Me: Finally! The chapter I've been waiting for!
I'm glad I got to this one.
I've been wanting to do this one for a while and who can blame me, this is my favorite part in the movie. That one and the one where Will helps Sam save Bumblebee.
What's your favorite part of the first Transformers movie?
Vision or Dream - *Talking*
Cybertronian speaking - "Talking"
Comm Link Bot/Con/Human - 'talking'
Earth
Location: Tranquility
Abelia looked out the window as they drove through a tunnel, Bumblebee turning the wheel. She watched as Bumblebee turned the wheel to go in a different lane, remembering her of those interesting videos she watched as she prepared for her test.
"You're a pretty good driver," Abelia commented.
The radio clicked as Bumblebee looked for something to reply with.
"Why thank you, thank you very much."
Abelia chuckled but was caught off when there was a horn hock behind them. She turned in her seat the best she could with the seat belt to look at the driver behind them, who was waving his hand at them and seemed to be shouting.
"Something...Is not...Wrong?"
Abelia giggled at the mixed-up words but knew what Bumblebee was trying to say. Not his fault he couldn't talk.
"No, Bee. Just some driver who wants you to go faster when you're doing the speed limit. Any faster and we could get pulled over or cause an accident and that won't do at all."
Bumblebee's engine purrs in agreement. Abelia sat back down to relax, but only got a few seconds of it when the disgruntled driver pulled up next to them and shouted.
"Move it, you moron! Your piece of crap Camaro is to slow!"
Bumblebee's brakes screeched to a stop and Abelia shouted in alarm, thankful for the seat that stopped her head from bashing against the wheel, again. Abelia growled; the insult that was meant for her meaning much more since it involved Bumblebee and he was the one being insulted.
"Bee," Abelia said, only for Bumblebee to shoot forward, tilting to drive on two wheels and making Abelia shout, "BEE!"
Abelia held on to the seat and tried to see what Bumblebee was doing. Then, they drove past a new 2009 Camaro. A blue light shot out from Bumblebee and passed through the shiny Camaro. Abelia gasped as everything started changing inside the cabin of the car.
Abelia looked around as the old-style car changed to look like a newer version of the same thing. When everything was done and Bumblebee was once again on four wheels, Abelia found herself inside a new 2009 Camaro.
She blinked and looked down at the radio as it clicked, Bumblebee's engine purring like he was pleased.
"Am I good...Ain't that splendid...It's as good as new!"
Bumblebee didn't need his real voice to tell anyone that he was feeling a bit smug. And when they drove past the driver who insulted Bumblebee, which was easy because he had slowed down driving at the sight Bumblebee made, Abelia laughed and rolled down the window.
She shouted, "Ain't a piece of crap now! Watch what you say! We were doing the speed limit! Wanna get a ticket? Go faster! Don't blame us! Plus, don't insult my ride!"
Abelia laughed as Bumblebee drove off, rolling down the window to leave the bewildered man in their dust. Bumblebee's engine made a sound, one that Abelia recognized as laughing, which was aided when the radio plays a clip of people laughing. Abelia patted the dashboard of her new 'car'.
"Oh, Bumblebee, remind me to never tick you off," Abelia laughed.
Bumblebee's response was another laugh of people on the radio.
Hours later, Bumblebee drove to an abandoned building. He pushed through the chains and the metal fenced doors to keep driving. Abelia looked at the window shield in front of her when something appeared on it.
It took her a couple of seconds, but then she saw what looked like to be four comets falling to Earth. She knew that was the other arriving. Bumblebee stopped and opened the door. She got out and walked to stand in front of Bumblebee and looked up at the sky.
About a minute went by and she saw four of those 'comets' appear. The night sky flashed with light, making Abelia jump. She watched as the 'combats' came closer, one even went over their heads.
She turned her head to that one and ran after it, wanting a closer look. When she finally got close enough two minutes later, she stood at the top of the cliff with her eyes wide at the crash site, a tree that was right next to it was on fire. She stared in amazement as the large metal pod started transforming. She watched the slow process of it getting bigger before there was a being standing up.
The metal being who she didn't know the name of yet saw her and she waved. The being backed up and started running off, taking one last look at her before running off.
Abelia laughed, wondering who she startled before running back to Bumblebee.
