Wind wiped pass his larger frame as the Autobots Chef medic traveled out in the storm that, by this time, had started to calm down and they were now driving as fast they could go after the frontline. The medic swore that he barely could see the red twin in the horizon as he was speeding fast away. Ratchet cursed low as a hard gust of wind hit his larger side and made his whole frame move from its path on the road, but he gains control soon after. A soft sound of rumbling in the distance could be heard as the storm was traveling past them, leaving only a shifting wind and drizzle behind. But the weather did nothing to Ratchet racing thoughts as he was focused on Sideswipes reaction and the words he had said. How was it all this possible? Had he missed something? He had been working on Luna's frame for over a week, and it had been only that, an empty shell.

And he if anyone should know, so many times he had to glance at his creations completely crushed spark that was lifeless and dull as after the battle. There was no way that the Allspark had worked this time around if it did not work before, or was he missing something?. Ratchet wanted so desperately believe that Sunstreaker found Luna online and well, but he could not, he would not get his hope up. The fact remained that neither he or Ironhide could feel anything that resembled a creation bond, only their link to each other, so the possibility that she was online was close to none. No matter how much they tried, their attempt was met with a solid block and an echoing that hurt his spark more than he wanted to admit.

~Have faith~ Ironhide said with a tens voice ~The twins are annoying as pit sometimes, but they would never joke about something like this.~

~Maybe not, or they want it to be true so much so their processors come up with something that they both can accept. It has happened before; this war had destroyed many good bots.~ No, he defiantly would not get his hope up, he had to look at the facts. And even if it was right, and what they had found was not Luna but another sparkling this weather was nothing for a sparkling to be in. They could not even regulate their cooling or heat intake; a sparkling would not survive alone in this conditional for too long.

Ironhide was silent over the bond, but Ratchet could feel his deep thoughts and all the emotional response they created inside the black mech. There was no way he would get his hope up only for them to get crossed when it was all a simple mistake. Ratchet let his sensor blast out and scan all of their surroundings, this had been a nasty storm, and more would come, the rain was still hitting his windshield. The summer had been extra warm for all of the humans, which would lead to this fall being something of a storm season all over the world. An hour went by before they were near the twin's location. Ratchet could see them before they could see them clearly and without even trying a good distance. He silently grumbled that he needed to teach them not to be transformed in the middle of the road. But no mentally healthy human or other sentinel creature was mad enough to be out in this whether conditional anyway so he let it slip for now.

As they all come to a halt and transformed with Optimus in the lead closely followed by him and Ironhide the twins started to move. Sides had been protectively hugging Sunstreaker close and had his back structure turned against the wind. What were the two idiots thinking? They could have transformed and warmed up the sparkling, if it was one that is, not standing out in the primus forsaken cold weather. If it was a sparkling in the first place and now when they were standing mere feet away, their behavior was something that was completely new and unheard of. Ratchet scanned his surroundings and let every smell hit his olfactory center, and he could almost taste the electricity in the air as well as the moister air and something ells. Something that was almost too familiar to him, Ratchet had to admit that he was feeling a sensation that was close to what they would call fear as that familiar scent.

No, it could not be true.

"Ratchet!" Sides exclaimed as soon they were close enough and looked over to him "We tried to transform to let her stay in our but..."

"She went all crazy and started to panic every time we tried to put her inside, and we don't know why." Sunny ended the sentence as he held a protective arm around something that was laying against his chest.

Ironhide walked up beside Ratchet, there was a tension around them as they come closer, neither of them wanted to admit it, but they had begun to hope it could be true. Even if they both had tried,- and royally failed-, to not get their hopes up, they had to see for themselves. As soon as they were close enough, Sunny loosen the grip he had on the sparkling that was laying close to his chest plates, and the small sparkling looked up at the new voices and was now looking straight at Ironhide and Ratchet with pale blue optics. The resemblance of their creation hit them both hard.

"Luna?" Ratchet vented out as the sparkling had turned around and held her arms up against them and it looked like she tried to say something but could not.

Ironhide and Ratchet moved almost as if they were synchronized by the sight of the sparkling. Neither of then understood how it was possible. They both tried to call her over the bund but was blocked. But as soon as Ratchet scoped up the sparkling and she come in contact with them both, the wall that had been around the bond busted right open. The emotions hit them all like a train wreck, and everything all around them was turned out, it was their sparkling. Luna was alive and unharmed.

