Miko was the first to pipe up. "Who's Cliffjumper?" No one answered her question.

Optimus stepped forward and asks a question no one really wanted to know the answer to. "How is that possible?"

Ratchet responds, unhappiness filling his voice, "It isn't. Another bug! The system is chock full of them."

Arcee started talking, hopefulness laced in her voice, "If there's any chance Cliff's alive..." She didn't finish her sentence. I then spoke up. "We need to find out... Please... I don't want to lose my brother again, if he is still alive."

The humans look at me in shock while the rest of the bots nod in understanding.

"Ratchet, AuraStorm. Prepare sickbay. We may need it", Optimus says. I nod and immediately get to work while Ratchet bridges them to their location.

After they went through the bridge, Ratchet came to help me after he finished explaining to the humans what happened with the ground bridge. They were shocked and amazed and Miko wanted to know if she go visit her parents in Tokyo. Soon we finished preparing sickbay, and just waited for them to need a bridge back.

Soon, Miko's curiosity was peaked. "So Cliffjumper's, whoever he is, is your brother?"

I blink before answering. "Yeah", I say softly, trying to not get lost in memories.

"What's he look like?", she asks. I look at Ratchet and he gets my message bringing up a picture of me and Cliffjumper when we were sparklings. "But, he's red and you're indigo. You look nothing alike."

I smile softly. "That's because I look more like our mother. Cliff looks more like our father."

"Who are your parents?", Raf asks. I freeze before speaking.

"My mother was a Decepticon. That's where I get my darker colors and my red eyes. Her name was Tempest. She was killed by some Autobots who didn't know who she was. My father is an Autobot, very much so. His name was Orion Pax. But before the war, before they had to pick sides, they met each other, and fell in love. Cliffjumper is older than me. But we were close and me and my father are very close as well. Orion Pax doesn't exist anymore but that's because his name was changed after the war was started", I explain, not wanting them to know that my father is the leader of the Autobots just yet.

"What was his name changed to?", Miko asks. I didn't want to answer and was thankfully saved by Optimus calling for a ground bridge. The humans were distracted by the bots coming in with a blue explosion following them.

Ratchet started speaking. "Cutting it a bit close." His voice went solemn. "How bout Cliffjumper?"

Before the bots could answer, Miko jumped in with a bunch of questions. "What was that explosion? Was there a fight? Can I come with next time?"

Arcee got angry and growled at Miko before Jack jumped in with some excuse about sock drawers. I have no clue what he meant by that but Miko was unimpressed.

Optimus then asks Arcee what she saw and her response shattered my spark a second time in a day. I lose my brother, get my hopes up that he could be alive and now...

"Not Cliff. At least, not anymore. He was mutated, butchered, like one of those Con experiments during the war", her voice kept getting higher and more distressed before she collapsed onto one of the nearby crates.

Bumblebee buzzed something at her and she snapped at him. "No! I'm fine. Just dizzy." The humans had a sudden realization that we are not just robots. We have feelings, and emotions, and we can die. Ratchet scans Arcee and finds some purple residue on the back of her servo.

"What is this?", Ratchet breathed out.

"Don't know. Cliff was covered in it, leaking it", Arcee says. I couldn't take anymore. I ran off toward my room and just escaped from all the pain. Or at least tried. Some of it followed me and I suspect some of it stayed with Arcee and Optimus.

A few minutes later, Optimus came into my room. He didn't say anything, he just sat down beside me and pulled me into a hug. After a few minutes, I started to whisper.

"I miss him... I miss him so much. He was part of my anchor. I don't know what I'll do without him... Papa, what do I do...?", I whisper. Papa was a word I picked up from the humans when I drive and I rather liked it.

Optimus stroked my back softly, comforting me slightly. "We'll move on, continue fighting this battle, but we will never forget him. We will always remember him and fight in his honor or in your sense, heal is his honor. He told me that he always knew that you would be a medic because you were too caring to harm another unless absolutely necessary."

I felt tears leaking out and I immediately hugged my father tighter. "Thank you. You've brought an immense amount of comfort to me."

"And you have brought comfort to me, my sparkling", Optimus says. I smile before standing up.

