Flying down the highway

[Tailwind]

A robot only about six feet tall was sitting on top of a building, right out of sight. Tailwind hadn’t yet met up with any Autobots and luckily no Decepticons. If he had, he probably would’ve been stepped on, if he wasn’t, then he would probably just be laying scattered across several city blocks. Standing up, Tailwind initiated the jet boosters on his back, and when he did so, he started to transform. Any Transformer that saw the F-15 would probably know what it was instantly, unless they didn’t know a F-15 should be much larger than 8 feet. His scanners didn’t pick up any human vehicles nearby, so he was taking the risk of flying low and near a road. If he saw any humans, he would dive into the bushes, hoping they didn’t see him. That would raise a ton of suspicion. It wouldn’t be as bad if they already knew about all the presence on Earth. He hadn't yet spent much time examining the humans information network, or the 'internet' as they called it. Tailwind just happened to be near a city, and he wasn’t going to be going in it anytime soon. Mainly just because he’d stick out like a tree in a desert. Spying a heavily-shadowed tree a short distance from the road, he veered toward it and transformed back to his humanoid form, landing on a thick branch. His dark-gray coloration would help hide him from prying eyes on the road. A car zipped by, not stopping, and he nodded in relief. It was very unlikely anything but the scanners of a Cybertronian would detect him.

[winterclaw94]

Koryn was riding her bike a few feet from the road, keeping a good distance to lessen the chance of being hit by a car. She had gotten some freedom for the day but as usual it had been another huge argument over nothing and riding her old bike wasn't that big of deal, to her any way. BUt just as she was coming enar a tree she felt the front tire ebgin to wobble then nearly falling sideways bt Koryn caught it just in time by putting her foot out. Getting off, the foot pedal down she kneeled down to take a look. And of course to ehr luck the chain had come off. "Of all the times and palces." She muttered and went on with trying to fix it. OF coruse as usual it was a pain in the butt. But in the tree ebhind her she ad no diea of Tailwind hiding from the cars that were zipping by along the highway who seemed oblivious as well.

[Tailwind]

Tailwind hadn’t noticed the biker riding down the side of the road. If he had, he probably wouldn’t have chosen the moment right before the girl spoke to jump to the ground. As he fell, for the few seconds, heard her speaking. There was no possible way to avoid revealing his presence to the human unless he knocked her unconscious, or killed her. Slag. He wasn’t going to do that though, so he would just let the pieces of this puzzle fall where they may. Only a few seconds passed during the fall, while he was thinking through this, before he hit the ground with a quiet thud. When he did, he watched the female for signs that he had been noticed. There was still the tiny chance that she was oblivious and hadn’t noticed. The odds were about as small as him suddenly exploding, in his estimate. Of course he did not pull out any weaponry, because if he had a choice, this would never have happened. He could already predict that he was going to get a punishment from his superiors for this.

[winterclaw94]

Pausing at the sound of a soft thud, Koryn frown and glanced around down the road but didn't see anything. HEaring a screeching of tires Koryn looked up but yelped as a car nearly hit her and she jumpe dback stumbling and landing on her back glaring after the driver, "Moron." But something caught her attention and she turned ehr head eyes widdening when she found herself just a few feet from Tailwind. BUt it was a giant Robot! Like the ones she ahd heard about and been told about by Sam. "Uh...."was all that came out of her mouth as she stared at Tailwind before her brain caught up and she scooted bakc alittle. "What the..." Now her heart was racing as she stared, wheher in fear or surprise, she didn't know at Tailwind.

[Tailwind]

Well now. This is much different than what I expected to happen. I was predicting screaming and running. Tailwind had noticed the car nearly hit her, but hadn’t moved to help her up as he was still in the phase where he wanted her not to notice him. Of course, the universe would play its course. He just went along with the ride. Hello. What else was he supposed to say? He would have to see exactly what she did. But, courtesy demanded he at least tell her his name. I’m known as Tailwind. You are? Well, maybe this could work out. He would still have to wait and see. It may have been a good thing he was only six human feet tall. Tailwind might have been enough to scare her if he was more like thirty feet tall, maybe enough to give her a heart attack. Human medical disorders was one of the first few things he had looked up, and that was one of the first of those he downloaded data on. Of course, he could still be enough to cause cardiac arrest. He wasn’t a ‘medibot‘, and if he had to find one, the girl may have just run out of luck. Odds were though, that wouldn’t happen. But look at what had already happened.

[winterclaw94]

"Erm..."Koryn had a ahrd time saying anything at this point. It was one of thsoe transformers right? But which side would he be on was probably what would be the ebst thing to figure out since she had no idea which symbol was good or evil. Clearing ehr throat and taking a few deep breathes she calmed herself enough to speak, "Hi there...erm Tailwind, and I'm Koryn Valliere." She introduced. Okay so it was freaky to be talking to an alien robot but to know that they were real was something of a smack int he face to her. Now for the other part to know. "Just curious but are you an Autobot or a Decepticon? I've met a person who told me about them but I am not entirely sure how to tell either of the sides apart." She expaiend finalyl able to stand.

