Title: Secrets

Ratings: M

Disclaimer: Own nothing, that belongs to Hasbro.

Okay so I uploaded this once before and TehMarishal realized that something was wrong so I misplaced it. Sorries!



Lizy then watched as all five of them transformed into their respective vehicle modes, something she'd seen then do so often that, to her, it seemed as natural as watching someone change their shoes.

"Bumblebee, I want you to take Sari home and then join the rest of us at the scene," Optimus said, already rolling forward.

"Wait, can I go with you guys?" Lizy asked.

"NO," Prowl spoke up instantly. If the others weren't already in their alt mode, they would have turned to look at him.

Prime, spoke up. "He's right, you stay here. Monitor the situation and call us if any more goes wrong."

"But I can help," she protested hoping to go with.

"NO," Prowl spoke louder this time. He changed back into his bipedal mode and kneeled down next to her. "Lizy I want you to stay here. I don't want to see you get hurt." Lizy crossed her arms in a pout, turning away from him. "Please, this is for your own good."

With that he changed back and took off after the others who had already started driving away. Lizy watched them go, hanging her head as she made back towards the monitors, grumbling to the now empty base.

Suddenly, a thought occurred to her and now would be as good as time as any to go and do it. She headed back to the storage room and grabbed a hold of her bike. Lizy pushed it out and to the entrance of the base, strapping on her helmet and starting up the bike. It roared to life and she took off. She just hoped she would be able to see him again, before the others realize that she went out without permission.

She sped down the streets, trying to retrace her steps as to where she saw the boy, although she couldn't remember exactly. It wasn't like she went out very often, after all, and she never really visited the same areas twice, except for the bank, the grocery store and the occasional restaurant.

She quickly decided that this was silly, especially considering there was no guarantee she would even see the boy again in the same place as before.

"So where the hell am I supposed to look?" she muttered out loud to herself as she continued down a random street. She just hoped that she wouldn't run into the Autobots while she was out here.

Lizy turned a corner and came to a stop light. There she waited for the light to turn green, looking around her a little. There weren't very many cars on the streets, despite it still being early in the evening. She wondered if most people were working late tonight, or something.

The light turned green finally and she took off, looking around slightly for any sign of another motorcycle in the area. She nearly missed hitting a pedestrian, who screamed at her to watch where she was going. Lizy only ignored him and continued on, turning down another street.

It was then that someone pulled up besides her, nearly throwing her from the bike in startlement. Looking to the left angrily, she got ready to yell, only to stop dead. It was him, the one she had been looking for. He was cruising along right next to her.

But before she could do anything, he took off faster, leaving her behind in his wake. Lizy only sat there for a few seconds, before taking off after him.

Up ahead he was weaving in and out of cars, not slowing down in the slightest. He was good, she had to give him that much as she continued to follow.

She vowed to herself that she was going to catch him this time. And if nothing else, she was going to get his name, and to find a way to contact him later.

It took her full concentration just to be able to keep up with him through the traffic, though thankfully there still wasn't much traffic. Eventually she followed him around a corner that lead down another street, and she gasped with horror when she spotted the Autobots there, at a building at the very end of the street. She stopped her bike so fast that she was nearly thrown off of it, but she managed to get control.

Once she was sure she had it under control, and stopped, she leaned it against the wall and poked her head around the corner of the building she was at, looking down the street. The Autobots seemed to be too occupied with rescuing people and putting out fires to notice much around them. She looked around frantically for the boy, though she lost track of where he went.

She groaned, gritting her teeth in frustration. She had been so close to finding him, and now she would run the risk of getting spotted if she continued to look for him. What the hell was she supposed to do now?

Just as she was contemplating getting back on her bike and taking off, she saw a flash of movement that caught her eye. She saw something that looked like a wolf coming out of the building, although there was something about it that looked… well, odd. There seemed to be blue metal instead of fur along its sides and back… the same kind of blue metal that the boy had on him in places.

It looked like the wolf had something in its mouth, some sort of bag or package or something, which the boy quickly grabbed and then he ran back to his bike, quickly driving off. None of the Autobots seemed to notice this exchange, although they seemed rather preoccupied with the rescue operations.

Lizy gritted her teeth and hopped back onto her bike. She waited until the boy had sped past her, going in the opposite direction from the building, then she took off after him. She was going to catch up with him now even if it killed her.

