A/N: I'm so sorry for not updating in two months! I feel so ashamed, please forgive me! I even stayed up late just so I could write this little chapter for you guys. Don't ever think I'll give up on this story, I just came up with the ending for this story about two weeks ago (the middle still needs work though).
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But It Could Have Been Right
Chapter 3
While Sunstorm was in the wash-racks, Thundercracker and Skywarp decided that now was the time to pry some answers from their elusive trinemate.
/We need to talk/ Thundercracker sent to Starscream over their private comm. frequency.
/About what?/ Starscream demanded.
/About Sunstorm!/ Skywarp sent impatiently.
Starscream let out an exasperated groan. He knew his trinemates weren't going to let this go unless he told them something. Fraggit, why did they have to be so nosy sometimes?
/Meet me in my quarters./
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The Command Trine were all sitting in Starscream's quarters when Skywarp snapped, "Will you just tell us about Sunstorm already?"
"He's just a clone Shockwave created," Starscream. "A breakthrough in the cloning process, but he's defective and not worth my time to train. Stupid Megatron can't-"
"We know that already," Skywarp pointed out.
"Don't need to hear another one of your rants," Thundercracker muttered.
"Then why are you bothering me for more information about him?" Starscream demanded.
"We want to know why Shockwave would make a clone of, no offense, you," the blue Seeker replied.
Skywarp made a comment about the Guardian losing his sense of reason.
The Air Commander glared at his trinemates and said, "Sunstorm was only one of many clones created as an experiment to increase our numbers. He was the only clone that came from me, the rest were clones of the other troops."
"So ole One-Eye's got a clone army back on Cybertron and sends us a second you? Not his best decision," Skywarp said.
"There is no clone army. Only Sunstorm was successfully brought online," Starscream clarified.
"Then what makes him defective? He seemed like a normal mech to me," Thundercracker said.
"His fusion reactor was discovered to be unstable after he onlined and close contact with Sunstorm would kill a mech. Apparently, Shockwave fixed that little problem a few years ago," Starscream said. "Anything else you want to know?"
"Yeah," Skywarp said. "Why keep it all a secret?"
The tri-colored Seeker gave the teleporter an incredulous look. "Skywarp, you should know the answer to that. We didn't want the Autobots to find out about our plans. Simple as that. Now… Get out of my room."
Once Thundercracker and Skywarp left, Starscream was left contemplating about his clone.
Would that glorified nightlight prove himself worthy of being his pupil? Starscream doubted it. Sunstorm has already proven himself to be naïve and unobservant of his surroundings. Those traits could get a mech killed quickly on the battlefield. Not only that, but he hated that the clone would just blindly follow orders. Sunstorm needs to learn to think for himself if he wants to live to see the end of this war. However, Starscream couldn't help but think that this arrangement would prove to be very interesting.
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Normally a trip to the wash-racks would help Sunstorm unwind and relax, but today his processor was in turmoil. He was still quite angry at Skywarp for his prank and embarrassing him in front of the Nemesis's entire crew, but he was even more angry at Starscream for rubbing it in and for giving him a hard time since yesterday. Why did the SIC have to be such a glitch? He never did anything to him and yet Starscream called him defective even though he was in the same room. Sunstorm wasn't defective, at least, not anymore.
Starscream's horrid attitude and awful reputation left Sunstorm wondering what was so valuable about the Air Commander that Megatron never executed him. It certainly couldn't be because of Starscream's appearance; attractive he may be, but a handsome face is not worth millennia of treachery. Most likely it was his fighting capabilities that kept the elder Seeker alive. Yes that must be it, otherwise, why else would Shockwave request Sunstorm be trained by him?
Still, Sunstorm dreaded the thought of spending time with the volatile mech and wished he could return to Cybertron and just ask the Rainmakers to train him instead. But whether he liked it or not, orders were orders.
A/N: Once again, I'm sorry for the shortness of this chapter. It's really just a necessary filler chapter.
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