WARNING: Very AU! Doesn't go along with the movies other than the first has already happened. You have been warned.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own anything except my OCs and the plot!

Chapter 2

Pain assaulted Pahana's eyes through her closed lids as a bright light filtered through them as she slowly woke up. She groaned and moved to put an arm over her eyes but found they were like lead.

"Pahana! You're awake!" Pahana heard Sideswipe shout, worry laced deep in his voice but she was more preoccupied with the pain that was lacing through her brain from the light and now the shouting. She could feel his small hands on her cheek.

"Not so loud," she croaked.

"Sorry," he whispered. She winced as it still sounded like he was shouting.

"Light..." she mumbled. They immediately turned off and she sighed with relief. Pahana opened her eyes slowly and once her blurry eyes she immediately took notice of the machines she was hooked up to. One of them being a monitor for her vitals and the other controlling the drip on the bag that was connected to a needle in the crook of her arm. She instantly knew she was in a hospital.

But why? She tried to recall what happened before coming here when it all suddenly came rushing back to her as she was able to recall the car chase then the crash. Her heart sped up at the thought of the crash and the possibility of Sideswipe hurt. The heart monitor sped up as it picked up her increased heartbeat.

"It's alright, Pahana!" Sideswipe spoke up quickly but quietly. "I'm right here. I'm alright," He told her as if he could read her thoughts. She slowly calmed down as he pressed himself into her cheek as he hugged her as best as he could. Pahana closed her eyes and nuzzled him as he started petting her cheek to help to calm her down. It worked and the monitor no longer rang out as she slowly calmed down.

They stayed like that for some time even when a nurse came in to check on her. When she left, Pahana finally decided to ask the question she was half fearing.

"Wha' happened?" she asked around a sticky mouth.

"The cop that was chasing us rammed the car and caused us to crash. You only got some major bruising on your right leg and ribs as well as a slight concussion. You were in a coma for a week and a half," He told her. Pahana opened her mouth to ask another question, but he interrupted her, "Don't worry, sweetspark, I'm fine. If you hadn't put me where you did, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be here." Sideswipe frowned as that last thought just occurred to him.

With a little trouble, Pahana brought her hand to him and touched his face with a finger and frowned back at him. He reached up and grabbed her finger in his much smaller hand and rubbed his cheekplates against her digit.

"Don't worry," he whispered.

Shaking her head, causing her head to ache and the room to swim, Pahana ignored it as best as she could and frowned before poking the face on his chest and dragged it to his shoulder. 'Something's wrong.'

"Nothing's wrong," he tried reassuring her.

With the frown still on her face she shook her head even though it throbbed in response and lightly brushed his lips with her fingertip. 'Don't lie.'

Sideswipe sighed. "Never could lie to you," he grumbled. He took a deep breath before continuing even though he didn't want to. "Alright, so you know how when we first met, I told you that I was your guardian angle of sorts?" He waited until his friend nodded when she recalled the memory to the best of her ability. "Well, I was sent to protect you and make sure you never became a part of the war." Pahana frowned at him with confusion in her eyes. "The war between the Autobots and Decepticons in this dimension."

Pahana's eyes widened as realization dawned. Those red lights from before, Sideswipe had always said Decepticons had red eyes or rather optics since that's what they called eyes. He also told her how he was once twenty feet tall, and those lights sure looked like they were at least twenty feet up in the air from her point of view even if she couldn't see much.

"The ones who sent me, told me that if I failed to keep you out of the war, then they would…" His voice drifted off as sorrow over took him as he remembered his punishment if he failed. He didn't speak up until he climbed up onto Pahana's chest and curled up right over her heart. Knowing he liked to listen to it and it brought him comfort, she let him stay there and trace unseen patterns over her heart. She brought her hand to him and gently stroked his back. Then he started doing something she has never seen him do in all the time she has known him.

He cried.

It broke her heart to see such a strong mech begin to cry.

"They… They said they would… that they would take me back to the Well and… a-and I could never see you again," he cried.

"Who said that, Ketchup?" Pahana croaked, starting to regain her voice a little.

He took a shuddering vent and let it out. "The Thirteen Primes."

