Chapter Four

Optimus had Missy in his passenger seat, and as a result, she was handcuffed and unable to escape. However, that was not an issue anyway, she was not in any position to be able to escape. She was inside a Cybertronian, and she wasn't going anywhere.

She moaned every once in a while, but aside from that. She made no attempt to move or wake up from the stasis he had placed her in.

Optimus' holoform glanced over at the meddling human, his eyes narrowed as he eyed her.

"Now, we shall see just how brave you truly are to my face, human," Optimus growled as he pulled into a secret entrance to their base.

Once he pulled in Lennox and Epps got Missy Rainer out of his cab, and then they carried her to the interrogation room. Optimus' holoform followed them into the room where he intended to question her. Optimus had an angry expression on his face as he followed them into the interrogation room.

Lennox and Epps left the interrogation room allowing Optimus full control of the situation at that point.

-Oooooo-

Missy slowly opened her eyes, and she saw Optimus Prime's holoform. She noticed he was eying her furiously, but for the life of her, she couldn't understand why or how they were real.

"So, let me guess you kidnap young human girls for dates, right?" she asked sarcastically, but her smile faded when she saw the anger shining in his holoform's steely blue eyes.

Silence hit him at first until he shifted in the seat and then answered her.

"I do not think this is a humorous situation, Miss Rainer," Optimus remarked as he tossed printed copies of her stories onto the table in front of her.

Missy glanced down at the stories, and she frowned then.

"My stories?" she asked in a surprised tone of voice.

Silence greeted her then.

"Yes, your stories," he answered her.

"What about them?" she demanded then.

The expression on Optimus' face should have made her watch her tone and attitude with the furious Prime. However, Missy Rainer was not one to heed warnings or back down from a challenge thrown her way, which Optimus was about to learn the hard way about this particular human.

"Your so-called stories that contain detailed information on private things only my people and NEST should know. Then these stories of yours contain comprehensive and brutal and ruthless ways to torture me as well as ways to slowly offline me. I do not find any of that amusing or humorous or above all pleasant. I find it treacherous, and planning such things toward me are acts against a Prime." Optimus said.

She merely gazed across the table at him and was speechless.

"A Cybertronian who does such things is sentenced to death," he remarked as she glanced back at him horrified by his words.

"What….?!" She exclaimed.

"You heard me," he remarked.

Silence then.

"I'm a human, not a Cybertronian," she countered.

He merely scoffed at her.

"I am quite aware of what you are, Miss Rainer, which is why you will remain here imprisoned for the rest of your miserable life." He snapped.

Missy sighed then.

"You can't do this!" she shouted.

"I most certainly can and I will," he answered.

"They are just stories, Optimus," she replied as she thought about something else. "Wait, why are you just picking on me? There are hundreds and hundreds of fanfiction writers, why are you coming after just me?" she demanded as she figured she had him there.

"ENOUGH! There are no other writers, Miss Rainer, which you already know do not test me with your lies! I do not know what you're talking about but your stories were on a site that Lennox and Epps brought to our attention, and that is why I contacted you. So, if I were you I would stop with this outlandish web of lies you are spinning. There were no other stories about myself or my men on that site, you were the only one who wrote this nonsense." He shouted in fury as his eyes bulged slightly.

She fell silent then at his words, she bit her bottom lip as she tried to think of something to make him understand she meant no harm toward. He was her favorite Autobot, she cared about him. Although, right now he was scaring the hell out of her, and she was not thrilled with the idea of being his prisoner.

Still, silence hit her for a moment or two while he eyed her…..

"Let me see for myself about the fanfiction sites, please, Optimus?" she asked.

:::::::::::…. Bring me a human device called a laptop, please…:::::::::

Several moments later, Lennox brought the laptop in while Missy watched him place it on the table.

"Here you go, Optimus," Lennox said, never making eye contact with Missy.

He got up and made sure to handcuff her one hand to the table then. He pushed the laptop over toward her as she glanced at him.

"Go ahead, prove me wrong," he ordered.

Missy bit her bottom lip, and slowly pulled the laptop closer. She typed out all the different fanfiction sites she knew of, and none of them existed according to the browser.

