Right so this is my first story I've written so while comments and constructive criticism is welcome. There is no need to ramble about what you don't like if you don't give ways to fix that. Anyway enjoy the story and if you have ideas feel free to share them.

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Keep in mind at this time I have no beta reader

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Keep in mind the story is M for a reason as of now just violence later who knows?

Disclaimer: I own only my OC Shadowfire and changes to existing plot.

Chapter 1

Breem- 8.3 minutes

Nano-klick- One second

Klick- 1.2 minutes

Joor-6.5 hours

Solar cycle-One day

Cycle-1.25 hours

.:abcd:.- Comm' link

{abcd}- Bond

Mornings they can fall into several categories ok, good, bad, amazing, or horrible. Today thankfully falls onto the fourth why you ask? Today is my last solar cycle of being considered a youngling. As of tomorrow I'll officially be a fully grown femme. No more little femme(Its ridiculous as is being I'm about 26 feet tall for Primus sake) or femmeling just femme. As I lay there optics offline just enjoying the moment happy and content reality decided to reaffirm itself like a vicious slap to the face.

"Shadowfire you have 5 klicks to get your aft down here before I grab you by your peds and drag you down myself!"... Isn't my mother so caring. As illogical as a 16 foot femme dragging me off of my berth seems I know she would find a way.

"You can't grab what you can't see!" I yell back. Problem solved now I can get a few extra klick... "I can if I flash bomb your room first!"...Slag. I go over many scenarios but in all of them I end up blind and deaf. The fragging glitch would be laughing her aft off the whole time too.

"That's what I thought." she yells. I vent sharply but get up and then proceed to check my armor for any large scuffs or loose plates.

Exactly 5 klicks later I'm down stairs getting my energon when she walks in with my brother. I forgo words and just fix her with a harsh glare.

"Don't give me that you got plenty of recharge." she states completely ignoring it.

"Was another breem really too much to ask for?" I say with just a hint of a whine.

"For femme a solar cycle from being a fully grown you act like such a sparkling." If I wasn't so observant I would have missed when her optics slightly dulled for less than a nano-klick.

With a slow vent I tell her "If you wanted to spend more time with me this morning all you had to do was say so."

Now she vents "Maybe I just wanted make sure you weren't late?"

I know she won't admit it but I know she's sad her little femme is all grown up. "Where's dad?" I ask changing the subject to humor her.

"He said he needed to finish a project but he'll be here before you leave." she said siting at the table to feed my sibling his energon. He could drink it himself but I think she's milking the last orns of his sparklinghood for all it's worth.

As if they planned it my father walks in at that moment with a long slender bundle in his hands. I am of course instantly curious "What's that?" I ask before he can even say good morning. "What's what?" he says with a gleam to his optic that tells me he knows damn well what.

So I vent sharply and look at him expectantly. "Oh this it's nothing just an extra project I did in my spare time." he say so nonchalantly I know he's up to something. "Daaddd..." He just chuckles and hands it to me.

"Tell me what you think of it." I unfold the cloth and am left staring at a beautiful energon blade not unlike my own. The only differences are that it's just a bit longer with a tad more mass. There were also dark purple flames on each side.

My gaze shot to his face and he laughed "Yes it's for you now I know I taught you how to properly inspect a blade." I took this as my cue to check its balance (perfect of course), edge, and then activating and deactivating the energon in the blade, reveling in the fact that the flames lite up to the same violet purple color of my optics. I also formed my now old blade on my back and compared the two. Sheathing my new blade on my back in the gap between my wing and back plates I immediately bent over a little to hug my father (still not sure where the pit I get my height from) and thank him profusely. I hear my mother laughing behind me I turn to see her grinning knowingly.

"Oh mute it primus knows I inherited my love of weapons from both you." I say however this just makes her smile bigger than before. I spend the next cycle testing my new blade learning what it can do. I'm not sure how he managed it but now that it(somehow) recognizer's me as its sole owner (till I offline apparently), I can now form it into two separate blades or connect them into one double sided blade (With practice). Needless to say I love it. Now after our cycle long test/sparing session it's time for me and my brother to leave.

"Bye mom bye dad!" I say and turn with my bro to leave only to be waylaid by my mom, who has decide to forgo her pride to give me one last hug. " Aww I knew you cared." I say with no small amount of amusement showing in my optics and voice. Her response comes in the form of the high pitched whine of her rifle charging." I love you to." I say laughing and walk out the door. "So bro when are you going start feeding yourself?" I ask smiling.

He playfully glares back "I could now and you know it but mom's to stubborn to let me, she even did it when Sunny and Sides were over, the fraggers laughed for joors!" I look at him not really surprised at his language. "I'm going to assume mom doesn't know you learned that word from dad." I state dryly. I know this to be fact as there is an obvious lack of dents and scorch marks on his armor.

He just grins and we duck across the street when there are no vehicles in sight. A breem later we arrive at our destination the youth care/ school area of the youth sector. "Hey 'Fire ,Bee long time no see." Sideswipe says appearing suddenly from our left. I immediately take note of the mischievous glimmer in his optics. I vent and ask " Who is it this time and no I won't hide you?" with a semi-amused yet resigned voice.

