Sparks of Magic

I do not own Harry Potter, Transformers Bayverse or any of their characters

Pairings: Remus/Sirius, Harry/Optimus, Fred/Sideswipe, George/Sunstreaker, Jazz/Prowl, Ironhide/Chromia.

[Updated: 13/05/2021]

IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ ME TO ENSURE CONFUSION IS AVOIDED!: Got your attention? Good. Now, I know there is a difference with Jetfire's name, I have changed it to Skyfire but trust me, I have not got it wrong. I have done this for a reason. There is a method to my madness but you'll have to wait and see why I have made this change. Now that I've got that out of the way, ONWARD WITH THE STORY!

::Comms/Calls::

"Talking"

"Thinking"

Writing

~Radio~

Flashback

$Parseltongue$

Chapter 15: The Matrix

The journey to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum was made even longer with Simmons' constant ramblings. Not even a quarter of the way there and Sideswipe shut off his comms so that he didn't have to listen to him anymore and while Harry was grateful for it, he did feel sorry for the rest of the humans and Bee since the ex-sector 7 agent decided to ride with them.

It was also during this drive that the small hope of bringing Optimus back to life had been crushed only moments after having the possibility dangled in front of them.

Flashback

They had been waiting twenty minutes for Simmons to collect some stuff that he deemed necessary to bring, but they were finally on their way to finding a Seeker.

::I have a question:: George suddenly said, causing Simmons to huff in irritation. He probably still hated him for turning his hair pink and since Fred and George could do the same, he most likely had a dislike towards them as well.

::Can it wait until after all this:: Simmons grumbled.

George's voice didn't show any annoyance. Instead, it adopted a nonchalant tone ::You know what, I'm not really sure. See, I'm just wondering what we're meant to do if the Seeker is offline. I mean, I can't imagine any Cybertronian who would willingly stay in a place where humans frequent regularly for that long::

The quietness only proved that none of them had thought about that little detail. That's all they needed, to get there only to find that the Seeker had been offlined for years.

"He has a point. Neither Autobot or Decepticon would stay like that for long if they were still online" Sideswipe confirmed.

::Primus you humans are stupid. You could just use the shard of the Allspark to revive him:: the little Minicon known as Wheelie angrily huffed. He wasn't stuffed into a box anymore (Harry had told them point blank that they couldn't do that to him. No matter if he was a Decepticon) but he still had the chain wrapped securely around his frame. He had a new perch on Mikaela's lap and he had looked far too happy with the arrangement when Harry had caught a glimpse of him. He could have sworn he was also throwing smug looks in Sam's direction.

::Hold on and back up a bit. The only Allspark fragment found was the piece that Optimus picked up and it was used to revive old Megsy:: George explained, clearly confused as to why the Minicon brought it up. The raven haired Wizard felt the same and wondered who else in their group was confused by that sentence.

::Actually, Sam found another piece in the hoodie he wore at Mission City. It must have broken off when he put it in there for protection and before he left for college, he gave it to me to look after. It's the reason why Wheelie was at my garage in the first place. He was trying to steal it:: Mikaela informed those who had not known.

If they were in their bipedal forms, Harry was sure that Sunstreaker and Sideswipe would be staring at Sam with disbelief across their faceplates. He was also staring in the direction of Bumblebee along with Fred and even though he couldn't see him, George was probably doing the same.

"You're saying that you didn't tell the Bots that you found a piece of the Allspark-"

::And then gave the same item that the Decepticons were fighting over in Mission City to Mikaela-::

"Who, by the way, could easily be hurt and/or killed, by advanced beings the size of houses and bigger-"

::"Just what in Pits name were you thinking at the time?":: They both finished in unison.

::Well I, umm, I...:: Sam stuttered, the sentence trailing off when he obviously couldn't think of any good reason to why he did what he did.

::I told you this human was malfunctioning:: Sunstreaker voiced and no one disagreed with the yellow mech.

"Look, who cares about that right now? We have a piece of the Allspark in our hands. Instead of using it to revive the Cybertronian in the Museum, why don't we just head to base and revive Optimus. He'll be able to read the symbols" Fred explained.

Hope blossomed in the raven haired Wizard's chest. How could he have forgotten that the Allspark could give a Cybertronian life? Even without the piece Sam had, if Harry learned how to use the Allspark's energy, he could have brought the Autobot leader back to life.

"It won't work" Sideswipe informed them solemnly. The little bit of hope began to dwindle, but he was determined to find out why before the possibility of it happening completely died.

"Why not? It worked for the Decepticons, why wouldn't it work for us?" Harry questioned, almost desperately. He was this close to having a way of bringing Optimus back and finding out if the twins' earlier theories were true. Why did something have to go wrong when his hope was only just building?

::Because Primes are different from the rest of the Cybertronians. A lot of our knowledge might be gone but a few things are quite well known and one of them is that the Allspark never brings a Prime back online:: Sunstreaker sounded reluctant to say any of this but he probably wanted to nip it in the bud before anyone's hope rose any further ::I know it's not something you want to hear but believe me, others have tried before with different Primes and the Allspark has not once brought any of them back from the Well of Sparks::

Harry slumped back into his seat, listening to Simmons asking ::When did the big guy die?:: which led to Sam explaining the battle between the two Cybertronian leaders. Once he had finished, Simmons began to question Harry on things like how the Allspark merged with him, how he killed a Cybertronian so quickly and could he use the Allspark's energy. When he didn't answer any of them (The man used to hunt Cybertronians as a job. He wasn't going to trust him straight away) the elder man began theorizing multiple answers and this was when Sideswipe had shut off his Comms.

Flashback Ends

He hadn't talked at all since that conversation. Harry knew that Sideswipe and Fred were just dying to make some sort of conversation to get rid of the awkward silence, but neither of them could find anything suitable to say so they left him alone to his thoughts.

