A/N: So, I had this thought earlier and I just had to do this. One shot starring Tessa.
"Ah, Tessa Yeager. You're late again," Miss Fleming said and frowned at the teenager. A few students giggled and Tessa glared at them.
"Sorry, Miss Fleming. I overslept," she said and sat in her seat.
"Uh huh," Miss Fleming said and turned to face the board. "Well, turn your textbooks to page 309. As we discussed yesterday, the Milky Way is one of the many galaxies in the universe which contains our solar systems. Can anyone name a planet other than the ones we are familiar with?"
A boy raised his hand and said, "Methuselah is one."
"Correct. Anyone else?"
"Um, I think one's called Elipson Eridani right?"
"Very good. And what about you Tessa? Do you know any other planets?" Miss Fleming asked. Tessa mumbled something under her breath that nobody could hear. "Can you repeat that?" the teacher asked. "I couldn't hear you."
"Cybertron is one," Tessa said not making eye contact with anyone.
"I've never heard of that planet before."
"It was the home planet of the Autobots and Decepticons before there was a civil war and the All-Spark, which was a cube that created life, was lost in space and it caused Cybertron to turn into a wasteland. So the transformers had to abandon their home and seek a new one while searching for the cube which led them to Earth," Tessa explained. "I'm sure you know the rest of the story." A few kids giggled and whispered to each other while the teacher frowned at Tessa.
"Miss Yeager, you do know that we are not allowed to speak about them in public," she said.
"Than how are we supposed to understand them if we aren't allowed to learn from them?"
"Because we don't need to! They're different from us," a kid said and rolled her eyes. There were murmurs of agreement from the students.
"But they feel and act like us. Do you know what they've had to go through because of us? They lost many comrades in battle just to protect a tiny species and I couldn't even get over my mother's death as a child," Tessa said as her frustration began to build. "Can I ask you all a question? If you had a brother that had evil intentions for Earth, would you want to stop him? Would you do anything to stop him from destroying this world?" There were no replies. Tessa stood up and walked to the front of the room. "Optimus Prime, the leader of the Autobots and the last knight of Cybertron, had to kill his own brother multiple times in order to save us. His older brother betrayed him and he is considered a threat to Cybertron for protecting us. It takes a lot of courage to do what he did and hope that you can all learn from this that just because we're a different species does not mean that we're completely different. We have more similarities than you may think and there's more than meets the eye." She turned to Miss Fleming for her to say something.
"How do you know all of this exactly?" the teacher asked.
"I've lived with them for a few months now and I've heard about their experiences. They've gone through a lot to save us and we should return the favor by giving them respect instead of trying to kill them," Tessa said.
"If they came from Cybertron, then were they built by someone? If so, then who made them?" a student asked.
"Yes, they came from Cybertron and they were built. But we don't know who their creators are yet. We're still looked for answers. Thank you for allowing me to speak Miss Fleming and I hope that all of you will think about what I said," Tessa said and sat down. She would tell her father about this after school. He needed to hear about this.