What memory Sandra erased from the Decepticons and the what question the Autobots wanted to ask her cousins will be revealed in this chapter.


"Bumblebee, ya can't blame yerself fer something you couldn't have prevented."

Bumblebee looked up.

"I could have done something! I shouldn't have let her take the pain all by herself!"

Ironhide sighed and placed a servo on Bumblebee's shoulder.

"What's done is done, there's no way it can be fixed."

Bumblebee didn't say anything, Ironhide just shook his head and sighed.

For the past few weeks Bumblebee, Spike, and Carly couldn't stop blaming themselves for what had happened to Sandra. The other Autobots never knew what had happened during the time of their capture, only the fact that she had been the only tortured.

But the question now is, why just Sandra?

Decepticons wouldn't just torture one prisoner if they had more than one. Something must have happened to make them torture only one prisoner.

"Apparently Sandra hasn't nourished herself for days, it's still incredible how she still had the strength to keep herself functioning. Care to explain?" Ratchet frowned.

"Well...she did have plenty of food for all of us. But..."

"But?"

"She refused to eat anything, insisted that we needed it more than she did," Spike finished.

"We tried to get her to eat, but she won't. She wouldn't let the Decepticons see her as a weak person, that's one of the reasons why she starved herself so the Decepticons wouldn't get suspicious,"

said Carly.

The Autobots couldn't help but stare in horror at what the three had said.

"She...she went that far to keep you guys from danger?" Sideswipe squeaked.

"But that's not the worst part."

"What do you mean?" asked Sunstreaker, clearly worried.

"The worst part is why she was the only tortured and what she did to make it happen."

Flashback

"Geez, that hurt." Sandra had just been thrown back into the prison after another painful torture session.

"Well, you know the Decepticons. They sure know how to torture their victims," said Spike.

"Yeah, remind me to take those torture scenes I read for granted," Sandra groaned.

"But don't you think it's strange? I mean, Decepticons don't torture just ONE prisoner. If they had more than one prisoner, the Cons would torture all of them."

"I can answer that."

The three turned their attention towards Sandra.

"What do you mean?" asked Carly.

"Well, before we all got captured I managed to catch a glimpse of the Decepticons. Apparently, they did want to torture you. I didn't want that to happen so I erased that part of the memory, but I only managed to catch a glimpse of them wanting to torture me a lot before I blacked out."

"Yikes! If you had time, I'm sure you would have been able to era-"

"Save it, I never intended to erase that part of the memory anyway," said Sandra, cutting Bumblebee off.

They all gasped.

"Why not, Sandra? Why would you want to make yourself go through that much pain?" Carly shrieked in horror.

"Because you're my friends...and my family! I would never want to see you guys in pain!" she countered.

"But you're our friend and a part of our familiy too! We don't want to see you get hurt like the number of times we've seen you get hurt!" Bumblebee protested.

"I don't care if I get hurt as long as you guys are okay!" Sandra countered. "But promise me that no matter how much pain I'm in, you are NEVER to convince the Cons to have you take my place in torture. Promise?"

The Bumblebee, Carly, and Spike looked at each other before reluctantly looking back at Sandra.

"...Promise."

End Flashback

Optics went wide once the story was over.

"Primus, she deliberately forced herself to endure so much pain just to keep you guys safe? That takes a lot of courage for a human," said Mirage.

"But it's not right! Why would she want to do that?" cried Moonracer.

"I don't why, but only her cousins would know that. They know her more than we do."

The twins were silent the whole time, but they got up from their seats and left without a word.

"Where do you think the twins are going?"

"Who knows? But let's leave them alone right now, they're not handling this situation quite well."


The twins went inside the med bay, where they saw their soon-to-be sparkmate lying on one of the berths and hooked up to many machines and was wearing an oxygen mask. Sideswipe walked over and help Sandra's hand in his servo.

"Choco-V, if you can hear us, please wake up! Please! You have no idea that we really want you back and...and...come back to the both of us! It hurts us to see you like this!" Tears were already running down Sideswipe's cheeks, but he didn't care. It only mattered that Sandra live and be with them.

Sunstreaker felt the same way as well, all the while thinking about how he would make the Decepticons pay.

Pay for making Sandra go through intense pain and suffering,


Silence had overwhelmed all the Autobots before Ratchet decided to break the silence.

"I think it's time we ask them."

"Ask them what?" asked Ironhide.

"Ask her cousins why she doesn't know what family means."


There you have it, in the next chapter we learn a bit about Sandra's childhood past.

Unfortunately, because of my cousin's untimely passing, I didn't initially have the heart to update my stories this weekend. But he wouldn't want me to be like that, he'd probably thump me again... R.I.P. Nelson