"Hey." the dragon said, motioning to him to join them.
Jazz walked over. "'Sup, y'all?" He asked, looking at them.
Syus motioned for him to sit, and winstriker pulled out the seat next to her for him.
Jazz sat down. "Now may I ask what's up with y'all?"
Syus steeled himself against the emotions he was reading and asked. "you and Jade are friends, correct?" he flicked a glance over the Porsche's shoulder at the Lamborginis.
Jazz nodded. "Yeah..." He answered, looking at Syus.
He sighed, "If you really want to know what happened to Jade...she was killed by the Decepticons, but...came back I guess you could say...Jade had a plan so she could come back fully and..." He trailed off and sighed.
The others at the table's jaws dropped.
Syus ground out: "who. how." his voice dropped an octave, taking on and icy growl at the those two words. He stared at the Porsche with cold fury.
"Explain. what. happened." he deadpanned.
"Too bad I can't see his optics." the dragon thought. That would tell him everything he needed to know, right away. Right now, Jazz's body language tightened ever-so-slightly, although he made it appear he was no more tense than before. To the untrained optic, that is.
Jazz explained everything. From the trial, to Klutch hiring the Decepticons to Jade dieing and then finally her coming back and telling them the plan.
Syus stared. He finaly whispered. "Why didn't you defend her.." he looked up, face emotionless. Windy and the others gave him an icy stare also.
"We did!" Jazz said, "We tried when she took off, but she told us not to follow and not to help..." he trailed off and looked at the ground, "Do ya think I'm proud about not being able to save 'er? don't you think I want to have been able to save her?" he asked, looking up at the two. "I know we should have and could have saved her but..." he sighed and looked at the ground.
The twins blinked from the doorway.
Should we leave?
Probably... Omega nodded.
Thought so.
The dragon nodded, sensing he was being truthfull. He stood. The others would follow if they wanted to. He had people to talk to. He caught sight of the twins leaving. He exited the rec room. "You two." he commanded.
The tiwns winced. They looked at each other and then turned around to face him. "Yes..." They muttered.
Omega looked at the two. He looked at Alpha and then back at the group. "What's-"
"up?" Alpha finished. She giggled and got an elbow from Omega.
He growled audibly and strode up, looking at them. They would say what he needed to know without him asking. He gave them an expectant and cold stare.
"Eep." Alpha muttered. She remembered the wolf's cold stare and hid behind Omega.
The mech growled and covered his sister with his wing. "Stop that!" He growled loudly. The mech folded his arms and glared at him through his visor, "What do you want?"
"You know what I wish to know. You purposely avoided my questions before." Syus near-whispered icily. His optics flashed briefly yellow at the word, then went back to amber.
Alpha swallowed. She peeked over her brother's wing and clutched it.
Omega winced and flinched with pain, but stayed glaring at the mech. "So?" He asked, "We knew what happened to Jade and we weren't going to tell you...I didn't know you. Alpha didn't know you. We don't trust people we don't know."
Alpha nodded furiously. she then stopped.
He didn't believe them. He was here, he was friends with the Autobots, why would they not trust him? why would the Autobots trust him to be here and help them fight if he was not one of them.
He repeated this to them, using the same low, cold voice as before." he glared, expecting an intellegent answer.
Omega growled. "Hey! I said we don't tell anything to anyone we don't know. We don't know why the others didn't tell you, okay?" He said, folding his arms.
"Omega's telling the truth." Alpha said softly. She gripped her brother's wing tighter.
"Stop..."
"Sorry, bro." Alpha said, letting his wing go.
"Thank you."
He stared a moment longer and moved past them, glaring at anyone who looked at him on his way down the hall.
Windstriker, Mic, Bullet, and Needle came out, glaring at them before passing.
"Distrust other Autobots often!?" Windstriker snapped, glaring and passing them.
Bullet just gave them an understanding look as he passed.
Hammertread woke up and looked around the repairbay, then at Hook. "Who are you? and where am I?" he ran one hand over his face, as though it would wipe away the fatigue.
"Ah, I see you're awake." Megatron said. He walked over. "You were badly damaged by the Autobot attack..." he lied...
"I meant when we first met you, dammit!" Omega yelled.
"Let it go, bro..."
Omega growled. Loudly.
Alpha whimpered.
