3rd Person POV
Ironhide stalks toward the main room, angry that Starfire would keep something important from him. As he entered the room, Optimus and Elita-1 where conversing quietly. After a moment or two, Ironhide decides to tell them what Star had told him. 'After all, they deserved to know what happened to their other child', he told himself, bitter towards Star. As he approached the couple, they turned to face him.

"Ironhide", Optimus spoke, authority in his voice. "Do you know why Starfire is so upset?"

Ironhide growls. "Of course I do! After all, how could she not be upset when she's the one who killed her own brother?" His voice was mocking Star.

Optimus and Elita shared a glance. "What do you mean 'she's the one who killed her own brother?' She told me that it was a gang that he got involved with that killed him", Elita spoke gently, softly.

Ironhide huffed and clenched his fists. "Ha! She told you the same lie she told me at first! Yeah, right, he joined that stupid gang! She's the one who joined it. She's the one who got him killed by that stupid gang!"

Optimus and Elita shared another glance before nodding at each other.

"Ironhide, remain here. We will go and get the full story from Starfire, seeing as you are too angry to give us the full story", Optimus speaks. All Ironhide does is nod and lean against the wall, still fuming with anger that she lied to him. He still loves her of course, but he was oh so very angry. His processor ran in circles as he tried to figure out why she had lied to him. But for the life of him, he could not figure it out.

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Elita knocks on the door that led to where her daughter was hiding. When there came no response, she opened the door and found her daughter laying on the floor, passed out. She also noticed the tear streaks along her faceplate.

"Oh, Star...", Elita says as she enters the room, Optimus following her. His optics softened when he saw his daughter laying on the floor. He could feel the sparkbreak emanating from her spark. He sighs softly before walking forward and picking her up, holding her in my arms as he sits on her berth.

He held her gently and Elita sits next to him, gently rubbing Star's helm. They both tensed up though, when Star suddenly starts yelling in her sleep.

"No, no, no. Miechel. Miechel!! No!! You can't die, you can't!! Please! Don't leave me alone... I don't want to be alone... Please... you're my only family left... Don't leave me!!" There was a moment of silence before spoke again. "Miechel!!! Please don't go!! Please!! I love you, brother!! Don't leave me!!"

Optimus and Elita share a look of horror and they realize who she was yelling about. Soon, she starts struggling to get away from Optimus hold.

"Let go of me!! Let go!!" She had woken up but she hadn't realized it yet.

"Shh. It's alright, Star... You're safe", cooed Elita, repeating it a few times until Star had finally calmed down. She saw who was holding her and she saw who else was in the room and she just started sobbing as she curled into her father's chest.

"I couldn't save him!! It was all my fault!!" She was sobbing uncontrollably now.

"Shh... No one blames you for his death", Elita coos as she sends an abundance of comfort over the bond. Star felt it and began to calm down slightly.

"Star... Can you tell us what happened to Silverburst?" Optimus needed to know.

Star nods and tells them what she had told Ironhide and they both comfort her exceedingly but there was still a ton of pain left in her and her parental units could feel it. They shared a glance, confused, but soon realized why she was still feeling so much pain.

"We need to go talk to Ironhide, would you like to come with us?" Elita knew that Star needed to talk to Ironhide.

"No... He hates me... he has ever since he found out how my brother died...", she mumbles. Elita and Optimus share another glance before standing up.

"After we're done talking to him, we'll send him over to you, okay?" Elita knew that her daughter would try and hide but she also knew that Ironhide would do whatever it took to find her once some sense was knocked into him. Star was about to protest but her parental units had already left. She quickly rushed to the door and darted down some hallways, finding her way outside and heading around to the side of the building. There was no one there and she was able to sink down into the sand and watch the ocean. That's when she realized... this is where Ironhide had first tried to kiss her all those years ago. This thought made her start crying again and she sat there crying until someone came and found her.

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Ironhide stayed exactly where he had leaned against the wall an hour ago, waiting for the leader of the Autobots and Elita to return. Soon, they did and they did not look happy.

"I take it she told you what she told me", Ironhide says coolly as he stops leaning against the wall and made his way over to them. As soon as he gets over there though, Elita slaps him. It didn't hurt but the shock of being slapped by someone half his size made him stumble back.

"Do you KNOW how much PAIN she is right now because you are a stupid blithering idiot? How she even managed to be sparkmates to you, I have no clue but she loves you, I know that much! And currently, she believes the bot she loves, hates her! Do you hate her, Ironhide? Because if you do, you better get ready to have your aft whooped!"

Ironhide was taken aback by the sheer ferocity of her words but he instantly felt guilty from the first sentence. He realized that he made yet another mistake, possibly one that she wouldn't forgive him for especially since he just barely got her back from the last mistake he made. He immediately ran off, causing Elita to smile as she watched him. "He'll find her. Hopefully, she'll forgive him..."

Optimus watched Elita warmly, and he wasn't afraid to send an ocean of love to her, which she lovingly returned.

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Ironhide opened the door to Starfire's room only to find it deserted. He thought for a moment before going to check the medbay. She wasn't there and both Ratchet and Jolt had no clue where she was. Ironhide was growing frustrated and desperate by now as she was no where he had thought to look. He had scoured the entire base. He punched the wall before and idea came to his mind. She always loved oceans and sunrises and sunsets. She would always want to watch them on Cybertron. It would be no different here. That was why he picked the place he had all those years ago. It had the ocean and the sun was setting. Suddenly, he realized where she was.

By now, it had been an hour since he started searching. He ran out of the base and made his way around the side where he found her sitting against the side of the base, watching the sunset over the water, tears trickling out of her eyes. His spark broke at the sight and he took a step towards her before stopping.

"Star..." His voice came out as a whisper. She glanced at him before looking away, looking down at the sand which she sat on.

"Star... I'm so sorry... I wasn't thinking about how you would feel..." He was about to go on but Star interrupted him.

"Again...", she muttered. Ironhide was shocked at the bitterness in her voice but he continued on.

"Yes, again", he admitted. "But I love you so much and it pains me to see you like this."

This started a fire he had never seen in her before. "Do you? Do you love me? You say that but it doesn't feel like you do! I forgave you for one mistake that I probably shouldn't have because that hurt me so much and then I pass out for two weeks! Two weeks, Ironhide, and when I finally wake up, I feel like you hate me! All because I told you how Silverburst died! He was never your shooting Star, was he? No, I was! And yet, you don't even take into consideration that I might still be hurting from his death and from your betrayal!" At his shocked face, she scoffed. "Oh, don't think I forgot about what happened between you and Chromia! Do you know how much pain I feel within my spark when I think about it?! No! You started something with her all because I wouldn't kiss you! I wasn't ready yet, you idiot! I didn't want to tell you what happened to Silver because I knew how you would react! And I was correct. You reacted badly. You left me in pain. Again. You've hurt me way too much recently. I won't let it happen again. So don't even try to get back on my good side."

She stalked out of sight, leaving Ironhide there to stare after her. Finally, he did one thing he never thought would happen. He fell to his knees and started crying. The great emotionless bot that almost everyone knew, was crying. Little did he know, that a certain femme was crying too. She wanted to go back to him so badly, she wanted to his shooting Star again, but she knew that she had to protect herself by staying away from the mech that had left her sparkbroken one too many times.