A/N: Hey guys sorry I took so long with this chapter. I had to rewrite a couple times before I decided heck, I'll put this one up. WARNING: MENTIONS OF ABUSE/ CHOKING

Chapter 20

The next morning Prowl and Jazz has woken up from recharge early for their meeting with the Commanders and the others before Lennox came here with his men. Jazz had debated with himself whether or not he should take Nightfire just to keep an optical on him but Prowl had assured him that their son would be fine for a bit by himself. The two Commanders headed to the Rec Room where the meeting was taking place. Red Alert was sitting beside his spark-mate,Inferno, holding a security data pad so he can keep his optic on the base. Prime had finally entered the Rec Room with Elite, looking around to make sure every bot was there. "Alright,"he started, "We all ready have the location of the Allspark and from yesterday's events I assume the Decepticons isn't far behind us. Ironside, can you give us what happened yesterday?"

"We did pretty good until we were heading back here,"Ironhide said. "Barricade and a few others were coming for us so we hid the humans in the forest so we could handle them." He paused. "Barricade had Nightmare and Sam," he looked at Night fire's Creators, "he melted Barricades servo."

"What do you mean 'melted'?" Jazz looked at the older mech.

Ironhide shrugged. He didn't know what to think about it.

"Ironhide,Bumblebee,Ratchet and Jazz, the four of you will be coming with me. Every bot else will surround the area."

Within three nanokliks, they heard doors opening, following the sound of organic feet hitting the floor. Lennox was the first on to come into view then Epps and the others including Galloway and General Morshower. Lennox gave a small smile to the bots before looking at Prime. "Are we late?"

"You're just in time," Prime said.

Lennox sighed in relief. "General Morshower this is Optimus Prime, the leader of the Auto bots. Autobots this is General Morshower."

General Morshower looked at every single bot. "Pleasure to meet you all. Lennox had informed me what you were all after and you need some human companions." He paused. "The Hoover Dame is where the 'Allspark' is located at. I will call ahead and let them know to expect you."

Prime nodded. "I have a few Autobots that will be coming with me in the Hoover Dame. The others will be on alert around the area."

General Morshower nodded. "I will have Air Force on stand by in case they are needed."

The discussion was going good until Galloway decided he should have a voice in it. "What about the boys?" He asked. "Sam and Nathaniel?"

"Nightfire," Prowl,Jazz, Lennox, Epps and Smokescreen corrected.

Galloway rolled his eyes. He still wasn't happy about the whole situation from Nathaniel going to Epps, to becoming Nightfire , to meeting his real parents. "Well, what are we going to do about them."

'Nothing," came a voice directions where the Commanders quarters where at. Nightfire was dressed and leaning against the wall. And Sam came from the other direction . "We will be there but we will be doing nothing. You can't just March in with the military and Cybertronians, people will freak."

Epps looked at Nightfire. "Maybe you two should stay here."

"I agree," Jazz said.

"Look," Nightfire frowned, "I can help distract everyone else while you guys go in and get out."

Jazz looked at Prowl, whom was lost in his own logical mind before looking at Prime. The last thing Jazz wanted was for his Creation to be part of the war he was born into, he didn't want him to see him past the safe zone and into the battlefield. Prime slowly nodded. "Distraction is all you two would do."

_(Cybertronians)_

Barricade didn't have a good night of recharge and it wasn't because his servo was hurting him. No, it wasn't that. If his brother had a mech Ling, he never heard of it. Well, he had heard rumour but if they were true or not was the question. He could easily comm Prowl but what would the point of that be. He did after betrayed his brother in the end when he thought at first he was doing the right thing. He could comm Jazz, he had met Jazz a couple of times before the war but now it was on the battlefield trying to kill each other. I don't think Prowl would appreciate me contacting his mate, he thought to himself.

