┆彡 location ;
PERU, 1994
━ mirage's sacrifice!

Away from the actual fight currently going on between the Autobots, Maximals, and Terrorcons, the three humans and Mirage had arrived where the vent that lead to the tunnels was. Which was located on a somewhat steep hill, and near some rocky bits of the hill.

"At least the foot soldiers took the bait." Noah speaks up after they had gotten near it, and holds out a hand for his sister to take, helping her up to where he was with Elena.

"Yeah, but Scourge didn't." (Y/N) answered with a slump, and squinted her eyes to see where he was on the massive platform with the machine blasting up, "He's guarding the key."

Mirage used his servo to tug on the metal grate over the tunnel entrance, and groans when it suddenly breaks off fast, "All right. This should lead to the bottom of the transwarp control panel." He tells them, as he throws the metal away somewhere behind, "Get the key, get the hell out of here."

(Y/N)'s eyebrows slanted upwards, and turned back around to face her charge, as the other two were glancing inside the hole, "Wait, wait, what are you gonna do?"

"I'm gonna do distract Scourge." He casually responded to his spark, and didn't shift his helm towards her until the last word, not wanting her to worry about him.

She frantically shook her head at this, not liking where this was leading, and rushes up to just underneath him where his pedals were, "No, no! You can't take on Scourge alone, Mirage."

"Relax, baby." He assured swiftly with a confident smirk lining his dermas, and motioned to himself in a swagger way, while throwing a wink at her, "I'm Mirage, remember?"

She face scrunched up at this conflicted, a bad feeling stirring in her stomach as she glanced to the side, and avoided his blue optics on her. He sighed knowingly at her reaction, and gently swooped his servo down to pick her up, bringing her level to his helm.

Her shoed feet were standing in his metal palm, as she balanced carefully up on it, and walked forward a few steps to his awaiting gaze, "Promise me," She began with a harsh swallow, and placed her hands on either side of his helm, "promise me you'll be careful, Mirage."

His dermas lifted up into a fond grin, and nuzzled his metal cheek into her warmer palm, all while staring intently into her eyes with a hooded gaze, "For you, anything." He confessed breathily, spark fluttering at her thumbs rubbing over the lines near his dermas, "I promise I'll be careful."

"I'm not joking around, Mirage." Her tone was serious as emotional tears build up in her eyes, trying to blink them away, and grazed her thumbs cover the space between his dermas, and chin, "There's been to much loss recently, and we can't-" Her voice gets choked up with a small whimper, and bows her head a little, "I can't loose you."

He makes a small cooing noise, and brings up a digit from his spare servo to nudge her chin back up to him, "Hey, hey. None of that, sweetheart." He coaxes gently, and brings her even closer to his helm, so there was barely any space between them, "I'll be alright, knowing I have something important to live for."

Her heart clenched with adoration at his words, and sniffled with a small smile as she met him halfway, bumping their heads together in a forehead touch, "I'm holding that against you, remember that Raji."

A low chuck escaped his parted dermas, as he leaned them down to brush against her lips, catching her by complete surprise, "I wouldn't want it any other way, babe." He murmured against her skin, before leaning back and gazed down at her with love filled optics, "I'll be back before you know it, I promise sweetspark."

(Y/N)'s entire facade screamed embarrassed as she opened her mouth to say something, when he lowered her to the ground gently, but Noah quickly cut her off, "Could you please not make puppy dog eyes at my lil sis, while I'm a feet away from you two?!" He exclaimed in a glare, just turning around to catch a glimpse at Mirage's look on her.

She flushed even more at this with her hands hiding her face, and Mirage laughed amused with a cheeky wink. He gave one last look at the girl who owned his spark, and then a single nod at Noah, making him return it before the robot went off towards Scourge.

The (H/C) haired girl's stomach was still churning with unease, as she watched him run away off to fight the villain, and sighed shakily to herself. Noah came up to his sister, and placed a hand on her shoulder comforting, "He'll be alright, (N/N). Don't worry 'bout him."

She gripped her bracelet in her hands, feeling it burning into her skin in an unforgettable way, and held that hand to where her heart was, "That's not what I'm worried about," She turned to Noah with a scared gaze, "I'm terrified of what Mirage will do to take down Scourge."

He squeezed her shoulder for reassurance, and offered another comforting act by smiling at her, knowing she was right but wouldn't say that, "I know you are, but c'mon. We need to save our world."

She nodded her head silently with a nervous nibble to her bottom lip, and let Noah lead her into the entrance into the tunnels. Elena was by (Y/N)'s side when they got in, and also gave her a reassuring hand squeeze, keeping it there as they started to walk through the barely lit pathway.

Just as they were halfway into the underground tunnels, the familiar sound of Mirage's engine reviving was heard, and followed by his car form driving right past them from up above, quite quickly as well.

