A/N: Thank you for all of you who read the story and even more thanks for those of you who reviewed. The reviews are what keeps me going with this. I'm sorry I didn't update yesterday but I needed to get the rest of my Christmas shopping done. This chapter was fun to write and the plot thickens from here on out. Credit goes to Raven06 for helping me come up with Vapor's name and a small part of this chapter's dialogue. I hope you guys enjoy:)
Disclaimer: I do not own Sunstreaker, Sideswipe, Prowl, Trailblazer, Ironhide, Gears, Hound, Wheeljack or Hot Rod. (Poor me!) I do however, own Socket, Starlight, Sidestriker and VaporTrail.
Starlight walked into the communications department to a round of catcalls and whistles from the few femmes that she worked with.
Socket came up to her. "I trust you recharged well, last night?" she said not even trying to suppress her giggles. Starlight just grinned, not saying anything. "I was meaning to ask you," Socket continued, "if I can borrow Sunstreaker for like one night?"
Starlight laughed. "He'd have to agree to it first."
"But what if you like told him he had to?" Socket countered.
Starlight laughed harder. "Socket, darling. This is Sunstreaker we're talking about. No one can make him do anything unless he wants to. You know that, I know that, frag, even Prime knows that."
Socket couldn't help but laugh at this. "You always go for the feisty ones, dontcha?"
Starlight responded with a grin. "So where's everyone? This meeting should've started by now.."
"What meeting?" the other femme asked sounding perplexed.
"The meeting that you guys called for this morning," Star explained.
"Where'd you hear that? There wasn't any meeting for this morning."
Starlight looked confused. "Then why did VaporTrail come to my quarters last night saying that there was a meeting with the department at 9 this morning?"
Socket looked at her best friend,"Are you sure?"
Starlight glared, "Of course I'm sure. There's nothing wrong with my CPU thanks. And besides, Sunny was right there. He heard the entire thing too."
Socket shrugged, "There's been no one but me in here all morning so far. I haven't even seen VaporTrail since yesterday."
Starlight shrugged and picked up a stack of data pads. "You can have the rest of the orn off if you'd like. I just need to finish a few things then I'm leaving."
Socket grinned, "Thanks, by the way, when do I get to be an aunt?"
Starlight groaned at her friend's question, "If it isn't you harassing me, its Sideswipe. There will be no sparklings for a while, sorry." Socket pouted.
"Well,
if you ever change your mind, I wouldn't mind sparkling-sitting for
you and Mr. Handsome." Socket giggled again.
Starlight looked up, "Socket?"
"Yes?" the red and white femme answered.
"Don't ever call Sunny handsome. You're starting to sound like VaporTrail and that is the last thing I need." Starlight responded going back to her work. Socket just laughed as she walked out.
Sunstreaker on the other hand had just gotten done with his meeting. Actually, this meeting wasn't that bad. It was quite interesting. It appears that Wheeljack, along with the help of Hound had created a device that would create human forms for the Autobots. The forms would remain solid if they stayed within a certain distance of their alt modes. Stretching as he got up, he left the conference room with his brother and headed to the mess hall for another cube of energon. The red twin smirked at his brother knowingly and Sunstreaker tried to ignore it. They got into the mess hall and looked around at all the other Autobots on base getting their first hit of morning energon. Sideswipe came up behind his brother and clapped his back.
"Starlight keep you up late again?" he asked, grinning.
Sunstreaker snorted, "Why do you ask? I know that your sensors picked up what we were doing last night," he said as he grabbed a cube of energon and sipped on it as he sat down.
"Not that it was any of your slaggin' business what me and my spark mate do," he added waiting for the response he knew was coming.
"You bonded with Starlight?" Sideswipe asked grinning. Before Sunstreaker could respond TrailBlazer, who'd been sitting across from Sideswipe stood up. "Starlight's officially off the market guys," he announced in a rather loud, obnoxious voice. A chorus of "Awwws" erupted throughout the room.
