Ok, first thing's first, the disclaimer.

Disclaimer: I do not own the Transformers or the humans nor do I make money for writing this.

I only own Eclipse and Sidestep.

So, this fic is mostly for my sister who… blames me for getting her into the Transformers fandom… and this pairing. I will admit that I will take responsibility for getting her into the fandom with my rattling but I did not force her to read the fics. And I refuse to take responsibility for getting her into 'sticky'

Now that the rant is done, I hope you like this fic my baka nee-kun and Merry Christmas.

Main Pairings: Ratchet x Sideswipe x Sunstreaker

Pairings mention: Jazz x Prowl, Hound x Mirage, Red Alert x Inferno, Sideswipe x oc, Tracks x Swoop

M for language, some violence and sticky.

Chapter 1

Eclipse snarled as she twisted to fire at the Decepticons chasing after her. She silently gasped as she felt a laser lance her side. She took a staggering step back before removing a frag grenade attached her shoulder armor, twisted the upper half of the grenade until it beeped and tossed it at the Decepticons as hard as she could muster.

The femme heard the grenade explode followed by a few screams of pain, a feral smirk appeared on her face as she turned and hobbled off before her enemies gathered their strength and went after her again.

Eclipse hissed as she pressed a hand to her side, she could feel her energon over her hand and down her leg, and knew that the Decepticons would follow the trail she was leaving behind her. But she knew the risk she took going out on her own, let alone sneaking into a Decepticon base without a team or backup, but it was a risk she had always taken when she needed the energon.

"If only that slagging Decepticon started his rounds a breem later." She murmured.

Eclipse leaned against a broken wall for a short break and cursed herself for not getting out the base sooner, if she had, then she wouldn't be wounded and likely to be killed or captured once the Decepticons caught up to her. Shaking her head, Eclipse pushed away from the wall and continued her trek. She stopped shortly and clenched her denture plates tight as pain raced through her chassis, and despite her pride, she knew that she wouldn't be able to get where she was heading without help.

She turned on her comm. link, hoping an Autobot team was nearby to help, sighing in relief when she heard a crackle on the end and was about to speak when pain puncture her right shoulder. Eclipse stumbled forward and looking over her uninjured shoulder and caught glances of her pursuers. She turned her comm. link off and ran again and as she did she hoped someone would get a good idea where her comm. link frequency was coming from.

Jazz watched as his teammates loaded energon onto Ultra Magnus's trailer. He turned to Springer and asked, "How are things going on here?"

"Same as ever." Springer answered. "How's everyone on Earth?"

Jazz smirked. "Same as usual. Some hate it there because of the nature, music and the humans. Some love it for the nature, music, humans you name it and the Decepticons are still being a pain in the aft." He began telling them one of the Decepticons' schemes they tried to pull off recently eliciting laughter amongst the platoon. As Jazz finished telling them how the Decepticons' attempted to destroy the Earth-bound Autobots was again thwarted thanks to their human friends' brave action, Kup had finished loading the last energon cube onto the trailer.

"That should last us and the femmes a little bit longer. Be sure to tell Prime we appreciate these." Kup told Jazz.

"I will." Jazz promised smiling at the old bot.

The Saboteur turned towards the space bridge the Decepticons had built when his comm. link crackled to life and shortly died. With a frown, he turned to the other mechs and asked, "Did ya'll hear that?"

They nodded and Kup turned towards the possible source. "It came from there."

"You think it was an Autobot?" Hot Rod inquired.

"If it was, why did they cut the connection quickly?" Springer asked.

"Blurr, scout ahead and come back to report." Ultra Magnus ordered.

Blurr ran off and ran back three breems later, an alarm look in his optics. "." He reported.

"Was she an Autobot or a neutral?" Ultra Magnus asked.

"Ididn'tgetagoodlook." Blurr answered.

"Let's go help her." Hot Rod declared.

"Hot Rod. Springer. Stay here and watch the energon." Ultra Magnus told his friends.

"Yes sir." Springer replied as he saluted and Hot Rod nodded begrudgingly. Jazz, Kup and Ultra Magnus transformed and followed after Blurr.

Eclipse dodge shots and ran around crumbling walls that were once grand and beautiful buildings, her processor chanted for her to stop running this way or they will follow her to her hideout but she ignored her processor. 'So close, I'm so close.' She thought to herself.

