Hello subscribers it's been a long time sorry! But a huge dream about the Autobots and two more movies have made me want to write again after my years of illness. Here we go.
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After the interruption of the impromptu meeting Dad had to make another time that afternoon to talk to Merring to organize the mission to the moon. It turned out to be 2:00 pm when she was free and I demanded through the links to be there.
"My Steel," Optimus whirred in Cybertronian, "this will be a conference to go over the date, time and conditions of the launch of the Xanthium. There will be no need for your attendance my spark."
"Daddy" I warbled in the same language, "you go moon n get bad Prime. I GO!" I shrieked and pushed my stubbornness down the link. I wasn't going to let that fake aftheaded pit slagger near my family without me watching him if the even did resurrect him. I saw Daddy wince. He seemed to do that when I shoved so forcefully. That was when my mom came into out room after that shove.
"Ok, my loves, what in the pit has got my sparkling so disturbed?" her Cybertronian was stern looking at both of us with her hands on her hip joints. I just curled in on myself. I didn't want to fight with her anyway. Knee joints up to my chest I wrapped my arms around them and stuck my face plates into them overwhelmed. I gave into the need to cry as babybot programming came to the forefront and I leaned into the little girl/babybot and just gave up. It was painful, it was so dangerous, I'd seen what happened it wore on my spark so heavily that there was some despair that was seeping in where my fight had been. This took only seconds and when the desolation flooded the links my dad pulled me close to his chest plates and opened his spark to me. He sat on the berth so Elita could reach me also with her spark.
Both dad's and mom's faces grimaced. My spark, my daughter, what is it that has your spark so heavy and in anguish! Optimus sent down the link with his encompassing love and compassion.
My sweetspark, please tell us. My mom spoke in the bond willing my spark with her warm love and distress at my sudden change in mood.
I was crying harder and down the links I shrieked as I always did, Sentinel! Bad bad bad stuff happen. Ironhide... no Ironhide... my mind started to play the moment that the other prime began his betrayal and blasted Ironhide with his rust gun and I watched his body crumble in a matter of two minutes and saw his spark burst in an array of blue light and was no more.
My father pushed against the memories that were distressing me as he wrapped me in the connection. My mother's spark flared down the link creating a warm sphere that cut me off from everything except my fathers warm blanket of love. I was in this globe that looked like the inside of a star and my brother's the twins, love for me filtered in too. My sadness and tears stopped as quickly as they came and there was nothing but my parents love my daddy's voice came suddenly but not scaring me My sweetspark is your spark clear now? I nodded against his chest plate. Now small one we cannot erase the pictures in your neural net but the panic it necessitated the bonds to shield you for a moment from them. We cannot keep you hear but we will speak about the betrayal now with the other commanding Autobots and make a plan to deal with this threat before we retrieve him. I nodded again as the surrounding ball of my mommy's protection fades and the warm blanket pulls back some to let me into my own feelings again. I was much calmer.
I abruptly turned and hugged my daddy and then my mommy. "love you," I said to both in Cybertronian and they both returned it with a smile toward me. "Call bots?" I asked.
"We have time my love," Elita said since it was only 11.
"Yes we do my sparkmate," he smiled tenderly at her. And for a split second I remembered what that felt like but it was fleeting and was pushed back into my human instincts in my neural net and the babybot programming take over again. I could feel him coming the other head bots to come to the meeting quickly since they were going to have to go to the moon ASAP. My dad also began to walk to the meeting room in the base for the boss. Optimus decided it was time to tell Lennox, Sam, Mikaela, and Epps also about me and the predictions I can make and the knowledge of the past and of all the bots or most major things it might be an easier sell to them. The moon race just started earlier because it was time to that slagger cant wait anymore especially if we can catch the Decepticons by surprise.
I was in my Daddy's arm taking energon waiting for all the bots and humans to come to the room. It took about 15 minutes for everyone to gather. I tapped my dad's finger as I finished and the last of the commed people came to the meeting room. I sat up as he let me get in his hand held me at waist height so everyone could see me and the humans summoned had been placed on the table in chairs. After the door closed my dad spoke up in English, "conference room lock down, by order of Optimus Prime code Alpha 1 phi 10001001," and a new layer crawled up the walls and doors from inside the walls in front of the regular doors slammed shut. All the bots and humans were looking around surprised at the sudden lock down but then after the blast doors and silencers were in place they knew this was serious.
