Nightwing's POV

I look towards the night sky and feel the cool night air. I look at the stars as I remember a lullaby that Zorya used to sing to me when I was still a sparkling. Plus reminding me what Zorya said some years ago of me always being her little sparkling. I could hear Zorya's voice in y mind of her singing the lullaby. "Lay down your head and I'll sing you a lullaby" I sigh sadly as I feel Bee wrap his arms around my waist as Bee pulls me against his chassis. I turn around and I hug him, I rest my head on his shoulder and he rests his head on top of mine. I hear the gate creak open and I see Sam embrace Mikaela before she says, "There's nothing you could have done." Sam turns to Bee and I before saying, "Bee, Night, if you hate me I understand. I messed up, I'm sorry." Sam says and I reply, "Sam, I don't hate you." "Young fella, you are one of the people I care about most in my life. If there's anything you need, I won't be far away." Bee says via radio as Sam sits beside Mikaela before he says, "She's dead because of me. She came to protect me and she's dead." "There's some things you just can't change. So-her-sacrifice for us will not have been in vain! Hallelujah! " Bee says via radio and Sam replies, "I'm gonna make it right, I'm gonna turn myself in." Sam says. "We-we've got to stick together!" Bee says as he goes to vehicle mode and Mikaela agrees, "You're not going to do that." "Yes I am." Sam disagrees with her, Bee pushes up against him and says via radio, "Everything we worked for will be wiped out in one day!" And I agree, "Sam if you turn yourself in, my mother will have died in vain." He turns to Skids and Mudflap, showing them the marks and symbols he's been seeing in his head, but they admit that they don't do a lot of reading.. I was still learning about the Language of the Primes when Zorya had been....Sam turns to me with a hopeful look. "Sorry Sam, I haven't learned much about this symbols, all I can decipher is that they're a map to an Energon source." I say. Leo comes back and Mudflap says, "Look who came sayshaying back." "Look I know I had a panic attack earlier, but I think I was allowed that after everything that's happened." Leo says to which Mudflap replies, "That's because you a pussy." Skids snickers and he and Mudflap fist bump, but that comment kind of ticked me off. So I went over to Skids and Mudflap, smacking them upside the backs of their helms. "OW!" they yelp and rub their heads. "Let Leo talk." I say sternly before we turn our attention to Leo and he says, "I heard you had a problem, I think I know someone who can help." "*scoffs* Who?" Sam asks and Leo replies, "Robo-Warrior." "We leave in the morning, after all of you have gotten your rest." I say, they all nod and we go to our different areas to sleep. I lay down next to Bee's alt. mode in my beast mode and close my eyes to go to sleep.

In the morning...

I was in my holoform as a human to ride inside Bumblebee with the others so I could stay in a low-profile since we were heading to the city full of humans. Skids and Mudflap followed "Alright, Leo. Who's this Robo-Warrior guy?", I said. Leo said to us but mostly to Sam, "This guy, Robo-Warrior, everything about anything alien, he's supposed to know. One time we revenged-hacked his site and maybe I saw some of your alien drawings or whatever." "Leo, they're not alien drawings! They are an ancient Cybertronian language I cannot decipher.", I said giving him a look as we pulled in beside a building that looked like a Deli. When Bee finally stopped and parked by the building, we got out and I handed Sam a hat saying, "You should probably wear this. Got to hide your identity to keep you from getting caught." He took it and put it on just as I turned to Leo then asked, "So, is this it?" "This is it. Yep. Deli. Good front!" He went to go inside but stopped to say to us, "All right, wait here. I'll give you the go/no go. All right?" I rolled my eyes and said, "We'll be fine, just go already!" He nodded and went inside the Deli.

