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Nevermore	By : AngelofTwilight Category: Transformers > Transformers: Animated > AU/AR Views: 6344 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter List
- 23
- 24
- 25
Sorry for the lack of an update, had quite a writer’s block and I was working on some other stuff.
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Flashbacks will be italic.
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Chapter 24

Bumblebee awoke with a fright with his hand to his chest plate. He inhaled air deeply into his filters as the nightmare began to fade. He hated that he was getting his old memories back and seeing Moonchaser back… he just didn’t know what to do with him.

Meanwhile Midnightrunner along with Twilight and Roll Crush drove towards the Elite Guard ship to hear what Moonchaser decision was to be. He transformed and turned to the other two. “Wait here, I’ll be back.” he told them.

“No problem. I don’t want to run into Sentinel again.” Twilight replied.

Midnightrunner smirked as he turned back and began walking onto the ship. As he walked towards Ultra Magnus’s office, he ran into Jazz. “Yo Midnight.” he greeted.

“Hey Jazz.” Midnight greeted back.

“Going to see Ultra Magnus?” Jazz asked.

“Yeah.” Midnightrunner answered and Jazz nodded as they walked together towards their Supreme Commander’s office. As they reached the place, Jazz walked in first and as Midnightrunner walked into Ultra Magnus’s office he heard, “Are you sure about this?”

“Yes Sentinel Prime, I’m sure.” answered Ultra Magnus. Midnightrunner saw that Sentinel Prime was trying to convince Ultra Magnus not to trust Moonchaser and with a sigh, he shook his head.

“But… I understand that Moonchaser was a spy… but how do we know that he hasn’t really switch sides?” Sentinel asked quietly.

“I trust Moonchaser’s word.” Ultra Magnus replied firmly and Sentinel saw that Ultra Magnus wasn’t going to change his mind, Sentinel stepped down. Ultra Magnus turned to the green medic and said, “Now that you are no longer a spy Moonchaser, do you wish to return to Cybertron with us? So we can inform all the Autobots of your innocence and the plan.”

Moonchaser’s optics dimmed as he thought about it. He knew he could return to Cybertron and have the Decepticon insignia removed and replaced with the Autobot one and go back to having his blue optics again. But he knew in his spark that he rather not return to Cybertron, for he was sure that some Autobots wouldn’t believe that he never betrayed them and not until he can work up the courage to talk to Bumblebee once more. He looked up to Ultra Magnus and said, “I wish to stay on this planet.”

Ultra Magnus accepted his decision and gave a nod as Midnight piped, “That’s good. I could use a medic.”

“You’re not coming back?” Ultra Magnus inquired with a slight raised optic ridge as he turned towards Midnightrunner.

“I think Optimus and his crew could use some help against the Decepticons here. Plus, Twilight said he won’t leave until he pays his debt to Nori and I’m not going to leave Twilight here.” answer Midnightrunner.

“Very well.” Ultra Magnus said and looking at the four Autobots in his office, he added, “We will be leaving Earth soon. And yes Jazz, you may say your farewell to Prowl before we go.” Jazz smiled and thanked the Supreme Commander. “Moonchaser, please stay behind, the rest of you may leave.”

Midnight, Jazz and Sentinel saluted Ultra Magnus and Jazz and Sentinel left the office, before Midnightrunner left he told Moonchaser, “I’ll wait for you outside.” and Moonchaser nodded.

Once Midnightrunner was gone, Moonchaser turned to Ultra Magnus and asked, “Yes… sir?” and found it weird to be addressing him as ‘sir’ instead of ‘Lord’ as he had done with Megatron.

“Midnightrunner informed me that you bonded with Bumblebee.” Ultra Magnus told Moonchaser and saw him flinch. “You have nothing to worry about Moonchaser; you did it to save Bumblebee’s life.”

Moonchaser was silent for a moment and said, “No sir… I fell in love with Bumblebee despite my attempt to play the role of an Autobot traitor. And when I told Bumblebee I loved him… he tried to kiss me. I knew what he went through with Starscream and I knew what Megatron wanted from him… I tried to fight the urge to bond with him and lost to it.” He let loose a sigh and continued. “But I was glad that I did.”

“I know.” Ultra Magnus said with a nod. “Midnightrunner told me about it. He also told me that you sacrificed your bond to save him.” Moonchaser turn his optics away. “Moonchaser, I can guess why you wish to stay on Earth. And I know that Megatron would no sooner destroy you once he is informed of your betrayal and finds you… is Bumblebee worth your death?”

Moonchaser stared right into Ultra Magnus’s optics and the blue mech saw ardent burning in his red optics. “Being with Bumblebee is worth it. I will protect him from Megatron and Starscream again if it comes to it. I will die for him… I love him.”

“That’s all I needed to hear. You may leave.” Moonchaser saluted Ultra Magnus and left the blue mech’s office. Midnight pushed away from the wall and walked over to his friend.

“Ready to go see Bumblebee and his friends?” he inquired and Moonchaser nodded in response.

Moonchaser drove in silence as Jazz led him and the other three towards the plant. He couldn’t wait to see Bumblebee and see how he was doing but he was also afraid. Ultra Magnus told him that Bumblebee had his memories locked away and replaced with new ones but had started to gain his old memories a few days ago. He also told Moonchaser that both he and Ratchet told Bumblebee the truth and that the green medic was a spy for the Autobots. Moonchaser began falling behind the others as he ran his thoughts over this. He was good at keeping secrets and he was very good at lying, after all, he did manage to keep Bumblebee and the Decepticons in believing he was an Autobot traitor and he managed to convince Megatron that Bumblebee had somehow faked his death. In his spark he knew he would have to tell Optimus and his team the truth about everything… but his paranoia told him not to until he can trust them.

