Hey everyone sorry it has taken me so long, got a major case of writers block but it seems to be over so that's awesome. Wanted to know whether or not you guys think that I'm going too slow or too fast. Please read and Review.

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Blizzardstorm21

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Sideways and SmokeFire's POV

Sideways slammed his servo hard into the earth. "I can't believe it we got the car we even killed the two humans and still we cannot find the power source. Humans always have to make things so complicated."

Sideways and Smokefire had both retreated within one of the forests within Oregon. Smokefire was rummaging through a human sack which they called a book bag. She had found some human coverings, a couple of books, but nothing like what they were looking for.

"We need to find that power source. My scans indicated that it was in that car. Only we didn't find it. I mean how small could that fragging thing be." Smokefire said still going through the backpack.

"That stupid man created it, it can't be too far." Said Sideways

He continued "Where else could it be, we questioned the stupid human yet he had no answers for us."

"Where else do we look?" Smokefire continued to look through the books. And then a picture fell out of one of the books. Sideways grabbed the photo.

"There is the man and the woman that we offlined last night." Sideways showed the photo to his mate.

She looked at him and gave him that 'and your point is look' "look at what his mate has on her servo." She took the photo and look. "How could we be that stupid, it was in the car just not with him it was with the female. You know you are really smart sometimes." Sideways chuckled. "And that's why you bonded with me." He said. "That and the fact that you are craziest Mech I've ever met." Sideways looked at her and smiled, the few times that he had shown affection was only toward his mate Smokefire, the others knew him as evil and harsh.

"How are we going to get the thing, they are dead." Said Smokefire breaking his thoughts.

Sideways eyes dimmed as if searching.

"No!" He cried out as he fired on some trees, which promptly burst into splinters.

"What is it, love?" asked smokefire.

"The woman survived." He said looking at the picture.

"Then we can go get the power source."

"She was in the hospital, she was released into the care of one doctor by the name of Thomas Ratchet." He said as he crumbled up the photo.

"Slagger. She's with the Autobots, if they get a hold of the power source then there is no hope."

"Then will take her by force, I have a feeling where they are headed. It's a military base on the west coast of California. We can intercept them if we travel fast."

They both transformed into there alt forms. They immediately set off to go find their target.

Optimus led his team while Ironhide drove at the end making sure there would be no surprises from behind, Ratchet was in the middle being made sure that he and the girl were protected. Bumblebee and sideswipe were close but not to where it would make a scene. Will was riding with Ironhide.

"Hide, I can't even imagine." Will said looking at the at Ironhide's radio.

"Imagine what?" Asked Ironhide gruffly.

"Losing the one that you love, so suddenly like that." Will stated still looking at the radio.

"It is a difficult pain Will, one that really doesn't go away." Will looked at Hide.

"How do you know Hide?" asked Will.

Ironhide began the story "When we left Cybertron we left our mates behind. They have since joined us. Chromia, Flare-up, Moonracer, but the one that will never come back is Elita-One." "Who is that?" he asked. "Elita was Optimus' sparkmate, a wife in your terms."

"What happened?"

"There was a battle when we were about to leave cybertron. Elita-one and the other Femme's were holding off the decepticons so that we could take off, to go in search of the all-spark. It looked as if everything was going as planned, that was until Megatron showed up. He was about to take out our ship when Elita drew his fire. But at a grave price. She was killed as soon as we took off. Prime was devastated for vorns. He seemed to have healed, but he will never be the same mech that he once was."

"Wow he always seems so put together." Said Will.

"Yes Prime does have his ways of sealing his emotions within himself. But trust me he was once a different bot." responded Ironhide.

"I guess that kind of pain changes a guy." Will stated.

Ironhide just grunted in agreement.

They sat in silence for a long time afterward.

The woman that they had with them was important, she was family. After awhile all the soldiers had become like a small family to Ratchet. Lucas had become one of the few humans that Ratchet had enjoyed spending time with. He often worked with Wheeljack. When Lucas would come and help him out they would occasionally share stories of their battles, then there were stories that he would tell of his mate, that she was a strong, young woman with an incredible heart. Lucas had become almost like a son to Ratchet and even though he had never met this young woman he felt as if she was his daughter. Night began to approach quickly as they stayed on their path on the highway toward California. Ratchet continuously watched over Ashley scanning her vital signs about every 20 minutes making sure that she was still stable. The sky all of a sudden had become a dark gray in color. Ratchet sensed the drop in pressure and realized it was going to rain. About 10 minutes later it started to drizzle and then it quickly became a down pour. For a normal human visibility was poor but for four cybertronian mechs they did not need to see with their eyes. However all of them turned on their windshield wipers to avoid suspicion. He then became aware of small whimpers that were coming from the back of his alt mode. Ratchet's Holoform walked to the back and saw that Ashley was shivering because of the cold that was settling in from the outside. Ratchet immediately turned the temperature in his form higher so she could be more comfortable. He grabbed a blanket and carefully placed it over her. He took one of his hands and brushed the hair out of her face. "I'm sorry young one, I wish we had met on different circumstances."

