A few weeks had passed, and the Cons have been quiet, which had put everyone on edge. Though, while things were quiet, a small stable had been put inside the base for Oreo when Skylar brought her, and Optimus would haul her Goose-neck horse trailer for her and she didn't need to use her pickup as they went to shows as Skylar had competed a lot. That's how she kept paying her bills when she couldn't do the training during winter.

"Hey, Optimus, watch Skylar!" Miko said from her place on the loft.

The bots had built Skylar her own 'arena' of sorts in an empty room that the loft was attached too, and the bots entered the room to see what Miko was yelling about.

Skylar had the horse galloping around the arena as she was jumping off while holding onto the saddle and her feet hit the ground for just a moment as she pulled herself back up and did it all over again.

"What the frag is she doing?" Bulkhead asked in confusion though no one answered him as Skylar started her next trick

Skylar put her feet in the straps on each side of the saddle horn and she stood up and with her back bent slightly backwards as she leaned forward as the horse kept galloping and she put her arms out, laughing a bit.

"This one she is doing is called the Hippodrome" Optimus said as he watched her, a small smile on his usually stoic faceplates.

Skylar got back into the saddle with her feet in the stirrups. She then had Oreo slow to a trot and then down to a walk and she guided her over to where the others were watching "how was my form this time Optimus?" she asked

"Much better. I take it, your leg is feeling better?" Optimus replied as he knelt to her height

"Yeah. I'm determined to not let that damn fall get the better of me" she said and she got down from Oreo.

She grabbed the reins and lead her to her stable and she put Oreo in her stall and got the horse some food and water.

"Optimus, sense when do you know what…tricks the child is doing? And why are you letting her do something so dangerous?" Skylar heard Ratchet say and she glanced at Optimus, who had his back to her

"She is my charge Ratchet, an she isn't a child. And if I thought it was too dangerous, I would talk to her" Optimus defended, which make Skylar smile.

She is happy her guardian understood that what she liked to do made her happy and wasn't too dangerous

"Humans have been killed doing what she does" Ratchet said after a few moments, having had to search the internet.

"Don't, you think I don't know, what I do is dangerous Ratchet? Everything in life can be dangerous but I'm not the kind to hide from every danger around" Skylar said, walking over to them, not happy Ratchet seemed to think she didn't understand what she was getting into. Besides she hated people talking about her behind her back

"Oh…and Ratchet? Next time tell me to my face what you think about my choices, not behind my back" She said, and she smirked a bit as she left the room, knowing she won the argument.

Skylar walked into the main room and she walked up onto the loft and she sat down on the couch and she let out a sigh as she pulled the ribbon that held her hair up, out of her hair, her long hair cascading down her back and she relaxed on the couch, tired.

"Skylar, would you like me to take you home?" a deep voice asked and made Skylar smile

Skylar looked at Optimus and before she could answer, the computer was alarming about Con activity. "It's okay, big guy, you guys need to handle that" Skylar said with a smile and she watched as prime gathered his team and once they left she saw Miko and then the boys run through the portal.

Skylar let out a groan, hating to do this, but she ran forward and through the portal and on the other side was a battle and she darted left and hid by some rocks

"Miko…I'm going to kill you" she muttered, and she then saw said girl and she took a deep breath and ran through the middle of the battle, jumping over peds and rocks, dodging blasters and she jumped over the rock to the kids

"alright, let's go you three" She said, and she grabbed Miko's arm and she had Raf get on her back and she held Jacks hand and began running towards the forest nearby to get them to safety.

Once they got in the forest, she fell to her knees and she had Raf get off and she rubbed her knee. Her left leg was sill injured and she believed her knee was re-injured when she carried the kids and did all that running.

"Miko, you're in so much trouble once we get home" she said with a glare

"I didn't ask you all to follow me" Miko snapped and Skylar glared

"do you really think I'm going to let you go alone and get killed? How many damn times do you have to be told by the boys its dangerous?!" Skylar snapped as she got up, wincing in pain.

"YOURE NOT MY MOTHER, SKYLAR!" Miko yelled

Skylar then heard the bots call to them to run and she saw a female looking con come running after them.

"run!" she yelled at the kids and as they ran she tried to keep up but was unable to and she felt herself be lifted into the air

"let me go!" she yelled at the 'female'

"Shut up femme" the con holding her snapped and walked over to Megatron "Here, lord Megatron, the fleshling"

Skylar yelped as she was dropped into Megatron's hand

"good job, Starscream" he said to the seeker and Megatron smirked at the bots "One more step and the Femmeling will be offlined"

Skylar looked at Optimus with fear in her eyes. And she cried out to Optimus as the cons walked through a ground bridge.

Skylar felt like crying though she only glared at everyone as she was taken to a room by Megatron.