“You ok Moony?” Midnightrunner asked as he drove next to Moonchaser. Snapping out of his thoughts, Moonchaser replied back, “I’m nervous.”

Midnight knew why and switched to a private link. “Don’t worry Moony. I bet Bumblebee will be jumping into your arms when he sees you.”

“I hope so…” Moonchaser told his friend.

“Ratchet, what’s wrong with Bumblebee?” Sari asked the old medic as she, Ratchet, Prowl, and Optimus watched Bumblebee play his favorite video game dishearteningly.

“Hard to say… I think he’s taking the news of Moonchaser here hard…” answer Ratchet.

“Why’s that?” Sari wondered.

“Who knows.” Prowl replied.

The computer began beeping and Optimus walked over to it and pressed a few buttons. “What is it?” Ratchet asked the fire truck.

“I’m picking up three Autobot signatures, one Decepticon signature and an AllSpark signature heading for the plant.” Optimus answered.

“We can guess who they are.” Ratchet stated as he and Prowl join Optimus at the computer. Bumblebee was half listening to them and he could guess who the Decepticon signature belonged to and his character in the game was defeated.

The others noticed this and tried to pretend they hadn’t and Optimus said, “I’ll go greet our friends.” And he headed off towards the entrance.

Hoping to help cheer Bumblebee up some, ran over to the couch and climbing up on it she grabbed the other controller and said, “Let’s have a round together Bee.”

Bumblebee smiled at Sari and replied, “Ok.”

As soon the other Autobots reached the plant that Optimus and the others set up as a base, Moonchaser was both relieved and surprise that they hadn’t been attacked by Lugnut and Blitzwing. He thought that Megatron would’ve sent them to search for Bumblebee or him.

Optimus stepped out the base as the Jazz and the new arrivals transformed. “Welcome to our base.” Optimus said greeting the others.

“Thanks.” Midnightrunner replied back.

Nori whistled and said, “I would kill to have a garage as big as this.” Optimus Prime frowned at the female as she sat on Twilight’s shoulder and Twilight noting this quickly interjected, “It’s just a saying. She wouldn’t really kill anyone.”

As Nori was about to retort back Prowl came walking out the base, he smiled when he saw Jazz and walked over to him. “Hello Jazz.” He greeted.

“Hey baby.” Jazz greeted back. The others stayed quiet and watched the two ninja-bots.

“This is a pleasant surprise.” state Prowl.

“Not really.” Jazz replied. “I’ll be leaving for Cybertron soon and I came to say goodbye.” Prowl knew that Jazz would have to return to their home planet someday but watching his bondmate leave was hard. “Don’t be sad Prowl. I’ll call you when I can and I’ll try to come back and visit.” promise Jazz.

Prowl nodded and said, “Goodbye Jazz, I’ll miss you.”

Jazz pulled Prowl into a hug and held him tightly “I’ll miss you too Prowl. I love ya.” He pulled the black and gold ninja-bot away and gave him a kiss. As soon they pulled away from the kiss, Jazz transformed and drove back towards the Elite Guard ship.

Once he was out of sight, Roll Crush was the first to speak. “Nori girl, yer mouth is hangin’ wide open.” The other Autobots turned and indeed saw the human with her mouth open. Nori closed her mouth and grinned. “That was… wow.”

Optimus rubbed his helmet and addressed Midnightrunner. “What brings you here Midnight?”

“Ah, came for a visit, see where you’re living, oh and have Moonchaser here tell you and your team why the Decepticons want Bumblebee.” Midnightrunner explained.

Optimus was curious to know why Megatron had sent Lugnut and Blitzwing to capture Bumblebee. He gestured for the others to follow him into their base. “Will you be alright to walk?” Twilight asked Nori.

“As long everyone watches where they step.” she answered and Twilight helped her down and handed a wicker basket over to her.

“What is the basket for?” Prowl asked.

“Breakfast.” reply Nori. Not wishing to comment on that, Prowl headed in with Nori and the others right behind him.

As the five mechs and Nori walked into the base, Moonchaser hesitated for a second, trying to get his spark to calm its frantic pulsing. ‘Patience… patience…’ he told himself calmly and once the tugging subsided he walked in as well.

“This is our main base.” Optimus indicated the room they stopped in. “Our computer monitors are over there and that’s our recreation room.” He said pointing the direction Bumblebee, Sari and Bulkhead sat. They looked up as the new Autobots came in and Sari got down from the couch.

“Hey, Nori. What’s in the basket?” Sari asked the older woman.

“I wasn’t sure if you were getting a proper breakfast so I brought some for you and me.” Nori answered as she set the basket down and removed a blanket from it.

“Proper breakfast? You can’t cook; you only know how to bake.” Twilight retort and Nori stuck her tongue out at him.

“I guess we can leave Sari and her friend to their breakfast as we get this meeting under way.” Optimus told the Autobots.

“Actually Optimus, sir. Midnight already told Roll and me what the slag is going on.” remark Twilight.

