Nasar Part Four: The Guilt
Optimus Prime rubbed his face plate in thought. What was he going to do? He remembered Nasar's terribly strong attatchment to her older brother...how was he going to do it? T-Ai faded back into the room, she looked slightly down cast. "I've explained to the others of the problem and I recieved a few responses. Shall I put them on screen?"She asked. "Yes.". A list of several trusted AutoBots passed over his optics, but none seemed to fit. He winced when Wars' name came up, if he chose to raise her...she'd up as trigger happy as ever. Then a final name came up, X-Brawn. He didn't know why, he didn't know how, but something told him to choose the rustic AutoBot. "X-Brawn will be her Charge. Contact Skid-Z, Nasar, her Femmes, and the AutoBot Brothers.". "Nasar is with Koji, shall he be apart of this?", "Might as well.".
"AutoBots X-Brawn, Prowl, SideBurn, Skid-Z. Fizzle, Cherry Pop, JumperKable, Junker, Nasar and Koji report to the Console Room immedailty.". Hesetantly, the Femmes, Koji still in Nasars hand, walked into the room, followed by the others. Optimus Prime and T-Ai were already there, as Optimus Prime called Skid-Z to his side, and said something into his audio, and that made Skid-Z retreat into the shadows. "What's the matter Prime? Somethin' wrong?"X-Brawn asked. Optimus shook his head and sighed. "We've selected the Charge for Nasar."He responded. There was a whisperer from the shadows that said, "her name is Ni.". Nasar arched her brows. "What'sa Charge?"She asked. "A Charge is someone who looks after a younger AutoBot untill the child is able to take care of themselves or the original family member is able to once more take care of the child."T-Ai responded. The hologram flinched as Nasar looked terrified. "You will be Nasar, or Ni's' Charge, X-Brawn. Untill Nasar is able to either be able to be taken care by her team, she is grown, or Skid-Z is able to purge his racing."Optimus commanded. Nasar suddenly let out a screech, dropping Koji, only to have SideBurn grab him before he hit the floor. He ran by T-Ai. He had never seen and AutoBot, not even UltraMagnus like this. She screamed untill her voice unit crackled and sparks emitted from her mouth almost every time she spoke. Nasar looked horrified as her face horror stricken. "No. No I won't loose my Onnichan again! I won't let you take him away!"She screamed. To her suprise, Onnichan walked from the shadows. "Onnichan! Their making me go with someone else so you can't take care of me! Tell them how much you wanted to take care of me!"She cried. He shook his head. "Tell them how much you never wanted to let me go! And how much a mistake this is!"She screamed, her bad eye sparking beneath its patch. When he didn't answer, her eyes widended, she had figured it out. "I hate you."She whispered, her eyes suddenly turning cold. "I HATE YOU!" She screamed again. To everyones suprise, she began firing randomly, the rounds bouncing of of anything and everything. "I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU!"She screamed over and over again. A few rounds bounced off the wall and headed straight for T-Ai's hologram projector, and Koji. The boy cried out as the rounds brushed his skin as he shelided his face and head with his arms, the rounds left bleeding welts in their wake. T-Ai was not so lucky, a stray round struck her hologram projetor, and she screamed in pain. "T-Ai! Koji!"SideBurn cried out. The hologram flickered as she fell to the floor. Koji sank to his knees, trying to hold back tears of pain. "Prowl, contact Ratchet. T-Ai is offline and Koji is injured. Both will need transport. Junker stepped foreward as Fizzle restrained Nasar. "I'll do it. Don't worry, I won't damage anything."She offered. Optimus nodded. Picking Koji and T-Ai's hologram projector gingerly off the floor and rushed down the hall. Nasar began to struggle and squrim in Fizzles arms. "I WON'T LOOSE YOU AGAIN!"She screamed. "I WON'T! I JUST GOT YOU BACK!"She screamed over again. "Family dosen't back stab Onnichan! You told me yourself! Family dosen't betray eachother either! You said you'd never let me go again!"She screamed, her eye flooding with tears. There was a sudden clatter in the room. Optimus found the rest of his troops, minus his brother of course, in the Console Room, all looked slightly mistook. "Optimus...what happened? We heard someone screaming they hated someone, and firing!"Wedge asked. Cherry Pop buried her head in her hands, and sank to her knees. Nasar cried out again, her audio filled with sorrow. Optimus could no longer stand to look at the Femme. "X-Brawn. Take her to your quaters. She will remain there. Prowl, escort and make sure she dosen't get near anyone." The two brothers nodded, and marched the squirming little Femme out of the room. Optimus turned, and left a lot of confused AutoBots behind. "What happened?"Mirage questioned to Cherry Pop. All he got was a round of sobbing. Fizzle heaved a sigh, trying to block out emotions that threated to overflow. "Skid-Z arranged to have a Charge for Nasar. Appaerantly she didn't know about her brothers obsession of racing. I guess he thinks it's just to dangerous to support a family now."She sighed. Skid-Z shut off his audio as round after round of questions surrounded him. He was deaf to the questions, the only thing he heard was Nasars voice, blind to the hands that stood in his way, only seeing a sobbing Nasar in his way. 'What have I done?'His mind whispered.