Her hand stilled and it felt as if her heart stopped beating. Sideswipe told her stories about them. About how they were supposed to be the original and most powerful Cybertronians in all of existence besides their creator, Primus.

"I'm sorry… I'm so sorry!" he whimpered.

And they were going to take him away from her.

Pahana let her own tears fall as the thought of never having her Sideswipe next to her to enjoy all of life's pleasures and pains ever again. Her hand tightened around her friend.

"They can't take you." She whispered. "They can't…"

There came a knock on the door that led into the room so Sideswipe quickly moved to look as if he was hugging her and they both were crying from joy. The door opened a second later to reveal Pahana's parents and little brother. She put on a fake smile as soon as she saw them so as to make them believe everything was alright when really nothing was.

"How are you feeling?" Her mom, Jennifer Kreysor, asked as she sat down in a chair next to her daughter's bed. Pahana's mom had dirty blonde hair that went down to her mid back and gentle soft blue eyes as well as laugh lines.

"I've been better," Pahana told them the truth.

"Why are you crying?" Austin asked from were he was leaning against the window, where the light from the streetlights filtered through.

"Because Sides just finished telling me how close I was to dying," she half lied. He hadn't said it, but Pahana could see it in his optics by the way they shone. As she said that she felt said mech shiver minutely but not enough for anyone else in the room to notice. She tightened her hands around him in comfort.

"You gave us all a pretty big scare when we got a call from the police saying you were in a crash and you wrapped you car around a tree." Her dad, Michael Kreysor, spoke up. He was a pretty big man with muscled arms. He had brown hair and piercing brown eyes and a bit of stubble on his face from not shaving for a while mostly being he was to worried about his daughter waking up. "How did it happen?"

"I thought you would have asked Sides that?"

Micheal nodded. "We did but he couldn't tell us much."

Pahana shifted a little to get more comfortable. "Uh, well we got chased by some guy and they made me crash. They probably thought I was someone else." She told them as if it was no big deal but the three others in the room all frowned.

"But you're like a NASCAR driver for back roads," Austin commented. "How did someone make you crash?"

Pahana couldn't help but cringed as their parents whipped their heads to look at Austin and then turned their heads sharply to look at her. She was hoping they would never find out about her reckless driving on the paved, patchy and uneven, back roads as well as the dirt roads but she knew they would have found out eventually anyways.

"Eh-heh…" was all she could manage while under their stern looks. Sideswipe decided at the moment to shift and lift an arm so everyone was now looking at him.

"My fault, I encouraged her to do it," he told them truthfully and let his arm fall back down.

My. Kryesor pointed a finger at his daughter and the small mech. "We'll talk about this later, but for right now you need to worry about getting better." They all turned to leave which she was grateful for but then her dad turned back as he remembered something. "Oh and there are some other people who would like to see you." He then walked out of the room but not before making Austin leave, who wanted to stay and talk to his sister for a bit longer.

Pahana groaned, finally feeling how sore she really was suddenly felt tired and worn out from all that has recently happened and the last thing she needed was more people coming to visit her, especially now knowing that she only had Primus knows how long with her precious little Bottle of Ketchup.

After a few minutes there came another knock on the door before it opened a second later to reveal Shawn.

"Hey, 'Hana, how you fee… What's wrong?" His voice drifted before it got serious as soon as he saw the tear tracks on Pahana's face.

Just like with her family she put on a fake smile. "Nothing's wrong, just happy to be awake."

Shawn frowned. "Don't lie to me, Pahana, now what's wrong?"

She immediately dropped her façade and held an arm out to him while her other hand held Sideswipe in place. Shawn was at her side in an instant, wrapping his arms around her and not asking any questions as she cried into his shoulder. Even Sideswipe started crying, which surprised Shawn, but he never asked and just let them both cry. Eventually, they both quieted down and clung to each other while Shawn held them.

The room was quiet for a while before Shawn decided to break the silence. "So anyone want to tell me why we just had a cry-fest?"

