Chapter 3
Back in Jasper
Ligerous lowered her hand to her side. When she had been on the Con ship, they must have put it on her. She had felt it.
'And they did it because Megatron is afraid of me,' Ligerous thought, smiling to herself. Then, she removed the tracker. She started leaking Energon, "I'm fine," she said, noticing that the others were inching closer, "If I can help injured cats, you'd better hope I can help myself," she told them. Most of them understood, but Arrow had a look of confusion on her face. "I was the Healer for the Felicas during my time as a kit. They appoint the smallest as the Healer to avoid injuries to them because they are usually weaker than the others."
"We are going to need a new place to be our base," Optimus said.
"They should've called you Obvious instead of Optimus," Ligerous remarked, "I was thinking about heading for Jasper, Nevada. I know a good place to stay."
"Who were your caretakers?" Arrow asked when they had gotten on the road again.
"Tiger and Lion. They were amazing, why do you ask?" Ligerous replied.
"I just wondered," Arrow responded.
"Well, just so that you know, they were slaughtered by Wolf and Singer," Ligerous hissed back. "And while you're asking, all of my partners were killed by Starscream; Sphinx, Rust, Hummingbird, and Wolf made Cheetah evil. This is a warning, we won't be talking about anyone dead," she said.
Ligerous looked ahead to see Jasper, Nevada the same way she had imagined it from Lion and Tiger's stories, though she knew that unlike them she wasn't made here.
Memories rushed through her as she led the way through the quiet city. They arrived at a vine-covered building. She transformed into her cat-form and snuck through a broken window and opened the front gate. Excitement filled Ligerous as she planned where to put everything.
"Wait, there is something wrong with the scent of the air here," Arrow observed, "There is a human here." Ligerous opened her mouth to let the scents hit the roof of her mouth. Then she changed into a cat and followed the scent to find a young girl hiding behind a large metal crate. The human ran and hid, so Ligerous gave chase.
"You are very tiny. I like to eat tiny humans," Ligerous said when she was within earshot of the girl and Arrow giggled. She shot a glare at Arrow and Arrow was silenced, "I'm out of good ideas, just come out."
"No!" the girl screamed and the other Autobots got closer.
"Fine, but you asked for it," Ligerous said as she transformed and snuck into the small space picking the girl up by her backpack.
"Hey, let go!" the girl said to Ligerous.
"Why? You aren't in charge of me," Ligerous responded.
"But I am, put her down, Ligerous," Optimus commanded. Ligerous folded her ears in disappointment, making the girl even more uncertain.
"Why-" Ligerous started, but Optimus cut her off.
"Explain yourself," he said simply.
"What? Why? I wanted to try I was the one to catch it I should be the one to rip all of the information out of it!" Ligerous said obviously angry, "You don't even know if it can talk! It is organic!"
"You have already talked to me," she pointed out.
"Good job, hot shot," Ligerous responded sarcastically before stepping back.
"Please proceed, we need to know what is going on here," Optimus told the girl.
"This is my home town, and we are all scared. There have been three attacks on us since the crystals fell from the sky. I knew to come here because I saw it in my dreams,"
"Wait, so you're crazy?" Ligerous asked.
"No, I just know something you don't."
"Go on," Ligerous pleaded.
"I know where the Allspark is."