Disclaimer: Do not own transformers.
AN: Everything happens the same but they are dragons. Operation Bumblebee does not happen and that is where the story will start. Things have been changed to fit the story. Characters and events maybe changed or be non existent.
The cave was dark inside as Primes group moved through the tunnels. Stalagmites that were centuries or more rose from the floor as drops of water hit them. Above them stalactites hung over almost touching Primes helm as he maneuvered through the maze the stalagmites made.
Bulkhead hummed as he moved around the large ground forms in the way. Scavenger just stepped over the majority of them looking around himself. Arcee and Blurr kept close together occasionally separating and running to different sides of the cave to find any tunnels that might lead them to the signals.
"Optimus," Scavenger called as they got deeper into the cave. "It looks to get bigger as we head further in." He nodded to the deeper portions of the cave.
"Interesting." Everyone turned to Ratchet as he used one of his many tools. "My scanners are picking up at least five signals now." He moved along in front of the wreckers with Red. "Originally I couldn't pick anything up, but now I am getting all five signals."
Red nodded, "It's not too surprising at how the seekers could only pick it up." This got him some looks. "Do you remember how many times we tried to make underground bases and they were always found?" This got him a lot of nods. "Starscream told me it's because of their sensors. Seekers are built to be the top hunters, so if their prey hide, they had to evolve to find them." Optimus nodded remembering the sensors that the trine had exposed. "Their sensor evolve to be bigger and more sensitive than ours."
"So no one could hide from them?" Arcee looked at Red who nodded his helm.
"Yes, though during the war many had started to let us go." He went back to following the signal.
"Why?" Bulkhead decided to pipe up following Ratchet and Red.
This time it was Blurr who figured it out, "Because they didn't want to decimate our species. Not that it helped in the end." He mumbled under his breath.
Everyone grew silent at this. Their numbers had been good till the war had hit from lack of energon. Now only a few grounders remained and the seekers were the ones on the verge of extinction.
Ratchet stopped with Red next to him, "We are here."
The others looked in front of them to see five silhouettes. They were close together and seemed to have tried to keep themselves warm in their huddle. The most ominous thing about this was the fact that they were not moving.
"What do we do?" Bulkhead approached them with Scavenger.
"What are they?" Arcee moved to one of them and brushed the bit of frost from it's helm.
The dragonformer was grey from the lack of energon and warmth that would flow through its body. She could sense that it's spark was still beating at a slugs pace.
"They seem to be seekers of some sort." Ratchet scanned the largest of the five dragons. His wings were curled into his frame like he was trying to keep warm. With how close the other five were they must have been trying to preserve what they could before falling into stasis lock. "It's a bit strange though. They are much smaller that seekers themselves." He scanned them again trying to decipher their age.
"How old are they?" Arcee blew more snow off of the body she was examining.
Ratchet frowned and knocked on his scanned a couple of times. When he checked it again he growled, "Frag me sideways into the pit." This got him a look from everyone and a few chuckles, "The scanner says they are full grown young adults." He frowned again before putting it away.
The cave walls rumbled and the stalactites above rattled as laser fire started to happen outside. Frost rained down from above onto their armor from the shaking stalactites. Further inside the cave a few could be heard falling to the ground.
"I think we have company." Blurr growled looking back the way they came.
"As long as we stay this far down the decepticons won't notice us." Scavenger looked back with worry, "Right now they are focused on the other group."
Optimus nodded and walked around the five bodies. "We need to get them out of here." Once he moved closer a glow appeared from his chassis. It opened and the Matrix came out much to the surprise of everyone. It spoon around creating an electrical sphere. Lighting shot from the sphere hitting the walls and the floor. Blurr ducked behind a stilagmite as one of these currents went over his helm. Bulkhead ducked along with Scavenger. Arcee ran behind a wall just as a current came near her. Ratchet stayed behind Prime with red Alert. The only place where the currents weren't going. What they didn't notice was the fact that the lighting current was hitting the five stasis locked seekers as well.
Once it was done it retreated back into Optimus's chassis. Everyone looked at it as it rested inside of its owner. When it was back inside Optimus closed his chassis with a bewildered look. If they had been paying attention to the seekers in stasis lock they would have noticed a sudden change in color.
"Um… what was that about?" Bulkhead tilted his helm looking at a bewildered Optimus.
"It wasn't me." Optimus looked at everyone, "The matrix seems to always have a mind of its own."
Ratchet huffed, "Yeah but why did it just try to electrocute all of us?" He glared at Optimus tail twitching behind him. He ignored Blurr's, "What do you mean us? You were fine behind Optimus!"