Pahana looked to Sides, who was once again curled up right over her heart and watching her with sad optics which broke her heart even more to see such a strong little warrior so sparkbroken. She tilted her head to Shawn and silently asked for permission. Sideswipe hesitated before nodding his consent. So, after taking a shuddering breath, she told Shawn about how Sideswipe was sent to her to protect her and make sure she never entered the war. Sideswipe interjected and said that because he failed he was now going to be punished and she continued on to explain how his punishment was that he was going to be sent back to were he came from and how neither of the two knew just how much longer they had with each other. When she was done explaining, the only thing Shawn did was hug them both tighter.

"I wish I could do something," Shawn whispered. "Honestly, since you guys never leave each others sides I always saw you staying together forever." Pahana could only nod in silent agreement. Shawn paused before kissing her head and standing up. "I'll go tell the others you fell asleep." He then proceeded to walk out of the room and close the door with a silent click.

With eyes heavy from crying, Pahana looked down at Sideswipe. "Is there anyway they will let you stay with me?" She whispered quietly false hope rising up in her as she gently wiped away his tears.

Sideswipe shook his helm, "No, I failed to do what they told me and now I'm going to be punished for it."

"It's not fair."

"I know..." Sideswipe reached up and put a small hand on her cheek. "You're tired, you should sleep."

Pahana lightly shook her head, making the room spin a bit. "No. Not when I know I might never see you again." Though it seems her body was saying otherwise as her eyes were getting heavier by the seconds and she was losing focus on everything around her. Tears pricked at her eyes once more as she mumbled, "I love you, Sideswipe," before falling asleep.

-O-

Pahana breathed sharply as she was jolted awake by some unknown force. She looked around for a few seconds to try and find the culprit and let out her breath slowly as she didn't find anything. Her fingers twitched around a small form in her hands and frowned at how cold it felt. She looked down and her heart stopped and breath caught in her throat at the sight.

Below both of her hands was a small gray form, red no longer bright but dull and fading, while the heat was fading away from it slowly until it was cold to the touch.

"S-Sideswipe?" Pahana squeaked around a lump growing in her throat, not wanting to believe what she was seeing. She moved a hand and touched a finger to his helm, moving it gently so she could see his face, her breath hitching as soon as she saw the now blank look in his eyes that somehow still held emotions of sadness, grief, and a hint of pain with drying tear tracks running down his faceplates.

Her heart sped up and faintly she could hear the heart monitor beeping in alarm at her sudden increase of heart rate as realization hit home.

"Sideswipe? Please wake up, Sideswipe please..." Tears began falling as Pahana quietly called out to her best friend. She took in a shuddering breath. "Wake up..."

With shaking hands, she held them over Sideswipe's body, not really sure what to do and for once in her life she was at a loss as reality took a hold of her.

Pahana just lost the only true friend she ever had. The only one to stick with her through thick and thin.

Her best friend just died and it felt like a part of her died with him.

Her best friend just died.

Her best friend just died.

And she was powerless to do anything to save him...

Pahana let out a broken wail as she curled up around Sideswipe's body lifeless, not even caring about the pain in her head, ribs, leg, or the IV was causing her when in comparison it was dull to what she was feeling on the inside as she curled up on her side.

"Come back!" She wailed, not even caring how loud she was or if she was heard or not, she just wanted her friend back. "Please! Come back!"

Out of nowhere, a foreign feeling swelled up inside of her like a tsunami, making her let out an animalistic growl.

How dare they take the life of someone she knew and loves without her consent!

Pahana quieted her sobbing as she was now confused as to where this thought came from. Her eyes narrowed as she silently recalled what Sideswipe told her.

This was those damned Thirteen Prime's fault! They took him from her! And she wanted him BACK!

-O-

Where was he? What was this place? Why couldn't he see anything? Why was everything black?

There was something important to him, but what was it...? What was so important? Was is his name? What was his name again?

Wait. Was it a 'he'? Or was it a 'she'? What was a 'he' or a 'she'?

Why couldn't it remember?

What was it trying to remember again?

