Hello everyone! I am so, so sorry for the extremely long delay. Like I said on the note on my profile, along with being a writer, I'm an extremely busy high school student with little time on her hands, which makes it kind of hard to write sometimes. Also, I honestly don't enjoy following a script very much. My stories flow a lot easier when the ideas are all coming from my head and not someone else's. To help ease this slow procedure for myself, I also started working on the first chapter of the next Alise/Bee story that will be coming out after this one finishes! This new story will include the kidnapping arch like I said I was planning to do in the first place, and at the moment, it remains untitled.

Also, sorry if the story seems to be going a little blandly. Like I said, I don't like having to follow a script, but I need to for the story to keep going. There's more action soon to come! Lastly, when I said this story was ending, I meant this story! There's a very strong possibility of me doing DOTM! I got many worried reviews about when this story was going to be ending and don't worry! It won't stop after ROTF! Anyways, hope you all enjoy, and please review and tell me what you think!

As always, I own nothing!
~Mel

The group ran up the steep path and over to the only open entrance on the accessible mountain of Petra they were currently on, all of the humans panting by the time they reached the top. When they made it to the end of the path they were traveling to make it up the mountain, they were greeted by gargantuan marble columns in front of them, and they gazed at the aging structures that decorated the massive entrance. The entrance was so large that all the bots present were able to easily walk inside in their bipedal forms, and this made all the humans feel even more dwarfed than usual in comparison.

"You see the size of this?" Simmons commented as they all walked into threshold in the side of the mountain. "You see this? Huh?"

"Spec-tacular," Skids answered snarkily, the one half of the terrible duo unimpressed with the sight in front of them. None of the others found this surprising, however.

"It's here somewhere, guys," Sam said next, his voice echoing against the walls. Looking around the opening before them, they saw that it wasn't much of a room, but more of a large open space carved into the mountain. The walls of rock around them were smoothed down, but not decorated in any way, and the place was very simple. Nothing was inside it either, making it open and empty.

"Yeah, why?" Leo retorted. "'Cause, uh, we're trusting Grandpa Blackbird who doesn't even know what planet he's on?"

"In its defense, this is the biggest doorway I've ever seen in my entire life," Simmons answered the younger man. Simmons's statement was true. This gateway was large enough for even Optimus to have gotten through with ease.

"Oh. Okay. Well, that's great. Let me do a quick search, alright?" Leo walked a couple steps in front of him and turned, 'looking' around the room. He moved his head up and down to check all the corners of the room before turning on his heels and looking back at Sam. "Uh... Nope." He shook his head before looking back at the group. "Ever cross your mind, guys, that archaeologists have been here before? There's nothing here."

The room was silent for a moment.

"Real life is heartbreak, despair, kid," Simmons told him. "Sometimes you get to the end of the rainbow and the leprechauns went and booby-trapped it!"

Rolled his eyes, looking at Simmons with an annoyed look on his features. "Why am I listening to you? You live with your mother!" Simmons's face went a little darker, and he was about to retort when Sam continued.

"It's not over," Sam said stubbornly, refusing to be discouraged.

"I agreed," Alise added, nodding her head. "Don't you think we would know about it if that Matrix had been discovered already? The Autobots would have been able to recognize it and want to claim it by now. And if not the Autobots, then the Decepticons."

Leo shook his head, refusing any other answer. "No. It is over. It's done."

All of a sudden, Mudflap decided to join the conversation, but not for the better.

"Why are we still listening to you, little punk-ass?" Mudflap suddenly yelled at Sam, turning in his direction. Sam's eyes went wide, not expecting the attention from the "I mean, what you ever done for us except ding my rim?"

Alise felt a flare of anger rise up in her for Mudflap saying that to him, and she could tell that next to her, Bumblebee was getting irritated too. A comment was on the tip of her tongue before Skids beat her to it.

"Killed Megatron. How about that?"

"Well, he didn't get the job done, you know what I mean, 'cause he's back now, and he's-"

"Are you scared?" his brother cut him off. Alise's eyes widened. She already knew this wasn't going to go over well.

