AN: I was going to leave that as a cliffhanger and not update for at least two weeks, and then inspiration just had to stick it's ass in my face. So a lot of you (probably not a lot, my self as teem doesn't let me compliment myself about the fact that there are actually quite a lot of people reading this. Which makes me SO HAPPY!) are probably what the frig is going on with Hypno. Now I don't want to put any of my characters in the spotlight but this is kind of showing everyone just how much Silver and Hypno lean on each other. Also I'm seriously thinking of just shipping those two off to Madagascar. Seriously. And did anyone like sleepy Arcee, I just like showing softer sides to bots that are usually very uptight. So in my stories, Arcee is going to be a big ball of fluff when it comes to sleepy time!

I have no idea why. Also, what does everyone think of Insanity? Crazy enough? And on a last note, is anyone bothered with the fact that I don't reply,I the don't want to be rude or anything and please know that I am so grateful that more than one person is actually reading my shitty writing! Like seriously! But do know that you can pm me at any given time, it may take a while for me to reply but I most likely will.

On with the next chapter!

She sat there, staring at her friend. At Hypno. She didn't even bat an optic when Arcee sat next to her silently, probably unsure as to how to react. So was she, in fact she had repeatedly pressed her audials to Hypno's chest, where her spark slept, to check if she was actually faking it the whole time. She didn't even hear the hum of response. She just stared into her friends blank, endless optics as if they were having a staring contest. She didn't want to lose, she didn't want to blink and then the quirky femme just not, be there.

It was almost laughable, the fact that she had smouldered and yet grown cold to her just a week before when Monster had threatened her. She should've realised that Monster and her were nothing alike, that the amount of torture Hypno would've had if she were to be the one to attack and threaten her. It was impossible.

Reaching over, she pulled at Hypno's left ped and placed it carefully in her lap. She had always been curious as to why her peds were like that, she was almost definitely not a hybrid between animal and cybertronian, she had made that clear every time she had been mocked or questioned. Looking down, she realised she was playing with one of the limp claws of her peds.

Tapping or pushing it down just to see it jump up again like a spring, she frowned, there was something wrong with this ped though, it was considerably heavier than the right as she had lifted it up to get to the other ped. Feeling around she felt a tab that moved slightly when pressed. She looked to Arcee who frowned and then shrugged next to her, 'why not?' She seemed to say.

She pressed it.

The whole underside of the ped, including the claws detached from the front and multiple metal parts folded in different directions. She was met with multiple wires, lights and the Pistons that controlled her claws. What the frag?

"It's the main control for her peds. Our frames are a lot less advanced in general if you don't count the updates to our systems. It controls how our peds move and how much pressure we put down, if our claws are capable of crushing things or if they're sharp." She turned to see Monster and the other two personalities walk through the the door and towards them. Binary held some sort of box.

She frowned slightly, older? But Hypno was younger than her. "What do you mean, Hypno was younger than me!"

Binary jumped slightly when she raised her voice, she had forgotten that she was actually Logical fear. Smart but cowardly.

"You'll understand soon. And why are you using past tense?" She asked.

"But she's offline! Dead, kicked the bucket! Dead." She frowned, scrambling to her peds.

Insanity grinned " Nope!" She could hear her spark pounding in her audials. She looked up to Monster who was rapidly walking towards her, oh frag. She was dragged towards Monster when she grabbed her neck plating. She was inches from those terrifyingly sharp teeth.

"I honestly don't give a frag about any of these whelps here. They're useless, annoying and they get in the way of what I want. And what I want is to bury my claws, my teeth, anything! Into that Prime's neck and tear away at his flesh until all that's left is his skeletal frame." She then snarled and put her forehelm against Silver's so that their optics were level. She had to zoom out to focus Monster was that close.

"And I can't do that, if we're dead, can I? Get it through your skull, Hypnolock isn't a bot, she is a personality, she is like us! She just so happens to be the youngest and also the most prominent throughout us combined. However I am the dominant one, don't get them mixed up or at least try to remember, I've calculated that you're a lot slower than the average calculator."

"Then what personality is she?" She gulped and admitted that yeah, Monster really was disturbing.

Monster grinned and stepped away, swinging open her arms before looking back to Silver, her face unreadable.

"We, all of us, Insanity, Monstrosity, Logical fear and her, we are the possibilities of what happens when Innocence was killed. Do you know what Hypnolock is now? She is that sinking feeling in your tank, that ache in your spark, that mask to hide up scars. She is Depression. Just ask your friend there, she knows all about it." She ended up towering over her and Arcee, a leering glare of what could be described as anger.

Arcee stepped up, glaring at Monster "You don't know anything about me. We've never even talked to each other. How could you-"

She was interrupted when Monster lifted her face by her chin, looking deep into her optics "Oh but my dear, I don't need to talk to you, I just merely, have to…look" she tapped the glass of her own broken optics, not even flinching.

