I opened my eyes slowly, the light hurting them as I slowly woke up. I was so tired. What was going on? Where was I? My body felt heavy, why?

The sound slowly entered my ears. I could hear the bleeping and the soft humming of the heart monitor. "Ugh." I groaned and slowly moved my heavy arm to remove the oxygen mask around my face. I pulled the wires from my chest, causing the heart monitor to stop.

I rubbed my eyes and blinked a couple of times, I tried to get up, but my body was just too heavy and I was in such a dull pain, I don't know what to do.

"STATIC!" A voice shouted before breaking down the med bay doors. I heard robot feet running towards me and before I knew it my view of the metal ceiling was suddenly filled with panicking robots.

I watched Ratchet, Jolt and barricade sigh in relief when they saw me awake. Jolt turned off the heart monitor, causing the even bleep to stop.

"You gave us quite a heart attack there, sparkling." Ratchet said and smiled softly. "How are you feeling?" He asked.

"Heavy." I groaned and closed my eyes again for a couple of seconds. "I can't move anything besides my arms a little. If anyone had been dragged out of hell, I'm sure that they would feel like this."

"Not funny." Barricade grumbled and crossed his arms over his chest. "You could have died, you know. You're lucky you survived so stop joking around."

I turned my head away from him and frowned. It wasn't like anything I had done had been on purpose. The last thing I remember was almost being squashed and pain, it's not like I had enjoyed it!

Barricade growled and stomped out the med bay, causing Jolt and Ratchet to sigh. "Don't worry about it, Phoebe." Ratchet said and transformed so his holoform could climb out of the ambulance. "He's just worried that's all. You did give him a spark attack, he's been on edge ever since the battle couple of weeks ago. You've been out for about six weeks." He said and went to give me a check up. "Do you remember anything that happened?" He asked.

I shrugged as Jolt helped me sit up a little, placing some extra pillows for my back and to keep my neck up, I felt like a bag of potatoes. "Last thing I remember is being squashed and my legs hurting, it was like I was breaking them." I said and rubbed my eyes as I felt tears coming up.

"Calm down, sparkling." Ratchet said and tried to calm me down as I started to hyperventilate into a panic attack. The images and the pain just started to flash through my memory. "Phoebe, it's alright. You're okay, that's all that matters." He said with a small smile and patted my shoulder.

He sighed and looked away from me for a second, I knew there was something bad and he was looking for a way to tell me. "What is it, Ratchet?" I asked, what was wrong? "I'm okay, but something is still wrong with me, isn't there?"

"Well…" He started. Oh God, it was really bad. I just knew it! "You're probably not going to be able to walk for a while. You're bone broke through your knee, destroying the joint completely. Since your legs aren't human bone, we can't put it back together like human doctors would do. We couldn't weld your leg together like I would do to the Autobots because we would burn your skin off. I tried fixing it the best as possible with plates, to make it as humanly possible, but you wont be able to walk again, Static. I'm sorry."

My mouth hung open, tears in the corner of my eyes. I knew it was bad, but not this bad! I tried not to cry, but the tears just started rolling down my face.

"You're lucky that you're not paralyzed." Ratchet said. "You almost broke your neck, but I was able to fix that and the broken nerves so you should be fine there." He looked at me with sorry eyes. "It's okay, sparkling." He said and placed his hand on my head.

The moment he did that, I just broke down and started sobbing in my hands. I would never be able to walk again! I just sobbed and screamed my lungs out. I started hyperventilating and this time I really did have a heart attack. My chest heaved with every wheezing breath that I took.

Ratchet took a step back and gave me some medicine to calm down. Once I calmed down and basically turned into a bowl of ramen noodles, he shifted me so I was lying down completely again.

Tears still rolled down the side of my face as I closed my eyes in exhaustion and fell asleep. The only thing going through my mind was that I would never be able to walk again.

XxX

Couple of days past until I was a little better. Today was my first day out of bed and I was testing out my wheelchair before leaving the medbay, I hadn't really been out of there yet and I hadn't allowed anyone in because it had taken me a while to get used to the idea that I would probably never walk again. I still couldn't believe it, but Ratchet was kind of forcing me out of the medbay.

Sulking didn't help, so he was about ready to kick me out. I sighed as I watched the big metal door. Everything seemed so much bigger when you were sitting in a wheelchair.

Ratchet opened the giant, metal door that we used for the Autobots, but before I could even make a move, I was attacked and knocked down with my wheelchair by a certain silver holoform.

"I'm so glad you're alive!" Sideswipe fake cried.

I rolled my eyes and sighed as I let him hug me. I patted his head and he pulled back with a giant smile on his face before helping me and my wheelchair back up straight. "Ratchet told us what's going on." Sideswipe said with a small sad smile.

I sighed again and nodded. "Can you please just take me back to my foster parents?" I asked him, not really meeting his eyes. "I want to say hi to everybody before I go and see them. Still a bit down, you know."

For the first time in history, I think, Sideswipe just nodded without his normal energetic behavior. He took hold at the back of my hair and pushed me forwards as I leaned back in the seat. "Where's Sunstreaker?" I asked, noticing that Sideswipe's twin wasn't there. "You two are rarely separated." I stated.

