*Chapter 3! Yay! It's coming along!*

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The femme watched as the ship got sucked in by the planets gravity and eventually started barreling though the atmosphere, catching fire as it sped its way closer to the ground. She grit her teeth and let out a yell as she pulled back on the controls, trying to ease her landing "This won't be it... IT WONT!" She yelled out as the ship crashed and everything went dark.

The Decepticon Warship*

Things were going normal for a night on the ship. Most of the soldiers were in their rooms recharging for the next day. Megatron sat quietly at the front of his control room, himself recharging in his throne.

Meanwhile Soundwave stood in front of his lab computer, going over some different matters and occasionally looking over the ships cameras. Suddenly a bright red screen popped up, showing an object entering the atmosphere and crashing down towards the ground. Around that same time, the Decepticon Medic Knockout walked by and glanced at the screen "hmm...what do you have there Soundwave?"

The silent bot pointed to the object, looking back at the medic who hummed "probably just a meteor...Earth gets a lot of tho-" he was cut off by the computer beeping, popping up evidence of a life form spark inside the object "a life form?? Hmm. I haven't heard of any visitors coming. Maybe it's an Autobot. Can you identify the spark reading?" He glanced at Soundwave who turned, typing some codes in then shaking his head "hmm...I better wake Lord Megatron and let him know" the medic turned, making his way to the throne. He paused in front of the leader, watching his sleep. A shiver of fear rolled down his back, knowing he hated being awoken but knew he'd be even more upset over not being told of a new Cybertronian visitor "uh...mmhmm...Lord Megatron? We have something you might wanna look at.." she tapped the massive bots shoulder and within a few second his optics flickered on, burning red and he glanced at the medic with a growl "You know better than to wake me from my slumber!"

The medic swallowed hard and looked over at Soundwave "but sir...we found something...there's been a cybertronian who crashed onto Earth.." The Decepticon leader raised an eyebrow then slowly stood, rubbing his head "I wasn't aware of any Decepticon visitors...were you able to get a spark reading?"

Knockout shook his head and lead him over to the computer "the ship is cloaked and as soon as it crashed the spark reading vanished. Whoever it is May have offlined in the crash.. but I can go check to make sure, in case they survived" The leader studied the screen a moment then hummed, replaying back the video of the ship entering. He scanned the image then his eyes widened "that's a ship from Cybertron...there's life from the planet... GO! See who it is!" He barked out suddenly, making the medic jump then nod "yes sir! Soundwave open a groundbridge for me"

A few soldiers followed the medic through the bridge, disappearing to the other side.

Autobots POV*

Upon arriving to the crash site first, the small group of Autobots transformed and looked over at the burning ship. Optimus narrowed his eyes then grunted softly "Ratchet are you seeing this?" Back at base, the medic nodded, watching the live feed of the site "that's a Cybertronian ship...specifically one from the Autobot Med Unit...I didn't know any bots were still on Cybertron"

Optimus shook his head "I didn't either" he stepped forward towards the ship, glancing at the tail end of it "are you still getting a spark reading?" The older medic scanned around and shook his head "not anymore. Maybe we just picked up on the ship itself. Or maybe it was a suicide ship"

The Prime stopped in his tracks and groaned softly, rubbing his chest as it ached softly, almost pulling him towards the ship. Bumblebee noticed and looked over "Optimus are you ok??" He buzzed, making the bigger mech nod "yes Bumblebee... I'm just feeling something..." he narrowed his eyes, circling around the front of the ship before grunting as his eyes landed upon the femme in the pilot seat. He froze in shock for a few seconds, causing the others to run around and gasp at the sight too "Ratchet! Prepare the groundbridge and MedBay! We have an Autobot!" He yelled out as he ripped the windshield of the ship off, carefully pulling the limp femme from the seat.

As he did, the Decepticon groundbridge opened, letting Knockout and the soldiers jump through. Upon seeing the Autobots already there, the medic sighed and stopped in his tracks "how are you so fast to these..." his eyes landed upon the bot in Primes arms and did a quick scan over her "hmm...seems like we were both too late anyway..." his vision fanatically checked her over for an ensigna but the combination of bandages and energon dripping her made it impossible to tel with side she was from "no matter... if that was an Autobot we can go ahead and make a graveyard right here with all of you!" He yelled out and ran forward, causing the soldiers behind him to follow and begin shooting at the group.

Optimus turned and shielded the femme from the fire as he took off running the other way "Ratchet! Open the groundbridge! Now!" As the words left his lips the bridge opened in front of him, letting him run through. The rest stood for a second, shooting back for a few seconds before turning and making their way through the portal, letting it close behind them and leaving an aggravated Decepticon group behind.

As Optimus entered the room, Ratchet urged him over from the MedBay "hurry..over here" his eyes looked over the crumpled form and watched at Optimus laid her down, looking at the energon on his arms "she's losing a lot of energon.." The medic quickly took over, taking in the sight of the femme, realization slowly setting in as he made his way up to her head. He paused for a second, in pure shock and shook his head "how the fuck...primus...Optimus I know who this is!" He looked up at the leader who leaned down and took a look over her too, taking a moment before his eyes narrowed "No...I thought she was gone..."

Arcee poked her way behind Optimus and tried to get a good look at the body on the bed "I'm sorry..did you say 'she' ? As in another femme?" She tried to contain her excitement in her voice as she glanced up at the Prime "yes Arcee...it's a femme...one who I've known for quite some time..."

Ratchet shook his head off and growled "ok ok enough! Back up and let me work! Someone go get me some energon cubes! And the rest of you back off and let me work!" He yelled out as he began to patch up the injured femme, trying to fight his thoughts : I thought she was dead too...how in the world did she find her way here?? How is she even alive???:

a few hours later*

Ratchet emerged from the MedBay, the sound of machines beeping behind him echoed and his hands stained with her energon. He let out a heavy sigh "she's alive...somehow... but she's patched up and I've put her in a forced recharge. She'll wake up when she's ready. Optimus I need to speak with you privately" he motioned over to the Prime and started walking down the hallway, letting the larger mech catch up and their voices trailing off as they walked away.

Ratchet shook his head "I assume you remember her too?" The larger mech nodded "I do...I thought she was dead after she was captured. But...I guess I knew deep down she wasn't since I never felt her Matrix go out" Ratched hummed and nodded "I was about to say that...she's still got it...I think that's the only reason she survived. That's gonna be a heck of a story to explain to the rest though. All our lives we've been taught there's only been one Matrix of Leadership. Created by Primus himself..."

Optimus nodded and closed his eyes "yes... do you expect her to make a full recovery? She'd be a most needed warrior on the field with us"

"as long as she takes the time to heal...then yes... but you know her as well as I...getting her to sit still is the hardest part" a small chuckle escaped from his lips, making the prime smirk a bit "I know you two have a bit of a...history.... together... in fact...I heard rumors that you two had a sparkling..."

Ratchet stopped for a moment then sighed and nodded "hmm...yes...I suppose those rumors are true... though I imagine that sparkling is long gone...I doubt the Decepticons would let her carry all the way through. I even checked her system and it looks like they did a number to it... to the point I don't think she'll be able to carry another...which is a big blow to our kind..." Optimus let out a comforting hum and placed a servo on the doctors shoulder "I know... not many femmes are left and it especially hurts the ones you care about. She will be ok, she's in the best medical attention possible" he and the medic exchanged a small smile then turned, making their way back to the main room.

*Ouuu it's getting HAWT in here. Just a *sprinkle* of drama and a *sprinkle* of this and that.