~Carrier! Sirree!~Luna cried as she was hugged closer to their frames and she repeated it over and over again over the bond almost like it was her new lifeline. They were there; they were with her once again; she was not alone anymore. And as they hugged her as close as their frames allowed and their fields were mixed, she could feel every emotion she had bottle up well over and spill out. The thick wall was immediately torn down, it was no longer only her emotions and thoughts, it was her creators as well, and she was desperately seeking for balance. Happiness, safety, disbelieve, and love, so much love was sent over the bond from them all as they all were crouched together. Finally, both Ratchet and Ironhide let themselves believe that it was true that their little femme was with them. There were no more words that could describe everything they feel at that exact moment.

The family of tree was so included at the moment that they did not even notice the other Autobots that were around them had created a circle to both stay guard and protect the family. Luna, for the best part, had been trying hard to stay online as long as she could, but as she was held by both of her creators, everything was lulling her into a static kind of state. She was exhausted and was for the moment dead to the world around her, but she was wrapped in a cocoon of security and loving feelings when she was resting in her carriers sparkling chamber. Close to his strong beating spark. She had already grown a lot of since they last had met and soon she would be too big to even fit in Ratchets sparkling hold. But as it turned out, she did not get a new alt mode with wheels; they did not know what she had scanned only that she had speakers on her back structure. But one thing was sure neither Ratchet or Ironhide would not let her get more than 3 feet from them for a long time. And probably not trust any unknown humans for an unforeseen future that one was given.

As they all had transformed and was once again on the road and this time it was going in a much calmer pace than before. Luna was out the whole way, and as soon they all were back and had transformed they all mostly went the separate way as Ratchet and Ironhide both desperately needed it just to be them and no one ells. This whole death and kidnapping thing were not suitable for their old sparks to handle, and it would take a long time for them to settle down and even let the sparkling out from their sight.

~I'm getting too old for this kind of action~ Ironhide groaned over the bond as they laid down to try and recharge.

~You was old even before this war started~ Ratchet snorted softly, but he sounded as tired as his mate did.

~ Not the right mech to tell me that, you're older than me by a few orn~ Ironhide grumbled

~A few only?~ Ratchet teased gently but did not get any response back as Ironhide let his helm rest against the medic. Ratchet smiled as they could feel a small brush of love over their creators bond, Luna was still in deep recharge, but even in her slumber, she could hear their voices over the bond and the feelings of love was almost too overwhelming. There was no other place that they would be right now than there. All the last day's hectic events finally took out its right, and soon they were in a peaceful recharge.

The first day after the reunion had gone by like the storm that had moved on. Ratchet did not find anything alarmingly wrong with the sparkling, but that did not mean that he would let her out of his sight any time soon. That said, the sparkling did not find it much fun to only stay in the med bay until Ironhide or the twins collected her for some well-deserved change of scenery. Luna did not appreciate it one bit. It was so dull and nothing to do.

~I'm bored~

"I know," Ratchet answered her; it was not like he could ignore her poking and probing on the bond. But he had to do this.

Luna looked at him unimpressed ~Where's is Aid?~

"Out on a scout mission with the twins."

~Sire?~

"In meeting with the human government with Optimus and Prowl about the move."

Luna let out a groaning sound as she flipped back on her back dramatically and stared up at the selling and then to her right where she could see the silver frame of Jazz. The sparkling had a hard time at first seeing the other mech as it woke memory inside of her that completely froze her processor but she had become good at pressing that away and closing the emotion part of that aspect. Something her carrier did not like. He had slowly introduced her to Jazz frame in different steps until she could be in the same room and see him and even touched him. But she missed him; she missed everything that was making Jazz, her Jazz. Prowl missed him too. So many people missed him, then why did he not wake up?

~When is Jazz waking up?~ She looked to the silver mech with concern; she wanted her Jazzy back right now. How long time could he recharge for? She wanted him online yesterday if that had been possible, at least then she would not be bored out of her processor.

"Not yet" Ratchet answer her, and the sparkling whined in protest, that had not been the answer she had wanted.

~Buuut Carrier! He has been in recharge an eternity, It no right to sleep this much!~

Ratchet chuckled low at her whining. The sparkling was impatient this day; perhaps he could see if any bot was available to entertain her? The medic looked over to where she sat on top of his working space as he was tinkering on a reparations part for Jazz frame.