"We gotta hurry up." (Y/N) breathes out in a quivering voice at this, and looks to the two beside her with a determined, but worried expression.

Noah agrees with his sister, and goes to pull them along with him in the lead down the tunnel, as they also heard loud thudding from up above them, meaning the fight between Mirage and Scourge had began.

Up above them Mirage was getting hits on Scourge with his hologram technique, but ended up getting slammed to the ground where a small vent was, that showed the inside of the tunnels.

This caused the trio in the underground to jump back at the sparks flying from the metal scarp, as Noah protected his sisters hand with his arms. (Y/N) glanced up at the small vent, and spotted Mirage peeking down into it, making her heart pound faster with fright for his safety.

He groans but nevertheless puts on a reassuring, and charming grin for her, "(Y/N), get the key." He orders with a wink, before he was easily picked up by Scourge by the throat.

"Mirage!" She exclaimed in alert watching this happen to her charge, just as the vent was broken in half and Scourges servo appeared down below.

"What do we have here?" He taunts in a menacing voice, and ends up grabbing the girl who yelled out with hits at his servo. Noah and Elena scream also, trying to reach for the girl getting pulled up away from them, but couldn't reach in time.

She struggles against his firm hold, and quickly shouts down to the two in reassurance, "Guys, go! I'll be fine!" She instructs, making Noah's eyes well up in tears not wanting to leave his little sister behind, but had not choice as Elena dragged him away, knowing the other girl wanted this.

Scourge laughed in a teasing manner that wasn't nice, as he holds the wiggling girl in his servo near his helm, "Brave, but futile."

She glares at him with hatred, her bracelet glowing more at the unfamiliar touch. Suddenly Scourge was blasted with weapon, making him drop her and she shouted as she fell to the metal floor roughly, grunting and groaning.

Standing a few meters away, Mirage slowly stood up from the floor with a servo clutching his wounded chassis, and his other one had his gun aimed at Scourge, "Hey! Don't mess with my girl!" He yells his threat in a possessive way, and reloads his gun to charge at the enemy.

He aims his blue blasts at Scourge who didn't seem bothered by them, and swings his metal arm across Mirage's helm, sending him flipping over him onto his chassis.

(Y/N) scrambled up to on her back to see what was happeing, and felt her heart drop in fear watching as Mirage was lifted up by the neck by Scourge's servo. The bigger robot overpowered him, and Scourge fires up his spiral cannon, mechanical whirring and growls as he goes to delivery the final blow at Mirage.

Though Mirage acted fast remembering who was still hear, and aimed a upper cut kick to Scourge's chin, causing the robot to grunt and release the other one. At Mirage's kick, he ended up hitting Scourge's helm off, and exposed what he really looked like without it.

Mirage was on his knees as he had just gotten up, but was met with Scourge sending a kick to his own chin, and he went flying back to where his spark was, grunting and coughing, as he laid on his back.

(Y/N) crawled her way over to his fallen figure, and placed a hand on his sparking chassis from the hits, as her eyes held panic and concern for his defeated look, "Mirage." She breathed out, feeling his pain as he felt her concern through their bond.

Scourge bent down to pick up his helm on the floor, and held it in two servos with a low growl, "No one will remember this pathetic planet." He declared lowly between the sparkmates, before landing only on the human girl who froze in fear beside Mirage, "And on one will remember you."

He goes to fire up his massive weapon again to aim it at her, as she closed her eyes shut tightly and prepared for the hit that would surely end her life, too scared to move. Though, just as the gun went off, something or rather someone had jumped in the way of it, and took the heat of it instead.

Mirage was on all fours on top of her body, and was the one who protected her from the hit, as he felt a stinging sensation on his back parts, but wouldn't move no matter what.

Her (E/C) eyes fluttered open in shock when she didn't feel the blast, but instead felt her stomach drop drastically in horror as she saw who had taken it instead, "Mirage, what are you doing?!"

"Keeping my promise." He strains out with a cough, staring down at her with lidded optics as another hit was blasted at him, making his form jolt forward grunting in pain.

She frantically shook her head with whimpers and cries leaving her mouth, tears already breaking free from her eyes down her face, mixing with the dirt littering her cheeks, "Mirage, no! Come on, you gotta get up!" She cried out desperately, a hand hitting his chassis to move up away, not wanting him to sacrifice himself for her.

"It's okay, (Y/N)." His voice was all reassuring to her, optics filled with nothing but love and adoration for the girl as his main focus was her, and not the hits slowly destroying his body, "It's okay, sweetheart."

A guttural cry of pain and anguish tore free from her throat, as her tears flowed down her face in salty waves, "No, no! You promised me, Mirage!" She sobbed horribly, bottom lip trembling as she presses both hands on his chassis, contuinig to try and shove him off, "Please don't do this-!"

