I really shouldn't be writing a new story, got too many to work on as it is

but this story wouldn't leave me alone.

So I hope you like it.

Iridescent

The sky was littered with flames, bombs going off early and fliers attacking other fliers. This was a normal view from our home. The city of Vos had been destroyed long ago but Carrier refused to leave our homeland. So we hid in a torn down house that only had three walls, one bed, and a view of the battle for our planet going on all day and night.

"Wind Ray, White Claw, come away from there." Carrier called for us from the bed. Carrier hadn't been feeling to well for a few days so she stayed in bed to regain her strength. Wind Ray went right to her when called, but not me. I stayed a moment longer to watch the red sky that would flux with yellow and blue waves. "White Claw, please dear."

Finally listening to my carrier, I left the open wall and walked over to her side and sat down next to Wind Ray. "Yes Carrier, what is it?" Wind Ray asked. "We are running low on Energon again, I need you and your sister to go find some." We normally ran out of Energon ever week or so but lately we have consumed more of it since my sister and I have grown.

"But you never allow us to travel out to find some." I said and Wind Ray looked at me with a nod. "I know," carrier said as she lifted up one of her servos and patted our helms. "But Carrier can't get up right now. You're both big femmes, I am sure you can find some without going far." She said as she coughed badly.

"Of course Carrier." Wind Ray said as she gripped Carrier's servo. "We'll go look for some." I say as I get up. "Come on Wind Ray." Giving Carrier one last kiss on the cheek, Wind Ray and I left the house into the battle torn city of Vos.

"Why are you being so distant from Carrier, White Claw?" My sister asked me. Not answering her right away, I thought why I was. I started distancing myself from my carrier when I first noticed her getting sick. The first signs of Carrier being sick started out with coughs, but then it quickly raced up to coughing fits, and then with them some Energon coming up with her coughs.

Carrier didn't want us to know, but I found out right away what was happening to her.

She was dying.

Wind Ray was too young and innocent to understand what death was but not me. I have seen death more than most of my age have, but then again, not many are around that are my or Wind Ray's age. It has been years and years since I have seen any sparklings or younglings running for their lives. I am even starting to think we are the last to come from the Well of All Sparks.

"White Claw?" Wind Ray spoke again, and it made me shake my helm away my thoughts. "I don't know why. Maybe I am just reaching that age where I don't need to be welded to Carrier like you are." I teased Wind ray, which worked by how her wings shot up and her optics went wide.

"I am not welded to Carrier!" Wind Ray shouted but it was muffled by the sound of a bomb going off in the distance. "No need to lie Windy, your secret is safe with me." I said as I raced off ahead of her and over a pile of rubble. "White Claw! Wait up, Carrier wants us to stay together!" I could hear Wind Ray shout as she raced after me.

For a while, Wind Ray and I searched for Energon but we had no luck. The Energon deposits were we normally went to were now dried out; even the small ones were bone dry. Wind Ray wanted to stay out a bit longer to search, but when the sounds of thunder came from the sky I knew the acid rains were coming.

"Momma is going to be so sad when she sees us without Energon." Wind ray said as we made our way home. "Don't worry Windy, tomorrow we can go outside the city limits to look." I said and that made Wind Ray stop dead in her tracks. "White Claw, you know that is forbidden!" Wind Ray shouted at me but I just shrugged it off. "Carrier won't know, and would you rather go without food or starve to death?" I asked her but I was answered by the sound of her tanks churning.

"But… what if we get captured?" Now that made me second guess myself. Wind Ray and I have heard stories that both sides take in younglings to fight for them. The Autobots are a bit more gentle then the Decepticons but both still need soldiers. And Carrier knows that we are too young for that, hence the reason why we are hiding in Vos.

"We won't, Wind Ray." I say as I pull her into a hug. "No matter what happens I will always look out for you." I could feel Wind Ray nodding her helm but her trembling wings told me otherwise. "Come on, let's hurry back to Carrier." I said but we both let out a terrified shriek when a loud boom came from ahead of us.

Looking down the path, Wind Ray and I saw a huge inferno burning down the houses around where ours was. A bomb must have landed, a misfire by either the Autobots or Decepticons… "White Claw… What about…" Wind Ray said quietly but I didn't need her to finish to know what she was worrying about.

"Carrier!" I shouted as I booked down the trail to our home with Wind Ray right behind me. Jumping over boulders and rubble that had been create from the bomb, I could feel my spark racing with so much worry that I knew it wasn't healthy.

Tripping over something, I fell to the ground with a thud. But I didn't need to get up, for right in front of me was my home… or what was left of it.

Burning with the colors of red, orange, and yellow spilling out of it, my house was nothing more then a crispy shell of its normal self. Everything was melted and falling apart, the roof had caved in and covered up everything that was inside.