Finally coming to a conclusion he got up from his berth and left his quarters. Mechs were starting to come out of recharge but the only mechs who would have been up early would be: Knockout, Megatron and Soundwave and Shockwave. Shockwave did have information but not what he was looking for but if he wanted to find out if an organic can survive with energon in its systems he would go to him. Soundwave, on the other servo, had downloaded all the records of every Cybertronian that had died, who were born, who had criminal records and so much more.

He found the silent con working at his computers. "Soundwave, I need some digging to be down," Barricade said. Soundwave was silent. "I need you to find out if my brother had a creation or not."

"Curiousity: Barricade?"

"I guess you can call it that," he said.

Soundwave sighed, but he decided to help Barricade out before he went back to his research. He pulled up Prowl's file, Barricade stepped closers and read, " Nightfire born seventy-eight years ago, reportedly went missing

.. Can you locate Nightfire?"

"Negative: tried before came up with nothing. Can't be found,: Soundwave said as he closed the file.

Barricade thanked Soundwave before leaving. So my brother did have a Creation, he thought. So where the Pit is it?

_(Cybertronian)_

It was still early to head out, so the Autobots decided that ththey were going to have some energon, recharge/relax for a bit more before getting ready. General Morshower had left and said he will call once he got to the Pentagon. Lennox, Epps and the others were chatting with the Autobots .

"Can I talk to you?" Galloway whispered low enough only Nightfire could hear. "Outside."

Nightfire hesitated but got up anyways and followed Galloway out the base which was a stopped move. "What do you want?" He crossed his arms, any further from the human sized base door.

"Don't you ever talk to me like that again in front of anybody," Galloway growled.

Nightfire scoffed. "Are you upset that your big boy pants don't fit you right?"

Galloway's frown deepened, his eyes were blaring. "I will watch it if I were you."

"Like I said before, you are not my fat-" Before Nightfire could even finish what he was saying Galloway had lunged at his throat and began to choke him. IL Nightfire stumbled back, his hands immediately flying to pull Galloway's off of him.

"Hey!" boomed a metal voice. Galloway didn't loosen .om the boy's throat when he looked up to see Blaster standing there. "Let's him go," he growled. Nightfire didn't look at his Uncle.

"Or what?"

Blaster took two steps over before picking Galloway off of his nephew

"If you ever lay a hand on him again, I will kill you myself." Blaster eyed his nephew who was still on the ground trying to catch his breath. "Only Cybertron, if any bot has ever abused any sparkling or youngling is to be put to death, slowly." Galloway didn't say anything, he looked at Blaster with fear. Blaster set him down. "Don't ever go near him." With that Galloway had angrily took off somewhere.

Nightfire looked up to see Blaster looking at him and he looked away. "I'm okay."

Blaster picked him up and look him over. "Safe side is to let Ratchet take a look at your first." Nightfire sighed but agreed for his Uncle's sake.

: Blaster to Ratchet.:

:What is it Blaster?: the medic grumbled on the other end.

:An incident just happened with Nightfire. I need you to take a look at him:

: Okay,bring him here.: And with that said, Blaster took his nephew to see Ratchet then a chat to Prowl and Jazz.

_(Cybertronian)_

The Nemesis was starting to give Barricade a processor ache. Starscream whiney voice, Skywarp's pranks, every other bot annoying aft behaviour. Luckily, Soundwave busy with research to handle all of this, Shockwave was barely here, Megatron just have to glare at some bot to make him run for his life and Knockout will offline you. The best place to go was to the medbay. "Knockout?"

"I'm in my office!" he heard Knockout call. Barricade went to the back to find Knockout working on data pads. "Are you sick?"

"No, just a processor ache," he said, sitting down in a spare chair. "Here seems like the better place to go."

Knockout studied him. "What's going on?"

"I found that Prowl is indeed a Sire to a sparkling named Nightfire born seventy-eight years ago but he is missing."

"Ah, long lost family." Barricade was silent.

"The last Youth Center was destroyed when he was born, if he was in there he-"

"It's not a processor ache from these damn mechs," Knockout said. "it's the fact that you had a nephew and he is gone. You're in grievance now even though you didn't know him. That is how your processor hurts."

