WheelJack drove to Ava's house for what he feared was the last time he would ever pick her up. Ava was his charge and he felt like he was failing her by not being able to protect her from the decepticons that would hunt her down. When he pulled into the driveway he saw her face. Ava was sad and looking down, and walked over to WheelJack.

"Oh kid, I'm sorry it didn't"

"I don't want to talk about it now Jackie, can we wait till we get to base I want everyone to know at the same time." she interrupted

"Ok, if that's what you want, so what do you want to talk about?" The wrecker asked

"How was it like traveling through space?" She asked with a small smile

"Seeing different planets meeting up with fellow wreckers. It was nice, though I often traveled alone."

"Must have been lonely." She said softly

"Pretty much and when I ran into Bulk on my first trip to Earth, when it was over I offered him to come with but he refused and now I see why." WheelJack replied "Being a guardian is interesting."

"Ah," The girl replied and the rest of the trip was silent

At Base

When they got to the base Ava still held a frown on her face and slowly walked over to the others, as she thought of a way to tell them what her mother had told her.

"Oh no." Miko mumbled as she saw her face

"She said no didn't she?" Jack asked hoping to ease Ava's burden of telling everyone the bad news.

"Did she, say anything to you WheelJack?" Bulk asked

"No she wanted to tell us all at once." He replied

"Then I guess we will have to wait, since Optimus stepped out before you got here." Ratchet said looking up from his work

"Where did Optimus go?" Ava asked

"Headed some where with Agent Fowler." Arcee said

"So we have to wait till Optimus gets back?" Raf asked

Ava nodded sadly "I don't want to tell anyone and then have to repeat the news."

"So let's play a video game till he come back" Jack offered as he picked up a controller

"Come on." Miko pushed

"Why not." Ava shrugged as she watched Jack and Miko play. Since they only had two controllers they usually played it as two played then the other two played then they would flip a coin to see if the winners or the losers of each round would play next. As they played Ava thought how she was going to tell them the news she had to give them.

With Optimus

Optimus was driving down the dirt road as he thought of what was going to happen if Ava moved again. He did not have as big as a team he used to have when Ava was growing up, so he could not split the team up. He did not want to have the decepticons after Ava and her mother but there was not alot he could do if they moved. It would e alot easier on him if they stay in Jasper, but since when was life easy on the Autobots. He knew that Megatron would hunt them down and WheelJack will be more and likely to follow them to keep her safe. Carly hopefully would allow him to come with them if she leaves. Maybe even allow her to visit them, hopefully that would put a smile on the young girl's face.

When the Prime noticed a cave he decided to enter it knowing that it would not take long and if there was energon in the cave it would be beneficial to the Autobots if they could get a good supply of it before Megatron gets a whiff of the he got deeper into the cave he determined it was covert enough to walk instead of drive. As he walked through he looked all over to see if he could spot a single crystal of the life blood of all of cybertronians. He had to take care of his team, the three original human children and the two human adults that come by once in a while. Now he had to add one more human and adult to the list. Not to mention that when the school year ended Miko would be going back to live in Japan.

He was deep in the cave and noticed a faint light glow of blue in one of the caverns, and headed into that direction. he found that the cavern had a good amount of energon in it but not as much as he had hoped it held. That was from sight and he hoped that there was more that he could not see. HE looked for a piece he could chip away at and bring to base and then tell the others that he found a cave that the Decepticons are not mining that held energon in it. When he found a good price to chip he got to work making sure that he did not spark a a fire knowing that energon is extremely flammable, and he did not want to make his team worry about him. He decided that instead of once piece he would brake away a few more just in case the Cons found this before morning and he did not want to have one small piece to give to his team he thought of a family.

Back at Base

The kids played twelve rounds of the racing game and twelve rounds of another game and Optimus still didn't come back to the base. It was at that point the others started to worry. Ratchet told the kids not to worry that "He is probably just out for a drive, he does that often."

"Why does he do that alot?" Ava asked sounding intrigued in how the Prime acted.

"Optimus does not like a few things," Arcee said "Like most Primes he does not like to party, so he might think if he shows up too soon Miko would throw a party and he would not be able to escape because he just got back from patrol."