She continued "The way you hold yourself, it's proud, cold and yet your shoulders slump slightly. You glare at almost everyone here, more mechs than femmes, so you've lost someone close, or two that were mechs. You loath arachnids and take great delight in crushing them when your human slave and his femme companion ask you to. And yet you refuse to be close to anyone, brushing them off as if they're either not there or angrily. Not violent however which means you care but you refuse to be close in case you lose them. Also there is the small fact that there is a grave at the top made like a traditional two wheeler would. It's small so the frame was never recovered. All that remains is a broken metal, horn." She grinned sinisterly when she saw the shock and slightly scared face of Arcee, her mouth slightly agape.

She shut Arcee's mouth and patted her on the cheek "There there my dear, everyone's been through death. We are in a war after all. Well I've lost someone, but I just killed an awful lot of cybertronian looking insects as payback. Who else do you think hacked into those 'unfortunate' Autobots and Decepticons? And played with their insides?" She stared at Arcee and Silver with a slightly predatory look, her voice a dangerous and sultry drawl.

Her expression suddenly turned to a thunderous storm as she turned to the other two personalities "well? We need to get back into our body, I don't want to spend time with 'her' anymore. No matter if she's disabled for now." She pointed towards the other slumped over figure before walking to it and kicking it over the other side of the room and towards the cowering personalities. It didn't even make a noise as it flew towards them and hit the wall with a heavy thud.

Binary gulped before running towards Hypno, insanity soon following after. She scrambled over to Hypno, kneeling downwards and pulling her body so that it lay on the floor. She opened the box she had been holding, it turned out to be a medical kit. Odd, she hadn't seen one like it around the base before.

She crouched next to Binary, Arcee taking to sitting down and just staring into nothingness, Monster seemed to have broken her.

Binary paused for a moment, glancing up at her "I-I'm guessing you have questions. Uhh, not that that's a problem." She stuttered slightly before her voice went monotone, like a computer would talk.

"Monster said that Hypno was the youngest, what…what does she mean by that?" She sat next to Hypno's frame, folding her arms and watching Binary check her friend over.

"Hypno is the latest personality to be shown or made. Monster, being the first one. I was the second and Insanity came soon after. 'She' came before Monster, but she was…deactivated by Monster." She frowned slightly, refusing to look at her.

"Deactivated, why?"

"She was good, honourable. She was what Monster used to be. She was a soldier, a guard for our home. And yet she had the least energon on her sword after the underground massacre war. We, we used to be a soldier called wallers, we would use swords and shields to go into places where civilians were in danger or if innocents needed saving. Take the attacks with our shield and then we're were told to kill. We didn't, 'she' refused to kill. And for that we were honoured by our people, yet we paid the price for not following orders."

"And what was the price?"

"To forget. Our price was to forget what happened before we became a guard for our home. We…we don't remember who we are, how we grew up, our creators, we don't even remember if Hypnolock is our real designation." She laughed bitterly, before glancing downwards.

"Is that why Monster's like that?"

"Only some. She's angry at a lot of things. She's angry at 'her' because she remembers and that she is a challenge to Monster, like a stalemate. And that she is what Monster was. She's angry at the destruction of her home. At the death of a light. And at that Prime. Thing is Monster, she is dangerous because unlike the rest of us, she knows how to fight in a style no one in this time would recognise. She could easily kill almost anyone if she wanted. If she had the spark."

"Had the spark, what do you mean? Surely she'll just kill anyone."

"She refuses to hurt sparklings. It's her one flaw, one major hole in her map. She easily got over the programming to protect weaker sparks. But after…he was killed. We saw a side no one ever wanted to see. She just lost control and disabled us, stormed into our cpu grasped 'her' and like a door shutting…all we could hear was the screaming and Monsters entire spark speaking. So angry. So very sad, so very tired."

Silver frowned. This must be a taboo thing to talk about, so why was Binary telling her this?

"Monster doesn't have to know…does she, Insanity?" Binary chuckled slightly when a bleary eyed Insanity jerked up, she'd fallen asleep apparently.

"I…I think I found the problem. When we were forced out and given physical forms, this caused some sort of relapse in radioactivity. He spark seems to have just gone on standby. Every single function is still working…but there's no spark to power…it. Frag. Frag, frag!"

Silver and Arcee jumped when Binary ran over and dragged Insanity towards Hypno.

"Stupid! How could I not see! She's not dead, she's dying because there's no spark working to control her major frame functions! The radioactive poisoning's caused her spark to just stop and her functions to keep working yet at a smaller place. She's still awake! She's been listening in all this time. You dick! Oh…sorry…dying at an extremely slow rate must be painful…" She whimpered slightly when she slapped Hypno across the faceplate.

Her face then turned into concentration as the manually opened…well her own spark chamber technically. Oh, oh…okay. Silver quickly turned around, spark chambers were a touchy subject, it was like if Miko just walked up to Jack and Raf and started stripping. Sparks were only meant to be seen by loved ones and doctors. Silver suddenly felt out of place, and so did Arcee because she soon felt her sit next to Silver facing the same way with an embarrassed blank look on her face. She would've laughed if she hadn't been wearing the same look.