"Frag, she was one of the prettier femmes on base too," Gears piped in.
"So when should we expect sparklings, Sunny?" Hot Rod came up to his friend and clapped him on the back.
"Hey, watch the paint you slagger!" Sunstreaker exclaimed trying to examine his paint job.
"As for sparklings," he murmured, "you'd have to ask Starlight that. I don't think neither she nor I are ready for them at this point."
Sideswipe turned to his brother pouting. "You mean I don't get to be an uncle?"
"Not at the moment, no," Sunstreaker replied.
"Thank god," someone said from behind them.
The twins turned around and saw the base's resident tactician with a relieved smiled on his face. "The last thing I need is to have my circuits shorted out by your spawn."
Sunstreaker smirked,"and here I was thinking that you liked Star."
Prowl looked mildly amused. "I do like Starlight, and I'm sure she'd make wonderful sparklings. You, on the other hand, I'm not sure about." He turned and looked at a grinning Sideswipe. "And anything even remotely related to him, is out of the question."
Sideswipe piped up, "Hey! I resent that. I've been good recently. Ironhide is still his natural color isn't he?"
"Thank Primus for small pleasures," Mr. Trigger Happy said coming up to stand beside Prowl.
"Hey Vapor," one of the mechs in the corner called out towards the doorway to the mess hall.
Sunstreaker's head turned to look in that direction and sure enough there was the femme. She looked around and started walking in his direction after she'd gotten a cube of energon.
"Is this seat taken?" she purred to the mech as she sat down without waiting for his response.
"Aren't you supposed to be in a meeting?" the yellow twin said, looking up from his energon cube.
"It was canceled," she said simply.
Sunstreaker's optics dimmed slightly as he commed his sparkmate. A minute later his optics returned to normal as he got up.
"Where ya headed?" his twin asked.
"To see my sparkmate," he grinned, "anyone want to join me?" Sideswipe stood up and so did Prowl.
"I need to talk to her for a minute about the security system status," the tactician explained.
Sunstreaker nodded and the three of them headed out of the mess hall and down the winding corridors to the communications sector.
A few minutes later they got to the gigantic double doors of the communications unit. One of the doors was opened wide. The three of them peered into the room and found Star by herself at her desk looking over a data pad with her back towards them. She smiled to herself as she picked up their energy readings on her scanner. She didn't have to guess who they were. She were too close with the three of them than any other mechs on base and it was easy to know when they were around.
Sunny and Sides had been the two first mechs that had taken a liking to her and that she'd become friends with when she started to work here on base. Her and Prowl went way back. He'd known her since she was a sparkling practically. Prowl and her brother Sidestriker, were in the Academy training together before the war broke out back on Cybertron. Her brother had gotten deployed from Iacon to Galaxus and was killed a few weeks later in an attack by the Decepticons that resulted in the building being bombed. Prowl had been with 'Striker when he died and the tactician had promised his friend that he would take care of his sister. He'd so far kept his promise and Starlight had become much like a little sister to him. A little sister that he never had. He was pretty sure that there was nothing that he wouldn't do for the silver and pink femme.
"Well, if it isn't my three favorite mechs in the whole universe!" she said happily as she turned her chair around to face the three mechs who returned her grin with their own.
She turned her attention to the black and white bot as they came in, Sideswipe closing the door behind him.
"I was wondering when you'd come say hi and tell me you're alright!" she said getting out of her seat and standing on her tiptoes to give him a hug. The tactician returned the gesture and gave her a light kiss on her cheek.
"I was going to," Prowl said grinning. "But word around the base was that you were extremely busy last orn." With that he cast a grin in Sunstreaker's direction and then looked back at Starlight.
"You told him," Star said accusingly to her sparkmate. "Who else did you tell?"
"Well, actually, it was only supposed to be Sides but then Blazer heard and he decided to announce it to the entire room, so the answer to your question would be..everyone," Sunstreaker said.
