Disclaimer: Me no own TF. Me, Yoda, own Plot, Twins and Orcus. Her, Lady Starscream, own Hammertread. Don't know why me, Yoda, talking like him, Grimlock. Enjoy.

Oh, and before I forget, LS, I did change a few things up...(points to the part where HT's huggin' Alpha) I had to rearange a few things, but I don't think I screwed the scene up...do you? (whimpers softly) Oh snap, I really hope I didn't...anyhow...as I've said before, Enjoy!

Hammertread paced, glancing at the doors every so often. He had been kicked out of the repairbay, and had seen Omega flying away, looking really angry. He glanced at the doors again, wondering what was going on. He couldn't hear anything. If he did, it was muffled.

Alpha busted right out of the med bay and nearly ran into Hammertread, afraid. She fell back onto her aft after trying to back away and just stared up at him, frozen completely in terror. She swore her spark stopped for an instant.

"Alpha!" Omega ran out, but also had to stop in a hurry to keep from running over his sister. "Sis, c'mon..."

As soon as Omega's hand touched her arm, the femme came back to the present and screamed, jumping to her feet so she was out of his reach. She looked at both of the mechs in fear. "Don't hurt me..." She took a step back, "Don't come near me…"

Hammertread swallowed a curse upon seeing Alpha looking at the both of them fearfully. "What is going on?" He asked, keeping and optic on both twins.

Omega grated his teeth as he tried to get closer to his sister, but she just backed away. "Take a wild guess." He growled, reaching for Alpha again, but the femme managed to duck and maneuver out of his grasp, falling on her butt once she was free from the mech. She stood up instantly.

"Leave me alone!" Alpha begged, tears in her optics; her voice sounded like she wanted to cry. "I didn't do anything!" She put a hand on her injured shoulder and squeezed it slightly, the immense alarm and terror evident in her widened emerald optics.

Wait a second.

Omega blinked. Alpha's optic was fixed…maybe Ratchet had repaired it…or maybe the spell, once it was taken off, had removed the worse of her injuries…hopefully that was it.

"I was asking Alpha." Hammertread grated at the jet. But the look he gave Alpha was softer than that. "What happened to you? You know he would never hurt you." The tank motioned to Omega, who was glaring at Hammertread slightly, but then turned his attention back to his sister.

Alpha shook her head. "I-I thought he wouldn't...but he did...I thought you wouldn't...but you did..." She whimpered, taking more and more steps back until she hit the wall. She looked at both of them and her shoulders trembled slightly as she tried not to cry. "Please...just don't come near me...I'm begging you!"

"Al...c'mon, sis..." Omega tried gently. He twitched his wings, but that only seemed to make Alpha flinch; he tried to hide them behind his back. "Sis...look. You know I wouldn't...it was..." He looked at Hammertread and then back at Alpha, "It was Orcus."

Alpha seemed to flinch at that word as well. She squeezed her shoulder tighter; energon seeped through her fingers and ran down her hand in tiny rivers. "You're lying..."

"Sis...I wouldn't dare."

Ruby optics dimmed slightly for a second. Hammertread took a step forward. "Orcus is inside your head, making you see things in your sleep." He glanced at Omega, then lowered his voice. "I would never hurt you, Alpha. That, I swear. And neither would your brother." He took another step, knowing she had no place else to go.

Alpha gripped the wall like it was a lifeline. She felt like an injured, cornered animal, afraid and ready to bolt when able to. However, Omega and Hammertread had completely cornered her, making it impossibly for the frightened femme to escape and find her someplace safe.

The fear trembles started.

He took a second step towards her and Alpha shook her head fearfully. No, no, no! She had trusted him before and he had hurt her! He had promised to never hurt her, but he had. And she could still feel the pain from the wounds throbbing all over her. Both of them had sworn she would be safe, only to turn around and try to kill her for something that wasn't even her doing. Her own brother had hurt her… It wasn't right! It just…wasn't right…

"Please...don't come any closer..." The tears rolled out of her emerald optics and down her silver cheeks. When Hammertread took another step, she sobbed and fell so she was sitting on the floor and her knees were at her chest. She gripped her head, fingers digging into her helmet. "Please... Don't hurt me...leave me alone, I'm begging you." She sobbed once, "Just don't hurt me!"

Omega walked over and put a hand on his sister's trembling helmet. He rubbed it slightly. "Sis...you know I never would." He whispered, looking down at Alpha. The jet clenched his fists suddenly and swallowed a growl; Alpha whimpered so Omega took a step away. "That werewolf is going to pay..." He threatened, visor narrowing.

Hammertread squatted so he was eye to eye with her and pulled the crying femme into an embrace, trying to calm her down gently.

Alpha dug her fingers into the mech's chest plate and tried to get out of his grip. She was squirming weakly and whimpering loudly in fear, optics shut tightly, as if she was trying to block something out, but the thing was…there was nothing to block out. No one was hurting her. But she thought they were going to. The pickup's fingers found a space in Hammertread's chest plate and slid their way in there, holding on like a rock climber would hold onto their hard plastic grips.

