-An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.-

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Amy:

So... hot.

Staring and gazing down at her favorite bot's frame didn't make her feel any more embarassed. Optimus just typed there by his monitors, he kept doing what he usually did. Amy trying hardly to look away. This started few days ago, since hers and Optimus' movie night. Thinking about Optimus like that was firstly wierd and not accectable, but as Optimus started to act more around her like that.. something really lighted up inside Amy. That fire she lost a year ago, that feeling which she had wanted so badly back, and now she had it.

Love.

When Amy saw Optimus raising an eyebrow at her staring, she quickly covered her face with her book. Being in base weren't maybe the best time to think that, but Amy didn't like her book anyway. Her feelings were much more interesting, and now when her puriod was about to end her hormones were on it's worse. She desided to keep this by herself, remembering what happened last time when she dared to tell her crush about her feelings.

.. Painful memory.

"Optimus, I'm detecting a faint energon signal in Ohio." Ratchet's voice could be heard, which caused Amy's attention also. "We could definitely use that."

"Bridge us out." Optimus said, Amy looked around the base as if 'with who? Everyone's out.' But as a servo grasped her frame and settled her down on to familiar shoulder, she only had to hold on. "I will take Amy out, since it has been quite some time I lastly has."

"Optimus, are you certain?" Ratchet quickly defended, stopping the Prime near the bridge. "If it's an ambush?"

Jeez doc, don't be like that.

".. Remain near the bridge, I shall inform you to bridge Amy back if needed." Optimus ordered, turning finally his back to Ratchet and stumbling through. Where they came, was definitely Ohio's woods, near some river and caving. There was night and the sky stars were lovely.

Or that's what Amy got to stare with wide eyes.

"When I was lastly in Ohio, all I got was pigeon's poop on my head." Amy joked, chuckling few of the memories. Her family had went on a vacation 4 years ago in Ohio, and the trip had been maybe the funniest memory she could have. "But this is..." Amy gasped, seeing a shooting star.

Optimus gazed up, until looked at Amy on his shoulder.

"You like watching stars?"

"You kidding?" Amy questioned, raising an eyebrow at Optimus. "I bet that everyone does in some level, but few months ago they meant the world to me.. I used to go outside to harm myself or get hit by a car-" Optimus tensed about her sentence, but his optics softened by her wide smile. "Until I looked above me.. watching all the stars which shined and stopped me from doing it. I might even stay out like 2 hours before going inside.. " Amy looked at Optimus, who replied with soft smile also to her. "One thing for you to know also."

".. I'm glad that they stopped you." Optimus said, starting to walk towards the cave. "I have seen the sky and space for countless times, and didn't think to be thinking it like that.. but-" Amy's eyes met Optimus' optics. "I believe you have changed my understatement of that also."

Amy smiled, nodding to her Guardian once.

"So, how can we find that energon?" Amy asked, yawning on Optimus' shoulder. As Optimus stood right before the cave's opening, he once glanced beside his helm at Amy until proceeded in to the cave. ".. Searching then I guess."

Optimus pulled out a device from his spark chamber, which showed one spot of the cave. His digit raised up to show it, as he never stopped walking.

"This is the signal Ratchet's processors popped up, and we are here to pick it up." Optimus said, bending little down on one point as the cave's roof came little down-fall. Amy nodded slightly, watching in awe at the cave's lights.

".. You know.. last time the cave 'experience' weren't this nice... if it was included by your common enemy." Amy sighed, watching as Optimus' optics narrowed once.

"You never told me what happened down there-" Optimus questioned, making maybe the longest stare with Amy as he once stopped, but kept walking soon after that. "Did he do anything to you?"

"Plus mocking and threatening under that damn rock? I'm afraid not." Amy groaned, leaning her body on to Optimus' helm as she stared the ground Optimus now walked upon. "But that wouldn't have hold him off for long.."

"I am glad that you four got out of there, before anything else could've happen." Optimus spoke up, until suddenly stopped on one point. His device pointed up to the solid rock wall beside them, which showed radical change of numbers.

"Bingo." Amy grinned.

Optimus didn't have second time to think as he started to punch the spot with force, of course making sure that Amy wouldn't fall off by the action. When all the rocks out of the way, Optimus' servo reached into the small hole now and pulled out something; a whole energon chunk.

"The 'Cons sure are hesitant of collecting their energon, which only makes your situation much easier." Amy said, Optimus nodding to her in agreement. By taking the energon with and starting to exit the cave, into Amy's head popped up a question. "Optimus... I probably shouldn't be asking this, or that it has nothing to do with this mission.. but I've been lately thinking your words which you've shared with me.. like the word family." Optimus looked at Amy. "You always speak of Ratchet as your 'old friend' and to me it doesn't seem so, you know, family family.. so... who was your family?"

