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With the police sirens wailing behind them, the group had all fled to a nearby scrap yard, with the metallic falcon in tow. Mirage had offered all three humans a ride to the yard, and without complaint they all piled in and silently drove with their heads down.

...

They all begun to collect themselves mentally and physically from the brutal fight they had fallen victim too, especially the women, who they now knew as Elena Wallace, a young and upcoming researcher for the museum they had just left.

(Y/N) sits on the bent hood of a car, with Mirage beside her on the ground, both their knees pulled up to their chests.

They look up and watch as Optimus growls in frustration before he picks up a large piece of metal and throws it towards an undeserving car, and watches when it slams directly into the machine, completely crushing the hood and breaking the windows.

He clutched his side with a limp, and paces. "This is my fault, it should've been me.." softly he begins to blame and scold himself, and Noah watches with a frown.

The falcon, tilts her head silently towards Prime. "I'm sorry for your loss.." she says softly and looks back when Mirage picks his head up from between his knees and points to her.

"No offense lady, but who are you again?" (Y/N) gives him a look form beside him, and Mirage fumbles with his words. "What I said no offense!" He seethes, and the two glare at eachother before Noah hisses at them to 'stop it.'

"My name, is Airazor." The falcon introduces proudly, and nods her head to the side while greeting each bot and human present while the gears on her face move. "I am a Maximal, a warrior from both your past and future."

"Ohh right yeah, that..that tracks." Mirage responds sarcastically, and stretches one of his legs out to kick the other one over. He leans his back against the side of the car and receives another look from (Y/N), causing him to cringe a little at her stare.

Airazor however, ignores his comment and continues. "We fled our home planet on the eve of its destruction, we daughter refuge, and hid here on Earth." She finishes her story, and they all look down when Elena points up at the falcon with obvious annoyance.

"So you're a Maximal, y'all are Autobots, what was those things that attacked us earlier?" She questions, and (Y/N) nods her head and raises her hand. "I would also, like to know, please." She raises her voice from her spot, and looks down when she sees Mirage staring weirdly at her.

His optics looked half lidded, and his mouth was partially open, as if he wanted to say something but stopped before it could leave his tongue.

"Terracons." (Y/N) avoids his stare and goes back to listening to Airazor. "Servants of a dark, hungry god who feeds on entire worlds to sustain himself.." her tone has gotten slightly off, as if she were afraid of just muttering the gods name.

Luckily for her, she didn't have to. "Unicron.." Optimus lowly growls at the name, and (Y/N) shifts a bit from her spot at the odd name. "So you're saying this thing Unicron eats planets to survive?" Mirage asks, taken aback.

"Yes." Airazor nods. "And he imbues his servants, like Scourge, which makes him all but invincible, he is entirely beholden to Unicron. Through his power, he posses Scourge's soul."

(Y/N) exhales strongly through her nose before hoping off the car and walking towards Noah's side and eyeing his panicked expression. Mirage watches her leave his side and quickly gets up before following her from behind.

"I should've gotten the key myself." Prime says lowly before looking down and glaring at both Noah and (Y/N). "I should've known better that to rely on humans."

"Hang on!" (Y/N) yells in disbelief as her and Noah look up at the bot with glares of their own. "You blaming us?! After you conveniently left out the part about a planet-eating monster?"

Prime dosent seem to listen to her, and points his digits in her face and raises his voice"Because of you, Unicron will now use the key to consume every planet in the universe..including my home world!"

Noah scoffs, and looks down with a shake of his head while (Y/N) laughs in disbelief. The two look to eachother and glance behind them to stare at a concerned Mirage, who fiddles with his fingers, but couldn't say anything in their defense.

"He dosnet have the key!" Airazor speaks up, and everyone's attention is immediately pulled to her. "At least not all of it. We broke the key into two pieces for safekeeping, then splintered and went into hiding."