"I don't really know?" Optimus scratched at the floor feeling embarrassed about this.
Bulkhead moved to check on the bodies when snow fell off of one. "Huh?" He looked up seeing if the frost had been misplaced again from the laser fire that kept hitting the mountain every so often. When he saw it wasn't that, he moved closer.
Scavenger was watching Bulkhead from the corner of his optic as everyone else was mostly focused on getting Optimus to figure out what had happened. When he saw Bulkhead move cautiously to one of the bodies he turned. He watched as Bulkhead nudged one of them a bit. When no reaction happened he moved away with a relieved sigh.
"So what do we do to get-" Blurr was tackled from behind as a flurry of snow and frost blasted everywhere. It landed on his back with an enraged shriek reminiscent of a seeker. Blurr managed to throw the other off his back.
"What the frag!" Ratchet backed away with Red Alert.
The small seeker like dragon shrieked and screeched tail lashing in anger. He had a mostly white body like Starscream, but more built like Thundercracker. A heavy close range fighter it would seem. His chassis was red along with his underbelly. Black wings held open in threat as he watched all of them. What stood out was the fact he had blue optics.
"Calm down young one." Optimus moved close to the other who growled in return. It took a step forward lowering its head, optics narrowing similar to Starscream's own optics.
"I think whatever the Matrix did made him come out of stasis lock." Red Alert moved to flank Optimus. "Very interesting."
"Let's focus on the fact that this one is awake right now." Arcee moved back a bit then glanced at the other four bodies. "Umm."
Bulkhead moved back as well when the largest of the small seekers started to get up in front of him. "Guy's!" He took a step back looking at the seeker. "We have a big problem!"
It yawned as it stood up shaking the snow from his body. Blue optics locked as he looked at Bulkhead. This one looked just like the first one, but had yellow arms and legs. A yellow stripe could also be seen on his underbelly. He growled at Bulkhead, tail lashing and wings in threat posse.
It wasn't long before the other three also started getting up. One was almost entirely red with a white helm, arms, and legs. The second was a navy blue with a red underbelly and white wings. The final one was a mostly red dragon with white arms and legs and an orange helm and muzzle. All of them took the same position of a threatening posture.
The most striking thing about the five was the blue optics. Seeker's traditionally have red optics not blue. Starscream and his trine where the exception, going through some evolution like state.
All five growled at the autobots who backed away slowly. "Bulkhead, Scavenger move closer to us and away from those three." Optimus placed himself back in front of the medics. The two wreckers moved back slowly to where the others are.
"I can protect myself, sir" Red Alert moved to stand at his side.
"I don't doubt that Red Alert." Optimus looked at the five small seekers in front of him. They kept growling and shrieking at them. Wings flapping and opening wide. "What do they want?" He tilted his helm at them.
"Sir?" Arcee looked away from the five small seekers. It was then that all pit broke loose.
The five charged at the team. Ratchet quickly pulled Red Alert away and further back down the tunnel. Blurr hissed and clawed at the one who had jumped onto him earlier. Arcee was in the same predicament slashing at her opponent.
Bulkhead and Scavenger where busy fighting off the other two who kept jumping onto their backs. They were forced to shake and stomp trying to get the smaller dragons off. The claws of the small seekers made it very hard to get them off of their backs. The largest of the small seekers growled and shrieked as he lashed at Optimus with his tail.
One of the seekers jumped off of Bulkhead and started to climb the wall. "Umm, they are climbing the walls now!" He yelled as it jumped from the wall whacking him in the head. "Ow!"
Blurr jumped back dodging the seeker that tried the same thing. "What the pit is with them?!" He whacked the seeker away from him. It shrieked as his claws racked it's armor.
"Is there anyway to get them to stop!?" Arcee join in as they both started to watch each others back.
Optimus stopped as he listened to the seekers shriek. 'They sound exactly like….' His optics widened holding the larger seeker under his paw. "Red Alert contact Starscream or one of the others. We need them down here now!"
"Are you sure!?" Red called and winced when the seeker dug it's sharp fangs into Optimus's leg breaking some of his armor.
"Yes!" Shaking his leg Optimus rounded on the seeker forcing it back with his horns.
"You heard him kid, step on it!" Ratchet commanded stepping in front of the younger to guard him.
"Right." Red started to contact the seekers outside for help.
Outside, Starscream had engaged Soundwave in a fight. The thinner flier kept up with Starscreams aerodynamic body well, but not well enough to completely catch up with him. Everytime he thought he got him, Starscream would make a sharp bank to the left or right forcing the other to make a wide turn. Doing this forced Soundwave to slow down and lose what ground he had on Starscream.
