A/N: Don't own Transformers.

Hope you all like this chapter. Some different faces and Sideswipe and Mikaela make a decision.

The Decepticons had beat a hasty retreat when their knew their 4 couldn't win against the Autobot twins. They would if they had stronger allies with them but currently they knew better, and rather than meet the Matrix early, they left, leaving the twins standing there, disappointed that they had gotten away. This gave Sunstreaker a moment to really think about his brother. For a while, its been feeling more and more alienation than anything.

"You're coming back to base aren't you, Sides?" Sunstreaker transformed and started to drive away, but stopped to see why his twin was still standing there.

"Huh? Oh, yeah, yeah, I'll be there," Sideswipe affirmed as he transformed, following his brother.

The red twin seemed to be in another world, in fact he seemed to be downright weird. Sunstreaker had never seen his brother act this way. Especially taking a liking to shutting off his spark link so he couldn't be found. He knew he was hiding something, and he wanted to find out what. It isn't like he would turn his brother in, Primus knew they had been in shady situations before, but to hide it from his own twin? That was just wrong.

Sideswipe wasn't bothered at all, he had done something so daring that he swore he would go to the pit for it when he deactivated, but now he didn't care. He knew she loved him, he felt it in that split amount of time they shared that kiss. That forbidden kiss had crossed Prime's line, and therefore he couldn't let anyone know about it. The law was one that Prime had set down immediately to all of them, understanding that stranger things had happened. Sideswipe followed behind his brother at a distance, slowing slightly every few miles until he was well out of view of his brother, and then waited until Sunstreaker was off his scans before he zipped off an exit and headed in the direction of the one who held his spark.

She knew it was love. No matter their races, no matter laws, it was love and supposedly love could conquer anything. She wore a smile from when had left her until night swept her to sleep. She was happy to feel that kiss. That forbidden kiss. One that humans just would not stand for, one the Autobots were not allowed to breach, but it was there, and now she yearned for him even in her sleep. She tossed throughout the night, never really resting as she waited for the red twin to return.

Sideswipe pulled up to her home and found her in bed after a scan of life, and ran a deeper scan to find she was sleeping. He didn't want to disturb her now, she looked so peaceful when she slept, and there were nights she hadn't even known that he watched her sleep, guarding her with his very existence. He transformed and moved slowly to her window and to his delight he found it open, where he also found her sleeping. She was moving a lot, more than usual, but her sleeping patterns had not changed, so he was not alarmed. He watched her in fascination as she slept. Could he actually be with her? Would he be turning his back on his brother and all of the Autobots? Was she worth countless years of being exiled like some sort of miscreant?

He loved her, she loved him. That part was clear now. He still considered what her fellow humans would say. To say the least, they did not approve of the Autobots or the Decepticons running their cities and their country, so it would make her life hell as well if she admitted to anyone about her secret love for him. Could he allow her to let harm come to herself like that? They would both be exiled, or she would be forbidden to see him, even if it was by Prime's own rule. He shook his head as he looked down painfully.

Sunstreaker, unbeknownst to his brother had known what ploy Sideswipe was up to, and when he saw his signature disappear when he slowed down himself, he told himself to get off the highway also. He became angry that his brother had blocked him out, so now with that little bit of an issue, he was a little harder to follow, and apparently Sideswipe knew it too, but not tonight. He had kept a silent optic on him as he pulled up the residence, and when he searched up the address, he balked at who's name the place was in. He continued to watched as Sideswipe transformed, right here, in the middle of a dark road, luckily he hadn't been seem by anyone else but the watching optics. He watched him round the corner of the building, and a quick map of the building told him what his brother was doing. There was a bedroom, and following a quick scan on the residence, there was someone in there, asleep. Was his brother some sort of sicko? What Autobot gets his pleasure out of watching a human sleep. It downright disgusted his brother, and he would put a stop to it. Now.

Sideswipe hadn't known about the optics watching him, or the hum of the engine as the yellow vehicle neared the front, his optics, ever sensor was on Mikaela as he lay sleeping. There was a sudden footstep. A big one. Wait a minute. Oh slag!

"Sideswipe!" his brother called to him, and Sideswipe looked up from where he was posed, terror across his face. The last thing he needed. He'd been caught, "I-I," he started, then looked down as he met his brother's disapproving gaze and then he really felt like a pile of scrap, "Explain yourself, now." His brother hissed in a quiet tone.

"Sunstreaker, I," he again stumbled, "I was guarding her,"

"Guarding her by watching her through an open window?" Sunstreaker asked miffed.

"Ye-yeah," Sideswipe cringed as his brother's glare darkened and he pointed away from the building. Was he some kind of drone? All of the sudden his optics flashed a split second before he stood to meet the optics of his brother. It was now or never.

"I was keeping an eye on her."

"How did you know she lived here?"

"She told me,"

"So you have been talking to her this entire time?"

"Yeah, so? Am I not allowed to have a friend? Geeze, bro, there's more to life than just savage killing," Sideswipe tried to change the subject. He knew that a lot of the mechs were against any form of relationships with humans, it just didn't seem right, and little did Sideswipe know, his brother was against the idea himself, so it was safe to say that Sideswipe was caught between a rock and a hard place.

