Note: Hope you can keep up in this piece. It is one of the major twists in the story.


Reincarnation of the spark, and a few changes

Deeply unconscious and on the verge of stasis-lock, Thundercracker is swept away in vivid dreamscapes standing clearer in his processor than any other dream he has ever had.

"You know I hate you, right?" The words coming from a strained vocalizer is filtering to him through the hazy fog surrounding him, and when Thundercracker finally is able to see his surroundings he finds himself in large and rather prominent quarters.

"Oh, I know that sweety. Why else would I do this to you?" another deep and rumbling voice mocks, the rattling of chains following the statement.

Turning around to locate the owners of the voices he is greeted by the sight of two seekers enjoying themselves on an extremely large berth. One is clearly chained to the berth with heavy chains, making it impossible for the black and purple seeker to move, while the blue and grey seeker is moving with deliberate thrusts between the black legs, pants escaping both vocalizers as they copulate.

::Can't trust 'Warp enough to turn your back on him at any time, even as trinemate and wingmate.:: A commentary voice fills Thundercrackers processor from nowhere and he frowns.

Studying the withering mass of the two seekers on the berth he silently moves closer, embarrassment filling his spark at his perverse curiosity, but then again it isn't like they are even aware of him being there. As he moves so close that he can almost touch the blue wings, he stops shocked. The purple decepticon sigils stands out proudly on the flared wings, but what catches his optics is the two strips along the wing edge, one red and one white. Moving to the head of the berth he leans down and looks into the face of the other, disbelief filling his whole processor as he is unable to process what his optics sees. Even if it isn't a hundred percent match, the blue seeker looks almost identical to him, and with a shudder he realizes that he is face to face with the decepticon warrior Thundercracker.

"Hgn. Fraggit Thundercracker! Harder!" Skywarp growls, fighting in the chains keeping him suspended.

::One more breem and he is going to teleport and place an energon dagger in my back.:: The commentary voice returns in his mind, laughter filling the words and Thundercracker feels sick at the thought of someone finding such violence fun. The laughter just deepens at his feeling of disgust.

But the predicted action doesn't happen, because just then the door to the quarter's opens, and instantly weapons are trained on the door, humming to life as the previous laid back blue seeker trains most of his attention on the intruder; however his thrusts into the other never falter one bit.

When the tricolored frame of a seeker emerge from the door the humming lasers instantly folds back into the blue seeker's arms and his movements into the seeker beneath him stops completely as he gauges the moody tricolored seeker as Starscream simply ignores the both of them to sit down at the console.

"Star?" the blue seeker asks concerned, ignoring the whining from the black and purple seeker beneath him. A moment later Skywarp is free of the chains and on top of the blue and grey seeker, snarling into the other's face, a dagger digging into the thin plating of a blue wing, forcing an enraged roar from the blue seeker.

"'Warp you crazy GLITCH!" is bellowed and an outright brawl between the two seekers commence, Starscream momentarily forgot in the danger the black and purple seeker pose. Deeply shocked Thundercracker rear back from the fighting seekers before they by accident collide with him and discovers him. He sure as the Pit won't survive any encounter with them, of that he is sure. The energon dagger is torn out of the wing and thrown, passing directly through Thundercracker in its travel through the air and imbedding itself into the wall mere inches from Starscreams helm, not even causing the tricolored seeker to react to the danger.

Collapsing on the ground, completely paralyzed Thundercracker stares at the deadly dagger now dug deeply into the wall and his processor is about to seize up completely, not comprehending one bit what is going on. This is the liveliest dream he has ever had, nothing beats it, ever!

A breem later the blue seeker roars furiously as a beaten, broken and submissive Skywarp hangs limply in his servo, roughly forced up against a wall.

::I really hate when he leaves me no choice but doing that. Between a crazy psychopathic glitch and a self-centered, treacherous egomaniac you have little peace.:: the commentary voice adds with a deep exasperated sigh.