[Tailwind]

Okay. So she was Koryn Valliere. He saved that in his memory. For a while she seemed a little confused. Tailwind had just waited until she got her thoughts straight. When Koryn continued after her introduction, she asked a question he never thought he would have to explain. Whether he was Autobot or Decepticon? I’m an Autobot, luckily for both of us. You can tell Decepticons from Autobots by a symbol. ‘Cons generally have a purple, spiky head-shaped symbol and Autobots a red, smooth one. They don’t have to be red or purple though. Mine is silver, and can be found on my head or my wings in my alternate form. Does that make sense? He wondered what this human would ask next. Tailwind was going to wait for the questions to cease a while before asking his own. He relaxed his posture, falling out of a half crouched position to sitting.

[winterclaw94]

"Oh, I see now.. And it does alittle bit." Koryn replied before hurryign to retrieve ehr bie and made sure it was where she could fix it and still listen or talk with Tailwind. "So all these thing about the Transformers was true,. Well this is...new, never thoguht I'd believe soemthing that sounded so fake." She sighed not knowing what more to ask. Then another question did pop into her mind. "How exactly can you transform Tailwind? And can you transform only into vehicle?" she asked pausing in trying to fix the bike chain.

[Tailwind]

How exactly did he transform? He pretty much just willed it to happen, and then his body parts just rearranged themselves. So how did he put it into words? He wasn‘t even thinking about the second question. I pretty much just transform by thinking about doing so, and then the parts that compose my body parts shift themselves to put my body into the shape of the vehicle I scanned. He fell silent for a few more minutes. Do you need help with that? Doing something will help me think about your second question. Well, did any transformer take a form not vehicular. Tailwind had absolutely no clue. He didn’t take one, but someone else might. He would just have to think about it for a while. Consider the entire question. All aspects and all angles.

[winterclaw94]

"Sounds easy and complicated at the same time. And you don't have to answer the second question if you don't want to, I was jsut curious about it." KOryn said bt shook her head. "Nah, I can handle it Tailwind, just a pain sometimes to get it back in place but it's also really old. I've had this bike since I was 10 maybe 9 I can't remember exactly." She explained witha slight shrugg. BUt now she had nothing more to ak. She was already pondering on the last ew years, her father's secertive attitude, and the thing Tailwind had answered to which was still complcating and hard to believe. Was it supposse to be like that? Shaking ehr ehad to clear it she went back to fxing the chain. "So do you have any questions?" She asked.

[Tailwind]

Yes, it does sound complicated and yet simple, but that’s the best I could come up with. Really? Are you sure I don’t need to answer question two? I just figured out how to answer it. Anyway, some may not turn into vehicles, but I do. That’s the only answer I can come up with. So the ‘bicycle is how old? He sat there trying to figure out what exactly he had originally wanted to ask. Oh yeah, he still needed to catch up on all the things that are happening in the world. No, that was too broad a topic. Can you give me information on what you know has happened lately? Mainly about the other Transformers, who told you about us, and any militaristic news. Is that possible?

[winterclaw94]

"That could pretty much answer the question and the bike may be 7 or 8 years old at the most but it's pretty battered up. As for your questions it won't eb all in order Tailwind. The person who told me about them was called Sam Witwicky and it has soemthign to do wihr a place called NEST. The news I've heard have been about the Autobtos taking down the Decepticons but not alot has hapepned that I've hear dof so I don't know about what all is going on. The military fromt he looks of it seems to be...on edge, if you will. I've lived a military life and my father is a soldier, he's eben tellign us about something important going on. It must be that war of your' but he jsut never said it." Koryn explained as she finally got the chain back in palce.

[Tailwind]

Well, that pretty much explains things. The military were on edge, along with Autobot and Decepticon battle royals. She had added to it, Sam Witwicky was the person who told her, and NEST? What was NEST? I really have to contact my superiors soon. While he was thinking about it, an idea came to the forefront of his processor. Now, would you happen to know of a way to sneak me into the city? If you can, I might be able to contact my superiors by boosting my signal using a cell tower. I just want to do it with as little attention as possible. That wasn’t the only part of Tailwind’s idea though. The rest would have to wait, sitting on the edge of the knife, waiting to see whether it would come to fruition or not.

[winterclaw94]

Koryn had stood but the question caught ehr off guard for a moment. Sneak Tailwind into Tranquility? How in the world was that suppose to happen without even tracking attention at all? "Well...hmmmm...there has to be some way to sneak you in wihtout atracting attention." She said. Looking at Tailwind she thought for a moment then thought again, "You can try flying high enough to not be seen if you can, I'll ride back to Tranquility as usual but I'll look for the nearest cell tower. If you can keep a watch on me below then I'll try and find a palce for you to be able to contact your surpierors and stay out of sight." She suggested.

[Tailwind]

That’s a pretty good idea. I’m not sure I could keep an eye on you… Wait, I might have some type of tracker in here? Tailwind started to quickly rummage through several of the compartments across his body, and most of them were empty, but he had a small number of things in them. He finally found what he was looking for, a GPS tracker he had rewired to send him the location of the tracker (when on) and display the geographic longitude and latitude. It had taken him a while to figure that out, but it was mainly just because he was unfamiliar with the workings of this technology. This is a heavily modified GPS tracker. It’s heavily modified because I didn’t really try to figure out how it worked. It was square, about six inches long, and a few wide. It had a screen on it that took up about a quarter of the front, and several buttons. There was one noticeable button that was clearly labeled “On/Off”. If you find somewhere I could contact my superiors all you would have to do is cut it on. Of course, she could also use it if she got in trouble, such as a Decepticon attack, but that was just about as unlikely as everything else that had already happened, but this streak of unlikely coincidences had to cease soon. Didn’t it?