He had to admit that they had a point, Harry did have some sort of feelings for Optimus. They spent hours together, when they had no other work to do, just talking to each other about anything and he had told Prime things that not even Remus and Sirius knew about. Optimus was also the only one to be able to truly calm him down when he lost control of his emotions. Others he considered his friends or family could get close to him and his Magic would protect them but they couldn't stop him easily. Such as when Fred and George had stopped him yesterday; they had to stun him in order for him to be stopped. Optimus had done it with just talking to him and being near him. But was this all because he might have romantic feelings for the red and blue mech? Sideswipe had mentioned something about a look in his eyes but how could he be sure?

"This is too confusing to think about right now" Harry thought. He had a feeling that this was going to keep popping back into his head no matter how hard he tried to repress the thoughts, but he couldn't afford such distractions when dealing with the Decepticons. He'll just have to keep up a silent mantra of "Mission first, then feelings"

They all came to a stop outside the modern looking Museum, well away from any of the cameras so that they didn't get caught on them, all of them getting out as soon as they stopped. Simmons was going all out with the gear because he already had a pair of binoculars in front of his face, gazing at the building that held the Seeker.

"Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. Land of dreams in there. All I ever wanted to be was an astronaut" Simmons said wistfully before moving to Bee's trunk. The man had then suddenly ripped off his pants and handed them to Sam "Hold those"

Luckily for Harry, he didn't have to look at whatever that thing Simmons was wearing for long because a pair of hands descended over his eyes to protect him "Avert your eyes Harrykins. Not even an Obliviate is going to help us after seeing that" Fred said from behind him, being the one to cover his eyes.

"I may not be the best when it comes to fleshie customs but I am quite sure that it is not acceptable to take your coverings off like that when in the company of others" Sunstreaker said with a disgusted tone. Harry was sure that the noises he heard was the yellow mech moving further away from the ex-sector seven agent.

"Are your choice of underpants always this bad? Merlin, I'd take the boxers over this any day" George commented.

"What is that?" Sam questioned. The youngest Wizard didn't think Sam really wanted an answer but he was positive that the other teen's brain had melted at seeing what the man was wearing and said the first thing that came into his head.

"What? I wear them when I'm in a funk. So does Giambi, Jeter. It's a baseball thing" he said. Fred removed his hands and Harry could see that the man had put on another pair of pants along with a jacket from a silver briefcase "Okay. Watches synchronized, sharp mind and empty bladder. You get caught, demand an attorney and don't ever say my name" he then threw a box of pills towards Sam who caught them with a confused look but opened them anyway "Okay, take one of these pills. Slip it under your tongue. It's the high-concentrate polymer they put in Oreo cookies. Tricks the polygraph every time. Okay. Now, let's get this show on the road" he finished, pulling out his final object which happened to be a taser and he proved it was a working one.

"Whoa, whoa, no, listen, I can't do this" Leo began to protest, his eyes fixated on the electrifying tool in Simmons hands.

"Yes"

"I'm not some alien bounty hunter, guys. I'm not gonna do this. Guards have guns. I don't want to die" the teen was getting slightly hysterically now and Simmons was doing nothing to reassure him.

"Kid. Kid. Kid. Kid, kid, kid. You compromise this mission, you are dead to me. Now look into my eyes and tighten up that sphincter"

While Simmons had been saying all this, George had gone around the other two humans to disillusion them. Fred and Harry were about to disillusion themselves, but when George got to Simmons and Leo, the ex-agent backed away from the red haired Wizard "No, no, no. Keep the mystic mumbo jumbo crap to yourself"

George let out a huff of annoyance as he continued to follow the ex-agent, who moved away every time the Wizard got close to him "Look, it's not going to hurt you. All it does is get onlookers' gazes to pass over you"

"Nope! I refuse to have that supernatural crap anywhere near me and as the man in charge of this mission, I demand that the use of it be kept to a bare minimum" Simmons

There was a moment of silence before Sam, Mikaela, Fred, George, Sideswipe and Sunstreaker all asked simultaneously "Who the Hell/Pits said that you were in charge?"

The man stood up straight and Harry could literally feel the smugness rolling off him in waves as he reasoned "Since I'm the only one with any experience in tracking and catching a transformer alive, I nominated myself"

"Okay just stop" Harry interrupted before the verbal match could start up between Simmons and the others "First off, what do you think we've been doing these past two years? Sitting around while the Cons roam free on Earth. No, we were tracking down those Decepticons and stopping them. And might I remind you that the only 'transformer', as you call them, which you caught was only due to a lot of helicopters and overpowered fire extinguishers. You also happened to lose a majority of your clothes that night and got your hair to resemble cotton candy"

Pointing out all this caused Simmons to shut up for only a few seconds before he countered "Well I'm older!"

"Actually" Sideswipe butted in "The oldest out of all of us would be me, then Sunstreaker, Bumblebee and I'm not sure who the oldest is out of Mudflap and Skids"

"There is no way you're older than me. You sound like a bunch of teenagers"

"This human sounds as stupid as Sam" Sunstreaker commented, ignoring the offended "Hey" from Sam as he continued "Cybertronians have way longer lifespans than humans do. How do you expect Megatron to survive as long as he did when he was frozen?" he huffed in annoyance, not really wanting an answer but voicing the question anyway "Myself and my brother are both 20 Vorns old"

"A Vorn? What the hell is a Vorn? Is that your alien way of saying a year 'cause that still makes me older than you" Simmons declared arrogantly. But all he got was an exasperated look from the Wizards and Cybertronians (Even though he couldn't technically see them do it since they were still in their alternative modes).

"One Vorn equals 83 Earth years so we are about 1660 years old" Sideswipe said, causing the man's jaw to drop in shock. Harry and the twins had already know about this but now that Harry knew about the relationship between them, he wondered what the Cybertronians would do when Fred and George died? It was obvious that they cared for one another but knowing that you were only going to live one, possibly under two years of their time? It was a bit of a pessimistic thought but it was true. Wizards and Witches had extended life expectancy compared to the average human but nowhere near a Cybertronians.

