A/N: Hey everybody. This a really short update, not even a true chapter. But I needed to do something so you guys would know I'm still here and still writing my stories. It's not just this one I am still working on, but all my stories I have going right now. I am working on the next chapter for this story, it is just really slow in coming and I am extremely sorry for the delay.

I am terribly sorry. I have no excuse. During the holidays I was busy, but it's been longer than that. Before the holidays I had trouble writing at all except every now and then I could write for a few hours. Then during the holidays I worked a lot and still had writing problems. The writing problems have continued. It's been over six months since I last updated a story, being It's a Prime Adventure, and almost a year for this story. Across the Galaxy could've been updated, but as I have stated in it, it's on hold until I reach a certain chapter in this story. To be honest, it depresses me and with all the other factors in my life that causes me to get depressed, it's all the more frustrating to have this be one of them.

Again, I am sorry. I have had such a hard time getting a writing swing for so long. I do not mean to make you guys wait and probably think I have abandoned my stories. I have not abandoned anything. I am still here to give you guys content. I am just struggling with getting that content written. I hope to get better with it soon. Maybe when I get in a less stressful atmosphere I can write better.

So yeah. I'm still here. Still writing my stories. Just having trouble getting back into the swing of things. I apologize for the wait you guys have had to suffer and for any wait in the future. But know I will not quit any of my current stories until they are completed! This I promise you! And I don't break my promises!

~The Scene~

"This place is huge for a dwarven ruin," I commented, looking around.

"Just because they're small doesn't mean they won't build giant structures," Pathbreaker pointed out.

"Also, I'm seeing more Cybertronian inscriptions as well," Stormbreaker said, pointing out some where she was examining a wall to my right.

"Hm," I hummed thoughtfully as I walked towards a doorway.

We had been sent to investigate one of the locations that had been marked on the map we had found in the dwarven ruins a couple months ago. When we had free time, occasionally we would choose a random sight to investigate, but this particular time was a mission. A Cybertronian signal had been detected here and we needed to find out what it was.

We were already pretty deep within the ruins, having gone through several empty passageways until we found this room filled with more writings on the walls. It was pretty big, but so far nothing interesting had happened.

I stepped through the doorway and felt the block sink underneath my pede until there was a click. I froze and looked around warily.

"What was that?" I wondered out loud.

"What was what?" Pathbreaker asked as he and our sister moved to join me.

"The block I stepped on appears to have been a pressure plate, but nothing seems to be happening," I answered.

"Well, whatever it was, it must be broken, just continue," Stormbreaker said and gave me a light push.

I stumbled into the next room, but as soon as my pede left the pressure plate, things started to happen. A rumbling started, followed by much of the floor moving to disappear into the wall, including part of the floor that I was standing on and where my siblings were standing. My siblings both retreated into the previous room while I was left standing precariously on a very narrow pathway that lead from one doorway to the other. On either side of me was a deep pit that contained electrified spikes on the bottom of them. There was probably enough electrical current down there to short-circuit even the Prime's circuits.

"Um, sis? You might want to come back here," Stormbreaker said as panels opened on the walls to either side of the room.

Before I had a chance to respond, arrows started shooting from the opened panels and I had to duck to avoid being hit. I flattened my wings against my back to avoid them being hit as well as I nearly laid flat on the narrow path. My servos would've held onto the ground as if it were a pole if it weren't for the fact the ground continued on downward.

"Well this is fun," I said flatly, gazing up at the arrows flying by, just missing me. It reminded me of the barb wire obstacle on our obstacle course back in the Safe.

The arrows themselves seemed to vary a little bit. Some of them crackled with electricity while others didn't outwardly appear to be anything that would do any harm to a Cybertronian. Still, though, I didn't want to risk being hit by any of them. The occasional bite from a stray spark was enough for me.

I took a moment to consider my situation. I could either crawl backwards to regroup with my siblings, which would prove pretty difficult considering, or I could crawl forward and we could either regroup on the other side or I'd find a way back from there. Maybe there would be a button on the other side to deactivate the trap.

"I'm going on!" I called to my siblings. "Maybe there's a way to deactivate this on the other side!"

"Hopefully, cause I won't make it through unscathed," Pathbreaker commented, referring to the fact that he was larger than me as well as our sister. I was barely underneath the arrows and I was the smallest of the three of us. Storm' might—'might' being the keyword there—have been able to duck under the arrows like I was, but Path' had no chance.

With that, I started to move forward, blocking out Stormbreaker's reminder every now and then to be careful. I had to focus entirely on what I was doing in order to both remain low enough to not be hit by the arrows and remain balanced so I didn't fall off. At some point, I lost track whether it was her telling me to be careful or just her voice in my helm saying it. Either way, it was a slow trek and it took me a full ten minutes before I reached the other side.

