By that evening between Starscream's repair systems and some help from Thundercracker he was almost fully repaired although some of the metal on his arm was still twisted causing him to have some trouble using it.

Skywarp had stayed with Eva the rest of the day, reassuring her that Starscream really hadn't been hurt that badly and trying to convince her that it wasn't her fault he had been hurt.

"He really will be fine, anyways, you don't even like him, why are you getting so upset about this?" Skywarp asked.

"I just feel horrible that he was hurt because of me, I know he only did it to protect the sparkling, but if he hadn't I would have died too." Eva replied.

"Well don't worry about him, Megatron is like that all the time, especially with Starscream, I think it's sort of his way of trying to intimidate him and make sure he doesn't try to challenge him to a fight over who should lead." Skywarp told her, "Now why don't you go get ready for bed and I'll take care of the dishes, it's been a long stressful day and you need your sleep."

"Alright." Eva agreed somewhat reluctantly.

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Once Eva had gone to bed Skywarp had turned his holoform off and went to check on Starscream. Eva laid in bed trying to fall asleep for a while, but all she could think about was how close she had come to dieing that day and how much danger she had put herself and the sparkling in. Finally unable to stand being left alone with her thoughts any longer she grabbed her bathrobe and headed outside.

"The twisted metal is taking longer to heal than a clean break would have, but I should be good as new in less than a day." she heard Starscream saying.

"Good, now what was with that message earlier about not letting Megatron scan Eva and the sparkling?" Skywarp asked.

"Yeah, you sounded really concerned about it." Thundercracker added.

"Neither one of you have done an in depth scan on her have you?" Starscream asked.

"No." they both replied, "Just basic scans, enough to detect the sparkling, but not much more than that." Thundercracker added.

"The experiment didn't work, if Megatron had scanned her he would have killed her and the sparkling no matter what I said." Starscream said.

"What do you mean, the sparkling is still alive and Eva seems to be doing just fine?" Thundercracker asked.

"Oh they're both doing fine, I'm almost sure they'll both survive the pregnancy as well, but when I programmed the nanites I programmed them to alter Eva's body so she could handle carrying the sparkling and make any adjustments that were necessary to allow the sparkling to absorb energy from her. It obviously worked, but not how I thought it would, the sparkling was supposed to be a perfect clone, but in order to allow the sparkling to absorb energy from her the sparkling was altered as well. Its now semi organic, at first it was just it's energy absorption system, but it's slowly becoming more organic as it grows. At this point I don't know what to expect by the time it's born or if it'll be able to survive once it is been born. There's a good chance it'll work similarly to how a human's body reacts to a transplanted body part, the Cybertronian and organic halves will react to the other as if it's some type of disease and try to destroy each other, killing the sparkling in the process ." Starscream explained.

"And even if it did survive Megatron would never let a part organic sparkling live. How long have you known this?" Thundercracker asked.

"Since the second week she was carrying the sparkling." Starscream replied.

"You've known that long that the experiment was a failure and that Megatron would never let the sparkling live? Why didn't you ever put an end to it if you knew it wasn't going to work?" Thundercracker asked.

"Because there is still a slim chance the sparkling will survive. It's a living sentient being, it's my clone, my sparkling and if Megatron won't allow it to live I'll take it to Optimus Prime if I have to, but I won't allow it to be murdered just because it didn't turn out the way I expected it to." Starscream said.

"But I thought you didn't want the Autobots to find out that you were trying to find a way to create sparklings." Skywarp said.

"Even if we could have kept Megatron from finding out about the sparkling's organic half, the Autobots would have found out after the sparkling was born anyways." Starscream replied then hesitated.

"Why, how could they have possibly found?" Skywarp asked.

"Eva probably would have gone and told them." Starscream replied.

"But you said-" Thundercracker said.

"That if the experiment worked she would permanently become our prisoner, but it didn't work, not the way it was supposed to."

"You also said if it didn't work that you would kill her." Thundercracker pointed out.

Starscream hesitated for a long moment then said, "I think we've all become rather attached to her."

"Wait a minute I thought you hated her." Skywarp said.

"She's the one who hates me, she drives me crazy sometimes, but, how can I hate someone who reminds me so much of myself, she's so strong, so determined and stubborn even in the most hopeless of situations she refuses to give up. If she were Cybertronian I- she would make a fine soldier." he finished rather quickly.

"So we keep her safe until the sparkling is born and then we're letting her go?" Skywarp asked.

"Yes." Starscream replied

"What if Megatron finds out before the sparkling is born and wants us to kill her?" Thundercracker asked.

"Then we'll take her to the Autobots if we have to, Optimus Prime would never let any innocent, sentient being be harmed." Starscream replied.

"What if Megatron comes out here and tries to kill her himself before we can get her to the Autobots?" Skywarp asked.

"He'll have to go through me first, no one will hurt her or my sparkling so long as I function." Starscream replied.

"Good, because I was about to say the same thing." Skywarp said.

"Me too." Thundercracker added.

"You know how dangerous it is to openly defy Megatron." Starscream said.

