Thank you for the review Gins Lil Kitsune! Here's chapter 10 with a bit of Twin Terror fun in it!
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Slight torture used in this chapter!
Before everyone's optics, a million vorn passed as the war for control of Cybertron raged on and the Seeklets matured with it. Luna had recovered from her trauma and had started reconnecting with everyone on the Autobot base. She, Boomer and Aqua had become a true Seeker trine only a few orns ago and everyone noticed how much better all three of them seemed. They had begun their more advanced training which was overseen by Jazz, Ironhide and Prowl. Mirage worked with Luna when he found time to help her perfect a few techniques meant for spying and espionage.
"I think it's time they went on their first real mission," Ironhide stated, crossing his arms over his chest. He was in a meeting with Optimus, Prowl, Jazz and Ratchet that would determine whether or not the Seekers were ready for actual battle.
"They will come to their full maturity in a few decacycles," Ratchet protested. "Surely we can hold off for that long?"
"Fully matured or not, they are ready," Ironhide snapped. "Bee went on his first mission when he was a bit younger than they are now."
"That was different," Prowl frowned. "He wasn't sent to spy on the Decepticons. The Seekers are frontliners, yes, but they are also going to be used for spy missions. They are not prepared for it."
"Have ya seen th' trainin' sessions, Prowler?" Jazz grunted. "Inside th' simulations, they do great! They've only failed a handful of times."
"The odds of them failing in real life are much higher," Prowl snapped.
"Prowl has a point," Optimus rumbled. "While I agree that they have made significant progress in their training, I fear that it is still too early to send them out on a real mission. We will wait until all three have hit full maturity and graduated from training. That is final," Ironhide and Jazz groaned in defeat but they did not protest as they left. Optimus sighed heavily and rubbed a servo over his faceplates. "Did I make the right decision?" He wondered aloud.
Out in the training rooms, the new Seeker trine had occupied themselves with watching the new recruits, sitting on the high beams, balancing with ease.
"Don't mess up!" Boomer shouted, laughing as a few newbies started and fell to their opponents. Boomer let out a howl of laughter while Luna rolled her optics and Aqua let out a giggle.
"Get yer afts down here!" Ironhide roared when he finally noticed them.
"Gotta say please, 'Hide!" Boomer laughed at him. They watched as the weapons specialist aimed his cannon at them and they suddenly scattered. The recruits let out shouts of surprise when they saw the Seekers, who were pleased with the looks of sheer confusion on their faceplates. They'd only known of the Decepticon Seekers, they hadn't been aware of the ones within the Autobot faction. They'd ignored them in the rafters because they thought they were simply a couple of groundpounder's like themselves but boy were they wrong. It had become something of a tradition for the Autobots to neglect telling the recruits, as it was always a good laugh when they finally found out.
"Are you three finished?" Ironhide growled at them, though their was a playful glint in his optics. Boomer and Luna had their visors snapped in place, hiding their optics so the recruits didn't see the color. It was an unusual color after all but it was slowly darkening to it's full purple color.
"I don't know, are we?" Aqua tittered softly.
"Have the recruits finished gawking?" Boomer countered with a smirk. They looked around the room and had to stop from laughing. "Nope."
"They'll stop once you leave," Ironhide grunted.
"You're no fun, 'Hide," Luna snorted. "Anyway, we've got to go," They waved and left without another word. "I'll see you two for patrol tonight. I have training with Mirage today," The two other Seekers nodded and they parted ways. She looked up when Prowl joined her and tensed slightly when he reached up to stroke the tip of her left wing. Luna was still very cautious about being touched by anyone and only a very few ever got away with it. There were only seven bots in total that Luna tolerated touching her. Optimus, Ratchet, Prowl, Jazz, Ironhide, Sunstreaker and Sideswipe.
"Are you alright?" Prowl asked her quietly. "You seem awfully stressed today."
"I'm fine, Prowl," She assured. "Feeling a little down is all," She suddenly blocked her bond to Boomer and Aqua. She did this often enough that they were completely used to it and no longer worried when she did so.
"This would not have anything to do with Aqua Blade and Skyboomer would it?" He murmured, raising an optic ridge.
"No, not at all."
"You are lying," He hummed, still applying a soft feather-light touch to her wing.
"How do you know?" She glared at him behind her visor.
"I know you well enough to know when you are," He told her.
"It's no big deal, Prowl," She sighed.
"So you admit it?" He cocked his head.
"It's nothing, Prowl, I promise. The three of us are a trine, I knew it would happen."
"But knowing does not always mean you are prepared for it," He pointed out.
"I just... I feel left out," She sighed again. "And a bit jealous."
"As irresponsible as it may sound... why don't you just... experiment with someone?" Prowl murmured.
"Prowl, even to me that sounds illogical," Luna frowned.
"Even so, you must admit there is some logic behind it," He grumbled. "Just think about it, alright?" She nodded and he stopped touching her wing much to her disappointment. With a small wave, she entered the training room where Mirage was waiting for her and sighed.
"So what will we be working on today, Mirage?" She asked as she approached the former noblemech.