"What makes you think I did something?" he asked with faked innocence, while at the same time checking the surrounding area for somebody or something. I just point to the pink and black specks of paint on his servos. "Maybe I was just feeling artistic." he defends. I just roll my optics "Sunny's the painter you only use it in class or pranks" Bee points out "and as class hasn't started..."

"Fine I did! Please hide me!"

He pleads with us but we only grin. I then note the lack of a certain yellow narcissist. It still amazes me he cares so much about his paint at such a young age. "It's Sunny isn't it?" I ask. He nods "then you're fragged and can't he just find you through your bond anyway?"

This fact was obviously over looked as he pales then ducks as a black and pink blur flew over his head, making me and Bee jump back to avoid being caught between them. This allows us to get a good look at the now zebra like bot, if zebras were an obnoxious shade of pink with black stripes (or maybe black with pink stripes). I feel my parent's curiosity through our bond, I send them an image while I try not to fall over laughing.

Now I feel their amusement fill the bond which proves to be too much as now I am on the ground laughing. "Come back here Sideswipe!" Sunstreaker yells and takes off after his soon to be scrap twin. Bee follows leaving me to looking like a complete glitch trying to get off the ground and control myself.

Before this can happen I find myself looking at the black ped of my parents overly logical and rule happy friend. "Dare I ask?" he inquires. I manage to gasp out "Twins." He vents and by this time I'm able to point in the right direction and so he thanks me and walks off.

A couple klicks later I was able to pick myself up and head to my sparing class still giggling occasionally along the way. As we are at war sparing and weapons classes have been added for the older bots, as most will be joining the Autobots army and heading to boot camp as soon as they are officially fully grown bots.

Because of my parents insistence that I train with them as well I have an advantage and am more that proficient with all my weapons. This includes my two energon daggers, new sword, both plasma cannons, and my plasma rifle with and without scope. It also helps that I can cloak myself though I haven't quite mastered that yet.

Meaning I can become cloaked from the visible spectrum but can't completely hide my heat and energy signature's. It was half way through the solar cycle when we heard the first explosion. I heard the city alarms going off and searched for my parents and brother though our bonds. They were fine and as my parents are part of the garrison of the city they were able to tell us it was just a Decepticon raid of a storage depot outside the city.

Then closing off the bond to where we could barely feel them so they could focus on the battle. I immediately took off to find Bee changing my arm back as I left the range. A breem later I was walking with him to the bunkers when a powerful blast sent me careening head first into the wall. Through the dizziness and pain I hear another alarm going off but it wasn't for the city nope, the 'Cons were attacking the youth sector.

As she dodged explosions dashing from cover to cover the dark blue femme reveled in the feeling of battle. She could feel her mate through their bond as they darted across the battlefield blasting at 'Cons as they defended the storage depot. They continued in this pattern dodge, fire, move repeat until she felt a surge of pain and fear from the bonds with her sparklings followed by a large explosion from behind her. As she turned her spark sunk at the thick black smoke billowing from the area of the city the youth sector resides in. Even as she listened she could hear smaller blasts going off.

.:Optimus!:. She commed even as her mate turned to look.

.:Go take Arcee and Flare-up we'll come when we can!:. So she transformed and speed toward the city as they and her mate did the same.

As they got closer they could hear plasma fire and grenades going off and the volume only increased as they drew nearer. The moment they were in range she transformed and opened fire with the fury and deperation of a mother protecting her offspring. The 'Cons apperantly didn't expect there to be any retaliation yet and so were unprepared for their counter-attack much less the accuracy and fury behind it. The femme and her comrades finally made it to the entrance of the structure.

.:Optimus we've reached the sector's entrance it is now clear and we are moving inside:. Arcee commed.

.:Acknowledged the battle is still going strong out here we will join you when we can,:. Optimus replied both knowing it could be breems till that was possible. .:and Arcee please tell them to be careful:.

.:Optimus...:. She started

.:I know but try not to take to many risks Prime out:. With that the comm ended and they moved inside hopping they weren't too late.

I had forgone letting Bee walk and was now carrying him as it was infinitely faster. Through our bond I could feel our parents were close and if anyone could get us it was them. Just as I was starting to feel hope we rounded the corner to see three large seekers and six drones. Of course it was too much to ask that we not be seen. I know our parents felt my sure of fear over the bond followed by Bee's. Before they could move or spot hopefully spot Bee I sprinted back around the corner into an open room and shoved Bee into the vent in the ceiling.

{Bee I know your scared but you need to stay here and be completely silent ok?} I quickly tell him. {But...} {No! Stay here and don't make a sound!} I hiss sharply hoping to shock him into silence. Without waiting for an answer I activate my cloak and bolt out of the room and into the one across. Deactivating the cloak and forming my left servo into my cannon {Love you Bee} sending loving feelings through close it off, wait till they can see me then sprint down the hall away from my brother firing all the way.

I managed to get down the hall and around the corner before I realized it was a dead end. As I turn they appear at the end of the hall and start to approach me slowly. I transform my servo again while also forming my blade on my back. When they are close enough I throw both my daggers killing one mech and wounding another in the leg. As they are airborne I grab my blade then swing watching the glowing purple fire as I take off the head of the injured 'Con with ease.

