┆彡 location ;
BROOKLYN, 1994
━ before we go!

Hearing the familiar sirens of the police cars incoming, the group had fled to another area away from their original one with Airazor, their new companion. Optimus angrily picked up something from the scrap metal, and threw it into a car, before clutching his side.

"This is my fault. It should've been me." He speaks in his gravelly voice, while limping from the damage he received, and everyone watched in sorrow.

(Y/N) was placed on Mirage's shoulder plates again, her head patched up by Elena's small first aid she carried around, and rested her her against Mirage's helm, sighing sadly at Prime's fit of rage over Bee.

"I'm sorry for your loss." Airazor voices after a few seconds, and flutters her massive metal wings, perched up on a small shed in front of the group.

"No offense lady," Mirage began his question, one of his digits being held by (Y/N)'s hand for comfort, and uses his free servo to motion at the Maximal, "but who are you again?"

"My name is Airazor, I am a Maximal." She starts to introduce herself, while glancing around at everyone with her bright yellow optics, "A warrior from both your past and future."

Mirage nodded his helm a little being careful not to knock (Y/N), and hummed humorously, "Oh right.. t-that tracks, yeah." He commented, while making a motion with his digit to signify Airazor might be insane.

The (H/C) haired girl nudged the side of his helm with her elbow, which caused him to quickly glance up at her, and winced seeing her scolding stare. He looked back down with a visible pout, and stayed quiet like a kicked puppy, as she rolled her eyes at it.

"We fled our home planet on the eve of this destruction." Airazor continued her explaining the old history, that was still a painful memory for her, "We sought refuge and hid here on Earth."

"Alright, so you're a Maximal," Elena spoke up finally from the ground, and pointed at the two different kind of robots around her, "and y'all are Autobots ,what were those things that attacked us earlier?"

Airazor turned her beak towards the human, "Terrorcons." She answered sharply, and started to pace a little on top of the shed's ledge, "Servants of a dark, hungry god who feeds on entire worlds to sustain himself."

Optimus's helm lifted up hearing this, his figure faced away from the group, and pitched in lowly knowing who it was, "Unicron."

"So, you sayin' this thing, Unicron, eats planets to survive?" Mirage questioned in bafflement, and felt (Y/N)'s spike in anxiety at her gripping is digit more, making him worry even greater then he already was.

"Yes. And he imbues his servants like Scourge with dark energy which makes him all but invincible." The Maximal confirms strongly, not easing anyone's fears as the three humans shared a look, "He is entirely beholden to Unicron. Through his power, he possesses Scourge's soul."

Optimus walks back over to the group slowly, his heavy footsteps breaking their conversation, and the group turn their attention to him, "I should've gotten the key myself. I should've known better than to rely on humans!"

(Y/N) cowered back into Mirage's shoulder plates at Prime's angry tone, and verbal hit at them. Not like she, and the other two meant for this to happen, and if she could, she definitely would of tried harder. But, in the end, Bee died, and the key was gone.

Mirage once more spotted her shift in expression, and vented softly at the tears lining her lashes, "Hey. He didn't mean it, sweetheart." He gently assured her, voice low so only the two could hear it, and nudges his helm against her head with a smirk as he faced her, "Boss man is just pissy, don't take anything Prime says to heart when he's like that."

She smiled a little weakly hearing his attempt at comfort, and nods in understanding, "I don't blame him, though.." She admits sadly, and crosses her legs over his shoulder plate to sit more, "I'd be like that to, if I just lost my dearest friend."

He blinks suprise at how quick she could empathise with Prime, and tries not to blow a fuse when she brough his large digit into lap to fiddle with it. He couldn't say anything more, as Noah had talked over him loudly.

"Now hold up." Noah began offended, and looked up at Prime with a small glare, "You blamin' us after you conveniently left out the part about a planet-eating monster?"

Optimus uncrossed his metal arms over his chest plate, and pointed an accusing digit at Noah, but not the girl on Mirage's shoulder, "Because of you, Unicron will now use the key to consume every planet in the universe!" His gaze shifted off to the side, almost sadly, "Including my homeworld."

"He doesn't have the key." Airazor stated quickly after Primes' words, and looked towards his confused figure, "At least not all of it. We broke the key to two pieces for safe keeping, then split it, and went into hiding." She paused for a second, with a frown over her optical ridge, "I do not know where the other half is. For all I know, I am the last of our kind."

A sudden thought crossed Elena's mind, making her face brighten up and stumble out an confession, "It's in Peru."

(Y/N)'s eyes went wide also remembering something from the notes, and many books she's read about the history of these robots. She frantically pats Mirage's helm, and motions for him to place her down. He goes to reluctantly with a gentle grip, and once she was on the solid floor, she rushed over to where Noah and Elena were.

