Seeker log:
First time period: Trio enformed. Log entry 1.
Starscream and Thundercracker stood silent. They had been training Silverwind for long enough now. It was time for the young femme Seeker to get the ranking of a warrior. Starscream, who usually kept his feelings deep inside, was seemingly so proud that his armor was hardly thick enough to not break due to it. Thundercracker was proud of Silverwind too, but he was also sad; there should have been another Seeker becoming a warrior alongside Silverwind. Swiftwind, the twin brother of Silverwind, had been training under Thundercracker, while Silverwind had been training under Starscream. But then, during a battle, Swiftwind had gotten separated from others. No one has heard anything about him ever since. Therefore, Thundercracker had joined Starscream on training Silverwind. And now, finally, their hard work showed the result.
Back when Starscream and Thundercracker had become warriors, there had been a ceremony for that, since the training type which was used to train them, had been very rare and valued among the Decepticon ranks. Now there hardly was any recognition for those apprentices who reached the warrior rank. But as Starscream and Thundercracker changed glances very imperceptibly, they were more than sure that they would throw a small party to celebrate Silverwind's new rank.
"Well hello there, young warrior!" Thundercracker greeted Silverwind when the femme came to see him and Starscream.
"Congratulations, Silverwind," Starscream said, trying to return back his cool self; yet he could not hide his proudness. He felt like his own sparkling had become a great warrior he can be proud of, even though he was not related to Silverwind.
"Thanks Thundercracker and Starscream sir," Silverwind said.
"Don't call me sir," Starscream responded. Thundercracker laughed.
"You're equally ranked with us and yet ya still sir Big Bro! Well done, Little Sister!" he said.
"Don't blame me for my programming, Thundercracker!" Silverwind snapped, amused. She could not let go of her habit to call her primary teacher sir. Besides, it was fun to annoy Starscream by calling him sir especially when he told not to do so.
"Well, shall we head to our quarters?" Starscream asked, getting his calmness back now.
"Sure, why not? Thundercracker answered. Silverwind nodded, glad to be able to move to the quarters Starscream and Thundercracker had been sharing with each other for vorns even before she was a sparkling.
"Yup, we still have lots of space here even with ya moving in, Little Sister!" Thundercracker noted, seeing now three berths in line at their quarters. It had been centuries since he and Starscream had shared their quarters with a massive Decepticon named Outscream. At that time, they had not had very much space. But then Outscream had perished in an Autobot ambush and the two Seekers had seized the space Outscream had had for themselves, refusing to have any Decepticons with them. Silverwind was the only one they could let share the quarters, as the femme Seeker was not only their close friend but also trustworthy. Besides, being smaller than either of them, she did not require that much space.
"What's in schedule tomorrow?" Silverwind asked.
"Who knows? Maybe we'll get send into another battle half-recharge, or maybe we'll have the whole day to waste time like Skywarp does," Starscream answered.
"But," Thundercracker said, clearly hiding something behind his back, "today in the schedule is…"
Before shouting "Party!" he threw what he had been hiding up into the air: A party explosive made by Skywarp. Smoke with varying colors filled the quarters in astro-seconds.
"What in the name of Primus?!" Silverwind shouted. Starscream only got up from his berth, surprised, yet knowing immediately for certain that Skywarp was behind this explosive.
"Party time!" Skywarp's sudden shout infiltrated the quarters. More explosions came and the amount of smoke increased drastically.
"What's going on here?" an angry male voice asked.
"Oh, Commander Dreader! Silverwind has become a warrior and we're throwing a party for that!" Skywarp told loudly.
"Well don't use those explosives, for Pit's sake! What do you want, destroy this whole place, huh?!" Commander yelled.
Skywarp laughed and shut the door. The smoke would not escape now, but slowly dissolve. And even though some mechs tried to join the party, no one was let in by the four Seeker warriors. With Skywarp showing his tricks, pranks and such to be used later on "anyone from the dimmest warrior on Cybertron to Optimus Prime", even Starscream could not hold his laughter, a laughter even Thundercracker, who was nearly Starscream's brother, had not heard for even since being fresh warriors like Silverwind was now.
Skywarp warped away suddenly, leaving the three Seeker alone into the room with almost totally dissolved smoke. Silence continued among them as the rest of the smoke disappeared. No one knew what anyone should say.
"Well… Thanks for the party, guys. I really appreciate it," Silverwind said.
"Hey, no problem, Little Sister! Since there weren't any official festivities, we had to celebrate this!" Thundercracker said.
"Thundercracker is right," Starscream said, giving a faint but soft smile which faded away as soon as Silverwind saw it.
"Am I not always, Big Bro?" Thundercracker asked teasingly. Starscream nudged him. Silverwind tried to keep herself from laughing.
"Anyways, there's one thing we'd like to give you," Starscream said.
"Really?" Silverwind asked.
"Here," Thundercracker opened a secret compartment and took something out from it.
He showed Silverwind a quite thin and wide metallic object.
"What is it?" the femme Seeker asked.
"It's called the Seeker log. Thundercracker and I made it from parts we found among the scrap back when we were at your age. We've made some recordings to it. And since your training is complete, we could make recordings about what we face and see," Starscream said, making a small pause before continuing, "maybe just so that we could reminisce all of this after the war."
"We entrust this to you, Little Sister. Please take care of it," Thundercracker ended the small speech and handed over the device to Silverwind, who took it.
"Thank you. Thank you for trusting me with this," Silverwind said quietly.
"Well, enough of solemn ceremonies! Let's make our first log entry as a trio," Starscream said.
"Frag yeah! Hey, pals, why don't we call ourselves 'The Three Seekers'?" Thundercracker exhilarated.
"What kind of a name is that?" Starscream asked.
"A name for a Seeker trio, of cource!" Thundercracker shouted, sounding aghast about Starscream not understanding something like that. Silverwind chuckled.
"Hey, why not? After all, it sounds pretty good," she said.
"Well sure, at least we'll have a name for our trio," Starscream said, sounding grudging, but inside he also liked that name. He just did not want to show it to his comrades. He did not want to show any of that feeling at all…
"Seeker log: First time period: Trio enformed. Log entry 1," Starscream began the very first log entry made by The Three Seekers.
"Hey, wait, Big Bro!" Thundercracker shouted.
"Don't begin it without us!" Silverwind shrieked.
Starscream repressed his chuckle. While he tried to keep his cool, never-showing-emotions appearance, he still loved being with Thundercracker and Silverwind from the very bottom of his spark. He could not imagine life without them.
He felt that he could not live without them…
"It's been a veeeeeery long time since the last entry! Yet we're now a trio, as Silverwind has become a warrior and joined us! The duo is no more. It's a trio now!" Thundercracker said.
"Hey, what should I say? I don't want anything odd to be in the recording… Oops, did it record that?" Silverwind asked.
"It did! It did! Very nice first words for your first log entry!" Thundercracker laughed. Silverwind didn't say anything. She just looked at the Seeker log, shocked by what she had just done.
"It's been a long time indeed, but more time will pass from this entry, for sure," Starscream said mostly to himself than to his comrades or the log. "And many more entries will come. No one will extinguish our sparks, I'm sure of it. I'm sure of it…"
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