I saw a blue sun for the first time with three rings in a starry sky. It watched over me as I treaded its world. I walked an endless field of metal and flowers, and mountains of reflective spines that touched auroras cradled my field like protective servos. It felt like I was walking on air moving through it.

My digits grazed the growths that changed as I passed. They glowed with dots and stripes, awaking at my touch. Some stretched larger than me when they woke up. Some grew sideways and all over. I wanted to give them some Energon, and a small river of it started to flow towards me. It went underneath my pedes and it tickled. The plants grew a little brighter; they thanked me for my wish.

I saw a white turbofox curled up with a pup, two, three. Their little optics looked at me from over their carrier's tail. And the adult saw me too. It tilted its head funny at me but wasn't scared. I smiled at it.

No matter where I went, everything changed for me, how I wanted it to be. If I wanted a sea of clouds, a bank would roll in for me to run across weightless. If I wanted to run with technohawks and helio-horses, I found I could run as fast as them and faster even. I looked back to see them follow me like I was their leader down to a lake of oil. They drank from the lake, and I laughed when one was bobbing its head happily.

I gazed in the lake to drink for myself...but I saw nothing looking back except the reflection of the blue sun with three rings that was disturbed by ripples.

The oil rippled from the aftermath of a huge explosion as it leaked like a miniature waterfall from its vat. Glass and metal were everywhere. The glass hurt to run over it, and a mech shouted somewhere in the distance.

"Run! Keep going! Run!"

Looking back, there was another explosion. The one who said to run was thrown into a wall when suddenly a pair of red optics belonging to a dark grey chassis stood over him, glaring down before looking up to meet a fearful gaze. Running so fast, it was like being weightless.

There was a yellow sun above.

A red and blue lionator rumbled and stood proudly on the platform near me. It seemed to be calling me. I didn't mind, so I chased it. It ran across a metallic savanna filled with animals of all kinds that paid me no mind. A yellow dieselle and a pink and white nitrotiger watched me hold out my arms and pretend to fly as I ran. Red, blue, and purple cryo-condors sat on branches of metal trees chirping together in a song. And a giant beast, the largest predator I've ever seen of grey and black, let me run beneath it as it blew fire skyward.

A sound of thunder scared them but not me. I knew it couldn't hurt me, so I held out my servo and waited for the lightning to strike. A ball of electricity just bounced in my palm. The animals gathered amazed with their eager calls. I threw it just to see where it would go, what it would do. It exploded and left an array of colors for me to enjoy.

With a pulse of the blue sun with three rings, stars started to burst and reappear to repeat their display. Each burst was a different shape, all familiar, but I loved their colors and brightness. Then they melted together, and there were creatures running in the sky full of stars with galaxies for optics. They left a trail of nebulas to paint the sky.

I heard a shout from one of the animals. The lionator seemed spooked, but I felt some assurance it would be alright from an unknown force.

Scared breaths and whimpers. Moving through the damaged halls to find a way out was the only thing to do. Don't look back.

Running in the clear glass hall had a view unlike anything. Bots battling bots, beasts breathing fire and shooting from large turrets on their back, and a titan crushing a building adjacent with many bodies flying or destroyed. A red and blue mech across a bridge on the other side of the view gestured and missiles flew over the glass hall to hit a titan.

But the only thing that was to be feared was the mech following.

There was a smoky sky with no stars.

I looked up and was face-to-face with two creatures. One was a purple hyenabot and the other was a red rhinoceroid, and they sat with me. I giggled and smiled as the hyenabot like to playfully bite. The rhinoceroid just bumped into me wanting to smash heads. My head wasn't as strong. It left a small ache that disappeared instantly.

They followed me around my world to a field of white that was a little cold. But as I threw a cluster of it up in the air, it trickled down gently like falling glitter. If I had to describe it, it was a wonderland of frozen clouds.

As I wandered a new land that morphed with canyons breaking open and the planet shaking, I saw moons coming out of the horizon and greeting me with twinkling reflections of light. I wanted to walk on the prettiest golden moon coming up, and a gold path was laid out for me to walk up to it.

But as I set foot on this gold moon, I heard sounds echoing around. They weren't happy...but rather panicked and fearful.

Shouts echoed, screams were worse. No one cries for long. There were no noises where the path winds through the building. The sparks and rubble raining on the glass hall disappeared with it.

It was getting darker with flickering lights, sparking wires, and the scent of burning metal. Balance was a luxury as the walls shook from the commotion outside. But no noise down here except the claws that struck the wall and the heavy footfalls chasing.

