Okay first thing's first, this is slightly based on the Blurr spot light, and its AU considering it has OCS and it follows one of their points of view.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

Dust started to form in a thick line at the end of the road, the sun was setting giving it a hot aura.

"You know you really don't need me for this…" said Ratchet, the chief medical officer of Optimus Prime's team. "The youngling is going to scrap herself anyway!" he muttered in his usual grouchiness.

"That is precisely why I worry Ratchet…"

"Then why in Primus did you send her in the first place?! Honestly sometimes I just don't get you."

"You should know Ratchet…" Optimus surveyed the distance with a bit of unease. "You can't keep a speedster inside for very long."

The shining red and black paint of the Bugatti Veyron in the distance was becoming clearer by the klik.

Whoever was driving had no concern over the human speeding limits what so ever.

"Does she intend to slow down?" Ratchet said getting a little wary of the proximity between them. "slag it to the pit she's not!" just as the Bugatti reached its destination it jumped into the air into a fast and sleek display of cybertronian transformation, landing and halting abruptly right in front of the CMO who fell backwards on his aft trying not to get run over.

Ignoring his medical officer's foul protesting Optimus moved forth to receive the news.

"Soldier, report."

The young red and black femme seemed to snap into attention with his voice and got herself into a more correct and formal position to address him.

"Landing successful sir, autobots comfirmed:

Comunications officer Blaster, officer Inferno and agent Blurr, sir."

"Very well, where are they?"

"They were a bit tired from the journey sir and insisted I came ahead to inform you, they should be arriving soon."

"Primus another racer to fry my circuits!" Ratchet protested a little more loudly, Prime merely ignored him.

"None of them seem to be in need of big repairs sir." She completed waiting impatiently to be allowed to leave.

"Very well…"he said with a sigh eyeing the horizon again " You are dismissed."

"Thank you sir" she said quickly moving away from the two and into the refreshing shade of the base. She was in a foul mood, not only had it been an extremely hot journey he had to be one of the new arrivals. My spark nearly stopped when I saw his form rise out of the small shuttle.

"Hey Ashbringer!" I raised my head to see a well known friendly yellow mech coming up with a few data pads in a pile on his hands. " Your back already?"

"Oh…hey Bumblebee, yeah…its way too hot outside, my paint was actually starting to feel icky…"

"That bad huh?" he asked looking at the end of the hall behind me. "Listen, I just have to hand in these data pads, wanna come for some energon afterwards?" I smiled slightly, good old Bumblebee, he wasn't hitting on me or anything, oh no, we were far from a couple. We just had known each other from a very long time now and were good friends. Whenever I felt the need to race once in a while or to go out on a stroll he'd usually make me company, he was a speedster much like myself, but couldn't hope to catch up with me. However our intentions were never to win each other, we only wanted to have some fun at it.

I followed him to Prowl's office, Prowl was actually recharging with his head over his desk and a large pile of datapads still to be read. I cringed.

"I actually feel sorry for the poor guy" Bee confessed putting down the new stack next to the others. "he's been going on the fritz ever since we got the news of the new landing." I nodded in agreement as we left silently leaving him to rest.

"Your rather calm" he said as we had been slowly walking down the halls of the base. "Something on your processor?" I smiled slightly.

"How is it that you always know that?"

"Well if you weren't you'd be telling me all about your mission right about now and go into high detail on how you kicked someone's tin can." He said with a smug smile, I lightly punched him on the shoulder chuckling lightly, then I lose my smile again, I couldn't keep it up for long.

"So….are you going to tell me?" he asked rubbing his shoulder in mock hurt. I sighed, waiting as much as I could before having to admit it.

"His here…."

"Huh?"

"You remember my brother right?" he snorted.

"Hard to forget a mech like him" I nodded in agreement. " so he's one of the new arrivals? Aren't you supposed to be happy about that?"

"Not really…"

"Well why not? Did you guys have a fight or something?" It was normal he didn't know, Bumblebee hadn't seen my brother in years, not ever since we were very very young.

