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I don't own Transformers: Prime. All credit goes to Hasbro Inc. and the OC belongs to the Wattpad user: Knownnrr45.

Note: This chapter has original content from the original story written by Knownnrr45.

Part 2:

"And since you now know of our existence, I fear that, as of last night, the decepticons know of yours" Optimus said.

I nodded in affirmation and Jack spoke up.

"Got it. If we spot any strange vehicles, call 911." he said. "Can we go now?"

Miko gave him an angry look. "Are you insane?"

"I'm living a dream here in 'bot'-swana." she said, raising a hand to the bots as emphasis.

She then put her hands down against her sides and then pointed at Jack with another angry look on her face. "And I will not allow you or anyone else shatter it!"

Optimus cut in to the conversation. "It is best that you four remain under our watch. At least, until we can determine our enemies' intentions."

The orange and red robot then turned from the screen he was previously looking at to look at Optimus.

"Optimus, with all due respect, the human children are in as much danger here as anywhere." Optimus looked over at the white and orange robot.

"Children?" Jack asked incredulously.

"They have no protective shell." the orange and white robot continued. "If they get underpede they will go..."

The robot paused. "Squish."

He did a demonstration with his "pede" and Jack, Miko, Raf, and I jumped backwards a little. Optimus put his hands on his hips.

"Then, for the time being, Ratchet, we must watch where we step." Optimus stated. Wow this guy was cool!

A green light emitted from the computer screens and an alarm sounded causing Optimus' and Ratchet's, along with all of the other Autobots' attention to go to the screens.

"What's that?" Jack asked.

Bumblebee turned from looking at the screen.

::It's a proximity sensor.:: he said.

"Proximity sensor" I translated. "Someone's up top!"

Ratchet pulled up a picture on one of the screens and It showed a video feed of a helicopter landing on the helicopter pad on top of the cliff.

"It's Agent Fowler." he notified us.

"I-I thought we were the only humans who knew about you guys?" I said.

Optimus turned from the screen and faced us.

"Special Agent Fowler is our designated liaison to the outside world." he told us. "As he tends to only visit when there are issues, it may be best if you do not meet them at this time."

I nodded and looked at the other three as the looked at me. We then ran and hid from view behind a corner as the elevator travelled down from the roof. A beeping was heard as the elevator travelled downwards. When the elevator door opened, a dark-skinned man wearing a suit came out with a solemn and aggravated look on his face.

"7 wrecks, 34 fender benders, a 3-hour traffic jam, and, of a particular note, numerous reports of a speeding motorcycle of unknown make, and a black-and-yellow custom muscle car." he stated, walking forwards and putting his hands on the railing while looking Optimus in the face.

I looked around the corner as this "Agent Fowler" spoke, and when he started to look at Bumblebee and Arcee I whipped back around the corner and put my back against the wall. Optimus leaned forwards to look Agent Fowler in the face.

Agent Fowler looked back at Optimus' face and leaned closer as a means of trying to intimidate the 45 foot robot. "So, anything you care to get off your tin chest, Prime?"

"We have the situation under control, Agent Fowler." Optimus stated.

"They're back, aren't they?" Agent Fowler asked.

"If you are referring to the Decepticons, I have doubts that they ever left." Optimus said. "Your planet is much too valuable."

"Then it's time to wake up the pentagon." Agent Fowler decided.

"Hear me, Agent Fowler." Optimus started. "We are your best, possibly your only defense against the Decepticon threat."

"Says you."

Agent Fowlers attention was torn away from Optimus as Bulkhead intervened.

"Hey, fleshy, did anyone get splattered on that freeway?" Bulkhead asked.

"Team Prime knows when to use force..." Bulkhead yanked a piece of claw-like equipment off of a giant counter and crushed it in his hand. "...and how much to use."

The piece of equipment broke and Ratchet freaked out.

"Bulkhead, I needed that!"

Bulkhead looked at the piece of equipment that he had just broken before a shout from Optimus cut them off.

"Enough!" he shouted.

Optimus turned back to Agent Fowler. "Military involvement will only result in catastrophe."

Optimus leaned away from Agent Fowler and stood back up straight. "Perhaps you can condone widespread human casualties, Agent Fowler. I, however, cannot."

Agent Fowler looked up at the red and blue prime. "Then do us both a favor and handle this, Prime, under the radar."

He turned around and walked back into the elevator. But, just before he pressed the button to go back up to the roof he spoke again.

"Or I will."

Agent Fowler disappeared behind the elevator door as he pressed the button. Once he was gone I looked over at Bulkhead as he spoke again.

"Pretty big bearings...for a human." he noted.

