TF New friend.

Title: New friend.
Author: Beth Brownell
Summary: Optimus Prime landed on Earth but can he find the others before he is found by the humans. But can he trust the human who 'bought' him?
Rating: PG13
Pairings: None.
Spoilers: The Transformers – 2007.
Alternate Universe or Movie verse: A mix of both.
Feedback: Desired greatly.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything from Transformers, or any of the people who owns them and I don't make any money from writing this story. I'll try not to hurt them or make them seem too out of character. I do own any original characters that are seen in this fic.
Author's Note: I am writing this story from hearing discussions about how Optimus might have learned how to speak our language. We all know that he learned it from the World Wide Web but who gave him the connection to the net? This is that story.

New friend.

It was early morning, Optimus looked around the truck yard before assuming his new truck form that he took from the truck he was standing next too as he didn't want to scare anyone and yet he didn't know if he was near any of the others that came to this planet. It was about three hours after the sun rose on the planet, he watched as people came into the truck yard looking at trucks and even he was looked at but no one even gave him a second look, as the morning wore on, he watched as a young man wearing a business suit and an older looking woman with her brown hair pulled in a strange way walked into view and she wore a long coat with light brown gloves. It looked like the man was pointing out the other vehicles to the woman before he paused at him and looked weird at him. 'Oh no! Maybe I should have picked another place to hide out in?' Optimus thought to himself. But to move would bring fear to the humans he was in front of, so he remained in place, hoping that they would go away so he could hide some place else.
"Dan, how much for that one?" the woman said pointing towards Optimus.
"Well, let's look at the sticker price, Siena." Dan said as he climbed up to the door to find no sticker on the window. He hopped down and looked at her. "Well there is no sticker on him. I'll sell him to you cheap - fifty grand. That is a hell of a lot cheaper than any Peterbilt truck you can buy off the line, Siena. You can haul your horses and be able to stay close to them as the cab has a sleeper in it."
The young woman climbed up, opened the door and peered within before taking the drivers' seat; she noticed the emblem on the wheel. She turned to him and spoke. "Dan, I'll take him. He's perfect for my trips to the shows and when I need to haul the horses to the vet."
Dan smiled as he helped her down. "Come inside and I'll get the paper work finalized."
Optimus wondered what the woman meant by horses and vet. He nearly wanted to transform and fly out of there, but he couldn't since it would look strange if he wasn't there. He figured that he could learn from the woman about the planet he was on and see if his friends were on this strange planet.
About ten minutes later, the woman came out with the man and he handed her - the keys to the truck. Siena climbed into the cab and started the truck up and drove the truck out of the lot and towards home.
Optimus found himself at a horse farm with plenty of space for him and his friends to hide out in if the woman wouldn't get scared of his robot form. He would wait till she showed some sign of being trustworthy before he did so.
Siena got out of her new truck, opened the gate that led to the pasture and to the barn and hopped back in and drove a bit in before she got out closing the gate before any of the horses escaped. Siena drove the truck behind the barn and turned off the motor. She got out of the cab, closing the door and heading for the house.
Optimus let out a sigh as he allowed himself to scan the area looking for familiar energy signs of his friends to find none. He went to sleep mode for the afternoon not knowing what the rest of today or tomorrow would bring him.
That afternoon, she came out with a ladder and some buckets. She placed the ladder next to him as she filled the buckets up with what looked like bubbly water. She then, turned the hose onto him and started to soak him down before reaching into the bucket with a sponge and started to wash him down.
Optimus didn't know what she was doing but it sure did feel good as the dirt that was on his parts didn't feel too good. He nearly wanted to thank her for the washing but held back since she might get frighten and fall off the ladder. She dried him off and stepped away to look at him all sparkling clean. "All clean now. But that won't last long on these roads. But at least, he looks good."
It was only a day later in the early dawn, his sensors picked up intruders in the pasture and approaching him. He quickly woke and watched as the two men lifted the horse trailer hook and hooked it to his hook and started to attach the cables to his own cables before they both headed for the barn and started to haul out the two horses that was owned by his 'new' owner. 'What were they doing?' he wondered.
"Hurry up! We have to get these horses out of here before she finds out that we're taking her stupid nags!" yelled one of the men, as he reached up for his door and tried to pull it open.
"We should really just kill her nags and let her find them croaked in their stalls. Not take them from the field." One of them whispered.
"Screw that plan! We can get plenty of money from them at the slaughter house and we can ditch this truck in the scrap heap." The other said.
Optimus knew what they were doing; they were trying to steal the horses and him. He immediately started to blare his horn hoping that it would scare off the intruders and alert Siena to the attempted theft.
The intruders started to race off when the horn started to blare and the lights within the lower room turned on and a form started to move at a fast pace out of the house. They didn't get too far when stones started to be shot off at them from Siena's hand. The yelps of pain was heard as the stones hit their target.
"Get off my lands, you thieves! Be thankful I didn't aim for your noses! Keep running out of here!" Siena yelled, as she raced towards the intruders as they raced away from her and her stones that she flung at them.
