Me: Well this is it.

Takamon: Are you sure you gotta end this one?

Me: Yes, Tak. This has gone on for long enough. It's time for this one to friggin end already.

Tai: Aw come on! What about us! The humans!

Me: This chapter does have you! In fact, this one is centered around you and Trevor completely! Did you not read the end of the last chapter?

Tai:…..oh yeah.

Sonic: You have been working on this one for quite some time, AK. Maybe it's best you do end it.

Amy: Yeah. With this story out of the way you can focus more on seven.

Me: The next chapter of which I still have not even began. But I will get started on it as soon as this is over. Which it now is.

I only own my OC's and the plot. So for the last time, enjoy this chapter of the AutoKnights six point five. The Months in Between.

The AutoKnights VI.V: The Months In Between

Chapter 36: Double the Prime

It's a good thing the AutoKnights are under great leadership. Because although on Christmas day they were all depressed, Trevor thought of something. He voiced his opinion that although it may be their first Christmas away from their families, it's was something else too. It was their first Christmas together as a group. Granted the team wasn't completed yet but these ten humans were still together. Stranded on another planet nonetheless but they were together.

That wasn't enough to make them all happy and partying all night. However it was enough to make them smile. Joining hands in a circle, they gave a toast to themselves and everyone they cared about on Earth. They also gave one to their new friends on Cybertron. They toasted with mind fruits.

Soon after that, work picked back up as usual and things were progressing more and more smoothly. The space bridge network and the Ark were both nearing completion.

But the Ark went a little slower on some days. For the past weeks, Optimus and Jetfire had been sneaking away every now and then. No one knows where they go except for them.

One day, Optimus was busy helping Wheeljack run some wires through the ship's interior while Jetfire hovered above the canopy welding in some armor panels. It was right around noon. And that meant it was time for Optimus and Jetfire to make their getaway for now.

"Whoa. I think we might need a little bit more wire." Optimus came up with an excuse. "I'll go ask Perceptor to see if he has any in reserve."

Wheeljack only grunted and waved Optimus off. That meant he wasn't really listening but was letting him go anyway. Just like Optimus expected. As for Jetfire, he was by himself so he didn't have to make any excuse. He just put down the tools he was working with and snuck out quietly through the giant hole in the roof Megatron put there months ago when he destroyed the ARK.

The two of them met up right outside and the hangar. Then they both took on their vehicular forms and took off the complete opposite direction of Iacon. That way was the direction of the barren wasteland that used to be part of Cybertron's glorious image. Now it was nothing but scrap metal at every step. After going out a few miles that way, Optimus and Jetfire stopped and transformed back to their human modes.

From there, their session of training began. But the two of them were not training in the conventional definition. They were working themselves to the bone for the past two months trying to unlock the power of their super combo form. Jetpower Prime.

And so far they had…..jack squat.

Pretty much now, their training sessions were now thinking meetings of ways they could turn on the power.

"Why can't you just give it up, Optimus?" Jetfire sorely asked.

"Because it's not who I am, Jetfire. You of all people should know that." Optimus replied.

"I know who you are, Optimus. But I don't think we need to worry about this. If we did it once on accident once then it's bound to happen again on accident."

"No." Optimus sternly said. "You and I need to figure out how to do this on command, Jetfire. With all the effort Megatron is giving to make himself stronger, we need to do the same."

Jetfire smacked his head a bit angry that Optimus wouldn't get off this subject.

"Optimus, we've been trying to figure this whole combining thing out for two months. And we have accomplished absolutely nothing! Why can't you just let this go? If we combined once, then we can do it again. I'm sure of it. We just have to wait for the right time. That's got to be how we did it in the first place. We were in enough danger so it happened."

Optimus shook his head refusing to believe that for one second.

"No. That wasn't it." He was dead sure of it. "The situation we were in had nothing to do with it. We've tried that idea before. Remember?"

Jetfire did remember that and winced at the memory. The danger theory was their first idea. So they put it into motion right away. They found the highest cliff they could find and then threw themselves off of it. In their descent, they joined their hands together expecting the combination to just happen. But no. Nothing happened except a busted theory and a short panic attack in fear that they were about to die by their own hands. Luckily Jetfire remembered he could fly just in time to save themselves.

Jetfire sweatdropped and rubbed the back of his head.

"Yeah….I guess that didn't do so well." Jetfire admitted. "But hey, that theory was better than your idea of transforming into our robot modes back to back."

