Starscream pointed his canon at Fowler, "Not so fast, Autobots." He then spotted Cliffjumper. "Oh, my," He chuckled. "I knew you were back from the dead, Cliffjumper, but to be back in fighting shape so fast… that femme Guardian's voice must be very powerful, she'd do well serving the Decepticon cause." He then felt something tap him on the head. He looked up.
Arcee was above him, hanging on the roof. "Go near her, and I won't be the only one out to kill you." His words confused Bulkhead and Bumblebee.
"And they would be?" Starscream sneered back.
Arcee didn't have time to answer as, Fowler had looked up. She looked a little tipsy. "The evil says 'yeah!" She grinned, making the transformers around her give her a weird look.
'Oh, yeah, she's on high grade.' Cliffjumper thought. Guardians never did well on high grade it was something that sent them gaga. He fired his cannon at Starscream, while he was distracted from Fowler's comment, after that the others started as well.
Starscream dodge most of the shots before transforming and blasting off down the hall.
Miko gasped covering her eyes. As the Con had Raf at gun point.
"What's happening?" Diamond asked, gripping Miko's shoulder.
"Both of you get ready to run," Jade commanded. "Miko, take a photo of that," She pointed that the screen.
It was then that cannon fire went off. Raf ran, weaving around trying to not get blasted.
"Now," Jade barked, she dived out of their hiding and tackled Raf, to the ground just missing a shot that came at them. She then placed her shield around them. The shots bounded off, and Jade flinched, she then turned her shield off, and made another one hovering in mid-air. She then made a whacking movement with her hand. The shield hit the 'Con hard on the face.
Miko, who had taken a photo of the Alien math, then took a photo of the con, before Jade hit it.
"Don't mess around," Jade snapped, "Go, go, go!" She ranted, pulling Raf along behind her, running to the large door.
Miko grabbed hold of Diamond's arm and ran after Jade. The 'Con regained his himself, and fired after them. He blasted open the door with a missed shot.
As Jade and the others ran out the 'Con followed, walking, he wasn't in a hurry to kill them.
A horn sounded off and Bulkhead transformed, he jumped and tackled the Decepticon. Bumblebee, Cliffjumper and Arcee came up beside them. Raf climbed into Bumblebee, while Miko and Diamond got inside Cliffjumper.
"I told you to stay put!" Arcee snapped as Jade climbed on top of him.
"You try looking after them." She snapped back.
Diamond and Miko sat inside Cliffjumper's front seats.
"I like chocolate," A voice behind them giggled. Miko and Diamond turn their heads. Fowler's head was between them. "Can we stop of chocolate?" She then fainted in between the two seats.
"You found Fowler," Miko grinned. "Rock on!"
"That was Fowler?" Diamond asked, as Raf had told him of a more serious one. "Is she ok?" He could only see Fowler as a blur, but somehow he doubted she was well.
"Starscream put her on high grade." Cliffjumper answered. "It's ok for Transformers to drink, but it sends Guardians drunk the minute it enters their body."
"Strange." Diamond noted. He made a small promise to himself, to never drink that stuff.
Thankfully everyone was soon back at base, the first thing that was done was, having put Fowler down on a HOSPITAL BED. After that Optimus and Ratchet arrived back at base. It was then that the conversion on the events started up.
"And that's mainly how it all went down, Optimus." Arcee finished.
Optimus Prime gave a nodded of understanding. "It is good to see that you all live through the event." He turned his attention to Bulkhead. "Bulkhead, even though we did not know about our human friends being guardians, you lack very poor judgement on allowing them to come with you."
Bulkhead, who had been sitting down, stood up. "It won't happen again Optimus."
"But it wasn't Bulkhead's fault." Miko said, knowing it was her own. She then pulled out her phone and flipped over to the photo she took. "And check it out, recon!" She held it up for Optimus.
Optimus bent over to see the photo, he then turned to Ratchet. "Ratchet, take a look, it may be of importance to Megatron."
The guardians looked at him. "Megatron's back?" Jade questioned.
Miko pulled her phone back up for Ratchet to see next.
