Chapter Nine: Broken Sparks.

Starlight talked about her day with Bumblebee and Hot Shot and how,as she put it met a big meany. We had to help her on some words but other wise she just chatted and chirped away. Even after her story was done and she was in bed she still talked away about every thing and any thing she could think of at the moment. Rain and I could hardly hold back our laughs. Still we where surprized at how well she spoke for her age.

We were finally able to get Starlight to lie down and sleep, but she didn't want to at first because she wanted Bee. We told her that he was sleeping so she finally gave up.

Exhausted, Raindown and I both laid on our berth with our legs hanging off the edge. We laughed and talked quietly for a while and had just kissed goodnight when the alarm went off.

"Mommy!" Star cried sitting up with a start.

"It's ok Starly." Rain said getting up a walking to her. She sat by her and Star climbed on her lap and snuggled up again. Rain held her close and rubbed her helm trying to sooth her.

We heard a knock on the door and Rocket came in not wanting to wait for us to answer.

"Sir, we have a situation. We need all able Autobots on the field." He said.

We got up and rushed out the door to follow him. We saw him back at his bunker and he and Coraline where saying bye to Hot Shot and Bee. I think Bumblebee must have just woken up because, even when he started beeping, he barely lifted his head off Hot Shot's shoulder.

"Hi." Starlight said sleepily as Rain gave her to Hottie.

"Be careful." Hot Shot said as we took off.

When we got to the field we could see a whole on slot of bots coming up fast.

"Decepticons, attack!" the bot in front of the mass shouted. I knew that voice all too well, Megatron. At this they started to charge at us, even though they were a hundred yards from us.

'Decepticons huh? The name is suiting.' I thought to myself as I put my battle mask down.

"Autobots be ready for any thing." I yelled. "And only kill if you need to." I added as everyone formed their guns and started to run at the hoard.

Shots rang out into the night and bombs light up the sky making it look like day time. While I was distracted by the strange new sights of war a con come up behind me. Lucky for me he wasn't very quiet and I was able to disarm him easily. I turned around in time to see a comrade in trouble and shot the con in the back. Besides some sneak attacks the battle was fine, that is until he showed up again.

"Hello Optimus." Megatron said hitting me from behind.

I tried to get back up but he kicked me in the stomach and I fell back down.

"Long time no see." He said picking me up and throwing me. "And I hear you have a little family, how sweet. Too bad I have to kill them, along with the rest of the Autobots."

He came up to me and put his foot on my chest plate and pushed down, hard.

"Grra..." I cried and he aimed his gun at my head. I shut my optics off and prepared for the worst. A shot rang out but I wasn't offline and I heard Megatron cry out.

"Get off Deceptiscum." Rocket said taking aim again.

Another shot rang out but this time it was from Megatron. He had shot Rocket in a fatal point, right in the processor. I watched in horror as Rocket fell to the ground and off lined.

"Well that takes care…Uff" Megatron cried as I shot him in the midsection.

"Why Megatron?" I said getting up and shaking in anger. "He had a family!"

"Good, more to kill." He sneered and took aim at me again. I glared back at him

I was able to get out of the way and hide under a fallen piece of metal.

'I'm sorry Rocket. I swear I will avenge you.' I said in my mind.

I got up and fired a missile which hit my brother in the shoulder.

"Gaaa," He yelled as he fell to his knees.

When I looked again I saw that his arm had been shot off and Energon was spilling every where.

"You'll pay Prime." He said putting his hand to his temple. "Decepticons retreat."

'That coward...' I thought to myself as I watched him transform and fly off. I was in no condition to chase after him.

After all the cons had left the field, I ran back up to Rocket. I lifted his head, which was half gone and held him in my arms.

"Rocket,*sigh*, how am I going to tell them?" I said as I cradled him as if he were Starlight or Bumblebee. I looked away from him and let tears roll down my cheeks.

I wiped the tears away and picked him up and carried him back to the base and proceeded to the dead room. This would be the room where Coraline, Raindown, Hot Shot, the sparklings, and I would say good bye to him before being melted down. Even if his processor was practily gone, some of the information he had, 'cons could use it.

When I set him on the table I couldn't help but go through my memory banks. I went back to when we were kids, we would always lay by each other at night when our parents were too busy and had us stay at their office. We would talk about nothing until we fell asleep. As I walked out and back to our bunkers I found another memory that almost put me over the edge again. It was when we were five stellar cycles old and we had put clear oil on the floor of the base. We had laughed at everyone that fell until my Sire was the bot that fell. We had to clean the whole base for a month.
When I got to Rocket's bunker I could hear the three of them laughing and running around, so much for trying to settle them down for the night. I opened the door and saw Bee and Star crawling around and making noises like a plane.

"Hot Shot," I said looking at the floor. "Where is your creator?"