Chapter 7

We drove in the direction of what I would later find out was the hoover damn, in relative silence. I could sense that they were anxious about the battle to come. And heartbroken that not one but two of their comrades might lose their lives. I stayed in total denial; I would not loose 'Bee to the greedy curiosity of humans. And I will not allow Optimus to get himself killed. Not while I'm still breathing, I will not lose anyone else.

After some more silence, I decided to make my thought known. "Don't worry Ratch', I won't let Optimus do this to himself." I whispered to him.

"You are quite sure of yourself young one" Ratchet grumbled in response. "How do you know you can accomplish this feat?" he inquired.

"The same way I know that 'Bee will escape S7 safely with Sam and Mikaela." I said looking out the window. "Because I refuse to believe that losing is an option. I've already lost everything I cared about once; I'm not going to let it happen again. Sam is my brother and Mikaela could become part of the family soon. Also I've grown to really care about the Autobots, especially 'Bee." I ranted at the radio with a hard expression.

Ratchet seemed to contemplate my words before speaking again. "What has caused you to become so attached to Bumblebee?" he asked

I hesitated not sure if I should tell him that 'Bee was my intended. But Ratchet is a doctor right? He would understand. I breathed in deeply before opening my mouth to speak. "Do Cybertonians have mates? Like soul mates?" I asked, looking down to my paws.

"Yes we do. They are called sparkmates. But what does this have to do with Bumblebee" he said quizzically.

I scrunched my eyebrows at him a bit, not believing his denseness. "…Well, Demons have mates too. They are our most precious possession. Our souls other half incarnated into another being. But the chances of finding them in one lifetime are slim to none. Some may never even find their mates; I was extremely lucky" I explained. "He may not know it yet, but the gods have chosen Bumblebee as my mate." I finished, looking at anything but the radio.

Ratchet hummed, contemplated my words again. "I see, so you are bonded to him" he finally said. I nodded my head in agreement.

"Yeah, and since we've met, our souls have been calling to each other. They've made an unbreakable bond. Because if this; If Bumblebee dies, I won't be far behind." I said softly. Ratchet was quiet for a while but responded with some words that took me a little by surprise.

"Cybertonians have similar customs." He said. "We mate for life, but lose ourselves if our spakmate dies." I smiled sadly at the radio.

"Then you understand why I can't lose him. Losing him now would destroy me. Call me selfish but I don't like the idea of being destroyed." I said, trying to lighten the mood worthy little joke at the end.

"Sometimes it is good to be selfish" Ratchet said with an amused tone. I laughed, thankful for the opportunity to relieve some stress. Ratchet joined me after a minute of letting me enjoy my little giggle fit.

Our laughs calmed down after a while. Wiping a stray tear from my eye, I smiled at the radio/Ratchet. "Thanks Ratch, I needed that." I said.

"It is of no consequence Ren; we are all quite fond of you. And no matter what happens, know that the Autobots are on your side." Ratchet said, warming the cabin in what I guess was a makeshift hug. ,

My smile broadened at the news. "I'm very fond of you guys too. And I will do everything I can to help you win the war." I declared, patting the seats.

But then my expression turned serious. "But seriously if they kill 'Bee. I'll hunt each and every one of them down, and make them wish they were never born." I growled tensely, turning back to my easy going mood in half a second.

Ratchet muttered a curious 'interesting..' but didn't say anything else. We stayed in a comfortable silence for the rest of the ride. I fell asleep about an hour later, telling Ratchet to wake me up when we got there.

As expected, Ratchet had woken me up a few hours later by calling my name. I stretched my pawn in front of me, yawning like a bear. Man I really like sleep. I got down from the passenger's seat and walked to the back of Ratchets car form and back in an effort to wake my brain up completely.