“And we don’t mind keepin’ da girls company.” Roll Crush added. Optimus nodded, Bulkhead and Bumblebee got up from the couches and headed deeper into the plant. Sari sat down onto the blanket as Nori began removing items from the basket and watched her yellow friend with concern. Bumblebee hadn’t been himself since the previous night.

“Is somethin’ da matter lil’ lady?” Roll Crush inquire as he sat on the couch.

“Bumblebee hasn’t been himself since last night… I’m worried.” Sari explained as Nori placed a plate of pancakes in front of her.

“He’ll be fine.” Twilight said trying to reassure the red head. “Yeah.” agree Nori as she poured milk into a cup from a thermos. “Be sure to drink your milk Sari. It’s good for you.”

Sari took the cup and stared at the older woman. “You sound like a mother and why aren’t you drinking it?” she asked.

“Oh, I am.” Nori replied and held up another thermos. “I’m having milk with my coffee.”

“Why does Megatron want Bumblebee?” Optimus asked Moonchaser. The green medic trained his optics on each Autobots and lingered on Bumblebee. He offline his optics and with a sigh said, “Megatron wants Bumblebee as a mate.”

“A mate?” the earth-bounded Autobots echoed and Moonchaser nodded.

“Why did he want Bee as a mate?” Bulkhead asked.

Moonchaser paused for a moment. “Megatron thought that if he had an Autobot for a mate… by his side that he could try and take Cybertron again and we wouldn’t do any harm to him if he had bonded with Bumblebee.” Moonchaser lied. Midnightrunner was dismayed to hear his friend lying to the others and scowl at the green medic.

“That doesn’t sound like something Megatron would do.” Optimus observed.

“This is true.” Moonchaser agreed. “I had to tell him something so that he wouldn’t have Bumblebee killed.” Midnight’s scowl deepened as more cock-and-bull story spewing out of Moon’s mouth.

“So does this mean Bumblebee’s going to stay on the base?” Bulkhead asked.

“No way! You can’t keep me from kicking Decepticon aft!” Bumblebee stated angrily.

“Bumblebee, if Megatron get his servos on you…” Optimus began but was cut off by Bumblebee.

“We fought against Megatron before and he has never gotten me. You can’t make stay here every time the Decepticons attack. You can’t!”

“I have to agree with Bumblebee.” Midnightrunner told the others. “He can take care of himself and if one of them tries to take him, he has friends and comrades to help him out and it’s not like he’s going to be alone all the time. So cut the kid some slack.”

Optimus rubbed his chin, contemplating all this and said, “No, Bumblebee won’t have to stay at the base. But if any of the Decepticons try to kidnap you again Bumblebee, I want you to run and I will want someone to go with him to protect him and make sure he’s safe.”

Everyone nodded and Midnightrunner said, “I’ll be sure to tell Twilight and Roll about that.”

“Good.” Optimus replied back and turning to Moonchaser said, “Anything else?”

Moonchaser’s optics wandered over to Bumblebee again and the yellow mech noticed. They both stared at each other for a while and Bumblebee slowly turned his head away. A little spark broken by this, Moonchaser said, “No.”

“Thank you for the information you gave us.” Optimus told the green medic. Moonchaser nodded and left the make-shift meeting room. Midnightrunner was quick to follow after him.

“I wonder why they were in such a hurry to leave.” Bulkhead wondered.

“Who can tell.” grunt Ratchet.

“You didn’t tell them the truth!” Midnightrunner stated angrily to Moonchaser over a private link as he followed after him.

“And?” Moonchaser replied back with stoic calm.

“And?! What do you mean ‘and?!’” demand Midnightrunner, “Why didn’t you tell them that Megatron wanted Bumblebee as a bondmate so he could breed with him?! Why didn’t you tell them that you and Bumblebee are bondmates and that you bonded with him? Why didn’t you tell them the truth?”

“Bumblebee didn’t mention it either.” Moonchaser retort.

“Well, yeah. I understand why he didn’t say anything about it. He had his memories locked away for many stellar cycles and he’s probably confused and scared. Plus, he met you as a ‘traitor’ and he probably now knows that you’ve been a spy for us all along. You should’ve been the big bot and told them the truth.” Midnightrunner proclaim as he stopped following the other mech. “Why do you have to keep being distrustful of every bot you meet?” Moonchaser stopped short at those words his friend uttered. “Not all Autobots are suspicious and paranoid. Optimus and the others haven’t judge… well, ok they did when they heard of your ‘betrayal.’ And Sentinel’s a jerk to everyone except to Ultra Magnus. But since I cleared up the fact that you aren’t a Decepti—”

“But I am Run…” mumbled Moonchaser.

“What now?” Midnightrunner asked bewilder.

“I’m a Decepticon… or at least half Decepticon.” Moonchaser sighed and continued on, “When I was on New Kaon, I searched the computer banks for data and came across a report… it seems that there was a Decepticon that had a sparkling with a… neutral or Autobot femme. The femme escaped and tried to flee the Decepticon and head into a safer territory, she died when the Autobots attacked the Decepticons. The Decepticon was forced to flee and leave the sparkling behind.” Moonchaser sighed again. “Remember what I told you when we were younger Run? I was an orphan sparkling that was found in Kaon… the Decepticon, Tinker was my mech-creator.”