Optimus turned to Bulkhead. "Agent Fowler is concerned for his world, Bulkhead, as he should be."

Note: Since we all know what happens with the dead body of Cliffjumper and the dark energon, I'm skipping that.

A beeping sound was brought to my attention as a picture appeared on the screen that Ratchet was working at. Ratchet hit his hand on the table. "Blasted earth tech!"

The attention of the Autobots was brought to Ratchet as he told them what happened.

"Cliffjumper's signal popped back online."

Miko spoke up from the landing that we were on. "Who's Cliffjumper?"

She was ignored and Optimus spoke. "How is that possible?"

Ratchet made a motion with his hand. "It isn't."

"Another bug - the system's chock-full of them."

Arcee looked up at Optimus. "If there's any chance Cliff's alive..."

Optimus looked over at Ratchet. "Ratchet, prepare sickbay. We may need it."

A metal mask slid over Optimus' face as he walked towards that short tunnel lined with technology that I had been wondering about earlier.

Miko walked forwards. "Hey! What can we do?"

Optimus nodded at us. "Remain with Ratchet."

"Aww!" she groaned.

"Aw!" Ratchet groaned as well.

"Yes!" I said more to myself.

I then looked to the short tunnel as circles of blue light started to line the tunnel before a swirling vortex of sea green, purple, and blue light appeared at the end of the the tunnel.

Optimus raised his arm and commanded the Autobots. "Autobots, Roll out!"

He then ran into the tunnel and transformed into a peter built truck as Bulkhead transformed into an offloading vehicle with Arcce's motorcycle and Bumblebee's mustang following suit. They all drove into the vortex and suddenly disappeared.

"What just happened?" Jack asked.

"I transported them to the designated coordinates via the ground bridge." Ratchet answered like it was absolutely no problem whatsoever.

"What's a ground bridge?" Raf and I asked in unison.

Ratchet sighed. "A scaled-down version of space-bridge technology."

He turned back to the computer and continued. "Since we don't currently possess the means or the energon required for intergalactic travel -"

"You're stuck here...on Earth." I concluded.

"With the likes of you, yes." Ratchet said.

He turned back to the swirling vortex or the "ground bridge".

"But I constructed the ground bridge to enable travel from here to anywhere on your planet."

"Whoa." Raf said in amazement for the second time today.

"Does it work for humans?" I asked.

Ratchet put his hands on his hips. "Naturally."

Miko looked up at Ratchet. "You mean, I could just shoot on over and visit my parents in Tokyo?"

"Within moments." Ratchet said. "In fact, allow me to send you there immediately, all four of you."

"Watch it, Ratchet." Miko warned him.

Note: Since we all know what happens In the mine, I'm just gonna skip that part.

Miko leaned down and was getting ready to touch a piece of broken equipment. "What is this, anyway?"

"Broken. Don't touch."

Just as Miko was about to touch something else, I looked at her with a authoritative look on my face.

"Miko! Didn't you just here what he said?" I cried. "It's broken. Didn't you hear Ratchet say that? For all you know it could shock you or something!"

Jack walked over by Miko. "Is there anything in here we can touch?"

I snorted. "Why don't you all do your homework if you're bored?"

"That's what I'm doing anyways." I was ignored. There was a BNN noise and I looked up from my math homework to see a error message appear on Ratchet's screens.

"How come you guys are using human computers?" I heard Raf ask.

"It certainly isn't by choice. It was handed down by the previous tenants when we inherited this former missile silo." Ratchet answered. "I make modifications as I see fit."

There was a BNN noise and I looked up from my math homework to see a bunch more of red X's appear on Ratchet's screens.

"I think I can fix that." I said.

I minimized my home work and plugged my computer it into the monitor.

"Really? You know this is complex technology, don't you?" Ratchet asked. "I mean, it isn't a child's toy.

I ignored him and after a few seconds of fixing some codes, the error messages changed into green check marks and the original screen returned. Ratchet turned and looked at me, astonished.

Note: Once again since we all know what happens in the mind with Cliffjumper and the bots, I'm gonna skip it.

I had finished my homework a while ago, so I tried to sleep. However, with the fact that Miko kept poking me out of boredom, it was quite hard. I was interrupted from my attempt at sleeping when Optimus's voice rang through the base on the comm link.

"Ratchet, bridge us back!" he yelled. There was a pause in his speech.

"Use the arrival coordinates…NOW!"

Ratchet opened up the bridge and as they drove through, there was a inferno cloud of blue fire that followed them. Arcee, Bulkhead, and Bumblebee drove out of the way as Optimus sped through and transformed and bounced off of his hand and landed on his pends in a crouching stance. Rafael and Miko both made sounds of amazement as Jack smiled and I just gaped like a fish out of water.

