Angel's POV

So it's been a little over two weeks maybe since I've been free. I haven't really kept track of time. I've enjoyed my freedom, but I feel lonely. So lonely, I never felt lonely before. Well actually I have once. When I lost Ravage.

(Past)

"Angel, please come back home" Ravage pleaded.

"What home?" I demanded. "Megatron is destroying our home and is no longer the mech we agreed to follow" I snap. "Come with me, we survived just fine on our own" I tell him.

"What about Soundwave and Laserbeak? We just lost Rumble and Frenzy, would you really take us away from them too?" he demands.

"I don't care about them, I care about you. You're my brother and you should be on my side" I tell him.

"No, you should be on mine!" he snaps back.

"Rot in the pits of Kaon, I will never be a decepticon and if you choose them. You are no longer my brother" I snarl. He looks at me shocked and I feel bad. I didn't mean that, I'll always love him. Even if he did choose Soundwave and Laserbeak over me. But I never got to tell him that.

Suddenly there was a loud explosion above us. We look up at the ceiling begins to cave in. "Angel!" he roars and tackles me to the ground. Covering me with his larger body.

When I woke up after the explosion. Ravage was dead beside me. I tried to wake him, but he didn't move. I cried and wailed as I laid over him. That's how Wheeljack found us. "I'm sorry" was all he send and I knew it'd been his fault. I attacked him, but I was weak and soon passed out again. He had done nothing to defend himself.

When I woke up again, I was on the surface and saw a cube of energon. I ignored it and looked around. I saw Wheeljack digging with his bare servos. Ravage's body beside him. I joined him silently. We worked in silence as we made my brother's grave. Wheeljack placed his body inside and we covered it. I then scratched out a tomb stone.

"I have to leave and return to base. Do you want to come?" Wheeljack had asked me. I said nothing and he left me there to my grief. He also left the energon cube, which I eventually got around to having before leaving, Ravage would have wanted me to live on. So I did, for him even though I didn't want too. I wanted to join him in the well of sparks.

(Present)

And that's how my brother died and the last time I felt alone. I guess I spent to much time in the company of others recently and now I miss being surrounded by others. The sense of having a family. So I am making my way back to the autobot base. Hopefully they are still there and haven't had to move for some reason.

I was making my way through a canyon when I heard an explosion. I ran towards it. When I arrived I saw the Jackhammer not far away and a pile of rocks. I took in the scents and smelt twos bot and a con. Wheeljack was one of them, along with Bulkhead. Which isn't surprising, but I can't pinpoint the con's scent. It smells familiar, but I can't remember whose scent it is.

Anyway, Wheeljack's scent lead me to the pile of rocks. While Bulkhead and the con's lead away from the scene. My guess they were ambushed. I listen closely and hear grunts from inside the pile. I sigh, guess I can't leave him here to rust. No way I could take a con on alone and save Bulkhead. I started to dig and quickly realize it'd go quicker in my other form.

I cursed, but transform and continue to dig Wheeljack out. I soon heard a ground bridge open and turned to see Optimus. I relax and he starts to help me dig. So I decide to turn back to my normal form. No need for Wheeljack to know about my other form. As we reach Wheeljack, were hear him talking.

"What took you so long, Bulk? Don't tell me your riding with Prime has made you soft" he mutters. But then sees us and Optimus just holds a servo out to him. Wheeljack takes it and Optimus pulls him out of the pile.

"If you will not take orders from me, that is one thing. But when you place one of my Autobots in danger..." Optimus starts to lecture him.

"With all due respect, sir, Bulkhead knew the risks. Every Wrecker does" Wheeljack tells him. "Now, I'm sure he's just somewhere in this rubble" he adds. I jump in front of him and shake my helm. "He isn't?" he asks me and I nod my head and look in the direction Bulkhead's scent went with the con.

"Optimus, Bulkhead's signal has moved from your current position" Ratchet comms in. Wheeljack heads back for his ship and I follow him. He asked Optimus if he was coming, and Optimus followed us silently. We all get in and Wheeljack pilots it, following Bulkhead's signal. Optimus is hunched over in the co-pilot seat and I am on the dashboard.

"You and Bulkhead share quite a history, and yet you prefer to work alone" Optimus states looking at Wheeljack.

"Angel and I have history also, and she works alone" Wheeljack tells him and I flick my tail in annoyance. "The Wreckers scattered a long time ago, and alone's usually a lot less complicated" he adds changing the subject. Good, I hate thinking about my brother's death.

We end up at a ship yard filled with cargo containers. Wheeljack lands the Jackhammer. We all get out and start tracking Bulkhead. Wheeljack with a tracker, me with my scent of smell. "We are close to population. Remember..." Optimus starts to say to Wheeljack.

