Long Lost

It's Me

Ironhide froze for a second at he took in the familiar body.

His spark began to beat faster.
She was here.

The one special bot who he'd been longing to see for so many years.

His peds were frozen as he scanned the motionless body through the vehicon drones.

Not a few feet away, a groundbridge opened up, and a blue and pink streak darted through.

"Move." She commanded.

Arcee jumped up and attacked the drones with her blade, protecting the unconcious Autobot who was surrounded.

Ironhide snapped out of his love trance and anger boiled up in his energon.

He immediately joined her and the two of them battled those who dared to attack. Once all of them were defeated, they went on to help Bulkhead.

"You can't even land a punch Wrecker." Starscream taunted, dodging yet another blow from the green bot.

Bulkhead, being already beaten up and tired, was hit with a missle from the Seeker. He flew a few feet but regained his balance before being joined by the two SICs.

And being the coward we all know, Screamer deceided to fly away.

The three bots dropped their battle stances and approached the body which was leant up against the rocks.

Arcee knelt down gingerly and examined the femme carefully.

The familiar peaceful faceplate made her's soften immensely as she patted the femme's servo.

"It's defenitely her." She breathed, pointing out the invisible markings of the femme's chest and shoulder. "I jusy can't believe that after all this time..."

Ironhide studied the pink, magenta and purple femme carefully.

"Athena."

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"Are you sure she isn't a fake?" Rachet asked again, running tests on the weak Autobot.

"Heh. Fakies." Miko snickered, earning an elbow in the rib from Jack. She winced a bit and slapped his cheek very lightly in return.

"No fake can make an actual mark Rachet." Arcee retorted. "Besides, Ironhide and Bulkhead agree."

"She's- she's a holoform." Bulkhead muttered. "Theena Parker is a holoform..."

Miko shot up and cocked her head to the side. Her best friend was a fakie?!
"Repeat that again?"

"It seems very logical." Ironhide piped up. "The pod she fled in should have replaced her true form and turned it to the inhabitant of whatever planet it lands on."

"But the memory loss?" Rachet quipped. "Cybertronian pods are not destroyed or altered easily."

"It could have been the way she hit her helm when Megatron shot the pod." The SIC replied smoothly.

"Burn." Miko whispered.

"SHE HIT HER HELM?!" Rachet yelled in alarm, rushing over to his patient and scanning her helm, which had a cut near the middle of the back.

"WHY IN PRIMUS' NAME DID YOU NOT TELL ME?!"

"You're gonna asked that?" Arcee retorted, gesturing to his current behaviour. The medic quieted down and continued examining Athena's helm.

"What happened to her anyways?" Jack asked. "If she wanted to reveal her true identity, she would have done it a long time ago.

Everyone turned their attention to Bulkhead, who smiled sheepishly