For the next couple of hours they all sat in silence. It was a sad silence. Optimus would check in periodically to fond out how the young woman was. He couldn't really help himself that there was something about this woman something that just made him curious, she seemed different than many of the other females that he had met.

"Ratchet how is Ms. Hale doing?"

"The same, her vitals are fine, and the sedative seems to be working well."

"Good, we have only about 45 minutes left of our journey."

"Yes, it won't be long now."

"How are we going to introduce ourselves?" asked Ratchet

"I was just liking on that, I think that we need to do it one at a time. I also think that Will Lennox should also be present being that she has known him the longest, and she trusts him the most."

"Agreed so when we get there we must reveal ourselves but let Lennox lead."

There surrounding became more and more familiar as they became closer and closer to the base.

At the same time on a hill overlooking the highway stood Sideways and Smokefire.

"We can't take the four of them on, that will be suicide." said Smokefire to Sideways. "Yes, it would be, then we just have to tag along until one of them makes a mistake. He down and smiled an Evil smile. 'We're going to get the power source no matter what."

Optimus could sense them. The two decepticons. He broadcasted through the com-link. "They are here be on your guard they will take every opportunity to get to the girl. Sideswipe and bumblebee come around the sides or Ratchet. Create a box formation we have almost arrived but anything can happen.

Meanwhile in the truck not one of the Autobots realized the immense power that was being contained in the important gift that she was given.

Optimus POV

I couldn't let it happen again I couldn't let them get to her again, I felt their presence knowing sideways he closer than I was going to or wanted to anticipate he was a crazy mech. Smokefire was a little more relaxed than sideways but just as ruthless. I watched slowly as the base slowly came into view. I sent a comm. to Prowl stating that he needed to put the whole base on high alert in fear that they would strike. It was highly unlikely, but past had shown these two were desperate and I didn't know whether or not they had more Decepticons under them, I wouldn't be surprised.

Slowly I pulled in first followed by Sideswipe, Ratchet, Bumblebee, and then Ironhide. Slowly I let my holoform take shape. I stepped of my form and then met Ratchets and Ironhides form. They slowly extracted the gurney.

"We must move her gently." Ratchet scanned her and then gently took out the Catheter. "She'll be alright without this her system are healing rather quickly now. Though those broken bones will still take a little while to heal." I saw Ratchet put a band-aid over area. I smiled at him, to him this was his new assignment so to speak to keep her safe. I knew that Lucas and he were close, and now he would protect the thing that was closest to him. I then looked over to the girl, she was beautiful, and she had tan skin, with beautiful reddish-brownish hair that was naturally curly. She had long face and I remembered her eyes they were a deep brown, you could lost of them if you weren't careful. I shook my head how could I be thinking of her like that. No she was one our comrades an ally nothing else. Ratchet unbuckled the straps that held her to the gurney. He slipped an arm under her knees and then slipped the other around her back and then picked her up bridal style. He started walking toward the med bay. When he was out of sight I deactivated my holoform and I transformed into my real self. Soon Bumblebee and Sideswipe followed. "Sir?" asked Sideswipe. I looked toward sideswipe "What are your orders?"

I looked toward both of them

"We must protect the girl obviously there in another reason why they want her, I'm not sure why but if they were observing us on the way over here there is a reason, and we know that they are not going to stop. One of us needs to be with her at all times.

"Does she know about our true forms?" asked bumblebee.

"Well, in a way, she knows we are alien but has not seen us in our true form yet. We are going to allow Lennox to introduce us, I think that only one of us should be shown, after that once she is comfortable we will introduce the rest of us." They nodded in agreement. I accessed a private comm. message with Ratchet.

(Normal POV)

"Ratchet let me know when she awakes, I will send Lennox. I also think you should be the one that they introduce, you seem to know her the best."

"Optimus, that's only from stories, she here for real." Replied Ratchet.

"Understood, however that is more than any of us know."

Ratchet sighed it wasn't that he didn't want to show himself, she just didn't know how she was going to take it. But Optimus did have a point, he was the only one that knew her the best.

"Alright, I'll let you know when she wakes up." Said Ratchet through the comm.

"Thank you Old Friend." Said Optimus.

Ratchet looked at Ashley she wasn't going to wake up anytime soon so he stepped up to his computer in the med bay and began working after a couple of hours she heard Ashley Stir. He looked and saw that she was waking up. He transformed into his alt mode. He watched Ashley slowly come to and sit up. He immediately commed Optimus

"Optimus, she's waking please send Lennox."

"He'll be there in a few klicks." Said Optimus

He then said though to himself 'Here goes nothing' he allowed his holoform to step out of the ambulance, and headed toward the young woman.