Hey there guys! We're going to continue TWOF, now that we know the complete story of how the twins lost their mate. I will repeat it here, that scene in the last chapter (of how Sunny and Sides lost their mate) will not be used in their own Sunny/OC story, because that story has a completely different plot.

Now that that's out of the way, I think it's time to continue with the story, shall we? You can bring tissues here too, just in case.

I had managed to calm myself as I looked into the distance, the Autobots fading away as they went into the Xanthium. But what I didn't understand is why Bumblebee was crouching in front of Nicole and not following the rest of the Autobots.

I wiped the tear traces from my cheeks with the back of my hands, straightening myself as I inhaled through my nose. As I took a few steps closer to Bee and Nic, I could hear Bee talking with his radio.

"Look, I was gonna go easy on you and not to hurt your feelings, but I am only going to get this one chance. Something's wrong, I can feel it. Just a feeling I've got, like something's about to happen, but I don't know what. If that means what I think it means, we're in trouble, big trouble." He looked at her with his big blue optics.

She was on the verge of falling apart. They both knew they had to let go and never see each other gain. "Please, Bee… I love you…" she sobbed as she took a shaky step forwards as he extended his hand towards her. She clung onto the large metallic finger, giving it a kiss. "Don't go." She looked into his eyes.

He let out a sad robotic sound.

"We have to leave." Optimus said as he stopped by Bumblebee and looked at him.

"Six minutes, six minutes…" Bee tried to buy them time.

"Now, Bumblebee." He sternly said. He wasn't emotionless, but he couldn't let the heartbreaking sight of the two lovers saying their final goodbyes get to him. He walked forwards and into the Xanthium.

Bumblebee sighed, as he stood up. He cast her one last look, his optics threatening to water with energon tears. He turned on his radio again. "And I will always love you…" he summoned his holoform quickly as his real form slowly started to walk away, with his door wings down.

I remembered the song, and how Ironhide had used it the first time he and I officially kissed. The memories attacked me.

God, why…

My eyes filled up with water again. There was just so much and so many things I did with him and everything reminded me of him.

The two clung onto each other so tightly, Nicole barely finding the air to breathe. Bee kissed her one last time, before having to let go, to say goodbye to Sam and vanish. His holoform had turned into nothing as his real form disappeared into the Xanthium.

Nicole was left alone, standing as she looked at the Xanthium, her tears tracing down the sides of her cheeks. She seemed to mouth something to herself and then looked down, blinking as her tears fell from her eyes and onto the ground.

I walked up to her, putting a hand on her shoulder. Her lower lip trembled as her gaze was still facing downward. "I… I don't understand…" She said to herself.

"Don't understand, what?" I said as she and I walked behind, going into a building, following Sam. As she was keeping the thoughts to herself and ignoring my question, we got into the building and follow Simmons, because Sam went elsewhere on his own. As we were in the elevator, nobody said a word.

We got out and followed Simmons and Mearing until we reached a rooftop, where we would watch the departure of the Autobots.

Everything just made me feel so sick. I was done with everything.

"Bee…" she said, moving to a corner of the rooftop. "He told me something didn't feel right to him."

"What do you mean?" I asked, watching the orange sky turn to an almost surreal crimson color, the clouds colored in a yellowish shade. I used to love watching the sunsets… Used to. Now I found nothing in them, just deep and painful memories that arose.

"I…I don't know. He just… told me there was something really off." She said, looking in the direction of the Xanthium. Her body started to tremble slightly. "God…" she joined her hands and brought them to her face in worry. She blew warm air into them, in a way releasing a small amount of stress.

The speakers throughout the building, inside and out, resounded. "Seven… six… five… four… three… two… one… zero."

And just as the countdown had ended, the Xanthium's thrusters ignited, blowing flame out of it, burning thousands of liters of fuel, as it started to move upwards, ascending from its position. A huge amount of smoke emitted around the ship as it started to leave its bay, going up into air.

