It was already dark before they managed to get home, wich wasn't good. Lots of gang activity increased by night so they had to really careful, constantly watching where they were going. They had taken a different path home, since soldiers were guarding some of the roofs wich they usually came by. Why there were even guards in the first place, they didn't know.

Their current path home was a lot more dangerous than Airachnid anticipated. They had to travel mostly on the ground, since lots of buildings were wrecked. Once they'd get closer to the center of Kaon they would be able to travel per buildings once again. The closer you came to the city's center, the better the buildings were taken care of. That was were the richer bots and the council lived.

Of course, even then you had to be extremely careful. Lot's of the people who lived there had personal guards who wouldn't hesitate to kill you if you accidently came upon the wrong roof. So, they settled down a little bit further away from that part of the city, but didn't dare to sleep just yet. There was just something off about this night, something just didn't seem right. Airachnid and Airaneae had been watching the streets from their position for quite a while and had noticed more guards roaming the streets, some heavily armed.

Airachnid frowned heavily. It was unusual for so many soldiers to be around, much less so heavily armed. Something was definately going on, if only she knew what. She noticed that some of them were going in and out of buildings, as if they were looking for something…

Or someone, Airachnid thought. What if they were looking for Megatronus? It could be possible, he was, after all, a big threat to the council, with how many bots following him. He made his plans very clear, intending to overthrow the council to bring back the true Golden Age.

Although she wondered why they were taking so long. Not that she supported it, but it was just strange. Maybe she was completely

„Airachnid, do you think it's safe here?" The bot in question turned around to look at her sister, who looked really worried.

„Wait, do you mean this building we're on? We can go somewhere else if-„

„No, not just this building, I mean Kaon. Is it really safe here? Well, i know it isn't but…" The younger bot trailed off, struggling how to say what she meant. Airachnid noticed her inner turmoil and laid an arm across her sister's shoulders, pulling her close.

„Hey, it's okay-„ She was cut off by a scream piercing the air. Her sister yelped and wrapped her arms around the older bot's waist tightly, looking around with wide, fearful eyes.

„What was that?" The green bot asked, her voice slightly muffled behind her sister's arm. Airachnid managed to untangle herself from her sister so she could stand and look over the edge carefully. She almost groaned in annoyance as Airaneae wrapped a servo around her's, but what she saw beneath them made her only grip back tightly.

Down there they saw soldiers dragging younglings and sparklings alike out of their homes, their parents being pushed or shoved away forcefully as they tried to reach their young. One bot in particular had covered her sparkling with her frame as best as she could. Two soldiers approached her and pried the sparkling from her arms, the mother wailing and screaming, trying in vain to get to her sparkling back.

One soldier shoved the femme to the ground and kicked her a few times, then aimed his gun at the crying bot and shot, once, in her helm. Instantly, the screaming of the mother stopped, but that of her sparkling and younglings increased noticeably.

Airaneae choked back a scream of fear as she watched, horiffied, what had just occured. She was shaking so bad that probably the only reason she hadn't fallen over was the servo intertwined with hers. Airachnid stepped back from the edge with her sister and helped her sit down in the middle of the roof.

AIraneae was crying, arms wrapped around her shaking from and helm buried behind her knees. Although Airachnid wanted to do nothing more than to hold her sister close and comfort her, she went back to the edge insead, watching with fear and disgust as the young bots were being taken away.

More were being brought out by other soldiers, the younglings and sparklings crying in distress as they were torn away from their family. Once the soldiers were finished taking the children from the surrounding area, they made their way back towards the centers oft he city. Many bots had attempted to take the children from them and back to their families, but those who tried were shot almost instantly. No one had tried to stop them after that.

Airachnid had gone back to comfort her sister, who had almost completely dissappeared in the blackness of the night, the usually bright green now a dull grey. Airaneae had even shut her eyes to make herself as unnoticable as possible. However, when Airachnid had sat down next to her, the bot's bright green and golden colours had started to fade in once more.

Airachnid was wondering why the guards had taken the younglings with them. They surely wouldn't harm them, would they? She frowned at that thought. They had killed the adult bots, what if they killed the children too? No, that wouldn't make sense. Why go through the trouble of capturing them if they could've just easily planted a few bombs here and there, that would've made more sense.

She decided that they would probably not kill the younglings, but what were they doing with them then? Maybe raise them to be soldiers? Or did they need more workers in the mines perhaps? Whatever they did, Airachnid didn't like it.

„A-Airachnid..?" Came Airaneae's quiet, frightened voice suddenly and the purple femme looked down at her sister's tear-stained face.

„Are they gonna take us away too?" She whimpered, burrying her face in her sister's side. Airachnid felt her spark break at how scared the younger bot sounded.

„No, they won't." Airachnid said and held her sister tighter. „I promise they won't take us." She added after a few moments of silent sobs. Airachid could've never known that she couldn't hold the promise she just made.

A/N: Hey guys, i hope you like this chapter. I would really like to know what you think of what i've written so far.

Buh-bye! :D

P.S: Just to remind you again, the part where Airaneae turns grey (wich is the colour their frame turns when cybertronians die), she didn't die. She just changed colours (an ability i thought was interesting). :D