I DO NOT OWN TRANSFORMERS NOR WILL I EVER!

(This one was a little rushed, sorry)

CHAPTER 3

"Colonel! She's coming around!" Evera faintly heard someone speak. She tried to open her eyes, but the area she was in was too bright and blurry.

"Evera? Evera can you hear me?" She heard Ratchet and blinked a few times as a flashlight was waved in front of her eyes.

The voices were muffled and when she grunted, she thought that she were speaking through an amphitheatre it was so loud.

She sat up quickly and covered her ears from the pain. The voices around her were still muffled as she tried to open her eyes, but couldn't because it was so bright.

Suddenly the lights were dimmed slightly and she saw Lennox's face.

"What's going on?" Evera said as though in her normal voice, but apparently from the way Lennox was gesturing for her to quiet down, she was yelling.

"Ratchet is working on it." He mouthed gently so she could see what he was trying to say instead of hear.

"Just relax, okay?"

She nodded and he set her back down.

There was a loud ringing in her left ear and she moved her gaze to the corner of her eye to see an orange light coming from her ear.

Suddenly there was a twinge of pain and she squirmed gently and abruptly that caused Lennox to hold her shoulders down.

He looked her straight in the eye, "Almost done."

Evera nodded and the ringing stopped. It felt as if a big clog in her ear had been popped.

"Evera, can you hear me?" Ratchet spoke.

She turned her head up, expecting to see the Autobot, but instead saw a holographic person standing by a vital machine and something that looked like a huge car battery with large cables extending out of it.

"Ratchet? Where are you?"

Lennox let his grip slack on her shoulders in relief and the hologram smiled.

"I'm right here Evera. I'm just trying out this new hologram program. That way I can stay in my vehicle form, but help out humans if need be. You're the first I'm trying it out on."

Evera smiled. "I feel special. So can you tell me what happened and what the hell you just did?"

The hologram walked closer to her and rose up her stretcher.

"You had what was called, noise-induced hearing loss from the explosion. It happens when humans are exposed to harmful noises that are too loud . The structures in your inner ear were damaged to the point that if you were taken anywhere else but here, you would have lost your hearing."

"I used a simple formula to counteract the measures of noise-induced hearing and created a way for the hair cells in your ears to regenerate and re-grow, even though they're not meant to do that."

"So I'm going to be okay?" Evera asked and the hologram smiled putting his hand on her shoulder.

"Would I ever allow you not to be?"

She smiled and settled back in to the stretcher as Ratchet's hologram moved to the other side of her head to work on her other ear.

As Ratchet had finished, Evera looked at Lennox who was standing close by with his arms crossed.

"Please tell me my house is okay."

Lennox smirked walking towards her and helped her sit up on the stretcher and helped her move to the side.

"Your house is fine. The team is just looking it over, just in case. We brought you to the hanger because it's just a lot easier."

Evera nodded to her commanding officer and jumped from the stretcher, but had a dizzy spell and swayed.

Lennox stabled her and she put her hand to her head.

"Well shit, that was a bad idea."

"A lot of things you did tonight were bad ideas." Lennox remarked as he sat her back on the stretcher.

Evera glared at him. "I had to make sure everyone was okay. I can't stand by and watch someone die, Will."

Lennox threw up his hands in defense. "I understand. I get it, I'm just saying you were reckless, that's all."

Evera kept her glare. "You could have just waited until I showed up with Optimus."

"You guys wouldn't have been able to do anything though!" Evera snapped back.

"Then you should live on base, so if something like this happens again, at least the Autobots can transform and save your sorry ass!" Lennox shouted back.

They stared at each other for a few awkward moments until Evera came back and smacked him on the side of the arm.

Lennox laughed and soon Evera caught on.

"Where's Screen?" She asked as she caught her breath.

Lennox gestured to behind his shoulder. "He's in the training bay with the rest of the Autobots. He insisted to come along."

Evera rolled her eyes sarcastically. "I knew he would."

Evera got down from the stretcher, and put her hand on Ratchet's shoulder. "Thanks for the help Ratchet."

The hologram dipped his head in acknowledgement. "You're most welcome Lieutenant ."

Then, slowly she and Lennox began to walk towards the training bay.

"Did you find anything about what the deal was with Laserbeak?"

"Sam actually came by with the same issue when you left."

Evera's head fell back angrily. "God damn it! I could have saved myself all this trouble!"

Lennox rolled his shoulders. "We had no idea when you left, and when we got the distress call from Smokescreen, it was too late."