"Blasters and fuel pumps don't mix" Wheeljack states. I then activate my holo-disguise. "Heh, nice one kitty" he tells me and I hiss at him. He looks back at the tracker.  "Our boy is just up ahead" he adds and we turn a corner to see Bulkhead. He is strapped to several cargo cotaniners, with a bomb on his chest.

"Hey guys" he says. "Angel glad to see you again" he adds.

"You really got yourself in a heap of scrap this time, partner" Wheeljack tells him. Bulkhead tells him to stay back and he doesn't. He starts to exam the bomb as I pick up a sound of pedes moving. I look up at Optimus and he looks at me. I nod at him and he gets my silent message. We leave Bulkhead with Wheeljack so that we can ambush the con this time.

As we sneak, I see the con and finally recognize the scent. It's Dreadwing, Skyquake's brother. He must have felt his brother's death and has come to find out how he died. And to avenge him. I feel bad for him, even though Ravage and I were two sides of one spark. We were siblings and I'd lost him.

"Where is the Prime and the deserter?" Dreadwing asks himself as he looks back at Bulkhead & Wheeljack. Optimus and I are hiding behind a container.

"Dreadwing, if you are anything like Skyquake, I know that you value loyalty and honor" Optimus states. Getting Dreadwing's attention as I sneak around behind him. Out of sight.

"Is there a point to your bluster, Prime?" Dreadwing demands.

"Only that Megatron knows nothing of those principles" Optimus tells him. That's true. "He lives solely for destruction and conquest, but there is another path deactivate the bomb" he says. But Dreadwing goes with option A and fires at where Optimus had been hiding.

I jump on him and claw his back. He screams in pain and swings around to throw me off. But I jump onto a cargo container and run back towards Bulkhead & Wheeljack. Optimus does the same as we lure Dreadwing to them. Only he can de-active the bomb.

We head for the cranes and lay our trap. It worked and we trapped him under a giant magnet. We all gathered around him. "Dreadwing, defuse the bomb or fall victim to your own device" Optimus tells him.

"I will gladly sacrifice myself to avenge my brother" Dreadwing tells him.

"Dying won't bring him back" I say quietly. Dreadwing and Wheeljack look at me shocked. I jump onto the magnet and look into Dreadwing's optics. "I to lost my brother and I could kill the bot resposible. But it wouldn't change anything, Ravage will still be dead and I wouldn't have felt any better" I tell him. "Many times I thought of ending my own life, but then I remember my brother. He'd want me to live on and be happy" I state. "Skyquake would want you to live Dreadwing, so live for Primus sake!" I snap.

"Very well" he relents and we let him up. He defuses the bomb.

"I had it narrowed down to the blue or the yellow. Or the red" Wheeljack states.

"Sure you did" I say sarcastically as I jump onto Optimus' shoulder. Just then Dreadwing activates a few bombs. None of us was hurt, but Dreadwing got away.

"So, who do we call for clean-up?" Wheeljack asks.

"Fowler" I tell him.

"How long have you been able to speak?" he asks me.

"That's not all I can do" I tell him with a smirk. "Anyway, can we go home?" I ask Optimus. He nods his helm. We all return back to base as Optimus called Fowler. I go to my usual spot and lay down relaxing. It feels good to be home.

"Listen, commander, I just want to say it was an honor watching you work. I, uh, think maybe I had the wrong idea about you" Wheeljack tells Optimus. Took him long enough to admit it.

"And it would seem that you place a greater value on community than you otherwise let on" Optimus states.

"Whoa, let's not jump the gun here" Wheeljack tells him.

"Come on, Jackie. If you leave, you'll probably just wind up coming right back again" Bulkhead tells him.

"All that wasted fuel, and Energon is in short supply" Arcee adds.

"We could use the extra muscle" Bee tells him.

"Then again, we do have limited space" Ratchet states and I chuckle.

"I am not sure I'm ready leave in the same base as you yet" I add. They all look at me. "Yes I talk, get over it" I tell them.

"Why does she hate you?" Bulkhead asks Wheeljack.

"That's between me and her" Wheeljack tells him. "She decides if she wants you all to know or not" he states. I nod my head in thanks. "Besides I'm not sure if I'm ready to give up my freedom just yet. Maybe I could do some exploring, see if this rock suits me" he adds.

"No offense to the Jackhammer, but you need an earth-based vehicle mode" Bulkhead tells him. Wheeljack agrees and goes to scan one. Before leaving to explore.

"So any other surprises Angel?" Arcee asks me. I just transform and those who didn't know look shocked. I chuckle and change back. Curling up, deciding to take a nap. It'd been a long day.

A/N

Picture above of Dreadwing and Wheeljack.