The humans look down in thought, but Elena looks down and tries to reach her brain with a memory, or a pice of information that she remembered that could help. "I do not know where the other half is, for all I know, I am the last of our kind." The falcon finishes with a sigh, and looks down.

"It's in Peru!" Elena calls up with a grin as she looks at the falcon, and both Noah and (Y/N) watch her in confusion. "How you know that?" He asks, and together they watch as Elena quickly throws her backpack off her shoulders.

"It's the symbols on the stone." She holds the bag in hand and runs up towards Airazor before shoving her hand in and rummaging around for her notebook. "They were only ever recorded in one other place in the world. The Inca Temple of the Sun in Cusco."

She flips through the pages, littered and torn apart with old notes and sketches she had been recording over the years of her stay at the museum. "It's one of the oldest buildings in the western hemisphere. I-Im guessing that, that can't be a coincidence."

Turning the book over and holding it out, Airazor bends her neck and stares at the symbols scribbled onto a piece of paper with a tilted head. "If you can track those symbols to Peru, so can the Terracons." Arcee speaks up from behind. "We need to get there before they do."

"And then kill Scourge and take his life to complete the key." Prime automatically nods his head along as if the whole mission was going to be a success, but Noah shakes his head from beside (Y/N). "Yo, hold up. Hold up..you want to find this other key, and deliver it to the guy that just kicked your asses."

His friend shrugs her shoulders with a nod, and Mirage chuckles at her side while he watches. "The Transwarp Key is our only way home." Prime interjects, but Noah wasent finished.

"If this dude gets ahold of that thing, it's fake over for Earth! Our families, everybody." Elena and (Y/N) glance to eachother hearing this, but they stay silent while the Autobots think for a moment. The (H/C) women shakes her head with a sigh, but looks up when she feels a nudge to her side.

She looks up and locks her eyes with Mirage's bright blue optics while he watches her with a worried expression, but all she could do was shake her head and look back down.

"We're going." (Y/N) speaks up, and Noah turns to her with a nod, but Prime immediately shakes his head. "Out of the question!"

"No offense." She stares straight at him, her body rigid with her fists shaking at her sides. "But I'm not trusting my home to a guy who couldn't even protect his." (Y/N) dosent move when Optimus takes a challenging step in her direction with a glare. "It's our planet, we're going." With no room to argue, Noah grips his friends shoulder and nods with a smile.

Elena watches form the side, impressed and slightly still a bit shaken from the occurring events. "And what about you?" She looks up and stares at Airazor. "..me?"

"What is your name?" The falcon asks with a tilt of the head, and (Y/N) and Noah watch silently from the side, with Mirage still poking at the girl to try and get her to look at him.

"Elena."

"Elena." Airazor tries the name out and softly smiles. "Will you lead us to this temple?" The questions seems to hang in the thick air while Elena turns around slowly and eyes her new companions. Three robots that stand on two feet but are ten times her size.

A giant mechanical falcon with souls piercing yellow eyes.

One of the robots that was dead and laying across the junkyards floor mere feet away from her.

And two, slightly, normal humans, one of which she had punched in the face not even a few hours ago.

"Chance to stop the end of the world?" Noah suggests with a smile, and (Y/N) nods at his side. "Actually.." Arcee calls, and Elena turns her head towards her. "You'll be saving two worlds.

The researcher looks down and thinks. The possibility of her home being consumed by a giant god with robotic soldiers was not something she had planned for her summer vacation, but if it was a chance to go in some weird adventure and possibly save her planet, why the hell not?

Turning around, Elena looks up at Airazor; and nods. "..yeah."

...

Since then, the two friends decided to head home, with the help of Mirage who was tucked away beside their apartment building, and slowly walked through the front door of Noah's home to get the necessary supplies for this mission.

Quickly (Y/N) shuts the door behind her quietly while the chatter of the TV fills the empty space of the apartment. She and Noah take a step towards his room but stop when the radio that laid atop a stack of books on the kitchen counter beeped to life.