Optimus cursed silently to himself in Cybertronian. He just landed and he hadn't expected to be caught by a human. The human female, or femme in his words, waved at him. Not scream, not shout, not take pictures, but waved. And laughed if he heard her right.
Hearing noise, he stopped and saw what humans used for travel. Traffic, if Bumblebee's report was correct. He stopped and got down on one knee, his form building in with the night sky.
Vehicles passed by, but none of them were good enough. Then, he when was going to move on, he turned his head when a new vehicle entered the road. It was a 1997 flaming, red and blue Peterbilt that was perfect.
He scanned it and then transformed into the truck. The engine rumbled and making sure no one was coming, drove down the hill and onto the road. He read Earth's languages from a report Bumblebee sent them so he could talk to Abelia Witwicky, a human female who surprised him with her strength even when he didn't meet her yet. He sent out a message to his friends and comrades.
'Autobots, if you have a Vehicle Mode, head to the meeting point,' Optimus said, heading that way himself.
It took only his Autobots seconds to reply.
'I'm rollin.' (Jazz)
'On my way.' (Ratchet)
'I'm heading there now.' (Ironhide)
'Abelia and I are on our way.' (Bumblebee)
Abelia Witwicky, a girl who was a complete mystery, one he hoped to see solved.
"Oh, slag," Ironhide cursed, seeing that he was heading right towards a housing unit where human families lived. He changed his landing, instead of crashing into the square shape that had a liquid fluid inside. What that...acid?!
Before he could change his landing again, he landed right into it. He expected to be burned immediately, but instead, the liquid started steaming and going away. Wasn't it suppose to burn him and not the other way around?
He looked it up and found that he landed in what humans called a pool. It was filled in water and it couldn't burn him, but it could to humans at the right temperature.
Realizing he spent too long in one place and that he was right outside a housing unit, no humans called it to house, with the owners no doubt hearing his crash landing and come to investigate, Ironhide transformed.
Once he did, he got up and pulled himself out of the pool. And saw a small human child, a girl if he believed himself to be correct, and was holding a weird pink thing that kinda looked like a Cyberhorse. She was so small and fragile-looking that he would have to be careful if he was gonna pick her up, which he wasn't.
He carefully stepped over her and walked away, looking over his shoulder at the girl who watched him. She blicked up at him and asked, "Excuse me, are you the tooth fairy?"
What in the slag was a tooth fairy? Did his form at the moment resemble one?
Before he could ask, he heard movement from inside the house as lights turned on. The child's Sire and Carrier, or in human terms father and mother, were coming and he had to hide before he was spotted when they came out. He just got behind what humans called trees when the two humans, adults they called themselves, came out.
"Hey, sweetheart, what are you doing out here by yourself," the girls Sire called out to her before he noticed the state his pool was in, "Holy God! What happened to the pool?"
Ironhide watched as the Sire and Carrier looked over their young, mostly checking for injuries, before rushing back inside the house. He took the form of the black 2006 GMC TopKick just as he got a message from Optimus.
'Autobots, if you have a Vehicle Mode, head to the meeting point.' (Optimus)
'I'm heading there now,' Ironhide replied, driving away from the house to meet the others and this Abelia Witwicky who he already liked for her fire.
Ratchet needed to check his navigation systems when he had the chance because he was sure that the landing spot he picked wasn't in the middle of a living zone for humans. At least no one was there as he crashed into the ground and then a building. He hoped no one was in the building.
As he transformed, he heads loud noises, which after looking up were called sirens. Humans used them when there was an emergency, kinda like they did. Still, that meant humans were coming and he had to go.
To his shock, some humans were running towards the damage his caused and not away from it. He hid the best he could from the eyesight of humans, looking for a Vehicle form.
"Whoa! Sweet! Oh, dude, I hope this guy's got asteroid insurance, 'cause he is so boned," a human exclaimed.
What's 'insurance'? Was the human going to get 'boned' for the damage he caused to the building? Looking it up, he realized that it just an expression and that the human was going to be fine. He moved away, knocking something over which drew some attention to him.
"What is that? There's something in the tree, dude!"
Ratchet hid as he watched the emergency responders force other humans back.
"No, dude-"
"No, there's something in the thing by the tree! Could you guys just give me a space rock?"
