Shelby couldn't believe it. She had to see it for herself. She begged the Prime to let her go and see the supposed damage done. It took a lot of convincing to get the Prime to agree. Optimus, Bumblebee, Arcee, Smokescreen and Bulkhead have to come with. Just incase it is a trap. Shelby didn't care if it was a trap or not. She had to see her home. The place she grew up in. The she came back to after her whole family was murdered. The place where she rebuilt Dreadwing. Someone who actually cares about her, and who she cares for deeply. The ground bridge was opened by Ratchet. All the bots, including Dreadwing, had their weapons out and ready. Optimus and Bumblebee were the first ones to walk though. Then Shelby and Dreadwing and last Arcee, Smokescreen and Bulkhead.

On the other side of the ground bridge was not a pretty sight. The minute Shelby laid her eyes on the devastation in front of her, she fell to her knees. Tears formed in her eyes, but wouldn't fall. Dreadwing wanted to comfort her, but he knew he had to let her grieve. She had yet to really take it all in.

Her house, her white farm house, was now a smoldering mess. There was nothing left to show there used to be a house, except for the burnt white wood of the porch steps. The pillars that held the porch roof were laying broken and burned in front of the house. Shelby looked over at her shop/garage. It was in pieces. Hacked into pieces. Like someone took a giant machete to it and took all their anger out on it. The metal roof lay torn apart on top of her truck. Though it didn't look much like a truck anymore. Just a pile of scrap metal. Like someone stepped on it. Though someone or some con probably did as they were destroying the place. Though the barn was already falling apart, there was now nothing left of it. It was laying in ashes. The area around the house, barn and shop was black and still smoking. Trees were torn down or burned down. It was torture for Shelby to look at.

"My home. What has happened to my home?"

She shakes in anger and sadness. She doesn't know how to react. Dreadwing kneels beside her attempting to comfort her, but she pushes him away. He looks hurt by her actions, but he understand she is upset and needs time. The other bots lower their weapons and looked at the weeping women. They all know how she feels. For they too have lost their home. Before she can make another motion, they all hear a rustle in the back forty. They all look over, the bots and Dreadwing have their weapons at the ready. A tall blue and gray body slowly makes its way out of the woods that didn't get burned down.

"Silas" Shelby Whispers.

She jumps from her kneeling position and sprints to the remains of her shop. Praying her gun safe was still in tack. Silas knew where she was running to and started to run after her.

"Get away from her your murderer." Dreadwing snarled as he cut Silas off.

The two started to fight against each other. Silas took out Breakdowns hammer and got ready to use it on Dreadwing. The other bots started to shoot at him. Making sure to miss Dreadwing.

"Silas, you are outnumbered." Optimus roared.

Arcee and Bumblebee covered Shelby as she made it to the shop and began to dig. Bumblebee started helping her move rubble out of the way. Then there it was, what she was looking for. It was a little bend out of shape but still in tack.

"Bumblebee, can you rip the door off this thing for me?" She yelled up to the yellow and black bot. He gave her a few beeps of acknowledgement and ripped the door clean off.

Without wasting time, Shelby grabbed as many weapons as she could and shoved them all into a duffle bag that was laying inside the safe. She loaded her pistol and rifle, throwing the duffle over her shoulders and ran out of there. Dreadwing was still fighting Silas. Bulkhead was able to get behind and get a good blow in knocking him out.

"Stop!" Yelled Shelby.

"What? Why?" Scoffed Bulkhead.

"I need answers." Is all she said.

"Ratchet, we are taking in a Decepticon prisoner. " Optimus said though his com link.

Bulkhead, Dreadwing, Bee and Arcee began to carry Silas though the ground bridge. Optimus starting walking towards it tell he noticed Shelby wasn't with him. He looked back and found the women taking another look at her home. Her head dropped down and she let a single tear fall. Optimus waited for her and when she decided to come, they walked though together in silence.

Once on the other side, the bots had already strapped Silas to one of the berths to interrogate him. Silas was still knocked out, Dreadwing had made sure of that. Shelby walked over, her pistol in her hand. Locked and loaded, ready to fire. The bots made a path for her as she stormed over. Anger filled her eyes. A fire burned in her soul. She climbed up the berth and climbed on top of the body that held Silas.

"I want to see his real face." She turned to Ratchet and said.

Ratchet came over and removed the chest armor that protected Silas. Once opened everyone but Shelby and Dreadwing gasped. There were wires and cables all attached to Silas's head and upper torso. It was a gross site to see. His face all covered in cuts and bruises.

His eyes started to flutter open and the first thing he saw was his youngest daughter waiting for him to wake up. Shelby sat on the edge of the armor where Silas could see her. He started to struggle against his binds, but it would be no use. He sneered at his little girl. So many questions ran through Shelby's head. She didn't know what question to start with. So,they glared at each other. Neither making a sound.

"Why?" It was the only question she could think to say.

"Why what?" He asked innocently.

Clearly trying to get a reaction out of her. Shelby wasn't going to give in that easily.

"You know what? Why did you abandoned your family? Why did you kill mom and Brandon? Why did you lie to us? Why are you hooked up in Breakdown's body? Why would you go to Megatron? Why did you destroy our home?" She screamed at him. A tear formed in her eye, but she refused to let it drop. She would not give him the satisfaction.

"Did you kill the others too?" She said quietly.

"I technically didn't kill them all. I did watch the life fade out of their eyes though." Silas smirked.

Shelby kept her ground. She had been trained in this. She knew better.

"Why would you do that to your own family?" she asked again.

"Your older brothers were getting nosy. They started following me. When they caught me at base. I made sure they wouldn't run home and tell on me." He said, "Soon the others turned into test subjects. It made it easier after your brothers died and with you gone, it made it all the more easy. I just blamed you for the reasons I was gone. Though I still had to keep a face for your mother. Once the twins were gone, she was a wreck. I thought it would be beneficial to put her out of her misery. Brandon was supposed to join me. He helped me on some occasions. Helped me with covering up evidence and keeping the cops off my tail. But he lost it when I brought your mother into the mix. Had to kill him too."

"Brandon would never do something like that." Shelby choked out.

"Oh but he did. He was perfect for it too. He wanted to power just like I did. He wanted the new technology, just like me. He was a spitting image of me. But he did make me promise to never touch you. You had to stay out of it. Which was easy since you never came home. You left for the military and rarely came home. You were never supposed to find out." He explained to her.

Shelby didn't want to believe what she was hearing. She never thought in her life this would happen to her.

"Why did you destroy our home, my home?" She couldn't look at him anymore. She had her head down now, looking at her feet.

"That was Megatrons doing. Well he ordered me to do it. And since I am trying to stay on his good side, I completed his task." He chuckled a bit.

She heard enough. She got up and walked away. Before she jumped down, she took one more look at the man she called father. She brought her pistol up, aiming at his heart.

She let the tear finally fall. She couldn't do it. He smirked at her, knowing she would of never been able too. She brought the weapon back down to her side and jumped down. She got to the floor and walked away. Dreadwing started to follow her, but she put her hand up stopping him. She needed to be alone at this moment in time. A lot of information was thrown at her and she wasn't sure how to take it all in. All she wanted was to go home. Just to go home and have a nice ice cold drink and be with Dreadwing.

"Is that to much to ask?" She yelled aloud.

"Why is this happening to me?"

She leaned against the hallway wall and slowly slid to the floor. She brought her knees up to her chest and wrapped her arms around them.