"How did you even know he rescued Megatron??" The idiot Wrecker asks desperately.

The vibrations get closer and closer..

Arcee instead of arguing carefully snatches the humans and begins to leave the cave.

The Wrecker fallows.

...I could go with them...

If I wasn't currently cuffed I would have already fled this mine.

My thoughts are interrupted by Megatron pulling me towards him.

He lifts me by my arm so that we are making direct eye contact, I can feel his breath. My wings are doing whatever they want at this point.

"Trying to leave me for dead?" His grip on my arm increases.

I dig my claws into my palms. "ngh, Lord I was only creating an exit..I had no intention of leaving without you!"

Megatron drops me.

"With those cuffs you wouldn't have been able to leave even if you wanted to."

...

"I intended to find you but I ended up finding the Autobots instead.." I refuse to beg.

I'm more or less thrown at the medic who is told to *remove the cuffs*

KnockOut hisses at my currents state, my body, he is unhappy with the state or my body.

I'm not injured.

He just doesn't like messed up paint.

I'm sat down on a medical table as KnockOut finds the right tools to remove the cuffs, BreakDown isn't here this time.

"You really can't stay away from me can you?~" My face twists in disdain.

"I would have an easier time not visiting if our thoughtless commander stopped trying to beat loyalty into me." NockOut snorted.

"If you stopped trying to assassinate him-" KnockOut split the cuffs.

"Well lucky him we switched roles today." I bring my wrist closer to make sure only the cuff was cut.

...

I lift my gaze back to KnockOut, he's making an expression I haven't seen him make..

He removes the rest of the cuff in silence, his hands ghost the dents Megatron made.

What am I missing?

What was that expression?

The doors open, I wish it was BreakDown..

Arachnid sneers."Well, well, what happened to you?~"

I don't have to tell her!..Primus..what even did happen? A mine, a cave in, an Execution?

My wings hit the table, I hadn't meant to lower them.."A mine collapsed." My response is strained.

Arachnid's smile falls."Well that's not as fun as if Megatron had left you there after it collapsed.."

My wings shoot upwards, What?

How did she know what he was going to do?? Did she- KnockOut shoves her out of the medical lab

He sighs."That spider really is a pest.."

Did she tell Megatron to take me to that mine?

No..

SoundWave told him about the mine..

I wince when a hand is placed on my shoulder, who's?-it was KnockOut's..

"You need to breath."

huh?

I'm-

..hyperventilating..Ah

I force my breathing to even out, why am I panicking? I wasn't even left in the mine this time!

"I'm not sure what happened in that mine but if I had to guess, it wasn't pleasant."

..It really wasn't that bad..

Why did I freak out?

Do I retain the trauma of..

er..The last time I was in that mine?

...This could be a problem.

He didn't even injure me! If I panic every time something I remember haunts me I'm just going to be snuffed out!

Frag!

I'm in the middle of coming up with a way to solve my..er-Previous trauma's haunting me even if I avoid them..actually happening?...

Happening again?..

By a vehicon who informs me that I'm being summoned. Not to a cave I hope.

I'd rather avoid triggering that embarrassing display of weakness again..

Why am I being summoned?

When I arrive Arachnid and Megatron are conversing about a traitorous bird..Ah.

Despite me having come into the room theu still haven't noticed. "I've been summoned?"

Megatron's head snaps in my direction.

"We were just talking about you~"Yes, I could hear.

"Arachnid claims you failed to file a weapon." I'm not fond of that sounding not much like a question..

"It was on a crashed ship~" I would've forgotten Arachnid was in the room if she had just kept quiet.

This is all..familiar.

"The harbinger?" OH SCRAp!

My hand flies to my mouth, SCRAP! I Didn't Mean To Say That!

Arachnid is pleased by my incriminating reaction-DAMNED SPIDER!-"So you know?.." Megatron asks leisurely drawing nearer.

I inch further away in response, a sickeningly familiar feeling.."-I know that I left the other half of the harbinger alone."

My voice manages to come off as snarky, what in Primus is that supposed to help??

Megatron's expression smooths out, he leans away and sighs. "I see.."

Arachnid is grinning wide enough that I wonder how her lips haven't split. "You will take Arachnid to retrieve this weapon then." Her grin twitches.

"Oh good my own local guide" She snarks, why did I sound snarky?? I was panicking and I sounded snarkier than an adolescent having a senseless argument with their caretaker?!..

...I don't like this situation.

I find myself in front of the medical lab before I can remember that I've just been assigned a mission to bring Arachnid to the Harbinger..the half that has the weapon.

What am I supposed to do??

I suppose we couldn't do much with that stun weapon though..Perhaps-

"Are you just going to stand there or are you going to get on with it and give me a cryptic message?" KnockOut.

I...can think of some.

My wings are tense, I walk into the medical lab KnockOut eyeing me odd posture incredulously, BreakDown does the same, Oh good he's here too..

"..." What Am I Supposed To Say???

The medic is starting to look more concerned for my health than what I have to say, hehe.

I sigh in defeat. "I'm unsure of what to say.."

The medic and wrecker both dawn an expression of surprise. "It has very little to do with either of you. Only really I myself am in need of a warning I suppose..."

I must have sounded particularly pitiful..

KnockOut is making that face again, what does that mean??

Is..is it pity?

NOPE.

I abscond that sappy situation.