I looked around to find Ironhide, Jazz, Bumblebee, Ratchet, Elita, Prowl, Sunstreaker, Sideswipe, Lennox, Epps, Sam and Mikaela. The fact that I was out of Primes or his Sparkmate's sparkling hold said volumes. I looked and saw everyone and just let out long vent as a sigh Mikaela seemed to catch on this had something to do with me and I saw a comforting smile on her face. Sam as always was just lost. "Prime, what is this all about?" Hide asked to get the ball rolling, he was not a very patient mech.
Optimus looked down at me and I winced a little as I could feel his optics on me but he just rubbed my back sending his supportive love down the link. Sunstreaker and Sideswipe both looked at me and came closer to the table feeling my upset. "Come on Angel," Sideswipe started, "are you ok?" he finished rounding the table to touch my face. He ran a finger over my head and then under my chin making me smile and feel his love and tenderness down the line. Sunstreaker followed his movement only around the other side of the table.
"Yes Babydoll, you are so nervous and kinda sad," he told me scratching my head and wrapping his own finger around my head and chin pulling my helm up to look at him. I smiled at him too as I felt his protective love for me come down the sibling bond. The four of them so close I couldn't continue to be sullen. The whole room was silent watching the interaction. Prowl was actually smiling. The twins flanked Mom and Dad.
Optimus then started to explain. "We all know that this sparkling is special most of us know why but some don't. Jazz and Bumblebee this secret does not leave the commanding officers circle." They both nodded. "As for you Will, Epps, Sam and Mikaela I trust you know why we brought you in also. You are basically family to us Autobots but are likewise included in our upper officer circle since you have all had experience with all our sensitive information and put your lives on the line for it." He stopped for effect for a moment. " And so we have much to discuss about my sparkling and her gifts. I was told by Primus himself that a gift would be given to us and we would need it for survival. For the humans knowledge Primus is our ultimate being or as you might say our God." The humans nodded. "The gift it turned out was this sparkling. Steel however came to us with a broken spark and programming that normal blank neural nets of sparklings would not." Mikaela was putting two and two together before he could finish. She stood up and walked up to him and me.
She sat in his hand with me and looked around at the gathered mechs and femme especially Bumblebee. "I've been through so much in my life." She said to everyone. And then looked at me and back at the group. "I see a lot of myself in her. The way she was acting right after we were kidnapped, the yawning, and the English. She also seems to have the ability to see the future. She told me not to go the first time I saw her and told Sam not to say no probably referring to when Sam told Optimus he wouldn't help with the government and then everything went to hell and after a fight with Sam I almost left but remembered what Steel said to me. So I didn't. I can tell you now she reacts like an abused human who has adult and baby in her. I would know..." Bumblebee and Jazz stood up straighter as did the humans Will and Epps yelled What at the same time.
My dad looked down at her as she explained and then up to the group when she was done. I wrapped my arms around her and nodded into her shoulder. Prime began again. "Mikaela has come very close to the truth watching my sparkling. The whole situation is a bit more complex. Primus' gift is a human who begged for a second chance at life who is from a much different dimension than us where our war is played out in a cinematic production of at the count when she came here were 5. But the information on us and our lives is vast and she has much of this information also but keeps the finer points of our lives that are private keeps as a closely guarded secret. She had femme and mech creators as well as extended pod that ravaged her childhood with vile malevolent damage to her body, mind and psyche. Then the allowed her to sparkmate with an unstable physically assaultive as well as repeating her past abuse. And as most of you know our venture to obtain Sentinel from the moon is a large step toward a huge catastrophe since he is a traitor." Bumblebee did know this part but not Jazz.
Jazz rolled forward, "No way in pit boss!" The special ops head officer's voice was the only one who was raised but I cringed and started to wail. Jazz suddenly had three energon pistols pointed his way and he was brought up short. "What in da fraggin slags wrong with ya three," he asked hotly with his visor flash.
