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They heard footsteps shortly afterwards, looking over towards the sound, they could see that Scavenger had just walked in.

"Hey Scavenger," Rad greeted.

Scavenger nodded at them, going over to the dispenser and pouring himself a very generous cube. He then stomped over to a table, drinking his cube as he went. Sitting down and wiping his mouth with the back of his hand, he said.

"If you kids are up for it, we need to get some blaster training in."

"Sure! I'm up for some training." Rad exclaimed with a grin.

"Dude, me too! I want to be able to help you guys out on Mini-Con hunts!" Carlos said in agreement.

Scavenger smiled and said. "I dunno about hunts yet but you can definitely train for them. At the next hunt, you should watch the Decepticons carefully, learn how they fight and work out how you can avoid being defeated by them."

"Sounds like a plan, but wouldn't the Decepticons automatically detect us if we're within their range though? How would we be able to keep low and hidden while we observe their moves?" Rad couldn't help but question.

Alexis kept quiet as she listened, she wasn't clearly as interested as the boys were too much about fighting. A part of her wanted to help fight the Decepticons while the other part told her to keep out of their sight.

She just couldn't bear if any of the Decepticons spotted her and started asking if they could marry her. Even though she could just say no, it would just be so weird and awkward, how could she fight someone who wanted to marry her?

"I was meaning from the base," Scavenger said in answer to Rad's question. "Use Laserbeak to film the Decepticons, the Cons won't question your absence or suspect anything if Laserbeak captures images of them."

"Oh... Right," Rad sheepishly laughed, placing his hand behind his helm.

"Oh yeah! I wonder what happened to Laserbeak... I remember last time he was still outside when we saw Sideways and then... Errr..." Carlos said, trying to remember.

"Don't worry, he came back with us," Scavenger assured them. "He automatically attaches himself to one of us if there's trouble so he's not left behind."

It wasn't long before one of them caught Laserbeak flying about before landing on the table the kids sat at.

"Oh wow, Laserbeak looks so much adorable now that he looks much smaller." Alexis says as the miniature triple changer folded his little wings, walking about on the table.

The little bot made a slight chirping noise, making Alexis almost squeal with delight. Reaching out to pet him, she giggled as he nudged against her hand.

"He wants you to feed him," Hoist advised. "Now that your transformers, you can easily fed the little rascal some titbits."

"Where would his Energon be kept?" Rad asked curiously.

"There's a special Minicon dispenser over there," Scavenger said, pointing. "Their Energon is suitable for him, but you can press a special button that will convert it into little crystal pieces you can give him."

Hearing this, Laserbeak unfolded his wings and took off, flying towards the dispenser. Alexis stood up and looked at the buttons, finding the special one which had a small image of a little crystal shard which meant it was Laserbeak's Energon. Pressing it, the machine produced a small short cylinder shaped 'cube', soon being filled with the little energon crystals as Laserbeak landed near the dispenser, eagerly waiting to be fed.

"Here you go," she said happily, offering him a little crystal which he eagerly took and crunched up.

The boys also watched with grins as she fed their special friend Energon crystals. At one point, Alexis couldn't resist trying one, it was nice and crunchy. Laserbeak chirped indignantly and she quickly apologised with a giggle.

"I won't take any more," she promised as she gave him another piece.

"You three about ready for some blaster training?" Scavenger asked with a soft chuckle.

"You bet, Scavenger!" Rad replied as he and Carlos turned around, the motorcycle himself nodding in agreement.

"Me too," Alexis added, still feeding Laserbeak who was cheeping with contentment. She gave him another pat on the head, he was so cute like this.

Nodding, Scavenger first finished his cube. When the old war veteran was done, he told them to come to the training room. Hoist excused himself as he needed to get some work done before retiring to his quarters.

"We won't have a long session," the veteran said as he headed for the exit. "It's getting late and you kids will need to have your recharge. But we can have a quick session going over the basics."

"That sounds like a good idea, I am getting pretty tired," Alexis says, slightly yawning as she leaves Laserbeak to finish the rest of his dish, she and the other two followed Scavenger out of the Rec room and towards the direction of the Training Room.

"Don't worry, it won't be long," Scavenger assured them.

Once they were in the training room, he shoved them some simple blasters and how they worked. They all held one so they could test the weight and learn how to aim properly. He then indicated a target and shot at it using his own blaster.

"Ladies first," Rad and Carlos said as they took a step back. She looked at her two friends for a moment then turned to face the target; she took aim at the target and fired her blaster. Because she had not shot a projectile weapon before that resembled a firearm, the recoil felt rather strong for her, but managed to hit the target but not exactly on the bull's-eye.

"Not bad," Scavenger said with a nod. "But watch out for that recoil, you don't want to fall over in battle."

"Got it..." Alexis nodded sheepishly, stepping back to let her two friends have a go, Carlos stepping up next.

He gripped the blaster, trying to hold it so it wouldn't recoil and took careful aim of the target. He fired and while it wasn't a bull's-eye, it was still pretty good. He grinned with pleasure at his shot.

"Nice shot, Carlos!" Rad exclaimed.

"Thanks Rad, it's your turn now!" Carlos beamed as he stepped back while Rad stepped up to take his turn.

"You can do it man," Carlos encouraged as Rad also aimed carefully, wanting to be good at this.

