The Autobot base had never been in such chaos before, Ratchet leapt into action and ordered Riptide be placed in the medical room.

Arcee had been moved by a reluctant Bumblebee and then everyone had been kicked out of the medical bay so Ratchet could work in peace.

Miko and Raff were sat, just sat, staring at the Autobots they had put their faith in so blindly. They'd save Riptide. Everything would be alright again.

Bumblebee came over to them, leaving Bulkhead to deal with Arcee's desperate pleadings. She wanted to see Riptide, even if it was just for a moment she needed to see him.

He chirped down at them, nonsensical coos to soothe the children. Raff looked up at him and tried to smile, but Miko didn't even do that. She just stared off, into nothingness with a look on her face that Bumblebee had never seen.

He clicked down at Raff, who in turn translated his question.

"Miko, what are you thinking about?"

Miko looked at Raff with blank, glazed eyes.

"What if it had been one of us?"

Raff frowned, and Bumblebee felt an undying urge to scoop Miko up into his hands and cradle her against his spark.

"What do you mean? The Autobots don't let us out to fight how could it have been-"

Miko cut Raff off.

"What if Silas had taken one of us instead of Jack?"

The silence was suffocating, and Bumblebee vaguely recognised the look in Miko's eyes. Blur, had once had that look in his eyes.

Survivors guilt.

Miko felt bad that it was Jack, lying on the table, instead of her. She felt bad that Jack had been turned into an Autobot and not her.

"Miko…you…you can't…" Raff stuttered, looking up at Bumblebee desperately.

But it wasn't Bumblebee that moved, it was Bulkhead.

Bulkhead reached down, gently picking up Miko and pulling her to his park to hush her, and whisper soothing nothings to her as she her body began to shake with sobs.

Bumblebee turned to Raff and repeated to motion, keeping the youngest human clutched to his chest, as if to reassure him that he was still there.

Optimus had watched the scene, his spark dropping. Although it was generally understood that Jack had been the responsible one, the one to keep the other humans safe, without him, Miko had taken it upon herself to fill the void.

Whilst Jack was still there, he was no longer available to protect the two young humans as he once had. Because of this Miko had decided to carry on his job, and it had been slowly breaking her inside.

Miko wasn't built for this kind of responsibility, she was built for fun and laughter, to make everyone feel better when there was no hope.

They clearly hadn't thought of the impact it would have on her.

They all felt…rather selfish.

However, before Optimus could go and comfort both Miko and Raff, a black void opened in the centre of the room with a horrible fizzing noise.

Soundwave stepped out, with Rosestorm gasping in his arms and he drew his eyes up to Optimus.

"Help her."

The voice was harsh and unrecognisable, one that Optimus had never heard but even though the recording was cruel…Soundwave looked so helpless and dejected.

Rosestorm moaned, and Soundwave's head snapped down to her and he adjusted the way he held her with such gentleness that Optimus had never seen in a Decepticon. Let alone in Soundwave.

"Bring her through" Ratchet ordered, poking his head out from the medical bay and Soundwave obeyed the blatant order.

Soundwave didn't care. All Soundwave cared about was Rosestorm, he'd do anything for her.

"Soundwave."

He looked over at Optimus, who was stood at the door of the medical bay. Soundwave place Rosestorm down and reluctantly left her side to join Optimus outside and in the presence of the other Autobots.

Optimus probably wanted to say something, but Soundwave didn't give him the chance.

"I'm…defecting. Please."

Short sweet and took waaaay too long to do! Sorry!

I'm kind of panicking cause there are only about nine weeks left of high school before I have to go out into the big bad world. Anybody out there know what that's like? I feel like life is about to hit my like a freight train. It's really scary.

OH! And Slmrox978, you were reviewer number TWO HUNDRED! And for that, you get a oneshot! PM me what you'd like or any ideas you have and IT SHALL BE DONE!

Holy crap on a cracker! Two hundred and one reviews! Gee whiz! I love you guys!

Thelegofan, If only. Although he'll be slightly less lone now, but still very socially deficient. I have some funny ideas of him interacting with the humans in my head.

Girl Supersonicboy, You liked the fight? Yay! I love writing fight scenes, but they always seem to look better in my head…

Lionfire, The hamster was amazing, I may write an Operation Riptide oneshot about the hamster…will Riptide live? I don't even know anymore.

Dragonlord1337, Oh good god will Megatron get it. I have such a cool idea in mind for that your gonna love it! (Hopefully)

Blackshadow, You like Soundwave and Rosestorm as a couple? :D Normally I'm really rubbish with pairings, especially with an OC, so you have no idea how glad I am that you like it!

Foxbear, Not exactly, they share a spark so unfortunately anything Riptide feels, so does Rosestorm. They can't give up their sparks to each other, because they only have half of one. Unfortunate really and with so many implications in the future.

Slmrox978, Whoa! Easy guys! No need for a cat fight! I'm just glad you like the story! Please PM me what you want in your oneshot (Cause, you are lucky reviewer TWO HUNDRED!) And keep reviewing!

Skylord303, That may take a while.

Read and Review guys!

Tulip Out.