Chapter Seven

"Why do you hate her so much?" Sunstreaker asked.

"She's a Decepticon." Sideswipe said plainly.

"No. She's not." The yellow mech argued.

"Yes. She is." the red twin argued back "I don't care what Prime or anyone else says. She was raised to be a Decepticon and she'll always be a Decepticon."

"Is that what you think of me too?" Sunstreaker suddenly asked folding his arms across his chest and surprising his brother.

"What?" Sideswipe asked dumbfounded.

"Forget it, Sunstreaker. He's never going to trust me, no matter what you say." A voice said interrupting the two Lamborghinis.

Both mechs turned and Sideswipe narrowed his optics at the voice's owner.

"What are you doing here?" He asked harshly.

"I came to see my friend. Is that a crime, Sideswipe?" She asked being sarcastic at the end.

"You're the crime, Silverlight. You should be locked up for what you've done but because of who your supposed father is you're allowed to walk free among us. See what we're up to then report back to..."

"Sideswipe!" Sunstreaker interrupted earning an annoyed glare from his brother.

"No, he's right. I should be locked up. Put away for leading Megatron to all those sources of energy I found for him. For being too young to fight back against a mech who wanted to use me for his own selfish gains. For not screaming loud enough for help when they strapped me to a fragging table and do things I don't even want to know about!" Tears began falling down the racing truck's face "I really should be locked up for that, shouldn't I Sideswipe. Locked up for being young and scared, locked up for even being slagging sparked!" She ran out of the room tears flowing down her face as much as she tried to stop them.

Sunstreaker glared at his brother before going after the blue femme. He found her at the end of the hall leaning against the corner of the wall. He walked up to her and placed a hand on her shoulder. "Sides doesn't think before he speaks," he told her making her chuckle slightly.

"It's not just him, 'Streaker." she began using the shortening of his name whenever they were alone together. "It's everyone. They all think that, think I'm spying on you all for the cons." she said sadly looking down at the floor.

Sunstreaker sighed, "'Light, not everyone believes that, and those that do are meaningless slaggers."

Silverlight gave a small laugh, "does that include your brother?" she asked almost humorously.

"Him most of all." The femme looked up at him a small smile on her face and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek making him step back in surprise "what was that for?" he asked.

"Thank you," she said "If it weren't for you and Hot Rod I would have given up long ago."

"No," he shook his head "thank you for seeing me for who I really was and not the antisocial angry aft everyone else thinks I am."

Hot Rod walked into his father's office "are you busy?" he enquired

Optimus looked up from his datapad and over at his son, "Is something wrong, Hot Rod?"

"Are you busy?" the red and orange mech asked again.

Optimus placed his datapad on the desk giving the mech his full attention, "I have a few minutes."

"Are you sure? You look busy, I'll just speak to you when you're not busy." Turning to walk out.

"Hot Rod." The semi called out "what Is It you want?"

The mech turned back to him, "I was just curious."

"About what?"

"What you're up to, I know it has something to do with Silverlight but that's all." He explained.

Optimus chuckled, "and you would like to help, am I right?"

"Yeah!" Hot Rod said eagerly walking back over to his father.

"Do you promise not to tell anyone about this?" he asked warily.

"Sure."

"Hot Rod." The semi said sternly.

"I promise, Prime." He said taking a seat.

"Very well. Ultra Magnus has developed feelings for your sister." The Prime explained.

"Magnus? Seriously?" Hot Rod asked surprised, he received a nod in reply. "Wow, didn't see that coming." He said making his father chuckle. "Hang on a second," the red and orange mech began as realisation dawned on him. "You wouldn't be trying to get the two of them together, would you?"

"Not so much as mercilessly tease Ultra Magnus about it as much as I can." Though Hot Rod noticed there was a devious look in his father's optics.

"Silverlight's not going to know what hit her." The red and orange said with a chuckle. "So who else is in on this?"