It was about five minutes later, Siena went to Optimus and opened the door to turn off the alarms by turning him on and then off again. Only to find out that the alarm had gone off on its own accord when she touched the handle of the door. "That's weird, I didn't even start him up and the alarm is off already. Oh well, I guess it had a timer on it. I guess I better change it to be turned off by me."
Siena climbed in and checked for the alarm system to find that there was none in place. She scratched her head in wonder. "Now this is very odd. I better call Dan when I get back into the house about this. A Peterbilt truck without an alarm system and yet it blew the horn when intruders tried to steal him and my horses. Weird."
Optimus knew it was time to make his presence known to the woman. He greeted her in his computer voice. What response he got from her was a yelp and the door being pushed open and his 'owner' rushed from his cab and looked at him in shock. He spoke again telling her that he wouldn't harm her, but all it did was sent the woman rushing for the house with the occasional look back at him. Optimus sighed as he closed the door and sat there wondering if he did the right thing in speaking to her.
It wasn't long before the woman came back out fully dressed from her other clothing that she had worn but this time she was carrying couple of things under her arm as she came into the field and headed towards him. She got close to him and looked at him. "I don't know what happened but it sounds like your radio needs a tune up and I need to work on some stuff on the net." She headed into the barn and came out dragging an orange cord, before he could tell what it was under her arm, she had opened his door and climbed within. She sat in the sleeper side of the cab and plugged a cord into the orange cord and started to type on the thing that she had on her lap.
It was another few minutes before she set the thing on the seat and started to leave the cab, when Optimus asked her in his computer voice what that was. She looked at the radio with a cock of her head before she grabbed the laptop and left the cab for the barn.
Optimus decided it was time to introduce himself to her by transforming into his bipedal form. She was within the barn when he did so. He stayed behind the barn as he observed the woman working in the barn and then walked out with an arm full of some kind of long grass and she plopped it down in a bare patch of ground and then turned around, she promptly started to back away from what she saw. A giant robot standing by her barn and her Peterbilt truck was gone. He approached her but she kept backing away from him and looking around looking for a way to run; his voice telling her that he meant her no harm. He stopped when he realized that he was only scaring her more. He got down to where she could look at him without looking up. He tried to tell her who he was but he realized that the language of his and hers didn't mix very well. He tried to figure out how to talk to her when he remembered the flat thing she used in his cab. He flattened his hand and with his other hand acted like he was typing on something.
Siena couldn't believe what she was seeing as she backed away from the approaching robot. She heard his voice speaking in an odd way and then, he knelt to her level and tried to communicate with her but it was not working till he started tapping his fingers on his other hand like a keyboard. "I don't understand." She looked at him, even though she was scared out of her skin, it didn't act like it wanted to hurt her. "I still don't understand what you are trying to say." Then, it dawned on her; he was a robot and most likely spoke in computer tongues. Her computer could help breach the barrier between them. She held up her hand in the sign of stop before she rushed off to the barn and came out carrying her laptop in her hands. "I need your cord . . . a computer line like this." She had grabbed the power cord and shook it. She pointed to him and then to the cord and then to the computer.
Optimus watched her as she held the orange cord and pointed to him and then to the communication modular itself that was in her hands. He realized what she was saying only after he thought about what she wanted from him. She wanted his input cable to hook up to her communication modular. His input cable came out, he handed it to her as she plugged it into her laptop and got into a computer to computer talk mode with her strange robotic friend, her computer took the language of his and translated it into English and English into computer speech so he would understand her words.
"Can you understand me now?" Optimus typed out on her computer.
"Yes, I can. Who are you?" Siena asked, as she typed it in.
"I am autonomous robotic life-form or as my enemies call my people Autobots. My individual designation is Optimus Prime. What is your designation?" Optimus typed out.
"My name is Siena. You . . . will not harm me, right?"
Optimus looked at her tilting his head one way and then another before he responded to her. "No, I will not hurt you. It is against my honor to do so. Life is precious on all planets, even on my own."
Siena seemed to relax as she looked at him. "Is there more of your kind coming?"
"Yes, hopefully, they are heading to my current location now and maybe more, Siena."
"I guess you will need to know more about this planet that you are on, Optimus." Siena looked up at him to see him tilt his head one way and then he nodded. Siena typed in, "I'll allow you to link up to the World Wide Web so you can learn everything that you may need to know about Earth."
Optimus watched as she typed away on the keyboard of her communication modular and then he saw a search page called WebCrawler. He immediately started to search the web. Siena watched as her screen went very fast as Optimus went to town on getting all the input from the web, including a language site with all various languages of all the people on the planet. When it was all done, he looked at her and spoke, in perfect English. "Thank you for the use of your communication modular and the World Wide Web in allowing me to learn about your fellow people on this planet, Siena."
"Well, I'm sure that you would do the same with our people if we had encountered you in space." Siena stated, as she looked at him as she gave him his input cable back and closed down the computer before getting up from where she was sitting. Optimus nodded as he watched her stand up and dust off her coat before she looked at him. "What will you be doing now, Optimus? Wait for your fellow Autobots to come here?"
