A/N- Sorry this chapter is kind of short and filled with fluff.

"Your voice, it chased away all the sanity in me." -Evanescence, My Immortal

Chapter 4

My optics adjust to the room around me as I come sluggishly out of recharge. After a few seconds of observation, I let out a frustrated huff. The autobots had the nerve to actually stick me in a cell. I can not believe this.

I pull myself into a sitting position, a slight pain in my lower back. I wince as I lean back against the wall, my pain increasing for a second before it dies back down once more. I begin plotting my escape when a bot comes and stands before my cage.

"How are you?" Springer asks, examining me through the bars. I see sympathy and regret in his optics, but ignore it.

I glare at the bot who had literally stabbed me in the back. "I'm fine." I find it hard to spit the words at him with hatred, but manage to anyways.

His expression seems somewhat relieved. "Good."

We stay there in awkward silence for a second before Springer opens the cell and enters, being sure to shut it behind him. He then holds out his right servoe to me. I stare at it for a second before placing my own right servoe in it. Springer pulls me up, steadying me as I stand. After another moments silence, he wraps his arms around me. I am shocked by the hug, but not really surprised.

"Don't you ever scare me like that again." He whispers.

"What do you mean?" I inquire, my heading tilting to the side a little like it always has when I am really confused.

"You left the base, and you had said you wouldn't." I hear a distant sound in his voice, as if he is reliving what happened teracycles ago. He seems to squeeze me tighter, as if that will somehow change the past.

I slowly wrap my arms around him, unsure of what else to do. "You didn't come back." I reply, nestlings my helm into the crook of his neck.

"I did," He states. "It took me a while, but I came back."

After this statement, we both stop talking. I feel so confused by what is going, so confused about what I should, stab him or just stay there. The confusion begins to give me such a proccesor ache that I begin to cry, my tears flowing down Springers back. "Don't ever leave me again." I whisper pleadingly.

"What if I really have to? Like life or death situation?"

"Then, I am coming, too."

"But what if-"

"No. It doesn't matter. I could be missing both my legs and arms, but you would still have to bring me, too."

Springer doesn't seem surprised. After another moment of silence, he holds me arms length away, ending our hug. "You have to come back then." The look in his optics is pleading, but his voice is firm, the two contradicting each other.

I turn my helm away from the bot, ashamed to look him in the optics. "I can't just leave Lockdown." I mumble, "I made a promise."

Springer places a finger under my chin and turns me to face him once more. "I don't want to have to worry about you, again," Both his optics and his voice are pleading this time. "Ninja Bot." He adds the nickname he had given me teracycles ago with a playful gleam entering his optics.

This time, I pull him into a hug, a smile etching it's way across my face. "You won't have to worry. What did UM always say?"

"Once a Wrecker, always a Wrecker." We both quote in unison.

We stay there in silence once more. I decide to interrupt it, "But, I have a few loose ends I need to tie up."

Springer gives out a low groan, making me want to laugh. But when I feel energon on me, I become alarmed. I undo the hug and step back, only for Springer to fall backwards, a familiar sword having been pulled out of his back.

"So touching," Lockdown's rough voice says as he steps out of the shadows, his blade covered in Energon. "So is that what you were hiding? You were, or shall I say are, a Wrecker?" He steps in front of me and looks down. "All this time you think you know a bot, but it turns out, they're the opposite if what you thought. Kinda sad isn't it?" Lockdown puts his blade to my neck, a smirk alight on his face.

I stand perfectly still, glaring into Lockdown's red optics. "Do not do this Lockdown."

"Too late," His smirk disappears as his voice goes very low. He begins to press down with his sword, before giving a slight chuckle and pulling back. "Nice to see you can still act, Crank."

"Nice to see your sense of humor has yet to change." I reply, rubbing my neck with a servoe. I look down at where Springer lays unconscious in a pool of energon that grows bigger by the second.

"C'mon," Lockdown says as he exits the cell through the door Springer had left unlocked. "Megatron wants to see you."

I freeze, "M-megatron?"

"Yeah, he specifically requested to see you."

"I'll be right there," I say as I head back into the cell.

"No hidin-"

"I'm not." I answer, cutting off Lockdown's protests. "I just have a few loose ends." I whisper, kneeling down beside Springer's motionless body. I meant the statement for him, but obviously, Lockdown thought otherwise.

"Well, make it snappy."

I nod, although, I know he can't see me. I place a finger on the side of Springer's helm, then press the button that resides there to open his com-link. I lean down and whisper, "I'm sorry."

Before I even know what's going on, Lockdown stands over me, sword poised to strike. It goes down and-

I hear many sounds going on around me, the one that alarms me the most being that of a life support machine. I begin to feel panic course through me as I try to online my optics, but have no success. I realize that something just doesn't seem right when I notice how I can't seem to feel any part of me.

"She's online," I hear a monotone metallic voice declare. I recognize the voice to belong to the 'Con designated as Soundwave. "Next time, don't slag your mate, Lockdown." (A/N- How many people didn't guess that Lockdown and Magnum were mates, even if they aren't super close? I'm guessing everyone!)

"Next time, she shouldn't give me a reason to." Lockdown grumbles from somewhere to my left. "Stupid afthead." I hear remorse in his voice, something that is VERY rare. "When should she be mobile?"

"I'm not a miracle worker. There was extensive damage to her-"

"How. Long." Lockdown's question is an obvious demand when he cuts off the bot.

"I am not a medic," He pauses. "But I believe I can work something out. But I need a new shell for her spark."

"Done." There is no hesitation in Lockdown's voice, reminding me why I loved this bot, even if he tried to offline me.

"Magnum?" Lockdown's voice asked timidly, gently placing a servoe on my shoulder.

I feel a tear of lubricant run down my face as I think about what I was forced to do today. "I don't know what's happened to me, Lockdown." I mumble, leaning back against the mech. "What have I become?"

The mech wraps his arms around me, whispering comforting nothings into my audio receptor. "You have become what you need to be. And no matter what that is, I will love you." I rest against the mech, and after several hours of tears, fall into recharge in his arms.

3 Weeks Later

"Don't even try pretending to recharge with me, Crank," Lockdown scolds as I online my optics, a playful smirk dancing across my face. "I've known you long enough to know when you are really recharging, and when you are faking."

"You know me so well." I say, looking up at the black and green mech who stands before me. He simply rolls his optics, a loving look you would of never expected to see shining brightly through the green optics.

"I don't think I would of been able to survive as long as I did with you if I hadn't gotten to know you REAL FAST." He teases, holding out a servoe to help me off the berth. I take it gratefully and he pulls me up and into a hug that I've become rather fond of. He has taken every chance he can get to hug me ever since what happened a few cycles ago. "Megatron is waiting for us." I groan as he says this, making him laugh. "C'mon, the guy ain't so bad." Lockdown replies to my unease.

"So being the key word here, Lockdown." I pull myself out of his embrace, a hurt look flashing for the briefest moment, but instantly washing away. "Lead the way. Don't want to keep our most grand and noble," I say those words with sarcasm, "leader waiting."

A/N - Okay, so I want the 5 of you who read this, lol, to tell me what you think will happen. W.W.M.D.N? (What will Magnum do next? lol) Will she stay with Lockdown, or go back to the Wreckers? And are she and Springer really just brother and sister, or is there something more between them? Sorry again that it's kinda short!