A/N: Hiya everyone this is a story I just came up with lol. I don't know if I should try make it a longer story...we will see how it turns out in my head ^^ the T rating might go up in the future if I continue this. Hope you like this story. Don't forget to R&R!! ;D

Disclaimer: I DON'T OWN ANYTHING! unfortunate but true =/

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At Diego Garcia, Island

Ironhide was walking towards the fire range to get some time to pass while Will was inside the base to attend some meeting with his fellow soldiers.

Ever since the Fallen had been destroyed the human leaders had had many meetings with Will and his soldiers to squeeze as much information as they could get out of them.

In other words...boring as hell.

Ironhide was very happy that he didn't have to attend but just sitting outside would have been extremely boring so he went to the firing range.

As usual he hit everything even though it was a huge overkill on close to everything he shot at. `if they aren't dead after the first hit they at least will not be able to fire back´

He aimed at the target that was on the other end of the range towards the beach and the sea.

He was just about to fire when his com interrupted.

"Ironhide where are you? I'm finished with the meeting and now waiting for your lazy ass to get back here so that we can go back home."

"I'll be there as soon as I have finished with my target practice."

"And how many targets do you have to shoot untill you have `finished´? Huh?"

"...20?"

"Oh no Ironhide I wont wait for you THAT long. You can shoot ONE more and then finish."

"10?"

"...Hide..."

"5?"

"...allright 5 but see to it that you hurry I don't want to stand here incase one of these generals comes out and wants to `talk´ to me and try to get more information."

Ironhide grumbled and send a datastream to the computer that took care of the targets at the fire range and made it put up 5 targets along the beach.

"Stupid human *bang!* he think he can tell me what to do *bang!* He's worse then Ratchet *bang!* when he is in one of his `dominant´ moods *bang!*"

Ironhide stoped shooting the targets at the thought of a dominant Ratchet.

Now THAT is ALWAYS interesting to watch...I wonder if he is the same in berth.

"Hide I don't know what you are doing but I know that I heard only 4 shoots...don't hold off on the last one just shoot it and we will be on our way."

Ironhide grumbled. `Damn small Island´

He took his aim and carefully watched the target as it was moving back and forth by the wind...`hold on a nanoclick...these targets are made out of iron and some other kind of hard moving stuff...they can't move by the wind.´

Ironhide dissabled his cannons and zoomed in on the target.

There was something stuck to it's foot.

His optics grew wide as he finaly got his focus right.

`It's a protoform!´

He ran as fast as he could while comming Ratchet.

"Ratchet! We got an emergency! I've found a protoform at one of the targets along the beach."

"I'm comming right away Ironhide."

Ironhide slowed down as he got closer to the protoform.

It was a femme.

The last femmes any of the autobots on earth had seen had been the Arcee triplets but they were terminated during the war against the fallen and the decepticons. The blow one of them had gotten while trying to save Samuel Witwicky had terminated the poor thing and soona fter the other two had followed. As most bonded cybertronians do.

But here was another one...a much bigger one. She seemed to be very tall for a femme, and she seemed to be exhausted. Lying there in the sand with both hands around the target's foot as if her life depended on it.

Ironhide moved over to her side trying to help her, but the moment he was close enough to touch her, she laid her unfocused optics on him and screamed.

It was the most terriffying scream Ironhide had ever heard, it was the scream from someone that had seen too much terror to remember anything good. And she was screaming like that because of him.

He backed away while shutting down his audioreceptors trying to shut out the scream but even though he couldn't hear it anymore he could feel the vibrations it cause on his armour, insides....everywhere.

It made a shill run through his systems.

The femme saw the huge mech that was towering her, move away as she screamed terrified, while trying to pull herself up from her lying position, by the help of the firing target's foot. She tried and tried desperatly to get up so that she could try to run away, but everytime she thought she would make it she slipped on the sand.

She was so occupied withb trying to flee that she didn't realize that her already damaged and drained body had offlined her vocal emmitters so that her screams no longer could be heard.

She saw more mechs comming and one of them was even bigger then the one who had found her first. She saw them comming closer and closer as they were watching both the other mech that had been here earlier and herself.

Ratchet slowed down and started to walk slowly together with Optimus who was watching the terrified femme on the beach. She wasn't looking at him but her whole frame was shaking and he had heard her scream. Then she looked up at him and he saw the true horror in her optics, horror and panic. He couldn't imagine what the femme must have been through to feel like this at seeing Ironhide, Ratchet and himself.

Ratchet stopped Optimus with a hand infront of him signaling for him to stay as he gave the same signal to Ironhide, who just had noticed that the femme had stopped shouting and put his audioreceptors online again.

Ratchet inched closer to the scared femme seeing her desperate struggle to get up, to flee.

And at that moment she succeeded. She got up, gained some footing and tried to run away, but the faint hope that she felt when she got up on her feet went off when she fell down to the ground again, in stasis lock.

To be continue?

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