:{Optimus POV}:
I onlined my optics and rebooted my systems the next morning. There was a bad feeling in my guts. Like something was going to happen. Something bad. I got off the berth and out of my quarters, hoping the uneasy feeling would go away once I stand up. It didn't. It followed me all the way to to the main room was apparently everyone was already gathered.
They did not see me come in. I walked over to the main computer and was about to start typing when an alarm rang through the base. As green light flickered on and of Ratchet pulled up the cameras on the roof. "It's Agent Fowler," he said.
"Prime!" he yelled as he was exiting the elevator. "I am right here Agent Fowler, I am afraid it is too early for a report. Do you wish to tell us something?" I say. "Sure do." He said."Yesterday General Bryce and his men had captured a strange beast. The thing is, it is clearly a human. But, it possesses dragon limbs. Ever heard of the movie 'How to Train Your Dragon'?" He asked. "We have" Miko piped in. "Well in that movie there is this black dragon, a Night Fury, and it seems like this beast possesses limbs that look like they belong to that very dragon. To make this story short, it has wings. Along with talons, scales, and the ear-like things on its head. But the freaky part is, all of its extra appendages are made of metal. From how it looked and weighted, black metal that was made precisely for flying. So this leads us to believe that this beast is somehow from Cybertron or just its an unlucky human who came intact with something Cybertronian. Perhaps a relic of some kind." he explained.
Everyone was silent after he was done explaining. "General Bryce has called a meeting to discuss what to do with the beast. He wants everyone here to attend. Even the children."He says glancing at the children who were whooping and hooting "The Pentagon wants to know if that thing is dangerous or not."
I thought for a moment. "Before I agree, do you happen to know the latitude and longitude of where the beast was captured?" I ask."Sure thing Prime." he says taking out his phone and calling someone. After he hanged up he said. " Latitude _ Longitude_(I don't know ok I am horrible with Lats and Longs, get creative) I thought for a moment. I checked my memory to see the Lat and the Long of Nightglide's place.!My optics widened in surprise. It was almost exactly the same. Quickly I make my decision.
"I am willing to go, however, it is up to them to make the decision as to if they want to come or not," I say gesturing at my team.
"I am so in"
"Why not"
[Don't forget me:
I looked at Ratchet expecting an answer. "I do not see why not. But I am coming with you, just in case," he said emotionless, but I knew that inside he was really excited about this.
I looked at the children and they all gave me excited smiles. That settles it, I guess. " Agent Fowler, we shall accompany you to the place of the meeting. Would you prefer if we were in our haloforms and leave our actual bodies here at the base?" I ask. He nods. "Come along now. I am taking you to the meeting place on my helicopter." We all quickly transformed activating our haloforms and coming up the stairs into the elevator. Then we got to the roof and into the helicopter.
(Time skip after helicopter ride at meeting place(sorry I am lazy))
As we exited the helicopter I was the last out, allowing my team to exit before me. I look around the unfamiliar room. The sealing was very hight inside the room. The room was also very wide. Right in the center, I see what seems to be a cage with a black creature in there. Next to it but at the same time far away from it was a table where some people were already sitting.
They watched the kids as they ran up to the cage and tried to get a glimpse of the creature. Unfortunately for them, it was too dark in there for them to see anything. A man stood up. "Welcome, I assume you all know why we are here and if you don't we are here to discuss the fate of this creature," he said taking out a remote and pressing one of the many buttons on it. The light in the cage was immediately turned on and the creature groaned. It slowly stood up on all fours even though it could clearly stand up on only two legs. It slowly crept away from the place where all of the children and the Autobots were standing. It seemed to be scanning all of them one by one.
I noticed that when she got to the children her black optics slightly opened in surprise. 'Wait' I thought 'black?' Then she looked at me and jumped back, surprise evident in her stance and movements. And it hit me. 'Nightglide'.
That was Nightglide. In her human form as part dragon, in a cage. She edged towards the place where I was standing carefully. I walk to the side, away from everyone. She stands right in front of me. I reach my arm into the cage to pet her. She leans into the touch easily. "Open the cage," I said. Everyone looked at me as if I just said that this beast was Primus himself."What? I'm sorry but we can't do that. What if it attacks us?" said General Bryce. "Then let me go inside the cage," I say calmly in my commando tone. They followed my order and let me get inside the cage with Nightglide.
When the cage door closed I walked towards Nightglide. Everyone watched worryingly. I stop a few feet away from her. She takes off her hood revealing metallic/silver and black hair with ear-like things on it. Slowly she starts making her way towards me. She sniffed me. Once, twice. She was being cautious. Making sure that this was no trick and that I was really here. Once she was done sniffing me she walked to face me. I did not see her tail nearing my leg. Suddenly I was falling and hit the ground of the cage.
I felt her climb on to me but not fully. Only so she could use my chest as a big pillow. So now we were in a position that if you look at us from up the then it would look like a plus. She smiled and nuzzled my neck. I blushed a little but did not nuzzle back. Instead, I started scratching her behind one of her ear-like things. At first, she seemed confused. Then she started leaning into the touch and purring. Then she suddenly bent down and quickly licked my mouth. Fortunately, no one saw it. I shot her a glare and she returned it with a smile.
Everyone was amazed at how easily 'the beast', as they like to call her, befriended me. In a way, she was like a huge cat. When you gain her trust, which was not easy, she will respect and follow you.
