Mazikeen walked into the Command Center and walked up to Will, 

"Lennox, you called for me?"

Will nodded, 

"Walk with me,"

She followed him outside, 

"So, what's the mission?"

"Prime got a message from another Autobot. I want you and Alexa to go and greet them. Take the twins with you, but I want you two to make contact, no twins,"

Mazikeen frowned, 

"Why?"

Will sighed, 

"Prime said that this Autobot might not immediately welcome us. You are the AllSpark and Liaison, so we thought it would be best if you went. Alexa is going because Optimus thought that it would be good practice,"

"Practice?"

Will sighed, 

"Yeah, I didn't question it since I know they are together,"

Mazikeen chuckled and nodded, 

"Alright, I'll get Alexa and call my brothers,"

Will nodded, 

"And I'll tell Jazz,"

Mazikeen winced, 

"You sure about that?"

Will nodded, 

"I am perfectly capable of handling him,"

Mazikeen laughed, 

"Sure, and you get to tell Tex too!"

Will's eyes widened, 

"Woah woah, hold on-"

Mazikeen sped away, 

"Byeeee!"

Will sighed and brought out his radio, 

"Jazz, report to the Command Center,"

"Roger that, Lennox,"

Will sighed and walked back into the room. Will nodded to Tristan, 

"Tristan, I'm about to have an angry Autobot at me, so be prepared in case you get promoted early,"

Tristan laughed, 

"Sir, which Autobot is it?"

Will sighed, 

"Jazz,"

Tristan whistled, 

"Not to worry, sir, I'll prepare a great memorial for you,"

Will chuckled and patted his shoulder, 

"Thank you, Captain,"

Phillip nodded and smirked, 

"Can we roast smores over your fire?"

Will rolled his eyes, 

"Knock yourself out,"

The three laughed. Will turned as he heard Jazz walking in, 

"Hey, Lennox, you called?"

Will nodded,

"Yes. You will be staying at base to help train with Ironhide and Chromia, we have some future investors coming and they need to see how well the humans and Autobots work together. The investors are arriving in a month, so we got a lot of work ahead of us. The twins are going to a nearby mountain range to pick up a new Autobot recruit with Commander Mynx and Alexandra."

Jazz's optics widened, and he shook his head, 

"Sir. I am not supposed to be leaving Mazikeen's side until she is officially cleared by Ratchet,"

Will smiled nervously up at him, 

"Good thing I got authorization from Ratchet earlier this morning."

Jazz sighed in defeat and slowly nodded, 

"Alright, is there a reason I am not going with them?"

Will patted his foot, 

"You are needed in here to train the soldiers. As much as I love them, the twins are not the best at training newer soldiers. Alexa and Mynx are the best people to send to recruit the newest Autobot. I was told by Prime himself that he wanted the two to go meet this Autobot."

Jazz slowly nodded, 

"Alright, you got it, Lennox. When does training start?"

Will smiled softly at him, 

"Go meet with Ironhide and Chromia,"

Jazz crossed his arms and nodded, 

"You got it,"

Will sighed in relief, and Tristan laughed, 

"Damn, I was expecting worse,"

Will rolled his eyes, 

"Just wait until Sophie hears that Alexa is going on a mission without her,"

Everyone winced, and Phillip whistled, 

"Especially on a mission with the twins,"

Will groaned, 

"Someone warn Kaitlyn,"

Tristan smirked, 

"Don't worry, I got her on speed dial!"

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Mazikeen walked over to Sideswipe and Sunstreaker with a smirk on her face, 

"Hey, you ready?"

Sunstreaker chuckled and nodded, 

"Of course we are, Aero,"

Sideswipe nodded, 

"Yeah! We have been dying to go on a mission with you!"

Alexandra gasped, 

"What the fuck?"

Sunstreaker shrugged, 

"Nothing personal. We missed our sister,"

Mazikeen winked at Alexandra, 

"Don't worry, Alex, we got a long road ahead of us,"

Sideswipe sighed, 

"A long, boring one,"

Mazikeen gasped, 

"What the fuck?!"

Sunstreaker shrugged, 

"What? It will be. We are hours away,"

Alexandra rolled her eyes, 

"We won't bore you,"

Mazikeen nodded, 

"Yeah! What kinda scrap is this? Since when were we boring?"

Sideswipe chuckled, 

"We only pulling your leg, come on Aero and Alexa, let's get rolling!"