"Well, shall we head back out. I suspect the humans have some more questions", I say with a small smile.

"They have gone home. I forgot about human customs and that they have a curfew", Optimus says guiltily. I smile and chuckle slightly.

"I'm not surprised. You have a lot on your shoulders and on top of that, you have to keep your emotions in check", I smile at him. He smiles at me for a brief second before masking his face again. "I wish you could show your emotions more often."

"As do I, but I would make some very irrational decisions if I let emotions rule my life", he responds.

"My emotions rule my life... And I've kinda made some bad decisions but it's always made me stronger", I say with a grin.

Optimus chuckled softly before picking me up and carrying me out of my room. "I can walk!", I exclaim before squirming and escaping from his grip. He laughs and I grin at him. I walk into the main room before noticing that everyone is gone. "Where is everyone?" I ask, looking up at Optimus.

"I assigned Arcee, Bulkhead and Bumblebee each to one of the kids to watch over", he explains. I nod.

"Let me guess, Arcee to Jack, Bulkhead to Miko, and Bee to Raf", I say and he nods. I smile before telling him that I'm going to take a short drive. He nods and head out of base. Soon thereafter though, I start to have a panic attack and I immediately turn around and head back to base. There is only one spot that helps me calm down and it's the coordinates that only Ratchet and I know about. I enter base and Ratchet isn't in the main room, however Optimus is.

I immediately say, "Get Ratchet." Optimus turns and sees me and he immediately calls for Ratchet. Ratchet comes into the room and sees my eyes, and his widen almost immediately. He opens a bridge and I immediately dash through it into the dark shade of the forest. Once the bridge closes, I immediately start to calm down. As soon as I calm down enough to look around, I realize that the feeling that someone else is supposed to be here isn't there. I instead get a feeling that someone is there. I turn around and see the one and only Megatron. I yelp and immediately pull my daggers out.

"No need for that. I will not harm you", he says. I still keep them out as a precaution.

"And why should I trust you?", I ask but with no real defense in my voice.

"You have no reason to. But something drew you here just as it drew me here", he says calmly. I blink and put my daggers away.

"What drew you to this exact spot?", I ask.

"Ever since I got back from my three years in space, I have felt as if I have to escape from my ship and these were the first coordinates to pop to my head. Only Soundwave knows what they are as well as me", he says. "May I ask what drew you to this spot?"

I blink again. "I get these panic attacks, similar to what you described. The need to escape base to this exact location. This has been going on for three years. And whenever I came here, I always got this feeling that someone else was supposed to be here. But no one was ever here until today."

Suddenly, Ratchet calls me via com-link. "AuraStorm, we're picking up a Decepticon signal in your area. Is everything okay over there? Do you need backup?"

I didn't answer immediately before turning to Megatron, making sure Ratchet couldn't hear me. "Pretend to attack me while I answer."

Megatron did so, and I answered Ratchet. "Everything is not okay!", I yell putting fear in my voice and pulling out my daggers and "attacked" Megatron. "It's Megatron! I need backup!"

A ground bridge opens almost immediately and Optimus comes through, battle ready. Megatron instantly gave me a cut on my arm that looked serious but wasn't very serious. He gave me a look that let me know that for some reason he didn't want to do it.

"Aura, go through the bridge while I deal with Megatron", Optimus growls.

"Oh, you won't have to deal with me, Optimus", Megatron sneered at him before transforming and flying up and out of sight. I watched him while holding my arm that was still leaking energon.

Optimus led me through the bridge and as soon as Ratchet saw my arm, he looked at me and I instantly knew I was in trouble. Ratchet dragged me into the sickbay and started to fix my arm. "Why didn't you call me as soon as you realized Megatron was there?!", he asks quietly.

"I didn't get a chance to... He attacked me almost immediately and I was only able to respond as soon as you called me", I lied through my teeth. Ratchet looks at me before nodding once, seeming as if he believed me.

"Well, I think I'm gonna call it a night. Goodnight Ratchet", I say as I head towards my room. Ratchet doesn't respond. As I fall sleep, I slowly realize that I just lied about what happened between me and the leader of the Decepticons and I don't know why...