"How you know that?" Noah questioned curiously, and gave his sister a smile seeing her next to him now, not up with Mirage who was now pouting sadly without her on him.

"It's the symbols on the stone." Elena began to explain, and took off her backpack from around her shoulders, as (Y/N) tugged her forward with an notebook in Elena hands, standing in front of the Maximal, "They were only ever recorded in one other place in the world."

"The Inca Temple of the Sun in Kuzco. It's one of the oldest buildings in the Western Hemisphere." The (H/C) haired girl took off from Elena's words, and glanced down at the page full of symbols and newsletters involving the issue, before back up to everyone.

Elena nodded in agreement, and showed her notepad page up to Airazor, "I-I'm guessing that, that can't be a coincidence."

"If you two could track those symbols to Peru, so can the Terrorcons." Arcee added on hearing the information, and looks around at her team, "We need to get there before they do."

"And then kill Scourge and take his piece to complete the key." Optimus vowed with a servo scrunch by his chest.

Noah scoffs at this, and turns around to the Autobots with a panicked movements, as he stresses, "Now hold up. Hold up. You wanna find this other key and deliver it to the guy that just kicked your asses?"

Prime ignores him, and instead looks to all his team, while shaking his helm, "The transwarp key is our only way home."

(Y/N) stared at her brothers figure, and walked up beside him, taking his arm to wrap around hers, "If Scourge gets a hold of that thing, it's game over for Earth. Our families, everybody." She declares heavily, and glances around at them all before landing on Noah, "We're going."

Optimus' father instincts kick in at her words, and pointed a servo at her, while moving it from side to side in a scolding manner, "Out of the question."

Noah tilted his head sharply with a tight lip smile, "No offense, but I'm not trustin' our home to a guy who couldn't even protect his." He glared up at the Autobot, who took a step towards him defensively.

His sister wacked his arm a little at his rude comment, before looking back up at Prime, smiling kindly to ease the tension, "It's our planet, OP. We're going."

Airazor ruffles her metal wings, and turns to the quiet Elena behind them looking in her book, "What about you?"

Elena didn't pay attention as she was busy in her notes, until (Y/N) nudge her side and the girl jumped noticing Airazor talking to her, "M-me?"

The Maximal nods her helm gently, and leans down the slightest to look at her properly, "What is your name?"

"Elena." She responded shyly, while placing her notepad behind her back to stop from glancing in it.

Airazor repeated her name to test it out, and questioned in her soothing tone between the two human girls, "Will you lead us to this temple?"

Elena turned back to the siblings holding each other's arms behind her, and waited to hear what they would say, "Chance to stop the end of the world." Noah reminded her, shrugging his shoulder gently.

"Actually," Arcee cut in between their converstation, and walked over to the trio, as she stood in between them, "you'll be saving two worlds."

Elena furrowed her brows in thought, as (Y/N) gave her a comforting smile to help her decision. She eventually looked back up to Airazor, and nodded her head, "Yeah."

......

After getting driven back to their aparment by Mirage, who was outside the side in his car form lingering around the corner, before he came around near the side road. Noah quietly opened the door the their home, and (Y/N) walked through before he gently closed it back shut.

The radio on the table suddenly goes off, the duo already knowing who it was by his voice, "Yo, Knuckles, Sonic. Is that you guys?"

(Y/N) clicked her tongue at Kris still being up, and walked up to grab the walkie-talkie, pressing down on the side to talk, "What you doing up, Tails?"

"I can't sleep." Kris' voice crackles over the speaker, it sounding very droopy despite what he said. This caused the olde siblings to share a concerned look, and she went to grab an heat pack from the cupboard once she placed the walkie down.

Inside Kris' bedroom now the two were sitting on his bed, as Noah gently pressed the heat pack to Kris' wrist, and (Y/N) was near his side, rubbing his arms up and down in comfort.

"It's too hot?" Noah asked in concern, flickering his dark eyes up to their quiet brother, who was leaning into the girls side, "You playing that game too much. Give it a rest, you know what I'm saying? So your hand can take a break."

Kris just shook his head, and leant up from (Y/N)'s side but still held onto her hand with his good one, "I'm gonna beat it." He declares confidently, hinting at the game he plays.

She smiles brightly at Kris, and wraps an arm around his shoulders gently, "Our money's on you, bud. We don't quit." She tells him, while pressing a kiss against his forehead, "Come on, get some sleep, all right?"

Unknown to them all, Mirage was now in his robot form and slowly rose up from his spot standing on a car. His curious blue optics land on the family inside, and felt his spark swell seeing how (Y/N) acted with her younger brother.

Kris nods in understanding, and gave her hand a squeeze before letting go to get comfortable in bed. He leant on his few pillows behind his back, and pulled up the blankets more.

