It's been 6 days since Lockdown scared Christian, and it's made the other bullies leave me alone at school. But Lockdown has grown another 8-12 inches, it's starting to concern me. How am I gonna be able to hide him now? He's up to my knees, where am I supposed to hide him? Lockdown doesn't fit under my bed anymore, so that's out of the question.

I heard a beeping coming from Lockdown, a holographic image of a female Cybertronian with a tail, black and blue paint job and green eyes appeared.

"What is it Stormvine?" Lockdown asked his daughter.

"Where are you?" Stormvine asked worriedly.

"How can I really explain this?" Lockdown asked himself.

"Lockdown was hit with a shrink ray and he's slowly growing back to his original size." I say.

Lockdown widened his eyes as I said that out loud. I shrugged my shoulders, there was dead silence. Then I heard a loud sigh.

"Only you could, Dad..." Stormvine said in an aggravated tone.

"Hi Stormvine!" I said. Stormvine's hologram turned around to see me.

"Who's that? How does she know my name?" Stormvine asks.

"I'm Ariel, I found your father when he was only 8 inches tall. I'm not gonna hurt him at all, don't worry. I've been keeping him safe from my parents." I assured her.

"You have? Thank you, he's all I have." She said sadly.

"Ariel? Who are you talking to?" My father opened the door.

He looked right at Lockdown, who is now 2 feet tall. Stormvine's image gasped and got into a fighting stance, my father had such wide eyes.

"WHAT IS GOING ON IN HERE?!?!" My father yelled in panic.

"DADDY!! It's not what it looks like!!" I said fearfully.

"That toy has grown a FOOT in height!" My daddy stepped back.

"My father is not a toy!" Said Stormvine angrily.

My father stared at Stormvine's hologram, terrified. Lockdown took out one of his guns and shot my daddy. Daddy groaned and fell face first into the carpet.

"Lockdown! What was that?! You didn't kill him did you?!" I was now scared for my daddy.

"It's one of my favorite weapons, a Knockout Ray. Your father is fine, just out cold." Said Lockdown.

I sighed of huge relief, now my father won't remember seeing Lockdown or Stormvine at all. Stormvine relaxed and stood up straight. I glance back at her.

"Too close, be more careful." She said sternly.

"Believe me, we will." I said to her.

"I gotta go, bye Dad and Ariel." Stormvine said.

"Bye sweetie." The hologram ended.

"Does Stormvine have an attitude at all?" I ask.

"What? No." Lockdown said.

"Just curious if she acted like a teenager." I held my hands up in surrender.

Skip to next day

I was sitting in art class, worrying my butt off about how Lockdown is at home by himself. He could get into anything at the house and possibly make my parents think there was a burglar or something. I was breathing deeply and trying to calm myself down.

"You okay, Ariel?" Cassidy asks me.

"I'm worried that Lockdown will rummage through things and won't put them back." I whispered.

"Why?" She asked.

"Because my parents will think there's a burglar in the house, meaning the cops will get involved and find him! I just talked to Stormvine yesterday and said I would keep her father safe." I whispered.

"Who's Stormvine?" Cassidy asked.

"Lockdown has a daughter, she's a teenager." I explained.

"Oh."

Skip to end of the day

I grabbed my stuff and went out the door. I'm walking home alone today because Cassidy went to the mall with her mom, but it's not so bad when I see Christian talking to a few of his friends. He turned and saw me, I swear his expression looked like he'd seen Lockdown at full size.

"Hey Christian." I smiled a friendly smile.

"Y-You don't have that thing with you, do you?" His friend Brandon asked.

"No. But the 'thing' is the real Lockdown from Age of Extinction, and he's also my friend. Remember when you saw me holding him at only twelve inches tall? Well, now he's 2 feet and growing back to thirty feet. If you so much as touch me if to hurt me, he'll kill you." I smiled as I walked away.

"And if you tell anyone, he'll kill you too." I said a little loudly.

All I heard from them was some whimpers and 'oh no', I laugh inwardly. I keep walking to my house without looking back. I walk up the concrete pathway into the house, I look around to see nothing out of place in the kitchen or living room.

Phew. Let's go check up in my room, I'm sure he's there. Unless he's in my parents room, which I'm not ruling out just yet. I went up the stairs and checked their room first, he's not there. I kinda figured. My bedroom door was closed, I left it open this morning. Lockdown must have closed it, no big deal.

I opened the door and screamed as green eyes were right in my face, I fell backwards in such surprise and shock. Lockdown had to have grown at least 2 feet today, because he's now around my height. He offered me his hand to help me up, I slowly took it.

"Uh Lockdown? You grew...quite a bit." I say, still dumbfounded.

"I know. I'll be back to normal size in no time." He helped me up.

I stood as tall as I could and Lockdown's green eyes met mine. I'm around 4'6, now he's at my exact height.

"You're as tall as me! No fair! It took me 10 years to get this tall! For you it only took a day." I pouted.

Lockdown chuckled at my little tantrum as he took out a device, I don't know what it is. But it was beeping and I saw a blue screen with a red dot, maybe it's a tracking device.

"It seems that there's Energon nearby." Lockdown said.

"What? Where?" I ask him.

"Not too far from this house. I'm going to go look for it before some human stumbled upon it." Lockdown put the tracker down.

"Ooh! Can I come?" I ask hopefully. He looked at me strangely.

"You want to look for Energon? You're only a child, I don't know how much there is." Lockdown argued.

"I'm keeping you a secret from my parents, you owe me. I'm going with you." I put my foot down and crossed my arms.

"Fine." Lockdown walked out of my room and down the stairs, I followed him.

He went towards the back sliding door to the backyard. My backyard goes into the woods, I'm not allowed to go without someone I trust. Yeah, I'll be fine with Lockdown. I close the back door as Lockdown started for the woods.