"Dad, why does uncle Megatron do this?" Bumblebee asked as his father just entered the room.

"Well he has been greatly influenced by evil and has chosen his path, and will not change as he has come to show that, he wasn't always like this" Optimus sighed sitting next to his depressed youngling on the berth.

"I wish I knew him when he wasn't evil, maybe I could've changed his mind" Bumblebee bleeped in a saddened tone as he gazed at the ground unsure of how to help.

Later

"How is he?" Arcee asked Soundwave in a soft, as she walked into Soundwave's room, walking over to the stressed faceless mech sitting beside his brother who slumbered on the berth.

"He's been in a lot of pain and recharging a lot, he's losing his thoughts more and more each time, but when he's awake he's awake" Soundwave sighed answered the femme as he watched Mirage's resting frame.

"I wish there was a way to just get the dark energon out of him!" Soundwave said in a devastated and angered tone, making Arcee give a small gasp as Soundwave stood up.

"But there's nothing I can do to help..." Soundwave cried softly as he rested an arm and his helm on a wall next to Arcee.

"Soundwave, I know you feel like you can't do anything for your brother, but you are trying your best to keep him alive, Mirage needs his big brother more then a cure" Arcee told the upset faceless mech that looked at his brothers weak resting frame.

Just as Arcee finished speaking Mirage became awake, slowly sitting up feeling slightly dizzy, catching both the femme and seekers atention.

"Mirage slowly" Soundwave softly coached his brother as Mirage swung his legs over the side of the berth and sat up with help from Soundwave.

"Thanks... I can handle it now..." Mirage spoke to his brother as he shakily stood up and started walking out the room, Arcee and Soundwave watched and soon followed the red mech out the door into the hallway.

"Where are you off to Mirage?" Soundwave called out in a slightly playful tone to his brother who was walking down the hall in the opossite direction to the main room, just then Sideswipe and Sunstreaker were just coming out of their room where Mirage had come to a halt.

"I am going the wrong way..." Mirage gave an emarrassed laugh and spun around looking up at the twins for a brief moment getting sympathetic smiles from the two, before walking back over to Soundwave and Arcee with drooped doorwings he stopped infront of Soundwave.

"Sorry... I didn't mean to..." Mirage apologized to his brother while gazing to the side he filled with embarrassment.

"You don't need to apologize, you made a mistake, I make them all the time" Soundwave reassured his brother wraping and arm around his smaller brother and escorting him into the main room, where Ratchet Prowl and Hound stood in the med bay while Bulkhead and Wheeljack stood in the middle and chatted with Barricade, the twins then caught up to them as they set foot in the main room.

"No you don't..." Mirage whispered to himself as all mechs in the main room turned there attention to him.

"Hey Mirage, how you doing buddy?" Bulkhead asked in a calm tone as Mirage walked on over on his own to Bulkhead and Wheeljack.

"I'm all ok... alright... can't com...plain...complain" Mirage replied, having to correct himself a couple times to the the large green mech, receving worried looks from both wreckers.

"Sorry, I guess I'm not all here today" Mirage tried making a joke about his incapability to think and process.

"Aw that's alright Mirage, we understood you clearly" Wheeljack replied with a small chuckle, giving Mirage a smile, making the spy perk up slightly.

"How about some energon?" Soundwave asked escorting Mirage towards the energon supply.

"Um... k..." Mirage didn't really know what he was agreeing to but he knew Soundwave knew better so he wasnt worried.

Soundwave sighed as he felt multiple waves of pain go through Mirage, his brother stood and took the pain as if there was bearly any pain.

"I can get... I'm not hungry actually..." Mirage decided to refuse the energon offer, but Soundwave was not about to take no for an answer.

"Mirage you need to keep your strength up, you need to have some energon" Soundwave told his younger brother and brought out an energon cube for his stubborn brother that crossed his arms and grumbled.

"No" Mirage shook his helm at Soundwave like a stubborn child, and looked away from his older brother, catching Ratchet's attention.

Soundwave would have had a look of disbelief if he could show expresions, as he stared at Mirage for a moment before shaking the shock of the child like moment off.

"Mirage you need it, it will help you" Soundwave tried to coax his brother into taking the energon.

"I don't need help, and you keep telling me to have energon, we don't need it, when's the last time you ate!" Mirage argued with his caring brother.

"Mirage what are you five, just take the damn thing?!" Soundwave growled loosing his cool handing the energon to his very stubborn brother.

"Whoa whoa Soundwave!" Ratchet jumped in taking the energon from the seeker and standing between the two brothers.

"What?" Soundwave hissed drawing his attention to the old medic.

"Look his processor is deteriorating more and more, if he's going to behave like a small stubborn child he's going to, nothing you can do about it, you're just going to have to deal with his moods in certain ways" Ratchet explained handing Mirage back the energon.

"So I shouldn't give him the energon?" Soundwave asked in confusion staring at the energon in Mirage's servo.

"No, by all means give him the energon he needs the strength, but you are going to have to coax him into drinking it, like you would to a youngling or sparkling" Ratchet continued his advice to the faceless seeker.

"I know why!" Soundwave randomly shouted making Ratchet and Mirage jump.

"Know what?" Ratchet asked in confusion raising an optic ridge to the seeker.

"Why I got attatched to Bumblebee when he came aboard the Nemessis as a sparkling, I didn't get to raise Mirage, I got attatched to Bumblebee because I haven't delt with a sparkling since Mirage and I were separated" Soundwave explained to the confused medic.

"Well you now have a fully grown mech youngling to take care of, have fun" Ratchet said with a snicker before walking away from the two brothers.

"Soundwave do I really have to drink this?" Mirage whined examining the energon in his servo.

"Yes you do stop being stubborn and just drink it" Soundwave sighed shaking his helm at his younger brother.

Mirage sighed rolling his optics taking a sip of the energon and looking a t Soundwave for approval.

Soundwave nodded and took Mirage to go sit on the couch and finish his energon there, knowing his brother would not be able to stand up forever.

"Mirage are you sure you are alright?" Soundwave asked feeling very sharp percing pains emit from Mirage.

"In a lot of pain, but I try and ignor it" Mirage sighed in reply to his brothers question.

"Don't worry, we will get you cured before it gets worse Mirage, I promise" Soundwave told his brother who continued to drink the energon as he was told, Soundwave could only hope they destroy Megatron before it was to late.