"Scared? Scared of your ugly face!" With that, Mudflap started to push Skids. The rest of the group could see what was about to happen from a mile away. They all started to shout at the two to calm down and stop.

"Oomph! I'm ugly?" Skids retorted anyway. "Well, we're twins, you stupid genius!"

"Bring it, then-" Mudflap was stopped mid sentence by his brother jumping on top of him, bringing him to the ground. "Get off me now! I'll change your face around!" Skids yelled out as the two started to brawl.

The sound of crashing metal began to hurt everyone's ears, even Bee's, and the rest of the group all had to back away from the two in order to not get stepped on. The twins started to crash around the room, bashing each other into the walls and actually breaking them, large holes appearing in the sides of the room. They continued to almost step on the humans below them, and their fighting was going on for a few minutes now. At one point, Alise had tried to get the two to stop herself. However, at the same time, Skids had pushed Mudflap back so roughly that his brother started to fall to the ground on his back, right where Lise was standing. Bee, who had been watching the girl like a hawk, had to quickly grab Alise from the floor before she was crushed beneath the idiot bot, and after that he didn't want to put her back down.

"I'll get all up in that ass!" Mudflap yelled as the two continued.

"Bring it!" the other twin cried out.

"Guys!" Sam tried to stop them. This was the last thing they needed right now, and this was dragging on for too long. Bee made a whirring sound that Alise seemed to be the only one who noticed, and he gently put her down on the ground before starting to walking over to the two. "Whoah! Woy!"

"You like the way that feels?"

"That didn't hurt!"

"You like that, don't you? I'm getting up-"

Mudflap was cut off by Bee picking him up roughly by the back of his neck as he did the same to his twin. Bee, who was sick of the two fighting (not just now but always,) decided to take matters into his own hands and stop them before they really hurt someone.

"Oh, come on, Bumblebee!" Skids complained, as the larger, yellow bot started to carry them to the entrance.

"Bumblebee, listen-"

Bee sounded an electric squeal at the two, loud and angry, and the two cringed in his grip at the noise. The Autobot then clunked their heads together and threw the two outside of the large doorway, the twins hitting the ground and landing on top of each with yells and groans of pain. The group heard them mumbling and whining something from the outside, but they were all too angry at them at the moment to care.

"That was probably for the best," Alise told Bee, who had walked back over and came to stand next to her after her threw the two out. He looked down at her and nodded. Most of the group inside continued to watch the two fuse around on the from the inside, when suddenly, there was a gasp from behind them.

"Oh my God."

The group turned around to see Sam looking inside one of the hole that the twins had created in the wall when they were bashing up against it. Sam could see something that the rest of the group couldn't from their distance, and it was exciting him.

"The symbols..." started to say to himself. He then quickly looked up at his former guardian. "Bee! Shoot it!" Sam quickly ran out of the way, and Bee raised his arm, morphed it into a cannon and shot twice at the wall. Large pieces of rock erupted from the ancient stones around it, and dust started to rise around them. When the dust settled, Sam took the lead and started to walk into the now gaping hole in the wall. The rest of the humans outside just looked at each other, unsure of what to do next.

"Check this out," they heard him say from the inside. "Look at it." With that, the rest of the group shrugged at each other and then entered the large dark hold, Simmons leading the four humans being followed by Alise, Mikaela, and lastly Leo.

"Wow!" Alise heard Simmons in front of her, and she couldn't deny that she was thinking the same thing when they were fully inside. As they entered, she was amazed to see that they were surrounded by the ancient and rusting forms of multiple large Cybertronians, and they all seemed to be facing the entrance they had come through in the shape of a circle. They were the Primes.

There was almost no light in the large room, the only of which was coming from very small and almost nonexistent holes in the walls and the high ceiling, and the hole in the wall they had come through. The way the light danced off the fading metal and shape of the soldiers made the room incredibly eerie and solemn looking, and the silence throughout the room gave Alise chills. They were haunting to look at, the figures, Alise knowing that these Primes had given their lives to protect the Earth from the Fallen, and that none of them, including the entire planet, most likely wouldn't be here without them.

"These are the bodies Jetfire was talking about," Sam said breathlessly, looking up at the faces above them.