Wow, humans were so confusing and so complex and he was only here for a couple of minutes. Knowing that he had to move before he gets caught, Ratchet looked over at the emergency responders. After researching again, he picked the one that resembles his position better.
He scanned the Search and Rescue 2004 Hummer H2 and transformed, driving around the building. It was then he got Optimus's message.
'Autobots, if you have a Vehicle Mode, head to the meeting point.' (Optimus)
'On my way.' (Ratchet)
Abelia Witwicky was someone who needed his attention, for an Energon is acid to humans he discovered, and he needed to see how she was surviving it.
Jazz hit the stadium, sending seats flying and making a crater in the center. Because he was small, he was able to transform faster and run off more quickly. He takes to the sop of buildings, moving silently and fast for someone his size.
He gets to one building, using a letter to help slow his impact to ground, and still catered a crater. He looked over her shoulder and found small cars inside the building. One car, in particular, a silver Pontiac Solstice, was on a spinning platform.
Likening it, Jazz scanned it and once he was transformed into it, drove off.
'Autobots, if you have a Vehicle Mode, head to the meeting point.' (Optimus)
'I'm rollin.' (Jazz)
He wanted to meet Abelia Witwicky, the human who managed to get Ironhide to like her without even meeting him and was a good singer if Bumblebee's report was right.
Abelia was a bundle of nervous energy. She was going to meet the others in a couple of minutes. The meeting point was in an alley next to abandoned buildings of a harbor. And from the look of things, they were nearly there.
She wasn't nervous before, but she wasn't now. She basically yelled at them and they were probably bigger than her, judging from Barricade, Blackout, Sporponck, and Bumblebee with Frenzy being around her height.
But something told her that she could trust them just like how she trusted Will. This is where she was going to get a full explanation of why they were on her planet and what it had to do with her.
And why wasn't she freaking out? She should be as far as she could but she wasn't. She was willingly heading towards more beings like Bumblebee and she knew not all of them wanted her to be unharmed. Plus, her visions seemed to start the day she got Bumblebee and she never did anything about it. She never sought out help for something she knew wasn't right. Why? Why was all this happening? Why was she the one thing that seemed to be the crossing of a bridge after so many roads that connect?
What was so special about a girl whose parents were never home after the age of six because they got so used to the money? A girl who didn't know what love or care felt like after so many years in an empty house with only a nanny who only wanted her pay.
"Get out of your head, man!"
Abelia jumped, now seeing that Bumblebee had stopped in an alley. She smiled at Bumblebee, silently thanking him and opening the door herself, getting out. She closed the door behind her. Out of the fog from the harbor, Abelia watched as a red and blue flamed semi drive towards her and Bumblebee and decided to move in front of Bumblebee.
Hearing sirens, water splashing, and vehicles driving, Abelia looked behind her to see an ambulance, a fancy car, and a black truck appear out of the fog. She looked back at the semi just as it reached her and stopped.
Optimus was shocked to find that the human who surprised him when he landed and waved at him and laughed as he left was none other then Abelia Witwicky. How did she get to him that fast? His crash site was five miles away from where Bumblebee said they were.
His shock vanished as his team got closer and he decided to transform, slowly so he wouldn't shock Abelia, who was already attacked by a Decepticon.
Abelia just watched as Optimus transformed in front of her, missing Bumblebee moved away from her. She watched as he stood on two feet first, then his arms and hands come out, his chest and head are the last to finish. When the wheels on his legs stopped turning, the other 'vehicles' started transforming.
Abelia realized she was in the middle of a circle of the five beings who stood taller than her, but she was to busy looking at each other them in awe as they transformed. Abelia stopped when she was looking at Optimus again, who moved to kneel in front of her, placing his hands on the ground to lower his face closer to Abelia's face.
The two stared at each other for a couple of seconds before Optimus spoke.
"Abelia Witwicky," Optimus asked.
Abelia jumped at the baritone tone, but she smiled and nodded, "Yeah, that's me."
Optimus hummed, leaning back a little. Abelia noticed the color of his optics; her eyes were about the same color. Optimus had something that looked like a smirk on his face as he looked down at Abelia.
"My name is Optimus Prime. You were the one who surprised me when I landed," Optimus stated.
