Nano-kilk - half of a Cybertron second

Klik - Cybertron second

Breem - Cybertron minute

Joor - Cybertron hour

Cycle/Lunar-cycle - Day or night

Meta-cycle - Cybertron week

Orn - Cybertron month

Vorn - Cybertron year

Deca-cycle - Cybertron decade

Mega-cycle - Cybertron century

Siren talking through datapad

Beast speak

::Comm Link::

I must apologies that many spelling errors do happen as I only have myself to proofread once I finish. So if you happen to find any i do try my best to find them before hand.

Day of the Dead – Hollywood Undead

This is exactly what has to be done, it happened so gradually
It's like I magically happened to be the phantom that cannot be
Lets this dagger cut jaggedly
While you're gasping so rapidly
While you gag on this rag
I see you all laughing so happily
It's okay to get startled and be afraid of the dark
I'll just wait here to swallow your soul and tear you apart
And I've already started, there ain't no saving your heart
This is the day of the dead, this is ain't no day in the park
Here I come, here I come, grab your guns and crossbows
And run, better run from the skull and crossbones
The fun has begun, yeah, it's hard to swallow
When I'm done, I ain't done, 'cause it's hell that follows
Now get ready for sorrow,
'Cause it's hell that follows

Hold on, Holy Ghost
Go on, hold me close
Better run, here we come
It's the day of the dead
Hold on, Holy Ghost
So long to the ones you know
Better run, here we come
It's the day of the dead

Ten Vorns later

Battles were everywhere. There was no escaping it as shots rained down all around and explosion from bombs being dropped by Seekers. Shouts of agony were heard from every direction that it echoed in audios. Being a medical personal Siren was one of many on the backlines of the fighting. Bots came and went. Some having to be dragged to the backline, others stumbled themselves to a medic crying out for Primus' help. Energon was thick in the air as medic bots rushed to and forth between mechs and femme alike that fought.

"Siren I need you to clamp this shut!" First Aid shouted from several feet away.

Siren finished the patch she had been welding onto a large femme seeker before racing over to her friend. Subspacing a clamp she worked with the mech to stop the fuel line from leaking more of the lifeblood. They were just thankful the mech they were working on was out as First Aid quickly start welding on the spark chamber to close the crack that was there.

"Thank Siren, I can handle the rest from here." With a confirmed nod the vixen bounded away only to skid to a stop when First Aid screamed out in pain.

Turning felt like time had slowed for Siren as her optics took in the mech arching backwards from the sudden pain hitting him. One arm was lifted somewhat letting the welding tool he had been using fly out form his grip. Several more flashes of tiny lights hit the mech in the back inflicting even more wounds to start leaking energon. Amber optic zoomed to the thing that had done the damage.

The cybercat had no protective plating as it should have. Along its back had a gruesome attachment of a gun that was shooting off rounds at any bot, whether Decepticon or Autobot, that could be hit by them. It ran around yowling out as it ran past the bots in that area. Some getting hit by its stray bullets while other remained unharmed by the chaos the cat was providing.

She could feel her vent hitch up in her shock before dashing to the fallen red and white mech she had come to love. A whine ripped through her vocal once she neared him trying to get a response, but nothing came. No movement, no groans of pain, NOTHING. Fear zipped into her spark as she went to work trying to take bullets while scanning him to see what vitals were hit.

Please! Please, don't leave me. Not again. Please don't let her lose another.

"Siren!" She glanced up to find Remedy skidding to his knee struts to help the vixen. His optic picked up the shacking of her prosthetics and the jerky way she moved to find all of the wounds. Remedy took a quick scan of his friend finding the bullets having only glanced the T-cog. "Siren, he'll be fine. Just calm down!"

