Steel smiled.
Cyberfin watched as the two femmes (mother and sparkling) walked away.
"Is she your bonded?" he asked quietly.
Steel looked down. He nodded.
Cyberfin started to sit up again.
"Terrablast..." he groaned. "That white femme... I need to get to the Autobots..."
"Hang on. You gotta rest for a bit." Steel tried.
Cyberfin shook his head.
"I need to make sure they're OK..."
"Alright...hang on..." the mech helped Cyberfin up, who leaned on Steel as they started for the cave's entrance.
"I don't know what he did with them..." he mumbled.
"It's okay. Lean on me." Steel led him outside and then looked at Quick.
The femme tilted her head, but continued playing with Fang.
Steel led him towards the Autobot base. "They're here." he said
Looking up, Cyberfin blinked, and gave his supproter a question mark look.
"How do you know?"
"I can smell one of them."the wherewolf replied, heading towards the ship's open blast doors.
Cyberfin nodded. "I need to see... if they're OK..." he mumbled.
Steel nodded. He started to walk in, but then stopped.
"What?" Cyberfin asked.
"ERm...I can't really...I'm not an Autobot..."
Cyberfin nodded. He managed to walk forwards a few steps.
Steel sighed and stuck his head inside the building. He let out a howl.
Terra shot up. "energon." She muttered, flying towards the base's doors.
Snow blinked, then ran after Terra.
Terra flew through the Ark, and landed just inside the door and blinked.
"CYBERFIN!!"
Cyberfin looked up.
"Terra?" he mumbled then collapsed.
Terra gasped and caught Cyberfin. "Cyber!"
Alpha opened an optic. She spotted Cap. "Hey." She mumbled. "Mornin'."
the small tank grinned back. "Morning sunshine."
Alpha smiled and sat down next to him. "You okay?" She asked, looking at the mech.
"Hmm? Yeah." he shrugged. "It's fine. I'm over it." he got up and went over to the bars to see if anyone else was away yet.
Alpha put a hand on his shoulder.
"I saw it." She whispered.
Cap froze "You...you what?" he glanced at the bars of the cell, then went to the bench in the back and sat down, so nobody would hear them talking.
Alpha followed. "I saw what happened." She whispered.
"After mine and Indy's mines touched, I saw what she saw. I saw what you went through..."
He looked away. "I should have done something. I could have saved Fastrack and Tripper. But instead I hid like a coward." he whispered, the memories coming back again.
He folded his arms and pouted.
Alpha sat down next to him. She put her arm around his shoulders. "No...you're not a coward, Cap...you're one of the bravest mechs I've ever met."
He snorted. "no I'm not. I'd run away if a human chased me down." he looked away and sighed.
"It was a long time ago, anyway."
Alpha gave him a reasurring smile. "I still think you are brave, though."
Cap shrugged. "Well, if anyone ever needs me to swat a cyber-spider, I suppose." he said.
"No. You're brave...you just don't know it." Alpha smiled, looking at the mech.
Cap just looked at her for a minute, then gave her a forced smile and shrugged. He still felt guilty, but it was better to let the subject drop, rather than drudge it up again..
Indy grabbed a couple energon cubes and sat down the couch, handing one to Klutch.
"Now then, who have you gotten memories from so fah?" he asked.
"Umm... Alpha and Cap." Indy replied.
he nodded. "And you have a copy of their consent?"
"Yes..."
the doorbell rang.
Prowl blinked. He looked in. "Hello."
"Whaddyou want?" Klutch grumbled, taking another sip of his energon.
Indy looked up at Prowl from her seat at the table. "I suppose you want me to read more minds foa you?" she said.
Prowl nodded. "Yes..."
Klutch mumbled something under his breath then said "Can we at least finish our morning energon first? We'll meet you down theah in half an orn."
"Fine." Prowl nodded, frowning. he walked out of the room, and headed back to the brig section.
Jade woke up and rolled over, noticing HT was still asleep. She clicked her comm on. "Is anyone else awake yet?"
"Gunlock here, up and awake."
"Beacon blackwings reporting for duty, sir!" the jet cackled after having said that
Gunlock whapped him.
"what? wha'd I say?
"your wings are grey, idiot."
"Cable hear, just listening for updates."
"good, keep an audio open on the comunications channel." Jade replied.
"I'm on it."
"Alpha and Cap here." Alpha smiled. "We're up."
She looked at Cap and then let her arm fall off his shoulders.
"Feeling better about yourself now?" She asked the mech.
He glanced at her and shrugged. "It's in the past. There's no reason to regret it now." he said.
But he was thinking he still regretted it. and he wished nobody would find out his little secret. It honestly scared him to think someone might discover he had abandoned his unit and hid while the last two were executed righto utside of where he was hiding. And he had been too afraid to help them.
"Prime put you and Cap together?" Jade sounded suprised "heh. I got stuch with Hammertread. lucky me."
Driveby clicked her comm. "Driveby here. I'm awake."
The doors opened, and Prime and Prowl came in, carrying energon cubes. "Klutch and Indy said they would be here in half an hour. I suggest you think of what memories you want them to see and what you do not." Prime said.
Everyone nodded. Alpha took an energon cube and handed it to Cap. She took hers. The femme sighed. "Jade, as long as he's asleep, he's not bad. And as long as he's asleep, he's not too bad. when he's awake...he's not that bad...just don't make him mad..."
"Yeah. But I can't tell when he's asleep and when he's not. he's like a big lump a rock." Jade glanced at the tank, and set his cube on top of his barrel chest.
The tank shot up, swatting away the cube, mistaking it for a person.
"WhowhattheSLAG!... "
Jade ducked as it exploded against the bars, and backed up against them.
"Ehh..."
He looked around.
"It was an energon cube." Jade helds hers out. He snatched it away.
"You could have tried to wake me up, yaknow!" he growled.
Jade looked at Prowl like "help me."
Prime came over and clicked off the fields. "You have fifteen minutes."
Jade exited as quickly as possible, and skittered about ten feet away.
Alpha grinned and got out of the cell. She immediately started to go through people's minds. She didn't know why, but she was in a mood to swim through minds.
Ty glanced at her.
A little sparkling tried to fit two peices of metal together in the repairshop her creator ran. She picked up the welding torch, and started to go across it.
"No, look. you have to go up and down." a male voice behind her said.
The tall white and soot grey mech took the sparkling's hand gently and guided her. "like this. See?"
"Uh-huh. I got it." the femme replied.
"Remember, patience is the key." the shadow said, and moved away. the femme sparkling nodded.
Alpha saw the memory and smiled. She liked this one. It was a good memory. Kinda like her memories with her master.
Cable came up to Cap "Hey, what happened to ya last night? you looked like she really got to ya." he threw a companionable arm over Cap's shoulders.
"Nothing. I just wasn't expecting it was all." the tank smiled and shrugged back.
Alpha smiled and then skimmed to another person's mind
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Author's notes: an orn (bold/ italicized above) is an hour. Or, at least, that's what I'm using it for here. I don't know if it's correct or not.