Chapter Ten

Storm groggily awoke to see Jazz sitting at her berthside, confused she took a quick look around before asking, "what…"

"Ya got knocked out." The saboteur replied.

"Where…"

"Ya in the medbay." He told her.

Storm was a little annoyed, she knew where she was, she wanted to know where Starlight and Lightning were so she could find out what happened. The last thing she remembered was Prowl shooting Skywarp off her, how many days, or maybe even weeks, had passed since then? Had she been in the medbay all that time? Wait, why the frag was Jazz at her berthside anyway? That confused her the most. "Why…"

"Just wanna make sure ya doin' alright."

"She's doing fine, no thanks to Skywarp." Ratchet said walking over.

"Skywarp?" Storm asked looking over at the medic "What happened? Where are Starlight and Lightning? Are they okay?" feeling optics on her she looked over to see the Porsche staring at her a smile on his face, she looked back at Ratchet. "And why does Jazz keep staring at me? It's starting to creep me out." She asked quietly not wanting the saboteur to hear.

"They're both fine." The medic looked over at the white and black mech "as for you Jazz, out. I won't have you scaring my patient."

"I wasn' even doin' anythin'." Jazz said confused.

"Out!" Ratchet reiterated pointing at the door.

After watching the Porsche leave Storm looked back the ambulance. "What's been going on?"

"Besides you making that mech jealous while you've been trying to get Prowl to notice you?" Ratchet asked sarcastically.

"I was doing what?!" Storm asked in shock as she sat up.

"Trying to romance Prowl and drive me crazy by making Jazz extremely jealous." A female voice said.

Storm smacked a hand over her optics, "please tell me I didn't try to do that."

"You don't remember?" Ratchet asked as he began to run some scans.

"Something tells me I don't want to." The femme jet leader replied.

"And miss out on all the wonderful things you did while your protocol was active." The femme chuckled as her friend peered over the top of her hand and glared at her.

"Lightning…"

"Yes?" an amused smile on her face

"Stop enjoying yourself at my expense." The blue-grey femme laughed, even Ratchet gave a small chuckle. She stopped smiling and gave the jet a sad but serious look, "he likes you, you know."

"Who?" Storm asked getting worried as her hand went back down to her lap.

"Perhaps this conversation can take place another time, when Storm is not in the medbay." Ratchet said seeing the readings on his scanner suddenly spike.

"As much as I would like to, Ratchet," Lightning began "she needs to know all the facts before two things happen: One, Starlight comes skipping in and gives our lovely team leader here a spark attack with her announcement and Two, a certain blue seeker comes here asking to speak with her."

The white and ocean blue femme looked over at the ambulance, "is it too late to be unconscious again?" she partly joked. She sighed at the glare given to her, "fine. So what's this news that Starlight's going to tell me that will apparently knock me out? Is it her feelings towards Prime? Because I already know all about that."

Lightning worryingly looked over at Ratchet, "if she is going to pass out the best place would be here, at least I won't have to come and find you to yell at you." He told her partly joking.

"Why does everyone think I'm going to pass out? I already know about…" Storm began.

"Actually…you don't. See it all happened while you were trying to romance Prowl." Lightning gave a humorous smile upon hearing her friend groan. "She was the reason it happened."

"Lightning, you're not making any sense." Storm told her.

"Storm, I'm quite sure you're aware that Skywarp and Starlight are twins. Right?" Ratchet began to which he received a nod "are you also aware that when ones partnering protocol is activated so is the others?"

"It's something all siblings are taught, the eldest is the only one to grant…permission to whoever their sibling may have chosen." Storm said causally.

"Starlight was to…re-establish the link we all shared but didn't. You spoke to her last, why did she not do that?" Lightning asked trying to understand how the whole situation they had gone through came about. She noticed how Storm suddenly became interested with the floor.

"I can partly answer that, Lightning." Ratchet said "Starlight came to me asking if there was a way to stop her spark from re-latching onto Skywarp every time she saw him in battle. I explained that the only way to do that would be to settle down with someone, to which she said that we are at war and that the idea to settle down was stupid and irresponsible."

Storm looked at the medic a moment before looking over at the blue-grey learjet, "you don't think she thought she could go on alone, do you?"

"I think that's exactly what happened. By refusing to re-establish our link and being cut-off from Skywarp her spark grasped onto the next available thing, her feelings for Prime. Inadvertently activating her partnering protocol." Lightning agreed going into an explanation of how it all came about.

"You're definitely Skyfire's sparkling." Ratchet commented making the femme chuckle.

Storm scratched her head, "so how did mine activate? I don't have any plans for partnering. Frag, I don't even want to get together with anyone. I'm perfectly fine on my own."

"Skywarp." Ratchet and Lightning said in unison.