Seeing this as the perfect opportunity with the ex-agent stunned silent, Harry quickly interjected before Simmons could start up another pointless argument "Arguing about this is a waste of time. The longer we are out in the open like this, the bigger chance that the Cons will find us. Sam should be the leader since he's the one with the easy to access information that we need. Now let me put this spell on you so we can get on with this before I let the twins go wild and let me tell you, when that happens, it tends to lead to a lot of people being turned into canaries" Harry warned. As there was no further complaints, Harry cast the Notice-Me-Not spell on Leo first and then on a reluctant Simmons.

Small Time Skip

"The museum is now closing" a voice said, coming from the speakers that was placed all around the museum. Harry ignored it and walked straight down the corridor with the non-Magical humans trailing behind him. Fred and George were taking out both the cameras and the guard that was watching them while he stunned any guard that they came across. They didn't need any civilians seeing one of their exhibits come to life.

Hearing a grunt from behind him, followed closely by thump, Harry swung around thinking that they had somehow been caught. A spell was on his lips when he stared dumbfounded at the twitching teen on the floor.

"What is going on here?" Simmons angrily asked, having looked behind him along with the rest of them when he had heard the noises.

"I kinda- accidentally- tasered- my- self in the nuts"

"I'm not even going to ask how he managed that" Harry mentally sighed, wanting to face palm but resisting the urge to do so.

"Hey. How many times- can you get tased in the nuts before you can't- have- kids-? Huh? You know?" the teen stuttered. Simmons finally had enough and relieved Leo of the electrical device before dragging him along behind him up. While he was sliding across the floor, his body still had some uncontrollable spasms but they were becoming less and less so they continued on to the main exhibits since that was the most likely place for the Seeker to be.

When they were surrounded by the various aircraft, they stopped for a second so that Sam could retrieve the shard of Allspark with a pair of tweezers (Which he had acquired off of Simmons) not wanting to touch it again in case he absorbed any more information. Although, Harry did have to wonder if anything would have happened if he had touched the shard. He didn't take the risk though since there was no telling whether the results of touching it would have been good or bad.

Simmons had also brought out a strange device that he was sweeping across the place while the Minicon Wheelie turned into a remote control truck, heading off somewhere on his own since Mikaela had removed the chain.

All of sudden, the dark haired Wizard felt a pulse of something just as Simmons exclaimed "Ah" in the same direction where the sensation was coming from. Whatever it was, it wasn't strong. It felt more like an echo of those balls of energy he could sense, which Harry confirmed had something to do with the Cybertronians. The five balls of light, which felt like they had electrical currents running across them, all matched to a Cybertronian. He hadn't sensed Wheelie at first because of how close he had been to Bumblebee, but now that he was actually trying to use the new ability, he could definitely sense the Minicon. The weakest one belonged to Sam which Harry guessed was due to his contact with the Allspark as he felt nothing from Mikaela, Leo and Simmons. The final two energy sources, the wilder ones that came from Fred ad George, he continued to believe it was to do with their Magic. With the acknowledgement of the Allspark being a part of him, Harry assumed that this was where he was getting these new abilities from and remembering how their Magic had reacted when they had first seen the Cube, Harry felt that there must have been something connecting the two energies. It was something to think on.

"Look, look. Follow him. Follow him. He knows where he's going... He knows something" Mikaela announced, motioning over to Wheelie who was moving further away from the group. Coincidently, in the same direction as Simmons.

"What?" Sam asked, sounding somewhat distracted. When Harry looked over towards him, he could see that his reason for sounding in such a way was because the small piece of Allspark was vibrating slightly. Even he got a bit distracted by it until Mikaela suddenly brought the two out of their trance like state by saying "He knows something!"

Following the older man and blue Minicon, the feeling had now turned into a constant pull. It was like he was following the sound of music but with no noise to guide him. When this silent music had reached near a crescendo in Harry's head, he found that the source of it was a black plane. Fred and George popped into existence next to him.

"Did you get all the guards?" Harry questioned, barely hearing himself over the pounding going on in his head.

"All of them are out like a light-"

"And we've taken out the cameras so no one will be able to follow us-"

"And wiped the previous recordings so that it was like we were never here" the finished together. Just in time for Simmons to mention that the type of aircraft they were looking at was a Blackbird.

The Minicon turned back into his bipedal mode to gaze up at the larger Cybertronian in wonder, his voice adopting an undertone of awe "Ooh, there he is. This guy's a legend, like, like, like the Chairman of the Board! Yo, freshman, point the shard and watch the magic happen"

As Sam did what Wheelie asked by moving closer, Harry removed all of the Notice-Me-Not charms even though he suddenly got a sense that something was going to happen. Nothing life threatening so to say, but more of a feeling that if he wanted to keep all his bodily parts intact, then he should step further away from the plane. Deciding not to take the risk, he snagged the back of Mikaela and Leo's tops before they could get too close.

Whether Fred and George sensed this too, or they were just following his lead, they remained behind him with their wands drawn.

The piece of the Allspark that Sam had suddenly flew out from the tweezers and hit the Blackbird, causing a wave of blue energy to travel over its body. When it didn't move, Sam moved closer the plane and in doing so, drawing Harry's keen eyesight to a familiar insignia.

He wasn't the only one to notice it either because Mikaela suddenly exclaimed "Oh shit. It's a Decepticon!"

"Decepticon?"

"Decepticon?" Leo parroted Simmons.

"Shit!" Fred and George said at the same time, grabbing his shoulders and pulling him (Along with the two teens that he had hold of) away from the plane which was slowly beginning to change.

Simmons was already running when he shouted to them "Behind the MiG now!"

