"All relationships go through hell, real relationships get through it."

“I cannot believe Ratchet capable of such horrors,” Optim- no, Orion Pax said after Megatron’s explanation.

Yes,” Meagtron nodded sympathetically, “And to think the Doctor of Doom's mad quest for power continues his marauders pursued us to this planet's orbit.”

“We feel its species are not ready to behold us,” Megatron’s silver tongued lies easily came out for the face of his friend, “But we have resolved to protect this world from the same tragedy which was dealt to our own.”

“One question, Megatron,” Orion Pax interrupted the warlord’s speech, “Why are we called Decepticons?”

“Another craven Autobot scare tactic,” Megatron scowled, "The name was meant to demonize us. Instead, we wear it as a badge of honour. For if speaking the truth is deception, then we are gladly guilty,” he finished, a proud grin on his derma at the saying.

The slightly smaller(by two feet) cybertronian nodded in understanding

“Now please, Orion,” Megatron said, “There will be plenty of time for catching up. You must rest,” the silver mech moved to exit the room, before Orion called after him.

“Megatron,” Orion’s voice called, making the silver mech turn around, “I will do my part to stop Ratchet's unspeakable crimes of aggression. This I vow. With all my Spark.”

Megatron nodded proudly, before leaving Orion to do as he pleased.

-

“It seems we have successfully achieved control of Orion's spark,” Megatron grinned as he looked out of the warship’s many windows, “Now, to put his mind to work.”

Soundwave walked up behind his lord, “Have you sanitized the data-core?”

The silent mech nodded, “Excellent,” Megatron nodded, “Our new archivist will require unlimited access to our files. It would be counterproductive for him to stumble upon any sensitive information.”

The other mech heard the double meaning behind his master’s words and nodded again.

🌟

Instead of Logan being the first one to wake up from a nightmare, tonight, it was Pan.

Only, her silence was the only thing that made the other two in the household go oblivious to emotional pain the third was feeling.

“He really did take “control” of Orion’s processor,” Pan mumbled as she felt Solus’s mental arms wrapped around her comfortingly.

Solus sighed, “We’re sorry for not telling you how much Megatron would affect Orion,” She murmured softly.

Pan shrugged lightly, “I guess I should’ve expected it,” she mumbled, “After all, he is the leader of the Decepticons.”

“Knowing something doesn’t always mean you know how it will affect you emotionally,” Onyx said, a guilty tone to the beast transforming Prime’s voice.

Pan instantly withdrew her emotions from them, a guilty look coming across her face for even having those emotions for them to feel. After all, what they felt, she felt and vice versa.

“Sorry,” Pan mumbled quietly.

Prima’s presence overwhelmed the others, “Do not fret, Panacea,” He said kindly, “Everything will righten itself in the end.”

Pan nodded, a small smile gracing her lips.

🌟

Pan headed out of her last class of the day, which just happened to be art, “Thank Primus for Ms. Smith,” Pan sighed peacefully, rolling her eyes when Nexus and Amalgamous snickered in the back of her head.

“He’ll be glad you said that,” Micronus grinned and Pan had to take a second to soak that in.

“Wait,” Pan paused, and all the attention was on her again, “Can you guys actually talk to Primus?”

“Sometimes,” Megatronus shrugged, “He’s asleep most of the time, but every now and again he wakes up for a short period of time.”

Pan was about to ask another question that was on the tip of her tongue, only to be interrupted by a familiar feeling of someone smaller than her grabbing her hand.

Pan tilted her head questionally at Raf, “‘Bee said Ratchet was busy today and offered to bring you to base with us,” He explained, not letting go of Pan’s hand.  

Pan smiled, curiously poking at the whispers in the back of her head as she nodded at her younger friend.

The boy almost lit up like a firework, “Brilliant!” he grinned, “Come on!”

Pan giggled as she let Raf tug her toward Bumblebee who waited patiently for them. Neither noticing that they didn’t let go of the others’ hand until they were inside ‘Bee’s altmode.

🌟

Ratchet muttered a curse as he narrowly missed a sparking wire.

"Ratchet!" Raf called to the medic as he and Pan headed over to him.

Ratchet had noticed that the pair never seemed to be far away from each other, especially after the accident that nearly cost the two’s lives, "Are you turbo-charging the Ground-bridge?"

Pan's eyes twinkled, confusing her Autobots’ emotional control for a split second before he answered Raf's question, "Tinkering," Ratchet replied simply, "No need to get anyone's hopes up, just yet."

🌟

"Orion asks many questions," Megatron said as he walked up beside his most faithful ally, Soundwave, "A valuable trait in an archivist, but not in a Decepticon. It is a matter of time before he unravels our fabrications and his innate sense of right and wrong rises to the surface I only hope that Orion will complete project "Iacon" before I am forced to destroy him, once and for all."

Pan blinked the image away, glad that Raf and Ratchet hadn't noticed her vacant expression while the "vision" played.

“Ratchet! You awake?” Fowler’s voice shouted from the computer, “This is an emergency!”

“Agent Fowler,” Ratchet started, “Is it Optimus?”

“It's 'Cons,” The Agent almost growled out, “ And they're busting into the same military research lab they hit two months ago!”

“Another Space-bridge?” Bumblebee asked.

