Sentinel's Prophecy
Chapter 3
Chromia had just got back from a patrol when she heard it, the terrible scream of a dead Aerialbot. She ran as fast as she could, both not sure of who it was or if Moonracer was gonna whoop her aft all the way back to Mars.
"STOP! Firefly's down!" Chromia screeched to a halt when she heard her brother's voice, thank Primus! A victim.
"What happened here?" The dusky-pink femme demanded and all optics turned to Arcee, Roulette and Scarlet. The three femmes didn't look away from the dead form of their friend. "W-we were walking d-down the h-hall and me-me and Scarlet heard a scream a-and ran up here to s-see if every-thing was al-right." Arcee barely got the words out before Roulette turned around to the slowly forming crowd. "I think we've got a classic killer on our watch." There were a few gasps of shock while Smokescreen and Dino made their way to their bond-mates, all but Arcee stood still as dead silence took over the grief. She crouched down to Firefly's corpse, Chromia joined her and together they turned over the lifeless shell of their friend. "No….." There were blade marks all over the poor femme. "It must've been someone with blade tactics and weaved-nimble shards." Chromia finished her investigation and stood up to confront anyone who judged her.
Frankie stepped forward and rested her tiny palm on Firefly's helm. "She just got back from a mission and hasn't even seen Slingshot yet." That was true, Slingshot was over-protective of his friends and anyone who dared hurt them not only got a pounding from the Wreckers but also from the bad-tempered Aerialbots. Truth be told, everyone except Air raid, Slingshot and Powerglide had known about the crush on 'Slingy' ever since they'd met.
"What's-…..Okay." Prowl quickly gave his respect to the others to shut up and grieve.
Later that afternoon Roulette came out of Prowl's office with a hidden smirk on her faceplates. Only Arcee, Chromia and Moonracer could see though the others hadn't noticed yet somehow Scarlet had. "So, cee, what did ya see in there?" Chromia asked excited from what happened earlier. "Huh? Uh, hm…. Nothing really." That, wasn't nice what was she hiding? Whatever secret Chromia had yet to discover wasn't always a secret.
"Whoohoo! Yeah! Hey Din! The note's here!" Her morning shriek had disturbed the vigil, even though they knew who it was they didn't care as long as she didn't bring her own Great Godzilla here. "What? Huh, hey Sides! Come here!" There two groans and an alarm screech, obviously Black Beauty's awake. Yes, the note said it was tonight and had rearranged patrols and errands. "Oh Primus, please don't let Chromia blow the place sky high!" Dino and Sideswipe prayed as Chromia snorted at their plea, then she remembered something. "Gotta go, see ya later peeps!" She hugged both stunned mechs and raced down the halls towards the medical's door, she was as quiet as anything until shook Ratchet and First Aid awake, the CMO grunted and got out while his apprentice looked back and quietly closed the door. 1…2…...3, "Awake, my Loony Moonie!" She shouted as loud as she could to wake the medical engineer up. "Huh? What!?" Both Chromia and Moonracer screamed as the sharp-shooter fired two bullets; one aimed at Chromia's helm, the other aimed at the door. The first bullet shot into the wall while the other one went through the door. "Holy Primus slag! I shot Inferno's painting!" Although Inferno wasn't big about paintings, he wasn't gonna like a bullet hanging from the wall above his head! "Yea! What about the door?!" Chromia screeched as First Aid walked in with a note in his servo. "Sup ladies? Oh holy shit!" That was Kade, Chief Burn's eldest son, and he was as annoying as Hotshot and Hot rod combined. "We'll be out in a minute!" Moonracer slammed the door and locked it so it was only Chromia and herself inside.
"What are you? Crazy!" Moonracer bellowed as she got dressed, Chromia bolted upwards from where she sat watching her friend complain. "What!? I'm the one who's crazy? First, I wasn't the one who fired bullets everywhere! And second, I only woke you up to tell you tonight's the night!" Then she yelped, "Wait! Arcee might wanna know too!" Before Moonracer could reply, the pink femme ran down the halls all the way to Team Prime's door.
