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disclaimer: I don't own transformers

I was sent flying off my feet as a new explosion hit right next to me. I gasped, how was I going to do this?

"Keep going, Sam!" I looked up to see Ratchet fighting off the Decepticon who tried to shoot me, Ironhide took on all approaching ones. I had to get up, they wert fighting for nothing. I took strength from the adrenalin rush I now had to stand and keep running.

I gripped the All Spark securely and took off once more, but that wasn't the only setback we had. About thirty seconds later, we were attacked again, and this time they were forced into one-on-one battles each, I was on my own.

"Get to the building." Ironhide shouted, I didn't stop in my dodging flying cars and debris on my way to the building. Missiles and lunges were pointed at me. I luckily dodged each one of them, there was no skill to it, trust me. I came to a stop at the bottom of the building the soldier had pointed out, glancing up and pausing briefly, I realized just how tall it really was. And I'm guessing the elevator is out.

I ran in and directly to the stairs when I felt the power hungry, merciless aurora I had felt before in the Hoover Dam, only at full strength. And headed straight for me. I decided to block out all the auroras so I wouldn't have a heart attack.

I ran up the stairs, not stopping until after about ten flights to look up. God, I wasn't even half way up! The stairs started to give away under me and I started again, only getting to the next flight just before the large leader of the Decepticons crushed through. He made to grab me, but came up short.

"Mine, All Spark!" I ignored him and kept running. I broke to the top surprisingly quickly, setting off the flare and running around the roof until a helicopter came up next to the side. I sighed in relief and ran towards them. Human, good. They almost had it, but I choose then to analyze the surrounding area for Decepticons. One particularly treacherous one was nearby; I think they said his name was Starscream.

I turned to see him aiming a cannon at us; I jumped back, pulling the Cube away just before the helicopter exploded. I felt Megatron's life force near.

"Give me the All Spark!" he climbed to the roof with me. I backed away, clutching the Cube with all my might. I briefly looked behind me every once in a while, so I wouldn't walk over the edge. It was during one of those precautions I got an idea.

"Give me the All Spark, boy, and you may live to be my pet." He continued to walk toward me as I climbed behind one of the statues. I could fall easily, but it put something between us. For some reason, that didn't put me any more at ease.

But all the same, I shouted back, more bravely than I felt, "I'm never giving you this All Spark!" I couldn't see him, but I bet this didn't please him.

"Oh, so unwise." From what I could see, he was drawing some sort of weapon. I braced myself, once again, too preoccupied to realize help had come.

I felt the force as he struck the floor in front of the statue I was clinging to, causing me to fall backwards off the edge along with most of the surrounding roof. I curled around the All Spark, protecting it had become as much a need as protecting my gift.

So in my readiness to fall to my death, it was a shock to land on metal much sooner than I would have landed on the cement. That and it curled around me, holding me down securely instead of causing me to become a blood spot.

"I've got you boy." I became aware of his aurora as I looked up to see Optimus had caught me. "Hold on to the Cube." He put up his battle mask, not hard to figure out its purpose, and held me more securely as he dropped. We fell slowly for a while, as his attempt not to make a crash landing, only to be pulled down by Megatron.

He landed a ways away from us, Optimus turned to me quickly before fighting Megatron.

"Sam, if I cannot finish off Megatron, I want you to push the Cube into my spark. I will sacrifice myself to destroy the Cube." He briefly pulled apart his chest plates to show me. I nodded, I was right. He would give his life to protect others. Nobel. "Get behind me."

He stood to face the Decepticon leader; I took cover in the crater in the cement he made when we landed. I did a quick scan of the field, or city, ignoring all the sparks, as I now realize what their life forces are called, that belonged to Decepticons.

Ratchet was on down the street, Ironhide was with the humans, and Bumblebee was with Mikayla, quickly moving toward the majority of the fight. I couldn't find Jazz, where was he? I searched desperately, I finally found him, in two places. But it was just a ghost of his aurora, and he had no spark signal. I had never 'felt' a dead being before, this must be it.

I didn't have much time to grief as I was once again almost hit. I took cover further under a pipe that was sticking out in the cement. I took a visual on Optimus's progress, not to good. But he's still managing to get in some attacks.

He told me to shove the Cube into his spark if he lost. That would leave the earth to the expense of Megatron with only three Autobots. We would all die, but if he got the All Spark, it wouldn't just be our world that would be destroyed.

I figured it out, the All Spark gave off pure energy and power, if you add that to one of their sparks, which only held a small fraction of the All Sparks power, would over load them, they wouldn't be able to survive it. If Megatron won, Optimus would be dead and the earth really would be left at his feet. No doubt. I looked back up at the battle in progress, and almost as if showing me irony, Optimus was thrown to the ground and Megatron was right with him, about to finish him off.

They were so close, Megatron turned to me, in one last attempt to get the All Spark before killing our last hope. Was it wrong to think that if Optimus was dead, the other Autobots wouldn't stand a chance? They seem to agree though.

"Give me the Cube boy!" I felt all the sparks, all the auroras in this city. I could hear the explosions around us, see them. I could hear Optimus urging me to turn and shove the Cube into his chest and Megatron towering above me.

It may have been all the stress getting to my head, or my gift finally affecting my brain, but I suddenly looked at the situation a different way.

Instead of seeing Megatron towering over me, with the will to crush me, take the All Spark, destroy Prime, then take over the universe. Instead I seen a friend lying on the ground behind me because of this guy that towered above me with the will to crush me and take over the universe. But I had the All Spark and he towered over me so I could just almost reach his spark.

I ran up, must be the chaos getting to me, and ignored Optimus's pleas for me to stop as I held the All Spark above my head as I stood under his spark, to sudden to realize what I was doing. At once his spark absorbed the All Spark, could feel it grow too powerful for his Cybertronian spark to handle.

He doubled back and clutched his spark, spending too much time resisting. Finally, he fell, his optics dimming and spark off line. Only a hollow echo of his aurora.

I stood there, the spot I killed Megatron, for who knows how long. Just standing there, in shock. I just took down the Autobots worst enemy with their most prized position.

I was unable to move until Optimus got up and walked to the corpse. He bent to extract a small shard of the All Spark. I looked around to see everyone circled around us. I turned with all of them to face the great Autobot leader.

"Prime, we couldn't save him." Ratchet spoke up, I tuned to see him holding up both parts to the Autobot we had all learned to be Jazz. I frowned, I knew there was no hope for him, his spark had gone out when I seen him during the battle. But it was different hearing it. I had honestly known the Autobots for about a day, and I already felt as though I would miss Jazz.

"oh, Jazz." Optimus took his parts. He turned to us humans, "we have lost a great comrade today, but gained new ones. I thank you all, you honor us with you bravery." I smiled, that was one of the cheesiest lines I had ever heard in real life, but it worked with him. "Thank you."

"Permission to speak." I turned to my yellow guardian, surprised he was using his own voice.

"Permission granted old friend." Optimus looked pleased his vocal processors were working. I wondered when Ratchet had fixed them.

"I wish to stay with the boy."

"If that is what he wishes." The two turned to me.

"Yeah, of course." Bumblebee smiled widely and I smiled back. I really could see a friendship between us form easily.

The battle was over, and I suddenly worried what the Autobots were going to do. Their home world was destroyed and so was their hope in rebuilding it. I pushed these worries away, we had more immediate problems.

The government.

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