"Sort of…" his optics narrowed.

"What happened?" I sighed.

"I don't really want to talk about it…" I stopped leaning onto the wall next to the rec room's door, no one seemed to be in there but I didn't want to go in anyway.

"I'll go get us the energon" he said entering the room, shortly after he came back and handed me the cube with the pink substance.

"thanks." I said as he nodded and sat down next to me, the hall was a bit dark which made it fresh.

"I know you don't really want to talk about it but maybe it would help you know? You are going to have to face him when he comes."

"I won't…"

"huh?"

"I won't have to face him" he gave me a puzzled look and I sighed once again. " I suppose it all started with him….like always."

We were still in peace at Cybertron, but the war had started to give its little warnings, they were signs of what was to come, however for my family unit at least, we just couldn't see that.

We were just one big happy family. Okay we weren't big and we weren't always that happy.

It was just me and my twin sister Aqua, at that time I went by the name of Flamer.

Our creators, made us as racing models although they had always insisted we shouldn't race, you see, back then, a femme racing, was an absurd idea.

We both had very similar forms, Aqua had a helmet with various platting going all the way back in round shapes, sort of like a sea shell, most of her figure was based on curves and subtle lines yet still had a very dynamic shape and two thrusters on her back, along with a special panel that we were still to learn how to work on, see we weren't even done growing up.. Her form was mostly deep blue and black. Unlike my sister though I wasn't all curves and subtle lines. My head plating instead of a round shell was more like a spiked shell, every small part of armour I had was more straightforward and brusque, giving me a far more dynamic look than my sister, but in the end we were just as fast as each other. Apart from that I also had a red and black paintjob and our personalities were practically opposite.

Then there was our older brother, who took care of us since our parent's mysterious murder. Yes we weren't in war but like any civilization there was murder here and then in history.

Our brother had light blue armour, was a bit taller than us and had the most perfect racer type body. He was our parent's pride and joy. A racer from the spark ever since the beginning. Primus I looked up to him like a hero every since the day I was brought to the world and onlined my optics. Once he was in a considerable age he was allowed into official races, and you know what? He won every last one of them, he never lost. He was soon known as the fastest mech in our planet, he was soon known as… Blurr.

I made a short pause on my story to take a long sip of my energon, Bumblebee hadn't said anything yet but that was okay with me, he knew this much.

Looking down at the liquid I had just drank from I continued with my story.

Now being an aspiring racer one would usually think that having the fastest mech as a brother would be purely awesome as the humans say. It wasn't.

Blurr had the same mentality everyone else had, and he intended to keep my creators' will.

"But WHY?!" I shrieked, it was just another argument as usual.

"Because you can't! Femmes weren't built for the official races! You can't keep up and its dangerous for you! Why can't you get that in your thick processor!?" he shouted back just as angry.

"Because I know I CAN race! Just give me one chance! That's all I need! Just ONE chance!" I begged, I was getting desperate; I didn't want the life I was leading.

"NO! And that's final! And if even try as to sneak into a race I'll personally get someone to chance your whole frame into one that can't race at all!" my jaw dropped, he couldn't be serious. " Is that clear?" his tone was icy, he was serious. I could only look down and nod slightly, clenching my fists out of frustration. "Good. Now I have to go, make sure you guys get to your jobs on time." I snorted at that as he left the room.

"S-sis…" Aqua called from the side, she had been on the couch listening to our conversation, and she was never the one to argue to Blurr, even though she wanted to race just as much as I did.

"I'm all right" I said heading over and flopping down next to her. "I just can't believe him! Out of all mechs he should be the one to understand this the most!"

"You know he only does that to protect us…"

"I know…but still…I don't want to live like this!" In fact, at the time, we both worked at a community centre, a bar by human terms. At the time it was one of the few jobs femmes actually could get, there wasn't much variety since we were always few to begin with and our forms usually couldn't keep up with the same work a mech could.

