Disclaimer: I do not own Transformers, they are owned by Hasbro. Aquaformer and Solara are my creations. Scarclash is the creation of and used with permission by GShepherd17 on DA. This is based in the animated universe, but may contain references and characters from other series. This is strictly a fan fic. No flames or harsh comments. Constructive criticisms welcome. Enjoy!
Aquaformer continued on, knowing that Jazz and Prowl were tailing her. She just wanted to be left alone. And sick of having a tail, Aquaformer transformed mid air and then crashed down to earth, landing on her feet, but scaring the oil out of both Prowl and Jazz. Aquaformer was not hurt, but she was sick of having every move watched.
"Why can't I be left alone in peace to think?" asked Aquaformer, frustrated that no one wanted to listen to her.
"Because of the Cons" replied Prowl.
"Because I care about you. Something is bothering you, I can see it" replied Jazz, as both he and Prowl transformed into their bipedal modes.
Aquaformer just sighed; she had so much on her processor that she felt like she could not even fly straight. Prowl and Jazz noticed, but said little as it was not a good idea to piss off this femme, as Jazz had told Prowl the story of when Aquaformer hit Sentinel in the crotch plate due to Sentinel being an aft to Aquaformer, who was and is a high ranking Autobot officer.
"Aqua, tell us what's wrong" asked Prowl, extremely concerned for the femme.
"well, it starts like this…" Aquaformer started out, as she told the two about her life, raising her brother and sister, working with Ratchet when they were younger, and about the dangerous mission that they had assigned her and Scarclash to, the last time Aquaformer had seen Jazz or Solara alive. Aquaformer told about the mix up, and how they had found the real base and how she and Scarclash were the only ones to survive it. Aquaformer, afraid to reveal more in the open, stopped, looked down toward the ground and began to cry, and before Aquaformer could cry too much, Jazz and Prowl were at her side, giving her a hug to show that they supported her.
Meanwhile, as Jazz and Prowl were with Aquaformer, Sentinel was looking around the base and discovered Scarclash in Bumblebee's quarters, talking with Bee. Sentinel was not only surprised to find the femme, he was jealous, as Scarclash had never given Sentinel Prime the time of day, but she would spend hours with a maintenance glitch. Scarclash sensed the presence, changed to her dragon form and growled at Sentinel, protecting Bee. Sentinel ran out of there fast, as Scarclash's fire breath caught the dumbaft on his backside.
And after chasing Sentinel off, Scarclash transformed back to her robot mode and sighed.
"What is wrong, Scar?" asked Bee, curious to see what was eating the femme.
"I am worried about Aquaformer. I know she is a big, strong femme that no one likes to mess with, but under that, she has a spark of True blue. She can be a great big softy and she does not like being chased or tracked down. She learned those tricks way before she met me and she never even told me where she learned them from. She just wants to by an anonymous nurse bot that works for the Autobot cause, but she feels threatened as she just doesn't know who to trust as members of the Cons and even members of her own faction are after her. I mean, how would you feel?" stated Scarclash in the most soothing voice she could muster, though it still came out scathing and femme like.
Bee thought about it for a minute. He remembered being chased, he remembered being hunted down once and he hated it. He looked in Scarclash's optics and realized that she knew he could understand her point. Bee smiled before giving Scarclash a gigantic hug. After the hug, Bee informed Scarclash that she needed to talk to Optimus and Ultra Magnus about what she knew regarding Aquaformer or the hunt would continue. Scarclash, wanting to help her friend agreed and the two went to talk to Optimus and Ultra Magnus, unaware that Sentinel had overheard the conversation and was sending Jetfire and Jetstorm out to find that stubborn aft femme, but was it to find the femme to help the Autobots or himself?
And back in Minnesota, Aquaformer remained in her robot mode, talking with Jazz and Prowl as the three of them were hidden deeply in the wooded area. Aquaformer listened to Jazz as he updated her on the Elite Guard. Aquaformer told Jazz that she suspected that one of the higher ups was corrupt and was giving away valuable information, which is why Aquaformer had decided to leave with Scarclash before the Autobots could divulge the secrets that lay buried within Aquaformer's processors, as it was because of the leak that the Cons were after Scarclash and Aquaformer. Jazz and Prowl looked at Aquaformer, shocked at what she had just said. But before they could get over their shock, Aquaformer transformed and raced off, with Jazz and Prowl close in tow. They realized that she was sensing something, and if she was sensing something and running, that was not good.
High in the sky Jetfire and Jetstorm passed overhead, as they thought they had pinpointed the right area, but they were wrong. And as they landed they saw nothing and sensed no presence in the area. Prowl and Jazz watched as the two twins flew right over them without ever sensing any of the three bots on the road. Prowl and Jazz realized Aquaformer had activated a special weapon. And only now did Jazz and Prowl begin to see how dangerous things were getting for Aquaformer, whose taking offs was not so much a time to think as a cry for help as she was running out of ways to just remain anonymous.
Back at Autobot HQ, Scarclash and Bee began talking with Optimus, Ratchet, and Ultra Magnus. It was only after talking with Scarclash they learned one of a few things: Aquaformer was the one with all the information, Aquaformer felt threatened, and Scarclash told everything she could remember from the failed mission only to realize that the mission had not failed, as Magnus realized that both were lucky to have survived the mission and both held equally important info, it was just due to the fact that Aquaformer was the leader of the mission that she held more key information. And when Ratchet weighed in with his opinion and Bulkhead, who ran in to tell that the Jet twins were gone, told Magnus about the twins being gone that Optimus and Magnus realized that they were going about this all the wrong way.
In the meantime, Megatron did his best to find those two femmes, especially the one who reminded him of himself. There was something precious she had, that much had been revealed to Megatron through his double agent. But the only frustrating part was that Aquaformer was harder to find than any other bot Megatron had ever tried to search for and there was no way Megatron was going to use a bounty hunter, seeing as all the ones he had had still failed to bring him his treacherous SIC. No, Megatron was going to play this one by the book – the Decepticon playbook.