CloudSkipper's Secret

Chapter 9

Inferno looked across to see a silver mech on the medical berth, fighting for his life.

"Hey, how long is he going to be in stasis for?" Moonracer walked up behind him and checked the scanners.

"A couple of days, why?" The red and orange medical warrior walked over to his fellow medic and examined the trouble about the young blade-bot.

"Hey, Ferno, what's gonna happen when he's awake? You know, permanent injuries or terrible visions and malfunctions?" Inferno looked into the worried optics of his friend and smiled.

"Don't worry, he'll be fine. Just make sure we're taking multiple shifts once in a while so that no one gets tired, okay?"

First Aid was doing the monitor checks, while Moonracer and Inferno were doing the hallway patrols. As he walked down the empty hall, Inferno couldn't help thinking about his mysterious creators, only him, Springer, Starcomet and Lavatank were the only ones he called family. Starcomet first woke up in CloudSkipper's office when he was only three vorns old. Their sister, Lavatank, was the second orphan to come to their home bound, found abandoned at the gates when only five vorns old. Inferno only knew who his Sire was as Springer only knew who his Carrier was.

Deep in his thoughts, Inferno rounded a corner and accidently smashed into Moonracer. "Sorry, I was somewhere else." He mumbled, expecting a full blown blast from the engineer, but she only smirked at him as she helped him up.

"Nah, it's okay, I didn't see where I was going." Inferno was grateful at her for not being angry, something must've put her in a good mood.

"Hey, can I tell you something?" Moonracer looked at him, surprised, then nodded. They headed up towards the old Look out Peak, which hadn't been used in years, it was beautiful, with the stars, the scarlet sun-set and the bright white moon.

"So, what's up?" Moonracer leaned on the rail as she was told a story, the same one that Inferno was told when he was only ten vorns old.

"Starcomet, your old bond-mate, you know he was my elder brother. He was said to be an orphan, abandoned by his creators and CloudSkipper, your old teach, was forced to raise him as her own, right?" Moonracer slowly nodded as Inferno took another shaky breath. "Well, then there was our sister, Lavatank. It was said she had come to the Descendants by knocking on the gates when she was five vorns old. Myself, I believed the Decepticon medic, Appleshade, had play tortured with me and left me for scrap. Then Springer, was said that his creators died in the war, when he was just born." Moonracer didn't move until she was sure that he was finished. "But, Springer, he knows that our Carrier is CloudSkipper and I believe that our Sire is Appleshade. Well, theory anyway, but. What do you think?" It took Moonracer two minutes for the information to sink in before she slapped him across the faceplates. "Ow! What was that for?" Inferno growled at the femme staring at the stars in wonder as if anything didn't happen at all.

"I'm sorry, Inferno, for my actions. But I think that is not possible, that you, Springer, Lavatank and my dead bond-mate would be the sparklings of an ex-Autobot and my old Teacher. Besides, don't we have patrols to do?" Inferno just looked at her, like he was about to tackle the smaller frame until it revealed the truth. But he knew that not many bots had known about CloudSkipper or Appleshade.

"Alright, I'm sorry I brought you into this. You can do the patrols without me." He sighed and headed towards the Ariel Cove in hopes that his brother would know. Casting on more glance at the solemn stunned femme, he hoped she would not reveal anything he'd said to anyone.

"Springer! Let's go!" The mech called for his brother from the entrance and started walking down to the waiting ground-bridge, not even bothering to see if the young Aerialbot came or not.

"Ferns, wait! I'mma coming, bro!" Inferno sighed as he turned around, he could just see the bulky shape of the loud bot as they walked through darkness. "What'jda doing? I thought you and Moonie had tonight's shift."

They both stopped at the edge of a ravine to see a sleek tall shape.

"No, she said it was alright by herself if I had something important to do, which I do!" He jumped down in front of the strange slender frame.

"Oh well, I guess it's true, that you've got a crush on her." Inferno whipped around and slapped his brother in the faceplates.

"Ah, Springer and Inferno." The mech spoke deeply. Inferno turned back around and stared at the mech in disbelief.

"How do you know our names?" He snarled threating the con. The mech grabbed the bot's neck and lifted him off the ground growling in frustration. Springer gasped and tried to run to his brother, but somehow the weeds wrapped themselves around his peds.

"Let him go!" Although he didn't tighten his grasp, the former Decepticon medic smirked at the orange and red mech before him. "I'm surprised you came alone, con, wasn't there an ambush?" The lime coloured mech snorted and opened his servo so that the Autobot fell limply to the ground.

"There was no ambush, stupid bots. I did come alone, receiving a call from a certain bot wanting to ask some questions while I was out collecting remedies." Springer scolded at himself, of course a medic wouldn't come alone, yet being ambushed, they needed some sort of back-up, right? "Why, did you come alone? You're a medic."

"With a strong grasp too." Lying on the ground still clutching his throat, panting, Inferno weakly got to his peds and started walking over to his brother. "I am no ordinary Decepticon, I am an outcast of the Autobots."

Inferno looked into the blue-green optics of the weird medic and sighed. "Are you our Sire?" The mech looked at Springer with longing dread on his expression. "Yes, but I cannot tell you who your Carrier is. Understood?" Both bots nodded, Springer, now free from the weeds, took a step forward in awe.

"Then can you tell us who's the con spy in our ranks? I mean you're an Autobot, surely you don't want harm to come to them, right?" The mech straightened up and began to walk away,

"Roulette, and she's also had help."

It was a perfect day to go down to the frozen lake to see if there were anything they could use as supplies.

"Wow, with all this ice I guess we'd never run out of any." Inferno admired the peaceful lake, and its shining surface.

"Wanna go for a spin?" Moonracer suggested, Inferno, Moonie, Perceptor and Fireflight had come on an herb expedition. "Later, right now, we need some herbs!"

After they collected all they needed Perceptor agreed to watch as the three young trainees went out on the ice.

"This is what humans call 'ice skating'? It's just like flying!" Fireflight squealed, it was good to see that he was starting to lighten up over his sister's death. They started playing kick the cone, when Moonracer kicked it out of the square. "Out! I'll go get it."

Inferno slid carefully over the ice, just as he bend down to pick up the pine cone he heard a cracking sound. Just underneath him there were tiny cracks slightly forming into bigger ones. "Uh oh, we're skating on thin ice." He managed to say before he fell through into the icy cold water, it was cold, so cold. But peaceful, so calm and quiet, but so cold. He heard a painful splash above him and saw a faint purple figure, Moonracer, where had she learned to swim like that? 'Stop fighting it.' Inferno tried to warn her but his voice was drowned in bubbles, ignoring him, Moonracer grabbed his shoulders and started to thrust them upward, it was no use he was too heavy. A faint ghost figure appeared beside her, 'It's his time to die, not yours.' The ghostly figure of Firestar soothed her as she resurfaced.

Wailing silently he closed his optics, enjoying the peace before he joined the AllSpark. 'Don't leave me, it's so quiet.'

R.I.P Inferno, may Primus grant your eternal rest. Like I said, another bot dies, but don't worry, Sides- *******

Sorry about that, Arcee here, idiotic brothers. Now, Inferno died, Sideswipe comes back online and the mystery couple is yet to be revealed. "…..But I thought it was Ferno and Moonie! Not-"

Never mind! Now yes, it is Moonracer and someone else, I'm not revealing it it's my BFF for Primus sake! Also Firestar was a medic back in the Golden Ages, before WFC and FOC. (WFC, War For Cybertron. FOC, Fall Of Cybertron.) Anyway, hope you liked it, we'll see ya soon.