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Sideswipe didn't trust the mechs that took them. He didn't trust them to keep their word that they wouldn't hurt them or Ichigo. Sunstreaker had agreed and had taken to sitting by the older mech until the he woke up. No one will tell them why he hasn't woken and Sunstreaker didn't like that there were so many medics hovering around his helm. They had chased them away and wouldn't leave the older mech alone, there was only one mech they would allow close but that was it, until then they would guard him, and that meant that one of them would have to deal with the mechs and femmes who freed them. And that mech was Sideswipe, which he already found he didn't like doing. His questions had gone unanswered and they were treated like normal sparklings, which they weren't. growing up around gladiators and in the arena did not leave much of growing up normal.

Sideswipe also knows that the silver mech, who they haven't seen since, had said that they could stay together was lying. He heard others whisper that Ichigo was going back to Vos and him and Sunstreaker were being sent to Iacon. Even if he told them that Ichigo wasn't from Vos they would laugh and tell him to go play. They weren't leaving Ichigo, the mech tended to get in trouble if someone wasn't around and he gets broody. The twins had long ago agreed that the mech shouldn't be left on his own, so they made sure that they were around to keep his broodiness at bay. Now these strangers were going to undo all their hard work.

Yeah Sideswipe could understand them sending Ichigo to Vos. The mech had wings but he didn't know how to fly, but he could be taught outside of Vos, Sideswipe didn't understand why they were trying to send him there. That and Seekers were snobby air heads, in Sideswipe's opinion. So, when he could no longer trust the adults around here, he decided that he and Sunny would take care of Ichigo. Which is why he was out in the hall just outside of the energon dispensary, waiting just for the right moment to snatch two cubes. Ichigo was still getting his fuel through an energon line from a bag.

"…how long before we can move him?"

Voices coming from down the hall had Sideswipe scrambling for a hiding place. He ducked into a vent just as two medics walked around the corner.

"We aren't even done with the procedure; those little pests keep everyone except the runt away." The other medic growls.

"Vos paid a high price for that mech and we have to finish wiping his memories before the deadline."

"And the sparklings?"

"Once we are done with the adult then we can wipe those two. Tender has two buyers ready for them."

"Aren't they twins though; I thought you couldn't separate twins?"

One of them laughs, "Not our problem. Once they are out of our hands, I don't care what happens to them."

Sideswipe didn't stick around to listen to the rest of the conversation. His main concern was that this place wasn't just planning on separating them but separating all three of them and taking away their memories. And that was what they had been doing to Ichigo before Sunny and him chased them away. They had to get out of there. Darting through legs and doors Sideswipe ran until he collided with the nurse mech who the twins had taken a shine to.

"Mechling where have you been?" the red and white mech scowled.

Sideswipe jumps hopping from foot to foot, "no time Ratchet need to get to Sunny and Ichigo." He runs around the nurse, "It's an emergency!"

"Sideswipe!"

The red twin ignores the nurse bot and barrels through the half way closed door. He skids in front of the Ichigo's bed and jumps on top of his brother who had been sitting at the edge, drawing.

Sunstreaker hisses as he was jostled, "You better have a good reason for messing up my drawing Sides." He growls, shoving his blabbering twin.

"they-mind wipe-separate-Vos-Iacon-Ichigo-"

Sunstreaker smacked his twin, "Talk straight will ya!"

Sideswipe scowls and takes a deep breath, "We been tricked; they going to separate us and they're trying to wipe Ichigo's memories and separate me and you. We have to get out of here."

The yellow twin tilted his head, "Why would they do that?"

Sideswipe shrugs, "I heard them say that they were paid to do it," he gasp, "so you think this is what mom warned us about, mech trafficking?"

Sunstreaker growls, "Sounds like it and they're after Ichigo; tch, I knew we couldn't leave him alone." He hops off the bed, "He attracts trouble too much, so how do we get him out of here we can't exactly carry him out."

Sideswipe deflates, "I-I haven't thought about it." He looks around and smiles, "Maybe we can push him out."

The yellow twins pause and looks at what his brother was smiling about, "maybe; but pushing a table that's empty is different then pushing one with Ichigo on it."

The red twin growls, "Fine! If you have any bright ideas, then let's hear them." He huffs crossing his arms and tapping his foot. "At least I'm trying to find ways out instead of shooting them down."

Sunstreaker sighs and rolls his eyes, "Its not just getting out of here Sides, see all these cables plugged into Ichigo, we have to be careful of pulling them out or we will do more harm than good."

