A/N: WHOO HOOO! Another chapter! I'm so sorry for the irregular updates! I hope you all are enjoying the story. Next chapter will be focused on Emily meeting Sarah and Annabelle and her possibly testing out her "Edna suit" lol :) Any suggestions or comments, let me know! Thank you all for sticking with me for this story! I can't believe how popular and enjoyable Street Magic has become over 2 years! THANK YOU! More awesome chapters soon to come!

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-Shadowjumper3

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As Emily fell asleep, Jazz stayed online to carry out his promise. As he sat there with his charge in silence, Jazz could barely hold his emotions together. The saboteur became very close with the girl and when Jazz found out about her deteriorating health, he was devastated. After everything they had gone through, in the end, she was going to lose her life? It felt as if someone had stabbed and crushed his spark. Jazz was familiar with death. He had lost comrades back on Cybertron, but this…this was different. From the time when he accepted his role as guardian to Emily, he did everything he could to protect her, even if it meant hurting her in the process. Flashbacks from when she screamed at him for not saving her parents made his spark ache.

That he would never forgive himself for. He wanted to tell her about it but he didn't. It pained him to do that to Emily and now, she didn't have much time left. What will happen between now and then? Jazz looked down at Emily, who was peacefully asleep. He gently reached a digit out and stroked her head.

Ah don' know if Ah'll be able to handle it, losin' her. His mind thought. Her love for music, compassion and fierce personality are what made the two an unforgettable match. He admired her for her ability to fight and push through everything she had already endured. His thoughts were interrupted, however, when suddenly, Jazz's comlink sprang to life and it took all of his strength not to move in alarm as to wake Emily.

::Jazz.::

It was Optimus's voice that spoke,

::What's up, Optimus?::

::Is Emily with you?::

::Yeah. She's restin'. Lil' lady was worn out from trainin'. Why?::

::Mission briefing. Come to the control room. Also, Ratchet has informed me that Lacie is awake. If you could let Emily know, I am sure that she would like to see her.::

::Ah'll let her know. Ah'm on mah way.::

Jazz ended the link and very gently nudged Emily to wake her. She slowly opened her eyes and looked at him wearily.

"Hey, Lacie's awake if ya want to see her." He told her and this seemed to catch the brunette's attention. Her eyes widened and she shot up onto her feet, running off to the medbay in excitement. The sight of his charge being that excited to see a friend made Jazz smile. He then went to the control room and saw Optimus, Ratchet and Ironhide already there, along with Lennox and Epps.

"The Decepticons wish to use the Allspark for destruction. To Earth and to Cybertron. They will use it to bring back a darker Cybertron and they will do it to Earth. Because Emily has retained the Allspark's energy, they will stop at nothing to have her. If the Decepticons succeed in their plan, we may never be able to see Cybertron as it once was." Optimus stated.

"Lacie was able to tell us the location of the Decepticon's base." Ratchet added in.

"Lacie's parents are in Michigan. They have been looking for her for a year. When I called them to let them know we found their daughter, they were very emotional. I plan on driving Lacie back home tomorrow." Epps spoke up to the group and Optimus nodded.

"I understand. I would advise you to take Sideswipe with you."

Epps gave him a thumbs up and a 'will do'. Optimus turned back to the rest of the Autobots.

"The rest of us will engage recon and then search and destroy. The Decepticons have been spreading war and destruction for a millennium. Now, this is our time to protect our home." He continued. This was all that the Autobots needed to hear to start preparing for the mission. As Optimus assigned duties to everyone, he came to Jazz.

"Jazz, I want you to protect Emily. I do not want to risk having another human's life loss, especially one that is a friend. She means a lot to all of us." He said. Jazz was about to protest but then decided against it. He wanted to be there in the end but he knew protecting Emily was more important. There was no arguing with the Prime, so Jazz accepted it. Optimus then left to speak with Lennox. Just as he was about to leave, Jazz heard Epps ask Lennox

"Have you told your family about you taking Emily in?"

This made Jazz freeze in his tracks. What? He turned around, optics wide with confusion and shock, and looked at Lennox.

"Whaddya mean?" Jazz asked Epps, who looked up at the silver saboteur, noticing the confusion in his voice and glanced at his partner.

"You didn't tell him?" he asked with a raised eyebrow. Lennox shook his head and rubbed the back of his neck nervously. Tell him what?

"I wanted to make it official. I was going to tell him when I okayed it with Sarah." He replied.

"Make what official?" Jazz asked the captain.

"I adopted Emily."

Jazz blinked. Will adopted her? When? Why, especially when she was sick?

"When did this happen? How did Emily react?" he asked Will.