"Finally," I breathed when I pulled myself completely out of the line of fire for the trap.

I stood and looked around the hallway for anything that might shut the trap off and found it on the eastern wall. At least, it was the eastern wall if we were still going north. I wasn't entirely sure as I had lost track of how many turns we had taken since entering the ruins. Either way, when I pressed the block back, the arrows stopped shooting and the floor returned to its normal state.

"Perfect," I muttered, satisfied with the way that had turned out.

Stormbreaker and Pathbreaker made their way across the room, being wary of anymore possible traps laid out in the room. When they made it across, we continued on our way through the ruins, being more careful now that we knew there were traps.

"You know, it's starting to seem like the dwarves knew about Cybertronians," Stormbreaker said.

"From the writings and the fact the traps seem geared toward giant machine-like aliens, I'd say they did," I agreed.

"They were probably friends with the ancients," Pathbreaker said. "There are likely traps geared toward smaller beings as well and how much weight is placed on the pressure plates determines which trap is triggered."

"Likely," Stormbreaker and I said simultaneously.

We continued on through the hallway. The hallway was pretty long and we had to weave our way through a few traps to get through it. When we thought we were through, I heard something rolling toward us from behind and paused a moment.

"Does anyone besides me hear an Indiana Jones moment coming?" I asked.

"You mean that scene where he's running from a boulder?" Stormbreaker asked, looking behind us and up.

"I think you're right," Pathbreaker said.

"Run! Or rather fly!" Stormbreaker said and transformed before taking off through the hallway.

I sighed as my brother followed after her, thankful that the hallway was rather large. I nearly hesitated too long but took a running dash forward before transforming and following after my siblings, the large boulder right behind me. Said boulder appeared to be made of metal and probably had some kind of hidden trick inside, or something like that. I wasn't entirely keen on finding out, in case there was.

"Uh, guys, there's a problem," Stormbreaker sent over our intercom.

"You mean besides the giant metal boulder behind us that may, perhaps, probably have some kind of death trap attached to it?" I asked, speeding up a little bit as the boulder picked up speed from momentum.

"Yes! There's a room of lasers in front of us, the doorway into said room is tight for Path' AND the boulder will likely be on our tails up until said room," Stormbreaker explained in a surprisingly calm tone. "And the lasers are changing and numerous."

"So an average day for us, then." Pathbreaker said.

"We'll need to figure out a plan before we reach it," I said.

"This is gonna sound crazy, but let's just fly through it," Stormbreaker said.

"What?" I asked, not sure that was a good idea.

"Too late! Going through!" my sister said and I saw her disappear through the doorway.

I was sure my brother would've been shaking his helm if he was in bipedal mode. He followed her shortly with me not far behind. The boulder slammed into the doorway right behind me, but the wall held up and the giant metal object stopped chasing us. With that out of my concern, I could focus solely on avoiding the lasers.

Because it's always been my dream to be in a laser circus, I thought with a sigh.

I spun, ducked and weaved through the lasers, paying very close attention to the existing lasers as well as the walls to see if I could predict where they'd show up. I noticed the ones that would activate next would start glowing about half a second before they did. With my attention fully on the lasers, I wasn't able to keep up with where my siblings were without sacrificing time to figure out where I needed to fly. Even paying full attention to the task, I was still singed a number of times by just scraping past a laser. I lost the very tip of the top part of my tail fin to one such scrape. Needless to say I was thankful the hallway on the other side didn't appear to be trapped immediately.

When I transformed and landed, I was met by a sight of two equally singed siblings.

"My armor is singed," Pathbreaker said, giving our sister a deadpanned look.

"I told you we needed a plan," I said, inspecting a singed spot on my arm. Part of it was on my shade-changing silver and I wondered if I would be able to fix that or if I'd now have a spot that didn't change shade. I'd have to ask Sunstreaker if there was anything he could do. I wasn't necessarily vain, but I rather liked my shade-changing armor.

"There was no time!" Stormbreaker said in defense. "Besides we all lived. Now come on, lets find what we came here for. The signal's from the next room."

"It better be worth it," I commented to myself.

Whether it was worth it in the end was up for debate. What we found wasn't necessarily useless, but it wasn't something that would give us an advantage over the Decepticons either.

"A recipe?" I asked, at the screen back at base.

"For Energon gummies," Stormbreaker said, grinning.

"So we made our way through booby trapped ruins for the ability to make gummies," I said, blinking. "And Path' is still cleaning his armor from the lasers."

"Energon gummies are good though," Sideswipe said, looking at the screen over Ratchet's shoulder. "I remember before the war, there was this sweets shop that had tons of different flavors of gummies."

"That was my favorite shop," Jazz commented.

Stormbreaker and I shared a look before grinning. We knew what we were going to spend the next few hours doing.