Abelia broke out into a grin, tilting her head back and forth at Optimus with her hands behind her back like a little kid who did nothing wrong. So she startled the leader, she was pretty sure Optimus was the leader.
"All I did was smile and wave at you."
"And laugh at me when I ran off."
"I found the whole thing funny."
The banter between the two helped ease Abelia a little, but it also gave the Autobots to relax themselves around with the first human they met. Optimus smiled that time and leaned back a little more, wanting Abelia to be at ease with his height since he was the tallest of the Autobots.
"We are autonomous robotic organisms from the planet Cybertron," Optimus told Abelia.
"Cybertron," Abelia mouthed and commented, "Alien. Not little green men like in the movies but then again this is reality and not a movie. But this is so much cooler than little green men."
"But you can call us Autobots for short," Ratchet said, watching as Abelia looked at him. He then noticed the blood on her shoulders and researched if that was normal for humans. When he found it wasn't, he quickly Comm-Linked Bumblebee.
'Bumblebee, why is there blood on her shoulders?' (Ratchet)
'Frenzy scratched her when he attacked her. The blood stopped flowing on the way here.' (Bumblebee)
'Tell me the next time she is injured. I still need to see why there is Energon is her body.' (Ratchet)
'Got it.' (Bumblebee)
Bumblebee and Ratchet disconnected from the link as Abelia repeated Ratchet, "Autobots." To be honest, she was amazed at this. These guys were so cool and she only knew them for about what, almost two days now?
Abelia looked around at everyone else before tossing a smile at Optimus, "Care to introduce me to everyone? I only know your names but not the faces that belong to."
Optimus nodded, his attention going to Jazz who walked forward. Abelia turned her gaze to the small sliver bot who spoke in his gangster-like voice.
"What's crackin', lil' glitch," Jazz asked Abelia, jumping and doing a flip slash spin in the air and landing in a kneeling position with his head on the back of his hand. He winks at Abelia before spinning on his hands and pushing himself to sit on top of an abandoned run-down car, "Dis looks like a cool place ta kick it."
"My first lieutenant. Designation: Jazz," Optimus introduced, moving to kneel on only one leg now with his arm across it.
Abelia raised an eyebrow and pointed at Jazz, "Did you always talk like that?"
Jazz grinned at her, "We learned Earthz languages through da World Wide Web. Plus, Cybertron had itz own languages. Mine was close ta what yo' humans label gangsta speak."
"That's awesome."
"Yep, n' my yellow friend ova there tells me dat yo''re a good singer?"
Abelia glanced at Bumblebee, who looked away, playing a clip of someone whistling. Shaking her head with a small blush, she looks back at Jazz.
"So I'm told. What of it?"
"I happen ta like music so maybe we could talk 'bout yo' world's music sometime."
Abelia matched Jazz's grin and nodded her head, "Bet your silver head on it."
Jazz was confused, "Huh? Why would I bet my head?"
Abelia rolled her eyes, "Human expression. I think it's best if you look those up to."
With Jazz out of the way, Abelia turned back to Optimus so he could continue with the introductions. Optimus gestured with his hand to Ironhide who Abelia turned to quickly when she heard whirring and clicking, "My weapons specialist, Ironhide."
Ironhide glared down at her, his cannons shining brightly and well-armed. Abelia took a small step back, reminded at Blackout's attack at the base in Qatar.
"You feeling lucky, punk," Ironhide growled down at her.
"Easy, Ironhide," Optimus said, disapproving at how Ironhide was making Abelia feel.
Ironhide huffed and put his cannons away, "Just kidding. I just wanted to show her my cannons."
Abelia chuckles at how Ironhide sounded like a child denied his favorite toy, which appeared Ironhide's favorite toy was his cannons. She placed her hands on her hips, raises an eyebrow at him, and in her best baby voice, she teased Ironhide.
"Aw, did someone just get scolded?"
Ironhide blinked down at Abelia, not recognizing the way she was speaking and looking it up to see why she was speaking like that, only to find that she was teasing him in a baby voice. He's not a sparkling! He's a grown mech!
He glared at her, "I ain't no human baby."
"Could have fooled me with the way your acting."
"Listen youngling, I'm a whole lot older than you."
"Does that make you wiser or dumber?"
