"Spotlight: Wildfire" is the major story of Wildfire's life after landing on Earth. Well technically this WHOLE story (all 100+ pages) is "part one" of her major story ark (lol pun!) This half is setting up for her revenge and the next almost done half, and I use that term loosely, is the final showdown.
**Pretty much every story in "Oh my God what the F! And other incredible tales" happens before this major turning point in her life.**
At this point Wildfire has been on Earth for a little over two yeas or so, thought the rest of the Autobots believe she's only been on planet for a few months (this is addressed in the story)
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The Ark was a busy place that managed to exude a sense of ordered chaos to all that lived in it. Housing an entire army, there was always activity going on in, out and around the crashed spaceship. However with the sun shining down and the lasting peace unbroken by explosions from a failed experiment, today seemed far more clam then usual. A lone, deep blue Autobot stood at the base of the extinct volcano and seemed to be waiting for someone. Tek, the waiting bot, checked his internal clock yet again. They all where late as of a nanosecond ago.
"Autobots Sunstreaker and Sideswipe," He voiced over the internal communication system.
"Huh? Who's callen'?"
"Who is this?!"
The duel response didn't surprise the blue bot. Twins of their species usually had a close bond and would do everything together. Even finish each other sentences.
"You are both 0.4216 seconds late to the start of your patrolling duties."
"Oh it's you Tek."
"We're on our way right now. Don't get your circuits in a twist."
Tek cut the connection and folded his arms over his black pinstriped chest platting. This assignment was absurd. He was a computer hacker. He's specially was technology. He was not some… soldier drone that drove around in circles. He could easily patrol the entire planet from inside the Ark at his computer better then out here driving his tires flat. He had tried talking with Prowl but the SIC's processor was made up. He had said that everyone on board the Ark needed to take a turn with field work. And as he saw it, Tek had yet to fulfill that requirement. Soon his teammates of red and gold respectively sauntered out at an easy pace like they had all the time in the world.
"You're late." Tek stated again as he unfolded his arms.
"You're sure uptight about this for a bot that doesn't get out much." Red Sideswipe said happily.
Sunstreaker didn't seem as excited to be outside as his brother did. Tek quickly accessed his memory banks. The Lamborghini twins. Red: Sideswipe. Soldier. Prankster. Tendency to short change duties in favor of elaborate, illogical schemes. Regard with caution. Yellow: Sunsteaker. Soldier. Egotist. Is often part of red twin's schemes. Hold his exterior in high affection. Dangerous. Regard with caution.
"Who could be happy about guard duty!" Sunstreaker whined. "I just put on a new coat of wax! It's going to get all messed up now!"
"Personal grievances are irrelevant to the mission at hand." Tek said flatly.
"Mission?" Sideswipe smiled. "It's a patrol shift Tek. It's not exactly worthy of the title "mission."
"Where is Wildfire?"
"Wildfire?" the twins said as one.
"Affirmative."
"Why the pit would we know where Wildfire is?" Sunstreaker snorted.
"There was a duty roster change one hour, three minutes and sixteen seconds ago. She has been added to our party."
The Lambo twins turned to each other and shrugged. Last minute changes where nothing too out of the ordinary.
"Prowl's getting board again if he's messing with the schedule." Sideswipe said to his brother.
"Yeah he must. Remember that one time he made me go out on patrol with Percepter? What was he thinking!? It was Percepter!"
Tek's face stayed the same impassive mask it always was as he filed the word "inefficient" with the twin's names into his memory. He then tried to hail his twin sister through their bond. The moment he tried loud sound patterns basted his auto receptors and he closed down the link immediately. She wasn't going to answer.
"Hey, what's up Tek?" The twins asked as Tek held his still ringing head.
"I have to retrieve Wildfire. Stay here until we return."
With that Tek turned on his wheeled heel and walked back into the Ark leaving the twins to stare after him.
"Weird mech." Sides said when Tek was finally out of audio range.
"He's like some bizarre love sparkling of Soundwave and Prowl." Sunstreaker added.
