"Hey Dawn." Miko called. I was trying to hide Grimlock in his room, but I had to drag him a clinker and she caught me. She nor Raf know about the Super form I have when I come into contact with the Sun Saber.

"Busy!" I replied slamming Grim's door shut and locking it. Only Optimus, Ratchet, and I could lock and unlock the garage door.

"What's in there?" she chirped popping up from no where.

"Classified." I grunted when Grim hit the door with his tail.

"Uh huh. Is there another bot in there?" she looked at the massive door.

"No. It's a project of mine. Something that is so deadly that it has to be kept in there." I threw her over my shoulder and passed through the lock barrier I built. When activated, nothing can go through on either side. It requires a special password.

"So when will we be able to see it?" she questioned.

"Never. Unless you some how end up being taken prisoner by the Decepticons and held for ransom for relics." I deadpanned. Like that was going to happen.

"Fine." She huffed. "So, when's your birthday?"

"Which one. My actual birthday or the day I became a partial Cybertronian?" I hummed.

"Real one, duh." she huffed.

"May 26th." I replied setting her down in the main room before I turned back and went to my room. On the far wall in a relic case, floated the Sun Saber. "Pops, Ironhide. What am I to do now?"

Silence.

"Right, you're in a different dimension." I growled kicking the corner of the huge desk. "FUCK!"

"Dawn, could I..." Optimus stopped in my doorway and looked down at me as I hopped on one ped while holding the other in pain. "I'll come back later."

"Wait, don't." I let my ped go and held out my arm. Optimus paused and turned back to me. "What did you want to ask?"

"I wish to discuss what Alpha Trion spoke to us about." Optimus walked further into my room and the door closed behind him. Shit... "Could you please take the Sun Saber so that we may converse comfortably?"

"Um... yeah, sure." I climbed the case and reached in. As soon as my servo touched the sword, I was big again. Venting softly, I placed the Sun Saber on my back struts where it clicked firmly into place. "So what exactly do you want to discuss about the message?"

"Alpha Trion mentioned that you could save this Earth, unlike in your dimension. What did he mean?" Optimus sat at the desk and I vented heavily. Man, I'm sighing a lot.

"When I was sent here, Quintessa was having Cybertron consume Earth to free Unicron and repair the planet. To this day, Cybertron and Earth are attached for eternity." I crossed my arms and sat on the desk. "If that bitch hadn't of sent me here, I could've stopped her and repaired Cybertron another way. Maybe with the Matrix."

I clutched my servos to my chassis.

"If she had never sent you here, I wouldn't have met you." Optimus gently took my servos and pried them away from my chassis. "I know we haven't spent much time together except when stargazing or decoding the Iacon relic locations, or sharing histories of our dimensions."

"This isn't a fairy tale." I tried to free my servos, but he held firm. "This is war. Nothing can change that. I've lost so much."

"I've lost more than you could ever imagine. You and the Knight have brought this war closer to ending." Optimus' face was quite close to mine. "Come on a drive with me."

"I have no alt-mode for this form." I reminded him. He looked to the white and gold pick up truck in the corner. "Smart ass."

"Language." came his reply.

"Whatever, Spangles." I rolled my optics and let the scanning program in my processors analyze my truck. When it finished, I transformed and revved my engine. The Sun Saber became a few pairs of smoke stacks. I transformed back and looked at the elder and taller Prime. "Happy?"

"Very." He ran his thumb digit along my cheek plate before leading me out into the hallway.

"So what do we do if Miko or Raf spot me?" I raised an optic ridge.

"They are in the training room, setting up something." He sounded like he was hiding something. I gave him the stink optic before we both transformed in the main room.

"Be careful out there, you know Dawn has a price on her helm by Megatron." Ratchet warned us.

"We will, old friend." Optimus promised before he drove out. After a little difficulty, I managed to start my engine and get my wheels rolling.

"This is so weird!" I stated through the comm.

.:: In time, you will grow used to it::. Optimus chuckled.

     We drove way out into the desert till we entered some canyons. Optimus transformed and I followed suit. Nothing was said as we walked in the late afternoon light. The sounds of the animals and the gurgling of the small river nearby created a song of its own. Closing my optics, I rose to the tips of my peds and slowly did a series of spins and then when I nearly fell, Optimus caught me in a dip. I opened my optics and smirked, taking his servo and leading him into a waltz. He stumbled a bit at first but eventually figured out the basic three step. We had to stop because Ratchet commed us and sent a groundbridge.

"Well that was short. I wonder what the problem is." I sighed reaching for the Sun Saber, but Optimus beat me to it and it attached to his backstruts as I shrank and became more humanoid. Prime offered me his servo and I climbed onto it.