They transformed, and Mazikeen got inside Sunstreaker's alt-mode while Alexandra got into Sideswipe's alt-mode. Mazikeen took out Phoenix's device and deployed her so she was sitting down in the driver's seat of Sunstreaker's alt-mode. Phoenix turned her helmet toward Mazikeen, 

"This is funny, an AI suit of armor driving a Cybertronian,"

Mazikeen laughed and patted Phoenix's shoulder, 

"Sure is,"

They heard a grumble, and Mazikeen laughed, 

"You okay there, Sun?"

"Maybe I should turn on my holo-form so an AI isn't driving me,"

Phoenix gasped, 

"I take offense to that,"

"I'm sure you do, so do I,"

Mazikeen heard laughter from the other end of the radio and knew Alexandra was laughing at the three. 

"Awe, don't be hurt, sunshine, Phoenix is only joking,"

Sunstreaker grumbled, 

"Don't call me sunshine,"

Mazikeen smirked and could imagine Alexandra smirking, 

"Hey, as Sophie's best friend, I get my way,"

Sideswipe laughed, 

"I don't think that-"

Mazikeen shook her head, 

"No yeah, that is definitely how it works,"

"What the frag?"

Mazikeen nodded, 

"Yep! Alex gets to do what she wants cuz Sophie will side with her. Same with Aura and I,"

Phoenix laughed, 

"Yes, that sounds accurate,"

Mazikeen could sense her brothers rolling their optics, and she slapped Sunstreaker's dashboard, 

"Hey! No attitude,"

"Yeah, yeah, whatever, Aero,"

Mazikeen chuckled. The five talked throughout the hours they spent driving until they got to the edge of a forest. Sunstreaker and Sideswipe opened the side doors, 

"Here we are, humans and AI get out,"

Mazikeen chuckled while Phoenix humorously stuck out her middle finger before leaving the car. Sunstreaker and Sideswipe transformed back and stood in front of Mazikeen and Alexandra. Mazikeen sighed, 

"Alright, everything else is on foot. The Autobot should be in here somewhere,"

Sideswipe grumbled, 

"Just be careful. We are one comm away,"

Mazikeen chuckled and patted his hood, 

"We know,"

Alexandra smirked and nodded, 

"Don't worry. How hard can this be?"

Mazikeen groaned, 

"Alex, please tell me you did not just ask that,"

Alexandra winced, 

"Yep, heard it and immediately regretted it,"

Phoenix laughed, 

"Come on, let's go! I'm itching to spread my wings,"

Mazikeen laughed, 

"I let you deploy so you could stretch. I swear you act like a child,"

Phoenix gasped, 

"How dare you?"

Alexandra laughed, 

"Come on, let's get going so we can go home,"

Mazikeen nodded and held out her hand, 

"Sorry, Phoenix, come on,"

Phoenix nodded her helmet and swiftly encased around Mazikeen, ensuring that the helmet did not encase her head so that Mazikeen's face stayed uncovered to not scare the Autobot. Mazikeen turned to Sunstreaker and Sideswipe, 

"We will let you know if we need you, but stay here and stay hidden,"

Sideswipe grumbled, and the two nodded as they transformed back into their alt-modes. Alexandra grabbed Mazikeen's arm, and the two slowly started their trek through the forest. Mazikeen smiled in relief as she spotted a huge cave, 

"Alex, this must be it. Stay on high alert, okay?"

Alexandra nodded, 

"Gotcha,"

Mazikeen slowly walked inside the cave with Alexandra slowly following behind her, 

"Hello?"

They heard whirrs, and a light erupted throughout the cave, 

"Who goes there?"

Mazikeen glanced at Alexandra before looking back to the light, 

"My name is-"

"Fleshys? How did you find me!"

Mazikeen immediately brought up her hands as a blast was sent to them, 

"HOLD YOUR FIRE!"

A mech stepped closer to them with narrowed optics, 

"Why should I?"

Alexandra stepped out from behind Mazikeen with a glare, 

"Because you don't want Optimus Prime and many more Autobots to be pissed off at you,"

The Autobot's optics widened slightly as he lowered his guns, 

"Who are you?"