"Earlier today. When I asked her, she was pretty emotional. But I think she's happy with it. I've been wanting to ask her since she went missing. I was pretty close to her parents."

"Ah don't think that-" Jazz began but Lennox interrupted, not really finished with his explanation. What he said next was

"Her folks made me her godfather. I looked at Emily's file that we found earlier and saw that Lilian and Robert had me down as her godfather. Her freaking godfather and they didn't even tell me!" Lennox practically whispered.

"What's a godfather?" Jazz asked confused.

"A godfather is someone who the parents choose to take care of the child if anything bad happens to them." Epps explained.

He was happy for Emily. His spark soared as he thought of Emily having a family again.

"William, what you did meant more to her than what you believe. I have faith that you will do well as her father." Optimus told him. Lennox glanced up at the red and blue titan before nodding and excusing himself and Epps from the room. Epps went to prepare to bring Lacie home for the next day and Lennox went home to tell Sarah the news of adopting Emily. Before they parted ways, Epps suddenly asked Lennox

"Where did Fashion Mode go?" Lennox laughed as he turned to him, stuck his hip out, and replied with an imitation of E.

"Well, I am sure I don't know, darling. Vould you like to find out?"

Needless to say, that resulted in both men doubling over in fits of laughter and tears, causing Optimus and Jazz to give them strange looks. Yes, everyone. You can make grown men cry. But only if one does an imitation of the famous Edna Mode when she is not looking and nail it.

Emily's POV

As soon as I heard that Lacie was awake, I immediately went to go see her. I reached her room and saw that she was sitting up in bed.

"Lacie!" I exclaimed and ran over to hug her. Her head turned and she smiled as she saw me. We embraced. Her hair was down with the white thick bandage wrapped around her head from the surgery and her eyes looked a bit tired. Nonetheless, she still managed to smile at me as she let go and said

"I'm so glad you're okay."

A lump formed in my throat as she said this. She didn't know I was dying. I asked how she was doing.

"I'm getting better, still super sluggish. Oh Em, I'm so sorry for what happened! I didn't know that-" she started to say but I raised a hand to quiet her.

"It's not your fault, Lac. Okay? You didn't know. It's okay. We're here and you're safe." I told her. She looked at me in such a way as if to say 'Are you sure about that?'. I danced around telling her about my condition and what was happening to me. She didn't deserve to know. I know she was my best friend but if she found out, she would be devastated. So, we talked for a while. I told her about what had happened since Mission City, how I saved Captain Lennox, met the Autobots and me being chosen to revive Cybertron. Lacie was in awe with what I told her. When she found out, she was speechless. Lacie let me do most of the talking. I didn't blame her. I knew she didn't want to discuss her time kidnapped. It must have been traumatizing for her. Anyways, after we were done talking, a nurse came in to help Lacie get out of bed. She told me that Epps was coming to bring her home soon and she was to start getting ready to leave.

I went to hug her one last time. This was probably going to be the last time we saw each other. I hugged her and didn't move for what seemed like an eternity.

"Take care, ok Lacie?" I told her through emerging tears. She nodded with tears in her eyes as well and she said

"You too. Go save the world. Just promise me that you'll come back."

I forced myself to smile and nod. Lacie let me go and she looked like she wanted to cry. She squeezed my hand one last time. I returned the gesture and said

"I'll try my best. We should spend weekend together sometime. Slumber party, ok?" I asked her. She nodded, hugged me, and we separated. As I got up to leave, Primus's voice rung in my head.

Why did you not tell her?

I sighed.

You wouldn't understand. I replied.

Is she not your friend?

She is. I just…She wouldn't be able to handle it if I did.

Primus didn't reply after that and I was thankful. Lacie and I had a special bond, almost like the one I had with Jazz. She was practically my sister, my other half. I knew keeping it from her would hurt her, but it was for the best. Anyway, as I left Lacie's room, I walked around for a little bit, my mind wandering as thoughts swirled inside. All of a sudden, I heard footsteps behind me and I felt a hand fall onto my shoulder. Out of instinct and from being leery since being captured, I shrieked, whipped around and activated a mini force field in my hand. Then, without really looking, I punched the mysterious figure right in the face. As soon as I did, the person stumbled back and doubled over in pain, clutching their nose.

"OW! What the frag?" the man exclaimed. I quirked an eyebrow. That sounded like a curse word but not an English one. Was this guy Cybertronian? He looked up at me with blue eyes and silver hair. He wore a white shirt underneath a redish jacket. He looked familiar. Then I remembered his voice. It then clicked in my head that I had met this guy, when I had first arrived on base. That morning when I had first started walking again, this guy and his friend were saying stuff to me. I glared at him. I never knew his name, so maybe now I could finally found out.

