Hologram

Sharing

I hid behind a near big rock. It was far enough so I couldn't hear the Autobots, neither they could hear me cry.
If I had a chance to get Optimus talk to me, now I had trown it to the wind.
I feared I would hurt him sooner or later, and even though I opposed so much, in the end, I did it.
I hurt him.
Good job Chiara !
I just stood there, sobbing like an idiot.
"I's such an idiot..." I muttered.
"No you are not" I jumped. Optimus was beside me and I didn't hear him come.
"I'm sorry I said those things...you didn't deserve them...it's just...I couldn't bare your silence anymore...it made feel useless...though you had a good reason to stay silent...I care about you and wanted really bad to help you...but it felt like you pushed me away..." I tried to explain to him.
"The one who should be called an idiot is me. I am sorry. You are right, I tried to push you away. I knew you were there waiting for me, yet I just locked myself away, trying to ease the sorrow" he paused "He was my best friend. We were together since before the war. He was the only one I could fully trust and open up to. I just can't believe he was killed...I wasn't there to help him...I wasn't there to stop them...I have this rage inside of me and I don't know what to do with it, killing those humans won't erase my pain...only my revenge thirst..." I glanced at him in shock...did he just shared his feelings with me ?
I couldn't believe it. My heart raced.
"You don't know how much this means to me" I smiled warmly "thanks for trusting with me your feelings" and I hugged him, resting my forehead against his shoulder.
Soon enough, we parted and looked at each other.
"You are shaking. Are you cold ?" Optimus asked with a streak of concern.
And I realized I was damn cold. I hadn't noticed, too distracted by my thoughts.
I nodded, my teeth ticking badly in my mouth.
"Come, let's go back to the fire" he grabbed my cold hand and gently pulled me up with him.
As we reached the fire, I saw four vehicles parked and four men sat around the fire.
The one on the extreme right, had pitch black long hair, tied into a high ponytail with what seemed cord. He was wearing black shirt and pants, topped by a shiny neon blue samurai armor. At his left rested two katana swords. That was definitely Drift.
Next to him, sat a young boy, with ash blond hair. He had shiny blue eyes, as well as the others, and a pretty big scar on his neck, that slashed it horizontally. He was wearing a yellow and black tracksuit, along with sneakers. I guessed it was Bumblebee.
Beside Bumblebee, sat a large built man, with pitch black hair, covered by an army green hat, and a wild beard, inserted with metal and wood beads here and there. He had a grey tanktop and mimetic pants, along with brown boots. Around his neck hanged some metal tags, while he had belts and belts around his torso, which all kinds of weapons hanged from. Probably Hound.
The last one was a man with strange glasses on his head, one len was squared and blue, while the other was circular and red. His hair was dark brown and he had short and unkempt beard.
He was wearing a lime green and black long jacket, along with a black T-shirt and gray pants, he wore a pair of below-knee black boots. I could see guns hidden under his coat. My guess was that he was the one with delusions of grandeur and cinic attitude
I didn't catch his name, meh !
I paced along with Otimus and neared them.
When they saw us they stopped chatting and arguing with each other.
"Hey Prime ! Did you kiss the girl ?" 'mr Cinic' asked grinning.
"What ?!" I snapped blushing madly.
Optimus shot him a glare.
"Okay ! Okay ! I get it ! Just curious ya know ?"  The man waved his hands in front of him and dropped the matter, well better for him he did.
"So, what do we do now ?" Drift asked as I sat, along with Optimus.
"I heard KSI director Joice wants to create a new robot line, but safer against haking, After failing with the previous one" I said digging my hands into the pockets of my jacket.
"We have to stop him or else Megadumb will take control over them ! Human informatics suck !" Hound leaned backwards lightly, shifting his weight on his arms.
"How are we going to get them ? Hello ? We are giant robots and those fleshies know how to get our afts scrapped !" 'mr Cinic' snapped crossing his arms.
"Crosshairs" Optimus called his name, probably to get him to lower his way too loud voice tone.
Then it popped into my mind.
"You could turn into 'fleshies' as well ! Then, with false names we could get in as workers !" I said in excitement, looking at all of them.
"No way ! There's no way I'm turning into a tiny bag of fleshy organs and all that disgusting stuff !" Crosshairs said putting on a disgusted grimace.
"Wait ! Can we really get fleshy ?" Hound asked scratching his head confused "not a scientist ya know !"
"Of course we can dumbaft ! Optimus was able to do it, so we can !" Mr Cinic snapped.
"Hey pussy glitch don't you dare call me that !" The big man poited a knife to the other's throat.
"Oh I wouldn't if I were you !" Crosshairs pointed him a gun.
"Stand down ! Now !" Optimus ordered. His cold and stern voice gave me chills.
Note to my self: NEVER get him mad.
The two soldiers obayed after an instant of esitation.
"It isn't a bad idea after all. We could erase their codes, they would never be able to get them back" Drift scratched his metallic chin thoughtfully.
"Unless they create new ones, they have the corpses of our comrades and enemies" Optimus said.
"How about a virus ? One that could crash all of the data they have, along with what they can still extract" Crossshairs suggested.
"That'd work. But, who'll program the virus ? Doc bot was the one with I.T. knowledge" Hound asked
"Yeah ! What happened to him, anyone knows something ?" Bumblebee, who was silent since now, spoke through radio recordings.
Optimus froze, his gaze darkened.
"You baby aft ! You're the only one who doesn't know !" Crosshairs snapped at him.
"Bumblebee, Ratchet was killed by humans" Hound said with softer voice, yet, there was a streak of rage.
Bumblebee yanked up, furious. He was shouting unconnected sentences and his eyes were full of tears.
Optimus got up too and reached him, putting a hand on his shoulder.
"Bumblebee...raging over it...won't bring him back..." There was so much sadness in his tone. The young soldier gripped Optimus's jacket and rested his head against his chest.
He cried for what seemed an eternity. It was so heartbreaking seeing Bumblebee cry so hard. I saw Optimus's watery eyes too.
Silence had fallen on us and the air seemed thick and tensed.
"I think it's best if we rest" Drift broke the unpleasant silence.
"I agree" Optimus muttered, looking at Bumblebee, still a sobbing mess.
The holoforms of the four Autobots flickered off, one after the other, as their vehicles approched.
"We will discuss about the plan tomorrow mornig" Optimus looked at his soldiers.
"Have a good recharge sir" Drift said then headed away, probably to hide somewere. It wasn't too wise stick all toggether, as three sports car and an army truck, wouldn't have passed unnoticed.
Everyone scattered and I was left with Optimus.
I realized at that point that I was tired, really tired. My eyes were closing themselves.
I looked at my watch and blinked a few times to focus my blurry vision. It was 2 am !
I sleepily dragged myself towards the tent and trew myself into my sleeping bag.
I muttered a good night to Optimus and soon I fell asleep, hearing his faint chuckling.