Midnightrunner shrugged and waved his hand. “Who gives a slag that you’re half Decepticon? I still don’t. I still see good in ya, Moon… but right now, all that secrecy and lying you been doing isn’t doing too well with you. You have to tell someone the truth because if I have to… I don’t think the others would be too happy that you kept very vital information from them, especially if Bumblebee does get captured by Megatron and bonds with him. I don’t think you’d be able to live with yourself when that happens.” Moonchaser stood there processing what Midnightrunner told him and the triple changer walked past him. “I trust that you’ll make the right choice. If you’re still scared to tell the Autobots, then try telling at least one of them that you can trust. And be sure to sit down with Bumblebee and talk to him soon, ok Moony?”

Ratchet grumbled as he rearranges his tools in his med bay. Everything that he learned was a surprise, especially learning the reason why Megatron wanted Bumblebee. He heard a hesitant knock on the door and called, “Come in.” Moonchaser slowly walked into the med bay with a nervous air around him. Ratchet turned and stared at the other medic and after a few minutes of silence ask, “What is it?”

“I… need to talk to you.” Moonchaser murmured.

“What about?”

“I need to tell you the truth… the real truth for Megatron’s interest in Bumblebee.”

Ratchet stared confused at Moonchaser. “What? But didn’t you just tell us?” wonder Ratchet.

Moonchaser shook his head and said, “No. Most of what I said was false. I still have a bit of a trust issue.”

The weary old medic sighed and said, “Alright. So why does the Decepticon leader want Bumblebee?”

“Megatron wants Bumblebee for a mate… and to create a sparkling with him.” Moonchaser answered.

Ratchet was taken aback by this new information. He knew that Bumblebee was able to have sparklings, every Autobot medics knew about it. “What? How does he know about it?”

Moonchaser grimace and turned away from the old medic. “I told Megatron…”

“You did what?!” Ratchet demanded to know.

“I had to Ratchet.” Moonchaser told him. “Megatron ordered me scan Bumblebee’s chassis for anything useful of him… if I didn’t then Bumblebee would be destroyed. When I came across his carrying chamber… I was surprise. And I knew that Bumblebee still had some vorns before his spark could split, plenty of time to save him.”

“And now that Megatron knows about this and is on the same planet with Bumblebee, he won’t stop until he has him.” Ratchet replied back.

“I thought that Bumblebee would stay on Cybertron, how was I going to know that this would happen?” Moonchaser snapped.

Ratchet sighed and said, “I know and I sorry. I’m just worried about Bumblebee right now.”

“I am too...” Moonchaser replied.

As Ratchet and Moonchaser were having their conversation, the other Autobots were returning to the main room. Midnightrunner walked over to the couch and watched as Twilight, who had taken over Bumblebee’s place in the game. “What’s going on here?” he asked.

“Twilight’s showing Roll how to play this game.” Nori answered the triple changer.

“Ah hav’ no idea wat he is doin’.” Roll Crush said.

“You need to play more.” Twilight told the other.

As soon as Bumblebee walked in, he saw that Twilight took over his place and screamed, “Hey! I was playing that!”

“You left.” Twilight replied.

“I just went away for a few minutes! I was coming back to finish it.”

“Too bad, so sad shorty.” Twilight stated.

Bumblebee’s teammates were tense as they watched him clench his fists tightly and Midnightrunner saw this as well and so he walked over to Bumblebee and wrapped his arm around Bumblebee’s shoulders. Bumblebee stared up, confused at the triple changer who smiled back as he said, “Hey there Bee, let’s hang out. Let’s have a race.”

“Are you sure that’s a good idea?” Prowl asked.

“Yeah, the Decepticons would be looking for him.” Bulkhead added.

“Don’t worry, I’ll protect Bumblebee. And if we do run into problems I’ll call you guys for help.” Midnightrunner reassured the others.

Optimus wasn’t sure about letting Midnightrunner take Bumblebee out but he knew he could trust the intelligence officer’s promise. “Very well Midnight, call us if you need help.” Midnightrunner nodded, removed his arm from Bumblebee’s shoulders and transform into his jeep mode.

“Let’s go Bee.” Midnight called and drove out the base. Bumblebee watched and quickly transformed and rolled after him.

As the two raced each other and every time Midnightrunner pulled ahead of Bumblebee, he would lead him around the city until he stopped at a pier and transformed. Bumblebee transformed as Midnightrunner sat down. The yellow youngling sat down next to the silver one as he watches the waves. “Ah, this planet is truly different from Cybertron.” Midnight said as he scooped up a handful of water and watches it run down his arm. “It’s so peaceful and wondrous.”

Bumblebee stared Midnightrunner and asked, “You’re not going to be a tree-hugger like Prowl, are you?”

Midnightrunner open his hand and let the water fall back into the lake. “Not at all.”

They sat there for a while and Bumblebee finally asked the one question that has been bugging him. “Do you know Moonchaser?”

“Yep,” Midnightrunner answered, “I’m his best friend.”

Bumblebee shuttered his optics at Midnight. “What? But Moonchaser told me that he killed his best friend at Kaon.” He told Midnight.

“Eh, that’s sort of true… he used a virus… the same virus he used on you on me.” Midnightrunner explain and shuddered. Bumblebee noticed.

“What’s wrong?” he asked.

“I hate remembering about it…” he mumbled.

“Why?”

“I came online as I was about to be taken apart for spare parts. No Autobot should wake up to that.” answer Midnightrunner with a grimace.

