"Daddy, Ate, Uncle, Kuya, I'm fine, really. I have to meet with my teachers to make up some of the work I missed," Aurora said. "Besides, if makes you guys feel any better, Barricade, and Zakarias will be there to help me as well."

"I don't know, Aurora. You were pretty injured, before," Bumblebee said. "You didn't remember anything for three days. And you still forgot things the other eight." Aurora looked toward Ratchet and Arcee.

~Please, let me go. With me missing so long, they might be worried,~ Aurora said over the bond to both of them. She sent over her feelings of worry, concern, and the strong desperation and determination.

"Alright, you can go. You're not feeling anymore pain or dizziness, are you?" Aurora shook her head.

"I'm fine. Can I go now?"

"Yes, just let me-" before Ratchet could continue, Aurora fell through her bridge to the back of the school.

~Aurora! You can't just do that!~ Aurora felt a bit sad at that.

~I'm sorry, daddy. I was really excited to see my friends that I just couldn't wait. I promise I won't do it again.~

~It's alright, sweet spark. Just hurry back soon. You are cloaking your signal, right?"~

~Yes, I am, and I'll try to hurry.~

"Hey there, Light!" Aurora turned as she heard Cade. She ran at both of her friends as they approached her, and tackled them to the ground.

"I'm so glad to see you guys!"

"We're glad to see you too! I can't believe that you still helped us out, even when you were out," Zak said.

"What happened anyway?" Cade asked. Aurora got up, and helped the two to their feet.

"Well ... I was caught in an accident."

"WHAT!?!?!?" they yelled in unison causing Aurora covered her ears.

"Guys, volume. My hearing is very sensitive."

"Sorry," they said.

"I had a concussion, some cuts, and internal bleeding, but I'm fine now." The boys look at each other and nodded. Cade went over and picked Aurora bridal style, and headed into the school with Zak following behind.

"B-barricade! W-what are you doing!?"

"He is carrying you. It's as simple as that. We won't allow you to strain yourself after just recovering from an accident, or a concussion at."

"But-" Cade interrupted her.

"No buts about it. And that's final. You helped us a lot, the least we can do is." Aurora just nodded. They walked to Ms.Obsidian's classroom. Zak opened the door and let Cade walk through first before following after. There, only Ms.Obsidian sat before them, working on some paperwork.

She looked up hearing the door open, but jumped out of her seat and rushed to the newcomers.

"Aurora, are you alright!? What happened!?"

"See! This was what I was trying to tell you! I didn't want to worry Ms.Obsidian, but you wouldn't listen to me."

"Well, we didn't want you to strain yourself. We know full well that concussions are capable of. Cade and I wouldn't forgive ourselves if you were to fall into a relapse of memory loss."

"Zak's right, Light. It must have been a terrible experience for your family." At Cade's words, Aurora slightly trembled.

"Y-you d-don't know ... t-the half o-of it," Aurora said. "The first day, I was in a dazed state. The other two I didn't remember anything or anyone. My family was devastated, but daddy, sister, uncle, and Raf kept talking to me through those days. I was able to get all my memories back after a couple of days, but I still forgot things. But it's been two days straight that I am fine. There's no need to worry!" Saying that only made them worry more.

"Aurora, sweetie ...  it is good to see you have recovered. Let us start catching you up then. Right, boys?" The two of them nodded. The four went to the front of the classroom, and got to work with explaining and teaching what Aurora missed.

During the lessons, Raf kept her updated on the new arrival, Wheeljack. She found that they were having a party. Aurora understood that Wheeljack was a hero, so it made sense.

Time Skip

"Aurora, are you sure we can't take you home? We don't mind at all," Ms.Obsidian asked. Aurora shook her head.

"Thanks for the offer, but I need to wait for my daddy. He is picking me up. There is no need to take me home or wait with me. You all have done enough by catching me up on what I missed. So go and enjoy the rest of you day."

They hesitated a bit, until Aurora spoke again.

"I would feel really bad if you waited with me."

"Oh, alright, Light. You win. Come on Cade, we don't want to be the reason she goes home upset when she just got caught up on what she missed."

"Fine, we'll see you on Monday, Light. Take care, now," Cade said as he followed after Zak.

"Bye, Barricade. Bye, Zakarias. Bye, Ms.Obsidian! I'll see you soon." She watched as they got into their respective cars, and drove off. She waited a few more minutes before she walked off into the forest behind the school. Once there, she made a vertical bridge, and walked through.

"Hey, everyone! I'm home!!!" Everyone greeted her, as she walked over to Ratchet and Wheeljack.

"I thought you said you shut it down," Wheeljack said.

"I did shut it down!"

"Daddy, I'm back. I caught up on everything," Aurora said, playing off the conversation like she didn't hear it.

"Daddy? You're a sire to a human?"

"Yes, this is my little sweet spark, Aurora. Aurora this is Wheeljack."