We all stared from the confined rooftop, looking through the windows as well as looking on the monitors that were filming the ship's departure.

I held Nicole's hand, as she used the other to wipe away the oncoming tears. The tears that just kept on running and she didn't even have to blink, her eyes were overflowing with tears as it was. "I'm going outside." Sam said as Nicole and I turned towards him, but he was already on his way out. Wherever 'out' was.

Nicole and I turned our gaze to the ship, growing ever more distant with every passing second. We just watched it, seeing it leave yellow smoke behind it, as if it was ripping through the almost crimson sky. But then the radio resounded throughout the whole room.

"Say again?"

"We're tracking an incoming object." A female voice said as Nic and I looked at the large monitors. Something big and something silver was coming at the ship, as people stood up from their chairs and pointed towards the monitors. As the camera zoomed into the oncoming object, Nicole and I recognized it. It was Starscream.

All of a sudden, his rockets deployed, about four or five of them. And they were headed straight towards the Xanthium.

It didn't take a genius to figure out what was going to happen. My heart sank into my stomach as my blood went cold, body still. Nicole's grip on my hand intensified. "No…" she whispered.

The rockets got closer to the ship. I stared at the monitor, pleading to a deity that the rockets would miss it. I took a step back, as if I was trying to move away from the scene. But there was no escaping it. "No…" she said louder this time, but nobody heard it.

In a matter of seconds, Starscream's rockets hit the ship, causing an enormous explosion, as parts of the ship flew down to Earth, pulled by gravity. "NO!" Nicole shrieked, staring through the window at the falling remains of the ship, the explosion echoing through the sky.

I stared with her at the horrid scene, my mouth agape. Had I… had I just lost everyone?

Optimus, Sides, Sunny… Bumblebee… All gone. Forever.

Bee.

My head turned towards Nicole as the rest of my body was frozen. I felt… I felt like I was being ripped off of everything I ever held dear to me. Nicole stared at the ship, motionless, with a hand over her mouth as she trembled. The tears in both of our eyes spilled over our cheeks, the explosion and its remains hanging in the air, echoing away.

Why? Why did everyone have to die?

Her hand drifted from her mouth and touched the window glass with trembling fingers and a broken voice. "Bumblebee…" she gasped as her knees started to shake. I was on the verge of falling too, yet I had to keep her standing.

"Because if you don't… nobody else will." Sunstreaker's words resounded in my head, as if it was a sort of a reminder.

"It's over." Mearing said, making everyone turn to her. "Kids, with me." she said, as we thought she was addressing us.

Nicole stood at the window in shock. She couldn't get over the horrible fact of what had happened. I tugged her hand lightly as she went out of her short trance. "We have to go…" I whispered as she nodded, staring blankly at her feet as she walked. She couldn't think, it was visible on her.

Yet, I had to be the strong one. To, in our worst time, guide us to safety. Wherever safety was, I had to stand up for both of us, even though I myself couldn't find the strength to do it. Now I realized what Chromia was talking to me about. She was right. I was to be the strong one. At all times.

We followed Mearing to a room with dark grey walls and monitors and computers everywhere. Soldiers walked around and shared intel. Leo, Mikaela, Nicole and I were standing there, each of us feeling lost and disoriented.

Have we all just lost the ones we cared most about? I had to ask myself that question. And the answer was positive. Twice. The first time for Ironhide… The second for all the Autobots I held close to me.

"Get them to sit down. It's a damn crowd in here and they're in shock." Mearing rolled her eyes and ordered a couple of soldiers to find some sort of seating for us. Two soldiers came to us and seated Nicole first. She seemed to be the one most in shock. Later, they seated me, Mikaela and Leo.

The four of us sat still, each staring into space. None of us could really comprehend what had happened. And none of us wanted to embrace the fact that everyone was… gone.

Was this the cruel way of life? The way it wanted to treat us, to fill our souls will eternal loss and pain? To show us that we have to cherish everyone and everything in life, because one day it might be here and the next day it might be gone?