"As you know, you and your trine will be doing recon and spy missions," He began. "In the case that you are caught, you need to know what to do." Luna frowned and then her optics widened when his words finally sunk in.
"You mean..." She gulped.
"I'm going to be training you on what procedures you should follow in the event that you are captured and imprisoned by the enemy." Mirage affirmed. Luna felt her systems run cold when he told her this and forced herself to stay standing. He was... oh Primus... was he going to be torturing her? "As our acting Decepticons, I have implored the help of Sunstreaker and Sideswipe."
"Why them?" She let out a cry of outrage. Out of everyone on base, he just had to chose the twins!
"This is where their annoying personalities actually come in useful," He snorted. "Don't worry, I'll be guiding you throughout the drill and they have been ordered to use only the practice moves and equipment They've also been told that they are not to use Jet Judo," Luna cringed at this. The twins had used Jet Judo to subdue her and her trine before and it was something they now avoided at all costs. Her wings still ached at the mere memory of it all. The door slid open and the twins stepped in, grinning in a way she'd only seen them do when they were getting ready for a fight with the 'Cons. "Begin." Just like that, Sunstreaker and Sideswipe lunged at her. She yelped and scrambled to get out of the way, ducking and running for the far side of the spacious room. She tried to gain some air but before she could, she felt a servo clamp down on her ankle and pull hard. She screeched as she was grounded and struggled wildly as the twins tried to pin her completely. They soon had her pinned and she felt something slip around her wrists.
Stasis cuffs.
"Once you've got stasis cuffs on, there's not much use in struggling," Mirage told her. The twins dragged her to her pede's and back towards the former Tower mech. "More than likely, because you are a spy, they will take you in for questioning." Luna watched as Sunstreaker went to retrieve something. "They will ask you to spill all of your information," She knew that already. "Under no circumstance, are you to do so."
"So little femme, ready to tell us everything?" Sideswipe sneered, doing his best Decepticon impression.
"I will never tell you!" She bit out at him. For once, she was actually quite afraid of the red twin.
"Is that so?" Sunstreaker returned, grinning at her evilly. "We can do this the easy way or the hard way, Autobot."
"No matter what you do, I won't tell you a thing," She hissed as he gripped one of the raised ridges of her helm.
"Good," Mirage murmured. "They will most likely leave and return at another time, it could be days before you see them again. They will starve you until the point of stasis lock. But that is unlikely. When they return, it will most likely be to drag you to the interrogation rooms." The twins took hold of her and dragged her to another part of the room with Mirage following. "They will then begin imploring other means of extracting information." Luna felt her intakes hitch when an electro whip uncoiled from Sunstreaker's servo. "Don't worry, this is a practice whip, the voltage on it is much lower than you might think."
"Since you refuse to talk," Sunstreaker smirked at her. "We'll make you talk," He nodded to Sideswipe who grabbed Luna's bound wrists and held them over her head. A hook was lowered and she was soon suspended off the ground. "Tell us what Optimus Prime is planning."
"I will never tell you, Decepticon scum!" She spat, yelping when the whip struck across her leg. That really hurt! She didn't care what Mirage said, she felt that strike more than she should have.
"Are you sure about that?" Sideswipe grinned, reaching up to tug on one wing painfully. She yelped in surprise and glared at him.
"They will exploit your weaknesses," Mirage pointed out. This continued for some time and Luna was reprimanded by Mirage personally when she let slip a few things because of how badly she was hurting from the electro wipe. She was seriously considering killing the twins at this point for ever agreeing to help Mirage. "Now, I will tell you how to effectively escape," Finally! Something she was good at. It turned out that Mirage was quite picky about escape techniques and she spent another half a joor perfecting them while the twins acted as Decepticons and laughed at her as Mirage chewed her out for every little mistake. When she was finally free to go, the twins dragged her to the rec room for energon and teased her over the training session.
"I am going to kill you both," She seethed at them. "Painfully and slowly. My entire chassis hurts!"
"That's because Sunshine over there grabbed the wrong electro whip," Sideswipe snorted.
"Ironhide needs to start labeling those blasted things," Sunstreaker snorted.
"Will you be able to do patrol tonight?" Sideswipe changed the subject.
"Yes, if I can get some slight recharge in before then," She nodded, sipping at her energon. "But Primus I'm going to be sore tomorrow! Ratchet's gonna have your helms if he finds out."
"We'll just blame Mirage," Sideswipe grinned. Luna shook her head with a smile and finished off the cube in her servos. The twins finished theirs as well and Sideswipe pulled the Seeker close, urging her to rest. They were on the large couch, not that they minded or cared, so there was plenty of room for all three. Luna shifted and laid her head in Sideswipe's lap before Sunstreaker pulled her lower half into his own lap. Vain, narcissistic Sunstreaker, who would kill a bot for ruining his paint job, was allowing her to rest her legs in his lap. She shrugged it off and offlined her optics, quickly falling into a light recharge. Prowl's words haunted her though, even in her sleep they persisted.
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"Man, that patrol was so easy!" Boomer laughed when the trine returned.
"Says the one who was goofing off the whole time," Luna snorted, shoving her trine mate playfully. "Don't you laugh either, Aqua, you were just as bad," She smiled at her fellow femme.
