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Once we made it aboard Lockdown's ship, the net was taken down and Optimus was hooked up to smaller, wheeled robots. Lockdown had us trailing behind, leading Optimus somewhere. The ship was designed strangely, various creatures were locked inside large domed cells, all kinds of screeching and noises came from all directions. The strong scent of metal, fuel, and other indescribable scents hung in the air. Tessa clung to me, looking around in absolute horror.

"Remember this ship, Prime?" Lockdown spat. "Built for you Knights, you great Crusaders - explore the universe. Well I engineered it for my own personal prison, now."

Leading us to a room on the ship, Lockdown slowed his pace. Scrap metal was all over the ground, giant worm like arms were ripping apart dismembered robotic bodies and dropping dropping the pieces in a bright red and orange pit, heat radiating off of it even from a good distance away. Blades spun inside the pit, sparks and staticky sounds came from parts above the pit. Smaller robots who wheeled themselves through the pile of scrap metal and other garbage looked through it, examining what they found.

"Take those humans to the trash," Lockdown commanded. The little wheeled robots led us into the trash pit as he led Optimus away.

The car had been flipped onto its proper place, having been brought onto Lockdown's ship on its side. Tessa opened the door very slowly, peeking her head through.

Two of the garbage robots, with one large arm in the back and large (almost cartoonish) looking optics looked at us before giving a loud, metallic sounding screech. One of them lunged at Tessa, she tried kicking it away as she tumbled out of the destroyed vehicle.

I scrambled to the opening and shot a beam of bright blue, bordering on white, energy at them. The metal immediately disintegrated, silencing their deafening screeches.

I grabbed Tessa and yanked her up, practically dragging her behind me as we ran from the junk pit.

"How did you do that?" she exclaimed.

"That's a story for another time," I snapped.

We slowed down a little, out of breath and shaken up. Tessa found a gap between two large walls; we walked between those walls, pipes and wires put in their proper place on the gigantic walls. The noises of other creatures echoed through the ship, the smell still mixed in that metallic smell.

We had no idea where Optimus or Lockdown were, we had no idea where we were. The noises caused us to be jumpy, on edge. Tessa looked so vulnerable, so small and weak. In a way, I understood how she felt. It was terrifying, suddenly being thrown into something you don't understand.

"Tessa?" I called to her.

"Yeah?" Her voice was trembling, I felt my heart drop, my motherly instincts kick in.

"I'll protect you, I promise."

After going through some twists and turns, going up some ladders, Tessa and I found ourselves on the very top level of the ship. When we saw Lockdown, we hid behind a jutting part. We were far enough where no one could see us, but close enough to hear what Lockdown was saying.

Some humans had made their way onto Lockdown's ship, and he was handing them something.

"As much as I've enjoyed the hunt," Lockdown began, "I won't miss your wretched planet. Our deal is done. One Prime, for one Seed. Handle it with care. I trust your species is ready."

"Don't worry about our species," a voice replied.

We saw the humans put the "Seed" into some case.

"Farewell, earth." The way Lockdown said it, almost pitifully, made me wonder how much power was stored in that Seed. Turning around, Lockdown walked away without looking back.

Blossom POV

The human femme was given Saoirse and Eden to watch as Cade, Shane, and the Autobots went to board Lockdown's ship before it launched. Blossom and the rest of the human women and their children were given a safe location to stay in until their friends and significant other returned to them.

The people of Chicago were terrified at the sigh of an alien ship over their shining new city. They went through one alien attack, they didn't need another. They couldn't afford another.

"Mama..." Saoirse sniffled.

Blossom looked at the two small children helplessly. She didn't know if Optimus or Desirée would make it out alive, if at all. The ship looked ready to take off.

Eden whimpered in Blossom's arms, clinging to her helplessly.

"Your Mama will be just fine," the pink haired woman assured them. "I promise you, she will be just fine."

"What about Daddy?" Saoirse sniffled, looking at Blossom with those big, blue doe-eyes.

