"Relax…" I whispered at him and grinned. "He's mine!"

I transformed to my predatory feline form with the same spotted pattern on the back that I had in my original form. Only when I got up on all fours and growled back at Ravage, showing him my long shimmering white fangs did I notice Rumble and Frenzy.

"What?! You all sure have some nerve showing up here like that!?" I snorted at them.

I looked back at Rodimus with a perplexed look on my face. He pointed at the balcony where we noticed Laserbeak on the railing, peeking in.

"Hey, relax! We're not here to harm you in any way!" Rumble said as he held out his hands in a defensive way.

I grinned while lashing my tail angrily from side to side like cats do when they're ticked off.

"Okay, so we can't seem to harm you…" Rumble corrected himself. "We knew that, we have been watching you for some time now. Ever since your encounter with the Decepticons on that space station."

I frowned. "You have WHAT?! I never even noticed … " Why had I not sensed them…. I let out a growl when the answer suddenly dawned to me. I didn't have my senses on alert among the Autobots… no wonder I never noticed them!

"Hey, we are the best spies among the Decepticons, if we don't want you to see us, you don't see us," Rumble grinned.

I transformed back to my fleshy self and wrapped the bed sheets around me. "I need a shower first." As I got out of bed I turned to Rodimus. "You?"

"Yep," he got out of the bed. He could have used another sheet to cover him up, but he was so content with his extra part, he was gonna show it! So he proudly followed me to the bathroom, butt naked.

They looked at each other with a questioning look, not impressed at all of course. They wouldn't change their powerful metal bodies for anything, with or without that extra part.

After a long, hot and steamy shower – in every sense – we finally got out of the bathroom. Rumble, Frenzy, Laserbeak and Ravage had made themselves quit comfortable on the couch. When they saw me they got up.

"So why are you here?" I asked them as I dried my hair as much as possible with a small towel.

"You haven't dug it out of our minds yet?" Rumble asked surprised.

"Usually I prefer to allow any mechanical life form a chance to tell me whatever is on their mind before I force it out," I told him. "But if you insist…"

"No, no! Never mind me asking… just curious!"

Rodimus came out of the bathroom and gave Rumble a suspicious look.

"Stop giving me looks like that human!" Rumble snapped at him.

Before he could turn his attention to me again I concentrated on his circuits and made him feel an agonizing sensation as if he got electrified.

"AAAARGHH!!" He screamed out as the shock caused him to transform and fall onto the floor in cassette mode.

"BEHAVE yourself against him! Or you will be very sorry," I threatened him. "That goes for all of you!"

The others just nodded.

"Alright alright…" he let out a painful groan and – with some difficulty - transformed back. A bit wobbly on the legs he pointed at his comrades.

"Now, tell me why you are here or I will toss you out of the window." I crossed my arms across my chest and looked at him with my head slightly tilted.

"We have seen you have healing abilities," he started. "We saw them on the space station, on the ship on which you left and in Autobot-City."

"You were ON the SHIP!?" I really needed to use my sensing ability more often.

"Didn't notice Laserbeak, did you," Frenzy grinned. "Don't feel bad, he's an expert. You even missed him when you paralyzed the rest of us."

Rumble took over again, before Frenzy ticked me off. "We came to …" He really had trouble saying the next words, but since he had to, he forced them out of his mouth: "…ask for … your help."

I raised one of my eyebrows and so did Rodimus. We glanced at each other.

"Why would I help you?" I wanted to know.

"We need your help to fix Galvatron's brain," Frenzy told me. "You're our only hope… we really don't know where else to go."

"WHY would fix Galvatron? He's the crazy mental maniac!"

"Exactly our point," Rumble stated. "He's going over the edge. Haven't you noticed how at the slightest aggravation he shoots or beats the crap out of us? US, his own Decepticons!"

"Yeah, if he only used that anger on the Autobots, but nooo…" Frenzy complained.

"Well, he does, but he uses it just as much on us!" Rumble backed him up.

