Ironelle walked into the main room. Jack, Raf, and Miko looked at her.

"What are you looking at?" She slumped onto the berth and held her servo over her chest.

"All right something's wrong. What's up?" All three humans walked over to her and looked up at the femme expectantly.

"Can you guys keep a secret?"

"Yeah. We all can."

"Ratchet, he..." Ironelle looked on the brink of tears and she closed her optics.

"What did Ratchet do? I'll get Bulkhead to beat him up!" said Miko.

"No! Don't do that Miko. I guess it's supposed to be a good thing. I actually sort of beat him up myself. Ratchet sparked me. I'm going to have a sparkling."

"What? You let that medic knock you up!?" yelled Miko.

"Miko!" yelled the two boys. Ironelle started crying and she wiped the tears away.

"No, no Ellie, she didn't mean it," said Jack. Raf hugged her leg and she smiled sadly at the little human. She picked Raf up and held him to her chassis. Miko started to look guilty for her actions and Ironelle set Raf on the ground.

"Do you guys know where Ratchet is?"

"He went to the big med-bay."

"I'll be back. Don't mess with anything, Miko." She stood up and walked out.

"Ratchet?" She walked into the med-bay and the medic had his back turned towards her.

"Ratchet?" He looked at her and scoffed.

"Ratchet I'm sorry." Ironelle wrapped her arms around Ratchet's waist. A bandage was covering his left side and she moved to his other side and examined the bandage. It had a messy spot of blue that was still wet. Energon.

"I hurt you when I kicked you! Oh, Ratchet. I'm so sor—AHH!" She fell over in pain.

"Ironelle!" He knelt next to her pained frame.

"What's wrong? Where does it hurt?"

"Ges—AHH!" She curled into a ball and wrapped her arms around her middle.

"Ges...? Gestational chamber! Is it your gestational chamber?"

"Yes!"

He grabbed his scanner and scanned her abdomen. A small spark was now in her gestation chamber and beating strongly. She calmed down and stayed in the ball shape, crying.

"Ironelle it's over now." He picked her up and set on a berth, her in his arms. Her crying subsided and she laid in Ratchet's arms. They both stayed silent and looked at each other. Jack came in and looked at Ironelle and Ratchet.

"Hey Ratchet! Optimus needs you!"

"All right Jack." Ratchet stood up and walked to the main room, set Ironelle down and walked over to the computer.

"What is it Optimus?"

"We need your assistance."

"I'll be right there Optimus." He grabbed a few medical supplies and opened the ground bridge.

"Ironelle you're in charge and do not try to come help. It's too dangerous. Rafael close the ground bridge when I'm through."

Ironelle frowned and turned towards to the humans.

"Think you guys can watch the sparklings?"

"Yeah! No problem!" said Miko.

"Thank you Miko. Jack you're in charge." Ironelle opened the ground bridge and Rafael yelled her name, "Ellie!"

"What do you need Raf?"

"Ratchet said you needed to stay in base."

"So? He's my partner, my doctor, father of my child, but he's not my mate. He can't tell me what to do. Jack make sure nobody fallows me. Miko, that means you." She walked through the ground bridge and Raf closed it with his computer. Jack looked over the railing at Nova and Luna, they were still happily playing with the magnetic blocks and Shadow was still recharging peacefully in her recharge crib.

Knockout ran towards Ironelle, energon prod out towards her.

"Think again Knockout." She jumped over him and used her ax to knock the pole out of his servo, not to mention scraping his paint job on his shoulder.

"YOU SCRAPED MY PAINT JOB! PREPARE FOR SURGERY!" cried Knockout. Ironelle ducked and flipped over him again.

::Knockout the green femme is carrying something...valuable.::

::Like what?::

::A small spark. A sparkling.::

Knockout began smirking and looked around. The femme was gone.

Ironelle sliced a few Vehicons in half and gasped. Arcee was knocked off the edge of the cliff.

"ARCEE!" No Vehicons were coming at her and she rushed to the edge and looked down. Arcee hung on with a single servo. She knelt down.

"Grab my servo Arcee!" The blue femme reached with her hanging servo.

"Come on!" Their servos inched closer. Arcee grabbed the larger femme's servo and she desperately tried to pull Arcee up.

"Ironelle! Go! I'll be all right! Go!"

"No I can't leave you! When the leader of the wreckers, Impactor, said that to me...I ran and he was killed. I can't let another one of my comrades get killed! Come on!" She pulled on Arcee's servo harder and pulled her to safety. Arcee coughed because of the dirt and Ironelle hugged her. She let go.

"Are you hurt?"

"My leg." Ironelle looked at Arcee's leg, which was leaking energon.

"This may hurt. I'm going to try to stop it from bleeding." She opened the small compartment on her arm, opened it, she pulled out a rag, and she started dapping at the wound. Arcee looked behind Ironelle. Knockout was coming towards them with his energon prod aimed straight at the middle on Ironelle's back.

"Ironelle! Watch out!" she looked behind her and jumped out of the way.

"Ah, ah, ah. A carrying femme shouldn't be in a battle field."

"Carrying? Ironelle are you sparked?" Arcee looked wide opticed at the green femme.

"You haven't told anyone." Knockout knocked her roughly to the ground and stepped on her chest.

"GET OFF OF ME! YOU FRAGGER!"

"Ah, ah, ah." He stuck his energon prod in the middle of her chest. She screamed then fell silent.

"Ironelle!"

Bulkhead heard someone scream, but then it died down.

"Ellie!"

Wheeljack threw a Vehicon in the air when he heard the scream. His sword went through the Vehicons chest.

"Ellie!"

"Optimus watch out!" Ratchet cut a Vehicon in half before it could shoot Optimus in the back. A scream pierced the air.

"Ironelle!"