And because I couldn't leave the story that way another day I decided to continue with chapter 26!

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I was rocking again but I couldn't feel a soft body under me. IT was just the cold hard metal of the floor. And that didn't make much sensed. But then it happened again followed by an explosion. There were alarms blaring and people yelling something about attacking robots. I lay there unable to move but I could only online my optics. At some point in time though someone had put a pillow under my head and draped a blanket over me. It was a rather odd thing to do since I didn't need pillows nor did I need a blanket to sleep. My recharge required none of the human frivolity.

I lay their not moving probably wouldn't have if I'd had enough Energon too because I had no instructions to do so. I just stayed in one place until there were the kids voices that I'd been with since I'd gotten their both yelling above the crashing and booming. They were suddenly at my side and I averted my eyes to not look at them. "Steel come on!" I laid there I couldn't move.

Sam then tried pulling at my hand, "Steel we gotta get you up."

"Can't," was all I could rasp. "Energon."

"Oh shit she's outta Energon," Sam cursed.

"Oh God, What are we gonna do?" Mikaela was petting my helm. I wasn't worried. If I was meant to have Energon they would bring it other wise I was not meant to have it. They ended up pulling me away from the wall that seemed to be taking the brunt of the explosions from the outside and huddled with me. They pulled both bed toward us also on in front of us and pulled one over us to protect us from any falling debris. We all lay flat under the small fortress waiting for what I didn't know. Finally there was a blast big enough to punch through the metal and large thundering footsteps came through shouting to one another. I could suddenly hear them in my head too.

Ironhide, do you have visual contact? was asked sharply.

No, but I do see their container, he said gruffly. Then out loud he called, "SAM MIKAELA STEEL?" The booming voice shook the ground.

"Here!" They both called. I didn't say anything. I hadn't been told to.

But then there was another voice that rang off the metal walls "WHERE?" almost paniced. I could feel something flare inside me that wanted to burn through the ice I had covering my spark but I pushed it down and it stopped quickly. There was an almost choking noise. And I heard some one metal hit their knees. From down a hallway a feminine screech could be heard also. Again that crying in the back of my processor only louder and more insistent but it was easily pushed away.

"PRIME!" was a slightly higher voice with a British accent's call as he seemed to come into the room. There were humans also yelling but they were getting quieter.

"NO get them," was the answer to the other. The glass of the wall exploded in to find pieces that rained down all over the mattresses on top and in front of us. IT sounded like music from on the ground. I couldn't tell if it was pretty or not. Just that the tinkling could have been misconstrued as some type of melody. Slowly a large yellow hand pulled the bed in front of us away and looked underneath.

"Found them!" it called backward toward the large hole that was gaping in the metal wall. The had opened it like a can with the edges of the wall pushed inward. The yellow bot pulled off the bed atop us and made cooing and twittering sounds at the two humans who responded to him by grabbing his hands and hugging them. I stayed where I was. Sam and Mikaela looked back down at me but I didn't meet their eyes. In one hand he scooped up the two humans while I stayed here I was with no reason or Energon to move. Once the two teens were picked up and he bent down to peer into my optics that I was unable to move away from he reeled back with a squeal. I'd done something wrong again.

There was a blue and red one that came up behind the yellow and looked down from his tall height at me. I would have cringed under his scrutiny but I didn't have the energy to. A voice floated down to me softly and full of a deep sorrow, "Steel," it was one word from his vocalizer and I would have melted into him at one point in time. But the name held no meaning did any name? That is what it was, my name, Steel. But what did it matter? It would do I supposed. I realized there was no more shrill cries from humans that I could hear anyway as he picked me up so delicately in to his large hands. The care was unnecessary because I wasn't ready to break. I may shut down forever from not having Energon but I wasn't ready to break. Something tingled over me and I knew it was a scan. Suddenly that soft rumble of a voice turned into a panic bellow, "RATCHET!"

A bright yellow green Cybertronian came running into the disaster of a room making his way to the red and blue one that held me. I could already feel the tingle of the scans in my systems. "THOSE FRAGGIN PIT SPAWNED SLAGGERS." The anger didn't worry me. But belying his temper he pulled me into his hands and pulled a cable out of my arm and began surging Energon through my systems in a hurried but caring manner. "She's on empty! BEYOND empty. And her sensory system is so slagged I don't know if she is feeling false positives or if she is in any pain. What in the pit did they do?" A hand held my helm and his fingers felt the back of my head where the space was from the removed plate. Slowly turning me over Ratchet's intakes whirled and then he went into another tirade as things were being flung around with one hand and he cradled me to his chest with the other.

The other bots were looking around the room now taking in exactly what had been going on. "This isn't a medical lab it's a torture chamber," Someone knew said. IT was a red lambo twin. My eyes remained away from any of the other's optics.

"They tested on Sam too Ratch!" Bumblebee yelled to him.

"Is he in any urgent danger?"

"Don't think so docbot."

"She's critical we need to get her back to base NOW." Ratchet walked back up to Optimus and handed me over to him. "She has enough energon now to make it back to base. There is too much damage to fix here. She is stable but critical. They got into her neural net." The faceplates of the large Autobot prime fell when he looked at me. I knew there was trouble on the horizon. I must have done something wrong again. The process by which to figure out what it was didn't seem to work though.

"Primus, sweetspark," he held me close in a hugging gesture that was quite a different punishment than the man had used. Was this a punishment? "You are so low on energon. If they had thought ahead we would have never have found you!" The information trickled through my CPU and it made sense. They must have not taken energon when they captured me and the two humans which is why I didn't get any.

"Those aftheaded slaggin fraggers! They thought they could come in to MY med bay and get Energon and get out free? Pit no!" The medic kept mumbling to himself as Optimus took me from the room I'd been put into. "Stupid dumbafts, trying to steal high grade for a sparkling!" and the rest I couldn't hear. The rocking motion was once again present in my sensation reception and it was in how the large mech who held me walked. There was red stuff all over the walls of the base we had been taken too. HE was walking toward a light probably from outside and just as we rounded a corner I saw a smear that could have used to be a person and a familiar pair of glasses and suit. Those familiar pieces of clothing are what lit the fear into my spark again shattering the numb compliant doll that had been inside me for the last day and the screaming I thought would never stop started even as my father tucked me into his sparkling hold for the drive home.