"The tomb of the Primes," Simmons answered, nodding his agreement. It looked absolutely taken by the sight in front of him.

"Yo!" Leo shouted, his hands cupped to his face. All of his previous scepticism was no longer present, and he seemed to be actually enjoying himself in the large, dark cave. He listened as the echo sounded through the entire room, making it feel like it could go on forever. "Yo!"

Suddenly, Sam gasped once more. The group looked over at him.

"Guys!" he shouted. He pointed over to the center of the room. "The Matrix!"

In the middle of one of the Prime's massive hands was a large sharp pointed, object. It seemed to glow without any light, a blue aura appearing to come from its center. The group gathered around the stunning artifact, all bending in to get a closer look.

Then, slowly and carefully, Sam went to pick up the ancient tool, lifting it up delicately with his fingertips... only to take it turn to dust at his touch. A pile of the powder formed on the ground under his fingers, and a slight breeze blew some of the glitter-like substance away. The group look at the ground in shock.

"Nuh- No," Sam stated desperately, running his fingers through the pile of destroyed Matrix, as if his touch could put it back together. "No... no!" Mikaela, Leo, and Alise just continued to look down at the pile in disbelief.

"This isn't how it's supposed to end!" Sam cried frustratedly, running his hands through his hair. None of them knew what to do now. They were out of options.

Suddenly, there was the sound from the outside. Over their heads there was the sound of something flying through the air, like multiple large planes. The group knew that could either be a good or bad news, but since Bee and the Twins weren't alerting them, they assumed it was friendly aircraft. They all looked at each other.

"Hear that?" Simmons asked the group excitedly, and with that was the first to go and investigate, leaving out the hole they had come through. Leo, who was also curious of the noise and wasted to get out of the now depressing room, was soon behind him. However, Alise, Mikaela, and Sam all stayed behind, Sam still kneeling down and gazing longingly at the pile of dust the Matrix left behind.

"You can't bring him back, Sam," Mikaela told him softly. "There's nothing left."

Sam shook his head and then slowly turned to look at the two girls, standing up.

"Look!" he said unyieldingly. "Look around you! We didn't just go through everything we went through for no reason at all, and to just have it end like this. There is a reason that we are here. The voices and the symbols in my head led us here for a purpose. Everyone's after me because of what I know," he turned around and knelt once more in front of the pile, "and what I know is that this is going to work."

With that, he took off his sock, opened it, and started to shovel the pile of the remains of the Matrix into it. As he filled the sock with the pixie dust, Alise and Mikaela shared a worried look for a moment, wondering if Sam had gone mad from the disappointment of what had occurred.

"Sam..." Alise started carefully, not wanting to upset him if the stress really was getting to him. "All that's left is dust..."

"How do you know it's gonna work?" Mikaela asked slowly also, looking at him with questioning eyes.

"Because I believe it," he answered them doggedly, and the two girls knew there was no changing his mind.

"Sam!"

The group of three all turned their heads to the hole in the wall where the voice came from. They could tell it was Simmons who had called from the outside, and his voice had a certain urgency in it. The three humans who were remaining in the tomb quickly exited it, and came out of the wall to see Simmons, Leo, and the Autobots all looking off into the distance in the direction of a small village and the pyramids they had passed before. Alise went to stand next to Bee and looked out to see what the rest of them were spotting that had caught their attention.

In the distance, she saw large planes releasing soldiers onto the desert sands below them, at least fifty of them present. But it wasn't only human soldiers she was seeing; there were large metallic ones present too. Looking carefully, Alise saw a large, dark Cybertronian in the distance who she could have sworn was Ironhide. She knew that if this was going to turn into a battle, it most likely was him, and it gave her some comfort knowing that if Bee had to fight he wouldn't be doing it alone. 'Hide was only one of the Autobots she could see, however, but that wasn't saying much due to their distance and the large buildings and landscape that were blocking most of her view.

Suddenly, Simmons spoke up.

"Dropping the big boy," he said flatly, and the others who had just arrived were confused for a moment before they understood what he meant.