As they moved to the aforementioned aircraft, the Decepticon finally finished changing his form to show a very old Cybertronian who even had to manually move some of his pieces to ensure he had fully transformed. Other parts were falling off of him and he looked like he had a walking stick as well.

"Ah. What sort of hideous mausoleum is this? Answer me, pawns and knaves! Show yourselves or suffer my infinite wrath!" He shouted as he knocked down a yellow plane. The fact that he looked and sounded like a very old man made the humans (And Minicon) move back out from the plane and walking into the Con's line of sight.

"You little spinal-cord-based organisms! Oof. Oh bugger it" One of the machines (That he had hit earlier) suddenly knocked him in the helm and then the cord holding it up snapped, causing it to fall by them. Luckily, it didn't hit the group but they did have to move out of its way when it began to roll all over the place.

The old Cybertronian stopped moving for a moment to announce to his onlookers "Behold the eternal glory of... Skyfire! [AN: I know his name isn't Skyfire but I have done this for a reason] Prepare for remote systems override!"

While the larger Con began to move towards a bunch of hanger doors, the smaller blue Decepticon looked back at them, one of his optics still broken (Harry was going to have to fix that when they stopped the other Cybertronian) and said "I tell you, this guy did not age well"

Harry agreed with the little Con as more pieces fell off of the bigger one's frame. As they continued to watch almost dumbly at the Decepticon's proceedings, Mikaela was the first human to speak "I don't think he's gonna hurt us"

"He looks older than Ratchet-" George pointed out.

"And that should be an impossibility in its self!" Exclaimed Fred.

"I command these doors to open!" The Con continued to shout. When nothing happened, his frustration began to increase "Fire!" There was a small pause after that and when nothing happened again, he repeated his command "I said, fire!" Except this time, he accidentally let off a rocket into the museum which struck something behind their group. It wasn't a big explosion and didn't come close to hitting any of them, but it still had Sam and Simmons panicking very verbally and for the black mech to say "Oh, bollocks!"

Skyfire seemed to have had enough of waiting for the doors to open by themselves as he proceeded to do it himself by hitting them so hard that they bent under the assault "Damn these worthless parts" he complained as he hit the doors again and caused them to fall off, ducking down to get out once they were no longer obscuring his path.

Sam got out of his mini daze, which almost all of them had been in while watching the larger Decepticon's antics, at this point to call out "Wait a second!" When he didn't stop, they all began to run after him.

With his larger frame, the Cybertronian was already a fair distance away but they could still hear him say "ltchy, wretched rust in my aft! Ah!" and also see him scratch his aft which made a few more parts come loose and fall off.

"You know, he kinda sounds a bit British" the twins pointed out together. They were running right next to him but none of them we're even out of breath from the little jog. Looks like Ironhide's torture- sorry, training, was doing them some good after all.

"Is that really the thing you should be focusing on right now?" Mikaela shouted back to them. They didn't answer her as they continued to try and catch up to the Decepticon.

Looking back at the damage that Skyfire had already caused, Harry acknowledge that they may need a bit of help so he pressed the communication device in his ear to contact the Autobots ::Guys, we need you behind the museum. The one we came for is on the move but do not fire at him. I think he's just a bit confused about where he is::

::Roger that Harry. We'll be there in a nano-klik:: Sideswipe answered.

He shut off the device and continued to run after the Con who wasn't going far but with his larger steps, it meant that they had to run in order to try and reach him before he caused any more damage to the museum's property.

"Oh, the museum is going to be very angry. Very angry. We gotta catch that plane" Simmons had first been muttering this and the only reason the raven haired Wizard had heard was because he was near him (As well as his enhance hearing from his animagus form) but by the end of that sentence, he had shouted the last part for all to hear.

"Right. I'm on a mission" the Con continued to bellow, making his way between the stationary air craft.

Sam and the rest of them repeatedly shouted at the Con but he wasn't listening so Harry spun on the spot and Apparated directly in front of him. Both the sound and his sudden appearance finally had the black mech stopping to look at him in surprise. With the ruby gaze on him, Harry told the Decepticon "You need to stop. All we want to do is talk with you"

Looking a little bit intrigued, Skyfire asked the Wizard "What do you want?"

Sam, along with the rest of them (This also included the Autobots who remained in their vehicle modes but were ready to act if the Decepticon tried anything), caught up with them in time to hear the question and replied for Harry "Look, we just want to talk!"

Tearing his optics from Harry, the Con looked at Sam with some annoyance "I have no time to talk. I'm on a mission. I'm a mercenary doom-bringer. What planet am I on?" The mech demanded, continuing to look at Sam for the answer.

"Earth" the teen replied.

The look on the mech's faceplates showed that he was clearly not impressed with the planet he was on, crouching down to get into their faces "Earth? Terrible name for a planet. Might as well call it dirt. Planet dirt. Tell me, is that robot civil war still going on? Who's winning?"

"The Decepticons"

The black mech made a sound of disgust and then spat something from his mouth. He then told them "Well, I change sides to the Autobots"

"What do you mean, change sides?" Sam asked, staring up at the Cybertronian with confusion at the thought of a Con switching sides. The sun was directly behind the mech so he was holding a hand above his eyes in order to see.

"It's a choice. It's an intensely personal decision. So much negativity. Who wants to live a life filled with hate?"

The Minicon, who looked just as confused as Sam at the Cybertronian's statement, spoke to the larger Bot-turned-Decepticon "You mean you don't have to work for those miserable freaking Decepticons?"

Skyfire didn't look towards the Minicon but he did answer him "If Decepticons had their way, they'd destroy the whole universe"

It must have sparked a change in the little Cybertronian because Wheelie went down on his knee joints in front of Mikaela "I'm changing sides. I'm changing sides, too, warrior goddess. Who's your little Autobot?"