Chills went up my spine as I noticed my mouth was hanging agape. I closed it and glanced at Nicole. Her eyes were wide, her breathing uneven and she was trembling a lot. She was going to hyperventilate.

My arms felt so heavy to move when I tried to shake her out of it. "Nicole… please, try to breathe evenly."

She didn't hear me. Even if she did, she probably was too much in shock to react. I looked to Mikaela, who was silently crying in Leo's arms. She needed to be consoled, as well.

I had to help Nicole on my own.

I sighed as I got up from chair and crouched in front of Nicole. "Come on, snap out of it. Everything's okay." I lied. Everything was far from okay.

But she didn't see me. It was as if she was staring at a spot above my head, the same spot she had been staring in for the past few minutes. She needed a doctor.

I got up and walked to one of the soldiers closest to us. "She needs a doctor. Now." I said, gesturing towards Nicole. He nodded and walked away into another room. A couple of seconds later came out a doctor who was dressed into military khakis and wore a black long sleeved jumper.

He immediately noticed Nicole and jogged to her, placing his hands on her shoulders. "Hello there," the doctor paused, silently asking me to tell him her name.

"Nicole." I said, putting my hand on her arm, assuring her that I was here.

"Nicole. I am Doctor Perkins. Everything is going to be alright, you are safe. I need you to breathe slowly. Like me." he gestured with his one hand towards himself, making hand movements of slow air inhaling and exhaling. He also motioned with his mouth on how to do it.

I joined in. "Watch us." I said, mimicking the doctor's breathing and movements.

"You're alright, relax. No panicking." He soothingly said as Nicole slowly lessened her trembling and started to breathe even. "There you go." He said, but still continued to help her breathe evenly. "Just don't think about anything that might get you stressed or too excited." He said as he got up from his crouching position. He put a hand on my shoulder as I looked up at him. "You have good reflexes. You might have just saved her life. Had you not called me on time, we would've had a lot more on our hands to deal with." He finished and walked away into the room where he came from.

I diverted my glance from him and looked at Nicole. "You okay now?" I said, forcing a smile.

"You… you called him?"

"You weren't feeling good. You were hyperventilating."

She gave me a soft, sudden hug around my neck and started to sob, her body shaking. "Thank you… Seriously, Mel, so many times…" So many times have I saved her life and she had she saved mine.

"It's totally fine." I almost started to cry as well. So many people in this room were grieving. So many had lost…

Suddenly, echoes spread throughout the city. Echoes of explosions and gunshots. Metal smashing, buildings crumbling… And all of it reminded us too much about Starscream's rockets and the death of our loved ones.

My stomach churned, anxiety spread through my body as Nicole's touch went away. "Don't get excited or stressed, they can't do us anything in here." I said to her, even though the Decepticons could very easily smash us all to death.

The thought brought me headache which I ignored.

I heard my uncle talking to somebody in the room Nicole and I were in, just moments ago. "There's a ring of alien ships around Chicago."

"Our high range bombers were just knocked out of the sky. They can't get through enemy air defenses over the city. Our satellites have been jammed, we have no way to monitor the enemy's movements."

"Our own N.E.S.T. teams are on stand down-"

"What is it?" Nicole suddenly asked me.

"I don't know." I said as she and I went back into the main room.

"We're about," Will continued, looking at his watch. "Ten minutes from the battle zone. We have special forces trying to gain access to the city."

I leaned a little closer to Nicole. "I think they're trying to get into the city."

She nodded.

"Excuse me, excuse me, it just doesn't make sense!" Simmons complained from his wheelchair as all eyes were on him. "Can't we get any eyes in there at all?"

Mearing's pose was stiff, for neither did she know what to do. "They keep shooting down our drones."

"They want us blind. But we do have a couple of mini drones we're gonna use." I saw general Moreshower on the TV screen.