"Sides? Who are you talking to?" Came a girl's voice.

"Now see what you did, fragger?" Sides hissed quietly and turned back to where he could see Mikaela hanging out the window, "Uh, no one, it's ok, go back to sleep," he said gently to her. Sunstreaker hadn't missed the interaction and only raised an optic ridge when he spoke so… kindly to her.

"Go home, Sunstreaker," Sideswipe demanded as he looked from where Mikaela was looking out the window to his brother.

"Not without you," Sunstreaker declared, his glare unending.

"Sunstreaker? What are you doing here?" Mikaela heard his voice when he made his declaration that he wasn't going back to the base alone.

"I'm here to collect my brother," he said with a darker than usual intone, he reached for his brother's arm, pulling him harshly. Well everyone knows what happens between these two when one disapproves of the other's actions. Sideswipe yanked his arm back quickly, out of his brother's grasp, "You will come with me, or so help me they will never find all your parts, brother," Sunstreaker growled right in Sideswipe's face, who gave him a look of shock and anger.

"I am a fully grown Autobot, I can do as I wish, Sunshine,"

"You were supposed to report back to the base, you have yet to of done so, I say I drag you back if you will not comply."

"Good luck," the red twin said and his optics went back to Mikaela, who was watching the scene. She remembered seeing the two argue like that before, and she knew the outcome was usually a dust bath and a wrestling match. Not here, not now, it would attract too much attention.

"You'll have to take me apart to get me away from here," Sides commented as he moved to slide around the building, especially away from his raging brother.

"As you wish," Sunstreaker snarled and dove at him. Mikaela only sighed heavily as the two started a out and out brawl in her yard, "Both of you, stop it, now!" she yelled as loud as he could over all the growling and groaning and name calling. She had never seen the brothers fight like this, Sunstreaker was being sadistic. Her heart sank every time Sideswipe had been thrown to the ground, hit or any of the like, and she inhaled sharply, covering her mouth when Sunstreaker did something no one thought in a million years he would do, he drew his weapon on his own brother, "You are coming with me, now,"

"Sunny, don't be a fool!" Sideswipe was watching the barrel of the gun, it was glowing and spinning, a sure sign it was ready to fire, "You wouldn't shoot me,"

"Listen, Sides," Sunstreaker started, "I was forced to collect you. If I am going to the brig, then I ain't going alone, if that means taking you by gunpoint, all the better," His optics always fixed on his brother, who he was now towering over.

"Sunstreaker, leave him alone!" Mikaela could hardly realized she had said it, but she knew as soon as the yellow twin's optics went to her instead of his brother, and he glared at her like he was going to kill her, "You, human, stay out of this, this is Autobot business, something you should not be concerned with," The words spilt from his mouth like venom.

Sideswipe exploded from the ground. No one was gonna talk to Mikaela like that, not even his brother and he went full force at an unsuspecting Sunstreaker, he dove at him, spearing him in the midsection as he grounded his brother, hard. Sunstreaker struggled under his twin, but the struggle didn't last long, Sideswipe was sitting on him, pinning him, and especially pinning that weapon away from him. Mikaela watched in horror as the two started yelling again, calling each other names, then she heard a new voice. Apparently someone else had decided to come and see What Sideswipe was up to. She didn't like the sound of the voice, either.

"Sunstreaker! Sideswipe! Just what in the pit do you two think you are doing?"

"Doing as asked, sir, failing miserably," Sunstreaker reported.

"Sideswipe, get off your brother now, you are coming back to base!"

Purple tinged optics rounded to where Prowl stood. He never saw a look like that shot at him before. He almost cringed before the red twin went back to ignoring him, "Sunny, I suggest you leave, I'm not going,"

"You are going!" Prowl finally stepped to the two and grabbed Sideswipe, pulled him hard by his shoulder and dropped him to the ground, kneeling on his chest. Sunstreaker stood up and brushed himself from all the dirt and grime his body had collected and gave a sharp glare to Mikaela, who was still watching the scene.

Prowl stood from the red twin and glared down on him. The glare was a meaningful one, but Sideswipe refused to budge, "I'm not going anywhere, Prowl!"

"Oh really?" Prowl asked as he raised a hand to him, only to pull him up, "Transform, Sideswipe,"

"Why don't you guys leave him alone!?" Mikaela yelled, and Prowl glared at her. Sideswipe didn't like the look of the glare, however, and he pushed Prowl off of him with a grunt, then got to his feet.

"Should I bring Optimus here to bring you himself?"

"If that's what it takes," Sideswipe snapped back, an optic going to Mikaela. He gave her a certain look that she knew to follow. He looked to the doorway, then back up to her. She caught on fast as she left the window, headed right for the door, and as she burst through the door, the noise was enough to get Prowl to let the red twin go, and Sideswipe leapt for her, grabbing her to his chest as he rolled, it was a wild ride for her to say the least, but she knew what he was doing. He suddenly got to his knees and let her go, Prowl came running, but she dove in his seat, his wheels started burning before his door was even shut and the two were off like a rocket, "Sunstreaker, follow them!" Prowl had some reporting to do.

Looks like Sideswipe ended up in a little trouble, huh? Question is, why by Sunstreaker? Those two are the epitome of law breaking. Heh.