"Aw, you're cute" Mikaela said. It was a very weird image with the small Cybertronian trying to climb up her leg like a begging dog but it became a whole lot worse when Wheelie began to hump the female's leg while panting "Name's Wheelie. Yeah. Yeah. Say my name, say my name"

Sounds of shifting metal signalled that at least two of the Autobots behind them had change, and from the fact that Sideswipe spoke, he would bet it was him and his yellow twin "Keep your interface panel closed Minicon. No one here wants to see you bond"

Sam also had something to say but it was to the girl who he had a relationship with "What are you allowing to happen to your foot just now?"

"At least he's faithful, Sam"

"He can't be very faithful if he defected from the Con's the minute he had the option" Sunstreaker pointed out. Glaring at the Minicon who was still going at it, ignoring everyone around him.

An irritated look was on Sam's face as he said "Yeah, well, he's faithful and he's nude and he's perverted" Whether the look was because of Mikaela allowing it to happen or because the panting and grunting sounds were getting louder, Harry didn't know but Sam's patience must have been at its limit with the blue mech because he pushed Wheelie off with his foot at first and then further moved him away from Mikaela with his hand "Can you just... can you stop?"

This made the little bot fall over which in turn, caused him to angrily demanded "Ey, what are you doing?"

"You're supposed to start with trying to woo the intended. Going straight in just for sex does not lead to a very stable relationship" George lectured the Minicon, his brother nodding along in agreement next to him.

The irritation that Sam had towards Wheelie (Or Mikaela. Harry still wasn't exactly sure who it was originally aimed at) was shifted onto the red head "Don't give him advice" and then went back to talking to Skyfire but Harry did not hear what was being said because Fred leaned next to him, whispering "Me thinks that someone is a bit afraid that he's going to lose the girl"

George copied his twin's actions and also whispered "That's if he hasn't already lost her"

"Have you guys always been so invested in everyone's love lives?" Harry questioned. First him and his supposed feelings towards Optimus and now this on/off relationship between Mikaela and Sam.

"Yes" they both answered in unison.

Something that Sam said must have angered the old mech because he suddenly crouched down and hit the ground with the servo not holding his giant walking stick, causing almost all of them to fall except from the trio of Wizards. Having lived with multiple giant beings for about two years meant that they were used to sudden actions like this and were able to stay upright where others couldn't.

"I told you my name was Skyfire! So stop judging me!"

There was an assortment of "Whoa" and "Wait" from the humans on the floor as some spittle came from Skyfire's mouth that landed very close to them, but they were probably more worried about the old mech accidentally falling on them.

"Somebody shit the bed this morning" Wheelie asserted, re-attaching his own optic but now it remained blue instead of turning back to its original red.

"I have issues of my own, and it started with my Carrier! My ancestors have been here for centuries. My Sire, why, he was the wheel! The first wheel. Do you know what he transformed into?" Skyfire questioned them.

Simmons shook his head and said "No"

"An actual wheel?" The twins answered in unison.

None of the answers were right though so Skyfire yelled it to them "Nothing! But he did so with honour! Dignity, damn it!" The mech looked like he had farted because the sound associated with it came from his aft, accompanied by a cloud of dark smoke. But this wasn't the only thing that happened when he... passed wind. The action made a parachute appear from behind him (Whether this was from his aft or not, Harry didn't know and did not really want to know for that matter) which caused the Cybertronian to fall over as the wind (Both natural and not so natural) caught the parachute.

The old mech tumbled backwards amongst more panicked shouting coming from Sam, Leo and Simmons. Harry felt a bit sorry for Skyfire and wished that there was something he could do to help, but he doubted even the strongest of Reparos would be able to fix that much damage. Maybe when all of this was over he would see if Ratchet could be of any help but for now, the Wizard could only watch the mech's struggles.

Skyfire grunted, as he finally stopped rolling and ended up on his side "Oh, bollocks. My boosters are fried. Aww" he hit the ground in obvious frustration.

The rest of them had cautiously moved forward to stand in front of the mech when Sam spoke to him once again "I think we can help each other. You know things I don't know. I know things you don't know, I do"

"I don't think he knows anything. Honestly, I don't" Leo confided to Sam but the other male took little notice. Harry may not talk much to Leo but he felt that he should impart something on to the out of place human "Don't judge a book by its cover. Just because something or someone seems like they don't know anything, usually means they know more than they are letting on" Harry informed, thinking back to a certain long bearded Wizard who knew a lot of things concerning others but decided to keep the information for his own personal gain. Whatever that gain was, Harry didn't know but what he was sure about was that a lot of people would be hurt (Both emotionally and physically) or killed in the outcome if they went along with the aged Wizard's plans.

Sam was furiously spinning around, looking around for something but the Wizard was not exactly sure what he was searching for. He soon found out when Sam turned towards them and said "I need something to draw in the dirt with, like a piece of metal or something sharp"

Guessing what he was doing, Harry's hand went to his mokeskin pouch on his belt and he opened the little bag, thinking of what he need. His hand suddenly had hold of something and he pulled it back out to reveal to the others that he was holding a dagger "Will this do?" He asked and received a "Yeah, that's perfect"" from Sam in return.

"You carry a knife around in your pocket!? Where do you even keep it?"

Harry handed the dagger over to Sam, who thanked him and then got to work on carving symbols into the ground, before he answered Leo by lifting his mokeskin pouch up for all to see "This allows me to put anything in it and carry it around without anyone realising. It has unlimited space but weighs as much as a feather, no matter how much you put into it" he reattached the pouch to his belt and then added on "And I wouldn't be so concerned about a small dagger when I literally carry a sword that had can cut through a Cybertronian's armour"

"Cool" Leo's face was a mixture of awe and wonder as he learned more and more things about Magic. The green eyed Wizard mentally face palmed when he remembered the extra paperwork this was going cause for him. At this rate, he was going to have to start carrying those oaths around with him. That, or he was going to have to be confined to his desk just to get rid of those piles of paper. He swore those things multiplied when he wasn't looking.

