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TF: Drive to freedom. P2

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Chapter Two.


Lennox hung the phone up and turned to the soldier who stood by. "That was an important call." He turned to look at the window before glancing down at the note he wrote. "I will need to the new owner of Big Man,"
The soldier nodded and walked away as Lennox went to his computer and started to type on it. He sat there thinking about what he did for the Big Man. It was either keep him here at the base or send him off to auction and let the Big Man cope with being a regular truck from now on. He knew Big Man could handle with what was decided for him, even though it hurt him to see his face looking at them before he transformed into his truck mode knowing it would be the last time he would walk as a bipedal robot.
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Teri couldn't believe how smooth the semi was even on a rocky road, he was smooth. As they pulled into their drive, her neighbor waved at her as he stood by his own Peterbilt. She stopped and rolled the window down.
"Hey, I wasn't expecting this to come down our road, Teri," He exclaimed as he looked at the semi. "How much did he cost you?"
"Twenty-five grand, Fred, I wasn't really the high bidder on him," Teri replied, as she placed the semi in park and climbed out of the cab to the ground. "but isn't he a beauty?"
Fred ran his hand over the hood as he looked puzzled by something. "Could you pop the hood, Teri, your hood should be hot but its not, something might be wrong with your engine."
Teri reached in and popped the hood as she went to where Fred was as he leaned in the engine compartment to have a look at the engine. "Is anything wrong?"
Fred glanced over at her. "This is a very strange engine. I have never seen one like it. But the thing is, it is absolutely cold to the touch, not even hot. Where did you drive it from?"
"Joplin. Why?" Teri asked, as she looked at her neighbor.
"Well, feel the engine block, it should be hot but its relatively cool like you had just started him up a moment ago." Fred replied, as he felt the engine again. "You might want to check the record for repairs on him and figure out when his last check was."
"And get him rechecked if it was not done in a while," Teri replied.
"Yup," Fred looked at him. "Well, I better let you go off home as your mom will be wondering where you are with your new vehicle."
"Yeah, she's going to blow a gasket when she sees this beauty coming down our road," Teri smiled as she closed the hood and climbed back in and drove down the road towards home.
Teri watched as her mom stood on the deck in her all white clothes and an angry look on her face. "Great, she's going to give it to me about why get a semi when a car was easy able to get . . . as if!"
Teri pulled up and turned off her vehicle and climbed out. "Mom, don't even start with me!"
"But Teri, a semi?" Her mother complained. "I thought you would have gotten a car or at least a truck,"
"I tried but I was outbid on them all, including this big guy," Teri replied, as she stepped onto the deck and walked towards her mother.
She crossed her arms in front of her. "Really? Then, tell me why do you have him instead of the high bidder?"
"Because, mother, he didn't hear the final bid till he was at the pay window to buy him and he retracted his bid. I did get him cheap," Teri stated, hoping that her mom would like how cheap she got him for.
"How cheap?" she stepped in front of her blocking her entry to the house.
"25 grand," Teri turned away from her mother and started to open the garage door to go inside to find a hand on her wrist. She turned to look at who stopped her to see her mother's hand on her. "Let go of my wrist, mother." Teri growled the last part out.
"Your budget was only 15 grand, not 25 grand. You went over your budget," she snapped off. "And do not expect us to assist you in giving you money to fix that thing when it breaks down in another month,"
"CJ, stop it!" spoke a male voice. She looked up to see Charles standing there.
"And why should I? You allowed her to go over her budget for a semi that will cost her thousands of dollars to keep maintained," CJ stated.
"I gave her her birthday money early and the part of it was also to help her buy the car or semi she wanted and this was the vehicle she got." Charles replied. "And if you do not drop your hand on her wrist, we may not find ourselves being in the presence of our daughter, considering her health problems of late."
CJ dropped her hand and glared at him. "If that thing breaks on you, I will not be loaning you the money to repair him, you will have to get a job now!"
"That was the intention, mother!" Teri snapped off. "I intend on getting a job. Now if you excuse me, I have a truck to tend to!" She stalked away from the garage door and headed for the semi, climbed within and drove towards the pasture.
"You know you could have just made us lose having her around us for the last few months or a year over this?" With that said, Charles walked back into the house leaving CJ standing there.
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Teri looked back at the two story house, not moving from the driver's seat. She shook her head. 'Mother, why must you gripe at me so about my decisions? Why can you not see that I'm ready to make my move into the real world instead of being smothered by you, besides you knew when I get a vehicle I wouldn't be staying at home for very long. I need to be free.'
She climbed out of the car and started to get a bucket and some soap in it before she started to hose the semi down. She normally would have waited till morning to wash him down but he was very cold to the touch like she barely drove him. She started to hum as she washed the semi down. She dried her hands before entering the truck again and turning him to neutral and turning on the radio to a music channel that she liked. She smiled as she heard the sounds of Elton John being played through the sound speakers. "Yup, good song to wash a vehicle down with,"
It was another full hour before she was done washing him down and then drying him off. She dried her arms and legs with the spare towel she had with her, before she climbed back into the cab and lowered the driver's side window, leaned back in the seat and closed her eyes knowing that they wouldn't come out and bug her, even though she did see her mom come onto the deck to watch her wash her new vehicle down.
