By Your side

by shmowzow11

Sequel to 'At Least We Made It This far'. The Autobots, the Yeagers, and Desirée's family and friends are still adapting to a life without constant danger. No government run alien hunting factions. No Decepticons or alien bounty hunters. But there are still so many things they haven't figured out—who are the Creators? Why do they want Optimus Prime?

1. Chapter 1

Prologue

It had been over a year since KSI and Cemetery Wind had been taken down. Galvatron was still in hiding. The remaining Autobots still lived on the Yeager residence, and it was still hard adjusting to a normal life. There were no government operated alien-hunting organizations hunting us down. There were no alien bounty hunters sent by mysterious creatures trying to kill us. There were no traces of Decepticons anywhere. There was no danger, and it was almost suspicious. For a lot of us, we had to spend five years of our lives in constant danger and having it just stop—it was almost unreal.

Everything felt...normal.

We were trying our best, that was what mattered.

Everyone tried their best to put the past behind them—the slaughter of old comrades, the weight of not knowing whether or not humanity would come to re-accept the Autobots—every little thing that weighed down on one's heart and Spark, we tried our best to not think about it so frequently. But it was difficult, since, now, there are so many things that we still don't know.

Why the Creators were so hell-bent on getting Optimus; what were the Creators' plans when they got Optimus; were there still plans on detonating the Seed—too many things that just felt too overwhelming to think about.

We wanted answers and we wanted them as soon as possible. But without any kind of lead, it was almost impossible. For all we knew, we'd just have to live with the mystery and move on with our lives.

It'd be for the best, too, since a majority of us have children to take care of, to protect.

We all knew how violent humans had become towards the Transformers, how far we'd be willing to go to eliminate what we considered an "infestation" of "alien terrorists". But figuring out that there were half-Cybertronian children living amongst the humans—that there were human women willing to have children with Transformers—could cause some serious problems.

So we decided to keep that little part secret to the schools our children attended and to the public in general.

But enough of that. That's a story for another time.

I promise you that.

For now, we're all just trying to adapt to the world around us.

In the past year, we've undergone a lot, discovered a lot—things we didn't believe would be possible. But thanks to Joshua Joyce, who, surprisingly, became an ally of the Autobots, helped make some of the impossible possible.

You guys probably think this is annoying, huh? Me talking in riddles? I'll go ahead and wrap this up for you guys.

My name is Desirée Witwicky. I'm the Sparkmate of Optimus Prime, the mother of his children, the carrier of the All Spark's power, the foster daughter of Ron and Judy Witwicky, I suppose I could be considered an ex-NEST soldier, and I've spent so many years of my life fighting alongside the Autobots.

You all know the story of how I met the Autobots, and everything that's happened up until the downfall of KSI and Cemetery Wind. Let me tell you, everything that's happened in our year of normalcy, and everything that's bound to happen in the future, I'm sure, makes what happened then seem like nothing.

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QUICKY A/N:

HEY-YO! I HOPE THIS INTRO TO 'BY YOUR SIDE' IS OK. SORRY IF IT'S A LITTLE SLOPPY. IF YOU GUYS HAVE ANY IDEAS ON HOW IT COULD BE CLEANED UP A LITTLE, JUST REVIEW OR PM ME. HONESTLY, I DON'T MIND A LITTLE CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM. YOU ALL HELPED ME SO MUCH THROUGH 'AT LEAST WE MADE IT THIS FAR', I'M TRUSTING YOU GUYS TO HELP ME THROUGH THIS STORY, TOO! SINCE THE NEXT 'TRANSFORMERS' MOVIE ISN'T GOING TO BE OUT FOR A COUPLE YEARS, I'VE GOT A LOT OF FILLERS ON MY HANDS UNTIL THAT MOVIE COMES OUT.

SO, JUST A HEAD'S UP, I WON'T BE ABLE TO UPDATE AS FREQUENTLY AS I DID WHEN I WAS WRITING 'AT LEAST WE MADE IT THIS FAR'. I'M GOING TO BE STARTING COLLEGE IN THE NEXT WEEK AND I'M ALSO WORKING PART-TIME [I GOT A JOB, WOOHOO!] SO I'LL PROBABLY BE BUSY WITH COLLEGE WORK AND WORK, SO I'LL UPDATE WHEN I CAN FIND THE TIME TO SQUEEZE IT IN. BUT I HOPE YOU GUYS CAN LEAVE SOME HELPFUL REVIEWS!

ANYWHO, I DON'T OWN ANYTHING IN THE TRANSFORMERS UNIVERSE, NOR DO I OWN THE OC'S THAT WERE PREVIOUSLY LOANED TO ME IN 'AT LEAST WE MADE IT THIS FAR', THOSE OC'S BELONG TO THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS. JUST VERY QUICKLY, 'BY YOUR SIDE' IS SET A YEAR AFTER EVERYTHING THAT WENT DOWN WITH KSI AND CEMETERY WIND AND ALL THAT, SO I JUST NEED YOUR HELP WITH SOMETHING, KIND REVIEWERS. IT INVOLVES THE AGES OF DESIRÉE, SAOIRSE, EDEN—PRETTY MUCH THE AGES OF ALL THE MAIN HUMAN/HALF-HUMAN CHARACTERS FROM MY LAST STORY.

I AM GUESSING THAT IN 'AT LEAST WE MADE IT THIS FAR', THE STORY ENDED WITH DESIRÉE BEING IN HER LATE TWENTIES, I THINK IT'S ABOUT 28 OR 29 YEARS OLD.

SAOIRSE WAS BETWEEN 8-10 YEARS OLD.

EDEN WAS ABOUT 6-8 YEARS OLD [SHE'S 2 AND A HALF YEARS YOUNGER THAN SAOIRSE, I REMEMBER THAT].

AS FOR THE AGES OF BLOSSOM, MUSA, MYA, ROSALYN, ABBY, ALEC AND ATHENA [ABBY'S TWINS], ETC., MAYBE A ROUGH ESTIMATION...I JUST CAN'T REMEMBER FOR THE LIFE OF ME THEIR AGES. I HOPE YOU GUYS DON'T MIND. I THOUGHT I HAD IT, BUT I HONESTLY DON'T THINK I DO.

THIS AUTHOR'S NOTE IS WAY TOO LONG.

SO, STAY SNAPPY.

THANK YOU, ONE AND ALL.

READ, REVIEW, ENJOY!

YOURS TRULY,

~SMITHY