Disclaimer: You've all heard this before; I don't own the Transformers, blah blah blah! However, I DO own the Elementacons and Dash/Becca.

ceestar: Hi ppl! Not much to say, oh yeah!! All the stuff in this chapter, might seem weird and stupid, sorry, it's just the way I planned it. It might get confusing, but I'll try to explain it as much as I can. This chapter ought to let you all in on more info about Dash. Oh, and sorry about last chapter, I forgot that I was writing in Jetfire's POV, sorry :p ON WITH THE SHOW!

All of a sudden, the orbs glowed, the colour drained from Hotshot's optics, and Dash's optics faded out, and her visor was black (she has eyes like HighWire's).

"The two of them have drifted off into their own memories. Their most dreaded memories. Why don't we watch?" Dusk's eyes glowed, and two images formed in the air, in front of the Autobots.

"On your left, would be the worst memories of your, Dash, and on the right, would be, Hotshot's." (I don't think they told him Hotshot's name, but let's say they know, I mean, the guy can see into their minds!)

The Autobots stared. Hotshot's memory was on Cybertron, millions of years ago, when the war between Autobots and Decepticons was raging on. Dash's was of the base, three years ago, and Starscream.

Chapter 6: Nightmares of The Past

The Autobots stared in horror, two of their teammates, and their worst memories.

Jolt and Rush tried whatever they could to get their partners out.

Hot Shot's POV (nightmare, whatever!)

"Huh?!"

I "opened" my optics and stared. It was the battlefield from those millions of years ago. There were lasers everywhere. I stood there, and in front of me, was Optimus Prime, the greatest leader of all time.

I looked around at all the Transformers fighting, it was all so intense, and it really, scared me.

I saw someone, or something, rushing from here to there, it must've been an Autobot. Whoever it was, was deflecting any shot that was about to hit an Autobot, well, either deflecting them or just plain old running into them! Something snapped, I knew who that was. It was Dash.

She was the youngest solider fighting in this war, and the only solider that volunteered to be a human shield! To me, and all the Autobots, she was the bravest Transformer any of us had ever known. She wasn't all bad looking either. Though, I always felt this bound between the two of us, even before we met, I knew there's something special about her, but what?

I watched, as she jumped from Autobot to Autobot, slicing each shot in half, or letting them hit herself, in order to protect the others. In fact, being a human shield wasn't even considered, she actually asked to be one, Optimus didn't want any of his soldiers to be hurt that way, but she convinced him.

I watched the horizon, I saw a black figure walked slowly towards us. It looked bigger than any of the other Decepticons that I knew. The figure, it looked strangely fromiliar. My system nearly froze, it was Megatron.

Most of the Decepticons were taken out now, and it didn't take long for the others to withdraw. Most of the Autobots got back too, behind Optimus. This was going to be big.

Dash was the only Autobot with Optimus. Man, she _was_ brave.

"Well Prime, it seems that all your men are quite cowards. But this little femme here, now she's got guts. How's about a trade? I'll finish you off another day, if I get her."

"Keeping on dreaming Megadork! I was programmed an Autobot, I'll DIE an Autobot!"

"You know my dear, that CAN be arranged. Now Prime, I ask you nicely, gimme the girl and you'll live another day!"

"That's not very nicely Megadork!"

"Why you little! I'll get rid of you first! Leader1, POWERLINK!"

I watched as Megatron powerlinked with his minicon and fired at Dash, she easily avoided it. He just kept on firing and firing, but Dash had this name for a reason.

"Gr, fine then, I'll take you first Prime, then your little femme can watch you die!" He laughed like a maniac as he started firing at Optimus now.

I felt like I should do something, but there were so many Autobots in my way, I could see what was going on, but, I couldn't help, at all! Though, I wouldn't have gone in, not that I was chicken, not me! But it was like all of us knew that Optimus could handle himself.

Megatron was firing really quickly, and Optimus was barely able to dodge most the attacks, and Dash had a hard time trying to get in there, when there were so many lasers everywhere. It had seemed, a lot of the Decepticons had come back, seeing now it seemed they had the upper hand.

