabrina turns around to make sure that he is telling the truth. Brandon gives her another bear hug, this time she didn't care if he squeezes all the air out of her lungs again since she knows he is frightened. She is terrified too, but she did not want him to see that.
"I won't let this thing hurt you, I promise," Sabrina promises. "Run!"
Sabrina sets down her violin case and takes out the pepper spray her father bought her. He usually is a 'tad' bit overprotective. Right now, Sabrina hopes that it will work on a giant metal robot that's about to kill them. She hears the load ref of a car engine and a few seconds later, watches a red Dodge Challenger with two horns on the hood speed up. It crashes into the purple robot, knocking it to the ground. After a few seconds, Brandon starts to loosen his grip. She turns around in time to catch him before he hits the pavement. The last thought on the terrified teenager's mind as she carries her brother over to a safe place to hide is 'Why did that thing attack us?'
Sabrina chuckles as she hears him mumble, "I'll protect violin." She quickly but carefully walks over into the alleyway and sets him up against the wall behind the dumpster. Leaving to retrieve her violin, she runs up to the case and picks it up. She then turns around to see the purple robot has called for one of its friends. A new robot runs up to her and reaches out to snatch her off the sidewalk. Before it has a chance, a blue motorcycle drives up and turns into a robot with a different symbol on its shoulder.
"I don't think so, Decepticon!" The new, female-sounding, robot says.
Sabrina watches in shock and awe as the female robot repeatedly punches the other robot that had tried to kidnap her.
She wants to check on her little brother, but this was too cool, she wants to see who would win. She watches the match a bit longer before she runs back to the alley. A smile appears on her face when she sees her little brother run up to her. Sabrina hands the violin case to him.
"Sabrina, is it safe to go home yet?" He asks.
"I'm not sure buddy. Stay here." Sabrina says as she tiptoes back to the entrance of the alley.
She peaks around the corner. The distinct loud sound of a semi truck horn causes Sabrina to quickly cover her ears with her hands as it drives up to the other robots before turning into a robot as well. It's mainly red and blue and much bigger than the red robot and the blue female robot.
"Hey, Boss." The red robot says.
"Cliffjumper, you were fortunate that you didn't cause any damage to the buildings in this area." The red and blue robot warns.
Then Brandon runs out of the alleyway towards the robots.
"Brandon! Get back here!" Sabrina shouts.
Brandon ignores his big sister and keeps running towards the robots. She is happy to see him look both ways twice to check for cars before he hops down off the curb and onto the street.
'Okay, this is officially the weirdest day of my life.' Sabrina thinks.
Cliffjumper sees Brandon running up to them. The four-year-old is about to run into Arcee's leg, so he picks him up.
"Hey, kid, watch where you're going," Cliffjumper says.
"Sorry, Mr. Red Robot, sir. Thank you for saving my big sister and me." Brandon says.
"Who's your big sister?" Cliffjumper asks.
"She must be that girl hiding in the alleyway over there." The female robot says.
Sabrina still has no clue what is going on. She tries to remain calm as the female robot approaches her. She sees the robot kneel in front of her.
"Relax. I'm not going to hurt you." She says.
"Thank you for all your help, ma'am," Sabrina says.
"Call me, Arcee, okay, kid? "Arcee says.
"Okay, Arcee," Sabrina says.
Sabrina slowly steps out of her hiding spot. She and Arcee walk over to the other robots. Arcee sees Sabrina's eye nearly pop out of their sockets when she sees Brandon on Cliffjumper's shoulder.
"Brandon, be careful. If you fall, dad will ground me till I graduate high school." Sabrina says.
"Don't worry Sabrina. Mr. Cliffjumper won't let me fall." Brandon says.
"So who is the semi truck robot?" Sabrina asks.
"I'm Optimus Prime, and you and your brother will get a better explanation of why my teammates and I are on your planet tomorrow," Optimus says.
"Aw, I can't wait that long." Brandon whines.
"Sorry Brandon, but we need to get home," Sabrina says.
"Cliffjumper, you will escort Sabrina and Brandon to their home," Optimus says.
"Yes, Sir," Cliffjumper says.
"Yeah, I get to ride in the front seat." Brandon cheers.
"No, you won't. You're not tall enough or old enough to ride shotgun." Sabrina says.
Cliffjumper takes Brandon off of his shoulder and places him on the ground next to Sabrina as he transforms back into a car.