Optimus slowly poked his head into the Med Ward. Junker was hunched over a weak looking T-Ai and Ratchet was wrapping up Koji's arms. He noted the sheet sperating the two Medics. "How is everything?"He asked. Junker jumped, shocked by the sudden voice inturrupting her. She had been replaing some classical music softly though her audio, and her mind was in another world, while her body set to removing the round and getting T-Ai fully online. "Urm, Optimus, I'd have to ask you to not look behind this sheet."Junker apologied. "Why?". "You had T-Ai be as human looking as possible, correct?"She asked. He nodded, "yes, why?". "One wrong move and Koji, Ratchet and you will be getting a session in human female anatomy. Optimus quickly took a step back. "Sorry.". Junker didn't respond, she was lost in a fantasy again. "How do you feel Koji?"He asked, looking down at the boy. Koji nodded and grinned. Optimus held out his hand and the teen climbed on it egearly. "How's Nasar?" He asked. Optimus sighed and looked over in Junkers direction. "I don't think you would be to happy if I told you she knows about her sister then, right?"Ratched asked him. Optmis held his other hand against his forehead. Junker was making more noise then needed suddenly, humming with her music loudly, slamming tools down on the metal tray, ect. "I don't think she'd want to hear."Optimus sighed to himself.
"Let me go you slagger!"Nasar cried out harshly as she kicked and bit at X-Brawns' hands and arms. "For a lady you certainly don't talk--" Prowl dodged a small fist flying at his face plate, "---or act like one!". "Bite me!". Reaching his quaters, he walked in and set her on one of the spare beds he owned. It was originally SideBurns, for when he was smaller, but he never really had the heart to remove it, incase the blue viper had another nightmare. But he rarely did, so now it was hers. Almost instantly as she was set down, she kicked X-Brawn in the groin, making him double over. She darted to find a closed door and Prowl. He grabbed her arms and unlocked her guns on her each her arms. Tucking them in a containmet unit well out of her reach, he found himself ducking a flurry of flying fists, some hitting and some missing. Once she cracked him in the optics, making him wince. "Let me out of here! I want to see my brother!"She cried out. "It's just like if it ws X-Brawn putting you or Side Burn up for a Charge and they wanted to see him!". Prowl stopped, realizing what she was talking about. She wanted to see her brother out of love for him. The same love that JumperKable held for her brother, the same love that each of him and his brothers shared. Not to beat the living spark out of the poor racer. What he saw in those optics, or rather optic, was agony. She had just got her brother back and he was roughly yanked away from her. By this time, X- Brawn was back on his feet, and Nasar had sunk to her knees on the floor. X- Brawn reached to touch the racing fin on the back of her head, and jerked back when she trembled at the touch. "I...w-want Onnichan."She whispered harsly. Prowl wasn't the best at emotions, but he could tell that this Femme was hurting. "You can't see Skid-Z right now Ni."X-Brawn tried using her nickname. "His name is Onnichan! And don't call me Ni! Only Onni can call me that! Only Onnichan!"She screamed at the floor. X-Brawn sighed and looked up at his younger brother. "So what do we do now? Why did you sign up for a charge anyway?"Prowl questioned, sitting next to his brother. The rustic bot shrugged. "I raised you and SideBurn, I thought I could do it again."He sighed. Nasar let out a desisive snort, "you really raised them? I'm suprised.". She stood straight, and sat down on her bed and crossed her legs. "Untill you let me see Onnichan, I'm not moving."She said firmly. And she intended to stay like that.
Roughly six or seven hours later, it was the same stalemate. X-Brawn and Prowl took turns watching the room to make sure she didn't try and blow anything up. Surpisingly, she hadn't move, she reamained still as anything. X-Brawn sighed as Prowl walked in. "Your turn to go out bro."He said. X- Brawn stood up from his desk, he'd been working on. "I'm going to go talk to Prime. This is insane."He muttered into Prowls audio. The other nodded and sat down in a chair, a few datapads in his hands.
"Prime? Your gotta second?"X-Brawn asked. The massive Fire Convoy stepped out from the Med Ward. He had just taken Koji home and was checking on T-Ai again. Junker still wasn't speaking to him. "What is it X-Brawn? How is Nasar?". X-Brawn sighed deeply and said, "that's what I'm here to talk about ya see." Optimus looked at him in question. "What's the matter with her?". "She's sat herself down about seven hours ago and refuses to move or recharge untill she sees Skid-Z. She wants to stay with him.". Prime let out a sigh, he knew that his problem was going to come up, but not like this. This wasn't good, not at all. This was more that he expected from the small Femme. "Go and talk to her. But don't let her out of the room. Hopefully, the exaustion will make her fall asleep after a time.". X- Brawn nodded and walked away.
"I can't believe he did this to her!"Fizzle burst out again. Her fist embedded itself deeply into the wall of her quaters attatched to Midnight Expresses'. Again and again her fists pummeled the steel wall. "Fizzle? Are you alright?" Came another voice. Glancing to her left, she saw Midnight Express poking his head cautiously into her room. He remembered Fizzle as a small child, but not much. She whirled, "what?". The Junior Member only shook his head and walked carefully in the room he might have been clumsy, but he knew not to mess with a mad Femme. Fizzle calmly ignored the intrusion and went back to punching her wall. She slammed her right fist into the wall, and to her suprise, it wouldn't come back out. "Midnight? A little help?"She asked. The other train looked at the sight. The Femme had one lag up on the wall, and her other arm yanking on the one stuck in the wall. Smothering his laughter Fizzle smirked. "Go ahead, laugh it up! It wouldn't be the first time anyway.". As the train got up from his seat to pull her fist from the wall he asked, "what do you mean 'this wouldn't be the first time'? This has happened before?"He joked. When she nodded, he laughed. With a sharp yank, she tumbled backwards to have both of them land in a heap on the floor. Fizzle burst out laughing as she and Midnight Express climbed to their feet. Smirking, Fizzle grinned at him, and walked out of the room.
