Death star, Starlight and Sunblaze are the only characters that are my OC's in this story. The rest belong to those who own Transformers.
This story has been sitting on my desktop for a while so I thought I'd start it. I hope I've got Dead End's personality right.
PROLOGUE
A Decepticon's secrets
In the desert a young Decepticon femme followed her trainer, Dead End through Decepticon territory, they were going to be out all day. She was training to be a warrior and Soundwave decided that Dead End was the best mech to train her, much to his disgust. The stunticon decided that the first lesson she needed to learn was the Decepticon territory; where it ended and where the Autobot territory begun. It was hot, very hot! The young femme was stuggling to keep cool; her cooling fans were working overtime to cool her systems but they weren't having much effect. Sunblaze, that was her designation hated it in the desert; it was dusty and dry, the heat was unbearable and the sand clogged her vents, "No wonder the humans don't wonder out here," she thought to herself. The pair transformed and stood right on the edge of Decepticon territory. If an Autobot was there he would have had great fun goading him to retalliate,
"See that area there?" Dead End said as he pointed towards the open desert. Sunblaze looked out but she couldn't see anything, except flat yellow sand with the odd clump of desert grass which was shimmering in the heat. Off in the distance was the straight line of the horizon where yellow met azure blue,
"There's nothing there," she said.
Dead End rolled his optics and cycled air through his vents. "This is going to be a looong day," he thought to himself,
"No so pay attention," he snapped, "You don't go there, it's Autobot territory, unless Megatron instructs us to,"
"Oh," the small orange femme replied, "Why not?"
"Because they are our enemy, they will kill you," Sunblaze shuddered,
Dead End smirked at her reaction, neither of them were aware of three Autobot femme watching them from behind a large rock formation.
"She looks so small," Arcee whispered,
"She must be a youngling," Chromia said,
"Yes but how come?" Arcee asked, "I thought all the younglings were killed,"
"Yeah I did too," Elita one said, "She's lucky to be alive,"
Firestar came up behind the other three femme,
"What have you found?"
"Sshh!" Chromia whispered and pointed towards Dead End,
Firestar gasped, "She's so young,"
Dead End looked at his student with disdain. Of all the things he could be lumbered with, it was the responsibility of a young Decepticon femme. Unbelievable! He had better things to do than train her to be a warrior. What good was she going to be to them anyway? She'd get older, bond with a mech and have a sparkling and she was too small and slow. Then there was all the teasing he was receiving from the rest of the Stunticons because of her and it wasn't good for his image to have a youngling hanging around him.
Even at such a young age Sunblaze was a very beautiful femme but she was also Megatron's daughter; a secret her mother has told nobody for the sake of her daughter's own safety right up to her spark's last pulse. If Megatron ever found out, he'd kill them both. It wasn't meant to happen, Starlight hadn't intended to bond with the Decepticon leader; she was lonely and after friendship but unfortunately on this one sordid night just after the beginning of the war she got just a bit more than she bargained for. It was just after Megatron had ordered the killing of all sparklings and younglings that she found out she was expecting Sunblaze.
She kept the pregnancy a secret; hiding in her quarters until the sparkling was born. She delivered the sparkling alone, too scared to ask for help because suddenly everybody had become untrustworthy among the Decepticon ranks. Even best friends considered each other untrustworthy so to ask for help was unthinkable. Starlight had intended to leave it at the door to Ratchet's med bay, at least he'd find a good femme to look after it; but when she heard her sparkling's first cry Starlight fell in love with her.
Sunblaze stands at 13 feet tall and she is still growing, she is an orange color with yellow hands and feet. Sunblaze wasn't very old by transformer standards maybe just a bit older than a youngling. Her alt mode was an orange mustang of which she was very proud of. She had a powerful plasma cannon and a smaller ray gun which shot out a bolt of electricity powerful enough to send any transformer into meltdown; but of course Dead End hadn't shown her how to online her weapons system yet let alone use them. The orange femme couldn't wait to learn how to use them but for the time being she had to settle with learning about her enemy…the Autobots!