"Sabrina, please, I won't tell dad, I promise," Brandon begs as he makes his eyes sparkle and quivers his bottom lip.
"Now I regret ever teaching you that look." Sabrina sighs.
Sabrina and Brandon walk over to the car. She opens the passenger side door and helps him up onto the seat. After she buckles him in and sets her things down on the floor in front of her brother's feet, she looks up to see the seat belt start to adjust to fit him properly.
"Whoa, Cliffjumper, why didn't you tell me that you could do that?" Sabrina asks.
"Don't know, I guess I forgot that I could do that. I can also turn off the passenger side airbag too if you'd like." Cliffjumper says.
"That would be great," Sabrina says as she closes the door.
She sits down in the driver's seat and buckles herself in and places her hands on the steering wheel. The only thing on Sabrina's mind as Cliffjumper starts to drive away is.
'Okay, Mr. Genie, sir, who granted my wish for something interesting to happen in Jasper. Could you take back my request, please?' Sabrina thinks.
Sabrina unbuckles her seat belt after Cliffjumper pulls up to the garage door.
"Sabrina, humans call this a driveway, right? So, why am I parking in it?" Cliffjumper asks.
"The humans who invented the word were confused too, I guess," Sabrina says.
"Don't human kids usually have two parents?" Cliffjumper asks.
"We do, but our mom is in the military. The past three months without her have been hard." Sabrina explains. "So, I've been helping my dad out around the house, and looking out for Brandon."
"That seems like a lot of pressure to put on a kid your age," Cliffjumper says.
"Maybe a bit, but my mom asked me to help out in her last letter, so I'm not going to let her down," Sabrina says as she gets out.
She walks over to the passenger side opens the door and watches Brandon hop out. They gather their things and head inside. They watch from the living room window as Cliffjumper drives away.
"Sabrina, do you think we'll see him again?" Brandon asks.
"I don't know Buddy. How about I make some Mac and cheese for dinner?" Sabrina replies.
Sabrina puts her things down on the coffee table and heads to the kitchen to start making dinner.
'I wish there were another way I could thank Cliffjumper for what he did for us - I mean he saved our lives.' Sabrina thinks.
Chapter 1: A New Danger
'I wish something interesting would happen in Jasper' is the only thought on sixteen-year-old Sabrina Tucker's mind as she looks at the clock in the band room at the local high school.
Sabrina does like living in this small town. It is ideal for families since everyone is friendly, well, except for Vince the neighborhood bully that is and some people live two blocks away from Little Ram's preschool that doesn't want anything to do with children. Sabrina misses her mom a lot; she was deployed overseas two months ago. She asked her to help her dad take care of the house and her four-year-old little brother Brandon.
Her father texted her during lunch telling Sabrina she has to pick up Brandon from preschool today since he has to stay late at work for a meeting. Sabrina looks back down at her sheet music and goes back to playing the violin her parents bought her for her tenth birthday. The teacher, Mr. Howell, told the class that Friday is the tryout day for the first chair in each instrument.
Sabrina was close last year, but her rival, Priscilla Collins, distracted Sabrina. She nudged Sabrina's side so hard with her elbow that she'd play the wrong note. After playing the final measure of the song she is going to play at the recital next week, Sabrina looks up at the clock to find that she has two minutes to pack up her things.
She lowers her music stand and puts her violin into the case. She closes the music book, puts it into her book bag and carefully puts it on her back. She then picks up her violin and starts to leave the room, looking over at Mr. Howell. He nods and motions for her to get going.
'Dad, this would be much easier if dad would buy me a car. I have my driver's license for Pete's sake.' Sabrina thinks as she walks down the hallway to the front door.
She's about to open the door when Vince calls out one of his famous taunts, "Hey Band Geek."
Sabrina knows she doesn't have time to fire back a response since Brandon is waiting for her. Vince is annoyed since she never responded to him, so he walks up to her and yanks the violin case from her hand.
"Vince give that back, please." Sabrina snaps quickly turning around and jumping up into the air trying to get her violin back. "I have to pick up my little brother from Preschool."
"Sorry, Tucker, no can do," Vince smirks.
Sabrina knows her dad would be furious with her if she started a fight. She growls through her teeth before stomping on Vince's right foot. As he winces in pain, Sabrina catches her instrument and dashes out the door, doing her best not to look back, so Vince doesn't get another chance to steal it again.
