A hand grabbed my rotator cup. I turned to see Jenna flying at optic-level, frowning slightly.

"Wheeljack..." The girl looked down. "I don't know what you want me to say. I already apologized for what happened in Darkmount. I panicked. It was the only way I could think of to get at least one of us out alive... You gonna hate me for surviving?" I sighed, shaking my helm.

"You had me terrified, you know that?" I asked. "You pulled off that stunt, then you just..."

"I know... I scared the Hell out of myself, too..." Jenna shook out of it. "But I couldn't leave... I couldn't leave my best friend." I looked at her, and I tried to look strong. "I just wanna know, since I'm going to be around for a while... Are we still partners, 'Jackie?" I held out my servo, and Jenna grabbed it. We both smiled, and I couldn't stay mad.

"As sure as you're a Wrecker, Snow Queen... We'll always be partners, no matter what." We both grinned, and Jenna laughed.

"Missed you, too, Wheeljack-ass." I gave a small chuckle. Same old Jenna. Then...

"Wait, what do you mean be around for a while?"

"If I were human, I'd be lucky to live to be in my nineties. That's ninety stellar-cycles. But now, I've got a Cybertronian life span... I'm not going anywhere."

/\/\/\/\

We began our plans to take Darkmount. Ultra Magnus gave us a bunch of weapons, then Jack and Miko used their cellphones to summon Decepticon forces, and with their numbers greatly divided, we launched our attack. Bulk, Jenna, and I were the decoys. Sari went with Arcee and 'Bee. We plopped ourselves down in the front yard and began chucking bombs at the front door.

"Fire in another hole." I smirked, throwing another bomb. Jenna threw a large paint-bomb, hilariously decorating Darkmount with neon and pastel shades of blue, yellow, pink, orange, and green. We charged the tower as what remained of 'Screamer's armada mobilized and attacked. Bulkhead used his gun, Jenna fired her energy blasters, and I used a plasma whip. We kept the distraction going, but then the 'Cons retreated. It got quiet. Too quiet.

"I've got a bad feeling about this." Jenna muttered. "It's been nice rolling with the Wreckers. See you boys in Hell." We heard a roar, and the dragon swooped down for the attack. We began firing, but that monster was fast. Ultra Magnus got a lucky hit from his ship, and the beast chased after him. Then, Shockwave joined the party. With one shot, he threw me and Bulk onto our backs.

"Your mission was most illogical."

"Nah." We all looked to see Jenna (helmet engaged and flying), the Vehicons all around her pretty much destroyed, aiming her energy blasters. "Attacking my friends was most illogical. Lower the weapon and back away."

"Or what, techno-organic?"

"Well, here's some cold equations. You can't run fast, I have blasters aimed at the weakest point on your helm, and I'm a Wrecker. You seriously just asked me or what?" Then, a cannon tapped Jenna's back, with ten Vehicons behind her. "Aw, scrap..."

/\/\/\/\

Everyone was captured, our execution ordered... Then, we received word from Ultra Magnus. Optimus was alive. We drew our weapons and attacked, resuming our siege. Finally, Optimus and Fowler's armada destroyed Darkmount, and we returned to our new base in Hangar E. After we reunited with Optimus, our leader turned to Jenna and Sari.

"Who are you two? And... Where is Jenna?" Our leader asked. Jenna and I exchanged glances. I shook my helm, she nodded.

"Gone." Jenna replied. "Slashed by Starscream in Darkmount." Well, now I had no choice left but to play along with this charade.

"There was nothing I could do." I spoke up, looking down. "I was barely conscious, in stasis cuffs attached to the ceiling. Kid had 'Screamer's claw to her gut, said he was gonna scrap both of us. She took two bombs, blinded Starscream with one and freed me with another. I cut her down and got ready to grab her and run... But, then she moved her arm from around her stomach." Optimus' faceplate showed more emotion than anyone alive had ever seen. It was pure horror. Smokescreen just stared in dismay. He didn't know Jenna personally, but he was still shocked that a human had been killed. "I had no choice but to run, and 'Screamer threw her off Darkmount."

"Then..." Jenna crossed her arms. "I woke up." Jenna disengaged her helmet, and I picked up my human-looking partner. She hopped on my rotator cup like always and took a bow. "Primus sends you his regards."

"Jenna?!" Optimus asked. Jenna gave a grin.

"Yep, it's me... This is the story of how I died. Don't worry, it's actually a pretty fun story, and it's not entirely mine. It all began with a protoform that fell to Earth..."

/\/\/\/\

When the story was over, we were astonished by it. Smokescreen introduced himself, Jenna shaking his servo.

"So, the missing protoforms fell to Earth and were adopted by humans?" Arcee asked, only her, Smokescreen, the humans, and myself shocked by this. "That means that there are thousands of them."

"By the Star-Spangled Banner..." Fowler's eyes were wide. "Thousands of teenage cyber-humans... We're doomed."

"HEY!" Jenna and Sari exclaimed, highly offended.

"You still haven't told us who you are, young one." Optimus looked at Sari. This seemed to hurt Sari's feelings the most, even more than with Bulkhead and Bumblebee.

"You don't know me, Big Guy?" Sari asked, then disengaged her helmet. "Nice upgrades. Remember how I got mine?" I saw Prime's optics widen.

"Sari?"

