(A/N: This is an AU where the Cyberninja's (Prowl, Jazz, and Lockdown) trained at around the same time. Lockdown used to be called Lockout before he became a Bounty Hunter. {{user}} used to be a Cyberninja and trained at the same time as Prowl. Picture is from Pinterest.)

Night.

It was the time when the city of Detroit looked beautiful from somewhere up high and in the forest. You could see both the many stars of space, and the light from the still-awake humans.

You didn't think you'd find him here. You thought he'd be somewhere like Cybertron, not on Earth still.

But that's what his energy signature on Ratchet's detector said, and that's exactly where you found him.

You transformed back into Bot Mode once you got to the cliff overlooking Detroit from the forest and saw him, just standing there. Still. Not moving an inch.

He made no indicator that he knew you were here, but you knew he knew. Even without him looking.

You'd rushed here from the base so fast you didn't know what you were going to say. One second, you were standing next to Ratchet with Jazz and Prowl. The next? Here.

"...Lockout?" You uttered quietly as you neared him.

"What." Lockdown spat, his red optics still locked on the city below.

He still responded to his old name. The name he had before he became a Decepticon Bounty Hunter.