"That's it men! Keep them busy, while I charge up for my ultimate attack to finish Prime off, once and for all!" Megatron laughed again, as an orb of energy was slowly gathering at the mouth of his cannon.

Optimus and Dash weren't able to stop him, nor were any of us, the Decepticons were evening firing at us now.

"I want you all to stand back! Prime is mine!" Megatron motioned his hand to tell all the Decepticons to move back, and they did.

Dash looked up, to see Megatron unleashing his blast at Optimus.

I shut my optics tight, I couldn't bare the sight of my leader's fall.

After a while, I opened my optics again, and there he was, Optimus, just standing there. I was really confused. Then my system nearly froze again. What I saw wasn't pleasant.

Right infront of Optimus, was Dash, her arms wide out, she had taken the blast. I saw the smoke coming out of her chest.

"Well, that is what you get for not joining with me! At least one pesky problem's out of the way now. Decepticons, withdraw!"

I pushed my way through the Autobots, all stunned. I managed to get out to see Dash fall to her knees, but I caught her before she fell any further.

"Dash?" I called weakly.

Optimus came up behind me. "Thank you. You saved my life, and probably turned this whole war around. Now let's get you to the Infirmary!"

She shook her head, this was the first time I had heard her talk really.

"Don't worry Optimus sir. I won't make it that far anyways." Her voice was so weak, I wanted to just hug her so tightly.

I looked at her wound, Megatron had done a lot of damage, his shot had dug half way through her body! You could see her spark clear as day! Smoke was still coming out. It was a horrible site to watch, but if these were her last moments, I had to be there!

"So, you must be Hotshot, I've heard a lot about you. You're my hero. I just feel, that there's something about you, that I like, but not as a crush, but as a big brother. I wish I could've gotten to know you better." Her voice was getting weaker, and her optics were starting to fade.

"Dash! We've only just met! I must tell you, I've had that feeling too. That you're more to me than another fellow Autobot. You can leave now!" I could hear it in my own voice, that I was really desperate for her to survive.

"Sorry Hotshot, but I know we'll see each other again, soon. Optimus sir, I'm glad you're alright, and I know that the Autobots will win this war!"

Optimus saluted, as did the other Autobots.

She smiled, "sorry Hotshot, bye!" With that, her optics faded straight from her visor, and her head cocked to one side.

"Hotshot, I think you should go inside." Optimus looked at me, my arms were shaking, "I'll give you a minute with her. Don't do anything stupid."

Optimus walked away, the other Autobots had gone already.

I squeezed her body, it felt so warm. She couldn't be gone, she just couldn't.

"DASH!!!!!!"

Normal POV

Inside the orb, Hotshot's optics glowed their green and the black orb vanished, dropping him to the ground.

"Hotshot!" Jetfire ran up to him. "Are you alright?"

"Dash! Where is she?!"

Jetfire threw Hotshot's arm over his shoulder to support him. "She's on there."

Hotshot looked up at the orb, he saw her empty visor.

"No!"

"Don't worry! She's alive. We just need to get her out of there."

Dash's POV (dream thing)

~During CRACK. After kids give Starsceam shammy, before he goes outside~

I held back a giggle as Starscream walked into the room.

"Hi Starscream." I waved, just lightly.

"Huh, oh, hello." His voice was still in his own world, thinking of the shammy.

"So, you like it? I helped, that patch there." I pointed at the red patch with a star on it. "Oh, well, it's uh, very nice. Thank you."

"No need Starscream. It was my pleasure, and I did it, not because of that rock from Mars. It's just that, well, ever since I saw that little bit of good in you, I just felt, that'll there'll always be a bond between us. Almost like, we're twins." I chuckled. "Ok, you might not know what I mean, but, well, a part of me, will always be part of you, and a part of you will always be a part of me, ok?"

"I, think so."

I chuckled again. I guessed, being a Decepticon and all, this was all hard to take in. "Ok, well, what ever you feel, I'll feel too, in souls and all. I know this is confusing for you Starscream, but you'll get it soon enough."

"I, guess so."

"Just promise me one thing. Don't be like I was, don't try to be a hero. If you do, I'll feel it too, like, your pain. Promise?" I held out my pinky.