Siren didn't hear the mech even when he forced her away from the mech. Her processor to locked on what she had witnessed. What did break through to her was the yowling of the cybercat. Having made its way around heading back towards the thick of the fighting. The fear that had taken over the vixen morphed into anger letting a snarling growl leave her jaw. Remedy, surprised by the vicious turn of the vixen, released his hold on her giving a shout of shock when Siren bolted off after the cybercat.

Thuds of speeding pedesteps were drowned while the frame of a maroon beastly figure racing through it all. With nibble pedes the figure dodge bots from both sides, narrowly missing a huge broadsword smacking right into her left side. Her focus was not the bots she was having to dodge, but of the deformed frame of a cybercat.. Even not having been in top form of racing since her career and with a heavier weight of frame, Siren was gaining ground on the cat.

A shriek ripped through her vocal as a bullet slammed into her right optic blinding that side for her. Stumbling in her stride Siren could see the cybercat take what ground she had gained leaving the vixen behind. Shaking the pain and feel of energon leaking she pushed through it to continue her pursuit fueled by anger towards the cat. This cybercat was not going to survive the lunar cycle of this battle. Not after it shot and brought down First Aid.

She was only thankful Remedy was nearby to take First Aid out of the battlefield.. All she knew was it had to die, and it would die at her fangs. Siren had seen red after having watched energon leak out of First Aid before taking off like a bullet herself after the cat. No loss of an optic would deter her from achieving that goal either.

Using audial and scent to weave around bots she began to gain the ground she had lost. With the last few feet between them, Siren hunched up her hind pedes and launched into the air. A growling screech rolled out of her as she slammed into the cybercats frame. The cat squealed in surprised as the two rolled several times over each other from the momentum. Jaws snapped, claws ripped into plating, and energon poured out from wounds.

Both quickly got onto pedes once they had come to a stop. Slowly they circled each other with Siren lowering her helm and giving a deep growl as the cat shrieked out. Maroon plating flared out in its challenge as her only optic stayed trained on the cybercats own deranged looking optics. Whatever had been done to this cat had broken its will and spirit. It was now only a created weapon.

Being done with waiting, Siren took the lunge at the cat raking claws at its muzzle and snapping her fangs into the side of its left neck just under the jaw of the beast. In turned she could feel it rain down its own claws along her plating. Unlike the cybercat, she had armor, and so she jerked her helm back and forth causing the cat to become unsteady on its pedes. Within kliks, prosthetic arms shot out from their holding and slammed into the cat's frame.

Growls and screeches turned to yelps as Siren tore into the cat's frame with her extra arms. The gun that had been attach horribly to the cybercat went flying into the air. She didn't stop there when she tugged hard at a hind leg strut until it broke from the frame. Griping the cats frame in her arms Siren flung it high into the air. The cat yelped out twisting madly before smashing down onto the metal ground.

Helm low, Siren leisurely make her way to the struggling cybercat with a missing leg and energon pouring out of fuel lines there. Even with the deranged look held within its optics, fear was now taking over it. You shot at the wrong bot, cybercat. No one messes with that mech.

Siren raised her helm when she reached the cat, looking down at her prey with prosthetics waving lazily in the air around her. For that, you die. A klik later, the arms shot forward impaling into the cybercat at forces that ripped into the damaged frame effectively ending the life it had. She stood there frozen for a time, but how long that was she would never truly know.

It was just after the prosthetics disappeared back into the holdings did she feel as if somebot was watching her. Quickly scanning the area of bots that were left, many being that of Autobots, till her one optic landed on a mech she would never have thought to see again. In the distance stood the figure of a mech she had once held dear to her spark. No longer were his optics a blue glow but of a blood red glow.

With a tilt of his helm the mech turned away and left the field just as victory cries were ringing out all over. Her optic stay glued to the spot the mech that had stood there before she was nudged. Turn her helm she found First Aid standing next to her glancing down at the gray frame of the cybercat. He then glanced all around them at the many gray frames that littered the ground.

