Chapter 17
"Now what the slag are we supposed to do he isn't answering his comms, and I can't sense his signature even." Ratchet replied as they had to transform and use their holoforms.
They heard sounds and realized Kim and the kids were coming back out and saw the kids running out.
"Where is dad?" Anna asked looking around as Kim walked up her eyes searched for Optimus.
She knew they were hiding something now Optimus was nowhere to be seen.
It scared her, and she knew it would scare the his kids as well.
"Where's Optimus?" she asked.
Ratchet, Ironhide and the other Autobots using their holoforms glanced at the two younglings, they didn't want to alarm them, but Kim could tell without even asking something was wrong and she walked up to Ratchet.
"Something has happened, hasn't it?" she asked.
"Daddy, where is daddy," Lily demanded tears ran from her eyes then.
"Shhh, it's okay girls come on let's go into your room and wait okay," Kim said as she glanced back at Ratchet, Ironhide and the others, and she mouthed two words.
FIND HIM...
4 days later...
Optimus had been experimented on for 4 days; he was blinded his optics being completely torn out. His spark was fearful. He missed his younglings, and he feared for them if the humans from the governments attacked his Autobots and his new family.
He was strapped down on a massive metal table. The humans shocked his spark several times violently using times objects, which would sent volts through his spark and body whenever the humans weren't around.
He wanted his younglings; that was all he cared about right now, they were his biggest concern right now that and his Kim.
...
Newborn looked at his daughter, who stood before him, he could tell by her sneer. It was clear she despised her father.
"Why was I brought here, I was in the middle of teaching my students and we were also having a crisis so I have no time for you." Kim snapped.
"You will make time, besides I did you a favor your so-called boyfriend you've been pining over is a robotic being from outterspace of some sort, Kimberly." Newborn said.
"What are you going on about now?" she demanded.
"Come with me," was all he said as he headed for the elevator to a special room.
When they walked in Kim saw Optimus strapped to a massive metal table. She saw the bright blue liquid pooling onto the floor.
"Yes be careful of that Kimberly, it will burn you if you touch it." Newborn said as Optimus' head turned toward where the voices were heard.
It was his Kim.
"Kim...?" Optimus said weakly as her eyes widened in horror as she saw exactly what he was an Autobot.
"Optimus... But how can that be...?" she started to ask until she realized the human she knew to be Optimus was not the true being at all.
It was fake. He was fake. He lied to her.
"You're a robot?" she asked.
"I-I am a Cybertronian... I wanted you to be with me and my younglings..."
"How can you attempt to even know how to take care of human children when you are not even human yourself?" Newborn demanded. "How can you romance a woman when you are not even human?" he yelled as Optimus fell silent.
He couldn't see the femme he was starting to care for any longer, she remained silent and by now Optimus figured she was disgusted with him.
"We are taking those kids away from you," he said as Kim's head snapped toward her father.
"No, you can't do that, they love him." She said.
"Tough, they will go into foster care where they belong not with some crazed robotic being who all he has ever known is lying to humans and pretending to be something he is not." He said as Optimus made a sad keening sound and turned his helm away.
His life was spiraling out of control now.
"Besides, it won't matter in the end he isn't leaving her alive or even in one piece." He said with a laugh.
All he had were those younglings; he could not let this human do this they were his world.
"Please do not take them; they are my world I see to their needs all the time please. If you wish me to leave Kim alone I will but please not my younglings, please." Optimus begged.
Newborn laughed and pushed his daughter out the door as he turned toward Optimus and laughed.
"They will be gone trust me on that." He said.
"No," Optimus whispered.