Chapter Seven

Sunstreaker and Sideswipe were out on patrol and were bored, nothing was going on, except for Sunstreaker's complaining about how all the dust and dirt wasn't good for his paintjob. Sideswipe had virtually tuned his brother out having heard it a million and one times before. He radioed his report to base before heading for the city, he was halfway through when he suddenly stopped making Sunstreaker slam on his brakes so as not to crash into his rear end.

Watch what you're doing, Slagger! Sunstreaker said angrily through their bond.

Sideswipe didn't respond, not when he was seeing what was in front of him. He couldn't believe that the rumours about Sam were true. He sat there frozen to the spot as if forced to watch what was unfolding in front of him.

Sunstreaker had, had enough of being ignored by his brother and come round the red Lamborghini's side only to have the same reaction as Sideswipe.

A few feet in front of them sat a brown haired woman, next to her sat a chestnut haired man. The man had his arm around the woman's waist and her head was resting on his shoulder, they looked very much in love.

That's… Sunstreaker stated in shock.

Yeah. Sideswipe answered sadly.

We…

Lost her, and all because of that stupid argument we had. Sideswipe continued.

No. No, I won't believe it. Sunstreaker said in denial. He drove up beside the couple. "Sam." He said hating how sad, weak and scared his voice sounded. The woman looked over but instead of seeing those friendly, kind, loving eyes he was so used to. Sunstreaker was surprised to see pure hate and anger coming from this person, he thought he might have mistaken them for the one he loved dearly and was about to leave when he heard something that made his spark freeze.

"Sam? Is everything okay?"

She turned back to the man, a smile on her face. "Fine Lee. Just thought I saw someone I recognised, turned out to be no one. How about we go, huh?"

"Sure." Kissing her cheek.

"What? That's all I get?" she said with playful humour, ignoring the growl coming from the roadside.

Lee laughed, "You'll get more later." He joked back.

"Promises, promises." Sam said standing to leave.

As Lee stood a devious smile appeared on his face. "How about I stay over the night?"

"Sounds like fun." She replied giving him a quick kiss.

Sideswipe pulled up behind his brother as they watched the two leave walking hand in hand. We've lost her for good. He said trying to 'mend' the pieces of his broken spark. If only we could… he began only to have Sunstreaker speed off with a squeal of tires. Sunny! Sideswipe wasn't sure whether he should go after his brother or go back to the ark and never come out of his room. He just wanted to erase the entire event he just witnessed from his memory. Sunny? Sunstreaker. Come on, Bro. Please, answer me. Worry began to coarse though his systems, his feelings could wait, he had to find Sunstreaker before he did something stupid.

Two hours later Sideswipe found his twin in the desert with piles of small rocks scattered about. He guessed that they were once large boulders seeing as his brother was currently smashing to bits another boulder. He walked over to the yellow mech and put a hand on his shoulder, "Sunstreaker." He had just enough time to dodge before a fist came at his head. "Whoa, Sunstreaker it's me, Sideswipe. You know, your brother, who'd like to stay in one piece." He joked.

"Sideswipe?" Sunstreaker asked finally realising who the mech was.

"Who else would be crazy enough to touch you when you're taking your anger out on those poor rocks." He joked again gesturing to the piles of rocks, trying to get some humour into a serious situation. "Is everything okay?"

"That's a stupid question, Sides." Sunstreaker said, "You know as well as I do that everything is NOT okay."

The red warrior sighed, "Yeah, I saw what happened."

"Did you see the look she gave me?" Sideswipe gave a nod, "She hates us."

"If only we could remember what went on during that argument." Sunstreaker suddenly hit another boulder. "You keep that up and you'll be hearing about it from Ratchet." The yellow warrior looked at his twin. "I know, I know. You don't care."