Nichole hadn't left Diesels side since he's been brought to the Nest base. She slept in the cab of his truck most nights. Not caring that everyone else wanted her to go to her room and get proper rest. She wouldn't have it. She found out that they knew about Diesel being alive. She chose not to through a fit or scream. She just chose to ignore everyone, especially Lennox and the Autobots. A week after he came, they were both woken by a knock to his cab door. She sat up and rubbed her eyes before rolling down the window and looking out to see who had the audacity.

"What?" She growled. Epps stood outside the door.

"Today you got to get your stitches taken out. You need to go see Ratchet." He told her, trying to be nice about it. He wasn't the only one tired of her attitude, but it wasn't like she didn't have a reason for it.

"I'll take them out myself." She fired back. He gave a sigh and looked away for a moment. As he was about to say something, Diesel spoke up.

"Nichole, go to Ratchet. I'm not letting you take them out yourself." She looked like she wanted to defy him, but instead she gave a huff and opened up the cab door and hopped out. She walked away from the two and headed to the med bay, muttering curses under her breath.

Diesel transformed to follow her, but not without apologizing to Epps for her.

"I apologize for her attitude. I had hope to help her with it, but it seems nothing I do can change it." His head bowed, and arms crossed, watching her storm down the hallway.

"You shouldn't be apologizing for her. Why is she like that anyway? I mean I've never seen anyone that...that mean before."

"There are things that happen to some people that can never be unseen. There is a lot that I wish I could tell you, so you and everyone else would understand her. But I can't lose her trust. She needs someone to trust. It's the only way to try and help her now." And with that, he walked off to make sure Nichole wasn't harming Ratchet. Epps stood there a moment, thinking about what he just heard. Then went back to work.

The two entered the med bay and Ratchet was waiting beside the hospital bed in his holoform.

"Come take a seat." His low voice commanded. Nichole was hesitant on moving closer. Diesel gave her a soft push and she moved.

"Come on, lets go. I don't have all day." She complied and moved with a quicker pace. She always hated anything to do with doctors. She sat down on the bed. Ratchet scanned her over, checking to make sure everything looks good. Then he made a sound, she really didn't like to hear, like a low growl but never escaped his lips. She thought about asking but didn't want to make more conversation than needed.

"This may hurt, I'm going to slowly take out the stiches. If you think you need some pain reliever, let me know." Straight forward he told her. She gave a nod and let him get to work.

With every snip of the suture and pull on the thin thread holding them together, Nichole felt it all. She stayed deadly still, eyes staring at nothing, letting Ratchet complete the job. It was a lengthy process and Ratchet was taking his time. There were over a hundred stiches to pull out, leaving a nice long deep scar. A few soldiers that happened to walk past, stopped to take a look. Now instead of seeing black stiches on her face, they would only see the deep red scar. Lennox and Epps made there way in, to see how things were going, as well as Optimus, even Sideswipe and Sunstreaker. Though the two had totally different reasons than everyone else on why they were there. Nichole never acknowledged anyone that came and stopped by. Ratchet only told them it was going well. Nichole could hear a hesitant sound in his voice whenever he talked. He seemed to be hiding something and she was going to find out. When he scanned he found something, something that wasn't good.

The process took well over an hour to complete. The skin on her face seemed to stretch apart, making the scar look bigger than it is. She could feel the pulling from it.

"Your going to feel a little funny for a couple days, tell your body gets used to it. I want you to rub some of this cream on it every night and every morning. It will help try and regenerate your skin. It won't get rid of it, you would need plastic surgery for that." Ratchet explained to her. She hopped off the bed, grabbing the cream from Ratchet and went to leave. Diesel cleared his throat and raised an eyebrow at her.

With a huff, she turned back to Ratchet. "Thank you. I appreciate you taking out my stiches." She said through clenched teeth.

Then she remembers, "One question," She started, Ratchet looked at her curiously. "What did you see on your scan? Is there something I should know about?" She seemed proud of herself to see the doc fumble a bit.

