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Summery: (G1) After having Sunstreaker and Sideswipe accidentally land on top of Prowl after a miss attempt of doing their Jet Judo no one knew how that really affected Prowl from the inside. But when Prowl started to not show up for meetings one day, it is his bonded brother, Jazz, to discover the reason.

Parings:
Jazz and Prowl (like a brotherly bond even though they don't share the same creators) – Sometimes is bond makes others believe their bond is on a mate level when clearly it's not

blah – thinking
'blah' – Comm. Specking

Always There
by Yami-Yugi

Prologue

Bonded. In Cybertronian culture the word had many meanings. One main and more common one was one to bond with a mate, to created sparklings. Another one was a brothers bond, this one was not as common cause there weren't many Cybertronians who had a brother. The brothers bond also has some characteristics as the bond between mates and it depends on the brothers who have the bond on those characteristics. There is this one special brothers bond what ones don't have to be real brothers to have this. This could happen if one spark desperately needs part of another to live, bonding the spark and the one who gave a piece of their spark for the other.

Chapter 1

It was an all out war once again against the Decepticons. All the Autobots were doing their part to fight them off. Suddenly the twins were shot out of the sky. They where TRYING to do their Jet Judo on Thundercraker. "PRIMUS!" Sideswipe shouted as he and his twin free fall "WE'RE GOING TO BE SQUISH BY THE GROUND SUNNY!"

CLANG! "That's was a soft landing." said Sunstreaker.

"...Primus...can you two...get...OFF ME!" They looked down and were shock to see they were ON TOP of Prowl.

"Primus! Prowl! We're SOOO sorry!" Sideswipe said as he and his brother clamber off the 2IC.

They helped him up. "We really are..." Prowl glared at them. "Thanks for the catch sir anyways." added Sunstreaker with a smile "I hated to think what would happen when my body got ding up by rocks." Prowl sighed.

"...Get back to front lines you two..." he ordered. They almost jumped to obey.

Once the battle was over and everyone got back to the base, Prowl headed over to the Med bay. When the twins LANDED on top of him, he wanted to make sure nothing got damage. When he arrived at the Medical Bay Ratchet was busy with the days battle wounds on some of the other members of the group. Maybe I should come back later. he thought as he turned and headed the other way. He felt a small pain but it went away quickly. Must just be sore from those dang trouble makers... He just shrugged and decided a rest would be better. Nothing seemed to be too messed up from the fall. With that Prowl headed off towards his quarters.

When he got there, he lay down in his recharge bed and tried to fall asleep. He did fall right to sleep, but he was woken up VERY early in the morning by that same small sharp pain in his chest. Primus...maybe I should see Ratchet... Prowl tried to get up from his recharge bed. The pain hurt more for a bit. Primus... It soon went away enough for him to get checked out. He slowly got up and went to go see Ratchet. I hope he's awake...

He got to the Medical Bay and knocked on the door. "...Ratchet? You awake?"

There was some grumbling as said Autobot answered the door. Ratchet was a bit surprise to see Prowl standing there. "Prowl do you know what time it is?" he asked.

"...Yes...I meant to come see you earlier but you were busy. I need to see you. Something's wrong."

Ratchet looked at him a bit confused. "What you mean something is wrong?" At that moment, the small sharp pain came again. It lasted a bit longer and caused him to be short of breath. Ratchet looked worried.

"See what I mean?"

"Yeah, come on inside and let me have a look." Ratchet sighed as he checked him. "How did you manage to dent your spark compartment like this?"

"Not sure. I say it was the twins when they landed on me yesterday."

"Landed on you?" Prowl nodded.

"They tried to Jet Judo Thundercracker, but they were shot out of the sky. They accidentally landed on me. From very high up mind you." Prowl added.

"That would be how. You're lucky it didn't cause any serious internal damage," Ratchet said as he carefully repaired the inside of the compartment.

"Yeah...that wouldn't be good."

Ratchet nodded. "Alright, you should be fine now. I wish you would have come to me sooner."

"Thanks Ratchet. Sorry to wake you."

"I'd rather be woken up then deal with a dead or dying Autobot." Prowl nods. "Go back to bed and get a few more hours sleep."

"Yeah. Goodnight Ratchet."

"Goodnight Prowl." Ratchet watched as Prowl left to head back to his quarters.

The next morning, Prowl woke up just fine. He sighed in relief. He pushed away what happened last night and went on with his duties. Well good thing I came to Ratchet when I did. He headed to the Rec Room to get a cup of energon to start off the day.