"Of course we do, but nobody's going to mess with my little sister." Skywarp stated.

"Little sister?" Starscream and Thundercracker asked.

"Well yeah, you know how much I always wanted a little sister when we were sparklings and I just can't help it, at some point I just started thinking of her as my adopted little sister." Skywarp admitted a little hesitantly.

"A Cybertronian adopting a human as their sibling? You do realize how absolutely insane that sounds, don't you?" Thundercracker asked seriously.

"Yeah, but I just can't help thinking of her like that." Skywarp replied sounding a little embarrassed.

"Good, as long as you realize how insane you are," Thundercracker said then his tone lightened, "just remember she was my little sister first."

"What?" Skywarp asked in shock.

"I was here when we first took her and was thinking of her more as family before you even got to earth, so she was my little sister first." Thundercracker replied.

"No way I was the first to admit I thought of her as being our sister, you were probably too worried about Starscream and I thinking you were crazy to have ever admitted it if I hadn't said it first, so that means she was my little sister first." Skywarp said.

"Well she-"

"If we're through with having intelligent conversations why don't you two go argue somewhere else, I need to recharge." Starscream cut in before Thundercracker could finish replying.

"Fine." they both replied then started to walk away.

"She has more fun hanging out with me." Skywarp said.

"Maybe, if all she wants is mindless distractions or entertainment, but she comes to me if she wants intelligent conversation." Thundercracker replied.

Once they were far enough away Starscream sat down leaning back against a tree and his eyes dimmed.

Eva silently made her way back to the cabin and curled up in bed as her mind raced. Knowing that the sparkling wasn't turning out the way Starscream had hoped and that Megatron would kill it if he found out, she felt even more shocked that Starscream, knowing how Megatron would react, had protected her. And the fact that he had been protecting her and not just the sparkling stunned her even more. After everything she had put him though he was just as protective of her as Thundercracker and Skywarp were.

She sighed as her mind turned to thoughts that, until that night she had refused to let herself think about. Maybe she had been to hard on him, after all, all he was trying to do was save an innocent baby's life as well as his entire race, who new, if she had been forced into a similar situation she may have done the same thing.

She couldn't help smiling as she thought of Thundercracker and Skywarp. She never would have imagined that she would end up with two alien robots as adopted brothers, but she couldn't deny that she had come to think of them as family just as much as they seemed to think of her that way. The last thought to cross her mind as she drifted off was wondering how long the two of them would continue to argue over her.

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It was the next day and Eva was laying in the sun on the large flat rock at the edge of the lake feeling completely relaxed and at peace, with one hand resting on her stomach as the sparkling kicked. Starscream was several yards away working on his newest project.

She closed her eyes enjoying the feeling of the sun warming her, a few minutes later she opened her eyes as the sun was blocked and nearly screamed when she saw Megatron coming right towards her.

As quickly as she could she jumped off of the rock and ran over to Starscream.

"What are you doing here, lord Megatron?" Starscream asked.

"I took some scans of the human yesterday and was just going over them, you lied to me, the experiment was a failure, I want that human and the monster it's carrying destroyed immediately." Megatron said.

"No, I won't hurt them." Starscream replied.

"How dare you disobey me." Megatron growled before swinging his fist into Starscream's face.

Eva ducked behind a large tree and watched helplessly as Megatron continued to beat Starscream until Thundercracker and Skywarp landed behind him and started to fight him as Starscream struggled to his feet and joined them.

She wasn't sure how much time passed, but the battle seemed to go on forever and then Megatron suddenly pulled his arm back as if he was going to slug Thundercracker, but instead his arm formed into a large canon and he fired it strait into Thundercracker's chest leaving a gaping hole strait through him.

She watched in horror as his eyes flickered once and then went dark as his body collapsed lifelessly to the ground.

Megatron suddenly spun towards Skywarp, a large blade replacing the canon as he turned then ran it through Skywarp's chest causing him to cry out in pain then knocked him to the ground.

Eva ran to his side as Starscream continued to fight Megatron, "Get out of here Eva, you've got to run, get as far away from here as possible." Skywarp told her.

"I can't just leave you." Eva sobbed.

"Don't worry about me, just keep yourself and the sparkling safe." he told her before his eyes went dark.

Eva let out a cry of shock as Starscream suddenly fell only a few feet behind her. As she looked at him she was horrified to find his chest ripped open to reveal the slowly pulsing light of his spark. "Run, it's your only chance." he told her as he struggled to get closer to her.

"Now it's your turn maggot." Megatron said aiming his canon at her.

Eva didn't even have time to try to escape before the canon started to glow and she heard Starscream yell at her to run as he tried, but failed to get up to attack Megatron again.


Sorry for taking so long to update this, I just have so many projects I'm working on that I can't keep up with them all.

So I've decided to just end the story here. . .

Okay not really, I'm just not going to make any guarantees about how often I'll be posting new chapters, although I will promise to have the next one up in a week and if I don't then feel free to send Megatron to hold a canon to my head until I post it. After that though updates will come as I have the time to work on them.