Pinfire & Smallflare belong to me! Transformers I don't own!

Chapter One - The Good Guys

The Autobots had struck again. In a senseless attempt to turn away supporters to their cause they had bombed several villages along the Autobot/Decepticon border and had blamed it on them. Megatron had ordered a scouting party led by the Command Trine to be sent out at once to search for any survivors and bring them back. So far none had been found.

:Star! Can we head back now? Flying over all this…stuff is rather depressing and won't be any help to you…:

Skywrap said over their comm. link. Starscream suddenly felt like shooting him down.

:What! Shut up Skywrap and do your job!:

:You see what I mean? Not helping!:

Suddenly Thundercracker's calm yet stern voice broke in cutting their growing argument short.

:Enough Sky. Leave Star alone. But…he is sort of right Star, so far we haven't found one living spark signature.:

Starscream grumbled at first but then replied.

:…fine but we'll do one flying pass over this next village…its was a Mini-Bot village then we'll return back to base.:

Both Skywrap and Thundercracker agreed.

The three seekers fell silent and veered to the left heading towards the area where the village laid. It was in ruins like the other villages they had flown over. Where homes had once stood there was large burning holes along with offlined frames of the villagers, the Mini-Bots.

Flying beside him on his left Skywrap gave a disgusted sigh over the comm. Link; he felt the same way. He opened the comm. link.

:Ok. Let's head back to base.:

They turned away and had just passed what appeared to be the villages borders when suddenly Thundercracker shouted.

:Hey! I just a spark signature! Two of them!:

:What?! Where?!:

Skywrap and Starscream chorused together. Disbelief in their voices. All three jets transformed into their bi-pedal forms and hovered in the air, looking and scanning around at the ground below them.

Thundercracker then flew down towards the ground.

:Here!:

The other two followed and all three landed on the ground. It was burnt and rubble laid scattered everywhere. Thundercracker pointed towards a pile of rubble which was once appeared to be a house.

"There, that's where the signatures are coming from, under all that rubble! We'll have to hurry!"

"Skywrap help me start digging!"

Starscream yelled out as he started to remove the rubble of the house. Skywrap jumped in to help as Thundercracker continued to monitor the signatures. As they removed the rubble a small voice could be heard getting louder and louder.

"Help! We're under here! Help us!"

"Hold on, we're almost there!"

Starscream answered and with help from Skywrap lifted off a large flat piece of rubble. Underneath it laid two tiny mini-bot younglings, one mech and one femme, both were damaged but alive. The femme was in stasis but the mech tried standing up only to fall back on the ground. Thundercracker quickly went to help him.

"Easy, your pretty damaged. We're going to help you but you can't move ok?"

"My sister…why isn't she awake?"

The mini-bot mech asked almost crying. Starscream went over and kneeled down beside him. He gently place a comforting hand upon him.

"It's ok. She's fine but we'll need to get to base at once. What's your name?"

"P-Pinfire…and this is my sister Smallflare…"

"I'm Starscream…this is Skywrap and Thundercracker…."

Pinfire looked up at them with his wide optics.

"A-are you the g-good guys?"

"Yes. Yes, we are…"