I sighed as Ratchet came back. A few more minutes pass before my brother starts to wake up. He opened his optics and looked around. He tried to talk but quickly realized he couldn't. I stood up and walked over to him.

"Hey, it's okay. Yes, you can't talk but you'll be okay," I said, trying to comfort him.

He took a few deep breaths and calmed down a bit.

"Remember when you had Ancient Insanity when we were kids? This is just like that, except much less...severe. The reason why you can't speak is because your voice box got damaged," I told him.

Severe is probably the wrong word.

My brother looked up at me worriedly. He didn't need to talk; I knew that he was wondering about Star.

"She's upset, but that's all we know. She was in the training room earlier, though I don't know where she is now," I told him.

I helped him up. He gave me a small smile before walking off to find Star. Optimus stood and took my hand in his.

"She's either going to really hate us or love us in the end. I bet that she will hate our servos, what about you?" he asked.

"I bet she's going to act like she hates us, but deep down she won't," I replied.

He smiled.
"Alright that seems fair," he said with a smirk.

Then, he kissed me on the lips passionately. I kissed back just as passionately.

"You know, I'm still here!" Ratchet said, annoyed.

Optimus pulled away and smiled at me. He nodded to Ratchet and led me out of the med bay. We went to the main room.

"Looks like Ratchet is a bit cranky," he said with a laugh.

"Isn't he always at least a bit cranky?" I asked with a smile.

"Depends on who you ask," he replied with smile.

He kissed me again and moved his hands to my waist, making me blush slightly.

You may not be a Con, but you sure can be bad sometimes, Optimus, I thought with a smile as I kissed him back.

I wrapped my arms around his neck to deepen the kiss. He picked me up by the legs as we kissed. I guessed he was going to our room. When we did get to our room, we broke away from the kiss. He set me on the bed and smirked as he leaned closer to me. He suddenly pulled away quickly and tickled me. I laughed as I tried to fight him off of me.

"You're such a bumper," I managed to say.
He smiled widely as he tickled me more.
"I know," he stated.

He tickled me for a few more minutes before helping me up and hugging me.

"I propose a race, from here to the training room. Winner gets...to sleep in for the rest of the week," he suggested.

He smirked as he released the hug and began to jog away. I smiled and shook my head.

"It's so on," I said to myself as I ran out into the hall.
Then, I transformed and drove passed Optimus.
"Try to keep up, old man!" I taunted him.

"Cheater," I heard him say as he gained up on me in his vehicle mode.

He honked his horn as he passed.

"Come on speedster is that the best you can do?" he asked.

"Well, we're kind of in an enclosed space. If you really want to get your tailpipe handed to you, then I suggest we race outside. In fact, I think we should all race tomorrow," I mentioned.

"Very well, it seems everyone needs some cheering up anyway," he said, making the grave mistake of slowing down.

I caught up and zoomed ahead, skidding to a stop and transforming as soon as I entered the training room.

"Think of this as a warm up," I said with a smirk.
He laughed as he caught up with me.

"In that case I will have no problem winning tomorrow," he said as he transformed and smiled.

"Ha, you wish, fatty," I replied with a smirk.

"I guess we will see tomorrow then," he said as he picked me up bridal style.

By the Allspark, Prime, I thought we got past this, I thought with a smile as I blushed a little.

Meh, who am I kidding? I love it and he knows it.

He carried me back to our room.

"It's getting late, the kids are already in bed," he said.

"Yeah, and we have a fun day ahead tomorrow. Let's just hope the D-cons leave us alone for once," I said with a yawn.

"Knowing our luck and their attack habits, I am sure we will be fine," Optimus replied.

He set me down in bed and gently pulled the blankets over me before lying down beside me. I smiled and chuckled softly as I turned to face him. He smiled and kissed my forehead.

"Goodnight, beautiful. See you in the morning," he said.

"Night, babe," I whispered before falling asleep.

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I woke up the next day and stretched. I looked over and saw that Optimus was already up. That's when I remembered it was race day. I smiled and got out of bed. I saw that the door was closed.

He's such a gentlebot, I thought as I opened it.

I smiled as I walked out to the main room to see that my brother was up.

"Hey bro. You feeling better?" I asked him.

"Definitely," he replied through the radio with a smile.

"Cool! I knew you could find a way to talk to us!" I said with a smile as I gave him a big hug.

"So, are you...going to race?" Bee asked me.
I smirked.

"Of course! I'm gonna kick both your tailpipes," I replied.

"I would have beat you last night if I didn't slow down," Optimus spoke up as he kissed me on the cheek.

"Sure, keep dreaming," I replied.
"What are you up to?" Star asked as she walked in.

"We're planning...a race...Do you want to join us?" my brother asked.

"A race? Against you three? No thank you, but I will be at the finish line cheering. When are you going to do this race?" Star asked with a smile.

"This morning," I replied.

"Alright, call me when you are about to start, I'm going to do some paperwork I didn't get to last night," Star said, then walked off to the lab.

*time skip to the race brought to you by Vector Prime's bumper*

I was racing against Optimus, Bee, Ironhide, Jazz, and DarkMoon. Star waved the flag, signaling the start of the race. We all drove off.

"Eat my dust!" I taunted as a pulled slightly ahead of everyone else.

Optimus managed to pull a little bit ahead of me.

"So that is how you want to play it?" he asked as drove past me.

"No hard feelings," my brother said as he drove past me, too.

"Oh it's so on now!" I said as I sped up.

As we were racing, three other cars pulled ahead of us. I immediately recognized them.

"Decepticon alert! Optimus, Bee and I are tailing Barricade, Galvatron and Bonecrusher," I told the others.

I pulled beside Barricade.

"Hey, no Cons are allowed in this race!" I said as I bumped into Barricade's side.

"Give us the Cyber Planet Key!" Barricade ordered as he rammed into my side.

"How many times do I have to tell you? No way, slag brain!" I replied.

He slowed down, so I did too. Then, he transformed. I spun around and drove towards him, transforming just before I hit him. I tackled him to the ground. He stabbed me in the shoulder, causing me to back off and put my hand over the wound. DarkMoon, along with Jazz appeared and started fighting Barricade.

"You two got this covered?" I asked.

Moon nodded. I nodded once back before looking around. I saw that Optimus was fighting Galvatron. I was about to go help him, but then StarScream landed in front of me.

"What do you want, dim spark?" I asked him.

"You should know because you killed her!" he replied angrily.

Wow, I don't think I've ever seen him this mad.

"How was I supposed to know about you two? Also, she attacked me. If you didn't want to risk losing her, you should've told her to stay home," I said.

StarScream growled and attacked me. He tackled me to the ground and raised his sword above my head, ready to kill me.

"Any last words, Autobot?" he asked.

I've survived many "last moments", but with everyone else busy and my injured shoulder, I started to think that this was really it.