A piece of metal hit the back of her knee joint and she fell to her knees with a startle yelp, quickly she shot back up to her pedes and pivoted to face her hunters with bared denture plates. The Decepticons stopped with their weapons pointed at her and Eclipse's snarl turned into a smirk as she stared at the damage her frag grenade caused.

The Decepticons weren't pleased at her defiance and one said, "We have you now fembot. You can't escape now."

"Escape? I thought we were playing a game of 'chase.'" She said trying to be humorous.

The Decepticons quickly ignored her and conversed amongst themselves while one kept his optics on her.

"Should we just kill her?"

"No, we should bring her back for Shockwave to extract information from."

Eclipse turned her head slightly to the right as if checking her wounded shoulder. She didn't like the idea of being captured, she knew she would never betray the Autobots and she wasn't afraid of dying, her spark would join the Matrix. Taking a quick peek behind her she calculated the distance she was from a destroyed building, and she made a stupid gamble that could end her life.

Shifting her feet apart, she whipped her gun up and fired at the Decepticon watching her.

"Look ou-" he went down.

Eclipse knew the Decepticons would react quickly to her firing, but she hoped they wouldn't. She prayed to Primus for help but it seemed that Primus wasn't listening to her prayer when her gun stopped working.

Time seemed to slow as she looked up with wide optics as the Decepticons fired at her, knowing she could easily dodge the shots perhaps take a hit or two, but she didn't move and three shots pierced her chassis and pitched her back.

The Decepticons took a step forward and stumbled back as a couple shots hit the ground in front of them. They looked up to see four Autobots perched on some rubble.

"Autobot scum." One Decepticon snarled and fired at them.

The Autobots easily dodge the attack and returned in kind.

As both factions fired at each other, one of the Decepticons knew that they were outnumbered four to three and screamed. "Retreat!" the other two obeyed the order as they helped their injured friend up and ran off.

Once they were sure the Decepticons weren't coming back, still cautious, Ultra Magnus, Kup and Blurr kept their optics and audios open as Jazz went to check on the femme.

Jazz frown as he watched Eclipse drag herself, in fierce determination to get where she wanted to go even with her injuries hindering her. Eclipse gritted her denture plates, aware of the others; she ignored them and tried to drag herself onto her feet with shaky hands. Jazz watched the fembot's effort and ran towards her as she flopped back to the ground, kneeling next to her; he rolled her over and held her in his arms.

He could see her optics dim as she focused her attention on him and smiled weakly. "Autobot…"

"Her wounds don't look good." Kup said solemn as he kneeled next to Jazz and glance at her neck and chest wounds.

Eclipse tried to speak but a shudder wan over her chassis. She knew she didn't have long to live and she was sure the three mechs knew too. Summoning the last of her strength, she removed the datapad from subspace and held it shakily to Jazz. "P-please give this to Sideswipe."

"How do you know Sideswipe?" Jazz asked.

"Please." She pleaded.

With a frown, Jazz took the datapad out of Eclipse's hand. Her hand fell to her side and the lights in her optics dim, faded and came back online. Focusing her attention back onto Jazz she said, "Please tell S-Sides… I'm sorry I w-won't be here for him anymore."

Jazz wanted to ask her what she meant when the light in her optics died out and the color in her armor became dull.

The three Autobots bowed their heads to mourn a fellow Autobot's death.

A loud clatter caught their attention. Jazz noticed a hole that hadn't been among the rubble moments before, he nodded his head at the hole and both Kup and Ultra Magnus nodded back reading their weapons.

Jazz laid Eclipse's chassis onto the ground and with careful stealth, crawled towards the hole aware of his friends being watchful. He peered into the hole and what he found startled him.

Sideswipe sat grimly at a table with his arms crossed tightly over his chest plate and glared at the half consumed energon cube. He could still hear Ratchet's heated lecture ringing in his audios but what he couldn't believe was that Optimus Prime agreed to Prowl's suggestion to separate him from Sunstreaker for two weeks by sending him with Hoist to New York.

Sideswipe blew air out his vents in a sigh as he picked up his cube and took a mouthful of the purple liquid and slowly swallow as he watch Hound limp into the rec. room. He honestly didn't mean for Hound to get hurt from the prank, not to mention to feel Sunstreaker's contempt when he found out he was being punished for something he didn't help him with. That was why Sideswipe put up a block over his link between him and his brother, but Sideswipe was getting bored without his brother around.

'At least he'll be back in two days.' He thought.

