Chapter 14

Picnics and New Arrangements

Back on the earths moon, on the same day as the Autobots became Maria's new family, Cyclonus and Demolisher were undergoing the painful process of being repaired in the med bay. Much of the repairs were pretty much painful and horrible, and worst of all ... it wasn't even finished.

Megatron was too busy passing about, ranting about his team utter pathetic actions that lead to their loss of the mini-con, rather than pitying his mens wounds being mended.

"How could I have faith in such pathetic excuses for Decepticons such as yourselves. All you had to do was to get the mini-con and bring it to me, but instead of obeying my commands you allowed your foolishness get in your way, and now look what has happened. "

To continue to listen to what the tyrant shouted out would be like listening to a rated X film. So let us not listen anymore.

"Please, my lord. Settle down. If you keep up this display, you'll get another of your proccesor-aches." Pleaded Thrust, his attempts hardly gaining effect.

While Thrust tried his best of calming his leader down, Demolisher, who was still throbbing with pain, moaned quietly, but not too quietly.

"It wasn't our fault, it was that youngling who was to blame."

That one sentance...that one whispered incantation, stopped Megatron in his tracks. As that happened everything was dead silent; so quiet that you could hear your own heart beat. No Decepticon moved, nor talked, or even breathed. Their attention was directed to the two mechs on the medical table. At first they didn't know why everyone was staring at them, but then they got the message when they saw that Megatron was slowly and menacingly stalking to them, eyes burning red with anger.

"What...did...you...say?' He hissed.

"Uhh, I, Uhh..." Demolisher whimpered, shaking in pure terror. Whenever his leader was speaking to others, especially him, in that tone of voice something utterly awful and painful was bound to happen.

"OUT WITH IT, YOU COWARD!" Megatron roared.

"A youngling, It was a youngling!" Demolisher cringed.

"A youngling?" Thrust questioned.

"I never saw a youngling in the middle of the battle." WheelJack mentioned, very doubtful about Demolishers claim.

"Silence!" Megatron ordered, then returned to Demolisher. "What was the gender of the youngling?"

Cyclonus came in to his comrades aid and answered for Megatron.

"It was a femme, she was blue and yellow, some strange pony-tails on her head, cute little thing, Ugghhhh I hate cute things."

"A femme?" Megatron pondered in his thoughts, turning himself to his throne and all at once the memory of his murder of Primes wife and unborn child came to him like a rolling hurracaine, causing his optics to brighten and a fanged grin to appear.

"Megatron?"

Turning himself to his men, he chuckled a dark sinister laugh.

"It seems our luck has been turned. The very key to bring those accursed Autobots to their knees was right underneath our olfactory sensors the entire time. The very thing that destroyed my nemesis' utopian life has risen once more."

"What are pointing out, Megatron?" The once Autobot turned Decepticon, WheelJack questioned.

Megatron turned, still smiling that horrible, sadistic grin.

"The things a youngling can do to a mech. Once you have his offspring and threaten to take it's life, you will have your enemy on his knees, begging you to spare the child. And that is what I am planning to do; kidnap that youngling, and use it against Optimus."

The Decepticons optics widened at this announcement. Megatron had already taken one of the Autobots as a hostage against Optimus but it failed. But the idea of using a youngling seemed almost possible. Possible to succeed. After all, a youngling was far more precious to the Autobots since it was their chance of repopulating their dying race.

"However, since you two have gotten yourselves caught by the Prime, he will probably have his team on guard of the youngling. We will have to bid our time until Optimus feels the threat has passed."

As the tyrant continued his plan, one of his men stood out in the shadows, and listened intently, his optics gleaming with curiosity.

"Youngling?"

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Back at the Autobot headquarters Optimus had sent HotShot and Red Alert to their human companions to tell them they were allowed to return to the base, but they went with their robot escorts they were given orders to bring some food and water. For what reason they didn't know, but they were told that it was for a surprise for Maria.

While this was happening, Optimus had brought Maria to the entrance to the warp station, with exception of Maria having her optics closed, because Optimus had told her he had something special to show.

"Where are we going, Optimus?" Maria asked.

"I told you, it is a surprise." Optimus said, holding one of Maria's hands, guiding her to their destination.

As the doors to the warp station opened, the two went inside and stood at the front of the entrance of the teleportation screen. But before the screen turned itself on, Optimus went behind the youngling and covered her audio receptors, so that she wouldn't hear a thing.

"Hey!" she giggled.