"I don't know what you two are doing, you're going to have to do it. Once Hypno's spark comes back online, we're probably going to disappear. Literally." Binary's slightly amused voice came from behind them, along with Insanity's loud laughter. Silver groaned.

She groaned and turned around. Trying not to look at her friends spark. Actually…that didn't really look a lot like a spark, not that she had any experience at googling at chest plates.

Binary sighed "We come from the underground, from a different time. Our frame is older than yours, it's not going to look as brand spanking new as yours now, is it? And anyway, were designed differently. So just think you're a vet…or something."

Hypno's entire spark was covered in wires, pistons and machines that she'd only seen in museums. Ok, something new then, she breathed an unneeded breath and looked to Binary for guidance.

Binary glanced upwards and gave a sympathetic look before muttering out her words

"Sorry but it's not like I can do spark surgery on myself now is it? All I can do is talk you through it. And don't worry it's not exactly spark surgery, more like reconnecting damaged wires that have been clogged up by radioactive gunk as well as providing energy to our spark and Hypno's part of our cpu at the same time. Not that hard at all." She gave a weak grin to her and Arcee.

Great. Just great.

"Alright, now what you need to do is locate where all of the gunk is, the tubes are what keep us alive and also make our energon flow properly. Once you've done that, well…your going to have to find a energy source that can change voltage level from low to high, if you give our spark too much voltage it will short it out, most likely killing us all instantly. Give us too little when we need another boost will bring you back to the start. While doing that, you're going to have to reconnect some of that energy to Hypno's part of the cpu. You'll easily find her part as it'll be dimly lit compared to the rest. To do that, use some sort of wire and connect it to the spark and the cpu." Binary stated, she was leaning against the wall in preparation, they all shared one spark. Frag knows if it was gonna hurt.

She and Arcee nodded dumbly. She really didn't want to do this.

She sighed and looked down into her friends spark. This was going to take a while.

She had been right. It had taken ages to unscrew all of the respective tubes, check if they had this disgusting puke looking gunk blocking them, clean them carefully with some wipes as this was technically Hypno's insides they were cleaning and then to check all of them twice. Binary hadn't been much help as the entire time she had been hunched over and jerking slightly, apparently to her it felt like someone was putting their entire servo down her throat as well as play with her insides. Which was what they were doing. They had then found a large machine that produced voltage at different levels. Apparently it had been a testing device for machines the humans had made so they could see how much energy to give to the respective machines. At had taken multiple struggling efforts and shaky digits as they almost certainly didn't want to kill Hypno, so that ended up in having to start over from not giving out enough voltage, repeatedly.

Binary had screamed the entire way. It was apparently painful. Insanity had done the exact same thing except she had started laughing half way through the process. Which was driving the stressed and tired Silver mad.

They now had the actually quite easy process of attaching a wire from Hypno's spark to her CPU. Her part of the mind was indeed darker and wasn't as brightly lit by what seemed to be blue lights. There were many grooves and wires that connected to things that looked important as well as having many ports and small Pistons that kept things running. They had found the wire laying across the room, it had one long end that split off into two parts as they originally were going to connect the parts that split up to Hypno's spark so that they wouldn't poke the wrong part with the unused split end, accordingly to Binary, that would just end up confusing the polarity of the spark. Which in end would do nothing.

"Almost got it." Silver huffed to Arcee, Binary had long since stopped replying and now lay slumped next to Insanity, they had both complained about headaches and had slowed their CPUs down so not to spark silver as the poked and prodded their mind. She was about to place the other end of the wire in the part that would provide more power to Hypno when a loud crash erupted from the other side of the door. Silver jumped and the wire went into Hypno's side of the brain. The split end went into another.

Binary jumped awake as well as Insanity, who for once didn't have a stupid grin on her face.

"Oh scrap. Oh scrap! What-what did you do!?" Came a startled Binary, who had started darting around the room in fear.

"There was a loud crash and I jumped, the other end went into another place, but I got Hypno as well, what's wrong?" Silver stood up after closing the armour around Hypno's helm.

"N-not this is not good! You idiot! You just provided more power t-to Monster oh slag-" Binary was cut short when she was roughly grabbed by a skeletal claw and dragged into the darkness, they heard her begging profusely before a snarl shook the room, a loud scream followed.

Silence.

Insanity was then pulled by the ped, causing her to fall to the ground. She was dragged away laughing, clawing at the ground. A loud laughing scream followed before a horrific gurgling sound cut short the laughter. The two could only just hear the words 'no' and 'mercy' before silence cut through like a sharpened knife.

"N-nooww woulldd bee the beesst timme to gett the –KTZZ- Primme" they turned to see a barely moving Hypno pressing herself against the wall.

A animalistic growl echoed throughout the silo.

"Prime.."