"I do not believe it is anything very serious. Also, I believe a Happy Birthday is in order." Optimus gave me a genuine smile and I felt the energon rush to my cheeks.

"That's today? No wonder Miko asked. I've lost track of the dates!" I let my hair cover my face and averted my gaze. When we entered the base and was placed on the floor, Optimus quickly headed to my room to put the Sun Saber away.

"Dawn!" Miko grabbed my arm and dragged me off in the same direction Optimus went. As we neared my room, we passed him as he headed for the training room. "I bought you a really cute dress, that I want you to wear."

"Oh really." I drawled as we entered my room and she closed the door. She paused when she saw the relic case.

"That looks like the Star Saber!" she cheered. "It wasn't here earlier when you and Optimus were on patrol."

"We picked it up along the way. It's from my dimension." I lied partially as she shoved a red leather dress into my arms. With a shake of my head I went into my bathroom and put the outfit on before coming back out. "Well, how does it look?"

"It looks like you're ready to celebrate your thirtieth birthday!" Miko cheered dragging me out of my room and towards the training room. When we got there it was dark and silent.

"Miko, what is going on?" I turned to the shorter girl and crossed my arms.

"Just a lil' something..." She gave me a shit eating grin as the lights came on and everyone including Optimus shouted.

"SURPRISE, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!"

"Woah, how did you manage to get Ratchet and Optimus to be here?" I asked her.

"Lots of threats of black mail." she whispered. A smile crept onto my face as I looked at Team Prime.

"Thank you, everyone." I replied looking at all the holoforms. A microphone was suddenly thrust into my servos as I was lead to a karaoke machine. "Is this really the time?"

"Yes! We all agreed to hear that mysterious singing voice of yours before the party kicked off." Miko giggled.

"Fine." I sighed flipping through the songs. One caught my optic. It was You Raise Me Up, Celtic Woman version. Closing my optics I began to sing as memories from home flooded my mind.

"Woah." Miko wiped a tear from her eye when I stopped singing.

"I'm just gonna..." before I could finish my sentence, a playlist began to play and I was pulled over to a table piled with what appeared to be last minute gifts. "Open gifts then. Y'all didn't have to do this. I've gone multiple years without a birthday."

"Only because you were hunted down." Wheeljack teased.

"How did he learn about that?" I glared at the Japanese girl.

"Lucky guess?" she shrugged innocently.

"Uh huh." I turned to the gifts and grabbed the first one. I was a book on ancient civilizations, that I've been searching for, for years. "Optimus... I don't know what to say!"

"I ship it." Miko whispered to Bulkhead. I threw a wad of wrapping paper at her.

    Bee gave me a paint set, Bulkhead gave me an Adult coloring book, Ratchet gave me a new wrench after I bent the other in half during a skirmish with some Vehicons last week. Arcee got me some bolts of different fabric in red, white, and gold, Wheeljack gave me a cybertronian pistol that was like a rifle to me in this form, Smokescreen got me a stress ball. The little shit..... -_- .... The Kids, and Jack's mother all pitched in and bought me a brand new carbon fiber violin. Fowler gave me some custom military uniforms with the old NEST logo on it, for when I was around the human soldiers. I still had some of my old uniforms, but they needed some repairs. Big time. Suddenly there was slow heavy footsteps coming from the hallway. Before I knew it, something warm and slimy ran up my back.

"Dinosaur!" Miko screamed pointing behind me. I looked over my shoulder and laughed.

"Grim, how did you manage to get out using your holoform?" I rubbed his rough leathery holomatter nose.

"Wait, he's your pet?! Is he what was in that room earlier?" Raf asked slowly approaching the Dinobot leader.

"Kinda." I explained the whole Hong Kong ordeal before a box was dropped into my lap by the T-rex. "Grim. What is this?"

He nudged my bent wrench and then the small scratch on my arm from my cannon upgrades from Ironhide.

"Pops and Ironhide?" I raised an optic ridge. Grim nodded as I opened the small box. A soft blue glow illuminated my smooth metal face as my optics laid upon a glowing blue teardrop. A gasp escaped me as I covered my mouth while tears brimmed in my optics. "How did this manage to get here?"

Grim nudged me again.

"With you?" I placed the box next to me as I hugged the ancient knight.

"Dawn." Arcee gave me a sympathetic look along with the others.

"Thank you. So much. All of you!" I tried to fight the tears that were wanting to burst free.

Twelve pairs of arms wrapped around me. Optimus was the closest to my neck. He buried his holoform's face into my neck as I began to sob.