Warning this chapter might have a few inappropriate stuff but you will find out something big around Eva's position and history.

Knockout finishes buffing his paint as he heads for the door. "Where do you think you are going Knockout?" He cringes as she stares at his partner.

"Out for a drive, Breakdown. I can't just stay here and let my paintjob to rust. I'm gonna drive around Nevada and see if…"

"You gonna find that girl you're googling?"

Knockout huffs. "Rumor has it that there is a girl that has color changing hair that roams the roads of Nevada. We find her, we find the Autobots."

"Then you can woo her." Knockout glares at her. "Come on Knockout, I saw the way you looked at her when you first saw her. You two zinged, didn't you?"

Knockout scratches his head. "I did to her, but she didn't to me. Maybe if we interact more, she can see it too. Plus access to the Autobots, it's a bonus. I have got to find her and try to make her zing back at me." He walks out to where the ground bridge is.

Bulkhead scratches his head. "Come on, Eva, this isn't fair."

Eva puts on a blind fold. "I don't want to read your mind while we're train, so maybe if I can't see you, I can't read you. Besides, I master blind Kung Fu at age 16. I'll be fine." Bulkhead charges at her and she can feel his trimmers as he runs toward her. She dodges him and trips him. "I heard and felt your footsteps charging at me. Try to use smaller steps or launch at me so that way the enemy can be caught of guard."

"Okay, I can see you have your mother and your father's sense in fighting."

Eva chuckles and continues to spar with him. He did just what she says but she can smell him coming and dodges him. "Use the scents around your environment. If they can't smell you, they can't sense you."

"I'm a wrecker, I always smell like this."

"I always know when you are around at the scent of grease and dirt. When you are battling in the distance of a city, you need to smell clean but not too clean. They can smell that too."

Optimus enters the room. "What's going on?"

Eva turns to him. "I'm trying to see if I can not read minds using a blind fold." She takes it off. "Turns out, it doesn't work."

"Hey, I thought you couldn't read my mind."

"I might have, but I was trying my scents train, not power training. Sometimes my powers aren't gonna be there when I'm gonna need them the most. So I need to train the rest of my body in order to be ready for battle. That's enough training, you have to pick up Miko from school."

"Oh scrap, I'm late." Bulkhead runs out of the room.

Eva laughs as she hops on Optimus's shoulder.

"How was training?"

"Bulkhead is great… but I think I can up my gain if I train with Arcee."

"She still not talking to you."

"I guess me being second in command is too much for her to handle."

"Give her time, she will accept eventually." Optimus and Eva enter the room and he places her on the couch.

As soon as Optimus left, her watch pinged showing that there was either a sign of aliens or her friends were shown on the internet. She pressed on, then her hair turns grey and she shows a disappointed look.

About in hour later, Arcee and Jack enter in the base. Eva walks up to Arcee. "Arcee, can I have a word with you?" Arcee continues. "Do you want to talk somewhere else, or here… where Optimus can here us?"

Arcee froze knowing exactly what Eva was talking about. "Um, let's take a walk." Eva hops to the ground and they walk. "How… did you find out?"

"I'm follow Sierra on Twitter." She presses her watch showing an article with Jack and Vince's face on it. "You are so lucky my mom, June, doesn't allow Jack to have a Twitter account or she would have found out about this. I thought you were better than this Arcee, you're suppose to protect my brother."

"I am, it was a one time deal. I promise."

"I hope so, but until then, I got my eyes on you." Eva walks away from her. 'I need a drive.' She grabs her bike and was about to drive.

"Going somewhere?" Eva looks up at Ratchet.

"I need some air, I'm going out for a while. Call if there are any emergencies."

"Sure thing. Are you okay?"

"I just, need some time alone. I'll drive safe and use my auto mode if necessary."

"Okay. No humans insight so opening the hatch." Ratchet opens the hatch and Eva immediately goes on the road letting her red hair flow.

After an hour or two, she stops at a bar her dad took her before. As she walks in, everyone there knew her.

"Hey it's Darby!" Everyone cheers and raise their glasses in the air. She might not get drunk, but she still likes coming here.

Eva smiles and sits on the chair. "Hey Joe, give me a number 9, heavy on the cherry sauce."

"Hard day of work?"

"More like some people don't know what the limit is."

Another guy sits next to her. "What's wrong Evangeline, ya been raped?"

"I believe you know the answer to that Patrick. You finding out the hard way that I have no genitals."