Staring up at the sight, I heard Wind Ray finally catch up to me as she let out a shocked gasp. "Carrier!" she shouted and was about to bolt into the flames, but luckily I was fast enough and grabbed her ankle. "Don't be a fool Windy! We can't go into there!" I shouted but she didn't seem to listen as she started to drag me. "But Carrier could be in there! We need to save her!"

"She's dead Wind Ray!" I finally shouted at my idiotic sister. "Nothing could have survived that blast!"

For a while, we were both silent. Wind Ray just stood there with me holding her ankle, and I just stared at the flames. Those flames would later become embedded into my memory for life, all their heat, their destruction, how they took my carrier away from me and my sister.

"Windy?" I finally spoke up, but Wind Ray didn't answer me. She just stared at the little remains of our home, and in a way I knew she was looking back at the last memory we had of Carrier. "Are you alright White Claw?" she finally said as she looked down at me with a cold stare.

"I don't know, I fell pretty badly." I said as I tried to get up but found it impossible by the aching pain in my chest. Bending down, Wind Ray helped me up and placed my arm over her shoulders. "Where do we go from here?" she asked me as we began to walk away from the fire.

"… anywhere." I said as I stared out at the battle field that was Cybertron.

I did not know where we would end up, or if we would live, but I knew one thing…

Wind Ray was all I had left, and the same for me to her.

So we had to protect each other.

How long has it been, I have forgotten. All I know is that the battle for Cybertron still goes strong. Mechs and femmes shoot at each other, trying to see past the gun smoke in hopes it is not their fraction they are shooting. Then there are the ones who don't share a side. The Neutrals, as we have been called, are the ones who try to stay out of the fighting, but many of us have already chosen a side. So far, only a small handful of us are left, including my sister and myself.

Wind Ray has proven to be more mature than I ever thought her to ever be. After Carrier's death, she made a turn from her innocent and sweet femme to one who was bitter and cold. She rarely smiles, always argues with anyone we come in contact with, and never lets anyone near me. I put all that under as being overly protective, but I think part of it is that she also doesn't know what to do if she was alone so she makes sure that it will never happen.

Me on the other servo, I am kind of the same femme. I am more quiet than talkative, I am a better fighter then Wind Ray, and I still protect my family. Wind Ray may think she is being the protective one, but I am as well. Half the time, Wind Ray never even notices the things I am protecting her from. Raiders, random battles, and even from our own kind who I have made a name for themselves as terrible Neutral Camp Destroyers.

We are always on the move, never staying in one spot too long. If we stay too long in one place we have a higher chance of getting captured and forced to fight. Wind Ray told me once that when she went out on an Energon search she came across a whole family being torn apart as some Decepticons took the mechs and shot the femmes dead. So we made sure that we never got spotted by others and if we did we were quick to leave.

"White Claw, come look at this." Wind Ray said as she called me from a window she was at. Getting up from the makeshift bed we made, I walked over to the widow to see a large group of Autobots sneaking through the street. "Haven't seen them for a while." I said as he closed the curtain so that they wouldn't see us. "Well, this area was infested with Decepticons for a while. Honestly, I was hoping we would have the area to ourselves for a bit longer." Wind Ray said as she walked over to the desk we found that had everything we owned on it.

A box of spare parts, a data pad we shared, a energon prod that was half-broken, and our very last energon cube. "Looks like we will need to go look for some more energon." I said as I picked up the cube and swished the contains around inside. "You have it, I had the last one." Wind Ray said as she picked up the data pad and made note of our energon shortage. "No you didn't." I knew Wind Ray so well I knew when she was lying.

"It doesn't matter, you need it more then I do White Claw." Wind Ray said, not even look up at me from the data pad and she was correct. All those years ago, on the night our Carrier was killed, that fall I had done more damage then we first thought. My spark chamber had been punctured, which now made me lose energon faster by the crack in the casing. The energon that leaked out of me usually went into a pocket that Wind Ray and I had fashioned but if it was filled too much it spilled out from my chest plates and it also spilled out whenever I ran too fast.

Not wanting to arguing with my sister, I took a sip of the energon but was stopped when I heard a loud bang. "I got an energon signal from in this building." a voice came from the floor below us. Sharing a glance with Wind ray, we both knew what we had to do. Quickly packing all our things together, Wind Ray and I made our way out of the room and began to race to the roof. Since Wind Ray and I were seekers, our best means of escape was flying off. We got our alt-modes a few years ago when we scanned over a dead mech who was shot down while he was flying.

"The energon signal is on the move." the voice said and the sound of footsteps came at us. "Leave the energon, White Claw." Wind Ray said as we found the stairs and began to climb them. Nodding in agreement, I bent down to leave the cube on a step but stopped when I noticed that my servos were covered in a diluted colored energon. "Not now." I said as I looked at my chest plates and saw that I was leaking energon. "Windy," I said and got her attention. "The pouch has spilled."

