This story is to a collection called 'Toying With Reality'

I own none of the characters other than 'Skyfall' and 'Dawnbreaker'

'Com'

"Speech"

"Telepathy"

'Dawnbreaker!' Ratchet yelled at the sports car over the com, the McLauren flinched she had been avoiding the Medic ever since the incident with the cat. With the children's science project fiasco yesterday Dawnbreaker was given ample opportunity to avoid the grumpy medical officer. It wasn't that she was scared of the old mech, but it was the glares. The watchful; mom caught her child doing something they shouldn't have, glares. It was just unsettling for the new member of Team Prime, she constantly felt agitated.

Not to mention the annoyance she felt from the lack of contact she was having with Skyfall. Recently all she got was a look through the Seekers optics right as some huge green Decepticon was emerging from a stasis chamber in some canyon. Then Starscream getting punched into a wall by said Decepticon. There connection was iffy and most of the time severed, Dawnbreaker knew it was because of Soundwave. He's shady ass was the reason Sky didn't have an open link with her.

Shaking her helm to clear her thoughts she activated her com,'Yes Ratchet?' Replying with a sigh the Scout put her data pad down onto the side table of her berth.

'Optimus and Arcee have just gone into the Arctic, and the Ground Bridge is down I need you here to help with repairs.'

'On my way.' Walking out of her room the flat grey sports car saw Raf walking all alone. Kneeling to the small boys level she smiled, "Hey Raf you want some company?"

"You don't have to..I know your busy with the Ground Bridge." The youngest of the humans smiled kindly. Dawnbreaker wanted to give the lonely small child a hug, but the fear of crushing said tiny child was not a risk she wanted to take with this body. She was still getting used to the strength this body had, sometimes she'd hold something a little to tight or pull a little to hard.

"It's alright Raf, Ratchet has Bumblebee and Bulkhead." Dawn smiled at Raf, she held out her servo for the short boy to climb in.

A noise caught their attention, causing both of them to look around. It was like slight clanging in the walls. "Y-you hear that right?"

Frowning Dawnbreaker scanned the halls, "Yeah…" Something small and robotic jumped out of a hole in the wall, it looked in their direction with teal eyes and a small rounded body. 'Skyfall I need you to see this…'

Sounding breathless and tired Skyfall answered with a tap into Dawns link, 'Alright I'm in what to you nee— RUN NOW!'

Not hesitating Dawnbreaker scooped up a shocked Raf and sprinted towards the others, 'Mind telling me why I'm running like a bat out of hell?'

'Scraplets, they eat metal and always come in large swarms.'

Once in the view of others Dawnbreaker yelled out, "SCRAPLETS!" All the Mechs tensed and stared at the new Scout in horror and disbelief. Not but seconds later a swarm burst out of the vents and fell upon them all.

Bulkhead let out a girlish scream and dove away while Bumblebee shot at the tiny merciless creatures with little luck. It was hell to say the least, the biting was the worst part, the tinny band-saw like teeth were brutal. Dawnbreaker was frantically trying to fix the Ground Bridge with Ratchet while also fending off the vicious swarm.

'Kill them with cold sweet cheeks, I'm sorry I can't help any more I'm stuck with a critical patent. I will com you soon Dawnbreaker, Skyfall out!'

Combating the small army of tiny creatures Dawnbreaker felt the staggering slowness at the loss of Energon due to the constant attacks, falling to her knee she kept firing. "Ratchet you better be working fast!"

"I'm done but there seems to be a breach in the Energon lines, that's what must be causing the short." The orange and white mech responded tiredly. The kids responded with vigor to aid their robotic friends, Dawn gave them cool points for bravery. Scraplet's are no joke.

Pulling herself up to lean against the cement wall next to Bulkhead, Dawnbreaker rested against the green frame with a sigh, "This is not how I wanted to spend my Saturday." The Scraplets seemed to have eased off of them letting the four transformers weakly gain their bearings. When the kids returned, with their task accomplished Dawnbreaker weakly voiced what Skyfall had told her, "Their tiny bodies don't do well in the cold they will drop like flies, lets send them out as we bring Optimus and Arcee in." Slouching down farther she shook with exhaustion. When Ratchet fell to the ground after activating the Ground Bridge, she felt Bulkhead shift.

"Their going to need bait," Standing up the green Wrecker turned towards the massive Scraplet swarm, "Ready for the main course? Come and get it!" The largest Autobot on Team Prime sprinted through the Ground Bridge with a roar, the mass of hungry Scraplets tailing.

Dawnbreaker hunkered closer to the ground blue optics trained on the last bit of swarm that flew over head. When the last Scraplet had gone she sighed, 'Skyfall that was the worst experience of my life, like I thought mosquitoes and spiders were bad..'

'I bet bro, did you sustain any critical damage?'

Down groaned as she tried to sit up better, 'Nah just quite a bit of Energon loss…'

'I'm glad to hear that your still kicking! I'll be sending you a care package soon!' Dawn could feel the excitement in Skyfall's voice.

As Dawnbreaker was being hooked up to the medical equipment she remembered Skyfall's parting words with her just before the chow down. 'Are you still with that new patient of yours?'

'Yeah he's stable but took heavy damage, Starscream hasn't com'd for me yet so I have good time to work on him.' Skyfall still sounded tired, but Dawnbreaker was able to detect the reserved way she spoke about the patient.

Dawnbreaker frowned, 'Who did you save that you weren't supposed to?' She was worried about the impact that what ever Skyfall had done would change the way the show was supposed to go and leave them stranded in an AU of Transformers Prime.

'Skyquake…'

The name was oddly familiar but she could not place name to face, the only new Decepticon that she saw was from her recent links with Skyfall, 'Is he the big green guy that came out the the stasis chamber with the loud voice?'

'Yeah him…'

'I don't want to be stuck here forever just because you couldn't part with a single Decepticon.' Dawnbreaker knew the emotional attachment Sky had towards all of the Transformers characters. But the fear of being stuck in this universe forever still nagged at her thoughts.

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Dawnbreaker was right, her saving Skyquake could possibly strand them here. Weather she liked it or not she had to return with Dawnbreaker, she had to go home. Skyfall looked down with a sigh at the prone but living body of Skyquake, she had hunkered the large bot in an old abandoned Energon mine that still had some medical equipment in a chamber. His signal would be hard to detect here and no one ever visited these mines so she had the secrecy all on point, save for Soundwave knowing. Her optics dimmed in contemplation, the TIC was going to keep this a secret but Skyfall had a feeling it was going to be at a price…