Title: The Wrecker and the Moonlight - part 2
Characters: Wheeljack, Prowl, Jazz
Genre: Romance, Family, Adventure
Description: As their relationship blossomed, Moonlight's eager to become a Wrecker is ruined; Wheeljack had left the Wreckers due to it being returned to Ultra Magnus' command. Moonlight goes on a mission to track the Wrecker, thought to be somewhere on Cybertron for departure of a tour of Space, even risking death. Then she discovers about a battle, so she begins her search...
Medical...
Moonlight and Bulkhead made their leave after a medical team rushed into Heatwave's assistance. After half an hour, a medic approached, and shook his head. Heatwave was gone. But he made a final wish, which Moonlight intended to keep.
Exiting the medical bay, did Moonlight finally break down and begin crying, Bulkhead placed a supportive arm around her shoulder.
"I was told right..." she sobbed. "Decepticons were involved..."
"What do you mean? The Decepticons wasn't suppose to be in that fight..." Bulkhead replied surprised.
Moonlight looked up at the green Wrecker. "I wen to a 'campfire' sit down with my pal Neptune. His dad showed his concerns for Wheeljack, saying they visited the battlefield, and found an injured Decepticon. The Clan planned to take him prisoner for information, but the mech shot himself in the spark chamber to withhold the information. The mech was identified as Tazer, a Decepticon Scout, and they don't travel alone."
"I understand Moon, this is valuable information,."
"But?"
"But from Heatwave's lost, and knowing the Decepticons were at the battle, there are only a number of places Jackie could be. If he were taken prisoner by the Cons, then he would be in their prison, their holding chamber, the space prison, the Nemesis ship, Megatron's base of operations, experiments.."
"Please don't go on!" Moonlight begged. "Let's just gather the pieces together."
Bulkhead nodded, helped the femme to her feet, and they headed away from the building.
Praxus Palace..
"Miss Moonlight is approaching with the Wrecker, do I let them in, sir?" the mech asked.
Prowl looked up from his office desk, going through lots of datapads, nodded to the mech. "Bring them up here, I have to share some news with them."
Jazz looked up from the seat next to Prowl. "Es this 'bout ta telegram?"
Prowl nodded. "I'd hate to be the one to break the news, but it beats being told by the War Office, to be told by family."
The mech entered the room followed by Moonlight and Bulkhead. Prowl beckons to the two seats opposite his desk. The two bots sat down.
"Lock-on, bring some energon for our guests."
"Yes, Lordship."
Prowl turned to the two bots, Jazz kept the datapad to his helm, letting Prowl tell the news, bracing himself for the reactions. "How did it go at medical?"
Bulkhead turned to Moon, who looked back, and both sighed. "The mech was Heatwave."
The datapad moved from Jazz at fast speed, obviously his optics widened from behind his visor, Prowl's optics widened too.
"Heatwave?" Prowl asked. Both bots nodded. "He worked with us, we gave him the education and life he wanted, when he announced he would join the Army, to protect his 'home world and the citizens', were his last words when I last saw him. He was a good mech..." He turned to the bots. "Any updates from him?"
Bulkhead nodded. "He said on the battlefield, he saw a white mech with twin swords take on enemy troops, when Heatwave said he was attacked with the toxic, which he just passed away from a couple of hours ago..."
All the bots in the room bowed their heads to the fallen mech.
Bulkhead continued, "He told us not to worry, coz this mech wasn't near the toxics at the time, but Heatwave added this mech did save him from a few deadly shots from enemy line. Heat's final words were 'Thank the mech who saved me...' He told us that he had seen this same mech engage in a fight with the enemy, before seeing the mech fall, and the opponent flew off. He always believed the mech who saved him was alive."
Prowl nodded from listening to the information, optics turned to his cousin, who was silent the whole time. "I know you went on one of Neptune's camfire visits, any information from them?"
Moonlight looked up, before nodding. "Gears think Decepticons were involved with the fight. Gears said his clan went to the battlefield, and found a mech, known as Tazer, baring the Decepticon insignia, they went to take him prisoner, but the mech shot himself to avoid it..."
"Tazer..." Prowl and Jazz glanced at each other, before Prowl nodded, and Jazz left the room, both speaking through their private comlink, before Prowl relaxed in his seat.
He paused when his datapad screen lit up, with a comlink request from Optimus Prime. Jazz re-entered the room, heads over to the large flatscreen, and powers it on, showing Prime on the screen.
