Rebecca and the Autobots Chapter 14
Still a few weeks later, Optimus' POV
I, somehow, got to babysit the twins. Both insisted on running away whenever they could.
"Why will you not sit still SunDance? SolarStar! Spit that out right now. Play with your blocks, no! SunDance, stop hitting your brother. SolarStar, my helm is not a playground."
I did not know it was possible, but I was starting to get frustrated. I do not understand why they enjoy putting everything inside their mouths. I mean everything. I once found them chewing on my weekly reports that I have to give to Special Agent Fowler. They also love to run around and explore a lot.
"Stop! Spit that out. Where is your sister?"
I glanced down the hall to see a silver femme wielding a sniper rifle.
"SideSwipe, I am going to kill you."
I chased after her, grabbing the weapon from her servos.
"Optimus, I want to use it," she cried.
"No SunDance. It is a very dangerous weapon and you could hurt yourself."
"Okay," she said, sadly.
I set the youngling down quickly. They now were a little bit taller than Arcee. Thankfully, our young grow to full size quickly. Their vocal processors get better with each passing day. They grow taller every week. Their height stays the same to each other. SunDance and SolarStar should be a little taller than BumbleBee in a week or so. They will be official younglings in two weeks.
I looked up, to see the groundbridge open, no sparklings, and an alarm blaring for MECH.
I ran after them and out the other side.
"Where are you two?" I called out.
I walked around the ridge in front of me. SunDance lay curled up on the ground while SolarStar lay a few yards away on his faceplates.
"He must have tried to run and they shot him," I thought.
I dashed forward to rescue them.
"Optimus Prime. What a pleasure. You will be very useful to us," I heard Silas say.
"Silas, let the children go. Take me instead," I offered.
"How about I take you and the little ones. Fire."
A shock came over me and burned through my helm. I fell to the ground before I could fight back. My optics went down as my world was shrouded in darkness.
Silas' POV
"What do you mean; we can only take two of them?" I calmly asked my first lieutenant.
"I-I am very sorry Silas sir, but we only have the resources for two," he nervously replied. His hands shook and his face turn white.
"Take the young ones. No move it, before you become a dead lieutenant," I growled.
"Ye-Yes sir! Right away, Silas, sir!" He ran off without a second glance.
SunDance's POV
I woke up strapped down to a large table near the floor. Dark gray walls surrounded me. I could smell that much blood and energon has been spilt here before. A balcony protruding from the wall stood above my pedes. I cried out for my creators and SolarStar as I struggled against my restraints, but no reply came back.
"HELLO?! IS ANYONE OUT THERE! HELP!"
"No one can save you, Autobot," a hard faced male human with white hair and scars said menacingly.
"Where is my brother? Why can't I feel him?! What is going on? Who are you?"
"I am Silas, and we are MECH. Your brother is, shall we say, unable to talk right now," he gestured to a yellow bot strapped down as well.
Energon spurted from many cuts on his chasis, arms, and legs. His right optic was missing and sparks flew from a cut in his helm. A shimmering blue puddle surrounded his hardly yellow body. He did not move.
"SolarStar! NO!"
"I heard that spilt-spark twins, such as you and your brother, can feel each other's pain. Can you feel him now? Is he even alive?"
"Yes, and yes. Please. Let us go. Please….."
"I never have been one for mercy. Are her pain receptors off?" Silas asked a masked man standing on my chasis.
He nodded once.
"Good. Open her up. Save the spark for last."
I screamed as the saws and drills cut into me. Even though I couldn't feel the pain, the sight of my life blood exploding out of my body scared me. I stayed awake for as long as I could, but the energon loss finally made me pass out.
Autobot Base, StarDance's POV
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN, THEY RAN AWAY FROM YOU?! I TRUSTED YOU, AND NOW MY SPARKLINGS ARE IN THE HANDS OF MECH!" I screamed in my leaders faceplates.
SunStreaker struggled to hold me back.
"I am very sorry StarDance. It is my fault they are in the hands of MECH and I will do everything in my power to save them. Ratchet is working his hardest to locate them as we speak."
"Optimus, you are not going to believe this," Ratchet called over from the monitors.
"Yes Ratchet?" Optimus said while walking over to his CMO, secretly happy for an excuse to get away from the now sobbing femme.
"I may have an idea where they are. At least, I have a 150 mile radius around them."
"How?"
"Optimus, I am detecting…. Energon. Energon has been spilt. That is the only way I was able to get a signal."
