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Summary: a familiar face shows up on the Lennox's doorstep, five years later. Set after ROTF, Sam x Lennox slash. Don't like, don't read.

Rating: M

One Last Time

Chapter 28:

Will and Graham were sat in the topkick with a group of other soldiers. They were bouncing along through the Mauna Loa Forest Reserve, Chromia speeding beside them. Will yawned. He was still annoyed about Epps being in charge of the mission instead of him. He really wanted to discuss it with Graham, but there were too many other people in the car – and the car was a sentient being too. Will sighed and picked up the radio.

"This is Major Lennox calling all teams." Will spat, emphasising his rank. "What's going on?"

"We've got nothing." Sam's voice answered – he was with Bumblebee.

"Nothing here, Major." Epps emphasised – he was with Optimus and Sideswipe. Will could hear the scowl in his voice.

"We can't see any signs of Decepticons." Cal said. He had gone with the rescue team, as had Simmons.

"Nothing. Absolutely NOTHING." Leo's voice grumbled. He was with Sunstreaker and Jolt.

"Leo?" Will asked in surprise. "I didn't know you were coming with us!"

"Neither did I until Epps grabbed me in the corridor." Leo mumbled.

"What the hell Epps?" Will exploded in the radio. "Leo isn't a soldier!"

"We don't have enough men, Will. Most of them are back home in Diego Garcia." Epps snapped. "You would've done the same."

"No I –" Will wasn't about to answer back, when Graham took the radio from him and turned it off. "What the hell was that for?"

"You guys need to stop arguing." Graham scolded. Will usually found it funny when the British soldier got annoyed, because of his accent. This time, he wasn't laughing and neither was anyone else. "You're both stressing each other and everyone else out and it's going to make this plan less effective. We need everyone at their best. You two are gonna sort out these issues you have with each other whether you like it or not."

"..." Will was stunned into silence. Graham had never got this angry before – with anyone. Not even Director Galloway – and that was saying something. Will felt guilty after what Graham had just said. The Brit was right – he did need to stop arguing with Epps and sort this problem out. The problem was whether Epps wanted to sort it out. Epps seemed to like hating him at the moment. "Sorry Graham."

"That's better." Graham smiled at Will.

"WAIT!" Ironhide yelled and slammed the brakes on. He was too late. Megatron landed in front of the Autobot and Ironhide collided with his leg. Will whacked his head on the dashboard because of the force of the impact and sat up, rubbing his forehead and scowling.

"Is everyone okay?" Will yelled. And I was wearing my seatbelt...

"Everyone's fine." Graham said. His nose was bloody, as was the front of his shirt.

"Ironhide, are you okay?" Will asked, patting the dashboard.

"I'm fine." Ironhide growled. The rest of the Autobots drove past, letting the NEST soldiers out and transforming into their robot modes to take on the Decepticons "I suggest you all hurry up and get out... I want to trash some Decepticons."

"Just hang on a sec, 'Hide." Will urged. "Let me get my people out to make sure they are all okay – and so we can bust up Starscream together."

"Fine. Hurry up Will, I want to make sure there are some Decepticons left for me." Ironhide grumbled.

"Are you sure you can transform?" Will asked, watching Graham assembling his soldiers. "You took a pretty nasty hit." The topkick rumbled with laughter.

"I've had worse Will. Is everyone clear?"

"They're all clear." Will patted Ironhide again and climbed out of the topkick, running over to Graham. He could hear the sounds of Ironhide transforming behind him – a sound he had grown used to, so he didn't give it a second thought. "Okay guys, listen up. Our mission is to take out Starscream and clear the way for the rescue team. It's as simple as that. Any questions?"

"No sir!"

"Good. Graham, come with me. We'll take Ironhide's right flank." Will turned to his soldiers. "Two of you take his left flank and the other three take the rear. Make sure you have him covered at all times. Check your sabot launchers and your pistols – make sure you're armed at all times. Good luck, gentlemen."

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"There she is!" Sam yelled, pointing at Alice, who was standing with Starscream. He spotted a flash of white behind him and realised that they were guarding Mikaela, whilst Megatron and Soundwave drew the main assault away. "BUMBLEBEE, GET THE BITCH!" Bumblebee charged at the Decepticons, being intercepted by Soundwave.

"Sam, we should leave this to the rescue team." A soldier said.

"Soldier, our orders were to take out Alice." Sam snapped. "She is currently guarding Mikaela – the overall mission objective is to rescue Mikaela. This makes perfect sense to me. How about you?"

"Yes sir." The soldier agreed reluctantly. Sunstreaker, Jolt and the other team to take out Soundwave arrived.

"Looks like Bumblebee's doing our work for us." Sunstreaker observed, folding his arms.

"WELL DON'T JUST STAND THERE!" Leo exploded. "HE NEEDS HELP!"

