This is it! The end! D: How did I get this far?

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Epilogue

"Who are you?" Rush demanded of the tall blue bot that walked into Nanny Mercury's home alongside her femme creator. He looked very familiar, but she didn't know any bots that were that particular shade of blue.

"Rush!" Flash Bang chuckled. "Don't be so rude. It's Blurry, sweetspark."

"But Blurry has black armour," she insisted. Gearshift was also a little speculative of the blue armoured mech, but the familiarity of those optics had him running into a hug.

"Blurry's home!" he cheered. "I missed you, Blurry!"

"I missed you, too, Gearshift!" Blurr cooed to his creation, picking him up and holding him high in the air. Rush moved to hold onto Flash Bang's leg.

"Flashy, is that really Blurry?" she asked, her big blue optics wide and expectant. Flash Bang scooped the little maroon femme up and sat her on her hip.

"Of course he is!" Flash Bang cooed softly, putting her servo against the little one's helm. "He was always blue, you know, before Gearshift and you were protoformed."

"Really?" Rush asked, amazed. She looked at her mech creator, who was sat on the sofa by Mercury with Gearshift on his knee. Blurr winked at her with a grin, making Rush gasp in recognition and wriggle out of Flash Bang's grip to clamber into her mech creator's lap. Mercury smiled warmly at the scene as Blurr hugged his creations from behind, making them both squeal happily. The purple femme moved over to Flash Bang.

"You worked the bond, I see," she said with a chuckle. "Well done, sweetie. You've done so well."

"Thank you, Mercury," Flash Bang replied. "The little ones haven't been too much trouble, have they?"

"Not for me," Mercury said with a laugh. "Dug Base and Wheelie wouldn't say the same."

As if on cue, the two of them appeared at the door. Mercury welcomed them in, and laughed alongside her creation as the two of them scooped Blurr up into a huge hug.

"It's so good to have you back! These sparklings have been putting us out of whack!" Wheelie cheered. Blurr laughed.

"Oh, come on, they're not that bad! Are they?" Blurr asked with a laugh. Dug Base released him and Wheelie, letting them drop gently to the ground.

"Uncle Wheelie!" the two sparklings called out, running towards the little orange mech and tackling him in a hug. Dug Base did an odd, beating sound similar to a laugh before pulling Wheelie free of the tangled mess he'd become stuck in. Flash Bang and Blurr laughed together at the sight.

"Don't we have to get going?" Blurr said. "That reservation won't keep, you know! We need to get going or they'll give away our table."

"We're going out?" Gearshift asked, scampering over to Blurr. "Where to?"

"A lovely little restaurant that Mercury told us about," Flash Bang told the green sparkling. "Joe Robotoni's, right, Mercury?"

"That's right," Mercury replied. "The original Gearshift took me there, once. Wasn't the best night of my life, but it was sweet of him."

"You'll have to tell us all about you two, sometime," Flash Bang said. "Everyone's curious."

"That's a story for another night. You four go have fun now," she commanded, opening the door to let them out. Rush and Gearshift dashed outside, Blurr hot on their heel struts. Flash Bang turned and gave Mercury a hug before turning for the door, waving to Dug Base and Wheelie with a "thank you" before running after her creations.

"Good night, sweetsparks," Flash Bang said softly as she turned off the light in Gearshift and Rush's recharge room.

"Night night, Flashy," they replied in unison. Flash Bang shut the door gently behind her, walking back into the expansive living room. She didn't stop in there, however, she instead walked out onto the balcony, which gave her a dazzling view of night time Iacon. She leant against the railing, taking in the view, her intakes slow and quiet. They'd had a lovely evening as a family, but Flash Bang felt a little melancholy. She wasn't sure why, however.

"Well done, Flash Bang," a voice said. With a gasp, Flash Bang spun around to look down the balcony. It was Prowl's ghost, glowing brightly as looked over Iacon. "Gearshift will be proud of you."

"Thank you for all of your help, Prowl," Flash Bang replied. "We couldn't have done it without you."

"What I did wasn't strictly speaking necessary," he told her. "But I am glad to have been of service."

Flash Bang bowed her head to him. "We owe you."

"There is nothing you could give me, Flash Bang," he told her firmly. "It is reward enough to know that you and your family are safe."