The painful yelp escaping Skywarp draws Thundercracker's attention, and his processor still fighting to understand what is going on almost enters overdrive at the sight of the ungentle way the blue seeker brutally ruts into the barely conscious seeker, seeking an outlet for the battle rage still rattling his frame and processor. Appalled he watches the growing pool of energon coating the floor beneath the two seekers, and in disbelief he listens to the growing pain – pleasure tinged sounds escaping the black and purple seeker; it is almost like the seeker likes the treatment.

Then a few breems of rough treatment later Skywarp wails out in clear overload, convulsing in the unforgiving wise grip the blue seeker has on his frame and then finally enters unconsciousness, his systems locking down as self-repair begins to sort out the worst damage. Discarding the stasis-locked black and purple seeker with a grunt the blue seeker withdraws his still erect spike and with a groan forces it behind its cover before turning to the tricolored seeker who hasn't moved one bit during the tussle.

"Star?" the blue seeker gently asks, walking to the console and kneeling in front of the catatonic like seeker. A servo rubbing at a blue leg seems to draw the tricolored seeker out of his trance and with a shudder life enters the red optics.

"TC… You were right, I am a Vision." Starscream croaks devastated, servos rising to cover his face as he completely crumbles in front of his trinemate.

With a deep frown Thundercracker watches the display of the two seekers, not understanding what is so wrong to cause such reaction.

::Visions are breeders.:: the commentary voice explains, ::And I guess Starscream never truly believed in his own coding, believed that it would never really activate in our dysfunctional trine with a Vision turned Order, and an insane Action more inclined to kill his Vision than protect him. And me? I tried to do everything I could to protect him against anything no one else would.:: the voice sighs in defeat before it silences again and Thundercracker is able to return to the scene in front of him where the tricolored seeker is clearly sobbing.

"How do you know Star?" the blue seeker asks, gently caressing a trembling white wing in comfort.

"Can't you scent it?! I'm in heat!" Starscream screeches in disbelief and regrets it the instant the words has left his vocalizer. He has basically given his Order the 'go ahead' to take him, claim him and spark him and warily he glances to gauge the blue seeker's reaction. But his blue trinemate just looks at him with a worried look.

"Great, just great. Best timing ever Primus, why not just kill us now?!" the blue seeker sighs exasperated, finally understanding why Starscream is freaking out. A seeker in heat is a hazard in the air, his systems running higher than usual, draining the seeker to the extremes of his energy. Starscream will not last one cycle in the air, and his concentration will be suffering as well, he will be easy prey to anyone targeting him. And this is happening just a few orns before Megatrons big plan to target Iacon, the most challenging stronghold their enemies still possess.

"Why now TC? Why does it trigger now?" Starscream croaks desperately.

As the blue seeker answers, the rest of the conversation turns muddled to Thundercracker as fog surrounds him from every side and soon the room is gone in a white mist, leaving the explorer to wonder what then happened.

Systems reboots and oh so slowly Thundercracker regains consciousness, the dream following him into the wake world, filling his processor with questions and mysteries.

'I wonder what happened to them?' he muses as he onlines his optics to darkness and remembers everything before he turned unconscious.

"I sparked him, and we went into battle." Is the court answer from the commentary voice, but this time it is different, the voice sounding stronger and inside his helm.

Questioning his own sanity, he can't help responding to the voice in his helm asking 'Did they survive? And the sparkling?' his curiosity definitely piqued.

"I…don't know." Is the only response from the voice and it is clear that it is retreating to somewhere inside his mind, somewhere where he can't reach it and it is a disconcerting feeling to have parts of his own mind inaccessible. Either it doesn't want any more to do with him at the moment, or the memory is simply too painful.

Alone in his own mind without a voice commenting all time Thundercracker contemplates the mysteries he currently experiences. First the dream which he begins to suspect isn't just a dream but a true memory, and then the voice following him out of the dream/memory. And then there is the two stasis-locked seekers resting beneath his prone frame.