I transformed into my humanoid form as I got back to the front. Taking my seat I lowered the mirror thing that's on top of the seats. You know what I mean. Anyway I looked at myself, inspecting my face and fixing my bangs. I saw that my hair was in disarray again so; I let it loose and ran my fingers throw it before putting it back into my half ponytail.

Seemingly satisfied with my appearance I turned my attention to Ratchet. "So how long until we're there?" I asked, looking out the window, inspecting our surroundings.

"An hour at the least" he grumbled.

"Hn" I responded while getting comfortable. "How's the rest of the gang doing?" I asked looking the others who were driving in front of us.

"We're all good lil' lady" said the voice of Jazz through the speakers. I jumped at the unexpected voice.

"Jazz! How did you do that?" I asked with wide eyes.

"Com link, it helps us communicate" said Ratchet the amusement in his voice eminent.

"Cool!" I squealed, I was going to ask how it worked but something in front of us caught my attention. Squinting my eyes and lowering my ears as if that would help me see better. "Uh guys, what's that?" I asked keeping my eyes on the yellow object moving towards us.

Then I realized who that was. "'BEE" I yelled in excitement. "See Ratch? I told you" I said happily, jumping up and down on my seat. Tail wagging like a maniac.

Optimus honked his horn when they were close enough to us. I stuck my head out of the window, waving at them excitedly; happy to see 'Bee up and running like he should be.

'Bee passed us honking as he did with a bunch of military vehicle behind him. Once they had passed us Optimus and the rest of the gang did a sharp U turn after them. I had to hold on to Ratchet for dear life, trying to not fly out of the window.

We drove for another hour or so to what Ratchet said was called Mission City. But as we approached it, Optimus fell behind. I watched through the side mirror as he attacked another robot who I'm more than positive is a Decepticon. My ears flattened with worry for Optimus, but Ratchet assured me that he would be fine. So I turned back to look at the road and think about how this was all going to go down. I would have to make sure that Optimus is as far away from the Cube as possible. We don't need him getting any ideas.

We finally got into town after a few more minutes. I got out of Ratchet and ran to where 'Bee was. Jumping on the poor car and kissing the hood all over like a mad woman. "Oh 'Bee I'm so happy you're okay, you have no idea what I would have done to those insufferable humans if I lost you." I all but yelled with my face smooched against his hood. 'Bee whirled happily at my affections, warming the area where I was, considerably.

With one last kiss I slid off of him and turned my attention to Sam and Mikaela; jumping them in a similar manor, but without the kisses. "I'm happy that you guys are safe two. Did they hurt you? Do you want me to kill someone?" I pestered Sam, inspecting him like a worried mother.

"No we're fine! No need for murder!" Sam squeaked out frantically. Giving Mikaela a look I didn't get.

I sighed. "Fine, but you'll tell me if you do right?" I asked sweetly. For some reason I'm really in the mood to kill something. Sam just dumbly nodded at me, and turned to some military guy I hadn't noticed till now. He Caucasian, with brown hair and was wearing standard military clothes. He was looking at me like I was insane; which I might as well be, given the circumstances of the past few days events. Next to him was a tall beefy but still handsome black man. His most prominent feature were his shiny white teeth, though I didn't get a good look at them since his mouth was only partially open. He looked at me like he knew I was insane. Not that I cared.

The shorter soldier shook his head, focusing back on the matter at hand. He turned away from us and started barking orders to the other soldiers who were around us. The tall one followed after him after staring at me for a second more. I decided to ignore their looks until later when this is all over.

We all looked up as one of those fighter jets appeared between the buildings. As it approached it fired missiles at our position. Thankfully Ironhide and Bumblebee had picked up a random truck and used it to block us. I instantly jumped on Mikaela and Sam to cover them just in case some shrapnel came flying in. I flattened my ears against my head in an effort to quiet down the sound of the explosion, it didn't work much.