"I promise, is something wrong with your finger?"

I giggled. "No silly, this is something humans do, here, I'll show you." I grabbed his right hand and told him to do as I did. "See? It's like shaking hands, only with your fingers. It's a way to seal a promise."

"Ok. I promise."

"Cool." I smiled.

~FLASH~

"What! Starscream wouldn't have taken the shield!" I protested.

"The kids said they saw him outside with Thrust, telling Starscream to give him the shield! Then all of a sudden the shield goes missing?!" Hoist didn't believe for a second that Starscream was innocent.

"Remember! He's innocent until proven guilty!" At least Hotshot was on my side.

"Starscream, we know you didn't do it, come on, a little help?" My face had worried written all over it.

" Why bother, I don't think it matters what I say because you've already convicted me. Thanks for trying anyways." He walked out of the room.

I was going to go after him, but Hotshot held me back.

There was another sudden flash, and I looked in front of me, Starscream. He dived right at Optimus and took the Skyboom Shield. I couldn't believe it.

I watched the shammy float there, up in the sky as Starscream and Thrust warped back to the Decepticon base.

I watched in tears, how could he?! Hotshot, I guess wasn't much happier, nor was anyone else.

"Why Starscream? WHY?!" Hotshot's voice yelled, but it faded away. I felt the ground beneath me change again! From dirt, to cold metal. But it wasn't my Transformers feet, but the feet of my human form, Becca.

I opened my eyes. Thrust was holding the Skyboom Shied and Requiem Blaster, and the gun was pointed right at us! I also saw Starscream. That's when that poor excuse for a Transformer turned the blaster from us, to Starscream, the beam tore right through him.

"Starscream!!!" Alexis and I yelled in union, then everything just went, kinda black, I was having flashbacks of when I first met Rad, Alexis and Carlos, and the Transformers. Basically, of when all this madness began.

Everything came back to focus, and right in front of me, was Hotshot, and he didn't look good.

"Oh my gosh! Hotshot!"

"Who goes there?! Is it a minicon?" At least he was alive.

"What in the world are you talking about? It's us!" I yelled up at him.

"Don't you remember us Hotshot? You met us on planet Earth!" Rad joined me in trying to get Hotshot out of, whatever her was in.

"Planet what? I've never left Cybertron!"

Things went a lot faster. Then Hotshot's eyes just blacked out.

Another flash, I was getting really sick of those!

I was back into my transformer form. I looked at the ground. Metal, but the floor was made of metal, and it was outside, Cybertron?

I looked in front of me, my hard drive froze for a second.

Galvatron, and Optimus was walking towards him, but that wasn't what I was stunned at, it was what Galvatron was staring at, Starscream, and the star saber, in his chest!

I was frozen to the spot. If I could, my face would already be drenched in tears.

"You were too weak to ever gain my respect." Galvatron didn't seem to care, I guessed that he was the one that had the Star Saber in Starscream.

"None of that matters now." Starscream got up, the sword, kind of just hanging there, it was a horrible site.

"What's going on?! I don't remember this ever happening. Wait! Optimus, when he, downloaded this data for me. I thought it'd be in his view. Oh well, I did play a lot here when I was younger."

I watched in horror, and sorrow, as Starscream powerlinked with Swindle and fired at Unicron. I watched Unicron fire a bolt of electricity at Starscream, it hit him straight on.

Even though I was a transformer, I felt tears, really tears coming out of my optics. Soon, my face was flooded, as the last of Starscream vanished, I feel to my knees. Staring at the beam, it didn't even reach Unicron and it evaporated.

"STARSCREAM!!!" I screamed at the top on my lungs (they don't have lungs, but you know what I mean).

I felt like I warped onto the other side of the planet. I saw, me! Well, another me. It was where I was when it had happened. The rest of the Autobots were with me, we were fighting, I was practically dragged into the body. I stood there, next to Hotshot, and there was a voice in my head. It was Starscreams! I guess time was back a little, just before he fired.

