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One day after drinking game; Skywhip's POV
Skywhip just decided to stay away from everyone after that. She had scolded herself all night for it, and the rest of the night had stayed up, trying to find the bond-thread. She was glad she had an extra storage of energon. At about noon, her comm. link pinged, and she answered it.
::Yes?::-Skywhip
::'Hide's a lookin for ya, Skywhip. And so is Jackie:: -Jazz
::Why?:: -Skywhip
::Well, ah think 'Hide wanted to giv ya ah misson, but ah know both might be worried 'bout wat happen' last night. Ya kinda surprised us all::-Jazz
::Yeah, well, now everyone thinks Imma slut.::-Skywhip
::Actually, we all made each other swear that nothing would be shared from what happened last night. 'Hide was the first to suggest it.:: -Jazz
Skywhip was quiet for a long time, amazed. Maybe they were all nicer than they seemed. At least the twins were out of it…
::Alright, if you run into them, tell them I'll find them soon.:: -Skywhip
::Will do. See ya, 'Whip.::-Jazz
And with that, Skywhip jumped of the roof of the base to go inside. Little did she know someone was watching her.
After walking around the base a little, she bumped into Ironhide. He looked slightly flustered, but nodded a hello.
"Skywhip, I need you and Wheeljack to go on a small scouting mission in his 'JackHammer'. Decepticon's activity has just skyrocket near a few pyramids."
"Alright, but, why me and 'Jackie?"
"Because you might figure out what the heck the 'Cons are up to long before we do, and Jackie is pretty stealthy. Now go find Wheeljack and get the frag moving!"
Skywhip nodded and jogged of to find Jackie. She found him at his ship, ready to take off. He nodded a hello, and the two climbed in. It was slightly unnerving for her to be flying in an enclosed thing, but she'd have to deal with it.
There was absolute silence during the fight, the she broke the silence.
"Look, I know what I said last night may be a little weird, but.."
"Skywhip, what happened is in the past has pass. It doesn't have to be brought back to the present all the time, it can be forgotten. I learned letting go of certain things can really help a person," There was more silence, then a cluckle, "I have to say, you're one of the bravest femmes I've ever seen by doing that. It takes, as the humans say, 'a lot of guts to do a thing like that'. One things for sure, I know Bulkhead was lying.
This made Skywhip slightly chuckle, but then she looked at Jackie in a questioning way, "Wait, what are guts?"
They landed about a mile away from the site, hiding the ship in the middle of a bunch of dunes. The Nemesis, thank Primus, was nowhere around, but a frag of a lot of vechicons were. Jackie and Skywhip slid past a small patrol and peered over a knocked over-wall. The vechicons were mining, obviously, but there was no enregon around.
Skywhip peered at them, spotting the leader of the small vechicon group, Steve, she believed. When there were no commanders around, the vechicons use to fight for the short amount of dominance over each other. She guessed he had either won or the drone was their most trusted. She set her audios, and listened closely.
"Any update, Brian?" he said, and Skywhip huffed. It seemed that all of them had lowered their standers to English.
"No. The artifact is buried quite deep, and we have to be careful about hitting it."
"How close?"
"Under 3 klicks."
"Alright, be extremely careful here. If we break it, Commander Starscream won't be too happy."
Skywhip gritted her teeth. So that glitch was still alive… Suddenly two planes roared overhead, making the two autobots duck down low. Skywhip peered over the ledge to see and F-16 and a drone-plane stop in mid-air, then transformered. She immediately recognized the femme-like form of Starscream of the F-16, but the other bot…
She gasped slightly. That was impossible… The bot was the same colors and height, but a lot skinner and had this flat mask on like a screen of human 'computer'. She growled, it had to be an imposter. And it was going to pay for it.
"What is out current status, Steve?" screeched Starscream, and Skywhip cursed. She had forgotten her audios were turned up. His voice sounded a frag if a lot scratchier than it did before, like he had had a major injury to his voice-box. It sounded even worse when he spoke in human English
"We're pulling it up now!" called Steve, and the two commanders came down to where Steve was.
Wheeljack pulled Skywhip down behind the wall, "Alright, we need to get whatever artifact that is out of the hands of the 'Cons. I'll be a distraction, drawing nerd-bot and screamy attention while you get the artfact. But when you have it, be extremely careful, it could hurt you if it's a Con weapon."
"I think an Autobot weapon would do more harm than a Con weapon would…" she said, and Wheeljack nodded.
"Just be carful anyhow," he said, and took off.
With the sneakiness of a cat, Skywhip yanked her wings close to her body, and jumped behind another building. She jumped from building to building till she was behind an energon mining drill. She heard Jackie shout, and peered over to see him shooting at Starscream and the other commander. They dodged in moments as Wheeljack shot the vechicon holding the relic.
Bingo.
In the speed of light, she leapt out and grabbed for the relic. An angered cry came from Starscream as he shot at her. Just as she grazed the relic, a shot slammed her back, and she rolled across the ground. Cursing, she rose up, and saw the relic gripped in Starscream's talons. He laughed.
"Well, well, well. If it isn't the little failure," he hissed at her, "You here with your new boyfriend?"
With a growl, she leaped forward and tackled the SIC, knocking the relic out of his hand and to the ground. In rage, she punched him a few times, and then kicked him away, crawling for the relic. A firm whack came to her audios as Starsceam back-handed her, and she fought his clawing servos.
"GET OFF ME!" Skywhip screech rivaled his, and she kicked him backwards. With a twist, she grabbed the relic. It was a small ball made of energon-like roots. As soon as she grabbed it and squeeze, it dissolved. She cried out in horror, and then in fear is the thing turned back from a liquid to a root-like form and wrapped all the way up to her elbow.
Skywhip heard an angry yell from behind her, and turned to see Starscream on his feet and coming at her. Without thinking, she turned her hand that was wrapped in the relic towards him and balled it into a fist. The relic-root glowed brightly, and then a ray of sheer power shot out at him. He screamed in pain and she looked in fear as a seared half the side of his mid-torso off, almost cutting to the spark-chamber. Energon spilled everywhere as he fell to the ground, and Skywhip panted.
"The…Vos…Null-Ray…" chocked Starscream, and Skywhip felt fear run through her. The Vos Null-Ray was a gift to the autobots from the leader of Vos after one of the Primes saved the leader from something she couldn't remember. The Vos Ray never worked for that prime though since he was not a seeker or had any seeker blood in him. He tried to give it to someone else to see if it would work, but it only worked if you had both Prime and seeker blood.
"But…I…," she stuttered, standing up, shocked and confused. Before could say anymore, someone's servo grabbed her wrist and twisted. Skywhip screamed in pain as her wrist snapped and the Vos-Ray climbed higher up her arm and wrap in a band-like way around her upper arm, no longer covering her servo and lower arm. But some wrapped around the assailant's wrist and made a thin bracelet-like line around their wrist and stayed there too. She looked up in pain at whoever it was, and froze.
It was screen-face, staring right at her in the optics. Skywhip felt anger and 'WTF' well up in her, and she lashed out. The bot merely ducked, and smacked her upside the helm, hard. Her world began to spin, and she stumbled, falling. Screen-face amazingly caught her, and she looked back up into the screen, angry and confused again.
That's when she felt it. A tiny tug from the line her mind had found to be a bond. The question was clear.
What happened to you?
And she was out.
O.O CLIFFY! Next chapters gonna get interesting. Please R&R!
