The Past Of June Darby

Seventeen

June POV

It's been a month now since I've met the Autobots and I've been spending time with mostly Ratchet. He's shared his anatomy with me and I've shared ours. We've grown somewhat close. That is until a meteor landed on Earth.

~a week earlier~

"Our body structure is extremely different. We may produce our young in the same way but we don't bond the same.", Ratchet argued.

He and I have been going back and fourth for about an hour now. I say we are similar in every way. Ratchet says we are similar, but we have our differences.

"Enlighten me.", I smirked.

"You share vows and go through several mechs or femmes before bonding and even then you split up. For us, our bond is permanent. When one of the mates die, the living mate finds a new mate. In some cases, if one mate dies, so does the other. When we 'marry' our sparks merge, bonding us with our mate for eternity. There is no 'take-backs' or 'divorce' as you humans call it.", Ratchet explained.

I opened my mouth to say something but an alarm went off before I could say anything.

"What's going on?", Arcee asked as she walked in.

"It's an Autobot signal.", Ratchet answered, "They are attempting to contact us."

"Accept the transmission.", Optimus said, Ratchet nodded and accepted after setting me on the hang out area.

"Hello? Somebot there?", a gruff voice asked, "This better not be Decepticons. I'll blow your helms off."

"Easy, Ironhide. What's the situation?", Optimus answered.

"I'm landing on a planet, my guess your on it. I'm in a pod. Here are my landing coordinates.", a blue light showed the coordinates.

This so called 'Ironhide' was landing a few kilometers from the base. I was half excited to meet him and half upset. Ironhide was the bot that last had contact with SilverBolt before she went into stasis. I remember her telling me that in her journal entry a few years back. Primus, I miss her.

"Ratchet, activate the ground bridge. I will go and pick Ironhide up myself. I will be back shortly.", Optimus walked through the bridge and came back with a black bot.

Almost immediately, Ratchet walked over to him and the two started a conversation. Ironhide glanced over at me and his eyes widened for a second before looking back at Ratchet. Ironhide excused himself and walked over to me.

"You must be June. I've heard a lot about you.", Ironhide said, catching the attention of everyone in the room.

"And I you.", I crossed my arms.

"You know, your sis-", I cut him off.

"NEVER speak of my sister.", I growled, surprising everyone, "I'm leaving. Jack, I want you home by 9."

"Mom, it-", I cut Jack off.

"No buts. 9 pm sharp. No later. Not under ANY circumstances.", I got in my car and left.

I know, I shouldn't have lashed out at Ironhide like that. There was no reason to. It's just....thinking or talking about SilverBolt gets me upset. She asked me in her last entry to never cry about her. To never get upset when talking to someone about her. I had promised her that I wouldn't and I nearly blew it.

My phone rang and I answered it without hesitation, thinking it was work, "Ms. Darby, it's Optimus. I was wondering if we could talk......about today's......incident."

"No.", I said as I pulled into my driveway, "I lost a sister almost sixteen years ago. She went back to her home town and we haven't spoken since. I don't know what got her spooked that night but she left in a hurry. I'm going to find out why."

"Ms. Darby, how do you know Ironhide?", Optimus asked.

"I know him through my sister.", I answered, "I'm sorry. I have to go."

I hung up and turned my phone off. I walked into my room and grabbed the data pad Silver had given me. There is a message? From who? I opened the message and to my surprise, it's from Silver.

'When you read this, June, I will be in stasis. I have asked Ironhide to go to Earth to look over you for me. He is, in a way, your new truck. You've always wanted a truck, now's your chance. Anyway, I know you are upset because if you are reading this it means Ironhide said something. 

Let me tell you something. He didn't mean it. When you get to know Ironhide, he's a big softy. I guess that's why I fell in love with him. Don't tell anyone. He doesn't even know. I want you to know this though: I love you, June, and I will return to you and Jack sometime in the future. My hope is that it's soon though.

Love, your sister, SilverBolt'

I smiled and fell asleep on my bed after putting the data pad back.