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Previously- In between all these questions, Nitrofire had started feeling emotions again that were not hers. It only took her an astro-second before realising whose emotions these were. She looked up at the blue and black and narrowed her optics before asking the question both of the seekers hoped that she would not ask...

"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?"

15 January 1986, Nemesis Med Bay...

Silence reigned throughout the med bay after Nitrofire asked the dreaded question. The wings on both the blue and black seekers twitched nervously, neither wanting to answer. Both looked at each other, before looking back to the irate commander and shrugging their shoulders. Big mistake...if anything Nitrofire just got angrier. If it wasn't for the fact that she was still in a bit of pain, she would have launched herself at the two and kicked their afts wing mates or no. Starscream, who until then remained in the background came forward.

"They misguided fools took it into their own hands to do something completely and utterly stupid without a thought for how it would impact upon either of us"

"You've got that right. I was trine-bound whilst I was in stasis-lock! Now I'm stuck with their emotions running through my processor"

"You have my sympathy...I have lived with it for too long"

"I suppose this means we are stuck with each other now as well"

"Unfortunately"

"Can I kill them now?"

"No...but you can brutally maim them if it makes you feel better.I'll even assist you"

Soon the two seekers were silent, seemingly lost in their own thoughts on how to exact punishment on their wing mates. Whilst they were distracted, Skywarp took the opportunity to nudge Thundercracker and nod towards the med bay exit. They slowly backed away, hoping to escape unnoticed. Too bad that Starscream and Nitrofire were broken from their reverie by a canister being knocked to the ground by a careless Skywarp.

"And where do you think you two are going. Starscream and I are not finished with you"

"Oh frag"

"Teleport us out of here Skywarp"

"No need to ask me twice TC"

Starscream lunged toward the duo hoping but crashed to the floor as Skywarp got both himself and his blue wing mate out just in time. Starscream slammed his fist into the floor and muttered a curse before getting to his feet and walking back to the berth where Nitrofire was sitting.

"I hope you don't think I'm going to form a trine bond with you as well"

"Of course not Starscream. Being bound to those two gives me enough of a processor ache as it is. You would make it ten times worse"

"I hope you don't mind commander... but may I suggest that you temporarily move your quarters closer to ours. While what Thundercracker and Skywarp did was incredibly stupid, no doubt they did what they thought was best. They will want to fawn over you because of you injuries. Believe me, every time I get shot by Megatron, I can't get rid of them"

"I think not. I prefer my own quarters. I happen to have everything I need. The Pandemonium is my own ship after all"

"Alright then. Have it you own way. I had best leave before Hook starts to pace a hole in the corridor"

"You will deal with those two then when they return to the ship"

"Of course. I hope that you make a speedy recovery commander. Despite the fact Megatron is still on Cybertron, he is still a pain in the aft to deal with"

"Thank you Starscream- I'll be sure to tell him that"

"Frag you!"

"In your dreams"

March 1986, Command Trine Quarters...

Despite the problems caused by Skywarp and Thundercracker joining with Nitrofire, both the seekers had made it through the following months relatively unscathed. Starscream had only assigned them to a Earth year's worth of monitor duty. It could have been worse.

Starscream himself was currently in the med bay, having narrowly escaped being offlined. He had argued with Megatron again after a battle gone wrong and was left behind after being blasted within an inch of his life. Thundercracker and Skywarp had themselves been unable to bring him back to base after the Autobot twins had decided to engage in a friendly bit of jet judo, so it fell to Nitrofire to drag him back. One of his main fuel lines had been severed, so Nitrofire had to improvise and connect them to her own to make sure he did not die from severe energon loss. Since then, the two seekers began to show a bit more of a grudging respect towards one another.

Unfortunately for Skywarp though, who had wished for more than a bit of respect to occur between the two, things were not moving fast enough. He had heard from a reliable source that the femmes on Pandemonium were having a private get together- no mechs allowed. Skywarp had heard rumours about the type of things that go on at femme get-togethers...Skywarp had a very good imagination. He also knew that Nitrofire would be there. So, with a plan to get an insider's look at what femmes got up to, Skywarp enlisted the help of Reflector (to sneak in and get pictures), Frenzy and Rumble (for video footage) and Octane (to reproduce said footage). Hopefully, Skywarp thought, they would not be disappointed and he would be able to get some good pictures of the femme commander to put in Starscream's personal computer (not to mention the credits he could make selling pictures of the other femmes to his fellow Decepticons). In doing this, he hoped that he might encourage his stubborn air commander to 'realise'his feelings for the femme. Nothing could possibly go wrong...

Meanwhile, Thundercracker was aware of Skywarp's plotting and had distanced himself from the trouble, staying in a spare room on the Pandemonium. He could only hope that when Skywarp and his co-conspirators got caught, there were enough pieces of them left to put back together. After all, he had to admit, without Skywarp, life on Earth would be very dull indeed.