"I don't either but we really don't have many other options" she reasoned trying to calm me down through our spark bond. I let steam get our of my vents as a sigh.

"He's been getting more and more distant…" I said referring to our brother, looking away from her.

Aqua looked down at her hands and gave me a slight nod.

"Yes…he has…I heard some mechs from his repair team say he's been getting a big ego…" I smiled slightly at that.

"He always had a big ego"

"Yeah but I mean it this time. He doesn't seem to care about anyone and says things without thinking them over. It's starting to be the same with us."

"I wish there was some way to race…" I said sinking further into my seat. My sister patted my shoulder comfortingly and for a moment I wondered what I would ever do without her, I smiled and she smiled back.

"Come on, we should be going for work." I nodded and we left.

The day had been the usual. We never worked in shady looking places nor in the big ones like the circle.

Our shift was finally over and the streets already had their illumination on, however the way back home wasn't exactly the lightest area and we should have suspected something as soon as the first light went off.

But like I said, we weren't at war yet, we had no idea.

It took only one shot in front of our feet to get a jerk reaction, on instinct we jumped back and turned on any system that could give us speed to run away. We had no idea we could even do that, we just did it.

A few mechs were showing up from the shadows as the lights in the area started going off one my one leaving us in the darkness lightly lit by everyone's optics, these mechs all had red optics, while we both had blue optics, back than it was just a fashion choice really, so we didn't know these were future decepticons to be.

"My my my…what pretty little femmes we have here." A voice sneered, it was deep and it resonated with the mechs own armour which was about twice their size, he was easily the tallest in the group. I quickly stepped in front of my sister, out of the two I was always the one who stood up for her.

"Aw…how cute. But that won't get you anywhere."

"Aqua, you run while I hold them off, get help" I told her through our private com link. She gave me a look as if asking 'are you stupid?'.

"There's no way I'm leaving you off with them! I'm staying!" I inwardly sighed.

"I can't beat them! I need you to go get help!"There was no time for arguing though as the first mech came at us, he was mostly bulky, which made him ridiculously slow. We jumped out of the way leaving a small trail of dust to greet him.

"GO!" I shouted to aqua circling around the mech and jumping onto his large back, I was small but light, my thrusters gave me the needed boost to reach his shoulders as he tried to look back and I kicked him square in the jaw breaking it off. It flew sideways and off the path falling somewhere on a street a few feet down.

The mech tried to cry out in pain and I lost my balance falling off. My sister came out of nowhere grabbing my arm and pulling me out of the way just in time to avoid bearing a massive number of bullet holes.

I quickly regained my balance and started running besides her growling "I thought I told you to run!"

"And if I did that you would be nothing but scrap metal by now!" she shouted back just as angry, something rare on her. I knew she wasn't going to leave me.

The mechs came at us all at once now, but they were all either too slow or had absolutely no flexibility. We slid and zigzagged between them, avoiding shots that were starting to get more serious, one of them had actually pulled out a plasma riffle.

I took that one on, he was stupid enough to shoot at close proximity when I threw myself to the ground sliding under his large legs to the other side where it was safer, his shots pushed him back with the exploding force and he rolled on the ground in pain accidentally falling off the path and crashing on a lower street much like the jaw from the previous mech.

Soon enough we were starting to find ourselves actually having fun at this, the mechs had absolutely no chance of catching us and if we had wanted to we would have ran out of there and to safety. I wish we had done…

Soon there was a pile of groaning mechanisms in a poor state, mostly damaged by themselves and we stood before them just out of their flailing and weak reach.

" Well…that ought to do the trick…" I said proudly placing my hands on my hips and grinning mischievously at the mechs, my sister giggled happily feeling my enthusiasm.

"Not quite" a voice said, we turned to see one more mech standing there, he was purple and faded yellow and had the same red optics as the others, his helmet was black though and he had what looked like suspicious armour platting and weapons you wouldn't usually find on a mech. "I must say I'm impressed, that lot usually doesn't go down very easily, but you know, heavy armour isn't always the best sale on the market." He was playing with a small little ball in his hand glowing neon blue.