'Not so good at flying are you?' Starscream glanced behind him seeing Soundwave again making a wide turn. Flapping his wings again Starscream dove into the enemy lines slashing wings and tails alike. 'That should get rid of a couple more of them.'
"Starscream?" He heard Jetfire comm him over the battle.
"I'm fine here, you?" He sent back as he quickly ducked Soundwave's slash.
"Well beside the fact Megatron has me as his target… I'm just dandy." Jetfire chuckled as Megatron roared in anger behind him.
Starscream smiled banking sharpe left again and forcing Soundwave to fly pass him. "That's good to hear, Soundwave is trying to take me out right now. He's failing miserably."
"Careful Star." Thundercracker echoed back. "If you were on the ground it would be a different story, wouldn't it?"
"Wouldn't want anymore enemies would you?" Came a cheeky reply from Skywarp.
"Both of you shove it!" He growled at their chuckles. "Explain to me again, why I care about you two?" The blades on his wings extended out and he flew through another group of cons. Their shrieks of pain echoed all around the snowy mountain as he cut through their wings and sides.
"You'd die without us." Thundercracker deadpanned releasing a sonic boom on a group of cons. He watched in amusement as they spiraled in different directions from his blast.
Lashing out at another con before flying away Skywarp laughed, "What he said." Came Skywarps chipper answer with said laugh.
"Anyone have a lock on Thrust?" Jetfire called over as he lead Megatron higher into the clouds trying to lose him.
He got back a negative response from the trine. He sighed before igniting himself on fire and diving right for Megatron. The decepticon leader dodged the flaming second in command and roared in rage.
"Starscream!" The shout almost made Starscream lose his focus in his flight. He had to pull off a sharp turn while diving down to dodge Soundwave and the rocks of the mountain.
"Red? What's wrong?!" He flew into the clouds and lost Soundwave for a bit.
"We need your help!" Red sounded panicked, "The five signals we found.. Yeah they woke up and are very angry with us." 'They are climbing the walls again!' He heard someone call from behind Red. "It's getting bad down here."
"Calm down." Starscream lazily flew around in the clouds. "What do you need me for?"
"I don't know but Optimus said to contact either you or one of the others." Red moved about, "I choose you since you might know what to do about this."
Starscream paused in his flight, "And how am I the best qualified?"
"Ummm, you did calm Skywarp and Thundercracker?" Red responded.
Soundwave came from behind forcing Starscream into a suicide dive. "They were my trine mates don't forget. These guys are unknown to me and them!" He spoon around and slashed at the tentacles trying to grab him. 'I am really getting tired of you and your tentacles Soundwave!' His thoughts projected at the psychic flier making him waver.
That's all it took for Starscream to slash him with his null claws. Soundwave plummeted into the deep snow paralyzed for the time being. Starscream watched as he landed in the deep snow. After a quick scan, he was satisfied to find Soundwave was still active.
"Ok I got rid of my problem for the moment." He patched back into Red's comm as he flew away. "What else is going on and how big is said problem besides they are angry?"
"Oh let me see… they have bitten Scavenger, one is fighting Optimus, and another keeps slamming into Bulkhead and knocking him about. Blurr seems to be handling the situation well enough along with Arcee." Red paused looking up as more frost and rocks came down. "If they keep this up I am afraid the place will collapse."
Sighing through his vents Starscream looked to the cave entrance. "Have Blurr and Arcee cover the entrance, because once I go for it everyone will notice it."
"Roger!" Red looked at the two small grounders fighting back to back. "Hey, move to the front of the cave. Starscream is coming in!"
As he said this he saw a shadow near the wall. "Thrust!" Ratched turned around too glaring at the other seeker.
Thrust smiled looking at the chaos going on behind the autobots. "Looks like you could use some help." His smile became much darker. Moving faster than Red and Ratchet could, he knocked them down as he passed them slamming them both into the walls.
With Optimus's back turned to him and preoccupied, he took advantage. Slashing at his back struts Optimus yowled in pain and fell to his side. The small seeker like dragon yowled and backed away. He turned front the large grounder to the the other seeker in the room.
"Stay down prime." Thrust moved around the damaged body of the prime. "Now what do we have here? More candidates for the decepticon army?" He studied the small seeker in front of him.
Optimus groaned as he tried to get up. "Thrust leave them out of this."
Thrust rolled his optics, "You have no idea as to get these guys to listen to you. So why should they not listen to me?" With that he moved toward the small seeker who growled at him.