Chromia skidded to a halt and got out her data pad, TG and Bulk should be gone by now. She walked onto Bulkhead's berth and pressed 'play' on a trumpet like app: At the sound of an order, all four mechs jumped out of their berths and gave a silhouette. "Yes, ma'am?" Bee asked, Chromia smirked at them and looked across to Arcee's berth. "She sleeps through anything Miss." Wheeljack informed, Chromia thought for a second, Ah! "Alright mechs, I need two RED flowers and eighteen blueberries EACH! Now go and do as your commander says!" Chromia ordered and the mechs only responded with a simple; "Yes ma'am!"
"Oh and boys!"
"Yes Miss?"
"The name's Sir."
"Understood Sir."
Chromia smirked as she could hear them pounding down the hallway looking for idiotic things. "Alright cee, spread ya wings!" She rattled and shook the sheets as she threw her friend out of the berth. "Hey! I thought I told you stupid mechs to leave me alone!" The younger femme roared at who not knowing 'who'. "Aww, that's mean cee, you always like it when I wake you up!" Chromia teased as she poked Arcee to make sure her friend wasn't battling a malfunction. "What!" Blue neon optics met indigo ones as Chromia smiled at Arcee and grunted as she was pushed off sourly by a pissed femme. "Alright! Can I just tell you something?" The older dusky femme yelped, Arcee knew the drill; Whenever there was something Chromia wanted to talk about, it was 'Early Birds' for everyone. "Tonight's the night remember?"
Suddenly Moonracer walked in with Smokescreen and Bumblebee flanking her, the two scouts were carrying a cube on a metal-like tray with two roses beside it. "Here you are Sir, how do you like your coffee?" Arcee and Moonracer both looked stunned at their friend. "How-?"
"Did you do that?"
"That, could come in handy."
Chromia only smirked as she lead the way towards the main comm, outside they could see Wheeljack and Cliffjumper still picking up small blueberries, along with some of the Aerialbots giving them tough glares.
"Oh really? It's easy, all you have to do is press play on this app in the morning before they wake up."
Air raid and Slingshot passed by them without looking up, while Sundrown looked at them and gave a sorrowful smile. At least she's nice! Chromia remembered what she was going to tell her besties! "Oh guys! I know what's gonna happen tonight!" She cheered,
"Please don't let it be 'Chromia's Fashion Night'!" Moonracer groaned, Arcee snorted it was one of the best nights the three girls ever had! "No it's G.A.B night." And just as everyone had nearly woken up there were three femme-like squeals of joy that had their elder bots running for their lives. "What happen?"
"What's going on here?"
"Where are the cons!?"
Somehow SilverBolt, Elita-one and Ironhide had managed to get their armour on and fly down here for one reason only, to announce the G.A.B night! "The night's tonight, right?" Dino asked while Sideswipe and Sunstreaker were head-locking each other playfully. "Yes, now what was all that noise about?" Elita demanded, all optics turned to Chromia as she snorted, there was no need for blaming anyone today, tonight was all about friends and partnership!
After all the rearranged patrols and jobs were done, it was safe to say the party was on! "Mechs may you please meet me and NightStalker at the curb side for a meeting. Repeat any Secondary mechs make their way to the curb side for the G.A.B meeting please." That was Jazz over the speakers.
"Yay! I can't believe we get the whole base to ourselves!" Arcee cried, Chromia smirked as her brother her and gave the femmes a warning glare to stay out of trouble. The only ones who stayed behind were the Elders, in case of an emergency, and the femmes. The mechs were leaving to go into an underground base in Hawaii, the only commanders that were available were Prowl, Ultra Magnus, NightStalker and Red Alert, the others were either having a meeting or were out for a drive. This was gonna be fun! The humans, however, were having their own sleepover or had already 'crashed' and were fast asleep, otherwise if there were cons or something else there were security guards everywhere to make sure the night went well.
"Alright ladies, settle down and me and Prowl will go and fetch your time tables." NightStalker lead them to a room much larger than the rec room.
"So who wants to go first at saying their crushes?" Timber grinned as the femmes around her shifted uncomfortably.
"Well here you are, and if you need anything we'll be just in the main-room checking the monitors." Prowl informed as a bulky blue shape squeezed between his legs and grunted at the effort. "And don't wake up the others as well as spy on the mechs!" Prowl's 'pet' partner, TawnyFlare an ancient cyber-cat, darted her amber eyes around the room as if scenting trouble already. Once the two had checked everything was alright and left the femmes started to giggle at how plump Tawny was because of Earth hunting. "It's like bomb shelter in here." Flare-up stated, Timber eyed the piece of paper warily guessing that a cheeky Miko did these. What the femmes didn't know was a group of mechs listening from a good distance away.