"…Oh, yea, forgot about those. How do we know which one is safe to pull?"

"Don't know, and we can't trust the medics here."

They sat across each other arms crossed over their chest thinking hard on how to get Ichigo to safety. Where one twin would tilt his head the other would tilt it in the other direction. None of the plans they made would pass the others inspection and soon both were frustrated and annoyed.

"Arggg!" Sideswipe yells, "nothing works, let's go back to just pushing Ichigo's bed and go from there."

"and I keep telling you that won't work!"

"What won't work?"

The twins jump at the unexpected voice, both whirled around thinking it was one of the medics. Luckily, it was only the nurse bot, one that they liked out of everyone at the facility.

"Hey Ratchet, what's up?"

The newly named Ratchet just raise an unimpressed ridge line. "What have you done or what are you planning to do?"

"Nothing!" both said.

"I don't believe you; now go play or something, I need to give your friend a checkup before I finish my rounds."

"But that's just it!" Sideswipe shouts.

"We are worried about Ichigo, they did something to him; we saw it!" Sunstreaker finishes.

"what are you talking about?"

"I heard them; they were doing something to his mind and then sell him to the highest bidder. They were also going to separate me and Sunny."

"Don't call me that!"

"Impossible, they were simply looking for any anomalies," Ratchet dismisses.

"No they weren't!" Sideswipe scrambles on the bed. "I know what I heard; they're purposely keeping Ichigo under so they can wipe his memories. Please Ratchet we have to get him out of here!"

The nurse shook his head, "Even if that was what they were doing; how do you think you could sneak a near fully grown mech out?" He sighs, "I know some of the procedures look scary but these mechs do not want to hurt you. They want what's best for you. You two are going to a home and have a normal healthy life and your friend is going back to his family who has been missing him."

"But Ratchet, Ichigo said his family isn't on Cybertron."

"…What?"

Sunstreaker nodded quickly, "He said that he didn't know how he got here but he isn't from Cybertron. Megatron found him and he said that he wasn't from here."

Ratchet mulled over that tibit of information. "has he been awake any since you came here?" surly that type of information should have been taken before they sedated him.

"No, that silver fragger knocked him out and he has been recharging since."

"Language," the nurse chided. He wa frowning, while a grown mech could be in medical stasis for vorns. A flyer, especially one as small and young as the one on the berth shouldn't be kept in medical stasis without a thorough medical history. He had already heard his superiors say that they didn't have a history, if the flyer wasn't taken out of stasis soon he would became immune to the codes. "This stays between us , I'll check over your friend."

"You can do that?" Sunstreaker asks.

Ratchet winches, "No really. Nurses can't do or aren't allowed to do a lot of things. But I know how to so don't worry."

"oh, we aren't worried Ratchy, we trust you." Sideswipe grins up at the nurse, "and his name is Ichigo; remember."

"I remember, watch the door please it would be bad if someone walked in on us," The white and yellow nurse said.

The two mechlings gave him twin smirks before darting to the door. Sideswipe took to standing on a nearby table while Sunstreaker crouch on the other side. If someone did come through the door Sideswipe would take their head while Sunstreaker tripped them up. Ratchet watched them for a few minutes before plugging in. He was expecting some sort of firewalls, what he got was nothing. In fact, it looked like the mechs firewalls had been stripped, smashed and left jagged pieces behind. If Ichigo were online he would no doubt be in pain, but as far as Ratchet knew the mech had firewalls when he was brought in.

The white and yellow nurse frowned, someone had to been in the mechs mind recently, firewalls don't look like this after natural causes. He went further looking for more damage, he had found the mental scarring from the firewalls being destroyed, now he was looking for other things. One of which he hoped he never see, but from the little holes in the mechs helm Ratchet knew what he would find. He hissed when he found a half-destroyed memory, edges frayed. While there was nothing he could do about the lost memories, he could do something about the other damage he found. He sorted files and added pain codes; he when through each code line by line and as he left, he gave the mech an temporary firewall. When Ichigo onlines he could start rebuilding his own using the temporary one as a base.

He stayed connected long enough until he heard Ichigo's systems start up without any hitches and turns the young flyer on his side. Staying as long on his back as he been would have put painful kinks in the cables and wires and stress the hinges. When he unplugged, he turns to the two sparklings who were dutifully watching the door.

"Alright, I believe you," the nurse sighs. "I can't know what memories have been altered. We will have to wait and see."

