A/N: I'm so sorry I took so long with this chapter! I had trouble writing it and I have a short attention span... Anyways, this chapter is shorter than the first and I hope you can forgive me for that.

The idea for this chapter came from FiskenYamamoto's picture "The ayes have it" on deviantArt.

Thank you so much to everyone who reviewed, faved, alerted, and messaged me. You guys seriously make me smile.

Thank you Ultimos-11 for your suggestion. I didn't use it, but it did give me ideas. For that, I am grateful.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything. Don't worry, I won't beat myself with a bat. Instead, I'll hit my brother with it.

Broken

Chapter 2

Two Seekers watched as the fire burned their home, no, their creator's tomb to the ground. There had been a third Seeker, but he long since flown off to report to their Supreme Commander.

"Skywarp, it's time to go," murmured Thundercracker, giving his younger brother a nudge.

The black and violet Seeker didn't move and appeared to be entranced by the flames.

"Skywarp-"

"She's really gone, TC. They took her away," said Skywarp. He turned to his elder brother and asked, "Are we going to be okay?"

"Of course we're going to fine," said Thundercracker. He was lying; he wasn't sure if they would ever be close again.

Skywarp accepted the answer and the Seekers rejoined their trineleader once the house was nothing but ashes.

XXX

The Decepticons had just one a major battle and all were out celebrating, well, at least most were. Thundercracker, for the umpteenth time, wondered why he was here, in some bar in the slums. Then he looked over at Skywarp, who was getting more overcharged by the moment, and remembered. He was there to make sure his brother got back to the base in one piece.

Skywarp staggered over to Thundercracker, but the intoxicated Seeker tripped over an empty Energon cube and fell. The bar patrons began to laugh at Skywarp's clumsiness.

Thundercracker didn't say a word. The blue Seeker got off of his seat and helped the black Seeker up.

It wasn't fun to watch his little brother fall onto the floor.

XXX

Starscream was in the medbay, resting after getting beaten by Megatron for trying to overthrow him. The medbay was empty except for him and his visitor.

"What were you thinking?," muttered Thundercracker, "You're lucky Megatron didn't kill you."

To no one's surprise, Starscream didn't reply back.

"If you try to pull this slag again- What am I saying? Of course you're going to try again, I don't think you even care about the consequences as long as you get your way. You certainly don't care about what happens to me and Skywarp and we're family."

Starscream remained in recharge.

Thundercracker let out an air intake and watched over his brother for the rest of the night.

XXX

He worked on the subject, placing so much attention onto his actions, that Starscream never noticed the door open nor did he notice that his trinemate Thundercracker had entered the room until said Seeker spoke. "What are you doing?"

Starscream turned away from his subject and replied, "Interrogating an Autobot."

Starscream saw the look of disgust on Thundercracker's face when the blue Seeker saw the dismembered arm of the Autobot on the floor.

"Are you here to gawk or is there some other reason why you're here?," asked Starscream impatiently.

The look of disgust turned to one of unveiled resentment. Starscream smirked; he stopped caring about what his trine thought of him years ago.

"Megatron wants you in the Communications Room," answered Thundercracker.

"I'll be there as soon as I have the information I require," he said.

"Very well, Air Commander," said the subordinate tensely and he exited the room.

Starscream un-subspaced his energy knife and asked the Autobot, "Where were we?"

The subject whimpered, "Please, stop. I already told you everything I know."

The tri-colored Seeker stepped closer to him and whispered, "No," then the sadistic mech continued to dismember pieces of the subject. Eventually Starscream grew weary of the knife and began to tear the Autobot apart with his servos.

The wails of agony pleased Starscream to no end.

XXX

The sounds of battle roared in Thundercracker's audios as he flew, dodging and firing his own missiles at the enemy. It was all a familiar scene to him; he had been a Decepticon soldier for a long time.

::Watch out, TC! A sniper's aiming at you!:: warned Skywarp over the comm.-link.

The blue Seeker didn't respond, but instead looked around the area for the Autobot. There! He saw him. Thundercracker aimed and shot at the sniper.

"DECEPTICONS, FALL BACK!," bellowed Megatron.

Finally, Thundercracker thought. As he flew towards his comrades, he noticed that someone was missing…

XXX

Skywarp couldn't move his legs. A slagging Autobot got him while Thundercracker was busy with the sniper.

