I believe that the world out there is what shapes you. No matter how rough or smooth it is though depends on your perspective. Even the darkest and ugliest rock holds something precious within if the person truly inspects and understands it.

Hi Readers. I give you this weeks update. Sorry if I ain't gonna have time for you guys in a while... I needed to sort some things out first. So WARNING... this may be the last chapter that I would update for you. ); It makes me sad too...

Khalthar: Then I guess there is still a glitch in the system. *sigh* We are moving into politics. *Laughs* I wonder how each government in the world operate to maintain the order now that economies are falling. (Read that stocks are currently dropping in the world market) Mearing has it hard but I say human makes their selves complex. Ugh... I am straying from the topic. See you though! :D

Disclaimer: I don't own Transformers.

Still waiting at the entrance of the Nemesis, they all jolted in surprise as they heard a certain mech's sound of rage echo from the inner sections of the Nemesis.

Hook who had just gotten in a klik earlier with his other brothers must have been having another of his hissy fit (as Shein calls it). They were fairly happy and lucky to not be the mech right now for they knew that he would be sleeping again in his Med Bay over the massive amounts of work he was going to be busy with. After seeing the others who were clearly roughened up than necessary, it would take more time in fixing aft heads than working on a report for Megatron. Without Shein helping him… the poor Con would pull an all-nighter and his patients were going to have to suffer with him.

They could hear his rant about those mechs not using their processors to relay about taking caution in engaging the Autoscums or even just to minimize the damage that they could have aquired… but nooooo…. They have to lose an arm, lose a plating, and lose any other part that they thought wasn't that necessary along with gaining dents of different sizes.

The list goes on if Hook were to encrypt other damages acquired… Oh, how the Lord would react once he comes forward in order to request for the restocking of his supplies… Megatron would surely be furious from it, but guessing on Hook… He would have already planned on something to minimize that… He would just shove Shein in the other's sight and make her report the needs, like what they always do since she latched on their sparks (it was hard not to give her what she wants when she deserve what she needs)… The CMO would likely get the supplies in no time with an additional of no lashing Megatron on his aft.

They suddenly jolted out of their processors when they saw the said mech marched into the room as hauled another unsuspecting mech with him before leaving immediately without a word. They had cringed seeing Scrapper, the unlucky mech, struggle from the medic's hold which was surely damaging him more than the necessary. Those who weren't being hauled or picked off one by one with their damages still visible were jumpy as they continued again in their waiting game.

Where was she? If Shein could see them what state they were in right now, she would have got a laugh out of them thinking of how they were acting like what she calls in her human terms, a child who is about to secrete his fluid waste but cannot. (Shein should really teach them more about stupid human activities… After learning from her, it was quite useful in the long run stay here.)

Starscream had told them that they had successfully retrieved her yesterday… Is that slagging air-head lying again to them so he could cover up the failed mission? No… that cannot be it. The Autoscums wouldn't be moving turbo foxes in over heat now if she wasn't taken away from their grasp.

The excitement that had filled their sparks earlier had crippled as they process about it. Their thoughts on the seeker's mischief and idiotic display of the times he were to kill their Lord was somewhat less in giving them impact when compared to the thought of him lying to them about the presence of their favorite squishy… He should be prepared to be the next mech being strapped down onto the target practice table in the training room that the femme had made them create (She had outright lashed on them on how bad they are as they get back looking like scrap more and more. They were needed to train which got an approval from the faction leader).

Megatron wouldn't miss his flight commander, right? And they could also inform Shein if she ever asks for the seeker is that Starscream could have been on a mission where he got slagged by the Autoscums. That was a good idea… Yeah… Over all approvals were the only things needed while they need to establish connections that they could pull whenever she learns the truth. (They need a great escape plan for they don't want to be in the center of the crater when that happens… They should be as far away as possible, even off to another galaxy or at the other end of it so they could escape her wrath. Every mech was precious to her and the thought of killing one another would surely make the 'Con within her surface…)

Just then, the thought of another mech came into their processors. Where in the pit was Barricade? They questioned the other missing presence of her guardian who was just discharge earlier by Hook. The mech came in looking rather smug with a joyous Frenzy running before him as he spouted things like 'he deserved more' and 'why couldn't we deactivate him before we left.' Both of them sported damages but Barricade's stands out the most; having a servo loose, a malfunctioning optic and a large dented chest plate. Yeah… he had a pit in it.