Barricade sighed. "Prowl and I had fought a lot back then but we always made up and when the war started and I had to face him on the battlefield, I couldn't bring myself to kill him even when I was ordered to. I fought him, to the point he can go and walk away."

"You are questioning your loyalty to the Decepticons," Knockout said, which Barricade felt almost fearful to hear. "Do you want to know why Breakdown and I joined Megatron?" Knockout leaned back and Barricade nod. "Breakdown and I had a youngling -I was the Carrier. We were leaving Kalis and heading to Crystal City before the Decepticons attacked; our youngling was at a friend's house until Breakdown and I got off work but we got off early because the Decepticons were attacking. I had found Breakdown, and we ran to our friend's place but it was destroyed. Megatron was there. He said that he had our youngling and if we didn't join him he would kill our creation in front of us before he killed us. We did. For our creation's life we did." Knockout leaned forward. "We have not yet seen our creation since that day."

Barricade looked at the medic. "I'm sorry."

"Don't be. It was before you joined."

"Your youngling is-"

"I don't know. I haven't been able to tell if he was alive or not through the bond. If Breakdown and I leave and if he is still alive and Megatron kills him, I won't be able to live knowing that. If he did join the Well of Allsparks and we don't know and won't ever know, we are trapped here."

Barricade sighed. He never knew that Breakdown and Knockout had a youngling. He never knew that they were planning to leave and that they felt trapped in their decision.

"I will help you get out," Knockout promised.

"And I will help you and Breakdown to find closure for your creation," Barricade promised.

_€_(Cybertronian)_

After Blaster had dropped his nephew off to see Ratchet, he went to go find Prowl and Jazz. And he did find them in Jazz's office which is weird since Jazz was either out in the field or in Prowl's office, sometimes was in Blaster's office. "Are you finally going to start using your office?" Blaster asked from outside the door.

"Probably not. I'm setting it up in case I do," Jazz smiled.

Why am I always the one that has to say bad news ? Blaster thought as he took a step in the office and closed the door behind him. "Prowl, Jazz, there is something I need with you?"

"Something wrong?" Jazz looked at his brother in concern and so did Prowl.

"It's about Nightfire."

"What is wrong with him?" Prowl half asked and half demanded

"I had noticed Nightfire and Galloway were missing earlier so I went out to search and I found Galloway choking him," Blaster said.

Prowl went silent. Jazz was getting antsy, he wanted to be with his creation at the moment. "Where's is he?"

"With Ratchet,being checked out." Jazz nodded before taking off to the medbay. Prowl hadn't moved a bit which meant that the Praxian was furious. "Prowl?"

"Where's is Galloway?" Prowl growled.

"Gone."

That didn't calm the Praxian down at all. But it seemed like Primus was listening when Sam Witwicky had accidentally walked into the office. "This wasn't what I was looking for."

Blaster and Prowl looked down. "Same we need to ask you a few questions," Blaster said calmly. Sam nodded. "Is Nightfire being abused?"

"Yes,well, he was until he moved in with Epps," Sam answered.

"By Galloway?"

"Yep."

Prowl growled. He held back his anger and calmly as he could he asked, "For how many years?"

"Maybe since he was six," Sam said. The next words that Sam said had instantly made him regret them. "He almost killed himself a bit back because of him."

Prowl was now fuming, some one had dared driven his son to the point where killing himself would ease his pain. Prowl thanked Sam before storming off to find Galloway before he can see his son. Blaster nodded at Sam for appreciation before chasing down his brother-in-law.

A/N: Woah Knockout just told Barricade the reason why he and Breakdown joined with Megatron. Do you think Breakdown and Knockouts creation is alive?

Blaster just found Galloway with Nightfire...Shit!

Prowl and Jazz know that Galloway was abusing their son and since Sam Prowl and Blaster more...what do you guys think Prowl is going to do?