Chapter Nine
Starlight was right, Storm hated the idea of telling Prime that they may have been found out. She instead insisted the light yellow femme try and block them as much as she could, or let either her or Lightning handle him while she took care of the others. She knew it wouldn't last long though, in her spark there was only one outcome. So a couple of weeks later when Storm was out on her weekly patrol and Lightning was with Skyfire she went to see Prime.
"Is there something I can do for you, Starlight?" The Autobot leader asked placing his datapad on the desk.
"I hope so, but I doubt it." She replied taking a seat though she kept her optics firmly glued to his desk.
Optimus waited patiently for her to start seeing how nervous she was. It seemed strange to him that out of the mechs in the Ark he was the one whose company she sort out when her teammates were busy with other things. He was not going to condone her for it though especially since all three femmes were starting to come out of their shells and feel comfortable around the base, felt like they belonged there. He was willing to bet that they hadn't felt like that in a long time.
"I...I-I think he's found me." She finally said still not looking at him.
"Your brother?" The semi asked wanting to clarify what she said, he received a nod in reply. "Has he made any move to contact you?"
"No, Storm won't..." She stopped finally looking up at him a mixture of shock, relief and annoyance on her face. "You knew, didn't you?"
He gave a nod, "it was not hard to see that there was something going on and that Lightning and Storm kept intervening whenever he came close to you."
Starlight was suddenly up out of her chair and walking across the room while half ranting, "I told Storm it wouldn't work. They probably figured it out too, haven't they?" She said turning back to him.
"Probably." Prime replied, which meant that in the next battle either or both of them would point it out and all the femmes would revert into themselves again. He had tried to make his Autobots see who the femmes really were so as not to judge them when the inevitable truth came out but it would take time, a time he didn't seem to have.
The light yellow plane sighed and looked dejectedly down at the floor, "great." She muttered.
Seeing how upset the femme was Optimus walked over to her placing his hands on her shoulders, "it all depends how smart they are." He said joking lightly and hearing her give a small chuckle, he was surprised when the femme suddenly hugged him a minute later. He stared at her in shock for a few moments before giving a soft smile behind his faceplate and returning the hug. It wasn't until Starlight felt arms around her that she realised what she was doing. She was hugging Optimus frigging Prime, fragging leader of the Autobots. She hurriedly pulled out of the embrace, "s-sorry." She apologised and dashed out of the room Optimus stared at his office door for a few moments before he saw a new problem that would arise but it was one that could easily be stopped before it even started. The thing was, he didn't want to stop it, he wanted to see want the outcome would be. He chuckled to himself before going back to his work, halfway across the room a thought suddenly occurred to him and he went out in search of a certain mech instead.
Starscream sat in his trines communal area thinking about all the recent battles they had with the Autobot planes, he had noticed that the white Ocean blue and blue-grey planes were 'protecting' the light yellow one from Skywarp. He had also noticed the black seekers focus was concentrated elsewhere, ever since the Autobot plane's arrival. Could it be that the two knew each other? An evil smirk appeared on his face, if that we're true then he could use that information against them maybe even perhaps have the other Autobots doubt their loyalty. As he thought more about it he began to realise that Thundercracker was also acting a bit odd his smirk grew at the thought of doing even more damage to those annoying Autobot flyers. First, he'd have to find out the truth as to what happened between his trinemates and the flyers.
When Skywarp and Thundercracker entered their communal area they found the air commander grinning like a mad mech.
"What do you think he's planning this time?" Skywarp asked.
"I don't think he's planning anything, I think he figured it out." Thundercracker said.
"Do you think we should tell him?"
"Yes, what exactly have I figured out, Thundercracker?" A voice asked.
"That Warp's sister's alive..." The blue seeker stopped and suddenly looked over at the voice along with Skywarp.
Both of them saw Starscream now staring at them, highly interested in their conversation.
"You never told me you had a sister, Skywarp." Oh this was delightful news, better than he could have hoped for. Skywarp said nothing "could it be that it's because she's an Autobot." He half mocked.
Thundercracker was starting to get worried about his teammate, after years of thinking sister was dead he'd finally found out that she had survived, which was why they never found the bodies, but to find out that she was an Autobot on the same day...he wasn't sure he could handle it. In fact he couldn't, knowing how close Solarflare and Lazer were he was quite sure that one of the other planes was his sister. He'd gone off to scream out his anger and take it out on anything he could, that was when Skywarp had found him and brought him back to base after strangely helping him to calm down.
"No." Skywarp said sternly and forcefully surprising both mechs and having Thundercracker look back at him. "Solarflare died a long time ago. Whoever that femme is she is not my sister."
"I'll take that as a yes." Starscream said bemused and receiving a glare in return. He looked over at Thundercracker "and what's your connection to them?"
Thundercracker looked over at him in shock, how did he find out? "M-my connection?" Cursing himself for stuttering "why would I have any connection with those flyers?" The red seeker was clearly not amused that he seemed to be hiding the fact that he knew one of them well.
The Decepticon second-in-command thought for a moment, he then began listing all the things that the flyers could be trying to trip up the blue seeker. "Ex-lover?" No reaction, he narrowed his optics at his next choice. If it were true he'd slag him himself then hand whatever was left over to Megatron to deal with, "current lover?" Still no reaction, well that was good at least.
"Starscream,"
"Sister?"
"I don..." Thundercracker stopped immediately.
Bingo Starscream thought. "So you both have sisters that are Autobots, delightful." His voice taking on an evil tone as he said the word 'delightful' and a smirk reappearing on his face.
"I told you, Solarflare is dead." Skywarp fumed.