Optimus' helm looked forward, same as he went down from a narrow point. As there was tension between both of them, Amy already regret of even asking. Loosing a Father was one thing, but family another..

Fuck.. you're such an idiot.

"What you are about to hear.. I haven't shared it with in such a long time with anyone, except Ratchet and Bumblebee." Optimus then finally spoke up, but never made eye contact with Amy. "I never share my personal issues with anyone, but in partner-ships the most important matter of significance is: trust. So, as you have shared your life story with me, I feel like I need to do same with you."

"Optimus.. I won't force you.." Amy replied, sighing in defense. "Look, if it's that important to you, then.."

"I need to tell you."

Amy looked up at Optimus with wide eyes, feeling how he had stopped on one point inside the cave and still held the energon shard, leaning on to one wall. By single hesitant nod from Amy, Optimus looked down at his feet.

".. Back on Cybetron, before the war or council's decision to choose me as the new Prime, I was the Iacon's librarian, as you probably remember?" Optimus questioned, Amy once more nodding as she patted Optimus' shoulder. He had told her what he was before the 'Prime' thing, and his story had been quite interesting. "Well.. I happened to have met my soul-mate, called Elita-one."

.. Heart-broken.

Amy's feelings twitched, same as her breathing was much more uncomfortable to deal with, but she listened. It was not now about her, but once upon time, about him.

"And...?" Amy required, trying to smile at least to cheer his sad face up. "Kids? House? Dogs, animals, or whatever?" She chuckled, at least getting a smile on to Optimus' faceplate. He appreciated that Amy was taking that greatly in.

"Elita was expecting our first-born.. a mech." Optimus said, and have to say Amy didn't want to hear what he was about to say next. "But the war begun in human years two months later.. I was running with other Autobots to defend our lines, but knew Elita-one was in our home alone, so I made my way to there as fast as I could.." Amy didn't breath of what he said. "Only to find her helm resting in our sparkling's bed. Covered by liquid of someone as she had been slaughtered cold-bloodly--" Optimus' servos clitched into fists. "By Megatron."

"... That bastard." Amy totally had pushed her own feelings aside, understanding now Optimus' hatred towards his common-enemy. Optimus never saw his baby born into the world.. he never had a life with Elita-one.. he never had witnessed the 'happy family' everyone has been speaking of. And that.. must be why he's speaking of her and his team as his family.

"After I found her, what was left of her body location remained unknown, and it is till to this very day." Amy could see the anger, hate, sadness, sterness and heart-brokeness in his faceplate. All she could do, was to hug his huge helm. ".. Amy-"

"Shh." Amy demanded, smiling sadly. "Comparing my story to yours.. I believe I should be the one looking after you." She chuckled dryly, but soon fell silent. ".. Now I feel so much hate towards that fucking tin-can--"

"You must promise me one thing, Amy." Optimus quickly said, grabbing Amy's small frame as he held her in his servo, making eye contact with her. For her, it came as a full surprise. "Your last encounter with Megatron.. you must not be in that kind of situation again. Without me there. I can't describe the thoughts I've shared as I was afraid what he might had done to you.. or do to you." His voice showed nothing more than worry, which Amy frowned also.

Thinking that he had slaughtered Elita-one by torture, then removed her helm, settled it down on their baby's bed and pee on it, then took her body with..  it was more than sick from him. Could someone even do such a thing?

".. Promise to be near me, then I think I'll make a promise to you." Amy replied sadly, hugging Optimus' digits. Small smile curled up on his faceplate, as he made his way towards outside once more.

"I promise."

"Pinky-promise?" Amy made child's face, raising her little finger up. Optimus remembered Raf's and Jack's pinky-promises they do to each other.. by igniting their little fingers. Optimus with his other servo held the energon with three digits as his large little finger wrapped around Amy's palm, which caused her to giggle. "We need to train that one, big guy."

"Agreed." Optimus smiled, now they both already seeing some moon-light which shined outside as they were already close.

".. We should head to my place for night, okay? So I can keep eye on you." Amy suggested, feeling how Optimus' servo tightened around her.

"So we fell asleep again, and others take pictures of us again?" Optimus raised his eyebrow, earning a laugh escape Amy's throat. Which quickly quited down, as she growled.

"I need pay-back to them after this."