"Well, whoever is manning these UAV drones, can we try to redirect them to the Trump Tower? The kid Witwickity was on his way to Chicago! Said some point man human op is there, for the Decepticons." He got closer the glass desk. "Listen, if I know anything, I know this: that kid is alien bad news magnet."

"We'll send your team the information on the drones, we're sending a couple of them into the city right now. Moreshower out." He said as the TV screen turned black and the transmission was cut off.

A screen in front of a soldier, who was sitting on a desk, brightened up with the arrival of the mini UAV drone information. Most probably information on how to control them. The soldier quickly took off to a room, and a minute later came back with a large box. He set it on the table as everyone looked at him.

He started to take out some controllers and plug them into the computer he had been assigned to. The drone and the computer 'communicated' as the soldier got access to the controls. The drone was already up in the air, and he now got the power to control its movements.

"Mini drone is on approach to Trump Tower." The said solider said, as we all looked at the screen. It brought up a bird's eye view of destroyed buildings, buildings on fire and absolute destruction over the other part of Chicago. The skies were filled with smoke and alien ships. Ships meant there were large amounts of the 'Con soldiers in them.

How many Decepticons were on Earth?

"You're telling me Sam's headed into that?" Mearing said, leaning on the glass desk in front of the screen.

"Sam?" All of us, Nicole, Mikaela, Leo and I, said in unison. Where the hell did Sam go?

"Poor kid, probably never got close." Simmons said from his wheelchair.

"Where is Sam?!" Nicole raged, as some of the unoccupied chairs in the room started to shake. She stomped over to Mearing and Simmons.

"We don't know." Mearing coolly said as she stiffed her lips.

"You're telling me my brother could be dead?!" She yelled and pointed to the screen, as the chairs started to shake harder and everybody had fear spread over their faces. "Why didn't you bring him in here?!" She screamed, as the chairs tore apart and flung their pieces at the walls.

"Hey, calm down." I quickly got to her and gripped her arm.

"What is going on here?" Mearing said with a pale face, staring into the dismembered chairs. "Are you doing something to these objects?" she rose an eyebrow and looked at her in a scrutinizing manner. "I recommend you stop-"

"Don't tell me what to do! It was your fault they were exiled and now they're all dead!" She broke down, screaming with the tears streaming down her face. "They're all dead…" she turned to me and started crying into my shoulder as I walked her into another room, which had a lot less soldiers in it.

"It's going to be okay…" I murmured as I swayed her from side to side, slowly. It was never going to be okay. We both knew it.

"How can you say that?" she sobbed into my shoulder.

"I have to." I replied, holding back the tears from overflowing. "It's not easy, but I have to." I hugged her back.

A couple of minutes were spent in silence. Until someone from the main room yelled. "We got movement!" Nicole and I rushed back into the room again.

The main screen displayed a Decepticon ship firing at a building, but there was one thing that was immediately off.

There was a human on the ship, and it seemed that the ship wasn't trying to kill him or turn over to have gravity do its thing have the human fall to the distant ground and die, no. It seemed as if the ship and the human were cooperating.

So who was working with the Decepticons?

"Eat my heart!" the drone transmitted the audio, but I couldn't recognize the voice. It was lost within the wind, the human's yelling and the drone's damaged receptors, since it seemed to crash into something. Or something crashed into it.

The drone seemed to spin, but the soldier that was at the control couldn't move the drone. "Drone is jammed into something. I can't get it out." He said, but still tried to move it around.

The screen displayed a lot of movement, but it proved to be circular, like the drone and the thing it was jammed into were spinning in the air, but descending at the same time. "It's jammed into the ship's thurster!" Another soldier informed.

The drone crashed to the ground, losing all audio and video information at the same time.

We all sighed and shook our heads. "We're screwed." Mearing commented.

"Why… first Bee… now Sam…" she cried as she moved away slowly. She wanted to be alone and I understood her perfectly.

