Hello, ladies and gentlemen! Sorry for the wait, but here's the new slightly rewritten story of "A Thousand Years of Secrets". Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own any Transformers characters or Devices from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha! I only own my OCs!

Chapter 1: The Message from Shanghai

It still felt so strange to me. I used to have a boring life, living with my relatives in the US, studying at college, working with technology after college… Yeah, a normal life for a normal human being, but I wasn't exactly normal nor had a normal life now. Why, you wonder? Well… Let me explain briefly.

Two years ago, a couple of weeks after summer vacation, Sam bought a car in an old car lot, an old rusty Camaro to add, that turned out to be an robotic alien from a far distant planet called Cybertron. We met the Autobots, the good robots, who explained why they came to Earth in the first place. It turned out a powerful artifact from their planet was on our planet and they needed to find it before the Decepticons, the bad guys, or we would be doomed. Sam's great-great-grandfather's glasses were the key to the All Spark's location, but before we could give the glasses to the Autobots, we got kidnapped by the government Sector 7 who actually knew about the Cybertronians because they had found the leader of the Decepticons in the North Pole for almost 80 years ago. And…they had the All Spark hidden under Hoover Dam, where the base of the Sector 7 was located. Sam, Mikaela (who got involved in the situation) and I met up with a group of soldiers that had faced two Decepticons in Qatar at the same time as Sam and I found Bumblebee in the car lot. We fought together in Mission City to protect the All Spark from the Decepticons, which we somewhat failed. Sam and I used the artifact to kill Megatron when the situation was critical, so the Autobots couldn't use the All Spark to regain life again on Cybertron. Instead, they remained here on Earth while it came reports about Decepticons heading towards Earth and causing trouble for the mankind.

I became the ambassador for the Autobots and joined the military task force NEST with William, Robert, Maggie, and more people in Diego Garcia. But I wasn't doing paperwork all the time, no. I helped the Autobots and soldiers to hunt down the Decepticons with my artificial intelligent Device Raising Heart. I spent the rest of the time working in my small laboratory where I created new Devices for a future mage squad I planned to form when most of the Devices would be finished.

There were more Autobots in the team now than before, and I was in a relationship with Optimus for one and a half year. We were happy together and enjoyed each other's company. In battles, I was always his partner, but sometimes I teamed up with StarDivine, the Cybertronian I adopted during "The Mission City Incident".

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I sat in the carrier of an airplane's boot with Optimus's Alt mode parked in the middle of the plane. I typed on a holographic computer in front of me while I had an earpiece in my right ear to hear the reports from the NEST soldiers and commands from Pentagon's special NEST command room. The fake toxic spill was a success and the Chinese had evacuated the people from one of the many factory districts of Shanghai where we had received a signal of a rogue Decepticon.

"Give NEST team the go", I heard General Morshower say in my earpiece.

A map appeared on the holographic screen with several blinking dots to show where our team members were located and their movements, including StarDivine's. I knew she wasn't a small sparkling anymore, but I still worried about her. After all, I was her adoptive mother while Optimus was her adoptive father, or Sire in the Cybertronian language, and parents always worries about their children, right?

"Anything new?" Optimus's voice spoke from beside me as I felt an arm sneak around my waist. I smiled lightly and looked up into a pair of glowing neon blue eyes.

During the first year, the Autobots and I had worked on their Holoforms, a hologram to use as drivers in their vehicle forms.

Optimus's Holoform was a man in his early 30's and was a few inches taller than me (I was around 180 cm tall), with pale olive skin and broad shoulders. He had dark blue, almost black, tousled hair that trailed into a thin strip of hair along his chin into a trimmed goatee. He had a strong jaw and full dark blue eyebrows above his beautiful eyes. He wore a black shirt, a dark blue jacket with red flames slicing through the lower part, black jeans, and a pair of dark brown boots. He also wore a pair of black fingerless gloves and on each glove was the red Autobot symbol embroidered, just like on the right side of his jacket on the shoulder.

I returned my eyes to the holographic screen. "William's team seems to have found the Decepticon we received the sig-"

Before I could finish my sentence, I heard shouts and screams in my earpiece about the hiding Decepticon had woken up and started attacking the soldiers. The dots on the holographic screen, representing the NEST soldiers and Autobots, started moving around in such a mess I had a hard time to keep up with the information.

"Panther 1, requesting fire mission now!" Robert yelled in the earpiece.

"Gunships on station. Roll in hot!"

"Dog 1, now we are engaging."

I followed everything on the map when one of the NEST chopper dots disappeared, meaning it got shot down. I closed my eyes for a few seconds in respect and hoped the brave soldiers survived or, if not, they were in peace. I typed quickly on the holographic keyboard when a purple dot appeared out of nowhere nearby the harbor area.

