Chapter Twelve

"Prime, I'm sorry. Tazer was my responsibility and he let us down." Skybolt said sadly.

"There are always two sides to every story, Skybolt. Let us not judge Tazer until we have heard his side of it." Optimus replied. He saw the airliner give a small nod. "Wheeljack informs me that Ratchet will be okay, though he can't say the same for Moongaze."

"Moongaze?" Skybolt asked surprised "I wasn't aware she was injured."

"Maybe not physically, she saw Ratchet get shot and has not been the same since."

"Surefire's going to be upset when he comes round." The white and black mech said causally.

Optimus chuckled, "Ratchet and Moongaze knew each other before she was assigned to your team."

"And yet she never mentioned him." Skybolt said curiously.

"How could you do this to us, Tazer?" Chaser asked the stereo as he paced the brig "I thought you were one of us, I thought you were our friend!"

"I am one of you guys!" Tazer insisted, "I don't know how those cons managed to find the base or why…"

Chaser slammed the wall of Tazer's cell with the front of his fist making the mech jump back. "You lead them here." He said in a low angry voice.

"No." Tazer protested in a small voice "I would never do that. I would never betray my friends or the Autobots." The helicopter was about to say something when the door opened, he looked over and growled as he saw the Land Rover walk in and stormed out.

"I certainly hope he wasn't causing any trouble." Cruiser said as he walked over to the silver and teal mech noting the fist shaped dent in the wall.

Tazer sighed, "Just doing what everyone else is doing. Blaming me when it wasn't my fault." He said softly as he sat at the back of his cell.

"None of us want to believe it, Tazer, especially Chaser, but Skybolt heard it straight from Shadowstrike."

"Yeah…and Beat said the same thing. Only thing is, I didn't lead them here." There was silence for a moment before Tazer asked "why is Chaser so upset about it?"

"He believes it to be his fault." Cruiser stated.

"Huh?"

"Ever since you fell out of his alt mode and were captured he's blamed himself for it. Even though we've all told him otherwise." The dark red mech explained.

The stereo sadly shook his head as he looked away from the front of the cell. "You don't believe me either, do you?"

"At the moment I don't know what to believe." Cruiser replied "but I do know this, thanks to those cons 'Gaze is never going to be the same."

"Yeah, poor femme." Tazer said as he remembered how the Ford reacted to Ratchet getting shot.

As Surefire online he heard crying, as his optics gradually came into focus he looked over and saw the deep sky blue femme head on arms on a medi-berth crying her optics out. "Gaze." He whispered out "Gaze" he said a little louder, finally the crying femme turned to him. It was only then that he realised she was holding someone else's hand and his spark froze.

"S-S-Surefire, you're awake. Thank Primus." Giving a small smile as she wiped her tears away.

The white Ferrari sat up, though he wished he hadn't done it so fast his joints ached from being in the same position for so long. He could now clearly see the other mech that Moongaze was sitting next to, they were white and red.

Seeing Surefire staring at the berth behind her Moongaze looked over seeing Ratchet then looked at Surefire and saw him now staring at her hand, curious she looked at it and saw she was hold the medic's hand. She let go instantly, "I…uh…" she began looking at the floor.

"Did we get some new arrivals while I was out?" he asked trying to cut through the tension that suddenly appeared between them.

"You…could say that." She replied "I-um I'm sure Skybolt can fill you in on it all."

"I see." He said sadly "you…uh…" he trailed off looking elsewhere in the medbay not knowing what else to say.

There was silence for a while, "Surefire, d-do you see me m-more than-than a fr-friend?" Moongaze asked.

The Ferrari looked at the Ford in surprise but she was still looking at the floor. "Why do you ask?"

The femme looked at Ratchet's hand she'd been holding then over at Surefire. "You seemed sad when you saw me holding Ratchet's hand."

"May I ask who he is?" he asked countering her with a question.

"He's a medic I knew before joining you guys."

"He's more than that, Moongaze." Surefire said sourly.

"He was…at least he was going to be. I…left before we could become anything." She looked at the medic sadly. "I actually never thought I would see him again. You…do feel something for me, don't you?"

The white mech sighed as he looked away from her, "yes. I didn't actually realise it until we got…separated." He looked back over at her "and you?"

"Ratchet believes I do, he says he can hear it in my voice when I talk about you and see it in my face when I think about you."

Surefire got off his berth and walked over to her gently turning her head to look at him. "And what do you believe?" he asked, she looked away from him remaining silent. The Ferrari sighed and kissed her head before heading out.

The Ford sighed shaking her head sadly. "What am I going to do Ratchet?" she asked quietly.