I watched with wide eyes as the missiles hit the truck, the force of them blasting both Ironhide and Bumblebee away from us. I was dumb-folded for a minute, looking at the now empty space where 'Bee and 'Hide were five seconds ago. When I came to, I heard Sam (Who had somehow slipped away from me at some point) yelling at 'Bee to get up. I was confused as of why until I looked at where they were. My blood ran cold as terror and fury overcame me. That bastard had blown 'Bees legs off, forgetting all about Mikaela. –Who was still crouched under me— I ran in a dead spring towards 'Bee. Crashing into him, I wrapped my arms around his neck; breathing in his scent to assure myself that he was still alive and here with me.

"Oh My God 'Bee, are you okay? Of course you're not okay, who am I kidding?" I ranted into his shoulder. 'Bee whirled in pain, bringing a hand to my back comfortingly. I could hear Sam screaming for Ratchet as we had our moment. I pulled away from 'Bee, tears staining my cheeks as I watched him at harms length. "You're gonna be okay, okay? I promise" I said to him, looking into his eyes. 'Bees hand left my back and he pulled out the Cube from somewhere. He held it up to me, looking between me and the Cube expectantly. Getting the message I let go of 'Bees neck and took the Cube in my hands. I didn't really know what to do with it, but I sure as hell knew not to give it Optimus.

Then I noticed that Mikaela had appeared with a tow truck, she got out and started to get the chains from the back. I pulled away from 'Bee and went to help out. I had pretty much been ignoring the rest of the area for the past few minutes when I was with 'Bee. As I was dragging one of the chains towards 'Bee, I noticed Jazz shooting at the face of a huge Decepticon.

Said Decepticon roared in rage at Jazz, he jumped up in the air. Transforming into some type of jet and grabbing Jazz like he was a ragdoll. The Decepticon flew up to a building pillar not too far from where he initially was. He transformed with Jazz still in his grasp. I watched in horror as the Decepticon ripped Jazz in two, letting him fall to the grown like a rock.

I stared at Jazz's mangled body for what felt like a lifetime until the soldier guy who I had seen earlier. He was asking about the Cube, which Sam pointed to as he worked on tying 'Bee. He looked at the Cube for a second and then towards some other direction, obviously in thought. I approached Sam and the soldier, wanting to know what was going on. And trying to not think about how that Decepticon had killed Jazz.

The soldier took a flare from one of his pockets and handing it to Sam. "Okay, take this flare. There's a white building with statues on it. Get to the roof, set the flare when you get there, and signal the choppers to-"

"No! I can't- I can't do that!" Sam interrupted yelling at the soldier. The soldier got an annoyed look on his face and grabbed the front of Sam's shirt. Yelling at him and telling him that he is a soldier now. When he let go of Sam I stepped forward.

"I'm going two" I declared, not wanting to let Sam go do this on his own. The soldier guy nodded at me in acceptance. But a hand wrapped around my waist stopping me from moving forward. I looked back to see 'Bee looking at me with worried eyes. I unwrapped his fingers from my person and walked towards his face. Taking his face in my hands I leaned in a pressed my lips softly to where his would be if he had any. We stayed like that for a moment until I pulled away. Looking into his eyes; I tried to assure him that I would be fine with my stare. "Don't worry 'Bee. I'll be fine. Believe it or not I'm pretty hard to kill." I whispered to him with a small smile.

'Bee whirled at me "Be careful—babe" he said through snippets, my smile widened a bit more. Giving him a peck on the speaker that worked as his mouth again; I moved away from him and went to stand next to Sam who was talking to Makeila.

When he was finished I looked at him dead in the eye, with the most serious face I could muster. "If you're still alive after this, you owe me a trip to the groomers. And I expect the luxury massage, as well as extra jerky" I said to him. He just gave me short nod of agreement before turning towards Ratchet and Ironhide, who were standing not far away.

They gave us a nod telling us that they would escort us there as best they could with all the destruction that's going on around us. With that we took off, staying in step with each other as we moved. Or I was keeping in step with him as he was slower than me. I helped him get over rubble and crushed cars. We ran as fast as Sam could, ignoring the sounds of guns going off and the destruction of city property all around us.