~Focus... Need to focus...~ Rad thought to himself, taking his time to aim. ~Concentrate... Then squeeze the trigger...~

Scavenger can see that Rad is in deep focus, taking his time to fire. He gave a small smile; perhaps Rad would be more suitable as a sniper.

Finally, Rad fired off a shot and it was a near dead hit, only an inch or so from a perfect bull's-eye. Carlos and Alexis cheered and clapped him on the back as Scavenger smiled approvingly.

"Mmm, you all did very good. Dragster, I believe that you would be more suited for being a sniper. Blurr can teach you about being a sniper if you choose to be so. Wildracer and Sundancer, you both did great as well. But now, I think it's time that you three get to recharging, it's very late." Scavenger said, the construction loader gave off a big yawn which made the three giggle, knowing how he is when he's very tired.

"Away you go," he said, shooing them away and they left, still snickering.

"We're probably lucky he didn't fall asleep on us," Carlos whispered, trying not to burst into laughter.

"Yeah, those loud snores from before when we first encountered him sleeping...Priceless...!" Rad was nearing to bursting into harsh fits of laughter.

"We'd better go before he hears," Alexis giggled and they rushed away. As they walked, a thought struck Alexis. "Where are we going to sleep, we're too big for our beds now."

"Oh yeah," Carlos said with a frown. "We'll need to ask Optimus or someone where we're sleeping."

"Yeah, let's go ask Optimus hopefully if he isn't sleeping- Err... Recharging I mean." Rad said.

"Oh boy, I don't fancy disturbing him," Carlos said with an exhale of air. "My dad always got really grumpy if he was disturbed."

"We'll just see if he's still at the Command Centre, he often likes to spend his time there. If he's not there, we could see if anyone else would show us where we can sleep," Rad suggested.

"Cool," Carlos said as Alexis nodded. They walked along to the Command Centre, very hopeful that Optimus would be there as they were starting to get quite tired. Even though they'd refuelled, they were still in need of recharge after such an eventful day.

As they reached the Command Centre, Optimus wasn't there but surprisingly Blurr was, he was overlooking a couple visual images of a few various places of Earth with his Mini-Con Incinerator. The little Mini-Con beeped as he saw the three Transformers walk in, Blurr looking over at his partner then at the others.

"Dragster, Wildracer, Sundancer...," His optics looking in the direction of each of them as he called out their names softly. "Do you need help with anything?" Blurr asked, his tone seeming cold and emotionless but it was how he was. At least he was also trying to open up more to the others.

"Um, we were wondering where we were going to recharge," Alexis explained. "We won't be able to sleep in our old rooms; it doesn't have any transformer sized berths."

"Hmm... I know a couple quarters open, I'll take you to them." The sharpshooter turned off the visual screens as he directed them to follow him. They walked along a couple corridors until when they got to the specific corridor with doors leading to all sorts of quarters. Blurr came up to one of them and pressed in a keypad code, opening one of them. "Here is one, it's... Bare... But better than to recharge on the floor or elsewhere... One of you can take this one, I know a few more but they are in other spots." He said.

"Thanks," they said gratefully before glancing at each other.

"I'll take it if you guys are okay with that," Carlos said and his friends nodded. They could always work out something different the next day.

Rad and Alexis bid Carlos goodnight as the sliding door closed. Blurr then continued on without a word, looking for another empty quarters silently. The two followed as they came to yet another door that's an empty quarters. With the keypad codes typed in, the sliding door slid open. "Here's another," Blurr said silently.

This one was also bare, the Autobot obviously hadn't bothered to do up any rooms no one was sleeping in. Looking at Rad, Alexis said.

"Could I have this one?"

"Sure," Rad said with a smile, seeing how tired she was.

"Thanks," Alexis said softly as she entered, bidding both Blurr and Rad good night as the door slid to a close softly. Blurr simply hadn't said another word as he continued onto the next and final room for Rad. Luckily the walk wasn't too long, having come to another set of quarters as Blurr typed in the keypad code for the final one, slowly sliding open. "Here, Dragster," The blue and orange bot said.

"Thanks Blurr," Rad said tiredly. "I can't believe how tired I am."

"Get used to it kid, you'll be exhausted if you start training against the Cons," Blurr warned him.

"Yeah...Yeah...Thanks, goodnight," Rad entered his chosen room as the door slid to a close. Blurr left without a word as he softly marched back to what he was doing previously, he would go at it for a bit longer before retiring to his own quarters.

Rad yawned, slowly walking over to his berth and sitting down. He missed his old comfy bed but the berth wasn't too bad. It had a sort of metal mesh on the top, proving a bit of comfort and support. He hoped Alexis had a good bed; those wings of hers would need a lot of support.

The Decepticons' Base:

Megatron sat on his throne, brooding over the day's events. They may have gotten the Minicon but Megatron did not like what had happened with Sideways at all. Sure, the attack had been directed at the Autobots but who's to say that the traitor wouldn't try something with the Decepticons.

~Hmm...~ He thought to himself, thinking would it be possible that those orbs have turned the kids into something similar as to what would happen to the Autobots...? The Decepticon Leader shook his head, it sounded impossible, completely impossible as those orbs would perhaps have a more different effect on other life beings... Yes... It would be a possibility those orbs would have obliterated them. ~Whatever Sideways is up to, I will not allow the same tricks to be pulled on my men and I.~

If there was the slightest hint of any funny business, he would destroy Sideways and anything he might be pulling. No one messed with him, no one. Looking up, he saw Starscream entering the room and said. "Anything on the scanners?"