-O-

Everything around Pahana suddenly flashed bright, blinding her for a few seconds before her eyes adjusted to the light. Pahana blinked a few times to clear away the spots in her vision before looking around to see what looked like a desert all around her with tall twisted and warped metal pillars. There were fourteen of them, one significantly smaller than the rest and not looking so aged and warn down nor as warped or twisted as the others as if it was newer, younger and it sat right in the middle of all of the others, as if they were protecting it from an unseen danger. Two of the pillers had what looked like red lava flowing through them and they were trying to escape the circle. The others had what looked like a yellow-ish gold running through them. The sky, had two bright suns, one was a large red sun ready to burn out and the other a smaller hot, bright blue star at the beginning of its life with two silver metallic moons coming up over the horizons, a large one that looked rather close, pockmarked with craters, was just coming up in the north-east while the other one was smaller and further away while being right above the eastern side and looking as if it was setting.

Not really able to place how or why, this place somehow felt familiar to Pahana, as if she had been here before. And those eleven giant robots that stood around her, some of them holding spear-like staffs? She wasn't scared of them like she knew she should be, but they somehow also felt familiar. Like family perhaps.

Family that she was royally pissed off at. No. She was beyond pissed. She was more like an f-5 tornado jacked up on Mountain Dew, Red Bull, a ton of Five Hour Energy, and anything that is made of pure caffeine and was ready to destroy anything in her path that so much as twitched at her wrong.

Not even caring if it felt like they were fifty feet tall and could easily squish her, Pahana balled up her fists in anger and shouted at them. "You have no right taking him from me so give him back!"

"We gave him to you so that he would protect you and keep you from that pathetic war so that you would not be found out about and fought over." One of them spat out, annoyed at being shouted at by a youngling. "Because of his failure to keep you away from the war, we have punished him by taking his life back."

"You can't do that!" Pahana snarled, "Just because someone failed to do what you said doesn't mean you can take their life because they have just that, a life."

"And you are just a child about to be thrown into a power struggle you don't belong in."

Pahana stomped her foot like a child. "I don't care! Give him back!"

"You are in no position to make demands, sparkling," another one of them rumbled.

The anger inside of her intensified and her blue eyes began to glow a burning gold. The smallest pillar flashed from it's changing hues of blue to the same burning gold color as Pahana's eyes and she felt a power she never experienced before well up inside of her until it was tugging at something on a line like a rope. Something familiar.

-O-

What was that? What was that pulling? What was pulling it?

Why did it feel like it knew who was pulling it? Why did it feel important to him?

Him? Him! He was a him! How could he have possibly forgot that?

What was that light way up there? The one he was being drawn to?

There's that feeling again. Like he knew who was pulling him...

Pahana!

-O-

The tugging continued even when eight of the eleven metal titans over her head began to shout in protest at what she was doing until a faint spot in front of her began to glow, brightening by the second until a sparkling orb of blue-white light was floating in front of her at chest height. Pahana's body moved without her bidding as she reached up and gently brushed her hand against the pulsing orb until a faint outline of something, or rather someone, began to form.

Regaining control of her limb, Pahana snatched her hand back and held it to her chest with her other hand as she took a step back and watched in amazement as the outline gained form, color and depth until her best friend stood in front of her. This time though he was a few inches taller than her 5'8" and she could just barely see through him as if he was a ghost or a mirage and in the middle of his chest she could make out the light of his brightly glowing spark as it pulses in a steady rhythm.

Sideswipe looked around in confusion until his optics landed on Pahana and grinned. Then he noticed the forms that were standing around them and the grin quickly disappeared and dread filled him as he noted how furious most of them looked. His spark began pulsing at a faster rate but slowed back to its original pace as he heard Pahana speak.

"Sideswipe?" Pahana whispered in amazement, a part of her not believing what was clearly right there. Forgetting everything around her, she took a step forward while reaching out a hand to touch Sideswipe but as soon as her hand passed through his chest she snatched her hand back as if it was burned and continued holding it against her chest.

Sideswipe looked back at her and smiled reassuringly as Pahana continued to look at him with wide eyes.

