Author's Note: To all my loyal and devoted fans, thank you so much for the reviews. I now present unto you chapter twelve.

Chap. 12: Unforgiving and Forgetting

Something nudged my hand. I jumped awake and sat bolt upright. Looking around I noticed I was in my quarters but no one was around. I glanced down at my hand and got a shock.

"Jolt? Reverb? Sixspeed? What are you three doing here?"

"We followed you into the dimension gate," replied Jolt.

"If I recall, the dimension gate was in mid-air. How did Reverb and Sixspeed get up there?"

"I teleported them," Jolt confessed, "Vector Prime taught me how to teleport things."

"Then can you teleport us out of here?"

"I've already tried. Megatron has something set up so I can't,"

"Shoot,"

There was a brief silence. Something felt weird so I looked myself over. All my weapons were gone.

"Where in the pit are my weapons?"

"Megatron stripped you of them while you slept. I don't think he wanted to risk you committing suicide,"

"You saw?"

"We've been watching you ever since we all got here, um, not to be rude or anything,"

"So you've seen…everything?"

"If you're implying what Starscream tried to do to you, yes,"

"Ah crap. I gotta get out of this place,"

"Ooo goody, perhaps we can help,"

"I could use all the help I can get. Just be sure to stay hidden, and don't let the decepticons see you,"

"You got it Astrid…what do you want us to do?"

"Well, if you don't mind spying on Megatron and Starscream. I know it's dangerous, but I would really like to know why they both want me,"

"We can do it,"

"You sure?"

"Absolutely,"

I was hesitant asking the next question, "Did Megatron do anything else while I slept?"

"He brought you in here. Other than that and taking your weapons no,"

I sighed and relaxed. There was a knock at the door. Oh crap, I thought, I got to hide the minicons. Quickly I scooped them up in my hands and put them under my bed.

"Stay here," I whispered.

I went over to the door and opened it. Great, I thought, just what I wanted to deal with right now.

"What do you want Megatron?"

"I see you're awake,"

"You're very observant, where are my weapons?"

"Ah, so you did notice I took them. I couldn't risk you committing suicide,"

Is there an echo in here? I wondered then said, "How am I supposed to defend myself from Starscream, or did you overlook that?"

"No," he said grabbing my arm, "I thought about that, and I figured it didn't matter if Starscream got you or not."

I glared at him and he snickered. I pulled my arm back and took a step back from him.

"Oh yeah, I totally want him. Megatron get a life,"

"Look, I dealt with him again. He shouldn't bother you anymore,"

"He will,"

I went to go into my quarters, but Megatron grabbed my arm and pulled me back.

"You never know,"

"I know,"

He sighed getting frustrated, "Stay with me then."

"I can't trust you either,"

I pulled myself free and stepped inside my quarters. I went to shut the door but Megatron held it open.

"Wait," he said, "Wait."

"What?" I groaned impatiently.

"How about I take you to Jungle Planet,"

"Why?"

"You said yourself you were tired of being here. I'll show you around the planet and introduce you to its leader. It'll give you a break from everything,"

"I guess you won't shut up until I do,"

"Excuse me?"

"I'd rather go to earth,"

"To visit your family?"

"Yes,"

"I…I suppose I could let you,"

Shock ran through my circuits. Was he lying? Did he really just say that? I opened the door to my quarters all the way.

"Really?"

He hesitated, "For awhile anyway, but I'm going with you."

"How could you possibly go? You don't transform into a human, do you?"

To my surprise he laughed, "Me? Transform into a worthless flesh bag? You've got to be kidding."

"So just how do you plan on coming?"

"Well aren't you going to need a ride?"

I smirked, "C'mon, let's go."

Forgetting the minicons and my sanity, I took Megatron's hand and dragged him to the exit.

"Hurry up and transform," I said.

"Who died and left you in charge?" Megatron asked as he transformed into jet mode.

I transformed into human mode and got in his cockpit. He took off and headed for my home. Home, I thought, I'm finally going home. It was going to be awhile before we got there and Megatron wasn't going the entire way quietly or without pestering me.

"So how do you expect them to react as to your arrival?"

"Surprised, happy to see me," I said without thinking.

He was silent a couple minutes and then said, "Want to have some fun?"

"What do you mean by 'fun'?"

"Let me show you,"

"I don't know. I think we both have different definitions of fun,"

"Fasten your seatbelt," he exclaimed before doing a nosedive.

Sheer terror ran through my circuits and I grabbed what looked like a joystick and yanked on it. To my surprise I pulled Megatron out of the dive. I sat there trembling in the seat.

"Please," I swallowed, "Don't do that again."

Had he not known I was terrified of free falling? How I hated that gut wrenching feeling of my stomach moving to my throat and all those little fluttering feelings taking its place.

"You didn't enjoy that?"

"Not one bit,"

"I thought becoming a transformer would help get rid of that fear of yours,"

"You thought wrong,"

He sighed angrily and said, "You're lucky you found my controls then. I wouldn't have pulled out of the dive until the last second."

I didn't say anything as we continued on. I was too mad to say anything and I was trying to calm down before we arrived at my home. Questions still bothered me though. Why did Megatron agree to take me back, if only for a visit? Normally he would've said no. What made him change his mind? I sighed and Megatron started losing altitude.

"What's going on?"

"Relax Astrid, we're here, I'm only going in for a landing,"

A few minutes later he landed safely on the ground. I recognized our location to be at the top of the ravine.

"Alright, you have 60 minutes at the maximum. If you're not back within that time limit, it won't be pretty,"

"I'll be back,"

His cockpit opened and I jumped out. I ran eagerly to my house and knocked on the front door when I arrived. Why am I knocking? I wondered. This is my house too, I should just go in. The front door swung open suddenly.

I was shocked, "Damien? What are you doing here? You don't live—

"Astrid?! What's going on?"

"Megatron let me visit, now tell me your story,"

He glanced around and hesitated before saying, "I can't lie to you Astrid. Your parents are away right now, they had me come to watch the house until they got back."

"Well how are they? Did you tell them I said goodbye and I love them, and oh…how I miss them,"

"Astrid," he hissed, "Just shut up will ya? Stop with all this nonsense."

I stammered out my words, "W…why?"

"We don't care Astrid,"

"Don't care?"

"We stopped missing you along time ago. We all knew Megatron would one day come for you, so we didn't let ourselves get too attached to you,"

"How could you? You've lied to me all this time?"

"I'm sorry to shock you kiddo. We all missed you for awhile, but when it sank in you weren't coming back we moved on,"

My life felt over. My home hadn't been a home after all. Perhaps the decepticons were my home now. Hot tears of anger ran down my face.

Damien continued, "You need to move on Astrid. We've forgotten about you. It's your turn to forget us."

I was so tempted to slap him, but I knew that I couldn't since I was so much stronger than he was and I'd probably kill him.

Instead I stated, "You will regret this day Damien. I will be back to end your miserable existence."

I walked away heartbroken and furious. I knew I wouldn't live up to my threat, I couldn't kill him. It just scared me to realize how much I sounded like Megatron when I had said that.

Author's Note: Ah the suspense. I enjoyed this chapter. I wanted to make it longer, but it was getting late so nope. Everyone will just have to wait until the next chapter.