"No, sir," The Seeker simply replied. "Everything's silent for the time being." Like Megatron, he was also bothered by the light... Just what could have happened exactly? If they didn't hit the Autobots but instead got the Humans... He hadn't cared yet to him, he felt something was really off and out of place.

"Sir...what does it mean?" he questioned. "What could those orbs have done to those humans?"

"I do not know Starscream," Megatron said with a scowl, he hated not knowing. "I suppose I shall have to ask Optimus next time I see him."

The confusion had also left the others wondering what exactly was going on. Well, perhaps except Tidal Wave, he hadn't cared about anything except only whenever Megatron required his strength and power. Megatron hoped that when the next hunt commences, he will get the chance to ask Optimus directly when confronting him in battle. ~I WILL find out one way or another...~ He growled in his thoughts.

~No matter what might have happened to those little brats, they will not escape my wrath, I will have my revenge. There are consequences for defying me~

Starscream studied his leader for a moment, seeming to be lost completely in thought but he never could read what Megatron is clearly thinking. Shrugging it aside mentally, he dismissed himself as he left the room.

Megatron barely watched him go; he was too absorbed in his thoughts. He yearned for another hunt, if one came now, he would not complain despite the fact it had only been a few joors since the last one. But that was what he lived for, the hunt, the fight and the victory. War could offer you a lot of prizes, power, property, respect, credits and Femmes.

His urge for talking to Optimus about what happened on the previous hunt was gnawing at him, though while he hadn't care for the time, he knew that his enemy would be currently in recharge, along with his Autobots. Then again, his own men are also recharging. Grumbling dreadfully, the only thing he could do now is simply wait it out... At the same time, recharge slowly fell upon him.

The Autobot base

Alexis stirred and groaned as she woke up. Her back was feeling very stiff and her wings were killing her. She moaned as she sat up, wriggling and trying to stretch the stiffness out of her back. She definitely needed some extra padding on this berth or she wouldn't be able to recharge properly.

"Well... That wasn't a great first experience," Alexis groaned, recharging felt very different from sleeping... But at least she wasn't feeling tired anymore, though perhaps she could need adjustments for her berth, at least to have more room for her wings at least.

"Hmm, maybe Jetfire could help me," she mused, surely a fellow flier would be the best person to ask? Oh well, it was breakfast time.

Slowly, she got up, before she could head towards the door, a small data pad was on one of the shelves... Did someone come in here? Curiously, she picked up the data pad which was typed by Blurr, telling her of the key codes to her room. "Ah, this will be useful," She murmured to herself, afterwards heading towards the door, pressing a button to make it open as she takes her leave out, heading to the rec room. ~I suppose the boys have already awakened by now or are still recharging. Only one way to find out once I get some Energon...~ She thought.

She knew the base well enough to find the main corridor and head right to the Rec Room. When she got there, she found Optimus already sitting at a table with a cube and appeared to be reading a data pad. With a smile, she headed over to him as he looked up and smiled.

"Sundancer, how are you doing?"

"Alright, my wings are a little stiff," she said ruefully.

"I'm sorry that your first experience recharging did not go too well... Maybe perhaps we could do some adjustments to your berth to hopefully ease the stiffness," The Autobot Leader said sorrowfully. "Why don't you go ahead and grab a cube, then we can speak some more," he kindly suggested.

"Yeah," she said with a nod, quickly heading for a dispenser and pouring how a generous cube of it. Taking a gulp, she moved near to where Optimus was and asked.

"If there anything happening today?"

"So far it has been quiet," He said. "We are waiting patiently for when the next hunt begins, also Scavenger will want you, Dragster, and Wildracer to train later on within a joor or two."

"Right," she said with a nod before adding. "Scavenger said we should study the Decepticons before we come along on a hunt.

"That's a good idea," Optimus said approvingly. "You three need to be very prepared before you can face them. The Decepticons might be surprised at first but they will get over it and it is likely that they will target you all."

"Yeah... They are also pretty skilled too... For many, many years..." Alexis frowned as she looked at her cube, however her attention was directed at the corridors that lead to the Autobots' quarters, Rad and Carlos were racing into the rec room while SideSwipe and Blurr had to quickly get out of the way.

"Whoa!" SideSwipe yelped in surprise while Blurr, in a swift movement, got out of their way quickly, Alexis wondered somewhat if that could be why the orange and blue Autobot got his name.

"I won!" Carlos exclaimed in bursts of laughter as Rad spoke, also laughing. "No no, I won."

~Boys...~ Alexis thought to herself, sighing as she sipped her cube.

"Whoa, where's the fire?" Sideswipe asked in a rather stupefied way as Blurr shook his head before sloping off to get some Energon for himself.

"Hi Alexis," Carlos greeted, rushing over to her along with Rad. "How are you doing?"

"Alright," she said with a smile. "You look like you had a good night's sleep."

"You bet, how about yourself?" Rad replied, asking in return. The two went on over to get their cube, they were still in hearing range... Well audio receptor range at least.

"Could have been better," she admitted with a sigh. "My wings were pretty uncomfortable, I only just managed to fall into recharge."

"Oh man, you outta do something about getting more comfortable..." Carlos replied, taking his seat with both Alexis and Optimus, quickly looking at the Autobot Leader. "How's it goin' Optimus?" He asked with a grin.