"He needs his sleep to heal and get well; he is up soon enough."

Luna looked over to Jazz and then back to her Carrier and then back to the door and listening to the different noise outside. This was not getting her anywhere, and it started to irritate her. Maybe she could explore by herself? Or was the twins back? They were fast!

~Where's twins now?~ she asked hopefully. Perhaps she gets a different answer this time.

"Hopefully where they should be, still on patrol," Ratchet asked without looking up from what he is doing. Luna groaned in displeasure as she stared up at the tedious selling again, she had been counting all the plats in the roof. She did believe it was like 685 or something up there; she had even tried to find small holes or shapes on the roof. Luna also saw something that could resemble one of the humans yellow and black insects with an overlarge body with tiny wing, an Bumblebee. She gasped when that idea hit her.

~Bee! He can play with me! Right? Can I play with Bee? Please? ~

Ratchet sighed and shook his helm

"Sorry, sparkling; he is with Sam."

Luna let out a human-like groan, something she had picked up from the soldiers when they were forced to do something they didn't want. Could this day get any worse? Luna stared up at her Carrier and tried to poke her sire's side of the bond to complain and ask him to pick her up, but he friendly, but firmly told her that her carrier was right That was not what she wanted to hear!

~I'm still bored, can I go and play now? ~ Luna crossed her arms in front of her chassis as she sat up again with her legs crossed underneath her. Did her creators not understand that she did not want to stay here? She wanted to play, to explore, to see other things than inside of her Carriers med-bay.

"No, not until your Sire or the Twins are back. Sit and read the pad I got you, or the games Prowl provide you with," The Medic said patiently and still without looking up from what he was doing. She tested his patience as it was. He would not let her rum havoc over the base because she wanted to have fun and was bored. The poor humans would never survive it.

Ratchet processor was processing several things at once; the reparations he was doing was standard and did not require much concentration. He had some focus on the sparklings whining as he knew that she was bored, but she needed to learn patience what he did not understand what caused the mutism in the sparkling. Physically she was all fine, so the problem had to be a mental block of some sort. Perhaps after the last incident when she first had laid optics on Jazz, to realized was that she is suffering from. It was a state what the humans called PTSD, Post Traumatism Stress Disorder. She fitted all the criteria, and it was often something soldiers of war caught, Luna may not be participating in the war in the same way, but the trauma of her offlining and the event that led up to it had trigged it. The flashbacks, nightmares, situations with her memory.

It was not hard to understand that it was that Luna was going through and it was the psychological aspect of it all that had put something like a mental block on her so that she could not find her voice. It was like the programming was not quite there and her processor did not copy it all. Once again, Ratchet cursed to himself that he was no mind healer, and he wished that Smokescreen would be one of the bots that were on their way to earth. He needed his expertise with this. But as soon Ratchet had understood what Luna was going through, he did everything in his power and knowledge to started the therapy almost immediately.

Suddenly the light started to dim on his workspace without reason too, and Ratchet looked up with a grunt as he looked at the lamp that went back to normal soon after. Maybe there was a problem with the power?. Not long ago, both the machine and a lot of light had exploded in the middle of the night without any explanation at all, scaring them all into believing that it was another attack. The human experts on the base thought that it had been due an overvoltage in the wiring network. The humans could say whatever they wanted; Ratchet believed that it was the weak technology the humans had and the narrow cables they used, something he would make sure the new base had no problems with. Ratchet went back to his work once again after he had quickly looked over to Luna lying on her stomach with legs in the air and fiddled with one of its data sheets. But not soon after he had started to work again, the light dimmed more, and he glared up at the damn thing, and it went back to standard right before his eyes. He glared at it irritably.

~What ya doing?~Luna Asked innocently over the bond, far too innocent if anyone asked Ratchet and he looked over at her, had the sparkling done something?. No, she had not moved from her spot, and there was no way that she could play with the light from her position.

"Nothing sparkling, nothing at all" Ratchet said as he looked back at his work, and this time He didn't even put the tool on the metal piece before it happened yet again. Ratchet slammed down his instrument with a clang, making Luna jump in the process and stare at her carrier as he grumbled irritated over the human's technology. This was getting old, and he was not getting anywhere, the construction of the new base could not be ready fast enough. Just a week or so more of this weak human technology, the new headquarters would have cyber tech in it because of their help of designing the place. As it was now, it was only Red alert, inferno, and Evac that was helping the humans to build on the new island, and he was here and could not get anything done!

