Dreadwing is put through and intense therapy session from Ratchet. He is unable to even transform at this point. There was so much damage. Weeks go by and Shelby never leaves his side. She makes sure he does the exercises. She even does some with him. Time goes by and both are beginning to heal. The closeness and able to be together has help immensely. They have yet to talk about what had happened, but the time to finally sit down and go over it, is coming. Dreadwing is able to walk on his own and ready to try and transform. Not without going over what happened since the last time they saw each other.  

"Shelby, I think we need to talk about what has transpired over the past few years." Dreadwing mentions as they walk through the halls of the Autobot base. 

"Why do we need to talk about it?" She says without looking up. 

"A lot has happened to both you and I, and I think we need to get it off both our chests." She nods, understanding his viewpoint. 

"There is much I can't tell you, unfortunately. Because it may alter the future if I do." She admits. 

"I need to know what happened to you after I lost you."

"You didn't lose me. I was taken. They ripped away me from you. My father wanted to gain control back and the only way to do that is to tell you that I died." 

"I thought your family was dead."

"I thought they were too. I never got answers to what happened. It's like they faked their death and vanished until it was a good time to come back. I remember seeing my mother and brothers' bodies. I remember it so vividly. They kept telling me it was a dream. I was in my coma for too long. I was supposedly still overseas when the explosion put me in my coma. But obviously that was a lie. You guys are real. You all remember me. It all had to have happened." She explains what she can. She still has been unable to get the answers she wants. 

"You brought me back to life. You saved me and I couldn't save you. When we were finally able to get you off the ship, Megatron had already tried to kill you. Knockout was able to keep you stable, but he knew you needed to go to a hospital. I couldn't stay with you. Agent Fowler and June kept an eye on you for us."

"You didn't have your holoform chip put in?" She wondered out loud. The look on his face told me everything. He had no clue what I was talking about. "Forget I asked."

"No, what are you talking about?" He insisted, picking her up and bringing her closer to his face. 

"I can't talk about it. It hasn't happened yet. I don't want to alter the timeline to much." She whispers, not that she has to, but it came out that way. 

"But the timeline never happened. So shouldn't matter if you tell me." He whispers back. 

"There are things that happened that are already beginning to happen that I saw. Like the Icon relics. The whole database. I know about it all and I know how it all ends. I know things that will happen and we are not prepared for it. I also need to protect my family this time around. I need to save my brother. I know he's working with my father, but I need to sway him, change his mind." 

"Then why not just tell us what will happen? It would make everything so much easier. We wouldn't be waiting for Prime to figure out database to figure it out." She understand what he's saying, but she is afraid it will alter so much of the future, if the future is what she saw. 

"But what if I'm wrong?" 

"You know the answers to code?" Her head whips around and see Smokescreen. "Why wouldn't you want to tell us?" 

"Smokescreen, you weren't supposed to hear that. I only know what I supposedly saw in my coma. I could be entirly wrong. I don't want to say something and then it makes the situation worse." She tries to explain. 

Smokescreen brings his hands up to his head and takes a few steps back and forth before looking at her again. She can see the pain in his optics. If only she could tell him. She doesn't want to be wrong. It would kill her if anything happened to them. A lot happened while she was sleeping, a lot that she plan on changing. 

"But what if you are right?" He expresses. 

"You will never know, because I will never tell any of you. That's all I will speak on the subject. I'm done." She raises her voice. He leans back up in surprise. As far as they know, she's never raised her voice at them. She doesn't give them a chance to remember, she instead turns and walk away. They need to leave it alone. 

Moments later, she's in the room she shares with Dreadwing. She is laying on her rack, staring at the tall ceiling. There is nothing for her to do at the moment. She doesn't  want to be around the other bots. Smokescreen is going to tell them about what he heard. She can already see Arcee yelling at her and Ratchet joining her. It is something she doesn't need right now. But she does realize she needs to find a way to stop Silas from taking over Breakdowns body. She needs to keep him away from Megatron. He needs to be destroyed. 

There is a knock on the door. It can't be Dreadwing, he would walk right in. She hesitates for a moment before calling out. It could be any one of the Autobots. she is sure Smokescreen already told them by now. 

"Come in." She calls out and the door slides open. 

The bot himself. The big bot. Leader of the Autobots. With his blue and red paint job and the athority that bleeds off him as he ducks down a bit to come into the room. She looks up at him from where she lays on the rack, waiting for him to speak. 

"We need to know what you know." He gets straight to the point. 

"I can't tell you." 

"Even if you think it could harm the future or if it didn't happen. I would rather know what you know that wait for it to happen and it turns out you were right. Tell me something small. Something that can easily be figured out." He kneels down closer to her level. 

She turns and dangle her feet off the bed. There is one thing she could tell them. It would be small and wouldn't hurt to know. 

"Ratchet creates a chip to give you all holoforms. He gives the first one to Dreadwing, so he can come visit me at the hospital." She watches Optimus, waiting for him to say something. 

"He was working on one. He completed it too, but he never shared it after you died. It became forgotten about." He stands up, prepared to go talk to Ratchet.

"There is something else Optimus." She says, stopping him from leaving the room. 

"Yes?"

"Silas takes over Breakdowns body. He goes to the Decepticons and attmepts to join them. He was human when I saw him last, so I don't know when or if that will happen. All I know is he needs to be stopped." 

"He will be stopped." He promises. 

Optimus leaves the room. Shelby stands by her rack, unsure of what to do next. Part of her wishes she could have a drink, but then she remembers what happened while she was in the coma. She hasn't touched a drink since she woke up and she doesn't plan to start now. She decides to walk out and head to the bay. She wants to see if Ratchet installs the chips. The only holoform she really cares about seeing is Dreadwings. 

There is a commotion going on when she walks into the large bay after about an hour of thinking. Everyone is in the middle of the bay, surrounding the children. She wonder what's going on. There is cheering, so it mustn't be bad. As she gets closer she sees the children racing small rc cars. It is nice to see them having fun. Then there is beeping from the monitor. 

"Prime! Do you read me?" Agent Fowler speaks through the computer. 

"I'm sorry Agent Fowler. Optimus isn't here at the moment." Ratchet answers

"Then I'll take that as a comfirmation that he's presently trying to run me off the road" He roars.

"Agent Fowler that hardly seems likely." Everyone in the room is just as confused as Ratchet sounds. 

"Tell that to my burning treads." Then his comm link goes dead. 

"What the hell is he talking about?" I speak up. "Where is Optimus?" 

"Optimus and Hot Rod went on patrol. At least that's what they said they were doing?" Ratchet says. 

"Let's go rescue Agent Fowler." Bulkhead suggested. 

The ground bridge opened up and Bulkead, Arcee, Bumblebee and Smokescreen left the base. Leaving Dreadwing, Ratchet, Shelby and the kids behind wondering why Optimus would do such a thing.

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Hey guys, 

So I have realize I am not following the plot of the series at all. I have gone off the rails and am doing my own thing with it, but keeping the main points. I apologize if you don't like it, I didn't mean for it to happen. It just kinda did. So I am going to roll with it and see where it goes. I'm sure you all know who is about to show up next.

Love, 

Shelby77gt