Hey, everyone! Hope you all had a great Christmas, and hopefully a good new years. School's about to start again so I wanted to put up another chapter before then. Hope you like it, and don't forget to review. I own nothing except for my OC Shift.

Chapter 7- Waiting for the End

Shift's POV

The roar of my engines echoed through the dark sky. I could faintly hear the sound of a truck going over the sand below me. I knew who it was but I stayed silent, not wanting to disturb the peace around us.

"I missed you, Ironhide." I said quietly down to the truck below me.

"I missed you, too, Shift. You have no idea how worried I've been since I left Cybertron without you." I went quiet after that, just flying inches above the water.

Water splashed around me as my engines blasted over it. I decided to mess with Ironhide, so I turned around so that my engines were facing his truck form and I went full throttle. Water splashed all over him as I pulled up and around laughing at how drenched he was. He transformed and stood with a gruff look on his face.

"Aww, did poor Ironhide get a little wet?" I laughed as I transformed and went to stand by him.

"You always know how to cheer me up." He chuckled as he tried to shake all the water out of his system.

Once he was done he took my hand and we walked along the shore line. We didn't say anything, enjoying the feeling of us being back together. I put my head on his shoulder as he led me to a hill that overlooked the water. I sat down on the edge of the cliff and he sat down beside me. I looked at him as he looked at me. We locked optics as our lips got closer, but just when things were getting good we heard a chuckle behind us. We pulled apart and got up. Ironhide had his cannons ready to fire at whoever was behind the bush. I saw bright green and orange as I approached the bush.

"Shut up, dude, I think they're on to us." Mudflap whispers to his twin.

"Well, maybe if you could have kept your mouth shut they wouldn't know were….oh, hey, Shift, what's up?"

"Nice try, Skids, but I think you two outta leave before Ironhide over there blasts ya to bits." And with that they ran off back to base.

"Now where were we?" I grinned and rapped my arms around Ironhide's neck.

Our faces were inches apart and I started to close my optics when Ironhide was contacted by Ratchet.

"Ah, come on! Can we ever get a break?" I screamed into the heavens.

I waited for Ironhide to be done so I could hear what Ratchet had to say.

"So..?" I asked Ironhide.

"Lennox got a call from Simmons, who told him that he was with Sam and they are somewhere in Egypt. He also said that Sam thinks he can bring back Optimus somehow."

"So, I'm guessing that means we need to head back to base?" I asked sadly.

"Yes." He gave me a quick peck on my lips. "But, don't worry we'll get some time to ourselves."

"Hopefully." I said quietly as we transformed and headed back to base.

They were already loading up Optimus and the others onto the C-17s when we arrived, that's when I saw him, Galloway. Lennox approached us just as I was going to give Galloway a dirty look.

"Ironhide, you need to go get loaded into the plane, while Shift, I need you to fly as an escort for us."

I nodded my head in approval as he continued. "Now, Galloway thinks we're going back to our base, but we're actually heading to Egypt where said Sam he can bring back Optimus. So, don't let anything slip."

"Yes, sir." I did a quick salute and transformed into my human form.

I watched as Optimus was loaded onto one of the planes. I prayed to Primus that Sam truly had something to bring him back as I transformed into my jet form. I waited for the two planes to take off as I taxied onto the runway. As the C-17s rocketed into the sky, I was givin the go for launch. I went full throttle and positioned myself above the planes.

I kept my eyes on my radar, looking for any threat that could come our way. We continued out way towards Egypt as the sun set below the horizon.

The next day…

We had finally made it to Egypt the next morning when I heard the back of one of the planes coming open. I lowered myself to get a better view of what was going on. To my surprise Lennox was slowing guiding Galloway towards the back of the plane. Everyone else was calming putting their gear on while Galloway was almost in tears. I strained my audio receptors to listen on what Lennox was saying to him. Something about he needs to pull the blue cord or something really hard, and with that Galloway did and Lennox called him a dumb butt and he went parachuting out of the plane down towards who knows where.