I wailed again but with all my might launched my self forward until I flew passed my dads fingers and Mikaela and was on the table already on my hands and knees crawling quickly to Jazz. I heard the guns being lowered behind me and daddy called after me but none of them reached for me. I needed to do this. I made a leap from the table to Jazz whom I had become accustomed to through the knowing and hung on his chest plates that made his four pronged hands come up and cradle me. Through my link with him at this distance I could shove down everything that had happened to me and my memories of his death at Megatron's hands and then the next movie showing what happened with the betrayal being set up by the Decepticons and the murders, Shockwave, Hide's death, the absolute pit on earth that happened when he finally put his plan in action. I cried into his chest armor and mid transmission felt his arms tighten around me and begin to hug me. He was holding me really tightly as if trying to console himself and me with the things I was sending to him. "Ok OK Precious," his four pronged hand ran over my head and back shushing me and rolling on his wheels. It was helping but I couldn't quite get a hold of myself. "Oh Precious, so much so much. Your comin musta changed mission city to since ya came right afta. I didna die cuz a ya Precious sparklin. Yall neva have to be scared here cuz any pit slaggers that hurtcha will be flattened to a puddle." He even started his rumble in his chest to try to calm me.
"It seems Steel has transmitted to you the future events that are forthcoming from the betrayal and the data package of her past?" Jazz just nodded against me lowering his head and retracting his visor, something he almost never did.
He pulled me up a little and looked at me in my optics. "Sokay sparklin I gotcha foreva Precious." I nodded and made my grabby motion back toward him and with that his visor slid down in place and I wrapped around his shoulder for a minute more as he rubbed his cheek plate on me softly and then took me back around the table and set me back in Primes hand. I looked up again at the saboteur who was looking up at Optimus. "I'm caught up boss bot." was all he said and went back to the back of the room.
"Will someone please tell me what's going on?" Sam burst out slightly frustrated. "Everyone in here seems to know whats what and why we're here planning for someone we need to get on the moon? But we get the info from a previous human sent from God/Primus who was abused and died cuz she saw movies about us? WHAT?"
"Um," Lennox interjected. "Sam I'd tone it down if I were you that's Steel your talkin bout and I think your girlfriend is about to kill you." Mikaela was on her way back toward him looking as if she would murder him. As it happened she smacked him up the back of the head because she was so pissed.
"Hey big guy," Will asked. Dad nodded to him. "Is her used to being a human and knowing what is going to happen how we navigated the last fight somewhat easier than I planned it was still a fraggin pit but it seemed a little planned? Steel was even in the middle of the fight to get back Sam and Mikaela."
"Yes, She knew my spark needed to sputter out a moment to release the Fallen and kept the sliver of my spark alive till I could be completely revived by Sam and the Matrix." I was sniffling and hiccuping trying not to cry.
"I sowwy!" I cried in English toward Will. My dad sighed and pulled me up to his neck joint and let me wrap my my arms and fingers into his cabling. He petted my back softly.
"She is still terribly guilty about that and not letting us know more about it. But it was foretold to her that Sam must earn his place with us by fully reigniting me. She didn't want the battle to happen and the knowledge of it was coming it nearly destroyed her to keep it a secret from Sam and you. She also had warned Sam not to say no to me. It was in the graveyard she was speaking of it appears. Will, Epps, and Sam as she has the information that will happen in our next several fights that will happen and the future is bleak unless we are able to stop a mass murder that happens and Sentinel opens a space bridge to the moon to gather the Decepticons to come to earth and destroy Chicago to bring Cybertron to earth to enslave the human race. When we go to the moon we will only find 5 pillars for the space bridge, not big enough for a planet to be transferred through but the Decepticons have hundreds. This will be enough to bring our home planet into the atmosphere. The catastrophic destruction and human casualties in Chicago will turn the populations opinions unfavorable to our race even those who did have a positive attitude. I'm afraid this will make the human governments pass laws to leave earth as Sentinel masquerades as the Autobot leader and labels us an enemy faction."
"Woah," Will said trying to wrap his mind around the information just presented.
"Yeah," Epps said as he shared a look with Will. "She had all that insight into the coming months? Holy shit Op, she had the whole fallen thing too and much more how does she keep from just overloading as a sparkling? That's a lot of shit to hold in. Plus what happens after this? My God!" When he stopped My dad only sighed.
"It is a delicate balance my friend. Her prior memories turned data holds the knowledge of these events. She has sparkling programming from her Cybertronian shell and her spark or soul rather has merged with it and she is now a sparkling who has human memories rather than a human in a Cybertronian body. However the future is not the only data from her human life that afflict her processors..." the Prime let the statement hang in the air as I tightened up on his neck cables and started make those haunting crying sounds that grated on the audios of the other bots and humans.