There was one ring encasing a cracked Autobot symbol above a broken door.

I wasn't the only one there it seemed. I saw another bot my age running in a mirage, laughing as a dark grey cyber-cat chased them. I frowned because the cat seemed so determined and the bot was oblivious to its intentions. But the bot looked familiar. They were so unafraid. The cat caught up to them, and they pet it.

Maybe I wasn't seeing what this bot was. The cyber-cat playfully tagged them, rubbed its face against theirs with a purr and knocked them over as they laughed again. I went around the mirage, tried to reach out and touch it. It was like catching smoke. While the cat played with them, there was nothing to do but watch.

I was distracted by streaks of meteors flying by above me. All of them going one direction towards the unknown. But it wasn't really the unknown. It could be whatever I choose, but that stumped me. What would I choose to see? What did I want to believe?

I felt something on my shoulder, a comforting feeling rushing in. Though I looked back to see what it was, there was nothing there. But when I looked back, there was still a blue sun with three rings watching over me.

Don't look back. Don't look-

A servo found its target. Seeing a wall to a window and then to a mech with a purple glowing insignia in a blur was cause for alarm. This callous mech pushed forward, everything drifts backwards physically until the wall stops motion in its tracks.

"Please...don't hurt me..."

There was little emotion, not a flicker. What was a lie?

"Don't worry, I'm not going to hurt you, little mouse."

There were two rings in the red optics that glowed brighter the closer they got.

I stepped on a restless sea of Energon with oxide sharks all around me. They jumped and circled, but they never snapped at me. Why would they? I reached down to pet one. It looked at me with red optics and flapped its fins to stir up the Energon with a grunt. The sea itself began to churn with a passing storm. It was raining Energon. I had never seen such a phenomenon.

Then it began raining metal parts that when they hit the water, they bloomed instead into floating flowers with a path towards something on the horizon slowly coming out of the mist. I walked towards it and the closer I came, the more the most evaporated to reveal a ship like a star cruiser but it bobbed on the Energon sea with its ramp down awaiting me.

I got on excitedly and watched through a window as it took off to soar over the rest of the sea out of the storm. The land constantly changed. I didn't even care how long I was on the ship as it brought me to a new area and settled on the metallic grass. I got off because I wanted to see the new land before me.

I felt a whirlwind hit me. Pain, pleasure, sadness, and finally tiredness. My body ached in stages, but the pain didn't last long. It started in my abdomen, then my limbs one by one, my chest, and then my head. Once it ran its course, I felt much better. The worst had passed. Now, I was just tired. I was sleepy.

I found a tree to curl under, a roboto-possom hung above me with its many kits. It was sleeping already. My optics felt heavy. All day playing would do that. And all I needed was some rest...

In the dark, no one can see or hear the spark break.

What even would that be? Would it be a sparkling crying until its voice box shattered? Would it be a pup lost in the woods without its carrier? Would it be falling pieces of a broken, used toy left to tumble into the trash heap?

Maybe they will find what remains and put everything back together again...

There were three rings orbiting a planet as a symbol on the ground covered in scattered, discarded parts and tainted with Energon.

When I awoke, the ship was gone. It had served its purpose.

I yawned and stretched before I heard voices occasionally. I finally stood up to see more of this land. I followed a stream of Energon to a waterfall and from its edge, a mythical valley awaited me. Among types of animals were thirteen spirits of different aura colors roaming about. They smiled at me, waved at me like they had known me since forever.

I rode the Energon flowing down, laughing as a part of it twisted to raise up like a slide and sent me flying into the arms of a mech of dark orange and camo green with five blue optic lenses and a blue aura. There was a beastformer with magnificent wings and an equus lower body, a blue and red mech with different structures of limbs and hidden weapons on his back, and there was even a horned black and orange mech who smiled sweetly despite his imposing nature.

The valley was filled with flowers, my animal friends, the rivers ran wild, and there was still the sky so full of stars and wonder. The land was covered in bio lights and symbols, a combination of everything I had seen and more. I had a new family. And overlooking the land and all in it including me, there was one friend who was out of reach, but its warm rays were comforting. Its voices were beautiful.

I saw a blue sun with three rings, and I knew that I was safe and loved now.

AN: We hear about the grand escapes, the epic fights and how cool they were, but you have to wonder who was caught in the crossfire. Who suffered you don't see behind the scenes. And despite your favorite characters being great, what did they do in that war that you don't know? I was inspired by The Lovely Bones and thought what would someone's perspective be who wasn't a part of the epic side of the Transformers? What would it look like? What would come of it?