"Jazz informed me on the update," Optimus replied. "We didn't have records of the Decepticons becoming involved with the Battle of Tyga-Pax..."
"I'm only going by what Gears and Heatwave told me... Heatwave was dying... I don't believe he'd lie, sir," Moonlight replied. "My dad has known Gears for ages, I don't think he would either. If Decepticons did go on the battlefield..."
"They obviously wanted to gain something from the fight, or started it." Prime turned away, before looking back and sighed. "We'll get to the bottom of why the Decepticons appeared. I'm afraid you had news to tell them Prowl, I'll leave you with it."
The screen went blank, Jazz leaned against the wall, Prowl sighed, his shoulders raised and lowered, looked at his cousin.
"I'm sorry, Moon."
Moonlight sat forward with worry. "What is it?"
"The War office are dropping the investigation into finding Wheeljack; they're trying to make it believe Wheeljack is..."
"Is what?"
Prowl looked at Jazz, both mechs didn't know how to tell Moon.
"The War Office believe Wheeljack to be KIA."
Both Bulkhead and Moonlight's optics widened, both their mouths dropped open in shock.
"What?!" Moonlight stood up. "He's not! I can feel it! Can't you tell them that?!"
"It's not my decision to make... The War Office are going by an individual witness' statement, that they had seen a mech matching Wheeljack's description to have fought enemy opponents, was shot at with deadly shots, and saw their optics go dark. The witness thought the mech to be offline, and the opponent took off into the air with the mech. The witness found a thin piece of a white wing for a mech. The piece was taken away for examination, identifications and tests narrowed it down to quite a few mechs, along with eye-witness accounts about this mech, and they believe it matches Wheeljack."
"They can do that all they want!" Moonlight raised her voice. "Jackie isn't dead! I can feel it! They got it wrong!"
"The War office judge on eye-witness accounts on the battlefield, and go from there. Due to that evidence, they have ruled his record as 'KIA', and refuse to change it."
Moonlight walked backwards from the room, her processor trying to catch up with what she was being told, but wouldn't believe it. Reaching the door, she opened it, and ran out.
"Moon!" the others called from the room, but she didn't reply.
She made a dash for the front entrance, and out the Palace. Once outside, passing guards who saw her tears, they all called out to her, but she didn't respond, transforming outside the gate and drove off.
Refusing to answer comlink calls and important requests, Prowl comlinked Gazerbeam about the situation, Gazerbeam left his office and headed home, arriving just in time for Moonlight to approach.
"Moon?"
Transforming, she ran past him, to her room, and slammed the door shut, refusing to come out.
I didn't want to believe what I was told... He couldn't be dead... I just knew, I could feel it, Jackie was out there somewhere... and I wouldn't give up to find him. I'd never give up!
-Dream-
Moonlight sat on the rock, and sighed. "Is it true Primus? Is my Wheeljack with you, in the Well of Allsparks? Is he at rest now? Why must I be left here without him?
She glanced at the view of the Sun, and faintly heard water splashing. Approaching the cliffside, she looked down, to see a massive drop down into the sea.
She took a deep breath. "If that is so.. I do not want to live without Jackie.. I can't. I can't leave him alone... I will stay by his side anyway and anytime I can.."
"Don't..."
Moonlight gasped and turned around, to see Wheeljack himself looking at her.
"For me, don't Moonlight. Don't do it."
"I'm sorry Jackie, but I can't live without you anymore."
He ran towards her, but Moon let herself lean over and off the cliffside. He reached out a hand, but his hand went right through hers, like a ghost, and watched her fall.
She saw the rocks approached, and closed her optics. "I'm coming Jackie.."
"ARGH!"
Moonlight shot up awake, checked herself over. "I'm alive!"
Glancing at the time, it was nearly midnight. She had been to visit her cousin 3pm earlier...Arrived home about 5-6pm... she'd been in recharge that whole time?
She noticed a box on her window sill. That wasn't there earlier?
Walking over to the box, a note read 'To keep you from bad dreams, sighed Neptune xxx'.
Opening the box, inside, she paused. It was a Dream catcher. She knew some mechs and femmes suffered from terrible nightmares; maybe this is what she needed to get some descent recharge, to not think of bad things at this time.
Placing it above her berth, she looked up at it, before falling into recharge again.
*tissues for anyone that is sad* I'm not gonna leave you all sad. There is hope next chapter. Please don't be sad.