"Optimus also does not like the fact that we are almost always low on energon and he spends a lot of time looking for mines that are not in the Cons' possession," Ratchet added

"It is not that he wants to distant himself from us." Bulk replied

*"He is just too serious."* Bee added

Raf was about to translate but Ava stopped him "Hang on Raf I want to see if I can decode what BumbleBee is saying, if I fail or succeed please let me know." When they nodded Ava thought hard and Bee even repeated himself a few times as she concentrated.

With Optimus

With the newly acquired energon the leader of the Autobots exited the cave hoping to bring home some relief to the others. As he was heading home he was contacted by Agent Fowler who had information to give him.

"Agent Fowler, do we need to be of any assistance." He offered

"No Prime, I called to warn you about Mech. They are active as of late and getting more active by the day, I wanted to make sure you and your bots are prepared for them." Fowler replied

"Thank you for the warning, I will tell the other Autobots when I return."

"Wait, you are not at the base." Agent Fowler asked in surprise "I suggest you hurry and get back there before Mech releases that you are out alone Prime."

"I am heading to the base right now I just retrieved some energon." Optimus replied as he transformed

"Why were you scouting for energon? I understand that the others had to pick up the kids." William asked

"Ratchet needed to work the ground bridge incase of an emergency and Smokescreen does not know the Earth that well. The rest needed to pick up their charge." Optimus replied calmly

"Still, you could have taken him with you."

"No I could not have, he was waiting for Ava to get to the base. Carly found out about her visiting us and they got into a fight. After she was rescued from the Decepticons she decided to think if it would be alright if her daughter visits us or not.

"So what was her answer?" Fowler asked

"I do not know, I am currently on my way to Base. I do not doubt that she will wait for me to get back before she gives the answer. I only hope that I have not made them wait too long and the kids have left." Optimus stated

"I'm sure they are still there Prime. At least Ava and Jack for the most part. Since Carly and June both know about the Autobots." William Fowler said

Back at Base

A few hours later the kids were bord as they watchet TV. There was nothing on so they were watching the news, and every half hour they would flip through the channels to see if there was anything on that looked interesting during this boring wait. Two hours after they started to watch TV Bee beeped at a cartoon that looked interesting to him. "Gues we are watching this then." Raf said putting down the remote as they watched the show.

"Hey Ratch, when do you think Optimus would be back?" Ava asked as she looked up at the medic

"Hm. it is hard to say with him, Optimus has a lot on his mind right now as well as thinking of a solution if you cannot stay, we are a small group and it would be devastating to split our team up any smaller would be tragic to both teams."

"M'K." Ava replied not knowing what else to say.

"Think Ava should tell us and you could pass along the message?" Raf asked

"No if Ava is leaving he wouldn't feel right if he never got to talk to her first. Since it would be weird if a semi pulled into her driveway or stopped in front of her house just to talk and no driver came out or she came out to talk." Bulkhead explained

"So more waiting. If Optimus doesn't show it would be bad that she had to wait one more day to tell the news." Jack said

"Dude the suspense is killing me." Miko interjected

"Well we have to wait for Optimus, he should not be gone any longer. He knows he might not get another chance to talk to her again." Arcee said

*"He should be here, Ava and the kids will be going home soon. Not enough time to celebrate if she is staying or time to think of a plan if she is leaving."* Bee joined looking up from the show that was on.

Thirty minutes later Optimus rolled in and saw that the kids were still there, sighing he braced himself for what was to come. Carly's decision for either Ava to have contact with them or not. "What did Carly say?" When none of the Bots answered he asked "Did you not tell them in my absence?"

*"We were waiting for you Optimus. Where were you?"* BumbleBee buzzed

"I was in an energon mine scouting to see if any Decepticons were mining it. I apologize if you have been waiting to long on my account." the prime replied "Agent Fowler also warned me that Mech seems to be more active lately and warns us to be careful."

"Mech?" she asked cluelessly

"A team of humans that want to hurt the Autobots and Decepticons. They mostly hunt down any cybertronian and usually the ones to get the fall are the Autobots." Miko replied casually

"So what did Carly say Ava?" Ratchet reminded the girl, of the reason why they were waiting for Optimus to get back

"And... the verdict is." She said "I can still have contact with you all. My mom decided that it would be a lot safer for me if you were in my life." Her smile widened as she looked around "The good news we are staying in Jasper!" she announced.