Thrust optics narrowed as he approached the other. Then in the blink of an optic he struck out at the other seeker. It yelped as the claws from the larger seeker tore through his thin armor. At his pained cry the other small seekers came running from their fights to rally him.
They chirped and screeched as they came over to check on him. The autobots backed off and moved around to help Optimus up. Thrust just stood proudly in front of the seekers who looked up at him growling.
Thrust screeched and flapped his wings. The smaller seekers stopped growling and looked at each other. Thrust smiled revealing his fangs and nodded at the autobots. The seekers all turned their helms looking at the group watching them.
"Um, what do we do?" Bulkhead moved to make sure he was blocking Optimus from the seekers.
Red narrowed his optics in thought, "I think he may have just got their alliance." He watched as the started to prowl forward with Thrust watching them. "Ok, yeah I think that is what happened." He stepped back with Ratchet next to him.
"Scrap." Arcee and Blurr muttered under their breath.
Before the seekers could jump at them a shriek was heard. The shadow that followed flew over the autobots and landed between them and the seekers. Wings flared and optics glowing in rage at the smaller versions of his species. The leader of the smaller seekers growled which was answered by Starscream's roar and stomp.
-Who are you?- The leader moved threateningly toward Starscream.
-I am with the ones behind me.- Starscream nodded to the autobots behind him. His tail twitched as the seekers drew near.
-You are here to kill us too?!-
-Kill you? No we came to help you.- Starscream moved closer to them. His wings lowering and poster become more calm. -We wish to bring you back to base to recover. No harm will come to you, you can trust us.-
-He lies!- Thrust stomped his paw on the ground, -Kill them, that is an order!-
The group looked at him, their optics glaring in anger. As one they turned to Starscream who was also looking over at Thrust.
-Do you truly believe him?- Those glowing orange optics turned to them, -I once made the same mistake as you are about to. Don't follow what I did, I was lucky to have turned myself around and join this side after.- A deep vent in and out, -If you attack me I won't fight back. I won't order you to follow me either. That is not our way.- He closed his optics and lowered his helm. Wings lowered and relaxed in poster as he waited for them to make a decision.
The smaller seekers all looked at one another in thought. Should they attack the ones who are there to kill them? Or should they fight the one who said he was helping them fight the enemy?
-What are you waiting for, kill them!- Thrust yelled at the group.
The group looked to their leader and nodded. They made their decision on who to attack.
"Teletraan, species guide for this fanfiction."
Teletraan "Looking up data on the species please wait as more data will appear as it is found.
Seekers: Supposedly the most powerful and quickest of the dragonformer race. In the time of the predacons, seekers where the apex predator. During this time the sensors in the wings made it impossible to hide from them or sneak up on them. Seekers use momentum and their fierce claws to tear an enemy apart. Seeker legs are known to be the strongest part of the seeker, their legs need to support their takeoff and their landing from G-Forces and weight. Seekers fly in pairs of three called Trine's. Each trine has a leader and their two followers. Trine leader is not picked from the strongest, but from the smartest of the group the strongest is usually made the second wing. Most seekers are born with two base colors, triple colors are seen in those who are mutated. Seekers have a sigma ability which allows them to pull difficult and impossible things (ex. Starscream's null ability, Thundercrackers sonic boom clap, Skywarps transwarping). (more data receiving)
Grounders: Large ground bound dragonformers. The grounders are the largest of the dragonformer race. Grounders have a larger bulk to them allowing them to intimidate their targets. Grounders don't usually have sigma abilities like seekers. Trained in hunting and stalking they can easily overpower a seeker who is grounded from a wounded wing. Those grounders who are best at stalking are known to have a slimmer frame to them. Long legs and a sleek body they could pass as a seeker born without wings. (Ex. Optimus (intimidation type), Bulkhead (Strength type), Arcee (stalker type))
Sub-Seekers: A sub base of seeker that evolved from a union of grounder and seeker. Depending on how strong the CNA of the species is the sub-seeker can have wings or not. Some have even exhibited the sigma gene.(Ex: Soundwave telepathy, Jetfire fire armor, Bumblebee normal, Blurr Speed/Glider). (More data required)
Aerialbots: Data loading at 70%
Predacon: ? More data required
Minicon: Minicon are small dragonformers that can merge with their bonded or chosen partner. Some minicons specialize in enhancing certain aspects and abilities of their partners. There are mini cons that can combine together to for a dragonformer size fighter. There are also the three legendary minicon treams. The attack trine or Star armor minicons, The shield or speed defence armor, and finally the blaster or requiem armor.
A/N: Hey sorry for the long wait I've been busy with work and school. So here is that chapter everyone's been waiting for! Also shout out to my fav Beta theriku260!