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Have you ever had that feel, where you're floating and you can't fell a thing but you know that you're hurting? Where you can feel everything around you but at the same time…..you can't? That's like now. I know that I'm lying down and sometimes I can feel a small body resting against me. Sometimes I can hear these strange sounds, they remind me of words but I can never figure out what these strange sounds are.

Its black where I am, but father is here, he is always here. But…..why do I have this feeling of emptiness that something is missing? I know, I don't know how, but I know I have forgotten something, something that is important to me.

"…"

What was that? I know that sound, no, not a sound, a voice. I know it, but from where?

"s…"

Yes, I do know that voice! That person is close to me, like family.

"Sister…"

No, not like family, is family.

"Char…ga"

I forced my optics online and stared at my baby brother. Before I knew it I had pulled him to my chest, ignoring the sudden flare of pain and just held him. Thank primus he's ok.

I looked up and stared weakly at the large yellow mech that sat beside me. Has he been here the whole time? Did he ever leave?

"Careen? Careen, can you hear me little spark?" I looked up at Bumblebee's optics and smiled painfully.

"Bee…*fizzle*…hurts." I whimpered and shifted slightly to get closer the familiar mech. I relaxed slightly as my brother and I were picked up by the yellow scout and trilled to. I looked around, we were in some sort of wooden barn.

I looked up at the larger mech, the question shining in my optics.

"we are at my charges Amona's house, seeklet." I nodded as my mind filled in that Amona meant grandmother.

"we have been waiting for you to rest before we take you back to base, I am sure that your creators will be happy to see you." I whirred happily at the thought of my Ama and Aita. I just want to get back to them.

"can go…..now." a forced out of my damaged vocal processor and Bee put me and Charga down.

I staggered slightly as my feet touched the ground but managed to stay upright with my Trine brother in my arms.

My mind must have had a glitch or something because the next thing I knew I was lying across the back seat of the scouts alt form with Sam and Mikaela in the drives and passenger seats respectively.

I chirped softly as Mikaela glanced back at me, smiling softly.

"Hey there, my names Mikaela. It'll be alright." He soft voice was like a tidal wave of calm washing over me, taking the pulsing in my processor away, if only for a short time.

I smiled at her, trying to show her my gratitude with the words I barely had.

"Where*crackle*?" I tightened my injured arm ever so slightly around my brother, pulling away his pain and feeding him my comfort and love.

"We are almost at the Oklahoma, Texas border. It'll be about a day until we get there." I sighed and lay my head back down at the young woman's words.

I offlined my optics, trying to get some more rest but the pressure in my chest and my busted arm was keeping me awake I felt almost unbearable. When I get back to base the second thing I'm going to do is get me some more armour. The first thing I do should be pretty obvious.

I onlined my optics again and let out a confused chirp. The sun was sinking into the horizon, shinning its dying rays onto my battered body.

The last my optics where open the sun was high in the sky and that was only a few seconds ago! What the hell is going on? I whirred again in confusion and shifted slightly; trying to find a comfortable position I could lay in where nothing hurts, guess that's not possible just yet.

I frowned, trying to figure out why I had a sudden skip in time, and then groaned as the concentration made my processor pound in the front of my helm. I let out a soft screech at the sudden onslaught on my processor and I felt Bumblebee suddenly swerve then correct himself quickly. He seemed unsure as he started to purr loudly, and I was reminded that he used to be the youngest before I came along.

I ignored the concerned words of the humans and relaxed into the seat, careful not to crush my stripped wings. I whimpered as the world was suddenly consumed by black and then flashed back to reveal a dark sky with bright stars. My cooling fans kicked in as I started to panic, something is definitely wrong with my processor because I think I'm glitching.

I whimpered a little louder as my chest started to ache, adding to the pain of my processor and arm and pretty much my entire body, stripped of its protective armour. I could feel something in my spark, like something was poking is and I tried to ignore it but it got stronger and stronger and was soon joined by another one. It hurt, with every prod at my spark I writhed and it must have been this that caused the scout to speed up.

I never noticed when we passed a large gate nor the massive buildings or groups of men in uniform. I didn't even notice it when we stopped and the two humans got out. Soon I could hear voices through the pain that was almost too great. These voices were very familiar.

I crawled forward on the seat and yanked at the door, willing Bee to open it. And my spark stuttered when he did and my optics instantly caught sight of two very familiar mechs. I trilled brokenly and pushed myself out of bumblebees alt form and into the view of the autobots on base, which consisted of Jazz, Prowl, Ratchet, Sunstreaker, Swideswipe and an autobot that I didn't recognise but if I had to guess I would say Wheeljack, if the fins on his head where anything to go by.

I turned my back to then and helped my brother out and lifted him into my arms and he hid his face in my bared neck cables. I turned and stumbled forward, I have to get to them.

"Careen." I almost cried as I heard my Aita's voice. In fact, I did cry and that caused me to trip. I didn't have the energy to catch myself but it was unnecessary as I felt a large hand catch me and Charga. I just lay in that hand and held Charga to me, sending him comfort as he panicked over his fallen sister.

"Jazz, bring the sparklings to the med bay immediately." I felt the sway as Jazz followed Ratchet to the med bay and I couldn't help the broken laugh as I thought about finally escaping the pain.

"put them down." I whimpered as I felt the cool metal on my exposed wires but sucked it up and looked at the medic that hovered above me, scanning me.

I screeched and reached for Charga as the second, blue medic pulled him away. I knew that it was just to fix him up but the sight of his battered body back in that Prison shot through my processor.

"Careen, calm down, nothing will happen to him, he is safe." For some reason, the words of that yellow medic calmed me and I resigned to whimpering at the separation.

"seeklet, you need to open your chest plates. My scans show something that does not belong there. It needs to be removed.

I dazed up at the medic as energon tears once again filled my optics.

"your..*crackle*..gonna take….it off*fizzle*? " I asked softly, cautious even though I knew that Ratchet would not harm me.

"I will need to know what I am taking off first." He replied softly and I smiled widely.

I reached up and tugged at my chest plates, trying to get to the manual latches. I eventually managed to get my fingers underneath the seam in my armour to pull at the latched and force my chest plates open, revealing the restrictive machine encasing my spark.

"By primus! Who would do this to a sparkling! Jolt, go get Wheeljack and be quick about it! Careen, how long has that been there?" Ratchet yelled the first part and it made me flinch but his tone softened as he urgently asked me about the machine.

"don't know…*crackle* days?" I looked up at the more experienced medic, begging with my eyes that he could free me from this thing. I looked down at my bared spark and reached up to touch the encasing metal.

I instantly regrated it.

I screeched, loud and long. My voice occasionally breaking out because of the strain as shocks ran through my spark and through the rest of my frame. I felt ratchets hands instantly around me, stopping me from writhing my way off the medical berth.

It took a while but eventually I calmed down from the sudden pain and slumped against the hands around me, simply too exhausted to do anything my stay online and even that was getting to be too much.

I didn't even know I had said anything before I offlined and finally found my way to the warm blackness and that bright golden city.

"Father…help me…."

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