"Is he waking up?"

"I just got his systems running," he sits next to the berth. "I want you two to be prepared that him may not know who you are." The two looked at each other uncertainly. "but he may remember something, like I said I won't know until he onlines."

"But-

Sideswipe jerked when the black mech groans. Ratchet was instantly up and next to the young adult just as gold optics flickered on. There was confusion and no recognition, which Ratchet was expecting since these would be the first time they met. Sideswipe and Sunstreaker stayed behind Ratchet, if Ichigo didn't remember them it would be easier to leave and hide. They didn't want anyone seeing how hurt they would be.

"Do you know who you are?" they heard Ratchet ask. They peered around the taller mech waiting with bated breath to hear Ichigo's answer.

At first the black mech was confused and stared at Ratchet with narrowed eyes, then weird sounds came out of his mouth. The twins knew the sounds, they heard Ichigo speak like that before he learned Cybertronian Standard. Ratchet however…

"I must have missed something when I was checking you over."

"Nah you didn't Ratchy. That's how Ichigo use to speak before he had to learn Standard," Sideswipe grins.

His voice caught Ichigo's attention who then tried speaking again growing annoyed when he realized that no one understood what he was saying.

"Do you remember any Standard," Ratchet asks instead. "If it's something recently learned then maybe the file was corrupted. If so, I can give you another." Ichigo sung his head back to Ratchet, his wings were twitching showing how uncomfortable he was currently, but he nodded in the end.

Ratchet plugged in a port that was in the mechs wrist. He did find the file that was for language and translation. Whoever hacked the young mech did damage to the file so Ratchet decided that it couldn't be saved and was ready to delete and reinstall another.

"The file is too damage; it would be best if you let me delete it and reinstall another; is that alright?"

Ichigo nodded.

"Okay, its going to feel weird so don't panic." Another nod. The deletion and downloading only took minutes but watching the mech, Ratchet could see that he was becoming too stressed. "How does that feel?"

"bet-," Ichigo hack and cried out grabbing his throat. Ratchet quickly but gently kept his hands away as he scanned the area. A few tweaks he tells the mech to try again.

"How's that."

"h-hurts."

"I bet, but I need you to answer these few questions. Then I get you some energon and you can rest." He helps the young flyer sit up. "Now do you know who you are?"

Ichigo spat static when he tried again but eventually, he manages a static lace answer. " I-Ichigo."

Ratchet nods his head, "Good; do you know where you are-ah excuse me, do you know what planet your on?"

Ichigo screwed his face up, "…Koan."

Ratchet chokes off a laugh, "Close, but close enough at least. Do you know who these two are?" he points to the two shuffling sparklings. Sideswipe was looking hopeful but Sunstreaker was scowling at the floor.

"I-I know them, they were- their mother was working in a-in a pleasure house. Um, they're twins."

"Yes," Ratchet says after looking at the twins. "DO you know their names?"

"Sun-Sunny and Sides."

Ratchet internally sighed in relief, so did the twins who gave them beaming smiles. "that's great, very good. Now the hard part, what was the last thing you remember?"

"I-," here he froze, "I-was, I was fighting? Fighting, and there was-there was someone; I'am not sure. I didn't like this person." He shut his eyes face scrunched up at he tried to force a memory, "Sand lots of sand, screaming, laughter, there's a face but." He opened his eyes and gave Ratchet the most desperate and helpless look he had ever seen. "What's wrong with me."

Ratchet sighed, he truly didn't want to frighten his patient, because that what the mech was now, anymore but; "I am afraid that you been a victim of abuse. Specifically, the abuse from a medical procedure." He rubs his face, Ichigo and the twins give him more confused looks. "It's called Memogram surgery. It's a relatively new technique that involves the surgeon inserting needles in a mechs processors. It supposed to fix memory glitches; however, it also can take away memory. Since its new there are no-

"So, your saying that some stranger messed with me head?" Ichigo cuts him off with a scowl, "That explains that head ache."

"Don't try to force the memory," Ratchet hisses as he titles Ichigo's head towards him. "And why didn't you say your helm was hurting!"

Ichigo tried to lean away, "Because it wasn't anything to complain about!"

"Are you the medical official?" Ratchet glares, "That's what I thought; helm aches are common with patients going through any helm surgery, having your memories twisted makes it worse." He downloads a few pain patches. "Now tell me if it gets worse."

"Yes sir," Ichigo mutters. "what now?"

