Eli slumped down onto her berth while staring at the door to her room. She knew in any nano-klik that someone was going to knock on her door, and she was going to have to sit through another crappy lecture for a megacycle before she'd be allowed to recharge. Knock, knock, knock. Just in time.

"Come in…" she called, crossing her arms in front of her chestplating. She was expecting either Optimus or Prowl to walk in, but instead, the red and white medibot walked in, closing the door behind him.

"Eli, we need to talk…"

"I know what you're going to say," she interrupted, "You're going to tell me that what I did was irresponsible, and unwise, and I should've thought reasonably before completely slagging Sentinel in front of the whole team…blah, blah, blah…"

"No, that's not what I was going to say," he said, a smile stretching across his faceplating. Wait, a smile…she thought, Why is he smiling? "I was going to tell you good job…although Optimus wouldn't approve of your actions, I would…we all know that Sentinel had it coming. You were just the first who had enough courage to actually disobey him. Now, Optimus thinks I'm in here yelling at you and telling you what you did was wrong…so if he asks, I did exactly that."

"Yes sir."

"Well, I'll let you get your rest now…don't want you to end up like the twins." Eli weakly smiled as he left the room. She felt so bad for the twins. Every day they have to work for that idiot leader Sentinel, and how they've even survived for so long with him was a surprise to her. Lying down on her berth, she shut the lights off and offlined her optics.

Jetstorm's optics were the first ones to online that morning as the sun streamed through the open window of the medbay. He sat up, rubbing his head as a processor ache made itself known. Looking over at his brother, he realized that Jetfire was still deep in recharge. It warmed his spark to see a smile on his faceplating, especially after everything that happened the previous orbital cycle. Recharge was the only place the twins could actually find peace and not have to worry about hearing their leader's voice screaming orders at them.

The blue bot stood, holding tightly to the berth as he tried not to fall. He checked his systems data before realizing that he had been in recharge for almost twelve megacycles, and yet, he still felt exhausted. Wait…no, his brother. He was still feeling the effects of his brother's exhaustion because of their bond. How could he forget? Stepping next to his brother's berth, he lightly brushed a digit across the orange twin's faceplating, his other servo intertwining with his brother's. The smile on his brother's face grew bigger before yellow optics came back online to look at him.

Good morning, brother, Jetfire greeted through their bond. The blue twin smiled,

Good morning to you too…you are feeling better, yes? His twin nodded.

"Well, looks like you two are feeling better now seeing as you're not stumbling and clinging to each other like last night…" Both turned their heads to see the red and white medibot walking in.

"Yes, Mr. Ratchet, sir. We are feeling much better…" Jetfire replied, sitting up on the berth, but he quickly leant forward, gripping his head tight in between his servos. Jetstorm felt the effects from his brother as a massive processor ache overtook his systems. He winced but shook it off as he helped his brother.

"Jetfire, you alright?" Ratchet asked as he moved to the other side of the berth, "Maybe I should do another scan just to make sure you didn't receive any permanent damage." The orange twin shook his head, and Jetstorm could feel the pain disappearing.

"It is being okay Mr. Ratchet, sir," he said, straightening his back as he sat up, "It is being better now…" The medibot looked at the twin a little concerned.

"No, I really think I should do another test. You never know. It may be gone now, but it may come back later-"

"Oh will you just leave him alone. He's fine!" The twin's leader walked into the medbay, his servos on his hips as he glared at Ratchet. "Like you said, they just needed some recharge, and now that they got it…" He turned to the twins, "…you have another patrol this morning, so you'd better get a move on it, or I'll double it!" The red and white bot stared at Sentinel in disbelief. Jetfire and Jetstorm just got over the effects of total exhaustion because of their patrols, and now he was making them do more? Either he was just a total idiot, or he had a black hole where his spark was supposed to be.

"Sentinel, you can't be serious!" Ratchet exclaimed, "As the medibot here, I suggest you let them have the orbital cycle off. They need a break from all the work you've been dumping on them!" The twins nodded their heads, hoping their leader would listen to reason, but of course, he didn't.

"You are not my designated medibot! Red Alert, and Perceptor are," he growled, "I don't need to listen to your 'suggestions.' These two are my officers, so just. Back. Off." Ratchet shut his mouth. He didn't want to, but he did. Sentinel smirked at the medibot's silence before he returned his gaze to the twins who were both looking down at the ground in distress. He glared at them, "Jetfire! Jetstorm! What are you still doing here? Get going!" They didn't hesitate. Jetfire hopped off the berth before he followed his blue twin out the doors of the medbay. Sentinel left soon after they had, going back to his own room, and Ratchet could only shake his head.

He was much older than that bot, but he couldn't do anything to him to stop him from what he was doing to those two young bots. He slammed his servo onto the berth that Jetfire had occupied before as he let out a yell frustration.

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Eli lay on her back on the make shift couch in the main room of the base. She was always the first one awake. She even beat Prowl every morning, but it was mostly because she loved to watch the sunrise in the morning. The array of colors always fascinated her, and she always wondered how something so natural could be so beautiful. Now, she was in the main room, the TV on as she waited for the others to wake up. Hopefully, Sentinel wouldn't walk in because no one was there to stop her from slagging him if he did, and as much as she wanted to do it, she just knew she couldn't.

A yell reached her audio receptors as it echoed off the walls of the building. She looked up, That sounded like Ratchet. She stood up, walking towards the opening in the wall that led to the hallway, but she let out a yelp as she was tackled to the floor. She shuttered her optics a few times before she caught sight of blue and orange metal. She sat up, and Jetfire and Jetstorm were already standing up now.

