The Guard, The Scout, and The Wrecker

Meeting Jack, Miko, and Raf

Nightshard pov

It had been several eons since I had seen most of my family when we had left Cybertron when it fell. Team Prime arrived on Earth three years ago and allied with the humans here when we arrived. During the war, I was reunited with my older brother Bee and it was quite a scene when he found out that I was mated with Hot Rod who was an Elite Guardsman. At the moment, the entire team is mourning the loss of Cliffjumper with a small makeshift funeral on top of the silo. It didn't take long for Arcee to leave for a patrol knowing that it was her way to move on and mourn. : I'll go after her: Bee said before moving to follow her. "It's best to leave Arcee alone for a bit Bee trust me from personal experience having a bit of time alone is the best thing in the long run," I said as I stopped my brother. Bee looked at me with a knowing look in his optics because I was referring to me losing my rescue team to the Despitcons and in turn the rest of the Rescue Force when it was disbanded by the council before the war started. "Why do we risk ourselves for the humans?" Uncle Ratchet asked Uncle Orion. 

Uncle Orion gave him his answer before we all headed back inside. It didn't take long for Arcee to ask for backup through the comm. Uncle Orion had let Bumblebee, Bulkhead, and I transformed and headed out to give Arcee backup. I followed behind my older brother and I switched lanes to go on the other side of the two vehicons. It was I noticed that there was a human with Arcee when I heard that she said that I and Bee were her family. We went straight to a canal because there was enough space for all of us to transform. When Bee and I got there, we transformed midair and landed on the ground before shooting at the vehicons. It didn't take long for Bee to step on the RC car of the young human boy who was watching us fight. : I'm sorry: Bee said to the young boy. "It's fine," the boy said which shocked me that he understood Bee. "Bee watch out," I yelled before he got blasted. It was a good thing that both of us decided that we blocked our bond so we didn't feel each other's pain. After fighting the cons, they ran back to the warship when Bulkhead decided to show up. "What took you so long?" Arcee asked him. "Got caught in traffic," Bulk said. I looked over to the pipe that the two boys escaped through knowing that we had to bring them to base. "Optimus would want to talk to those boys since they saw us," I said looking over at the other three. The trio knew that I was right about that fact considering the human children saw us and the cons saw them with us as well.

Time skip to the next day

Arcee and Bumblebee left to pick up the two boys when Uncle Orion saw me looking through photos from before the war on my datapad in my little corner in the main room. "You still miss them dearly don't you?" Optimus asked me. I didn't have to ask that he was referring to both my old rescue team along with the rest of our family and my two best friends in Prowl and Ultra Magnus. "I still do though I do know that Hot Rod is still alive somewhere," I said looking at the photo of Heatwave, Chade, Boulder, Blades, and me at our academy graduation. Uncle Orion looked at me and knew that the pain of losing my rescue team had weighed on me since they were killed. "Head to the main area to wait for Arcee and Bumblebee I'll be right there," Uncle Orion said as I headed over to see if Uncle Ratchet needed any help. "Need help Uncle Ratch?" I asked as I walked behind him. He looked over at me before letting me know that he didn't need my help at the moment. It was long before we heard a car engine coming in when we saw Bee and Arcee with three humans. "I thought you saw that there were two humans?" Ratchet said looking over at the human children. "Haven't you heard humans multiply," Arcee joked making me laugh. She looked at me knowing that she made me laugh because it didn't take long for her to realize that I was missing a few people. 

We heard the humans ask questions before Uncle Orion came walking in to explain our story to the humans. Then the proximity sensor went off letting us know that Fowler arrived most likely to yell at us about what had happened yesterday. When he came in and started to yell at us about the traffic that we caused before Bulkhead broke something to prove a point. "Bulkhead, I need that," Ratchet said at Bulkhead. With that Fowler left but not before another alarm went off indicating that the cons were on the movie. "Stupid human tech," Ratchet said before letting us know that for some reason Cliff's signal came back online. "If Cliff is still alive we have to take that chance," Arcee said before Uncle Orion asked for a groundbridge. When we arrived on the other side of the groundbridge we saw that it was an active mining operation. "Nightshard can you start tracking down Cliffjumper and bring him back here to take him back to base," Uncle Orion said giving me orders. Arcee knew that she could trust me in tracking down her partner because of my background of being a rescue bot trained in search and rescue. I broke off trying to find Cliffjumper and when I found him it was obvious that he was dead and was brought back as a Terrcon through some sort of experiment. 

"Guys I have to come back without Cliff with me," I said before seeing the undead Cliff started coming my way. Backing up I started to shoot at what remained of Cliffjumper before turning my back on him and running back to the meeting point. When I got there, I gave Arcee a look telling her that Cliff wasn't coming back with us at all. Starscream dropped a grenade to blow up the mine so Uncle Orion called Ratchet for a ground bridge back to base. When we got back to base, Ratchet started to ask us questions about what happened before I had gotten dizzy and nearly fell when Bee had cought me looking at me with concern. "What happened with Cliffjumper," Uncle Ratchet asked me. "He was long gone by the time we got there and it looked like he was a terrorcon revived by something," I said before Uncle Ratchet saw the purple goo on my hand. The human kids' names we learned were Raf, Miko, and Jack looked at us realizing that we could get hurt or die during this. Jack had told Uncle Orion that they had to go home before their creators would call law enforcement due to curfew. Jack was assigned to Arcee, Miko with Bulkhead, and Raf with Bee but had me as well when my brother was on a mission or couldn't make it to pick him up for whatever reason.