"Yo listen, we gotta head out for a while." Noah starts talking again after a few seconds, and places a hand on top of his sisters that was holding his shoulder, "I don't know when we're gonna be back."

Kris frowns worriedly at his older siblings, and glances between them confused, "Why?"

Outside of the fire escape window railing, the car Mirage was standing on started to creak under his weight, and he cursed knowing what was about to happen, "Oh shi-"

His pedal's went straight through the roof, and crushed the car making all the glass window's break from impact. The car's alarm was set off, as Mirage tripped backwards off of it, and bumped into the wall behind him, making his headlights switch on accidently.

The trio inside the apartment squint their eyes from the sudden bright light, and (Y/N) brings up her forearm to block the light. She gasped in alarm remembering who was out there, and rushed up to the window, sliding it open to see Mirage frantically trying to turn off his headlights.

"What are you doing?!" She whispered yelled at the freaking out Autobot, and waved her hands around to grab his attention as Noah came up beside her, "Mirage! Calm down!"

Mirage was hitting his headlights with his servos, and whined out apologies after apologies to her, "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! It won't turn off-"

"Is that a robot?" Kris asked in bafflement watching this happen, and squinted his eyes more because of Mirage's headlights shining in through the window.

(Y/N) tensed hearing her brother's words, and shot around to try and hide Mirage's massive figure behind her with Noah, "No! No, no. Go back to bed, bud." She reassured nervously, before turning back to Mirage, "Shut it off!"

Mirage's lights were now flickering at her strict tone, and once more tried to block them from blinding them all, "I had hot wires, so I messed up my life."

Kris gets up from bed, and reaches over to grab his bat by his table, "I got the bat." He announced threateningly, and placed the weapon on his shoulder.

Noah snatched the bat out off his hands quickly, and went to take it away from reach of Kris, "You gonna wake up mom!"

Mirage only then changed back into his car form hearing Kris had a weapon, and (Y/N) groaned tiredly as she went to check if their mother was awake with Noah. At the same time, Kris had hopped out of the window and down onto the railing, "I know you're a robot." He declares, and grabs a can to chuck it at Mirages car form.

"Kris!" (Y/N) exclaims panicked seeing this, and went to hop out of the window with Noah also once finding out their mother was asleep, "Don't throw stuff at the car!"

Mirage started to transform into his robot form at her voice, and stood up to his full height to face Kris, "Yo! You scratched my paint!" He complained with attitude, and placed his servos on his waist, "Man, they didn't treat ET like this."

"You know this thing?" Kris questioned shock, while glancing between his siblings and Mirage, as his sister came up behind him.

(Y/N) nods her head a little bit, and places a hand on Kris' shoulder gently, "Yeah, we're just..." She trails off mid words, and pursues her lips with an awkward smile, "work friends."

Mirage makes a disbelief noise, and raises his shoulders plates, "Work friends?" He repeats in offense, and moves to stand in front of her. He leans down to her level, as a suggestive smirk crosses his dermas, "You've been inside me!"

Her jaw drops at his teasing words, and a embarrassed expression takes over her features, as she quickly stumbled back away from Mirage. He was doing this on purpose in front of Kris, and it made her throw a scowl at Mirage through her flustered state. He just raised his optical ridge, and smirked playfully seeing her reaction.

"Look, the thing we told you," Noah directed the conversation back on topic, also throwing an annoyed look at Mirage's flirting with (Y/N), and turned back to Kris, "It's with him and his crew."

Mirage moved his blue optics away from the girl's still flustered figure, and nodded his helm in agreement, "We're trying to stop the end of the world." He causal admitted, while walking over to the wall across from them.

"The world is ending?!" Kris asked a little panicked, eyes moving back and forth between the three.

(Y/N) lifted herself off the wall once she calmed herself down, and took Kris' forearm in her hands, while giving the Autobot a warning look for his words, "No! It's not."

"Maybe," Mirage answered with a cocky grin spotting her look on him, and leant his elbow on the garbage dump, "Sixty, forty."

Noah sighs to himself, and comes up to stand next to his sister holding Kris' arms still gently, "You know we're not gonna let that happen." He assures, "But that's why we have to leave."

Kris nod his head, staying quiet for a few seconds to glance between his siblings, and pulled his arms free from her hold, "I'll go get my things."

Shocked reactions shift on the older siblings faces, and Mirage comments a bit impressed while Kris goes to walk back to the window, "Tough kid."

"What? No. Whoa, whoa. Hold on, hold on." (Y/N) speaks rapidly and catches up to Kris, taking him gentry by the shoulders to face her and Noah, "You--you're not coming."

"Why? You need someone to watch your backs." Kris retorted with an upset frown, not wanting anything bad to happen to them while he wasn't there to protect them.

