Chapter 11

"AWOL?" I whisper to myself from the couch. Why would Bluestreak go AWOL? It was only a simple energon run. There were probably only Decepticon soldiers there, so why did he run away? My brain racks for an answer but nothing comes into my head. Maybe he wasn't ready to fight again. Maybe it was too soon to go back onto the field. But I know he must have a good reason. Knowing Bluestreak, he would never leave someone behind because of that.

"His signal stopped moving Optimus." Ratchet speaks into the comm.

"How far is he?" Optimus asks.

"Farther than expected that's for sure. He won't be coming back to you. And even if he did, he wouldn't be there anytime soon."

I quickly glance at the map on Ratchet's screen to see that Bluestreak has stopped where we had watched Back To The Future a few nights ago.

"I'll go talk to him." I announce to Ratchet. He looks away from his screen. "Parker I'm not sure that's the best idea. Bluestreak needs time alone."

"Ratchet, please." I grab the stair rail.

Ratchet raises an eyebrow and crosses his arms.

"Please."

He sighs in defeat, nodding his head and pulling down the ground bridge handle.

I run down the stairs towards the tunnel-like room swirling with colors. I stop just before entering the ground bridge. Turning back, I look at Ratchet who is busy with something on his computer. Without another word, I run through the glowing white portal.

White sparkles spray from the ground bridge when I make it to the other side. I look around the open area, but don't see anything except for one boulder. Other than that, the entire ground area is flat and empty. I walk towards it and on the other side is Bluestreak with his arms wrapped around his knees. I open my mouth to say something, but close it realizing I don't know what to say to him. So instead, I walk and sit down next to him, my back pressing into the boulder. I look at Bluestreak who is looking at the straight ahead at the horizon, just like he was that one night under the stars.

"Hey," He says without looking away.

"Hey,"

We sit in silence a bit longer before I drop the question, "Bluestreak, what happened back there?"

He sighs and shakes his head. I gaze down at the ground.

"You can tell me when you're ready, but you shouldn't hold your feelings in. Especially if it's making you stressed."

He doesn't acknowledge my words in any way. He just keeps staring at the horizon.

"Bluestreak, I-I…" I squint up at him before turning away and exhaling a breath. "Blue, I'm sorry." I hug my knees close to my chest and look to the horizon. "I-I should've done better to get you out of there sooner. If I warned you earlier when I saw the soldiers come through the portal, you never would have gotten kidnapped or…" I let him fill in the blank, "I let you down and I'm sorry. I tried to make it right, but I can't. I just...it's all my fault." I place my forehead on my knees. I don't expect him to forgive me or just forget about it. What I want if for him to recover and leave it behind. I don't want this to torture him even more or give him nightmares every time he sleeps. I want him to not feel so distant anymore. I want him to talk again. I want Bluestreak back.

"Don't say that." He shakes his head, "It's not your fault that that happened. It's not Optimus' fault for sending me up there. I can only blame myself...for everything that's happened." He looks back at the horizon, "Bee and I went first into the cave to see how many soldiers were in there. We snuck in and counted about 20 or so. Nothing we couldn't handle. We contacted the team and said that it was clear to come in, but they would have to come in quietly. As soon as I turned off my comm, I saw him. He was there, standing right in the middle of the whole thing."

I bury my face in my folded arms as he says the name. "Knockout was in charge of the energon run. I couldn't face him. I started to back away and Bee tried to stop me, but it was too late. Knockout saw me and gave me one of his disgusting smiles." Bluestreak cringes, "I panicked. I didn't know what to do. So I ran. I left Bee and the team behind."

"Does the team really know what happened?"

He shakes his head, "They think I was just in some really bad fight. Got ambushed or something."

"Do they know it was...him?"

He shakes his head again. "Parker, don't blame yourself. Please don't. I'm not...mad."

I look up at him, "Blue, I let you down. You trusted me and I ruined that."

Bluestreak glances at me, "Parker, don't say that, please. You're the one who got me out. You're the one who healed me. It's not your fault. You didn't ruin my trust in you. Parker, why did you even come with me in the first place?"

I remember the sickening feeling I got when Bluestreak walked through the portal and when instinct told me to go after him.

"I...got a feeling...that something wasn't right."

"Right and if you ignored that feeling guess where I would still be?"

I imagine Bluestreak still stuck in the warship, the shackles still wrapped around his doorwings, wrists, and neck.

"Don't blame yourself. I'm sorry if I made you feel that way." He says softly.

"Don't," I tell him, "You especially have nothing to be sorry for."

Bluestreak chuckles, "And neither do you."

We walk back through the bridge together and, after some convincing, explained to the Autobots what had really happened on the energon run and what Knockout did to him. At first the Autobots were surprised, not really believing it at first, but as Bluestreak continued, they started to realize that it made sense. Optimus allowed Bluestreak to take a week off. Bluestreak didn't want to, but he thought it was for the best.

Later that day, Jack, Miko, Raf, and I are watching movies. I decided to put on Legend, a classic movie starring Tom Cruise and Mia Sara as two love birds living in a magical world when the Lord of Darkness tries to destroy daylight and marry Mia Sara. It's a great movie and one of my favorites. We are at the part when Jack (Tom Cruise) is sneaking into the Lord of Darkness' castle when Ratchet mumbles something to himself.

"What was that Doc bot?" Miko says turning around to look at Ratchet.

"I-I did it." Ratchet muzes.

"Did what?" Miko asks. We all stop watching the movie to listen to Ratchet.

"I decoded the Decepticon intell Parker gave me." I jump off the couch and race down the stairs to get a better look at the computer screen.

"What does it say?" I ask gazing up at Ratchet.

He shakes his head, "We have to tell Optimus." Ratchet starts to walk away and I run alongside him, "Ratchet, what is it? What does it say?"

He stops and looks down at me, "They're blueprints. For a weapon. A powerful one. If we retrieve and put all of them in a certain formation we could harness the power to do anything."

"Them? What's them?"

Miko, Jack, and Raf are standing now, watching Ratchet as he opens his mouth to answer.

"Relics. We have to find the relics. All of them."

Hey guys! I wanted to tell you that in this story the Autobots and Decepticons both have no relics. None of them have one single relic. I hope to post the next chapter soon so stay tuned!