Ironhide stuttered, making Jazz and Bumblebee laugh and force Optimus and Ratchet to turn their head away to hide their grins. Ironhide just got told off by a human, who was much smaller than him. Said human laughed and walked over to pat Ironhide on the leg.
"I'm just teasing. Just to let you know, your cannons are pretty cool," Abelia said, hoping to heal the burn Ironhide was surely feeling. It did somewhat, Ironhide casting a smile down at the girl by his feet.
"I like you, youngling. That and your fire."
Abelia only smiled at the compliment before turning back to Optimus. Seeing his cue to continue, Optimus turned to Ratchet, who straightened up when he saw it was his turn.
"Our medical officer, Ratchet," Optimus introduced, and within seconds, Ratchet lived up to that name. He kneeled down and gestured for Abelia to come forward.
"Come here, kid. Let me do a full-body scan of you so I can determine why you have Energon in your blood."
Remembering what Ratchet said about doing something like that when he arrived, Abelia stayed where she was and crossed her arms, raising an eyebrow as she wanted for him to say something else she wanted to hear.
Ratchet was confused by this, not understanding why Abelia was giving him such a look. A minute went by before Bumblebee finally took mercy on the medic, and he was the only one who knew what Abelia wanted at the second since he saw her reaction. That and her face was the same as it was after Ratchet said that. Being on Earth allowed Bumblebee to see that some humans spoke silently with their eyes, some humans knowing what the other is saying without saying anything.
"She wants...give her...promise...from yesterday?"
Ratchet decoded what Bumblebee was saying and realized what Abelia was wanting for. His air tanks let out air as he looked down at the human girl. He didn't realize he sounded like Wheeljack until Jazz teased him about it.
"And I promise I won't do anything without your permission. Sorry about what I said the other day. Didn't realize how it sounded until after, " Ratchet said, guilt in his optics.
Abelia saw how Ratchet was and smiled, seeing that he was carrying some human traits of guilt, whether he realized it or not. Abelia nodded and started walking over to Ratchet. She stopped in front of him and held her arms out wide at her sides.
"I forgive you. Just remember, humans will be freaked out if you say that around them. I would also look up what to say around us so we won't freak out."
Ratchet sighed and nodded, glad that Abelia forgives him for the scare. Remembering what he wanted her for, Ratchet did a full body scan of Abelia. Before she could step back, Ratchet held up a hand, Abelia only twitching when she saw that.
"A blood sample can also help me. The blood on your shoulders will do fine," Ratchet said, pointing to Abelia's shoulders.
Abelia looked at the dried blood on her shoulders, wondering how Ratchet could get a sample off without hurting her. Like he knew what she was thinking, Ratchet took out a small medical kit from his subspace. Abelia smiled and looked through it. She took a wipe and cleaned her shoulders. When she was done, both her shoulders were clean and the wipe was red. Abelia handed the wipe over to Ratchet as while as the medical kit.
Ratchet smiled at how Abelia was cooperating with him. Some of the touchest mechs never did that, Optimus among them sometimes.
"Thank you," Ratchet said, standing back up.
Abelia nodded, "Just tell me what you find, okay? Maybe the Energon is the reason I have Seer abilities, which we still need to talk about by the way," Abelia stated, looking over at Optimus. Optimus gave her a nod, seeing the look in Abelia's eyes that she wasn't going to let it go. He turned to the last one on his team who wasn't introduced, but suspected Abelia already knew his name.
"You already know the one who guarded you, Bumblebee."
Abelia looked at Bumblebee who was doing a little dance, "Check out the rep, yep, second to none-"
"Yep, I do," Abelia grins, waving at the yellow bot. Bumblebee stopped dancing and nodded down at Abelia in agreement. Optimus had stood up during this time and had backed up to allow Ratchet forward. Abelia watched Ratchet aim a red laser light at Bumblebee's throat, alarmed when she saw Bumblebee cough.
"His vocal processors were damaged in battle. I'm still working on them, " Ratchet explained, seeing the alarm on Abelia's face.
Abelia sighed, seeing Bumblebee was alright. Ignoring Bumblebee glare at Ratchet, Abelia turned back to Optimus. Now that the introductions were out of the way, time to get down to business.
"Why are you here? What does it have to do with me," Abelia asked.
