After Optimus left chapter 1
Disclaimer: I only own my human and Cybertronian OCs. I do not own the official Transformers characters or the movies in general. That honor goes to Paramount Pictures and Hasbro.
(Peaches' POV)
It was only 2 weeks until summer and at the beginning of this month, I had heard news about Transformers once again, battling in China. I hadn't contacted my fellow Autobots in a long time for safety reasons, except for a recent message from Optimus Prime in a dream a few nights ago.
I've homeschooled my 3 human kids since the Act of Congress which dissolved NEST. Sideways and I had kept quiet and just took care of the kids for the most part so we did not have to do anything to leave Earth until our human kids grewup and moved out barring anything overturning said Act of Congress. The President had declared that Sideways and I were not to be bothered nor were our Cybertronian kids to be subjected to the same thing since our family wasn't considered a threat. We did still use our human names when meeting others just in case someone was planning to go against the order to leave us be. We were not taking any chances. Knockout, the ex-Decepticon medic who acted as our family doctor, also used a human name for his holoform when he went out.
On this particular day, Brains had contacted me via calling the cell phone I used when in my human form; I was a Pretender and the only one left other than Crystal and Silver Dollar, my biological children, who were slowly but surely learning how to transform and about their heritage. I was in the kitchen, in my human alt mode, when I got the call. "Hello, how may I help you?" I said as I answered the phone.
"Peaches, you won't believe this! We got new human allies and-well, it's a long story." He replied. "You have to come to our location so that we can tell you more!"
"Whoa, whoa, hold on. New human allies? Can I speak to them? Do you want me to meet them?" I was confused.
"Yes, let me ask them, and yes for your answers." Was the former Decepticon drone's reply.
There was a brief moment of silence at the other end before a man's voice said "Hello?"
"Hello; to whom am I speaking?" I was curious.
"Cade Yeager. Are you Peaches-er, Paige?" he asked.
"Yes; you can call me by either name. Are you one the humans that Brains was telling me about?" I said politely.
"I am; the Autobots want me to meet you and your family since they want some help with some things that they think they'll need Cybertronain help with. I said that maybe a week or two of visiting from you would probably be the best since I need to see all of you in person and a few of them haven't met you yet." Cade said; he sounded very wary but kind of open to the idea of meeting me.
"Well, we'll have to leave our dog with a family friend but my family can come and visit for 2 weeks; if it has to be longer, it's no problem. My kids are homeschooled anyways, that is, my human kids that I adopted." I explained. "So, we will probably be leaving tomorrow since its 2 days of driving time from where we are right now to get to your location, I think-where are you?" I was confused about whether to trust the Yeager family or not but was willing to give them a chance.
Once his address was given, I wrote it down on a piece of paper. "Hopefully, you won't have too much trouble finding us." He added.
"I don't think we'll have any trouble; thank you Mr. Yeager." I replied.
"Just Cade please; I'll see you when you arrive." He said.
"See you then." I turned off my phone. It was a bit odd that the 'bots had me speak to Cade over said phone before meeting him in person and he had seemed to be trying to sound calm despite his nervousness. I couldn't blame him for feeling like that though. I didn't know what to make of it.
Later, I explained to Sideways and our children, Tyler, Aaron, Abby, Crystal, and Silver Dollar that we were going on a family trip.( Knockout was off street racing again but I had given him the day off anyways and always paid him in expensive wax to take care of us so he didn't technically need any prize money he got but that's another story..)
"Yay! Where are we going?" Abby asked; she was having Crystal brush her brown hair while talking to me. The two of them were about 5 years old now with Silver Dollar being 4. Aaron was now 10 years old and Tyler was 12 years old. Crystal was blonde in her human form and Silver Dollar had black hair as a human; these 2, being my only Cybertronian children, each took after us so to speak coloring wise. Crystal looked a bit look me and Silver Dollar looked a bit like Sideways. Tyler had a lighter brown shade of hair while Aaron was blonde.
"We're going to Texas to meet up with the other Autobots for a visit; they have some new friends they want us to meet." I replied.
"How far away is that?" Silver Dollar asked.
"A long way away. I'm willing to drive that far though" Sideways replied; I had told him over com link more details that I did know and about the phone call from Brains and Cade Yeager speaking to me.
"When do we leave?" Tyler wanted to know.
