Sideswipe walked through the halls of the Ark.
It was late at night and Sideswipe had landed with the night shift, he was all to happy with this however.
It gave him time to think, he remembered a time that he would use this time to set up a prank on an unsuspecting victim, that just wasn't him anymore.
Ever since Sunstreaker had died in battle Sideswipe had tried to be more mature and responsible like Sunstreaker once was.
With Sunny dead and Ratchet having left the Autobots Sideswipe also shouldered the responsibility of taking care of their younger brother Red Alert, a duty he took very seriously.
Suddenly Sideswipe felt an uneasy feeling growing in the bond he had with Red, a couple of moments later he arrived outside Red Alert's room and walked in.
Red Alert was lying on his berth asleep but he was twitching and thrashing a bit in his sleep.
Closing the door Sideswipe sat down next to Red Alert and gently shook him.
"Red, Red, come on little bro wake up." Sideswipe said while shaking Red Alert trying to wake him up.
After a couple of minutes Red Alert woke up with a frightened wail and Sideswipe instantly hugged him close.
"Easy, easy." Sideswipe murmured nuzzling Red slightly.
His only response was a whimper.
After a couple of minutes Red Alert looked up at Sideswipe, his baby blue optics were sparkling with tears.
"S-Side sorry if I woke you up." Red Alert mumbled.
"Hey it's fine, I was awake anyway, what's wrong baby brother." Sideswipe said rubbing Red Alert's back with one of his hands.
"Bad dream." Red Alert mumbled.
"You want to talk about it?" Sideswipe asked.
Red Alert just shook his head.
"Anything I can do?" Sideswipe asked.
"I don't think so, I think they just need to go away on their own." Red Alert said.
"You sure?" Sideswipe asked uncertain.
Red Alert nodded.
Sideswipe sighed, he didn't like this at all, Red was his little brother, the one he had swore to protect since childhood, but if Red Alert said he was fine, Sideswipe decided he should trust Red.
"Alright, I don't like it, but alright then, but if you need me, you come straight to me okay." Sideswipe said.
"Okay, goodnight." Red Alert said nodding.
"Goodnight." Sideswipe said leaving and closing the door behind him.
Over the next couple of days Red Alert did not seem to be getting any better but no matter how many times Sideswipe or others asked if he was okay he said yes.
After a couple of days Sideswipe decided to take matters into his own hands.
That night Sideswipe dodged several seeker patrols until he reached the place he intended.
It was a large bunker Optimus and a few others had found, but who was inside was more important.
He walked in and saw the several injured mechs that took refuge there.
He was then greeted by ex-Decepticon Impactor.
Impactor was a friend of Ratchet and he got along well with him and Red Alert as well.
"Hello Sideswipe." Impactor greeted.
"Hey Impactor, have you seen my sire anywhere?" Sideswipe asked.
"Yeah, he's over there." Impactor said pointing.
Sideswipe nodded and went over.
"Hey sire." Sideswipe greeted.
"Oh, hello Sideswipe, is Red Alert with you, he said he was going to come over yesterday but he never showed up." Ratchet said.
"Sire we need to talk, it's about Red." Sideswipe said.
"Go on." Ratchet said nodding.
"Well Red has been getting a lot of nightmares lately and I was wondering if you could help me stop them." Sideswipe said.
"Say no more." Ratchet said.
Red Alert was running in an awful misty black place.
Suddenly the body of Inferno popped up in front of him but it was awful, it was covered in rust and glared down at Red.
Red Alert yelped and dodged out the way, after running more he ran into the body of Sunstreaker which was just as awful as Inferno.
"AHH." Red Alert yelped stepping back.
Suddenly a massive Megatron that towered over the buildings appeared laughing evily.
"Autobot your time has come be prepared to meet your maker." Megatron said laughing at Red Alert.
Red Alert took a few steps back and Megatron advanced.
"YOU CANNOT GET AWAY RED ALERT." Megatron yelled starting to crush Red Alert with his giant foot.
"NOO." Red Alert yelled.
"NOO." Red Alert yelled jolting awake, he was panting like he'd run a mile and he felt that way to.
Ratchet knelt down next to him and put a comforting hand on his shoulder.
"It's okay Red, it was just another nightmare." Ratchet said.
"It was the same one sire, a giant Megatron was chasing me through this really awful place." Red Alert said.
Ratchet thought for a moment then an idea clicked in his head.
"If you have that nightmare again, just imagine me there to fight the giant Megatron." Ratchet said.
"I'll try, thanks sire." Red Alert said lying down.
Ratchet smiled and got up and walked over to Sideswipe who had been watching in the doorway.
"He'll be okay, let him get some sleep." Ratchet said.
"Thanks for coming sire, I didn't know what to do about the nightmares, I thought since he respects you so-." Sideswipe said.
"Forget it we all need to learn to face our fears." Ratchet said.
"Goodnight he said before leaving.
Sideswipe looked at the now peacefully sleeping Red Alert and left gently closing the door behind him.
For the first time in days Red Alert didn't have any nightmares.