They then watched as one of the planes suspended higher in the air opened its back, and out came Optimus's body, landing on the sand below. A cloud of dust appeared around him as his metal form hit the earth, and soldiers surrounded his fallen figure, guarding him from all sides.

Alise placed her hand on Bee's leg next to her, trying to steady herself a little. Though she knew about the Autobot leader's death for a few days now, seeing his body had really hit home for her, solidifying that he truly was gone. The Prime had always been a kind and fair leader to his Autobots and the soldiers at NEST, and like most of the large bots had taken it upon himself to look after the sole girl on the island. She had talked to him on more than a few occasions, and she knew that he was an old soul who was tired of fighting such an endless war. She liked Optimus; even after all he'd been through, he was still one of the most selfless beings in the universe... or was. It pained her to see that of all the beings to have been taken by the war, it was the one who wanted it to end the most

Bee looked down at her when he felt her hand on his leg, and his optics dimmed slightly at seeing her upset. Though he was feeling very saddened himself, the loss of his great leader still weighing on his mind, he bent down slightly and touched his fingertip to her back in a small form of comfort. She looked up at him and gave him a tiny reassuring smile.

"You think you can bring him back to life with that pixie dust?" Simmons then said to Sam aside of them, gesturing to the sock full of Matrix in his hand. Simmons had put two and two together seeing the sock in his hand.

Sam nodded. "Absolutely. Let's go."

"That's them, right there," Sam lead as the group drove in Bee towards the location they had seen Optimus dropped to. "See the flare?"

The rest of the group looked in the direction Sam was now pointing, and sure enough, flares and smoke had begun to appear. Bee picked up his speed a little, Skids and Mudflap following closely behind him, and now they were on a direct route to the location.

However, they suddenly began getting fired at from the sky as they drove, Bee having to make quick turns at sharp angles in order to avoid the blasts. The twins started to do the same, but tried to stay close behind, not wanting to get separated. The occupants of the Camaro started being thrown around from the speedy driving, causing them all to yell out in surprise.

Alise looked up out of the car window and saw what was firing at them; Starscream.

"Shit, Bee, it's Starscream!" Alise yelled out, just as they were fired at again, this time, much too close for comfort.

"Whoa!"

"Sam!"

"Oh! Whoa!"

"Oh God. Please God! Please."

"Crap!"

"Leo, stop freaking out! Stop freaking out!"

"Please God please-"

"Shut this guy up, huh?!"

"Please, just let me live, just let me live!"

"Shut up and let him drive!"

"Just stop screaming-!"

"Bee, head for the village!"

"Alright, that's it!"

"-please... ow ow ow ow!"

"Simmons, quit it!"

"I can't take that guy anymore!"

"Whoa!"

"Hide in the dust! Use the dust!"

After the noisy ride and a few narrow escapes, Bee had finally made it towards the village where the soldiers and Optimus were, and was able to lose the Decepticon in a covered area of the village. They stopped in an alleyway and hid in a shaded part where they finally couldn't be seen by Starscream, at least not if he didn't notice them right away. The twins stayed out of the light also, keeping guard. The occupants of the Camaro form all exited and kept hidden in the alleyway, none of them daring to stray too far at the moment. Alise looked and saw that they all were on alert and a bit jittery, which was understandable considering their situation, and she noticed that Leo looked a bit put out. She knew he was probably tired of being the weakest link in the group.

When the coast was clear, Sam turned to the group.

"We've got to split up," he said, looking at them. "Bumblebee, you're the decoy. You lead the Decepticons away, all right? I'm gonna get Optimus."

Everyone nodded, except for Leo, who wasn't wearing the feeling sorry for himself look anymore. Now he had the look of determination on his features, something that surprised Alise.

"I'll help draw their fire with Huey and Dewey there," he said, gesturing to the twins. The whole group turned to look at him with surprised expressions. "You get to those soldiers. I hope that dust works."

Sam smiled at his friend, happy to see the sudden change in him. "Thank you."

Suddenly, Starscream appeared overhead once more, flying over them. He appeared to not notice them for a some miles, but he then changed his course, and started heading back towards him. There was no way he couldn't see them now. They only had a few moments before he was upon them again.

