Love is a Battlefield
Chapter 1
Three winged figures moved through the shadows of Cybertron's back alleys. The winged figure in front looking cautiously around as they moved from alley to alley while the figure in back occasionally glanced up keeping an eye out for airborn threats.
Eventually the trio made it to their destination, Shockwave's Tower. Three pairs of sapphire blue optics locked sights on the tower as they cautiously stepped out of the shadows revealing the winged figures as seekers.
The lead seeker, a femme, was mostly black with her lower arms and servos being gold. The bottomedge of her wings had a gold stripe. Her face was dark grey and the glass of her cockpit was sky blue. She was also a head shorter than the other two seekers armed with two silver arm mounted lasers.
The second seeker, a mech, stopped next to the femme. He was silver from helm to pede including his two arm mounted lasers. The glass of his cockpit was also sky blue.
The last seeker, also a mech, came up on the femme's left side. He, like the other mech, was silver from helm to pede. However his forearms and servos were cobalt blue. On his shoulders were cobalt hawks with wings spread and curved upward. Like the other two the glass of his cockpit was sky blue and his arm mounted lasers were silver. A cobalt stripe lined the bottomedge of his wings.
What was really interesting about the three seekers was that they had the Autobot insignia on each of their wings. The insignias were the only trace of red on any of them.
As the trio looked over the tower for an easy entrance point the solid silver mech said to the black and gold femme"I don't know about this, Ricochet. This place is supposed to be well guarded."
The femme designated as Ricochet said "Come on! Where are your spinal struts, Lightspeed? If this place is so well guarded then how come Elita-1's group have raided this place before?"
The said silver mech designated as Lightspeed replied "It's not that I'm afraid, Ricochet, it's the fact that this isn't an energon raid. We're sneaking in there to use the space bridge to go to Earth so we can join Optimus Prime's crew. At best this mission is crazy!"
"Crazy, maybe, but it was our commander's last wish Lightspeed." Ricochet said as she turned to the silver and cobalt seeker and asked " Hawkeye, see an entrance point?"
The silver and cobalt seeker designated as Hawkeye answered " I do, Ricochet. It's on the west side but it's virtually unguarded. I suspect that the security droids that are supposed to be there are inside."
" Kinda makes sneaking difficult, huh?" Lightspeed sighed.
"Difficult but not impossible. Besides overcoming tough odds are what we specialize in. Let's do this! Move out!" Ricochet said as she moved forward with Lightspeed and Hawkeye right behind. The trio easily entered from where Hawkeye mentioned.
Once inside they carefully snuck through the halls somehow avoiding the drones that seemed to pack the halls. Apparently Hawkeye's assumption regarding the lack of drones outside was correct. Somehow they all suspected their luck wouldn't hold out forever and they were right.
Just as they were one floor away from the space bridge a giant drone suddenly appeared before them.
"Slag!" Ricochet swore as it was obvious that avoiding the drone would be difficult since it was practically right in front of them.
As the drone aimed its large laser at Ricochet she seemed frozen on the spot not knowing what to do. Lightspeed and Hawkeye, as if on instinct, each grabbed one of Ricochet's arms and pulled her away from the drone darting around a corner for cover as the drone fired. Despite their swift actions Ricochet didn't escape unscathed getting hit with minor damage to her left thruster. Ricochet hissed in pain as she was set down on her pedes.
"Ricochet, are you okay?" Lightspeed asked.
"No genius, she was shot in the thruster." Hawkeye retorted.
"Will you two not start that slag now. We have to find a way past that drone." Ricochet growled.
Lightspeed looked up spotting a ventilation duct just above their heads.
"Why don't we use the ventilation ducts." he said.
"Hawkeye, is it big enough?" Ricochet asked.
Hawkeye's optics glowed purple as specialized sensors in his optics activated then he scanned the ducts a moment before he replied "Yes. It even goes up to the next floor as well as the room we need. However, it's a tight fit."
The prospect of the tight fit made all three shudder but they knew they could get a handle on the claustrophobia seekers typically faced. Hawkeye eased Ricochet up to the grate and she popped the grate off handing it to Lightspeed. She then climbed up into the duct. Lightspeed handed the grate to Hawkeye before he flew up and climbed into the duct himself. Hawkeye then followed closing the grate behind him.
Soon after crawling through the duct they made it to a grate with the room they needed right below them. Ricochet peered through the grate and saw Shockwave standing near the space bridge controls.
"Looks like that purple cyclops is on alert but he won't see us coming. Let's do this ...Three, Two, One! Go!" Ricochet whispered pulling the grate into the duct before the three seekers dove out of the duct one by one using their thrusters to safely land. Ricochet winced when she activated her damaged thruster and again when she landed.
Before Shockwave could activate the alarm Ricochet shouted "Hawkeye! Take Shockwave down!"
Shockwave raised his blaster arm before, much to the Decepticon's surprise, Hawkeye bodychecked him knocking him on his back. Hawkeye then pointed his right arm at Shockwave's prone form and said "You move and I'll blow your helm off."
"Lightspeed, keep an optic out for trouble."Ricochet ordered.
Ricochet then walked over to the console to program the space bridge to an isolated spot on Earth.'Hello what's this? Shockwave is recieving energon later today.' she thought as she set the coordinates.
Soon the trio arrived in an isolated canyon and the space bridge disappeared shortly after they stepped out.
'Just like I programmed it.' Ricochet thought before she said "Alright you two let's transform and fly. We need to locate aircraft so we can blend in. Hawkeye keep a scan out."
"No problem, Ricochet." Hawkeye replied.
The three of them transformed and flew in formation with Lightspeed on Ricochet's right and Hawkeye on her left.