It's been a few minutes since Leo didn't give us a word yet but, heard him talking to someone and the man's voice sounded familiar. I turned to Sam and said, "Sam put your hood up and let's go inside to see what's taking Leo so long." He did as told and opened the door carefully as we just made our way in. Leo saw us and said while pointing at....Simmons?!, "It's him! It's him! That's the guy right there! That's him!" Simmons lifted up his head and saw us then froze saying, "No." I said not happy to know it's this guy, "OH PIT NO!!!" "You got to be kidding me.", Sam agreed not happy to see him as well. Simmons then yelled to the customers, "All right, meat store's closed! Everybody out! Out, right now! That means you, lady, right now." Leo turned to us and asked while looking confused, "Wait a minute. You two know this guy?" "We're old friends.", Sam said sarcastically. I growled and added, "Who do you think got me captured and tortured for twenty-four hours?" Simmons then came over and said to Sam with an angry look, "Old friends? You're the case that shut down Sector Seven, got the kibosh, disbanded. No more security clearance, no retirement, no nothing. All 'cause of you and your little criminal girlfriend. Look at her now, so mature. And who is this chick anyway?" I growled and said, "You be dead right now in one quick second if I weren't being in this holoform." His eyes widen and Mikala said with a small smirk, "This happens to be Nightwing herself. I be careful to what I say to her if I were you." "Will do.", Simmons replied. Then we heard a woman say loudly, "Moron! Where's the whitefish?" We turned to see what's happening and a guy who is the middle of cutting some meat yelled to the guy behind him who was trying to move a dead pig behind him, "Hey! Don't touch me with the pig." "Yakov!", Simmons yelled to him. The guy turned to him and yelled back, "What?" Simmons said to him, "You don't get Christmas bonuses standing around! You want those new teeth you saw on SkyMall?" "It's my dream.", the guy replied. Simmons yelled to him, "Help her out." Mikala then asked Simmons, "You live with your mama?" "No, my mama lives with me. It's a big difference.", Simmons said to her. I scoffed and said with my arms crossed, "It's not different, it's the same thing." "Whatever. They got your face all over the news, alien boy.", Simmons said motioning to the TV. Sam replied looking at it then back at him, "Yeah, I know." Simmons added, "And NBE One's still kicking, huh? How did that happen? Don't answer. I don't know what you're hiding, but I don't want to do with it. So, good-bye. You never saw me. I got bagels to schmear. Vanish." Sam said to him as Simmons begins to walk away, "Can you give me five seconds? Look, hold on, I need your help." "Really? You need my help?", Simmons said turning around towards him. Sam then said taking off his hat a little bit frustrated, "I need...Look, I am slowly losing my mind. Okay, I had a little crab-bot, plunged a device deep into the soft tissues of my brain and started projecting little alien symbols like a freaking home movie! And on top of that, I'm a wanted fugitive. So, you think you got it rough?" "You said it projected images off your brain?", Simmons asked after a moment. Sam nodded as he replied, "Right." "That's what he just said.", I said to him with a shrug. Simmons then said to us before leading us to somewhere, "Meat locker, now!"

We gotten into the meat locker and Leo said, "Dead pigs." "Yuck.", Mikala said disgusted at the smell and seeing dead pigs. I covered my nose and said, "I agree. It smells pretty bad in here too." "What you're about to see is top secret. Do not tell my mother.", Simmons said to us. I rolled my eyes and Simmons opened a lid of the floor that said Keep Out. Leo then said just as Simmons began to go down on a ladder, "Swine flu. Not good." "Now you know. Next time you eat a goat or a pig, there's a story behind it. Sad little story.", Simmons said as he went down the ladder. We soon followed him and followed him to the hidden room. I then heard Simmons say as he was looking for something as we went to look around, "Okay, files, files. We're talking about symbols." Leo went to touch the glass cover that had the head of Frenzy and Simmons slapped his hand away saying, "Hey, still radioactive. Hands off." He then turned to Sam with some file in his hand and said before showing him a picture, "Okay, Cube-brain. Any of these look like the symbols you saw?" Sam quickly grabbed and looked at before he asked looking back at him, "Where'd you get these?" Simmons replied as he climbed up a ladder to get something, "Before I got fired, I poached S-7's crown jewel, over 75 years of alien research, which points to one inescapable fact. The Transformers, they've been here a long, long time. How do I know?" He tossed a medium sized box to Leo and added, "Archeologists found these unexplained markings in ancient ruins all over the world." We then walked to where there was a table and Simmons said showing us top secret pictures that had the same symbols, "China. Egypt. Greece." Then he played an old film showing some people and the symbols on the ruins, "Shot in 1932. These the symbols you're seeing in your head?" "Yeah.", Sam replied seeing the film before turning back to Simmons. Simmons said, "Same ones over here, right? So, tell me, how did they end up all drawing the same things? Aliens. And I think some of them stayed." He then added showing us another file, "Check this out. Project Black Knife. Robots in disguise, hiding here all along. We detected radioactive signatures all across the country. I pleaded on my knees with S-7 to investigate it, but they said the readings were infinitesimal, that I was obsessed. Me. Can you imagine that?" I crossed my arms and said with a scoff, "We sure can imagine it." Sam then said, "Yeah. Megatron said that there was another Energon source here." "On Earth?", Simmons asked. Sam and I said at the same time, "On Earth." "Another source?", Simmons asked again. I nodded and Sam said, "Okay? And that these symbols, maps in my head, would lead him there." "You talk to your Autobot friends other than Nightwing about this?", Simmons asked. Sam replied, "No, no, no, the source is before them. Whatever the Energon source is, it predates them. It's before them." "So, it comes before them.", Simmons said. Sam nodded saying, "Correct." "Well, then we're porked, unless we can talk to a Decepticon. I mean, I'm not on speaking terms with them.", Simmons said. Mikala then said, "Actually, I am." I looked at her curiously and asked, "What do you mean?" "You'll see.", she said before her and Sam went to get something really quick.