"Cherry? Hey Cherry Pop are you in there? Come on! It's Mirage!" The sniper had been trying to get in touch with the red Femme for the past hour. But as soon as the ordeal with Nasar had ended, she had shut herself up in her room and refused to come out. "Cherry come on! Open up!"He tried again and knocked on the door again. "Go away!"Came her voice fianally. "I just wanna talk! That's it."He said through the steel door. There were a few moments of silence, and the door slid open. She appeared as if she'd been crying. She allowed him in. She was the only one that was to share a room with part of her team, JumperKable was the other. But she wasn't there at the moment, to busy down in the tunnels. "Come in."She sighed. Nodding, he walked into the room. It looked pretty simple. A few photos, two bunks, but one certian photo on Cherry's bed caught his optic. It was one of the entire family. Fizzle was standing in the back, either of her hands on Junker and JumperKables shoulders, and Cherry and Nasar in the front, Cherry's arms holding Nasar around the shoulders. "You really took care of her, didn't you?"Mirage questioned. Cherry Pop picked up the picture and set it on her bedside table fondly. "Nasar's the sister I could never really have. I mean, sure, being a Spy Changer is great. But having to see Nasar in so much pain, it's overwhelming. I feel terrible."She sighed to herself. Mirage cocked his head slightly. He understood what she was saying, but didn't understand what she ment from Nasar. "What do you mean?"He fianally questioned. "Optimus arranged for X-Brawn to raise Nasar. Of course, she went nuts and hurt T-Ai and Koji. I heard from SideBurn she's stuck herself in the quaters and won't move or recharge untill she can see Skid-Z. This is insane.". "She'll eventually collapse, you do know that, right?"He asked. Cherry nodded untill she sat down on her bed again, her lower lip quivered. Mirage sat next to her and she breathed a shaky sob. "I can't help to be scared for her. She's just a little kid."She sighed. Unconsiously, Mirage placed a hand around her shoulders, and she rested her head onto his chest armour. "She'll be fine. I promise."He assured. He noted a faint shaking beneath his hands. "Cherry, hey Cherry, your shaking."He realized. To his suprise, she had fallen asleep, her head resting on him. Gently removing his arm, he lay her on her on her bed, and walked quietly out of her quaters.
Nasar sat stiffly on her bed, there was no way she was going to let these guys win. She wanted her brother and she wanted to be with him. The AutoBot with the funny accent was watching her again. "Ya know Nasar, it dosen't have to be this way, I could be much rougher on ya."He pointed out. She stuck out her tounge and flipped him off. "I don't care. It's your fault I was stuck on this misrable rock in the first place."She said. Arching his brows, he remembered what she was talking about. The shuttle launch, she was the one the put up the fight and cracked Ratchet in the optic. Sighing, he returned to his work. "Listen, I'm sorry about cha' brother, but Prime assined me as ya Charge and untill ya old enough, your stuck with me."He said to her. She shrugged. "I can make myself become really annoying, ask any members of my family trust me, they'll tell you."She grinned. X-Brawn heaved a sigh, it was going to be a loooong night.
"JumperKable? Hey, JumperKable you around?"Wedge had been looking for his little sister for about twenty minuets now. He'd checked in the recharge room, console, and with T-Ai, but the Femme was nowhere to be found. "Oh! Hey Midnight! Have you seen JumperKable?"He asked the train. He shook his head. "No, I've been looking for Fizzle too. Cherry Pop is asleep, Junker is repairing T-Ai, and Nasar is still at a stalemate with X- Brawn."He reported. Wedge nodded, "their probally back in the quaters asleep. I'd better go too. Long day tomorrow. It'll be the Femmes first full day here."Wedge sighed, putting a hand over his mouth to cover a yawn.
Midnight walked down the darkened hallway with a slight stiffness. Sure, it was the same hallway he'd been taking down the hall to his room for years, but there was still the childishness fear he held of the dark. It was inky, and things, Decepticons, Predacons, could hide in. But he knew that it was impossible. There was no way even a Predacon or Decepticon spark could get in with out being dectected by T-Ai. But T-Ai was still in the Med Ward....He shivered. Suddenly, with out warning, a pair of strong hands grabbed his mouth and around his waist! "Mmmph!"He grunted. The hands were stronger than his own grip, and it pulled him into another set of quaters, and he didn't hear a gun firing, but laughter! "Not funny at all Rapid Run!"He yelled, his pale face flushing with added embarassment. The elder bullet train was doubled over in his mirth, and the entire ordeal brought out Rail Spike. "All right, what's going on out here?"He asked gruffly. "I couldn't help it man! He looked like he was gonna mess his skid pan!"Rapid Run managed to spit out. "He grabbed me in the hall and dragged me into here."Midnight muttered. His face was burning with embarassment. Rail Spike swatted Rapid Run upside the head and sighed. "Go to bed Midnight. It's way to late for this. I'll have a talk with prankster tomorrow morning before breifing."Rail Spike grumbled. He wasn't exactically happy about being woken out of a sound sleep to find an embarassed Midnight Express and a hysterical Rapid Run. Walking back into his quaters he heard Midnight exit and Rapid Run mutter, "well it WAS funny..." Upon reaching his own quaters, his room looked normal, no Rapid Run to jump out and grab him, just his own normal quaters. The ajacent door that led to Fizzles quaters was ajar, revealing a small sliver of light. He knew he shouldn't but he did anyway. Peering though the crack, he could see Fizzle seated on her bunk, was was leaning on the wall humming to herself. In her hands was a holopad. Flipping though the photos, she stopped at a single one. It was to blurry to see, but the tears on Fizzle face showed bittersweet memories. Walking back to his bunk, he heard movement from Fizzle, and she walked into his room. "I saw you."She whispered. Midnight's face flushed deeply, "I apologize. I didn't mean to invade your privacy like that. I just heard you humming and I well---", he was cut off by a musical giggle from Fizzle. "It's okay. I understand.". She stretched as she let out a yawn, raising to her toes and raising her arms above her head. "I'm going to bed, okay Midnight?"She asked him. He nodded silently. He couldn't say it to her face, but she was pretty. Very Pretty. Now if she would only remove her visor....Flopping down on his bunk, he fell asleep with many thoughts running through his head.