Turning I strike at the next as he blocks I slice at my next target dodging, weaving and attacking all the while. I continue this till I take a bad hit to my left arm, I cry out as it cuts down to the strut before I spin away energon spraying the walls. I felt my mom starting to panic slightly, I know I should close the bond but I can't knowing there is no way for me to survive this. I cut down the 'Con before he can react leaving me facing off with the three seekers.

The leader spoke lowly to the black and purple jet next to him and is his voice slightly screechy even at that volume. "Alive!" exclaimed the black jet obviously surprised at his leader. "Yes 'Warp alive will that be an issue?" As they continued to talk as if I wasn't there I put away my sword and formed both servos into cannons.

I have no desire to let them anywhere near me if I'm wanted alive Primus knows what for. I fire hitting the mister screechy in the left knee but missing the black jet with the second. But as I dove into the open door on my right I was hit by a beam from the leaders weapon right above my spark chamber.

My entire chassis went numb, not to say it didn't hurt like pit 'cus it did. I looked up when a shadow appeared above me to see mister screechy (may as well get in a few laughs before I offline) looking down at me. I reached out to my mom and dad thru our bond one last time as my vision started to fade, felling panic and fear from them {I love you, I'm sorry!}I said while I sent regret and love to them. {Shadowfire!} I hear mother cry. I can almost hear her yelling now...

The last thing I felt was a sudden pain from whatever was attached to my chassis directly over my spark then nothing.

Arcee was sprinting down the hallway trying to keep up with the two desperate parents as she ran around a corner she saw them enter a room. A couple nano-klicks later they came out the mother holding a yellow and black sparkling she recognized as Bee. "Where's your sister?" his mother asked barely able to keep it together. Her and her mate's heads shot up before they started to sprint down the hall "Shadowfire!" Her mother yelled, only to have a large explosion throw them back down the hall.

The sudden pain that stabbed through Arcee's spark less than a nano-klick after kept her on the floor. When it faded a klick later leaving an empty feeling, she checked her plating for any shrapnel. Confused when they were intact till she saw Bee and his parents clutching at their sparks like a piece had been savagely ripped out, and in a way that was technically true. All she could hear was the mother mumbling "no no no!" over... and over... and over...

As Elita-1 stood outside of the door of her friend with two cubes of energon she debated over whether or not to go in. She knew that she needed to talk to someone, and as she had secluded herself from her sparkmate and sisters leaving her the only one left to try. When Elita walked into the room she wasn't surprised at the low light she expected it.

No what surprised her was the once proud femme curled up on the floor next to her berth her optics and armor dull, holding and caressing her sparkling(Technically youngling now) as if it was the last thing in the universe. "Chromia?" She said softly not sure exactly how to approach the distraught femme.

"Chromia you need to put him down for a bit." She try's a second time.

"Why?" a hoarse sounding voice said quietly the pain so easy to hear.

"Because he will go into stasis lock if he doesn't get energon now." Chromia starts a bit at this but slowly stops her caresses and lets him go. Elita took this as a sign to move him away and was surprised when a servo griped her arm.

"No, please at least keep him where I can see him." she begged. Elita slowly nodded her head "Of course." she said softly as a pang went through her spark at how much her friend had changed.

She set Bee down next to his cube of energon which he immediately snatched up and started to gulp down. She held out the other cube to Chromia. She didn't take it at first just stared at it blankly.

"Chromia please you need to drink it." Elita stated firmly enough to make it clear the word no was not an option. She took it albeit slowly but made no move to drink. "Chromia..."

"Why?" She said her tone flat emotionless.

Elita started surprised to get an answer. "Because you need..."

"No why is she gone?" Chromia interrupted in the same flat tone. Elita slowly vented now knowing what she meant.

"I don't know 'Mia." she said her voice low and subdued "I guess it was just her time."

"But why now? Why not in thousands of vorns surrounded by family, by her sparklings?" Chromia said her voice growing more emotional as she went on "My little femme, she was so happy, joking, teasing, it was her last day in classes! Why is She Offline!" she was in tears at this point tightly clenching the cube of energon in her servo.

She was past depression at this point and had moved to anger "She was supposed to be safe in the youth sectors, they were in the middle of the fragging city! How did the Decepticons get by without even tripping a single fragging alarm!"

Elita had picked up Bee and backed up a bit when Chromia rose rifle whining and optics blazing a brilliant raging blue half way through her rant, despite her low energon levels.

She slowly stopped and then sat heavily in the corner next to the energon cube, tears in her optics. When she deemed it safe Elita set Bee back down and walked over to her friend. She put her arms around her and just held as she sobbed. A couple of cycles later Elita left the room slowly venting now glad that she had brought high grade for her friend, as it most defiantly helped even if she was now slightly over charged. She turned to the mech waiting on the floor next to the door.

"You should go in now they're both going to need you." Ironhide just nodded and entered the room closing the door behind him. Venting again and rubbing her face, Elita walked off to find her mate. As well as get some high grade of her own.