No one knew where she went. Its been a few hours, almost midafternoon, since they've seen her. Lennox had every soldier available looking for her. Optimus and the Autobots were searching the grounds around base. Sunstreaker was even helping, against his wishes. They were on the verge of giving up. Sideswipe had an idea.

"Lennox, any luck?" Optimus asked rolling up behind the twins in the hanger.

"No, we've searched every inch of this base." Lennox ran his fingers through his hair. The three transformed.

"I may have an idea." Sideswipe interjected. They looked at him in confusion.

"What! I can have ideas." He defended.

"Let's hear it." Optimus encouraged.

"Let Sunny find her." Again, everyone looked confused. Sunstreaker gives him a warning glare.

"Sunny seems to have a weird pull to her, maybe he can try and use it to find her." Sideswipe could fell his brothers anger flood through their bond, profanities following. Sunstreaker moved to physically hit his brother but was stopped before he could.

"Is this true, Sunstreaker?" Optimus stepped in, all eyes were now on the golden twin. Sunstreaker looked away from a moment, thinking about what he should say.

"I don't understand it yet. But the more I try to stay away from her, the more I want to be around her. I feel the need to protect her. To calm her when she's mad, to hurt whoever hurt her. Seeing her hand wrapped angered me to no end. When she screamed at me, saying she wanted nothing to do with us, it hurt. I felt the need to tell her I'm sorry. I hate it. I want it to stop. I always end up wherever she is." He explained peeking up, surprised of what came out of his mouth.

"Do you feel the pull to her now?" Lennox asked.

"I've been suppressing it. So, no I'm not." He said blankly, looking down at the major.

"Try and open the bond. I feel that you two both have a pull to each other. She may have yet to realize it. I don't know why or how. That is something we will have to discuss with Ratchet when he gets back." Optimus suggested. Sunstreaker gave a disgusted look.

"No. She can stay lost. My spark is just confused. If she stays gone, maybe it will go away." He crossed his arms and looked away.

"Come on Sunny. What if something happened to her. We need her, so she can tell us what happened." Sideswipe pleaded. Sunstreaker thought for a moment. Not liking the idea at all, but part of him wanted to find her. Its like he needed to know she was alright.

"Fine" He growled. "But I don't have to like it" He added heading to his and Sideswipes room.

"Where are you going?" Sideswipe yelled after him.

"To try and find her! I need quiet." He yelled back without turning around.

She has only been there two days and she hated it. She would rather be back in Afghan shooting some terrorist. Driving around through the mounds of sand with Diesel. Sleeping under the stars. Holding her weapon close to her, keeping it shiny and clean. After her argument with Sunstreaker she ran off. Looking for a place to hide. Which wasn't that hard. She was right under their noses and they had no idea. Well actually above them. She laid on her stomach watching people scrambling to find her. If she could of, she would have left base, but that would only cause more havoc. It surprised her that no one had thought to look up, or even saw her climb up here. She laid there staring down below. The rafters were a great place to go. There is enough beams going across to conceal her, but if she made one wrong move, she would be flattened like a pancake.

She overheard the bots and humans talking. There were so many points in their talked, when she just wanted to jump down and tell them to shut up. But then she would have to explain why she was up there. Why she ran off. She knew she was going to get a lot of hell for this, but she really didn't care at this moment. She needed to relax, and this was a way she could do it, without punching or shooting things. If only Diesel was here. He would know what to do to save her from this hell hole. As she was about to roll onto her back she heard Sideswipe, Sunstreaker and Optimus drive into the hanger. She couldn't help but listen into their conversation. She focused on them talking to Lennox. It was hard to hear, probably because her hearing wasn't so great, you know with bombs going off and shooting guns and stuff, but she did hear Sunstreaker talk. She heard what he said. It seemed to start something down deep inside of her. Was it her heart beginning to beat again after being dead for so long? She wasn't sure how to describe the feeling. He felt something for her. He wanted to protect her, care for her.

When Optimus said they might have a bond of some kind. Her blood began to boil. There was no way she wanted a connection to that giant golden plated asshole. As quickly the feeling came, it was gone. They wanted him to find her and she wasn't going to let that happen. She would have to keep an eye out, try and find a new spot. Though it wasn't proved they had something, so Optimus could be wrong. So, she decided to stay where she was. She watched him stalk off to try and open the stupid bond. Rolling over and staring up at the ceiling, she wasn't going to worry. To her this was all a bunch of hocus pocus. Her name was still being called, soldiers still searching for her. She just laid there, waiting for nothing. Probably won't come down tell they give up and go to bed.