It was about two hours after Nasar last had spoken with X-Brawn, and she had long since moved. X-Brawn was sitting in a chair big enough for his form, and she still seated on her bunk. He was reading a western novel he'd been reading for about a week now. A sudden whirring and sputtering noise reached his ears the moment he turned the page. He jerked down the book. Nasar lay on the floor of the quaters convulsing. "Oh geeze! Nasar!"He cried. Jumping to his feet, he grabbed her right arm and flipped open the small hatch every AutoBot had, it was a fuel gauge. The silver needle was resting on 'E'. Her fuel tanks were dry! "Prowl! Get in here!"He shouted through the door to his brothers room. His brother came running out, his optics were dimmed, he wasn't fully awake. "What is it X-Brawn? It's two in the morning....", "Nasar's Empty!". Almost instantly, his yellow optics were wide and awake. "I don't have any extra fuel tanks!"He groaned. "Contact Junker and Ratchet. Have them bring in a fuel tank now!"X-Brawn yelled angrily. This even scared Prowl, he never saw his brother like this. "Do it now!"He cried. Prowl ran out of the room, searcing for Junker or Ratchet's quaters.
Junker jerked up, someone was banging on her door yelling her name. Climbing out of bed she stomped over to her door and flung it open. She saw a breathless Prowl leaning on her doorframe. "Nasar's....fuel tanks....are empty. X-Brawn said she needs...fuel."He panted. Junker hurried back to the darkness of her quaters and returned with a red fuel contianer. "Come on!"She cried. He ushered her down the darkened quaters of the AutBot Base, awakening a few of it's holders. Bursting into the room, X-Brawn had her pinned to her bed. "Hurry up!"He grunted. "I'll need a fuel hose, a funnel, and for Primus' sake X-Brawn! Hold her still!"Junker commanded. Prowl handed her the needed things and Junker opened her fuel door on her right leg and removed the cap. Carefully pushing the hose in the opening, she put the funnel on the other other end end dumped the gasoline in little by little. Slowly, the shaking stopped and Nasar relaxed. X-Brawns stood up and looked in her direction where Junker was removing the hose and handing them back to Prowl. "Thanks Little Lady."He grinned. Junker returned the grin but responded with, "don't call me that.". And she walked out of the room. A soft grunting told him that Nasar had regained consiousness. Turning around, she was sitting up in her bed, rubbing her head and her injured optic. "What happened?"She fianally questioned. X-Brawn chuckled as he said, "it's a good thing I didn't go to bed before you. You ran empty and passed out.". Nasar had to pause for a moment as she listned to what he said. "You got someone to get fuel." "Junker is more like it. I don't think she was too happy about being woken at two in the morning."Prowl grumbled irritable as he walked back to his quaters. Nasar stood, and walked over to the window in the room. "I want to apologize about my behavior over the past few hours X-Brawn. I've been acting like a spoiled brat. It's just...I've wanted to see my Onnichan for so long, I didn't think of what was really done for the best of me. When I was told that I would be with my brother forever, that's what I thought. Then Optimus sprung the whole Charge thing on me. I was never told why I was set to a Charge, why is that X-Brawn?"She asked. Her Charge sighed as he guided her back to her bunk. "Ya brother is kind of possesed in a way ya see. Every race he heard of, he's gotta be in it. And well...I guess since he skips off on races so much, if he's with ya on patrol and he leaves ya behind and ya get attacked....he's afraid ya gonna get hurt."He said. Nasar pasued, one of her legs was hanging over her bed. "He was only trying to protect me?"She asked. X-Brawn nodded. For the first time in the past long hours, Nasar smiled. "Thank you."She smiled. X- Brawn could have smiled if he'd been built with a mouth. She climbed into her bed and let her head hit the pillow. "X-Brawn?"She asked again. Her Charge looked across the room from where he was locking his quaters. "Yeah Nasar?"He questioned. "Can I lock the door? I kinda need to do something.".
Skid-Z lay alone in his quaters, anything Nasar had owned was moved into X-Brawns quaters. He missed her and she was still in the same base. He turned over and saw something. A piece of paper. On it written in Nasars childish scrawl was letter:
'Onnichan, It's Ni. I just want to tell you that I'm sorry about the whole Charge thing and me going crazy on you. I wanted to tell you that I still love you, even if I'm not in your care anymore. And still....this will not be the end. We've still got a war to fight! I love you.
Little Ni'
Skid-Z optics welled up with his tears as he read the letter. Ni had managed to get through to him before he had given up on her. Sighing he put the letter in one of his bedside draws and placed the letter in it. He rolled over and fell asleep.
AN: No for the love of God this is NOT the end!!! I just want to know if I should make one or two NC-17 chapters! I've kinda got a few ideas....
