"Hush now. It's alright," The violet armored femme cooed at the bundle in her arms. Her blue optics shining light over the sparkling's light red armor. "I got you." She leaned to look around a building. She gasped and backed up out of the view of her captors.

"I could have sworn she went this way," She heard one of them say. She pressed her back against the wall of the human building. "We need to find her. Especially that little brat that Lord Megatron calls a heir." She pressed the sparkling closer to her green and purple chasis as the shark-type predawn stepped beside her. His head turned side to side before his gaze fell on her fearful optics. His sharp toothed grin made her leap to her pedes and attempt to flee.

"Where do you think you're going?" The toad-like predacon asked as he grabbed her by her upper arm.

"Oh, uh. Sky-Byte, Slapper," She mumbled, absolute terror filling every circuit in her body. The sparkling gave a small whimper, which attracted the attention of the two Predacons. "L-l-look, I-i-i- Just…"

"You don't have anywhere to go, Crossfire. Now how about you and Particle just come with us," Slapper stated, before lasers fired and hit the ground next to them. Particle started to wail in fear as Crossfire threw herself into the brand new hole in the building's wall. She rubbed her right hand over the sparkling's back and pressed herself against the farthest wall. While she listened to the sounds of the battle outside of her hiding spot.

'The Autobots?' She thought as she watched the light blue Spychanger stop Darkscream from entering the building. He stepped backwards into the building as two others stepped in front of him, offering cover as the blue one switched his visored gaze to the cowering femme and sparkling just a few feet away. She tensed as he stepped forward.

"Easy," He consoled softly with his hand held up in a nonthreatening manner. "I'm not going to hurt you." He took another step forward and sighed internally as the femme seemed to relax a little bit.

"Autobot?" She whispered. Her gaze locked onto the autobot symbol on his chest plate. The autobot waited until she moved closer before he finished the rest of the distance between them and knelt beside her. She felt so overcome with emotion. She might finally be able to get out of Megatron's clutches.

"My designation is Crosswise. I'm here to help you and your spar-" Crosswise was cut off by Crossfire pressing herself and Particle against him. Her left arm wrapping around his neck. She hung on as tightly as she could while the explosions continued on.

"Thank you," She whispered, repeating herself over and over. Tears sipped from her optics and down her metal gun-grey cheek plates as she slipped into an exhausted recharge. Crosswise grabbed Particle as he slipped from his carrier's arms.

"The predacons have retreated," Crosswise's leader's voice rang through the empty building. Crosswise turned his head to see his teammates standing around him.

Hotshot moved closer to look over the two filthy cybertronians. His visor flashed angrily as he noticed the marks on the sparkling's fragile armor. "We need to get them to the base," He stated as he picked the tiny femme up into his arms. He frowned behind his face mask as he felt how light she was. Then, he turned towards his team. "Crosswise, carry the sparkling. We're going to walk to the base. The rest of you cover us."

"Yes, sir." The Spychangers chorused while they moved towards Their leader and teammate. Mirage and Ironhide stood beside Crosswise. Ironhide smiled and wiggled his fingers in front of Particle's faceplates. Particle giggled and gripped the bigger bot's yellow wrist. He looked at the wiggling objects, then decided that they looked safe enough and stuck them in his mouth. He garbled angrily when Ironhide took them back with chuckle and a pat on the sparkling's helm. After the sparkling settled, they started on their way to the base.