Sandrone slowly collapsed in her chair as she was told the news. After all those years she would have never thought that her adopted nephew was the long lost son of Optimus Prime.

"Are you sure?" she asked almost out of breath.

"Positive ma'am," said Jetfire handing her a picture of Hot Shot when he was little.

She took it and gazed at it. She then smiled and said-

"Yes . . . this is him. He looked just like that when we first found him. I am so sorry Optimus, sir, that we didn't ask."

"You would have never known," he said. "But it did cause me much pain all those years. I truly thought he was dead."

"I can't imagine that kind of pain, sir. Oh please forgive me and my brother," she said. "Do you want us to give him back to you? We must tell him."

"No," said Optimus. "I will tell him when I think the time is right. All I ask of you is to see the time I missed with my son."

It had been hours since they were there. Optimus gazed at all the pictures they had taken of his son as his life progressed. He flipped through numerous amounts of scrap books. Every page he turned he smiled a sad smile.

He wished he could have seen his life. There was so much he missed. He then got to the tapes and videos of his childhood, and the one that made him most sad was the video of Hot Shot's first birthday with them. He looked at the camera and said-

"Daddy."

Optimus knew Hot Shot meant him and he knew that no one would ever have known from a 2,000 year old, um 3,000 year old. Jetfire hated seeing his commander like this, but was glad to see him actually smiling again. Optimus regretted ever giving up on his son. He regretted not continuing to look for him all those years.

He regretted listening to Scavenger say his son was gone.

"By all that's right," smiled Optimus.

He realized all those years he blamed Primus for his curses, when Hot Shot . . . Primus kept his joy alive. After Optimus was finished looking over Hot Shot's life he left with Jetfire.

Sandrone later told her brother and he reacted the same as she did when she was told by Optimus.

"May Primus forgive us," he said shaking his head.

"Should we listen to Optimus and not tell him? He must know," said Sandrone.

"We will listen to out leader Sandrone," he said "After all this time . . . we raised the son of the great Optimus Prime!"

They shared a small laugh, but tears soon came to their optics. They knew when he found out they would probably never see him again.

"Do you think, when he tells him, he will ever come and see us?" said Geargadget.

"If he does it will not be the same," she sighed. "I knew he was destined for greatness, but I just didn't know how great he was."

"I know what you mean sister," he said. "He is the only heir to the matrix."