She exhales sadly to herself, and smiles a little at him, "It's too dangerous, Kris." She responded softly, and squeezes his shoulders in her hands, "And We need you to stay here and take care of Mom."

The younger boy stayed quiet for a few second, before glancing down at the ground, "'Cause you two might not come back.." He muttered woefully, and this caused the older siblings to share a melancholy look between each other.

Kris then turned to Mirage, "Hey, robot." He called to him, and walked up to the railing more near the edge.

"Me?" Mirage questioned surprised, pointing a digit to his chest plate and flicked his helm up as he went to the balcony railing, "What's up?"

"Watch out for my siblings, okay?" Kris asked of the robot, and glance up at him with his dark eyes, wishing he could protect them himself.

"You got it, little man." Mirage declares with a slight smile, and (Y/N) also grinned at the sight of them talking with each other.

Kris spotted his out of the corner of his eye, and pointed a finger in Mirage's way, "Oh, and don't break my sisters heart," He states protectively, causing the parties involve with freak out, "Cause if she, or my brother get hurt, I'm coming after you."

(Y/N) placed an hand over her mouth at Kris' bold words, and tries to hide her once again embarrassed expression from the others, and Mirage. However, Noah just sent a teasing look her way despite him wanting to disagree with the topic.

Mirage chuckles a little breathily, and turns his much more intense optics to her, catching her by surprise seeing them like that, "I wouldn't dream of it, don't worry." He assures smoothly, him never being so serious about something before, "I promise."

She felt her stomach leap at the way he held eye contact with her during those words, and sends him a wobbly smile in gratefulness. However, promises were easily broken. And that scared her, badly.

Kris hum with a head nod suspiciously, before turning back to his siblings, and leans into (Y/N)'s open arms for him, "Home team?"

"Home team." They confirmed together, and brought Kris into a final hug between each other, as she presses a gentle kiss on his curly locks.

"Kids got heart." Mirage complements watching the interaction with a soft smile, and lifts up his servo to dramatically talk, "Cajones muy grande."

......

The next day was the time to go, and Mirage was driving the siblings to the meet up place where all the others were waiting. Mirage skids to a stop, transforming into his robot form as Noah got out smoothly, and (Y/N) was back on Mirage's shoulder plate like usual.

She had a small brown bag around her shoulders full of needed supplies, and was dressed in something new. Wearing another flannel shirt, while a jumper around her, and loose pants followed by her high-tops. Left wrist having her family heirloom's bracelet, and a few hairbands again.

"Wu-Tang is in the building, baby!" Mirage announces loudly, his hips swaying as he grins goofily up at (Y/N) on his shoulder, hearing her amused chuckle

"Way to be incognito." Prime muttered unimpressed at this, and stared with a deadpan at the incoming trio.

Mirage raised his servos up in defense, "Aw, come on, Prime! Smile a little bit. It won't hurt." He remarks playfully, just as he past the grumbling leader, "Let me see that underbite."

Noah side eyed Mirage with a weird look, and shook his head with a nosed laugh seeing (Y/N) giggling at the Autobot's words. Though, he spots Primes scowling look on him, and just continued to walk by like nothing happened.

"Alright, so what kind of jet we takin' to Peru? Or is it a plane?" Mirage spoke up again in question, as he outstretched his metal arms, and motioned to his tibulen's (thighs), "Either one's fine. I just need first-class, okay? 'Cause I got long-ass legs."

(Y/N) fiddled with a piece of metal on his helm absentmindedly, and snorted amused at another one his comments, as she watched the Autobot's who were mostly at the same height as her now.

"Uh, well, he is a plane." Acree replied a bit hesitantly afterward, and had her pink servos on her hips, smiling knowingly at Mirage.

"No. No, no, don't tell me we're flying on..." He pauses his panicked rant, and glances up to the sky seeing who was incoming, as he deflates in defeat, "Oh, no."

A old cargo plane flies overhead of them, transforms into his robot form, and lands in front of them, messily that created rumble everywhere.

He belly laughs while sitting on his behind, "Ha, ha! My lads, I am Stratosphere! Lord of the skies!" He introduces, and starts coughing and hocks up an engine part, that lands near the two humans on the ground.

(Y/N) cringed in concern for the older Autobot at this, and leans against Mirage's helm more, as he goes to straight away comment, "Yeah, I'm walkin' to Peru."

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i love mirage sm pls i can't,, the way he's so fluent with his movements and all that UGHH im in love HELPPP 😵‍💫😵‍💫

literally addicted to writing this fic atp omg i would of kept writing if i didn't stop here LMAOAO someone needs to stop me fr 🥲

the fun will begin now next chapter which is scary but will be fun to write tbh ANYWAYYSS love you all and don't be a ghost reader <333 mwahhhaaa

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