I laughed to myself and pulled up above the planes just as the sun was coming up. I could feel its warmth coming over my wings as we moved closer to the ground. We were almost to our destination when I heard someone screaming, C-17s! I looked to where the voice was coming from only to see that Simmons guy standing on a hill waving at us.

Now that we were over the drop point, both planes opened up while Lennox and his team jumped out with the rest of the Autobots. Everyone landed safely on the ground, while I stayed up in the air, circling the skies above. From here I could see Bumblebee and the twins taking off towards us, when suddenly I heard another jet. It was Starscream, and he was heading straight towards Bumblebee and the twins.

I took off after him but he had already messed with our communications and shot some missiles at Bumblebee. As I was about to attack Starscream something appeared just to the right of me, but only for a second. I looked just in time to see who it was before they disappeared.

"The Fallen? He's here, already? This can't be good."

I heard something behind me and transformed, only to turn around and come face to face with the Fallen himself. I gasped as I tried to turn around and take off, but I was too late. I took hold of my arm and dragged me with him into another warp gate. I cried out for help but to no avail. I had been captured and no one could help me.

Once we reappeared, I noticed that we were just outside of Earth. I saw the Fallen not to far off in the distance and I went to charge at him only to find out he had cuffs on my wrists and ankles. I tried to get free of them but they only tightened. I screamed out in agony as they started to rip through the metal. The Fallen chuckled at this and came closer to me.

"You can not escape, Shift. I can not have you ruin my plans." He stated as he looked towards the sun.

"What exactly are you planning?" I asked him.

"I'm planning on using the sun harvester to claim this planet's sun."

The sun harvester was used to destroy suns so that Cybertronians could create energon.

"You can't! I won't let you!" I screamed at him.

He put his clawed hands under my chin and pulled my face towards his.

"And, what are you going to do about it? You're out in the middle of space far away from helping your friends."

I took this moment to spit energon in his face. He slapped me hard across my right cheek. I had energon coming out of my mouth as I turned towards him.

"You will never hurt my friends or family, not as long as I still have energon running through me."

And with that he took his big, pointy stick and shoved it through me. I cried out in pain as he pulled it back out. I struck me right above my spark chamber. Ratchet was not going to be happy about this.

I tried holding back the tears as the Fallen picked me up by my bound wrists.

"How about we go see how those 'friends' of yours are doing, shall we?" He laughed as he opened a warp gate to Earth.

We reappeared right above Optimus and the others, but high enough that nobody noticed us. I attempted to scream out at everyone but the Fallen had his hand over my mouth. I watched as Sam was nearly killed by Megatron, and now was making his way up Optimus. I could feel the energy coming from the object Sam was carrying.

"The Matrix?" I thought.

Sam plunged the Matrix into Optimus's spark. There was nothing but silence until Optimus's optics glowed. He began to stand up when I felt the Fallen open up another warp gate. I closed my optics until we had reappeared. Everyone saw us now; they had surprised looks on their faces.

I looked towards Ironhide when the Fallen suddenly dropped me. He took the Matrix out of Optimus and stood over me. His spear high above his head ready to give me the final blow. I closed my optics waiting for the end, but it never came. The Fallen had disappeared and I saw Ironhide running towards me.

I heard him screaming for Ratchet as he got on his knees by my side. I looked at him with sad optics. I had lost so much energon I was slowly falling into statis. Ironhide hurried to get the cuffs off my wrists and ankles. He grabbed my hand with his and told me that I needed to hang on and that everything's gonna be ok.

But, I didn't last long. The last thing I saw before I went into statis, was Optimus trying to stand up while Ratchet came running to me, and Ironhide whispering I love you to me.

"I love you, too." I whispered barely reaching Ironhide's audio receptors.

And like that, I closed my optics and went into a deep statis.

Well, I hope you liked it. I won't update for a while with school starting on Monday, but I promise I won't make you guys wait too long. Until next time, don't forget to review! Oh, and any ideas you guys want me to put in the story just message me anytime.