Guys, I'm sorry about this long author's note. This actually something pretty serious that has happened very recently.

There is a user who was writing a story called "Transformers Fangirl" on here, and it had came to my attention that the user was COPYING not only my summary from my fanfic, "Unexpected", but also the entire first chapter. After reading it, I was just so unbelievably angry and baffled that I didn't even know how to react.

First, it was completely and utterly plagiarized. And I know this is Fanfiction, but blatantly copying someone's work and posting it as your own is just wrong. You don't know how much time and effort they put into it. You don't know just how much this means to them. You didn't sit on a laptop for two-to-three hours writing out a good enough chapter for your readers to enjoy. And you sure as hell wouldn't be happy if someone had done it to you.

It really hurts me to know that someone would just take a story, my first story ever, and copy it down to every single word (minus the characters) like that. "Unexpected" means a lot to me, it was something that I could look back on and be proud of. And at the beginning of my Fanfiction writing, I know I was a little messy, but I damn well put time and effort into making it good enough for my readers.

Plagiarizing is wrong guys, and please don't do it to other people. Trust me, it hurts them in a way I can't even describe. And also, if you see other people copying work from someone else please tell them. Even if it's just a small PM to tip them off. The worst thing you can do is let it keep going around behind their back. So yeah...

I also want to thank Agent-Cheesecake for bringing this to my attention and being a really good friend to me. I'm just relieved the story has been deleted.

Okay, now that's over with. On the bright side, I got this chapter out pretty early...kinda. The reviews:

Vodid- Haha, thank you! Oh yes, their reunion will go down pretty interestingly. Hmm, I'm pretty sure Sentinel will find her quite shocking. And thanks, I'm really glad I hit it! Also, congratz for you for hitting 100 on Sunny Side Up!

jgoss- This review made me laugh and feel better. Thank you for that lol.

SapphireSpark- Me too, thanks!

Sapphire-Starz17- Aww, sorry I made ya cry! I loved it too. Oh yeah, Macey was definitely irritated. That's actually I good question. And I think I will stop after DOTM. Because of some things that happen during DOTM, I feel like it should stop there. Also, most of the bot supposedly 'died' in AoE, except for Bumblebee, Optimus, Drift, Crosshairs, and Hound. So, yeah...I wouldn't really know how to write that all together.

skittlesdeb- Thanks, and here you go!

UltimateFan-girl15- Haha, thanks so much!

Now, onto the story!

Chapter 14: From the Inside Out

~ Hazel's POV ~

After an hour had passed and I had finally gotten off work, I made my way back to the human med bay. I opened the door softly, peering inside. There was no sound, and the bed didn't move. She must be asleep, I thought to myself as I walked inside and closed the door behind me. I had placed the container of soup from the food hall on the counter for her to eat when she was ready.

"You know, for a snorer, you're being awfully quiet." I snorted. I looked over at her bed and frowned.

Still silent.

Slowly, I walked over to the bed, and pulled the covers off. Sitting in place of Becca was a large pillow that she was laying on, with the medical gown on it. I cursed lowly, running my fingers through my short hair.

She escaped.

I immediately looked around for any signs of her. I checked the bathroom, and the small closet before walking out into the hallway.

"Josie!" I called, "Josie, where are you?!"

I sighed in relief as a tan brunette appeared in the hallway with a clipboard in her hand. "Hazel, what's wrong?"

"Becca, she escaped!"

Josie's eyes widened, "I'll alert Dr. Harold and Lennox."

I nodded, "I'll go check her room."

I sped through the hallways, nearly running into a skinny guy carrying a stack of papers that reached past his head. I had passed through the Autobot Hangar to get to the civilian's quarters, and noticed the commotion as the Autobot's were arguing loudly. Most of them throwing their hands up and gesturing to the a new one that I've never seen before. He was black and white, and had something tied around his wrists as he silently watched the Autobots raised their voices. Suddenly, Optimus and the new femme arrived on the scene.

It was all I could see, before I opened the doors to the other halls. I found her room with no effort at all, and knocked on the door.

"Hello? Becca? Are you in there? Becca?" I called out hurriedly, knocking on the door frantically.

"Hazel."

I twisted around to look in the location that the voice was coming from. Becca stood there, slightly hunched. But what startled me the most was her glowing red skin. I stared with wide eyes as she stumbled closer to me, her legs shaking with the effort until she collapsed on to her knees, her head bowed. I gasped, crouching down to her.

"Becca? Oh my gosh, what happened?"

She looked up, her normal cerulean blue eyes were a fiery orange as she stared at me with a terrified expression. I reached for her hands, but burning heat surged up my spine and I shrieked as I pulled my hand away. Her skin was burning hot. A single tear slid down her cheek as she stared at my burned hand.