:: Ratchet to Prowl, is there something wrong with the human's generator? :: Ratchet asked irritated over a private link.

:: Prowl here, No nothing that the humans have reported, the light output is reasonable out here. What brought this up? :: Prowl answered after a few seconds.

:: That's strange, the light in the med-bay is not working correctly and is fluctuating::

:: Give me a moment and I will take a look at it:: Prowl answered

:: Thank you::

Ratchet turned him out and then back to the part in front of him and bringing p a welding torch and welded together two parts as the light now went out entirely, and Luna gave away a surprising sound by the sudden darkness that was around them before the light was turned on again.

"What in the name of Primus is going on here!" Ratchet asked and then stopped as amused emotions appeared over the bond, and he looked down at Luna that now sat up with her data sheets. She looked back at him curiously and tilted her helm to the side in a silent question, could it have something to do with her? Ratchet shook his helm, no, that would be crazy, or would it?. But she was suspiciously calm over it all, and he was getting this ticklish feeling over the bond of amusement.

~Carrier okay?~Luna asked carefully

"Yes, I'm alright," He told her grumbling as he turned away, but a small part of his processor said to him that something was up with the sparkling. He could not figure out what, however.

:: There is nothing wrong with the network as far as I can see Ratchet:: Prowl reported back and Ratchet hummed low.

:: Do me a favor Prowl, look at the energy that is connected to the med-bay right now and say if something changes only in here::

:: May I ask why?::

:: For an experiment, if nothing happens, then it's alright.:: Perhaps it was nothing, but he had to test his theories.

::Affirmative::

Ratchet looked down at the piece in front of him and made the motion if he was going back to thinking with it, and this time, he was keeping his sensors and the outside of his optics vision on the sparkling. This time though he was not surprised when the light dimmed, and in the corner of his eye, he could see how Luna's optics took a light purple color as she looked up at the lamps. Ratchet could feel the slightest tickling sensation over the creation bond yet again, his sparkling was awful amused and was good at hiding it, but some had started to leak through.

"Luna," Ratchet said with a sternly and serious voice, and the light went back fast to the normal if not brighter than before. Interesting.

~I didn't do anything, It wasn't me~ She said innocent, too innocent, she always had been a lousy liar.

:: Ratchet, you were right, there is a strange energy disturbance in the med-bay only for a second or so, are you both alright?:: Prowl asked

:: Yes, thank you Prowl, we are alright::

"Luna, what did you do?" Ratchet asked as he turned around towards the sparkling that looked up at him with wide optics. He could not explain it, but somehow Luna had done something to the light, and it probably had something to do with the Allspark.

~Nothing~ she said and looked away from his gaze, and he could still feel the innocent amusement over the bond. But he would have nothing of that.

"Haven't we taught you that it is bad to lie?" Ratchet said and crossed his arms over his chest plates, and Luna hung her helm low, that they had been teaching her that.

~Yes Carrier, I'm sorry~

"So I will try again. What did you do?" he asked her sternly

~I'm bored?~ Luna said it like it was a question, had her carrier not understood that she wanted something to do?. How could she explain to him the new game she just created? The white sparkling looked down at her fingers like them was the most mysterious objects she had seen in a long time. Was it bad? She wanted to play, and there had been a buzzing feeling that she tugged on and got that reaction from it.

"Luna, I'm not asking again" Ratchet growled in warning, making the sparkling flinch, he was starting to get angry.

~I played with the light?~ she said in a small voice and looked weakly up at him.

Ratchet looked down at her and then vented out, so she had played with the light. A small part of him was shocked by the sparklings reviling, and on the other hand, not so much. He had suspected something like this for a few days now, but never got any proof. Until now, fragg it to the pit and back. He pinched the bridge of the nose. Some Autobots had the power after modulation to handle electricity, but as far as he knew, Luna had none of that, so it was probably an effect from the Allspark energy that circulated in her circuits.

"Can you do it again?" Ratchet asked he needed to make sure that it was coming from the sparkling.