"Just for a moment, I will let go soon." Prime chuckled, and as he did he looked up at the camera that showed them to the main control screen at the command center, with Jetfire waiting for his leader to give the signal. With a nod of his leaders head, Jetfire activated the teleportation sequence, the screen light up and revealed a very lovely landscape, that only Optimus could see since Maria had her optics turned off. Soon their bodies began to glow bright and within a second were warped out of the station and were transported to place where the screen showed.

For a few minutes all Maria felt was a rush of energy and a pulling sensation through her body. What was going on?

All at once, the feeling stopped, and a new sensation came to her. The temperature drastically changed; warm, breezy, and peaceful. And something felt a bit peculiarly strange under her pads; it felt like she was standing on some kind of hairy surface instead of the cool solid surface of the base.

"What is going on, Optimus? Where are we?" The youngling asked, smiling despite her curiosity.

As he removed his hands from Maria's audio receptors, Prime moved towards the front of her and moved a few inches back, so that when she opened her optics, the youngling could take in all the sights and sounds of the very special world Optimus had brought her to.

As soon as her optics came online she was awestruck; for what beheld her gaze was unlike anything she had ever dreamed of, even more lovely than anything else.

Fresh, sweet smelling flowers dancing along with the cool breeze. Large, green trees standing tall and mighty. The sky was clear and blue, and the vast, calm lake down below the field the golden sun from above reflected radiantly along the tides. The sound of native birds sang songs of love to their own kind.

Maria was spellbound; she could not move or speak, for she was captivated by the majestic sight. Out of all the places she had been on the planet as well as on Nebulana, this was by far the most enchanting and peaceful of all. Unbeknownst to herself, Maria shed one tiny energon tear, but this was not one of sadness but one of happiness.

Optimus noticed the tear and came over to her, bending down at level and softly wiped the tear away from her face plate.

"Maria, Are you okay?" He asked.

"It's beautiful." Maria finally gasped out, nearly close to fainting. "What is this place?"

"The humans call it 'Yellowstone'. It is what they call a national park. A place to preserve the native animals and plant species. I figured that this part would be a perfect place for you, since no humans come around at this part of the area."

The youngling turned to Optimus Prime and asked him. "What do you mean 'A perfect place'?".

Prime only chuckled as he took her hands into his. "What I meant by that, is that this will now be a place for you to calm your processor. When ever there is a stressful day you can ask either of my men or myself to come her to clear your mind. But you can't come here alone. Either me or one of my men must be here to watch you, to make sure you don't get hurt. other than that, you don't have to come here when ever you get stressed, you can come here to play and explore within a safe distant."

He then placed a hand on her cheek plate and cooed. "Do you like my little gift?"

Maria, in response, wrapped her arms around Optimus' neck, making Prime fall over, both of them hugging each other.

"I love it, Optimus. Thank you so much." Maria whispered.

"Hey there, lovebirds." A voice interrupted, and both the Prime and the youngling turned to see Jetfire, a gleam of mischief in his gaze.

"Do you make it a full-time mission to disrupt moments like this?" Optimus groaned.

""Yes and no." Jetfire chuckled. "But the real reason I decided to crash the party is because everybody back at the base want to know if it's good to come over now."

"Oh dear, I forgot. I was supposed to let you know through the com link." Prime remembered, placing a hand behind his head in embarrassment. It seemed that his and Maria's moment of father and daughter love completely made him forget about inform the team.

"Jetfire, inform the Autobots that they are free to cross over." Optimus finally spoke, and Jetfire opened his com link as requested.

Then seconds after that, the rest of the Autobots were transported to Optimus Prime and Jetfire's destination, with the mini-cons and their human friends accompanying them. Rad, Carlos, Alexis, Billy and Fred had each brought some food for themselves (Fred mostly), while the Autobots had a load of some energon for the picnic.

For the remainder of the picnic, the Autobots and their human companions mostly ate and talked about various subjects, but mostly about what else the team could do with Maria, now that they were her new family. Most of the things that they decided would work would be to build Maria her very own quarters since she never had one, she in return commented that that would be great because she remembered a time when Hot Shot farted when they were asleep in his quarters. This caused an uproar of laughter for a while before they got back to the subject. Another thing they would was to practice earth holidays, such as Christmas, Halloween, Valentines day, Easter, and Thanksgiving.

All in all, the picnic was a success, and there would be plenty more fun days for both the Autobots, and Maria.

(Who doesn't like picnics in the park, or more appropriately, picnics in a national park? HAHAHA. Next chapter will be up soon and I think you might like it.)