"Yo, Sonic, Blaze, is that you guys?" The two sigh softly when they hear Kris' voice, and make their way over before the older brother picks it up and brings it between the two. "What are you doing up, Tails?" He asks, exasperated.

"..I can't sleep." His voice was croaky and tired, causing both adults to glance at eachother with equal worry.

...

With a heating pad in hand, (Y/N) sat against the edge of Kris' bed while she pressed the cooler against his sore arm, with Noah next to her. They both watch as the young boy winces once in a while before they adjust their hood in the pad.

"This to hot?" Noah asks, but his brother shakes his head with tired eyes. "You playing that game to much, give it a rest, you know what I'm saying?" (Y/N) sends her friend a look before turning and speaking softly to Kris.

"Just let your hand get some rest, okay?" She smiles, and watches as Kris shakes his head. "I'm gonna beat it." He says sternly, and both Noah and (Y/N) share a smile. "Our moneys on you, bro.." The brother sighs. "We don't quit."

"Come on, get some sleep, alright?" (Y/N) whispers after a moment with a grin, and she begins to pull the covers up and allows Kris to snuggle deeper into his mattress and Sonic pillows.

Unbeknownst to either of them, Mirage had snuck behind the building and was now leaning against an old car and standing on the point sod his metal feet. He watches as (Y/N) runs her hand across Kris' hair before gently kissing him on the forehead, and the robot feels himself fumble a little when he sees her brightly smile down at the boy.

Once he was under the covers with the heating pad still laying atop his arm, Noah shifts a little before clearing his throat. "We gotta..we gotta head out for a while, and i don't know when we're gonna be back.."

They both watch with bated breath's when Kris wrinkles his face at them. "Why?" He asks, a little confused but mostly hurt at the news.

While they continued to talk, Mirage had failed to notice as the car he was standing on began to creak and bend under his weight. He looks down, and his optics widen when he sees the windows of the car crack

"Ohhh shit-!" He yells when the car plummets under him once, twice before completely caving in on itself and sending the robot to stumble backwards. He grunts when he hits his back against the edge of a wall, and stammers when his headlights atop his shoulders turn on and shine directly into the window he was just spying in.

(Y/N) shields her eyes with her arm while Noah makes a face at the light pouring into the room. Kris shuts his eyes tightly and groans from where he lay, but the oldest of the three quickly pats his leg before she gets up and quickly makes her way towards the window.

"No, no, stop! Please! Turn it off!" She hears a familiar voice yell from outside, and (Y/N) jumps at the window and pushes it open. Her jaw goes slack when she sees Mirage, and she waves her hands infront of her.

"I-I told you to sit tight!" She whispers harshly, but she deadpans when Mirage pauses when he sees her, and opts for leaning against the wall smugly with his arms crossed before he kicks a leg over the other, with the alarm still blaring and his headlights still turned on.

"O-oh, uh..heyyy, fancy seeing you here." He makes his voice deep, but cringes when (Y/N) shoots him a glare. "Okay! I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" He apologies quickly, but his attention turns up when Noah pops his head out, with himself leaning against (Y/N)'s back.

"Don't be sorry! Just turn it off!" He yells, and Mirage tries to by hitting his shoulders repeatedly.

The three continue to bicker back and forth, and (Y/N)'s attention is pulled when she hears Kris begin to get out of bed. "Is that a robot?" He asks, his voice still sleepy.

"No, no, no, no!" She ducks her head under Noah's arm and waves her hand at the boy. "Just go back to sleep, okay?" (Y/N) turns around, and goes back to yelling at Mirage. "Dude! You need to shut it off'!"

"I got the bat." Kris' voice catches both adults attention, and they trip over  eachother when they see him holding a wooden bat. "Hey! Give me that!" Noah yells and snatches the weapon from his brothers hand. He sprints to the other end of the room. "You're gonna wake up ma!"