With this picture, they could tell that something good has happened within the span of their retrieval… but that mood changed when Hook had refused him of getting fixed first. Both Grinch collided but the CMO won. Barricade had to wait his turn for before the CMO could fix him up. (Hook had enough of him when the mech pushed his work… No one pushes him when it comes to his work, ever! With that thought and the satisfaction he could get if he let the mech suffer… It was priceless. He got to work at his own pace and practically blocked out the mech's vocal in the end. He was tired too, you know and he needed to repair his own frame to function properly)…

Back to their thoughts… they had drifted to the relationship of both the femme and the black and white Mustang had. Whenever there was something wrong with the femme… that police car would know immediately somehow even if he was in a mission on the dirt ball of a planet. They don't think there was ever a time when the mech was not updated with what was going around her… like last year when Shein was approached by some group of male insects on her expedition to restock her supplies of needs. The slagging flesh bags had that continued advancing on their femme as it came to physical contact/ harassment. They only got beaten in the alley way that she had led them into and after that, Barricade really kept the prisons full (if you know what I mean).

This was all because of her growth. It was really spectacular though in terms of physical appearance, physical fitness, mentality and behavior. She grew into what the human standards say as hot and sex as she started to work out and help all over the base. Gone was the scrawny, burnt skinned and nerdy femme they knew. Keeping her in the base at all times did a really great job huh? Along with this was greater strength and endurance to hit a mech and chase him even with large steps or more importantly, hold a slagging giant sized medical equipment and keep up with Hook's working schedule.

Her knowledge about them was spectacular too after quenching her thirst for knowledge as she continued to ask questions from time to time. Those information got drilled into her apparently as she displayed interest and solid attention in learning about them. It had scared some of them when the questions got private and private until she was sent to Hook so he could educate her properly. (Most mechs had no idea what to say or answer so they misinformed her at some point.)

The same goes for her vocabulary and comprehension of their language. At some point, she had needed to learn how to understand them although they don't know if they should have feared ever making her learn about it. All thanks to her daily interaction with them and most of all Megatron who kept making her work on datapads after seeing another potential she could be used for. Now, she could be of use in information management giving Soundwave a full time job on being his front liner (although he was called from time to time to fix things that she has still to know of) She could also now join in conversations in their native language even if she couldn't speak like them.

She was the first ever human to grow as a Con in nature. Being smart already, witty, productive and useful had been contributors in this. Staying with them had made shed her skin of being the shy introvert. 'Small but deadly' was the only thing that she could be describe of now. A Con in disguise under what like-Autobot skin she holds… they shivered. It was a good thing that she was on their side or else, they could be already extinct. (Extinct meaning the whole Cybertronian race. There was a possibility discussed by the Cons that the girl, if found and flourished by the human government, she would be their end. She could built weapons, you know! And they hurt quite badly even if it was small or micro in their terms.)

With all of these, one factor still remained… That she still remained as the unofficial member of the faction. She should have been official by now… Their Lord should have given her the acknowledgement already… But they kept shut about it knowing full well what that would mean and cause. (Another conversation without the femme… acknowledgement means that she would likely demand to be taken or be given missions. She was practically good with discussions and every one of those lead to her wants being given with a logical reason. The horror all of them would have to face if she was deemed as their on the international span… They saw what it did to the Witwicky human… they don't want it for theirs.)

Ugh… they were straying again… Enduring the whole month without her had really taken a toll, huh? It had surely challenged their self-control and endurance. Shein would be so proud of them in acing that test she had made them do every 3 earth months. They all had to do stupid but worth-while things in order not to lose their processors and get slag in the aftermath of their actions. Even Barricade had to fall out of their radar to blow off some steam after pissing off every other mech that came to talk to him about her.

Other than that, the base was dead since then and had only come alive when the Lord suddenly gave them the news about the femme being held under a single watch in a small human facility for sick and injured insects… They all had scowled as others' anger had risen. How glitch or aft-heads the Autoscums could be when they heard the news… Leaving their human in such a place with such low security… Haven't they even given a slag about her on that time line they had with her? She was their one and only unique human… the faction's only human that they hadn't slagged and had even let to become part of their lives… There they were just treating her like that?

