Onwards into the horizon

By midnightmoonchild

Disclaimers: Transformers do not belong to me they belong to there respective owners I only own Lily my OC this is purely for entertainment purpouses

Once again Optimus was in the usual spot. He found he rather enjoyed watching the humans. However after a little episode with the police, He now parked with his holoform in the driver seat. It had been Lily's idea actually he had not seen the need. But she had said if he wanted to continue watching he would need to blend in better and a driverless truck coursed to much suspicion.

His holoform smiled when a familiar hand slid along the side of his alt form as Lily walked passed. "Morning big guy." Lily said before crossing the street and walking into the internet cafe. She ordered a coffee then sat at one of the tables and opened her laptop, After checking her emails and sorting out a few things for work she logged onto MSN and smiled seeing Optimus was online.

Trucklover1: Hey Optimus how are you?

Auto_Leader: Greetings Lily, I am well. How are you?

Trucklover1: I'm Great thanks, Seen anything interesting today?

Auto_Leader: Nothing out of the ordinary although some people dress in a very unusual way.

TruckLover1: You get that allot around these parts I'm afraid.

Auto_Leader: I see, Humans are an interesting specie's you are very similar to my own race yet so different.

TruckLover1: Thanks I think lol.

Auto_Leader: What is lol?

TruckLover1: Its slang, its short for laughs out loud.

Auto_Leader: But you did no laugh.

Optimus chuckled when Lily looked up from her laptop and looked around the cafe as if she was expecting his holoform to be there.

TruckLover1: How can you see me all the way over there?

Auto_Leader: Do I really need to explain?

TruckLover1: Oh right super advanced alien race. I forgot lol

Auto_Leader: LoL

TruckLover1: Now you are getting it.

Auto_Leader: I believe I am getting the hang of this now.

TruckLover1: Yes i think so to BRB

Auto_Leader: ?

TruckLover1: Be right back lol

Auto_Leader: I see.

TruckLover1 has logged off

Optimus smiled to himself Earth slang was not as hard as he thought it would be. He supposed he had a good teacher. He logged off of MSN then and leant back in his seat closing his eyes for a moment.

Lily finished up inside the internet cafe and shut down her laptop before hoping off of her seat and out of the door. She crossed the road and walked into the side road Optimus was parked in and knocked on the passenger side door. The door immediately opened and she climbed in placing her laptop on the seat between the passenger and driver seat.

"Hey." She smiled when he opened his eyes and looked at her. He smiled before leaning onto the steering wheel "you look bored." Lily said knowingly heck she was bored to. "I am." Optimus said sitting back against the seat again with a sigh.

"Hey I know there's a park close to here," lily said looking at her watch for a moment. "It's Friday there's a Karate school that takes lessens around 3pm in the park." Optimus looked at her confused for a moment. "I thought you might want to watch humans in a different setting. You're not going to learn much from watching people surf the internet." She grinned.

Optimus nodded his head and started his alt forms engine and pulled into the main road "which way." He asked as they turned down another road "that way." Lily said pointing to the large expanse of grass with a pond at its centre. "I see." Optimus pulled up in the parking space Lily pointed to and stopped the engine.

"Over there see." Lily said pointing to a group of people standing around a big mat with someone in the middle talking to them. "What are they doing?" He asked curiously. "You'll see." Lily said as one of the people standing by the matt joined the man on the matt and they squared off. "They are fighting." Optimus said in disbelieve as the man in the middle through the other guy over his shoulder.

"No there not fighting Optimus, it's more like Sparing; it's about discipline and self defence." She giggled when he blinked at her. "I understand." He said before continuing to watch. "Do you have things like that where you come from?" Lily asked.

"Yes we do, I used to spar with my men to keep our skills honed." Optimus said before leaning back into his seat Lily leant back then and scooted back to her side so she didn't get in his way.

"Cool, What about now?" She asked "where are the others any way?" After all he spoke of them so often but she had yet to see another Autobot Save for Optimus himself. "They are at the base." Optimus said and smiled at her she was so eager to learn about the Autobot.

"You have a base, cool what's it like I bet it's huge." She grinned she felt like a kid again.

"I suppose compared to what you humans are used to it could be considered huge." Optimus found her grinning contagious. "Awesome." Lily said and giggled when the student ended up over the teachers shoulder again. The group around the mat also laughed. It seemed the student didn't know when to quit.

"Would you like to see?" Optimus asked and smiled when her eyes widened in surprise. "Really!" She asked leaning closer to him. He nodded "OH my god." She said her voice squeaking slightly. "I think the other Autobots might learn a thing or two from you." He started the engine and reversed before turning into the main road and driving out of the city and onto the freeway towards the Autobot base.

"I can't believe this." She laughed "am I going to have to be blindfolded and stuff." She asked watching as they drove past the other cars on the road.

"What Cant you believe?" He asked taking the next exit on the freeway and onto a dirt track road. "It's a figure of speech; I'm just excited that's all." She smiled watching him drive his alt form "Is it weird driving yourself?" She asked as a large building came into view. "A Little." He said pulling up to some huge gates.

"Good evening Optimus, you coming in for the day." Said a guy at the check point. "I'm bringing a guest to see the others." Optimus said to the man "Are you sure about brining a civilian inside sir." The guy said peering into the window to look at lily "Sam and Mikeala are civilians are they a problem." He asked smiling a lily reassuringly. "Of course not go right in sir." The human said while saluting before opening the gates and letting them through.

"Wow you work for the military or something." Lily asked watching the man walk back into the check point as they drove away. "In a manner of speaking yes." Optimus said and smiled seeing Bumblebee and Jazz playing basketball with Sam and Mikeala watching on the side lines.

Lily jumped and Optimus sounded his horn. And her eyes widened when she finally caught a glimpse of Jazz and bumble as they turned and saluted Optimus before carrying on with their game.

"Wow!" Lily said as she hoped out of the cab. She then turned hearing a whirring noise and blinked in surprise as Optimus transformed before her eyes. "Oh my gosh." Lily said as Optimus knelt down "Surprised?" He asked as she nodded silently.

"Who's your friend?" Shouted Mikeala as she and Sam made their way over to them "This is lily." Optimus said "Pleased to meet ya." Lily said offering her hand to shake to Sam and Mikeala "oh right is this the one you been talking about." Sam said shaking her hand Lily turned to Optimus and giggled when he scratched his head "Well I" Optimus shuttered and ducked as the ball Jazz and bumblebee was using nearly hit him.

Optimus picked the giant ball up and tossed it back and Lily clapped when it went through the net "Score one for the big guy." Lily grinned when Jazz put his hands on his hips in irritation and disbelief.

"Thank you." Optimus said before turning around to look at the base "would you like me to show you around?" he asked offering her his hand. "Sure." Lily said climbing up onto his big hand, He then raised his hand to his shoulder so she could climb onto it before walking towards the base Lily waved goodbye to Sam, Mikeala, Jazz and bumblebee. Before turning to look in the direction Optimus was walking.

"This is going to be awesome." Lily grinned as they entered the main building that was Autobot HQ.

To be continued..........

disclaimer: original chapter one was for the Flesh_And_Steel contest on LJ but I liked the way It was going so Im choosing to carry this story on and see where I end up

Chapter 1 is still for the contest as a one shot but it is also part of larger story.