"We are here looking for the AllSpark. And we must find it before Megatron," Optimus explained, becoming serious when he started going into the topic of why they were on Earth.
"Mega-who," Abelia asked.
Optimus tapped the side of his head, lights coming out of optics. Abelia gasped as the ground started cracking under her feet, but a test showed that the ground was still there and that everything was a hologram. Abelia watched in awe as the alley disappeared and she saw different scenery. Once she took in the alien sights, she realized she was looking at Cybertron.
Abelia saw how golden and bright and how the people of Cybertron seemed alive. But she saw that some of the Cybertonians seemed to be scared. Abelia listened to Optimus as she watched the hologram.
"Our planet was once a powerful empire. Peaceful and just. But we of us suffered from the Systems of Ranks, which forced many to live under the rule of those Higher in Rank."
"System of Ranks," Abelia asked. Optimus, Ironhide, Ratchet, and Jazz frowned, remembering when they lived under the rule. Bumblebee only looked at the four in pity, not knowing how it felt because he was too young at the time. Abelia saw how it bothered the four of them and waved at Optimus to continue, "Tell me later, continue on."
Optimus did a small smile, thankful Abelia leaving that be at the moment, "Until we were betrayed by Megatron, leader of the Decepticons. All who defied them were destroyed. Our war finally consumed the planet, and the All Spark was lost to the stars."
Abelia looked at Megatron seeing him for the first time. She gasped as she saw Megatron throw a spear into a Cybertronians chest, who fell back down the chasm he climbed. She covered her mouth at the act of violence. Megatron growled as he transformed.
"Megatron disappeared from Cybertron until we found that he followed it to Earth, where Captain Witwicky found him."
Abelia watched as the golden color of the planet fade, becoming a darker color as the war was all around them. At the last bit, Abelia looked up at Optimus, walking towards him, shivering when she felt the hologram go through her.
"Oh- My grandfather," Abelia said, Optimus nodding.
"It was an accident that intertwined our fates. Megatron crash-landed before he could retrieve the Cube. Your grandfather accidentally activated his navigation system. The coordinates to the Cube's location on Earth were imprinted on his glasses," Optimus explained.
Abelia blinked, looking back at the hologram. She wanted to see what happened that day. She blinked again, gasping when she saw white. She held her head, trying to stay up, remembering when she fell during class. She heard Bumblebee whirl in alarm.
"She's...having a...vision!"
Abelia fell backward, feeling something metal catch her and suddenly, she wasn't there.
Earth
Location: Arctic Circle
Abelia looked around, seeing the same sailors as before. She looked at her grandfather, running over to him. She looked at his glasses, which seemed to be what the Autobots and Decepticons wanted.
Her grandfather turned to look someplace when the dogs started barkings. The dogs ran off, prompting a sailor to shout, "Come back!"
The sailors and her grandfather ran after the dogs, who stopped a couple of yards away to dig at the ground. The sailors gathered around to look at the dogs. Abelia watched as they turned to her grandfather.
"I think the dogs have found something."
Craking filled the air and Archibald looked down, his eyes widening.
"The ice is cracking!"
The ice cracked under them, making all of them fall. Abelia gasped when she felt the ground crack under her feet, holding out her arms to ground herself. She watched as her grandfather reaches for a sailor who was reaching for him, but the ice cracked under his feet before he could grab his hand. When Archibald fell, Abelia fell with him.
Abelia shouted, hearing a dog whine as he fell in behind her. When she got to the bottom of the tunnel, Abelia stood up and shook herself off. She looked at her grandfather, who was still on the ground of snow. Abelia looked around, freezing when she saw Megatron was there and that her grandfather was in Megatron's frozen hand.
"Captain!"
"Captain! Grab my rope, Captain!"
"Captain!"
"I'm all right, lads," Archibald shouted, standing up and looking around. When Archibald saw Megatron, he froze, missing the question about his men throwing a rope down to him, "Men! We've made a discovery!"
Abelia's eyes widen when she saw her grandfather touch Megatron's pointed finger, making in spark. Megatron started making noises. Abelia turned to Megatron, hearing what Archibald couldn't hear.
"The Allspark will be mine."
Megatron's optics turned red and shot a beam towards her grandfather. Abelia screamed with her grandfather when she saw her grandfather fall, "Aaaaaah!"