"Sorry."
"'S okay..."
Mic roared and grabbed Omega by the throat, shoving him back against the wall. Hard.
He got into the mech's face. "And if you had fought harder she would still be here!!!" He roared.
"Mic!" Bullet barked, grabbing him and trying to get him away. Mic puched Omaga twice before Needle grabbed his other arm and pulled him away. Sunny and Sides came dashing out of the rec. room to grab him.
"It's probably you're fault too!" they got in between them. "Bastard!" Mic yelled over Sunstreaker's shoulder. Prime came runing, also.
"BASTARD!!!" alpha screeched. She launched herself at Mic and pinned him to the ground. Her optics burned with newly found hatred.
"Never! TOUCH MY BROTHER!!" She hissed.
Omega shook his head. He touched his cracked visor and then saw Alpha. He walked over to her and gently pulled her off of Mic. "Al...calm down...I know you-"
"He reminds me of Starscream." Alpha hissed as she backed away from Mic. She looked up and gently pulled her brother's visor off. "Let me fix this..."
Mic kept screaming, until Prime finally got him to calm down... Syus turned and looked at them from down the hall wordlessly. "Come on." Windy grabbed his arm and hauled him down the corridor, before Prime could order him to be taken to the brig.
Alpha growled. Loudly. She glared at Mic, but then turned back to her brother. She grabbed his hand. "Come on, bro. Let's go get you repaired." She said softly.
"Lead the way." Omega replied as he rubbed his optics. The mech sighed.
Alpha gently led him towards the med bay, sighing softly as she did so."jerk..."
"Nice flying tackle, sis."
"Thanks." Alhpa smiled. "Nice getting in trouble."
"Th-HEY!" Omega yelled.
Alpha laughed out loud.
Syus and the others walked down the corridor, also heading towards the repairbay, but taking a different route.
Alpha sighed. She got out her tools as her brother rested and repaired his visor. Once that was done, she slowly slid it on his face and smiled. "There. All better."
Omega smiled and cut on his optics. "Perfect...now I can see!"
Alpha nodded. She smiled and started to repair his wing where she had hurt it.
The repairbay doors swished open, and Syus strode in, Bullet and windstriker behind him.
(Needle had taken Mic outside for some air, hoping he wouldn't 'go off' again.)
He looked at the two.
Ratchet looked up. "What is it?" He asked, "Sit down and I'll get to you in a minute."
Alpha looked up at Ratchet handed her a hammer. "Thanks. Hang on, bro..this'll sting."
"Not as much as when you threw the wrench at my head, I bet." Omega chuckled. He got wacked with the hammer.
"Ow!"
"Nyah." Alpha muttered. She started to band the dents out of her brother's wings.
"what happened to Jade?" the dragon asked coldly, looking him straight in the optics.
Ratchet glanced at the twins.
"What?" They said at the same time. "Jazz told him. We don't see why he needs a second answer. It's gonna be the same thing"
Ratchet sighed. "you two-"
"Need to stop doing the freaky twin thing, we know." they muttered.
Ratchet then looked at the dragon. "Jazz already told you, didn't he?"
"I wanted to hear it from you." Syus retorted flatly.
Windy gave the twins a glare.
The twins glared back. Their looks said 'we can do that too. Ha.'
Ratchet simply told him the same thing Jazz told him.
"See?" the twins said. "We weren't lying."
Syus' patience finally quit. "Silence!" he snapped. there was a barely heard growl undertoning that.
"And why couldn't you do anything?" he narrowed his optics, glaring daggers at the medic.
Alpha raised her wrench to throw it, but Omega lowered her hand. "Don't waste the wrench, sis."
Alpha muttered something.
Ratchet looked at him. "Do you THINK that we all sat by and wached her die?!"
"you can't say anything!" Alpha put in.
"You weren't there!" Omega finished.
"I can handle myself." Ratchet sighed.
"Fine. See if i come to your aid again." Alpha huffed.
Syus folded his arms in an expression that said "Yes you did just stand by and watch."
"And where is..." he abruptly looked away, and at the floor, trying to hide his emotion.
The scaled green mech narrowed his optics even more, and forced it away.
He turned back, voice wavering a bit. "whereisshe." he said quickly.
Ratchet sighed. He told the mech Jade's plan.
