Seeker log:
Second time period: Fighting the war to survive. Log entry 5292.
Thundercracker allowed the fire to ricochet from his armor. He could handle it until he would get his weapons back. On the way through the corridors, he opened every door he managed as he ran. At first it was difficult, but once he snatched a rifle from an Autobot guard, he could shoot the doors open. After all, Thundercracker was not the Sharpshooter Seeker for nothing! What he lost to Silverwind when it came to speed and to Starscream when it came to strength and intelligence, he beat them both at accuracy when it came to shooting, and that was what he was very proud of. From the opened doors came other Decepticon captives who either joined the escape or attacked the guards.
The attacking prisoners were a good diversion, and Thundercracker soon had lost the guards. Now he had to become stealthy and get his things back. The spots in which the shots had struck through his armor stung, but as he held the stolen rifle close to his torso, he allowed himself to concentrate on the silence which was broken by the alarm coming from far away.
He had to go back to free his fellow Seekers. He detested Thundersky and Thunderstorm just as much as they detested him, but he knew that it was risky to let them stay captive. But he needed all the intel he could gather first. In this mayhem in which everyone would run to stop the escaping Decepticons, he could do that easily.
Thundercracker had just turned his back when he felt a gun against the back of his helm.
"Hello, traitor," the voice was Thunderstorm's.
"Thunderstorm. So you got away as I trusted," Thundercracker said, putting his act on to save himself from the wrath of his comrades. "Good. Then this plan C can work."
"What fragging plan C?" Thundersky's voice now asked.
"Our mission when we received it was plan A. When we got caught, I used plan B. I did not manage to infiltrate the Autobot ranks by seemingly defecting. Now it's time for plan C: We use this chaos to get the intel we came here for and get away," Thundercracker explained.
"Why should we trust you?" Thunderstorm asked.
"Because I have a plan. And because if I wanted you dead, I would have already done it. Not that I trust you either, but we need the firepower of us all to get away with infiltrating this place," Thundercracker explained. "Will you kill me and try to do it all by yourselves or will you allow me to do my function in this group?"
The gun moved to his back.
"You are our shield," Thunderstorm snarled.
"Very well," Thundercracker said. He started to walk onwards, the gun never leaving his back. He knew the way where they were supposed to go in order to get what they needed. However, there was a console nearer than that, and that was from where Thundersky, despite Thundercracker's protests, took the Autobot intelligence on his datacard.
"We're done, let's go," Thundersky said. Thundercracker only heard a "bam". Then he found himself paralyzed on the floor, bleeding Energon. Thunderstorm had shot him to the back and broken essential neural connections. He could do nothing.
He lay there, bleeding slowly. The alarm slowly ended and the chaos ebbed away from the outpost. Two Seekers, among a few Decepticon prisoners, managed to escape, but many were recaptured while Thundercracker slowly bled. He kept bleeding, as if he would never run out of Energon. Meanwhile in the Decepticon base S24-5T
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"How did you implant this camera to him?" Dreader asked.
"We did not. The Autobots did. We merely hacked into their system to see it," Starscream explained.
"Shooting someone superior in ranking is a punishable act. Also, they will only deliver a virus to our system if their datacard is allowed to be connected with it. It was a clear trap laid by the Autobots. This is nothing new, and these two Thunders should know it," Silverwind noted. "We request permission to replace them on the mission and get TC and the intel."
"Shoot those fools down, if you will. We have no space for incompetent idiots like them," Dreader said. "Get going, we need that slagging intel!"
"Yes sir!" the two Seekers whom Thundercracker was well acquainted with said and ran off.
"I hate this unit of Seekers and whatnot. I need a transfer," Dreader gnarled to himself. "Time to contact the HQ for that..."
Starscream and Silverwind sped up. They met Thunderstorm and Thundersky.
"Hey! You two, stop!" Silverwind shouted and started to transform. Starscream did the same and the stopped mid-air. The two Thunder units did the same.
"What do you want? We're in a hurry!" Thundersky roared.
"Why don't you two traitors hand over the Autobot virus so that we can get rid of it?" Starscream growled.
"Traitors?!" Thunderstorm yelled.
"What virus?" Thundersky snapped.
"The virus which you downloaded from the Autobot console right before you shot Thundercracker to the back, you filthy rusting processor-lacking dimwits!" Silverwind shrieked.
The two Seekers froze.
"How can you know?" Thunderstorm gasped.
"The Autobots planted a camera on TC and we hacked to see what's going on," Silverwind explained. "He knew that the console was a trap. Even a Pit-spawn youngling knows that, but you didn't, now did you?"
"Er..." neither of the Seekers could deny the accusation.
"'We have no space for incompetent idiots like them', says commander Dreader, meaning you two," Starscream took his gun.
"'Shoot them, if you will', he told us," Silverwind followed Starscream's example.
"No, wait, we can explain!" Thundersky started, but he was shot by Starscream at the same time as Silverwind shot Thunderstorm. They both hit their mark: the Spark.
The traitorous Seekers fell down, dead far before they ever hit the ground. When they finally did that, Starscream and Silverwind had already sped away in a hurry; every klik that ticked away took Thundercracker closer to joining the AllSpark.
Hang on, TC, we're coming for you, Silverwind knew that her thought would not reach the blue Seeker, but she could not help it. Maybe Primus would hear her and help them save their brother.
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