"Oh God, this can't be happening." She whispered.

"Tell me again how you're innocent in all this, Miss Rainer." He snapped.

"I told you before you were my hero, why would I want to hurt you?" she demanded.

"Lies," Optimus remarked then.

"No, they aren't lies," she whispered.

"Do not toy with me, Miss Rainer I have been a leader and Prime for Vorns I know deceit when I see it!" Optimus yelled as he slammed his fist on the table which made it crack.

The action made Missy jump with fear, as she glanced away scared of his fury now. She didn't deserve this; she was innocent of any wrongdoing.

::::::::::… Ironhide, ask Lennox and Epps to bring Miss Rainer to her cell now…:::::::::

::::::::::….. Right away, sir…:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

"You're making a mistake, Optimus," she whispered.

"No, I'm not, Miss Rainer, it is you who made the mistake to think I would not take action against what you did against me," Optimus remarked as Lennox and Epps came in.

"Come on," Epps snapped.

"I am not evil!" she shouted.

Optimus' holoform disappeared, and as the two soldiers practically dragged Missy out of the interrogation room. She knew she needed to see Optimus the real Optimus, not his holoform, she managed to break free of Epps grasp and kick Lennox in his shuns.

"Sorry," she mumbled.

"Optimus, she's loose!" Lennox yelled as Optimus Prime abruptly transformed in front of Missy's eyes.

His knight form. Dear God he was hot.

He looked, so she couldn't even think of the words to describe him.

"You will stop right where you are, Miss Rainer!" Optimus ordered as his weapon automatically came out and pointed toward her.

"Optimus please just listen to me!" she shouted at the Autobot commander who glared at her as well as the other Autobots who transformed next to their leader. "I am not a threat!" she exclaimed as suddenly her hands started to glow.

"What's with her hands?" Lennox asked as abruptly lightning shot from her hands and hit Optimus, shorting him out and making him collapse to the ground in agony convulsing.

"Optimus!" Ratchet and Ironhide roared going to him.

"Tell us again how you don't mean Optimus any harm!" Lennox yelled as Jolt's holoform snuck up behind Missy and shocked her into stasis so she could be taken to the prison on the base.

-Oooo-

Missy woke up, groaning. She was hurting badly from that shock Jolt gave her. She was confused, wondering what she was doing there. But the memories from earlier hit her hard. She gasped, sitting up a bit too quickly.

"Optimus... oh God," Missy whispered, a hand going to her mouth and tears pricking her eyes. She stared down at her hands, so confused. "What have I done?"

Missy pulled her legs to her chest as she sat on the bed of her cell. She buried her face in her knees, crying out as the tears spilled over. She rocked, crying hard. She had hurt her hero. She never meant to. She didn't even know how to. Missy felt so alone. And she has never felt so alone before.

"Please, God, please... I don't understand what's happening to me," Missy whimpered.

"Stop your crying," a guard said. "It's pathetic."

Missy swallowed, trying to stifle her cries, but it didn't work well. She didn't want to make the guards upset. But she wanted so badly to leave. She was so scared, so alone. She hugged her legs tighter to her chest.

Missy cried herself into a fitful sleep. She would wake up every now and then when someone was talking, but other than that, stayed quiet. She didn't even know how much time was passing by. Guards brought her little food and water, enough to make sure she didn't starve. But not one of them was nice to her.

They would make snide comments to her, but Missy never listened. She just stayed quiet, eating when she could. When Lennox and Epps came by, she sat up.

"Lennox, Epps, please, is Optimus okay?" Missy asked them.

"What does it matter to you?" Lennox demanded.

"It matters to me because I care about him. I never meant to hurt him. I don't even know how I did," Missy said.

"Quiet girl!" Lennox snapped.

Missy shrank back, becoming quiet as she looked at the ground. She curled up, becoming meek.

"You will be far from Optimus," Epps said.

"I'm sorry," Missy whispered, tears pooling in her eyes.

"Let's get out of here," Lennox said.

Missy watched them leave. She was all alone again. She sobbed quietly, curling up and laying down. She cried into the pillow, hoping and praying Optimus would be okay.