I quickly touched a button on my earpiece. "Second Decepticon detected in Area D18! Send the sisters and the twins after him!"

"Affirmative!" William replied quickly.

The sisters kept it up with the second Decepticon while the twins somehow got slowed down, which didn't really surprise me. The dot representing Sideswipe made it to the second Decepticon now identified as Sideways, and offlined him. But what I mostly feared for was the first Decepticon, now identified by Raising Heart as Demolishor, had made it to the highway of Shanghai. Now civilians had a clear view about the Cybertronian while it literally mashed the vehicles and its passengers with his two big tires.

"Air support, we need Big Buddha and White Devil to deliver the drop now!" Robert requested.

"They need us now", I told Optimus before letting the holographic computer disappear.

"Then let us go", Optimus nodded as the two of us stood up and headed to the back of the airplane. Two soldiers walked over to us to prepare the airdrop.

Optimus grabbed my hand gently. "Are you ready?"

I smiled at him. "Anytime." I gave him a quick peck on his lips before he dismissed the Holoform. The headlights of Optimus's Alt mode blinked a couple of times to inform the soldiers he was ready to go. I just nodded to the soldiers, but they got the message.

The ramp of the airplane lowered to reveal the city filled with light in the darkness. A strong wing ruffled my two ponytails as I held Raising Heart in my right hand. One of the soldiers began to countdown for the airdrop.

"Clear to drop in 5…"

"Raising Heart."

"4."

"All right."

"3."

"Stand by."

"2."

"Ready."

"1."

"Set up!"

I ran down the ramp and jumped off as Optimus followed me from behind while transforming in the air. I changed into my Barrier Jacket and Raising Heart transformed into her Device Mode. A pair of pink wings appeared immediately on my shoes as we flew down towards the ground. Three giant parachutes popped out from Optimus's back to lightweight the fall. I took off immediately and flew up ahead.

I could see Demolishor far away from the spot where I would attack him with my strongest spell. I flew higher up and stopped on a spot as a cherry blossom magic circle appeared under my feet.

"Shooting Mode."

The gold section of Raising Heart's head dematerialized and reformed into a more square shape with two prongs. A few pink loops appeared around Raising Heart as I took aim and she collected energy.

Demolishor approached me fast with Optimus on his shoulder while shooting the giant Decepticon on his helm. Ironhide had climbed onto one of the Decepticon's wheels to shoot it off.

"Divine…"

I felt the sweat run down my jawline as Optimus and Ironhide jumped off from Demolishor.

"Buster!"

A large pink beam of energy launched from Raising Heart and hit the Decepticon on his chest plates. The beam was strong enough to push him off the road and crash into some kind of factory. Optimus and Ironhide jumped down from the road to get to the factory and shake out some last words from Demolishor. The two exhaust valves of Raising Heart opened and blew out hot steam as I flew over to the crowd of military people that gathered in front of the factory. Optimus and Ironhide walked inside as I flew over to them.

"Punk-aft Decepticon!" Ironhide spat at the Decepticon, blowing out steam from his nose plates.

"Any last words?" Optimus asked Demolishor with a deep yet dark voice.

Demolishor's head almost hung of his body while he spoke. "This is not your planet to rule! The Fallen shall rise again."

*The Fallen?* I thought confusedly.

"That doesn't sound good", I heard Robert murmur from the crowd below me.

"Not today", Optimus charged his cannon and shot Demolishor right on his face, offlining him permanently.

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The last part of every mission was the one I liked the least. While William and his team searched for our missing teammates, I used Raising Heart to send some reports to Ratchet who was in Diego Garcia with Jolt, Jazz, and Barricade so he could prepare the medical bay with the right tools, inclusive a whole bunch of wrenches ready to use anytime to hit his comrades on their helms in frustration. Arcee and Chromia supported Elita One who had a punctured tire, making her unable to pull her legs apart.

"Slag, that Sideways!" Elita One cursed. "How dare he puncture my tire?! In this way, I can't walk properly with my pedes!"

"Easy, Elita", Arcee spoke. "Be glad he didn't do any worse damage on you."

"Arcee's right", Chromia nodded. "And I wonder if you spend too much time with Barricade. You start to talk like him."

"Not at all!" Elita One's face plates moved in a way I knew she was blushing. "At least he won't be so worried when we return to NEST."

"When someone you love goes away on a dangerous mission, he/she will always worry", I spoke as I walked over to the sisters. "You don't know if they're going to get hurt or maybe die. That's how the wives feel for their husbands when they are in the military." I put my hand on Elita One's tire. "Especially the ones who are working for NEST." I nodded towards a group of soldiers that had found a dead body of a brave soldier under a pile of debris.