"Eli, we are being very sorry," the blue twin apologized as he offered his servo. She took it, smiling as she stood up on her stabilizing servos.

"It's fine," she said, brushing some dust off her body, "but you two should really pay attention to where you're going." She looked up, but they were gone. She shook her head, spinning around in a circle to find them, but they were nowhere to be found. "What the Pits? I'm pretty sure I didn't just imagine that, or is my processor playing tricks on me? No, no it's not…"

"You know, you really should stop talking to yourself." She jumped as she looked up to find Prowl and Jazz standing in the doorway in front of her, "Talking to yourself is a sign of insanity," he joked. She slightly glared at him, a smile still on her faceplating.

"No, it's when you start answering yourself that you really have to worry…" she replied, causing the two ninja bots smirk.

"Umm…" Jazz reluctantly said, "I think you were answering yourself…" She opened her mouth to reply, but she stopped.

"Oh Primus…I guess I am going crazy!" she screamed. They shook their heads.

"So where did those twins run off to?" the white ninja bot asked as he looked over her shoulder. He was pretty sure he had seen them run into the room. She shrugged her shoulders.

"Don't know," but she quickly looked back up at them, "They did run in her right?" Prowl nodded his head, and she let out a sigh of relief, "Good, then I'm not going crazy. Again, I don't know. They ran in here, ran into me, said sorry then disappeared. I seriously have no idea where they went."

"Sentinel sent them on another patrol…" The three bots turned to see Ratchet, "…that aft-head doesn't understand that those two need a break…"

"Are you serious?" Eli screamed, "He's seriously going to kill them! If they offline, I'll kill him! No one will stop me, I'm making it my goal to slag him!"

"Eli, relax," Prowl calmly stated, resting a servo on her shoulder, "Those two aren't going to offline any time soon. Don't worry about them…they'll be fine, but I really think we should talk to Sentinel about this. Too much work for those two could seriously hurt them." They nodded, and Ratchet stepped out of the way of doorway, so the two ninja bots could walk by. Eli tried to follow, but the medibot put up a servo to stop her.

"Sorry, Eli, I can't let you come with us," he said, and she was just about to start yelling at him when he continued, "I want you to go find those two and keep an optic on them. Jetfire seems to be the most likely to receive more damage from this, so if anything goes wrong, just call me, and I'll be there as soon as I can." She let out a huff, crossing her arms in front of her chestplating before nodding her head. He walked off, following Prowl and Jazz to the twin's leader's room. She transformed into her jet mode and flew out the doorway of the base, taking to the skies as she searched for the twins.

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Brother, are you remembering how long our patrol is being today? Jetfire asked his twin as they flew over Sumdac tower for the fiftieth time that morning. There was no reply because Jetstorm had no idea. He assumed it would be two megacycles like it usually was supposed to be, but ever since Sentinel started adding megacycles onto their patrols, he really didn't know anymore.

Eli followed them from a safe distance as she "kept an optic on them." She had a feeling they knew she was there though because of her energy signal. It should have given her away the second she found them, but neither bot made any effort to let her know that they knew she was there, so she just kept quiet and continued flying. Jetfire wasn't going his normal speed, and it worried her. He had to still be so tired from the previous night's patrol. Sentinel was a…what was that human word?...bastard. Yeah, Sentinel was a bastard. She swerved to the right as she flew around a building, going in the opposite direction of the twins. She'd meet them on the other side again, but when she cleared the structure, they were nowhere to be found.

She checked her scanners, knowing that they couldn't have gotten far considering Jetfire's weakened state, but not even her scanners could pick up their energy signals.

"AHH!" Her spark stopped. She recognized that yell anywhere. Jetstorm…She accelerated, following the screams, but they soon stopped. That made her more worried. When he was screaming, she knew he was still online, but now that he had stopped, he had to be…No! She couldn't think that. Finally, her scanners started beeping as two dots on the screen formed, and she flew to the location that was on her screen. She landed on top of the building, standing above the area the twins were supposed to be.

"Jetfire! Jetstorm!" she called their designations, "Where are you two?" No answer. She jumped down from the building, landing on the ground. They were close. That was what her scanners were telling her, but the alley she was in was dark. Even in the daylight, it was still as dark as Pits. She walked further down the alley before she stepped in something wet. She looked down, expecting it to be a puddle of water, but this liquid wasn't murky nor clear. It was pink. She followed the puddle till she came to the broken body of a blue and yellow bot, a orange bot identical to it lying on the ground to him.

"Jetstorm! Jetfire!" She quickly ran to them, kneeling down next to the orange bot. She touched his shoulder, "Jetfire" she looked up at the blue bot, "…Jetstorm, please wake up! Don't be offline, please…"

"They're not offline…yet…" She turned before a servo struck her across the face. The same servo wrapped around her neck before she was lifted off the ground. She could hear the sounds of his null rays being charged as he aimed them at her chestplating.

"Starscream…" she choked. He smiled, and the blast struck her.

Chapter two done! Thank Primus! I've been having terrible writer's block, but I finally got it written, but when I was just about to post it, my computer got a virus! I was computerless, and fanfictionless for three days! Yeah, it doesn't seem like a lot, but oh hell! It is for me! Anyways, next chapter will be about what happened to Jetstorm and Jetfire when Eli lost them. I'll do my best to get it written and posted! Hope you like it! Thank you for reading, and PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! REVIEW!