-That night-

Echo walked out of the hospital, stretching her arms. She looked around for Bluestreak.

"Hello!" Bluestreak walked up with a cube of energon.

"Hello Bluestreak." He held the cube out to her.

"I figure you don't get much of a break to get energon."

"Thanks." Echo took it and smiled.

"Do you have somewhere we can talk?" She nodded and walked down the street.

"My house isn't too far from here. We can go there." Bluestreak ran to catch up to her. They walked to one of the neighborhoods close to the hospital.

"What did you do in the war Echo?" asked Bluestreak. He didn't like the silence between the two of them.

"Hm? Oh I was a private medic for half the war, I worked on my research, and I was a medic for the Wreckers."

"Sounds busy."

"It was pretty busy." They arrived at her house and she punched in the code and walked in.

"Come in." She sat down on the couch and yawned.

"What did you want to talk about?" She looked at him as she sipped on the cube. He sat down beside her.

"Well…Us." Echo finished the cube and tossed it into the waste bin.

"How so?"

"Well…we never really talked about it before. We left it unresolved that night. I want to know if you see it going any further! I like you! I would like to be in a relationship! But if you don't that's ok but I don't want to see anyone else because we have matching destiny marks. It'd feel wrong and I-" Echo put her servo over his mouth. Bluestreak blushed sheepishly.

"I was rambling again."

"Yes you were." She turned to look at him.

"Bluestreak I wouldn't mind a relationship."

"Really?" He jumped up and smiled at her.

"Yes." His arms went around her and he hugged her.

"That makes me so happy!" Echo chuckled and patted his helm softly and hugged back.

"I'm glad it does."

"Echo can I tell you something?"

"Sure. What is it?"

"When I first met you at that bar all those years ago, I knew you were special. I don't know how I could tell but I could."

"Oh really?" She looked at him and he rested his helm on her shoulder.

"Yeah. Maybe it's a destiny marks thing. Maybe it was my spark. I don't know." He cupped her cheek and looked at her. Her optics were wide and she looked at him, blinking.

"I'm sorry. That sounds weird."

"No. It doesn't. It was most likely both," she said blankly. Bluestreak looked at her.

"What do you mean?"

"Well I do studies on things like this. It happens often in bots who have matching destiny marks. They feel a connection. That's what we felt." He smiled and hugged her.

-A few months later-

"Stupid Glitch!" Optimus looked towards Nova's room and raised an optic ridge. He stood up and walked to the door. He heard Nova and Luna talking.

"Why would she do that? Why is she so bitter?! It's not like it's your fault for her sire dying! Everyone knows what happened to him! He was gutted by humans and used as a puppet! This was a cruel evil trick!"

"Luna you need to calm down. You're making a big deal out of it."

"I am not making a big deal of it! She hurt you! Both ways!"

"You're making it sound like she forced herself on me or something, stop it."

"She might of!" Nova sighed.

"Just…keep it quiet. Ok?"

"I guess."

"Brother. Brother wake up." Megatron felt someone sitting on his chest plates. His optics opened and his ruby optics met a pair of green ones.

"Finally. I was wondering when you were going to wake up." His optics adjusted to the light and the mech grinned. Megatron recognized him. But where from? He had yellow and orange armor and his frame seemed somewhat frail and weak.

"Sunburst?"

"Duh." Sunburst stood up and hopped off the berth.

"What's going on? You're offline…" Megatron sat up as something dawned on him.

"Am I offline?" Sunburst turned around and looked at him.

"What? Offline? No. Well. Not quite. More like a coma."

"A coma? Then why am I sitting here talking to you?" His little brother opened his mouth to reply but stopped and thought to himself for a bit. He grinned.

"Think of me sort of like a guardian angel. Your body is at the point of offlining so I'm here to ask if you want to wake up or if you want to offline." A small sad smile replaced the grin the orange and yellow bot had been wearing.

"But before you decide, I want to spend time with my big brother again." Megatron stood up and went to his younger brother's side.

"Ok."

"Great."

Megatron watched his brother rest his helm on his lap. Silence filled the room and Sunburst looked up at Megatron.

"Tell me. How did you end up in this situation?"

"There's a crazy femme who is too jealous for her own good and would do anything to keep me away from Optimus. Including murder." Sunburst frowned and sighed. Megatron put a servo to his helm and sighed.

"Just trying to comprehend the reasons behind her madness give me a processor ache."

"I don't understand it either." Sunburst sat up.

"Oh! There's one last thing I need to do before you make your decision." He hopped to his pedes and pulled on Megatron's arm.

"Come on you big lug! Get up! Quickly!" Megatron stood up quickly and his brother pulled him out of the room. They were suddenly in the med bay of the Nemesis.

"I want to show you what's going on." They looked over to where Megatron's body rested. He was connected to spark support and Knockout was by his berth watching a monitor. His sparkbeat was loud in the silence of the room.

"Well Megatron. Better than yesterday. Ratchet was able to destroy the virus. Now you just need to wake up. Don't pull this on us. We need you alive." Knockout sighed and wrote on a datapad before walking to the door. Megatron watched.

"Optimus and those kids of yours need you. Don't you dare think about offlining." The cherry red mech walked out and the door shut behind him. They stood in silence. After several minutes the door opened again. They both looked to the door. Nova walked in with Atlas on her hip and a data pad in her hand. Atlas babbled noisily and chewed on his stuffed turbo wolf's ear. The femme shushed him softly and walked over to the berth before sitting on the chair beside it. Megatron was a bit shocked. Atlas had grown so much. How long had he been like this? How long had it been since that day that he slipped into his coma?

"Hey daddy. I know it's late but I managed to slip away while taking care of Atlas for mama while he works on the rest of the plans for Kaon. I can't stay long." Kaon? Not Praxus? Had the plans been finished? Nova sniffled a bit.

"I know it's been an earth year now but I know you're still in there somewhere. And you need to wake up."