"You again. What do you want?" I asked him curtly. He straightened up and gave me a look over and smirked.

"Oh, so you do remember me! Wow, you got a mean punch." He said, not really answering my question.

"Yeah and I'll do it again if you don't tell me what you wanted." I said with a deadpan expression and folding my arms across my chest. My eyes must have looked either dead tired or just plain annoyed because he looked at me and he backed up a little, his hands thrown up in defense.

"I was just going to get Lacie for Epps to bring her home. Sorry. Listen, we got off on the wrong foot. Just don't punch me again!" He said. I threw him a look that said 'Really?' and shifted my weight on my good foot. This man had a bad sense of humor. He chuckled nervously as he rubbed the back of his neck and continued.

"I never got to tell you my name. I'm Sideswipe. I'm sorry for what my brother and I did earlier to you." He stuck his hand out for me to shake. I eyed him for a moment and then slowly shook his hand.

"Emily. Who's your brother?"

"Sunstreaker."

Great. There were two of them to bully me around.

"Yeah. Sorry for punching you. I'm just a little jumpy right now." I apologized to Sideswipe.

"It's fine. Where did you learn to hit like that? Were you raised by cannibals or something?"

"You saying I hit like a wimp?"

"No no no! Frag, you almost broke my nose!" He shouted out now. Now it was my turn to smirk.

"Maybe this is payback from what you did to me earlier. I didn't really like what you said to me. Humans are touchy on a lot of subjects and you managed to hit a nerve." I muttered.

"Well, let me make it up to you!" Sideswipe assured me. I waved him off. It was going to take a while for me to actually forgive him.

"Listen, right now, I appreciate you doing this, but I think it's going to take more than something like a gift for me to forgive you." I told him and he slumped a little upon hearing this. For all I knew, he could have been lying and at that point, I was a bit leery of trusting some people.

"Oh."

"Look, I gotta go but perhaps some other time, we can work things out, ok? It was nice meeting you though." I told him and he smiled a little. Just as he was about to turn around and leave, I quickly called out to him

"If you try anything on my best friend, I will come after you!" This caused Sideswipe to visibly shudder and nervously grin. With that, I nodded in approval and continued heading down the seemingly never ending hallway, trying to find something to do in the meantime. Sideswipe seemed like a decent person. He did try to apologize, but he still verbally hurt me, he and his brother. Abruptly, it occurred to me as we departed ways that Sideswipe was an odd name for a human.

Wait a minute.

The striking blue eyes, the unnatural hair style.

Sideswipe was an Autobot! I physically slapped myself for it realizing it before. Boy did I feel stupid. Everything that had happened to me up until now seemed like a blur. Primus and the Autobots were all looking at me to help restore their home. And the one thing I still couldn't figure out was how.

How in all of that is high and mighty was I supposed to revive a flipping planet with invisibility, teleportation and force fields? None of that helps!

Needless to say, I was stumped and I couldn't ask Primus about it because of his stupid Yoda wisdom.

I do not know who this Yoda is, but I can assure you that I am not like him in helping you seek answers. Primus whispered to me.

You know what? I'm not even going to answer that.

Before the god could reply, the loudspeaker crackled to life and I heard

"Emily Whitefield, report to Captain Lennox's quarters immediately."

At that, I try to sprint to where Lennox's office was. My prosthetic made a popping sound and I felt a burning sensation as I ran in my left leg. I hissed in pain but continued to run. Once I made it, I practically stumbled into Lennox's office and fell. Thankfully, he was there to quickly run over and helping me up.

"Are you okay, Emily? Why did you run over here?" He asked me as he brought me to my feet. I panted heavily as I held up a finger to tell him to give me a minute. I swallowed and stood up straight.

"Didn't want to be late and keep you waiting. What was it you wanted me for?" I rasped out. Lennox gave me a look, as if to make sure I was really ok before telling me

"I wanted to let you know that I'm bringing you home. I let Sarah know and she and Annabelle are ecstatic to meet you."

I froze right there. I'm going home? I actually had a home now. My brain had almost forgot that I had been adopted and that I now had a family. I was happy that I was going to meet my new family. I smiled widely and hugged Lennox. Looking up at him, I said

"Thank you. But what about everything else? The Decepticons?"

"The bots will be monitoring their activities while we're home. They'll let us know if something comes up. Right now, I want to just bring you home and let you rest for a while. Ok?" He replied. I nodded in understanding. I couldn't wait for what was to come. Either way, I knew I was going to be happy.