AN: I'd like to apologise for not updating for so long.. Haven't had much time and things just were kinda hectic.. I'm hoping to update more in the near future. Thanks for your patience and kind reviews everyone!

As soon as DinoMiner caught up with her fellow raptor, her started walking again. Hearing his own claws making clicking noises on the floor, he quickly transformed. He knew she'd be able to notice he was nervous if she heeded it.

"What is it you need me for?" he asked, his voice cold and emotionless. Aside from anger, no one here was used to hearing any other tone in his voice. But the young female next to him had seen other sides of him, and as he feared, she saw right through it.

"Oh come on!" she exclaimed, "You can't have forgotten –everything-! You're you! You wouldn't give up so easily, nor behave the way you do."

He could hear the hope in her voice and the look in her eyes as she looked up at him was almost so unsettling he felt he would break. She had always had that power over him. But he couldn't give into it now. Not after all he and his brother have worked for.

"Rampage wants a word with you," he said in reply. He couldn't lie to her directly in the face, not with the possibility that soon he wouldn't have to lie to her at all. Looking at her now, he decided that either he grew, or she shrank. She was almost a head shorter than him now, while back at Cybertron, they had been almost equal in height. He figured he had grown however, being transmetal II now.

"You can find him near the shoreline," he quickly said, seeing she opened her mouth again.

She looked at him strangely for a moment, then nodded, looking down. He hoped she realised that he wouldn't answer her questions, no matter how she prodded. Of course, he couldn't tell her he'd tell her later. Everyone knew Tarantulas had his little spiders walking around everywhere to spy on everyone.

"I'll go see him then," she said quietly after a few moments, then turned around and headed for the exit of the base. Dinobot sighed softly. If the conversation between her and Rampage went well, he'd at least be able to act normal to her upon a few occasions, and she would at least know what was going on.

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DinoMiner reached the beach about a megacycle later. She had taken her sweet time to get there. She hunted and ate. The taste of blood was still in her Velociraptor mouth. Hunting cleared her mind, she had found out and seeing as that the crazy psychotic crab wanted a word with her, she had the feeling she was going to need a clear mind.

She looked around, raptor eyes scanning the horizon for any activity – predacon, or otherwise. Sure enough, after just a few cycles, Rampage started to emerge from the water. DinoMiner transformed. They took each other in silence.

DinoMiner had had every opportunity to do research on the invincible giant that now stood before her, though someone he seemed less threatening then he had seemed when she read all the information about him.

Rampage in his turn looked at the fembot standing before him. Though she had the same beastmode as Dinobot had had, she looked quite different. Much thinner, and though still muscled, she didn't look like a she-male, the muscles coming purely from her beastmode. Black and green metal was visible where her beastmode wasn't. Aside from just regularly pretty, Rampage mostly noted the intelligent glow in her blue eyes, promising trouble to anyone crossing her. She was the first to break the silence.

"I heard you wanted to speak to me," she said, folding her arms beneath her breast as if preparing herself for whatever might come. She didn't trust him, that much was sure. Or rather, perhaps it wasn't distrust, perhaps it was just trying to keep something from him.

"Yes," he said after a moment, wondering if he should beat around the bush or if he should get to the point immediately. "What exactly are you?"

She blinked, clearly both surprised and taken aback by his question. Her optics hardened a bit.

"A transformer of course, what else would I be?"

"You're not normal," Rampage said, taking a step towards her and reaching his hand out to her sparkchamber. It glowed brightly for a moment before DinoMiner hastily took a step back, eyes narrowed. "You're like me, aren't you?"

DinoMiner looked at him sharply for a moment before hastily turning her head away, not wanting to look him in the eye. She should've known he'd figure it out fast. But still, she can't just tell him. She doesn't know what he'd do with the information.

"I'm different, that much is true," she says eventually, looking back at Rampage, her look already telling him she won't tell him how that happened without some very hard torture or a long fight. Of course, he could do both of those, but he has a feeling his brother wouldn't like him doing that.

"You're like me," Rampage repeats, "Am I right?"

"I'm diff-"

"Am I right?" he asks again, interrupting her and looking at her sternly. Though he's always been called psychotic and dangerous, DinoMiner can't find any trace of insanity In him now… Somehow, this subject is very serious to him.

"Yes," she admits, shoulders slumping a little.

"Good. Now listen up. Do you really want Megatron to win this and gather enough Energon to take over Cybertron?" Rampage asks, again going for the direct way.

DinoMiner looked at him strangely. Was he testing her loyalty now? Or was this something else? She frowns. She's always served Megatron. She did things she had thought she wouldn't do in order for him and his team to be able to get away safely, so they could go to the legendary place filled with Energon.

"I had every intention to be on this team and help him win this little war from the start," she says, "But I wasn't able to be around."

"That's not what I asked," Rampage insisted. "Let me rephrase. Are you here because you're loyal to Megatron, or are you here for other reasons?"

DinoMiner blinks. Though straightforward, he's unnerving her, and that's starting to freak her out.

"I'm here for more than one reason," she says.

"Look, if you're afraid to tell me because you think I'll tell Megatron, forget it," Rampage says, starting to lose his amazingly long kept patience, "The guy has half my spark. I'd love to kill him off and have it back, but the fact that he has it keeps me from getting it."

DinoMiner sighed, trying to give herself courage. Though she knows all the information she needs to know about this giant, it's still hard to trust him. He doesn't seem to want to betray her though, and she has a feeling that's because of her spark.

"I came here for Dinobot," she says softly, as if wanting to keep anyone around from hearing it. It's part of the truth, but not all of it. But she isn't about to tell Rampage that.

"I figured as much," Rampage said, seemingly relaxing, "That's also why you helped the team, wasn't it?" He proceeds after getting a nod from her. "I won't ask you what happened yet. That's a story Dinobot will want to here also."

As her head whirls around to look at him, pieces start to click in her mind. So that's why Dinobot didn't tell her anything she wanted to know. He was waiting for her to talk to Rampage. And apparently, they got the right outcome.

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DepthCharge paced his quarters. How could she have done this? After all this time… He shook his head. This was no time to start thinking about that. He should warn the other Maximals. But inside, he kept hoping that somehow there was a reason for all this. There just had to be. She wouldn't really.. would she?

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Next chapter: What's DinoMiners story? What are Rampage and Dinobot upto? What's DinoMiners connection to DepthCharge. And just why exactly did she come here?