On the way back to the base Sunblaze was considering asking Dead End when he'd teach her to use her weapons and when they were halfway there she could hold it in no longer,
"When will you show me how to use my weapons?" she asked , the Porsche 928 looked at her annoyed by her young enthusiasm,
"Be patient Sunblaze, you will in good time," the mech snapped back.
"Yeah but when," the femme whined,
"When it is time,"
"When it is time," the oange femme mimicked her teacher,
Dead End turned around and snarled at the youngling, "You will show me respect young femme," he snapped, "Or I'll have you thrown into the brig for insubordination,"
The journey back to the base was silent as Dead End silently and colorfully swore at the femme and Soundwave for being in this situation. Sunblaze sulked because she was snapped at for what seemed to her to be no reason.
When they go back to the base Dead End transformed and turned to her, he looked down at her with his ruby red optics,
"Tomorrow you shall learn about the Autobots and who they are, especially the femme," he snarled darkly, "So come prepared to listen and learn," She had heard about the Autobot femme from others who would talk about them, some with respect and fear others with contempt. Sunblaze hoped one day she'd get to meet them face to face and fight them,
"Yes sir," Sunblaze replied before going to the wash racks and then her quarters which she shared with her friend Death star. Dead End looked at her with a look of surprise; nobody in the Decepticon ranks would show respect so…politely. Normally subordinates would have to be reminded to show respect to officers and trainers. Sunblaze looked at the huge brown mech,
"What?" she asked,
"Nothing," he simply stated, "Go and get yourself cleaned up,"
On her way to the wash racks and her quarters she went to the rec room to get a cube of energon. Sunblaze's beauty hadn't gone unnoticed and many a mech were hanging out to bond with her. As she moved to the machine which dispenses energon she could feel ruby optics staring at her lustfully. One of the mechs came up and stood right behind her so he was almost touching her wings, she could feel him as he lightly but deliberately brushed his body against them, she could hear sniggering in the backround. Sunblaze felt humiliated by the actions of the mech and wished she'd be offlined or the ground would swallow her up whole. She felt shivers moving through her spark and coursing along her sensitive wiring and shuddered. The cube couldn't fill up with energon quick enough; she grabbed it and raced out of the rec room not looking where she was going, and accidentally bumped into Frenzy and causing some of the energon to splash him,
"Watch out!" the mech yelled at her, while others burst out laughing additing to her humiliation,
"Oh I'm so sorry," the yellow femme said quickly,
"Clumsy femme!" the mech snarled and left before Sunblaze could help him to get clean.
Apart from Sunblaze being Megatron's daughter she has another big problem. She doesn't want to be a Decepticon. She wants to be an Autobot or at the very least neutral. She hates being Decepticon, she hates the Decepticons, she hates their ideals, their beliefs, and their very existence. Ever since she found out her father had ordered the killing of all youngings and sparklings she decided that being a Decepticon was not for her. Nah Ah! No way! The thing is though, she didn't know how to approch the Autobots, after all she is Decepticon. Sunblaze thought about going to the Autobot base but the orange femme didn't know where it was, she also thought about accidentally wondering onto Autobot territory and causing havoc; maybe then they'd catch her and take her back to their base. It sounded like a really good plan which would get her to Optimus Prime so she could talk to him. Everybody talked about how he was too kind and weak so maybe he'd listen to her and allow her to be an Autobot, "Huh! who are you kidding?" the orange femme thought to herself.
She really needed to talk to somebody about this, someone she could trust and decided to talk to her friend Death Star about it one day when they were in their quarters,
"Hey Death Star can you keep a secret?"
Sunblaze was unsure if she could trust her friend, but she had to tell someone and her mother is dead,
"Depends on what it is," Death Star replied,
"Come on Death Star. You're the only one I can trust," Sunblaze replied in a desperate tone which shocked her friend. Death Star didn't know what had her friend so rattled and felt sorry for her. She slumped her wings and walked towards Sunblaze, and placing a servo on her shoulders she looked straight into her friends ruby optics and smiled,
"Sure you can, what's the secret,"
"I-I…uhm. This is really difficult," Sunblaze shuffled her feet and looked at the floor.