With a groan he begins to rise from where he collapsed on top of the two seekers, aware of his larger and heavier frame crushing the already damaged frames of the two seekers. As he slowly moves off of the two frames, the light from his spark fills the room again, but much to his surprise he stares at the light of two other sparks as well. And it isn't the only surprise he realizes after a few kliks; his spark is now pulsing in complete synchronization with the two other sparks.

Then before he even manages to understand completely what has happened, a pair of optics onlines and of course it has to be Skywarp rousing as the first. With a full frame shudder Thundercracker stares down into the scrutinizing optics of the psychopathic seeker and wonders for how much longer he will be alive.

"Star, where is he?" the black and purple seeker asks with a whisper, optics searching the dimly lit surroundings unable to see the tricolored seeker. The calmness of the black and purple seeker unnerves Thundercracker greatly and he is stunned for almost a breem before he collects himself enough to answer.

"Over there." He answers and points with a trembling servo behind the black and purple seeker, waiting for when the attack comes.

But nothing of the sort happens. Skywarp just follows his pointing arm and a sigh of relief then escapes his vocalizer.

"He is okay. He is alive." Thundercracker hears the black and purple mutter barely audible.

"A-Are you okay?" he asks, confused. Maybe the seeker is damaged in his personality components to make him like this.

"Yes. Yes I'm fine. Who are you, if I may ask?" Skywarp then asks, the optics digging into Thundercracker's own, gauging him.

"I- eh. I'm Thundercracker." the blue seeker answers hesitantly, knowing what reaction this might cause and prepares for the attack he knows surely is going to come.

But he isn't prepared for the humorous laughter following his statement and with growing unease he moves away from the black and purple seeker, wishing he was out in the open and not confined in a room with a clearly insane seeker.

"Good one, I must give you that. But everyone knows that Thundercracker is resting in the Sky Mausoleum hovering in the skies high above what remains of Vos! Don't mock his sacred memory! Who are you?!" Skywarp demands deadly serious, any previous humor suddenly completely gone from his features.

"But I am serious. I'm-"He doesn't manage to say any more before a peculiar feeling suffuses his whole being and a strange sense of calm settles in his spark. "Don't fear. Let me handle this." The voice is back in his helm. Then he is no longer in control of his frame, and his awareness is forced into the back of his processor, a spectator in his own frame.

"'Warp." Thundercracker, the decepticon greets his long lost trinemate with a dangerous smile. "Since when did you get blue optics? And even if I am honored that you buried me in the Sky Mausoleum, since when did Megatron grant any of us that privilege instead of being recycled for spare parts?" his voice turning into a deep threatening growl demanding answers.

The sudden change in personality jolts the black and purple seeker and the threatening air around him diffuses completely as shock enters his features.

"TC?" Skywarp whispers reverently, blue optics shining bright with tears threatening to fall.

"Who else you crazy glitch?!" the blue seeker snarls.

"TC! It is you? But how? You are dead; we both felt your death in our sparks!" Skywarp cries out, struggling with his damaged frame to sit up and get a closer look at the frame in front of him.

"Answer my questions first!" the blue seeker orders sternly, instantly erasing the happy smile forming on his trinemate's lips.

"All right, all right, cool your thrusters. Megatron never got his disgusting servos on your frame. Wouldn't let him have you after what he did to you! So, I teleported the three of us from the battlefield when I recovered from the breaking of the trinebond, not that it was easy TC I almost lost us into the void. And honestly it was tempting to just deactivate in there and follow you. But I managed to bring us to Vos and the Sky Mausoleum. We…held a minor rite for you there. I'm…SO sorry TC; can you ever forgive me for abandoning you to such a fate? If I…If I had done my duty as Action you would never have died." Tears fall freely from the blue optics in a steady stream as Skywarps words become mere whispers until they completely die out and the black and purple seeker seems lost in some kind of nightmare, his facial features contorted in deep anguish and a keen unwillingly escapes his vocalizer before he can mute it.