Pahana smiled back and as if she knew what she was doing, she ignored the towering metal beings around her and before any of them could intervene she reached out and grabbed Sideswipe's spark, his form disappearing as she did so and held his spark close to her chest in a protective manner. She concentrated and like last time there was a bright flash of light and she found herself back in her hospital bed lying on her back with a nurse and a doctor at the sides of her bed looking at something next to her bed with wide startled gazes.

She looked around in confusion trying to remember when she laid on her back and when the nurse and doctor entered her room. Pahana jolted in alarm when she remembered being told her time with her best friend was coming to a close and immediately noticed Sideswipe was no longer on her chest and began to panic as she searched around her but stopped when her wide eyes landed on his crimson form standing next to her bed looking at his hands and new body.

Sideswipe was still the same as he was before except he was bigger. Much bigger. Like he was now six foot bigger.

He looked up at the other three in the room. "Well this is new." He promptly dropped offline and fell to the floor unconscious making the doctor and nurse jump as a loud noise ring through the room as soon as he hit the floor.

The room swam and her ribs screamed as Pahana lurched to look over the side of the bed down at him.

"Sides?" She asked curiously. Not getting a response she began to worry and looked to the doctor who was still standing in shock next to the immobile mech. "Uhm, could you listen to see if there is a humming coming from his chest?"

That seemed to knock the doctor out of her shock as she took the stethoscope from her pocket and putting it on she placed the end on his chest. After a few seconds she stood up and put the stethoscope back in her pocket.

"I think he's fine." She reported.

"So it didn't sound as if it was faltering?" Pahana still wasn't convinced he was fine. After all, why would the Primes threaten to take him only to make him bigger?

The doctor shook her head. "No, now lay back down."

Pahana was reluctant to take her eyes off of Sideswipe but she did as she was told. Soon enough the doctor was done checking her bruising and making sure all of her vitals were fine she left, but not before helping to sit Pahana up. Five minutes later her dad and older brother, Aaron, came in and had to do a double take as soon as they saw Sideswipe passed out on the floor.

Michael swore. "When the doc said he got bigger I didn't realize she meant that much bigger. Alright let's get him up on a chair."

Aaron moved a chair next to Sideswipe's prone form then helped his father to move the now much heavier mech to the chair. Once he was in the chair, both Pahana's dad and brother were breathing hard.

"How much you think he weighs?" Aaron asks as he slowly regains his breath.

"Gotta be somewhere between two-hundred and three-hundred." Michael grunted as he stretched his sore back muscles.

"Felt more like four-hundred to five-hundred." Aaron mumbled under his breath.

Their dad moved to sit next to Pahana on her bed with a sigh.

"How are you doing?" he asked, noting her gaze stayed on Sideswipe.

"I'm fine. The doctor said my ribs will heal in about three to four weeks as long as I don't do anything strenuous."

"Question," Aaron spoke up from where he now sat in a chair at the end of the bed and jerked a thumb toward Sideswipe. "How did he go from six inch to six foot?"

Pahana frowned as she tried to think around her headache which was starting to cause colorful explosions only she see right before her eyes so she pressed the button that would give her more of the liquid Benadryl that would both get rid of her headache and put her to sleep. "I don't know. I was hoping he would tell me when he wakes up." The room fell silent as the three watched were the mech was sitting haphazardly.

Michael exhaled loudly as he stood up from the bed. "Well we better be gettin' home since I have work in the morning." He leaned forward to kiss the top of her head. He pulled away. "And remember if you need us you can just ask a nurse or doctor to call and we'll come running."

Starting to feel the affects she smiled and mumbled. "I know you will." She rolled her head where it lay on the backrest. "Can you put that back down?"

Her dad reached over and did as she wanted till she was lying down again.

"Night, dad." She mumbled right before drifting off to sleep.

"Goodnight sweetheart." Michael smiled down at her. Both father and son then, as quietly as they could, vacated the room.

Just as a warning updates will not be consistent. I am going to try and keep the chapters long and that requires more time to write them. In advance, thank you for your patience.

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My favorite line: She was beyond pissed. She was more like an f-5 tornado jacked up on Mountain Dew, Red Bull, a ton of Five Hour Energy, and anything that is made of pure caffeine and was ready to destroy anything in her path that so much as twitched at her wrong.