Flash Bang felt her optics fill with lubricant. "You shouldn't have had to die back in Detroit. No-one asked you to give your spark, it isn't fair on you!"

"That's life, Flash Bang," Prowl's ghost said. "Nothing can be done now." He paused for a moment as Flash Bang dropped her cranial unit in defeat. He had one last thing to say to her before he left. "When I was within Blurr, Vortex said something about Blurr not being his only victim. I don't expect you to do anything, but if you could find somebot who could look into it, I think you should get them on the case. This can't go ignored forever. Imagine the damage he could do if he's in other chassis!"

Flash Bang thought for a moment. "Searchlight's on his way with Scalpel to the Elite Guard right now. I'll contact him and ask him to see what he can do."

"Thank you, Flash Bang," Prowl replied. "It'll be to everybot's benefit." He moved away from her then, floating in mid air. "I have to go now; I'm all out of time on this plain. I promise to tell Gearshift everything that's happened, and I know he'll be proud of you. You've come so far in life, Flash Bang. You don't deserve the troubles you've been put through."

"Thank you, Prowl, for your help and your praise," Flash Bang replied. "Tell Gearshift I love him."

With a half-smile, Prowl's ghost faded away forever.

"There are more of them?" Searchlight asked Flash Bang, aghast. "I'll tell the Elite Guard when I get there, okay? Don't worry, this'll get sorted out."

"I trust you, Searchlight," Flash Bang replied over the comm. link. "Honestly, I think you're more cut out for this than the Elite Guard is."

Searchlight laughed. "Don't give me all the credit, Flash. I learnt a lot from them, you know."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, just don't let me down," Flash Bang grinned. "I'll catch you later, okay?"

"Sure thing, Flash, take care," Searchlight replied, turning off his comm. link. He lent back in the pilot's chair of his ship, happy that things had turned out okay. Feeling the need to rub it in someone's faceplate, he turned to the cage where Scalpel was locked.

"Hear that? Blurr's okay," he hissed. "Your little experiment did nothi-"

He stopped dead as he looked at the cage, his optics going wide. The door was open. It was empty.

"Oh, Primus!" he yelled, leaping up and grabbing the cage. He looked around him, panic on his faceplate as he tried to locate the escapee Decepticon. "Where the Pit did you go?"

Lockdown was roused from his stasis nap as he felt something connect to the ends of his legs where support servos had once been. He onlined an optic, looking along to berth to whatever was doing something to him. A tiny silver mech was attaching replacement support servos to his legs as he slept; probably unaware that Lockdown was online.

"D'ya mind?" he grumbled. "Tryin' to get some recharge here."

Scalpel looked up at him. "Do jou vant to get out of here or not?" he demanded. "The guards are offline, the lights vill go out in a moment und jour support servos are nearly done."

Lockdown noticed that the support servo Scalpel wasn't attaching was complete and working already. It was plain silver, and would need customising as soon as possible, just like the other one. He moved it about. It was stiff like every other new addition to his chassis had been at first, but it would feel normal soon.

"So how'd it go?" Lockdown grumbled.

"Our little experiment?" Scalpel asked. "Perfectly vell. Complete success. The Vortex Upgrade is nearly ready for its full implementation."

Lockdown chuckled. "Good to hear. So, how ya gettin' me outta here?"

END

Finally done! Not that I didn't enjoy this! It's been great fun, writing these characters. I love them all! But, for Flash Bang and Blurr, the adventure is over.

Yes, I may have left this on an epic cliffhanger, but if I do pursue it, it won't be with Flash Bang and/or Blurr as the main characters. If any of these, it'll be the sparklings... I'll have to come up with a brilliant story before I do decide to do it, though!

In the meantime, I have a prequel story planned! All about the relationship between Gearshift (original) and Mercury! It won't be a fabulous adventure like these three stories have been – it'll be more about emotions and feelings and blah blah blah...

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Luna Prime- Awesomeness – thank you once again for your regular reviews! I love getting your comments so much!

DarkGlass38 – not heard from you in a while! D: I hope you're okay and thank you for all your reviews!

TFAArtFreak – as said above, yep! At least one more story in this series before I'm done forever :)

CiCi the Awesome – thank you! Feel free to speculate over the ending if I don't get round to writing a next part any time soon :P

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