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CHARLIE!!!!

Charlie wakes up, hearing her mother calling for her name. "What Mom!?" Charlie yelled from her room. "You'll be late for the interview!" Her mother yelled back. "Interview...?" Charlie looks around her room and notices a small sticky note near her clock. "FUCK!!!!" Charlie gets up, rushing towards her bathroom, holding her interview clothes and brushing her teeth. She had an interview to be a car mechanic in her town. She get dressed up and runs towards the door. "Love you, Bye!" Charlie was about to leave until her mother pulled her back. "Wait! There's a package for you on the table." Charlie looks over at the table, seeing a very poorly wrapped package. She grabs the package and heads to her car. She was able to get it working 5 years ago and has worked smoothly since then. She enters the car as she puts the package in the seat next to her. She starts driving towards the Mechanic's but couldn't stop distracting herself from wondering what's in the package. "Hmmm...." As she parks in front of the Mechanic's, she opens the package to reveal a note and a small picture. "Oh Bee." The picture was of him and 2 other autobots she doesn't know of. She reads the note and smiles.

~ Time Skip ~

Charlie was walking around the woods, wondering where Bee was. "BUMBLEBEE!!!!" Charlie calls out his name, hoping he was able to hear it. Suddenly, Charlie feels herself getting lifted up by someone behind her. She turns around, expecting it to be Bee but it wasn't. It was a larger robot with Blue paint and red fire marks on his body and seems to resemble the body of a truck. "Who are you!? And what do you want with B-127!?" Before Charlie could answer, more autobots showed up. "C'mon Optimus, she's not a threat." "Don't see it like that Mirage!" She continues being held by Optimus until she sees a familiar yellow and black car. "Bumblebee!" Charlie yells excitedly. She hasn't seen Bumblebee for 5 years but have kept in touch with him through letters and packages. "|Optimus! Put her down!|" Bee yelled through his radio. Optimus puts Charlie down, as she headed towards Bumblebee, giving him a warm hug. "|How you've been Charlie?|" Bumblebee asks, as he kneels down to Charlie's level. "I've been doing well Bee. It looks like your friends were able to make it here." Charlie looks around, seeing the other autobots that surrounded her. "|Let me introduce them to you Charlie.|" Bumblebee walks around, pointing out who is who. "This is Mirage, that's Arcee, this is Ultra Magnus, Rachet, he's CliffJumper, that's WheelJack, and this..." Bumblebee steps in front of Optimus, who wasn't very pleased being here. "Optimus Prime, leader of the Autobots." Charlie looks at him, seeing how he was the tallest out of them all. "Nice to meet you all." Charlie waved at everyone before returning her attention to Bumblebee. "You ready for that Drive-in movie theater?" Bumblebee beeps excitedly as everyone around grew excited as well, except Optimus Prime. "You all can go, but I'm staying here." Optimus saids, as keeps his posture straightened. "C'mon Optimus, learn to be lose. Come with us, it'll be fun." Mirage said, as he tried pulling Optimus to join the others. "No. That's my final decision." The others leave, following Charlie to where the movie will be. Bumblebee stayed behind, clearly upset Optimus will not be joining them. "|I thought you said you would try to trust the humans...|" Optimus looks at him, clearly upset with Bumblebee bringing up the promise he made to him. "I still can't trust them fully B-127." "|My name is Bumblebee! I thought it was already cleared! Are you getting older or-|" Bumblebee was slammed against the tree, with Optimus pinning him with both of his hands. Bumblebee glares at him, trying to stand his ground. After a few moments of glaring at each other, Optimus lets Bumblebee go, as he slowly walks away into the woods. "|Hmph!|" Bumblebee leaves, clearly frustrated that Optimus still hasn't bothered to trust the humans yet. He thought that after what Noah and Elena did for them when they tried retrieving the Transwarp key was enough for Optimus to trust humans. They even risked their lives to try and get them home. Bumblebee transforms, as he continues tailing the others.

Optimus continues walking around, clearly trying to calm himself from what has happened earlier. Of course he did trust the humans but only the ones they've met that helped them. Bumblebee can't expect him to trust the entire human population! He knows they all aren't the same and can be trusted. He walks around, clearly not looking where he was going until he slipped on a ditch. "FUCK-" Optimus slips down the ditch, landing on his side, probably denting his metal side. "This is just great..." Optimus sits down, clearly upset over everything. How they don't have a way home yet, how he has to keep his promise to trust humans more, how B-127 keeps distracting him- wait. Optimus pauses, as he replays the scene from earlier where he pinned B-127 against the tree for yelling at him to call him 'Bumblebee' instead. He couldn't help but feel his anger rise but he calms himself down, knowing it wasn't worth getting angry over. As Optimus continues sitting down, he hears footsteps coming towards his direction. He stands up, trying to see who it was. He didn't see anyone coming towards him or from any direction. "Weird..." Optimus sits down, clearly spooked from earlier. "Probably some animal..." He thought to himself, as he slowly tilts his head back. Optimus was slowly closing his optics, falling into recharge until he heard a snap and a yelp. He opens his optics widely, seeing a robot fall into the ditch the same way he did. "《Ow...》" The unknown robot slowly picks herself up, not noticing Optimus behind her. Optimus couldn't help but feel like he recognized that voice before. "《Well isn't this just-》" She turns around and sees Optimus staring right at her. They both continued to slowly stare at each other, until Optimus spoke up.

"Illusion...?"