"We leave tomorrow; everybody start packing. I've got to call Ashley and see if she can take care of Snowball while we're gone." I said.
Snowball came into the kitchen after me, having heard her name. She was white all over, hence the name, and was a pretty friendly dog. I petted her and then called Ashley, my former human coworker from NEST. She had moved out of her family's home and was now living about half an hour away from the small town that I was living in, specifically one in the state of Virginia.
"Hey Peaches, what's up?" she said.
"Well, not much. I know this is short notice but my family has to take a two week trip to Texas and I was wondering if you could take care of Snowball during that time." I replied.
"Sure I can but isn't it risky?" she asked.
"Well, we're meeting up with the other Autobots; plus, we're not allowed to be bothered by government agents or anything, remember?" I asked.
"Oh yeah; sorry I forgot about that." Ashley sighed with relief. "Anyways, I hope the trip goes well."
"Me too; we just got to get packed and we'll drop off Snowball tomorrow on our way out of town." I stated.
"Great; I'll talk to you then." Ashley said. "Bye."
"Bye." I ended the call and started packing things up for the long journey. It took almost 3 hours to get everyone packed up and ready to go in the morning and by then, Knockout had returned and had been informed of what was going on.
"Do you think you can watch the place while we're gone?" Sideways asked.
"Of course; it's going to be just as you left it when you return." The red medic answered, using that same self centered tone of voice he usually did when talking to someone.
"Okay; good to know." I yawned and went off to mine and Sideways' room, transforming into my robot form along the way to use the washracks. The kids had already been cleaned and I just needed to clean myself. Sideways came in with me to "help" of course and soon we were both in bed after being cleaned and dried. The water had been turned off already so that we weren't wasting anything.
"So, do you think these new human allies will like us?" Sideways asked, suspicious of them and slightly paranoid.
"I think they will. We'll just have to wait and see what happens." I shrugged and soon fell into recharge, my sparkmate cuddling me. Knockout was recharging too as were the kids and our dog and the security system was active and working well.
That night I had a dream, specifically one that I could only have with my commander since he had a bond of adopted creator/creation with me; it was of Optimus Prime coming to me and saying "Peaches, this is quite possibly the last time I will ever be able to speak to you in any way, shape, or form." he had explained.
"Why? What's going on?" I asked.
"There is a bounty on my head and those who want me dead seem to actually be the ones who created our race. At least, that is their claim. I do not know how true it is but I am going to confront them. I might not survive this confrontation. That is why I had to leave Earth and leave Bumblebee in charge of the other Autobots." Optimus Prime explained. "Ratchet would have been my next choice as commander had he not been slaughtered."
I was in shock. "Ratchet…no…he can't be." I refused to believe it.
"I'm afraid it's true that he is indeed off line" My leader replied, the pain in his voice obvious. "Keep protecting your family Peaches and give our new human allies a chance; they have done so much to help me and the others."
I cried and hugged him tightly. "I'm going to miss you. I don't know if I can take it." I admitted.
Optimus returned my hug. "Peaches, I believe you can in fact 'take it'. You have survived many rough things that some could only dare to try to imagine for themselves. You have a very strong spark and have not given up your optimism completely and that is admirable. 'Every storm runs out of rain' as that one Earth song goes." He assured me. "Please promise me that you will keep protecting your family and help the other Autobots when they need it regardless of what happens next to any of us and that you will keep moving forward."
"I promise that I will do that and never forget you or everything you've taught me." I said through my tears.
"I am proud of you as well Peaches and I will not forget you either. Farewell, until that day when all are one." Optimus hugged me one last time before my dream ended.
I woke up in tears and Sideways hugged me close as I explained my dream to him.
"I know it's not going to be the same with no Optimus around but we'll have to do what we can to make the best of it" My sparkmate said.
"I know Sideways; it's just so painful remembering everything and not knowing what his ultimate fate will be." I replied.
Sideways kissed me and cuddled me close. "I can't say it will be all right but I will say that you need to remember that you're not alone in dealing with this." He reminded me.
I smiled a bit. "Thank you love."
Soon I could go back into recharge though just barely. I was worried all night about what Cade and the other new human allies would think of me. Usually, I didn't worry about what others thought, which was strange...
Author's note: I hope this is a good start. I just got the idea after seeing Transformers: Age of Extinction last night.