At first, she looked at him uncertainly, wasn't he angry with her? But then she slowly nodded and came to the conclusion that he finally seemed willing to play with her. Luna looked up at the selling, and then the light dimmed, and this time, Ratchet was looking straight at her as he saw her optics taking the purple hue and he scanned her at that moment. The light went back to normal, and Luna looked gently up at him this time with a smile, but it disappeared soon as she saw her Carriers blank expression as he read over the data.

~You mad?~ she asked timidly and hunched down, it had not been her meaning to make him angry, she was so bored and wanted to do something, and this was the first time she successes in the light game.

"No," Ratchet told her and stretched toward her to pet her helm comfortably, but the movement made the sparkling shrink back by the pure reaction, and Ratchet stops dead in his track and sworn low to himself. No hand overhead.

"I'm sorry Luna, It was not my intention to scare you," he said and let hid servo down on the surface as the sparkling looked at it with wide optics, the damaged already done as she was no longer there. At least not in her processor as a memory flux had been trigged, and he could suddenly feel her freight and a sudden pain shot through the bond. Ratchet growled low at himself, damn they had been making such progress the last day. And then this happens and he had not even meant to trigger it.

He did what he could and tried to quickly overwhelm her with stronger emotions of safety and love to take the edge out from the bad memory that was overwhelming her processor.

~It is okay sparklett, we are here, it is just a memory, nothing here will harm you~ Ratchet tried, and he could feel how Luna subconscious leeched of his more stable emotions as she was trying to get out from the memory flux. Her whole frame rattled, and her optics had turned an almost white hue. They had learned the hard way not to get a hold of her or hold her when she had an episode only reaching over the bond, and their field could calm her down. It had to be by her choice and her movements, and even then she could barely stand to be held in another more gigantic hand. Suddenly the memory snapped and for a second Luna's side of the bond was painfully hollow and nothing come from her before suddenly everything comes crashing back. Sorrow filled the bond and the desperate feeling to be close was mixed with the fear of being held, and Luna started to wail in distress, and the light bulbs all around the med-bay exploded with a loud 'pop' and the reserve generator kicked in.

:: What In the seven Primes name happen Ratchet? the energy in the whole base went down:: Prowl asked

:: Luna having a backlash:: Ratchet said and he felt the awful feeling of being inadequate, he could not touch Luna, and Ratchet did everything he could to send calming senses over her.

:: Luna? Is she doing it?::

Ratchet ignored to respond as he crouched down to get closer to the table where the wailing sparkling stood on. The whole med-bay was in complete darkness, but it did not matter as he could see fine enough, and the emergency light went on as the backup generator started to come to life.

~Calm down Luna, I'm here, I'm here sparklett~ Ratchet soothed her over the bond and was as close to the sparkling as he had learned he could be.

~I'm on my way~ Ironhide chimed in

Luna looked up at her Carrier as he was right in front of her, and she had not seen him there. Suddenly it was like nothing ells mattered and she ran to him and crashed into his chest and hid her face in his thick neck cable as she cried. She hated it all; for a second, her whole being had been afraid that her carrier would hurt her, that he was someone ells. She knew that her carrier would never hurt her, but her processor had shut down, and everything had meant danger. Everything had made her mind play up that day in Mission city with the evil mech.

But now, as it all leaked out from her, she wanted nothing ells than to be held close by familiar arms and be enveloped in safety. She needed protection; she needed her creators. Ratchet let arm around the sparkling and let his chin rest on top of her significant smaller one as she cried and made a more pained wailing sound as it all crashed down on her. Ratchet could feel the sparklings self-loathing and hate slip over the bond, and he quickly showered her with more positive feelings of love and safety and forgiveness. He was not mad at her, and he could feel Ironhide over the bond to as he was giving her his support as well and a promise that he soon was there only a few minutes away

There was nothing they were not willing to do for the sparkling, but they had a long way to go to make this right by any means. But they would be there with her, and they would never let her out of their sight again.

/AN/
Here we have it, children have an incredible ability to recover from the trauma, but even the worst situations leave severe wounds. I have planned to release one final chapter for this story; then this part is done. Yay :D

But I have to admit that rewriting and fix this story up had made me want to write more about Luna and the Twins, especially now when her personality is starting to develop. But the question that I stand between is whether I should let the story follow the movies or break away from it and let them all create a separate AU.

What do you think? Please write about what you want to read! And if you want me to continue :)

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Thank you! so much for taking the time to read my story, it really warms my heart!