Transformers: the bonds of family chapter 2

Disclaimer: I only own the Wilson siblings, Emerald and Lavender. The TFs belong to Hasbro and anything else referenced in here belongs to the respective owners.

(Optimus Prime's POV)

I had nearly forgotten what peace felt like; the war against the Decepticons had been going on for centuries, way too many for any one of my teammates or myself to count. Still, it was hard to believe that all of us were headed toward a planet that was, for the time being, mostly peaceful in a sense. I had to admit that "Earth" was a strange name but I would eventually grow used to it and the equally strange life forms that populated that world.

I turned to Ratchet and ordered him to find a landing spot where we could avoid any casualties if at all possible. Jazz and his sparkmate Emerald were to research vehicle modes to find the best ones suited for everyone on our team, Ironhide began making sure that everyone's weapons were in working order and once we landed, Bumblebee was to do some espionage and see what the Decepticons were up to.

"Don't worry Prime; we're not going to let them ruin this place. You can always trust us to keep the 'cons off of our helms." Jazz assured me.

I did not reply, instead sighing sadly but still filled with hope. I knew Earth was not perfect but it still needed protecting, no matter the cost.

"Oh slag, we're going to crash!" Ratchet cursed a few minutes later.

That had been what happened; every one of us Autobots were thrown about and landed in various positions once the ship had stopped moving after hitting the ground. Ratchet had fallen off of the chair he was in, Emerald and Jazz landed in awkward positions on top of each other, Ironhide was against one wall and Bumblebee had not quite fallen as he had landed on top of Teletran One. I had also been thrown to the floor and had gone part of the way down the hall towards the back of the ship. It didn't hurt that much as we were able to take more damage than non-mechanical beings.

Emerald had gotten up first and came to assist me. "Are you all right sir?" she asked, offering a hand to help me up.

"I am fine Emerald." I said, as she helped me up and we went to check on everyone else.

We were all fine as only minor injuries had resulted from our crash. Jazz then showed us images of Earth vehicles that we would take.

'I think that truck is perfect." I said smiling. "Protocol however is that femmes choose first, then the rest of us based on rank. Emerald, go ahead."

"Thank you." She replied. The green femme scanned the image of a green van and then transformed into it. I then transformed into a truck similar to what had been pictured, Jazz became a Pontiac Solstice, Ironhide a GMC Topkick, Ratchet an ambulance and finally Bumblebee became a Chevy Camaro.

"Autobots explore the area and keep an optic sensor out for the Decepticons. Don't draw any attention to yourselves and do not engage the enemy without backup." I ordered. "Is that clear?"

"Yes sir" my teammates replied.

"Transform and roll out!" I told them, and then we all did so.

Not much had happened that night but we did discover that we were in a small town called "Lanceville" named after a man named Lance Wilson, who had been known for being an honest and fair man and had served as the sheriff for nearly 30 years until he had suffered a tragic death at the hands of an insane murderer, who had never been caught.. His great-great-grandchildren still lived in the area but they seemed to not care to have any attention given to them, according to an interview that had been published in a newspaper several months ago. I was not aware that I would meet those humans until it did happen the next day…

(Jazz's POV)

I was very excited about this next solar cycle, you dig? I wanted to know more about the humans that lived here. I had stopped at a place they called a "playground" where the younglings were all playing together while their caretakers watched them and talked with friends. I had never seen anything like it before but I had patrol to go on and couldn't stay longer. I caught up with Emmy again on the way back to the Ark and said "Can you believe this? Every one of those kids playing together and trying to include everyone."

"You aren't born prejudiced; you'd have to be taught it; those kids seem to have been taught better." She replied as we both drove in and then transformed into robot mode again. "You remember when you first met me; you were so nervous because you thought I was going to judge you based on your accent!"

"Yeah, I remember love." I told her.

(Flashback, 5 million years ago, about a million years before the war started)

(Switch, 3rd person POV Jazz)

He had been taking a walk after a long day and was ready to eat something. Jazz had just walked into Lavender's Baked Goods, the first and so far only shop for sweet things on Cybertron. The items included, of all things, energon cookies, energon goodie cake, cyber-donuts, energon lollipops, and oil cupcakes. Sure, the future Autobot SIC wasn't normally one to stop and get treats for himself but still, the energon cookies were good.

