Unbroken: Part 5

I didn't want to leave the lounge to see what kind of havoc that had been wrought by my best friend and her new accomplice but Optimus had to and so I followed him. I really don't know what I was expecting when I went around that corner but I wasn't disappointed.

Standing there as stiff as the proverbial post was poor Red Alert, and I found my self wondering just what had happened.

"Do I even want to know?" I muttered.

"Liquid nitrogen." Optimus told me, "Someone one has resorted to some of the oldest pranks in the books."

"Okay, I'll bite."

That's when I heard the giggling coming from around the corner and went to take a look. There were Alyssa, Wheeljack, and, Ironhide standing there in the process of cracking up.

"What did you three do?" Optimus demanded

"This kid here has some great ideas," Ironhide drawled to Alyssa. "I would have never thought to put it in a balloon."

Now I stared, "You put liquid nitrogen in a balloon and tossed it at him?"
"No!" Wheeljack suddenly sounded offended, "no one would do some thing like that."

"Yah," Alyssa grinned, "We caught him in car mode and put it in his driver's seat instead."

I opened my mouth to try and say some thing, however like what had already happened at least twice here I couldn't come up with anything to say that I felt would be adequate. Optimus on the other hand was doing the best he could to not crack up at it. He managed to yet again regain his composure and looked at Ironhide.

"I'm supposing you provided the nitrogen for this little stunt?"

"Your supposin' right boss," the red and gray transformer grinned.
"Well you really shouldn't be encouraging them." Optimus told him.

"Oh come on, you thought it was funny to, whole heck of a lot better than how I ever done it."

Optimus rolled his optics sky ward and let out a long sigh, "I should do something about this. Do you have any idea how loud he's going to be when he thaws?"

I walked over, "Uhh, correct me if I'm wrong but I take it this happens a lot?"

"Not a lot darlin'" Ironhide grinned. "At least once a megacycle though."

I looked up at Optimus, "This place a military base or a frat?"

"Some times I wonder," He muttered back.

"Well I would demand you apologize to him but considering he's got another five minutes or so, I suggest all three of you run and stay away from him for a couple of hours."

Now Alyssa was laughing again, "Oh we didn't hurt him."
"I know," Prime nodded, "But you know Red'," He paused and looked at Wheeljack and Ironhide, "At least you two do any how."

That resulted in more laughing from every one there and a few moments later the pranksters were gone.

"So you're telling me someone has been pulling jokes like this for a while?" I asked once they had vacated.

"Yes," He grinned, "Though I have to admit, for some strange reason up until now I haven't ever really found it that funny."

I had to smile over that, "Well it's just my lovely influence on you."

He grinned back, "I suppose so."

That was when we heard the hollering coming from around the corner.

"I think he just thawed." I muttered.

Prime winced at me, "Well you want to come and help me? Or would you like to stay here and preserve what sanity you have?"

I shrugged "I may as well come with you. I don't have one bit of sanity remaining."

We walked around there and we found him there fuming and insisting that some thing be done to catch the person who had pulled this on him yet again. He maintained that getting it in the bucket over the door treatment was bad enough. It took about an hour to get him all calmed down but eventually we managed to get away.
I was hoping that I would be able to get Optimus alone at some point during the rest of that afternoon; however I found that he was a lot more popular here than I had realized. To be honest it didn't really bother me. It was actually a lot of fun to watch him in his element. I can see why some one out there had chosen him to be in charge of this pack of nuts. He did a very good job, but they kept him at it for a while.

Eventually I managed to wonder off and take a look around the base. It wasn't that I was board but I had wanted a better look around. He had his hands full and so I decided to not distract him.

I finally wound up on an observation deck on that was built into the side of the mountain. I stood there looking out of the side of the place and having a lot of fun. There was an absolutely wonderful sunset that day. I was standing there looking out at it lost in thought when I heard some one walk up behind me.

"There you are."

I turned around and grinned up at Optimus, "Yeah here I am."

He bent down to get a better look at me, "Why'd you take off?"
"You had your hands full; I didn't want to bother you."

He smiled and once again changed his size to meet mine. "Well you weren't bothering any one. In fact when every one saw that you had taken off they chased me out to come and find you."

I leaned up against him, "You serious? They really did that?"
"I'm serious, they really did. They seem to think that you really are a good influence on me."
"Am I?" the doubts I've always had about relationships came to the surface again.

Optimus knew the look that came over my face and he put his arms around me.

"Now, don't start going there," he hugged me against him, "don't have any second notions about what we feel."

I leaned against him and did my best to relax a bit more. "I know it's just, I don't want to get in your way love."

"You couldn't get into my way even if you wanted to." He looked down at me, "haven't you noticed that every one is happy you're here? Or have you been so wrapped up still in every thing that it hasn't occurred to you."

"I guess not." I shrugged, "To be honest I thought they'd be mad at me, not happy I was here."

"Well your wrong." He tugged me over in the direction of a seat, "They are happy you're here because they know you make me happy."

"I don't get it? Weren't you happy before you met me Optimus?"

He shook his head, "to be honest? Not really." He paused, "I had pretty much lost every thing I had ever tried to love to the war. My home, my lover, my very identity, no Angel I wasn't happy."

"And I changed all that?" I looked up at him in something close to amazement.

"You did," He nodded to me, "You took what was left of a cold and broken heart and put it back together again."

I couldn't help but stare up at him once again in as many days I had been given some kind of revelation about my self that completely and utterly shocked me. I had always had something of a self esteem problem, and here I was being told by people who I admired that I had done something wonderful, just by being this girl that I had always thought was ordinary.

I snuggled deeper into his arms. "Well I don't know what to say about what you're telling me Optimus. But I do know that I wouldn't change it for any thing in this world. I do love you, so very much."

He pulled me closer to him and leaned his face down to mine, the mask came away with a soft click and he smiled down at me. Once again I reached up to kiss him and lost my self in the happiness of the moment.