A/N: This is the last chapter of Sparks. Can you believe it? I don't know what possessed me to write this story, but I loved every minute of it, even if I did have a massive amount of trouble finding the time to write more then just a few sentences here and there. Anyway I want to thank everyone who has read this story through to the end, and ask that you review to let me know how you liked it and let me know if you have any ideas for a new story! Enjoy the last chapter and once again thanks for reading.

Chapter 25: Sparks

Digging for the All Spark was a very hard, and an extremely painful task. Simply moving his arms made sharp stabbing pains be felt absolutely everywhere, even in parts of his body he didn't even know he had. He had to slightly twist the top half of his body as much as possible with the lower half under a large amount of rubble, he also had to move his arms to lift and move objects some of which were heavy. He knew that once the All Spark came back online within him, it would have its work cut out for it when it began to heal him.

As he worked, Mikaela talked to him about everything she could think of as she tried to dig herself out, the cave became slightly brighter as more and more moon light began to show through from above them as the rescue workers continued to dig for them. Sam was definitely looking forward to whatever pain reliever the medic would come down with, if he or she got down there before he found and activated the Matrix that is.

He was getting closer, he could now see half of the Matrix's pointy edge, as he was digging he couldn't help but wonder if he could just activate it now, without it being fully uncovered. He touched the sides of the large object and felt a deep power flow into him; suddenly the All Spark came alive within him once again. Mikaela was still talking so he could tell that her half of it was not online as well. Perhaps it was because he was touching it? He took his hands off of the ancient device and the All Spark disappeared immediately. He quickly touched the Matrix once more and let the All Spark begin to do its work on him. He could already feel the pain lessening.

Meanwhile, Mikaela stopped talking as she glanced up from digging herself out, to look at her too silent fiancé, fear of what she would find when she looked up gripped her briefly. She was not expecting to see him touching the Matrix, and glowing the same light blue. His eyes were closed but the pain lines on his face seemed to be fading.

"What's going on down there?" Will called, afraid by the sudden complete silence from below him, where until now there had been constant talking.

"Sam is touching the Matrix, I think it's activated the All Spark within him, he looks like he is healing." Mikaela called back. Sam suddenly reached his hand out towards Mikaela, his eyes still closed. She had to really reach and maneuver herself but she finally was able to grab Sam's hand. She was suddenly covered in the blue glow as well and could feel her own wounds begin to heal at the same time as her half of the All Spark began to come online as well.

"Don't let go, or your connection will be lost." Sam told her softly. He was already going through the All Spark knowledge trying to figure out how to make things right again, neither heard Will calling them, or saw the opening finally appear above them.

Will dropped in to the hole before the medic could even blink to jump in himself, he needed to see the two kids that in his eyes had become his own some how, he didn't even know when. If they were young enough to be adopted…He sighed as he saw the glow surrounding the couple. Taking a step closer he inspected the couple only to find that despite the crusted blood randomly covering them, there were no longer any wounds. The medic would not be needed. He shouted as much to the medic waiting impatiently and quite angrily above him. It was clear however from the amount of rubble on top of both of them, that they would need a lot of hands or an Autobot to get them out. Suddenly Sam's eyes opened and he looked at Will.

"Hey, can you help me get the Matrix free? I need to be holding it in order for this to work. Just don't touch the Matrix itself." Sam smiled at Will, glad to see him down here. Will nodded and began to dig around the glowing object that had wreaked havoc on the world, saving there lives in the process.

It took over an hour to dig it all the way out, but it happened and was quickly in Sam's left hand. Mikaela moved her left hand to touch Sam's right arm to keep her connection since Sam now needed both hands to really hold the glowing alien artifact.

"Thank you for your help, go to the Autobots." Mikaela grinned before focusing on Sam and nodding. Will nodded before calling up for a hand. As soon as he was out of the hole he told the group standing there to leave the area, directing several people to the Autobot tent with himself. As soon as everyone was away from the rubble, Will called over to the couple to let them know that the area was clear and he was heading to the Autobot tent, before he himself reluctantly left them. He was only half way there when a familiar giant blue light shot out of the rubble, past through the camp and beyond in a flash so quick some didn't even see it because they blinked. But the effect was instant, lights that were still hooked to power lines came on, flashlights unknowingly left on began to light up. Clocks and watches ticked showing the wrong times. People everyone shouted in joy as power were once again restored.

Will ran towards the Autobot tent as the alien robots began to come on line. Programs worked to catch up on the time missed, while others worked to make sure nothing was damaged. Error messages appeared as the bots attempted to find the reason as to why they had been off line, the last memory stored in there data banks was of the last battle, according to internal clocks this had happened…quite awhile ago in earth terms. Sitting up Optimus Prime looked around at the new layout of the base, or what was left of it, all around him his Autobots did the same. The battle was obviously over, the destruction had been great, but already the humans had obviously been slowing starting the repairs on both construction and themselves. They could all feel parts of them had had been repaired by humans while they had been off line for so long.