Siren should have been glad, pleased to have gotten rid of the cat but all she felt was hallow about it. Her processor was clearing the haze away that had taken root and she could now think about what had happened. She had killed a beast in revenge of what it had done to First Aid. Chasing after the cybercat instead of staying at his side like she should have.

Medic. That was what she was. No harm was to come to those that sought her help in healing. She had taken an oath to do no harm but this cycle she had broken it. All because she lost to the battle haze. The bloodlust. Whatever you called it; Siren lost herself to its will. Looking at the frame she backed up in horror.

"Siren! Wait!" First Aid shouted quickly gripping her frame to his before she could bolt. She wiggled to get free but her mech held strong not budging. "Stop Siren, its over. It's done." At his words, the vixen slumped into his frame wishing for once to have the ability to cry and speak aloud. First Aid moved a servo to smooth out her maroon plating letting her take the time she needed to gather herself back.

Siren nudged into his chest letting the mech know she was okay now. Getting up the two gave a glance to each other before joining in on finding bots that needed attention.

The cycles past quickly for everybot as many were relieved to take recharge before the next big hit came. Siren was laying down on the berth that she now shared with First Aid as her thoughts whirled around in her processor. She could have lost him that cycle or any cycle after now. The war had begun to take a turn for the worst with Decepticons gain more and more ground.

A finial perked at the sound of the apartment door being opened then shut. Familiar pedesteps made their way to the berthroom before stopping just at the doorway. Siren looked up at the mech that stood there, taking in the fact he had removed the visor and plate. His blue optics roamed over her frame as she got up to move to the mech.

"I had a dream that I think I now understand." First Aid started not once taking his optics off of the vixen. The way he gazed at her intently made her frame heat some but gave a tilt of her helm in wanting him to continue. "You were there standing on top of a hill gazing up into a blue sky with colors of flowers all over. It was peaceful, quiet. Yet, you looked sad."

"Then, you turned to me as the last light started to vanish taking you with it. You slowly vanished and no matter how fast or how long I ran towards you, I could never get to you." He finished kneeling down to gently palm Siren on the side of her helm that now held a patch over the missing optic.

Her remaining optic shut and leaned into his gentle touch. "I believe Primus was trying to show me that I needed to take action before it was too late." Her optic opened to stare into his blue ones in question. "That action that I need to take is…asking if you would become my sparkmate."

Silence filled as the two waited. One for an answer, the other asking why he would want her as his sparkmate. She may have held a spark, but she was still not a bot, she didn't even know if she could have a sparkmate as a beast. Siren did care deeply for the mech, but she was sure that tying themselves to each other forever would be wrong. But, her spark said otherwise having felt the leap it gave at those words.

Having known this vixen for as long as he did he could see the struggle the warred within her. And so, he let his spark speak for him. "I know what you are thinking." This earned the attention he wanted. "How could I, a bot, want you, a turbofox? That even in our culture we were just too different. Only, I don't see it that way Siren. I see to the femme that is under the face of a beast-born. It is you who I want. Not the one that I see with optic but the one hidden that takes time to be seen. The beautiful hidden spark that is you."

He let his words sink before continuing in a whisper. "Will you be mine and I, yours? To be as one for the remainder of what is given to us by Primus?" Siren wanted to cry at his words having quelled her thoughts about everything. Just as she found her answer an urgent comm came.

::First Aid, Siren, you're needed at the med bay stat. Inbound shuttle full in twelve breems.::

Purest of the Hearts – Aww that really means a lot to me. For the longest time I was thinking that if I did finally put a chapter up would this story still hold something after being without an update for so long. And yes! They are getting close. Its been a big debate even at the early stages of this story for a possible pairing. It honestly is still up for debate even now.

Wolf girl811 – hmm, good question. Im not really sure with the scouting bit but changes are going to be happening soon. Changes that might be a surprise to hopefully to my readers.

I want to thank Fizx, Lylesa, bluewolf112, Brecken RainCaller and Christoffer Mrch for the Follow and Favorite!

R&R