"Find her! Find her before we're scrapped!"

"Yes sir!"

Knockout yelled frantically as the vehicon troops all split up across the Nemesis halls and rooms.

Why was he yelling? Well, basically he and the Cons lost track of you and now they are finding where you disappeared to.

You, on the other servo, ran as fast as your pedes carried you and you found yourself heading towards an energon storage room. You panted as you were both frightened and tired from the running. You looked around and noticed a counter, which you quickly sped off and hid underneath the counter away from anyone.

----Few moments earlier----

"What do you think you are doing here?! Get out of the way!" Starscream yelled in anger as you accidentally bumped into his pede (or he bumped into you...) when he entered Shockwave's lab, which Shockwave wasn't around at the moment as he was dealing with Megatron on the bridge.

You were alone in lab for a few minutes as Knockout went to get supplies for you from the medbay as requested from Shockwave, you have grown slightly older so leaving you for a minute or two isn't a problem anymore.

You looked up at Starscream in shock and froze in your spot, you bowed profusely and apologised.

"Grrr! Why did Megatron allow you onboard this cause anyway?! And I told you to get out of the way!" And with that Starscream used his pede and kicked you away across the room.

You hit your back against the wall and squeaked in fear as you dashed out of the lab, lubricants filling your optics as you ran to Primus knows where your pedes decide to carry you to. You were too scared and frightened to even think about Knockout returning soon to find you missing and arguing with Starscream after that.

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"Dreadwing! Have you seen Y/N?!" Knockout asked the warrior in desperation as he met up with Breakdown, he was nearing Megatron's bridge door.

Dreadwing thought for a moment, "No. I haven't seen her when I was walking down the corridors, what happened?" He asked.

"Knockout."

Knockout held back a jump and gasp when he heard that voice...Shockwave. He turned to the scientist who was approaching the bridge to update Megatron on some stuff.

"What's wrong?" Shockwave asked in his usual monotone voice, wait till he hears what happened.

Knockout's groaned in frustration, worry, pissed and he knew they're scrapped. He admitted exasperatedly, "I went to get the supplies as you requested for only a minute, but when I entered the lab, I don't know where Y/N is!"

"Wait WHAT?!"

Yes...the one optic-ed Con who rarely shows emotion, just let out a super worried and angered cry as his antennas twitched further emphasizing it. His spark raced, and his energon boiled the moment he hears you have gone missing.

No one is even commenting why he is suddenly letting out emotional outbursts as they are all too occupied in finding you.

"Starscream entered your lab and bumped into her, and I don't know what happened but she probably ran away and I've ordered troops to look for her already!" Knockout further explained.

"I'm going to look for Y/N. She must be terrified, and I know she's waiting for me," Shockwave said, slightly firmer.

"Soundwave is screening through the entire ship as well, so far his cameras hasn't spotted her yet but he's doing it as fast as he can," Breakdown added.

"Lord Megatron is expecting you, we'll find Y/N and we won't fail!" Breakdown said and promised.

"You'll be doomed if you don't get to Lord Megatron..." Knockout added.

"What miserable logic is that?! I cannot do that! I'm worried about Y/N!" Shockwave's antennas twitched again in further anger as he let out another outburst so loud it echoed, the vehicons all scrambled throughout the ship looking for you.

"Shockwave..." Knockout trailed off witnessing the scientist so worried for the first time since he's always so stoic and blunt.

Unknown to everyone, Shockwave's unusual emotional outbursts have been heard...by you. You were still crouching under the counter, but raised your helm still teary optic-ed when your audios picked up your guardian's outburst echoing through the Nemesis. It just hit you hard in the spark to realise he is willing to sacrifice his work aside and receive any consequence just for the sake of your safety and wellbeing. But you were still caught up in your own frightened emotions to come out unfortunately.

"Hold on. Soundwave and I will handle Lord Megatron, and you can go find Y/N. We'll tell him what's going on. Go quickly, find her!" Dreadwing immediately suggested.

"You have my thanks and apologies Dreadwing," Shockwave quickly said as he handed Dreadwing his datapad, and immediately ran off to find you, with Knockout and Breakdown doing the same. Dreadwing entered the bridge to try and handle their leader.

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After loads of searching including the various berthrooms, medbays, flight decks, target rooms, they still couldn't find you. Shouts of your designation were heard all across the ship.

Shockwave then turned towards the direction of the corridors leading to the energon storage rooms, "Y/N! Please come out!" he yelled as he approached outside the storage rooms, the doors opened but you weren't in sight.

"Y/N! This is Shockwave. Please come out, I...am begging you!" It doesn't take a genius to know how worried the one optic-ed Con is, his spark just ached at this point. He clenched his servo in a mix of emotions piling up in him, and most of all, he is begging.

Vehicons passed by back and fourth looking for you as well but you were still hiding under the counter despite consistently hearing your designation being called.

"Y/N!" Knockout shouted.

"Everything is okay Y/N! Please come out!" Breakdown yelled, cupping his face to carry his voice further.

You trembled as you crawled out from under the counter silently, your optics still teary as you spotted your 100% worried guardian in sight. You were still hesitant as you bit your derma.

Shockwave is too worried to even think about anything, he doesn't care if anyone is going to laugh at him. For once in pretty much his life, a drop of lubricant escaped his single optic as his antennas fidgeted around. He had emotions before the war happened, and when it did, he suppressed his emotions in favour of fitting in more data and stuff.

"Y/N?!" Shockwave yelled again as he turned towards another direction in hopes to find you.

You couldn't bear to see the one who took care of you so distraught, so you sniffed and came out of your hiding spot and sprinted towards the scientist, panting as you ran to him.

Shockwave's antennas twitched when he heard sniffing and sobs, his helm shot up and he turned around, a tiny drop of lubricant fell towards the ground in the process.

"Thank Primus, there you are Y/N!" If Shockwave had a face he would be beaming in tears as he spotted you. Knockout and Breakdown noticed this and heaved a sigh in relief as Shockwave knelt down and hugged you in his arms, he knew very well you were waiting for him.

"Are you alright? Are you hurt?" Shockwave did a check as Knockout knelt down and did the same. You sniffed and sobbed at everything that happened in a short span of time, but you were also teary as soon as you took in the sight of your guardian.

"Shockwave, did you find Y/N?" Shockwave turned around, it was Lord Megatron.

"I have, my liege," Shockwave responded as Lord Megatron looked at you.

"I hit my back..." You complained/whined softly remembering the impact you took from earlier before scrambling out.

"Fix her up, I have already given Starscream his deserved punishment rest assured," Megatron ordered as he left, the three of them nodded sighing in relief.

"Thank the all spark. Maybe the lab isn't the best place for her to be left alone in unless some other bot is present," Knockout commented.

"...if only Starscream didn't randomly come into the lab," Breakdown huffed.

Shockwave just remained silent at their conversations as he calmed himself and walked to the medbay, his spark contented and relieved as he carried your sleeping self.

END

(There's one more part coming in this Babysitting series, hope you like it 😬)