The black Seeker heard the order to fall back and tried to drag himself back to the shuttles, but it was useless, he was too slow and by the time he would get there, they would be gone. He lost too much energy to teleport there. Skywarp realized this and was now starting to panic.

His brothers were going to leave him behind. He just knew it. The Autobots were going to find him and then they will kill him just like they killed Starfall. Maybe he should just shoot himself now, before that could happen…

The teleporter looked at the sky, hoping to distract himself from his thoughts. It didn't work.

The battlefield was quiet now. Oh Primus, he was alone! They all forgot about him. Skywarp was shaking; he was terrified of being alone. It was one of the few things that truly scared him.

He heard someone walking towards him. Skywarp charged his gun and aimed at the mech, praying it wasn't an Autobot or an Empty.

"Skywarp, it's me!," cried out Thundercracker.

The wounded Seeker let out a relieved air intake and lowered his gun. "TC, what took you so long?," he asked, trying to sound more light-sparked than he felt.

"Sorry, I got into a fight with an Autobot on the way here," his brother replied.

It was then Skywarp noticed Thundercracker's injuries. They weren't immediately life-threatening, but he would need to see a medic soon.

"Come on, it's time to go," said Thundercracker as he picked up Skywarp.

While his brother walked, he would tell Skywarp that everything would be fine and that a medic would fix him right back up soon.

The younger Seeker just nodded. He stopped believing his brother's promises the day they burned down their home, their one-time sanctuary from the outside world.

Skywarp wished that Thundercracker would stop lying to him and would just tell him the brutal truth…

XXX

The two injured Seekers felt the tension fade away the moment they sat down on the shuttle's floor. They had just made it on time to get on the last shuttle.

Skywarp glanced over at Starscream, who was on the same shuttle, and noticed that the mech didn't show any concern for him or Thundercracker. Skywarp didn't mind; he was used to Starscream's indifference.

"Starscream!," cried out the pilot.

"What is it?," demanded Starscream.

"We have too much weight onboard! If we don't get rid of the extra weight soon, we're going to crash!," explained the pilot.

"What do you want us to do?," asked another mech.

The Second-In-Command looked directly at his trine and said calmly, "Dump the wounded."

Fear choked Skywarp's spark the moment he heard those words.

XXX

"Are you sure?," asked the mech.

Starscream looked serious about his order.

Thundercracker couldn't believe it. He knew Starscream didn't care about his trine, but he never thought the tri-colored Seeker would actually order their deaths.

Before Starscream could answer the mech, Thundercracker opened a private comm. frequency and said, ::You really don't give a slag about us. I shouldn't be surprised, but I am. I guess I gave you too much credit.::

Starscream narrowed his optics at his blue trinemate and asked, ::Is there anything else you want to say before you offline, you useless piece of scrap metal?::

::Yes, there is:: replied Thundercracker, ::I'm glad Mapa isn't alive. If she saw you today, it would destroy her.:: It was a low blow, he knew, but it had to be said.

Starscream just stared at him and then he cut the frequency.

Thundercracker could have sworn he saw something flicker in Starscream's optics. Regret, perhaps? No. His Air Commander never felt regret, at least, not anymore.

"Sir, are you sure?," asked the mech again, as he and another grabbed hold of Thundercracker and Skywarp.

"Don't," said Starscream, "We'll need every soldier for the next few battles."

"But the weight-"

"Then dump all the excess junk in here!," snapped Starscream, before going to the pilot's side.

The mechs dropped the Seekers and did as they were told.

Thundercracker helped Skywarp get back to their place against wall and began to stroke his younger brother's helm.

They were silent for a moments before Skywarp asked, for once not using his brother's nickname, "Thundercracker, are we going to be okay?"

"Of course we are. You heard Starscream, he's not going to throw us out," replied Thundercracker.

"I meant our family," said Skywarp, pulling away from the blue Seeker, "I'm sick of the lies, so tell me the truth, is our family going to be okay?"

Would their family ever be close again?

"I-I don't know anymore," answered Thundercracker.

Mapa was dead, Skywarp didn't trust him, he hated Starscream, and Starscream was insane…

What else could he say?


A/N: There, I'm done.

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