Sam could somehow scream and run at the same time, obviously paying attention the fight unlike me. As we were getting close to the building, a jet/Decepticon transformed in front of us on top of a bunch of cars. Ratchet and Ironhide jumped in the Decepticons direction, fighting it and shooting at it like true warriors. I pulled Sam down to hide between some cars as the dynamic duo fought the Decepticon. The Decepticon gave up on fighting them after a few more hits, transforming in to a jet again and flying off.

Ratchet watched him leave for a moment, and then turned to us "Get to the building" he ordered, bringing us back to reality.

We stood up and began to run again towards the white building. I decided to screw Sam and his human slowness. Grabbing him by the waist I lifted him up and made a break for the building, ignoring his ever present screams.

The sound of heavy foot falls behind us, made me look behind me only to see that the giant Deception who had killed Jazz was right behind us. My eyes widened as I cursed the heavens in my mind. I ran faster towards the building now that I had murderer on my tail. The Decepticon deep growl made a chill run down my spine, almost feeling it on me.

We finally made it to the building, sprinting through the doors. I could hear the glass doors shatter as we got to the stairs. I let go of Sam pushing him in front of me so he would be the last to get hurt if the Decepticon got to us.

"MOVE IT OR LOOSE IT SAMMY" I yelled after him as we were getting to the third floor. I quickly looked back to the Decepticon, to see that he had broken through the second floor and kept coming towards us. I narrowed my eyes at him in anger, making the spit decision to hurt him. I flexed my claws as I ran, stopping as we hit the last set of stairs. Sam kept going, thankfully not seeing me stop and turn to the red eyed bastard.

I squared off in front of the Decepticon, pushing as much acid as I could to the tips of my fingers. Lifting my right hand in the air I finished creating my acid whip. When the Decepticon was in range I quickly slashed at his face with the whip. Doing a victory dance in my head as the red eyed freak recoiled in pain at the contact. But I didn't stick around too long enough to see what he did about it, because I headed up to the roof to help Sam with the Cube.

When I got there Sam was already holding up the Cube to the soldier on the chopper. But I saw some movement to the side. I momentarily panicked when I recognized the object that was approaching as a missile. Yelling at them to get out of the way; I tackled Sam to the ground, Cube and all. The chopper moved out of the way in time as well, thankfully. But as they approached us again the ground caved in to reveal the giant Decepticon, who was now sporting a painful looking slash on his face. Haha.

I grabbed Sam by the collar of his hoody and pulled him away from the Decepticon. "Holy shit its Megatron" Sam stammered out. Huh, so that's Megatron, I don't know why I was expecting something scarier. I mean yeah he's scary as it is since he's trying to kill us but not as scary as I thought he would be. Or is that just me… Anywho.

I was dragging Sam away from Megatron as fast as I could. Stopping short of jumping off the edge, I looked around trying to find either a way down or a place to hide. Sam then moved to go towards one of the statues at the corners. I followed his lead and climbed up on to the statue, moving to the opposite side of it.

"Is it fear or courage that compels you, fleshlings?" Megatron growled looking around the roof for us. Sam adjusted his grip on the statue, moving the Cube to be wedged between him and the statue. I got closer to him, wrapping an arm around his waist and grabbing the statue from his other side. The sound of Megatron approaching us made us both tense, we started to scrabble to the other side of the statue. But Megatron saw us as we turned the corner.

"Ah there you are" he mused with a smirk, successfully sending a shiver down my spine.

"Fuck off!" I growled at him baring my teeth.

Megatron narrowed his eyes at us briefly. "Give me the Cube fleshlings, and perhaps I may let you live as my pets." Megatron offered. I growled at him louder, wishing that my hands were free so that I could give him another slash. Sam took the lead then and refused Megatron before I got down from my internal battle.