"Alright, alright. No need to get your knickers in a twist." Sunstreaker grumbled, unfolding his arms and pulling out his guns. "I was just saying that Bumblebee seemed to be stealing the show is all."

"I'll never understand these machines." Leo rolled his eyes. Then he spotted Alice lurking behind Soundwave. He knew it was her, even though she had lost her human disguise. Leo felt his blood boil with rage. She had pretended to join the Autobots. She had pretended to be on their side and then she had betrayed them. He had felt like he could trust her and he had told her everything. He loaded his sabot launcher and ran towards her, tackling her to the ground before Sam had a chance to stop him or she had a chance to attack Bumblebee. Leo scrambled up so that he was on top of her, pinning her to the ground. He aimed the sabot launcher at her face, his breaths coming deep, his heart thudding in his chest. Leo Spitz had never killed anyone – or anything. He wasn't sure he wanted to start now.

"You won't kill me, will you?" Alice asked, reverting back to her human form. Leo watched the flesh knit back together over her face and she stared up at him with her greenish-blue eyes. They flickered to Sam – who was standing nearby, watching intently – and then back to Leo's face. "I can see it in your eyes, Leo. You've never killed before."

"You... you lied to me... you betrayed me." Leo panted, squeezing on the trigger.

"I betrayed everyone, Leo. Not just you."

"I told you things I would never have told anyone..." Leo growled. "The story you told me, about you having someone before and hurting them... was it true?"

"..." Alice's eyes slid away from Leo's.

"WAS IT TRUE?"

"No." Alice replied, closing her eyes and sighing. "I only said it to get closer to you – to everyone here. I had to. I was following Megatron's orders."

"You bitch..." Leo hissed, lining the sabot launcher up with Alice's head.

"I'm sorry..." she whispered.

"LEO, DON'T!" Sam screamed. Leo pulled the trigger and fired the weapon directly into Alice's face. The impact of it threw him backwards. Sam ran over to Leo and skidded beside him, crouching down. "Leo, are you okay? Are you hurt?"

"Ouch..." Leo hissed, looking down at his hands and his NEST issue T-shirt, which was shredded from the close impact explosion. His arms and face stung with burning pains. "Sam, how bad is it?"

"It looks like you've been burnt." Sam said. He peered over at Alice's remains – there was no danger of her being alive. The impact had nearly blown her head off. The corpse was a mix of shredded flesh and fragments of metal.

"I can't believe... I... I killed someone." Leo began to tremble. "I actually killed someone..."

"I'm here... I'll get help..." Sam said. "RATCHET! SOMEONE GET RATCHET!"

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"Just give me the boy, Prime. That way no-one has to die – except him." Megatron growled.

"I'll never surrender him to you, Megatron." Optimus declared. "Sam Witwicky has as much right to life as anyone – perhaps even more."

"Don't try all of your morals and pretty speeches on me. You know they don't work on me." Megatron sneered.

"I can try, Megatron." Optimus sighed. "I had hoped that one day you would realise that you were in the wrong, and we would be able to work together to rebuild Cybertron. I can see now that it will never happen."

"Then finally you have become a true Prime." Megatron said. "None of them ever tried to form alliances with Decepticons."

"So be it." Optimus said and unsheathed his blazing swords. "To the death."

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The battlefield was a mess. Optimus and Megatron were battling at one end, whereas the rest of the Autobots and Decepticons were at the other, in a massive jumble. NEST soldiers swore when they're shots at the Decepticons were blocked by their allies. In the chaos, Ratchet had managed to make his way through to Mikaela, aware that Sam was screaming for him somewhere past the mess.

"Mikaela, did they hurt you?" Ratchet asked, carefully picking her up and clutching her protectively close to his chest plate.

"I think... I think I may have lost the baby." She sobbed. "Starscream dropped me on the ground... what am I going to do? How am I going to tell Sam?"

"Don't worry about that now." Ratchet said. "We'll get you checked out first and make sure that you're safe. Then we'll worry about what we're going to do. Okay?"

"Okay." Mikaela said, wiping her eyes with the back of her hand.

"Cal!" Ratchet called. The Mikaela's father ran over, carrying his sabot launcher. Cal and the rest of the rescue team had been covering Ratchet whilst he made his way to Mikaela.

"What is it?" Cal asked.

"Support Mikaela while I transform." Ratchet replied, lowering Mikaela down to him. Cal caught his daughter in his arms as she stumbled. His arms went around her in a tight embrace, pleased that his daughter was okay. Mikaela sobbed harder.

"What's wrong?" Cal asked softly, lifting Mikaela's chin so that he could look directly at her.

"I think I lost the baby." She buried her head in his shoulder and started to cry again. Ratchet transformed and opened the rear doors of the ambulance.

"C'mon, 'Kaela. Let's get out of here." Cal said, leading her over to the ambulance and swearing to make the monsters who made his daughter unhappy pay.

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