She followed him down several roads for a few miles, until he came to what appeared to be an alleyway. He drove his bike into the alleyway, and she brought her own bike to a halt because she happened to remember this area. It was one of the places she'd looked at when she had been on patrol with Prowl earlier, and she knew that this alleyway had a dead end. So now that the boy had gone in there, she knew she had him cornered.

She shut off her bike's engine and leaned it carefully against the wall. Then she slowly made her way to the alley's entrance and leaned her head around the corner.

What she saw within the alley was the boy she'd seen before, and he seemed to be talking to someone who was dressed from head to toe in black, complete with gloves on his hands and a black mask over his face. She saw the boy with the robotic armor hand over the package to this mysterious person, the very same package he'd gotten from the wolf.

It was at that moment that Lizy leaned a little too far around the corner, and the boy turned his head and spotted her. He gasped and pointed, and then the man in black did the same. Both of them rushed in her direction, and two things happened at once. The man in black rushed right past her, running toward his car and getting in to take off. At the same instant, the boy with the robotic armor connected his fist with Lizy's left cheek, rather forcefully.

Lizy was aware of the pain that exploded through her face, and that she was falling. In the next instant, everything went black.


Zac had watched as she dropped to the ground, looking to make sure that his boss was long gone. He had no idea how she had come to be here, but he was sure going to find out.

Noise in the background caught his attention, looking towards the back alley in which he stood. Deciding he should get her out of the open, he lifted her up and moved towards an abandoned building up ahead.

He kicked the door open, cringing when he bounced loudly against the wall the echo loud. Zac continued to carry her past a few rooms before finding one that was fairly clean and placed her down. Now all he had to do was wait until she woke up. He took a seat next to her and began to wait, hoping it wouldn't take to long for her to do so.

Meanwhile, the Autobots worked on completing their work at the site that the vandals had hit. They helped reinforce the structure of the building, as well as a bit of minor damage here and that. On top of that they helped rescue a few trapped individuals.

The police, including Captain Fanzone, deduced that the reason why the place was broken into was because of some sort of invention that was being worked on there, although he said he couldn't release any details for security reasons.

Finally, after several hours of helping out, Optimus Prime decided that they'd done all they could do, and so he gave the order to transform and roll on home.

As they began to head off toward the base in their respective vehicle modes, Prowl activated his comlink in an attempt to contact Lizy. He honestly didn't like leaving her alone, especially not for that long. And when he got no answer, he became somewhat concerned.

But hopefully she was just ignoring him. She seemed to do that sometimes. Or perhaps she had simply fallen asleep. But nonetheless, he quickened his pace just a bit on the road.

Meanwhile, back in the room that Zac was in, he saw Lizy finally starting to stir a bit on the bed he'd put her on.

"Hey take it easy," he said, almost touching her arm, but then thought better of it. He still remembered her threat from the last time they'd met, about how he should not touch her again.

She groaned then blinked her eyelids a few times. Then she looked at him with a scowl forming on her face. "You hit me," she stated through gritted teeth, and reached up to touch her face. She could taste remnants of blood inside her mouth, from where the inside of her cheek had gashed against her teeth.

"Well, you were sticking your nose in other people's business." He bit back, thinking why he had ever helped her in the first place.

The girl sat up still rubbing her jaw, looking around the room before connecting her eyes to him. "Who are you?" ignoring the snappiness of his tone.

"Why should I tell you? Who are you?" he asked back.

She glared at him. "Well if your not going to tell me, then I'm not going to tell you."

"Whatever," he said, standing up and moving towards the doorway.

"Where are you going?" she asked scrambling after him.

He turned back around. "As of right now, I'm leaving and I don't like you following me."

"Well that's to bad, because you were the one that dragged me in here," she snapped back.

Zac continued on, hearing her running after him. "WILL YOU STOP FOLLOWING ME?"

"NO. You brought me in here," pointing a finger into his chest. "you are going to lead me out."

"Find your own way out," he snapped back turning and walking again. Once again she followed him, his teeth gritting in annoyance.

"How would you like me to report you to the police?" she growled, and at this he whirled around to face her.

"On what charge?" he barked.

"I saw you out there!" she yelled. "You were there at that place that got trashed, and you STOLE SOMETHING. I SAW YOU, DON'T EVEN TRY TO DENY IT."

Zac seethed, gritting his teeth and clenching his fists at his sides. "I swear, if you cause trouble for me or my sister in any way, you won't live to regret it!" He fell silent, then grimaced at his slip up. He hadn't intended to mention his sister.

"Sister?" The woman blinked, looking a bit curious. "What about your sister? Is she in on this, too?"