In the morning I was awaken by loud voices outside the tent.
"Hound you dumbaft ! You will wake them !" I heard what it seemed to be mr Cinic shout.
I jolted when I realized something heavy was around my waist and some kind of breeze on the back of my neck gave me chills.
I didn't dare turning around, when I noticed I wasn't in my sleeping bag...crap...!
It was Optimus who was hugging me while sleeping !
My heart raced and I blushed madly.
I felt really uneasy, but at the same time, I wanted to stay that way.
I could feel Optimus's chest against my back. His forehead rested on the back of my head, as his breath blew on my neck genlty. He was still fast asleep and I thanked god for that.
Then I thought further...what the hell was I going to do when I would have woken up ?! Just pretend to sleep ?! No way he could buy that !
I decided I would just listen to an eventual explanation, not that I disliked that situation.
I drifted to sleep again, ignoring Hound and Crosshairs shouting like idiots outside.
I was so at peace, I was really relaxed for the first time of my life. I felt safe and protected.
I sighed happily and my dreams took me for the second time.
When I opened my eyes again, I met two royal blue orbs.
"Good morning" I whispered softly.
"Good morning..." Optimus blushed madly, he was still holding onto me "I'm sorry...for..." He trailed of and I chuckled.
"Don't worry about it, I'm kind of enjoing this" I said blushing too.
His eyes widened in surprise and I chuckled again.
Our faces were only inces apart, my heart beat was running like crazy and I felt a strange heat come to my chest. It was strange, yet it was pleasant.
"Hey love birds !" I jumped, great ! Damn Crosshairs !
Optimus snapped his head to the opened entrace of the tent, as mr Cinic in his holoform stood in front of it, grinning like an idiot.
"Hey tin can ! Nothing better to do ?" I teased him smirking.
"Other than tease you two ? Nah ! Nothing'd be this funny !" He answered giggling.
Against my will, I had to get up and go outside. Damn you tin can !
I sighed and threw my jacket, along with my black hoodie in the back of the pick up and wore an old cap to shield my head from the sun.
It was damn hot now, so we tried to find a shady spot behind the rocks.
We sat down in a circle.
"So, what do we do now ?" Drift spoke first.
"As we discussed yesterday, we are going to sabotage the KSI headquarters. We are going to get in from different sectors, if we go together they might get suspicious" Optimus started "I will take care of the virus. Drift, you and Bumblebee will infiltrate through the factory, Hound, Crosshairs, you will enter from the dismantling system on the back" the four soldiers nodded.
"What do I do ?" I asked. Optimus glanced at me with worry.
"I do not want you to get hurt. We will steal one of their drones and you will command it from outside" he said. I simply nodded, though I really wanted to go with them, I would have been only a weight for them in case of an engage.
"How the heck are we turning into fleshies ?" Hound asked, not really happy about the idea.
"You have to load your spark onto your holoform. It's a reversable process, but you will have to hide your body. If it gets destroyed you will never be able to get back" Optimus said dead serious.
"And what about your body ?" Bumblebee asked curiously.
"I hid it in Chicago, I will turn back after this mission" he answered him.