It was a blow in their mech prides... If the scums took it like she was of no importance… They shouldn't have waited this long to have retrieved her. They should have just monitored her medication and took her after being deemed healthy… or not in the line for going into the Well.

No mech had tried to wreak havoc or went to break the silence that had fallen all over the base as they continued to ponder their own plan of action to be presented if retrieval was in session. Until then… they wait. You can see that even with their Lord back, the place was like it had been an abandoned haunted ship with only sounds of Shockwave in his lab echoing. Talk about mad scientists… But now, they could hope that everything would come back to the way it usually was; starting from the anger issues and short wired mechs.

All will fall back to place where they had left off to… the difference only was that the femme would be on tighter security or was on lock down. Yeah… the femme should never be able to leave them again.

Unknown to these waiting mech, at another part of the ship… Starscream and his trine were already sitting quietly in their quarters. The femme that they were waiting for so dearly was just with them and was recharging so peacefully on the pillow that they had swept from her own quarters with their blanket over her frame. (Cute thing is that that blanket came from Shein… She had sewed together large sheets in their colors; added to it were large sewn pieces of their names and what she calls their 'chibi' faces, were on it.

If you are wondering what other renovations she had made in their room, well… their walls sported the sketches she had made for them. Those sketches were done in time when the femme had needed something else to do other than work or interact with them although they love the attention she gives. They all knew that humans have short focus in terms of attention so she would likely get bored of them one time or another.)

There was a saying that you'll know the true importance of another or thing once its presence is gone. How true it was for them. They were really glitched up until now… She was as to say the little light they never knew that they could ever have that had gone missing, creating a dark blanket over all of them. Primus must still have been watching over them and had thought of giving them one more chance of happiness in the form of the nuisance organic matter. It was really a pain that the Autoscums had taken it away though…

Starscream had remembered Frenzy at one time, mentioning how they had become more nut jobs and fraggers as they snapped ever so often at each other within the third week coming in. What choice do they have? Decepticons weren't supposed to show their weak sides (that meant wallowing or looking like a sparkling was not allowed). That was drilled in them long ago and became an important trait in this war and for their survival as they hardened even more.

Asking of what could have happened to the femme was only breaking their sparks so they had abandoned the thought. The ones who were really attached to the puny organic could feel it and couldn't show it as others stayed strong while they hide in a façade that others would have thought that they don't even care about her. They really tried hard to come back to their old routine but what was the last thing that they have done without the femme there to bother or help them? What was their old routine where Shein wasn't around, huh? At any point, it was worthless to think about doing anything…

Megatron had still the power to order them that whole month but they prefer to be real 'Cons about it. Poor Megatron got thrown off by his own faction that was lost in the brooding. At the fourth week though, when their leader had brought back their spark after announcing plan of retrieval, all turn to battle stations like they were to engage in another fight-till-deactivation with the Autoscums (Which for them, it really is). It was amazing that even Shockwave had participated as all the rowdy mechs had stopped in order to listen… Productive ideas had come flying in from one direction to another as plans started to form out perfectly with calculated chances of success or failures.

Megatron had grumbled about how in the pit his faction was functioning like this but kept it to himself as he and Hook documented the change in efficiency every mech was making. They'll have to study more about this when the chaos ebbs. (Both medic and Lord had learned from Shein that management within the organization is vital as energon was for them. Their followers or members are important assets that should be handled with care as they utilize their skills. Without them, what was the use of a faction? And she was right… she always was the logic in simple things and that manage to lessen Megatron's tendency to offline what he thoughts as 'useless' mechs.)

They were coming up with logical plans and strategies as they prove their hidden or undiscovered tact in war planning. How come does the lord don't know of this? Well, to tell you the truth, they all don't know either. Maybe this was just a onetime thing or that they had spent so much time already with the femme to get their processors finally start functioning.

Amusement filled Starscream's processor at the relay of events. Just one femme… and they all had bent like a pole as peace was given back to them... like there was no fight for survival even happening.

That peace was cut off though as a loud booming voice of a certain expected mech came from the other side of their quarters.