Suddenly her spark started pulsating violently, "Maybe this is a mistake," she thought to herself. Death star rolled her optics,
"Come on femme, out with it. What's the secret!"
"Idon't want to be a Decepticon, I would rather be a neutral or Autobot " Sunblaze said quickly then shuttered her optics. The secret was out! Death star looked at her in stunned silence,
"What? Are you crazy? What am I suppose to do with a secret like that?" Death Star hissed,
"Well…keep it," Sunblaze replied now terrified at disclosing her secret,
"You know what Soundwave is like if he finds out we're keeping secrets. If he even suspects we're keeping a secret he will probe us for it. Sunblaze you have to get this crazy idea out of your cpu. You don't know how much danger you've put us in,"
Death Star growled and put her head in her hand and shook it,
"Sunblaze…look…I will do my best to keep your secret but if I can't you are going to have to escape pretty quickly. I know of an Autobot who may be able to help you if it gets too dangerous for you to live here. Just don't tell anybody else and act naturally okay?"
"Okay," Sunblaze replied quietly, humbled by her friends trust.
She was well aware of the danger they were now in but what else could she do? It wasn't like she could go up to an Autobot and say,
"Hi I'm Sunblaze. I am a Decepticon but I want to be an Autobot." or could she?
Once again Sunblaze was on patrol duty with Dead End and she was feeling more miserable then ever. They were patrolling the perimeter of the Decepticon/Autobot territory. Dead End was also going to use this time to teach her to online her weapons system. She couldn't do too much damage to the environment if she was to accidentally fire a weapon, especially if she was to aim it into the Autobot territory. Who knows Dead End thought, she might kill her first Autobot. Now that would teach some of those show offs back at the base a lesson. It didn't really matter if he was to take her to a human settlement and she accidentally fired a shot at it or a human themselves; but it did matter if she destroyed the Decepticon base or a Decepticon.
They got to the perimeter of their territory where the pair transformed,
"Right you are going to learn how to online your weapons system,"
"Really!" Sunblaze replied, her optics beaming brightly,
Dead End rolled his optics, "Yes we are," he groaned,
He started to teach her how to online her cannon,
"There is nothing to it really, all you need to do is think about what weapon you have to use like this,"
He held out his arm and where his massive black hand was a laser rifle appeared,
"Now you try," Sunblaze held out her arm,
Suddenly a shot rang out causing Sunblaze to scream. Dead End stopped what he was doing and looked in the direction of the shot. He just caught a glimpse of blue armour and fired in that direction again. Chromia fired back at Dead End just missing him and causing Sunblaze to scream again and drop to the ground holding her head. He looked down at the youngster,
"What are you doing you glitch?" he snarled as he hauled her up by her wing causing Sunblaze to yelp in agony.
Well that was it as far as Chromia was concerned, nobody should treat a young transformer like that. She came out from her hiding place and marched up to the two Decepticons closely followed by a magenta colored femme. They looked at Dead End then Sunblaze, with piercing blue optics. Sunblaze was scared and cowered behind her teacher. He looked behind her, growled quietly and moved away so she was in the open. Sunblaze was scared of the two Autobot femmes and stood there shaking. Chromia looked at the little femme and smirked at her mercilessly,
"Now is your chance to show your might Sunblaze. Online your weapon and shoot at the blue one," Dead End ordered.
Sunblaze tried to online her weapon but she was too scared to o anything. The orange femme tried again…nothing! What was she going to do? Elita one stood next to Chromia, both of them had their guns trained on the two Decepticons. Sunblaze looked at the femmes and their weapons and run away as fast as she could while transforming and drove away. Chromia burst out laughing and went to fire a shot at Sunblaze but Elita pushed her SIC's arm down,
"Sunblaze get back here NOW!" Dead End yelled and transformed to go after her,
"Elita what did you do that for?" Chromia was bemused by her leader's decision.