Bumblebee watched some fishes swim around near the pier and then swim away and he sighed softly. “Why did Moonchaser lie to me?” wonder Bumblebee.

“It was his job as a spy.” Midnightrunner answered.

“He could’ve told me when I was on the Nemesis.” Bumblebee stated and Midnightrunner shook his head.

“No, if Megatron or anyone else found out that he was a spy… you would still be on the Nemesis and Moonchaser wouldn’t be here.”

Bumblebee sighed as he kicks his leg in the water and asked the one question that had been nagging him. “Why did Moonchaser volunteer to be a spy?” Midnightrunner’s smirk disappeared and he lean back. “Was it because of those Autobots that treated him like scrap or was that a lie too?”

“No… that… was true.” answer Midnightrunner.

“Why?”

Midnightrunner sighed and answered, “I was only a sparkling myself and I only learn this from Moonchaser. But doing the war, the Autobots were attacking Decepticons on Kaon and as the Autobots pushed the Decepticons back in their territory, one Autobot came upon a sparkling. Seeing no creator in sight and the Decepticons were turning the tide on the Autobots, they retreated and the Autobot took the sparkling back to a neutral territory and placed him in an orphanage. That sparkling was Moonchaser…”

“That doesn’t explain much.” Bumblebee stated slightly annoyed.

“Give me time Bee, I just paused for dramatic effect.” Midnightrunner told the other with a shake of his head. “There were a few sparklings that were orphaned or lost a creator in the war and well, a rumor began stating that since Moonchaser was found in Kaon that he was a Decepticon sparkling and they blamed him for their losses.”

“That’s terrible.” exclaims Bumblebee, horrified that some Autobots would judge another base on a rumor.

“Yeah it was.” Midnight agreed. “And even though I lost my mech-creator in the war, I didn’t blame Moonchaser for it. I decided to help him and became his one and only friend.”

“I see.” Bumblebee said.

“Hey, I have an idea.” Midnightrunner said aloud and Bumblebee stared. “If you want to know more about Moonchaser, I can share some of my memories with you.”

“You want to bond with me?!” Bumblebee bellowed.

Midnightrunner stared at Bumblebee and began to laugh. “No, Bee. I’m not going to bond with you. I’m just going to use a cable to show you my memories with you. Besides, my spark already belongs to someone else.” Midnightrunner told him.

“Oh.” Bumblebee replied embarrassed for making that accusation.

Midnightrunner was amused by Bumblebee and chuckled as he took a cable out. “Ready?” he asked.
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Midnightrunner love exploring. His femme-creator knew it to and worried about him when he would leave their home during the war but she would be relieved to see him return home every day.

Midnightrunner climbed up some rubble and sat there looking around. “This war really devastated this place.” He commented to no one and slid down the rubble. As he continued on in exploration, stopping every now and then to look at something that caught his optics, he would remember and keep track of his route so he could return home without getting lost. He stopped and squealed in delight at the sight of a robo-rat and bound after it. The rat spotted the youngling and scamper off. Unfortunately, Midnight’s delight disappeared when the robo-rat made its escape into a small hole.

“Awww.” He said disappointed and stared into the hole. As he stood up, his audios picked up some noise. He tilts his head to get a better fix on the sounds and filled with curiosity, he set off in the direction of the noise.

As soon Midnight walked around a pile of junk, he stopped and stared at the ring of younglings cheering and hollering. Midnight could barely see inside the ring with the young mech’s bulks but he was able to see two mechs in the ring and wanting to see more, he walked over to the others. He pushed his way between two mechs and shutters his optics at the sight before him. The first thing he saw noticed was the mech that had just a youngling and what he could determine was his age or close to it was getting beaten by a youngling twice his age.

Midnightrunner watched the older youngling punch the smaller one in the face and the forest green youngling stumbled into the ring and three of the younglings shoved him back into the middle of ring. Midnightrunner frown at this and tugged on one of the mech’s arm, the mech stared down at him and asked, “What do you want?”

“What’s going on here?” Midnightrunner asked and pointed at the seemingly unfair fight.

The older mech smirked and said, “We’re just teaching the sparkling how to fight.”

Midnightrunner’s frown deepen as he watched the forest green youngling get punched in the chest and fell to his knees as he clutch his chest plate. “Hey! That was close to his spark! He coulda killed him!” Midnightrunner exclaimed in horror.

“Who cares if the Decepticon spawned sparkling dies or not, it’s not like anyone would miss him.” Another mech spoke up as another youngling broke out of the circle and kicked the small youngling down.

Midnightrunner hated watching this, his processor was telling him that this was wrong and shouldn’t be happening when he got a good look at the forest green youngling’s battered chassis. He watched as two younglings grabbed the beaten youngling’s arms and hauled him to his and the previous one would punch him better. Midnightrunner didn’t much about the ‘Decepticon spawned sparkling’ or why these younglings were enjoying beating him up, all he knew was that this was a unfair fight and reaching a decision, he threw himself onto the punching mech.

“Well, that didn’t go the way I planned.” Midnightrunner said with a weary smile as he limped and helped the other youngling to a med bay in hopes of getting repaired. He had the other’s arm slung over his shoulder and was holding the forest green one’s waist. “Stupid even, jumping in to beat on a couple of mechs half my size. Worth it though.” Midnight had known that it was a worthless effort to beat on three mechs but he hadn’t cared especially when he himself had been beaten as badly as the youngling that he was trying to help. As Midnightrunner shift his companion’s weight, he was beginning to worry that he might’ve drifted into unconsciousness with his lack of response, so he would stop and lean slightly to see if he was and would be somewhat relieve to see his optics still glowing.