Jazz went in and saw the owner, Lavender herself, standing behind the counter. The light purple femme had been sparked a neutral and was known for helping anyone regardless of faction symbol. That femme wasn't the one who caught his eye though; instead he saw another one. She was colored green over most of her frame, with white forelegs and feet, and white hands and forearms. She had a smile on her face and was talking to Lavender; the 2 seemed to be old friends. Jazz picked up a few energon cookies and went up to the counter to pay for them.

"Hey there handsome, nice shine." The green femme said as she turned to him.

"Darn, you're so lucky Emerald. He's been staring at you for at least 60 nano-kliks" Lavender stated in surprise. She then turned to Jazz. "Those will be 10 credits" she told him, referring to the energon cookies.

The silver mech paid for them and then froze up and got nervous; what if she thought he had sounded funny when he tried to ask her out?

"Well?" Emerald said.

"Name's Jazz. I was going to ask, do you want to go and see the meccha-soccer game later? Jazz asked.

The green femme smiled. "Of course I would."

They both exited talking to each other, with Lavender watching and smiling. She had yet to find a sparkmate of her own but wasn't too disappointed. After all, it wasn't everyday one witnessed a romantic scene or in some cases, became a part of one…

(End flashback, switch to 1st person Jazz)

I couldn't help but smile at that memory. If only those days hadn't ended too soon.

When the war started, Emerald and I both decided to join the Autobot army. It hadn't quite worked out though so we were eventually trained as Cyber-ninjas. I won't brag about how good we are too much but if you could see my mate's moves, you'd know not to mess with her and would probably be pretty impressed.

Optimus had been impressed with both of us though and hence we had been chosen to come with him to wherever we needed to be to stop the Decepticons. I'm not as thrilled about battle as Ironhide gets but still, those punks need to know whose boss and Emmy and I are going to tell them one way or another.

Later, we had to out again this time because the 'cons had started attacking the park and a lot of humans were scattering for safety.

"Damn, that's weak of them!" I shouted.

"Jazz, watch that mouth of yours or I'll disable your vocalizer. We are going into an area where younglings are known to be and they don't need to hear that." Ratchet told me.

"Autobots transform and roll out!" Optimus Prime ordered us.

(Switch to Optimus Prime's personal log)

As I sit here typing this, I have to wonder what did fate have in store for us with the encounter with those children? Before I begin to ponder that though, I must explain exactly what happened.

During the battle, all the humans had fled to safety save for 2 children who seemed lost. I was the only one who had seen them at first and knew that they needed to be taken out of the line of fire. Blackout attempted to fire on them but I tackled him and then shouted to the humans "Go! It's not safe here!"

The 2 of them obeyed me and the battle continued for only 5 more minutes as Megatron called over his comlink to his troops and told them to retreat. Blackout, Barricade, Starscream, Knockout and Frenzy then promptly transformed with the 3rd of the 3 Decepticons saying "We'll finish this later".

I then looked around at the damage; nearly every play structure had been destroyed, several benches had been tossed about and garbage blew all over the place from waste receptacles that had been knocked over. Ratchet found no injured or deceased humans though, a miracle if I ever experienced one.

"We've got to get out of here before more of them see us." Ironhide said.

"Understood old friend but we will have to take whoever did see us back to the ship." I replied, looking over to the 2 young children who seemed to be reuniting with their 6 older siblings.

"Dude, what just happened?" one of the 2 older males asked.

"That's something out of a movie or something." One of the young female humans said, completely in shock.

"I am not going anywhere with anybody." The oldest one of them said.

"You don't have much of a choice." Bumblebee pointed out.

We transformed into our alternate modes; Emerald opened the doors in vehicle mode, and the children reluctantly got in, the said doors closing behind them. I was interested in finding out more about them as they had to find out more about the other Autobots and I. The drive wasn't that long but it did feel like it; I had not wanted us to be exposed like that but that could not be helped. I would have to find some way to explain to the human government what went on as I had the feeling that the children would be more accepting of it.

Upon arriving at the ship, the 8 humans got out of Emerald so that she could transform with the rest of us. Only one of the females got out with slight difficult but was helped by the oldest female and the boy who had first said something to his earlier. Once she was out, every one of my teammates and I transformed into our bi-pedal modes and walked inside, the humans not far behind us.

"Is he going to hurt us?" the twin to the female who had been the 2nd one to speak to us asked in a whisper.

"He and the others would have done it already if that was their intention." The dark colored male explained.

That was very true and it amazed me that one young human was wise enough to know that. It was not the only surprise though; we got to the main room and they all huddled closer together.

"It is all right little ones; no harm will come to you while you are here." I told them. "My name is Optimus Prime and my team and I are autonomous robotic organisms from the planet known as Cybertron. Or you can call us Autobots."