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Teri didn't notice the hologram of a young man with black hair with blue highlights in the short hair appearing in the passenger seat looking at her. Optimus wondered why she was sleeping within his cab, but he did take notice that he was clean and that she did it all by herself, unlike back at the base where there was about five men washing him down in both forms – vehicle and his bipedal self. They all loved being with the leader of the Autobots but the last day he was there before the orders came from the high ranking officer of the government telling them that they now have a choice stay on the base forevermore which means no hunting down Decepticons or anything else for that or remain in vehicle form for the rest of their lives and what happens after that will be up to the base's General – General Lennox.
He knew Lennox wouldn't send him off without a good reason and he knew the others were sold and shipped out wherever. He was not even able to contact them, as Lennox told him that they'll be okay where they will be sent off to.
He looked at his new 'owner' and wanted to reach out to her and explain who he was but the warning he got from Lennox about any revealing of who and what he was would result in him being returned to the military base and never leaving the base ever again, forced his hand to remain silent about who he was.
He made his hologram vanish from view before anyone saw him and took up watching the area and trying to remain silent. But he had told Lennox that if anything threatened the life of his new owner, he will revert back to his true form to protect them. Lennox told me that if that happened it better be a case of life or death to cause that to happen. I knew that one day the Decepticons will find where he was and then no one will have a problem with it as he had to do it to protect someone's life.
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It was after the sun had set, when Teri stirred from her nap. She stretched and climbed out of the cab before turning the semi off and jumping from the cab, closing the door and locked it. "Good-night, tomorrow, we go to work,"
Optimus watched as she headed towards the house and disappeared within it. He wondered why kind of work he was about to start doing now. He sort of wished that he had rejected the offer to remain in vehicle mode as there were still Decepticons out there. He sighed as he went to listening to the radio as he always did at night since there was no other Autobots living close to him to talk to.
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It was the next morning, Teri came out yelling at her mother as she followed her from the house. Teri turned and made some motion with her right hand which had the middle finger up and everything else down. Optimus nearly chuckled as he watched her run towards him as human hand symbols were so strange and funny. But he knew there were worse hand symbols that the humans used as she got near to him.
She quickly unlocked him and climbed within. She started to reach for the keys when she started to cuss heavily as she started to hit her head on the wheel. "Damn, I have to go back inside the house to get the keys."
Optimus was about to turn himself on when the cab door opened and she jumped from the seat. He turned his sensors to the house to find that her father was heading towards the door with the keys that would start him up. He nearly chuckled out loud knowing it wasn't really needed.
Teri ran back to her truck and started her day off as she drove off to her work as a dirt hauler for a local company.
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It was like this for the next two weeks, Teri and Big Man as she called her new truck went about their daily work at the local quarry. Teri would spend an hour washing him down before tending to refill his oil even though he didn't need any, but she did it anyways. She was finishing up drying off his grill when she glanced towards the driveway to see a military jeep coming down the road. She stood up and watched as it drove up to the house. "I wonder why we're getting visited by a military jeep,"
Teri just shook her head and returned to drying the grill off when she heard her father's voice yell out to her. She glanced over to see her dad standing there with a military man, who started to approach the pasture fence. She placed the towel on the bucket and headed towards the fence to greet the soldier.
"Hello soldier, what can I do for you?" Teri asked, once she got close to the fence.
"I'm General Lennox and I might as well come out and say it," He stated.
"Say what?" Teri asked, looking at him hard in the face.
"I used to own Optimus over there," Lennox stated, as he pointed towards Optimus.
"Optimus?" Teri asked.
"Yeah, we gave our vehicles nicknames, and his was Optimus." Lennox replied. "I came by to see how he was doing here with his new owner."
"Well as you can see he's doing really well. He's getting a bath or more like the last part of it when you arrived here and I need to go finish it up before the spots start to show on his paint job," Teri said, as she started to back away from Lennox.
"Mind if I help you? I would like to know what he's hauling since being sold," Lennox asked.
Teri looked at him and knew that another pair of hands would be helpful since the truck was much larger than she was and it took a lot of time to dry him down after washing him. "Sure, I could use the help. I'm done on the right side but the left side I haven't gotten to as of yet."
Lennox climbed over the fence and walked with her back to Optimus where they started to dry his right side off. He noticed that she was putting stuff onto Optimus's grill before rubbing the stuff off and polishing it with another rag. "What did you put on it?"
"Polishing wax, specially made for his grill," Teri replied as she finished polishing the grill and picking up another rag and headed over to where Lennox was and helped him. "So he probably hasn't gotten this treatment a lot at the base?"