Looking at me in worry, Wind Ray bent down and tried to stop the energon from spilling out but couldn't. "It's over filled." She said as she took my servo. "We need to go, now." She said as we began to race up the steps again. Listening closely, I heard the sound of someone on the steps. "Looks like someone left their energon in here." the voice I had heard before said. "but look at this trail, someone is hurt." a new voice said and it made me look down at my chest plates.

The pouch was so filled that it was spilling with every step I took and leaving a trail behind me. "Scrap, Windy I'm leaving a trail." I said but Wind Ray continued on to the roof. "We're almost there." She said and in truth we were. Pushing open the roof door, Wind Ray and I came to see the vast and open area of the once community complex we had been staying in. "Halt!" A voice shouted out. Turning around, both Wind Ray and I saw a mech and femme standing there with their guns pointed at us.

The mech was blue and large build, the femme a blue as well with pink highlights, and both had blue optics. A typical thing to tell a bot from a con but that was what made Wind Ray and I worried. Our optic colors were yellow, a color that both sides had. But where as the bots and cons reprogrammed their optics, our color was natural. "Seekers, which means Decepticons." The mech said as he advanced on me and Wind Ray. "No wonder why they ran away. They had energon with them, so they must know where more is." The femmes said.

"No we don't know!" I shouted as we back up more and more. While we backed up, the mech noticed how I was leaking and raised an optic ridge. "So she's the one who is hurt." he said and that only made Wind Ray smirk at him. "Is that enough for you two to let us go, so she can get help?" Wind Ray said and I had to smack her for saying anything. "Not a chance." The femme said.

"Fine, too bad. I was hoping to leave without making a mess." Wind Ray said as she looked over her shoulder. "Run White Claw!" she shouted as she suddenly raced to the roof's edge. "Stop!" The mech shouted as he and the femme began to shoot at Wind Ray. "Windy, stop before-" but I stopped when I saw what happened next. I never found out who fired the shot, but someone did and it hit the last place I hoped it wouldn't.

The blast hit Windy right on her right wing, putting a large hole in it. But that wasn't the worst part. By the time the blast hit, Windy had jumped over the roof's ledge. Now unable to fly away, Windy began to fall. This building we were on also had over seven floors, no way that she would be able to...

"Wind Ray!" I shouted as I made a move to go over and save her but I was stopped when one of the Autobots slammed me into the ground. "You are not going anywhere." The mech said in a sad tone. "You wouldn't be able to save her anyway." he added as I watched the last bit of my sister fall down and out of my sight. "Wind Ray! Let me go, I need to save my sister!" I shouted from under the mech.

Watching as the femme walked over to the edge of the roof, I let out a spark-breaking cry when I saw the sad and shocked expression on her face. "Windy! You killed my Windy! We did nothing to harm you, we are Neutrals! And you killed her! Wind Ray!" I shouted and it made both the bots pause. I guess they hadn't seen a Neutral seeker in so long that they had just jumped the gun and accused us as Decepticons.

Well... their mistake is my loss.

Wind Ray is now dead.

And I am alone.

Everything after that was in a bit of a haze. I only remember fragments. Things like how the mech picked me up and began to carry me, then we came up on a large building with multiple soldiers coming out of it, and then blackness. I must have fallen into recharge, because the next thing I remember seeing is that I am in a medical room with an energon drip in my arm.

Gazing around the room, I took notice at how I was alone. Well, almost alone. Off in a corner sat a mech I hadn't seen before. He was in recharge as well and was snoring loudly. His color scheme was orange and white and he had the medic symbol on his arms. Sitting up a bit, I saw that the energon that had spilled out from the pouch and onto my chest had been cleaned.

Continuing to stare at the medic, I wondered how long I had been here. Swinging my legs over the berth, I was about to jump off but was stopped when a voice spoke out. "Don't even think of get up."

Looking back over at the medic, I saw that he was now wide awake and come right towards me. "I just fixed you up. You had plenty of damage to your body." When he finally came over to the berth, I back away a bit. I didn't know what he would do to me, so my guard was up.

"So my guess on that you lived alone for a while was correct." The medic said as he lowered his servos that had been coming at me. "I wasn't alone. I had my sister with me." I said but then it dawned on me that Wind Ray was gone. She was killed. So I was actually alone now. I had no one, no family, no home, and no reason to keep on fighting.

"Oh yes, I was told about her. I am sorry." ignoring the medic, I stared down at the floor for the longest time before he spoke again. "What is your name?" the medic asked me. "White Claw." I answered. "Very original, I guess your creators gave you that name for your servos?"

Looking down at my servos, I saw them as they always looked like. No matter how dirty they got they somehow managed to stay white, and my digits were longer then any normal ones. Seeker claws are meant to be long but mine are far longer and sharper then most.