"He's in the brig." Sideswipe answered which made my eyes go slightly wide.

"What why?!"

"Oh you know, he almost broke down the medbay doors because he wanted to see you." He shrugged as if it was something Sunstreaker would normally do, though I did catch the sad sigh at the end. "What?"

"You really like, Sunstreaker, don't you?"

I frowned in confusion, where had that suddenly come from? I kissed Sunstreaker once, but I did really like him, though I hadn't given it much thought since the battle. I didn't even know what I was to Sunstreaker, he hadn't really put a label to it yet so I didn't really know. I guess that Sunstreaker must have told his brother about what happened before he had left right before the battle.

I looked up at Sideswipe and saw something in his eyes that I couldn't put my finger on. There was some sort of sadness, but also… Happiness?

"I guess." I said. "It's been the last thing on my mind lately. Why you ask?"

A small smile spread across his face, but he just shrugged it off. "No reason, I just wanted to know since I haven't seen Sunstreaker protective and so worried over someone before that wasn't me.. You don't think it's weird to love a robot?"

"What's up with you and these questions?" I asked and turned around in my chair, confused as a dizzy badger. "I've been in coma for how long? Can walk anymore and have to use a wheelchair and the first thing you ask what I feel for Sunstreaker? Something wrong, Sideswipe?" I asked. There was something going on in his mind, but what?

"No nothing." He said and looked straight ahead, slightly happier. "I just thought I would be so nice to not talk about your legs or what had happened, you know, change of subject."

"And the first thing you could think of was Sunstreaker?" I smirked. "Very nice." I laughed softly. "It worked though, thanks Sides." I smiled and got comfortable again.

We headed for the main hangar. It was kind of weird to be out of the medbay, but also really nice.

"Hey guys!" Sideswipe shouted when the other Autobots came into view. "Look who's out of the medbay!"

Everybody turned their head towards me and smiled. Skids and Mudflap ran towards me in their bipedal modes, fake crying, but they tripped over each other and Sideswipe had to move me so I wouldn't get squashed.

The bots shook their heads when they heard a loud crash and looked back down at me.

You know when you stand next to a giant robot as a little human, you feel… Little… But when you're in a wheelchair, making you half your height and you sit in your wheelchair next to a giant ROBOT you feel like a ant or like a flee… Dust mite… Yeah, trust me, that small.

"How are you feeling, Phoebe?" Optimus asked and looked at me with pitied optics.

I sighed and nodded my head. "I'm still alive and out of the medbay, so I should be good… Just not in a jumpy mood if you know what I mean." I said.

Optimus nodded in understanding and smiled a little.

I looked at the other bots and leaned my head in my hand. Man, looking up was tiring and painful. "Come on guys, you don't have to be so gloomy. I'm okay, cheer up." I didn't really know if this was just for them or also for myself, probably both. But I was right though, I was okay besides my legs. I should be happy that I'm still alive.

I heard familiar a familiar rev of an engine and turned to see Barricade's altmode. His holoform stepped out and looked at Sideswipe. "Get her in the car." He said, causing the passenger seat door to open.

I nodded at Sideswipe in okay and he rolled me to the right side before lifting me out of the and carefully into the passenger seat. Barricade's holoform looked at me from outside of the car and disappeared before the car drove off.

XxX

Barricade drove us to the beach and we just watched the sea from inside of the car in silence. I didn't mind though, just being close to my creature again was the best feeling I've had in a long time.

Barricade wasn't good at showing his feelings to anyone, not even me, but there are moments like this when you actually know that he cares. I don't know how to explain it, it's just a feeling that I have every I'm close to him. It's like being wrapped in a warm blanket with hot coco on a freezing winter night.

I smirked when I felt Barricade heat up the chair and snuggled into it. "You okay, sparkling?" The radio asked.

I smiled at the dashboard and nodded my head softly. "Yeah, I'm okay. I just have to get used to the wheelchair, you know."

"I'm sorry I couldn't protect you, Static." Barricade said. "We shouldn't have taken you with. We should have thought of another plan to get you out of Galloway's -"

"Barricade, stop." I interrupted and shut my eyes, I couldn't breakdown now. "It was my own fault. I didn't do as I was told. I didn't stay put, leaving me in the open for the Decepticons. My mistake almost caused our sun to be taken away. I should have told Prime everything from the beginning, ever since I spoke to the seven primes, I could have ruined everything." I said with a tear filled voice as my eyes started watering.

I cried in my hands and sobbed softly as I suddenly felt two strong arms wrap around me, surrounding me we warmth. "It's okay, Sparkling." Barricade mumbled in my hair as he pulled me on his lap in the drivers seat. "It was a written in destiny. If it hadn't happened then we wouldn't have found the matrix, we wouldn't have defeated the fallen. It was meant to happen to make us stronger." He said, making me snuggle into his chest. "We will find a way to fix your legs and I'll have Ratchet make you a new antenna as soon as possible. I promise…"

I just nodded into his chest and stayed like that, back again in silence, until I fell asleep.

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