Lennox smiled. "Actually, he would get it every day in the evening. I would have some of my men help me wash and dry him down. It was to let the stress of the day go before heading off to bed."
Teri smiled as they continued to talk and dry him down. It was later, that they were leaning against the grill just chattering about his traits. That's when Teri stated something about how the oil and fuel never really needed to be dealt with but for every other month. "Is that strange for him to go that long between oil and fuel?"
Lennox shook his head as he placed his hand on Optimus' hood. "Optimus has a very unique way of contending with the oil and fuel. Unlike his counterparts, we upgraded his engines to where it doesn't take much for his engines to burn fuel."
"More like very easy on the pocketbook I say. I was expecting to fuel him up every other day but his fuel gauge is still at full." Teri replied.
Lennox looked over at her with a mild look of shock on his face. "Really?"
"Yeah, go check it, it reads full and I haven't put in any diesel in him," Teri watched as Lennox climbed into the cab and started Optimus up to see his fuel gauge.
Lennox looked at the fuel gauge and tapped it twice. "Optimus, you need to show less fuel."
Optimus's voice came through the radio. "If I did, she would need to fuel me up and her paycheck didn't bring her much in the way of your currency. She needs to keep her money."
Lennox looked at him. "Find out her bank information, Optimus and e-mail it to me at the base, you know my e-mail account. I'll see if I can funnel some cash to her account."
"I'll try my best. Ratchet or Bumblebee would be better at hacking into her bank to get her information," Optimus replied.
"But they're out of your reach, Optimus," Lennox whispered.
"For the time being that is," Optimus stated. "You better head out, she's about to come over here,"
Lennox turned him off and hopped out as she looked at him. "So did you see it reads full even after two weeks on the road?"
Lennox nodded. "Strange but then again, he's special,"
"I dare say he is, my neighbor owns a Peterbilt similar to him and we popped the hood on him so he could take a look at the engine block and my friend was actually able to put his hand fully on the engine block without getting burned." Teri stated.
Lennox nodded as he reached for the bucket to go dump it. "Is he finished being washed and dried?"
"Nope, now his left side needs to be done," Teri replied, as she climbed up into the cab and drove Optimus away from his spot and parked him there again but this time his left side was visible. As she climbed from the cab, she smiled. "Now, we can work on his left side."
Lennox smiled as he started to hose Optimus's left side down and started to wash him down, he could tell that Teri liked hand washing Optimus. "So do you do this every day?"
"No, just on the weekends or if the road was muddy," Teri replied, as she dunked her hand into the soapy water and got more suds on the sponge.
It took them another four hours before they were done washing his left side down, as it was they spent most of the time fighting with the water hose. Teri leaned against Optimus laughing as she watched Lennox try to squeeze some of the water from his shirt without success. He pulled his shirt off and hung it on a nearby tree branch to dry. She had to turn away as her face went red as she never seen someone look so hot and handsome from the ranks of the military before. She knew they worked out heavily but Lennox had an eight pack and well, she knew he wouldn't go for someone like her as she's like maybe five or seven years younger than he was.
They continued with waxing Optimus down before finishing buffing his coat.
"Teri! Dinner! Bring your guest with you!" her mother yelled from the deck.
Teri just growled as she turned away from the house and continued with what she was doing.
"You don't like her very much?" Lennox asked.
Teri glanced over and nodded. "She will totally forget that you are at the table and start berating me for buying a Semi when a car would have been better off for me." Teri started to get onto the ladder. "And the thing is, this Semi will keep me protected a lot better than some car,"
'You have no idea how right you are with that, Teri.' Lennox thought to himself. "Why don't we go out to eat somewhere? I'm sure your dad won't mind us heading off."
Teri glanced over at him in shock. "Are you sure? We're like about ten years apart in ages,"
"Well, I'm only thirty years old," Lennox replied.
"I'm ten years younger than you are, I'm twenty." Teri stated, as she turned back to wiping down the hood.
"I don't see a problem with that, do you?" He asked.
Teri shook her head. "I guess not." She looked at the truck he called Optimus. "I don't really want to take him out when he's all clean, but what the heck, I can always redo him. Climb in." As she went to open the driver's door and got into the driver's seat. "We will have to stop at the house so I can grab my purse, I don't carry my IDs with me when I'm out here."
"Sure, not a problem," Lennox replied, knowing it would give him some time to talk to Optimus about his living arrangements.
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Teri rushed into the house and told her dad that she and Lennox were going out to eat, they'll be back soon as she dashed up the stairs to grab her purse and headed back down the stairs again.
Her mother stopped her. "Is he taking his vehicle?"
"No, we're taking mine," Teri replied. "And we will not be back for a while."
And with that said, she dashed out of the house towards Optimus and Lennox.
My second chapter to Drive to freedom.
The pairing is now starting to show itself here.
The next chapter will tell more about what happened at dinner between Teri and Lennox.
The rating is still currently PG13.

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For the third chapter, Go here.
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Marazure's avatar
Love it! Looking forward to the next chapter