(A/N: This is also based off my unfinished Earthspark rewrite. The Decepticons turned good and have their own base. Terrans and Robby and Mo can feel each others emotions and pain. Chaos Terrans can feel each others emotions and pain. You're a Chaos Terran.)
It was suppose to be a normal night in Witwicky. Robby, Mo, Twitch, and Thrash had decided to take you to the carnival since it was its last day in town and you'd never been to one before- considering you were only created a few months ago. Nightshade, Hashtag, Jawbreaker couldn't tag along since they were doing patrol, but Swindle and Breakdown came to the fair with us.
You'd had fun, but the five of you had found an Embershard in Fairmaestro's 'Tent Of Curiosities' and had taken it since it couldn't be left in the wrong hands.
Fairmaestro had chased you all through the carnival, but had cornered Mo, Robby, Twitch, and Thrash and captured them while you went to get Swindle and Breakdown for help.
When you'd came back with them, Robby, Mo, Twitch, and Thrash had done this Cybersync thing and were chasing after Fairmaestro since he'd taken the Embershard and was in this spaceship thing that was actually an Autobot that was stuck in its Alt Mode by a restraint bolt. They shot at it and Fairmaestro had fallen out with the Embershard.
The Autobot had transformed out of his Alt Mode, caight Fairmaestro, and dropped him in the 'Dunk Them!' game. You'd gone to catch the Embershard since it was falling near the highway and Robby Mo, Twitch, and Thrash were still reeling from the newfound Cybersync.
When you'd got to the Embershard and almost caught it, it dropped into a puddle of water under the highway.
The ground cracked and red electricity lashed out from the Embershard, cracking the highway columns and structure. Then, a servo reached out of the ground, then a second one, then a large frame climbed out of the ground and knocked you back into a pillar.
A tow truck driver was driving on the road below the highway when it happened. So when the new Chaos Terran climbed out of the ground, he quickly got out of the tow truck to avoid being included in the crash and ran, the tow truck crashing into the new Chaos Terran.
...
You cracked your optics open, the word around you blurry...
Fire.
Lots and lots of fire.
Then you felt the throb of your slight burns and the ache of being thrown at the highway pillar.
Then the new Chaos Terrans'.
You felt his injuries and emotions through the emotional bond- they weren't fragmented like the Terrans. It was like you were feeling someone else's emotions and pain straight-up.
And you were.
You felt his burns through the emotional bond- on his plating, on his mesh, the fire deforming his tow truck hook slightly, the pain and frame damage of being crashed into by a tow truck.
Then there were his emotions.
He was confused- really confused. He was also feeling fear, irritation, anxiousness, stress, and many other feelings.
Poor mech.
Then there was the feeling of alarm. He didn't know where he was, who these knew living beings were, why he was created, what was happening, why he was hurt. He only knew his name.
Aftermath.
You could hear faint gunfire through your audials, still reeling from the shock of being thrown at a highway pillar.
But you knew you had to help Aftermath, even if he was hurting your friends and family.
He didn't know any better.
He was just made.