(Y/N) runs and peaks her head out into the hallway, and Noah follows her lead while they wait to see if the caretaker of the house had woken up.

Neither noticed as Kris hopped out the window and looked down at the car parked directly below him. He picks up a can and hold sit up high. "I know you're a robot." He says, before chucking the can on the roof if the car.

Noah sighs and closes the door, but raises a brow when (Y/N) smacks the back of hand against his chest with her head trained forward with wide eyes. He looks straight, and immediately the two run towards the young boy. "Kris!"

Mirage, having not cared that he might freak the little kid out, transforms back into his original form and glares at Kris. "Yo! You scratched my paint!" The young boy takes a step back at the sight of the robot, and breaths in when (Y/N) hops out the window, Noah behind her.

"What are you doing?!" She whispers harshly, and leans forward against the railing while Noah went to his brothers side.

"Man! They didn't treat E.T like this." Mirage complains, and looks back when Kris raises a brow. "You know this thing?" He asks his brother, to which Noah only shrugged.

"Yeah..we're just, work friends."

" 'Work friends?!' " Mirage scoffs, and takes the opportunity to stare directly at (Y/N) while pointing at himself. "You've been inside me!"

"Uh-uh." (Y/N) shakes her head with tight lips. "Don't-don't be weird, just don't." She rolls her eyes when the robot leans in close to her, and their faces inch closer together. Mirage's hears turn when she tilts his head, and he smirks. "Don't act like you don't like it." He teases, but he pouts when it's (Y/N)'a turn to smirk.

"In your dreams, tincan."

He stumbles back with a glare, "TIN CAN?!-"

"Okay! Look!" Noah's yell snaps the two bickering beings towards him, and he glares at them before looking back at Kris. "That thing that I told you I have to go do? It's for him and his crew."

"We're trying to stop the end of the world." Mirage speaks up, and he turns to go and lean against another neigh ours balcony.

"The worlds ending?!" Kris yells, and (Y/N) shakes her head quickly. "No!" She glares at the robot, but he only smiles innocently. "Maybe, sixty-forty." The women groans at the bot, but Mirage remains unaffected.

"You know we're not gonna let that happen." Noah jumps in, and looks down at his brother sternly. "But that's why we have to leave." They all watch as Kris takes a moment before kicking his lips and nodding. "I'll go get my things." He walks around Noah and (Y/N), but they both stand there, slightly stunned.

"Tough kid." Mirage comments, impressed, but the friends are quick to turn around and grab Kris by the shoulders. "Woah, woah, hood up! You're not coming."

"Why? You need someone to watch your backs!" Kris says quickly, confused as to why he couldn't come and protect his family for whatever it is they needed to do. "It's too dangerous, Kris." (Y/N) says softly, and she brings her hand up to gently run her fingers through the boys hair.

What she failed to notice, was while she did this, Mirage absentmindedly brought his arm up and placed his hand on his metal head, slightly envious of the young boy.

"We need you to stay here and take care of mom." Noah says softly, and his brother sighs. "Cause you might not come back." He feels his lips wobble a little just thinking about it, and both (Y/N) and Noah watch this, slightly on edge.

They glance to Mirage, and the bot moves his head down to try and give them as much privacy as he could.

The two turn back to the boy, but they can't get a word out when Kris turns around and looks back at Mirage. "Hey, robot." He calls, and the robot is quick to look up. "Me? Sup?" He asks, and takes a step forward to listen to the boy.

"Watch out for my family, okay?" Kris says, his voice leaving no room for any 'if's', 'and's' or 'but's'. (Y/N) smiles at the mention of family, and she and Noah turn to eachother with soft smiles.

"You got it, little man." Mirage agrees softly, but Kris shakes his head. "Nah, I'm serious. If they get hurt, I'm coming after you." Noah scoffs out a laugh at his brother while (Y/N) chuckles, and they look down and shake their heads.