"H-Hazel," She breathed out, "W-What's happening to me?"

I glanced down at my burned hand, before looking back up at her orange pupils. This must be the parasites, they were affecting her. I looked at her helplessly as she moaned in pain, doubling over again as she wrapped her arms around her stomach.

It should've been me. I should be the one suffering.

Why her? Hasn't she suffered enough?

"Everything hurts." She wheezed.

"Becca?!" An unfamiliar voice called out.

Both of our gazes turned to the new person. It was a young woman with brown hair and bright green eyes. With her was one of the Autobots in their holoform, I think his name was Sunstreaker. She stared at us in complete awe for a moment, before letting go of the his hand and running over to us.

"Wait!" I told her before she could touch her.

The girl turned to me, tears already filling up in her eyes, "What?!"

"You can't touch her. Her skin is burning hot, you'll burn yourself." I explained.

"Make me." She said with a scoff, before bending down, both of her hands on Becca's shoulders as she looked her in the eye. I just stared at her in amazement. How is her hands not burning?

"Becca?" The girl whispered softly.

Becca looked up from her moaning, her orange eyes widened, "M-Macey?"

She gave a soft smile, "The one and only."

My eyes widened. Macey? As in her dead best friend?

~ Macey's POV ~

"You're h-here? Am I dying? Am I already dead?" Becca stuttered.

I chuckled softly, "No, you're not. I'm here, and I'm real."

More tears streamed down Becca's cheeks, "H-How?"

"Let's just say, Primus and I had an agreement of some sorts."

Without another thought, I pulled Becca into a hug. Pure amounts of joy and relief rushed through my veins had had my spark thrumming happily at the touch of her again. Her unusually warm skin seemed to fade slowly, and as I pulled away, the heat almost completely disappeared. She had returned to her normal pigmentation, and her fiery eyes were once again a cerulean blue.

"I don't know how you got back here, but not that you're here, I'm never leaving you out of my sight again." She said, determination mixed with relief melted together in her voice.

I couldn't help but snort softly, "Good luck competing with Sunny then."

Becca laughed softly, shaking her head, "It feels so good to hold you again. I've...I've been a mess without you."

"Same."

Footsteps echoed through the hall, and I turned as Lennox, Ratchet, Dr. Harold, and some other soldiers and nurses came bustling around the corner. They only stopped at the sight of Becca and I, on the floor in an embrace.

"Macey," Ratchet said, his eyes wide with panic but kept a calm demeanor in his voice, "I know how you feel right now, and I know you don't want to leave her side. But, you need to step away from Rebecca."

My eyes narrowed, "Why?"

"She is completely unstable, we need to get her to the Med Bay right now to run more tests."

"What do you mean I'm unstable? I feel fine." Becca said.

Dr. Harold shook his head, "Rebecca, there is something we found in your bloodstream after running some tests. When you were in captivity, those Decepticons...they experimented on you."

Absolute horror and shock ran through me, and it was like pouring a bucket of ice-cold water all over me. I shot to my feet in an instant, my eyes burning with anger, "What?! You found out that they experimented on her and you weren't going to slagging tell anybody?!"

"Macey, it has just came to our attention as well," Ratchet quickly cut in, "And the reason was reluctant to share the information was because they were still running tests. The Decepticons have done more than experimenting, they have attached a particle inside her. I've studied the chemical composition and it is strikingly similar to that of a young Cybertronian."

I knew the answer before it even came out of Ratchet's mouth, "They're trying to procreate sparklings in human bodies."

A shocked silence fell over the room, and the only one who didn't seem to stunned was Ratchet.

He nodded gravely, "They are trying to breed more for the Decepticon army. But what they have created, is not a sparkling. It is a parasite, that will take up all of the nutrients she needs for her body, and gradually poison her because of the energon exposure and Primus knows what else they've injected into her bloodstream."

I looked back at Becca, anguish swirling in the pits of my stomach. Why her? Why had it been my best friend?

This...this whole thing was my fault.

If I was able to get out of the translucent world quicker, I could've stopped her, I could've protected her. And If I was just a little more stronger to defeat The Fallen, I wouldn't have killed myself in the process. If I hadn't opened up that fateful e-mail that would send my life spiraling into the world of Transformers, then Becca wouldn't have been dragged down with me.

This, in retrospect, was all because of me.

I could've stopped it, if I was stronger, smarter, and faster.

Now Becca's suffering, and if they don't get that parasite out of her, she'll die. A sharp pain had suddenly hit me, at the thought of my best friend dying. At never being able to see her cheerful smile or infectious laugh again, and I felt my vision blur as tears swelled in my eyes. I couldn't let her go, not when I just had gotten her back! This wasn't how it was supposed to end!

