Chapter Twenty-Two

It had been three days since Crystal had seen Thundercracker and every day she grew more and more worried about his wellbeing. Was he still even alive or did Starscream finally go through with his threat even though she had told them the truth. She had finally had enough and needed to know if he was okay as it was virtually killing her not knowing. She walked over to the door and started banging on it. "HEY!" she shouted out as loud as she could in hopes they'd hear her, "LET ME OUT OF HERE! LET ME OUT AND I'LL SHOW YOU WHAT YOU WANT!" her pounding slowed as her arms became tired "please," she said sadly her forehead resting against the door "just let me see Thundercracker and I'll do whatever you want." A tear fell from her face splashing on the floor, more soon followed. I can't take this anymore, I need to see him. "I love him." She said softly not realising she'd spoken out loud. The door suddenly opened and she fell forward on the floor. She didn't even try stop herself figuring that she'd rather die than never see the blue seeker again.

"You will do whatever I ask." A voice demanded. "And take me to the experiment."

Crystal didn't move from her spot on the floor, she didn't need to look at them to know who the voice belonged to. "Yes." She agreed sadly "but please don't take it out on him when you find it no longer exists as I had told you before."

"We shall see." The voice said.

"Please!" she pleaded as she hurriedly sat up and looked at them. She saw Starscream just as she thought but she wasn't expecting to see Skywarp also. She took a quick look around but couldn't see the one she wanted anywhere.

"He's not here." Skywarp told her his voice sounding bitter and angry.

"You will let me see him, right?"

"If your information is correct, if not then you know what will happen." Starscream threaten.

"It is! It is!" she cried out "why would I lie about it when his very life is on the line!?"

"He means a lot to you, doesn't he?" Skywarp suddenly said and received a nod in reply. "Why? Why him? You're an Autobot loving human and yet you choose Thundercracker, a Decepticon. Why?"

Crystal looked at Skywarp slightly dumbfounded by his question. A small smile suddenly graced her lips, "someone once told me you can't choose who you fall for, no matter how hard you try."

The black seeker sighed although he had a slight annoyed look on his face as if she hadn't really answered his question. He walked to the end of the corridor and pulled something out from round the corner he saw the female's smile brighten and looked over at his trinemate. "I'll never know how you managed it." He said. "We did everything we could to get that information out of her and you…"

"Did nothing?" Thundercracker said finishing his sentence. But I did he thought I did something I never thought I'd do. I fell for a human.

Starscream picked Crystal up off the ground roughly, "you've wasted enough time, Human…" he began.

"My name is Crystal." She told the red seeker calmly.

"And why should I want to know that?" he replied rudely.

"I'm going to be with you guys for a while so you might as well know my name." she explained.

Starscream looked at her speechless, he looked over at Skywarp who just shrugged in response. He saw Thundercracker was about to walk over to them and glared at him as the black seeker put his arm out to stop him. Finally the air commander looked back at the human in his hand and said, "You would willingly stay with us? Knowing who we are and what we do."

"As long as I don't have to witness it, yes." She replied sincerely.

He shook his head, "you are the strangest human." He said only to have her chuckle at him.

"Would you like to see what's left of the experiment? Just don't be too disappointed when you see there's nothing left."

"What if the Autobots try to take her?" Skywarp suddenly asked.

"Who says they'll get anywhere near her." Thundercracker said menacingly. He wasn't going to allow anyone to take Crystal from him.

"Well Human," Starscream began.

"Crystal." She interrupted.

"Whatever. What are you going to do if the Autobots want you back?" he asked.

She shrugged, "refuse."

"And if they insist?" the woman didn't reply.