"I didn't realise you organics figured out how to make a dimensional pocket. And a teleportation device as well. Yet I see no technology on you that could accomplish this so how exactly did you do this without the necessary equipment?" Skyfire suddenly spoke, having stood back up with the aid of his giant walking stick. He had been quietly watching Sam work until this conversation must have grabbed his attention.

Simultaneously, he, Fred and George replied with "Magic" but Harry continued to further explain "Myself and those two" he pointed at the two red headed Wizards, who gave simultaneous waves to Skyfire when he said that part "Are Wizards"

The old mech nodded but didn't ask for any proof of their claims. He just accepted the explanation unlike some of the Autobots had done when they learned of Magic being real. But then again, he had been on Earth for a while so he might have already met (Or just seen) Magic users beforehand.

Sam was just about to finish carving another symbol when they all turned their attention back to him. Aiming the conversation at the black mech, who's optics were going over each and every mark in the ground, he started to say "I could do this all day. It comes in waves, these vivid symbols. They're symbols, but they're in my mind. You see, all this is in my mind and Megatron wants what's in my mind. Him and someone called the Fallen"

Recognition sparked within the mech's red optics at the last name "The Fallen? I know him. He left me here to rust. The original Decepticon. He's terrible to work for. It's always apocalypse, chaos, crisis. These transcriptions, they were part of my mission, the Fallen's search. I remember now, for the Dagger's Tip, and- and the key"

Skyfire was going a bit too fast with his talking that his speech was becoming a bit mumbled and what he was saying was unclear. None of his ramblings were making any sense and Sam voiced this problem "Yeah, wait, slow down. The Dagger's Tip? The key? What are you talking about?"

"No time to explain" Skyfire said as a blue light appeared and electricity began to jump between his servos. Both Magical and non-Magical humans had been slowly drifting towards one another and this just made it easier for the Cybertronian to stoop over them and put them directly between his servos, which was steadily getting brighter as the amount of lightning increased.

"Hey! What are you doing!?" Sideswipe's voice demanded, but Harry couldn't see the red mech since he was behind them. He doubted he would have been able to see the Front-liner any way with whatever was happening around their group.

"Hold on, everybody! Stay still or you'll die!" The black mech shouted as he crouched even more over the group, his servos keeping some distance from them but nonetheless, keeping them encased in a loose hold.

"Oh that's reassuring" Harry thought sarcastically as his bones felt like they were vibrating. George had grabbed a hold of his arm while Fred was gripping his shoulder in the huddle that they had all created.

The lightning continued all around them until suddenly, the ground disappeared from underneath them and even though Harry had closed his eyes beforehand, he knew that they had just left the museum.

Egypt

Ever been shot out of cannon? Harry hadn't but whatever Skyfire had done to them made him feel as it if that is was it would be like as he went soaring through the air. George was still clutching his arm but Fred's hand on his shoulder was missing, worrying the dark haired teen as he didn't know if something had happened to him.

He felt disoriented and opening his eyes was not helping the feeling go away so he quickly shut them again. When he had opened his eyes momentarily, it was to be blinded by a sea of yellowy brown mixture.

Cool, metal digits encircled him, as well as George since he was still attached to him, and pulled them both to a chassis. It protected them from the crash landing that occurred only moments after the action. When they stopped, the Cybertronian's grip on them loosened and Harry reopened his eyes to see that they was pressed up against the yellow chassis of Sunstreaker, who was groaning a little bit but otherwise seemed okay.

"That piece of scrap is dead when I get my servos on him" Sunstreaker muttered darkly as he sat up. A servo underneath the two of them so that when they slid down, they ended up sitting in the appendage. A lot of sand fell off of the Bot's helm and shoulder from this and it was then that Harry noticed that he too was covered in the fine grains. Looking away from the mech's chassis, he immediately saw why because for as far as the eye could see, they were surrounded by it. He and George probably got covered in the stuff when Sunstreaker had hit the ground, sending the sand up and on them.

"Are you sure you want to do that when he gave us that image to cherish" George snickered, pointing to something in front of them. Wondering what had got the red head to laugh, Harry looked closer and when he realised what he was looking at, his mood truly lightened for the first time since Optimus' death and he laughed along with the other two.

Directly in front of them was Sideswipe's arms, legs and aft. Those were the only part of him that they could see because the rest of him was under a mound of sand, his servos clasped out in front of the pile while his aft and legs came out of the other end.

"I probably won't kill him... yet. But if he puts any of the squishys that I like in danger again, or ruins my paint job, rust will be the least of worries" Sunstreaker promised as he got up to go help his brother out of the sand.

"Your never gonna let him live this down are you?" Harry asked the two. He received identical smirks from them as they both replied "Not a chance"

Muffled shouting came from where Sideswipe's helm was, probably telling them to get him out or cursing them for the laughing at the situation (Or even both combined). Using his unoccupied servo, the yellow mech grabbed his red brother and pulled him out of the mound. When he was clear of it, he spluttered a "Thank you" as sand poured from his mouth. His servos opened to show that he had managed to grab Fred during his own flight.

"Sam!" Mikaela's voice shouted from their left. All their head/helms turned towards her to see that she had landed with Leo, who was holding his privates and although he barely hear it, the groans of pain told him exactly what had happened.

More shouting, opposite from where Leo and Mikaela were, showed that Sam had landed further away with Bumblebee getting up behind him "Where are we? Simmons!"

"Hey! Yeah!" Simmons called back from another area, waving as he did.

Sam shouted again as he, along with Mikaela and Leo started to run towards one another "You guys okay?"

"Yeah" Mikaela replied.

Sideswipe, who had placed Fred upon his shoulder plate, and Sunstreaker walked at a slow pace to them but their walk equalled a human's run so they arrived where all three humans were heading at the same time as them.