"Cutting it a bit close." Ratchet said. "How about Cliffjumper?"

All of the Autobots looked at there pedes. When I saw the disappointed look on Bumblebee's face, I felt a pang of sorrow go through my heart. Miko spoke up excitedly. "What was that explosion? Was there a fight? Can I come with next time?"

Arcee groaned. "Look—"

"H-hey, Miko, let's go see what the bots hide in their sock drawers." Jack intervened, trying to ease the tension.

He pulled her along and she scoffed. "Seriously?"

"Arcee, what did you see?" Optimus asked her.

Arcee just hugged herself in fear. "Not Cliff— at least, not anymore."

"He was mutated, butchered like something from those 'con experiments during the war."

"Oh!" she groaned as she fell dizzily to the ground.

Bumblebee's eyes widened considerably. :: Arcee! A-are you okay?:: he buzzed worriedly.

She held up a hand, stopping him in his tracks. "I'm fine, just dizzy."

"Robot's who get dizzy?" Miko asked.

"Robots with emotions." Raf noted.

"Robots who can die." Jack concluded.

I scoffed arrogantly. "You just figured that out, guys?"

They looked at me with "really" looks on their faces.

As Ratchet started to scan Arcee with some sort of beam, I climbed down the ladder and ran over to Bumblebee. I tapped on his pede and he looked down at me questioningly. I held my arms up expectantly like a toddler and he reached down and allowed me to step onto his hand. I sat on his shoulder and then watched as Ratchet scanned Arcee. The blue beam waved over Arcee's form and started to turn red when it passed over her hand.

"Hey, Ratchet?" I asked. He looked over at me with a questioning look on his face.

"What is it?" He asked.

"There's something on her hand, Ratchet. Just there." I said, pointing to Arcee's hand.

"Hmm. What is this?" Ratchet muttered as whatever was on Arcee's hand was brought to her attention. It was some sort of purple goop.

"Don't know." Arcee said. "Cliff was covered in it, leaking it."

Ratchet pulled some sort of scalpel from a compartment in his armor and scooped the goop onto it. "Go take a decontamination bath now."

Bumblebee set me down back onto the platform and turned to Arcee to help Arcee into the medbay. Jack took out his phone and I noticed that he tried to call someone. I did the same and saw the time. My eyes widened, there was no way that it was this late!

"O-optimus, I-I hate to bug, but now bars." Jack told the giant blue and red bot.

Optimus turned to Jack and the rest of us. "A security precaution. The silo walls isolate all radio waves."

"Well, if I don't call my mom like, now, I'm pretty sure the cops will be out looking for me." Jack said, pressing some buttons on his phone.

Optimus leaned forwards towards us. "Have you broken a law?"

"Uh, curfew." he answered. "It's after 10:00 p.m."

"Raf and I better get home, too. Or we'll get grounded for a year." I intervened, placing my phone in my back pocket.

"Earth customs—I hadn't considered." Optimus apologized.

"But the issue of your safety remains." He told us, standing up.

"Bulkhead, accompany MIko home." He ordered. Bulkhead walked up and stopped in front of Optimus and us.

"Awesome! My host parents'll freak!" She excitedly.

"And maintain covert surveillance in vehicle form." Optimus continued.

"Curbside duty. Got it." Bulkhead stated.

"Aw!" Miko complained.

"Bumblebee, you'll watch over Lora." Optimus said.

"Ratchet, when you're finished you'll watch over Raf." Optimus said.

"Yes, yes! I'm busy right now though!" Ratchet called from over by the counter with science tools on it.

"Arcee, you'll accompany Jack." Optimus ordered as Arcee walked out of the medbay.

She sighed dramatically. "Still dizzy."

"You're fine, says your physician." Ratchet contradicted, raising his hand in the air.

Arcee shrugged her shoulders and sighed as if saying "Oh well".

Time skip brought to you by Knockout's vanity.

Bumblebee drove both Raf and I home since Ratchet was too busy to bring Raf home. As soon as we pulled up to the curb, I said goodbye to Bumblebee and Raf did the same.

::Goodbye, Lora, Raf!:: Bumblebee buzzed. ::See you tomorrow!::

I said goodbye once again and got out of Bumblebee's alt mode. I watched as Bumblebee pulled away and drove out of sight. I then sighed and looked down at Raf. "Are you ready to face mom?"

He shook his head. "I don't think anyone's able to face Mama when she's angry."

I laughed. "You're definitely right about that!"

We walked up to the front door and prepared to face our angry mother. There was no way that we were getting out of this alive….