"Girls, your father is Optimus Prime," she said. "He will get out of anything to find you both."

That seemed to calm them down for the time being. All there was left to do was pray that the girls' parents actually made it out alive.

Desirée POV

Tessa and I maneuvered ourselves around the ship, trying to find Optimus without getting detected. It was a pain in the aft that the ship was so big, and it didn't help that Lockdown could have drones lurking anywhere on the ship.

We tried being as quiet as possible, hiding behind any crevice we could find at the sound of any footsteps, any scraping sound we heard.

I stopped for a moment, for a split second, I thought I heard something outside.

"What is it?" Tessa whispered.

"Nothing," I muttered, I shook my head.

We kept walking.

The ship kind of lurched around, causing me to curse under my breath. I leaned against the wall for support.

"Wait," Tessa whispered, "I think I hear something."

We looked through a hole in the wall and saw hunched-over, four-legged creatures running down the hallway. Patches of fur spiked up on their backs, their metal paws scraping against the ground. Growls rumbled deep in their chests.

Tessa and I tried to stay as still as we could, hoping those things wouldn't notice us.

But they did, and I don't think we ran so fast in our lives.

QUICKY A/N:

I HOPE THIS UPDATE WAS GOOD! I WOULDN'T NORMALLY UPDATE TODAY, BUT I'VE BEEN IN A RELATIVELY CREATIVE MOOD LATELY AND I FELT LIKE GIVING YOU GUYS SOMETHING TO READ. I'VE DECIDED, THAT ONCE THIS IS FINISHED AND EVERYTHING'S OUT OF THE WAY, I'LL DO A MINI STORY ON SAOIRSE AND EDEN, HOW THEY FEEL GROWING UP WITH PRIME AS A FATHER AND WHATNOT.

THE ONE THING THAT I JUST DON'T LIKE ABOUT AGE OF EXTINCTION IS THAT (SORRY FOR THE SPOILER, IF ANY OF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE MOVIE) OPTIMUS LEAVES. I WANT TO STAY TRUE TO THE MOVIE WHILE PUTTING MY STORYLINE IN THERE, BUT I DON'T WANT OPTIMUS TO BE SEPARATED FROM HIS FAMILY.

I'M PROBABLY GOING TO PUT THAT INTO THE END OF THE AOE ARC, SO I CAN AT LEAST KEEP THAT UNCHANGED.

AS FOR EVERYTHING AFTER THE AGE OF EXTINCTION ARC, AND IF OPTIMUS DOES LEAVE LIKE IN THE MOVIE, I'LL HAVE HIM COME BACK AND START ON A REVIEWER'S SUGGESTED ELITA-1 ARC. FOR ANYONE WHO DOESN'T KNOW, A WHILE BACK, A KIND REVIEWER WANTED TO KNOW IF I COULD HAVE ELITA-1 BE ALIVE AND CAUSE SOME TENSION BETWEEN OPTIMUS AND DESIRÉE. I BELIEVE I MENTIONED A LONG, LONG TIME AGO IN MY MUCH EARLIER UPDATES THAT OPTIMUS BELIEVED ELITA TO BE DEAD, BUT (SPOILER ALERT!) SHE ISN'T.

THAT'S ALL THE INFORMATION I HAVE TO GIVE. YOU GUYS KNOW NONE OF THE TRANSFORMERS STUFF IS MINE, I DON'T FEEL LIKE I SHOULD KEEP UP THE DISCLAIMER. I ONLY OWN WHAT I MAKE UP, WHATEVER ISN'T MINE IS OWNED BY THE PEOPLE WHO OWN TRANSFORMERS OR A KIND REVIEWER WHO LET ME BORROW THEIR CHARACTER OR THOUGHT OF ONE FOR ME TO USE.

SO, THERE YOU GO.

THANK YOU, ONE AND ALL.

READ, REVIEW, ENJOY!

YOURS TRULY,

~SMITHY