Was that too long of a wait? Sorry... I have finished chapter 24 and am currently plotting the rest of the story. It may take a long time as I am really busy with my final year of school but I'll try and take time to write because I've been gone so long. Thank you to everyone who will read this and still cares. I hope everyone had a happy holidays! Here's to 2016, hopefully we don't blow ourselves up.

Chapter 24

A few days passed, not much changed from my regular routine. Just more check ups and needles from Ratchet. He's a grouch but when you talk to him about his field his personality changes like I hit a light switch. He gets all happy and interested in a conversation... Plus he makes eye contact... Well technically it's optic contact. Whatever. I knew he was a scientist before the war but I wasn't sure if he'd had a family. I don't want to ask him until I feelings the right time. I learned that the blasters energy is mixed with oils to create different kinds of ammunition for energon weapons. Ratchet is trying to somehow incorporate my blood with the suits weapons as well. It's nice, I feel as though I'm making bonds with the Autobots rather well. Ratchet, Cliffjumper, Bumblebee, Bulkhead, Optimus. I know I'm missing one from that list, Arcee, I feel as if the bond I hold with her is different. Incomplete. I still want to get to know them all better even though I know alot about them. The backstories I've learned from the series, I feel as though I don't know their whole story.

The familiar sound of beeping ran through the base. It brought me out of my thoughts and back into reality. Like everyone else, I made my way to the main console.

"There's been energon signal un-earthed at a human construction site in Greece." Ratchet said as everyone arrived in the main console room.

"Field trip" Bulkhead said. Arcee rolled her optics as the hyperactive asian ran towards her charge.

"Hey can I come? I've always been interested in ancient cities and mythology." Miko gave me a thumbs up and I walked over to Miko and bulkhead. Optimus nodded to Ratchet as the ground bridge was activated and Bulkhead, in vehicle form, drove Miko and myself through the ground bridge portal to Greece.

I felt a breeze hit my cheek as I walked out into the sunny greece morning. It was nice to be able to go into the field every so often without having fight giant alien robots that are trying to wipe you off the face of the planet. Bulkhead took his emerging scanner and tried to find where the signal was coming from. While he was doing this I went on a little adventure. I wasn't too far from Miko and Bulkhead when I started to see signs of ancient life in the form of ancient broken pottery and wall art. It was a golden sphere like object being held by a Greek man. To think, over 2000 years ago some pour Greek philosopher could've been contemplating what the strange thing was or where it came from.

"My scanners are picking up signs of energon. Pour archeologists probably didn't even know they'd unearthed it." Bulk said as he continued scanning. I have to admit I wasn't really paying attention to bulk.

"Cool!" Miko said as she ran over to where I was standing. In one lightning quick movement she took out her phone and snapped a picture of it. Bulkhead walked up behind us and scanned his optics over the mural.

"That's cybertronian tech!" Bulkhead said surprised.

"Oh boy… BULK!" I Yelled as I realized this was a bad place to be standing in a few seconds later. Knowing future events is a good advantage.

"What? What? What's wrong?" Bulk said as his wrecking ball formed from his servo.

"We got incoming." I said moving towards Miko. As I grabbed her arm a voice boomed from behind us.

"Well if that little flesh bag can sense me I better work on my stealth… but then again who needs stealth when all your fighting are some rusted ol' bolts of a bot." Said breakdown as he walked into view at the top of the steps behind us.

I pulled Miko away down the stairs in front of us as I tried to put some distance between us and the two cybertronians so we wouldn't get squashed. "You know this guy Bulk?" Miko said as she ran down the steps to keep up with me.

"We have a history." Bulkhead said as he got in a fighting stance.

"Oh it looks like you have two pets. Isn't that sweet. Do they play catch?" Breakdown said as he grabbed a pillar and threw it at us like it was a caber* thrown in the highland games.

***AN: Google it***

I quickly pulled Miko into me as I put my back to the pillar but thankfully Bulkhead got to us In time and blocked the pillar. With broken shards flying off my back all I blocked where pebbles that fell onto my back and head.

"Stay down." Bulkhead said as he turned only to get hit by Breakdown.