"They should be coming here to meet up with me or I will head towards where one of our scouts is located at and meet the rest there here in Tranquility." Optimus stated.
"So why are you and your people here, Optimus?" Siena asked.
"We are searching for the Allspark; it was sent into space many of your centuries ago, to keep it from the wrong hands. The Allspark is a source of great power and conflict back on Cybertron, my home planet and that it was thrown into space. In the wrong hands, the Allspark could basically create life from all of Earth's technology." Optimus said.
"So it could actually create another robot like yourself from say a car?" asked Siena. Optimus nodded. Siena's throat swallowed as she looked at him.
"Or one of your jets or tanks or your vehicles that you use to fly in outer space with, it can do much with your technology and I cannot allow it to get into the wrong hands." Optimus stated.
"I understand, Optimus. With that type of power . . . any country could become deadlier then it already is or could be." Siena replied.
"That is why we are seeking it out to destroy it before it gets in the wrong hands." Optimus stated. He looked strange as a silvery sports car pulled up the road and went to towards the fence line but stopped when he saw Optimus and a sound was heard. Optimus started to transform into his truck mode when the sports car transformed itself into his bipedal form. "Jazz!" Optimus transformed back to his bipedal form and rushed towards him missing the fence and the power lines as he shook hands with the new robot before giving him a welcoming hug.
Jazz buzzed and spoke computer tongue to Optimus, who nodded and communicated to him in the same tongue before turning to look at the female who approached them. "Jazz, this is Siena. She's a friend. Siena, I require the use of your computer for Jazz."
"I got it right here, Optimus." Siena stated, as she held up the laptop.
Optimus informed Jazz what he needed to do as Optimus watched as Jazz downloaded all the things he needed to speak the language after it was done, the cable retreated into Jazz's case. "So Jazz, any word on our scout?"
"Not a beep from Bumblebee, Optimus." Jazz stated.
Optimus rubbed his nose plate before glancing down at his human friend. "Our scout is missing, Siena."
"What type of vehicle can he turn into?" asked Siena, looking at Optimus.
Optimus knelt down to look at her. "I am not sure what type of vehicle he took form of but he looks like a car."
Siena thought hard. "That is going to be hard; there are a lot of cars out there, Optimus. Maybe he will get a signal to you to let you know where he is at."
"One can only hope," Jazz stated.
"So will the others show up, it is only mid afternoon, there is plenty of time for him to send a signal, if he is able to." Siena replied, as they walked over the fence and headed back to the barn where they were hidden from the road itself.
Siena dealt with things around the barn while Jazz and Optimus watched or chatted about the planet that they were on and how lucky that they found a human who didn't really freak out about their appearance. Siena looked at them both. "I'm heading indoors now, Optimus. I'm pushing my limits in the sun right now. I'll be back in another couple earth hours."
Optimus nodded as they watched as she picked up her laptop and walked back to the house. "She was out here since early morning when couple intruders came in here to steal her horses and myself."
"What did you do?" Jazz asked. He knew their leader wouldn't transform in front of humans even thieves unless there was a good reason for it.
"I waited till they came to me and tried to open my door. I blew my horn, waking Siena up who raced out here with a slingshot slinging stones at the intruders chasing them away. She didn't even know that I was a robot till after she decided to take care of her horses sooner than she had planned and while she was within the barn, I transformed and since I knew she could most likely be trusted. She didn't even see me till she turned around and got scared by me." Optimus replied.
"And she probably ran off?" Jazz said.
Optimus shook his head. "Well, she did act scared of me till she realized that I was not trying to harm her. But after that, she got curious about me and I tried to talk to her but our language was the barrier that we couldn't breech till she realized that her mobile computer could possibly help with the barrier. It was after we spoke via her computer, she allowed me to search their World Wide Web for all of the languages that was on Earth and we were then able to talk to each other without the aid of her computer."
It was several more hours before all the Autobots who arrived on Earth in that area appeared at Siena's house. Ironhide was the last Autobots to appear at Siena's location after Optimus sent word through their radio if they are here; we are here and gave the location. Ironhide was thrilled to see the others but most importantly – Optimus.
After being hooked up to Siena's computer and being disconnected from it, Ironhide quickly got the low down on what has happened so far. "So there is no word from Bumblebee?"
"None as of yet, Ironhide," Optimus said.
It was no more than ten minutes later, all four Autobots went on alert as they chattered excitedly amongst themselves. Siena watched in awe as they all started to transform into their car and truck modes. "Optimus, be careful while on the roads tonight. Stay the speed limit in town and I hope you find your friend in good condition."
"Thank you, Siena. For allowing us to stay and use your internet," Optimus stated.
The others thanked her as well as they all looked at Optimus to wait the call out to move.
Optimus watched as Siena opened the gate before he spoke, "Autobots, roll out!"
They moved out of the pasture and down the road as fast as they could go legally, leaving their newfound human friend waving to them as they went to the place where they would meet up with Bumblebee.

This is the end of this story but the next one will be coming shortly.