"Hey, I think we're in Vegas!"

Both mechs placed their human companions down when they came together. Hearing grunting, they looked towards a pile of rocks to see not only Skyfire making his way down from a cliff (With Wheelie holding onto his leg) but also Simmons was heading up to the same ledge to meet the Cybertronian. The other set of twins were slowly making their way towards the elder mech, occasionally hitting each other as they attempted to make their way down the rock. Harry was surprised neither of them had fallen yet.

"We should probably get there before Simmons says something stupid and gets himself accidentally killed" Fred advised. All of them agreed that it was likely to happen and quickly made their way over there.

Simmons was definitely not happy when they made it over to him and the ex-agent let the Cybertronian know "That really, really hurt. You're just lucky that I didn't get hurt. People could have gotten killed, okay? And if I would have gotten hurt, you would have heard from my at-" he was cut off as Skyfire got in his face and said "Oh, shut up. I told you I was opening a space bridge. It's the fastest way to travel to Egypt"

Having just finished having his hand healed by Harry (the Wizard having noticed and assuming it must have been the lightning that had burned it like that), Sam turned towards Skyfire with disbelief written clear across his face as he angrily shouted "When did you... when did you tell us? You didn't tell us anything. You didn't tell us anything. Why are we in Egypt?"

"Don't you get snippy with me, fleshling!" Skyfire shouted back before he sat down in front of them "You were duly informed!"

Sam was clearly aggravated which showed in both his posture and tone of voice when he started asking the mech a series of demands "Can you just stop for a second? Can you focus? Can you tell us why we're in Egypt so we can all have a little bit of semblance of peace of mind?"

Skyfire looked very tired in that moment, but he still got back up to tell them what they needed to know "This planet was visited by our race once before, by our earliest ancestors, a millennium ago. They were on an exploratory mission to harvest Energon, the lifeblood of our race. Without it, we'll all perish, oxidize and rust, like my wretched self!" Coincidentally, more of his parts fell off when a small explosion happened on his side. It must hurt the mech to even move much with the amount of pieces he was losing. Skyfire looked down at them when he grunted out "Do you have any idea what it's like to slowly fall apart and die?"

Simmons wasn't letting this stop him from demanding answers "Let's not get episodic, okay? Old-timer? Beginning. Middle. End. Facts. Details. Condense. Plot. Tell it" he commanded, his arms gesturing animatedly with almost every word in that sentence.

"Somewhere buried in this desert, our ancestors built a great machine. It harvests Energon... by destroying suns" he told them all, his voice filled with seriousness as he looked up at the very thing he was talking about. Harry was just as stunned as the rest of them. He knew the Autobots had more advanced technology than humans did but to have something that could destroy a Sun! It was almost unbelievable.

"Destroy suns?" Sam said.

"You mean blow them up?" Leo asked with incredulousness.

The mech nodded slightly in confirmation "Yes. You see, in the beginning, there were thirteen Primes, our original leaders. And they set out into the universe, seeking distant suns to harvest. The Primes set out with one rule. Never destroy a planet with life. Until one of them tried to defy this rule. And his name forevermore was... the Fallen" like how the rest of the Autobots could do with their optics, Skyfire began projecting an image in front of them but his came from his servo. It showed the Fallen's helm and a majority of his upper frame, the image looking around as if he was searching for something. Not much had seemed to change about his appearance from when Skyfire had known him, his optics still showing red pools of malice and hate.

"He despised the human race and he wanted to kill you all by turning on that machine. The only way to activate it is with a legendary key called the Matrix of Leadership" a device appeared on the holographic projections, one that he had seen before but now he had a name for it. The Matrix had been floating gently with Cybertronians (Who Harry guessed were the rest of the Primes) until it flew into the Fallen's grasp, who growled at his adversaries. The scene changed to hundreds of Cybertronians fighting one another around a giant structure that Harry guessed was the machine that destroyed suns. Most of the Cybertronians were either shouting war cries or grunting from pain until the projection zoomed in on the Fallen. The mech had a spear in one servo and the Matrix in the other but that didn't last for long because the rest of the Primes appeared before the growling mech, stabbing him with two of their own spears. The mech fell with a scream, releasing the key.

The raven haired Wizard had been so engrossed in what was happening that he almost forgot that anyone else was there until Skyfire's voice broke into the story "A great battle took place over possession of the Matrix. The Fallen was stronger than his brothers, so they had no choice but to steal... and hide it from him. In the ultimate sacrifice, they gave their lives to seal the Matrix away in a tomb made of their very own bodies, a tomb we cannot find" after the final image had played out, Skyfire turned off his projector to look out at the sandy desert, maybe hoping it was the direction that the tomb was in "Somewhere, buried in this desert, that- deadly machine remains. The Fallen knows where it is and if he finds the tomb of the Primes, your world will be no more"

Mikaela squinted up at Skyfire when she asked "Okay, so how do we stop him?"

"Only a Prime can defeat the Fallen" the mech declared. Harry's heart plummeted at the news.

They all had the same Cybertronian in their minds/processors; there was only one who could fit that description. Sam was the one to say the name out loud though "Optimus Prime?"

Skyfire's tone grew excited at the news of there being a Prime, his helm getting so close to the ground that the metal that resembled a beard scraped it "So, you've met a Prime? Why, you must have met a great descendant. Is he alive, here on this planet?"

No one really wanted to answer that question but because the mech was looking at Sam expectantly, he took it upon himself to answer but not before he gave a quick glance towards Harry "He sacrificed himself to save us"

Harry looked down at the ground when this was said and Skyfire proclaimed "So, he's dead. Without a Prime, it's impossible. No one else could stop the Fallen"

The more he talked, the worse the raven haired Wizard felt and he refused to look up from the ground until someone cuffed his head. Turning to look at the one who did it, while holding the part that was hit, it was to see the twins glaring at him "What was that for?" He demanded to know from the both of them since he didn't know which one had done it.

