Collateral Damage
by Shadeless
This was inspired by a plotbunny posted by alabasterdemon on the tfbunnyfarm on lifejournal.
Disclamer: Don't own.
A missile exploding close to him sent him flying. The following impact made his equilibrium sensors lapse, as well as his optics. Fighting a wave of nausea he lay still.
"Ouch! You fragging, little -!!" The snarl made him jump up with a squeak. Terror overrode all sensorial problems as he stared at the jet he had landed on with wide optics.
"S-Sorry… I didn't mean to -"
"Just LOOK at the dents you put on me! This'll take forever to straighten out!" Skywarps voice tuned to a whine. "Hooks gonna have a fit when he sees this!" Bending in a way that made Perceptors joints creek by just watching the peeved mech regarded his wings. "I'm slagging grounded!" Red optics narrowed with killer intent. "You –" The attack the microscope braced himself for never came.
Instead the jet froze, seemingly in shock. When earth minutes trickled by and he STILL hadn't moved the Autobot approached him carefully. "Skywarp?"
"Primus take me now…" Was the faint response.
Watching the his enemy out of the corner of his optics Perceptor turned to investigate what had him so flustered. Nothing seemed to be out of the ordinary. "What's wrong?" He asked worriedly.
"I'm a goner. I'm fragging doomed." The flyer suddenly looked haunted. "Do you have any idea what Motormaster is trashing there?" Perceptor took a closer look. Indeed, the Stunticon seemed to be dragging something around that was fastened to his bumper. "It's –"
The deafening hiss of a fusion cannon cut the sentence short, followed by the screamed command: "Decepticons! Retreat!"
He would wonder how that sentence would have ended for the rest of his life.
-
Arriving in his room Hook noticed surprisedly that none of his fellow Decepticon seemed to have been injured in the fight. Then he realised this wasn't the only thing that was off.
He narrowed his optics at the box on his desk. It looked familiar.
He opened the lid with shaking hands. One of his optics twitched.