I took that as my cue to grab Miko by the arm again and get her over to the side of the excavation area. "Miko I need you to call the base for a ground bridge and some backup." I said as I looked into her eyes. She seemed worried for Bulk. I turned and ran back to the scene but when I got back Breakdown had just switched into his vehicle alt mode and drove off. While Bulkhead was pulling himself out of the rubble of what once was a mural that was many millennia old.

"Don't worry Bulk, I got a picture of it." Miko said as she held out her phone with the photo of the mural and posed with the peace sign infront of her face. Oddly reminded me of the korean word "Kawaii" which stood for cute… but in an Asian K-pop way.

One ground bridge and chewing out for being in danger and not calling for backup later Optimus confirmed our suspicions and told us that it was an energon harvester.

"A powerful tool created by the ancients to remove raw energon from any source." Optimus further explained to everyone in the control room, but mostly for the humans present.

"Ancient Greeks knew about Cybertronians?" Raf asked Optimus.

"No. The Ancients often used the art of a given era to conceal messages. This was likely a signpost indicating a harvesters location hidden somewhere on this planet." Optimus finished explaining.

"Uh… Optimus, If the harvester removes energon from anything, and you all have energon pumping inside you…" Jack Trailed off.

"In decepticon hands the harvester would be a devastating weapon." Optimus finished jacks thought.

I wonder if the ancients would have ever thought that their invention could be used in such an evil way.

"See? You were a Genius to total the painting." Miko told Bulk.

"Miko's not wrong. How can the con's find the harvester without the mural?" Arcee said as she came to a conclusion. If it were only that easy.

"With high-speed internet. If you do an image search for 'Greek God' and 'Golden Orb', This pops up. It's in a museum." Raf said as he showed the real version of what was depicted in the mural that Bulkhead destroyed.

"That the real deal?" Arcee asked Optimus as he took a closer look at the picture of the museum piece on Raf's computer.

"Contact agent Fowler." Optimus said.

"Well were SOL for this mission." I said as the answering machine for Fowlers phone came on saying he was on 'intense' training… better known as a vacation. Which is acceptable since he does work a high stress job and needs to get away every once and awhile.

"I hate talking to machines." Ratchet said and this earned a chuckle from myself at the Irony of the statement.

"Without agent Fowler's direct aid, we will have to confiscate the harvester on our own." Optimus said.

"Confiscate? As in steal museum property?" Jack asked surprised and taken back.

"That sounds Illegal." Raf put his two cents into the conversation.

"No Jack think of it as securing a WMD." I said trying to calm Jack down

"WMD?" Cliff asked, and Bumblebee Beeped.

"Weapon of Mass Destruction? Y'know what… nevermind." I said shaking my head as I decided to not go into detail.

"I do not wish to break human law, but once the decepticons learn of the harvester's location, they will not hesitate to obtain it by any means necessary." Optimus explained as he had a sense of urgency and remorse. "We must act covertly and with discretion."

Heh, giant robots acting covertly? I mentally chuckled at the thought. Jack had probably come to the same opinion but I quickly remembered how stealthy Arcee and her sisters were described on the battlefield. She wasnt called

"Alright Optimus, but covertly and giant alien robots don't really go together." Jack said. "Museums are public… a-and they have guards and security cameras."

"Jack's got a point." I said trying to be involved in the conversation even though I knew that the humans are going to end up infiltrating the museum.

"No Problem!" Miko butted in as she hip checked Jack off to the side. "We're small enough to sneak in, and we're not a government secret."

"The longer we debate…" I started but Optimus interrupted and finished "the more time we give the decepticons." Optimus said in his grave tone. We quickly settled on the four of us infiltrating the museum. The Autobots would surround the building and we would enter through a ground bridge on a scissor lift. Since its a small museum the alarms are not set up inside the museum so once inside all we need to worry about are the 15 total security cameras in the building but because there is one camera pointed at the statue with the harvester we need to start behind its field of view.

Once the bots were in position the whrr of the ground bridge started. Ratchet said "Take care to avoid any security guards." and with that we drove the scissor lift through the portal.