Optimus Prime rubbed his face plate in thought. What was he going to do? He remembered Nasar's terribly strong attatchment to her older brother...how was he going to do it? T-Ai faded back into the room, she looked slightly down cast. "I've explained to the others of the problem and I recieved a few responses. Shall I put them on screen?"She asked. "Yes.". A list of several trusted AutoBots passed over his optics, but none seemed to fit. He winced when Wars' name came up, if he chose to raise her...she'd up as trigger happy as ever. Then a final name came up, X-Brawn. He didn't know why, he didn't know how, but something told him to choose the rustic AutoBot. "X-Brawn will be her Charge. Contact Skid-Z, Nasar, her Femmes, and the AutoBot Brothers.". "Nasar is with Koji, shall he be apart of this?", "Might as well.".
"AutoBots X-Brawn, Prowl, SideBurn, Skid-Z. Fizzle, Cherry Pop, JumperKable, Junker, Nasar and Koji report to the Console Room immedailty.". Hesetantly, the Femmes, Koji still in Nasars hand, walked into the room, followed by the others. Optimus Prime and T-Ai were already there, as Optimus Prime called Skid-Z to his side, and said something into his audio, and that made Skid-Z retreat into the shadows. "What's the matter Prime? Somethin' wrong?"X-Brawn asked. Optimus shook his head and sighed. "We've selected the Charge for Nasar."He responded. There was a whisperer from the shadows that said, "her name is Ni.". Nasar arched her brows. "What'sa Charge?"She asked. "A Charge is someone who looks after a younger AutoBot untill the child is able to take care of themselves or the original family member is able to once more take care of the child."T-Ai responded. The hologram flinched as Nasar looked terrified. "You will be Nasar, or Ni's' Charge, X-Brawn. Untill Nasar is able to either be able to be taken care by her team, she is grown, or Skid-Z is able to purge his racing."Optimus commanded. Nasar suddenly let out a screech, dropping Koji, only to have SideBurn grab him before he hit the floor. He ran by T-Ai. He had never seen and AutoBot, not even UltraMagnus like this. She screamed untill her voice unit crackled and sparks emitted from her mouth almost every time she spoke. Nasar looked horrified as her face horror stricken. "No. No I won't loose my Onnichan again! I won't let you take him away!"She screamed. To her suprise, Onnichan walked from the shadows. "Onnichan! Their making me go with someone else so you can't take care of me! Tell them how much you wanted to take care of me!"She cried. He shook his head. "Tell them how much you never wanted to let me go! And how much a mistake this is!"She screamed, her bad eye sparking beneath its patch. When he didn't answer, her eyes widended, she had figured it out. "I hate you."She whispered, her eyes suddenly turning cold. "I HATE YOU!" She screamed again. To everyones suprise, she began firing randomly, the rounds bouncing of of anything and everything. "I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU!"She screamed over and over again. A few rounds bounced off the wall and headed straight for T-Ai's hologram projector, and Koji. The boy cried out as the rounds brushed his skin as he shelided his face and head with his arms, the rounds left bleeding welts in their wake. T-Ai was not so lucky, a stray round struck her hologram projetor, and she screamed in pain. "T-Ai! Koji!"SideBurn cried out. The hologram flickered as she fell to the floor. Koji sank to his knees, trying to hold back tears of pain. "Prowl, contact Ratchet. T-Ai is offline and Koji is injured. Both will need transport. Junker stepped foreward as Fizzle restrained Nasar. "I'll do it. Don't worry, I won't damage anything."She offered. Optimus nodded. Picking Koji and T-Ai's hologram projector gingerly off the floor and rushed down the hall. Nasar began to struggle and squrim in Fizzles arms. "I WON'T LOOSE YOU AGAIN!"She screamed. "I WON'T! I JUST GOT YOU BACK!"She screamed over again. "Family dosen't back stab Onnichan! You told me yourself! Family dosen't betray eachother either! You said you'd never let me go again!"She screamed, her eye flooding with tears. There was a sudden clatter in the room. Optimus found the rest of his troops, minus his brother of course, in the Console Room, all looked slightly mistook. "Optimus...what happened? We heard someone screaming they hated someone, and firing!"Wedge asked. Cherry Pop buried her head in her hands, and sank to her knees. Nasar cried out again, her audio filled with sorrow. Optimus could no longer stand to look at the Femme. "X-Brawn. Take her to your quaters. She will remain there. Prowl, escort and make sure she dosen't get near anyone." The two brothers nodded, and marched the squirming little Femme out of the room. Optimus turned, and left a lot of confused AutoBots behind. "What happened?"Mirage questioned to Cherry Pop. All he got was a round of sobbing. Fizzle heaved a sigh, trying to block out emotions that threated to overflow. "Skid-Z arranged to have a Charge for Nasar. Appaerantly she didn't know about her brothers obsession of racing. I guess he thinks it's just to dangerous to support a family now."She sighed. Skid-Z shut off his audio as round after round of questions surrounded him. He was deaf to the questions, the only thing he heard was Nasars voice, blind to the hands that stood in his way, only seeing a sobbing Nasar in his way. 'What have I done?'His mind whispered.