"You, miss all work and no play, need to loosen up!" Boomer crooned at her, smirking.
"No I don't," She frowned.
"I must agree with Boomer," Aqua told her. "You never give yourself any free time."
"We're at war, there is no time for such pleasantries," She frowned deeper at them.
"Luna, there is always time," Boomer smiled at her. "I'm asking Optimus to give you a day off, you need it. The last time you went too long without a free day, you ended up in the med bay because you overworked yourself."
"I'm not overworking myself, Boomer," She defended herself.
"That's not how I see it," Aqua chirped. "You really do need to take a personal day, Luna. It's not like it'll kill you."
"Just the three I wanted to see!" Ratchet's voice drowned out any protests from Luna. "Good patrol today," He told them. "Luna, Optimus has said that you are to take a mandatory day off," Her optics widened at this. "No training, no patrol, nothing," Her mouth hung open and she promptly snapped it shut. "He has ordered it," He smirked at her. Boomer and Aqua grinned as they scampered away.
"They set me up!" She gasped in realization.
"With good reason," Ratchet grunted. "You need it, Luna, whether you realize it or not," She was instantly reminded of what Prowl had talked to her about. "Have a good night," He walked off then. Luna grumbled and walked through the base, looking for a certain tactician. She finally arrived at his quarters and knocked, nervously waiting for him to answer.
"Luna?" He seemed surprised to see her. "What's wrong?"
"I.. just need to talk," She whispered, visor glinting as she dipped her head. Prowl motioned for her to enter and she did so quickly, taking a seat by the computer.
"Luna, you have never come to me before without a reason," Prowl noted as he sat down in the extra chair.
"Am I really as high strung as everyone says I am?" She blurted out. "Everyone keeps telling me I am all work and no play."
"You are," He told her blatantly. "I have never once known you to not be training or focusing on something. You allow yourself no free time at all. Even the officers like myself find time to relax." He watched as she struggled to find a way to respond to this. "Luna, just relax alright? You really need to."
"I... how?" She was being honest and this made Prowl sigh. The tactician stood and walked towards her, trailing his fingertips over her wings.
"Remember what we talked about earlier?" He asked, watching as she nodded stiffly. "I want you to go to the rec room and have some high grade."
"Prowl, you know I can't," She frowned at him.
"You're almost of age, Ratchet won't mind," He chuckled.
"Who are you and what have you done with Prowl?" She teased.
"If it were anyone else suggesting it, I'd say they were being illogical," He smiled. "But in this case, you need it. Invite anyone on base with you, okay? And just relax and have fun."
"O-okay," Prowl was smiling as he watched her. He'd never seen her so nervous before, not even during training was she this nervous.
"Come talk to me again if the morning and tell me how it went," He shooed her away then. Luna was nervous as she walked through the halls down to the rec room and it showed in how her wings were quivering uncontrollably.
"Sunny, Sides, mind joining me in the rec room?" She sent them a comm. They replied immediately and she relaxed a bit as she walked into the rec room. It was mostly empty which she was thankful for. She found a table and sat down, waiting for the twins to arrive. She rested her helm on her arms and offlined her optics. She could chance a quick recharge before they arrived, couldn't she?
When the twins arrived, they found Luna fast asleep at the table, exhausted from training and patrol.
"Aw, and here I was hoping to spend some us time with her," Sideswipe pouted.
"It'll have to wait," Sunstreaker snorted. "We should get her out of here. It's not safe for her to sleep here," Sideswipe nodded, knowing that leaving a femme alone in the rec room with possibly drunken mech's was a very bad idea. The red twin gently lifted her up and carried her out with his twin.
"Sunny, Sides!" Boomer ran up to them then. "I had a feeling that would happen," He laughed when he saw his sleeping trine leader. "Anyway, just wanted you to know that Luna has the entire day off tomorrow," He smirked at them and left. The twins looked at each other and shrugged as they continued on their way. The first bot they thought of to bring her to was Jazz.
"What's going on?" He asked when he opened the door to his quarters.
"Found her fast asleep in the rec room and figured we'd bring her to you," Sideswipe chirped. The saboteur nodded and took the sleeping femme into his arms before he sent the twins off. Jazz went back into his quarters and set her down, watching her for a while. Primus help him. Sometimes he just wanted to lock her up away from everyone just so he could keep her safe, just so mech's wouldn't go after her but she was stubborn and he knew she could look after herself. It would never stop him from worrying though.
"Better take ya to Prowler," He sighed after a while. He lifted her and went to the tactician's quarters, knocking quietly in case he was working or in recharge. He opened the door and was mildly surprised to see Jazz with Luna. "Twins found her sleepin' and brought her to me. Thought I'd leave her wit' you, ya dig?"
"Of course," Prowl quickly gathered Luna in his arms and thanked Jazz before the door closed. Carefully, he set her on the berth and covered her with a warm thermal blanket. He let a smile grace his lips as he caressed her helm gently and murmured before going back to work.
Well, what do you think? Just gotta love Sunstreaker and Sideswipe right? Tell me what you think! Hope to see some reviews!