"You were thinking stupid thoughts again" George replied, leading Harry to believe that he was the one to do it.

Fred nodded in agreement "You were probably thinking about how you feel that this is your fault and again, we're telling you it's not. Optimus would still be dead even if you and the Allspark hadn't been there" the red head told him the ugly truth and Harry knew he was right. But he still felt like there was something, anything he could have done.

"The Allspark is here as well!? Has the Fallen managed to get a hold of it?" Skyfire interrogated desperately. He must have been listening to their conversation. Not like he couldn't listen in. Apart from themselves and the small breeze, there was no sound in the deserted plain they had landed in.

Retelling the mech a very condensed version of the events of finding out that the Allspark had merged with Harry, as well as how it got there in the first place, led to the mech having an even more stunned look as he stared at the raven haired Wizard. He crouched down in front of him with his servo placed upon the rocky ground "May I see this for myself?"

Not exactly sure what he meant by 'see', Harry relented and walked onto the mech's servo, a little bit nervous when Skyfire lifted it into the air so that he was level with the mech's red optics. He wasn't afraid of what he was going to do, he was more worried that the Skyfire wouldn't be able to complete whatever he intended to do without further damaging himself.

Despite all his earlier actions, his servo was strong and did not waver as a blue glow started up between his digits, similar to when he was activating the space bridge earlier but without the lightning.

"What do you think you're doing now? You've already put the humans in danger once in the past groon and I'd like to limit the amount of danger they are in to a minimum of once per solar cycle" Sunstreaker informed the mech but only received a scoff from the much older Cybertronian.

"Oh be quiet youngling. Us Seekers used to be well in tuned with the Allspark. The organic will be fine" Skyfire assured them as the brightness of whatever he was doing increased. Harry heard the yellow mech mutter "That does not reassure me"

All of a sudden, an answering glow came from Harry's chest but instead of the blue that Skyfire was displaying, the glow from the Wizard was gold and starting to shine even brighter than what Skyfire was emitting.

"Remarkable. Had an ordinary human been in that situation instead of you, then the only thing left of the Allspark's knowledge and/or power would currently be in that one's head" Skyfire pointed at Sam before continuing "But because of your Magic, it was able to draw the Cube's power and knowledge towards it, fusing the sources together"

Skyfire stopped emitting the glow and both of them began to die down (Although Harry's took longer since his was brighter) so Harry asked the mech something, hoping that he would have an answer "Do you know if there's any way to separate them?"

"I'm afraid not and even if I did, there is no guarantee that it can be done with losing one or the other" seeing some of the confused looks both humans and Cybertronians were giving, he continued to explain "Your Magic is so entwined with the Allspark's energy that separating the two could have a number of negative consequences; you could die from it, lose your Magic, lose the Allspark's energy or both. It's something that you shouldn't risk trying to do unless you are certain of the outcome"

The dark haired Wizard pinched the bridge of his nose in frustration as he was thinking "So it's either death, lose my Magic or allow a civilization's history and a way to make future generations be taken away. Great options"

"If the Cube's energy and the boy's Magic are merged together, does that mean he is able to use the Cube's energy?" Simmons questioned.

"In theory, he should be able to access the Allspark's power to some degree with time and practice. Although, I would wait until you are with a trained Medic before attempting to access it. To my knowledge, the Allspark has never merged with any Cybertronian, let alone an organic so I wouldn't know if there would be any side effects from it. Having a trained Medic around to help would be best" He placed Harry back on the ground before he continued to talk "It is very fortunate that you were so close to the Allspark when it was shoved into Megatron's spark, otherwise the energy would have nothing to latch onto and who knows what would have happened to it. It is very good for the future of the Cybertronian race"

Dismissing the knowledge that his merging with the Allspark brought some good, he pointed out one of the negatives it had "But it does us no good currently since the Allspark cannot bring Optimus back to life"

"No. I suppose it does not" the mech agreed morosely.

Sam's silence during the conversation ended as he asked "Can I ask something?" Receiving a nod from the mech who leaned back down to hear Sam, the teen took the nod to continue on "The same energy that's gonna be used to reactivate the machine... could that energy somehow be used to reactivate Optimus and bring him back to life?"

Harry's head snapped so fast towards Sam that he was surprised that he didn't get whiplash from it. He didn't want to get his hope up like last time but he still couldn't help but look at Skyfire expectantly, waiting with baited breath for his answer.

Standing back up to his full height, Skyfire contemplated what the teen had said "It was never designed for that purpose, but it's an energy like no other"

Two hands placed themselves on his shoulders, giving comforting squeezes. Harry may not be able to see their faces but he would bet anything that they had smiles on their faces. Just like the hopeful one he had on his own.

"So then how do you get us to the Matrix before the Decepticons get to me and Harry?" Sam questioned, only to receive a shake of the helm from Skyfire as he told them "Follow your mind, your map, your symbols. What you carved in the sand, it's your clue. When dawn alights the Dagger's Tip, three kings will reveal the doorway! Find the doorway! Go now! Go!" He practically shooed them all away with Simmons saying "Okay, we'll all go"

Harry headed with Fred to a waiting Sideswipe as George went towards Sunstreaker and the rest of the humans (And Minicon) went to Bee. All the Autobots had turned into their alternative modes the moment Skyfire had started to usher them away and were waiting for a clue as to where they were supposed to be going.

"That was my mission. It's your mission now. Go before the Decepticons find me and find you" Skyfire told them as he sat back down. It was for the best if the mech stayed there since he would have just slowed them down, especially if his parts kept falling off like they had. With those final words from the old Cybertronian, their band of humans, Wizards and Cybertronians left Skyfire to find the Matrix.

I hope you have enjoyed reading this as much as I do writing it and I thank everyone for their reviews, follows and favourites. Anyway, I'll see you all the next time I update.

-CD