Optimus slowly poked his head into the Med Ward. Junker was hunched over a weak looking T-Ai and Ratchet was wrapping up Koji's arms. He noted the sheet sperating the two Medics. "How is everything?"He asked. Junker jumped, shocked by the sudden voice inturrupting her. She had been replaing some classical music softly though her audio, and her mind was in another world, while her body set to removing the round and getting T-Ai fully online. "Urm, Optimus, I'd have to ask you to not look behind this sheet."Junker apologied. "Why?". "You had T-Ai be as human looking as possible, correct?"She asked. He nodded, "yes, why?". "One wrong move and Koji, Ratchet and you will be getting a session in human female anatomy. Optimus quickly took a step back. "Sorry.". Junker didn't respond, she was lost in a fantasy again. "How do you feel Koji?"He asked, looking down at the boy. Koji nodded and grinned. Optimus held out his hand and the teen climbed on it egearly. "How's Nasar?" He asked. Optimus sighed and looked over in Junkers direction. "I don't think you would be to happy if I told you she knows about her sister then, right?"Ratched asked him. Optmis held his other hand against his forehead. Junker was making more noise then needed suddenly, humming with her music loudly, slamming tools down on the metal tray, ect. "I don't think she'd want to hear."Optimus sighed to himself.
"Let me go you slagger!"Nasar cried out harshly as she kicked and bit at X-Brawns' hands and arms. "For a lady you certainly don't talk--" Prowl dodged a small fist flying at his face plate, "---or act like one!". "Bite me!". Reaching his quaters, he walked in and set her on one of the spare beds he owned. It was originally SideBurns, for when he was smaller, but he never really had the heart to remove it, incase the blue viper had another nightmare. But he rarely did, so now it was hers. Almost instantly as she was set down, she kicked X-Brawn in the groin, making him double over. She darted to find a closed door and Prowl. He grabbed her arms and unlocked her guns on her each her arms. Tucking them in a containmet unit well out of her reach, he found himself ducking a flurry of flying fists, some hitting and some missing. Once she cracked him in the optics, making him wince. "Let me out of here! I want to see my brother!"She cried out. "It's just like if it ws X-Brawn putting you or Side Burn up for a Charge and they wanted to see him!". Prowl stopped, realizing what she was talking about. She wanted to see her brother out of love for him. The same love that JumperKable held for her brother, the same love that each of him and his brothers shared. Not to beat the living spark out of the poor racer. What he saw in those optics, or rather optic, was agony. She had just got her brother back and he was roughly yanked away from her. By this time, X- Brawn was back on his feet, and Nasar had sunk to her knees on the floor. X- Brawn reached to touch the racing fin on the back of her head, and jerked back when she trembled at the touch. "I...w-want Onnichan."She whispered harsly. Prowl wasn't the best at emotions, but he could tell that this Femme was hurting. "You can't see Skid-Z right now Ni."X-Brawn tried using her nickname. "His name is Onnichan! And don't call me Ni! Only Onni can call me that! Only Onnichan!"She screamed at the floor. X-Brawn sighed and looked up at his younger brother. "So what do we do now? Why did you sign up for a charge anyway?"Prowl questioned, sitting next to his brother. The rustic bot shrugged. "I raised you and SideBurn, I thought I could do it again."He sighed. Nasar let out a desisive snort, "you really raised them? I'm suprised.". She stood straight, and sat down on her bed and crossed her legs. "Untill you let me see Onnichan, I'm not moving."She said firmly. And she intended to stay like that.
Roughly six or seven hours later, it was the same stalemate. X-Brawn and Prowl took turns watching the room to make sure she didn't try and blow anything up. Surpisingly, she hadn't move, she reamained still as anything. X-Brawn sighed as Prowl walked in. "Your turn to go out bro."He said. X- Brawn stood up from his desk, he'd been working on. "I'm going to go talk to Prime. This is insane."He muttered into Prowls audio. The other nodded and sat down in a chair, a few datapads in his hands.
"Prime? Your gotta second?"X-Brawn asked. The massive Fire Convoy stepped out from the Med Ward. He had just taken Koji home and was checking on T-Ai again. Junker still wasn't speaking to him. "What is it X-Brawn? How is Nasar?". X-Brawn sighed deeply and said, "that's what I'm here to talk about ya see." Optimus looked at him in question. "What's the matter with her?". "She's sat herself down about seven hours ago and refuses to move or recharge untill she sees Skid-Z. She wants to stay with him.". Prime let out a sigh, he knew that his problem was going to come up, but not like this. This wasn't good, not at all. This was more that he expected from the small Femme. "Go and talk to her. But don't let her out of the room. Hopefully, the exaustion will make her fall asleep after a time.". X- Brawn nodded and walked away.
"I can't believe he did this to her!"Fizzle burst out again. Her fist embedded itself deeply into the wall of her quaters attatched to Midnight Expresses'. Again and again her fists pummeled the steel wall. "Fizzle? Are you alright?" Came another voice. Glancing to her left, she saw Midnight Express poking his head cautiously into her room. He remembered Fizzle as a small child, but not much. She whirled, "what?". The Junior Member only shook his head and walked carefully in the room he might have been clumsy, but he knew not to mess with a mad Femme. Fizzle calmly ignored the intrusion and went back to punching her wall. She slammed her right fist into the wall, and to her suprise, it wouldn't come back out. "Midnight? A little help?"She asked. The other train looked at the sight. The Femme had one lag up on the wall, and her other arm yanking on the one stuck in the wall. Smothering his laughter Fizzle smirked. "Go ahead, laugh it up! It wouldn't be the first time anyway.". As the train got up from his seat to pull her fist from the wall he asked, "what do you mean 'this wouldn't be the first time'? This has happened before?"He joked. When she nodded, he laughed. With a sharp yank, she tumbled backwards to have both of them land in a heap on the floor. Fizzle burst out laughing as she and Midnight Express climbed to their feet. Smirking, Fizzle grinned at him, and walked out of the room.