"Very well, thank you Wildracer," Optimus acknowledged with a chuckle. "I'm just going over some reports I recieved from Cybertron."

"Oh, sweet!" He replied with a grin as Rad took his seat next to him. Though he had to back his seat up just a bit because of how bulky his build is, unable to fully fit comfortably at the table.

"Urgh, this is weird," Rad said, he'd never been a stocky boy but as a bot, he was. He wasn't massive but he was definitely a bit wider than he had been before.

"You alright man?" Carlos questioned and Rad sighed. "Yeah, just getting used to my new body."

"Hmm, we'll need to adjust some of the rec room furniture for you, Dragster if you're having any trouble," Optimus simply said as he sipped his cube.

"Yeah," Rad said, a little embarrassed about that.

"Not a problem, we try to make sure things are suitable and comfortable for everyone, here." Optimus said kindly, smiling.

Jetfire's voice came through Optimus' comm. /Optimus, you have a call, it's private so no idea if it's from Cybertron or any of the other planets./ The Space Shuttle said.

/Hmm, thank you Jetfire/ Optimus replied over the comm. /I will be there in just a few moments. I believe Sundancer wishes to talk to you about making her berth more comfy for her wings/

-/Oh? Have her come see me whenever she's ready, by now I think she's refueling along with the others, isn't she?/ Jetfire replied.

-/Will do, Jetfire./ Optimus acknowledged as the comm link was cut. "My apologies Sundancer, Wildracer, and Dragster, I must answer this private call. Alexis, see Jetfire whenever you are ready, alright?"

Sundancer gave him a nod as the Autobot Leader got up, excusing himself politely as he took his leave in the direction of the Command Centre.

He was curious about this call, was it one of his commanders calling in? Perhaps Ultra Magnus or Prowl needed to get in touch with him. He only hoped the Decepticons hadn't overrun one of their territories, that would be a disaster.

He found Jetfire standing by the Command Centre. As Optimus came up to the main screen, Jetfire showed him which call was it, which showed marked as 'Unknown Location'... Strange how this one did not state Cybertron... Either way, he answered the call.

He got a big surprise when he saw just who was calling.

"Optimus," came the deep voice of his nemesis. "I see your up bright and early as always."

"As the same for you," Optimus replied grimly, he began asking. "Why are you calling us?"

Megatron offered him a tight smile before asking.

"I want to know what Sideways's plan was...and how it affected those little brats you call charges."

"They're none of your concern, Megatron... Sideways' plan hasn't done anything to them..." The Autobot Leader said in defense of his charges. "I don't see why you would take an interest and ask me of this."

"I take an interest in anything that could affect my men and our mission here," Megatron growled. "And you can't tell me that Sideways plan did nothing to those little punks, I saw their bodies absorbing those orbs."

Jetfire shook slightly in rage silently as Optimus replied. "Even if so, nothing had happened to them, those orbs had no side effects on humans if they were meant for us."

Without thinking, Jetfire blindly started adding. "Yeah, it's not like they've been turned into transfo—

"JETFIRE!" Optimus snapped as the Space Shuttle flinched in startle, backing away as he shuts himself up.

"What was that?" Megatron demanded, instantly latching on to the Shuttle's mistake. "What did he say?"

"It's nothing Megatron," Optimus stated coldly, giving Jetfire a warning look.

Narrowing his optics, Megatron growled.

"I will know sooner or later Oprimus, you can't keep them hidden in your base forever."

The call was cut, Optimus gave a heavy sigh as Megatron was right...

"Sorry, Prime... Seeing Megatron's face made me real mad... I just don't get why he would bother to call us... Of all fellow Transformers, us..." Jetfire sighed in defeat.

"Anything that captures his attention, he won't let up until he knows everything about it," Optimus sighed, wishing his nemesis wasn't so single minded.

"So...what are we going to do?" Jetfire asked softly.

"I don't know but Megatron is right, we can't keep the kids locked up forever," Optimus said heavily.

I have a bad feeling about what's going to happen if the 'Cons do end up taking sight of them... I think," Jetfire said ruefully. "We're going to need to train Sundancer, Dragster, and Wildracer as much as we can."

"That we do," Optimus said grimly, turning away from the computer screen and marching out of the room. "And we'd better start now, before another Minicon hunt comes up. Kids need us when their training, they'll learn faster."

The three were in a room where they had their human equipment, Billy and Fred had arrived at the autobase early not too long ago as it is the weekends today, there was no school.

"...And Rad and I were racing along this old track yesterday, it was a lot of fun!" Wildracer exclaimed with joy, Dragster and Sundancer laughing in amusement of their friend's enthusiasm when it came to telling stories.

"Whoa, that sounds awesome," Billy said in awe before asking. "Hey, can we get a ride with guys sometime?"

"Eh, sure," Carlos said with a shrug before adding. "You might need to wait a bit, I dunno if I can drive carefully enough with a rider yet."

"I think I'd rather have my feet on the ground..." Fred idly said as he munched on a bag of chips. "I had enough of rides."

"Heh, you're just chicken because you didn't like riding with that one Mini-Con, huh?" Billy taunted as he and Fred were at it again.

"You know I don't like it when something goes too fast!" Fred whined in reply.

"It's no fun if it doesn't go fast," Billy complained as the other kids laughed.