"Starscream! You fragging seeker…" The Con was growling and was fairly holding onto the last wire he has left in order not to shoot the door down. Even if he did though, the seekers knew that would remain fruitless. "Where is the location of the femme?! You scrap metal seekers were supposed to have deposited her to the medic once he got here before anything else." Sounds of cannons activating had reached the trine's audio receptors as they stared at the door.

Starscream had snickered as he heard shouts of surprise and someone moaning in pain, guessing that the door had done its job to deflect any attacks made on it. Skywarp looked uneasy on the end of their berth as Thundercracker scowled at their leader.

"Sky, just give Shein to Barricade for now… She hasn't fully recovered yet if you look at her… And Star! Just think about Shein for a nanoklik here… Get your processor defrag and let Barricade in…" He scowled at both of his brother's actions. He was like talking to the walls for the past earth hour. Nothing gets through them!

The banging only got louder and louder making the femme fall out of her slumber. That made Starscream scowl towards the door as Skywarp scoop the drowsy femme into his servo. Once she got out of rubbing her tired eyes, Thundercracker was the first thing she saw.

"TC? Who is banging at the door today?" She asked as she sat up. Suddenly, a shout of her for the Leader Seeker came from a familiar voice that seem to get her attention.

"Umm… Guys… Why is 'Cade furious and banging on the door this time?" Her eyes were now wide awake as her right eyebrow rise from its normal perch on her forehead.

"Oh Primus, Shein! Put some sense into them, please… Ol' Barricade there had been doing it a few kliks before you woke up. Thanks to your newly enhanced force field door, the mech hasn't gotten in." He informed in distress but only got a smirk at from his only savior.

"Then the field is functioning excellently? Good, good! How many hits has it sustained? How strong were those hits? Did you manage to get me some data to analyze? How many newtons do you think it had sustained already?" The femme had spouted eagerly, ending the only hope Thundercracker had. Shein had gone sicientist-inventor mode again on them, forgetting the fact that it was her guardian mech that was lashing outside doing what she calls 'test run' on the door.

Not long, the wall next to the door suddenly exploded to nothing. This was what Thundercracker was fearing… The femme's inventions always has a loop whole in them even if they are strong, efficient and effective. It only had secured the door… not the wall holding it.

When the dust cleared… there they saw a really angry mech ready to offline them. He stomped loudly, denting the path he was stomping on as he got closer and closer with a feral growl coming from his vocals. He shove Starscream harshly to the side and stopped in front of Skywarp who held the femme he has been looking for. His eyes glared at the mech as his servo extended in order to signal the other to surrender the femme to him but the violet seeker didn't.

Shein who was sulking about her device had no intention of moving as her head remained downwards with a pout on her face. Her arms were crossed as her body slackened.

Her mood though was not the center of attraction for now as the Mustang's eyes remained focus on the other mech.

"Give. Her. To. Me… NOW!" He shouted loudly as his arm started to transform into his cannon. Starscream was not just going to stand there and let one of them be treated like scrap so he had launched his self at the mech. Thundercracker face palmed (another thing he had inherited from Shein) at the sight before him as Barricade tried to get his brother off of him. He had went to help get off the other seeker off but only got socked in the face plates. Skywarp put down the mech to help his fallen brother but that only got him involve into the fight.

Shein couldn't help laugh at them seeing that Cade was fighting three seekers at once. Starscream was latched at his back as Skywarp was held in the face plates by her guardian's right servo. Thundercracker was infront of him but couldn't move because of the servo holding him by the neck joint. Three seeker versus one grounder… Their antics always amused her to no end.

When she got suddenly scooped up by another servo, she yelp in surprise. It was Hook! He was here and he looks quite not in the mood for playing jokes and stuff…

He took out his crowbar and hit all the mech in front of them while yelling, "One simple fragging command… and you can't even do it! You slagging mechs fighting like sparklings! None of you are to see the femme until I say so, capeche!" All four mechs were propped on the ground with large dents that would surely take time before it could be fixed again. Barricade cursed silent as he followed Hook's form.

The medic left the room through the door after finishing his main business (that was getting his patient) as the femme giggled on the way. She waved them goodbye though before completely disappearing with the medic. Only those mechs at the door remained as evil glints flashed in their red optics seeing their most precious mech that was eating their every last piece of patience they had in their frames.