He notices a couple of Autobots in the room. "Morning Prowl!" greeted Hound.

"Good morning, Hound." He greeted the few others and they shared good mornings as well.

"See you at our meeting," Jazz smiled as he left the room.

"See you at the meeting," Prowl nodded as he waved goodbye to Jazz. Prowl then head over to get his morning energon. He prepared a cup from his supply. He smiled and was just about to drink it, when the pain came again. It was very bad this time. It was so bad, that he dropped the cup, shattering it on the floor. He gripped his chest where his spark compartment was and collapsed to his knees. Greatfuly there was some Autobots still in the room.

"Prowl!" cried Ratchet as he put down his morning cup of energon and rushed to him. Prowl wince in pain as he tried to move.

"...M-maybe...it...did more damage...than...we thought..." he said, trying to pull himself up to his feet.

"Maybe you should rest in your quarters?"

"Maybe..." Ratchet helped him up and led him away. The Autobots that was in the Rec Room looked at each other worriedly.

"Everyone, worry about yourselves," Ratchet said as he noticed some wanting to follow. With that Ratchet left with Prowl towards the SIC's quarters.

Once at Prowl's room, Ratchet helped him into his recharge bed. But just as Prowl lied down, his chest hurt again and he became short of breath again. "...R-Ratchet..."

"There must be something I overlooked. This is worse than we thought. Try to rest while I get things from my office." Prowl nods weakly. Primus, hang on! At that moment something got worse as Prowl felt some of his systems going into stasis lock.

"W-wh-what...in...?"

During this, Jazz was wondering why Prowl hadn't shown up. His spark soon answered with a very bad feeling. Something wasn't right with his friend. "Jazz?" Optimus started when he saw the look on the Jazz's face.

"I've got this feelin'... somethin's wrong with Prowl." Optimus looked confused as Jazz suddenly raced out of the room. He calmly got up and followed. Jazz ran until he got to Prowl's room. "Prowl? Are you okay, man?" Very dull optics just looked at him. "You don't look so good, buddy. You look like you caught the twins doin' somethin' nasty bad." At that moment Ratchet came back in.

"Jazz?"

"Is he gonna be okay, doc?" he asked worriedly. "I felt somethin' wrong, especially when he was late for our meeting."

"I don't know. Let me see." He came over to Prowl and thoroughly checked him over. During this time Optimus appeared in the door way and he wasn't alone. Almost half the Ark's crew was behind him. Optimus didn't walk to the living quarters for no reason, not to mention some of them had spread word on this morning's happenings.

"Ratchet?" Optimus asked confused "What's going on?"

"I'm trying to figure that out. Get these people away from the room!" he growled. Optimus pushed the crowd a few feet away.

There was a huge crowd crowded around the entrance to Prowl's quarters when Bumblebee and Spike came up. "I wonder why everyone is over here?" Spike wonder as he looked up at Bumblebee.

"I don't know. But I know pretty soon Prowl will come out and drive everyone away." That's when they notice Optimus was in with the crowd. Bumblebee and Spike looked at each other before carefully making their way through the crowd to where Optimus stood in front of the crowd. That's when they notice the door to Prowl's quarters was wide open and inside they could only see some of Prowl cause the rest of Prowl's body was blocked by Ratchet and Jazz that was in the room as well. "Optimus..." Bumblebee started as he looked up their leader "What's going on?"

Optimus sighed as he slowly looked down at Bumblebee. "We're not quite sure." he said "Prowl didn't show up for a meeting and Jazz... Well Jazz got this feeling something was wrong..."

"Jazz, stay with him, I'll be right back." they heard Ratchet said.

Just as Ratchet turns and headed to where the crowd stood outside that's when Bumblebee and Spike finally could see the rest of Prowl. The SIC was laid prone on his recharge bed, his optics at half strength. Jazz could be seen holding onto one of Prowl's hands talking softly to him, too softly to know what he was saying. But the look on the saboteur's face showed Jazz was very worried and a little scared. "Well Ratchet?" Optimus asked once the CMO stood in the door way "What's wrong?"

"Not very sure. He's physically fine on the outside but..." Ratchet begin "I need to get something from medical. The problem could be internal."

Optimus nods. "Get on with it." he said. He then turns to the crowd of Autobots behind him. "Everyone, get back to your duties." he commanded. A moan of disappointment and worry came from the crowd. "I promise I'll tell let you all know as soon as Ratchet knows." he said. With that said the crowd started to part.