Sam never could put things together very well without first hand knowledge set out for him. "Optimus what is it about her human life that is so bad that she had to come back here as a baby bot? That's like wanting to relive Egypt or something and once I'm gone I can't imagine coming back!" he said clueless. My crys intensified. Mikaela smacked him upside the head. At the same time Bumblebee was curious about the situation but would never have commed or voiced this at the risk of distressing me. Bumblebee looked at Jazz who had seemed to take the same angry look that the whole room did. The special ops leader glanced at Bumblebee and sent him a data packet. In the same moment that Sam was smacked Bumblebee had integrated the information into his CPU and balked stepping backwards making a similar distressed sound that I was.
"That can happen to humans?" Bumblebee asked angry and disgusted. He just received silence to his question but a sad look from my Father, mother and brothers. The yellow bot put his head in his hands and pulled his humans close a second then let them go. Sam was confused by the quick hug from his car.
"Bee?" The younger special ops head just shook his head in the face of Sam's stupification.
Well it fell to Mikaela to explain it to the others since Sam was vocal about his bewilderment and Will and Epps' curiousity showing in there eyes but unwilling to say anything. "OK you three listen up," she said to all three men. "She grew up a human in her other life, that means she was a child once like us. Humans are fraggin pit slaggers and you all know they can be. We're talking beating, raping, emotional, physical, sexual, psychological, abuse! She had childhood she had no life safe or nice," she turned to Sam, "like you do Sam in your perfect life before mission city! But when trouble came she didn't get giant robots to save her she got probably and abusive asshole that abused her even more." She looked back at the soldiers who were backing up and almost barfing, cringing and angry at the same time. Mikaela thought that at least they got it. "Will and Epps you guard you children from these or they might be desperate enough to ask for the safety in another UNIVERSE to find the childhood and life that is safe enough to grow up in because it happens so quickly and right under your nose." She stopped finally realizing she was crying. Sam at the end of this was too.
"Mika..." he said realizing it wasn't just me it was her too. He opened his arms and she came to him crying on his shoulder. Optimus let out a long sigh through his vents. Will and Epps were motionless and sitting in their seats probably thinking about their own children.
"Our Mikaela is wise beyond her years in the way my sparkling was. It bereaves me to know that you Mikaela have suffered at the hands of your pod similarly. You will not be again. I promise you." There were a chorus of nods and affirmative sounds around the room. And that is when my clicking and crying stopped. I looked at the room. The eyes of the entire room looked at me too. I saw in each the commitment to protect me at any cost. I could feel the love from all the sparks I knew in the room suddenly poor into my spark. My eyes widened and I just hugged my chest and sent back the feelings they did and a all I could do was smile wide and open my arms to the whole room. All the mechs and femme in the room including the humans returned my joy even Mikaela. And with this I turned and sat against my father's chest plates as if everything was right with the world. Because now just for now it was. Unfortunately this was just one part of the meeting.
"Since Steel's origin and GIFTS," My daddy emphasized, "have been disclosed, I trust there will be no more inquiries about her previous life or her ability to predict what will come to be." He looked around the room at each mech besides my brothers and my mother. They all stood a but taller and there was a nod or a word of agreement. It seemed a fervent promise from the whole pod gathered that I could feel in my spark. It was then he looked at the gathered humans. Will and Epps saluted with a nod which was very respectful from the armed forces soldiers. Mikaela smiled up at Optimus and he already knew her view and insight.
Sam bowed his head and nodded. "Sorry Optimus and Steel." I nodded back to Sam who was one of the closest human friends and family. I didn't hold a grudge. He's just a silly "boy" still even if he did reignite my dad's spark. He had a long way to go. I had a small sad smile a moment then pushed the thought back to the human memories and it flittered to somewhere else I couldn't see or reach it right now and the little girl/baby bot programming came to the forefront. My smile became happy again. My mother caught the sentiment and just pushed her love and acceptance down the bond. Optimus lowered me to his mid-section again so everyone could see me.
"Now let us discuss our plan of action to deal with this." My dad started.
"Hey Op, to my understanding, another Prime is on the moon in stasis?" Sam asked. Prime nodded.