Ratchet fiddles around giving the door a hesitant glance before turning back to Ichigo and the twins, who had scramble up on the berth. " I have some good and bad scenarios for you. Good scenario is that your memory will heal on its on and you'll start to remember everything. Bad case would be that you never regain any of the lost memories and worst case is that you will have memory declination. In which you will lose all memory and, well, you terminate." He winches as the twin gasps from the twins but Ichigo's blank look had him thinking that the mech had gone into shock.

"Bu-but he's remembering now, so-so he won't lose anything; right?" Sideswipe asks fearfully.

"we won't know it could happen now or happen vorns from now. The point is he is at risk, but since we caught this before total memory loss, he risk is lower. He may never to worry about it, but I want you to be informed in case he does start having memory problems." Ratchet gives the mech and the twins one final look over.

"Why aren't you a medic; why a nurse?" Ichigo asks after seeing the white and yellow nurses' decals.

Ratchet freezes then steps back with an annoyed frown. The annoyance wasn't directed at his patients but to something else. "I was in training to be a medic, but like the rest of the planet to get higher a mech needs to know bots in high places. However, should you anger a elite mech you'll fine that they can easily ruin you life. I am one of the lucky ones however, my mentor at the time was able to keep me in the medical field."

"what did you do?" Sunstreaker asks curiously. He was tapped on the back of his head by Ichigo was whispered about him being too nosy.

Ratchet answers anyway, "I punched a Towers mech after learning he was beating his sparkling." He chuckles at the gop smack looks, "yea well I don't tolerate that slag. However, my superiors saw it differently and the next thing I know I'm the one behind the bars. Like I said, it was only thanks to my mentor that I am even out and still in the medical field."

Ichigo frowns, "So they took an abusers side and not yours?"

"In that hospital they did, didn't do them any good. A friend told me a few vorns later that the place was shut down and most of the higher staff arrested for some slag or something."

"Karma."

"What?"

"…I'm not sure. It was just something that popped in my head."

Ratchet hums, "That maybe a good sign then." He started pulling sheets and piling them next to the berth.

The twins and Ichigo watches him curiously. When asked the nurse smiles, "This is out we're getting you out of here."

Sideswipe was bouncing, "So we are going with my idea!"

"Yes, but you two will be under the berth while I push. We'll say I am taking a deactivated frame to the morgue. Then once I find an emergency exit you three vamoose." Ratchet helped Ichigo to lay back down.

Sunstreaker was frowning up at the medic, "You're not coming with us?"

The nurse shook his head, "I would be noticed before you three would." He tucks the twins underneath the berth.

"But then you'll be the first one they question. Ratchet you'll be found out!" the red twin cried.

"maybe, but I would be worse if I didn't help you. Now shush, I'm about to roll you out."

The two mechlings looked at each, frowning, they weren't happy about that. Above them, nether was Ichigo. With the sheet covering him he couldn't see what or who was around them, so he had to force his frame to hold still when a mech snuck up on them.

"Ratchet! What are you doing? you are supposed to be cleaning out the waste receptacles." A booming voice echoed through the hall.

"y-yes sir," Ratchet flinches. "I-I finish with this floor, but the Head Nurse said that since I wasn't doing anything, I could take this frame to the morgue. I'll return to my duties when I drop it off." It was a good lie; the Head Nurse had a reputation that Ratchet could exploit.

"I see," the Doctor narrowed his optics at the disgraced nurse. "I expect not only your next floor to be cleaned but glitched ward as well." He smirked, "I hear that one particular patient has been having tank troubles."

Ratchet growls at the retreating laughing mechs back. "Aft licker."

"oh, good one, write that one down Sunny."

"Shut up slagger or will get caught."

"Language!" Ratchet yelps.

Sideswipe pouts, "But you just swore."

"I am an adult you are not. When you get to be…the Primes age then you can curse all you want."

"Don't encourage them Ratchet," Ichigo pipped propping his upper half up. "we will discuss your language usage when we get out of here. Until then be quiet." He scowls down at the area the twins were at.

"Yes, big brother," twin sulky voices whispered. Ichigo quirked an eye ridge at them wondering when they decided to call him brother.

"Anyway," he lays back down and looks pointedly at the nurse.

Ratchet jerks, "…r-right." He covers Ichigo again and fast walks to the nearest emergency exit. He flinches as the door, the only non-automatic door in the entire building, opens with a loud long creak.

"You should oil that," Sideswipe pipes up.