Alpha and Omega blinked. They looked at each other and then blinked agian.
"And?" Syus looked as though his facade would break any second.
The tiwns looked at Ratchet. They too were confused a bit worried.
He silently went and got the small cylinder from the corner, and wordlessly handed it to the dragon. Syus looked at it, looked at Ratchet, and gulped.
his wings quivered.
The twins blinked. "Ratch..." They muttered.
Alpha dropped the wrench on her brother's hand.
"Ow."
the dragon lost his balance and went to his knees. Windy felt tears come to her optics, just looking at it...
Ratchet took two steps back...
The dragon's roar echoed throughout the Ark. the roar ended with a soft whimper, not even bothering to hold back the tears.
The twins winced. Their optics filled with tears, though they didn't know why.
The dragon-bot's wings quivered so much, the wing-hooks holding onto his shoulder plates came loose, and his wings sagged downward.
After a minute or so, he calmed himself and looked up at him, tear-filled amber optics begging him for a reason.
Anything.
The twins looked away.
Ratchet looked away as well. "She...told us to..." Was all he muttered.
"I did. and I will return. Please don't cry." a soft feminine voice sounded, almost about to cry itself.
Syus looked up, and around, shocked.
There was Jade against the wall, plain as day.
"There's one thing left we have to do before I can come back."
Syus jumped up and wrapped his arms around the now-semi solid form.
"It's okay, it's okay." she soothed gently. "This has happened before."
"but...I..." the dragon took a step back and looked at her.
She shrugged and explained about how she'd normally go back to her own universe, but thought it was her spark being prematurely seperated from he chassis that caused her to be "stuck" (her chassis, anyway) while she got sent home.
Syus gawked. "So...you are alive, then?" he asked, suddenly blushing.
She nodded. "Yeah. I wish I could've caught you before now. I was... recovering." she smiled sadly.
Syus wiped his tears and tried to smile back. She kinda-hugged him again, being a ghost and all.
Alpha smiled.
Omega grinned.
The twins hugged each other, but broke apart qickly. They coughed and looked away.
Syus glanced at them and lifted an optic ridge
The moment of drama having passed, Jade just smiled and told them everything they had missed.
"Oh, there is one thing I allways wanted to do." Jade snickered.
"Oh no... not that..." Whirlwind muttered.
Syus looked clueless, but smiled anyway.
Jade just grinned. "mary sue rule number thirty four... or something like that." she cleared her throat and grinned Widely at whirlwind, then loudly bellowed
"DON'T CRY FOR ME ARGENTIIIINAAA!" she cackled loudly, and Windstriker shook her head at her, facepalming.
The twins fell over laughing. Omega fell off of his berth and alpha fell next to him.
Ratchet blinked.
Windy took one look at him and started laughing. He and Syus looked at each other.
"What?" they both said at the same time.
Windy sniggered.
"Something I got off the internet. It's a list of things that a person can be thought of as a mary-sue for... oh, never mind." the jet grinned. "Come on, let's go."
she headed for the door.
Omega finally calmed down. He sighed and smiled at them.
Alpha giggled and grinned.
"Wait." Syus put his wings back where they belonged hooked onto his shoulderplates. He handed Windy the container. Jade also calmed down, the moment having passed as quickly as it came. She still smiled, though, and looked at Syus.
"So, fly me out, boss." she saluted.
Ratchet gave her a curious look.
"Old flyer tradition." Jade said, taking a step back towards the group.
"Flyers spend most of their lives in the air. So, when one goes offline, the other members or their trine... the rest of their trio, take their ashes into the air, to be blown into the wind." the seeker's expression got a little more serious.
"It's said that if it rains, Primus himself is crying for them, and they will be accepted into the matrix. If the sun shines right afterward, he is smiling on those left behind..." she trailed off, then shrugged.
"That's where the term comes from."
The twins nodded. "Cool."
Windstriker put the container in her storage compartment.
The trio turned to leave, just as Mic and Needle came bursting in.
"What's going..." Needle looked around.
"On." he finished, then spotted Jade.
His optics widened. "Oh no."
Mic's jaw dropped.
Syus just looked at them. "They were being truthfull." he said quietly.
The jet behind him nodded sollemnley.
The tiwns decided not to say anything to Mic. They simply squeezed each other's hands and waited, watching.