Abelia then remembered her vison from before, realizing in horror that Project Iceman was her grandfather's discovery, the one that made him famous and the same thing that got him locked up: Megatron.
She blinked and she knew no more.
Earth
Location: Tranquility Alley
Abelia shot up, breathing heavily. She looked around, panicking when she saw herself in the air. A metal hand came up to prevent her from falling off. Abelia looked up and saw Optimus looking down at her.
"I got you. I won't let you fall," Optimus said, being the one to have caught Abelia before she hit the pavement when she had her vision. Abelia calmed down, sighing and leaning back into Optimus's hand.
"I saw Megatron. I saw him imprinting the location on my grandfather's glasses. Megatron is Project Iceman," Abelia told them, making the Autobots look at each other. Abelia looked up at them, a question coming to her, "What happens it the Decepticons get the Allspark before you guys do?"
"If the Decepticons find the All Spark, they will use its power to transform Earth's machines and build a new army," Ratchet said.
"And the human race will be extinguished. Abelia Witwicky, you hold the key to Earth's survival," Optimus said.
Abelia looked at them all, giggling and moving to stand on her feet in Optimus's hand. She trusted Optimus to catch her if she fell. Abelia grinned, reaching down into her boot to pull out the glasses case and held it up for them to see.
"When Barricade and Frenzy mentioned the glasses, I grabbed them out of my backpack before I went to see Bumblebee," Abelia said, opening the glasses case and pulling out her grandfather's glasses, the Autobots optics widening, "I brought the glasses with me everywhere I went since class."
Optimus looked at Abelia in shock. She was wearing a proud grin on her face as she held the glasses out. Optimus gently took the glasses from Abelia, putting them in his subspace as Abelia put the glasses case back in her boot.
"Thank you, Abelia."
"Anytime Optimus."
"We should head out, find the location," Ironhide said.
"Then letz git goin'," Jazz said.
Abelia looked at the Autobots. Suddenly, she felt scared. What if they left her? What if they left her behind to find the Allspark on their own? They were new to her planet and she could help them, they didn't have to take her home.
She then realized she didn't want to go home. She didn't want to go back to an empty house with her parents never there. She didn't want to be alone again. Optimus, Ironhide, Ratchet, Bumblebee, and Jazz may not realize it, but they changed her life to the point where she could never go back. She wanted to stay with them.
She was afraid of being alone again.
Ratchet had been watching Abelia, seeing her become distressed as her heart rate got faster. Wondering what could cause this reaction, he opened a Comm-Link with the others.
'Something is wrong with Abelia. Her heart rate is going faster and she looks distressed.' (Ratchet) The other Autobots looked at Abelia, but she busy shaking and looking at her hands.
'What could have caused this reaction? (Optimus)
'When Ironhide and Jazz mentioned going to find the Allspark.' (Ratchet)
'I know. She doesn't want to go home.' (Bumblebee)
The Autobots paused, looking at Bumblebee now.
'Why doesn't she want to go home? She has one doesn't she?' (Ironhide)
'And a Sire n' Carria who r' probably worried 'bout her?' (Jazz)
Bumblebee shook his head.
'Abelia told me her father and mother, her Sire and Carrier, are rarely home. She's always alone and has no friends. Her meeting us and finding out she has Seer abilities is the most exciting thing that has happened in her life. Her parents are on a trip without her, leaving her on her own and records show that when she turned eighteen, her parents fired her Caretaker. Abelia has been alone all her life until we came into her life days ago.' (Bumblebee)
'What da slag!' (Jazz)
'But that's not healthy! My research as shown that humans are social creatures! Even an expectation of a few, most of the entire species of humans need human contract other they would go insane! They need human contact to survive or they would go a downward spiral! Few have managed to make something of themselves with little contract while going up!' (Ratchet)
'By Primus...' (Ironhide)
Optimus looked down at Abelia, who was now rubbing her shoulders. He now understood that she was afraid of them taking her home, where she alone. Seeing that it would hurt their new ally by leaving her behind, Optimus made a choice.
"Abelia, would you like to come with us," Optimus asked her. Abelia snapped her head up at the question. She turned her wide eyes onto Optimus, shocked that he asked her that.