"I don't like fast," Fred muttered just as Optimus came into the room.

"Optimus!" Dragster exclaimed, looking in the direction of him as his other two friends followed suit, also looking at the Autobot Leader.

"Hey, Optimus," Billy and Fred casually greeting him.

"Hello Billy and Fred," Optimus greeted warmly before turning to the others. "Have you all refuelled?"

When they nodded, he said. "Good, we need to get started on your training right away."

"Has something happened?" Alexis questioned and he sighed, saying.

"Megatron called, he wants to know what happened to you kids. We didn't tell him but he knows that you'll go out of the base sooner or later and we need to prepare you for that."

"Ah, I'm not afraid of that creep!" Wildracer spoke up, balling a fist. "I want to show that one a thing or two once we all get enough training." Dragster agreeing though Sundancer was expressing completely different from the other two Mechs.

They weren't afraid because there was no way Megatron was ever going to look at them the way he...might look at her. She was still hoping that he'd see her as just another kid, not worth his interest but she had a very bad feeling. Also, something Optimus had said was bothering, he didn't want her to end up like the others? What others, did Megatron already have a mate...or more than one?

For now, she can only hope Megatron does not in any shape or form, show an interest in her. "I've asked Scavenger and a few other Autobots to meet you in the Training Room, they will give you all sorts of required training you'll all need." Optimus said.

"Thanks," Alexis said gratefully as the boys nodded.

"Come on, let's go," Rad said and they all stood.

"Sorry we can't talk longer," Carlos said to Billy and Fred. "But we need to get soem serious training in."

"It's cool, you're all so lucky you get to help the Transformers kick some serious butt," Billy said sadly, crossing his arms.

Wildracer grinned as he waved them goodbye, catching up with his two friends that had gone on ahead as they all made their way in the direction of the Training Room.

"What do you think they're going to train us in?" he asked his friends.

"Probably more blaster instruction," Rad said a shrug. "Or maybe hand to hand combat, not sure."

As they got to the training room, Scavenger, Blurr, and Hot Shot were inside, waiting for them.

"Morning, Wildracer, Sundancer, Dragster!" Hot Shot said with a grin.

"Hi guys," they greeted before asking. "What are we going to do today?"

"We're going to start off with some hand to hand combat," Scavenger stated. "If any of you lose your weapons, you need to know how to keep fighting without them."

They nodded in agreement; they waited to see who would Scavenger choose to train first. Blurr meanwhile was sitting off to the side on some of the crates, polishing a couple blaster snipers while Hot Shot simply leaned against the wall near him with his arms crossed, watching.

"Alright, let's start with an enemy grabbing you from behind," Scavenger stated, beckoning at Rad who looked nervous but came forward. "I'm going to grab you and you see how hard it is to get loose."

"Got it," Dragster felt as Scavenger took a hold of him. At this, he tried to get himself free while his friends watched. The Hummer frowned as he wasn't able to get himself loose no matter how hard he tried.

Scavenger chuckled as Dragster strained against him, he wasn't going anywhere.

"Try wriggling more?" he suggested. "You need to make it impossible for me to hold you properly."

Slightly frowning, he thought for a moment. There was no movement though Scavenger knew what he was clearly up to, he's had this method tried on him a couple times back on Cybertron when he was training rookies. Seeing the slight movement, Dragster was beginning to wriggle about harshly where as Scavenger was quick to try to hold the Hummer properly.

This wasn't easy at all and he felt himself becoming tired, he couldn't keep wriggling forever. Scavenger had too good a grip on him, he just wasn't throwing the older Mech off at all. He also had no idea where to possibly attack with his hands, making the other let go of him.

"...Not that great, is it?" Dragster panted, clearly exhausted from trying to wriggle free of Scavenger's grip.

"I have a lot of experience kid," Scavenger chuckled, releasing Dragster who looked very sheepish. "But here's a piece of advice, even if you are restrained and can't get free, just relax and wait for an opportunity. Sometimes, bots get cocky thinking they've got you under control and that's when you can strike."

"I'll keep that in mind," He said as Wildracer and Sundancer nodded in agreement. He looked over at his two friends, knowing they'll need to have a turn afterwards.

"Alright, one of you come over and have a go," Scavenger commanded and Sundancer decided she'd try it

The two got into place. However it proved to be much difficult for Sundancer as Scavenger's grip was tough as thick steel. Even though she tried something similar to what Dragster did, nothing budged or worked, even if she took the piece of advice he offered to Dragster.

She really didn't like being held like this, her wings felt like they were getting crushed so she automatically keep moving to get them more comfortable. Finally, she managed and relaxed somewhat. Scavenger's grip seemed to become less hard and she suddenly remembered that she was meant to use this. So she started thrashing harder than ever, trying to really break his grip on her.

Scavenger had to use a sort of alternate to try to grab Sundancer again without accidentally damaging her wings or let alone end up grabbing onto them. Seeker wings were extremely sensitive and are the most fragile part of their bodies. "Good, you put that piece of advice to good use," The old Mech said, a small smile on his faceplate.

"Didn't work properly," she sighed and he laughed. "True but I was expecting it, your enemy might not. Don't not use it just because it hasn't worked before."

"Got it," Sundancer nodded slightly, Scavenger gently lets go of the Femme Seeker as Wildracer knew it was his turn as he came up to the old war veteran, Sundancer backing up next to Dragster as they watched.