The two came back with a big box with a lock on it and heard a voice say from inside, "Let me out!" "What in the Allspark you have in there?", I asked looking at the box. But, Mikala just said while about to open it, "This is going to be a little bit sad." "Open it.", Sam said walking around her. As soon she opened it, a little mini con with red eyes...or eye to put it jumped out suddenly causing us to jump back and I quickly gotten to battle stance to be ready to attack it as the mini con yelled, "I will have so many Decepticons on your butt!" Mikala pulled him back on a chain like leash and warned him with a light torch, "Hey, behave!" "What is it, a Decepticon?", Sam asked her after the mini con calmed down. Mikala replied while putting the torch away, "Yeah." "And you're training him?", Sam asked pulling the mini con back with the chain. Mikala replied, "I'm trying to." "Training a Decepticon? Good luck on doing that.", I said as I looked at the mini con amused at the con trying to escape from the chain leash. Simmons said looking at him too, "I spent my whole adult life combing the planet for aliens, and you're carrying around one in your purse like a little Chihuahua." The con stopped chewing on the leash and turned to Simmons saying, "Do you want a throwdown, you public 'fro-head?" "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry about your eye, you know, but, if you're a good boy, then I'm not gonna torch your other eye. Okay? I'm not gonna torch it. Just tell me what these symbols are, please.", Mikala said talking to him in a sweet voice. The con bent down and said while looking at the symbols, "All right." After a minute, he stood up saying, "I know that. That's the language of the Primes. I don't read it, but these guys...Where the frick did you find photos of these guys?" Sam then asked showing him a photo, "Is this they?" "Yeah. Seekers, pal. Oldest of the old. They've been here thousands of years, looking for something. I don't know what. Nobody tells me nothing, but they'll translate those symbols for you. And I know where to find them.", the con said. Simmons then said, "Show us." "Yeah.", the con said before launching green different lasers on a united states map that was hanging on the wall to show us the different locations. Simmons said as Sam and I looked closer at the map, "The closest one's Washington."

Later in Washington...

We all got out of Bumblebee and Simmons looks at a Museum of some kind with his binoculars then he said, "Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. Land of dreams in there. All I ever wanted to be was an astronaut." He puts the binoculars away and started to take off his pants. I quickly covered my eyes and said while covering Mikala's eyes too, "Keep your pants on please or go to the bathroom and change!" "What? I wear them when I'm in a funk. So does Giambi, Jeter. It's a baseball thing. Okay." Once Simmons put on some different pants on, I uncovered my and Mikala's eyes as Simmons said to the three, "Watches synchronized, sharp mind and empty bladder. You get caught, demand an attorney and don't ever say my name." He then tossed Sam a container of pills and I looked at it as Simmons said, "Okay, take one of these pills. Slip it under your tongue. It's the high-concentrate polymer they put in Oreo cookies. Tricks the polygraph every time. Okay. Now, let's get this show on the road." He activated a tazzer that the police uses to make sure it's working and Leo said panicking a little, "No, listen, I can't do this. I'm not some alien bounty hunter, guys. I'm not gonna do this. Guards have guns. I don't want to die." Simmons pushed him back saying, "Kid, kid, kid. You compromise this mission, you are dead to me. Now look into my eyes and tighten up that sphincter." He then stepped away from him and I said, "I'll stay here with the bots while you four go inside." They nodded and headed towards the museum.