We were inside the building. Facing the front you could see Optimus just outside the large main window. He blinked his headlights signaling that the mission was a go. Jack, pressed the button that raised the scissor lift up to the camera. Once at the correct level Miko, with her phone, took a picture ar the same level of the camera to place over the camera as to not raise any alarm from the guard watching the security film. Jack then moved the lift forward and to the statue.

I climbed onto the statue and behind the orb. We started the count where I would begin to rock the orb off and Jack, Miko and Raf would make sure it stayed on the scissor lift. We stopped when we saw Knockout through the window and Optimus falling to his knees. What ensued was a fight… or at least a class of fists. It didn't end well for our side and it also set off the alarms. We decided it was now or never and rolled the orb off its hand perch. We drove bad to the other side of the museum but Miko, being her energetic self ran in front of us to make sure the coast was clear. Sadly it wasn't very clear as a security guard got her before I could warn her.

Footsteps could be heard coming from the exit where the guard had just came from. I told Jack to put the lift in reverse but it was too late. We saw the relatively skinny and small legs of a cybertronian coming from the garage door that Miko had opened.

"Arcee?" Jack asked in a whisper, but it was not to be.

The face, or lack thereof, of Soundwave pulled up the metal door and made himself visible. I grabbed Jack and Raf and we jumped off the forklift. The two kept running as I turned back around to see Soundwave going after the harvester. I knew I couldn't do much without my suit, as I regretted not wearing it, I looked into his visor. I shook my head as I gave him the middle finger, "Hurt my friends and you will regret it." I warned him, not sure if he was listening. After that I turned and sprinted to keep up with Jack and Raf. To my pleasure the con didn't follow.

We ran outside and around to the front where all the bot's were.

"Cons have the harvester,." Jack announced,

"And security has Miko!" Raf added.

"What? I'm going in after her!" Bulkhead said clearly angered and worried at Miko's status but Optimus stopped him.

"Bulkhead, Miko may be detained, but she is safe from harm." He rationalized.

With that, Jack got on Arcee, I got in Cliff and Raf got into Bumblebee. We all went back to base and got organized from there. All the bots were in the field waiting for cons to strike on inaccessible energon dig sites, except for Ratchet and Bulkhead.

"Still no answer" Raf said as the messaging machine for agent Fowler played out again. That was the last straw for Bulkhead.

"Agent fowler is off relaxing in some poolside cabana while the con's have a energon harvester and Miko is being detained by some security guard!" He said as he smashed his servo down on one of ratchets tools. To me it seemed that he and Miko were really getting to be good partners. He was starting to have feelings for her almost. Almost.

"BULKHEAD I NEEDED THAT!" Ratchet yelled…. again. Still funny to see his reaction, one day I've got to get a recording of it.

"Calm down Bulkhead. Think with a clear processor. Where are they most likely to attack?" I asked trying to push Bulkhead to an epiphany.

"Starscream's not dumb. Whatever tool he has, he's going to take the easy route." Bulkhead realized. "Ratchet turn on the ground bridge."

"You're not going in without backup." I said walking over to him already in my armour holding my helmet by my side. Bulkhead smirked and transformed into his vehicle mode and drove through the portal with me following on foot.

Coming out on the other side of the poral, I saw Bulkhead was sneaking down to the scene where knockout and breakdown were holding the energon harvester. Sadly he blew his cover by stepping on a piece of pottery.

"Oh Scrap" He said as both Breakdown and Knockout spun around in their battle stance. Breakdown ran towards Bulkhead and attacked.

I was never spotted so I used my armour and stealth to my advantage. I snuck up behind Knockout and removed my camoflauge off and jumped onto Knockouts back with my jump boosters. This caused Knockout to lunge forward slightly giving me enough time to climb up to his head and start to grab at some vital wires. What I didn't know was Knockout had a electrified stick that acted as a tazer and he'd activated it when Bulkhead had stepped on the pot. He jabbed me in the chest with it and I fell to the ground.

System's Error. System's Error. Popped up all over my HUD. Everything was shutting down due to the surge of energy. I had nothing left. I was stuck with a useless, slightly heavy, metal suit. With no visual ability. I quickly took off my helmet and got up.