"I can't let you go unpunished though for destroying my valuable items though"

Was this mech serious? He was calling other mechs, actual sentient beings items. He looked thoughtfully at the ball in his hands.

"I guess I should clean up the mess then." He put down the little ball pressed a button and made it roll in our direction. " It was nice meeting you two." He said with a smirk, and took a device, in seconds he transwarped. We were however putting our full attention on the small ball rolling our way, our sparks sinking in realization, we didn't know much, but this much was obvious, we needed to run.

We didn't need to exchange words; we turned around and ran like the pit was after us.

Transforming whenever we had something in our way and then changing back to run as fast as possible.

"WE'RE NOT GONNA MAKE IT!" Aqua screamed in panic, energon flowing from her optics.

"OH THE PIT WE'RE NOT!WE'RE GOING TO MAKE IT!" I shouted back, and just as I said that, the explosion took place, we felt the heat coming and were thrown forwards hitting against a building with more strength than it was desired.

Slowly the explosion resonance started to disappear and my audios stopped ringing, I looked to the side to see my sister was with me still online and shaking. We tried to stand but our legs were wobbily, Aqua actually threw up her morning fuel and was whimpering something even I couldn't understand. I just didn't have words.

"Well well well…I congratulate you" our sparks nearly froze, it was the same mech again, he had transwarped here of all places. " You managed to get out of the explosion site just in time. Such is the skill of racers."

I stood up in shaky legs; aqua was unable to process as far as I could tell.

"Who are you?! WHY THE PIT DID YOU DO THAT?! YOU COULD HAVE KILLED US!FRAG YOU KILLED THEM!" I said remembering the poor mechs we had beaten the slag out of.

He lifted up his hands as a sign of peace. "All drones I assure you, no real sparks inside those shells." Something about him made me think that was a complete lie but I wasn't about to accuse him in case he had another plasma bomb. The thing about plasma bombs was that they were incredibly dangerous and usually a suicide weapon. There was just no time for most to run away after setting it up. Speedsters were one of the few exceptions and you had to be incredibly good at it. Transwarping was just an expensive and cheater's way.

"I'm here to make a deal with you" he said calmly, his smirk never leaving his disgusting faceplates.

"What sort of deal?" I asked shaking, my sister looking at me horrified.

"Have you lost all your logic circuits?!" she shrieked through our bond.

" I'm in charge of a few races… I want you two to participate."

"What? Are you serious?!" I felt my sister's desperation to say no but I just couldn't help it. I got suspicious thought " what's in it for you?" he shrugged.

"Oh you know, the bets…there is a lot of profit coming from the illegal races, a lot of mechanisms are looking for someone who can beat the champion Blurr, where else than there?"

"What?!" my sister squeaked now a bit in anger. She was insulted of such idea, Blurr was like a hero for her and to much of my ego's injury, he was mine as well.

" Oh yes, and I believe you two are just who I was looking for such a job." This was my turn to step up and be difficult though.

"I thought you mechs didn't like femmes racing, saying we couldn't keep up." He sneered.

"and you believe that?" I was taken aback; this seemed like the sort of mech that would go to any end to get what he wanted. "I thought not. You see in official races you have no chance of getting in, however in the illegal racing…" he trailed off.

"You know who we are don't you?" I accused him. He chuckled amused.

"Of course, however I promise you complete secrecy of your identities will be respected. You were not very easy to find out to begin with, no one has any idea you two are related to the champion, despite his fame." Aqua seemed sad at that but I held my ground. "All we need to do is change your designations for the races and you two can be our new champions. How about it? The Champion femme duo in cybertron history. You want to be free don't you?"

Primus he had hit the right buttons as the humans say. Even aqua was convinced, it was exactly what we both desired, and despite every nagging feeling in my spark telling me not to, we shook hands, and sealed the deal.

That's the first chapter of the ashbringer spotlight. I have the third written down so I'll see if I can write the second now, if so two more chapters should be up soon.

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