Ratchet notice Bumblebee and Spike. "Why don't you two go and help Jazz?" he suggested to them before it was just Bumblebee and Spike where the only ones standing outside of the door.

The two looked at each other again before slowly heading in side Prowl's room. As they got near, they could finally hear what Jazz was saying. "Hold on Prowl, Ratchet will find out what's wrong. Everything is going to be okay."

One could hear the SIC was having trouble with his air intakes for it sounded very uneven for a normal mech. "Jazz...?" Bumblebee started.

It took that moment for Jazz to realize Bumblebee and Spike was in the room. He slowly turned to look at them. "Oh, hey you two." he said, trying to smile and act like he usually do but one could tell he was still very worried.

"Is Prowl okay?" Bumblebee asked. He was beginning to worry too. Spike looked concerned.

"B-ee..." Prowl spoke weakly.

"Save yer energy Prowl." Jazz said. He slowly reached out to Bumblebee weakly. Worried blue optics looked back at him. Ratchet rushed in, carrying the device he needed.

"Bee get out of the way please." Ratchet asked as nicely as he could. It took him a moment, but he moved. Soon Ratchet was back at work trying to figure out what was going on with Prowl. "Primus! No wonder! Everyone out!"

"Ratchet? What's wrong man?" Jazz asked.

"I said everyone out! Everyone leave, except you Jazz."

"Ahhh...okay."

"Come on Bee." said Spike. Bumblebee sighed in worry, but did as told.

Once Bumblebee and Spike left, Jazz looked at Ratchet a bit worried. "Ratchet? What's wrong?" he asked again.

"Prowl's spark is too weak to support him anymore. Half of his systems are in stasis lock." Ratchet sighed heavily. "He's...he's going into what human's call 'Cardiac Arrest'. His spark can't support his systems. The damage to his spark compartment from the twins the other day helped. It greatly weakened his spark because the compartment is so delicate. The damage affected the spark's energy pulse."

Jazz looked shock. "Ya got to do something man!"

"That's just it, I can't! Even if I were to take his systems out of lock, they would just go right back into it."

"There's gotta be something!"

"There is only one thing that can. That's why I kept you here. Close the door."

"Okay..." Jazz said still a bit confused as he went over and closed said door "Now what?"

Prowl "coughed" horribly and took more shallow breaths. "You have to Spark Share with him."

"I what?"

"Not to create a sparkling. This is slightly different. How do I explain this... It's what the humans would call an organ transplant. You have to give him part of your spark or he'll die."

Jazz looked shock. "But why me?"

"Because you are the closest to him. You two are good friends aren't you? The only other person that would willingly do it is probably me, but I can't. For one, I'm too old, and two, I don't want to if I don't have to."

Jazz slowly looked over at Prowl for a sec. "Okay, I'll do it man." he said.

"Alright." Ratchet turned away and walked a few feet away to give them privacy.

"Soo...how am I supposed to do this Ratch?"

"Just as you normally would with a femme."

"Okay Ratch if ya say so." Jazz said. He slowly came near Prowl. Prowl weakly looked up at him with very dim optics. "Prowl old buddy," Jazz started "I hope this will work." He sighed and opened his compartment. He took a piece of his spark into his hands. He closed his eyes, praying to Primus it worked as he carefully put the piece in Prowl's compartment. The piece of his spark met Prowl's and they pulsed as they fused together into one. Prowl's optics became bright again and his systems slowly unlocked.

"J-Jazz?"

"Thank Primus! Literally."

"...J-Jazz...I can feel you...feel your spark in mine."

"Yeah... It was all we can do to help ya."

"It worked. That's a relief," Ratchet sighed. Prowl slowly and carefully tried to sit up.

"So...you're spark...IS in mine?" Jazz and Ratchet nodded. "Th-then...then that makes...us...Brothers."

Jazz laughed a bit. "I guess it does." he said. Prowl smiled. He was able to sit up, but was too weak to sit up for very long. Jazz help him to lie down. "Maybe ya shouldn't try that."

Prowl nodded. "Yeah... I think I'll rest awhile first."

"Alright, my work here is done. Jazz, if you want you can stay. Get some rest, Prowl," Ratchet said as he cleaned everything up and walked out.

Jazz watched as Prowl went back into recharge. He smiled a bit to see his new "brother" sleeping. Don't worry me like that again...brother. Jazz smiled at the thought as he left the room to let Prowl rest.