Chapter 7

Silas growled as he watched how his scientists were doing.

He had ordered them to perform some tests on Optimus and pull him apart but even after seven hours nothing had really happened as the Prime was putting up a good fight and not letting anyone near him.

Optimus was standing in a gigantic glass tube with his arms being bonded stuck to the walls on his sides and could barely move but still enough to defend himself.

They had managed to bond him while he was still unconscious but when he woke up he started struggling right away, making it to dangerous for anyone to go near.

They had tried to use a huge metal claw when they wanted to pull on of his optics out for resurge but he just head-butted the claw.

At least he was beginning to look tired.

"You can't keep resisting, Prime. Sooner or later you'll run out of fuel." the man taunted but Optimus wasn't fazed.

"That might be but allowing you to do what you want with me is also something I can't do, Silas." Optimus panted back.

As much as he hated to admit it, Silas was right about the fact that he was getting tired from keeping those crazy humans at bay.

So far he had gotten shot at by guns, shocked a few more times in MECH's attempts to make him faint again and he had to punch, kick and sometimes head-butt some things away from him a million times.

He was tired and in pain and wanted nothing more then for it to just stop but he knew he couldn't give up.

He had a team and allies to return to.

He had friends and family to return to.

He needed to return to Arcee and their unborn sparkling.

As long as he was breathing Optimus would never give up.

He would hold on until his friends would save him which he just knew they would.

He would return to them to watch them laugh while he smiled at their happiness, to comfort them when they felt bad, to protect them when there was danger, to make sure the high-grade wouldn't be drunk all at once and have Bulkhead go breakdancing with a hula skirt and coconut bra on, to lead them to their victories in all the battles to come until they could finally live in peace and to be with his sweet spark-mate again and raise his sparkling with her.

Until then he just had to hold on for a little longer.

"You are either very brave or very foolish." Silas growled, realizing he could never convince Optimus to stop fighting.

"Now me and my men will have to go to more extreme measures." he then said.

"I am prepared for your worst." Optimus said before yelling out in pain when he got shocked again with a much more powerful beam then the first hundred times.

When the shocking stopped Optimus gasped and dropped his head as he panted.

"Hmmm… I have a feeling this won't take long anymore." Silas smirked and the Prime could only glare back.

'Please, everyone! I don't know how much longer I can hold out like this!' Optimus thought, hoping his friends would soon be there.

Meanwhile in the autobot base Ratchet was still typing at the computer, refusing to take a break while every now and then shouting something at Bulkhead, Bumblebee or Arcee who were doing everything they could to help the medic out.

That was when all of Ratchet's work paid off.

The signal of a certain autobot leader appeared on the screen and Ratchet couldn't help himself but give a little cheer.

His sudden happiness caught the others attention and they quickly run up to the medic.

"What's up, Ratch?" Bulkhead asked him.

"I just found out where Optimus is!" Ratchet screamed excitedly and at that Bumblebee did a happy shriek and jumped in the air and did a backwards summersault and Bulkhead pumped a fist up in the air and did a whoop.

Even though the mechs in the base were really happy, none of them was a happy as Arcee was upon hearing her lover was found.

"How is he doing?" she asked and the mechs stopped their little party and Ratchet quickly looked at the screen again and frowned.

"He is still alive as you can see but his live-signal is very weak." Ratchet said and then everyone frowned.

"Then don't just stand there and fire up the bridge so we can go get him!" Bumblebee yelled and nodding Ratchet typed the coordinates of where Optimus was in the computer and opened the ground-bridge, letting Bumblebee and Bulkhead run inside.

When the two of them came to the other side they wasted no time and started running to a building which looked like it was the perfect building for people as MECH.

Sure enough they were getting shot at before they even came close to the building but they refused to let anything stop them and kept running.

"What is going on out there?" Silas asked one of his workers when he heard all the noise coming from outside, turning his attention away from Optimus who was kicking another huge metal claw away from his lower plating.

Instead of getting an answer from one of his people a hole was blown in a wall, revealing Bulkhead and Bumblebee.

"I suppose as the saying goes, better late then never." Optimus commented with a smirk.

"You knew all along that this would happen, didn't you?" Silas growled at Optimus who's smirk grew a little wider.

Knowing he had no choice Silas ran away to save himself and while normally Bulkhead or Bumblebee would comment on that and chase after him, they knew that getting Optimus out of there was more important so they worked together to break the glass from the tube their leader was in and caught him as he fell forward.

"Sorry it took so long, Boss Bot. You could probably already name a better timing for us to save you, right?" Bulkhead said as he and Bumblebee helped Optimus to stand back up normally again.

Optimus just smiled at the former-wrecker in amusement at what he just said and at the irony that came with it.

"No, don't worry about that, my friend. Your timing was absolutely perfect as they were just planning to take my lower plating off to study my spike." he explained what had just been going on and all three shuddered at that idea.

When they got the disturbing idea out of their heads they contacted Ratchet to send them a ground-bridge.

"Thank the Allspark!" Ratchet cried when they walked back into the base.

Optimus could only smile and nod at his friend before turning his attention to a overjoyed Arcee.

With a huge smile on her face she run up to him and jumped in his arms where he spun her around in a big warm hug before sharing a passionate kiss.

::I was so worried that I'd end up as a single parent.:: she told him over their bond.

::I am sorry to have frightened you like that but do not worry as I promise I'll always be here with you and our sparkling, my love.:: he sent back and he placed a gentle kiss in top of her head.

That was when Ratchet cleared his throat and broke the moment again.

"Listen, I know you two are happy to see each other again but you'll have time to catch up later as I believe it would be best if I would take a look at Optimus now as he probably has gone through a lot when he was in MECH's hands." the medic said and nodding Optimus walked after him into the medbay.

Arcee was disappointed to be out of her spark-mate's arms so soon already but she didn't mind as she knew that Optimus would soon walk out of the medbay without anything being wrong.

"It looks like you'll be able to meet you daddy after all when you're out." she whispered, placing a hand over her spark-chamber and while nobody heard her say it, if they did they would have known that she was talking to Blaze.

End chapter 7