"Nice to meet you, Wheeljack. Quite the war-hero, you are."

"Likewise. How come you came through the bridge if it's shut down?"

"Simple. Since Aurora is here, she is the other way to bridge anywhere. My little sparkling has that ability. We are really glad she does. If not for her, we would have been scrapmetal at the hands of scraplets, and Optimus and Arcee would have frozen over, offlining."

Wheeljack looked at Aurora from head to toe. She was very fascinating. Aurora felt something was very off about Wheeljack. Like his coding was off. She got very uncomfortable.

~Daddy, Wheeljack is dangerous.~ Ratchet looked up from his work to see Wheeljack staring at her with narrowed eyes.

~Aurora, bridge into my cab. So I can protect you, and you can get some rest.~ Aurora quickly bridged into the cab and took her father's advice to rest.

"Ahh, where'd she go?"

"To her room to sleep. She had an exhausting day, and needs rest."

"And if we need her to bridge us in an emergency?"

"She's just a call away. She doesn't need to be present to bridge us." Before Wheeljack could speak again, Bulkhead called him over to tell stories.

~You see what I mean? Dangerous. I don't think that is Bulkhead's friend.~

~I see what you mean. Just say here and rest for now. We'll confront him later.~

~Alright then.~ Aurora drifted to sleep with dreams of nothingness.

Time Skip

After her little nap, Aurora stood with Jack and Raf listening to the bots talk.

"Look, I know Wheeljack better than anyone," Bulkhead stated.

"Hey ... what're you guys talking about?" Wheeljack asked as he walks in.

"I was just telling the guys about you and me. At the battle of Dark Mount. Pass," Bulkhead said.

"That's one heck of a story," Wheeljack replied.

"Yup, tell it," Bulkhead growled out glaring at Wheeljack.

"Talk, talk, talk. How about after we go off roading?"

"Miko, stay out of this," Bulkhead said.

"Bulkhead, easy," Arcee warned as she felt Aurora's uneasiness and fear through the bond. Ratchet looked over as well, from the bridge controls that were nowhere near finishing.

"I'm not sure I-" Bulkhead interrupted Wheeljack.

"Tell it."

"Fine! You wanna live in the past, Bulkhead," everyone turned to Wheeljack.

"The Wreckers were trapped between a Decepticon patrol and the smelting pit. The cons were vicious. Bearing down on us with everything they had. Me and Bulkhead engaged the enemy; left them for scrap. Then I made us a way out using their backsides as stepping' stones across the molten metal." Wheeljack looked to Bulkhead and asked, "Isn't that how it happened?"

"Yeah, that's exactly how that happened. Except for one little thing. I wasn't there," Bulkhead replied. "I'd already left the Wreckers to join up with Optimus. But you wouldn't know that if all you did was access Wheeljack's public serves records."

"Bulkhead, what does that have to do with-Whoa," Miko started but was suddenly picked up by the imposter Wheeljack.

"Miko!" the imposter made some distance between everyone.

"Stay back, or I'll squeeze her into pulp," the imposter said.

"Wheeljack, what are you doing!?" Miko shouted.

"Decepticon cowered! Let the girl go, and face me," Bulkhead said.

"Don't fret, plenty of fighting to come," the imposter said.

"Is there a real Wheeljack?" Jack asked.

"Oh, indeed. I believe Lord Starscream is making sport of him, the imposter replied.

"W-who are you?" Raf asked.

"That's Makeshift. He can take on anyone's physical appearance with data on their physical form," Aurora said.

"How would a human like you know of me!?" Makeshift asked in suppressed surprise.

"Lucky guess?" Aurora lied. She didn't really want Makeshift to know anything he already doesn't.

Makeshift walked over to the bridge control panel and typed in coordinates and tried activating it, but it didn't work. He snatched up Aurora in his other servo and brought her to the panel.

"Make a bridge to these coordinates or you and your friend will suffer." Makeshift proved his point by squeezing her and Miko. Aurora wasn't affected as much, but Miko was screaming.

"OKAY! I'll do it, but put Miko down!" Makeshift tossed Miko to Bulkhead instead. Aurora was freaking out and was not thinking clearly.

"Now, open it." With that, Aurora opened a bridge a the coordinates she was given.

Makeshift stood before the bridge with Aurora in hand, "Let's get this party started." Just when he thought Decepticons were going to come through, he was kicked out of the way by Wheeljack. Aurora was released and flew over to her dad, hugging his chassis tightly.

"I'd shut that hole before the stink comes through," Wheeljack said. Aurora didn't need to be asked twice. She shut the bridge down immediately.

Makeshift got up and both him and Wheeljack started to circle each other, swords in hand. Bulkhead wanted to join in as well as payback, but Wheeljack stopped him.

"Ugly's mine." Then they charged at each other. They exchanged blows between their swords. Everyone except Aurora lost track of Wheeljack. But in the end, Wheeljack kicked Makeshift's sorry aft.

