All Disclaimers are located on the 1st chapter.

Bad internet service where I am staying, is what keeping me from updating any of my stories. I also been having a lot of personal problems, and work related problems as well. I am stressed out and writer's block been a problem as well.

Please read, review and I hope you are enjoying the story.

Seth slowly started to come around as his vision swam in and out of focus until he recognized the ceiling of the Autobot base. With a soft sigh he knew almost insteantly he was once again in medbay. His head was pounding something fierce making him feel a bit nauseous. He waited until the feeling pass before he pulled out his Nintendo 3ds again to see the time, roughly several hours had passed. Jack, Miko and Raf had already return home for the night with their guardians watching over them.

Sighing he turned off his Nintendo 3ds and slowly sat up. Near by he saw Ratchet in his vehicle form as his holoform was sound asleep in a chair near his bedside. A weird feeling washed over Seth for a moment before he roughly shoved the feeling away. A feeling that he thought had died a long time ago, it only made him tighten the ice around his heart once more to try as he tried to suffocate the feeling so it would no longer trouble him.

A slow evil grin than appeared on Seth's face as he noticed his shopping bags were located near by along with a few paint brushes. Paint brushes that Bumblebee had left out for Seth to use. A little card with a picture of a bumblebee was the only clue to his involvement. If Seth could have he really would have let out his evil laughter right than and there. A laugh he been told could have made the devil himself run away in pure terror. Slowly and silently he got off the hospital bed, being as careful as possible not awake Ratchet's holoform as he moved towards his shopping bags. Rolling up his sleeves he carefully pulled out the cans of pant, while trying as hard as he could not to make a lot of noise. He would tense and glance over his shoulder to make sure his target was still sleeping. To his relief he was. Thank Primus, that Ratchet was apparently a heavy sleeper to some degree. He suspected that Ratchet miscalculated on how long Seth would most likely be out cold for.

After moving the can's of paint near Ratchet's vehicle form he began opening the cans of paint. Grinning like a scraplet about to attack it's unfortunate victim he began painting Ratchet's vehicle form. He would pause a few minutes after each stroke of the paint brush to make sure his target was still asleep besides opening up his Nintendo 3ds for a picture that he store away on it just to make sure he was getting the correct look that he wanted. It was a very slow process but Seth had pulled it off perfectly. Thank god he took a lot of art classes and inherited his art skills from his grandmother on his father's side who was a well known artist. Wasn't a famous artist but she was a well liked one and had one or two of them hanging in a art museum.

He than closed the paint cans and placed them back were he got them once he was finished. He was also impressed he didn't get paint all over the place. With a stretch he slowly wondered if he could get away with repainting Orion. Deciding to take a quick look he slowly left medbay to go look for the Autobot leader. He soon found the Autobot leader looking at a hologram image of what appeared to be Elita One. Optimus looked older, sadden and even troubled. Seth slowly looked away as he recognized the expression on Optimus' face. It was the same one he often hid behind the mask of anger. Seth turned to leave, there would be other chances to repaint Optimus.

"Sethiroth." Optimus said making Seth snap his head towards him as he sent Optimus a dark glare.

"It's Seth." Seth said coldly before he approached Optimus. "Sorry didn't mean to interrupt, you."

"You weren't interrupting me, Seth. How are you feeling?" Optimus asked him.

"Fine for the most part...just a headache." Seth answered before his eyes widen. "You actually called me Seth."

"I figure, you would respond better if I just go by your nickname. You show less aggression and hostility." Optimus said as he placed the disk down making the image disappear.

"Elita One?" Seth asked softly making Optimus look surprised by that. Than again he should have suspected that Seth would know of her.

"Yes...She was my sparkmate." Optimus said softly as Seth's expression softened a bit.

"She died...didn't she?" Seth asked with a soft look on his face.

"She was killed in the early days of the war." Optimus said softly with a pained expression.

"Megatron's doing?"

"How much do you know of Elita One and of my past?" Optimus asked softly since he did not wish to answer.

"Elita One was once called Ariel I believe. She was your girlfriend...possibly your wife from the sounds of things. She was the Femme Commander of the Autobots. You were called Orion Pax who worked for Alpha Trion as a desk clerk over in Idacon...Basically you were a librarian I believe. Were friends with a bot called Megatronous who was a gladiator...before he became the Decepticon leader Megatron. I know you were chosen to be the next prime and that just really pissed off Megatron because he wanted that position of power. Look I know more than I should but all this information is rather common knowledge where I'm from." Seth said softly.

"You know more than you care to let on." Optimus said as he sensed that Seth knew far more than he was willing to say or share with anyone.

"Maybe I do, than again maybe I don't." Seth said softly as he leaned up against the wall so they could talk. He wasn't going to reveal the bloody future for them any time soon.

"Since you know more about my past, than I do of yours, maybe you can tell me more about yourself." Optimus said.

"What exactly do you want to know about me?" Seth asked him in a suspicious tone.

"Why are you so defensive about your name?" Optimus asked.

"Tch...figures you would ask me that...I just never liked my first name, end of story. Next question." Seth said as he tensed a bit making Optimus frown.

"Your family?"

"Next question." Seth snarled in a deadly tone as his eyes harden. Optimus sighed as he sensed Seth bringing up his defensive wall once more however instead of backing down he decided to push slightly on the topic.