"Another Space-bridge?” Bulkhead repeated(mostly for Fowler’s sake)

Arcee frowned, "But for all we know Optimus is riding with them."

Ratchet didn't give them time to argue, "Roll out!"

🌟

"-See to it that Arcee is escorted off this ship immediately!" Megatron ordered Soundwave who nodded and walked off.

Soundwave pinpointed Arcee's position, and calculated the route she would take. Soundwave stepped into a corridor as Orion came around a corner.

Soundwave stood there as Arcee continued to speed up.

A flash of cybertronian glyphs on his visor and Soundwave opened a ground bridge in front of him just as Arcee was about to hit him, sending her back to Earth, only she was sent to the Arctic.

Orion turned into the corridor Soundwave stood in, "I heard a commotion," Orion said, confused to Soundwave.

The silent mech glanced at the other mech before walking off, just as he always had, silently.

And back in the Autobot base, Panacea Hammer shook her head to clear the effects of being mentally torn from her own body.

🌟

"You weren't able to determine the Decepticons' location or if Optimus was even aboard ship?!?!"

Arcee sighed, "I couldn't confirm," she said quietly, guilt sowed deep in her voice.

Bulkhead let out a growl of frustration before grabbing the nearest thing which just happened to be another of Ratchet's tools, "Bulkhead!" Ratchet cried out.

"What?" Bulkhead snapped at him  "You needed that? Only thing I need is our head honcho back!"

Pan stepped forward typing quickly in her phone, only to be stopped by Alpha Trion, "Give them a chance, Panacea."

"What chance?" She asked him, her eyebrows furrowed as she deleted the text from her phone.

Pan pouted when she got no response.

"It's not your fault," Jack tried to reason with his guardian.

Arcee scowled, despite knowing what Jack was trying to do, "If any of us needed rescuing Optimus would have found a way," She sighed, disappointment flashing in her optics, "I didn't. Simple as that."

"Ratchet!" Fowler called, "What happened out there? Reports indicate at least a dozen wounded. The hits on me to provide some explanation. You bots better get your act together or the Pentagon will make me shut down your base."

"But where would you go?" Raf asked, yet again, not too far from Pan, only two meters apart from each other.

"Who knows," Ratchet scowled as his frustration hit its peak, "Maybe they'll ship us out to some island or fire us into space! Wouldn't that be a welcome relief.

"I don't blame Fowler! Optimus would have evacuated all humans in the area before engaging the 'Cons," Arcee said, her face plates twisted in frustration.

"He would have," Bumblebee sighed.

"We don't actually know what Optimus would have done because he's not here!" Bulkhead snapped.

"You're pretty good at stating the obvious, Bulk," Arcee said, standing up and glaring at the taller 'bot, "Anything else you'd like to mention that we already know?

Bulkhead halted right back at her, "Nothing I can say in front of the children."

"He's calling us children?" Pan remarked, her nose wrinkling up, "The ones acting like sparklings themselves?"

Quite a few sighs were sighed with Amalgamous and Nexus's quiet laughter in the background.

"Hey!" Jack shouted to the Autobots, drawing their attention to him, "Aren't we overlooking one positive? Nobody's talking about what the 'Cons just got their claws on."

"Yes, we managed to allow them to finally acquire a power source for their space bridge!" Ratchet scoffed.

"And how exactly that would be a positive?" Arcee snarked at her charge.

Jack bit his lip, torn between emotions. His blue eyes connected with Pan's green for a split second, a small nod from the older teen giving him the confidence to say what he had to say as he glanced back at the 'bots, "We let them finish building their Space-bridge," he said.

"Why? So they can bring more zombies back from Cybertron?"

Pan rolled her eyes at that one, tapping her finger against the side of her (GOVERNMENT UPDATED😲!)phone.

"No," Jack shook his head, "So we can commandeer it. And use it to send ME to Cybertron."

"Woah," Miko gaped at him, "That's a pretty good idea."

"Oh well," Arcee shrugged sarcastically, "If Miko thinks it's a good idea-"

"-Nobody saying it will be easy," Jack interrupted his guardian,"but you've seized the Space-bridge before!"

"We blew one up," Bulkhead pointed out, "That's a whole lot different than seizing and holding one."

"Besides that, we'd have to find it first," Bumblebee pointed out.

"Bee's right," Arcee agreed, "We have to find that thing first."

"Hellooo!" Miko waved at the 'bots, "If it's a space bridge isn't it?" She gestured upwards.

Ratchet groaned, "The term "space" refers to its transport range, not its physical location," he explained to the girl, "And we've been monitoring Earth's orbit since the last one, we'd know if it were there.

"So, the Bridge could be somewhere right here on Earth?"

"Like trying to find a servo at a scrapyard," Bulkhead admitted.

Jack nodded towards them, happy that they were finally working together, "Then maybe we better start looking," his guardian said.

"But the fact remains: We don't know what the Decepticons have in store for Optimus. Or if he's truly safe from harm."

No one noticed the amused grin that spread across a certain girl's lips.

"Oh, he's safe," Amalgamous chuckled drily, "As safe as one can be while under the watchful optics of Megatron and Soundwave."

Here's Chapter Two.

I'm sorry, not sorry.
Sassy Pan is best Pan.
(I edited another gif!)

IF NoOnE GeTs tHe RefErEncEs tO Colours of the Wind, I wIlL CrY.

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