"Yes a very dangerous one."
"Boss bot, we could use tha' tech to collect those a us whoer still out there," Jazz interjected.
"To do that we have to awaken Sentinel," My dad countered.
"What about Chicago?" Ironhide added. "We could put a contingent in the city to counter any invasion."
"You all were witness the forces they possessed at their command. A small band of Autobots will be ripe for slaughter once a incursion of that caliber is provoked by Sentinel." Optimus argued. Prowl was very quiet for a planning session. He looked as if he was listening with one audio and thinking with the other. His eyes were a duller blue than normal and I could feel his distraction faintly through my knowing with him since it was a little stronger than some of the others. He was mulling over something that was really hard. I knew he'd be speaking up soon. I had an insight suddenly.
"Hey me!" I waved then kept talking, "Cons wif humans! Bad bots kill humans now. Daddy got roun thin." The bots who got only what I had showed them of the fight and more important points of the movie might have missed this point. "Guy dead where roun thin." All the bots were quiet as well as the humans in the room.
Will looked pale, "Cons kill humans? What humans?" he asked me. I huffed.
"kill humans bad bots..." I couldn't think of the word. I looked up and sent my frustration down the link.
"Hold a klik Will. Steel is having difficulty with vocalizing what she wishes to convey," my Dad told them for me. My dad's eyes had gone dull to reflect inward on the bond. My body always did the same thing when we were that deep in the link. Elita must have kept her attention on the room to keep watch on the room.
Daddy?
Yes my sweetspark? Sinking into the bond spark and all it was so much more powerful than normal and in a wash of my daddy's love that wrapped around me in a warm blanket I began to forget my purpose of asking him here. I heard a chuckle deep in our bond. Come now little one what is it you cannot express? I shook my head internally and came back to myself.
Daddy des humans wif the Cons. Do stuff. No see dark moon cuz... do stuff wif bad bots?
Sweetspark do they work with the Decepticons? I nodded in the link. Do they function under the of the Decepticons of their own free will?
No yes? I didn't know for sure I knew that some of them especially Gould did so almost freely. Both Dad's and my optics brightened at the same time as we cam out of the bonded deep link.
"Will," Optimus said to get the soldiers attention. He looked up at Prime. "Steel has confirmed that she means they work for the Decepticons."
"THEY WHAT?" Sam asked flabbergasted.
"Big guy are they doing this because they want to?" The Captain's face went sour.
"That was my query to Steel, Will, and her answer was unsure. My theory is that they are being coerced but some have taken their roles a bit more serious and believe in their cause more so than others."
"That was my thought too. They are probably killing people they don't need any more." Will shook his head.
"Me!" I waved again. "Kill um after moon." I looked up and my father met my eyes.
"They will begin to eliminate the humans once we retrieve Sentinel from the moon?" I nodded then shook in apprehension. Meeting the optics of the others and the eyes of the humans Optimus sighed. "That must mean that the man who was in the Ukraine was no longer needed and they had a Decepticon to assassinate him." Dad pounded his fist on the table. "Right beneath our olfactory sensors."
"Yup the engine part was probably a distraction or something," Epps expressed as he thought about Chernobyl.
"Me," I waved and got everyone's optics and eyes on me again. "Yes no!" I was met with confused stares. They all looked up to My father for clarification.
"I believe she means that it was a distraction, yes, but also something else," I nodded.
"Um um um...daddy like r stuff. Humans," I pointed out the door, "bad n no share. Bad bots give a us." another look up to get what I was saying.
"Steel you are vocalizing that the Decepticons supplied this to us knowing that the human government had not told us about the moon?"
"Ya ya ya," I clapped with a clang that scared me in to a whirl and squeak. The whole room laughed they thought it was cute. I ignored it and went on. "Make bots bad wif humans," I pointed out the door again.
"So the Decepticons also wanted to give us reasons to doubt the human government and cause a rift in our cooperation?" My daddy knew everything even what I wanted to say. I smiled up at him leaning my the top of my helm on his plating. He smiled back. "Thank you my spark." he told me softly. The whole room could hear it but it was intimate and the others ignored the exchange as it was none of their business.
"Well, pit, why the frag did they give us this alerting us to the moon then?" Sam asked.
