I thought that it was just about long enough since I've written in this. I feel pretty proud that I've gotten this chapter done, plus two others. I kinda left off at a good part, 'cause now you'll know what's happening a little more. Enjoy.
Needless to say, his calming mechanisms made him lucky enough to calm down the twins in w matter of an hour or so, at least by his own guessing, and by then they were still sniveling and shaking because of what was going on. Or at least Blackbird was; Raven was obviously trying to be the brave one by putting on such a face and trying to show that he was not scared, which of course was quite the opposite. Aquajet knew how to read them, so it was hard fooling him when they were trying to hide something. Sometimes, at least. Others, not too much.
Sitting there with the twins, at the near far end of the cell with Blackbird sitting in the crook of his arm and holding on rather tight with his tiny servos and arms as much as around his neck as they could get and Raven sitting with his arms crossed in his guardian's lap and leaning against Aquajet's mid section, the light colored mech got some time to think, and think he did. Why was he here? Where were they? Why exactly were they kidnapped? Or just taken, matter of factly; no one knew they were taken, so Aquajet knew that he really couldn't call it being kidnapped. The mech from earlier did not help much; his choosing not to explain making Aquajet have think more about it. Obviously, someone was after them, but at the moment he couldn't think of who. The mech from earlier mentioned - basically - that he might have been working for someone. He called him the "old mech," although Aquajet couldn't think of anyone remotely elderly who was after him.
He really couldn't think of anyone who was after him, really; he was sure Soundwave forgot about him, however he couldn't rule him out as a possibility. That mech was rather sneaky and snide about his work and knew how to get what he wanted and when. Or at least from Aquajet's point of view. And he was sure that if Soundwave knew that he lived through escaping that one raid on the Decepticon base many eons back, he would come looking for him; Aquajet knew no other way of getting off of the planet except for sneaking, and the third in command would probably be sure to keep an audio out for any reports of a strange mech roaming around Cybertron or sneaking onto a ship to get off. Now that he thought about, Aquajet really couldn't rule out Soundwave being a part of this. The mech could have probably easily found him at any point in time if he wanted to, actually, now that he thought about it; planted a tracker in him that he didn't know about or sent spies after him - such as his mincons - to keep close and watch him but make sure not to get caught by him either. But if so, why now? Why wait so long before capturing him if it could have been that easy? Unless….
"Aquajet?" came a sniffle from Blackbird, breaking him from his thoughts. Instinctively the light colored mech turned his helm to look at the smaller twin, indicating for him to keep speaking. Rubbing his optics of any tears, Blackbird asked, "W-why are they keeping us here? What'd we ever do t' them? Did we do something wrong?" Aquajet sighed, off lining his optics for a moment before on lining them again and shaking his helm slightly.
"Now that I thought 'bout it, it's rather hard to explain, Blackbird," Aquajet replied, sorrow displaying in his optics as he spoke to the youngest twin.
"Wait! You mean you knew about this?" came a condemning cry from Raven before his twin could speak. Aquajet pursed his lips together in a straight line before looking down to the oldest twin, of whom displayed an obviously hurt look in his optics.
"Not….. exactly, Raven," Aquajet said calmly, although frowning at the look that he was being given by the oldest twin.
"Well then what is it?" Raven asked, his voice also portraying the hurt his face plates were showing. "'Cause it sounds a lot like you know why we're here, and you're just not telling us! What? You think we're too young to know or somethin'? 'Cause I can tell ya we're not."
Sighing, Aquajet tried not to let his anger get the better of him, even though Raven was rather getting on his nerves with his hidden accusations and slightly high pitched voice. He couldn't really blame him, though. They were in a terrible situation at the moment, and their lives were at stake. That, if his younger brother were getting even more scared by the moment, he would be quite mad at whomever was watching over him, too.
"It's not that, Raven, it's just…..," Aquajet started, however sighed as he tried to pull himself together. If Soundwave was back and was planning to do something to them, they had a right to know about him and what he did to him, right? At least they would be ready. Inhaling and then once more sighing, Aquajet asked, "You know how I tell you not to trust everyone you come across?"
"Yeah," both of the twins chorused, and it would taken someone well enough to not look at them oddly thinking that they had planned that.
"Well, there's a good reason for that," Aquajet went on, looking at both twins as if making sure that they were both listening. Both intently were, of course. "You see, the reason for that is someone's after me, and -"
"Whoa! Are you a wanted criminal or something?" Blackbird gasped, his tone accusing as his blue optics went large as he went straight to guessing. Aquajet sighed and shrugged.
"Not exactly. But anyway," the light colored mech went on, "someone's after me, or at first I thought. I'm an experimented on mech, meaning I've been worked on. Kinda like how scientists experiment with different things to see which is the best result or what ever?" Both twins nodded. "Well I'm kinda like that, only different."
"How different?" Raven asked, seeming interested enough in the rather true story that he was telling.
"Well, you see, I'm a Morphicon, meaning I -"
Before Aquajet could even remotely finish, pedsteps echoed down the hall like they had before, and instinctively Aquajet held the twins closer to his chassis, moving them around as needed as he quickly jumped to a kneeling position just in case anything happened. A moment later, the same mech from earlier appeared with a rather smug look on his face, however this time he had someone accompanying him. It was another mech, however this one seemed to care less if anything going on around him; face plates straight and seemingly uncaring, arms crossed over his chassis. And he was not the one to do the speaking, either.
"Well, well, looks like we meet again," the previous mech said with a hint of humor in his voice as he looked over Aquajet with a rather amused expression.
