Sorry about leaving you all on a cliffhanger, but it seemed too good to pass up :)

Please Review on this I'm not sure if I've decided to end this soon or if I'm going to extend it a bit Please enjoy :)

Previously...

"Don't you dare offline! Come on Nighthawk stay with me!" across the field, Ratchet looked up from the unconcious Prowl and saw one of the flyers trying desprately to help the other one "Come on, I ain't gonna lose you, you've got too much to live for! DON'T YOU DARE DIE!" Ratchet jumped up and ran as fast as he could over to them, he skidded down next to them, he moved the mech's hands away from the wound, Jazz was shaking violently and he was covered in Chromia's energon. He felt two arms wrap around him and pull him back, he looked and saw it was Elita who had pulled him away, she was looking down at Chromia. She tried to pull him away from Ratchet but he wouldn't move "I'm not leaving her! Let go of me Elita!" Optimus ran next to Elita and took the screaming mech from her and carried him away "No! Put me down now!" he looked back and saw Ratchet had started to use a jolt pulser on her which only meant one thing, her spark was fading, before he could stop himself he screamed "CHROMIA!"

Present...

The Autobots stood frozen, Jazz was attempting to get free from Optimus's grip but was having no success. Ratchet had stabilized Chromia's spark but she was still unconcious and totally unaware about what had happened, Optimus dropped Jazz onto the ground, he looked up at the red and blue mech who was standing over him. Suddenly it hit him, he had shouted out to Chromia calling her by her real name not Nighthawk, he slapped his face with the palm of his hand. Ironhide grabbed him by the neck and pushed him up against the cliff one hand on his throat the other dangerously pointing one of his charged cannons at him.

"Ironhide let him go" Jazz looked past Ironhide and saw Elita she was stood behind him her hands on her hips, Ironhide looked at her and then back to Jazz before letting go of him "Have you got anything to say then?" she looked down at him expectantly

"I need to act like I'm not Jazz, I know I'll act like Cliffjumper" he thought to himself before any of them had time to react he jumped up and ran off screaming "DON'T KILL ME!" his hands above his head, he shot across the desert before taking off and flying away, the Autobots stood where they were watching as the jet flew off, Elita turned to Optimus who was looking away from her, she followed his gaze and saw Ratchet walking towards them carrying the unconcious femme. Ironhide looked over at Ratchet and then to Optimus waiting for him to say something, Optimus looked up at Ratchet the medic had heard what the other flyer had shouted and was just as shocked as the others.

"Ratchet would it be possible for you to find out if it's true what he said?" Prime's voice sounded confused and shocked, Ironhide looked over at the CMO waiting for his answer

"Yes but I would have to do it back at the base, I don't have all the information I need here. Do you think it's true Optimus?" Prime looked over at Ironhide who was staring at the femme his optics then went to Bumblebee who's mouth was hanging open before turning to Lennox, they had informed the humans about Chromia and who she was.

"Captain I need you to call in the rest of the planes, we need an extra one for getting her back to base, and Ratchet I don't know what to believe" deep down he was praying for Ironhide and Bumblebee's sake that it was Chromia, Ironhide walked over to Ratchet said something to him and then took the femme from his arms being careful og her wings. Ratchet walked over to Prowl who was holding himself up on a boulder, Ironhide walked over to a cliff and sat down with his back to the wall, Bumblebee joined him a few minutes later and looked at the femme in his arms.

"She does look...like her...you know" Bumblebee's voice cracked, Ratchet had managed to repair it a little just so that he could talk but not too often, Ironhide looked at the yellow mech and then back to the femme, in a way she did look a lot like Chromia but you had to look closely. The two of them looked up as the planes landed, Bumblebee hopped up and walked over to Arcee who was waiting for him, carefully Ironhide stood up, he froze when Chromia moved but carried on walking when she relaxed back into his grip.

Sentinel was trying to calm down Jazz, the poor mech was having a fit over Chromia, Jazz had told him about what had happened and how he accidentally shouted out her name. Sentinel took Jazz by the shoulders and looked him straight in the optics, he was shaking all over.

