~Nightmare~

The fortress was collapsing. I only heard Springlocks voice before it started to collapse, and it brought tears to my eyes for the first time in years. She said, "Goodbye"..... We all covered our faces as the fortress was fully collapsed and the dust it had stirred clears. I look and saw the fortress as a HUGE pile of scrap metal scattered among the ground, and Springlock and Megatron were buried somewhere within it.

"Spring!" Springbonnie ran towards what was left off Darkmount, the same with NightShade, her other mother and Shockwave.

"Everyone, search the ruins. We must find Springlock!" I ordered.

The crew wasted no time as they ran towards the wreckage and began  unturning every last piece of scrap metal. I joined in right away and began looking, we must find Springlock immediately. I fear the absolute worst that she didn't make it. She had to have survived! She's tough! But then again...this is hundreds of tons of what fell on her and Megatron. We must find her quickly.

|2 hours later|

We've been searching for hours and we still haven't found Springlock. I'm actually beginning to lose hope in finding her. I felt tears run down my cheeks as I kept looking under rubble. NightShade was next to me, helping me search.

"She's gotta be here somewhere..." I said aloud.

"She has to be, but unforfunately I can only smell Decepticon fumes and not hers. I'm trying though." NightShade looked at me.

She took another step onto the rubble and heard sparking, I looked down and saw an arm. It's Springlocks arm... we found her!

"NightShade, help me!" I grabbed a hold of the rubble and began lifting it upward.

NightShade had no problem at all lifting the rubble and tossing it away, we looked and saw who we were hoping to see. Springlock's body lay still as a stone as energon leaked from the right side of her face, her chestplate and legs, a large puddle of the substance underneath her. Her eyes were closed, but her Decepticon optic lay next to her head. I kneeled down and very carefully brought her into my arms.

"Springlock has been found!!!" NightShade yelled.

Everyone lifted their heads and ran in our direction, the crew swarmed around us as I held Springlock close to me. Springbonnie and Amelia came forward and saw their adopted daughter in my arms, both of them in tears. Amelia broke down as she buried her face into Springbonnies chestplate, the male bunny only let his clear tears roll down his face.

Shockwave walked up to us and kneeled down beside me, putting his hand on her sliced chestplate. His body language changed immediately from sadness to surprise.

"She's alive." He said.

Everyone including myself looked at him.

"WHAT?" I asked.

"She's alive!!" Amelia shouted.

The crew cheered in joy as they heard those two words. I held Springlock very close to me as I heard that. She's alive....I don't know how she survived Darkmount collapsing, but she somehow did. NightShade smiled and exposed her sharp teeth. Shockwave stood up and gazed into the sky.

"Soundwave, bring the ship down. We have an injured patient." He said.

"You really think you can fix her?" I ask.

The scientist nodded.

"Indeed I can, I built her from scratch. So I know everything there is to know about her anatomy." Shockwave replied.

A whirring sound came from the above which drew all of our attention to the sky. The Decepticon warship cane down from the clouds and landed on the ground. Shockwave took her from my arms and carried her towards their ship. NightShade, Springbonnie, Amelia and myself followed after him into the vessel, as did the rest of the crew. Shockwave carried her through the corridors towards the medbay. He went into the medbay as we followed him in, the rest of the crew stayed outside in the corridor. Knockout was in the medbay too.

The scientist laid Springlock down on a tilted slab carefully, grabbing a hold of wires hanging from the ceiling and attaching them to her body. Springlocks chest rose with each breath she took, I still don't know how she's alive after that experience. I went to her side and held her hand in mine.

"How long will it take to fix her?" I look at the scientist.

"Judging by how much damage she has sustained from the battle and being crushed by scrap metal, 2 months. 4 months until she awakens." He replied.

Four months....It will take four months for my girlfriend to wake up. She is rather damaged...I sigh. I guess I can wait until she's repaired.

"Very well..." I said sadly.

"Nightmare, she will be okay. Shockwave can fix her. But for now, you have a job to do. There are dozens of animatronics back on your vessel who are homeless, you need to help them now. Its what Spring would want." NightShade told me.

I nodded and followed her out of medbay. Amelia and Springbonnie reluctantly followed us out.

|5 months later|

Thanks to the crew, we have almost completed rebuilding the entire town in only 5 months. Since Springbonnie was the local architect and contractor, he knew exactly what went where and how to do it properly. Most of the homes were rebuilt, but we couldn't remove the energon processing plants due to the fact that the animatronics here need it as well. Their bodies had adapted overtime from what they were given when they were slaves, so they need both normal food and energon alongside it.

But other than that, the town is almost complete. The children run through the streets like nothing has happened, the adults are now back in good healthy condition. Megatrons body was strangely never found as we had removed all the rubble from what was left of Darkmount, but we all assume he was destroyed when the fortress came down.

"You've done a great job Nightmare, Spring would be proud of you." NightShade said.

Springlock....She still hasn't awoken. I headed for the Decepticon vessel which was where the future park is going to be. Since its just an empty sand lot for now, they keep their ship there. I come upon the vessel and enter it, walking through the corridors towards the medbay. I saw the door already open, and I could hear the steady beeping of the heart rate monitor. Walking inside, I was surprised at what I see.

Springlocks upper body armor had been painted a very light grey, almost white. Her leg armor a medium grey, and the red lights on her legs had turned blue. Her sleeved arms were much lighter grey and her claws were blue too. The side of her face that had been damaged was completely repaired, like nothing had happened at all. She still lay as still as a statue.

"She looks....amazing." I walked closer to her.

"Most of her armor had been obliterated, so I had to reconstruct it to the way she looked before. Knockout gave her the new color scheme." Shockwave faced me.

"You'd be surprised how a new paint job can completely change a person." Knockout said confidently.

Shockwave examined some of the data on one of the computers.

"She should be waking up rather soon. She won't feel any pain because her repairs were finished cycles ago, but she will need to take it easy for a few weeks or she will feel dizzy and faint."

I nodded as I held Springlocks gloved hand. I felt her fingers twitch, causing me to give her my full attention. Her eyes started to open, both of her eyes bright electric blue. I smiled greatly as her grip on my hand began to tighten. Her eyes were fully open, looking at me. She had a generous smile on her face, her sharp teeth glinting brightly.

"Hi honey." She said.

I pulled her into my arms so fast it wasn't even funny, I hugged her tightly as I felt her arms wrap around me as well.

"Don't you ever scare me like that again, I thought I lost you forever..." I whispered.

"I did what I had to-hey wait, what happened to me?" She asked as she pulled back, seeing her new color scheme.

"You're welcome." Knockout said as he left the medbay in a hurry.

She giggled as she looked at her lighter grey armor.

"I look like I'm about to get married." She said.

Both of us blush.

"Springlock, you need to take it easy for a few weeks. You may not feel pain, but you aren't as fit as you were." Shockwave instructed.

She nodded, showing she understood.

"You will need to be well enough for your coronation." Shockwave said.

Both Springlock and I perked up our ears after he said that. The scientist turned back towards us both, seeing us in shock.

"I'm sorry, coronation? Coronation of what?" She asks.

"Since Megatron is no more, you are going to take his place as leader of the Decepticons." He explained.

Springlocks jaw dropped.