"Seth, you don't have to tell me everything about your family...but at least tell me a little bit so i can try to understand you better and why your personality is so much like Megatron's." Optimus said.

"I don't need a Shrink...Pax. So stop trying to play the part of a therapist whose there to try and help you understand you and your emotions. Because that's the fastest way to piss me off. If your asking if I have parents than I can clearly say I did have them, and if your asking if I have siblings than the answer is no. I am an only child. End of story." Seth snarled.

"You're an orphan?" Optimus pressed.

"At this point I really wish I was, but no i'm not. My mother is alive, at least from what I am aware of but I really don't care or give a damn about her." Seth said with a cold expression before his eyes widen as he realized he said more than he had planned on saying. "So what exactly happened to Elita one?" Seth said quickly.

Optimus sighed since he knew Seth was doing this to avoid talking more about his past. "Megatron captured her when she was on a stealth mission... he had her killed right in front of me."

"Sorry I asked." Seth said frowning since he knew the pain of loosing someone right in front of him only to well especially when he was powerless to help them. Optimus recognized the expression almost instantly but before he could ask, a loud shout interrupted him.

"Optimus, is the gremlin with you?!" Ratchet asked as he entered the room in a hurry making Optimus' optics widen as his jaw dropped at the sight of Ratchet's new paint job. Lime green with orange highlights. *Basically picture the live action movie paint job of Ratchet.* Seth grinned evilly at the sight. He did a perfect paint job on Ratchet. However Seth had no desire to stick around at this point. He slowly began to sneak out of the room in hopes of head start to escape before a certain medic notices his new appearance. Seth felt a bit annoyed at being called a gremlin but would ignore it for now at least. "I can't locate the little suicidal imp anywhere. He should have still been unconscious!"

"R-Ratchet what happened to you?" Optimus asked in disbelief as he ignored what Ratchet was saying. Out of the corner of Optimus' optic he noticed Seth slowly sneaking out of the room, just as he than remembered Seth's threats of repainting them but Optimus hadn't really taken the threats seriously until now.

"What do you mean Optimus?" Ratchet asked in honest confusion. Just as Bulkhead, Arcee and Bumblebee entered the room only to stop dead in their tracks at the sight of Ratchet's new paint job.

"Whoa! what's with the new paint job!?" Bulkhead asked as Bumblebee began laughing hysterically in his whirs, beeps and clicking sounds just as Arcee stood frozen in disbelief that Seth had actually done it.

"What in the name of Primus are you all talking about!?" Ratchet snarled.

"Go take a look in the mirror." Arcee said calmly. Ratchet frowned as he left the room to go see what they were talking about. Only to see his reflection.

"Three...Two...one..." Seth counted down silently as he prepared himself to run.

"I'M GOING TO KILL THAT LITTLE GREMLIN! SETHIROTH!" Ratchet shouted as Seth bolted as fast as he could as the sound of pounding foot steps were heard approaching quickly.

"I regret nothing!" Seth yelled as he ran like the devil was on his heels as Ratchet came running around the corner his optics were blazing a solid white color in rage. Seeing how pissed Ratchet was Optimus moved to intercept him from getting to his human charge who had stopped to watch Optimus capture Ratchet. However Ratchet made a sneaky move and had slid under Optimus at the last possible second making Optimus miss in capturing him. Seth's face paled dramatically at this when he saw Ratchet running right for him with a look that clearly promised death. Seth screamed in horror as he ran for his life through out the base as Ratchet yelled out death threats while chasing after his charge. Optimus gave chase in fear of what Ratchet would do as he screamed after Ratchet, how Autobots do not harm humans or in Seth's case Gremlins.

Seth gave a startled squawk like sound as he was snatched up off the ground by Bumblebee as Ratchet stood there snarling. "Give him to me." Ratchet growled at Bumblebee.

"Green is a nice color Ratchet...really brings out the color of your optics." Seth said nervously as he tried to make himself smaller against Bumblebee's armor. Bumblebee glared at Ratchet as he held Seth protectively. Before calmly walking away with Seth just as Optimus grabbed Ratchet's shoulder.

"Ratchet...go clean up...once your calm we will deal with Seth's punishment latter." Optimus said calmly even though he was slightly out of breath from having to chase his medic around the base.

"I'm going to start looking for a way to send that imp home as soon as possible." Ratchet growled as he sent his charge a dark look.

Bumblebee shook his head as he looked at Seth who looked exhausted. "Is he okay?" Arcee asked.

"I'm still alive so yeah i'm good for now at least." Seth said before looking up at Bumblebee. "Thanks for the save Bee and for the paint brushes." Seth said with a grin.

"BUMBLEBEE!" Ratchet snarled making Seth pale as Bumblebee flinched at the tone. He slowly turned to see Ratchet glaring at him as Seth gave a nervous smile. Optimus sighed as he felt a headache forming. "You helped that little-" Bumblebee gave a series of clicks and beeps before suddenly transforming around Seth and speed out of the base before Ratchet could take a step towards them.

Ratchet gave a loud snarl and stormed off to remove the paint job that his charge had given him. "Seth did warn us about this." Arcee said softly as Bulkhead chuckled.

"Yeah but you have to admire the kid, he did one hell of a paint job." Bulkhead said with a smile. "Sort of wonder what he would have done to Optimus." Optimus paled a bit at this but at the same time he was also curious.

To be continued...