More shots were fired at Mirage's back and body, taking off one of his metal legs along with pieces on his back and body, but yet, his gaze had never left (Y/N)'s face, not even for a single second.

With a trembling servo, he ever so gently wiped away her tears the best he could, trying his best to hide his pain he was feeling, "You're so beautiful," He breathed out in a whisper, still thinking that despite how bad she was a crying mess right now, "You're the best thing that's ever happened to me, (Y/N)."

Her face scrunched up into more anguishing cries at the fact he was comforting her, rather then preparing for his death. She reached up to cradle the sides of his helm, "I love you, Mirage." She whimpered her confession, knowing what was about to happen, and sobbed louder at him leaning into her touch despite what was happening, "I love you so much, please-"

His fading spark never felt so full of affection, so full of love hearing her words, and sent her a smile that defied the agony that surrounded them. It was a smile that spoke volume itself, a smile that transcended pain and whispered of the love they shared.

The mechanical whirring behind the lovers had gotten louder then (Y/N)'s cries, and then it was fired at Mirage's back who knew what was coming, but didn't take his optics off her. She screamed out his name as the sound of metal clanging was heard, and followed by darkness in her vision.

"Mirage?" She whispered in a croaky tone once the noises stopped, and looked up at him through her blurry vison. Her heart cracked into two, the ache she currently felt was nothing like she felt before as Mirage's once bright, and full of love optics were no longer glowing, signifying that he was gone, along with her heart with him.

"No, no, no, no-" She repeated this word in a blubbering marathon of whimpers, and cradled his lifeless helm in her hands, pulling her head up to his, unwilling to let go.

Her cries run out through the desolate battle zone, a heart-wrenching symphony of grief. She whispered his name over and over, as if trying to summon him back from the clutches of death. Her tears fell like rain, drenching his metal cheeks, and her sobs filled the air with a haunting melody, alerting her brother who was running back to where she was now through the tunnels.

She didn't even see that Unicron was upon them right now up in earths atmosphere, as a massive blue swirling portal opened up, and along with many capsules of Terrorcons falling down from it.

Noah comes rushing up to where she was underneath her dead sparkmate, and he slides to a stop to quickly drop down to his knees. His heart cracks a the sight in front of him, her tears streaming down her face as she holds Mirage's helm to her forehead, and Noah bow his head in sadness, guilty that he didn't get here sooner.

However the radio attached to Mirage's body suddenly beeped, and a familiar voice of their little brother is heard, "Hey, Knuckles. You there? Over." Kris called Mirage that because of how his sister had that nickname as well, "Sis, Sonic? You there?"

Both the siblings eyes shot up towards the radio, as (Y/N) didn't remove her head away from Mirage's larger helm and they both spoke in surprise hearing their brother, "Kris!"

"(Y/N)? Noah?" Kris shocked voice answered back, relieved his family was still safe and sound, but was still scared to what was happening in the sky, "What's going on? Where's Mirage?"

At hearing his name from Kris mouth over the radio, a small sob escaped the girls lips as she breaths shakily, and looked back at Mirage's lifeless helm still in her grasp, "He's-" She couldn't bring herself to say it, as her voice gets choked up halfway, making Noah squeeze her shoulder, "He's gone."

"Gone?" Kris repeats in a small voice over the walkie-talkie, himself feeling sad at the pained noises escaping his sisters lips over the radio.

She bites her wobbly bottom lip, and exhaled tremulous sigh through her nose as it hit Mirage's metal face, as she scrunched her eyes closed, "I'm sorry, Kris." She cried out just as more capsules started falling from the dark skies around them, "We aren't gonna win this one."

"But you guys don't lose, right?" Kris voice replied back through the radio unsurely, as from over the other side he glanced up at the storm cloud forming over Brooklyn.

She shakes her head from side to side, and shared a teary eyed look with Noah beside her, "I wish that were true, but we, I can't." Her hope all faded the second Mirage had died protecting her, and now she was left with nothing but agony of what she once had.

"Yes, you can (N/N)." Kris' tone was supportive, and confident from over the walkie, as Noah stayed out of the conversation knowing she needed to hear this from their youngest brother.

"No." She cried with another wave of tears, already feeling drained from the amount she's shed within these past few minutes, "No, bud, I'm not you nor Noah."

"I hate being sick. Whenever I wanna give up, you're both, you're always there telling me to keep going." Kris voiced in a strong tone, as he wanted to prove to his sister that she was completely wrong, "But now it's my turn. You've always been there for me, even if we're truly not related by blood." The emotion in his voice was real, and raw, "You're my big sister, my only one. You gotta keep going, (Y/N). You think you're a nobody, but you're the strongest person I know."

Suddenly out of no where after his words, the familiar sound of mechanical whirring is heard, and followed by a weak voice, "You guys are so cute."

