Chapter 2
Mia drove to her house so she could shower and change from work; while Sue waited in her family room. Sue let her eyes wash over the sights of a lighted Christmas tree, and other decorations which she saw all over the house.
"Looks pretty," Sue whispered as she looked at all the pictures on the wall.
Mia had a lot of family pictures. She also had pictures of friends all over too special friends. Sue saw the pictures of Mia's Uncle Ray. She knew Mia had loved her uncle very much; and they were close.
The house Mia lived in belonged to her Grams; and she left it too Mia. Sue glanced down at where the presents were for others. She grinned wildly as she reached for the presents to see who they were for.
"Don't you dare touch them, Sue!" Mia exclaimed as she walked out in designer jeans and a puffy pink blouse with blue high heels western boots.
"One peek?" she asked.
"No," Mia said snatching the present and putting it back where Sue had gotten it.
"Party pooper," Sue said sticking her tongue out.
"Your face will freeze," Mia said with a cackle; when Sue made a weird face.
"Yeah right," Sue mumbled.
Mia couldn't help but laugh right out loud from that remark and expression from Sue.
"Alright, so where we going….?" Mia asked.
"Dunno, where do you want to go?" Sue asked as Mia rolled her eyes.
"Italian food sounds good," Mia said.
"Italian it is," Sue stated.
The girls made a night of it Italian food, a movie and then headed home. Sue dropped off Mia and Mia headed for bed completely tired and washed out. She fell on top of her bed; and let sleep pull her in never once removing her outer clothes.
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Optimus had managed to slowly get himself into what appeared to be a giant mechanic's garage; but he didn't care he needed rest. He powered down his engines; and allowed himself to be pulled into recharge.
However recharge meant fluxes and fluxes meant remembering; and he didn't want to remember dear Primus, he didn't want to remember.
(Flashback in Optimus' memories)
Optimus had pulled into the Autobot base and transformed and the second he did. He was sprayed with liquid nitrogen.
"What is the meaning of this!" roared Optimus as he collapsed to his knees.
"Your done Optimus," one of the humans responded as he witnessed Dino and Sideswipe being offlined.
Sideswipe managed to say something to Optimus before he offlined however.
"Get out of here, Prime!" Sideswipe ordered of his leader and prime. "Save yourself, you're our leader and prime!" he yelled as the prime struggled to get to his feet.
"I cannot do that, Sideswipe," Optimus remarked.
"Si, you can and you must," Dino said as he offlined.
Optimus transformed and took off blasting through the door to get away. He didn't want to leave his men; he didn't want to do it. He had to warn the others Ratchet, The Wreckers and Bumblebee.
He later would learn it was all in vain all his men offlined even his adopted little Bumblebee; and his NEST friends and allies. He also learned Sam, Carly, Mikaela, Simmons and the others who helped the Autobots were either imprisoned or killed. He was alone now, all alone on this cold planet.
(Flashback memories stop – Optimus onlines furiously)
"What am I going to do now; how will I survive?" Optimus asked as he lowered on his shocks.
He just wanted to save the humans and look where it got him absolutely nowhere. He'd lost his men, his home, a second home and everything and now he had absolutely nothing.
Optimus somehow just wished he would offline now; because there was no point to this not now.
Primus, he just couldn't stand this now…..
Mia got up with a growl as she flung the cover off of herself; and headed into the bathroom. She took a shower and did all her daily activities and then headed into the kitchen. She grabbed breakfast which consisted of two breakfast bars and bottle of Ensure.
"Got to love breakfast," she chuckled as she grabbed her car keys.
Mia knew soon she'd have to buy a new vehicle soon; because this one was on its last leg that was for sure. She got into her vehicle; and started it up after a round of it playing stall and stutter. She finally got to work and found a huge surprise in her late Uncle Ray's huge garage.
She closed the door and stopped dead in her tracks. She felt her mouth open as her gaze washed over the rusted up semi cab in her uncle's garage.
"Where did you come from?" she asked as her hand came to land gently on the hood.
The touch however gentle roused the exhausted and injured prime from recharge. He tried to focus and found a human had found him. He cursed himself up and down. He would be trapped now.
"You weren't here last night when Sue and I left to go out; so that begs the question how did you get in here now?" she asked.
(Optimus' POV)
I just caused myself to become scrapped; I barely have enough energy to do anything. If this human femme reports me I am as good as dead; perhaps it is for the best though. I do not belong here as the humans keep plastering into my processors.
I heard the human femme's cellular device ring; and she reached into her pocket and grabbed it.
"Hello," she answered as she listened to the other human on the other end. "No sorry, I am not interested." she remarked as she hung up. "I hate sales people," she mumbled as she turned her full attention back to me.
She sighed; as she reached for my hood once more. I could feel her touch; I wanted her to stop touching me. She frowned then as she looked at my cab closer.
"You know, if I didn't know better you look exactly like Optimus Prime's evasion mode; but that's so like impossible and yet here you are." the human femme said.
She frowned then.
"Okay, so I have no one else working here with me and since I take the clients that I want or who my uncle had I know all their vehicles. So again, this begs the question where did you come from; because if you don't belong to anyone I could keep you. I need a new vehicle and hello I have a license for both cars and trucks. I can fix you right up and have you looking like Prime in no time. My own personal Optimus Prime though got to say the real one would be much better." the human femme said with a laugh.
She sighed.
"Still would like to know how you got here though," she said.
She kept touching my hood; and if I wasn't so injured and exhausted I would have zapped her.
"Hmmmmm, well I know one thing if you aren't claimed I am keeping you." she said as she bent lower.
Silence….
"You were shot at but why and hold up all in the same places that Optimus Prime was hurt in the….." she started to say as I felt my spark race wildly within its chamber.
Silence…..
"No way, how is this even possible?" she asked. "I must be dreaming or someone is playing a huge prank on Me." she said as her tone started to change and she started to talk to herself once more.
She paused then.
"If someone is playing a nasty prank on me; you better know I have a lousy sense of humor and I might have to kick your sorry ass really badly for this." she said as she became silent.
Silence…..
"And if this is Michael Bay looking for kicks know I will kick your sorry ass back to Hollywood for irking me about the movies you made!" she shouted.
This human femme was rather odd and she reminded me a bit of Mikaela Banes too; mostly because she too was a handful.
However this human was not Mikaela Banes. I didn't care about humans; I would never trust any humans ever again.
She was doing it once more touching my hood; but then I froze because she was suddenly under my under carriage. I was terrified she would see the energon leaking; and then I would be exposed and offlined for sure. Though, I wonder if it would not be a better end; I would be with the ones I cared for.
(Normal POV)
Mia looked underneath and she froze as she saw a blue substance; which was pooling underneath the semi.
"What the hell is this?" she asked as she heard the phone ring once more.
Mia made no move to answer the phone; she kept checking the leaking substance. Mia's thoughts about what was going on and happening swirled constantly; while she slowly tried to think if she were truly going nuts or not?