"Drones won't help us either." Mearing muttered, trying to think of another way to see what was going on in Chicago. "These damn robots will get us all killed and then-"

I was outraged, immediately. I took a step forward and raised my voice. Something I probably shouldn't have done, but I couldn't let her spit on the name I loved so deeply. Ironhide was one of those 'damn' robots and he didn't need this.

"Mearing, stop. Just stop." I said, everybody looking at me. "Do you think it's alright to say nonsense about the Autobots?"

"Young lady, you have no right to speak to me like that." she gave me a strict look.

"No," I said, shaking my head. If she was going to kick me out on the street so that I could be killed by Decepticons, fine. I was okay with that. But nobody was going to spit on the name of Autobots that protected me for more years than I could count on my hand. "You have no right to speak like that. The Autobots protected us from danger. From the Decepticons. They protected you."

I glared at her. "They didn't-"

"They did. They even helped Earth overcome the criminalities on it. They traveled to goddamn Syria or Israel or wherever to stop the wars and illegal nuclear sites from producing bombs. Bombs which would have hit us and killed us all." I wanted the words to sound deep and hit everyone in the room. "So they did save your life. More times than you know. So you have no right to speak wrong about them. The Decepticons would have killed us a long time ago, had it not been for the Autobots."

She just looked at me, probably thinking on whether to shoot me then and there. My uncle was part of the crowd, too. I continued. "They are our saviors, Charlotte. Don't make their deaths be in vain." I finished my 'speech' as I turned around. Nobody spoke a word.

As I exited the room, I got into another one, in which Nicole was sitting in, calming herself as she looked at me. "I heard what you said in there." She wiped her eyes. "You were right."

I sighed as I sat beside her. "I know I am." I leaned my head on her shoulder. "She just doesn't see how important the Autobots are to Earth. That we all would have been dust if it hadn't been for the team."

She nodded. A second later, I heard the screeching of tires on the polished floor resound behind me, and I knew it was from Simmons's wheelchair.

"Listen kid, that was something brave you did there. It was stupid, but it was right and it was brave." He said as I looked at him.

"Thank you."

"But look, I... I know where Sam is." he said.

"Where?" Nicole immediately asked, walking closer to him.

"Well, not the exact location, but-"

"Where Simmons? Where is Sam?!" She infuriated again.

"He went to find his girlfriend."

"Carly?"

"Yeah, the model blonde."

Nicole looked down, finding a chair and slumping on it. "Fuck."

"We haven't thought of Carly." I said. Of course he was going to check where she was. She was his girlfriend. I sat down next to her as she and I bowed our heads down, thinking.

"I'll leave you two now." he said, turning around, tires screeching again, getting out of the room without another word.

After a silence, Nicole spoke up. "We are so screwed." She huffed air through her mouth.

"You don't say?" I irritably said. "Of course Sam was going to go after her."

She and I were silent for a moment, until a familiar voice resounded from the other room.

"Rotate, do something! C'mon man, work, work!"

"We got Epps!" Will yelled.

Nicole and I raised our heads as we spoke in unison. "Epps!" we stood up and got into the main room, staring at the screen.

We couldn't believe what we were seeing.

A grin spread on both of our faces.

So… yeah, 'It has begun' as the chapter title says, which means that the War has officially moved to Earth. And as Spidey-Man said in the Web of Shadows game, 'get ready for a world of pain'. Tell me your opinion on this and a new update will be posted soon!

Songs:

Eminem – Rap God

Whitney Houston – I Will Always Love You

Now, I think this chapter went quite well. I covered a lot of the movie in here (no wonder why this chapter has almost 4.500 words). Also guys and girls, vote on that poll! I'll be making a couple of 'test' chapters for the story that is currently winning. But I'm not gonna tell which story that is, because I don't want to bring your hopes up or down, whichever of the two. Other than that, in less than 20 chapters we are hitting the 100 chapter perimeter and I think that's when this story is going to end.

Reviews are greatly appreciated, peeps!