"Get some WD-40 on that." Ichigo said a beat after.

Ratchet tilted his head, "WD-40? What is that?"

"it's a type of lubricant that can be sprayed in small areas."

Ratchets hums, "Anyway you have a few choices to choose from. To the East of here is Iacon, then there's Vos and Praxis, then to the West is Tyger Pax."

"I heard of some of them, but not Tyger Pax," Ichigo says.

"Not surprising, Pax is nothing, but wilderness small settlements looked after by the Primes Rangers."

"Praxis and Vos don't like outsiders much, so that leaves Iacon, but even there…"

"No where is perfect, some places are just better then the rest."

"We don't want anything to with those sinky seekers." The twins yelled.

Ratchet frowns at the two as they climb out of their hiding place. "Ichigo is classified as a seeker." He points out.

The two mechlings look at the black winged mech. Ichigo fanned his hinged wings out and shrugged his shoulders.

They looked back to the nurse, "Eh he's not a seeker, he's Ichigo." Sideswipe explained with Sunstreaker nodding.

Ratchet sighs, "Mechlings." He watches them leave the building giving each a quick scan before turning away. "Remember what I said, have a medic look at those files if something happens," he glowers, "understand."

Ichigo smiles, "Sure medic and for what its worth…I am sorry about what I have to do."

Ratchet blinks, "Wha—ack." He crumbles to the ground after being struck in the chassis. He tries to fight the dizziness as Ichigo picks him up.

Sunstreaker watches, "Why did you do that?"

"Yeah, are we taking him. you know that he's going to be mad once he gets back up," Sideswipe adds.

Ichigo hoisted the nurse more securely, "its better to ask for forgiveness then permission. That and I don't believe for a second that they wouldn't think that he helped us. So, we'll take him with us."

Sunstreaker shrugs, "So you're just going to carrying him the whole way?"

Laughing Ichigo place the nurse on the ground and stepped back. "Think you two could lifted him?" he grins at the twin nods, "good." He has only seconds to see the jaw drop surprise looks as he folds into his alt mode.

Unlike the rest of the flying Cybertronian population, Ichigo's alt mode did not sport the sleek lines that most flyers had. Instead, he was smaller and had sharp angles and looked nothing like a Cybertronian form. His alt mode was longer with his wings spanning outward on his sides and smaller ones in the rear and had tail fins pointed upwards above the smaller wings and thrusters. He was flatter than the other flyers almost like a triangle and not the more cone shape others had. His cockpit rested on top and had two seats.

"Sit Ratchet up front and you two take the back," Ichigos voice drifted out of the cockpit.

"So COOL," Sidesiwpe squealed as he helped his brother drag Ratchet up non to gently. "I neve seen a flyer shaped like this!"

Ichigo flexes his wings and flaps. "It almost looks like a F-22 Raptor. Almost."

"What?"

"Nothing, you two secured?"

"Yep!"

"Alright, hang tight, I hadn't had that much flight time." Ichigo warns.

"You mean you had no flight time," Sunstreakers says. He had a death grip on his brother and the seat. "We're gonna die."

"No, we won't!" Sideswipe was but vibrating his seat. "Come on Sunny this will be fun."

"Don't call me that."

Ichigo sighs as he starts up his engines. "I won't let you die Sunstreaker, you have my word."

Sunstreaker nodded but he still held on tight, "So where are we going?"

Ichigo starts to take off jolting his passengers, "We're spoiled for choice, but," he sighs. "We might be better off in Iacon. We'll blend in better."

"How's that?"

"I heard its mixing pot, having a flyer with two sparklings of different frame types shouldn't stick out too bad."

"Famous last words."

"…you're a real downer ya know that."

Sunstreaker shrugs. "I'm a realist."

"no, you're a growing pessimist." Ichigo snorts, "But we can work on that."

Now it was Sunstreaker who snorts. "Whatever," he says as he shoves his bouncing brother. "Will you stop."

"But Sunny we get to fly!"

"So?"

"So? So! Sunny…Flying!"

"Sides-

Sunstreaker didn't get to finish as he was pressed back into his seat as Ichigo through all his thrust into taking off. Just as they got up in the air, they passed a trine of seekers coming in for a landing. One, larger blue one, acted to veer off after them but a sharp word from one of the others had him tuning back to the building below. Ichigo though nothing of it as he tilted towards the bright horizon that was the lights of Iacon bouncing off the haze.

"a new life."