Everyone laughs at that. "One of the lucky ones. But I bet you done it oral before."

Eva huffs. "Any tries anything with my mouth gets poisoned by it." She burps and blows on his nose and he passes out. Everyone laughs at that. "What can I say, I have very bad breath."

"Well this should make it better." Joe gives her a drink called 'Love potion number 9' and she starts to drink it.

"Joe, why does the world make mistakes?"

"If we never have mistakes, you can never learn from them. Someone really made one, didn't they?"

"My bro was racing a bully today. He won, and he's lucky mom won't find out. But I feel like it's my responsibility to tell on him."

"Were there any wrecks?" Eva shakes her head. "Well if nobody got hurt, there's no reason to tell. Just make sure he never does it again."

"I think I found out how, but I'm not sure it will work." Eva finishes her drink.

"You always find a way Eva, no one can break you. 'nother one?"

"Nah, I'm trying to watch my weight." Eva walks outside and sees a bunch of thugs tide up on the ground near her bike. "Oh you guys, will you ever learn, my ride is unstealable." She hops on. "Let's ride." She rides away but not in the direction of the base.

More hours were passed and Eva was still mad. Not just at Arcee, but at herself. "I can't do this!" She puts her bike on auto mode and covers her face. "Oh Optimus, how do you keep your team in check all the time? One moment, all is okay, and now Arcee is off breaking rules. I'm a terrible second in command." All of a sudden, her watch started to beep. "Oh man, what now?" She clicks on it and it shows that she is being followed by a Decepticon beacon. Her hair was turning white as she turns off her auto mode. "Okay, it's just one con. You can handle this yourself." She grips her handles then turned on her turbos. As she got faster, so did the con. She went off road but the con still followed. "What does this guy want?" She got an idea and got back on the road. After she got a hundred feet distance, she turns off her turbos and slams on her breaks, turns around to face him and got into battle mode.

Then the con slams and lands in front of her. "Whoa, whoa, whoa! Easy, I come in peace."

Once the dirt cleared she got a view of the con chasing her. "Knockout? What are you doing here?"

"I'm here to talk, is there somewhere we can talk privately?"

"Oh so what? Where you and the cons can ambush me away from my team?"

"More like I want to talk to you as a bot and there are too many fle… I mean humans around."

Eva pushes her watch to see her map. She was close to a familiar site but she didn't trust him. "How can I trust you?"

"Don't get frighten away by this, but once you meet your zing, you want to protect it."

Eva rolls her eyes at the con's honesty. "Fine, we're close to my favorite spot, but don't get any ideas." She drives down the road and Knockout follows her.

After five miles, she drives on a hidden road and up a secret tunnel. Later on, she and Knockout stop. "Where are we?"

Eva hops off her bike. "At my parents' most favorite spot in all of Nevada."

Knockout transforms and sees a wonderful view of the sunset along the desert and canyons. "Wow, even for Earth standards." He looks to his left and sees a tomb. "Is that…"

Eva looks at the tomb. "My mother, or carrier I should say." She looks out to the view. "She and my dad, aka sire, would always come here just to get away from it all. Since this was their spot, Optimus made sure that my mother's final place would be here." She looks up at Knockout. "Optimus told me that my parents zinged, and Ratchet explained to me everything I need to know about… the cyber-body and all about the bots and the Scraplets."

Knockout laughed so hard. "That must have been embarrassing."

"So must ask… why me?"

He chuckles. "When I first met you, I asked myself that question ever since. You were a human working along side with the Autobots, and I am a medic working with the Decepticons."

"A doctor, well at least that's more appropriate. My stepmom is a nurse, and she always wanted me to meet any doctors." She scratches her head.

"It wasn't even possible, I mean sure I heard about Flameshot hooking up with a human, but I thought that was a rumor. It wasn't until I heard you say my name even though I never said it to you."

"Really, are you sure it wasn't the fact that I summoned the staff?"

"Well that was the final conclusion." They both started to laugh. "Well, I'm very glad I got to meet you, Starfire."

"Star…Starfire?! SWEET SOLAS PRIME! You heard that name?! Does…do the other cons know that name?"

"Well I had to report into Starscream of my mission. So… yeah as far as the cons, they all will probably call you Starfire."

Eva starts to laugh. "I can't believe it!"

"What, your name isn't Starfire?"

