Chapter Nine

Sky-Byte waited outside of the hanger for Megatron to arrive. He had finally got that annoying jet in his grasp and no one could ruin it, he stood there proudly thinking about all the praise he would get from Megatron when he heard sound of engines approaching, but as he looked out towards the sound he saw that it wasn't Megatron arriving but Optimus, Side Burn and X-Brawn.
What do those blasted Autobots want now, can't they just accept defeat. I won they lost. He growled as they got closer and transformed in front of him.
"You're a little lost aren't you Optimus. There's nothing for you here."

"Cut the crap will you Sky-Byte. We know you have Freespirit as well as Prowl." Side Burn slightly annoyed.

The shark chuckled. "Very perceptive of you Autobot."

"Not really considering the fact that you pulled the same stunt when you captured Side Burn." X-Brawn said.

"What's the matter, Sky-Byte. You running out of new ideas." Optimus said.

"Hey, what going on out here?" Gas Skunk asked as he walked out. "Well well look who it is. You come to beg for your friends back."

"Not on your life, Skunk breath." Side Burn retorted, to which X-Brawn couldn't help but chuckle.

While Optimus, Side Burn and X-Brawn kept the two Predacons busy, Raincloud and Mirage -who were unseen by Sky-Byte when they arrived with Optimus- headed towards the back of the hanger.

"I sure hope this works." Raincloud said quietly to Mirage.

"Trust me."

She peered in from the broken window that Koji had told her and the two Autobot brothers about then turned back to him "They're in there alright. Both sitting against the wall tied by energon chains."

He gave a nod "Could you see the generator?"

She peered in again but quickly ducked back out almost hitting Mirage. "Hide!" she said quietly and urgently.

"What's the matter Dark Scream?" they heard Slapper ask.

"I could have sworn I saw an Autobot looking in at the window." They heard him reply.

"Do you see any?"

Raincloud looked down and saw Dark Scream looking out the window, she tried to press herself more into the side of the hanger then went to glance at Mirage only to find he'd 'disappeared'. Must of transformed and activated his stealth mode, lucky bot. Wish I could do that, it would come in handy right about now.

"No. Guess I was just seeing things."

Raincloud relaxed a little as she saw Dark Scream disappear from the window.

"That was close." A voice said making her gasp in shock.

She looked over and saw Mirage. "Next time give me a little warning before you do that." She said joking slightly.

He gave a small chuckle and peered in the window, he soon pinpointed the generator and targeted it with his weapon. "Get ready." He said to her and fired.


Freespirit watched as Dark Scream went over to the window, he wasn't the only one who thought they saw an Autobot 'appear' there, but of course, she wasn't going to tell them that.
"Prowl." She whispered slightly, still looking at the window.

He looked over at her from watching the hanger doors and saw she was staring at the window.
"Is something wrong?"

"There's someone out there." Just as she said this they heard Slapper ask, "Do you see any?"

Both watched as Dark Scream studied the scenery outside the broken window carefully. The sun was shining and Freespirit thought she saw a shadow of a familiar Autobot. She hoped that Dark Scream wouldn't notice it and looked over at Prowl who gave a nod indicating that he'd seen it too.

"No. Guess I was just seeing things." Replied the flying squirrel and walked back over to the other Predacon.

"Wonder what's keeping Gas Skunk? He was only suppose to see what all the noise was out there." Slapper asked changing the subject as he looked over at the hanger doors.

Suddenly there was a loud explosion, both Predacons jumped and looked over to see the generator had blown up and the two Autobots were free, but before either could say a word two more came through the wall.

"You know it's not nice to take our friends and hold them hostage." Raincloud said slightly amused at their expressions.


Sky-Byte and Gas Skunk jumped upon hearing the loud explosion from within the hanger.

"Sounds like you might be having some trouble in there, Sky-Byte." Optimus said knowing what that sound meant.

"I'd go and see what it is, you never know what could be happening in there." Side Burn said.

Sky-Byte growled slightly. "Gas Skunk, go see what's going on in there." Not wanting to leave the three Autobots alone.

"You got it, Sky-Byte." Disappearing inside the hanger.

"You know you might want to lend them a hand. I hear femmes can be dangerous, especially when they're mad." X-Brawn said half humorously.

Sky-Byte looked at them curiously, What are they up to? I know they're up to something or they wouldn't be here. And what does he by femmes we've only caught the one.

Seeing the curious look Side Burn said, "Don't worry, we'll stay here. We wouldn't want to interrupt." Having a mysterious smile on his face afterwards.

This only served to intrigue Sky-Byte more and he finally decided to see what was going on inside the hanger.

Optimus, Side Burn and X-Brawn stood and waited, hearing sounds of crashes, laser fire and sudden screams of "No more, we surrender! We surrender!" they chuckled.

"Sound like they got the message alright." X-Brawn said smiling behind his faceplate.

"Wonder if there's even anything of them left." Side Burn joked.

The hanger doors opened and out walked a slightly stunned Mirage and Prowl along with two very happy looking femmes.

"I see it was a success." Optimus said as the four walked over to them.

"Oh, you could say that." Raincloud replied.

Freespirit gave a slight chuckle then added, "They won't think of trying to take one of us ever again. I think we made our point clear."

X-Brawn and Side Burn looked amused.
"What happened?" X-Brawn asked slight curiously.

"You don't want to know." Prowl answered.

"Ah come on Bro." Side Burn slightly whined.

"Prowl's right." Mirage said, "You really don't want to know. Just don't get either of those two mad you." Pointing with his thumb over at the two femmes who chuckled at his comment.

Optimus smiled behind his faceplate, "Let's get back to base." He said and transformed.

Everyone followed and were surprised when Freespirit transformed into her car mode instead of her jet mode.

"What?" she asked innocently as she saw the stares "I've had enough of flying today."

There were chuckles and laughter as they all drove off back to base.
A few minutes later Megatron arrived and walked into the hanger, he was slightly surprised to see smoke and debris everywhere and his Predacons lying on the ground in pitiful condition. As he continued to look around he could see no sign of the Autobot jet Sky-Byte said he had captured.
"SKY-BYTE!"