Twenty minutes later, Sabrina arrives at Little Ram's Preschool. Brandon is standing outside with his teacher, Mrs. Sampson. As soon as Sabrina gets to the door, she is attacked by Brandon who gives her a bear hug.
"Hey, little brother," Sabrina chuckles, "How was school?"
"Great. I made you a picture in art class." Brandon answers.
"I can't wait to see it," Sabrina groans as her brother hugs her tighter, "But could you let me breathe."
Brandon nods, releasing his big sister from his hug and takes hold of her free hand.
"Don't forget this," Mrs. Sampson says handing Brandon his lunch box. "Have a good rest of the day you two."
"We will." Brandon smiles as he happily pulls his sister down the sidewalk. "Thank you, Mrs. Sampson."
"You're welcome." Mrs. Sampson says.
Meanwhile aboard the Nemesis, Knockout types away on one of the computers in the bridge, the Decepticon is a bit confused when the scanner picks up a faint energon signal moving away from the preschool.
"That's odd," Knockout mutters as he hits a few keys to change the camera to show a picture instead of a thermal image.
"What did you find, Knockout," Megatron asks as he walks over to the medic.
"Our scanners picked up a faint energon signal." Knockout replies.
"What is the source of this signal?" Megatron asks.
"It appears to be a human female youth." Knockout answers as he moves to his left to allow Megatron to see Sabrina on the screen.
"We must bring her here to see why this human is giving off an energon signal," Megatron smirks.
Sabrina and Brandon get about two blocks away from the school which is the area filled with senior citizens who hate children and loud noises. Sabrina starts to get a little on edge when she sees a purple car with a strange symbol on the grill following them from the corner of her eye. She lets go of Brandon's hand and kneels in front of him.
"Brandon, you remember what mom and dad told us to do if we ever were followed by a strange car?" Sabrina asks.
"Yes, we run and try to find another grownup to help us." Brandon answers. "But, Sabrina, we're in that part of the city where the people living on this street don't like kids."
'Darn it, he's right, now what do we do?' Sabrina thinks.
"Sabrina, the car just turned into a robot that has blasters," Brandon says in a shaky tone.
Sabrina figures that his imagination is working overtime since she knows cars can't do that. Sabrina turns around to make sure that he is telling the truth. Brandon gives her another bear hug, this time she didn't care if he squeezes all the air out of her lungs again since she knows he is frightened. She is terrified too, but she did not want him to see that.
"I won't let this thing hurt you, I promise," Sabrina promises. "Run!"
Sabrina sets down her violin case and takes out the pepper spray her father bought her. He usually is a 'tad' bit overprotective. Right now, Sabrina hopes that it will work on a giant metal robot that's about to kill them. She hears the load ref of a car engine and a few seconds later, watches a red Dodge Challenger with two horns on the hood speed up. It crashes into the purple robot, knocking it to the ground. After a few seconds, Brandon starts to loosen his grip. She turns around in time to catch him before he hits the pavement. The last thought on the terrified teenager's mind as she carries her brother over to a safe place to hide is 'Why did that thing attack us?'
Sabrina chuckles as she hears him mumble, "I'll protect violin." She quickly but carefully walks over into the alleyway and sets him up against the wall behind the dumpster. Leaving to retrieve her violin, she runs up to the case and picks it up. She then turns around to see the purple robot has called for one of its friends. A new robot runs up to her and reaches out to snatch her off the sidewalk. Before it has a chance, a blue motorcycle drives up and turns into a robot with a different symbol on its shoulder.
"I don't think so, Decepticon!" The new, female-sounding, robot says.
Sabrina watches in shock and awe as the female robot repeatedly punches the other robot that had tried to kidnap her.
She wants to check on her little brother, but this was too cool, she wants to see who would win. She watches the match a bit longer before she runs back to the alley. A smile appears on her face when she sees her little brother run up to her. Sabrina hands the violin case to him.
"Sabrina, is it safe to go home yet?" He asks.
"I'm not sure buddy. Stay here." Sabrina says as she tiptoes back to the entrance of the alley.
She peaks around the corner. The distinct loud sound of a semi truck horn causes Sabrina to quickly cover her ears with her hands as it drives up to the other robots before turning into a robot as well. It's mainly red and blue and much bigger than the red robot and the blue female robot.
"Hey, Boss." The red robot says.
