I was finally on my energon break, and was chatting with my friends. Arcee was talking with the other femmes. 

"Mirage?" I ask

"What's up Cliff?" Mirage asks.

"You know when Bee finally gets out of the medbay?" I ask.

<Why don't you ask him?> A voice says.

I recognize that voice - er sound. 

"BEE!!" I exclaim turning back to look at him

<Yeah, yeah Cliff, I'm fine. Doc said I got to wait a bit before getting out onto the field again.> Bee says. 

A wrench was soon thrown at his helm, and we ALL know who THAT was.

"DON'T CALL ME DOC!" I heard Ratchet scream. 

<No Promises.> Bee replies.

I saw him walking with a slight limp, probably why doc said no to going on the field.

"So, how's decepticon activity so far?" I ask.

Since I haven't been on the field for some time, I just need to know. 

"Cons' been laying low. Don't know why but it's a break for us!" Mirage says. 

<If the Cons' are laying low, and by that I mean not fighting. They're gonna be planning something big. Something we won't be able to stop.> Bee says. 

Why is he so serious sometimes I'll never know.

I check the time to see that my energon break was over. 

FRAG!!

Anyways Arcee was most likely waiting for me. 

"Gotta go guys!" I say and quickly run toward the training area. 

Arcee was there before me. 

"What took you so long?" Arcee asks me

"Was chatting with my friends. Anyways, you ready?" I ask

Arcee nods, and I get the simulation set up. 

"Alright, I know you know this. But try to take down some vehicons." I say

I turn on the simulation and a small group of vehicons appear.

I look to Arcee and say one thing, 

"Fight" 

She has a quick start, with her blasters she took out  about half of them. And with her arm blades, slashed and was left with one. 

The Good One.

See in every group of vehicons there's the one con' which is better than the rest. Some groups may have more. Some are crazy good. Like Screamy level good, 

And that is good.

Arcee started blasting him but he punched her in the faceplate, then kicked her in the stomach and Arcee falls to the ground clutching her stomach where she was kicked. 

Seeing this I enter the simulation and beat 'The Good One' to a crisp, don't know how this happened, this bot was at Screamy level. 

"Arcee! You okay?" I ask 

"Just a little sore." she says, with her hand over her stomach.

"Lets get Ratch to look over you just to make sure there's nothing serious, okay?" I say

"Alright." Arcee says with a sigh.

We walked over to the medbay, and I entered first just to make sure Doc wasn't busy, when I came upon a sight, and NOT a good one. 

"Hey, 'Cee head to your berthroom."

Arcee with optics wide slightly nodded and headed towards her room. 

I didn't want her to see what I just saw.

A dead bot. 

Now I know it doesn't sound that bad, except the bot was one of Arcee's best friends. 

Firestar

"RATCHET!!" I yell.

The doc looked at me with sad optics, which was rare.

"How, did this happen, and why to her? She was too young." I say with sorrow. 

I guess Ratchet could have heard the sadness, and said.

 "She was on a scouting mission with the assistance of Bumblebee, because of her constant begging of having him with her. And just to be safe Optimus decided to let Mirage tag along."

Oh No, I knew what was coming next. 

"And sadly, Mirage died as well." Ratchet finishes.

FRAG THIS WAR!!

"I HATE THOSE FRAGGING GLITCHED DECEPTICONS, ALL THEY DO IS TAKE, THEY DESERVE TO GO TO THE PIT. ONCE I GET MY HANDS ON WHICHEVER GLITCHES THAT DID THIS, THEY'RE GONNA BE SCRAPPED!!" I yell with rage pounding in every circuit of my body 

"CLIFFJUMPER!! Watch your language, any bot in the base could hear you, and you know how young some of them are!" Ratchet slightly yells. 

"Ratch, how can you focus on my language, when one of our femmes, and one of my best friends' is DEAD!!" I yell

Ratchet looked at me with his faceplate showing disappointment, anger, and sorrow. Things I didn't like to see.

"I need to go to my berthroom." I say shakily. 

I exit the medbay, and decide to find Bee. Hopefully he knows what to do.

I soon find him in his berthroom. He was fixing his blaster, and had his head turned away from the door.

"Hey, Bee?" I ask quietly. (Okay, who knew I could be quiet??)

<What is it Cliff?> He beeps quietly.

"I want to talk about something." I answer

Bee turns his head to look at me, and gestures me to come in his room.

<Is it about the scouting mission?> Bee asks.

I slightly nod. 

<I'm guessing you want to know what happened> Bee says

I nod again.

<Well, Firestar had been begging me to go out on a mission with her. And even though Doc said I couldn't go out onto the field. Prime told me to go because I'm the most experienced scout, and I could get her out of difficulties. But just to be extra safe, Prime sent Mirage too. And we were just scouting out the area, until we were ambushed. Now I could handle those cons' easily. But Firestar, while she was handling some of them. The decepticons brought in the screamy leveled good ones. And there were too many, I was unable to get to her cause I was fighting Grindor. Mirage managed to get to her side to help her, but he was killed by one of Grindor's blasts. And he blasted Firestar, she tried to get away, but it hit her just under the spark. She was alive, but barely. So I picked her up and brought her as fast as I could. But by the time she made it to the Medbay.> Bee says. 

I already knew what he was gonna say. I hear this, WAY too often. 

<It was too late.> Bee finishes

"Bee, how are we gonna do this? The Autobots always suffer losses, some of them are personal." I say, trying to keep my emotions in check. 

Arcee, apparently was listening. The one thing I feared came true. 

She found out.

"Firestar, is gone?" She says. 

I nod slightly. 

"Arcee, I feel like I've trained you enough. I think you need to get back into the field." I say.

For the first time in what seemed like forever, a smile flashed across her faceplate which once only showed sorrow.

<Cliff, it might also be the time you need to get back in the field.>