Ravage growled in agreement and Laserbeak let out a screech.

"Even Laserbeak is too afraid to sit on his shoulder anymore…" Rumble said like that really meant anything.

I gave him a questioning look. "So?"

"Laserbeak is very loyal to whoever is leader of the Decepticons. His favorite place to be is on the shoulder of the leader," Frenzy explained. "Right, Laserbeak?"

Laserbeak screeched.

Rodimus bent over to me with a grin and whispered in my ear. "We pass on the Matrix to the next leader … the Decepticons pass on Laserbeak."

I laughed out loud… couldn't help myself. Quickly I slapped my hand over my mouth. "Sorry…" I mumbled behind my hand.

"What could have possibly been that funny?" Rumble said, annoyed some human was making fun of him when he was trying to be serious.

"Never mind… just a joke."

Frenzy pointed his finger at Rodimus. "Don't you dare to ridicule us! HUMAN!"

My laughing face immediately changed to a dangerous frown that made Frenzy take a quick step back to keep me from torturing him like I had done with Rumble.

"Have you tried talking to him about his anger management problem?" I asked Rumble.

"Are you INSANE?!" he exclaimed as he pointed his finger at his forehead. "That's pure suicide!"

"Cyclonus took him to this medical planet – Torkulon - that was supposed to heal his mental problem," Frenzy told me.

"But that didn't do anything… in stead he drove the ENTIRE PLANET MAD!" Rumble completed the story.

"How can he drive a PLANET mad?" I asked them with one eyebrow raised.

"It's a semi-sentient planet."

I nodded. "Oh… okay…" Didn't know that was possible…

"Does Galvatron know about me what you all know about me?" I wanted to know.

"We haven't had the opportunity to tell him. He mostly doesn't want to be disturbed with stuff he doesn't find interesting… and if it doesn't involve destroying Autobots, he's just not interested."

I looked into their minds to find out if any of them had seen Springer shooting me. They had… Quickly I decided to erase that information. I really didn't want the Decepticons try that one on me.

Rumble gestured Ravage to come to him. I hadn't noticed the limp front leg before but now I could clearly see that he put as less pressure on it as possible.

"What's with his leg?" I asked Rumble.

"He just didn't get out of Galvatron's way on time," he told me. "He just kicked him out of his path as if he were a piece of scrap metal. And there's no Decepticon with a stronger loyalty to him than Ravage."

Ravage gave me this very emotionally hurt look.

I frowned and glanced at Rodimus, he looked surprised as well. Feeling sorry for Ravage – I couldn't help myself – I stepped up to him, knelt down right in front of him and held out my hand.

"Ooh, you poor thing…" I felt his disappointment towards his leader, the one he looked up to. "Give me your sore paw."

I held out my hand. With a wary look in his eyes he lightly put his paw on my hand. My hand suddenly looked really small in comparative to his large metal paw.

My other hand I held just above his paw. My hand-palm lit up with a soft golden light. Ravage immediately felt a tingling feeling in the circuits in his paw and let out a soft growl.

"Hold still now," I told him. "The tingling feeling is the regeneration in action." I explained the strange feeling.

Ravage looked straight at me while I worked on his paw.

"Here, all done," I said after a few minutes and let go of his paw so he could give it a try.

At first he carefully put pressure on it, started to walk around and when he felt all was fine he ran around the room a few times. He stopped in front of me and gave me a grateful look.

"You're welcome," I said with a pleased smile.

"Does that mean you'll help us out and fix Galvatron's brain?" Rumble wanted to know.

"You'd make us very happy, as well as every other Decepticon," Frenzy added to that. "I bet even the Autobots will benefit from it."

All four gave me a begging look.

Rumble: "Come on, we're practically begging."

Frenzy: "Decepticons never beg for anything."

Ravage and Laserbeak: more begging looks. Their eyes cried out: "PLEAAAASE!"

I let out a sigh… what was I to do…?