Both twins turned to each other.
"That's the single scariest thing the universe!" They said in unison.
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Tek usually didn't like to let himself feel emotions, but annoyance was starting to crawl unbidden into his systems. Wildfire was more responsible then to miss a duty roster change. Not only that but she had been taken off the rotation for a week now and had been cooped up indoors for some reason or another. Usually she hated that. Normally she would have jumped at the chance to get out. Well… usually. This time her imprisonment seemed to be self inflicted.
Tek stopped in front of his sister's quarters that where locked tight. Wildfire's fembot status had gotten her private quarters far from the normal dormitory section of the Ark. And technically she was not an Autobot, she was a "neutral." What was it that she had called herself? A free lance peace keeper? Tek vents exhaled a huff; it was a nice way of saying that she didn't want, or didn't have the nerve to pick sides. Besides, she was also completely incapable of co-habiting with anyone sound of mind. Or if they started out sound mind living with Wildfire quickly changed that. Tek knocked on the door smartly, but got no response. Lightly he placed his hand on the control panel for the door and the lock obediently disengaged at the hacker's touch. The door slid open and Tek grimaced as the same sound patterns blasted his audios.
"Well I'm not paralyzed,
but I seem to be stuck by you!
I wanta' make you move,
Because you're standing still!
If your body matches what you eyes can do…
You'll probably move right though, me on my way to you!"
Wildfire's top of the line stereo system that would make even Jazz jealous boomed the song as the warrior sang along with the music. Her tall, lean figure danced around the small room in all her red and black flamed glory. Her arms where empty, but she held them like she was carrying something. She strummed her fingers across her middle to the beat. Tek stared at his sister who had put her foot up on her recharge berth.
"You'll probably move right though,
Me on my way to you!
Me on my way to you!"
Tek had to let the scene register in his logic circuits before he could even start to fathom what the other bot was doing. He probably never would understand either. His sister loved anything that was human and she did everything in her power to mimic them. She appeared to be… "dancing" to the earth music, but that didn't look like any kind of dancing Tek knew.
"Wildfire!" Tek yelled trying to get his sister's attention.
The fembot didn't hear him and just tossed her head in response as a guitar solo broke out. Tek felt more annoyance seep into him. He should already be out on duty! Not here having a yelling match with his sister's sound system. Tek used their bond to hack her systems with a thought and turned off the music. Wildfire spun and Tek found himself staring down the tip of one of his sister's swords. She definitely did NOT like to be snuck up on.
"Oh. It's you." She said as the red weapon retracted back into her arm.
"You are late to your duties." Tek said.
"Did you finally fry your chips?" Wildfire huffed turning her music back on. "I'm off the rotation."
"You where put back on approximately an hour ago. Let's go before we're even later and reprimanded for disobeying orders."
"You can tell Prowl to stick it in his exhaust!" Wildfire snapped.
Tek's coolant vents sighed again. Wildfire was the only bot that could get under his plating and upset him like this.
"Sister, your logic confuses and irritates me. Three of your fellow soldiers depend on you doing the duty asked of you."
Tek didn't know what that hateful glare meant as Wildfire's deep blue optics settled on him. She had never in their lives looked at him like that. She looked like he had said the most offensive vile thing to her. She definitely wasn't acting like herself. Her moods where most vexing. After a long scilence the mustang spoke.
"Fine. I'll go. But only because you'd never let me hear the end of it."
Wildfire grumbled when she exited the Ark and saw who she was going to go out patrolling with. She did NOT like the Lambo twins. But at lest they had speed and could keep up with her; unlike some bots she had to share the road with. And at least it wasn't Zack. Thank PRIMUS it wasn't Zack.
After Tek relayed instructions for their patrol on the fringes of Autobot controlled territory around the Ark all four of them transformed. With a cloud of dust behind them the four bots headed off to endless miles of diving that waited for them. Wildfire hoped that the twelve hour patrol would be a nice reprieve from being stuck in the damn spaceship. However, it quickly turned into a test of her limited patients.