"Hey..." Sari grinned, then put up a jokingly serious face. "Autobots! Transform and roll out!" Bulkhead and Bumblebee started laughing/buzzing. The rest of us didn't get it, but Optimus looked mortified and Ratchet chuckled.

"Huh?" Jenna asked. Sari laughed and slung an arm over my partner's shoulders, grinning slyly.

"You didn't know him while he was still relatively new at this whole leader thing. He was pathetic." Optimus crossed his arms. "I missed you, too!"

"You've got funny stories about the Autobots?" Raf asked. Sari slowly smirked, crossing her arms.

"Hundreds. I've got the day we met, the times Bumblebee got freaked out, when Bulkhead was an artist, the times when they literally lost their heads (and other limbs), a few Halloween incidents, stupid things they said and did, how many times I saved their rear-ends by kicking 'Con tailpipe, when they got controlled by Soundwave, when 'Bee joined a small branch of WWE-" As Sari listed things off, Arcee and I slowly smirked at the horror on our fellow Autobot's faceplates. Smokescreen kept laughing. Even Ultra Magnus seemed to lighten up. "So, which do you want to hear first?"

"Well..." Smokescreen paused. "What's this Halloween?"

"It's a holiday, or day we celebrate." Raf explained. "Kids dress up as something and go from door to door, and people hand out free candy." Jenna solemnly stood and placed a hand over her... Well... Spark.

"GOD BLESS AMERICA!" My partner exclaimed. Sari grinned.

"Excellent choice. So, a while back in Detroit, the 'Bots were well known and stuff. That all eventually changed when the US Government dragged them away and swore everyone to silence..." Sari's pigtails drooped, and Fowler looked guilty. "But anyways, all of Detroit knew they were real, so they could wander freely within the city limits and the outskirts. The farthest they ever really went was to an island in the middle of Lake Erie... The Dinobots are still there, by the way. Grimlock says hi. So do Swoop, Snarl, Scrapper, and Wreck-Gar." Those who knew Sari cringed. "Okay, so Halloween was coming, and I introduced the custom to the Autobots. Prowl, Ratchet, and Optimus weren't really interested, but 'Bee and Bulk went nuts."

"Not really..." Bulk rubbed the back of his helm in embarrassment. 'Bee pat him on the rotator cup and braced himself for humiliation.

"So, we went to pick out pumpkins, and we learned the hard way that Optimus hates spiders-" Sari was interrupted by Jenna and Miko laughing.

"Did he scream?!" Miko asked. Sari tapped two fingers together, not making eye-contact. That spoke volumes. "OH MY GOD!"

"I have a valid reason for hating spiders." Optimus shot a slight glare at Sari, Arcee patting him on the rotator cup, and Sari laughed.

"She is a pretty good reason... So, I was trying to figure out my costume, but 'Bee and Bulk were WAY ahead of me on that front. Bulkhead went as the classic sheet-ghost, and 'Bee was a vampire." Sari stated. Jenna frowned at that. "Classic, not Twilight."

"Thank God..."

"And it turns out, they weren't so great after all. Bulkhead's sheet was a fumigation tent, and 'Bumblebee said the stupidest thing-!"

"Say nothing." Bumblebee glared. Sari just giggled.

"Now, remember, I was like nine years-old... But that doesn't mean that I wasn't a devious little kid. Guess what costume I decided on?" Sari paused for effect. "I went as Optimus." That made all the humans/techno-organics burst out laughing. Bulk, 'Bee, Smoke, Arcee, and quickly I joined in. "I know, right?! Now, who wants to hear about the time they got brainwashed and Optimus nearly killed me?" We all gaped at that one.

"Brainwashed?" Jenna asked. "Optimus? I WANNA HEAR THIS STORY!"

/\/\/\/\

Sari told the story, and Jenna raised a hand.

"Wait, if humans, machines, and Autobots were controlled by the music... Why weren't you and the Substitute-Autobots going all zombie?"

"To this day, I don't know how. I just hope that Soundwave never repairs his guitar, or we're all slagged."

/\/\/\/\

'Meanwhile, a silent Decepticon worked on a work bench, and a few musical notes played.'

/\/\/\/\

'Elsewhere, four scared red optics opened.

"Where am I?" A feminine voice asked, and a large form shakily stood up in the middle of a desert. "O-Optimus?"'

/\/\/\/\

A few hours later...

"Mom?" Jenna took her mother's hands, looking at her and Jack. "There's something I've gotta tell you... Now that I'm upgraded, and mostly Cybertronian, I..." Jenna looked down. "I'm gonna be seventeen for a long, long time."

"What?" Jack asked. Jenna wouldn't meet their eyes. I decided to help my partner out and kneeled.

"Cybertronians are in the prime of their lives at the age of four-billion stellar cycles, or years. Optimus and Ultra Magnus are four-billion somethin', Ratchet in the six-billions, Arcee and I in the two-billions, Bumblebee near one-point-seven-billion, Bulkhead in the three-billions..." I looked at the two humans. "Jenna's gonna be around for billions of years, not aging even slightly until she's one-point-seven-billion."

"Oh my God..." June's eyes were wide. My partner hugged herself, looking down. "So, my little girl is never going to grow up?" I nodded.

"Mom, Jack..." Jenna looked down. "I'm sorry."

We're all gonna die, it's just a matter of time... Okay, I winged the whole age thing. Sue me, and hate me for the family drama. I only own my OC. Please read, review, check out my other stories, etc. Thanks!