Wheeljack looked at Ratchet and said, "You, hit the switch. It's time to take out the trash."

Ratchet looked down at Aurora in his servo. "Aurora." She nodded in response.

"Already on it." The bridge appeared once more. Wheeljack looked at the two in question, but wanted to get rid of Makeshift first.

Wheeljack turned to Bulkhead and said, "All yours, buddy."

Bulkhead picked up Makeshift, spun him around a few times, and throws him through the bridge.

"Nice lob," Wheeljack commented. Aurora took this time to examine Wheeljack. She felt the familiar feelings of calm and relief from him. Aurora herself felt relief, that his coding was similar to the others.

Aurora bowed her head slightly. "It's nice to formally meet you, War-hero Wheeljack. I'm Aurora 201 Projects, creation to Ratchet, and twin spark sister to Arcee." Aurora gestured to said bots while smiling up at Wheeljack.

"How can a human have a spark, much less a Cybertronian spark twin and sire!? Is that even possible!?" Wheeljack yelled.

"Well Jackie. You have a lot to catch up on."

The Next Day

They decided to celebrate with the real Wheeljack this time. Jack, Raf, and Bumblebee were dancing with Miko playing her guitar. Arcee was off to the side a bit, watching. Ratchet was off to the side still trying to fix the ground bridge. Aurora sat on Wheeljack's shoulder plating as the walked toward Bulkhead and Optimus not far from Ratchet.

"And that's my story. I never really wanted to remember, but for a Wrecker like you, and probably many others, I make exceptions," Aurora said after telling some of her experience as an experiment. "Just don't tell the others. They mustn't know my pain. Only Raf knows some of it other than the bots. Oh, and be careful of the triggers, please. I still have some episodes."

"I'll do that, cupcake," Wheeljack smirked as Aurora's cheeks gained a light blue.

"P-please d-don't call m-me that."

"Why not? It suits you. Or should I call you glass angel instead?"

"Wheeljack, refrain from calling my sparkling that!" Ratchet scolded.

"Whatever you say, doc."

"Don't call me that," Ratchet growled. "It's like a recurring nightmare."

Bulkhead decided to change the subject. "So now that you're apart of Team Prime, we need to pick out a vehicle mode for you," Bulkhead nudged Wheeljack a bit. "I have some ideas."

"Ahh, about that Bulk. Now that my ship's repaired, I'm itchin' to know what else I might find out there."

"Wait, you're leaving? Why?" Miko asked. Everyone gathered around at the news.

"Well, it's because some bots never change," Bulkhead answered.

"Wheeljack, know that you have a haven here," Optimus said.

"Jackie always leaves, but he always comes back," Bulkhead said. Wheeljack smiled back and fist bumped. Then Wheeljack turned to Aurora.

"Alright, cupcake. Bridge us to my ship." Aurora whole face turned a light blue, while Ratchet growled.

"Don't call her that!!!" He yelled. Before anyone could say anymore, Aurora opened a bridge under everyone, and they appeared before Wheeljack's ship.

"W-Wheeljack, please don't call me that. I don't like when daddy gets upset."

"Alright, then. I'll see you around then, Light." Aurora nodded, flew off of  Wheeljack and landed next to Raf.

Wheeljack turns to Bulkhead. "There's room for two, Bulk. Even with a backside like yours. Who knows what we might find out there. Some of the old crew?" Bulkhead thought about it, but looked over to Miko.

"Ha, sounds like fun, Jackie, but my ties are here now. With them. With her." Wheeljack nods and turns to Miko. "If anything happens to my favorite Wrecker, I'm coming after you."

"Don't worry. I'll take care of him, now say-WHOA." Aurora laughed as she took Miko into the air.

"Oh my gosh, this is awesome!"

"Uhh, Miko, the picture?" And with that, Miko takes a photo of Bulkhead and Wheeljack.

"This looks great! Thanks, Aurora."

"It's my pleasure."

Time Skip

"Miko, can I talk to you a bit in private?"

"Sure thing, Aurora." They walked off to the side where no one could hear them. "So, what did you want to talk about?" Miko decided to lower her energy so she didn't overwhelm Aurora, even though she was excited that Aurora wanted to talk in private.

"I have a ... gift for you, but I need your phone to give it to you." Miko handed Aurora her phone quickly to see what the gift would be. Aurora left the phone closed, and touched it to her forehead.

Then she gave it back, "I gave you a video of the battle between Uncle Op, Kuya Bee, and Skyquake." Miko opened the phone and saw a new video was there.

"This is awesome!"

"Just don't show anyone other than Raf. He also has the video."

"Thanks Aurora! Can you try and get video on Bulkhead?"

"Sure, but you have to promise not to show anyone other than Raf." Miko hesitated, but nodded. "Good."

A/n: My deepest apologies. Not so much time on my hand for regular post for my stories.