Eva looks at him. "Oh no, my Cybertronian name is Starfire, but… it's a long story. All I can say is… my family and friends and mostly all of humanity… calls me Evangeline, or Eva for short."

"Eva… eh, I like Starfire better."

"If you knew where my name came from, you wouldn't." Eva chuckles. "But still, it's nice someone other than Optimus that likes the name." She didn't know what else to say and her hair turns pink.

"Oh you have your… mother's prism?"

"My mom's wha?"

"Back on Cybertron, your mother had the same power with using colors with her emotions."

Her hair turns orange. "You… you knew her?"

"Yeah, when I first met her, I thought she was just a prisoner to Megatron. She always ends up back in my lab covered in dents and marks." Eva's hair turns white. "But later I found out it wasn't from prison, it was from training."

"Wha?"

"I was on my break, and I decided to check on her. I hear grunts and medal clashing. But to my relief… I found out where it was coming from. Megatron had a personal training ground and she was battling drones. At first I thought she was fighting to escape but when she done, I heard clapping and Megatron comes out of the shadows. I didn't know what was going on, so I asked her after her training. She said she was going to get revenge on the one who betrayed her."

"Elita-1."

"Yes, I see Optimus Prime told you that story."

"Not much really."

"Well, Flameshot was getting her revenge by taking her title as the champion of Allspark day. It happen every seven cycles." Eva shows confusion on her face. "I believe it's the same as seven years on your planet." Eva nods. "But not only was she given the title, but the same day, she was given the heart of Cybertron… by Primus himself. You can never forget looking into the eyes of your creator."

"That day must have been historic."

"It was. There were about 6 holders before you and all were given the heart by Primus." Then he sighs. "But sadly, all were killed or defeated. How did you receive it?"

"Actually, it was passed down from my mother. I was born with it."

Knockout widens his eyes in shock. "No wonder your fire was green."

"Huh?"

Knockout out of nowhere picks her up. "Starfire, you are in an unstable situation. A stable fire is suppose to be blue, not green."

Eva felt lightheaded. "Wha… what's going to happen?"

"I don't know, but maybe we can find a way back on the ship, Megatron has eons of research on the Heart of Cybertron. I'll call the ship and…"

Eva flies out of his hands. "Whoa, whoa. I am not just gonna hop on the ship like that. The cons will try to clobber me. I'm an Autobot, remember?"

"Okay, okay. You can go back to your team and I will continue my research. We will meet up later to see if there are solutions."

"Knockout…"

"Where do you think we should meet?"

"Knockout…"

"Probably here at the same time, how's next week?"

"KNOCKOUT!" He turns to her. "I'm sorry, I just wanted answers about the whole zing thing. We… as long as you or I are in different sides, there will never be an us. I'm sorry, this is the only time we'll see each other."

"No, you can't. I won't let the one I love die by an unstable weapon."

Eva backs up. "I'm sorry… it will never happen." She grabs her motorcycle and flies in the air.

"STARFIRE!"

Ratchet opened the bridge and Eva drove in. "You know, if you wanted to go to your mother's grave, I would have just transported you there. There was no need for…" He noticed her blue hair. "Eva… what's wrong?"

She looks at Ratchet. "Ratchet… am I dying?"

Ratchet walks up to her. "What makes you say that? Are you okay?"

"I don't know, am I okay?" Eva's hair turns dark purple.

"Eva, you're not making any sense."

Eva climbs up the ladder. "While I was driving, I ran into Knockout. Well more like he was chasing me. I wanted to get more answers about this 'zing' thing so I talked to him for a while. Then he told me how my flame should be a stable blue color and not green. He thinks since I never got the heart of Cybertron from Primus himself, I might be slowly dying from this."

"Are you sure this is true?" Eva sees Optimus walking in the room.

"Knockout says he's been my mom's medic when she was with Megatron. He's gonna look at all the notes on the heart of Cybertron. But it won't matter, I'm not gonna be alone with him again."

Optimus walks up to her. "Eva, when it comes to zings, they will do whatever it takes to protect their significant other. Since Knockout has access to the Decepticon archives, maybe he can help us."

"You aren't really thinking we should trust him?"

"Eva…" She turns to Ratchet. "I thought your flame was green because you were half human. But if what Knockout is saying is true… we have no choice but to trust the zing between you two is strong."

