If That's What It Takes: Epilog…

Several days passed before the human doctors finally pronounced that Miss Angel was again fit and ready to leave the hospital. During those few days, I think that word of what had happened got around the base very quickly and so each and every mech here took it upon them selves to try and help the girl as well as make sure that nothing like this could ever happen again.

The helping part was fairly amusing, and I do believe it contributed to the increasing mental instability of Portland General's staff. The first incident involved Optimus and several others repeatedly trying to sneak some kind of contraband into the woman for whatever purpose. Prime got thrown out with her guns, Prowl got thrown out with her laptop computer, the twins got thrown out for trying to sneak her in several things that I wont even mention. Even Bumblebee got kicked out of the hospital for trying to not sneak the girl in anything, But for trying to sneak out Miss Angel her self.

This got the attention of Optimus and he realized that it was probably not a good idea for her to leave until she was told to, so he took steps and set up the best guard he could think of. This consisted of posting both Superion and Defensor out side of the girl's window and the rest of the Autobots at every five meters in the hospital parking lot. I'm not sure that Angel her self found this too amusing but she did her best to put up with it.

Eventually though the girl was set free and she and Prime began to make plans to go back to Cybertron and find the mech from her dreams. It was decided that the two of them alone would have a better chance of finding this person and that they would be able to gather enough reinforcements on Cybertron if they needed it. I watched them preparing to leave and made my own decision to stay behind. This was something that the two of them had to face alone. It was something that only they could reconcile and if they succeeded something deep in my spark told me that everything that they had been through would be worth it.

This left most of the Autobots here to try and come to terms with that which had happened. Most of them knew that there would be a time when everything balanced out, when both Prime and his Angel were ready. Still there were those who thought that at the very least a lesson had to be taught. So it was on that dark and stormy earth night, that those of us still here at the ark realized at least two were missing.

At the jail where the Doctor responsible for all of this was still imprisoned, the man was cringing in fear as a bolt hit near by and plunged the cell he occupied into darkness. He stood there for a few moments thinking that there was something more to this than just the storm. When it finally became, at least to him, clear it was indeed nothing more than the storm. This turned out to be the newest in a long, long line of mistakes he had made in dealing with the Transformers.

Archevil had just settled back down on to the bunk when it finally registered that he was not alone. Hovering in the darkness of his cell, two pairs of ice blue optics looked down at the man with pure utter rage.

"Y..YOU!"

"What?" The first one snarled, "Did you think that you were going to get away with what you did?"

"Monster," The other one chimed in, "Did you think that we wouldn't figure it OUT!"

"I…I don't know what you're…" The doctor suddenly gasped as a metal hand clamped its self around his neck.

"Do you have any idea what you did?" The first voice asked, "She could have DIED!"

"Where you really that selfish," The second one added, "She's hurt so badly. The woman is doing a great job of pretending that she's not in pain but I can see it in her eyes."

"I…" He choked, "I didn…."

"Oh yes you did," The one holding him shot back, "Do you know what else?"

"Thanks to you…" The other almost sobbed, "Thanks to what you did and how you left her she'll never be able to have children. You stole the chance at that happiness from her forever."

"But… bu…" the doctor gasped again.

"But what?" The one holding him Shouted, "they would have found a way! Now thanks to you it will NEVER happen."

He saw the eyes of the one not holding him narrow, "We ought to kill you right now you monster."

He felt the grip on him slacken and Archevil finally slumped back on to his bunk, continuing to look up at the two pairs of optics in horror.

"You're not going to kill me?" He blinked, "but you said…"

"I know what we said," The one who had been holding him said, "but it's not our place."

"No," The second pair closed for a second, "No, you can live for now. Live for now and sit her, and wait and watch and wonder. Wonder what's going to happen to you and when."

There was another crack of lighting and a few seconds later the lights came back on. The evil man found him self alone and with a sense of dread in his heart deeper than anything he had ever experienced before. At some point he was going to have to pay, and he had a feeling that what ever payment was extracted from him when the time came would be something just as valuable to him as what he had stolen.

At the ark a while later all of us were wondering how Prime and Angel were doing, and if we were ever going to see Alyssa and Wheeljack again when some one returned.

Ironhide looked up from where he had been sitting and blinked at the pair.

"Hey Bee'," He nodded, "Hey Prowl, Where have you two been?"

Author's Notes: Sorry for the long delay folks! Thanks again every one for reading my latest. Hope you all liked this one even though it was a lot darker than some of the others I had done. Yet again this story was inspiered by a song. This time it was "If That's What It Takes" By Celine Dion. If any one would like the lyrics let me know and I will mail them to you.

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