Chapter Twelve

Lightning paced her quarters, she was going to tell her father what happened all those years ago with Sunstreaker. Maybe I should have called in Prowl…or Smokey as backup she thought with a little chuckle. She shook her head no, dad wouldn't be that bad…would he? A knock on the door got her attention and she became nervous, virtually frightened.

"C-come in."

"You wanted to speak to me?" Skyfire said as he walked in.

"Mm-hm." The blue-grey femme replied suddenly finding that she couldn't speak.

"Lightning, what's wrong?" the jet asked worriedly as he walked over to his sparkling placing a hand on her shoulder.

She looked at him a moment before looking over at the floor. "I-I…have something to t-tell…uh…y-you."

"What is it? And why are you so scared?" he asked worriedly.

The blue-grey plane walked a little away from him still looking at the floor. "W-well back when you were miss-missing." She began "S-Sunstreaker and I, we…uh…we kinda…g-got together." Skyfire just looked at her half confused, where was she going with this? Lightning sighed, "You have a grand-sparkling."

"W-what?" the white and red jet asked both shocked and surprised.

She nodded, "h-he's actually here, in this base."

"You had a sparkling with Sunstreaker, the mech that nearly killed you!" Skyfire ranted.

Lightning turned back to her father. "He didn't mean it! It was only because…"

"Just you wait until I get a hold of Prowl and Smokescreen."

"They have nothing to do with this!" she argued back now annoyed.

"They were suppose to be looking after you, not letting you get sparked by the first mech you saw!" he fumed.

"They did look after me! And Sunstreaker wasn't the first mech." The femme instantly facepalmed. Slaggit!

"WHAT!"

"You know what, forget it. Had you been around I probably wouldn't have met any mechs…ever!" heading for her door, but Skyfire grabbed her arm.

"Does Sunstreaker know about this?" he asked sternly.

"No, I never told him." She half lied.

"Lightning, look at me." He said quite seriously. After a few moments the femme looked at him an unreadable expression on her face. "You tell that mech now about his creation or I will. And you will not like the way I will do it." He half threatened.

"Y-yes Skyfire."

"I-I can't do this." Starlight said starting to stand when someone instantly grabbed her wrist, she looked over and saw Ironhide looking at her.

"Don't let them get to you. If you do then you've let Starscream win." He told her.

"Ironhide's right." Bumblebee agreed.

"B-but the way they stare…" the plane began.

"How long have you know Storm?" Bluestreak suddenly asked.

"Virtually all my life, why?" the light yellow plane asked sitting back down.

"Was she always so…fierce?"

Starlight chuckled, "no, in fact she used to be like Lightning."

"What happened to change her so?" Wheeljack asked amazed, as was everyone else at the table.

"The Decepticons happened." She sighed sadly. "Look I appreciate everything you're trying to do for me while…my teammates are…otherwise engaged, I really do but I don't feel like sitting and getting glared at. I'm sorry, maybe tomorrow." Getting up.

"Do you promise to come out of your quarters if one of us comes by tomorrow?" Bumblebee asked.

The femme looked at him a moment before giving a small smile. "Yes, I promise Bumblebee." She then walked out.

"It's no good, no matter what we try they're never going to be as happy as they once were." Wheeljack stated.

"It doesn't help that Storm's still missing either." Ironhide concluded.

"Then we'll just have to convince everyone else. Make them see that they're not connected to the cons." Bluestreak said.

The three mechs looked at the gunner.

"That's asking a lot, Blue." Bumblebee said.

"Surely some of them must have nice or happy memories of them before they found out. We just have to remind them." The grey Datsun continued.

"You know, that might not be a bad idea." Wheeljack said thinking aloud.

Skywarp once again sat upon a cliff, just listening to the 'feeling' that resided in him at the closeness of his sister. Despite all the adamant denials he had told Starscream, when he finally saw Starlight for who she really was he almost jumped for joy. She was Solarflare, his sister and had he known back then what he knew now things would have been a lot different. For despite all his… cruelness he had a soft spot for Solarflare and only her. When he saw her so scared and afraid it took everything he had not to go over and comfort her, Starscream had naturally found the whole thing hilarious and had things been different had she not been his twin then he would also find it funny. He knew he wouldn't be able to hurt her, Lazer on the hand he had no problem shooting at especially after what she did to him. He sighed, then heard the familiar sound of jet engines and looked up to see Thundercracker transform and sit next to him.

"I've been looking for you," the blue seeker said.

"Really." The black seeker said uninterested.

"You alright?"

"I think we both know how stupid that question is." Skywarp said.

Thundercracker was about to say something when a voice said, "here you idiots are." He looked over in annoyance; he so didn't want to deal with him at the moment. "What the slag do you want?" he asked rudely.

"To make sure those femmes are out of the way for good."

Skywarp couldn't help the growl that emanated from his vocaliser. No-one harmed his sister, after realising what he thought he looked down at the view below. I'm so slagged he thought.

END

I am in the process of this stories sequel, fear not.