Shadow walked to the rec-room and sat on the couch to start drawing something on a data-pad. Red looked up from playing with blocks and he walked over and sat on the couch beside her.

"Um...hey..." She looked up and blushed.

"Hey Red."

"I'm sorry about earlier. It would have been better if I would have stayed with you." She shook her head.

"My daddy probably would have offlined you on the spot. It was a lot better that you ran."

"But I still feel bad for running."

"Please don't. I would feel worst if my daddy had offlined you," she said quietly.

"Ok. I don't want you to feel bad." Shadow smiled slightly and that made Red smile.

"Um...Shadow?" She looked up at him.

"Yeah?"

"Can we...kiss again?" She blushed.

"Yeah." Red scooted closer to her and pressed his lips against hers once again.

"OOOHHHH!" they quickly pulled away and met the optics of their younger siblings. Shadow teared up and ran out of the room. Red quickly ran after her after shooting angry glance at his sister and Shadow's brothers.

"I found you." Red knelt by Shadow in the wash racks. She sobbed into her servos. He tightly hugged her and she looked at him with a tear stained face.

"Please don't cry. I don't like it when you cry. It makes me want to cry," he said. Shadow smiled and Red wiped her tears away.

"That's better," Red said. Shadow giggled and Red hugged her a little tighter. Shadow rested her helm on Red's shoulder.

"Shadow?"

"Yeah Red?"

"Our siblings are annoying."

"Yeah they are." Shadow hugged Red back.

A Month Later

"You're getting tall Red." Ellie smiled and patted his helm.

"He's growing to be a strong mech like his sire," said Wheeljack. Red went red like his arms.

"You are Red," agreed Shadow. He went a darker shade of red.

"Hey you two. Why don't you go play in the rec-room."

"Ok Mama." Shadow grabbed Red's servo and pulled him out of the room.

Later...

"Hey Shadow?" Shadow looked up and met the optics of her mother.

"Hi mama." She smiled.

"What are you doing Shadow?"

"Drawing. Nobody wants to play so I'm drawing."

"OK." Wheeljack sat down next to her.

"Shadow did you ever tell Red about your crush on him?" She blushed.

"Well...yeah..."

"What did you say about it?" Shadow went darker red.

"H-He h-has a c-crush on me too." Wheeljack smiled and picked her up in his arms. She covered her face with her servos. He chuckled.

"It's not funny mama!" she shrieked.

"I know. I'm sorry." Wheeljack kissed her helm and she rested her helm on the crook of his neck.

"You're embarrassing mama." The white mech chuckled again.

"Shadow. I've been meaning to ask you. Your dad said something about trying to find you and something happening. He won't tell me what it was. Will you please tell me?" She blushed furiously.

"W-well Red got me out of my hiding place and I...tripped...and Red tried to keep me from falling and I fell on him..." Wheeljack raised an optic ridge.

"Something else happened right?" She nodded.

"What happened?"

"W-We accidently...k-kissed." Shadow hid her face again and Wheeljack smiled.

"It's so embarrassing!"

"Maybe it is right now but later you may look back on it as one of the best things that ever happened."

"It'll never be not embarrassing!" Wheeljack smiled and stroked her back wings. She shuddered.

"Does your father know that you kissed Red?"

"No...he saw me on top of Red though."

"That's good."

"Yeah...he looked like he wanted to offline Red though."

"That's believable. Good thing he didn't see you and Red kiss. He probably would have offlined Red."

"Yeah."

"Nova! Stop it!" cried Luna. Nova's bright red optics glowed in anger and he punched Luna in the abdomen again with incredible strength. Luna cried tears of pain.

"You were always such a weak little glitch!"

"Nova please stop! You can't let daddy get to you!" she sobbed. Nova raised her servo and prepared to strike Luna's spark chamber.

'Very good. You are learning at an incredible speed my dear.' Nova smirked and punched Luna's spark chamber. Luna cried out and grasped her bleeding chest. The older twin smirked and proceeded to pick up her sister by her shoulder and throw her at the wall. Blue optics leaked many tears of pain and sadness.

*Nova please! You're my big sister! You can't let sire get you! I won't have anyone to depend one! Please stop!* Nova picked her up again and threw Luna over her shoulder and against the floor and her, there was a loud 'POP', and her arm bled heavily. Nova smiled evily.

"I'm done with you. Now I have to return to my father." Nova walked casually out of the room and Luna cried.

"Mama!"

Optimus felt a faint pain in his arm.

"Mama!" he heard Luna cry. He ran quietly to the source of Luna's cry. His optics widened as he saw his youngest on the floor of the storage room bleeding and her arm dislocated from her shoulder.

"Luna!" he ran over to her and knelt down beside her.

"Mama! It's hurts!" she sobbed.

::Ratchet! Come to Storage area! Quickly! With your medical kit!::

Ratchet arrived within seconds with his medical kit in his servo.

"Oh Primus! What the pit?!"

"N-Nova...S-Sire," Luna mumbled out. Ratchet scanned her.

"Optimus carry her to the med-bay! Now!" Optimus took Luna into his arms and her arm completely snapped off. She cried in pain. Ratchet's optics widened. Luna used her remaining arm to cling to Optimus as tight as she could as she cried from pain. Ratchet grabbed her arm and both mechs ran to the Med-Bay.

Later

Luna lay on her back with nearly all of her armor bent. Ratchet was currently beating the dents out of the armor that covered her spark chamber. There was a thin seal of protective protoform skin covering the important space. Optimus held Luna's servo and looked very worried.

"Ratchet are you going to be able to reconnect Luna's arm?"

"Yes but I'll have to repair it first," Ratchet said. Luna squeezed her optics shut in pain and Optimus held her close to him. She clung to him.