"I guess. What about you, what's you name?" I asked as I looked up at the medic. "Ratchet, and you may call me nothing else." he said as he gave me a scan over. "You're spark chamber has been damaged, very badly too. Why did you never search for someone to fix that?" Ratchet asked.

"My sister and I don't trust people easily." I answered. "Both sides in this war have destroyed Cybertron, why would we let them touch us?" I said and it made Ratchet look at me with great anger. "You do know that the Autobots are trying to stop this war?" Ratchet asked me and I shrugged my shoulders.

"I see no difference. Autobots and Decepticons are the reason I have no family." I said as I looked away from Ratchet, trying not to think of my sister and Carrier. Thinking of them would only make things worse.

"I am sorry to hear that." A new voice spoke up. Looking over at the door to the room, I was met with the optics of a mech who was blue and red. He was very tall, towering even over my height. Walking over to me, this new mech offered me a smile but I did not return it.

"I over heard your name is White Claw?" the mech said and I nodded. "It is very nice to meet you then White Claw, I am Optimus Prime." At hearing this name I nearly choked on nothing from the shock. Even if he was an Autobot, being in the presence of a Prime is something I never would have thought I would be doing.

"I see you have heard of me." Optimus said with a smile and I nodded. "It's hard not to hear of you. I mean, you are the last Prime and lead the Autobots." I said and Optimus nodded. "She's a Neutral," Ratchet said. "If that isn't obvious."

"Something wrong with Neutrals?" I asked, glaring at the medic. "No," Optimus intervened. "It just has been a long time since we have met and seen a Neutral. Most have already joined a side."

"Well I didn't. I want no part in this war." I said and Optimus nodded. "I see. I was hoping you would reconsider." Looking at him with confusion, I watched as Optimus placed his servo on my shoulder. "We would like to offer you a place here with the Autobots. You will be given energon, lodging, and medical care." Optimus said.

"What's the catch, cause nothing in this world is for free." I said and Ratchet sneered at me. "Our air support team has been depleting over the years. We are now down to only have one strike team." Ratchet said. "And if you would be willing to join-"

"No." I interrupted the Prime.

"What? You would rather live out on the streets, starving to death, and falling apart?" Ratchet shouted at me and I nodded. "I said it before, I want no part in this war. I will be on no side, I am a Neutral." The look on Optimus face was shock and sadness as he looked down at me. "Maybe we can work out something." he said.

Shaking my helm, I looked back up at him. "Nothing will change my mind." I said as I pushed his arm off me... little did I know I put too much strength in it. When my servo touched Optimus' arm, my claws scratched it so bad that it cut into him, enough to draw energon.

"I am so sorry!" I shouted but that didn't stop the shocked gasp from Ratchet and the groan of pain from Optimus. The next thing I know is that that two other mechs come running into the room with weapons drawn. "Prime's been hurt!" One of them shouted and was all it took for the gun fire to start.

All the shots were directed at me, so I did the only thing to make sure I wasn't hit. Jumping off the berth, I landed on one of the mechs who was shooting at me and used him as momentum to zoom through the door. Seeing that no one else was around, I bolted down the hallway.

For a while, I just ran. I ran anyway I could find and I would pass a few bots but they only stared at or completely ignored me. So far, I couldn't find a way out of here but that soon was the least of my worries when the alarms started blaring.

Now running even fast, I soon came across a door. Not even caring where it led to, I ran inside. Lucky for me the room was empty but was filled with small airships. Looking around the room, I spotted a window. Walking towards it, I peered outside to see the somewhat still standing city of Iacon.

"So this is what it looks like. The city of science, the land of prosperity, such a sad sight." I said to myself as I walked away from the window to one of the ships. Maybe I could use one of these to make my escape. And having a ship during these times would be useful.

"Freeze!" Turning around, I saw a group of bots with their weapons at the ready. And with them was Optimus Prime. "White Claw, please calm down and come with us." Optimus said but I shook my helm. "If this how I will be treated here, I think I will better my chances on my own." I said as I opened the ship's door and began to walk inside.

"... Let her go." Optimus said suddenly, and much to the surprise of everyone in the room. "Prime?" one of the mechs said. "Just let her go." That was all he said and he said nothing more as I walked into the ship and the doors closed behind me. Not even giving the Prime a second glance, I walked to the ships control seat and started it up.

Once the ship was ready, I shot it out of Iacon and into the air. I had no idea where I wanted to go, but I knew it wasn't there. Continuing to fly higher and higher, I soon found myself in the cold and darkness of space. Looking out into the vastness of it all, I came to a stupid decision.

I would wander this space for the rest of my days. Never stopping, never returning to Cybertron, and never looking back at what had happened to my family.

I didn't care if I died while out here, I had nothing else to live for and loose.

Little did I know that by taking this path,

I was making the biggest and most important change my life would ever have.