The oldest girl walked up to me and said "My name is Lauren Caitlin Wilson but you may call me Lauren for short." She then introduced her own siblings. "This is Terrence Thomas Wilson, our adopted brother but still a family member nonetheless. He prefers Terry"

"It's an honor to meet all of you." Terry said as he walked around and shook each of my teammate's hands before coming to me.

"The honor is all ours." I told him.

"Name's Kyle Phillip Wilson and I'm the best basketball player in school." The 2nd of the older boys proudly stated.

"Stop bragging, Kyle." His youngest sister said getting annoyed. "They don't even know how to play the game."

"That's why I want to teach them if we ever have time to do that." Kyle smirked.

"We will see if anyone has any time for that." Emerald said.

"Hello; I'm Lisa Rachael Wilson." The 2nd of the red haired humans was somewhat shy as she rolled her wheelchair around to take a good look at everybody.

"Hello there." Ratchet told her, trying to not to stare.

"Don't worry about me; I was born not able to walk and I'm used to it." Lisa sighed, seemingly not wanting any pity although I did pity her a little bit.

"Hi, I'm Darcy Linda Wilson and this is my twin sister, Marcella Louisa Wilson but call her Marcy" the next girl said.

Marcy then saluted us in an unusual way and then became embarrassed when we stared at her. "Oops; didn't realize that you didn't know about the Vulcan salute."

"And what is that?" Ironhide asked.

"Something from the show Star Trek which is pure science fiction and I prefer to study real science." Darcy answered.

I would have to look up the reference for myself later. Next, the girl that I had saved earlier nervously walked up to me. "Thanks for saving me sir. My name's Kayla Frieda Wilson. Sorry I'm a bit shy."

"You are very welcome." I told her. "Do not worry about being shy; I am not going to judge any of you."

"Hey Optimus, thanks again. I'm Brandon David Wilson." The youngest boy said, seemingly the most open about our presence.

"it is nice to meet you and the rest of your brothers and sisters Brandon." I said. I then introduced my teammates. "This is Jazz my 2nd in command and Emerald, his spark mate. They are both 2 of the best Cyber-ninjas in the galaxy."

"He's just kidding because there's plenty of other 'bots just as good as we are." Jazz explained humbly.

"Whoa, there are robots that are ninjas?' Kyle asked. "That's awesome!"

Marcy began singing "I am ninja, he is ninja-"

"Marcy, shut up!" Darcy interrupted her.

I ignored them and introduced Ratchet. He scanned all of them saying "They are all in perfect health and are slowly overcoming their fear of us."

"How did you know that?" one of the twins, I believe Darcy, asked him.

"I downloaded every useful bit of information dealing with human anatomy and medicine from your Internet and my scanners can now recognize human patients and detect the state of his or her health." He explained to her.

Ironhide took out his guns upon introducing himself and asked "You feeling lucky punks?"

'"Well, do you?"' Marcy finished for him. Her siblings stood nearly frozen in shock

"Easy Ironhide; we are not trying to scare them away." I said. "Last but certainly not least is my scout Bumblebee."

"Hey kids." He said.

Marcy, Kayla and Brandon immediately went over to him. I correctly deduced that due to him being the youngest on the team, he had a need to befriend young humans as they would understand how hard it was to be one of the youngest in a family or on a team.

"So, why are you here?" Lauren finally asked.

"We are here to protect your world from Megatron and his Decepticons." I answered. "The war began long before humans even existed…"

When I had finished explaining it to them, the children were frightened again. "Optimus, this is the craziest thing that I ever heard but I have a feeling that you're not lying." Terry stated.

"Indeed, he is not." Ironhide stated. "Even though a lot of us wish that this wasn't serious."

Lauren came up to me and said "Optimus, I don't know if I can handle the truth about this."

"Regardless of that fact, it seems that fate has brought us together." I replied. "The reason for this I do not know. Emerald, you and Jazz take the children back to their home the first of you stay there and keep an optic sensor on them."

"Yes sir." Emerald and Jazz both said as the kids started following them out.

Kayla however remained behind a little bit longer. "I don't know if anyone's told you this but you'd make a great father." She said before following her siblings.

Now the rest of our team is in recharge save for myself and Bumblebee who is on guard duty tonight. I trust Emerald to keep the children safe but I can't help but still worry about what the Decepticons will do to them…

Author's note: Wow, 6 pages. That's the longest that I've had for any chapter.