World: Transformers Animated, after the episode "The Endgame part 2"
Main Characters: Jetfire, Jetstorm, Jetlight, Bumblebee, Ratchet, Fanzone, Meltdown

I don't own Transformers Animated or the characters (exept for Jetlight). Rightfull owner is Hasbro.

Units of time:
Nano-cycle = 1 Second
Cycle = 1,5 minutes
Breem = 8,3 minutes
Megacycle = 2,6 hours
Solar Cycle = 1 day
Deca Cycle = 10 days
Orbital Cycle = 1 month
Stellar Cycle = 1 year

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Earth, Detroit

Dark sky was covered with clouds, so that stars or even the moon couldn't light the path down in the streets of the city of Detroit. But they didn't need the light from the sky. They had Jetlight.

::"I still can't believe that you decided to use me as flashlight!"::, Jetlight comm. linked to the two cars below, and two other flyers above. He got laughter as answer, and tried not to laugh too. He was trying to make it look like he was mad!

::"It be okay brother. You are being the only one with strong light."::, Jetfire said, and Jetlight finally decided to give up his frowning. Instead he flew higher, to be little closer to his brothers to give a playfull nudge on tip of his wing, and flew lower again to show the light.

::"Just keep your optics open! This is the first time your in the field, so don't lose your guard!"::, grumpy voice of the old medic interupted, making Jetlight stiffen bit and get back serious.

::"Come on Ratchet, it's not Decepticons were after, it's just Angry Archer, or Nano-Sec, not anything worse!"::, Bumblebees voice was heard, and next thing there was was a fight, between Ratchet and Bumblebee. Both of them arguing over, that were human-criminals so bad or not. Jetlight couldn't say anything, neither could Jetfire or Jetstorm, who were trying to look down. But Light didn't even want to take a part in the fight. It was so peacefull... Sure, there had been alarm of some kind of bigger crime, and of course they decided to go to check things. Jetbrothers wanted to go - Jetlight still had to get his first experience of these things - and Bumblebee was sent too, so he could talk with Fanzone once they've gotten the situation under control - not probably the best choice - and last but not the least, Ratchet. Optimus had been bit worried about Jetlight, so he sended the older mech to keep an optic on him, Jetlight brothers were overprotective but didn't know how to help if something happened, and Bumblebee couldn't pay attention to two things at the same time.

::"Hey, what's that?"::, Jetlight asked, when he saw a small explosion. ::"We go looking, be flying near brother!"::, Jetstrom answered, and three jets took a formation, flying highspeed where the explosion were.

They were too late. Wich was a miracle, considering that they were jets, flying highspeed, and weren't so far away when the explosion had happened. Jets tried to circle around, to see anything suspicios, without any luck.

"So, what happened Captain Fanzone?", Bumblebee asked the policecaptain, who had been knocked out in the alleys, now being helped up.

"Ugh... I'd tell you if I knew myself!", man said with a sharp tone, and then looked around. Some of his men were still fainted, others were starting to get them on their senses again.

"We got a message, that this place was going to be robbed, and when we got here, something went off. That's all I know so far."
"Why didn't you contact us!", Bumblebee was shocked, didn't Detroits policeforce trust them anymore? "We tried! But every time someone tried to call, all we heard was static.", Fanzone argued, making Bumblebee blink his optics.

"Really? Huh, maybe we should check our ...", he said, and then tried to contact the jet-brothers. Getting nothing.

"Huh? This worked just fine just a cycle ago!", yellow racer tried again, and nothing. Just static. Ratchet was getting couple policeman under rubble, when he heard youngbots wondering.

"What's wrong now?", he asked, he didn't even want to hear another bad news. Bumblebee shrugged, and placed his servos against his hips. "The communication systems aren't working."
"Maybe it's a glitch... I'll take a better look for it once we're back at the base.", medic answered, and then looked on the sky, where one of the Jet-brothers flew over. Blue streaks behind the jet told right away it was Jetstorm, Jetfire had yellow, bursting flames, and Jetlight had pure white, straigh lines.

