I was so happy to set my foot on Earth's soil again! And I had friends waiting for me! They'd already heard about me so they threw me a fantastic surprise party till deep in the night. To keep up with most of them I had taken my larger organic metal form.

To escape the crowd I took a walk outside – still within the walls of Autobot city – and gazed at the starry sky.

I wondered how my brother was doing back on Azoria. Would Takehiro already know I had left the planet? Would he even bother to come after me and claim me back? As I walked around, pondering on lot's of things I almost ran into a huge base of some statue. I looked up and saw a huge statue of Optimus Prime.

How could I not have noticed that before? He looked so real… big and strong as ever and it even seemed as if he could come to life any second.

But he didn't of course. Strange to be here without having Dad around running the place. Thinking of that and how I wasn't there to help him my vision got blurry when my eyes filled up with tears.

I never even noticed Rodimus coming up behind me.

"Missed you in there," he said and he startled me a bit.

I wiped my tears off my cheeks. "I need my personal space so every now and then."

"Hey, did I catch you in tears again?" he asked me as he put his arm around my shoulders.

"I hadn't noticed Dad's statue before… I miss him."

"I miss him too." Rodimus said. "I even come here to talk to him."

"Really?" I looked up to him. "Does that make you feel better?"

"Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't."

"I'm not feeling any better yet." I admitted. "It kinda makes me miss him more."

"Come on than, let's join the party again for a while."

I agreed with a smile.


The next day he woke me up pretty early… or at least it felt that way.

"Come one sleepy, you're gonna walk with me today," he said most cheerfully as he opened to curtains of my room in Autobot-City.

I pulled my sheets over my head and turned around. "Can't I get a room where you don't fit into?!" I snorted at him from under my sheets.

He grinned and with a quick jerk he pulled away my nice and warm blankets, leaving me laying there in my nighty.

"Nope, you cannot. It's Autobot-city, not Human-city. It's designed so every Autobot can get in every single room."

With both hands I pulled my pillow from under my head and pressed it over my face, leaving enough space to breath. "You shouldn't tease people like that in the morning… especially an Azori'jin…"

"Are you threatening me?" he grinned amused.

"Yes I am! I can make you close the curtains, put back my sheets and leave me alone for the rest of the day…"

"I thought you said you'd be my backup…" he said in a teasing manner.

I growled. "Only after sunrise and before sunset…"

"Of course …" he lifted my mattress and turned it over, throwing me out of my bed.

Annoyed I pushed the mattress of off me and stomped into the bathroom, throwing him an angered look over my shoulder. He grinned most amused.

"You're funny in the morning."

"If you're gonna do this again tomorrow I will make sure my door is programmed not to let you in!" I snorted back at him. "And that will be the least I will do!"

I wasn't really angry at him, I just get cranky when I get thrown out of bed early in the. He probably could tell by my body language or somehow… cause he just didn't get annoyed back at me.

When I finally had my shower and got dressed I followed him through the corridors of Autobot City. I tried to pay attention to where we were going, but I was still half asleep. When he stopped I ran into his leg.

"Ouch… why are you stopping?" I asked annoyed.

"We're here."

I gazed around his leg and looked into a large rectangular hall with a huge metal table in the middle with metal seats around it. All suitable for Autobots. I looked into it from the entrance that was situated in the middle of one of the longer walls. On the left wall – a shorter one – was a huge computer terminal somewhat like Teletran.

The other long wall on the other side of where we were standing had windows over the whole length. I could see for miles into the forest and mountains surrounding Autobot City. Those windows sure gave the hall a pleasant look, not so much like a boxed in room.

"What are we going to do here?" I wanted to know as I transformed to my organic metal self and grew myself larger. I had about the same height as Arcee. I had this device – especially designed by an Azori'jin nerd – that dematerialized and materialized outfits to stay dressed in whatever bodysize I transformed to.

My outfit changed from a casual jeans and girly shirt to a stylish but sporty blue dress, just above my knees and with short sleeves. (use your imagination for more details).

In this larger form I could at least look out of the windows.

"Cute dress," Rodimus complimented me.

"Thanks," I said with a faint smile. "So why did you take me here?"

As I asked that Ultra Magnus, Kup, Springer, Blurr, Perceptor, Acree and Spike came in. Also every leader of the gestalts joined the group.

"Morning," Spike said.

"Today we start with a meeting to go through the day." Rodimus filled me in. "We prefer to do it early, cause most trouble comes along later on the day."

I let out an almost unheard sigh.

They all sat down around the table and Rodimus opened the meeting.

To spare you all the boredom of such a meeting I'll tell you a lot of political problems came by and some disasters in the area that needed Autobot attention. Also some problems between Autobots were discussed.

Even I was a subject on the agenda. The Autobots decided that it would be better if I stayed out of Autobot-Decepticon business. Mainly to keep my talents hidden most of the time. They weren't sure how the people of Earth would feel about a presence on the planet who could control any kind of mechanical device.

I had no objections to that. Just that I would kick Decepticon-can if provoked.