Ratchet crossed her optic-brows. "I don't understand,"
Miko looked at her phone screen. "Opps," She must have pressed the wrong button. "That's the 'con who tried to blow Raf away." She then grinned. "That is before Jade and Bulkhead- well mainly Bulk- kicked his tailpipe in."
"Miko!" Jade snapped, "Raf was almost killed today! How can you just stand there and acted like it was an everyday thing?!"
Miko glared at Jade. "You know what Jade?" She hissed. "Maybe cause I want too. True it is life threaten, but if I didn't go, we would never had found Diamond or the alien…" She struggled for a bit on the last words. "Math thing."
Jade stood up straight. "I'm leaving," She hissed, walking away from Miko and down the stairs.
"Where are you going?" Miko asked, scoffing.
"Where my mum wanted all guardians," She shot back over her shoulder as she walked to the exit. "Away from this war."
Once Jade had gone by walking home, or by flying, Miko kicked her foot on the ground.
"If you could show me that photo, Miko," Ratchet asked again, she wanted the subject changed, too much drama for her at the moment. Miko looked up at her, before putting the right photo on her screen and showed Ratchet.
"It's math, alright." She mumbled. "I'll need that on my computer to study it further."
"I can help with that," Raf walked over grabbed Miko's phone and walked to the other side of the room.
"What's with him?" Miko questioned.
"He may be upset by the fact, Jade left." Diamond answered. "He told me a lot about her when he was trying to lead me out of the Deception base."
It was then that Arcee remembered what he wanted to talk about with Optimus. He turned to face his leader. "Optimus," He addressed getting his attention. "Today Jade told me Cliffjumper who her mother was."
"June Darby." Optimus replied.
Arcee glared at him. "So you could tell?"
This sent all of the Autobots and Guardians quiet.
Optimus sighed. "The first time I saw her."
Cliffjumper butted in. "Then that's your daughter, who just left the base, Prime."
At that Bulkhead's and then Guardian's jaws dropped, while Bumblebee, who didn't have one, went wide-eyed.
"Optimus has a kid, and it's Jade?" Miko spluttered.
"Two actually," Ratchet added. "But at the time June left Cybertron she was still with spark, so Optimus never place a parenting bond on the second sparkling. He could tell who Jade was the moment he saw her."
"You knew?" Bulkhead glared at the medic.
"Of course, I've known June and Optimus, longer than any of you. Heck I had to babysit at one point." She shuddered at the memory.
It was then that everyone turned back to face Optimus.
Optimus narrowed his eyes at their looks. "I'm not going to force her to come back."
(Then just talk to her.) Bumblebee chirped in an annoyed tone.
"Or better yet," Arcee stepped in closer to him. "Give her a ride home, knowing her, she's walking still."
Optimus looked around the room; everyone seemed to be watching him. He sighed, "Very well." He transformed and drove out of the base.
Jade kept putting one foot in front of the other as she walked home. It was dark out and Jade hoped like hell some weirdos didn't come along in a car and grab her or worse, 'cons.
It was then that a truck pulled up beside her, she knew who it was, Optimus.
The cab door opened. "Get in," He told her. Something about his voice made Jade obey. She climbed up and hopped in. As she sat down she felt a lot safer, like she had with her mum. She looked over at the DRIVER'S seat to see, a man with blue hair with red tips. On him was blue jeans and black top covered by a red jacket.
"Thanks," She said quietly.
He gave a nod and drove onwards. "I understand for you wanting to leave this fight, Jade. But do know that you will always have a place in my team and my heart, my daughter."
Jade froze and snapped her head around to look at him. She didn't say a word so Optimus continued.
"You have your mother's looks, but I think you got my stubbornness." He looked her in the eye.
"You're my Dad?" Jade was shocked, the leader of the Autobots was her dad. "Are sure?"
"Your mother's name is June Darby is it not?"
Jade gave a silent nod.
"They I'm sure you are my first born."
"First born?"
"I do have another child, but I could not lay a parent bond, as June was still pregnant when she left Cybertron." Optimus replied. "When did you last see your mother, Jade?"