"Now how we get the message to those three?", he continued, and Bumblebee raised his servo, waving it so that Jetstrom would come down, if he saw it... He did, the blue jet turned in the air, and flew to them, landing with a small thud on the ground.

"What it be? Founding you something?"
"It's "Did you found something", and no, we didn't, yet. We just need you to get your brothers, there's a glitch in our communication systems. Tell them that it's no use to try and found the culprit anymore, he's long gone... We better just focus on trying to help these people.", Ratchet reported, and went them to get some bigger wallpieces from the way of the people. Bumblebee in the other hand went to search for the injured people, and Jetstorm went into the sky, to look his brothers, wich shouldn't be that hard. Jetfire was there, and Jetlight... was nowhere to be found. Odd.

Jetlight had taken lower flyingground, he had spotted something weird. Ground had been burned little, like a small footsteps, and Jetlight was following them. Just in case it had something to do with the exlosion... He shifted to his robotic form, to take a walk and better look. He kneeled down, and touched the substance with his finger, and pulled his servo out right away, when he felt something painfull on his fingres. Looking better, he saw it was slightly melted.

"Oh no.. Ratchet is going to blown a gasket for this.", he sighed, looking bit worried.

"If you think that melting your fingertip is bad, how about this!"
Jetlight didn't have much of an time to react, but just enough to avoid incoming attack. Acid-attack.

"Whoa! What was that!"

"I've had enough of you Autobots trying to stop me, can't you take a vacation for even once?", voice continued, and Jetlight spinned around to see who were talking, to see a human. Well, not normal human, humans weren't normally covered with green ooze were they?
"Uh, sorry, I don't think I know you, but what I do know that you don't attack on others without a reason... You're not that person who blowed up that building back there by any chance?", Jetlight asked, and got a another blast of acid. Light jumped backwards to avoid the attack, and then raised his lightshield up, when the attack came as stream.

"You Autobots keep ruining my plans over and over, and now you even forget who I am? I am MELTDOWN!", acid-man growled, and Jetlight had little problem keeping his shield up. What made it worse, the ground around the shield was melting, and Jetlight felt how the ground below shifted. It was going to give up on his weight, sewers roof couldn't make it. Jetlight shuted his shield, and jumped, trying fly over this new threat. And Bumblebee had said that humans weren't much of an threat! Meltdown didn't let young flyer to get away, instead he aimed to Jetlight leg... and shot.

Jetlight falled down with yell of pain, and crashed to ground. When he turned to look, he saw his right leg, that was half-way melted. He was able to see the wires, and his protoform, his armour wasn't only thing that was damaged, seeing small sparks flying out of the hole burned in his leg. Forget being scared of Ratcet, he should be more considered about getting here in one piece! Meltdown raised his hand again, and Jetlight jerked, trying to get up and get some distance from the Meltdown, and wished that someone could have told him that this was possible!

Meltdowns attack was interupted, by sudden strong wind that blew him out of feet for a couple nano-cycles. Jetlight raised his head, and watched how blue jet transformed, and landed next to him, helping him up again. Orange jet in the other hand tried to keep busy, his attacks were actually dangerous!

"Brother, you be okay?", Jetstorm asked from Jetlight, who nodded as answer. "I'll live...", he said, little disappointent seeing that he wasn't as good as Jetfire or Jetstorm, both of them were great! Only thing he was able to do was to evade and block, and he wasn't even doing a good job on those as the matter of fact!

Meltdown looked around, and saw two cars, closing in, and smirked behind his gooey-mask, and burned a hole in the ground. "I'd love to stay and chat, but I have a business to attend to!", he chirped, before jumping in the hole and disappearing. Jetfire tried to grab him, by pushing his hand in the hole, but got a short and loud command from the Ratchet.

"Don't do that kiddo, you'll servo just end up like Jetlights leg!", old medic warned, and Jetfire pulled his hand out faster than you can say "klick".

"Who... who was that?"
"Someone we though to be long gone for sure."