"Sideswipe. Come to my office." Prowl's voice cackled over his comm. link. Sideswipe frown and wondered what Prowl wanted, sighing again, he finished his energon and walked towards Prowl's office.

Sideswipe slipped into Prowl's office and asked. "You wanted to see me?"

Prowl placed the datapad he was reading to the side, folded his hands onto his desk and turned his attention to Sideswipe. "Please sit." Prowl indicated to a chair in front of his desk. Sideswipe inched closer but didn't sit down but chose to stand in case he needed to bolt.

Sideswipe watch Prowl study him and began to speak in a soft neutral tone he knew meant something bad must've happen. "Do you know a femme name Eclipse?"

That was a name Sideswipe hadn't heard in a long time but hadn't forgotten as an image of a femme with black stripes gracing her blue frame conjured from his memory bank. He could never forget the cocky smirk she always wore.

"Yeah, I know Eclipse. She's tough, rowdy and cocky with the vocabulary of an irate soldier. She acted more like a mech but she could be sweet and gentle when she wanted to be."

"And what was she to you?"

Sideswipe frown. "She was my friend… sort of. We were good friends and she had this love-hate thing going with Sunny and they usually got into heated insult matches with each other that half the time turned into fights if I wasn't around to stop them."

"When was the last time you saw her?"

Sideswipe suppressed a growl and said, "I saw her a few days before we left Cybertron." And asked a question of his own, "Why are you asking me about Eclipse?"

Prowl continue to study Sideswipe a bit more and answered. "Jazz informed me that Eclipse died two hours ago."

Sideswipe wasn't aware of sitting down nor remembered doing it as he stared at Prowl's desk and didn't hear anything Prowl said after "…..was chased by four Decepticons." The red Lamborghini offline his optics and ground his denture plates in despair and anger. 'Four Decepticons? Four Decepticons killed Eclipse? No, not possible. She was tough. She could've easily beaten them or elude them… she's done that before…'

"Sideswipe?"

Sideswipe onlined his optics and glared at Prowl.

Prowl look at the other mech sympathetically and said. "I'm sorry for your loss."

Sideswipe nodded numbly, he was really glad he blocked his link to his twin.

Prowl became serious once again. "If it helps, she left you… something."

Sideswipe perked up curious. "Eclipse left something for me?"

Prowl nodded.

"Where is it?"

"Follow me." Prowl said as he got up. Sideswipe stood up and fell instep behind the SIC, he frowned as Prowl stepped into the med bay.

"Why are we here?" he asked nervously.

"Your surprise is in here." Prowl replied.

Sideswipe sighed and crossed into his and his brother's crush's territory. The first thing he heard was Optimus Prime's amused deep chuckle followed by Ratchet's growl. "You may find this amusing Prime, but I can't do any work like this."

Sideswipe heard Jazz laugh at Ratchet's growl, he stopped and stared at Optimus who was staring at Ratchet amused. He then turned to Ratchet as he placed a hand on his hip armor and grumbled and finally shuttered his optics at Jazz as he made strange hand gestures and faces… at Ratchet.

He shook his head and looking closer he noticed that Jazz was making silly gestures at Ratchet's chest plate, staring at it, Sideswipe saw a red metal lump on his chest plate… that had small arms attached firmly around Ratchet's neck.

"Uh…" Sideswipe stammered.

All three turned to him and Sideswipe stared back confused, Prowl held out a datapad and said. "This should explain everything."

Frowning, Sideswipe took the pad from Prowl, turned it on and began reading.

Sideswipe,

If you are reading this then that means I have returned to the Matrix.

First I would like to apologize for not telling you this sooner, but by then, you had already left Cybertron with you brother and crew in search of that energon supply we needed. I had also hoped to tell you in person someday but I didn't want to risk exposing myself to the Decepticons and discovering what I had worked for so long to keep hidden from them.

The second thing I like to say is that I love you. I always loved you and your brother in my own way and I will always love you both.

Now that those have been taken care of, I'll get to the point. The sparkling is ours. He was sparked after our last time together before you left.

Please take good care of our sparkling Sideswipe… I'm not around to do so anymore.

Eclipse

P.S. I named him Sidestep.

Sideswipe read the datapad again and then once more, unable to believe what it said. He looked up stunned, and with wide optics stared at the sparkling that was now peeking at him from Ratchet's chest plate. That was the last thing Sideswipe remembered seeing.

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