General Bryce opened the cage once again and this time he decided to go in along with his men just in case. Nightglide sensed them immediately and buried her face in my chest. She started to make sad noises and somehow I understood her. "Don't let them hurt me. I don't want to hurt them their humans I am stronger. I don't want to take an innocent life from anyone. Please Optimus, do something." The saliva! It must have altered my CNA when some of it got into my mouth. That's why she did it. To communicate without using words. Quickly, I get her off me and stood up. She hid behind my back, afraid of hurting them. Afraid of killing them.
"Stop! Don't come any closer!" I yell stopping everyone. "Let's take this one at a time. Since you captured her she will trust you the least because she knows your sent. So why don't we start with the Autobots? Ratchet come here." He looked dump-folded. "Me? But will it . . . she . . . trust me?" He said complaining.
"I am certain that Nightglide will trust you. Don't worry" I say. He mumbled something under his breath but he obeyed his leader and entered the cage. He slowly walked up to us. Nightglide sensed the familiar presence and peeked out from her hiding place behind me. Slowly she started coming out and making her way towards the teams medic. They met halfway. She started sniffing him. At first, he tensed up. After a minute he started to relax, trusting that Nightglide would not hurt him.
Once she was done sniffing him, she stood up on two legs and took Ratchets hands in hers. She examined them. Looking up she smirked confidently and started tracing the lines on his hands. (Just saying, Ratchets servo's/hands are very sensitive, for medical reasons.) He closed his eyes and shuddered. She put his hands down and ruffled his hair in a big sister like way. Everyone seemed surprised by that gesture but Ratchet was more surprised than anyone else. "Um . . . nice to meet you?" it came out more like a question from Ratchet. Nightglide nodded.
She then goes on all fours again and walks towards the nearest bot. Who ended up being Bumblebee.
He looks at her with surprise as she started to sniff him. He stretches out his hand wanting to pet her, and she let him. She Purred leaning into the touch. She then stood up again and extended her hand. Bumblebee accepted the handshake and just like that, she was off again.
Nightglide then starts to head towards Arcee. She proceeded to sniff her just like everyone else.
Once she was done she stood up on her two legs. Arcee held out her hand in a handshake gesture and NIghtglide accepted it shaking Arcee's hand. "Good to know that there's another femme here," she said. Darknight nodded and once again got on all fours.
She started making her way towards Bulkhead.
He seemed frightened at first when she sniffed him. Once she was done sniffing him she once again stood up, patted him on the shoulder. And off she went again.
Then Nightglide made her way towards the children(no longer on all fours). She still sniffed them to make sure they were really her human friends. She gave them all a quick group hug, which confused and surprised them and headed off.
Nightglide did not even bother to come closer to General Bryce and the others to sniff them. Instead, she sent them a glare that could kill. She was most likely mad at him. "I am not coming any closer to you. You got on my bad side," She growled the words out. Everyone looked at her amazed. "You can speak? Wicked," said Miko.
Nightglide rolled her eyes and walked towards the other end of the cage, to the spot where I was standing the entire time She stood right next to me, our hands slightly brushing against each other. If anyone noticed it, they kept it to themselves.
'What are we waiting for?' I thought. "So . . . shall we get on with the meeting?" I say. Everyone nods. Nightglide made a few growls and gurgles, which I surprisingly understood. "She asked if she could join us, . . . outside the cage" I say. The cage exploded in yells and shouts, mainly from the generals. " No way!" "Never" "we can't let that beast out of here!" "What if it rips us all apart?""How did you understand it?" "What if it-" I hold up my hand stopping everyone. "Would it be better if I monitor her every move and make sure that she does not stray from me, remaining beside me at all times?" I question. They all considered this for a moment. "Alright. She can be let out of the cage only if she stays beside you at all times, and does not cause any trouble," said General Bryce. All eyes went on NIghtglide. She nods, pulling her hood up to cover her head.
"That settles it then, let us proceed," I say and start to go towards the exit of the cage. Nightglide follows me, and hesitantly, everyone follows her. The moment she's out of the cage she spreads her wings and with one flap she was ten feet in the air. Everyone was afraid that she would attack them but she just started maneuvering in the air.
Flying all the way to the top(Which was as tall as in the Autobot base) she tucked in her wings in what seemed like a diving position and dived face first. Heading towards the ground, fast. Right before she hit the ground Nightglide extended her wings and flew a foot above the floor. Swiftly, she flaps her wings a couple times before landing on the ground next to me.
"That was a good little exercise," she says while stretching her hands up and extending her chest a little bit forward. I stare at her. She flashes me a smile "like what you see" she said in growls and gurgles. I smile "There's the smile of Orion who I once knew," She says, her eyes twinkling. "Wow, that was awesome. You did a flip and then a backflip and then you flew up flipped over and dived headfirst down. That was the most amazing thing that I have ever seen, no offense Dawn but you motorcycle trick is still cool but her tricks are cooler." Miko said the last part to no one in particular. "Let us get on with the meeting then," I say and walk over to the table to sit down on a chair. Everyone copies me but turns out we were one chair short. NIghtglide did not have a place to sit.
"It's alright, I can just do this." She says as darkness surrounds her. After it retreats in NIghtglide's place now stood a small dragon creature. "Awesome!" Exclaimed Miko "it's like a mini Toothless that's made out of metal!" She squeaks in joy as Nightglide opens her optics. She looks around and spots me sitting not too far away watching her. She swiftly flies over and sits on my lap. She looks up at me and gives me a gummy smile. I smile, but quickly hide it, and pick her up into my arms. She purrs as I scratch behind one of her ears, leaning into the touch. Everyone watches us, the room silent. After a moment she settles in my arms and lay there like this was her favorite place in the world. "Anyway . . ." says General Bryce, " we are all here today to discuss the best and what to do with it-"