Alright I am getting this moving to make sure I have time to keep doing this.

Chapter 4

Well you see…

Frank inhaled slowly as he felt the tension grow between the two. He was the observer of their history and frankly- no pun intended- he was kind of scared. Serenity shot a death glare at the prime which he kindly returned.

"You're such a baby." She hissed to him.

Shit.

"I do not forgive those who insult me." He snapped back.

Serenity handed her father the files while attempting not to look at the prime. While he did make her mad, she had to admit the man was pretty attractive. She avoided looking at him while waiting for her father to tell her what to do next. Optimus looked at her while she waited. He had to admit that she was rather lovely for a brat. Her hair seemed like reddish gold as the light glared at it.

"Yay! The reports are in, go fix the cams on the new vehicles and then inspect the new guys." Frank said putting a hand on her back and shoving her away. "Cranky-saurus Rex here has a lot of work to do so let's not talk to each other at all!"

There was a sudden shaking which caused Serenity to lean forward. Optimus caught her and looked to Frank who was already sporting a death glare.

"Twins." They both stated.

"Twins?" Serenity asked in confusion looking up at Optimus.

"Which set did you think did it?" Frank asked looking to the door.

"Sides and Sunny." Prime said. "They are the only ones I could think of that could mess up the Mechanical Bay."

"Please tell me you're joking." Serenity muttered.

"Afraid not." Optimus said looking at her. "We should go see the damage." He let go of her and headed back to the Mechanical Bay with the two humans quickly behind him. Serenity bit her lip slightly afraid of what she was getting into. Her first weeks had been relatively easy seeing as not much was needed to be done but now she was beginning to wonder if that would be the case for the rest of her life.

The doors opened revealing a rather messy area. Serenity held back a growl as she looked at the damage that was done. She walked forward but stopped by Optimus who had stuck his hand out. She looked at the leader with a glare.

"The perpetrators will appear." He stated point at two young men gagging at the smoke.

"Who are they?" she asked the two older men.

"Sideswipe and Sunstreaker; they're the idiots who do all the big pranks." Frank said. "What's their punishment going to be this time, Boss?"

"I am not sure." Optimus said. "They still don't understand after going to the brig." The Prime side and punched his nose. "What am I going to do with those two morons?"

"Perhaps taking away what they love the most?" Serenity suggested.

Optimus looked at her when she spoke. "How does that work?"

"A bunch of psychological mumbo jumbo that my parents use. Why do you think we don't go out and do stupid stuff? Me and the others have stuff we consider more valuable than rebellion." She said.

"That could work. Take away their guns and exo skeletons and they'll probably behave." Frank noted as two young men slowly approached them with nervous grins.

"Hey boss…" the blond one began.

"Twins…" he began. "I have decided to take you two off battle duty for a while."

"Optimus!" They cried.

"You will have two weeks of solitary confinement and then after that you will report to Frank and his daughter to work as their assistants until further notice." He said in a tone that made clear that the decision was final.

"Why would you send us to work for Frank?" Sides asked.

"You're not my subordinates. You're going to work for Serenity." Frank said.

"Why am I being punished?" Serenity cried.

"Prime this is a joke right." Sunny asked eyeing the strawberry blonde.

"Frank?"

"I'm not dealing with them again. I'm pretty sure that Sere can handle them."

Serenity became silent while internally screaming. How dare those two dump these two on me! I'm barely going to complete a month here. I will kill them. She glared at the twins and then walked off to look at the damage.

"Ah fudge nuggets." She muttered. "They even screwed up all the cars I fixed." She took a deep breath then looked to the four men who were engrossed in conversation. She sighed at damage and took another look.

"Ugh, put these asshats on cleaning duty while you're at it. They screwed up the entire deck." She called.

"You heard her." Prime said leaving.

"I thought you hated her!" Sides cried.

"I hate you two more." Prime called out waving a hand at them.

The twins stared at each other and then at the strawberry blonde girl. Serenity stood there with little emotion on her face. She felt dizzy from the smoke and she could feel her chest begin to tighten. While she knew what she was risking, she would not show weakness to the two trouble making twins.

Frank looked between the twins and Serenity unsure of whether or not to follow Optimus. He kept his eyes on Serenity in fear that she would collapse at any moment given her condition. He could see that she was beginning to breathe at an uneven pace which caused him to worry.

"Twins, go to Prowl for cleaning supplies, Optimus has probably sent a comm by now." He said walking towards Serenity.

The two twins sighed and made their way out of the Mechanical Bay. Frank watched them before looking at Serenity.

"You want to go take a break?" He asked, "It's our lunch time…"

Before he could finish Serenity collapsed onto him and said, "I... I can't… need… air…"

Frank picked her up bridal style feeling his panic levels rising and tried to keep calm. If I take her to Ratchet then I can find out exactly what that thing did to her… but then… how will they take it that the weapon is inside of her…He took a deep breath and began to run to the med bay.

"Ratchet!" he yelled when he came upon the door. "Open up! I need your help!"

The door opened up. "What… oh my…" Ratchet said looking down at the girl. "What happened?"

"She collapsed…" He said trying to keep his cool. "Could you inspect her…? I suspect this has been going on for a while…"

"Lay her down and I will begin a blood test." Ratchet said showing them to a medical cot immediately. "What triggered this?"

"I don't know." He replied. "I noticed her breathing was off and I thought it was from the twin's prank but then she fell… but I have a theory and you might not like it." Frank put Serenity on cot and looked Ratchet directly in the eye. "I think it has something to do with the weapon."

"The weapon…" Ratchet repeated with wide eyes. "I thought it was lost long ago in that freak accident."

"I did, too. It reappeared around the time Serenity was three and merged itself with her but because of reasons that I was afraid to speak of… I did not tell anyone." He said biting his lip. "She had a type of cancer that is incurable and when that happened… she was healed, her doctor was shocked… but we made a deal to keep it secret."

"You mean that our weapon saved your child?" the medic repeated taking a seat. "I understand now. You brought her here because you wanted me to inspect her?"

"Yes. I have been trying to find a way to bring her here for a while; now is better than never." Frank said.

"Frank you have to inform Optimus…"

"Inform me of what?" Optimus' voice cut through the room.

"Ah. You're going to be royally pissed but um you remember the weapon? It seems that it merged with my daughter around the time she had an incurable cancer and the actual reason I brought her here was because I needed Doc over here to check on her." Frank said with a big nervous smile.

"Frank, you're not funny." Optimus said crossing his arms.

"I wish I was trying to be funny, but Prime I am dead serious." He said.

"When exactly were you planning to tell me this?" He cried.

"Ah well that day when that thing that got you pissed at Sere kind of made me a bit unsure of how to break the news to you and since you wanted to know nothing of her no matter how hard I tried that whole week I just kind of gave up and resorted to this!" He said looking between the more than likely comatose girl and the very angry Prime.

"Ratchet… see what the weapon is doing to the girl." Optimus ordered giving Frank a glare. "You better hope it's nothing serious."

"I'm praying that it isn't…" he muttered looking away.

Ah so you now know why Serenity was brought to work at NEST :D but don't expect romance anytime soon. We still need the humor! Critiques and commentary are always welcome :D