Optimus chuckled once, shaking his helm in disbelief as he now stood outside, in the moon light's shine. His servo reached up to his audioreceptor.

"Pay-back indeed."

Amy's body froze, she forgetting to breath as Optimus held her body tightly in his grasp and pulled her close to his chest, same as he turned and put the energon in his spark-chamber, and had his blaster out. Pointing somewhere into the dark, where Amy could see some movement. A forming huge figure.

"Which reminds me gladly of our last-meeting, Optimus." From the shadows came up Megatron, who once more had a grin on his face.

"Megatron." Optimus growled.

"The synthetic energon formula could've been a use to us, Prime. Our recources are getting lower." The silver-con walked forward with his blade out. "I need that energon."

"Stay there!" Amy screamed, Optimus barely managing to keep her on place with his digits. Megatron's mood seemed to light up by that, as his grin was back up to his place. "You have full mines to collect, stay the fuck there." And Optimus only had to glance down at her of how angry she suddenly got.

"And the surprises keeps coming-" Megatron raised his blade up to lick his blade's metal. "I've been searching you, human."

As Amy tensed, Optimus pulled her back and out of his the most dangerous enemy's sight, his helm also trying to process of what he just said. That was what he was afraid of.

"Ratchet, we need a bridge!" Optimus groaned, transforming into truck-mode as Amy had been bumped up onto the driver's seat, Optimus now speeding off of the area. He could clearly hear Megatron launching after them, and his partner's anxious breathing.

"... He's gettin' on us!" Amy informed, for his surprise glancing out of the window. She hang almost too close of almost falling down, so Optimus' seatbelt went to grab her feet.

Blast; hit right next to Optimus' side.

Amy's body accidentally flew out of the vehicle, which was the time her eyes widened up. By a sharp digits wrapping around her, same as her Charge's transforming form were pretty much everything that happened around her, her mind almost didn't proceed it. As Optimus' fist hit Megatron's face, the mech growled and pushed Optimus with him towards ground.. Amy still in his palm. The two of the mechs rolled down a good time, until Megatron accidentally released Amy, who rolled away from them two and a small hill down.

"O-Optim-us!" She screamed little funnily, until her body hit a tree. Her lungs were now empty, and her body remained there to get some air. Optimus noticed Amy was no longer in Megatron's grasp, but laying down in a down-hill, he determined to get to there.

But Megatron was fighting him, and growled in annoy as he punched his face up.

"Worried about a human, and not yourself?" Megatron chuckled then, his blaster out. "Kiss a goodbye to her."

The blast hit directly Optimus' chest point, his frame flying away from Megatron. He hit the ground twice, until stopped near the cave with a grunt, trying to regain from his shock. As he heard steps, his gaze raised up rather quickly as he remembered what Megatron had lastly said.

Watching as Megatron disappeared to the down-hill.

"Amy!"

Amy looked up as the ground shaked once, widening her eyes at the approaching silver bot. With groans of pain and less air in her lungs, she was up on her feet, defying the humongous alien in front of her, as she backed away slowly, the Con watching eagerly after her.

"Still trying to resist?" Megatron questioned, until Amy's back hit a wall, a gulp escaping her throat. Megatron pointed his cannon at her. "You have already lost."

"Think again." Amy grinned, obstacle hit Megatron's helm with clang.. from above him. As he looked up, his faceplate, and Optimus' fist reunited once more, but this time Optimus added into it some more force. When Megatron's body flew to ground, Optimus launched towards Amy soon as his peds hit the ground, grabbing her body as soon as he could and made run for it.

"Ratchet, now!"

A bridge opened twicely, but this time near them. Amy watched over Optimus' shoulder back at Megatron, who only glanced after them.

Optimus ran through.

The fuck?

On other side, Optimus slowed to stop then. Watching down at Amy in worry.

"What happened!?" Bulkhead yelled near the platform, making quickly his way towards Optimus and Amy.

"Optimus!" Ratchet rushed with Arcee over to their Leader, both of them noticing the new cuts on his body. But as Optimus held Amy towards Ratchet with pleading face, Ratchet concentrated to her.

"Check her."

"No, you check him." Amy demanded, now making a determined eye contact with Optimus. His face was so deep and stern.. she hadn't never seen that side of him. "Look at his wounds! I barely have a bruice-!"

"That, is an order." Optimus ordered with more straightly, turning to Arcee then. "Get Jack, Miko and Rafael back to base also-" His back turned to all of them.

"We have something to disguss with."

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Haa, I bet that you remember from Transformers 2 (bayverse) the Forest-battle, right? So I tried to add them up..

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