"NO," Zac fumed, taking a threatening step toward her. "Just forget I said anything and go away!"

"Sorry, but you're not gonna get rid of me that easily!"

"FINE!" Zac bellowed, completely losing his cool. "YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY I'M DOING THIS? BECAUSE I NEEDED A JOB!"

He paused for a second, just enough to catch his breathe and get his tone under control then he went on, a bit more civilly. "I needed a job," he repeated. "I was going broke. My boss came along and offered me one, as well as this other girl. He made us both… like this." He tapped the blue metal on his left cheek indicatively. "But she… she isn't well because of it. I don't know how much something went wrong, so she's sick all the time. My boss doesn't give a damn about her, so I have to work twice as hard just to take care of her and try and meet her needs."

He looked at her, glaring openly. "She's like a sister to me, even though I only met her a few weeks ago," he finished.

Lizy looked away, feeling slightly guilty for yelling at him. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to yell," she spoke quietly.

Zac turned to look at her, dropping his anger at her apology. "I guess I should apologize as well." She nodded her head accepting the apology. He held out his hand towards her. "I'm Zac by the way."

She regarded his hand for a minute before sticking out her own and shaking his. "Lizy," giving a small smile.

"Nice to meet you Lizy," dropping her hand. "But I should really get back before my boss wonders what happened."

Lizy watched as he started to walk away again. "I could help you know." He stopped but didn't turn towards her. "Your sister I mean. If she's sick, I know of someone who can help her get better."

Zac took a minute to thin it over before shaking his head. "No, it's best if you don't get involved too dangerous."

"No offense, but I've seen things that you couldn't possibly have imagined. Not to mention the fact that I had lived in an orphanage before. So don't tell me it's too dangerous. I live with my father, he is considered dangerous in ways you couldn't possibly imagine."

"What do you mean?" Zac asked, curious in spite of himself. "Is he into martial arts?"

"Yeah you could say that. He's also an Autobot."

If Zac had been eating or drinking anything at that moment, he probably would have choked on it. Instead his eyes merely seemed to widen to nearly twice their normal size, and Lizy looked mildly amused at his expression.

"An A-Autobot?" Zac stammered. He'd heard things about them on the news, plus he had seen them at the site of the vandalizing, where he had stolen something from Powell just a few hours ago. "You live with THEM?"

"Yes," Lizy said. "And they're not so bad, once you get used to them. I'm sure they could help you and your sister."

"I don't know," Zac said, backing away and shaking his head. "This is all very dangerous. And I can't just make a decision like this, I need some time to think about it."

"Okay fine, whatever," Lizy snipped with a shrug. She wished he would just come with her, but she still remembered how she'd felt when she first started being with the Autobots. It had taken her a while to trust them, and perhaps Zac just needed a little time.

"But look," she said, "I can only sneak away from the base when I know the Autobots won't catch me—otherwise they'll get mad. So we need to figure out a place to meet on some nights, just so we won't have to rely on meeting by chance."

Zac sighed. He had to admit he did want to see more of her, to find out more about her. He still felt torn, since there was no telling what Powell might do to him or D.J. if he found out about this. For that matter, he wasn't sure what to think of the Autobots yet. So he simply said, "Well, how about that alleyway, the one where we… seem to keep stumbling into each other?" His blue eyes twinkled slightly with amusement.

"Okay sure," Lizy said with a nod. "Maybe… I can try sneaking out another night."

"Me too," Zac said. He opened his mouth, wanting to say that maybe they could try and meet tomorrow night, but that was a bit too premature. He had no idea what he was going to be doing tomorrow night, and he couldn't even be sure Lizy could sneak out. So it was best to just… be there at the alleyway whenever he could.

"I need to go," Zac finally said, already moving. "Take care of yourself, and… I hope to see you again."

"Yeah," Lizy said, watching as he began to go. "Me too."

She waited until he was out of sight, then she made a dash from the room, heading down the hallway and then finding her way out of the building. It took her a few minutes to get her bearings, but she finally managed to find her way back to the alleyway where she'd left her motorcycle. Thankfully it was still fine, and no one had taken it or even touched it. So she got on, fired it up, and zoomed down the street in the direction of the Autobot base. Part of her prayed dearly that they hadn't returned and noticed her gone, but since so much time had passed… she felt she probably couldn't be that lucky.

She winced when she noticed her cheek still hurt, a lot. She spared a hand from the handlebars just long enough to touch it. Great, she thought, I've probably got a bruise there. She winced even more at that thought. Hopefully Prowl would not notice.