Jade turned away from his eyes. "She left; she said that someone was hunting her and the others down. She said the others were fine, but she had to leave."
"Who was hunting her? Decepticons?"
"She didn't say. But she hasn't come back yet either." Jade felt a tear go down her face at the thought. She should have done something to help her mum that day. She then felt a strong feeling of love wash over her like a soft wave. Jade looked back at Optimus as he had put a hand on her shoulder.
Somehow she knew the feeling had come from him.
"We shall find her, Jade." Optimus promised her. "You have my word. I only hope you change your mind and come back to the team." He then paused and looked out the window. "This is where you live?"
Jade turned to look as well. She was shocked to see that they were at her home/warehouse. She didn't even remember Optimus driving.
"Yeah that's it," She was now a little embarrassed at how she made a life for herself. "See ya, Dad." She opened the door and climbed out. She watched him go, before walking inside.
She walked into the warehouse. She then spotted a beat up motorbike in the corner. She walked over to see a note beside it.
Hey girl,
I found this thing in the JUNK YARD.
I remember you saying you wanted to do a motorbike for that project next week,
I hope this will help,
From your BFF, Sierra.
Jade let herself give off a weak smile. Sierra was a sweat girl. She normally helped Jade out with this stuff.
Jade looked the motorbike over, it was broken down, but Jade could get it fixed in a few hours. When clock read 9:30pm, Jade was ready to spray-paint it.
It was then that headlights hit Jade in the face. She turned to see Bulkhead outside, she pressed the button on the wall, opening the GARAGE DOOR. Bulkhead rolled in and Miko jumped out of the driver's seat.
"So this is why you rushed home?" She asked.
"SCIENCE FAIR PROJECT." Jade answered. "Done yours yet?"
"Nope, it's miles away."
"It's next week."
"And my model of THE SOLAR SYSTEM shall be done by then."
"The paperwork?"
"You sound like my mum." She glared. She walked over and sat down beside Jade. "Jade, be honest, do you seriously want to stay in this small town all your life?"
"I have to," Was her repel.
"Why?" Miko asked, "What is keeping you here?"
"I'm waiting,"
"What?"
Jade sighed keeping her eyes on her bike. "My mum is missing, she had to run and hide somewhere, she said to wait here for her."
Miko groaned. "Jade, Diamond said he lived on Earth and he had no idea what Cybertron, was until, he meet us. That means there are people like us out there, waiting to find out who they are." She stood up and went to the other side of the biketo face Jade."There's a time for waiting and looking, and after waiting over 10 years, I would have left a note and started to look for her myself." She then saw a piece of paper on the floor. "What's that?"
"A song I have to sing tomorrow," Jade replied.
Milko read the name and some of the lyrics. "I think you may want to take the songs advice." She then walked back to Bulkhead and hopped in his passenger side. They drove off and Jade checked out the lyrics. She glared at them before tossing it behind her and went back to spray painting. She knew the song off by heart, so studying it was not a problem.
*Next morning*
Jade arrived at the café, she sighed, wondering if she had made the right choice or not. Her father was the leader of the Autobots, she had always wondered what had happened, what he was like and now that she knew, she felt proud, but she also felt like someone dropped a huge responsible on her shoulders. How could she measure up to someone as great as Optimus Prime?
"We could have driven you here." A male voice chuckled from behind her. Jade turned to face Cliffjumper and Arcee; both were in vehicle mode with their holoforms standing in front of Jade.
Jade shock her head, "Guys, Miko already tried. I can't help you in this war." She turned to leave but Arcee grabbed her hand.
"We're not asking for your help, Jade." Cliffjumper told her, with an honest tone. He stood closer to her and cupped her check. "We're asking for your company."
"Huh?" Jade was surprised by the show of care, in the way he held her right cheek.
"We used to know someone like you Jade," Arcee explained. "She was a Transformer, and we loved her. This may just be grief talking from both of us, but we're not ready to say goodbye to you."
Cliffjumper removed his hand from her cheek and place a kiss there, while Arcee did the same on Jade's other cheek.
They then pulled back, walking back to their bodies. Jade followed them, sitting down on Arcee's seat. "Let's go,"