"The Long Road" Chapter one- The Breakthrough

[Highram]

Rubbing his overloaded optics, Ramp-X stared at the clock. I better get going or I'll be late he thought as he dropped the pieces of scrap metal he'd been fidling with on the desk. He left and shut his eyes tightly as the automatic door wooshed shut, and hoped no one had heard.
He quickly made his way to a nearby bar, avoiding others optics as he power walked. He dare not risk his vehicle mode in case his propellers and landing awoke any of the neighbour hood. Almost there. Almost there. Ramp-X stopped in front of a side street of the side of an empty bar and checked that no one was following him, if he led one of the colony forces to the meeting, his chance at a new beginning was gone.
Silently stepping out of the simulated starlight, he knocked on a conceled door hidden amongst a load of scrap and empty energon cans.