I was walking into the rec room later that afternoon and I heard hushed whispering between the two medics (Xandred and Ratchet), Ironhide, Jazz, the Lambo Twins, and Bumblebee and I thought it was weird- it only turned out to be weirder with they noticed me and stopped whispering completely.

            “What are you all up to?” I asked, an eyebrow raised at the seven mechs around the large table who had been whispering up until they noticed me in the room. “Are you guys up to some bet? If so, I want in on it bec- wait, the bet’s about me isn’t it?” I ask, giving them all a look.

            Of course, Bumblebee nods and gives it all away which causes him to get six other mechs glaring harshly at him and me smiling greatly at him. “If it’s about a relationship or anything to do with my powers, I will personally find a way to get you back. I suggest you all recharge with one optic online, except Bee of course. He is safe because he was honest. Bye mechs.” I said, winking at them before walking off.

            Soon I was joined by Jazz in the human part of the base, and he was blasting music while I cooked myself a late lunch- we were dancing and singing along to every song we knew, using the various kitchen utensils as microphones as I kept cooking. It was a very fun experience, Jazz was fun to hang out with.

            At the moment we were singing Eye of the Tiger while I was cooking the sauce and boiling the noodles for spaghetti. Hound and Bluestreak had gone off and gotten the essentials for food a few days ago, after I had given them a listen- well, I gave them each a copy of the list in case the other lost it by accident.

            Neither of us had notice Optimus Prime himself walk into the normal sized kitchen in his holoform, we had been too busy dancing and singing- well Jazz was dancing, I was swinging my hips side to side and singing loud. We weren’t the best but we weren’t the worst, well Jazz could sing but I couldn’t.

            Jazz twirled around and noticed Optimus, which caused him to quickly turn off the radio which caused me to turn around and blush at the sight of Optimus shaking his head and smiling at us. “I see that you both share a fondness for dancing and singing then, huh?” He asks, which only caused my cheeks to go brighter and Jazz to chuckle awkwardly.

            “When did you get here, Optimus?” I asked, trying to hide my dark pink cheeks but obviously failing at it miserably. I cursed myself for having my hair up in a ponytail while I cook, because I could have used the advantage of long hair to hide my pink cheeks, ears, and practically pink face from embarrassment.

            “I arrived here not too long ago, in the middle of the last song ‘Eye of the Tiger’ I believe. I heard noises in the kitchen and decided to investigate, that and a lot of the mechs were outside the kitchen doorway peeking in and muttering to themselves about something so I decided to find out what.” He says and chuckles. “I wasn’t expecting you to both be singing and dancing.”

            Immediately I feel my cheeks heat up even more, and I turn to stir the noodles and turn the oven off because the noodles and sauce were done. “You didn’t see anything Optimus, it was all a figment of your imagination.” I said, as I dumped the pot full of noodles and waters into the strainer to get rid of the water but leave the noodles behind.

            Optimus shook his helm and smiled at the two, letting out a sigh. “I’ll leave you two alone for now then, I have paperwork that needs to be done…” he says, before his holoform fizzled out of sight. He didn’t have much paperwork, he just had to get out of there quickly.

            When he saw how close the two were when they were singing and dancing together, he felt a pang in his spark that reminded him of the human emotion of… jealousy? He couldn’t be jealous of Jazz’s and Charlie’s close friendship… could he be? Did he really see Charlie in that way, as a possible lover one day?

            It just couldn’t be, not with this war still going on- there were still rogue Decepticons out there and they were teaming up, and it wouldn’t be too long before they brought the fight back to earth and fought the Autobots once more. The bad part was, they wouldn’t be able to protect the planet for forever.

            One day they wouldn’t be there in time, one day it would be their fault that millions were killed and that their planet suffered the same price Cybertron did back in the middle of the war. Optimus wouldn’t let that happen again, at least not to earth. Cybertron, he could repair but earth… earth itself wouldn’t be repaired and be the same as it had been before.

            No, he would not let earth be destroyed- not until his spark gave out on its own, and until then he would fight for the sake of humanity… and without her knowing, there was one human who kept giving him hope that he could still fight them off and that human was known as Charlotte Carrington- the human femme who had brought him back and whom he was also starting to fall for. What could possibly happen to them?