Fight! Fight! Fight!

Today was the day. Shade wanted to peek in at her father. Oh, she wasn't going in, or saying hello. She just wanted to see how he was… even though Night and Shadow would try to drag her away if they knew. So, they wouldn't know. That was the plan. Now if only she could get rid of her recent tag along…

"Shaaade, we planned a movie day. C'mon, Scatter wants to, and Danni wouldn't mind and…"

Ugh Shadow, not now… Dangit.

"...And I wanted to! 'Cade's even in on it!" grinned Night, literally appearing out of thin air. The black youngling tended to use his invisibility like Mirage did, staying out of the way until the last, startling second. Mirage wasn't impressed.

"Gah! Night… you guys…. Not today. I've got stuff-"

"No you don't," Shadow sent Shade a look. A look that told her he knew of her plan, and wasn't going to let her. Shade growled.

"I'm going Shadow. You can't force me," Shade glowered at her brother.

"I can force you," snickered Night, grabbing her into a hug. "C'mon Shade! I was kinda looking forward to it."

Shade wilted a little. Night was right. He could force her. Only because… well… Night was Night. Why does Night have to be Night? She groaned inwardly, hugging him back, huffing.

"Fine. Fine, whatever. Steal me away," Shade grumbled, but wasn't too put out. Her plan could wait.

"Night and Shade-racer, sitting on a rock, K-I-S-S-"

"SHADOW!" Shade made a lunge at him, more annoyed than anything else. Leave it to Shadow to find that stupid earth song and change the words.

"Yeah, dude, that's not funny," snorted Night. He let Shade go and lightly smacked Shadow over the head. "Your Opi would strongly disapprove," he snickered as Prowl walked by. "Whatever you three are up to, I want none of it," he muttered and kept walking.

"Aw, don't be like that Opi…" Shadow grinned cheekily, as Shade rolled her optics in the background. She missed Night's hug already. Scrap you, Shadow, you ruined my moment.

"Prowl?" her Danni's voice drifted down the hallway at that moment, "Have you seen Scatter?"

"Check Barricade. I left her with him," he called back before disappearing around a corner. "Barricade?" Night asked. "He like that kid or what? He seems to spend a lot of time with her... You guys aren't worried about her mental health?"

"She can hold her own," Shadow replied dryly, "Star's her danni, after all."

Star glanced at the group with a smirk, lightly nudging Shadow before moving off to find Barricade. Shade snickered.

"And she's your danni too. You may not want to train with her today…" she told him, giggling.

"Oh yeah? Oh yeah? You think she's gonna hurt me for that?" Shadow taunted, tickling her door wings.

"Oh scrap Shadow not my door wings gah!" Shade exclaimed before dissolving into a giggling mass.

Night leaned against a wall and laughed. "You guys," he wheezed, "We're so dumb."

Shade managed to shove Shadow away and into Night, causing them both to fall in a heap, "I am not dumb. You two, on the other hand, are. I am not in this 'we' you speak of." With that, she dashed off at high speed to avoid the two youngling mechs.

"Shade, get back here you!" Shadow yelled after her, trying to untangle himself from Night.

Night howled and shoved Shadow away. "Elbows! Watch the elbows!" he yelped and ran after Shade. Shadow sat there a few moments, snickered, and then went off to check on his danni. His friends could handle themselves anyway.

Shade kept going, straight for the brig. This was her chance…maybe. She quickly wheeled a different direction and headed for her room and slid under the bed. She bit her lip, hiding her spark signature. Yes, hidden at last. Now, I just have to wait, and then go see… Opi.

Two black feet appeared in the doorway. "C'mere little femme," rasped Night, ruining the effect slightly with a giggle.

I don't think soooo, Shade lay there quietly. She knew he probably knew she was under the bed, but she wasn't planning on coming out. She grinned, her door wings twitching slightly as she lay on her stomach underneath.

Suddenly, a pair of bright blue optics were staring straight into hers. "Gotcha!" Night yelped, smirking at her. Shade squeaked, jerking at his sudden appearance at the entrance of her hideout. Her wide purple optics stared for a second before giggling.

"Oh fine you found me," Shade huffed, grinning. Night grinned and gently helped her out from under the bed.

"So where's my prize?" he asked. "I gotcha."

"I dunno, what did you want as a prize?" Shade teased, amused, "I didn't know there was a prize involved."

Night looked a bit surprised. "I get to ask for whatever I want?" he asked, grinning.