I was snapped out of my thoughts when Becca moaned loudly in pain again, her hands pressed against her stomach as she hunched over, panting. I was immediately at her side again, trying to comfort her.

"Becca? Becca, are you okay?"

"It hurts again." She wheezed between breaths, before throwing her head back and letting out a scream.

Ratchet and Dr. Harold had immediately pulled away from me, both of them and some other nurses hurried to pick up Becca. I fought strong and hard against the hands holding me, and when they pressed me flat against a hard chest. I already knew it was Sunstreaker.

"No!" I shouted, still thrashing as I gritted my teeth, "Let me go! I need to be next to her!"

Becca screamed again, this time much more worse. His skin flushed a crimson red, and when her eyes landed on me, they were orange again.

"What...is...happening?" Becca panted heavily.

"We need to sedate her and get her into surgery, now!" Dr. Harold shouted, but all the commotion and noise just seemed to bur together. And time seemed to be in slow motion as I watched them lift a writhing Becca off the ground, her screams echoing across the hall as they took her away.

"Becca!" I found my voice screaming above the rest, my hand shout out, as if I could reach her. Tears streamed down my cheeks, but I didn't care.

Suddenly, the world felt like it had been tipped on it's axis. That familiar buzzing sensation was back, and I already knew what was happening next. I tried to fight it though, there was no way I would leave Becca behind like this! But the buzzing only became stronger, and I winced as it echoed in my advanced ears, and collapsed to the ground in darkness.

When I opened my eyes again, I found myself in my Cybertronian form. I was floating gently throughout space, but this time the billions of stars and planets didn't comfort me. I turned around to meet the intentful gaze of Primus. She stood, enormously tall and proud as ever. Her icy blue optics looked up at me, and I could immediately detect the sorrow in them.

"Primus, please tell me there's a way to save her!" I said frantically, "She isn't going to die, is she?"

"I cannot predict the future, my child." Primus murmured softly.

I clenched my servos together, "No! Don't tell me that, tell me something that will help her! Tell me a way to save her, she's my best friend!"

Primus was quiet for a moment, and I assumed she was thinking. My spark raged inside my chassis, and I felt like if I didn't find answers soon, it was going to explode. I watched another shooting star race across the inky sky, momentarily lighting it up with a purple streak.

"Her body will not last long, the parasite is growing at an alarming rate. She will probably have a little over a day left before she dies, and so with it, the parasite."

I raised an optic ridge, "Wait what?"

"If the host body does die, then there will be no nutrients to feed the parasite, and it shall perish too." Primus clarified.

I nodded frantically, "I understand what you said! But it doesn't make any sense!"

"It is the only way to kill the parasite." Primus intoned.

"But what about Becca?! She'll die!" I snapped. I growled in frustration, "This is all my fault! None of this would've happen if I didn't get myself killed! I could've saved her!"

"None of this is your fault, Macey." Primus said sternly, "Everything happens for a reason. Your timing on returning to Earth was no mistake."

"Then how am I supposed to save her?" I wailed.

"My child, do you not know who you are?" Primus asked softly, "You are an extension of myself. I live inside of you. You will heal Rebecca, and you shall save her."

My optics widened, "H-How?"

"When the time is right, you will know. Just know that you are me, and I am you. In order to awaken my abilities inside of you, you need to be strong."

"But...what if that's not enough?" I asked quietly.

"You have to believe that you can save her."

An odd tingling sensation appeared in my servos, and I stared at them. They were glowing a bright white, and I could feel the thrum of power flowing through me. And then, the white glow faded.

"Until we meet again, my child..." Primus said.

I looked up at her, "Wait, no-I'm not ready!"

It was already too late. The billions of twinkling stars faded into nothing, and Primus was gone.

My eyes fluttered open, and I groaned, rubbing the side of my head as the heaviness faded. I looked around, to find myself in Sunstreaker and Sideswipe's quarters. I was in my bi-pedal mode, and I groaned again as I rolled off of the berth.

"I know what you're thinking," A voice said, seemingly appearing out of nowhere. The light's flickered on, and I saw Sunstreaker, leaning right beside the door, "And as much as it kills me to see you like this, I can't let you leave."

My optics narrowed, "I'd like to see you try and keep me in here."

"This is Optimus' orders, not mine."

"Think that'll stop me? I don't care who gave the orders. I need to see Becca!"

Sunstreaker sighed, "Macey, you know they only want what's best for her. They have to do this, and they can't have any distractions right now. They're trying to hurry and save her before it's too late."

"They can't save her." I said, shaking my helm. "Primus spoke to me."

Sunstreaker raised an optic ridge.

"I'm the only one who can save her." I said grimly.

Wow, that was intense! But hey, new powers for Macey so that's good. Can't wait to hear your reviews!