Midnightrunner figured that he was not very talkative or was in too much pain to speak. “I bet you’re hurting a lot. But don’t worry, I do a lot of exploring so I know the closest Autobot HQ, I’ll take ya to the med bay so you can get fixed up.” Midnightrunner prattle on.

After what seemed like a eternity of silence, Midnightrunner was ready to give up talking to the mech he had just saved when the youngling lift his head and cast his optics on him. “Why are you helping me?” he asked solemnly.

“Why shouldn’t I?” Midnightrunner asked back.

“…because I’m a Decepticon spawned youngling.” The forest green youngling whispered.

“So? You don’t act like a Decepticon and I doubt you’re being raised like one. And before my mech-creator died, he always told me to never judge anyone by what others say about them but after I get to know them personally. So I’m gonna get to know you personally before I judge you as an Autobot or a Decepticon.” Midnight paused and added, “Plus, it looked like you needed a friend to watch your back and I very much like to be your friend.”

There was silence between the two once more as they headed closer to an Autobot HQ the forest green youngling said with a bit ardor, “Thank you…”

Midnightrunner grinned and replied back, “No problem. I’m Midnightrunner by the way.”

The other was quiet for a few nano clicks and then mumbled, “Moonchaser.”

Midnightrunner fought so hard not to laugh and snorted slightly as he said, “Really? That’s a silly name.”

“…shut up.” Moonchaser replied coldly.
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“And that was how I first met Moony.” Midnight told Bumblebee with a grin.

“So you got the slag beat out of you to save Moonchaser?” Bumblebee inquired.

Midnightrunner chuckled and replied, “Yep and as I stated when I was barely a youngling, it was worth it. But even after that day, Moony was still reluctant to open up to me and tended to shy away from me. It took me a slagging long time to finally get him to trust me.”

“Why do you call him ‘Moony’?” Bumblebee asked.

“It’s easier then saying his full name.” Midnightrunner answered, his grin growing wider. “Better than what the others called him and for me. Heh, being called ‘Decepticon lover’ is not a great insult, it was really laughable.”

“What did the others call Moonchaser?” Bumblebee asked innocently.

Midnightrunner shook his frantically. “No way am I gonna tell you Bee. I’m not at liberty to tell you, even if I did… Moony would kill me and I like functioning. You’ll have to ask him yourself.” He said as he checked his memory files for another memory to share and found one. “This next memory is when we decided our future.”
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Midnightrunner drove up a flight of stairs as tried to reach the top of what was left of a tower in Tyger Pax. He had search every location that he knew Moonchaser would hide out to get away from the annoying taunts and attacks of the others and this was the last place that he hadn’t searched yet. As he reached the top of the ruin tower, he transformed and saw Moonchaser sitting at the edge reading. Midnightrunner walked over to his friend and sat down next to him.

“This place must’ve been beautiful once.” Midnightrunner said.

“Mmmm.” reply Moonchaser.

“I hope the war ends soon so that this place can be fixed again.”

Midnightrunner noticed Moonchaser staring at him out the corner of his optics and placed the datapad down next to him. “You sound a little downcast Midnight. Is something wrong?” Moonchaser inquired.

Midnightrunner sighed and answered, “I just got word that my femme-creator died.”

“I’m sorry to hear that.” Moonchaser replied.

“Thanks, it really means a lot to me. At least she didn’t die in vain. She died covering her injured teammates. She’s going to be honored for her bravery in a few megacycles. ” Midnightrunner told his friend.

“What are you going to do now?” Moonchaser asked.

“I was thinking of joining Autoboot camp and heading to the Academy to train as an Intelligence Officer. I’m old enough to do that.” answer Midnightrunner.

“Oh.” Moonchaser muttered.

Midnightrunner turned to his friend and asked, “What about you Moony? What do you want to do?”

“Don’t call me that.” snap Moonchaser and then turned to avoid his friend’s gaze. “I want to… be a medic.”

“Perfect! We can sign up at Autoboot camp together!” Midnightrunner exclaim happily. His smile turned into a frown when Moonchaser shook his head. “What’s the matter Moony?”

“I’m not going to join the Autoboot camp.” Moonchaser sighed.

“Why not?” Midnight asked as his frown deepened.

“Do I need to remind you?” Moonchaser growled.

Midnightrunner groaned and shook his head. “Oh, for the love of Primus... are you forever going to let those aftheads ruin your life because of that stupid rumor?” Midnight demanded to know and Moonchaser didn’t reply back. “Honestly Moonchaser, just because they think you’re a Decepticon doesn’t mean that you are or have to be. You want to be a medic for what? To help others? That’s fine. Do it for yourself and ignore everyone that tries to put you down. I have faith in you and you should too.” Midnight preached to his friend. “Besides.” He said with a grin, “Knowing my luck, I’ll be coming into the med bay so much that I’m gonna need someone I can trust to fix me.”

Moonchaser smiled. “Alright Midnight, I’ll join Autoboot camp with you.”

“Sweet!” exclaim Midnightrunner as he wrapped his arm around his best friend’s shoulders and hollered, “You hear that Cybertron! The Decepticon spawn and the Decepticon lover are going to show you what we’re made of!”

