Title: After Affects

By: Moonlit Sea

Summary: Emotions run high as the learjets try to readjust to life within the Ark…again. Though they did not expect to torrent of problems that would occur just by trying to fit in. (Hidden Secrets universe)

Disclaimer: I do not own Transformers or any of the characters, however any unknown characters are of my own creation.

Chapter One

"Flare." A voice said startling the femme. She turned and gasped at who she saw. "Skywarp."

"Hello Solarflare." He greeted taking a step towards her.

The light-yellow femme went to take a step back only to remember there was a cliff edge behind her.

"Don't call me that!" she snapped at him "My name is Starlight now, get used it."

The black seeker gave a small smile. "That's what Lazer said to Thundercracker, and yet the two of you still answer to those names."

Starlight growled as the mech walked even closer. "What do you want, Skywarp? Haven't you and Thundercracker ruined our lives enough."

"You believe that attack was our fault, I'm here to tell you it was not." He told her.

"You expect me to believe that? Storm saw you, both of you. You cannot deny what her optics saw." She told him.

"What Lazer saw was us arriving after we heard what had happened. We hoped we weren't too late and that you were both still alive." He tried to explain. The only thing he ever cared about was his sister, everything else could go frag itself.

"Why? So you could take us to Megatron, pretend we were one happy family again? Ha! You killed your sister that day, Skywarp. She died when you killed the ones she loved." A burning anger shone in Starlight's pink optics. "And now I'm going to return the favour." She told him angerly pointing her weapon at him.

Skywarp stood dumbfounded by her words. It couldn't be true, the femme in front of him was his sister, his Solarflare. The one he'd sworn to protect with all his spark and now she was going to shoot him for something she believed was his fault.

"You shoot him, you'll have to shoot me." A voice said gaining both flyers attention.

Starlight narrowed her optics at the blue mech, "You know I can't do that." She told him "Storm would have my aft."

"She doesn't know you're here, does she." The blue seeker stated.

The light-yellow femme looked back at her so-called brother and growled at him "leave us alone, your sisters don't need you." She told him before flying back to the Ark.

"Flare, wait!"

Skywarp sighed as he remembered that depressing one and only meeting he had with his sister when she was by herself. She was so full of hate and anger that it seemed impossible to be her, impossible to be the timid magenta and silver flyer he'd grown up with. Things had changed greatly he knew that, he himself had changed, but Solarflare's change was so drastic it was something he just couldn't get used to. Then came that day, the day he had almost ended her life. She had been calling out to him, but he had been so grief-stricken that he hadn't even felt the small cries for help, until Storm had told him what an idiot he was being. He had been blind to a few things, Thundercracker's feelings towards Solarflare for one. How had he not noticed them back then? He felt a hand on his shoulder and looked up.
"I'm sure she's doing okay." The blue mech told him.

"Skywarp. You do not need to worry; she is in good hands." He remembered Prime telling him before he left the Ark. He looked away from his trinemate "I know." After a moment he said, "she protected me. She knew it meant that they would all start doubting them again but she didn't care, even attacked one."

"Warp…" Thundercracker began a little confused.

The black seeker looked up at his friend, "Storm." He replied and saw the worry that appeared in Thundercracker's optics "she wouldn't let them near me, told everyone that they'd have to go through her first. She really does care about Starlight."

"She has to, it's all she's got left." The blue seeker said sadly.