Optimus' face cringed as he remembered his own blunder. He figured if their robots modes transformed into each other's they would end up as Jetpower. It wasn't his brightest moment of thinking. Because as it turns out, it was a huge mistake. They transformed into one machine alright. But nowhere near anything that even resembled Jetpower Prime.

Their transforming mechanical parts ended up as one big out of place pile of metal. Their limbs were out of place and nothing looked right. They looked like a deformed pile of junk. They were lucky enough that they were able to get themselves back to base on their own. But they were deeply humiliated when everyone else saw them. While Wheeljack and Perceptor untangled them, they asked them what happened to them to end up like that. Optimus and Jetfire only responded with, "Please don't ask."

"Okay that was a screw up on my part." Optimus admitted. "But we did learn from that."

"Yeah. We learned how not to combine." Jetfire complained. "But how to become Jetpower, we got no closer."

The red and blue leader sighed and began to rub his chin. They were running out of ideas on how to do this. Transforming didn't work, almost committing suicide was a stupid idea, what else was left?

"Perhaps we've been looking for the answer to this puzzle in the wrong places." Optimus said.

Jetfire adjusted his goggles and sighed ready to take on another theory.

"Okay. I'll bite. Where have we been looking for the past two months then?"

"I strongly believe the key to unlocking Jetpower Prime does not lie within our suits and weapons, nor our danger level. That much is clear. But where else is there to look? You and I did something to make that happen but what the hell was it?"

Jetfire knew he wasn't going anywhere until Optimus said so. So he put his mind to work to trying to figure out ways on how this combining thing was possible.

"You know, maybe we should ask the others for help on this." Optimus suggested. "They all were there. Maybe they have their own opinions."

"As right as that sounds, Optimus, I don't think we should." Jetfire said back. "We discovered this form ourselves, so I think it's only right we learn it ourselves. We need to keep this a secret until the time is right."

He was right. This was a secret that had to be kept until the proper moment.

"Hey I know this is off topic, but do you really think Ratchet has a shot with Yuriko?" Jetfire asked Optimus.

Optimus stopped thinking about Jetpower Prime and thought about what Jetfire just said.

"Um….why are you so concerned about that?" Optimus asked.

"I just don't wanna see him get hurt is all." Jetfire replied. "I mean, for some time now whenever she's not around, she's all he ever talks about. He's downright infatuated with her and she's basically Cybertronian."

"Well….do you think he has a shot, Jetfire?" Optimus asked.

Jetfire shook his head.

"I honestly don't know what will happen with those two." Jetfire honestly answered. "But Ratchet, although somewhat perverted, is a good guy. I just think he's getting his hopes up too high is all."

"Hey I think that too, Jet. But this is a very private thing for Ratchet."

"Private my ass! He blabs about it every day!" Jetfire corrected. "You're there. You hear him."

Optimus did have to agree to that. Ratchet does seem to incessantly go on about Yuriko nowadays.

But then he got to thinking about something else completely off topic.

"Hey Jet…do you think I could ever land a nice girl?" Optimus asked.

Jetfire froze upon hearing that question.

"What kind of stupid question is that?" he answered. "You're the leader of a ragtag group of robot slash human warriors, you have guns in your back, and you can turn into a thirty foot tall robot killing machine."

Optimus groaned and looked down at his boots.

"If that doesn't scream attractive, then I honestly don't know what could." Jetfire then said. "You're an awesome guy and if any girls says otherwise, they're just dumbasses."

"Well it is hard. We have to keep our identities a secret from other humans." Optimus added. "I bet anything if I went up to any girl with this suit on, I'd lose my virginity in less than a minute."

Jetfire chuckled at the words his leader spoke.

"You know, for being from forty years in the past, you've gotten very good with slang quickly." Jetfire noted.

"Well hey. I learn from the masters. Those being you, Ratchet, and Sideswipe."

A warm feeling went into Jetfire's spark.

"That's probable the nicest thing you've ever said about me." He said with a just a hint of sarcasm.

Then the two of them laughed for a bit. They thought it was good for them to laugh considering the situation they were in. Stuck on another planet and all.

"Oh I love this team." Jetfire put his hand up. "Right here."

Jetfire put up his open palm and Optimus slapped his own hand up to it high fiving him.

But right as their hands made contact, a flash of white light came from all around them. And they felt a strange sensation run down their entire bodies. There also came the sound of a faint boom.

