Autobot (Optimus x reader)

Chapter 3

"A million years old legend warrior and you're acting like a bunch of junkyard dogs!"
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You finally get back and seeing Sherman on his horse you stop your truck beside him.

"Hey, chief. Nice horse you got there. You're really getting into this Indian thing."

"Don't call me chief. My name is Sherman."

"Aren't you the tribal chief?

"Yeah, but from you it sounds.. I don't know, vaguely racist." He says and your eyes widen in panic. You clear your throat awkwardly and look away embarrassed. "My cruiser got stolen. Again."

You whip your head to him. "What? That's terrible! You know what? Shits getting out of control. There is crime going on everywhere. Lots of my stuff got stolen."

"Cut the crap, Yn, and get me my car back."

He leaves and you drive to your junkyard. Parking outside the workshop, you get out of the truck truck.

"You got in some trouble, huh?" Jimmy asks you.

"Yeah, neck deep." You just answer walking past him.

"Yn, that's what you get for taking the yellow bugger. You need a leader out there.. like me." Crosshair tells you.

The two get up in each other's faces, threatening. You head for the Dinobot.

"A million years old legend warrior and you're acting like a bunch of junkyard dogs!" You shout to all of them. "It's starting to piss me off!"

The Dinobot start stomping away.

"Come back here, Grimlock! Come on, what do you got in your mouth?"

Seeing the car in his mouth you grit your teeth.

"I am wasting my time protecting you. Drop the car, right now! I know you got Sherman's cruiser. Spit it out!"

It drops the car and starts gagging, eventually throwing up the cruiser. You point at the Dinobot, scolding him. He puts his nose in the dirt.

"Don't eat cars." You say and he groans. "You get back in your hole, and think about what you did!"

Then you turn to Jimmy.

"It's like the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade out here, Jimmy."

"You hired me from a want add from the Dakota Penny Ledger. You think that comes with a superpower? That is a dinosaur. An alien dinosaur! That was not in the add!" He says as you follow him into the workshop. "It tried to eat me yesterday."

"You wanna go to federal prison?"

"What? No, I don't want to go to any prison."

"Well, that's where you're gonna go. Because you're aiding and abetting. I'm a fugitive. I'm the boss lady, you're my little crimey." You tell him, then frown. "That sounded dirtier than I wanted it to."

"When you leave, it becomes the wild kingdom out here. I don't know what to do."

"I told you, this is a junkyard. They blend in with other junk. That's it."

"You hired me to be senior vice president for a worldwide operation."

"Did I tell you that?"

"Yes."

"Well, I made that shit up."

"Do not take this title away from me, Yn."

"This is not a start up, I don't do this for money. It's for a higher cause." You say and start walking out.

"Not for the money? What's wrong with you? How are you gonna eat?"

You see a truck coming. "What's he doing here?"

Hound groans. "Here comes the most irritating Transformer."

"What did he give you to get past the gate?" You ask Jimmy.

His voice pitch slightly lighter. "Nothing."

"Hey, Yn. He gave him this." Brain tells you, nudging something laying on the hood of a car.

Jimmy raises his hands. "I have never seen that before."

"Come on you say it, you wanted the alien blaster. You said a big gun makes a big man." Brains and Jimmy starts fighting so you grab Brains and pry him off Jimmy, pulling them apart.

"Davtrader!" You shout to get the Transformers attention. "What are you doing here?"

The Autobots are bickering about you get his attention again. "I got a new voice box for Bee."

"This gonna work this time?" You ask as you examine the part.

"Come on, I only got the good stuff."

"Hear that, Bee? You're gonna talk." You say and he starts dancing to music from his radio. "Alright, what else you got?" You ask Davtrader.

"Where did you get that piece of chunk?" Davtrader then says, seeing the talisman. "A knights talisman here, in this dump? Nah, that ain't real. Here, give it to me. I'll take it for you."

"You don't think I know the value of this?"

"There's exactly seven, count them, seven signs of the apocalypse. And that talisman showing up here is nomero uno. If that fancy pancake was real, I'd take the spaceship and blow this dirt-ball planet. Alright, I'm gonna slather myself in oil." He says and leaves.

"Hey, miss!" Isabella shouts, running up to you.

"No. This isn't happening, you cannot stay here kid. I got enough strays."

"I'm not a kid. I'm useful. I fix shit."

"Good for you."

"Better than anyone. And I have a name you know. It's Isabella."

"Just go home, please."

"I don't got no home. And they.. they just killed the last thing that I called family." She says and you finally look at her. "So no. I'm not going anywhere. I wanna stay and I wanna fight them."

"Them? I'll tell you something about them. They got infinite funding. You can't fight them, and you can't beat them. They got the support of the entire world. You're a kid." You say and walks to your caravan. But she follows you.

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Quintessa can sense Optimus is more receptive to her now and uses this in her manipulation to make him forget about you and to focus on Cybertron. He doesn't notice how she's sort of reprogramming his mind. He's walking now as she shows him around. After the gift he wasn't fighting the restraints anymore, so she freed and let him walk.

As they talk, he doesn't realise how every memory of you and every positive thing about Earth slowly fades away. His thoughts just getting more and more focused on Cybertron.

"There is a way to heal your world. My power of creation, the staff, was stolen from me, by my twelve Guardian Knights. They betrayed me and hid it on Earth. Gave it to your precious humans. My staff is the only way to bring life back to Cybertron. You are going to find it for me." She tells him, now almost done turning him. "Do you seek redemption, Prime?"

"My maker.. I do." He answers.

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