"He's turning around," Leo said, previous confidence leaving him a bit. "He's coming back, he's coming back."

The group then scattered. Leo and Simmons started to go towards the twins while the other three humans prepared to start running in the other direction. However, as they were waiting for their chance to go, an "Alise!" was heard from behind them. Turning around, Alise saw Bee's holoform outside the driver's seat door on the Camaro, an anxious look on his face. Alise's eyes widened, not knowing what he was doing, so she quickly turned to her two friends.

"Get to Optimus," she told them as she started to go over to Bee. There was a sudden dread forming in her stomach from being separated from the two teens, but if Bee needed her for some reason, she knew it was probably important. "And get there in one piece! Please!"

The two nodded back at her, and then started to run, their destination the fallen Prime. The pit in her stomach deepened as she saw them run away.

Alise then ran over to Bee and quickly gave him a confused look.

"What is it?" she said, as she sprinted over to the passenger seat. He didn't answer right away. "Bee, Sam and Mikaela are on their own-"

"You're coming with me," the holoform said sharply, and he entered the Camaro form without another word. He had a dead set look on his face, and he look like he wasn't going to take no for an answer.

Alise was stunned for a moment, but knew they had no time to argue out in the open. Starscream was still making his way back to them, and all they had were seconds. She quickly entered into the passenger side of the Camaro, the door closing swiftly behind her, and then looked over at the blond next to her. As the Camaro started to pull out of the alley and storm away from their pursuer going at least 70 mph, his eyes were fixed on the road ahead, not looking over at her.

"Bee," she said, suddenly very worried. He wasn't acting like this before when they were being chased. What had changed? Why was she there and not with Sam and Mik? "Bee, what's wrong?"

"You're staying with me," he said firmly, not explaining his reasoning any further.

"Bee, Sam and Mikaela need me," Alise said just as firmly, scowling a little at him. "They're just kids, Bee! And they are now on their own! In the middle of a god damn war zone! Why am I supposed to stay-"

"Because the last time we were in a war zone,you disappeared! I almost lost you!" he yelled, cutting her off. He looked over at her and his blue eyes were blazing. "We got separated, you wound up almost bleeding out in the middle of a street, and I couldn't do anything but wait for someone to find you! And Primus damn me if I'm about to let that happen again." He took her face in his hands, the Camaro around them not faltering but instead spedding up to try and out speed Starscream. "You are not leaving my side," he said quietly. "If something happens to Sam or Mikaela, I will be devastated. But if something happens to you..." He cut himself off for a moment. "I will not recover."

Alise's scowl slowly faded as his words sank in. He was so afraid he would lose her that he was stealing her away to keep with him, not letting her out of his sight. He wasn't begging her to stay. It couldn't be called that because he wasn't giving her a choice; he wouldn't accept no for an answer.

Alise's heart dropped into her stomach at his tone and the way he was looking at her. He looked so worn down in the holoform, something that was hard to tell in the bipedal form. But despite his worn features, his eyes only held love and worry as he looked at her; and Alise couldn't help what she did next.

Quickly taking his face in her hands, Alise pressed her lips to his, kissing him with as much passion and depth as she could muster in a single motion. The kiss wasn't long, but was powerful, and was enough to make the Camaro flauter for a second before speeding back up, the con still on their trail. When she pulled back, Bee's eyes were wide, not expecting the action.

"Okay," Alise said simply, and a little breathlessly, that one word telling him she wasn't going to protest, and try and leave, and make him worry more than he already was. She would do what he asked. "I don't agree with this, Bee, not at all. But okay."

Bee's whole body seemed to relax. He then threaded his hand through Alise's long hair and drew her to his lips for the last time, returning her previous action, and when they parted, he looked soundly into her eyes.

"Thank you," he breathed, his relief already showing on his face.

With that, Alise gave him a mischievous smile.

"Now let's ditch this bitch," she told him, holding out her hand to h with a certain spark in her eye.

Looking down at her small hand and smiling himself, he took it in his, and the Camaro picked up even more speed, as the two led Starscream away from Sam and Mikaela and into the desert ruins of the village next to them.