Their hands immediately retracted back on reflex. And then a whole new round of questions began.

"Wha…..what the hell just happened?" Jetfire asked.

"How the hell should I know?" Optimus replied.

"Did you see that? That light." Jetfire said.

"Yeah. And the surge that went through me. It felt just like….."

A light bulb went off in Optimus' head as he got closer to the finishing piece.

"Jet….what were you thinking about?"

Jetfire did not feel comfortable at all being asked that question.

"Optimus, why do you wanna know what goes on in my head? We're not…you know….like that."

Optimus fell over anime style repulsed that Jetfire would even say something like that.

"I KNOW WE'RE NOT LIKE THAT!"

It startled Jetfire a bit to hear Optimus' voice get that high. But that comment Jetfire made kind of earned it.

"Jet, think. Right before we combined, what was going through your head? What were you thinking? What were your emotions at that specific point in time?"

Oh. That made Jetfire calm down a bit.

"Oh okay. Uhh….let's see. Um…you were panicking because you thought we were gonna lose to Devastator, um…I punched you in the face….then I seem to remember myself telling you to not give up and that you have more strength than any of us."

Optimus smiled.

"Yeah I remember that too." he said. "You told me even though I lost my entire family, that I was still strong because I never gave up."

Now Jetfire joined his leader and smiled too.

"And I still mean every word I said. I honestly can't think of anyone else in the whole universe being a better leader than you."

It meant the world to Optimus to hear words like that said to him. Especially from one of his teammates.

"Jet….I wouldn't know what to do if that ring hadn't chosen you." Optimus said. "You're….one of the best friends I've ever had in my whole life."

Jetfire gave his leader a warm smile.

"Yeah. You know what? I can safely say the same thing. You're one of my best friends too."

It warmed Optimus' heart to hear that. He already knew it to be true long before but it always made him feel good to hear it out loud to be called a friend. It as one of the best feelings ever imaginable.

That's when Optimus decided to put his theory to the test. Focusing on his current feelings, he reached out his hand towards Jetfire. Getting the idea, Jetfire gently took Optimus' hand even though he thought it was a little gay.

As soon as their hands squeezed together, the white light came back. Only this time it stuck around to do something more than just flash. It enveloped their whole bodies in a bright white aura. Then it was for the first time in nearly six months, Optimus and Jetfire really were one.

Automatically, both of their suits began to transform but not into robot mode or vehicle mode. Their mechanical appendages and parts began to merge together into one super big hunk of metal. This time, the limbs were in the right place.

The color scheme of this giant robot was flat black, red, and blue, with flames. This dual minded titan was at least ten feet taller than Jetfire. Both of their parts and armor panels were mixed together. Even the head looked like two in one. It had Optimus' faceplate and head antennae along with Jetfire's metal whiskers on both sides. On his right arm, there was a giant black gun.

"AW YEAH! WE DID IT!"

Jetpower's voice boomed in both Jetfire's and Optimus' voice in perfect sync. But inside, the two different entities that made up the giant body spoke to one another.

"Jet….we did it! We've learned how to voluntarily combine!" Optimus said. "It was never our strength or weaponry. It was our friendship! I know it might be corny beyond all reason but our friendship is the reason we combined."

"I know, Prime! We're unstoppable now! Megatron's gonna freak!"

Then once again, Jetpower spoke as one. He turned around and looked to the horizon.

"You hear that Megatron? Jetpower Prime is here to stay!"

And with that, Jetpower Prime remained in the wasteland for a few more hours to practice his newfound powers and abilities. Afterwards, they made up some excuse to their friends about how they thought they saw some Decepticon activity on the outskirts of Iacon and went to check it out. Luckily the rest of the knights bought it.

And that was it. That was the end of their adventures in the months in between. Tanaka's wedding went rather smoothly and soon after the nuptials, he and Topaz were off to Rome Italy for their honeymoon. Shortly after, GK and Mina broke up. Not because there was trouble, they just realized their relationship was based on nothing but sex. Which was good but nonetheless. They remained friends. But GK dies a little inside knowing he couldn't have sex with Mina again. But his plans in his head knows no bounds

The rest you know.

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Me: And there it is. I'm sorry if some of you aren't satisfied with this ending but it's the one I'm going with. I hope you all enjoyed this filler story, but not it's time to get back to the current one.

So until then, as always, peace bitches!