"The Decepticons might come after you still and I want to make sure you are safe," Optimus said, telling her one of the reasons he wanted her to come. Back on his planet, unless it was an emergency, you never left and sparkling or a youngling alone.
Optimus wasn't the only one who played his card, Ratchet had played the I-would-need-to-tell-you-what-I-found card. Jazz played the Wé-still-need-to-talk-about-music card. Bumblebee played the I-like-talking-to-you card. Ironhide played the I-like-your-fire-and-that-you-like-my-cannons card.
Abelia was sitting in Optimus's cabin, watching as he drove down the road. Ratchet was behind him, Jazz was behind Ratchet, Bumblebee was behind Jazz, and Ironhide was behind Bumblebee.
Abelia had said 'ýes' to coming with them and Optimus told her to ride with him since he had a bed in his cabin. It has been about an hour now and the Autobots were planning to head out of Tranquility. The events of the day finally got to Abelia, who was yawning and blinking her eyes.
"Abelia, you should lay down on the bed. You seem to be heading into a recharge," Optimus said, his voice following through the radio. Abelia got up, heading towards the beds in the back.
"Recharge?"
"Forgive me. It's what you humans call sleep."
"Oh."
Abelia laid down, sighing. It didn't bring as much comfort as her bed, but she felt like she could sleep for hours. With someone around, it was enough for her to start to drift off. However, she didn't realize that she started singing, something she did to help her fall asleep when she was alone.
Scars, that's all I have.
Pain, that's all I feel.
People stop and stare but they have no idea.
And through these tears and through this pain, I will stand once again!
Optimus listened to Abelia sing, finding that Bumblebee was right about her singing beautifully. He decided to open his Comm-Link, letting the other Autobots listen to her.
Cause I may be homeless but I'm not hopeless!
Fatherless but fearless!
I've got myself, I've got my freedom!
But I'm searching for my home!
Cause I am hurting but I'm not helpless!
Full of strength and scars!
I'm out here in the darkness, looking for a light to call home!
Looking for a light to call home.
Ratchet could hear the pain in Abelia's voice. She was hurting and she hid it so well from others. How was it that it took beings from a different planet to see that she was in pain every day of her life? They spoke to her, they needed her, and they gave her want she wanted, someone to talk to.
Fear, that's all I own.
Smiles don't come so easy.
I'm out here all alone.
You've got it good, believe me.
Through these tears and through this pain, I will stand once again!
Ironhide growled, angry at the pain in Abelia's voice. She was stronger than most of the mechs and femmes he worked with because while some say differently, the worst scars were the ones on the inside.
Cause I may be homeless but I'm not hopeless!
Fatherless but fearless!
I've got myself, I've got my freedom!
But I'm searching for my home!
Jazz remembered when he wanted somebot to hear him when he found out the attack on the Sparkling Shelter. He kept trying, but the only one who believed him was Optimus, but by then, it was too late. Optimus let Jazz join him because he admired Jazz's resolve to keep trying.
Cause I am hurting but I'm not helpless!
Full of strength and scars!
I'm out here in the darkness, looking for a light to call home!
Looking for a light to call home.
Bumblebee remembered when he lost his voice. He thought that no one would listen to him but his team proved him wrong, listening to him even when he didn't have his voice.
Strong, that's what I am.
Okay, that's what I will be.
You might not understand, but I won't let that define me.
Cause I may be homeless but I'm not helpless!
Fatherless but fearless!
I've got myself, I've got my freedom!
But I'm searching for my home!
Optimus heard Abelia's pain. She was hurting and as been for a long time. But she was strong because she didn't want to give up as she kept moving forward in her life.
Cause I am hurting but I'm not helpless!
Full of strength and scars!
I'm out here in the darkness, looking for a light to call home!
Looking for a light to call home.
Looking for a light to call home.
Looking for a light to call home.
Abelia fell asleep after she was done singing her song. The Autobots knew that Abelia was saying. They knew it because they were looking for it as well and it was something that had in common: Home.
Abelia didn't have a home. She had a house, but not a home.
She was just like them. She was one of them. And they would not let anyone tell them any differently.
Me: So, how did you guy's like it?
Let me know in the comments!
Abelia sings 'Julia Brennan - A Light To Call Home'.
Have a Merry Christmas or whatever you celebrate at this time of year!