"Dash, I remember what you said, that we're connected somehow? I'll never understand you Autobots, though what you said got through, only just, I only hope that you can hear me. I'm sorry, I'm sorry I broke our promise. I only wish I could properly say goodbye to you and Alexis. You two stood up for me the most, all this time. Say thank you and goodbye to Alexis for me, I hope this won't be too painful, but if what you say is true, I hope you'll be alright. ACTIVATE PROTON CANNON! YOU'RE AL MINE UNICRON!! Dash, this one's for you!"

The voice vanished, though I knew what happened, I was confused, I felt nothing, just stood still, and dropped my weapon.

"Dash? You ok?" Hotshot came up to me.

My visors blacked out, everything was black and I feel black.

When everything came back to me, RedAlert and Hotshot were standing over me, I was in the ship's med-room.

"You ok?" RedAlert checked my vision. "How many fingers?"

"I'm not a little kid anymore Red, but three." I chuckled. Then I froze. "Starscream! Where is he?!"

I didn't like the looks on their faces.

"I'll give you two a minute." RedAlert walked out.

"Huh?" Hotshot sat down next to me.

"Starscream, he well, he sacrificed himself to try and save us. I'm sorry Dash, but he's gone."

"No, it can't be!" I shook my head.

"Dash, I'm sorry."

Normal POV

Dash's blue optics glowed their sky blue.

Hotshot took his arm off of Jetfire and caught her.

"Hey, you ok?" His voice was soft, and sweet.

"Starscream. Huh? Hey, yeah, I'm fine."

"You sure? To what we saw, those were some nasty scenes."

"Hotshot, I'm fine! Don't worry." She smiled weakly, of course she wasn't fine, physically, she wasn't hurt to bad, nor was Hotshot. But mentally, they were both breaking up.

Dusk cracked up as the Autobots rethought their thoughts on the Elelmentacons (does anyone but me HATE that name?!).

"So, you see that we are a lot stronger than you thought! Just ask your little friends." Dusk laughed, like a maniac!

Sideswipe and Jetfire supported Dash and Hotshot, who weren't exactly happy about what Dusk had done to them.

"You are SO done for!! Rush! Powerlink!"

"What in the world do you think you're doing?!" Sideswipe put his hand out to stop Rush. "We're getting you two back to the base!"

"What do you think you're doing Jolt?" Jetfire looked at the little bleeping minicon. "You are not Powerlinking!"

"Aw come on Jetfire!" Hotshot protested. "Hmm, NO! Back to the base!"

"None of you are heading back if I can help it! FIRE ARMY! ATTACK!"

Tens of red blobs glowed and formed slightly smaller forms of Blaze.

"Oh this'll be fun!" Blurr got out his blaster.

"Yep." Scanvenger "agreed".

"The time of our lives." Hoist nodded.

"Ok, ATTACK!!" Blaze yelled, the little mini-blazes flew right towards the Autobots.

Dash threw her arm off of Sideswipe and shot down about four of them.

"Wow!" Sideswipe stared as Dash fired each mini-blaze as they came.

"I told you Sideswipe! She's awesome, but don't let your guard down!" Hotshot yelled over as he powerlinked with Jolt.

"Right bro!"

"Hey Rush! Come on, Powerlink!" Dash swiped out her sword and started slashing the air, after a second or two, instant fire chowder, well done, maybe a bit, over done. "I'll show you for messing with my thoughts on Starscream!!" Dash ran over to Dusk.

"Hahaha! You don't get it." With a glow of his eyes (seeing they ARE black, Dusk's eyes are grey), Dash froze and was flung right into the mountain cliff.

It didn't take much, one by one, each Autobot was defeated.

The Elementacons laughed, and left, the Autobots to just lye there, out of commission. Red Alert was able to get everyone back to the base, which was really right there (this is just outside remember?).

ceestar: OMG! That's my longest chapter yet!! So many pages!! 0_0 Wow, I've outdone myself! Ok, if any of this confused you, tell me, and I'll email you the answers, ok? If your lucky, and I get enough reviews asking, I'll put up a chapter! Later peeps! Review!! Wow, 11 pages and three lines. I have seriously outdone myself, soz :p.11 pages.0_0