"Cherry? Hey Cherry Pop are you in there? Come on! It's Mirage!" The sniper had been trying to get in touch with the red Femme for the past hour. But as soon as the ordeal with Nasar had ended, she had shut herself up in her room and refused to come out. "Cherry come on! Open up!"He tried again and knocked on the door again. "Go away!"Came her voice fianally. "I just wanna talk! That's it."He said through the steel door. There were a few moments of silence, and the door slid open. She appeared as if she'd been crying. She allowed him in. She was the only one that was to share a room with part of her team, JumperKable was the other. But she wasn't there at the moment, to busy down in the tunnels. "Come in."She sighed. Nodding, he walked into the room. It looked pretty simple. A few photos, two bunks, but one certian photo on Cherry's bed caught his optic. It was one of the entire family. Fizzle was standing in the back, either of her hands on Junker and JumperKables shoulders, and Cherry and Nasar in the front, Cherry's arms holding Nasar around the shoulders. "You really took care of her, didn't you?"Mirage questioned. Cherry Pop picked up the picture and set it on her bedside table fondly. "Nasar's the sister I could never really have. I mean, sure, being a Spy Changer is great. But having to see Nasar in so much pain, it's overwhelming. I feel terrible."She sighed to herself. Mirage cocked his head slightly. He understood what she was saying, but didn't understand what she ment from Nasar. "What do you mean?"He fianally questioned. "Optimus arranged for X-Brawn to raise Nasar. Of course, she went nuts and hurt T-Ai and Koji. I heard from SideBurn she's stuck herself in the quaters and won't move or recharge untill she can see Skid-Z. This is insane.". "She'll eventually collapse, you do know that, right?"He asked. Cherry nodded untill she sat down on her bed again, her lower lip quivered. Mirage sat next to her and she breathed a shaky sob. "I can't help to be scared for her. She's just a little kid."She sighed. Unconsiously, Mirage placed a hand around her shoulders, and she rested her head onto his chest armour. "She'll be fine. I promise."He assured. He noted a faint shaking beneath his hands. "Cherry, hey Cherry, your shaking."He realized. To his suprise, she had fallen asleep, her head resting on him. Gently removing his arm, he lay her on her on her bed, and walked quietly out of her quaters.
Nasar sat stiffly on her bed, there was no way she was going to let these guys win. She wanted her brother and she wanted to be with him. The AutoBot with the funny accent was watching her again. "Ya know Nasar, it dosen't have to be this way, I could be much rougher on ya."He pointed out. She stuck out her tounge and flipped him off. "I don't care. It's your fault I was stuck on this misrable rock in the first place."She said. Arching his brows, he remembered what she was talking about. The shuttle launch, she was the one the put up the fight and cracked Ratchet in the optic. Sighing, he returned to his work. "Listen, I'm sorry about cha' brother, but Prime assined me as ya Charge and untill ya old enough, your stuck with me."He said to her. She shrugged. "I can make myself become really annoying, ask any members of my family trust me, they'll tell you."She grinned. X-Brawn heaved a sigh, it was going to be a loooong night.
"JumperKable? Hey, JumperKable you around?"Wedge had been looking for his little sister for about twenty minuets now. He'd checked in the recharge room, console, and with T-Ai, but the Femme was nowhere to be found. "Oh! Hey Midnight! Have you seen JumperKable?"He asked the train. He shook his head. "No, I've been looking for Fizzle too. Cherry Pop is asleep, Junker is repairing T-Ai, and Nasar is still at a stalemate with X- Brawn."He reported. Wedge nodded, "their probally back in the quaters asleep. I'd better go too. Long day tomorrow. It'll be the Femmes first full day here."Wedge sighed, putting a hand over his mouth to cover a yawn.
Midnight walked down the darkened hallway with a slight stiffness. Sure, it was the same hallway he'd been taking down the hall to his room for years, but there was still the childishness fear he held of the dark. It was inky, and things, Decepticons, Predacons, could hide in. But he knew that it was impossible. There was no way even a Predacon or Decepticon spark could get in with out being dectected by T-Ai. But T-Ai was still in the Med Ward....He shivered. Suddenly, with out warning, a pair of strong hands grabbed his mouth and around his waist! "Mmmph!"He grunted. The hands were stronger than his own grip, and it pulled him into another set of quaters, and he didn't hear a gun firing, but laughter! "Not funny at all Rapid Run!"He yelled, his pale face flushing with added embarassment. The elder bullet train was doubled over in his mirth, and the entire ordeal brought out Rail Spike. "All right, what's going on out here?"He asked gruffly. "I couldn't help it man! He looked like he was gonna mess his skid pan!"Rapid Run managed to spit out. "He grabbed me in the hall and dragged me into here."Midnight muttered. His face was burning with embarassment. Rail Spike swatted Rapid Run upside the head and sighed. "Go to bed Midnight. It's way to late for this. I'll have a talk with prankster tomorrow morning before breifing."Rail Spike grumbled. He wasn't exactically happy about being woken out of a sound sleep to find an embarassed Midnight Express and a hysterical Rapid Run. Walking back into his quaters he heard Midnight exit and Rapid Run mutter, "well it WAS funny..." Upon reaching his own quaters, his room looked normal, no Rapid Run to jump out and grab him, just his own normal quaters. The ajacent door that led to Fizzles quaters was ajar, revealing a small sliver of light. He knew he shouldn't but he did anyway. Peering though the crack, he could see Fizzle seated on her bunk, was was leaning on the wall humming to herself. In her hands was a holopad. Flipping though the photos, she stopped at a single one. It was to blurry to see, but the tears on Fizzle face showed bittersweet memories. Walking back to his bunk, he heard movement from Fizzle, and she walked into his room. "I saw you."She whispered. Midnight's face flushed deeply, "I apologize. I didn't mean to invade your privacy like that. I just heard you humming and I well---", he was cut off by a musical giggle from Fizzle. "It's okay. I understand.". She stretched as she let out a yawn, raising to her toes and raising her arms above her head. "I'm going to bed, okay Midnight?"She asked him. He nodded silently. He couldn't say it to her face, but she was pretty. Very Pretty. Now if she would only remove her visor....Flopping down on his bunk, he fell asleep with many thoughts running through his head.