"Within reason of course," Shade admonished him, grinning.

"Hmmmm...," Night took a moment to think. "How bout... nah, just gimmie some candy and we're even," he grinned.

"Hmm…No deal," Shade snickered and began to sneak off. She was only teasing, she would get him the candy in a moment.

"Aw! Shade!" Night, whined. "Just a little! I'll help you decorate your crazy-bland room!" he tried.

"My room is just fine, thank you," Shade giggled, and then popped a piece of candy into his mouth before he could say more, "Shhhh."

Night grinned, and pinned his spikes back in a submissive gesture as he chewed his candy. "Actuay," he said around the rather large chunk. "I fink et nees mo color," he grinned and went back to trying to chew. "Why's dis cany so sicky, Sade?"

Aw he's so cute…Shade grinned, "It got a little warm I thi-"

All of sudden, a loud sparkling shriek ripped down the hall, directly from the brig.

"Scatter!" Shade whipped around, and immediately ran for the brig.

Night started choking before quickly choking down the candy and running after Shade. Not Scatter, he whined inwardly. Don't let her be hurt.

"Bad, not Opi! Lie! Mean! Go away!" high pitched chattering came from the tiny replica of Prowl. The tiny sparkling was just out of reach of Blade, her tiny smokey blue door wings stiff. She had her rather large antenna pinned back, looking exactly like a very irate Electrostar.

Shade quickly scooped the sparkling up immediately, hushing the tiny femme. Blade looked startled, yet faintly amused.

"She has Star's spirit, that's for sure," he commented to his daughter.

"What did you do to her, Opi?" Shade frowned, "Scatter wouldn't get mad like this without a reason."

Night ran in about that time, and snarled. "Shade, get out of here. I'll get Prowl down here to deal with him."

Shade growled, "I can deal with him too. I'm not helpless."

"I didn't do anything. I don't know what she's talking about, but she's sure a spitfire…" Blade shrugged, seeming to be surprised at the sparkling's reaction.

Night snarled loudly, mustering up as much of his old Decepticon self as he could. "Shade. Get out and take Scatter with you before I force you."

"You can't force me to do anything. You aren't my brother or my opi," she snarled back, dragging up her anger at being told to stay away from her opi, "Don't ever tell me what to do."

Night pinned his antenna back and grabbed her arm. "I will if it will help you! Slag, I'll physically force you to do what I want if it will save you! Now get out of the brig!" he shouted, blue optics glowing dangerously in the low light.

Shade's optics turned to the more red part of her purple optics and jerked away, "I'm not in any danger and I don't need saving! Leave me the frag alone!"

A dark smirk crossed Blade's face only briefly, before disappearing. Shade didn't notice, since she was so intent on staying away from Night. By this time, Scatter had climbed down from Shade's arms and was now crawling quickly out of the brig, her oversized spikes pinned back, clearly irritated by the yelling.

Night caught the movement out of the corner of his optic and gave Shade a hard look. "Look, your baby sister has more sense then you, now get... out... of... the brig!" he shouted.

Suddenly, the light from the doorway was blocked out by a large figure.

"Is there a problem here?" asked the calm, deep voice of Optimus Prime.

Shade suddenly shied away nervously, her doorwings drooping. Night dropped her arm, but kept the same hard expression locked on her for a minute before looking away. She didn't understand why Night was so against her seeing her opi. She didn't want to fight with him, but he was forcing her to ignore the mech who had raised her, and that didn't set well with her independent persona. She glanced up at Optimus Prime, her optics fading to their normal purple color and she licked her lips, her mouth suddenly felt dry.

"Neither of you are on guard duty," Prime sighed. "And we can hear you across base. I suggest both of you leave."

Night backed away and hurried off, brushing past Prime. He was done arguing with the silly femme anyway. Shade drooped more. Night probably wouldn't want to have anything to do with her now that he saw how stubborn she was at times.

"Yes sir. I'm sorry sir, it won't happen again," Shade replied softly, moving past Prime and heading for her room.

Both Prime and Shade both missed the expression of brief triumph on Blade's face. His little youngling was playing her part perfectly, even if she didn't know the lines.

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Vivi- Daaaaang. Shade dear, do you really think the anger was necessary? O.o' Anyway, EMOTIONAL CHAPTER, YAY. Review please thanks bye :P

Athena: yay this took forever :I bleh, I was drawing stuff for Vivi so whatever. VIVI COMES BEFORE ALL.