Shadow

Chapter 2

SideSwipe's POV

Yesterday me and Sunny had wrenches thrown at our helms while we ran by Ratchet the Grumpy Medic, Sunny is still complaining about his poor paint job.

"SideSwipe! I need your help!" I hear Sunny call, I get up and I walk towards him, he's still in the fraggin paint room after 2 hours.

"Come buff my back plates for me!" He orders, I roll my optics at him in annoyance, and then I grab the buffer and I start buffing his back plates, when I get done I hand him the buffer.

"You're welcome" I say, but he only grunts.

One day I'm going to scratch his paint job with a key, but that will be the day I want to die...

I sigh softly, and I walk out to go talk to Jazz or somebody that's nice to me, and doesn't grunt when I ask them a question!

2 hours later

??????'s POV

When I opened my small blue optics, my carrier was nowhere to be seen, my tanks hurt, I was slumped over something hard and brown, and it had some green weird things at the end, I went to take a closer look at the free weird things.

But what ever was under me broke, I went falling down and landed on something hard, but not metallic... I stood up.

"Carrier?" I ask while standing up and looking around, this doesn't look like my home?!

"CARRIER!" I scream, I tried to walk but I fell down on my knee bolts, I whimpered softly in pain, I look down at my chest, and I see a small Autobot symbol.

My carrier's words runs through my helm "Find the Autobots"

I got up to my tiny peds, "Time to walk!" I say, I take one small step and then I tumble faceplates first, I got up and I cried, and then I heard heavy peds come my way, I tried to stand but my faceplates hurt too much, so I sit on my aft.

And then a tall fully red bot step into my view and then a white, red and blue bot also comes into my view, he has blues shades over his optics, "SideSwipe, you know what that is?" The white, red and blue on asked the fully red one.

The red one shakes his helm and walks closer to me, he bends down and picks me up, "That's a sparklin'" the white, red and blue says, the red one looks down at me and holds me gently in his arm plating, that's close to his chassis.

His warmth was very trusting, I felt my power running low so I closed my optics and fell into recharge in the strangers arm plating.

SideSwipe's POV

As the small adorable jet black femme recharges in my arm plating, Jazz takes a step closer to the little femme and I, and then the little femme opens her optics, and she starts to whimper, "Carrier?" She asked while looking at Jazz.

"Ha! She thought you were a femme!" I tease, and then I feel her poke at my Autobot symbol, "Autobot! Autobot!" She cheers while she clapped her small servos together.

I look down at her and I see a small Autobot symbol in the middle of her chest, "Jazz look!" I say while motioning my helm to the symbol, "She's too young to have that" Jazz says.

"Maybe, her Carrier or somebody put it their," I said, "Maybe" Jazz says with a shrug, and then we both start the long walk back to base.

10 minutes later

When we get back to base, Sunny walks up to me "What in the name of Primus is that?!" He shrieks, "A Sparkling?!?!?" I hear Ratchet say with shock in his voice, and then Chromia and Ironhide walk up, and then the other Autobots join Ironhide and Chromia.

Who are surrounding Me and the little femme, that is in my arm plating.

??????'s POV

I watch as all of the other Autobots crowd around me and the red bot, I snuggle closer to him from the nervousness, and then I hear a set of heavy peds come our way, I look up and I see the faceplates of... Optimus Prime?!

My small mouth flies open in shock, Momma has told me all about Optimus Prime! I smile up at him, "What is your designation?" He asks, "Or what is your name?" I hear the soft voice of a femme ask politely, I shrug, they all continue to look at me with awe or confusion.

And then I was snatched out of the red bots servos, I went to cry but I was shushed by a femme, "It's okay... I'm Chromia and this is Ironhide" she greets and motions to a red tough looking bot beside her, "Well hello little one" he coos.

His voice sounds tough and a little tired, he gets closer to my faceplates, just close enough to where I can plant a kiss on his cheek plate.

And that's what I did.

I pulled back from the little kiss, "Aww! Ironhide, she already like you!" Chromia awes, Ironhide pulls away from me, I whimper, "She's adorable!" I hear the red mech coo, I turn and hold my arms out towards him.

He takes me felty from Chromia, "I'm SideSwipe! You can call me Sides if you want!" He greets, I smile up at him, and then I was grabbed gently from him and I was being held closer to yellow chassis.

"Don't scratch the paint!" I hear a voice rumble through the chassis, "Be nice!" I hear Chromia growl, "I'm SunStreaker" he greets, "My twin!" I hear SideSwipe say, and then SunStreaker, handed me to a white bot that red crosses on the front of each one of his shoulder plating.

"I'm Ratchet" he greets, "The Autobots medic... My scanners indicate she's only in human years two" "Ratcet, I want carrier" I whimper.

"What's your carrier's name?" He asks.

I start to bawl, I don't know my Carrier's name! I then feel SideSwipe grab me gently from Ratcet, he holds me closer to his chassis but I still cry.

"Shush now, it's okay, dot cry" I hear Sides sooth, but it only makes me cry harder, I feel Chromia's servo go on my back plates, "Shush it's okay, we're here and we won't leave you" she soothes.

But I continue to cry, Sideswipe holds me closer to him, I then feel his digit go under my chin and he lifts my helm up to look at him.

"Now it's okay," he says and then he takes his thumb digit and wipes my pale energon tears away, I shove his digit away and then snuggle my helm into his neck cables, I feel his servo go on my back and pats gently "Optimus, can we keep her?" He asks.

I turn and see Optimus.

I hold my arms out to him, he gently takes me from SideSwipe, he cradles me in his arm plating.

"Now we better give you a name" Optimus says, Momma was right his voice is amazing!

"Yeah!" Sideswipe says, "But what should we name her?" Ratcet asks, "Hmmm?" Chromia hums.

"How about Bullet?" Sideswipe asks, I roll my optics at him, Chromia chuckles, Optimus sets me down gently and softly when alarms go off, I cover my small audio preceptors with my servos.

I then feel I was being picked up, I start to bawl and then I was turned and I saw Sideswipe, I stop crying and Sideswipe holds me close to his chassis.

He starts running to where the others are running, we get to a bigger room and I see some more bots, but they don't have the Autobot symbol on them.

I gasp Sideswipe holds me closer to his chassis, "Megatron what do you want?" Optimus growls.

And then the tall gray bots optics caught me, "Aww! Optimus I see you have found Moonlight's sparkling! I'll just take her, and I'll leave you all alone" Megatron says.

"Frag you!" I growl, "What a mouth she's got?" Megatron says, I stick my glossa out at him, he only chuckles.

"Optimus give me the sparkling and I'll leave without any trouble" Mega-Dork says, "Shut up! I don't want to go! I hate you!" I growl.

Momma always told me to be mean and hateful to Decepticons.

"You act just like Moonlight, before I had to kill her" he says, "You didn't?!" Chromia growls, "I did... Do you want to see?" He asks, and then one of the Decepticons drags in my... Carrier?!