It was about two hours after Nasar last had spoken with X-Brawn, and she had long since moved. X-Brawn was sitting in a chair big enough for his form, and she still seated on her bunk. He was reading a western novel he'd been reading for about a week now. A sudden whirring and sputtering noise reached his ears the moment he turned the page. He jerked down the book. Nasar lay on the floor of the quaters convulsing. "Oh geeze! Nasar!"He cried. Jumping to his feet, he grabbed her right arm and flipped open the small hatch every AutoBot had, it was a fuel gauge. The silver needle was resting on 'E'. Her fuel tanks were dry! "Prowl! Get in here!"He shouted through the door to his brothers room. His brother came running out, his optics were dimmed, he wasn't fully awake. "What is it X-Brawn? It's two in the morning....", "Nasar's Empty!". Almost instantly, his yellow optics were wide and awake. "I don't have any extra fuel tanks!"He groaned. "Contact Junker and Ratchet. Have them bring in a fuel tank now!"X-Brawn yelled angrily. This even scared Prowl, he never saw his brother like this. "Do it now!"He cried. Prowl ran out of the room, searcing for Junker or Ratchet's quaters.
Junker jerked up, someone was banging on her door yelling her name. Climbing out of bed she stomped over to her door and flung it open. She saw a breathless Prowl leaning on her doorframe. "Nasar's....fuel tanks....are empty. X-Brawn said she needs...fuel."He panted. Junker hurried back to the darkness of her quaters and returned with a red fuel contianer. "Come on!"She cried. He ushered her down the darkened quaters of the AutBot Base, awakening a few of it's holders. Bursting into the room, X-Brawn had her pinned to her bed. "Hurry up!"He grunted. "I'll need a fuel hose, a funnel, and for Primus' sake X-Brawn! Hold her still!"Junker commanded. Prowl handed her the needed things and Junker opened her fuel door on her right leg and removed the cap. Carefully pushing the hose in the opening, she put the funnel on the other other end end dumped the gasoline in little by little. Slowly, the shaking stopped and Nasar relaxed. X-Brawns stood up and looked in her direction where Junker was removing the hose and handing them back to Prowl. "Thanks Little Lady."He grinned. Junker returned the grin but responded with, "don't call me that.". And she walked out of the room. A soft grunting told him that Nasar had regained consiousness. Turning around, she was sitting up in her bed, rubbing her head and her injured optic. "What happened?"She fianally questioned. X-Brawn chuckled as he said, "it's a good thing I didn't go to bed before you. You ran empty and passed out.". Nasar had to pause for a moment as she listned to what he said. "You got someone to get fuel." "Junker is more like it. I don't think she was too happy about being woken at two in the morning."Prowl grumbled irritable as he walked back to his quaters. Nasar stood, and walked over to the window in the room. "I want to apologize about my behavior over the past few hours X-Brawn. I've been acting like a spoiled brat. It's just...I've wanted to see my Onnichan for so long, I didn't think of what was really done for the best of me. When I was told that I would be with my brother forever, that's what I thought. Then Optimus sprung the whole Charge thing on me. I was never told why I was set to a Charge, why is that X-Brawn?"She asked. Her Charge sighed as he guided her back to her bunk. "Ya brother is kind of possesed in a way ya see. Every race he heard of, he's gotta be in it. And well...I guess since he skips off on races so much, if he's with ya on patrol and he leaves ya behind and ya get attacked....he's afraid ya gonna get hurt."He said. Nasar pasued, one of her legs was hanging over her bed. "He was only trying to protect me?"She asked. X-Brawn nodded. For the first time in the past long hours, Nasar smiled. "Thank you."She smiled. X- Brawn could have smiled if he'd been built with a mouth. She climbed into her bed and let her head hit the pillow. "X-Brawn?"She asked again. Her Charge looked across the room from where he was locking his quaters. "Yeah Nasar?"He questioned. "Can I lock the door? I kinda need to do something.".
Skid-Z lay alone in his quaters, anything Nasar had owned was moved into X-Brawns quaters. He missed her and she was still in the same base. He turned over and saw something. A piece of paper. On it written in Nasars childish scrawl was letter:
'Onnichan, It's Ni. I just want to tell you that I'm sorry about the whole Charge thing and me going crazy on you. I wanted to tell you that I still love you, even if I'm not in your care anymore. And still....this will not be the end. We've still got a war to fight! I love you.
Little Ni'
Skid-Z optics welled up with his tears as he read the letter. Ni had managed to get through to him before he had given up on her. Sighing he put the letter in one of his bedside draws and placed the letter in it. He rolled over and fell asleep.
AN: No for the love of God this is NOT the end!!! I just want to know if I should make one or two NC-17 chapters! I've kinda got a few ideas....