"I hoped you've learned something," Scavenger said as he got Wildracer to turn around before gripping him in a tight hold.

"Plenty!" He grinned as despite he was rather a bit small but Scavenger knew he had quite a bit of strength, at first he struggled freely to slip away but then stopped, cautiously waiting for the right moment.

Scavenger chuckled, he knew what Wildracer was doing but he needed to give him the chance to get away. So he relaxed his grip as though confident he had his prisoner under control and that's when the younger Mech acted.

In a swift movement, Wildracer quickly attempted to slip himself free, the others watching Wildracer and Scavenger carefully.

"Hey," Scavenger exclaimed, grabbing his wrist but Wildracer still managed to pull his body free and start yanking at the hand hold him.

"Wow, he's so quick!" Sundancer explained in surprise.

"You go, Carlos!" Dragster exclaimed, cheering.

Wildracer grinned, he was actually having a lot of fun with this demonstration.

"Not bad," Scavenger complimented before jerking and flipping Wildracer onto his back, the young Mech yelping with shock. "Just don't drop your guard."

"Oof, got it." He managed to say as he gave a sheepish grin, slowly getting back up.

"Is there anything else we'd need to learn, Scavenger?" Dragster asked curiously.

"Hmm, if you were older I'd suggest learning to do what I just did and put bots in holds," Scavenger said. "But I'm afraid your all a bit too small for that, at least for the Decepticons we currently have on Earth. Instead, we're going to focus on weapons training, that's one of the most important things you can learn."

"Sounds good, where do we start?" Sundancer now asked curiously.

"Would we use melee weapons or blasters?" Wildracer also asked.

"I want Sundancer to practise using a melee weapon with Hotshot," Scavenger stated. "Dragster, Blurr can teach you how to use a sniper rifle and I'll teach you Wildracer how to use a standard, light blaster. You're fast so you should learn how to move with that weapon. Sundancer, you need to learn how to fend off anyone who gets too close."

"Got it," They all said as Sundancer went with Hot Shot, and Dragster with Blurr.

Wildracer remained with Scavenger, eagerly awaiting whatever the old war veteran will teach him with a light blaster.

"Okay, first we're going to work with one target and then we'll put more up," his teacher said. "I want you to try and hit them as accurately and as fast as you can. The trick will be hitting those Cons while avoiding them hitting you."

"I'll do my best!" Wildracer beamed in response, he was very eager to start getting to training. Scavenger began preparing the single target before afterwards stepping over to one of the blaster racks, picking up a nice suitable light blaster and bringing it over to Wildracer.

"Here, try this; it doesn't have as much recoil as the last one."

"Alright," Wildracer nodded as he took the blaster. The Motorcycle took his time in loosening himself, he wanted to be completely focused on the target. Hopping on one foot to the other to show he was ready to start moving, he started strafing as he began firing at the targets, sometimes missing and hitting, but none had landed on the bull's-eye perfectly yet but he had been improving slowly as he fired shots onto the target.

"Come on, keep going," Scavenger commanded, seeing how Wildracer was doing better but he needed to be faster.

Wildracer gritted his teeth, trying to put all of his focus on that bull's-eye so that he could hit it.

Sundancer meanwhile was waiting for Hot Shot to prepare things on their end. Curiously, she could not help but ask. "What kind of weapons will we be practising with, Hot Shot?"

"I'm going to show you how to use a sword," he told her. "Being a Seeker means you can form a blade from one of your wings. Once you're confident with that, I can show you how to use a blaster."

"How will I know that I can form a weapon from a part of me?" Sundancer questioned, completely bemused, would she really be able to form a weapon from a part of her like Starscream can?

"Hmm," Hotshot said thoughtfully. "I know it can be done but I don't have much experience with it. We should have a look at the records, make sure we do this right."

Sundancer gave Hot Shot a nod, she was really curious to see how the process of being able to use a weapon that's a part of her and at the same time, rather eager.

She took a slight glance at Wildracer, who seemed to be faring rather well, his movements were really fast, he had gone from one target to multiple targets. Sundancer afterwards turned her attention back to her trainer.

"There's a computer next door, we can research in peace," he said with a chuckle, making her smile. It would be pointless having a computer in this room, especially when it could get damaged.

"Do you know any Autobot Seekers?" she asked as they walked out of the room.

"Yeah, the Autobots have Seekers, well some of them... One of them being the more noticed Seekers are that some of them from a team we call the Aerialbots have seekers. The Aerialbots are lead by Silverbolt, their leader but he is sometimes a bit of a pain to get in the air, since he has a fear of heights. Weird for a Seeker, huh? Oh and the cool thing about them is they can combine to form Superion, though others refer him as Superion Maximus," Hot Shot said.

"They form a giant robot?" she asked and he nodded. "You bet, he's pretty impressive to see. Only thing is, they all have to be completely refuelled for them to combine otherwise it just won't work. Big robot needs a lot of juice."

"Wow, amazing! Are there any other combiners?" Sundancer was getting much interested, primarily in the combining types.

"Hmm... Well there's the Technobots, you got Scattershot, Strafe, Lightspeed, Afterburner, and Nosecone. Scattershot's the leader but like Cyclonus, he has a trigger happy personality... Be glad that one's on our side... Strafe is a really nice bot, easy Mech to get along with and is hardly ever angry. Lightspeed is the smartest of the Technobots but is often caught up in learning whatever intelligence he hasn't learned yet. Afterburner's the hot head of the group, he's easily enraged which often Lightspeed or Strafe have to calm him down at times. Finally, Nosecone, he's the most patient Mech you'll ever meet, if cargo were to be delayed for weeks, he has no problem in waiting. Together, all five can combine to form Computron."