Evera groaned as Lennox continued. "We figured that the Decepticons are using individuals from NASA to get the Ark for themselves before the Autobots can so they can create a space bridge to bring Cybertron here."

Evera blinked trying to get the entire information in. "Wow. That's…wow."

"Uh huh, so now we really need to get the Ark here. Like now." Lennox held the door open for her to the training bay and she walked in and her heart dropped as she saw Smokescreen in his Autobot state.

He looked so nervous and upset and it made Evera feel awful.

"Screen." It was all she had to say. He turned his head and this wave of relief fell over him that Evera could tangibly feel.

"Thank the Maker you're all right." Smokescreen spoke as he hurried and knelt to his knees so he could be close to her.

Evera tried to hold back her tears, but it was hard. No one had ever really expressed compassion and emotion to her, to give her such a need for her to live and it was just so refreshing to see.

"Are you okay?" She squeaked as she turned her head to hide her wetting eyes.

She saw Smokescreen smile. "I'm right as rain."

Evera smiled and she held out her hand to squeeze a bit of his finger.

"Evera." She heard powerful footsteps that could only belong to Optimus and she looked up to see relief on his face as well.

"I'm so glad to see you're all right."

"Thank you Optimus. You've got one hell of an impressive medic here." She shrugged her shoulder to Ratchet, who had just entered the bay from tiding up his work station from when he worked on her.

Suddenly she saw a sort of emotion she'd never seen in Optimus before, it was this look of compassion, almost a sense of agreement that he knew something she didn't. Kind of like a thing he knew that she didn't.

"Oh, I know I do."

As the sun began to rise over the hill, Evera watched the monitors with intense concentration.

Optimus and Ratchet were going up to the Ark that resided on the moon. However, she had this pit in her stomach that she felt like something was going to go wrong. She'd had feelings like this before when she was in combat with the Autobots, with things not being wrong at all. So she shoved those feelings in to the back of her mind.

Optimus' voice made her jump, "Xanthium approaching Tranquility base."

"Xanthium, you are clear for landing." She spoke in to her microphone.

She and Lennox paid close attention to the screen and could see what Optimus and Ratchet could see.

"The moon really is spectacular." She said simply in awe. Lennox smiled at her as Optimus spoke again. "We're entering the Ark."

The massive ship was something she had never seen before.

"You think that's massive, you should see our planet." Smokescreen joked behind her shoulder.

Evera turned to smile at him, but his bright optics went soft and the atmosphere in the room changed to that of grief and sadness.

"His levels are faint. He locked himself away to guard the pillars."

"Sentinel, you're coming home old friend."

Evera looked around to look at all the other Autobots who had bowed their heads in respect for their older commander.

Suddenly she felt lightheaded and fell against the table to stable herself.

"You all right?" Smokescreen asked getting to her quickly.

"Yeah, just a headache." Evera whispered, but her lightheadedness got worse.

She softly screamed in pain as she fell to her knees. Suddenly the anxiety she felt was getting worse by the minute.

"Evera what's going on?" Lennox asked.

"I have no idea!" Evera screamed in pain.

There was this sharp pain in her head and she started to see Cybertronian lettering going through her head.

"I can see Cybertronian!" Evera shouted. "Holy shit I can read it!"

"Sentinel Prime. Murderer. Optimus…doesn't know…shouldn't know…lied…lied to…"

Evera's hands fell in front of her and she was trying to catch her breath.

Lennox came and put his hand on her shoulder. "Breathe, come on you'll be okay."

Evera pulled her head up and looked straight at Lennox with tears in her eyes.

"Who's Andromeda Prime?"

There was a hushed silence as Evera looked at the Autobots who looked at her, concerned.

"Andromeda Prime is Optimus's wife." Ironhide spoke gently.

"She was Optimus's second in command, as you are with Colonel Lennox. She was taken prisoner by the Decepticons in the final days of the war and used as ransom for Optimus."

"If Optimus gave up his command, he would have his wife." Q replied solemnly.

"And he didn't." Evera said slowly.

"Oh, he tried, but he wouldn't want her to do that." Q said quickly. "Andromeda fought to get out of Megatron's control, but Starscream got to her the Autobots could really come to her aid."

Suddenly Evera felt the tinge of tears fall down her cheek, like she had known this already.

She held on to Lennox to push herself up. "I need to take a minute."

Evera pushed herself towards the shooting range, the only place where she knew she could cool off and forget everything that went wrong today.