When I awoke the next morning, I quickly got up and went down to eat breakfast, of course, it took me some time because I Didn't have my morning coffee yet. So it wasn't too surprising that I didn't notice my parents already sitting down at the table.
"Good morning sweetie, why are you up this early?"
"Cant. Talk. Need. Coffee." I said in a sleepy tone. Then I went over to the coffee machine and made myself a cup. After it got ready I sat down on the table and took a sip. "Oh yeah, that hits the spot. Good morning mom, good morning dad. How's it going?"
"Pretty good sweetie, but you still haven't answered my question."
"Oh yeah well since we're not going to China I decided to go to work. No reason for not doing it. Besides, I so or so have nothing to do here."
Then my dad got a cheeky smile. "Are you sure that you don't want to go and drive your car?"
"No dad I don't only want to drive my new awesome car. I actually want to go to work to finish up some of the recordings that we did with Soundwave last night. I think that you can understand, right?"
"Okay then just make sure you don't crash it." And with that said I was able to return back to my coffee. After I finished it I made myself a quick breakfast and then I got dressed, walked out the door and went up to Soundwave.
"Good morning Soundwave. How did you sleep?"
Then he answered in a slightly sleepy tone. "Do you know what a contortionist is, well imagine being that and sleeping literally with your head between your legs, let's just say that I didn't sleep too well" While he was talking I stepped inside of him and started up the car.
"Okay, then big guy you take a little snooze while I drive us to my workplace. Okay."
"Okay" And with that he was silent the only thing that I was heaing was a light snoring sound eminating from the dashboard. After about twenty minutes of me driving I finally reached my workplace and since the streets were full I drove down an empty alleyway and stopped the car.
"Hey big guy wake up we're here."
"Uh huh what? Oh okay then get out and I'll transform." He still sounded sleepy, but he definitely sounded a lot better. Then he transformed into his human form with all of his minicons on his back. Then he stretched and I heard a couple of popping sounds and then he said: "Man that feels so much better."
"Okay, okay, you feel better now. Come on let's go before I'm late."
"Yeah, yeah, I'm coming, I'm coming." And with that, we left the alleyway and made our way towards my shop.
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"Welcome to Scratch Records. The best place to sate your music needs." The place was basically a large room with instruments bolted to the wall with a counter straight to the right of the door.
"Nice place I definitely didn't expect for it to be this big or that it would be filled with so many different kinds of instruments." He was right about that I had every single kind of instrument from classical to electronic. "Well this is definitely a nice place, but why did you bring me here?"
"Eh I needed some more hands around here so basically I'm telling you that you are the new employee of Scratch Records. Congratulations." After that, he looked thoughtful and then he asked.
"Okay. Do I need a uniform or something now?"
"No, no, just come with me to the back we'll finish off the paperwork and then we can start the day." And we did so. The paperwork was monotonous, but it needed to be done in case Filthy Rich decided to come by to inspect things. After we finished I noticed that Soundwave was looking at a pair of broken electric drums. Then he walked over to them and picked them up. He inspected them and then he asked.
"Hey Vinyl do you need these?"
"Uhm no they are broken. They have been for a long time. Why do you need them?"
"I want to try something stupid. I'll understand if you need them it's just..." Then I raised my hand and said.
"Just take them. I've been trying to fix them for a while and I was unsuccessful, So you can take them." After that, he smiled and placed them on the table.
"Okay Vinyl are you prepared to see something cool." I nodded. "Then step behind me and watch this." Then I stepped behind him to watch. After that, his chest opened to reveal a glowing core inside. Then a little piece of the core went inside of the drums and then it began to morph. The drums changed colour from a pristine white to a complete black and the same symbol that I had on my key appeared in the middle of them. It looked something like this by the end of this.
After that, his chest closed and then he said. "Welcome to the land of the living Ravage." With that said the drums began to change shape and after he finished, there stood a black robotic panther. It roared. "Good morning to you too. Vinyl meet Ravage. Ravage meet Vinyl." With that Ravage roared again and raised one of his front paws. I shook it and said.
"Nice to meet you too. Man Soundwave this was definitely cool, but now it is time to get to work, so put Ravage away and come to the front desk after that I'm going to open the store for business okay."
"Okay. Well, you heard her Ravage return." Then he returned to his drum mode and attached himself to the bottom of the speakers. "Well, lets go then boss lady."
"That's the kind of attitude that I like. Let's go." And then we both left the room and went to the store part. I lifted up the metal curtains he went to the door and flipped the sign to open and then he went to the storage room and went to cleaning away all the dust. They have been working for about four hours and It was a typical day with not a to many customers with a lot of time to listen to my music, but then I saw Octavia enter the store and she didn't look happy.
"Well look what we have here its misses I'm going on vacation for the whole week. So how was it in China?"
"Look, Octavia, I can explain. My parents had something come up at work, so we couldn't go as for me not telling you. I kinda had a couple of things came up. I had a new client and you know how that goes." After that, I heard Soundwave say.
"Hey Vinyl where do I put this piece of paper after I finish writing everything down." After that Octavia grabbed me by my T-shirt and pull me towards her.
"Who is he?"
"That Octavia is my latest client and the newest employee of Scratch Records, Soundwave." Then I turned to the back room. "Hey Soundwave come to the storefront there's someone I'd like you to meet someone." Then Octavia let go of my shirt and out he came.
"Ah hello there customer my name is Soundwave. How can I help you?" After some time of Octavia checking him out, she said.
"Well, at least he is polite. Hi, my name is Octavia Melody nice to meet you."
"Ah, you're Octavia, well nice to meet you. Vinyl here already told me something about you and I'm glad to have finally met you in person." This was going well. But then she looked at me and then back to him.
"What did she tell you?" Uh oh.
"Well she told me that you two are girlfriends and that you can be stuck up at times, but other then that nothing much." Then she turned to me so quick that I thought her neck was going to snap. After that, her eyes narrowed and I swear she grew a bit taller.
"So you told him that I was stuck up eh, well let me show you how stuck up I can be." After that, she lunged, but thank god Soundwave stopped her. "Let me go, I'm going to tear her head off!"
"Now, now miss Melody there is no need for violence. Yes, what she said was mean, but that is why I want to see what you are really like and what I'm picking up is someone who gets angry really quick over the smallest of things. Now could you please calm down." After that she did. Then her eyes widened and she quickly apologized.
"Oh, I'm so sorry Soundwave I didn't mean to look like that it's just that I don't like to be called stuck up. I just snapped. I hope that you can forgive for my outburst." Then Soundwave smiled.
"Eh don't worry about that all is forgiven. Right Vinyl?"
I Quickly answered "Yeah sure."
"Well now that we have that settled why don't we go and grab a quick lunch. There I can get to know you better and we can get some food. Kill two birds with one stone. So what do you two think?"
"Sure I'm down for that. What about you Octy?" First, she muttered something under her breath and then she said.
"Sure I could go for some lunch lets go" Then Soundwave went to pick up his backpack made of minicons and then we were out the door and went to Sugar cube corner.