Amity-Star: hi peeps. Here I am with another chapter. Oh! And say hi to Honesah! I'm borrowing her from the authoress Honesah herself! Now, before I take up more of your time. . . ON WITH THE STORY!!!

Disclaimer: Amity-Star doesn't own Transformers but only owns the plot and Dawn and Star Fox (a.k.a.: Amber). Honesah owns Honesah and Duals Mistress K owns Caitlin and Torika_Blayde owns Shadowlocks.

~^*^~ Unsettling Change: Part II~^*^~

Hot Shot sprinted from the maths block towards the guys dormitories. His teacher had scheduled a late lesson and because of that, Hot Shot had missed Friends. ((I don't own that either))

The snow was falling hard on his head as he stopped underneath the large oak tree that stood at the centre of the pentagonal like campus. The big intersection where all five of the main walkways met. This is where many students hung out after, between and before lessons. "Stupid maths." Hot Shot grumbled as he rested on one of the benches under a low hanging branch.

"I'd have to agree with you on that." Replied a voice from above him and the next second he was dumped with a tree-full of snow. "Sorry about that. Here, let me help you."

A second later Hot Shot stood infront of his rescuer, brushing the snow out of his hair. "Thanks for that, but did you have to bring the hole tree-full of snow down on me?" he said with his trade-mark grin.

Infront of her stood a tall blonde with wavy hair. Her eyes flashed a brilliant green when she laughed and she wore a long dark leather trench-coat. Her pants, that were shown at the bottom, were black and had many chains on one side with boots that too had many silver shiny chains. If her smile wasn't so warm and for the fact she wore no make-up, Hot Shot would have sworn she were a Goth. "My name's Honesah. I've seen you hang out with Caitlin. Are you a cousin of hers or something?" she asked as Hot Shot stared at her for a few minutes before shaking his head and blushing lightly.

"Nah. She's a really good friend who's bailed me out of some pretty bad situations." Hot Shot said as he pointed to the direction he was heading for before he got side-tracked.

"Oh." Her smile seemed to quiver, as if she were in some pain, but then come back for force which seemed to blow Hot Shot's mind away. "Um, sorry about the snow thing, again. Maybe I can make it up to you. How about getting some coffee at the student centre just before lessons start tomorrow?" she asked as they seemed to have stopped at the fork-in-the-road that turned off to the boys dormitories and the library.

"Hmm? Not tomorrow morning." He said and saw with a heavy heart as the smile vanished from Honesah's face. "B-b-but hows about tomorrow after the afternoon lessons? Maybe at Flick's café and after that we could, ya know, maybe catch a flick?" he asked nervously.

Honesah stayed quiet for a moment or two before answering with a slight grin in her voice. "Are you asking me out on a date?" She said as she watched Hot Shot place a hand at the back of his head unconsciously and rub it.

"Ah, he, he. If you don't want to, I mean, if you're seeing someone. . ." Hot Shot started but trailed off.

"I'd love to." Was her answer as she turned around and started to walk towards the library. "Oh, I don't even know your name!?" she called out and could have sworn that the birds in the trees fell out of them.

"My friends call me Hot Shot!" he called out and seemed to skip all the way back to his dormitory, definantly floating on cloud 9.

~*~

Dawn walked into her dormitory, Optimus following after her. "That was an, err, interesting movie." Optimus said as he took off his coat and sat down on one of the free lounge chairs that weren't covered in either CD's or text books.

Dawn smiled and looked up when the door to the room opened and Caitlin and the rest of the Autobot team, excluding Shadowlocks, walked in, looking stressed. Caitlin's eyes widened when she Dawn. "And where the hell have you been?" she said as she strode into the room and towered over Dawn as she sank into a chair.

"Err, I told you that I was going out with Optimus." Dawn said nervously then noticed something. "Wait. Where's Shadow?" she said as Caitlin's look of fury dispersed and was replaced by worry.

"She told me she was going out for a walk and took only her coat and her cell. That was over five hours ago. I haven't heard from her since." Caitlin said as Red Alert walked up to her and put a comforting hand on her shoulder.

"We were hoping that you would know where she would be." He said as he turned away and walking into the kitchen to fix some strong coffee.

~*~

Everyone sat, clustered around the coffee table in the middle of the living-room kind of area, pouring over a map of the campus and the suburb in which they now held residence.

"Maybe she took a wrong turn and ended up at the Shack?" Jet Fire said as he pointed to the longest road in the town and dragged his finger all the way across it.

Dawn rubbed her eyes and stood up. "I'm going to go outside for a minute for some fresh air." She said, grabbing her jacket and cell phone.

"I'll come too. No need for two people to go missing." Optimus said and before anyone else knew it, they were out the door.

They walked in silence up to the centre of the campus, to where Hot Shot was earlier chatting to Honesah. They sat down on the darkest bench, hidden by the sweeping branches of the oak tree.

Dawn tucked her legs up under her body and snuggled up to Optimus, resting her head on his chest and listening to his muffled heart-beat. "I'm worried Optimus. This isn't like Shadow. I wonder what could have happened."