“Now, you’re just embarrassing me…” Midnight could feel Moonchaser’s chassis heat up with embarrassment which he chuckled in reply.
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“I’ve been told that I was crazy but I like think of myself as being eccentric.” Midnightrunner snickered.

“Yeah, I can see that.” Bumblebee muttered and then said, “Moonchaser told me that during his training as a medic that some mechs got femme to join in on a prank…” Midnightrunner muttered something incoherent.

“That was a stupid and immature thing… that they did to him.” Midnight said softly and brought that memory up.
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“Let me go Run.” Moonchaser said with a growl as Midnightrunner dragged Moonchaser out his quarters.

“But Moony, you been doing nothing but studying. Every time I come to visit it’s study, study, study. You need a break.” Midnight informed his friend as he dragged him off to a bar.

“I’m fine Midnight…” he muttered.

“I’m not taking that Moony, you are going to drink with me even if it kills me.”

Moonchaser saw a loosing battle when he saw one. “Fine, two high grades and that’s it.”

“Make it five and we got a deal.” Midnight told him with a grin.

“Fine.”

As soon the two friends got to the bar and sat at a table with their high grades, Midnightrunner grinned at his friend. “See? Everyone’s not staring or sneering at you Moonchaser, relax.”

“I know. You were right. Stop being so pleased with yourself.” Moonchaser mumbled and took a sip of his energon.

“So how’s your training going?” Midnightrunner inquired.

“It’s going fine. How is your training going?” Moonchaser asked back.

“Training to be an Intelligence and Communication officer is tough but rewarding.” Midnight answered as he waited for a reaction from his friend.

“Intelligence and Communication officer? How can you possibly do both at once? I thought you were just going to be an intelligence officer.” Moonchaser was astonished.

“I was but I wanted a challenge and I wanted to be a Communication officer ‘cause I love gossip.” Midnight chirped happily.

“Oh, Primus…”

At this point, a lime green femme walked over to their table and lean in. “Hey there.” She greeted.

“Yo.” Midnight greeted back and Moonchaser nodded back. The femme turn her gaze onto Moonchaser and smiling asked, “You’re Moonchaser, right?”

“I am.” He answered.

“I have such a crush on you, Moon.” She told him.

Midnightrunner was surprise but happy to hear that someone had a thing for his friend and stifled a laugh as Moonchaser dropped his energon. “You-you do?” Moonchaser asked, staring up at the femme.

“Yep, since Autoboot camp.” She told the forest green mech.

“I’m gonna go get some more energons.” Midnightrunner announce and headed for the bar before Moonchaser could protest. He lingered there for 15 cycles to give Moonchaser and the femme time to chat and ordered two high grades for them. As he headed back towards the table, he couldn’t help feel happy for his friend, he thought Moon needed someone to love and hoped the femme would be it.

Moonchaser however stormed past Midnightrunner and as the silver mech stumbled back and watched his leave, he stared after him confused. “Eh? Moon?” and then his audios picked up familiar laughter and he listen on it.

“Did you see his face?” one of Moonchaser long time bullies asked.

“Priceless.” Another stated. “I can’t believe that he actually thought that there would be anyone let alone a femme that would love a Decepti-scum like him.”

“How sad.” The femme giggled.

Rage washed over Midnightrunner as he dropped the energon cubes to the floor and pivot. “I’m going to slagging turn you into scrap!” he roared as he slammed into the two mechs. He was aware of the femme screaming as he tried to take on two mechs at once. But one of them managed to dodge his attacks and hook his arms and the other one got to his feet, growled and began punching Midnightrunner. Midnight grunted with each strike and kicked upward, hitting the mech in the chin plate.

As that mech stumbled back Midnightrunner backed the other through a crowd. Most of the Autobots that were watching the fight got out the way and Midnight slammed his capturer into the wall until he released him. He watched as the other mech charged at him and Midnight tackled him to the floor and began punching him. Midnight felt arms wrap around his arms and hauled off the other mech.

“What the slag is going on here?” the femme asked and Midnight recognized the voice to be Shadowstrike.

Midnightrunner cycled air into his filters as he struggled against the femme. “This slagger, his femme and his friend somehow humiliated Moonchaser!” he snarled.

The bully got up and narrowed his optics. “The Decepticon doesn’t deserve love and he doesn’t deserve to be here.” He stated.

Midnightrunner felt Shadowstrike stiffen against him but he didn’t care. “Everyone deserves to have love and to be here! Regardless if they are an Autobot or Decepticon!” he snapped.

“Shut up Decepticon lover.” The bully snarled and punched Midnight.

Midnightrunner felt Shadowstrike release her hold on him and as he fell on his aft, he watched her throw her own punch at the other. He sat there dumbfounded as Shadowstrike’s twin sister rushed over and helped her beat on the mech. He had forgotten about the other one until he picked him up and hurled him across the room. Midnight crashed on top of a table and staggering to his feet, he ran at the other mech. As he reached for the mech, a large security bot grabbed him and pulled him away from the mech.

He struggled against the bot reaching for the mech, oblivious of the other security bots grabbing the two femmes and the bullies and holding them at bay. Midnightrunner stopped his struggling when another familiar voice bellowed, “What in the name of Primus is going on here?!”

He watched as Wisp walked into the center of the group and turned to look at each Autobot held in the security bot’s arms. “Well?” she asked.

“He attacked us for no reason.” The first bully answered.