"But I still don't feel anything for him. Even if I did, it's still to wrong to take advantage of some love sick fool. I learned that the hard way. Poor guy back at the university really was like that at me and I just went with it. Justin went over board one day by asking me to marry him… after only knowing me for 3 weeks. I had to end it like that before it got worse, but it got more worse. He tried to get back with me ever since." She shakes her head. "I'm still getting letters from him. I tried to get a restraining on him, but his family was rich. I really, and I mean really, wanted to use my mind powers on him, to make him forget me. But I made a promise after therapy that I would never use them again."

"What about the Scraplets?"

"There were so into the music and they trust me enough to go through the ground-bridge. What I'm saying is I won't use Knockout for personal gain."

Optimus smiles and nods. "We will respect your decision. And now we know what the problem is, we will try to cure you from your future fate." Eva nods.

After a full day of trying to find answers, Eva and Optimus start to train with there weapons. Eva was wearing her costume so she doesn't burn her clothes. Today they were practicing fire powers from the staff. Optimus fires at her and wonders if her arm guards work. She uses it and it reflects back at Optimus, luckily he was able to dodge in time.

"Whoa, sorry."

"It's okay, at least we found out that the arm guards."

"Remind to thank Miko for that."

Optimus hold out his hand. "That's enough training for now." Eva nods and hops on.

"I love my new staff. I was gonna name it Esmeralda, but since it's suppose to be blue and it's not blue yet, I don't know what to name it yet."

"You're gonna name it?"

"Of course, I name all my weapons. My flip-knife is named Lexi, my first gun is Sandy, my second is Ramona, I got both my brass knuckles at the same time so I call the twins, Skylar and Skyler, and my beloved tanto blade is named Medusa. But what should I name my new weapon?"

"Hmm, what do the other names usually have to do?"

"They were given to me by my dad for protection. The names mean guardians or protection." "Well you were given the weapon from the heart of Cybertron."

Eva nods. "And it burst out in the fires. I'll look it up later." They make it to the room but see no one but Raf and Miko.

"Raf, Miko, do either of you know where the others have gone?"

Miko immediately sounded suspicious. "Why, no, sir. We do not know."

"Miko is correct. We do not know."

"Why would we know?" Optimus shows a suspicious face while Eva tries to look into their minds. 'Oh shoot, I forgot she can read mind. Don't think about Jack and the race. Don't think about Jack and the race.'

"Jack is out racing?!" Eva's hair turned red. "I thought I told Arcee to not do that again."

"Arcee raced with Jack?"

"I'll explain later. Where is Jack, now?"

None of the kids were talking or thinking, so Eva decides to use her secret weapon. She makes her a pointed look and Raf couldn't take the pressure anymore. "Jack went out racing with Bee at the circuit and are now being chased by Knockout. The others went to help them and we haven't heard from them since."

Eva's hair turned grey. "I told you we can't trust him." Eva activates her hair and flies out the door. She uses her signal to locate the others. She sees Knockout and Arcee racing down the highway. Once he got distance from Arcee, Eva flew straight down and blocked him from going further.

"Whoa!" Knockout stops right in front of her. "Um… hey…"

Arcee transforms. "Eva, he has a hostage."

Eva uses her telekinesis to rip out the door then help the poor person out. "Wha… Vince?"

Knockout transforms and freaks out with his door gone. "Was that really necessary?"

"I don't know, was it?" She points at Vince still asleep. "Tell you the truth, I would have asked nicely if I knew you kidnapped Vince."

"At least I finally got your attention."

Eva's hair turns red. "You kidnapped a civilian to get my attention?! You really are sick in the head!"

"Starfire just listen…"

Eva flies up to his head. "Get this through your thick metal head! I don't need your help! I have my friends and my family to help me out of this mess! I don't need the information! I don't need your help! And I don't… need… you! Zing or not, you will never change, and you proved it tonight!" Eva let's out a tear. "I really thought I could trust you."

"Starfire…"

"Get out of here before I rip your other door out! And if you ever show up at my mother's tomb again, I will scrap you!" Knockout sighs and transforms then drives away.

Everyone was just staring at her. "What was that all about?"

Eva stares at them. "Get the human to safety. Optimus will be waiting for answers." Eva stares at her brother. "From all of you." She takes off in the air heading for the base.

Optimus watches as his partner comes in and sits on the couch. "How did it go?"

"Knockout kidnapped a human, luckily the human didn't see anything." Eva looks at him. "Knockout can't be trusted. For all we know, that whole 'you're gonna die from not having blue flame' was only to try to get close to me." She gets up from the couch. "But if it is true, we must find a cure before my… expiration."