Sundancer was very amazed, both the Aerialbots and Technobots sound very interesting to meet.

"Wow, I hope I can meet them sometime," she said excitedly.

"Well, if you guys ever make it to Cybertron, you will," he said with a grin. "Okay, here we are."

They'd arrived at the nearby computer room and Hotshot soon had one up and running

Typing in a few commands, he soon brought up a spec sheet about Seekers.

"Here we go," he said, clicking on a section about their wings.

Sundancer stepped up close to the computer, strangely while the information is written in Cybertronian Autobot language, thankfully the programs in her visual translated them into regular English letters.

"Whoa," she gasped, they looked like an alien language but she could see them morphing into English so that she could read them.

The information on Seeker wings was very highly detailed, though Hot Shot scrolled to the point where how their wings can form into a melee weapon. "It says here you should be able to know instantly which wing can be unfolded to make a weapon, then you can will it whenever needed and you can draw it out." He said, pointing at a specific spot of the said information.

"Really?" she said in surprise, she thought it would be more complicated.

"Wanna give it a try?" Hotshot asked and she nodded.

Sundancer read the information carefully. In honest opinion, it would be a lot better if another fellow Autobot Seeker would be able to teach her but unfortunately none of the Autobots here are fellow Seekers. While knowing Jetfire is a fellow aerial transformer like she is, unfortunately as he is not a Seeker, there are some things he wouldn't be able to help her with.

After reading through the information carefully, she focused herself in deep thought, trying to do as the info said and hopefully see if one of her wings would react at her will so she could draw it out of place and into a melee weapon.

She heard a click and looking up, saw that one of her wings had indeed disconnected from her back. She quickly grabbed it and as she pulled it, it became a blade similar to the one Starscream wielded.

"I did it," she said in complete wonder.

Hot Shot smiled, giving her thumbs up. "Great! We should head back out into the Training Room so I can start training you." He said with a smile.

"Yeah," she said, now really excited. Maybe this wouldn't be so bad after all, she might actually be able to defend herself.

The two stepped out of the computer room, now back in the Training Room as they wandered to a spot that had just enough space for them to practise, Sundancer could see Dragster was already training with Blurr, it seemed like nothing is happening and that Dragster was stiff as a stone, until when she heard the shot go off, he was practising on firing a couple shots on some very distant targets. She waited for Hot Shot to grab a sword from the weapon rack, she was pretty determined to be able to learn how to use her weapon.

"Alright, let's made a start," as he did indeed grab a practise sword from the rack. "I'll show you some stances and start."

Sundancer nodded, Hot Shot began showing her a couple stances and she positioned herself. Scavenger had opened a comm link directly to Sundancer, giving her advice that because the weapon is a part of her, she needs to feel that she is one with the weapon, as well as to study the enemy's movement and stance before planning an attack.

She nodded as she listened before putting it into practise. She carefully moved into the different stances, her movements undisciplined and somewhat hesitant as she'd never done anything like this before. Thankfully, Hotshot was very encouraging.

They took turns attacking and defending, Hot Shot instructing her further as they continued. Scavenger continued to give her advice whenever she appeared to be stuck or faltering slightly.

Meanwhile, Dragster was carefully focusing on the single target, Blurr was at least pleased that the Hummer knew that being able to snipe a target takes a lot of patience, especially just like back when he sniped a Mini-Con panel right out of Demolisher's fingers, gaining his partner Incinerator. He looked in the direction of the target as he heard the blaster sniper fire, the shot was merely inches from the bull's-eye.

"Easy," Blurr said. "Take your time and focus, precision is the key."

"Right," Dragster murmured, not taking his optics off the target, before carefully looking through his scope finder.

He aimed carefully, trying to aim directly at the bull's-eye but keeping a steady and stiff aim was very difficult, he could see his lasersight was slightly wiggling very slightly, which showed he isn't keeping his blaster sniper stiff.

"Relax, try not to hesitate too much when you prepare to shoot." The orange and blue bot advised. "The more hesitant you are, the worse your aim and shot will be, thus more likely will cause you to miss and bring attention to the enemy, forcing them to flee and take cover."

"We often only have one shot," Blurr added as Rad slowly nodded, trying to keep his blaster as still as possible while also staying calm. It wasn't easy, there was a lot of temptation just to get angry and start firing but that would never work

Carefully and quietly, he began to focus again. He was able to keep his rifle as still as possible to the best that he can. Slowly, he pulled the trigger after a few breems of concentrating, this time the shot landing very near the bull's-eye, a lot more better than the previous shot.

"Better," Blurr acknowledged, arms folded. "It'll take you quite a few sessions to get perfect but as long as you hit like that nearly every time you shoot, you'll be fine."

"Thanks, Blurr," Dragster replied with a grin as he moved away from the sniper blaster, he needed to sit up so he could stretch out his joints for a bit. He looked at his two friends that have been improving on their training. He had to admit Wildracer is indeed very fast, perhaps he's living up to his actual name while he looked over at Sundancer, she was also doing fairly great, too.

