Save and Protect (Book 1)

Chapter 4

As Optimus and I drove after the Sector 7, I saw the human that is named, Simmons, getting in a threatening position close to Sam's and Mikaela's personal bubble. I then speed up with Optimus close behind and we then transformed to bot mode in front of them. Nightwing hovers above us in her dragon mode. The vehicle then crashes into Optimus's leg forcing the other cars to stop to avoid from getting into a accident. Then I pick up the car and hold onto it for a few seconds as we shined our bright lights to them until the roof of the car comes off making the car drop to the ground on it's four wheels. The humans look up at us as we finally turned off our lights and I threw the broken off roof aside while we glared at Simmons. Sam then said, "You A-Holes are in trouble now. Gentlemen, *Simmons and the driver look to him* I want you to met my friends, Optimus, Nightwing Prime, and Zorya." They then look back to us and I said while standing straight up with my fists clenched, "Taking the children was a bad move." The humans of Sector 7 except Simmons started to point their guns at us and Optimus ordered getting in front of me a little to protect me, "Autobots, relieve them of their weapons." Nightwing dropped down and growled at Simmons as the other Autobots drop down while pointing their guns at them. Ironhide then said as they got close, "Freeze!" Simmons yelled as he put his hands up, "Whoa! Whoa!" Jazz then said before taking their guns with his magnet thing, "Give me those!" Their weapons go to Jazz's hand and Simmons looks at him in surprise then said still surprised he can do that, "Whoa!" The other humans forced their hands up in surrender since they no longer had the guns. Optimus kneels down towards Simmons with a glare and Simmons says with a nervous smile, "Hi, there." "You don't seem afraid.", Optimus said and I added almost smirking smugly at them, "Are you not surprised to see us?" Simmons looks over to me and said, "Look, there are S-Seven protocols, okay? I'm not authorized to communicate with you except to tell you I can't communicate with you." I rolled my optics at him as Optimus said with a glare, "Get out of the car." Simmons then said, "All right. Me? You want to get..." "NOW!", Optimus ordered feeling very not in the mood. I ignored what Simmons goes to say as the other humans let Sam and Mikaela out of the car. Mikaela starts to get the cuffs off of Sam as he says, "You're good with handcuffs, too, now, huh?" I then scolded while glaring at him a little, "Sam, Be nice." "You weren't supposed to hear all that.", Mikaela replied. Sam then said rubbing his wrists walking away a little, "Yeah." I then went over to stand by Nightwing, who was now in her robot mode standing with her arms crossed. Simmons said looking at us, "Big guys. Big guys with big guns, huh?" Sam walked up to him before saying with Mikaela by him, "Where is Sector 7? *Simmons doesn't say anything* Answer me." "I'm the one with who asks questions around here. Not you, young man!", Simmons replied. Mikaela then asked, "How you know about the aliens?" "Where did you take my parents?", Sam added. Simmons looks between as he said, "I am not at liberty to discuss it." Sam then said before grabbing something out of his jacket pocket, "No?" "Hey. You touch me, that's a federal offense.", Simmons says as he watched him take his badge. Sam just said showing him his badge, "Do-whatever-you-want-and-get-away-with-it badge, right?" As Sam and Mikaela looked at his badge closely, Simmons said, "Yeah. Brave now all of a sudden, with his big alien friend standing over there." Sam turns to him saying, "Where is Sector Seven?" "Wouldn't you like to know?", Simmons replied. I then saw Bee about to do something that I know what he is going to do and quickly covered Nightwing's optics to prevent her from seeing what's going to happen. Nightwing said to me, "Zorya, I'm not a sparkling anymore!" "You'll always be my sparkling, Nightwing.", I teased a little but telling the truth. Bee then started to pee on Simmons and Simmons yell out, "Hey! Hey!" "Bumblebee, stop lubricating the man.", Optimus said with hidden amusement. Bumblebee stopped and shrugged as if he were innocent. I then uncovered Nightwing's optics to let her see again. We then turn to Mikaela as she said to Simmons, "All right, tough guy, take it off." "What are you talking about?", Simmons asked. She answered, "Your clothes, all of it, off." "For what?", Simmons asked not knowing why she wants him to. She then answered, "For threatening my dad." "Little lady, this is the beginning of the end of your life. Your a criminal, let's face facts. It's in your gene pool." Simmons says as he strips to his under garments. "Those are nice. Now get behind the pole." Mikaela says. Simmons does so and Mikaela cuffs him. I didn't notice what the agent says as Nightwing's audio receptors were perked up and looking into the distance. "Nightwing?" I asked and she looks at me before she said, "I think I hear something coming right for us." she replied. But then we see more cars and a few copters headed for us. "Optimus! Zorya! Nightwing! Incoming!" Ironhide says, emitting an electric pulse with his cannons, slowing the cars down. Nightwing takes flight, Bee, Jazz, Ironhide, and Ratchet transform and drive away. Optimus kneels down to our human friends and extends a hand before he said, "Up you get." Sam and Mikaela climb on before Optimus and I begin running. We lose our pursuers and hide under the bridge. "Easy you two." Optimus said to Sam and Mikaela before a helicopter passes beneath us. Mikaela falls but Sam grabs her hand. Mikaela said that she was slipping before she and Sam fall, Optimus tries to catch them on his foot, but they fell toward the ground. Bee drives up and catches Sam and Mikaela before they could hit the ground. But then, Nightwing pushes Bee out of the way for a grappling hook to sink into her shoulder. "Bee get out of here!" she yells, he drives off but gives a spark-breaking keen as he does so. Another grappling hook shot into Nightwing's other shoulder and she roars in pain. She doesn't fight back. "STOP HURTING HER!!" Sam screams as she tries to get to Sam to make sure Bee's charge was safe. Mikaela and Sam were forced to the ground as Sam yells, "Look she's not fighting back!" Nightwing reaches for Sam before her hand was jerked back by the cables and the agents were spraying her with freezing gas. She and Sam lock eyes and she gives a painful whine. Sam gets the guard off of him and sprays him with the freezing gas before he was tackled. Sam was taken over to Simmons who was mostly dressed now before Simmons said, "Happy to see me again? Put him in the car with his little criminal girlfriend. I want that thing frozen and ready for transport!" Simmons says as Sam was taken to a car. As Nightwing was being frozen, She gives a roar filled with pain, sorrow and begging her Sire and me for help, though she knew that we couldn't get involved. Optimus and I watch with pain in our optics. We knew we couldn't interfere without harming the humans. I hear Jazz say, "Hang back, I'll check it out. Optimus, Zorya. Are we really just going to stand by and do nothing?" "There's no way to free Nightwing without harming the humans." Optimus replied and Jazz said, "But it's not right! You-" "Let them leave." I said sadly, before I see the glasses. I pick them up and give the glasses to Optimus. "Optimus what do we do now?" I ask him and he said before we drive off, "We find the coordinates for the Cube."

