Chapter 8
Deepdive and himself sat on the edge of the cliff waiting for Goldflight and her friend to arrive. They had to ask Jazz for leave time. That was kind of annoying. "How do you think Midtruck is doing?" Deepdive asked. "Well when I left the docs said he'd have to be put into a medically induced stasis." He responded. "Oh at least he's not on the necrobots' doors anymore." Deepdive said half jokingly. "That is true." He responded. "So she actually joined a side. It's kind of weird she was so adamant about not joining a side when I met her." Deepdive commented. "From what I gathered she did it to carry on what I had started when I joined the autobots." He said. "She really does care about you." Deepdive responded. "You know when I was a decepticon I always sent her weekly updates. My brother always they were stupidly seeing as how she only responded once." He said. "And why did she only respond once?" Deepdive asked. "Because he told me that his base commander was Megaempress. And from what I had heard and seen on news feeds she used her troops as fodder." Goldflight said from behind them. The two of them turned around. Next to her stood a smaller autobot. He'd seen her many centuries prior. She was goldflights best friend. She had joined the autobots before he joined the decepticon. Her name was Halfspeed. The two of them waved at deepdive and himself. "Hi guys." Goldflight said. The two of them nodded and did the same thing. "Deepdive this is Halfspeed, Halfspeed this is my best friend Deepdive." He said. Deepdive bowed "it is a pleasure to meet you Halfspeed." Deepdive said with a respectful tone. Goldflight turned and looked at him somewhat concerned. Her metal wings on her back glistened as he looked back at her. "What happened to you two on that mission because you both sounded like you went through hell." Goldflight said, concerned. As they were speaking Halfspeed would look at her com device. "Our friend was gravely injured while on our watch and the two of us blame ourselves for what happened." He explained. Halfspeed looked up again at the three of them and said "from what I know your friend recovered." She said, The three of them looked at Halfspeed as if she were crazy. "But how in the name of prime would you know that their friend is fine?" Goldflight asked. "Because I told her to go with you on your trip to see him." A confident voice said from behind them. The three of them looked behind themselves to see who it was. "Prowl!?" The three of them said in unison. "I am sorry I wouldn't have imposed on your reunion but I needed to talk to the seeker." Prowl said. He looked at Goldflight to see if she knew any of this would happen. But she looked just as confused. He then looked at Deepdive who was just as confused. "I'm sorry sir but what would the autobot chief strategist want to do with a former seeker?" He asked. deepdive and Goldflight just looked at prowl and Halfspeed. "Because Kickscream the Decepticons are planning on sending in bots with aquatic, land, sea and flight capable. Which means seekers, we need to know what you know." Prowl said seriously. "How did you guys figure out that they're planning on invading?" Deepdive asked. "Many reasons first we noticed that the DJD just let someone on the list go and a few weeks later they appear alongside other major decepticons. So we got curious and sent scrounge in to place bugs in the old gladiatorial Pitts. After that everything fell into place they planned on invading the capital of the United states of america and taking the president hostage. We've already moved him to a secure area." Prowl explained. "That still doesn't answer the question why do you need me?" He asked. Prowl set down two holo projectors. An image of the leader of the Aerialbots appeared from the first one. On the second one an image of Optimus prime appeared. Both Deepdive and himself simultaneously soluted him. "Kick, is this really happening?" Deepdive asked him. "Yes my friends it is happening and we need you to help us lead our air warriors against the decepticon arial forces." Optimus responded. "What prime is saying is we need all of you in D.C and we need you to show us how to mimic this threat." Silver bolt said. "We will be there soon. Let's show the cons what we're made of!" Deepdive and goldflight said simultaneously. "Well if they're going to risk their lives in this battle I better put my hat in the ring as well." He responded with a somewhat cocky tone
Since he'd arrived he hadn't seen his girlfriend and he had only talked to deepdive once. Apparently the wreckers needed some extra muscle for the coming battle and since deepdive was a big bot they asked him to join. He had thought that was pretty cool. He'd heard from Powerglide that Springer and Impactor brought in all the members of the wreckers not just the current team and the new recruit they also called in all their retired members from Ricochet all the way to Perceptor. The whole thing was impressive but apparently the number of decepticon that would be showing up made the autobots that were here look like a small get together. To keep it looking like the city was half busy they had apparently the autobots had set up holo projectors of people and the bots whose alt modes were trucks, cars, vans and motorcycles would drive or sit in parking lots. The reason for this was because they had evacuated most of the city some had stayed. Among the bot he knew were assigned to look like normal human vehicles were Optimus, Pepsi Convey, Midtruck, and Minerva. Personnel he thought it was an honor to work with some of the bots he had to work with but he dreaded the fight to come. The biggest reason he dreaded the battle was an acronym that was three letters long the D.J.D as a former decepticon and as a plus an autobot every fiber of his being said run don't look back and the bots around him could tell that he was scared. "You look troubled my friend, what's wrong?" a voice from behind said. He looked behind himself. Standing behind him was a bigger bot he was painted red and white. The bot looked like he was wearing some sort of outer armor. The bot looked familiar. Then it occurred to him he'd seen the armor once before. "Skyfire is that you?" he asked. Skyfire took the helmet off. "Not anymore i go by the name Jetfire now." Jetfire responded. He hadn't even noticed that he had been pointing at Jetfire with his gun hand. He quickly lowered his hand. " I am so sorry, sometimes I forget about the fact that I lost my hand," he said. "It's fine, I'm guessing that currently what's bothering you is the same thing that is bothering me." Jetfire said. He nodded in approval. Every decepticon knew who would come if you defected or left the ranks of the decepticon empire. "I don't know if you know any other bot like us who were cons but me and a bot named Drift we talked and if the DJD killed any of us one of the others would give a message to who ever is special to you so do you have a message it might help calm your nerves." Jetfire explained. "Ya I got two messages, one is for my best friend and the other is for my sparkmate." He explained. "I can do that but can you make it one message?" Jetfire asked. "Sure I can do that." He responded. He then went on to explain how much goldflight has meant to him and how from his point of view she had saved him in many ways. Then went on to talk about deepdive and that since he'd be dead and gone he could have his Side of the hab suite as well. After that jetfire left to go and do science stuff. It only now occurred to him that the sun was setting. He sat down on the ground and stared up at the sun. Underneath his faceplate he was smiling even though he knew that tomorrow there was a chance he would be dead.