Sunstreaker stomped into his and his twins room. e had no idea how he was going to try and feel her. He didn't even want to try this. He wanted nothing to do with her. Sideswipe could feel his anger through the bond and tried to help calm him. Sunstreaker decided to block him instead. He paced back and forth, trying to figure this out. Pacing wasn't going to help him, so he sat down on the berth, ending up laying down, staring up at the ceiling. He started to picture Nichole in his mind. Her long brown hair that seems to float behind her when she walks. Her piercing stony gray eyes, cutting though his spark. Even the scar on her face looked attractive to him. She had seen pain, just like him. She knows what its like to feel broken. She wears the scar with pride, not caring what people say about it. Though most people don't. He started thinking of doing things with her. Holding her coarse hand in his soft holoform ones, seeing her smile at him. He doesn't even know what she looks like wearing a smile, except smirk.

His spark seemed to feel heavy. Seemed to be pulling towards something. He wanted to reach out and grab what ever it was. He reached towards the ceiling but grabbed nothing. He pictured her in his mind again. Her briskly walking down the hall, trying to get to anywhere fast. Her aft fitting those jeans she wears just right. His spark was beginning to hurt now, the pull was getting to strong. He sat up, trying to bring the rate of his spark down. He had no idea what was happening to him. It was getting on his circuits. His servo laid on his armor above his spark. He thought his spark was going to pull right out of his chest. He opened his spark chamber, the tentacles from his spark shot out into the air but didn't go vary far. He could feel every time it would move back to try and push forward. It was a long shot, but he decided to try and follow it.

He didn't pull against it as he ran down the hall, his spark exposed. Autobots jumped back in surprise, seeing the bright white-blue light coming from Sunstreaker.

"Sunstreaker! What are you doing?" Sideswipe yelled as Sunstreaker slid into the hanger. He didn't stop to answer his brother, he just kept going. He reached the middle of the hanger and slowed to a walk. He walked to the other end of the bay. The tentacle from his spark started to point up.

"Did you find her?" Sideswipe asked coming up next to his brother.

"She's somehow up there." He whispered point up. He looked back at his brother in amazement. Everyone in the hanger looked up, but the way the rafters were set, you couldn't tell if someone was up there or not.

"Someone's going to have to go up there." Lennox stated the obvious. Sunstreaker transformed and online his holoform. He quickly made his way up the ladders and ledges, trying to get up to the rafters without falling down. He got up and had to figure out a way to get on the rafters. There was no place skinny enough for him to fit though.

"Nichole!" He yelled, his husky voice echoing though the rafters. There was a surprise yell down a little way, echoing back to him. She had fallen asleep, so she didn't get a chance to move.

"How the fuck did you find me?" She growled back.

"Does it matter? I found you, now get over here so we can get down!" Sunstreaker yelled back.

"Why should I?" She spat. Neither could see each other, just hear.

"You've been missing for over five hours. You're not even supposed to be up here. Just get over here."

"Nope, I'm good."

"Femme your testing my patients."

"That's cool" He gave a low growl to her sarcastic answer.

He pulled against the opening, to try and get to her. It would have been a lot easier if he was in his real form. He was able to shove it away just a little more, enough for him to shimmy though. She saw him crawl though and made her way to the other end. Unfortunately for her, she could only get so far until it was blocked.

The soldiers and Autobots down below were yelling up to them, to be careful. She was leaning against the wall. Glancing at Sunstreaker and looking around her, trying to find another way. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw the slim opening to the right, there was a thick electrical wire, thick enough for her to hang on. She quickly looked at Sunstreaker then back out. He was moving fast, she had to make a move fast. He noticed her looking away.

"Don't you dare!" He said quickening his pace. She gave a smirk, then jumped. Grabbing ahold of the wire. Everyone down gasp in shock. Optimus and Sideswipe quickly got underneath her to catch her in case she fell. Lennox and Epps were furious. They couldn't believe how stupid she was being. Though, they stayed below and watched as she began swinging her legs and wrapping them around the wire. Then she shimmied her way across to the other side. Sunstreaker was looking out at her in amazement and anger.