Starlight dropped her head to her desk with a soft thud. Raising it, she looked at the three of them, "I swear, nothing gets kept a secret in this base. You mechs are worse than a bunch of gossiping femmes."
"You mean the ones that work in this department?" Prowl murmured.
"Precisely," Starlight laughed.
Sunstreaker sat himself on the corner of Star's desk while Prowl sat on the window ledge, and Sideswipe pulled up a chair from the corner and straddled it.
"Got the day off from throttling the 'Cons I see," Starlight murmured as she got some of the junk off of her desk to make a little more room for Sunny.
"So," Sunny murmured, "your meeting was canceled?"
Starlight looked up at this. "Apparently there was no meeting this morning," she told him
"But, she said there was," Sunstreaker replied.
"Who said what?" Sideswipe responded.
"VaporTrail, came by my quarters--" She was cut off by the red twin.
"Vapor-who?"
"VaporTrail, she's a new femme on base, and she works well..for me," Star said.
"The same one from earlier in the mess hall," Sunstreaker explained to his brother. "Have you met her, yet?" 'Streaker asked turning to the tactician. Prowl shook his head no and turned to Star.
"She came by your quarters?"
"Yeah, yesterday," she responded. "she said that she had to tell me that there was a meeting scheduled for 9:00 this morning, but when I got in here Socket said that there wasn't."
"Maybe she got the days messed up?" Prowl asked shrugging.
"Its a possibility," Starlight responded.
As if on cue, a knock came from the door of Starlight's office. "Come in," she called out. The door opened and VaporTrail poked her head in.
"Hey Star," she says before noticing the three mechs in the room. "Oh," she says blushing as her gaze settled on Sunstreaker. "I can come back if you'd like."
"No, its alright," Star responded. "What did you need?"
"I finished that data pad and you told me you needed to see the figures for it when I was done," she replied.
"Let me have it," Star said and Vapor walked over and handed her it. Vapor turned to Sideswipe and Prowl.
"I don't believe I've met you two handsome mechs yet," she said looking at them sweetly. Neither were impressed.
"Name's Sideswipe," the red terror responded. "His brother and the base's other resident assassin," he said pointing at Sunstreaker. She nodded and looked at Prowl.
"I"m Prowl, resident tactician, second in command and," he said. "Her brother," he said pointing to Starlight.
"And I know who you are handsome," she purred at Sunstreaker and he thought he would've involuntarily purged his insides.
When she turned to go she pretended to trip. As she stumbled forward, she felt a pair of strong arms catch her. She opened her optics and found herself looking up at Sunstreaker.
"Sorry," she said purring at him.
He rolled his optics and let go of her as she collected herself. Starlight resisted the urge to throw the data pad at the femme's head.
"You can have the rest of the orn off," Starlight responded as Vapor walked out. When she closed the door, Starlight picked up the data pad and threw it at Sunstreaker, hitting him smack dab in the back of his processor.
"Owww! What the frag was that for?" the yellow warrior whined.
"That," she explained, "was for falling for the oldest slagging trick in the book."
"Well, what was I supposed to do? Let her fall?" Sunstreaker questioned.
"Yes," came the immediate reply from Starlight.
"Wow, somebody's a mean femme today," Prowl said smirking.
"Oh, can it, Prowlie," she murmured at the tactician who just smiled innocently at her.
"Wait a slagging minute here," Sideswipe interjected, "How come she gets to call you Prowlie and when we do, we get time in the brig?"
"She's my sister," Prowl responded like the answer should've been more than obvious.
"Not technically," Sunstreaker murmured.
"Yeah, but I'd offline myself before putting her in the brig of my own free will," Prowl laughed.
"Okay, can we stop talking about me like I'm not here?" Starlight laughed. "Anyways, what's this I heard about holomatter generator?"
"Slag, word gets around fast in this base," Prowl replied.
Starlight smirked, "Just as I was saying this morning, boys. Speaking of, when do we get to go try it out?"
Prowl smiled and subspaced a cartridge. "That's what I came here for. The program is loaded unto this disk."
