Title: Secrets

Rating: M

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Alright, so it's been a while since we last updated and I was asked to do this. So here you go!


During the third visit they managed to get together, they talked a bit more about this subject. "Sometimes I wonder if I might have a father—or maybe a mother, for all I know—out there somewhere, too," Zac found himself saying to Lizy, as they both sat with their backs against the alley walls, facing each other. "Powell won't tell me where he got this circuitry from. But since it's a different color than yours, and since I don't feel a connection with you, it must have come from someone other than Prowl."

Lizy looked thoughtful. "Can't be any of the other Autobots," she murmured. "Well, Optimus Prime has some blue on him, but it's a lot lighter than what you have." Just then, she gasped as a thought came to her. "Zac there was a ship from the Autobot Elite Guard that crashed in the city a couple months ago or so. But we never found the pilot, even though Optimus and the others are still keeping an eye out. I wonder if it could be him! Or her," Lizy added as an afterthought.

Zac though on it a little, but he didn't have an answer for her. They thought about it a few times, but nothing ever came from it. Zac had tried to get information from anywhere he could find at the lab, but everything was tight lip there.

So the two of them could only speculate, where the pilot of the ship went, since they had no proof Powell took them.

But then the day came that would really put their developing friendship to a test. After exactly two weeks had passed since Prowl granted Lizy permission to leave the base when she chose to, another place was vandalized. Again, the Autobots came to the rescue—and even Lizy was allowed to go along with them, despite Prowl's protests; Optimus Prime simply ordered her to stay well out of the way at all times—and the only suspects that were seen were a wolf and a black panther, fleeing from the scene. However, the creatures were too fast and too slick to be caught.

But Lizy knew better, even though she didn't say a word to the Autobots. She simply stood by while they cleaned up the mess and helped rescue a few of the injured people, hoping to spot Zac somewhere. But, just as she figured, she didn't see him. He was too careful not to be seen. Although she suspected that that damn panther and wolf had probably rendezvoused with him somewhere.

He had mentioned them during one of their meetings in the alleyway—they were two animals that had been "upgraded" with the same Cybertronian technology that had been put into Zac and D.J. And the two animals served as thugs, potential assassins, and thieves. They helped get Powell whatever he wanted.

Lizy decided that she wasn't going to sit there anymore and let Zac continue to help out with these terrible acts.

So she waited until the Autobots were finished with what they were doing that day, and followed them home. Then she spend the rest of the evening doing her normal thing, working out with Prowl a little and then getting some energon as well as something to eat, then she told the Autobots she was heading out for a couple hours. Then she grabbed her bike and took off from the base.

Lizy silently drove her black-and-gold motorcycle down the streets, looking around frantically. Zac had set up a meeting area for where they could see each other discreetly; she just hoped he would be there. She'd heard about another break-in and robbery of another new invention the other night, and she wanted to put a stop to this.

She made her way to the alleyway and pulled up quietly, stopped and shutting off the engine of her bike. She then walked her motorcycle forward and leaned it against the alley wall, then looked around.

"Lizy," came the familiar voice. Her head snapped up and she turned to look at him. He stepped out of the shadows, and the moonlight illuminated his form, the dark blue metal on his left arm and left side of his neck gleaming in the moonlight.

"Zac," Lizy said, and practically stomped toward him. "You're very lucky I haven't called the police on you."

Zac narrowed his eyes and folded his arms. "What are you talking about?"

"You know exactly what I'm talking about!" Lizy snipped. "I heard about the robbery last night. And I want you to stop it."

"You know I just have to take care of my sister, Lizy." Zac told her firmly, obviously set in what he was doing. "Its not like I want to do these things, but I have to... for her. This is so D.J. can survive."

"Well there are other ways than stealing inventions! I don't know what the hell you and Powell are playing at, but its going to stop right now." Lizy said to him, pointing her finger at him and very determined to stop this madness.

"Okay, listen, you need to stay out of this. It's none of your business, just stay out of it, Lizy, and everything will be fine...." Zac assured her "Just please, trust me."

"I am your friend, so you damn well better be sure that it's my business. And everything is not fine...this is not right, and while I have never been a saint, I know the difference between right and wrong. I'm sorry, but I can't let this go on." Lizy shot back.

"Lizy, please, I'm begging you...stay out of this. I know it's not right, but I have to do it...for D.J.... my sister is the most important person in my life, and I can't lose her. I just can't. And I don't want you getting involved."

"I don't give a rat's ass what you want. Listen to me, Zac, if you have a brain that works, you'll cut all your ties from Powell and never even think of stealing anything ever again....I know you care about your sister, but this is going too far. Next, are you going to be murdering people?" Lizy rhetorically asked.

Zac scowled and took a step toward Lizy, clenching and unclenching his fists at his sides. "How can I make you understand?" he snipped. "You live like a perfect little pampered princess with your father and those other Autobots, where they take care of your every need. Me? I'm not so fortunate, Elizabeth! Just look at me!"