Three loud booms from the special cannons designed to destroy Decepticons was heard and the Autobots quickly jumped up to defend themselves and there human friends. Optimus, by far the tallest of the group went right through the top of the tent. They did not taken a single step however when Will ran up to them telling them to stand down. Optimus raised his hand to stop the rest.

"What has happened?" Optimus asked, now out of the tent and bending down to look at Will.

"Sam activated the Matrix. The result turned everything not organic off, including the All Spark within both Sam and Mikaela. The blast wave somehow sent the two off to an island hundreds of miles away. They have been traveling back via foot and horse drawn carriages and finally made it back around a week ago. They were searching for the Matrix when the ground shook causing them to fall in the rubble and get trapped. They have now managed to reactivate the Matrix and bring you and everything else back on-line. That included the few Decepticons that had not been destroyed. We have been slowly moving a special tank towards the Decepticon area so that when they came on-line we would be ready. That was what you heard just now. It's over…the war is over." Will ended with a huge grin.

The Autobots all stood there silently, aghast. It had been so long since there had been peace, this plant had been just a baby when there war started, the humans almost wild animals like the rest of the creatures on this planet. But they hand managed to evolve, and end the seemingly never ending war. The ward 'over' played and replayed in there heads for quite a few minutes. What would they do now? No one had dared to think of such a thing, a new, war free; future was a dangerous thought that could send a bot over the edge. Will clearing his throat to catch there attention after a good ten minutes. They bots looked down at the well respected human.

"We kind of still need your help with a lot of things, but the most important thing right now is Sam and Mikaela. They are still trapped in the rubble waiting to be rescued." Will stated his neck hurting from looking so far up for too long. That got the Autobots attention right away and they all began to move towards what was left of the main building. They did not have to even use there sensors to find the couple as the mass of people crowded around one spot at the back of the rubble, all trying to move rocks away gave their position away. At the sight of the Autobots everyone stopped, then began to cheer loudly.

"Move aside now." Optimus told the group and they all scattered like ants in different directions to give the Cybertonian leader space. Optimus bent down and put one optic over the hole to look into the area where Sam and Mikaela were still trapped.

"Are the two of you alright?" Optimus asked, his voice booming. A few rocks rattled then fell from the ciling.

"Hey Optimus!" Sam called cheerfully. It had worked; he was on top of the world.

"The AllSpark is back online as well, we have been healed." Mikaela told him after rolling her eyes at her soon to be husband.

"We, however; don't have super strength like you and could use a little help getting out." Sam was still grinning.

"Very well." Optimus stated, and then moved so that he could start carefully digging. In one flick of his finger the entire rubble roof that soldiers had taken hours to dig a small human sized hole into; was gone. A light from somewhere on Optimus turned on and shined into the hole causing the couple to cover their eyes at the sudden bright light, after sitting in a very dark space for so long it just plain hurt.

Even more carefully Optimus began to lift the rubble off of Mikaela's leg until she was free. Mikaela touched Optimus's finger in thanks and at the same time the AllSpark portion of herself that had been scanning and repairing her sent off all the data it had collected. Optimus quickly sent the medical portion of the report to Ratchet, but kept the memories from the couple's time with the AllSpark offline, to himself for now.

Optimus nodded at Mikaela before moving to the much harder task of safely getting the larger pieces of rubble off of Sam. It took him twice as long and three times pieces fell back before Optimus could safely move it away. A deep sorrow was felt by the Autobot leader each time as he watched as Sam's systems began to repair the new damage this caused. Mikaela was sitting to the side biting her nails in worry and frustration. This was something he had never seen the female human do before, he had to look up the habit on the internet to find out what it meant.

"Don't worry, Mikaela." Sam grinned, "It's almost over and look, everything is healing quickly." Sam grinned. She nodded but did not stop biting her nails until the last large piece of rubble was gone and Sam could sift through the smaller pieces to stand with the help of Optimus's large finger.

With the touch he also sent his data though, and Optimus did the same thing he had done with Mikaela's reports. He was dismayed at the amount of damage the two had sustained in the process of just trying to get home. He already searched the internet for the doctor who helped the couple. He now had his information and had made notes as to what supplies had been used that would need to be replaced. How much money should be sent to the man and his nurse as well as a long thank you letter drafted and ready to be looked over by the humans in charge of such things.

When Optimus helped the couple out of the rubble loud cheers could be heard from the crowd of humans and Autobots all standing on the edge of the rubble waiting. Up front was Ratchet, who looked highly irritated. He had obviously gotten the data sent to him perfectly fine.

"We were not off line for that long, and the two of you managed to sustain that much damage, not from the battle, but from walking home!" Ratchet grabbed them out of Optimus's hands, much to the Prime's amusement and the couples chagrin.

Three days later found Sam and Mikaela standing on separate sides of the tent covered base, both with the same expression on there faces, completely freaked out. In the medical tent, Mikaela was trying to stand still while two soldiers whose job it was to hem military outfits argued about how to hem a wedding dress. Above them, Sarah Lennox; Mikaela's maid of honor, barked orders on what they should be doing and yelled that they were doing it all wrong. Mikaela in said dress did not notice as she tried not to think about what she was about to do.