"Because my poddling they want Sentinel operational. The only one who can activate the space bridge." This was known to the Autobots but not to the humans whom he voiced it for.
"Optimus," Prowl asserted finally. I wondered what he had been hatching in his CPU. "What if, our contingent knows of all this and we do retrieve Sentinel and awaken him and we feign ignorance. We continue the farce long enough to get the space bridge technology and then give him a false sense of security and commence then to take him into custody and allow Ratchet to put him into stasis lock? If there are any complications we will know there plans and they will not know we do and can stop the tragedy of Chicago at least lessen the impact."
It might be a good plan but the whole thing made me feel wrong. Immediately following his plan I began to wail click and whir scooting back against my dads plates turning around trying to claw my way up to his spark hold. The whole room looked at me in worry and the optics and eyes were all on me but I could only think what would happen if he got loose. Even my baby bot/little girl was screaming on the inside to GET AWAY! And the plan absolutely shut down any logic I had and sent me into a oblivious panic. My father pulled me into his hands but it wasn't enough nothing was short of a sparkling hold and stronger bonds. It so happened my dread that dripped through every circuit caused my twin brothers to step in front of Elita and Optimus keeping them behind them as I was rushed to my Daddy's sparkling hold and both parents were sitting in chairs and their forms slumped a little and optics dimmed to a very soft blue almost as if blinking off but stayed on minimally as they reached down in the depths of the creator links to my spark and pulled me down far into their bond of love and warmth. After everything I was just spark tired and then I panicked and then everything went blue. And the color wrapped around me like a blanket and the rounded cocoon that felt like the inside of a cool star. My crying stopped my fear stopped and my mind was awash with the accepting protective love of my parents and I clicked softly and whirred into the blue not having any more words. My CPU had been taxed to it's breaking point and I drifted to deep recharge within my daddy's sparkling hold.
It took at least 10 minutes of the cover of the bonds to settle my spark and neural nets. By the time Optimus came back to the forefront of his processors he let out a large huff of air through his vents. My mother did the same thing and their noises caused the room to go quiet.
"Optimus?" Ratchet asked.
"Yes my friend I am fully online now."
"What about," Sunstreaker started, "Our sparkling" Sideswipe finished. Prime put a servo over his chest armor.
"She is in deep recharge," Optimus answered.
"We both had to pull her into the creator bond and cover her to help her." Elita added pulling her self into a more proper sitting position shaking herself.
"Prime what the pit was that?" Optimus looked at Ironhide.
"She is terrified of Sentinel. Our sparkling knows the future and this battle is pivotal to the future and if he is going to be here online her CPU will not allow the concept to exist. The plan provoked something visceral in her spark."
"Optimus," Sunstreaker cut in, "I felt it so strongly. There was something else there like..." Sideswiped finished, "a warning?"
Prowl cool and collected as always objected, "Prime do you really think Steel's fear and panic are a cause for such alarm that we need to revise our previously discussed plan?" The twins both gave Prowl a nasty look.
"Down boys," Elita said and they backed off and just crossed their arms in unison. "You both know Prowl cares he is just fact checking." They both sighed but didn't come out of their grumpy postures. Elita guessed that was the best she could ask for considering who she was talking to.
"Please," Prowl said with pride. "I would never insult the sparkling. I've already vowed my spark to her."
"He has," Elita confirmed.
"To answer your question Prowl, I indeed without doubt that her innate fear of Sentinel is well deserved and that an outside source fed her negative reaction to the plan. She is sensitive to the variations in our time line or to Primus' will or another power I have not considered yet. However we will need to revise our plan." Optimus concluded.
"Prime," Ironhide interjected, "What if we take out tha reinforcements? We know they're on the moon since that is where the sparklin showed us Sentinel sends the space bridge to gather the Cons army buried near the crash site. We get Sentinel and the pillars and get the frag outta there and send a barrage of rockets and maybe one BIG one to kill all the fraggers waitin under tha sand."
"Taking out the Decepticons on the moon is a very good strategy. We will have to develop a weapon strong enough to offline them however."
"I think I have a better idea," Wheeljack added. "How about we send a asteroid into the dark side of the moon after taking Sentinel and as many parts, energon, and things you can collect from the crash and let it smash those Cons into smithereens!
"Wheeljack, I think we have the beginnings of a good plan." Optimus smiled slightly.