"And we will all do whatever it takes." They turn to the hatch seeing Arcee and Bulkhead enter the base. Once they transformed, Optimus opens his mouth to talk.

But Eva spoke up first. "What were you thinking facing off those cons? When we face them, we do it as a team. You could have gotten damaged, my brother could have been hurt as well."

"I'm sorry, Eva. I thought we could handle it on our own."

"We all make mistakes Arcee, and I'm glad you all made it back safely. I only ask that you remember that don't be afraid to ask for help in the future."

"I will remember. I thought you were gonna give me a punishment."

"Nope, that's why he is here." Eva points at Optimus. Optimus and Ratchet laughs quietly.

Later on, Eva talked to Jack about his punishment and that he was lucky that Decepticons were involved so she can't tell their mom, but she would have to tell about the first race. Jack agrees to the term. After Arcee took Jack home, she went to check on Eva at her workshop.

"Eva, are you still awake?"

"Arcee? Why are you calling in the middle of the night?"

"I'm outside, can you let me in?"

A minute later, Eva opens the garage door and lets her in. "Arcee, not that I'm not happy to see you, but why are you here?" She closes the door.

Arcee transforms. "I wanted to talk to you about tonight."

"Arcee I told you…"

"Not that, though I'm grateful. I wanted to talk you about what happened between you and Knockout."

Eva's hair turns pink. "I was hoping none of you heard that."

"So you and Knockout really did zing."

"I didn't zing back, and I never will. Knockout is a Decepticon and no matter what I do, he will never change. Out of all the bots in the universe, I end up with a selfish Decepticon." Arcee chuckles. "What's so funny?"

"Your situation is somewhat familiar to Optimus's old love life."

"Don't tell me who it is, I want to find out myself." Eva sits on a chair. "What do you mean just like his?"

Arcee smiles. "When he was Orion, he was like the most sensitive and caring bot in Cybertron. And his Zing… well… not the nicest bot in the universe. When Optimus found out about his zing, he was just… surprised. He would never be with someone so… ruthless. I took a while… but they end up together having a wonderful life… until…" Eva hair turns orange. "You are going to have to talk about this. But what I'm saying is that you only zing only once in your life… I should know."

Eva's eyes widen. "You… zinged with someone?"

Arcee nodded. "His name was tailgate. We met on the battle field, it was first day and I didn't get any introductions to the team. So when we zinged together, it was unexpected. We were gonna start a family when the war was over… but one day we were ambushed… he didn't make it."

Eva walks over to her with dark purple hair. "I'm so sorry."

"I wasn't able to have the perfect life with my zing, if Knockout is the real deal with you, don't waste this chance with your zing."

Eva turns around thinking about this. "How do I go through this? As long Knockout works with the enemy, I can never be with him." She sits on the chair covering her face with her hands. "I haven't felt this way with a guy since Johnny. I've had a crush on him since preschool, started dating at the beginning senior year, and… was killed at prom night. I thought I could never love again after that night and I always took men for granted ever since. I still do to this day and I knocko… knock them out with my pass out breath."

"I never knew you had pass out breath."

"Neither do Optimus and Ratchet, so don't tell them in case of a long lecture." Eva winks then sighs. "Arcee, how can I have a relationship without trust?"

"Trust takes time, even me and Tailgate took our time after we Zinged. All Knockout has to do is to get to know you more and with time and realization, he will change for you."

Eva smiles at her. "Thank you for giving me hope Arcee."

"And I will follow your lead as your roll in second in command. To tell you the truth, you are much better than the last bot who was second in command. He was always so, as you would say it… demanding."

"On earth, we would call him 'Bossy'." They both started to laugh. "Well I got everyone's support… except Bee's. Will I ever get a chance to prove myself to him?"

"That is for you and Bee to talk about. Like I said, your mother and Bee had a big connection together. I think maybe you two just need a little push in the right direction."

"Not that I'm happy you're willing to help, but I think I would to best if I try this myself and besides, Bee's Raf partner, not mine. How would you get me and Bee alone in the same room?"

"Maybe you two can go on a mission together and talk about it. Either way you don't have to worry. Well... I will see you in the morning."

"Okay... Oh wait, tell Optimus that I found the perfect name for my staff. Kenna: born of fire."

"Uh... Okay?" Agree left and drove off while Eva smiles as she closes the door.

Well that is the chapter, please tell me what you think about it.