She kept crawling until she came to a point were the wires were hooked, attached to the ceilings beam. She was going to have to find a way to maneuver around it, to get to the other side, which wouldn't be easy. Everyone watched, eager to see the outcome. Yelling had ceased, and it became hushed below her. She concentrated on her movements. One wrong move and she would fall. Sunstreaker turned his holoform off and went back to bipedal mode. He walked underneath her, still hanging from the wires.

"Let go!" He yelled to her. She looked at him in confusion. He had his arms out, prepared to catch her.

"I'll catch you." He promised.

"What makes you think I was planning to get down?" she swung herself up and latched to the beam and was able to haul herself up. She sat up, her legs straddling the beam. She looked down to everyone with a smirk written across her face.

Sunstreaker and Sideswipe both gave a low growl. All of them tired of her antics. It was time for her to come down, whether she liked it or not.

"Get down here!" Lennox yelled up to her.

"Why do I need to get down. Am I hurting anyone?" She said sarcastically. There were mummering throughout the crowd, agreeing with her statement.

"No, but you could hurt yourself." He shouted back.

"Oh, I wouldn't just get hurt, I'd probably be die." She chuckled to herself. It doesn't sound like a bad idea to her.

"Nichole, please come down." Sunstreaker and Sideswipe said at the same time.

"Well since you said please." She looked around her, looking for a way down. The cat walk was in the middle of the room. She would have to crawl back, but even then, it was a long way down. There was no way she would let herself be caught by an Autobot. She felt they would only let her splatter on the floor below. The only way for her to get down safely, well to her standards, would be to crawl back to the other side. So that's exactly what she did.

"Do you have any idea how dangerous that was!?!?!" Lennox Fumed.

"You're a Sargent, an adult. You shouldn't have to be treated like a child. Did the Marines never teach you how to grow up?" He continued to yell at her. She stood there taking it. She knew she was going to get hell for what she did. There are many reasons behind what she did. Was she going to tell them? No, it was none of their business. Sunstreaker, Sideswipe, Optimus stood behind the angry major, equal angry faces on them as well. She kept her eyes on Lennox, letting him continue. When he realized he wasn't going to get a reaction out of the women, he put his hands on his head and attempted to pull at his hair.

"I suggest you go to your room. I don't want to tell you what to do, but you need to stay out of trouble and stay safe." He rubbed the bridge of his nose in between his fingers.

"Yes, Sir." And she left to her room, not looking back.

They all watched as she walked to her room. They weren't sure what to make of her now. She clearly had no care about her life.

"What is the plan?" Optimus bellowed down to Lennox.

"I don't know. Her superiors weren't wrong about her. I thought when they said she was hard to control and handle. They just meant it as she occasionally talked back. I mean she is a NCO for Gods sakes. She sure doesn't act like it." He paced back and forth as he talked, one hand behind his back and the other resting on his chin.

"Maybe some solitary confinement will do her some good." Sunstreaker added his two cents. His brother looked at him with a look of "really idiot".

"I don't think that will do anyone any good." Lennox chuckled.

"I thought it was a good idea." Sunstreaker pouted, crossing his arms and looked away from them.

"I don't know what to do with her. We can't include her in on training until her stiches are healed. She's not allowed a gun until her MO clears her mental health. I don't know anything about her to know what she likes to do." The others nodded in agreement.

"Well she wants nothing to do with us. I'd say we could take her racing or play video games." Sideswipe offered. They knew it would be less than two weeks when her partner would arrive. They have yet to tell her about it either. They weren't even sure if they should. They haven't heard from Ratchet if he has made it or not. Lennox didn't want to get her hopes up just for him not to make it.

"Let's give her some space at the moment." Lennox decided.

"Sunstreaker, Sideswipe, keep an eye out for her. Check on her at reasonable times. She needs to know we are still here for her. Whether she wants it or not." Optimus ordered. The twins nod in understanding and leave the bay.

"I will try and get ahold of Ratchet. She might be easier to handle if she knows her partner is coming here." Optimus suggested.

"That's a good idea. Let me know what you find out." Optimus gave a nod and walked off. Lennox started to yell at other soldiers to get back to work. The show was over.