"Wheeljack, you're the best Wrecker I've had to put up with." Heatwave grumbled, as they listened.
"Aww, geez thanks wave, you're not so bad yourself." The mechs listened as Timber announced the activity.
"We all go around in a circle got it? Flare-up, you're first." The orangey-pink femme sighed as she said her crush.
"Well, I've kinda liked a few mechs in my time on Cybertron before the war, but now I sort of like… Bumblebee." The mechs and femmes burst into laughter at the thought of a bee striped mech looking helplessly at them with Flare-up by his side holding a sparkling. "Oh Bee, our precious BEE!" The boys teased the young scout who was blushing hard. "Okay Scar, your turn." The hot pink and black Jewelercom blushed a little. "Well… Oh frag it! It's Smokescreen." Both Arcee and Smokescreen had their jaws on the ground until; "Has anyone here at least not been fragged by a mech before? Like not been a bond-mate or something?" The blue femme asked as the boys went dead silent and all the femmes felt guilty. "Ah, listen cee, no one here except you is a virgin." Arcee looked puzzled at what her friend said and quickly realized what she meant, Moonracer was calm and quiet, Arcee wanted an answer and she got one. "Holy Primus Scrap! I'm the only one who hasn't done that before!? You girls are gross!" Arcee shrieked and looked at her friend as if she had grown bull-horns and devil-like wings, Moonracer shrugged it off and turned to Aqua who was next. "Well Chromia will know this one, won't you?" Both femmes smirked at each other and squealed; "It's Blacklight!" Cliffjumper was shocked at his older brother who was sitting on his mattress proudly. "Anyway, your turn Roulette!" The light purple femme was smirking at the younger dusky pink bot. "Your brother." Chromia's head had looked like it was going to fall off. "Who?" Sunny questioned as the mechs turned back to the small 'Walkie Talkie'. "No, NO! You cannot have a 'crush' on Dino! He's my big brother for Primus sake!" That had the mechs going again. Dino had always known Roulette liked him, yet Chromia had failed to see the truth behind Autobots' 'Friendships' as always. "Okay femmes, I've had a question to ask a certain femme ever since I met 'him'." Lancer, one of Bulkhead's sisters, looked across to Arcee as the blue scout nearly popped her own optics out of her head. "Please don't." She begged the femme Wrecker, the mechs just sneered as Bulk shuttered his optics hoping his sister wouldn't be embarrassed. "What's Jackie like?"
"Oh my Primus fragging Pit, you like him!?"Arcee growled at the thought of a fragger like him messing up a beautiful femme like her.
"Aw, ya hear the Jackie? Poor o'l cee doesn't like ya mate?" Jolt snickered at the stubborn Wrecker. "Okay, Moonie Loony, you're a go!"
"Alright, I don't have a crush on anyone now, but me and Starcomet used to hangout loads and well we became bond-mates eventually, but then the war came and I never heard of him again." Even before the medical engineer had finished Arcee had already zipped out of the room to get a wasted tin to puke in. "I hope she's alright, Chromia your turn." Dino's smirk turned to a snarl as he glared at Warpath.
"Me and Hotshot were together, but eventually that didn't work-"
"Mmm." Hotshot had to be careful if he wanted to save his aft from Dino's fury.
"And well… Me and Warpath are usually okay when no one's around."
"Oh scrap." Was all Bluestreak said before Dino pounced on the solider, not caring if Warpath was bigger and stronger, and tackled him to the ground. Luckily the weaponed-rookie had earned some friends, otherwise he'd have to explain to a pissed femme why her brother was in the brig, all scarred and bruised up.
It took Sideswipe, Bluestreak, Jolt, Roadbuster, Air raid, Hot rod and Heatwave to drag the angered mech off the poor solider. Before Dino could snarl a warning to Warpath, there was a high pitched squeal of surprise and all the mechs snapped their helms towards the small device.
"Hey! It's cee's turn! Where is she anyway?"
"And Roulette, they're both gone!"
Hey guys, sorry about the wait. Here it is the3rd chapter to 'Sentinel's Prophecy' of Skyfall- The Last Stand. Hope you like it, you can also review it if you want to. Hopefully, I'll have the next one up soon if my Doc manager isn't full!