They stared at the one and only seeker that they had set upon their attention to for now. That seeker needed to pay them dearly. Frag whatever thought that Shein may get from them off lining the seeker… at least they had planned earlier… How right was their timing in deciding their plan of action... Hopefully, once their medic release Shein, they would be far as possible from there. They advance on their prey as they saw Barricade smirked and kicked the seeker towards them.

Starscream had managed to growl at Barricade before it turned into screams. Thundercracker had no spark to help him as he completely pass by them to follow the femme to the Med Bay and get the dent out before it damage something in him more. Skywarp was also lucky because before the police Con could get a hold of him again, he had warped out.

Poor Starscream… Screamed all the way to Cybertron…

(( "Hey… did you hear that?" Samuel asked his guardian as he paused half way from entering Bee.

"What is it? I don't hear anything Sam…" The yellow mech said as he too paused in mid sentence about what was going on at the NEST base with Mearing at their backs 24/7.

"I think I heard Screamer…uhhmmm, scream…" He said unsurely before shaking his head with a small smile. "Nah… Maybe I'm just thinking too much about what you reported me that time…" His smile turned sad as he sighed dejectedly like Optimus before getting in fully and strapping his seat belts on.

"Don't worry, Sam. We'll get her back. Once we do… we are not going to lose her again…" The youngling said in determination as he drove away to their next destination while playing something on his stereo that has a message of not giving up. Sam smiled at this but sadly, it could do only so much to ease his tension.

"Yeah… I only hope that they didn't traumatize her too much…" Sam bashed his forehead on the wheel knowing full well and remembering his experience with getting captured by the Decepticon Leader and getting his brains probed at with a robotic centipede. That was still gross in terms of getting into his mouth to just come out to another place of pure yuckiness… ))

As Shein and Hook walking down the hallways… They could here screams and louder brawling noises coming from the direction they had come from. This made the femme grow edgy and worried.

Shein looked back and said, "Hook—" but got cut off by the said mech as he growled loudly.

"No… You are not going anywhere near the others until I say so, so shut up and stay put." He glowered at her as he took haste in getting to their destination. He had glared all the way to the med bay with her staying still in his servo after taking a glance and sending a prayer to whoever mech that was she failed to protect for the mean time. She promised to make it up to him when she finds out who it was but she doesn't have to think guessing that it was Starscream who had been suffering.

She cringed at the thought of what her guardian was doing earlier… he was serious… He was going to offline Star… She silently sniffed and wiped a tear as she got a glimpse of the medic looking at her. She decided to direct the topic away from it and just open the last thing she remembers Hook was doing… Opening something like that always get the medic hype up.

"So… How was your mission with Blackout and Brawl?" She started as she looked up to him. Her neck was unexpectedly sore though but she guessed it was because of sleeping on Sky's servo again without a pillow.

Hook raised an optic ridge at her after she asked that. That mission with those two was already two months ago… Why was she asking that when she already knew of what had happened? She was even the one to rescue them with Barricade and Frenzy in tow after following the girl to the Dirt Ball again (Earth). They had gotten caught by the Autobots that time. She was the only reason why he was still online today… Why did she not know?

His processor raised in alarm as he accessed the data he has been gathering since the femme got caught by the other faction. He had sworn to be able to help her by all means even if he had to learn what those insects are from inside and out. His knowledge now on her grew.

When he had accessed one file about neuro activity, he had found it. This was also the only reason that had came up into his mind… He only wanted confirmation about this… It was confirmed…

The girl has lost her memories.

She has Amnesia.

But is that really the only extent of her memory loss? He had feared that she may have suffered from it since that day. Maybe that was the reason why the femme hadn't come back to them after her first week of healing? Maybe this was because the Autobots had knew her… She had been brainwashed like what those other humans do with their own…

He has to find out the truth when they get to his Med Bay… He cursed silently as he thought of his work getting harder and harder ever since…

And when I was about to get to the climax, I stop. Even though I am taking a long leave. Please stay tuned and leave a review. It would be awesome to get back with lots of them.!

I'll come back, an author's promise.

...Dreamer OFF

To Be Continued...