"What is wrong femme? Are you unhappy we took you from your Autobots?" Megatron taunted and he dropped her in a cage on his desk

With the bots:

Optimus was good to hide his horror as his charge was grabbed by Starscream and he wished he could have done something and her pitiful cry to him was sparkbreaking and he turned to the kids as they approached and he didn't say anything after calling for a ground bridge and he was the last to walk through

"Where is Skylar?" Ratchet asked, and Optimus frowned, and he sighed

"The Decepticons have her" Optimus said gravely "I need you to start searching for the warship." Optimus said, "Arcee, bulkhead, I need you to go on patrol."

Optimus then walked over to the teenage boy and knelt to him "Jack, please contact your mother, I fear that we may get her back in a bad state" Optimus said

Jack nodded, and he pulled out his cell phone and called his mother.

Optimus frowned, as he felt worry for his charge. He and her had bonded quite a bit sense her arrival and he was worried about the human femme he cared about. He wasn't exactly sure how he felt about her. She is a good friend and an appreciated member of the team, but Optimus was to admit there was a possibility there could be more. However now wasn't the time to think of that while his charge was missing, and he had no clue what she was facing.

warship Nemesis:

Skylar glared at Megatron from her place in the cage. She was not happy to be here, and she isn't happy about being stared at like a hamster or something

"what the hell do you want, Mega-ass?" she growled at him, flinching when he hit the cage.

"I am your master now, pet. You shall call me by master." Megatron snarled

"Maybe I don't want too" Skylar said defiantly, crossing her arms as she hid any fear she had, from him.

"I could easily kill you" Megatron threatened with a growl

"But you wouldn't because you would use any bargaining power over the bots if im dead" Skylar countered, knowing full well she made a good point

"true…but I can make you wish you were offline" Megatron said with an evil smirk as he attached a relic to his arm. The relic almost looked like a small cannon of sorts

Megatron pulled her out of her cage and he used the relic, which was a shape modifier and he made her his size, well, a little shorter, and he grabbed her arm and pulled her to his berth, an evil grin on his face as she struggled.

A few months passed and Megatron was gone to battle and Skyler looked up from her place in the corner of Megatron's room when she heard shooting and she just curled up more, assuming that it was just Megatron taking his anger out on his men before coming back to her. She was surprised when the door opened, and it was Arcee.

Skylar was helped up by Arcee, who grabbed a blanket and wrapped it around Skylar's bare body and she called for a ground bridge and she helped Skylar through it. On the other side of the ground bridge, everyone was shocked to see Skylar Cybertronian size, and quite bruised, and wrapped in a blanket

"Skylar, come with me" Ratchet said gently and took her arm and she slowly, hesitantly went with him and she was quiet as he ran some scans with a frown

"Skylar, how…how did he make you this size?" Ratchet asked her gently

"It's a relic called a Shape Modifier" Skylar answered, staring blankly at the wall, her eyes showing no emotion, which made Ratchet worried about her even more so.

After a few minutes, the results from the scan came in and he frowned, an anger filling him and he left to speak to Optimus, which both mechs came back after a few minutes.

Skylar felt shame fill her as she looked down "I'm sorry I followed the kids" She said softly and looked back at her guardian, surprised to see concern on his face. She knew he usually didn't like to show emotion and she didn't think as she hugged him, crying into his chassis. She felt his arms wrap around her and she slowly stopped crying as he hummed a tune that she didn't know, but it was calming.

"I won't let him hurt you again Skylar, I give you my word" Optimus said as Skylar fell asleep in his arms

Optimus carried Skylar to an empty room and he laid her on the berth and tucked her in. He then went back out to the bots. "Skylar has been harmed by Megatron and is stuck in a size she does not belong in. I am putting a warning now to everyone. You will be polite, you will not push her, or anything that could cause PTSD to be worse than it may be. And until we can return her to her normal size, she will be not allowed out of this base" Optimus said and he then dismissed everyone.

"Optimus?" Ratchet said as he handed Optimus a cube of energon, "you haven't acted this way sense Elita-"

"Don't remind me, Ratchet" Optimus said, cutting ratchet off. He didn't want to be reminded of how he acted when his intended had been harmed early in the war.

"Anyway… what do we do about making the femme her clothing" Ratchet asked Optimus

"Ill help her with any thing she needs. She is my charge and ill help her any way I can" Optimus said immediately

"optimus, Are you in love with her?" Ratchet asked his friend, smirking slightly at his friends behavior

Optimus choked on the drink of the energon he had taken.

"In love? What makes you think that?!" Optimus asked with surprise in his optics, unable to believe his friend just asked him that.

"Just asking" Ratchet said with a chuckle as he left the main room to the med bay where he usually stayed.