Mirage himself chuckles, but nods. "Don't worry, I got their backs, I promise." He glances back to (Y/N) and shoots her a wink. "I'll make sure to keep a very close eye on (Y/N), too." The women only watches him blankly and shoots him a middle finger, and Mirage howls with laughter.

Kris dosnet get the joke, but he nods once more to the robot before turning to his family and holding out both his hands. "Home team?"

The friends get up and look down at him with smiles of their own. "Home team." They repeat back sternly, and bring up their index fingers and push them up, then down, before fist pumping their little brother and bringing him in for a group hug.

"Kids got heart.." Mirage says softly, and his optics connect with (Y/N)'s soft eyes. "Cojones muy grande!" He says dramatically, and cheers softly when he's awarded a small smile and laugh from the women.

...

The next day, (Y/N), Noah and Mirage suited up and we're now heading towards the large open area near the ocean where they we're supposed to meet up with the rest of the team.

They drive up quickly, and Mirage turn to his side, allowing both (Y/N) and Noah to exit rather casually and smoothly while the robot himself shifted into his usual form. He rolled his shoulders and grinned wide from his place at (Y/N)'a side.

"Wu-Tang is in the building, baby!" He cheers, and the trio stroll up while Optimus watches them with a blank look. "Way to be incognito.." he comments, and rolls his optics when Mirage grins his way. "Aw, come on, Prime. Smile a little bit! It won't hurt, let me see that underbite!"

(Y/N) raises a brow as she looks up at Mirage, before she and Noah both look and stare with mixed expressions towards Prime. The boss himself looked down on them, still replaying in his head that this was not a good idea, that he should just dump these two at the nearest gas station and finish the mission by himself.

But, he obviously couldn't do that, and decided to leave the two alone while he waited for the rest of his team.

"All right, so what kind of jet are we taking to Peru?" Mirage quickly questions in excitement. "Or is it a plane? Either one's fine, I just need first class cause I got long-ass legs."

He looks down to see if he had gotten a reaction from (Y/N), but frowns and spins around when he dosent see her. He looks up, and breaths a sigh of relief when he spots her checking her bag with Noah near the side of the building they were infront of.

He quickly jogs to her side again, and looks up when Arcee smiles at him with her hands in her hips. "Uh, well, he is a plane." She says, and chuckles when the sound of a plane roaring fills the air.

Mirage feels his already pale metal face drain of color at her words. "No. No, no don't..don't tell me we're flying on.." his sentence trails off when he turns around and looks up in a panic.

The robot takes a side step closer to (Y/N), and he calls to her, not once taking his eyes off the massive pale plane diving directly for them. "Stick with me when we get on, okay? Things might get a little..bumpy.." The women raises a brow and is about to ask what he was taking about, but when she looked up, she understood.

She was probably going to die on her way to Peru.

A large, muted yellow cargo plane soars overhead, and all eyes are on it. Elena soon joins Noah and (Y/N)'s side, but they were all to distracted to greet one another while they kept watching.

The plane makes a large turn, and they watch as it begins to transform into its robot form in mid air, but rather clumsily. He crashed into the side of the building and lands flat on his behind, all the the while sporting a large grin that matched well with his old time metal mustache and his bright blue eyes.

He laughs loudly before straightening himself up and looking down at the group. He was much larger than the Autobots, but it made sense since he transformed into a plane meant for storage. "My lads! I am Stratosphere, lorded of the skies!" He greets them all happily, with a thick Scottish accent.

(Y/N) immediately sidesteps more towards Mirage, and cringes as she watches the older bot begin to wheeze. He pounds his chest plate hard, and hacks up an engine piece before spitting it into the ground.

Both Noah and Elena jump back as they watch, and the whole group goes silent.

Mirage takes a moment before he bends down and grips (Y/N) in his hand. He lifts her up and cradles her between his palms before facing forward.

"Yeah, we're walking to Peru."

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