Sideswipe perked up, "I thought you said that you needed to talk to her about some security system."
Prowl cracked a small, rare smile. "I may have told one small tiny lie."
"I never thought I'd live to see the day..." Sunstreaker said causing the three mechs to laugh.
Star took the disk and inserted it into the offices main computer. "Hmm, looks simple enough,"she murmured typing in a few commands to the computer. A minute later a projection appeared. It was that of a young woman, about twenty, with long black hair and reddish highlights. She had green eyes, full pouty lips, very well structured cheekbones, and tanned skin. A slim, five foot tall figure that was evenly proportioned completed the hologram. At present she was wearing a pair of black tight hip hugger flared jeans and a silver fairly low cut spaghetti strapped top with silver ribbon under the cleavage that shimmered in the light. The holo-Star looked at the three of them, "Well, what do you think?" she asked smiling playfully.
"Wow..I'm bonded to...to that..err...I mean her?" Sunstreaker asked no one in particular.
"If you don't want her, I'll certainly take her," Sideswipe commented which earned him a slap from his brother.
Prowl, always being a gentleman, smiled at her. "You look absolutely beautiful Star," he murmured smiling appreciatively.
"Thank you," she murmured returning the smile. "Now who's next?"
"Might as well," Sunny smirked as he stepped up to the computer and typed in his preferences. A minute later his holoform appeared. It was that of a tall man, standing around 6'1'', about in his mid twenties, with spiky brownish hair with blonde highlights. Piercing blue eyes sat below perfectly sculpted eyebrows. His face head a strong jaw and luscious lips. His arms were quite toned and muscular with his skin being tanned lightly. He wore a pair of light blue stone wash jeans with a black leather belt. On his feet he wore a pair of slightly dressy shoes. His shirt, Starlight did a double take and blushed. Her sparkmate, or at least his holo form was wearing no shirt. He had a very defined six pack for a stomach and a well developed chest and broad muscular shoulders. Starlight smiled as she saw the Autobot symbol tattooed on the right side of his chest just to the side of where his spark was supposed to be. She walked around him in a circle. On his back across the top, had the words built for speed tattooed there. "Very nice, lover," she murmured at him.
"I try, love," he said cheekily.
"Except for one thing," Starlight murmured. She went over to the computer and punched in something. A second later a tight black tshirt appeared on her spark mate as she turned to him grinning. "Much better," she smiled.
"Lemme try," Sideswipe said stepping up to the computer. Going through the same process Sunstreaker did, his holo form appeared. It was very much like Sunstreaker's, except Sides had red highlights in his hair instead of brown and wore a black t-shirt with his faded blue jeans. His body was identical to Sunstreaker's, tattoos and all.
"I guess you're up now, Prowlie," Starlight giggled.
Prowl nodded and approached the computer. A minute later his holoform appeared. A man about in his late twenties, Prowl's holoform had black hair that was spiked up. He wore a tight black t-shirt and tight black flared jeans and the same shoes and the Twins wore. His skin was tanned and had that rugged look about him. He was built extremely nicely and all his muscles were outlined in that tight black button down shirt that he wore tucked into his pants neatly. He had the Autobot symbol on the back of his neck and the words to serve and protect running along the top of his back.
"Very nice, Prowlie," Starlight murmured and Prowl nodded politely. His holoform vanished however and his optics dimmed as he was being commed. A second later they returned to normal and he turned to Star.
"I'm going to have to cut this short," he explained, "the scanners have picked up something entering the atmosphere and heading in this direction. I'll keep you guys posted," he said before turning and exiting Star's office.
A/N: Yep, cliff-hanger. And , wow! I think that this was by far, my longest chapter yet. I had a lot of fun coming up with their holoforms and I hope you guys like what I chose. As always thank you guys so much for reading and if you guys have any suggestions or things you want to see in the story, let me know. Other than that thanks for reading again and please leave me a nice review. ---Mrs. Sunstreaker