"Understood. Open the groundbridge. Autobots, except for SunStreaker and StarDance, roll out. You two, stay here. Your concern will only cloud your judgment. We will return with SunDance and SolarStar, alive."
They transformed and drove out, the groundbridge shutting down after them. I collapsed onto my knees and buried my sobbing faceplates into my servos. SunStreaker knelt down next to me and wrapped his arms protectively around me.
"They will be fine sweetspark. Optimus will get them back," he whispered.
"I don't know if I can trust him anymore," I whispered back.
Somewhere in North Texas, Optimus' POV
My spark felt heavy as we closed in. The signal got stronger.
"More energon has been spilt. We need to hurry," Ratchet said grimly.
We found them in an old abandoned factory. I collected SunDance while Ratchet took SolarStar. The Autobots held off MECH while Ratchet and I ran back to base. We rushed the twins to the medbay. SolarStar looked the worst out of the pair; I could barely feel a sparkbeat. His once shining yellow coat, now a dull gray yellow, meaning he is close to offlining. His warm energon is now covering my servos. I left the room to give Ratchet the space he needs.
"I just hope that they will be okay," I thought to myself.
SunStreaker's POV
The sight of my children's mangled bodies broke my spark. They are old enough to understand the war, but not like this. If one of them dies, I don't know what will happen to me, StarDance, or the other twin.
I know what it feels like to have your twin on the brink of death. Sides died once, but was brought back with an electric pulse. It almost killed me with the pain.
I felt my spark tug out to them, trying to find some sort of knowledge that they are alive. I could feel SunDance, close, strong, and alive, but battered. SolarStar, felt distant and close to the Well of Sparks. I continued to comfort StarDance, but my confidence that they would be perfectly alright started slipping away.
Ratchet's POV
I rushed to connect both sparklings to life support. I started work on SolarStar first. I quickly and expertly welded up the cuts. His optic, I'm afraid, is gone forever. I hooked an energon drip up to start replacing the precious fluid that was lost. I connected the sparkmonitor and was met with a slow but steady sound.
Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep.
I started work on SunDance while scans ran. Her chasis had been roughly cut open to reveal her internal organs. Cuts worked their way down to her lower back struts. Her t-cog has been taken as well as her arm. Her legs had been cut open to show the inner components. Many energon lines have been severed. I clamped as many lines as I could reach. An energon drip was started immediately. She isn't as bad as her brother. I don't have enough spare parts to make a whole new arm. I growled to myself as I thought of MECH.
"R-Ratchet?"
I whipped my helm around to see Solar trying to push himself up. I ran to him and gently pushed him back down.
"Yes Solar?"
"D-Dance? K?"
"Yes, she is okay. Stop moving around."
He kept trying to sit back up. I activated the straps on the berth to hold him steady. As soon as they touched him, he started screaming.
"TAKE THEM OFF! NO!"
I commed SunStreaker and StarDance for their assistance. They ran into the medbay as fast as they could.
"Shhh…. It's okay SolarStar. You're okay. Calm down. Mommy's here," StarDance comforted her sparkling. His screams slowly went away. He fell into recharge again.
"What's wrong Ratchet? Why was he screaming?" SunStreaker asked worriedly.
"I put on restraints because he wouldn't stay still. I don't know why, but he started freaking out."
"Oh. How are they?"
"I honestly don't know if they'll make it. SunDance no longer has her arm or her t-cog. SolarStar has processor damage from them trying to hack it and massive trauma to his spark chamber. Minutes more, they would be dead right now," I explained to the concerned creators.
They both turned to each other, then their sparklings. They stood silenced for a moment before leaving the room. I sighed and got back to work.
StarDance's POV
As soon as I stepped pede out of the medbay, I fell to my knees.
"My babies might die," is the thought that played through my helm.
My body fell numb as memories of them flooded through me like a tsunami. SunStreaker knelt beside me, allowing me to cry blue tears into his chasis. I felt his spark strong through our bond and physical touch. He slowly rocked me back and forth, crying his own tears onto my helm. He stiffened slightly as my feelings pushed towards him. He pushed his towards me, until our entire beings were like one. We mixed together like the stars mix into the sky. We thought, we hugged, we cried. We silently prayed for the safety of our sparklings.
A/N
If anyone has any ideas, please feel free to give them! And if anyone wants to draw anything from my story, I would be honored. I really need a story cover. :3