(Somewhere in the dessert...)
We come to a building as the sun climbs into the sky and Optimus looks at the glasses before saying, "Please, let this work." "Fire it up Optimus." Jazz says before Optimus uses his optics to show us the code. "The Code. The code indicates the Allspark is 230 miles form here." Optimus said before Ratchet said, "I sense the Decepticons are getting ready to mobilize." "They must know it's here as well." Ironhide agrees. "What about Nightwing?" Bee asks us and Jazz agrees, "We can't just leave her to die and become some human experiment!" I closed my optics and lowered my head down, feeling very guilty. It's my fault that I gotten Sam and Mikaela involved plus Nightwing getting captured by the humans. I should of taken the glasses and find the Allspark myself when I had the chance! I keep imagining Nightwing getting tortured by the humans as they try to discover more about her. Optimus then said, "She'll die in vain if we don't accomplish our mission. Nightwing is a brave soldier. This is what she would want." Ironhide asked, "Why are we fighting to save the humans? They're a primitive and violent race." I walked up to him and asked, "Were we so different? The humans and us have a lot in common besides our different species." Optimus agreed saying, "They're a young species. They have much to learn. But Zorya and I seen goodness in them. Freedom is the right of all sentient beings." I was silent before I said, "You all know there's only one way to end this war. We must destroy the Cube." I then opened my chest a little while saying, "If all else fails, I will unite it with the spark in my chest." Optimus protested with a look of surprise and shock, "Zorya, you can't!" Ratchet agreed saying, "That's suicide. The Cube is raw power. It could destroy you both." I replied with a guilty look still on my face, "A necessary sacrifice to bring peace to this planet. We cannot let the humans pay for our mistakes." I looked down for second in guilt before turning to them saying, "It's been an honor serving with you all." Optimus then ordered, "Autobots, roll out!" The Autobots then ran with Jazz saying, "We rolling!" I went to follow but, stopped when I felt a servo grab my wrist gently preventing me to go further. With a confused look, I turned to see it was Optimus who stopped me with a worried and concerned look. "Zorya, please. You can't sacrifice yourself.", Optimus begged. He then added, "You are too valuable." I looked up to him and placed my servo on his face before I said, "Optimus, it must be done to end this war." He places his servo over mine that's on his face and says, "Zorya, please don't do this." I rest my forehead on his and said, "I have to." Thinking this might be my final days, I gave him a quick peck on his cheek before I ran then transformed to my vehicle mode and drove off to catch up with the Autobots. What I didn't see when I left, Optimus touched his cheek where I kissed at with a dreamy kind of look as he watched me drive away before he shook his head to get out of his trance then followed her right after.