"Jazz calm down, it doesn't matter, she's safe with them and maybe she can convince Optimus to meet me" Jazz looked at him and dropped to the floor, he shut off his optics and put his hands out in front of him, Sentinel bent down and put his hand on Jazz's back "Look just calm down, I didn't want them knowing who you were for your own safety, if they know there's no harm done"

Ironhide was leaning against the hanger wall watching Ratchet compare a scan from Chromia, with that of the femme on the Med Bay table, he couldn't help but feel that it was Chromia in front of him. Ratchet stopped what he was doing and turned to Ironhide, the weapons specialist looked up at him, Ratchet picked up a datapad and walked over to him. He told something to him and then walked out to go and talk to Optimus. Ironhide walked over to the Med Berth, he took Chromia's hand in his and stroked her face with the other, she turned her head to the side and groaned, he smiled at her and kissed her audio receptor.

"I missed you Mia" he pulled his head back and watched as her optics slowly onlined, once they fully onlined she froze when she saw him, he took his free hand and rubbed the side of her helm "I'm sorry for hurting you earlier, but you were shooting at us Mia" she opened her mouth to say something but before she could he kissed her on the lips, when he pulled away she looked up at him and traced the side of his jaw with one of her hands.

"I'm sorry Hide, but I had to keep you from finding out who I was, how did you find out?" she tried sitting up but winced at the pain, Ironhide moved behind her and put one hand under her back and carefully helped her sit up, he sat behind her and let her lean against him. He wrapped one arm around her, held one of her hands in his and stroked it with his thumb, she relaxed further into his grip and shut off her optics enjoying the attention he was giving her.

"You're friend told us, right before he ran off screaming for us not to kill him" he chuckled at the memory of the flyer running off, his arms in the air screaming as though he was about to be eaten or something. She knew that she wasn't allowed to tell Prowl about Jazz and she certainly wasn't allowed to tell any of them about Sentinel, so she hid those files in a secure file one that Ironhide wouldn't be able to look in. "Ratchet said I could take you back to my well our quarters, he didn't expect you to online so soon, he thought it would be nice for you to online there instead of this horrific place" she laughed and kissed his jaw

"You only say it's horrific because whenever you're here it is horrific the amount of injuries you have" he went to deny but just shrugged in agreement, she giggled and put her head on his shoulder "I love you Hide"

"I love you too Mia" he kissed the top of her helm before, wrapping both of his arms around her and picking her up, carefully he turned her round and held her bridal style

"What are you doing?" she looked up at him and held onto his chest

"Pretend you're still offline, that way we can spend some time together without having to worry about any disruptions" a smirk appeared on his faceplates, Chromia shuddered as he carressed one of her wings with his thumb "And it looks like you now have an extra weakness " she looked up at him before lowering her arms into her chest and offlining her optics, he smiled down at her before hiding his smile and leaving the Med Bay, a few of the others were waiting outside, he nodded at them, their jaws dropped open and they looked at her. He turned away from them and walked towards his quarters, he went in the back of the hanger and made his way into the quarters.

Chromia onlined her optics and looked around, it was a very plain room, with a berth in the back of the room, on the wall a few shelves covered in weapons, she lifted up her arms and held onto his chest as he carried her towards the berth. Ironhide gently laid her down on her back and sat down next to her, he shifted her round and put her head in his lap, she traced circles on his chest, he leant back on the wall and stroked her wings, a smirk appeared on his face as she shuddered.

"Bloody hell your wings really are sensitive aren't they" she put her hands on his shoulders and pulled herself up to him and kissed his lips before laying back down into his lap, she poked his chest

"Don't you ever think you can use it to your advantage, because trust me I know plenty of yours" he bent down and kissed her lips, she wrapped her arms around his neck and relaxed into the kiss when he pulled away she looked into his optics "I missed you sweetspark" he nuzzled her neck

"I missed you too Mia and I missed not being able to send you love through our bond" she pulled him on top of her and kissed him, she put her hand under his back armour and played with a few of the wires, he used his free hand to massage one of her wings.

Optimus looked up from the datapad and at Ratchet, Elita was sat on the edge of his desk she took the datapad out of his hands and began reading it herself. Optimus put his hand on top of her spare hand, she looked away from the datapad and into her sparkmates optics. Chromia her best friend was alive, in a new body and the first existing female flyer but either way her best friend was alive. They would have to tell Bumblebee as he thought of the 4 of them as his creators, he would be happier than ever knowing that his second 'mother' was alive. For once to Elita it felt like their family was almost complete there was only one bot missing Jazz, she knew that he was dead she watched as they lowered his body into the ocean.