Optimus rested his chin on her head and breather in the deep scent of her strawberry smelling hair. "Me too. But I'm more worried about Starscream. Did you see that forlorn look on his face. He was pale as well and he looked ready to snap at anyone trying to speak to him."

Dawn was silent but about to reply when her phone rang, the sweet polyphonic tones ringing around the two. Dawn stood up and pulled the flip-phone out from her pocket and put it to her ear. "Hello?" she asked as she smiled at Optimus as he grabbed her free hand and stood next to her.

"Ring a ring of roses,

A pocket full of posies,

A tissue, a tissue,

We ALL FALL DOWN!!!" came a menacing, sing-song voice from the other end of the phone. Dawn was baffled.

"Hello? Who is this?" she asked again and saw Optimus raise his eyebrow.

"Oh, sister dearest. Don't you remember our little nursery rhyme? The same rhyme that Mum and Dad sang to use before they died? Don't you remember your sister that you sent TO HER DEATH?!?!" and with that the line went dead and Dawn collapsed in a heap of tears.

"Dawn?! Dawn what's wrong?!" Optimus exclaimer as he picked her up in his arms and rocked her back and forth.

"It's my sister. Amber's back." And all Optimus could do was stare on in shock.

~*~

Three shadows looked down at the emotional wreck. One stood, hazel-green eyes flashing evilly as she tucked the phone into one of her front pockets to her long coat. "It's done, Megatron, sir." She cooed softly as a fourth figure joined them on the room.

Megatron smiled at the human version of Star Fox and watched with fascination as her eyes darted back to the crying girl who was being held by that pathetic Optimus Prime. In the Decepticons eyes flickered a wild need, a wild, blood-thirsty hunger to inflict pain and untimely death. What this Decepticon former wanted to do in life was to kill her sister.

"Star Fox. I want you to keep your emotions held back until I say you may use them, but for now. . . Wheeljack! Keep a close eyes out on those other humans that Prime hang around with. Find out their names and make sure if they are real humans or Autobot scum. Honesah!" Megatron barked as Honesah stepped un-willingly out of the shadows and kept her head bowed to the evil tyrant. "I want you to keep an eye out on Wheeljack. I have seen the look in his eyes when he hangs around that human female, Karen, Caity-"

"It's Caitlin." Honesah said softly as she winced when Megatron's piercing stare turned to her. She didn't know what was better, when he was a Transformer, or like he was now.

"Caitlin. Make sure that he doesn't get involved with that human. And Star Fox. Dear Star Fox. I want you to stay as far away from your sister as possible. You aren't needed yet for the plan to start." Megatron growled when he saw the sudden flash of feral-ness on her face but then turn neutral. And as for me. . . Prime, what is your's. . . I want it. Watch out Terabyte, Lord Megatron is after you. He smirked and seemed to meld with the shadows.

Honesah was the last one standing there as Star Fox leaped from the top of the building to the tree at the back. How did I get myself caught up with the Decepticons? She thought and returned to her thoughts about her date with 'Hot Shot' tomorrow.

~*~

Shadowlocks winced as she tied the rag around her bleeding leg. She was lucky it wasn't such a deep gash, but it hadn't stopped flowing. She felt light headed and felt like being sick and knew that shock was setting in. No! She yelled out mentally as she pushed herself to a sitting position against the old mines wall. Her hair was thick with dust and her face was smeared with dirt. Starscream please find me. For once in my life, I truly am scared.

Time seemed to drag on forever and not until she fell short of breath knew that she was running out of oxygen. Oxygen is what humans need to breath with. If I'm running out of it, who knows how long I'll live before they find me? That thought panicked her and she found herself glancing around the mine shaft that she sat in. It was small and the roof above her was caved in. As were the two ways out of the mine.

"Great. I'm gonna die and no one's gonna find me till my transformer body blows this whole mine apart." She said and then took a deep breath.

"HELP!!!!" she screamed out loud, her hopes of survival slowly fading.

~*~

They stood, all nine of them, waiting for their orders to be given to them. Caitlin stood by Dawn, rubbing her shoulders in an act of friendly comfort after hearing the news. She had heard stories about Dawn's sister, Amber.

Amber was once a human Autobot helped like her sister, but then a twist of fate turned her to the Decepticons side and since then she blamed her transformation from human to Transformer on Dawn and had been trying to kill her. "And now she's back, back to square one at trying to kill me, her own flesh and blood." Dawn had murmured as Optimus hugged her.

"Okay, we'll all split up. I'll go with Dawn, Caitlin, Red Alert and Starscream towards the forest. No doubt she would have wandered in there and gotten lost. The rest of you search the town and all the places you think that Shadowlocks would have gone." Optimus said as the group split in two and went in their different directions.

It would only be a matter of time till they found Shadowlocks before it was too late.

~^*^~ The End. . . Or Will It Be? YOU Decide ~^*^~

Amity-Star: Okay peeps. I want to know this. Should I leave it like that and start on a new story that goes on from this. I'll wait until I have at least four reviews and let you decide. For now. . .

*Later Days!!!