"Cliffjumper, you were fortunate that you didn't cause any damage to the buildings in this area." The red and blue robot warns.
Then Brandon runs out of the alleyway towards the robots.
"Brandon! Get back here!" Sabrina shouts.
Brandon ignores his big sister and keeps running towards the robots. She is happy to see him look both ways twice to check for cars before he hops down off the curb and onto the street.
'Okay, this is officially the weirdest day of my life.' Sabrina thinks.
Cliffjumper sees Brandon running up to them. The four-year-old is about to run into Arcee's leg, so he picks him up.
"Hey, kid, watch where you're going," Cliffjumper says.
"Sorry, Mr. Red Robot, sir. Thank you for saving my big sister and me." Brandon says.
"Who's your big sister?" Cliffjumper asks.
"She must be that girl hiding in the alleyway over there." The female robot says.
Sabrina still has no clue what is going on. She tries to remain calm as the female robot approaches her. She sees the robot kneel in front of her.
"Relax. I'm not going to hurt you." She says.
"Thank you for all your help, ma'am," Sabrina says.
"Call me, Arcee, okay, kid? "Arcee says.
"Okay, Arcee," Sabrina says.
Sabrina slowly steps out of her hiding spot. She and Arcee walk over to the other robots. Arcee sees Sabrina's eye nearly pop out of their sockets when she sees Brandon on Cliffjumper's shoulder.
"Brandon, be careful. If you fall, dad will ground me till I graduate high school." Sabrina says.
"Don't worry Sabrina. Mr. Cliffjumper won't let me fall." Brandon says.
"So who is the semi truck robot?" Sabrina asks.
"I'm Optimus Prime, and you and your brother will get a better explanation of why my teammates and I are on your planet tomorrow," Optimus says.
"Aw, I can't wait that long." Brandon whines.
"Sorry Brandon, but we need to get home," Sabrina says.
"Cliffjumper, you will escort Sabrina and Brandon to their home," Optimus says.
"Yes, Sir," Cliffjumper says.
"Yeah, I get to ride in the front seat." Brandon cheers.
"No, you won't. You're not tall enough or old enough to ride shotgun." Sabrina says.
Cliffjumper takes Brandon off of his shoulder and places him on the ground next to Sabrina as he transforms back into a car.
"Sabrina, please, I won't tell dad, I promise," Brandon begs as he makes his eyes sparkle and quivers his bottom lip.
"Now I regret ever teaching you that look." Sabrina sighs.
Sabrina and Brandon walk over to the car. She opens the passenger side door and helps him up onto the seat. After she buckles him in and sets her things down on the floor in front of her brother's feet, she looks up to see the seat belt start to adjust to fit him properly.
"Whoa, Cliffjumper, why didn't you tell me that you could do that?" Sabrina asks.
"Don't know, I guess I forgot that I could do that. I can also turn off the passenger side airbag too if you'd like." Cliffjumper says.
"That would be great," Sabrina says as she closes the door.
She sits down in the driver's seat and buckles herself in and places her hands on the steering wheel. The only thing on Sabrina's mind as Cliffjumper starts to drive away is.
'Okay, Mr. Genie, sir, who granted my wish for something interesting to happen in Jasper. Could you take back my request, please?' Sabrina thinks.
Sabrina unbuckles her seat belt after Cliffjumper pulls up to the garage door.
"Sabrina, humans call this a driveway, right? So, why am I parking in it?" Cliffjumper asks.
"The humans who invented the word were confused too, I guess," Sabrina says.
"Don't human kids usually have two parents?" Cliffjumper asks.
"We do, but our mom is in the military. The past three months without her have been hard." Sabrina explains. "So, I've been helping my dad out around the house, and looking out for Brandon."
"That seems like a lot of pressure to put on a kid your age," Cliffjumper says.
"Maybe a bit, but my mom asked me to help out in her last letter, so I'm not going to let her down," Sabrina says as she gets out.
She walks over to the passenger side opens the door and watches Brandon hop out. They gather their things and head inside. They watch from the living room window as Cliffjumper drives away.
"Sabrina, do you think we'll see him again?" Brandon asks.
"I don't know Buddy. How about I make some Mac and cheese for dinner?" Sabrina replies.
Sabrina puts her things down on the coffee table and heads to the kitchen to start making dinner.
'I wish there were another way I could thank Cliffjumper for what he did for us - I mean he saved our lives.' Sabrina thinks.