Knockout had spared no time in kicking me away from him and I landed with a metal clang. With a little shake of my head I got up and saw two metal ped's on either side of me. Alarmed I turned around to see the de-coloured deceased frame of a decepticon. I had no time to argue as I had an enemy that wanted to kill me at the moment. I quickly regained my composure and faced Knockout who was smiling.

"Oh look a human flesh bag." He sneered. "You must be one of the Autobots pets." H said mockingly.

"Oh I'm sorry Knockout, did I scratch your paint job? Or was your face always that ugly?" I rebutted.

"You little runt!" His angry expression quickly turning into one of mischief. "Let's see what happens when you try taking energon out of a flesh bag." He activated the harvester and the beam flew towards me.

I was expecting him to attack so I was ready to move and I jumped to the left over one of the dead con's legs before the beam hit. I actually have energon flowing through me unlike most other humans, to get hit by that would most likely mean death. The offlined con provided the cover I needed but I had not offensive attack available, I was running out of options, and time.

"Ah-ah-ahhh. Where do you think your going?" Knockout asked rhetorically.

"To get a wax? Aheh" I said as I walked backward until I hit the dead cons body. "Thanks alot buddy but I don't think it'll work a second time." I said to the dead con not expecting an answer.

"It won't." Knockout said as he activated the energon harvester.

-3rd person-

Bulkhead smashed Breakdown in the face with his wrecking ball. It was enough to put breakdown out of the fight temporarily. He'd become too focused with his nemesis he'd forgotten about Evan and the energon harvester. Bulkhead turned to find Knockout standing overtop of Evan, without his helmet on, backing up into an offlined chassis.

"Ah-ah-ahhh. Where do you think your going?" Knockout asked rhetorically.

"To get a wax? Aheh" Evan said as I walked backward until I hit the dead cons body. "Thanks alot buddy but I don't think it'll work a second time." Evan said to the dead con not expecting an answer.

"It won't." Knockout said as he activated the energon harvester.

Bulkhead was too far away to make it to Evan in time. The energon harvester started to suck the smaller amount of energon flowing through Evan's veins. Bulkhead acted fast and Swapped the wrecking ball for his blaster and shot Knockout in the Shoulder. Knockout quickly changed his aim at Bulkhead and fired the laser again.

Bulkhead struggled to stay on his ped's as he wobbled closer and closer to Knockout until he finally fell on his faceplate. "This may take a while. You're a big one." Knockout said with an evil chuckle.

Angered by the comment, Bulkhead pushed himself up. Easily in visible pain, he walked to the energon harvester in Knockouts hand. He grabbed it simultaneously punching Knockout in the face. With Knockout knocked out* Bulkhead crushed the harvester with his servo then threw it high in the air as if it were a baseball.

*AN: you write a grammatically correct sentence that sounds better than that.

-Evan's PoV-

My energy was disappearing at an alarming rate. I couldn't move. I could barely talk as I winced in pain. My body felt cold, and it wasn't getting any warmer. I could feel a stream of blood rolling down my eyebrow and off my face. The metallic clang as each drop slowly hit the suit I wore. I looked over to see Bulkhead absolutely flatten Knockout with a punch to the face. Damn right. I was slowly becoming numb.

Heh. I'm probably feeling what the dead con that Knockout drained felt like. I looked up to the cloudy sky to see if I could see the stars. Instead I saw a Brilliant explosion of bright blue as it spread across the sky as if someone were pouring glow in the dark paint across the sky. The explosion pushed all the clouds in the sky away. My vision slowly becoming more and more blurred.

I saw Bulkhead fall to the ground with a metal clang and a few groans. Followed by the unsettling voices of Breakdown and Knockout whom were back from their little naps.

I then saw another bright light. This time it was green, it swirled like a vortex and from that vortex four cybertronians emerged. Guns blazing.

They quickly got to Bulkhead and my side. Ratchet was tending to Bulkhead with the aid of Bumblebee and inserted a energon IV bag. Arcee, Optimus came my way. "Bulk got'em good." I managed to choke out before my vision totally faded. My hearing quickly faded with my vision but not fast enough to miss the terrified yell given off from Arcee.

Heh. She totally digs me. I thought as I lost consciousness fully and Blacked out with a smirk on my face.

That's the end of chapter 24. I'm evil when it comes to cliffhangers :D

Till next time :D