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Chapter Two

In the middle of Earth City, a warp hole appeared on the street, the people around did not panic at the sight it as they'd normally would on the planet Earth, for they knew that this was an Autobot warp network.

Optimus Prime stepped out of the warp hole and into the city and people waved and called up to Optimus and Optimus would return the greetings.

"Hey Optimus! How ya doing?"

"I'm fine, thanks Rad." Optimus said, looking down at him.

"Optimus, yo, what's up my brother?" asked a dude on a skateboard, rolling by.

"Nothing much, Mikey, what's up with you?"

But before Mikey could answer, he tripped on big crack on the sidewalk with his skateboard and he went flying into a hotdog stand. He emerged from the rumbles with a hotdog in his mouth

Taking the hotdog out of his mouth, he foolishly exclaimed "That was, AWSOME!"

Optimus couldn't help but sweat drop at that, feeling that this young man was… there was no other word for it: 'weird.'

Optimus turned around and bent down to Rad.

"Rad, can I talk to you in private?" he asked.

"Uh, sure, Optimus." He said, scratching his head in a puzzling way. Why would Optimus want to talk to me in private?

Looking up, he saw that Optimus was holding his right up, palm-up, as though he was holding something in his hand. But he did not ask, he had a feeling that whatever was in Optimus' hand was the topic of their following private conversation.

They walked together, Rad jogging to keep up with Optimus' big steps. Then Optimus suddenly stopped, he seems to be speaking to his hand.

"You're thirsty?" he asked. "Okay, just wait a minute; we're almost at the park. They have a drinking fountain and you can take a drink there."

"Optimus, who are you talking to?" asked Rad.

"Jason," Optimus replied.

"Who's Jason?"

"Just a moment, Rad," Optimus continues walking toward the park, once there, he sat down on the ground, and Rad sat next to him.

"Okay, now, who's Jason?" Rad asked again.

Optimus lowered his hand to the ground, palm-up. Rad saw a little boy sitting in the middle of Optimus' enormous hand.

Jason hopped out of Optimus' hand and looked up at Optimus.

"Prime, I want a drink…" he whined.

"Hey there, kid." Rad greeted with a friendly wave. Jason jumped and flattened himself against the side of Optimus' hand, looking scared.

"He's a little shy." Optimus said. "He was afraid of me at first, and then he wouldn't let Red Alert touch him…. Jason, this is Rad, he's my friend and he won't hurt you."

Jason did not look convinced, so Rad thought of a way to gain the kid's trust. He took a water bottle that he haven't used yet from his belt and handed to Jason,

Jason stared at him; his nervous and shy expression emphasized his distrust of Rad. His parents taught him not to talk to strangers so he remained silence.

"Go on, kid, take it, you need to drink." Rad said, handing the water bottle to Jason.

Jason looked up—WAY up into Optimus' yellow optics and saw that he was smiling down at him.

"It's okay, Jason, he's just giving you a drink."

Jason turned his attention to Rad and held out his little hand for the water bottle, but did not approach Rad.

Rad handed Jason the water bottle and he took it in his small hand and took a drink.

"Keep it, it's all yours." Rad said kindly as Jason tried to give the water bottle back to Rad,

Jason did not say anything; he held the water bottle to his chest, still staring at Rad.

"Say thank you, Jason." Optimus said gently.

"Thank you." Jason said, before turning his back on Rad and climbing back into Optimus' palm.

"So are you babysitting, Optimus?" Rad asked.

"You could say that, but the only problem is; I do not know who his parents are." Optimus said.

"Why don't you adopt him, he likes you enough…" Rad suggested. "at least until his parents shows up."

Optimus shook his head. "I can't raise a sparkling, let alone a human child. I am an Autobot of war, I'm the Commander. I don't have time to raise a kid."

"Well, what if you had help?"

Optimus shook his head again. "Too risky, Megatron might try to hold him hostage and use him to get me to surrender the Cyber Planet Key to him. I can't let that happen. I would never put Jason in danger like that."

"Is that why you never started a family with Elita One?"

"Yes," Optimus inclines his head. "As much as I love her, I can't put her spark on the line during the time of war."

"I see, so what are you going to do with the kid?" asked Rad.

"I was hoping to leave him with you or Carlos… Kicker wouldn't be too bad or maybe Alexis, I have a list of people who I trust to watch over Jason."

His optics glowed brighter and a holographic screen appears in front of them. It was a list of people with their names and pictures on it.

Rad

Alexis

Carlos

Kicker

Coby

Lori

Bud

"You're asking every person who had accompanied you on missions back on Earth?" asked Rad, after reading the list.

"Yes," Optimus stated. "Those are people I trust above all others."

"Well, it's a good idea, Optimus, but personally I think Coby would be the man for the job."

"You think so, because I was thinking the same thing."

"Yeah, I mean Coby's great with kids and I think he'd make a good role model to Jason. He was good with his little brother Bud when they were growing up."

"I agree with you, Rad." Optimus smiled. "I'll see him next, thank you."

"No problem, Optimus…well I gotta go, I'm suppose to meet Alexis in half an hour and I don't wanna be late."

"Okay, be careful, Rad." Optimus said as Rad ran off.

He looks at Jason sitting in his palm, thinking the kid needs to walk and play a little more.

"Jason, would you like to play on the playground for a little while?"

Jason's eyes brightened and he looks excited. "YEAH!" he yelled, jumping up and down.

"Don't jump on my hand, Jason, I don't want to drop you."

Jason stopped jumping and sat down in Optimus' palm.

"Sorry, Prime." He said.

"It's okay, I just want you safe, that's all." He lowered his hand to the ground so to let Jason hop off. "Run along now, go play on the playground and be careful."

"Okay, Prime." Jason ran off to play on every plaything on the playground. Optimus sat there, watching him and thinking about his decision.

If he wasn't fighting the Autobot/Decepticon war, he would gladly adopt Jason, but no, he couldn't do that. If the Decepticons find out, Jason's life would be in endless danger. He couldn't put a child in that situation. He hopes Jason would understand and that Coby would be willing to take Jason in under his wing.

Optimus let Jason play for an hour while he wrestled with his thoughts.

Coming to a decision, Optimus stood up.

"Jason, time to go." Optimus said, laying his hand, palm-up on the ground.

"Okay, Prime." Jason said with a yawn.

Jason walked over to Optimus and hopped into his hand. He lay down, curled up and fell asleep.

"He must have worn himself out with all that playing." Optimus said to himself, watching him sleep. "Sleep well, Jason."

Optimus walked slowly and carefully, so not to disturb Jason's nap. He crept out of the park and made his way to Coby's dwelling place.

Author's Note:

I'm using the adult version of every kids that ever accompanied the Autobots in the Unicron Trilogy.

From Transformers: Armada: Rad, Carlos and Alexis

From Transformers: Energon: Kicker

From Transformers: Cybertron: Coby, Lori and Bud

The world that this story is in, is in the Cybertron series because it is my favorite series, my favorite Transformers animation and don't forget my favorite version of Optimus Prime as a red and blue fire engine based Transformer.

Transformers: Animated isn't really my cup of tea, strange animation and Optimus Prime is younger in that series, as for the '07 movie, it was alright, just not my type of Optimus Prime,

I'd prefer the G1. Armada and Cybertron Optimus Prime. So I based this story in the Transformers: Cybertron universe. Just a little info for my readers to understand better.