"'So unwise creatures" Megatron growled, taking his own whip thing and hitting the building right under the statue. The statue started to crumple at the base, efficiently throwing us off of it. We fell to the grown screaming all the way. I had grabbed Sam, wrapping my arms and legs around him in a last hug sort of thing.

Thankfully not long after we were thrown off of the building we were caught by a large metal chest, and a hand that held us in place. "Got you" The distinctive voice of Optimus said. I removed my head from Sam's neck where it had been for the last few seconds to look up at Optimus. He was watching us, most likely checking if we were hurt. After a moment of assuring himself that we were okay. He told us to hold on, a battle masks moving in place over his face. A sudden weight hit Optimus, sending us all crashing to the ground.

Optimus landed with us roughly. After a moment the hand that was holding us to Optimus' chest removed itself revealing the face of Optimus again. We slid off of him so he could stand. But instead of going after Megatron immediately he crouched in front of us. By the look in his eyes I knew that he was going to try the Cube + Spark thing, no way, Jose; not on my watch mister. But before I could open my mouth to yell at him, he spoke.

"You've both risked your lives to protect the Cube." He started, baritone voice as deep as ever.

"No sacrifice. No victory." Sam said most likely very proud of himself at the moment.

"If I cannot defeat Megatron, you must push the Cube into my chest." Optimus said. "I will sacrifice myself to destroy it-"

"Like hell you will! I'm not letting you do this. The Autobots need you, you can't just leave them." I yelled, interrupting him. Optimus ignored me, preferring to keep his eyes on Sam.

"Get behind me" he said, giving no more room for discussion. Sam pulled me to a hiding spot where we could see the battle without getting involved. As Sam watched the battle between Optimus and Megatron; I kept my eyes on the Allspark; thought of how to save Optimus running through my head.

I was bought back to the action when Optimus was sent flying when Megatron overpowered him. Optimus started crawling towards us, only to be kicked in the face by Megatron. Megatron turned to us, intent on getting the Cube from us. Thankfully the soldiers joined the fight against Megatron, Firing missiles at him from all directions. Megatron landed on the ground, growling in pain at the missiles. But he landed uncomfortably close to us, we both scrabbling away from him as best we could.

"Sam, put the Cube in my chest, Now!" Optimus suddenly said. I looked at Sam desperately begging him not to. Sam turned his head between me, Optimus and Megatron, the wheel in his head turning. Suddenly he went into a sprint towards Megatron. He stopped in front of Megatron and held up the Cube to his chest. I don't know how he knew it would work, but it did. The Cube was absorbed into Megatron's chest, effectively killing him. Megatron's body collapsed on to the ground next to Sam. There was a moment of silence as we all processed what just happened.

My awed face changed into one of pure happiness. Running towards Sam I hugged him as strongly as I could without breaking him. "You did it!" I yelled over and over, jumping up and down with Sam still in my arms.

The sound of Optimus speaking made me stop and let go of Sam, so he could respond to the Leader. "I owe you both my life. We are in your debt." Optimus said to us. Sam was still a bit out of it. I elbowed him to get his attention. But Sam couldn't talk yet so he just nodded dumbly at him. I merely smiled at Optimus, still kind of upset with him but it was going away.

My anger at Optimus for almost getting himself killed and leaving his friends alone on a strange planet where they would most likely be in danger didn't matter at the moment. The war was won and most of us sans Jazz were alive and well. I'm totally going to have a mental breakdown once the adrenaline dies down, damn it.

Oh well, at least the planet is safe.

Soooo thats chapter 7 guys! I made it extra long because... I don't know I wanted too I guess.

I also wanted to take this moment to tell you guys how thankful I am that so many of you have read and actually liked this story. I never thought that I would ge this far. I love you guys so much!

Thats pretty much it till next week, see ya 3

This was edited on: January 15, 2017

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