Carly's POV;

I didn't know how long we had been there, but I remember bolting upright suddenly. The sudden movement hurt, and I ached all over. I didn't know where I was at first, but I soon realized I fell asleep right beside a cliff. I looked around quickly, I wasn't alone when feel asleep!

"Cliff?" I called out alarmed. I got to my feet quickly, kicking off my heels. "If you were killed by a serial killer, and left me behind I swear I will kill you Cliff!" I started off running down the path, heading back to the parked car. "I know I can't kill you if your already dead, but Cliff, you better not have left me behind!"

I wasn't paying attention to what my feet were doing, so I soon face planted in the hard soil. I pushed myself up with a shaky breath, hugging myself as I tried to think. I didn't have my cell, so I couldn't call Lyra. I didn't know where Cliff was, so he was either dead, or he left to get breakfast and surprise me. He could have possibly just left me behind, but I don't think that was likely.

"Cliff?" I called out one last time before resting my head against the tree trunk. I almost wished I hadn't done that, because it just reminded me of my past.

*Flash Back*

"Dad, can I have a night-light?" I asked, I was six at the time.

"Now why would such a big brave girl like you want a night-light?" he asked smiling.

"I'm not brave." I mumbled. "The dark is scary. I always see monsters. Or red glowing eyes." I whined hugging him.

"Here, let me show you something." He said, pulling away gently, he went to turn off the room lights before he returned to my side. "Now, tell me, what do you see?"

I looked around the room, gasping at the sites of monsters. Robotic monsters.

"M-monsters!" I hiccuped. "L-lots of monsters!"

"Okay…" Dad said, wrapping a blanket around me, hugging me close. "Now I want you to try find something in the darkness. Something that you would always consider you protector."

I remember looking around the room till I found something with blue eyes. It was a little tiger. It was adorable. In fact, I still consider it my protector in the darkness.

"I see a little tiger!" I giggled. "But, what if I can't find it when I need it?"

"Then I want you to wrap a blanket around you, and pull it around yourself tightly, and pretend it's me."

"What it I don't have a blanket?"

"Then hug your legs, and pretend I have my arms wrapped around you."

"Why can't I just call for you?" I asked. I peered up at him. I was still able to make out his face in the darkness.

"I may not always been here with you. I wish I could promise I would, but I can promise that I will always be in your heart." He said, kissing my forehead and leaving the room.

*End Flash Back*

"I don't want you in my heart dad, I want you here with me." I mumbled sadly, hugging my knees as tightly as I could, tears biting my eyes.

Cliffjumper's POV;

I onlined to the happy wakeup call of Lyra screaming at my through a comm link.

::CLIFFJUMPER WHERE THE FRAG ARE YOU? MORE IMPORTANTLY WHERE IS CARLY? WHY WERE YOU TWO AWAY ALL NIGHT? ANSWER ME!:: Lyra yelled.

::Geez, take it easy Lyra. Nothing happened, we just fell asleep.::

That was when I realized that I was in my alt form. Which meant that my holoform must have fizzled out in the middle of the night. Which also meant the Carly was alone, and probably awake right now! I let my holoform fizzle to life beside me.

I took off running, only stopping to pick up some pretty flowers as a way to explain myself. I was a little past half way up the hill, when I saw Carly leaning against a big oak tree. Big tears shining in her eyes under her mask.

"Carly?" I asked, kneeling down beside her. "Are you-" I was cut off when she lunged at me, giving me a big hug.

"I'm fine." She assured me. "I'm just glad you came back. Where did you go anyways?"

"I went to pick you these." I said flashing her a grin while I pulled out the flowers from behind my back.

"Aw, thanks Cliff." She smiled, hugging me again.

"No thanks necessary." I grinned. "But I should be getting you home now, before I get into even bigger trouble with Lyra."

"Yeah, that's probably a good idea. I'm kinda fond of you, and it's not always pleasant when Lyra's pissed."

"You speaking from experience?" I asked.

"Yeah, but she always go's easy on me. I don't know if you've noticed yet, but I'm a bit of a wimp." She laughed.

"No you aren't." I smiled, giving her a side hug as we descended down the cliff back to the car.

"Wow, you must not know me very well yet!" she laughed, "All Lyra had to do when we were younger was tickle me, and anything I was hiding from her would no longer be a secret."

Carly's POV;

The ride home was short, or at least it was to me, since I fell asleep in the car. I was able to sleep anywhere if I was tired enough. Before I knew it, Cliff was telling me we were there.

"We've arrived to your destination, thank you for choosing Cliffjumper travel. We hope you will be joining us again soon." He said, rambling on till I was finally awake.

"Good morning Sunshine." He smiled.

"Good morning Superman."

Cliff and I talked for a few more minutes before I finally slipped out of the car and walked up the path into the house. Lyra raced over, hugging me close before pushing me away to see how I looked.

"How are you?" she asked, studying me closely.

"A little tired." I admitted.

"You should head to bed, I have your costume for tonight in your room!"

"What costume, we already had the dance?" I asked curiously.

"Yeah, but we also going to go trick or treating tonight."

"Okay. I'm not even going to ask what it is, I'm just going to bed." I mumbled walking up the stairs.

"Oh yeah Carly?" Lyra called up to me.

"Yeah."

"Never scare me like that again."

I turned to face my friend. She was hanging her head, studying the ground. I quickly raced back down to her, pulling her into a hug.

"I was so worried about you. I don't want to lose you. There are a lot of bad people and-" she cut herself off, hugging me tightly.

"Like I told Cliff, I'm not going anywhere." I promised.

After a few minutes Lyra pulled away, and sent me up to bed to sleep. I was starting to drift off while we were hugging, which is probably not a good sight. I quickly changed into some comfy clothes, and fell asleep instantly on my bed.

The Drone: Sorry it took me a little while to update. I was having fun hanging out with Exactor and Rotor! Yeah, someday in the story Megatron is going to be punched in the face plates. But it might not be in the prequel. (This is a prequel BTW, there is another one after this… :D) I don't think there should be to many more chapters till the prequel is done. About 10 at most I think... Are you up for keeping up with this one, and reading what comes next? ;D Oh, also, I had some extra energon on hand, so I feed them for you, they should come back to you very happy! :D lol, yeah, I was listening to the song when I came up with the idea. :)

Bee4ever: Thank you! :3 I know! That Cliff is just full of surprises! :D Gotta love him for it! ;D

Trunksymia: Thank you! :3 I try to do what I can with the story. :) Optimus…I feel like I coloured him as a bad guy, which I didn't really mean to do. Which is partly why I tried to redeem him a little in this chapter. Did it work?

I forgot to do this last time, but if any of you want to hear the Superman song, it's called 'Superman' and it's by: Joe Brooks.

Also, I don't really check Carly's hotmail account that much…sorry…but I do check her tumblr almost daily. So please feel free to find her and ask her any questions you'd like! She will answer them all truthfully. If you want to ask her what she thinks about something that she doesn't know in the story, go ahead, she will answer, but then forget about the question complete, that way we don't give away the story for her too! :)

So please give her a shout! :) Seriously, go bug her. It's fun for me. So go, you finished the chapter. :D No pressure…But you should go check it out. You can even talk to Lyra!

Doesn't that sound like fun? :D

~Haiden

P.S. I'm sorry this is such a short chapter.