"She's young and scared," Elita replied, "It wouldn't have been right to shoot her,"
"Why not?" Chromia replied sharply, "She's Decepticon, the only good Decepticon is a dead Decepticon as far as I'm concerned,"
"Poor little thing," Elita said. "She's going to get punished by her trainer for running away,"
Elita lifted her arm and fired a shot at Dead End, it caught him in the aft
"Elita are you crazy? She's a Decepticon" Chromia was flabbergasted that Elita would show compassion to a Decepticon but something about this tiny femme had tugged at her leader's spark.
Later that evening Sunblaze was in her quarters alone when she heard a knock at the door, Dead End burst in through the door without waiting for permission to enter,
"What was that all about Sunblaze?" he growled,
"What?" Sunblaze asked,
"You run away. What happened, were you scared?" the mech asked,
"N-n-no," Sunblaze stammered scared of the consequences,
"Liar!" Dead End snapped, making his student jump as he approached her and stood between her and the door, "You cannot afford to let an Autobot see you are scared. They will kill you before you know it. They are merciless," he said in a tone which was rough and coarse
"I-I-I c-c-couldn't online my weapon," she stammered
"Well we're going to the hologram room and we're going to practice onlining your weapon," Dead End grabbed the femme by the arm and pulled her to the hologram room. On the way Frenzy was walking down the corridor with Rumble,
"Hey look there's scaredy cat Sunblaze," the pair of them laughed at her. Sunblaze lowered her head in shame and continued trudging behind her teacher,
They eventually got to the hologram room where Dead End pushed her in and locked the door behind them,
"You will not leave here until you have learnt how to online your weapon," Dead End said
"But…"
"No buts," Dead End looked at her and shook his head, "What's the use, she'll be dead soon, we'll all be dead soon,"
Chromia was sitting in the rec room with Ironhide after her patrol. She had been out all day and was looking forward to spending time with her mate. She was telling Ironhide about Sunblaze,
"She's a youngling, and she was being taught to shoot but run away when she saw us and couldn't bring her weapons online. Dead End was with her and he was pretty upset with her when she couldn't do it, "
"A youngling," the red mech exclaimed, "How in the pit did they get a youngling?"
"We don't know, she's a femme,"
"Who's a femme?" Ratchet asked as he went into the rec room,
"The Decepticons have a femme youngling," Ironhide said,
"How have they managed to get a femme youngling?" Ratchet was shocked that the Decepticons would have a youngling let alone a femme. They were such a rarity and the medic felt so sorry for her. He knew what would happen to her just so the Decepticons could build an army.
"Who knows but she was scared of us," Chromia replied, "She couldn't online her weapons when Dead End told her too,"
"Not surprised, she was probably panicking," Ratchet replied as he poured himself some energon. He had to calm many a young transformer down who was unable to online his weapon because he was panicking, "You're a formidable opponent,"
Sunblaze lay on her berth, enjoying the sanctuary the quiet and the darkness were offering her. She was tired and frustrated because she still couldn't online her weapons system. Dead End was beginning to get impatient with her and Sunblaze was getting more stressed making it harder to online her cannon. Her thoughts turned back to Elita and the other femmes she met.
She had heard about the Autobot femme and now she'd met two of them. She admired them for their skill and bravery "Oh how I'd love to train under Elita 1 and Chromia they're so awesome," she thought with such a longing as she rolled onto her side when Death Star walked into their quarters. Sunblaze was even more determined now to become Autobot and started to think about ways she could defect to the Autobot army without consequence upon herself or the Autobots. Although she was sure they'd protect her if Megatron should come for her.
"What am I going to do?" she thought desperately as a tear ran down her cheek before she went into recharge.
Poor Sunblaze! What will she do?
What will she get to join the Autobots and will she ever be able to online her weapons system?
Find out soon!