"I would never hurt you." Hammertread didn't have to glance up to make sure Omega wasn't looking. It was about time that didn't matter anymore. Alpha's body still trembling against his, Hammertread whispered into her audio, "I care for you greatly, and I would never hurt you." He squeezed her gently to emphasize his point; his optics dimmed a little more, and an almost...regretful expression crossed his features. "I'll make sure he never hurts you again." He added, grim determination in his voice. Alpha's optics opened slowly at this statement.

He glanced at Omega. "I'm going to kill Orcus. No bull$hi+. If you want to get Prime, go ahead." He looked at the jet around Alpha's shoulder, still not lessening his grip any.

His bass voice had the quiet fury of a thunderstorm waiting to happen behind it. "But I swear it won't stop me."

He had a feeling Omega agreed with him, though.

And that the black jet might even help him.

Or try the same on his own.

All the femme wanted was to be released. She wanted to get away from the two without being hurt again, but highly doubted the tank was going to release her. He hadn't seemed to be too keen on letting her go or helping her get away from the mechs that were trying to hurt her in when he was beating the living slag out of her. If he was going to hurt her, why didn't he just do it?! However, when nothing happened, she looked up at him, tears still brimming her optics and rolling down her cheeks; the look on her face was asking him if he was going to hurt her.

Hammertread looked down at her, catching the look in her optics. He gave her another squeeze to try and comfort her, but it did little. Instead, she just slid her fingers out of the space in his chest plate they had found when she had been squirming to try to get away and brought her hands up to her chest, curling them under it like a cat would. She didn't sob; she cried silently, and that was worse.

All traces of the sturdy, bullheaded, and confident femme she had once been was gone. Now, she was nothing more than a scared, whimpering sparkling in a strong femme's trembling body.

"Please...I just…I just wanna be left alone..." She whimpered softly, laying her head onto Hammertread's chest. She wasn't sure why, but leaning against him, even with the memory of him striking her still in her mind, brought some comfort to her. Like she was protected as long as she was in his arms.

Omega clenched his fists. "I'm afraid," He grated out; he hated to say it, "That you can't kill him until we get her spark out of his..." He put a hand on top of Alpha's helmet like a worried elder would for a crying child, "But when we do, I'm not gonna get Prime...slaggit, I'm gonna help you...no one does this to my big sister and gets away with it..."

Hammertread nodded, then looked down at Alpha. "I don't know how we can do that. Unless we rip out his spark and put it in a force field and cut her spark out of it." Alpha whimpered again and Hammertread sighed, looking down at the wide-opticed pickup. "You are starting to remind me of Kit, you know. You're better than that. I'm not hurting you. Am I?"

He was using a gentler voice than before, like he did with Kit the day Klutch had them trapped in Jade's quarters, and Kit had been scared to death. He loosened his grip on Alpha just a little.

Alpha shook her head slowly, optics still showing she was afraid. She nibbled her knuckle nervously and looked at Omega. "Bonded." She said simply, before going back to nibbling on her knuckle again.

Omega nodded. "Yeah...I forgot about that..." He nibbled on his lower lip; nibbling when nervous seemed to be a family trait, Hammertread noticed. "Well...we were linked at the spark when we were born, sis...and since that link's been broken..."

"Bent, little brother..." Alpha's voice was quiet and hoarse, but she looked at him, "Not broken."

"Alright, bent..." Omega nodded, deciding it was best he just not bother questioning Alpha's wording reasoning right at that moment and go with what she was saying. "We can talk to Percy about it...maybe...maybe there's a way for our link to resurface and knock Orcus' away?"

A weak shrug was Alpha's reply.

Hammertread set her on the ground and relinquished his grip; he noticed Alpha looked a bit…disappointed and maybe even a tad panicky when he let her go. He looked her in the optics. "It's up to you what you want to do. But we will find a way to overcome this. You always do." He nodded, earning a soft smile from Alpha that showed she was slightly reassured by his words.

Alpha nodded and then looked over at Omega. He offered her a smile, which she returned weakly. "Yeah," He nodded, "Ya always do, sis. So let's figure out how to, m'kay?" He offered her his fist.

"M'kay." Alpha hit clanked his fist with hers and then locked her knuckles with his. "Beginning." She raised and lowered their hands as she stood.

"And End." Omega shook their hands again. The twins let go of each other and Alpha smiled a slightly stronger smile. "Now...let's figure out what to do."

Hammertread quirked an optic ridge at the hand thing. But followed the two towards the Ark.

Alpha glanced back at him and gave him a slight smile. "It's a freaky twin thing." She shrugged.

"Not really." Omega corrected, "Lots of sparklings have handshakes."

"We're not sparklings anymore, O..."

"Point taken." Omega nodded, smiling at his older sister, trying to cheer her up. Alpha shook her head, but smiled back. He grinned a bit more, "Now...to find Percy."

"And hopefully figure out how to fix this..." Alpha held a hand over her spark and sighed, wanting more than anything to be free of the psychotic werewolf.

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