Wrinkling his face plates to match the anger that he felt as he held the twins closer to his frame, Aquajet snarled, "What the frag do you want?"
"Tsk tsk, you should watch your anger around the sparklings, you know," the mech stated, shaking his helm. "Wouldn't them picking up any bad habits, now would we? Then again, running around with you, I'm sure they've found plenty."
"Frag off," Aquajet could only retort, holding the twins closer as he heard Blackbird whimper against his chassis. The mech merely smiled, seeming pleased with his reaction, before sauntering closer until he was all but touching the bars of the cell.
"You know," the mech drawled, "the old mech sent us in here to retrieve you so he could look you over a bit, and I don't think he'd be too happy if you brought the sparklings along with you. They'd be in the way, if you know what I mean."
Leave them behind? Primus knew he couldn't! He couldn't trust these mechs for all the Energon in the world; he knew that they'd probably take them after he was gone and do Primus knew what to them, and he didn't want to leave them like that, without protection.
"Now, now, mech," said the other mech in a taunting voice, "if you don't do what the old mech asks, I'm sure we'll all be in trouble, won't we? So why don't you just put them down and come with us, hn? That would make our job much easier."
"Aquajet, you're not gonna leave us, are you?" Blackbird whimpered, now looking at his guardian with a more than frightened expression on his face plates.
Looking down, Aquajet had to contemplate; on the one servo, if he left them here, locked up with only a few mechs probably having a pass code or whatever for it, no one else could get to them. But, while he was with who ever this mech was trying to take him to, this mech could come in and grab them and be gone before he got back. On the other servo, if he took them with him, he could easily knock these two guys out and escape, even if one of them was holding the two. But then again, he didn't know the place at all, or even if they were on the same planet or anything. And if Soundwave was organizing this whole shindig, well, he was sure that this time, he wouldn't get far; Soundwave was probably expecting him to make a get away, and was probably more prepared this time than the last.
"Well?" the mech asked, tapping his ped on the ground in agitation even though he didn't sound like it. "I'm waiting." Aquajet thought for a moment more before looking back up at the yellow opticed mech, a scowl on his face plates.
"Promise you'll leave 'em both here untouched while I'm gone?" he asked, his voice all too serious. The mech seemed to think about his request for a moment before smirking.
"Well it depends on what the big boss thinks," he stated. "Although, as I said, he requested us to capture you and not the sparklings, so I'm sure he doesn't have any reason for them being here. They'd probably try to escape if we took them out, anyway, right?" There was a slight humor in his voice as he spoke the last part, however it went ignored as Aquajet gently set the sparklings down on the rather murky floor he stood on.
"What ever happens," he said in a low voice as he set them on their peds, much to their disappointment and displeasure, looking up at him with scared optics, "you stay as far back from those bars as you can. Don't go near them, and if someone comes in saying that they're gonna bring you to me, you don't listen to them, alright?"
"But Aquajet, what if -?"
"Alright?" Aquajet tried again, more stern and serious than the last time as he cute Raven off. Reluctantly, both nodded. "And if someone comes in here and tries to take you by force," the light colored mech went on, "don't try to put up a fight, okay?" When the twins looked at him in confusion, Aquajet stated, "The more you put up a fight, the more you're gonna get hurt, alright?"
After a moment, they both nodded. Aquajet smirked and put a servo on either of their helms, however the mech at the bars cleared his throat, obviously wanting to waste no more time then he already had. With a scowl on his face plates, Aquajet stood and turned, listening to the scuttling feet of the two sparklings as the instinctively rushed to the corner to hide while their guardian slowly trudged to front of the cell, a more than angered look on his face. The mech seemed pleased, however, going to unlock the cell door as he approached.
"Now don't try anything funny, alright?" the mech asked as he opened the doors rather slowly, as if expected Aquajet to try something, "or we'll have to use force or something worse, okay?"
"Fine, whatever," Aquajet grumbled, and as the cell door opened and he stepped out, he felt a rather strong servo clutch rather tightly onto his shoulder.
The second mech must have been standing farther back than he seemed, or Aquajet must have been farther back in the cell than he remembered, because this mech was taller than he remembered, ruby optics grimacing down at him. When Aquajet tried to pull away, obviously not wanting to be held onto because of the fact that he was willing to go quietly as long as they didn't hurt the twins, another servo grabbed his left wrist and he was forcefully turned down the hallway as his arm was roughly put behind his back.
"Hey!" Aquajet spat as he struggled to get his appendage free from the mech as they began walking away from the cell.
"Easy there tiger," said the first mech as he lead the way, looking over his shoulder at Aquajet as he struggled. "We wouldn't want this to get messy, now, would we? I'm sure that those younglings wouldn't be too happy to know that you were the one that cause trouble for them, right?"
Aquajet stopped struggling - although kept walking along - long enough to try and lurch at the mech in front of him, only to be roughly held onto and pulled back by the mech behind him as he gave the first mech a death look and snarled, "I swear to Primus, if you so much as look at them I will slit your throat open and leave you drain where no one can find you, do you hear me?"
"My, my, why we just all act civil?" the mech merely joked, laughing slightly before adding, "We'll just see what the big boss has to say about them, hm?"
Aquajet could only glare at the mech ahead of him as he was roughly pulled to walk straight ahead of the mech behind him, his wrist being tightly held onto while his free fist clenched and unclenched in fuming anger. This day couldn't get anymore fragged up, could it?