When the meeting was over I was dying for some breakfast and Rodimus took me to the mess hall for the humans who work in Autobot City. But then he got a message from Ultra Magnus calling for backup in a nearby city where the Combaticons were terrorizing the place out of sheer boredom.

With the mess hall in sight I reluctantly turned around and left with Rodimus. He took Springer and Arcee with as well.

Finally some fun!

"You'd better transform to your little flesh self," Rodimus suggested. "You can drive with me…"

"I'll fly, thank you. And stay out of harms way high in the sky," I said somewhat insulted by the 'little'.

"Great idea, you'll have an excellent view from up there."

As they transformed and rolled out I transformed to my Golden Eagle flesh form. (it's a name, not a colour, the plumage colours range from black-brown to dark brown, with a striking golden-buff crown and nape, which give the bird its name)

I took off into the sky and from way up I could easily follow the Autobots.

In the city the Combaticons made no secret of their presence. They targeted unsuspecting passing cars and trucks, destroyed buildings and bridges they came across and scared the living daylight out of the people whenever they saw any.

The Protectobots and Ultra Magnus were already trying to fight them off and to get them out of the city. But because the Combaticons targeted every human they lay their optics on they needed more Autobots at the scene to protect them and get them out of harms way.

Circling above the site where the battle went on I saw the Combaticons transform and form Bruticus. Right in the middle of town!

The Protecticons formed Defensor to fight off the simple minded but very dangerous Decepticon giant.

All though Defensor beat Bruticus on intelligence, he did have a hard time taking him out in a bot to bot battle.

Thank goodness most humans were evacuated by the time they engaged in battle… I sure hoped Defensor could put a stop to all of this madness in the middle of town.

'Rodimus, I could just take out the big brainless dude…' I suggested to him in his mind.

'Have you already forgotten what we discussed in the meeting?' was his reply.

'No… but he's making an awful mess… people are gonna complain…'

'I'll deal with that.'

I let out a sigh. 'Fine… go blast 'em.'

My eye caught a few youngsters running on the rooftop of one of the buildings right behind Bruticus. What were those fools doing there?!

"Bruticus will crush you!" Bruticus boasted at his opponent as he aimed his sonic-stun gun at him and fired.

"Rodimus, there are still some humans up there!" Arcee alerted him when she saw movement on one of the roofs behind Defensor.

Defensor dodged that of course so the building behind him got pulverized in stead of him. The youngsters had just jumped to another building and ran as fast as they could.

"There wasn't supposed to be anyone there." Springer said.

"We can't get to them, so they're on their own."

"You do need to come up with something better, Bruticus!" Defensor grabbed him and threw in onto a large parking lot, surrounded by supermarkets and liquor stores and at least one Mc Donalds and a KFC.

Bruticus grabbed a car and tossed it at Defensor, smashing him right in the face. And another and another car followed. Defensor dodged one that landed right in the youngsters group as they ran from the incoming car.

Rodimus glanced up to see where I was and that was all he needed to do. I'd seen that one coming so as I dove down I cheered "To the rescue!"

One of them had to jump over the edge of the rooftop to avoid getting hit. And that wasn't the greatest idea. There was nothing to jump on to nor was there an Autobot close enough to catch him. He could just grab a flagpole to keep him from smashing onto the ground.

The kid couldn't hold on to the flagpole long enough for any Autobot to catch him cause there was no way they could get passed the fighting gestalts.

His fingers slowly slipped. His friends could not reach him either. He tried to hold on as long as possible but his fingers just slipped off.

Half way down I had reached him and grabbed his leg with my claws, avoiding his flesh and grabbing around the lower leg. With a few strong wing beats I got him out of harms way and let go of him as I soared over some bushes on the edge of the parking lot away from the fighting gestalts.

Completely taken by surprise he quickly got up out off the bushes and took off on foot, away from this battlefield.

'Thanks, Alyx!' he said into my mind (we had a connection between our minds like I had with Dad). 'There was no way we could have saved that one.'

'Hey, I'm your backup. If you need me, just give me a nod.'

When the Autobots saw the kids had left they opened fire on Bruticus again. Defensor grabbed his fireball canon and shot several blue fire balls at him, blasting off his arms that crashed into a building and transformed back to Vortex.

On his turn he immediately started shooting at Defensor using his glue gun (seriously, 'wiki' it). He shot some capsules of highly adhesive liquid right on the spot where Defensor was about to put his foot down.

"DEFESOR!! LOOK OUT!" the Autobots screamed when they saw what happened but he didn't hear them and stepped right into the glue, cementing his foot onto the parking lot.

"Got you good now, big Protecto-can!" Vortex smirked.

Before he knew it Ultra Magnus and Springer were on to him and he ran off cause the blast of Defensor's gun left him unable to transform.

Even with one foot stuck onto the parking lot, Bruticus could not get the better of him, thanks to his Autobots friends helping him.

A few more blasts at the joints and on the chest made him fall apart completely. The beaten Combaticons took off in the same direction Vortex had fled to.

To make sure they left town the Autobots chased them far away from the city.

From the sky I saw the enormous damage those two gestalts had caused… the mayor wasn't gonna be happy with that kinda damage.