The sisters followed my glance and saw another group find another body. "When you put it in that way…", Arcee spoke quietly. "I can't help but feel sad for the femme humans who lost their Sparkmates in our war."

"You humans shouldn't have joined our war", Chromia agreed. "You're just losing humans one by one."

"We chose on our own to join your war to protect our planet and your new home!" I told them with a glare. "Don't try to make me feel like I did the wrong decision by joining you. Your war is my war now."

Elita One looked down at me with a smile. "I wonder how many other femme humans are like you; kind and caring."

"Not so many", I sighed before I removed the hand on Elita One's tire.

"Here comes the twins", Chromia said with an alert voice.

We heard the sounds of barking and arguing coming closer and I just sighed with a small smile. The twins never gave up when they were arguing.

"Yer too slow! How're we gonna win against da' slaggin' Decepticons if ya keep separatin' from meh in da curves?!" Mudflap punched Skids at the back of his helm.

"Ouch! Ah can't help dat, dumbaft! It would be much better if we had our own Alt modes!" Skids punched back in his twin's face.

"Oh, yeah? Ya want it in dat way?!" Mudflap launched himself onto Skids and they rolled around as they fought.

StarDivine drove over to the twins and transformed before pushing them apart, making the younglings fall down on their rear plates.

"I do not wish to hear anymore arguments from you two today. Help Sire and the mechs to clean up the parts of the two Decepticons", StarDivine said with a calm yet strict voice.

"Oka', oka', no need to be fussie, Star", Mudflap groaned as he stood up.

"Ah stay right here!" Skids crossed his arms and looked away pouting.

StarDivine put her servos on her hips plates and shook her helm. "I hope you two grow up soon."

"Can't help but agree, StarDivine", Elita One chuckled.

I giggled a little before Arcee and Chromia transformed their pede parts into legs. The blue femme ran over to her Sparkmate who gave her a bear hug which looked a bit painful.

"I still wonder how Chromia can stand out Ironhide's hugs", Arcee mumbled. "It looks painful."

"Yeah, and don't forget all the scratches on their paintjobs they always have after wild and violent lunar cycles", Elita One added.

"By that, you mean…", I started.

"Yes", Arcee nodded.

StarDivine looked a bit confused. "Uh… What was that about, Carrier?"

I turned my head to the golden Cybertronian. "I will tell you when we return to Diego Garcia."

StarDivine nodded, "Okay."

With that said, StarDivine and Arcee went off to help the mechs clean up the mess of the two Decepticons while I remained with Elita One. I looked around and saw Optimus talk with Sideswipe before the sword Autobot rolled off to help the others. Optimus turned to our direction and gave me and Elita One a small smile. Both I and Elita One returned the smile.

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When the cleaning up work was done, everyone prepared themselves to leave Shanghai. I sat inside Optimus's Alt mode, who was in the carrier of an airplane with StarDivine and some of the soldiers, writing a report about today's incident and other circumstances that were needed in the report. My eyelids were really heavy, but I refused to fall asleep. I wanted to finish the report first before I could rest.

The radio sparked to life before Optimus's voice filled my ears. "Stella, you should recharge. The report can be done when we arrive to Diego Garcia."

"I know, Optimus", I replied, nodding lightly while holding back a yawn. "But I'm almost done…" I kept typing on the holographic screen, watching how the words appeared piece by piece.

When I finally finished the report and sent it to Pentagon and the NEST base, I got up and went to the bed in the back of the cab and laid down.

Optimus's voice spoke through the radio once again. "I will wake you up when we reach Diego Garcia."

"Okay… Thank you, Optimus", I mumbled and closed my eyelids.

"You are welcome, Stella…"

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I found myself in the desert where I met the Primes two years ago. But something was wrong. I couldn't find them anywhere I looked.

"Hello?" my voice echoed at the deserted place. I didn't receive an answer.

"Is anybody here?" I shouted again. No reply.

*What happened?* I thought worriedly before I felt a sharp pain in my brain.

Flash of lights shone by my closed eyelids and I saw symbols flying all around in a spiral. I recognized them as Cybertronian symbols. Optimus and Ratchet had shown me their language in writing before. The first impression I got when I saw the symbols was that they reminded me of the Egyptian hieroglyphs.

The symbols flashed all around and made me dizzy. I wanted to open my eyelids and make them disappear, but it didn't work.

"Wh-What is this?" I panted and felt a bit ill. "S-Stop! Stop it!" But the symbols didn't disappear. They kept appearing in my brain and I grunted in pain.

*Wh-Why do I see these symbols?* I thought. *C-Could they be…a clue of The Fallen?*