Alexandra crossed her arms and narrowed her eyes at him, 

"My name is Alexandra Witwicky, and this is my cousin, Mazikeen Witwicky. You got a problem with us, you gotta take it up with Optimus Prime,"

The mech shook his head and knelt down closer to Alexandra and Mazikeen. Mazikeen stepped closer to her cousin and glared up at the Autobot, and he raised his servos in defense, 

"I apologize. My designation is Crosshairs. I do not wish to offend the sparkmate of Prime. I will fight for him. But I will not trust you, humans. Alexandra Witwicky, you have my respect only as the Sparkmate of the last Prime. Mazikeen Witwicky-"

Mazikeen rolled her eyes and raised her hand, and he stopped talking, 

"I'll cut you off right there, buddy. You don't have to trust us. Some humans are shitty. I'll agree with you on that. But the men that you will be working with are good men. Good humans. You will have to work with humans to an extent. I am the Autobot's liaison, my word is right below Optimus's word. I can heal you if you want,"

Crosshairs narrowed his optics at her, 

"How can you, a half-human and half-machine, heal me?"

Mazikeen chuckled, and Phoenix immediately got to memo and shrunk back into her device as Mazikeen took a step closer to Crosshairs and reached up with her hand, 

"Just let me show you,"

Crosshairs glanced over at Alexandra and sighed, 

"Fine."

Mazikeen touched his servo and closed her eyes. She felt her energy flow through the necklace and knew it was working. She heard a gasp and opened her eyes to see Crosshairs staring at her in shock, 

"How?"

Mazikeen smirked and lifted up her hand as she felt her eyes flash bright blue again, 

"A little trick I picked up on. I'm the vessel for the AllSpark for a good chunk of time now,"

Alexandra crossed her arms, 

"Ratchet didn't say you could use your powers yet,"

Mazikeen waved her hands, 

"I'll deal with ol' grumpy when we get back,"

Crosshairs nodded, 

"Where is the location of the base?"

Mazikeen smirked, 

"Well, follow us. Have you ever met Sunstreaker and Sideswipe?"

Crosshairs shook his head, 

"No,"

Alexandra smirked, 

"Oh, Sunstreaker is gonna love you,"

Crosshairs narrowed his eyes but said nothing as he followed the two outside the forest. Mazikeen stopped in front of her twin brothers and patted their hoods, 

"Rise and shine, Sun and Sides,"

Sunstreaker was the first to transform, and he glared at Crosshairs, 

"Let me get one thing through your processor. You will be scrap-heap if you even think about hurting our Aero, our Mazikeen, our sister. You got it?"

Mazikeen facepalmed while Crosshairs nodded, 

"Understood,"

Mazikeen sighed, 

"let's get going. Tons of road to cover,"

Sideswipe pointed at Crosshairs, 

"We will know the second you lay a servo on our sister. Don't think we will go easy on you just cuz you're one of us. We know you tried blas-"

"Sides!"

Sideswipe sighed but nodded, 

"Fine, fine,"

Crosshairs slowly nodded, but he transformed, 

"Let's go to this important base of yours,"

Mazikeen sighed, 

"Yeah,"

Mazikeen got in Sunstreaker, and surprisingly, Alexandra opted to go with Mazikeen. Mazikeen frowned in confusion but didn't question it as Sunstreaker took the lead. Alexandra sighed, 

"Maze?"

"Yeah?"

"Why did he listen to me when he didn't listen to you?"

Mazikeen sighed, 

"Oh...well...as Optimus's sparkmate, you are held in high regard now. I'm not sure what Optimus told you yet, but Alex...you hold the same rank as he does in Cybertronian terms. If he were to perish, then you will be the new Prime until Primus chooses another one,"

Alexandra's eyes widened, 

"What?!"

"Hate to burst your bubble, Alexa, but Aero is right. We are not only Prime's Autobots but yours as well. It is our...our culture,"

Alexandra slowly nodded, 

"I need a Ratchet history lesson,"

Mazikeen laughed and nodded, 

"Yeah, I have some questions too,"

Alexandra sighed, 

"Am I the right choice?"

Mazikeen nodded, 

"Absolutely, Alexa. You will always be the right choice. Now shut up and relax,"

Alexandra laughed and nodded, 

"Thanks, cuz,"

"Anytime,"

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Y'all I'm almost done with my finals! I added Crosshairs because he hates humans and I thought it would work well as the first taste of Alexandra's newest duties. 

I wanted to get some opinions on some chapters to come. If any of you have any ideas please let me know! I'm trying to think of how to start AOE (I STILL HATE THAT IT HAPPENED LIKE MY POOR BABIES) So any ideas are welcome :D 

Also, I was thinking of changing the cover of the book, if anyone wants to have a go at some graphics feel free and @ me in message board since Wattpad decided to be a lil silly and stupidly delete the personal chat part. 

Thank you all for being patient and I hope you liked this chapter! Love y'all <3