Author's Note: This is a direct sequel to Aggressive Negotiations so if you haven't read it this really won't make much sense. For those of you rejoining the story welcome back! Enjoy and I own nothing but my OCs
Revenge-New Arrivals
"Here in the Mojave desert animals have had millions of years to adapt to the harsh environment. But the lizard, he is going to die"-Rango
To say that the last five months hadn't been interesting would be to lie. The Autobots and their Decepticon allies under the leadership of Starscream, Megatron's former SIC and killer, to Diego Garcia. For the most part the Decepticons stayed on one end of the island the the Autobots on the other. That didn't mean that the Decepticons didn't help with anything; far from it. In fact those under Starscream's command had become an important part of NEST. Today though relations between the two factions were tense. More Autobots were going to land on Diego Garcia's shores and neither leader was sure how the newcomers would react to the treaty with the Decepticons. Jolt, the Autobot liaison to the Decepticons, and Shadow, the Decepticon liaison to the Autobots, had worked for two days straight to come up with some kind of plan for today and had tentatively gotten it approved.
Ratchet and Flashfire were both preparing their medical tools for anyone who was injured when they arrived but the Autobot medic was having more problems than his Decepticon counterpart. That was mostly due to the fact that Ratchet and Shadow's sparkling, Nova, was into her second sparkling frame which meant she could crawl. That in turn meant she was into everything. With Jolt and Shadow working out final details with Optimus and Starscream Ratchet was watching Nova. Unfortunately for him the silver and light blue sparkling was alert and active.
For the third time that morning Ratchet removed some tool from Nova's tiny fingers and wondered if Flashfire was having as much trouble as he was. Flashfire was bonded to Barricade and the two had a sparkling about an earth week older than Nova, a mech, designation Wildfire. Ratchet figure she was probably having less trouble because Barricade was around to watch Wildfire. Nova let out a chirp and held out her arms to be picked up. She was swooped up moments later by her femme creator and Ratchet's sparkmate Shadow. "She causing trouble," Shadow asked with an amused smirk and Ratchet vented a sigh.
"You just think it's funny because you didn't have to deal with it," he pointed out.
"Of course," Shadow said easily. "Jolt and I finally convinced our not so fearless leaders to follow our plan. It only took a little over forty-eight hours to do so."
Ratchet was about to respond when Lennox's voice over the communication system announced, "Newcomers two minutes in closing."
"Frag," Ratchet hissed and Nova giggled from Shadow's arms. The three headed out to join Starscream, Jazz, Ironhide, Optimus, Jolt, and Flashfire out at the beach. Moments later five pods crashed into the surf before skidding gracefully up onto the sandy beach. Elita was the first one out followed by Chromia. They in turn were followed by Red Alert, Inferno, and finally Ultra Magnus. All five turned to smile at their friends and comrades in arms before freezing at the sight of Decepticons present. Ratchet winced as he heard the sound of weapons coming out. This was going to be an interesting conversation. The medic only hoped that their friends adapted soon or life on Diego Garcia was going to be very difficult.