"Yeah, just look at you!" Lizy shouted. "You're nothing but a criminal! You could easily drop everything with Powell and come live with us! Bring your sister, too! We can help you! Maybe Ratchet can even help D.J.!"

Zac gritted his teeth. "It's not that easy!" he said. "Can't you see? If I leave, Powell might come after me. And it wouldn't be easy for me to just take off with D.J. What if Wolfgang came after me? Or even you, for that matter?"

Lizy snorted and reached down, grabbing her twin sai's into her hands, swinging the blades around once. "I can handle myself fine," she snipped. "Let Wolfgang, Powell, or anybody else come after me."

Zac growled and took a step toward her, grabbing her arm. "Don't underestimate them! They're dangerous—"

Now Lizy growled and yanked her arm away, taking a step backwards. "I told you to never place a hand on me!" she yelled, pointing one of her sai's at him threateningly.

"Lizy, its just-" Zac began but Lizy cut him off.

"Now you listen to me....I told you I can take care of myself...I took on my father of all people, I can take on some mad scientist and Wolfgang! They are all buffoons...so calm down, and just leave! Grab D.J., and come to the Autobot base...my father and the others would be glad to help you! Now I know what it feels like to be hesitant about them...I was once, and I still think sometimes that my father has something stuck up his ass....but still, it's better than Powell!" Lizy pleaded, this statement coming from the heart, obvious by her tone of voice.

"You just don't understand....you have to live my life, be in my shoes to understand...I know you haven't had the most lovely life, but you still don't know what its like. You got help in your father...there's no one around to help me! No one at all! Not even the Autobots!" Zac exclaimed, clenching his fists as he got increasingly frustrated with Lizy.

"That's because you won't let anyone help you, stubborn asshole! Like me...here I am, trying to help you, and you are just being ungrateful and going on about how I supposedly don't know what its like! Save me the sob story, Zac, and actually try to fix your life! For all you know, your sister may want to die instead of seeing her brother commit crime in order to keep her alive!" Lizy exclaimed in a burst of anger.

Zac immediately turned around, and got right up in Lizy's face...burning hatred and fury in his eyes. "You can make comments on me, bitch, but don't you EVER...EVER...talk about D.J. like that! Just turn your little self around and get out." he ordered.

"Make me." she whispered coolly, getting even closer to him, not even a centimeter between the two.

"I don't know what I ever liked about you...." Zac whispered back harshly

"I don't think I ever liked you anyway...." Lizy said, but as they remained face to face like that, in the midst of them insulting each other, they leaned in, as little as they could anyway, and their lips locked.

The two began kissing passionately, almost giving into it, and not stopping for a few good seconds...Lizy put her arms on Zac's shoulders, as he wrapped his own arms around her, but suddenly, she jerked back and slapped the man with all her might! "BASTARD!" she screamed, wiping her mouth off.

Zac's eyes widened and he took a step backward, as though realizing what had just happened. He had actually KISSED her! He touched his sore cheek tenderly, where she had slapped him. "You no-good bitch," he hissed. "I don't even know why I'm out here talking to you! You don't understand anything, you just yell at me and hit me!"

"Then let's just stop talking!" Lizy bellowed, throwing her hands into the air. "Don't come back here anymore, just stay with your sister and keep doing bad things for Powell. Next time you do, I'll call the police! End of all problems, end of story."

"You wouldn't dare," Zac growled, grabbing her roughly by the arms. "If you do that, my sister will die!"

"THEN COME TO THE AUTOBOT BASE, WITH ME!"

"I CAN'T RIGHT NOW! CAN'T YOU UNDERSTAND THAT?!"

"NO I DON'T UNDERSTAND," Lizy yelled, grabbing the front of his shirt as his own hands tightened around her arms. "I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY THIS HAS TO BE SUCH A HARD CHOICE FOR YOU TO MAKE!"

"FINE!" Zac yelled and dropped his arms. "JUST GIVE ME A CHANCE TO THINK ABOUT IT!"

A silence fell between them. "Fine," Lizy finally said, a little too quietly. Then she reached into her pocket and pulled out a slip of paper, handing it to Zac.

He looked at it. "What's this?" he asked.

"Location of the Autobot base," Lizy said. "In case you decide to come sometime." She narrowed her eyes. "Don't you dare let anyone else see it? Memorize it and eat it."

Zac nodded slowly, taking the folded piece of paper into his hands. "I should be going," he said, turning to go.

Lizy grabbed him roughly by the shoulder. "Come to the base sometime," she said. "When you've thought it through. I think I can expect you there." With that, she leaned in and kissed him on the lips, hard.

Then, just as quickly, she pulled away, their lips making a loud smacking noise as she did so. Then without another word, she rushed over to her bike, hopped on, started the engine, and took off down the street, zooming back toward the Autobot base.


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