Her (E/C) teary filled eyes go wide seeing Mirage alive, and his lifeless optics once again glowing bright blue with love down on her, "Mirage?" She sobs out happily, as a giant trembling smile appears over her lips, "You're alive!"

He chuckles a little in pain, as he gently nudges his much larger enstril (nose) against hers, their foreheads still touching together, "I promised, didn't I?" He ex-vented knowingly with a soft smirk, shakily wiping away her tears, and grunts making her hold his helm tighter in comfort.

"But, uh, baby.." He glanced between his sparkmate, and Noah who watched with warm eyes, finally accepting their feelings for each other, "I'm gonna need you two to take the wheel."

The siblings shared a confused look at this, and Noah helps his sister slide out from underneath Mirage, who was now transforming out of his form. Mechanical sounds whirring was heard from his parts, as they started to shift onto Noah's body, and slowly formed an exo suit around him.

Where as the bracelet on (Y/N)'s wrist was glowing a blinding bright blue, making her raise her other hand up to her eyes. She couldn't see as somehow, half of Mirage's spark merged inside of it, and made it materialize as a massive metal sword inside her hand. A few other pieces shifted around her body from Mirage's exo-suit, and transformed into jet-packs behind her back, giving the Autobot control of where she went, and landed.

"You can do this. 'Cause you're my siblings, an unstoppable duo." Kris' voice was back through their transformation, as he encougred them in a proud tone, "(Y/N), and Noah Diaz from Wilson Avenue, Apartment 2-C, Brooklyn, New York."

Just as the parts around their bodies stopped moving and fitting into place, the Diaz girl grins to herself in approval seeing the sword in her hand, and threw it back and forth between her hands, "No names over the airwaves." She remined their brother, and gave Noah a small smirk at how cool he looked inside the exo-suit.

"Forget that." They could hear the smirk in Kris' voice even over the walkie-talkie, "Let 'em know who you two are."

(Y/N) gripped the Excalibur sword in her hand more tighter, feeling half Mirage's spark pulsing through it as it made the bracelet actually turn into its true form. She noticed the transformers symbol on it also, and wiped away the tears lingering on her face, heart swelling with love and relief knowing Mirage was alive, and with her.

She shared a look with Noah who nodded his helm at her, and gave her a low fist bump with his now metal covered hands. They turned towards where Scourge was, and Noah yelled out to gain his attention, "Yo, Scourge!"

He growls in response lowly, and spins around to face them from his place near the transwarp key panel, awaiting for what they were going to say.

A gun slowly formed over the suit's arm over Noah, as it hummed to life and he aimed it at Scourge head on, "Remember us?" He shot a fire at the robots shoulder plate, causing him to grunt feeling it, and straight away shoot back at them.

(Y/N) saw this coming as the jetpack around her back lifts her up a little bit, and she shoved Noah out of the way just in time, and stopped a few blasts with her sword, groaning at the force of them blasts. That was until one of them had got the best of her, as she landed on the metal ground, and lost her footing despite Mirage trying to help her with the jetpacks.

She yelled out in alarm as her body went sliding with Noah's, and quickly jabbed the sword into the ground, stopping their fall off the edge. She held onto the swords handle with one hand, while the other had Noah's metal arm to catch his fall, yelling again at how it was straining her strength but wouldn't drop him.

With a quick count down to herself, and a glance at Noah who nodded confidently, she yelled once more as she swinged Noah up to the metal floor, and he landed with a backflip, hero pose in front of Scourge.

The jetpack blasted (Y/N) up afterwards, and just as she fly up she snatched the massive sword out of the ground, a line of glowing blue pulsing down the middle of it just like Mirage's chassis does. She landed beside her brother in a skid, and raised the sword up just near her shoulders in warning.

Scourge growls to himself, and takes a few steps forward to challenge them also, "You think you can both take me on alone?" He questioned in his raspy voice, humourlessly at the idea itself.

Just at the duo were about to attack, someone had appeared behind them and jumped out to land next to (Y/N), "They are not alone." Optimus Prime's deep rumble was heard, him being the one who made his appearance known.

Her lips lifted up into a happy grin seeing the Autobot leader, who stood up from his landing position, and gave her a helm nod in greeting. The now trio turn back to Scourge, and then without a second though, they all charged full force.

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the way i had to walk off mid way of writing that scene between y/n and mirage like i COULDNT DO ITTTT UGHH it didn't help when i was listening to sleeping at last either... that was definitely a mistake to do LMAOAO 😭😭

if anyone is confused about y/n's new weapons/look and how she got it just let me know cause i'll explain it better in detail then i did in this chapter BAHAH

yoho i hope you guys enjoyed this chapter, don't be ghost readers baes cause i love seeing your comments i giggle at them anways gn i love you MWAHHH <33

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