Sam, in Will's tent looked like he was going to have a nervous break down as he dressed in a tuxedo. Will sat on his cot grinning like a maniac and could not help but think about the bachelor party they had, had the night before. No one had seen Sam drink that much and they had to stop him before he had so much he would have a hang over during his own wedding. Between the strip club, bar and almost getting arrested, the group of soldiers (and they counted Sam as one of them) did not get back until the very wee hours of the morning.

Will had heard from his wife that Mikaela had not gotten in until an hour after they had from her Bachelorette party. It was supposed to have been a nice dinner at a local Chinese restaurant with Sarah and the female members of the base, but quickly went down hill after one too many drinks. They moved on to a bar, the same one Sam had left only fifteen minutes before her arrival (it was after all the only one near the base.) Like Sam, she had been cut off before she got too drunk. But she was just drunk enough that she did not remember a lot of the night. At one point someone let it slip that the guys were taking Sam to the strip club and in a drunken rage she stormed to the club, somehow got around the bouncer only to find Sam not there. They ended up at a dance club soon after that.

Now, in just one hour, as the sun began to set, the couple that came together as the Autobots arrived on earth, would be joined together by law, and apparently; according to Optimus, by spark. Sparkmates were a very serious deal to the Cybertonians. Very few had been able to come together in a very long time. Before that, the ceremony for such an event lasted for the equivalent of three earth days. Both Sam and Mikaela stopped that thought in its tracks, they would have the normal reception, it would last until people retired to there own tents tonight.

Mikaela had called her father to ask him to come walk her down the isle, but he never answered the phone, worried she went to Bee who out o sheer worry had been following them around everywhere and was currently sitting in between the two tents housing his charges war or no war in case one of them needed anything. She asked the yellow bot to run a search on her father and was furious when she found out he had been arrested for steeling computers in an office supply store while the lights had been out. Still on Parole, he would be returning to prison not knowing that his daughter was engaged and getting married.

After crying for hours she turned to Will, who was Sam's best man, much to Leo's outrage; (he was brought in to be a groomsman along with Robert.) Will agreed to walk her down the isle. Standing just outside the tent looking slightly ill stood the general in charge of the base. Due to the special, classified, circumstances he had been given permission to officially marry the couple. He had faced enemies helped fight this alien war, been in the same room while his wife was angry and at her terrifying time of the month. He had survived the birth of his two children and the entire growing up process, but never had he been this afraid. Not that he would ever admit it, but for some reason, what he was about to do terrified him. Not for the first time, he wondered how he had gotten himself in to this. What had possessed him to say yes to doing this? Oh yeah…his wife. Checking his watch the general groaned, it was time for him to make his way to the canopy tent where the wedding would be held. He would have just enough time to go over what he was supposed to say and do one more time before it started.

Sam stood under the wedding tent nervously, eyes wide and unable to fully stand still. Bee's hologram form looked at him with worry as Sam once again began to bounce on the balls of his feet. In front of him, the entire base sat in folding chairs covered in white cloth. Flowers of every color surrounded them all putting a fresh sweet scent into the warm air. If you closed your eyes you might be able to briefly forget you're in the desert. On both sides of the wedding tent, the Autobots sat in their alt forms facing the tent to watch as well.

Finally movement from the medical tent was seen as Sarah stepped out in a light blue form fitting dress with light colorful flowers in her hands. She was supposed to walk with Will but instead their young daughter, wearing a white fluffy dress and holding a basket of pink rose peddles walked shyly beside her. Sarah smiled a warm smile with just a hint of an edge daring anyone to make the wrong movement and ruining this special day. As soon as they were under the wedding tent she instructed her daughter to begin dropping he peddles. No one else in the tent moved, all in fear for there lives. Behind Sarah, Robert Epps and his wife stepped out smiling, then Leo and a female soldier that had helped Mikaela a lot in the last year, another mechanic like herself.

Then it was the brides turn. Mikaela looked gorgeous as she stepped out, Will by her side. Her long strapless white wedding dress was form fitting as well. Pearls covered the top, the rest was smooth, white, looking almost like silk; it shined in the fading sun. She did not have a train or veil so everyone could see her styled black hair curled around her head with pink and white flowers placed strategically in the perfect positions. It was only Will holding onto her arm that kept her from running down the isle to Sam the moment she spotted him. She did not hear the music playing, nor did she see the skillfully decorated tent. She did not notice when everyone stood up for her or when the general wiped a bead of sweat off his forehead. She only had eyes for Sam, and from the way he was frozen, eyes wide, mouth open; he only had eyes for her as well.

Finally she stood next to Sam, there eyes locked. Staring into each others eyes they suddenly knew that no matter what happened in the future, no matter how long they lived, where they went or what kind of trouble they ran into, they would be together, forever.

The End

A/N 2: After writing this story, then re-reading it just now, I would have to say that by far my favorite chapter to both write and read was definitely: Chapter 11 - Good Day Gone Bad. Writing from Simmons point of view was a blast I had not expected. In fact his chapter was not even planned to be in the story, but we all know how Simmons can be.

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