"I need to run some test. I don't know what I found. I'm still learning the human body." The answer was good enough for her and she walked out of the room.

"Thanks Ratchet." Diesel added before following her out of the room.

Optimus was in the hanger, seeming to wait for them. "Diesel, Nichole, we need to talk about the battle." His deep voice echoed throughout the hanger.

"Why?" Her arms crossed, and she leaned on her right foot, hip popping out.

"We need to hear your story. No one else knows what happened and a lot of good people died." He knelt down to talk closer to her.

"It was just an ambush, it happens all the time. People die all the time." She scowled up at him. Optimus gave a look to Diesel, seeming to ask if he would help, without using words. Diesel looked away from Optimus, he didn't want to disobey a Prime, but he couldn't betray Nichole. A frown formed on his face, he was fighting an inner battle. There was something they weren't telling, and Diesel knew it needed to be said. Optimus stood up.

"Diesel, we need to know. What are you not telling us?" Using more of an authoritative voice this time. Nichole snapped her eyes up to Diesel, a worried look flashed over her eyes. Diesel looked down at her then back up to Optimus.

"I can't." Is all he said, and he transformed, opening the door for Nichole. She jumped in without a second thought and the two drove out of the hanger.

Lennox happened to walk into the hanger and saw the 16 driving out of the bay.

"I'm guess you got nothing." Lennox assumed.

"It's going to be difficult to get them to talk. Something happened and neither of them are ready to talk about it." Optimus knew what it was like to keep things inside and never tell anyone. he also knew the pain of not letting it out will only make it worse.

"Diesel seems like he would talk, but he's more worried about Nichole's trust to say anything. We have already failed, but we need to try." Optimus continued. Lennox put to fingers on his chin, thinking of what they can do.

"We got Decepticons activity in the middle east" was yelled over the pa. Lennox ran to the control room, needing to find out more info. Everyone else got battle ready. There hadn't been a sighting in some time. So, they all needed to be prepared.

"It's Soundwave." One the techs told Lennox as he ran into the room.

"Shit. What does he want?" Lennox growled through his clenched teeth.

"We need everyone. Heavy artillery. Let's go. let's go." he continued to yell to everyone.

He put his flak and Kevlar on and grabbed his weapon. The Autobots were waiting in the hanger to get on the planes. Nichole and Diesel hung off the side trying not to get in the way. It was hard for her to stand still, she wanted to go with so bad. She needed action, needed to shoot something. She looked up to Diesel, he stood leaning against the wall, arms crossed, watching the soldiers get their gear and load up.

"Think it's the same one?" She asked, Diesel looked down at her.

"Most likely. From what I heard, it's near the same spot." He answered.

"Should we say something?" Diesel knew what they were getting into, so did Nichole.

"No, let them figure it out. They wouldn't help you, so why should we help them." She snapped. The N.E.S.T members started loading onto the planes. Nichole watched the twins drive up the ramps into the plane.

"They'll be fine, stop worrying." Diesel teased. She shot him a glare,

"Me worried. Ha. Your funny." Ending with a fake laugh.

"I see the way he looks at you."

"See what. Hate? Cause that's what it is. We hate each other. You know before I found out you were alive, him and his twin, forced me out of base and they took me to a mall. A mall, Diesel. I hate malls."

He rolled his optics at her. "They probably think that's what girls like, from the world wide web."

"Well they are stupid. They all are. Its annoying." She rambled.

All he could do was laugh. No one could read her, but he could. He knew there was something going on, she just didn't know it yet. He was just glad to be back with his partner. He missed her rambling and the way she talked. She was an asshole, but that didn't bother him. They were a good team either way. He gazed down at her. He was torn away hearing Optimus speak.

"Diesel, would you like to join us?" Diesel looked back down to Nichole, she was looking up at him and gave him a shrug. Telling him that it was his choice.

"I'm sorry Optimus. I think I'm going to stick this one out. I just got repaired from the last battle." He said respectfully. Optimus gave him a nod in understanding then transformed and loaded up. He was the last one to get on the plane. The two left behind walked to the opening and watched the planes take off.