I tapped my foot as I waited for the four to come out already and said, "Come on you guys, what's taking you both so long." If on que, we heard something going on from behind the museum and quickly transformed to my cybertronian dragon form before flying over the area while the three drove to follow. What we saw was an old looking bot with a short metal walking stick to support himself since he looked very old. I landed and skidded on the ground a little then asked the humans, "Guys, who's this old bot?" "He said his name is Jetfire and he's a Decepticon.", Mikala replied. I looked towards Jetfire with a raised optic ridge saying quietly to her, "A Decepticon, huh? More like an old pile of scrap to me." "Right. I'm on a mission.", Jetfire said pounding his fist on a wing of a plane. Simmons and Sam said trying to stop him from leaving, "Wait, wait, wait, wait!" "What do you want?", Jetfire said to us. Sam said to him, "Look, we just want to talk!" "I have no time to talk. I'm on a mission. I'm a mercenary doom-bringer. What planet am I on?", Jetfire said then leaned a little more closer to us. Sam said, "Earth." "Earth? Terrible name for a planet. Might as well call it Dirt. Planet Dirt. Tell me, is that robot civil war still going on? Who's winning?" I said, "The Decepticons." Jetfire groaned in disappointment and spitted out something then said, "Well, I changed sides to the Autobots." "What do you mean, 'Changed sides'?", I asked of why a Decepticon would want to be with the Autobots instead. Jetfire replied, "It's a choice. It's an intensely personal decision. So much negativity. Who wants to live a life filled with hate?" "You mean you don't have to work for those miserable, freaking Decepticons?", Wheelie asked. Jetfire replied to him, "If Decepticons had their way, they'd destroy the whole universe." I shrugged and said, "That's true. Without us Autobots, the universe would be history." Wheelie then said to Mikala as he crawled close to her leg, "I'm changing sides. I'm changing sides, too, warrior goddess. Who's your little Autobot?" "You're cute.", Mikala cooed him. I quickly looked away disgusted and bit disturbed when Wheelie started to...do what dogs do when they are in heat on her leg. I heard Sam ask Mikala, "What are you allowing to happen to your foot just now?" "At least he's faithful, Sam.", she replied. I said to her, "Yeah, he's faithful! Could you just get him off of your foot already?! So I don't have to see it!" I heard somebody kick Wheelie off and uncovered my optics to see Sam was the one who did causing Wheelie to say to him, "Hey, what are you doing?" Sam ignored him and said to Jetfire, "What were you saying?" Jetfire yelled to him, "I told you my name is Jetfire, so stop judging me." "Somebody shit the bed this morning.", Wheelie said meaning Jetfire. Jetfire ignored him saying, "I have issues of my own. And it started with my mother! My ancestors have been here for centuries. My father, he was a wheel, the first wheel. Do you know what he transformed into?" "No.", Simmons said. Jetfire then yelled, "Nothing! But he did so with honor, dignity, damn it!" Then he farted and a parachute came out of his aft then caused him to fall onto his back. I then started to snicker as I heard him say, "Bollocks. My boosters are fried." Sam then said to him, "I think we can help each other. You know things that I don't know. I know things you don't know, I do." Leo then said to him, "I don't think he knows anything. Honestly, I don't." I give Leo a look and asked, "Seriously? How would you be so certain of that?"

Sam finished drawing the symbols around in a circle and said to Jetfire, "I could do this all day. It comes in waves, these vivid symbols. They're symbols, but they're in my mind. You see, all this is in my mind and Megatron wants what's in my mind. Him and someone called The Fallen." "The Fallen? I know him. He left me here to rust. The original Decepticon. He's horrible to work for. It's always apocalypse, chaos, crisis. These transcriptions, they were part of my mission. The Fallen's search. I remember now, for the Dagger's Tip, and the key.", Jetfire says before studying the symbols. Sam then said, "Slow down. The Dagger's Tip? The key? What are you talking about?" Jetfire interrupted him saying before he warped all of us to somewhere along with him, "No time to explain. Hold on, everybody! Stay still or you'll die!" Then we were gone without a trace.

Somewhere in Egypt...

I was suddenly popped out from the ground and went free failing while trying to flap my wings to keep myself from falling as I screamed. Then landed face first on the ground in the desert and part of the sand got on my head. I lifted my head up and shook it before I yelled with a not so happy look, "I'm gonna kill him!" I then felt some sand in my mouth and spitted it out before hearing Mikala call Sam. "Where are we?! Simmons?!", I heard Sam