“Frag you!” Midnightrunner snapped, “You hurt my friend by having that femme,” he nodded his head towards the lime green femme. “pretend to have a crush on Moonchaser and then hurting him.”

“Is this true?” Wisp questioned the femme.

“It-it was only a joke, ma’am.” She answered unnerved by the older femme’s gaze.

Wisp narrowed her optics and round on the femme twins. “And what is your excuse for joining the fight?”

“We agree with Midnightrunner on how wrong it is to be cruel to a fellow Autobot.” Winterstorm answered.

“You’re all going to be punished for this. I’m going to leave it to Master Yoketron for your punishment Shadowstrike. I’m also going to take statements from each of you including Moonchaser and reporting to Ultra Magnus about this. I’m going to escort Limedrop to the brig. You five take your charges to the med bay for repair and take them to the brig once it’s done.” Wisp ordered.

“Yes ma’am, Wisp Minor.” The five security bots answered.

The five security bots brought the five Autobots into the med bay and First Aid was quite delighted. “This will be good practice for my students.” He declared as four medic-in-trainings stood by berths.

“There’s only four medics.” observed one of the security bots.

“Yes, the last one is on his way.” First Aid informed him.

The security bots set their charges onto the berths, they stepped aside to let the medics do their work but stayed close in case one of them tried to get into a fight again. Midnightrunner sat on his and watched as the others were getting repaired. The twin’s injuries weren’t that serious so they would be escorted to the brig faster than the mechs and he wondered which medic would be doing the repairs on him. Midnightrunner got his answer as the door opened and Moonchaser walked in.

Midnightrunner couldn’t help smile as his friend shutter his optics at him and walked over. “What did you do?” he asked softly.

“Got into a fight with those aftheads that hurt you.” Midnight answered as Moonchaser began checking his hands.

“I never asked to be defended.” Moonchaser whispered angrily.

“I know, but you’re my best friend and I hate to see you get hurt over something stupid as a joke.” Midnight whispered back.

Moonchaser snorted as he picked up a tool and began working on Midnight’s hand. As Midnight watched his friend work he heard him say, “Thanks Midnight, you’re a great friend.” And Midnight grinned.
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“What happened to those mechs?” Bumblebee asked in awe.

“They were sent to another part of Cybertron so they wouldn’t hurt Moonchaser again.” answer Midnightrunner. “But because of that, it took me a few more efforts to get him out of his quarters with the promise that the same thing wouldn’t happen again.” With a sigh, Midnightrunner reached over and removed the cable from Bumblebee’s helmet. “I’d like to show you more but it’s getting late and we should return to the plant.” He told the youngling as he removed the cable from his own helmet and tucked it away in his arm compartment.

“Right.” Bumblebee replied and got up. Both walked along the pier, Bumblebee was a head of Midnightrunner. Midnightrunner stopped and tilt his head, catching a sound with his audios. He recognized the sound and rushed towards Bumblebee. “Bee!” he tackled the surprised youngling to the ground as a heat missile hit the building behind them. As pieces of concrete rain down on the Autobots, they heard random Blitzwing say, “Awww, I missed.”

“Slag.” Midnightrunner hissed as he got off of Bumblebee and turned to see Blitzwing and Lugnut transform.

“Give us the yellow Autobot and we hurt you.” Icy Blitzwing promised.

“Yeah right. I’m not giving Bumblebee to the likes of you two.” Midnightrunner told them as he placed himself between the Decepticons and Bumblebee.

“We will get the Autobot for our glorious leader even if it means destroying you.” Lugnut stated.

“Good luck trying.” Midnight replied as his arm transformed into a gun and he fired at the two. As Blitzwing and Lugnut jumped out of the way, Midnight shoved Bumblebee back and opened a link to Optimus. “Optimus! Lugnut and Blitzwing are attacking!” he told Prime before the truck could get a chance to speak.

“We’re on our way!” Optimus notified the intelligence officer.

Midnightrunner turned to Bumblebee and told him, “Get out of here Bumblebee! Find some place to hi—” he stopped as his gun began to overheat. “Frag!” Midnight was preoccupied with his weapon that he didn’t notice Lugnut in front of him with his mace until he slammed the Autobot with it. Midnightrunner grunted as he was thrown into a building and slumped to his knees.

“Midnight!” Bumblebee called and tried to run over to the older Autobot was restrained from behind by Blitzwing.

“Get your filthy servos off him!” Midnightrunner snarled as he staggered to his feet.

“That would be a no.” Blitzwing answered and shot his ice missiles at the other triple changer, incasing him in ice.

Midnightrunner watched, helplessly as Blitzwing and Lugnut took off with Bumblebee.

Moonchaser was the first to arrive, followed by Twilight and the rest of the Autobots. They quickly transformed and Twilight kicked at the ice block, freeing Midnightrunner. The silver mech fell to his knees and groaned.

“Midnight. Are you alright?” Moonchaser asked as he helped his friend to his feet just as Optimus asked, “Where’s Bumblebee?”

“I’m sorry.” Midnight said weakly. “I thought I could protect him… I was wrong. The Decepticons have Bumblebee.”

Moonchaser stared in horror at his friend and the only thing he could think of was ‘No…’
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I apologize yet again for the long wait and any typos. I’ll get to them when I can. I was going to have Midnightrunner share his memories with Bumblebee in a later chapter but I decided to add it in this chapter.

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