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Chapter Five

MoonRust

I wasn't very happy with being taken away from the Autobots, they had always told me about how the Decepticons weren't very nice and seeing as I was only little they could pretty much squish me and I couldn't do anything about it. Being taken back to their surprisingly big lair I was put on a giant table.

One of them peered down at me it's red eyes looked threatening enough that I was too afraid to look up into them. I sat on the table looking around to see if there was any way that I would be able to escape these creeps. I was just glad they didn't get me when I was baby sized, that would have been a lot worse for me. The biggest one came to stand in front of me, pushing the other one away.

"We have the Sparkling. It's only a matter of time now before the Autobots come to collect. And they will get something else instead." I assumed he was talking about something cliche like their doom or something. I squeaked as I was picked up, not gently like the Autobots would have but quite harshly. I wiggled but once I got a warning squeeze I practically froze as I could feel my armour being bent slightly and I knew that it was still fragile and likely to break under pressure.

Looks like I'll have to go along with this. They probably expected me to act like a baby so that's what I did. I started screaming.

The one carrying me almost dropped one, luckily he didn't because he was really tall and the fall probably would have flattened me. The high pitch of my screams made a few of the other robots wince but the one holding me, I assumed was Megatron because he was the biggest and therefore probably the leader, he just carried me over to a little box. He put me down next to it, opening a slightly bigger box next to it.

He pulled out a little harness, how he'd found it I had no idea. He put the harness on me which I tried to resist but when a giant robot is holding you down and trying to put something on you, it's hard to not let him do it. I'd also stopped screaming when he'd given me the most deadly glare I'd ever been on the receiving end of in my life. Once the harness was on, he pushed me forward and then pulled me back with a leash that he'd attached to it. It resembled those harnesses that you'd put on children to keep them wondering off. He probably got this idea off the internet.

I soon found that being pulled around was really annoying. Megatron had given my leash over to the one he called Starscream, who I remembered had attacked us on the road to the 'secure' base, which really wasn't that secure to be completely honest.

I was pulled over to a bigger room which is where there were a couple more Deceptions milling about. They all stared at me as I went past which made me curl in on myself to make myself smaller. This of course didn't make anyone stare less but it made me feel a bit safer. I didn't look at anyone as I walked past, still walking a bit unsteadily as I wasn't really used to walking in this slightly taller body.

Starscream wasn't that good of a guardian either, he carelessly held the leash so tightly that I couldn't slow down for fear of being dragged behind him. He probably would do it, when Megatron originally gave me to him, I had shriveled under his gaze. It wasn't as bad as Megatrons glare but it was still pretty bad. When we reached the other side of the room, Starscream picked me up and put me on another table, but this time there was another bot waiting for me. He was an older robot and he didn't seem like he was all that bad, I could tell by the way he shook that he wasn't here voluntarily.

That made me feel better, but at the same time I felt guilty. If I wasn't here there was probably no need for this guy to be here either. I disregarded this thought, it wasn't my fault. I didn't exactly ask to be here.

"Make sure the Sparkling is healthy." Was all Starscream said before he left us. The older robot sighed in relief before turning his attention to me. I assumed he was a doctor like Ratchet or close to if he was being asked to check me over. He used the same scan that Rachet did, and I felt the same tingling as I had before.

"I'm sorry about this." The older robot spoke softly to me before holding his hand out. He gently touched my armour with his finger and pushed slightly. I squeaked in pain as the doctor robot hummed. "Newly aged I see." I shuffled away from his hand and wiggled my antenna to show my annoyance. My armour was still sore from where I was ruthlessly squeezed earlier. The older robot laughed at my expression, gently patting my antenna back into place.

He sighed again, looking at me wistfully. "I had a sparkling once." The pain in his voice was obvious. "A boy though." He smiled. "He was the light of my life." I drooped as the impact of the past tense hit me. I shuffled over to him and put my hand on his arm. He smiled at me, patting me on the head again.

"I'm so rude, let me introduce myself fair maiden. My name is MoonRust." He gave me his little finger to shake which I did, giggling in the strange way that I did. I wanted to tell him my name but I wasn't past the two moon cycles to do so, it made me upset but I looked up to see him still smiling. Blue eyes sparkling. He must have known that I couldn't speak yet.

I was starting to like him.

But it was over all too quickly. Starscream came to get me while two other robots grabbed MoonRust and dragged him out of the room. I was scared for him, I knew that these robots weren't very nice and there was a chance that I would never see him again. He gave me a sad smile as he rounded the corner whereas I was taken back to Megatron.

I winced as I was pulled too fast around a corner and was banged into the wall. I squeaked as my armour was actually dented, it had been through so much in a short period of time that I really should have seen this coming but now that it had actually happened I really wasn't happy about it.

I opened my mouth to start screaming again but before I could I was swept up into someones palm.

"I told you not to harm the Sparkling, Starscream." Megatron growled.

"I did as you wished Megatron." Starscream defended himself. Megatron simply showed him the freshly dented armour on my side. If a robot could loose colour, Starscreams face would have been as pale as a sheet. As it was he was backing away as quickly as he could.

I wondered what was going to happen. I didn't have to wonder long.

Megatron put me back down and moved towards Starscream. There was a moment where nothing could be heard from the outside, the sounds of the other Deceptions faded as the two stared at one another. Then there was an explosion, Starscream wouldn't have had time to see it coming but he was shot right in the chest. Not enough to kill him but enough to teach him a valuable lesson. Starscream managed to pull himself to his feet but didn't dare move away as Megatron moved closer still.

He leaned in and whispered something, something threatening probably and pushed Starscream away from him.

He came back over to me, and I cringed away from his touch. I wasn't as scared of him before as I was right now. He suddenly became a real threat to me, but I knew it wasn't me he wanted. He wanted to hurt my friends. And I was going to do everything in my limited powers to not allow that to happen.

But really what could I do. I was tiny and fragile. I would probably end up getting in the way.

I didn't really have time to think about his because one of the other Deceptions came bursting into the room. "Master. The Autobots. They're here."

And that's when I lunged.