"Is that one of her wings?" he questioned, seeing that she had a blade which matched her colouring and that one of her wings was indeed missing from her back.

"Probably, Seekers are well known for their sword fighting skills," Blurr told him. "Their capable of transforming one of their wings to become a blade, pretty handy."

"Wow, with enough training, she would be able to take on all of the aerial Decepticons with ease, someday." Dragster idly said as he watched his friend train with Hot Shot.

"I don't know about that, don't forget the Decepticons also have a Seeker and he is considerably older and more experienced than her," Blurr said bluntly.

He frowned; he knew Blurr was right... Not only that, but Thrust was one sly Seeker, at one point he wished he were a flyer so that he could back up Sundancer whenever she needed it, but at least he also knew that Jetfire would be there to back her up whenever she's in a pinch, in a way he felt better. He felt Cyclonus would not be too much of a problem for the two of them, helicopters had a much different speed than fighter jet types. He wasn't sure how fast Jetfire would go but definitely not as fast as a jet.

"Uh Blurr," he said as a thought struck him. "Alexis...I mean Sundancer told us that one day she has to be betrothed, is that right?"

"If she doesn't turn back into a human, then yes," was the calm reply.

"Well...what do you think her chances are...I mean with the Decepticons. How likely is it that any of them might go for her?"

There was silence, obviously to Dragster knowing that Blurr is thinking, looking for an answer.

"Factions don't get in the way of Mechs, no matter which side they are on, and the Femme they are inquiring. There have been Several Autobot Mechs inquiring Decepticon Femmes, and Decepticon Mechs inquiring Autobot Femmes. Though they would often have to be kept an eye on for a few cycles until when it is known they can be trusted. I honestly have no care about these things but it is possible one or two of the Decepticons may take interest in her. This is only a guess but we will never know unless witnessed," Blurr replied, his tone had a bit of a shrug feeling to it.

"Wow." Dragster said as he listened carefully. "I thought you guys would prefer to...Court within factions only."

"It's often very rare that one would court another from the opposite Faction," Blurr corrected bluntly.

"We don't exactly meet under friendly circumstances but if two bots from opposite factions do want to bond, they can," he explained. "Of course, that means that one of them must either become Neutral or join their bonded's factions so you can see the problem."

"Ouch..." Dragster replied as he nodded. He found it so difficult that there are only very few Femmes on Cybertron... But it made sense that there was nothing that can be done if a Mech were to be rejected.

"Well, I won't let any of them bother her," he declared softly. "Neither will Wildracer, especially if that creep Thrust tries something."

Dragster also can only hope that Megatron, of all Mechs, does NOT take an interest in Sundancer, it would be very disastrous for both him, Wildracer, and the other Autobots... While it is by Cybertronian law that Femmes can reject if she wishes not to be with a certain Mech whom wishes to court his friend, he'd worry that he would still go after Sundancer even if she said no.

Megatron did not seem the type to take rejection well and might plot ways of revenge. They'd have to keep a close eye on her, make sure no one pressured her into something she didn't want to do. But it wasn't going to be easy.

"Let's continue training, Dragster. We'll have the target moving for this one, this is where you would have to try and snipe the enemy while they are distracted, and moving. It's also recommended in case if a teammate is down and they have nowhere else to run or flee if they are too injured to fly. Think of it as a life and death situation where you have to try to take out the enemy before they can finish off one of your teammates." Blurr said, using a small device to cause the target to start moving in all sorts of directions.

"Right," Dragster said with a grimace, this was not going to be easy. And of course, he was right, he could barely hit the target now that it was moving, It was extremely difficult to get a lock on it and then follow the target before firing.

In the meantime, Wildracer had stopped practising as he was both tired and the blaster he's using is overheating. "Phew, I can barely feel my limbs, man!" Wildracer panted, slowly dropping to the floor right on his aft, completely exhausted.

"You can take a break if you want," Scavenger said approvingly with a smile.

Wildracer grinned tiredly with a laugh, giving Scavenger a thumbs up as he got back up. Walking over to Scavenger as he gave him the blaster which the war veteran took as he watched the motorcycle head up onto a crate, now watching his two friends.

"Phew, that was tough," Wildracer exclaimed watching as Sundancer sparred with Hotshot.

Sundancer was faring well, but was also tiring, the sounds of clangs and clinks made from when the weapons collided into each other was rather loud but it hadn't bothered him or Dragster. He found Sundancer amazing whenever she was taking her turn to strike a couple swings into Hot Shot's sword, as if she were really dancing.

He turned his attention to Dragster, he seemed to be faring well although seeming to grumble silently every time he missed a shot on the moving distant target. ~Wow, he really would make a great sniper when the day comes when Optimus will allow us on a hunt... Man' it would be so cool that we would be able to help the Autobots out on getting the Mini-Con,~ He thought to himself happily.

Then another thought struck him, all the Autobots had Minicon partners they could combine with...was it possible that the three of them could combine with Highwire, Sureshock and Grindor? It would be so cool if they could do that.

~Oh man, I'll have to ask the others this once Sundancer and Dragster take a break!~ Carlos was grinning excitedly, wishing he could ask them now but he would prefer to wait, so that he wouldn't disturb anyone while they were training his friends.

Author's note. Since the kids have only just got their names, sometimes they will think of their human names or call each other by then. Also, their training continues in the next chapter but how does that go? Find out then, until next time.