"Hug him for Primus' sake; I can feel your need to comfort him. Don't let your pride hold you back, isn't it clear that he needs it as much as you do?" Thundercracker scolds the blue seeker as the decepticon Thundercracker in the face of all the suffering Skywarp clearly transmits through their renewed trinebond remains silent, unemotional and cold sparked.

Explosive rage greets him and he wisely retreats into the inaccessible parts of the mind, hoping to ease the rage with simply not being there as a sensible presence, a whispered "Sorry." apologizing for his tactless interfering in something he knows nothing about.

Sighing deeply Skywarp visibly gathers himself before he carry on in his explanation, and it is a solemn voice that speaks when he is ready to continue, his optics distant and filled with deep sorrow. "I have never before felt so lost. It took me several orns to really understand and accept that you were truly gone, and would never come back to us. I caught myself in expecting you to enter our quarters every time someone pinged our door, only to be mercilessly reminded of the truth when the one entering wasn't you. It didn't help that Star isolated himself completely in his lab, only returning to the quarters to recharge."

"Then one orn Megatron summoned the both of us to the throne room, and when we arrived he confronted Starscream with the sparkling he knew Star carried. He-…He wanted it terminated. But Star couldn't do it, wouldn't do it. The sparkling was the only thing we had left of you, how could we kill your legacy? So Megatron beat him, and kept beating him until he miscarried, then he threw the both of us into the brig for several vorns, accusing us for treason."

"It almost felt like we spent a life time in the darkness secluded from our treasured sky. Starscream almost went insane, suffering from both the loss of the sparkling and the sky, and the only thing keeping me from careening completely over the edge was the need to care for him and make sure he got the meager rations we were fed. During the worst periods in our imprisonment I talked to him; talked about the good times, the times before the war, before the destruction of Vos and such, trying my best to keep him from giving up completely and start to fade. It was first then I realized how much you had meant for the trine, and how little I had contributed to keep us together. Talk about an optic opener, eh?" Skywarp confess with a weak smile.

"And then it happened. Like sent from Primus the Autobots attacked the stronghold where we were held prisoner and they gave us a choice, deactivate at Megatrons servos or choose to defect. Wasn't much of a choice honestly, rot in the brig or get revenge on the one taking so much from us? Loss can make a mech do some drastic things. So we defected, and between Ratchet and Smokescreen we both healed as much as was possible with the psychological scars suffusing our sparks." Skywarp finishes with a small smile, leaning back and relaxing his damaged frame.

"You became Autobots?!" the blue seeker calmly asks to clarify that he heard right.

"Yeah." Is the relaxed response, Skywarp completely unaware of the brewing storm gathering.

"You became Autobots! AUTOBOTS!" the roar echoes down each corridor of the space ship. The strong hatred filling the blue seeker draws Thundercracker's attention, and as he emerges from his hidey-hole in the processor the destructive feelings rising inside the blue seeker almost chokes him. Trembling he tries to return to safety, but finds himself restrained and unable to flee the dark feelings.

"Well, what would you have had me do TC?! It was either join or die." Skywarp answers agitated, wings hiked high on his back in distress. "Couldn't let him die."

Spark light enlightens black wings and the sight of the red sigils adorning them is like a slap to the blue seeker's face. Turning to the still prone frame of Starscream, white wings reveal the same red sigils, and a roar in denial follows, the decepticon deeply conflicted between killing the two seekers and…hug them.

What a reunion.


Could you keep track of when I mean Thundercracker the explorer and Thundercracker the decepticon? I try to make the name Thundercracker refer to the explorer, unless decepticon is mention with the name, and TC is always Thundercracker the decepticon.

So, what do you think? Two Thundercrackers recipe for disaster?:D