Author's
note: This takes place the day after Returning Blaster:-)
Girl Power
By: Flyby
"We
should tell Optimus about the little one, my love," said Silverbolt. He and Blackarachnia were in their quarters,
discussing what to do about Blackarachnia's pregnancy. If you looked at here you couldn't tell,
because it was still too early for the physical signs.
"I
was planning on telling him first thing tomorrow," replied Blackarachnia.
"It
would be best if we told him this morning," said Silverbolt. Tension was building in the room, and she
could sense it.
"Look,
I don't want to fight about this, so how about we tell him as soon as we finish
today's assignments," she said softly.
"Alright,"
Silverbolt reluctantly agreed. Blackarachnia hugged him.
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"Silverbolt,
Rattrap, you two are going to do perimeter patrol. Starvix, Blackarachnia, Air Razor, Flyby, you will go..."
Optimus broke off when he noticed someone wasn't there.
"Where's
Flyby, he asked while sighing.
"She
said that she was heading out for a quick flight," replied Air Razor.
"Can
you contact her on your way out? I need
the four of you to collect a patch of energon that Air Razor and Tigatron
found. It should still be there for it
is out of range of either base's scanners," said Optimus.
The
three females nodded then left while Optimus finished giving out the
assignments.
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Flyby
was doing dives and tricks in the air (that's how she got the nick-name Dives),
and singing to herself.
"Shake
it. Get a life, get a grip. Get away
somewhere, take a trip. Take a
break. Take control. Take advice from someone you know, whoa.
"Come
on over, come on in. Pull up a seat,
take a load off your feet. Come on
over, come on in. You can unwind, take
a load off your mind.
"Make
a wish-"
"Flyby!"
she heard someone call. Flyby looked
around, fearful it was a predacon. She
relaxed when she saw it was only Air Razor.
"Hey,
AR, what's up?" Flyby asked.
"You,
me, Starvix, and Blackarachnia are going to mine energon," was Airazor's
unenthusiastic reply.
"Oh."
The
two falcons soon caught up with their teammates.
"You
know, don't believe that the she-spider switched sides," Air Razor looked
over at Flyby.
"All
I know is that she did it because 'Bolt asked her to. She's been this way for as long as I've known her." Air Razor had no comment for that. Flyby started to sing.
"Sorry,
I never told you all I wanted to say. Now it's too late to hold you, 'cause you've flown away, so far
away. Never had I imagined living
without your smile. Feeling, knowing
you hear me, it keeps me alive, alive.
"And
I know you're shining down on me from Heaven. Like so many friends we've lost along the way. And I know eventually we'll be together, one sweet day.
"Darlin',
I never showed you. Assumed you'd
always be there. And I, I took your
presence for granted, but I always cared. And I miss the love we shared." Flyby couldn't go on with the song, the
memory of the friends she had had as a human was too strong. Fortunately, Air Razor picked up on her
emotions and continued the song.
"And
I know you're shining down on me from Heaven. Like so many friends we've lost along the way. And I know eventually we'll be together, one sweet day.
"Although
the sun will never shine the same, I'll always look to a brighter day. Lord, I know, when I lay me down to sleep,
you will always listen as I pray.
"And
I know you're shining down on me from Heaven. Like so many friends we've lost along the way. And I know eventually we'll be together, one sweet
day." Flyby smiled.
"Thanks."
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"Uh,
Boss-bot, Ah'm picking up four Maximal signatures leaving their
territory," Quickstrike called from his post.
"Hmm,
so you are. TARANTULAS!" bellowed
the predacon leader.
"What
is it, now? I was in the middle of some
important research," grumbled Tarantulas as he came in the command room on
his hoverboard.
"I'm
sure you were. I need you and
Quickstrike to converge on the Maximals and stop them from going to where ever
they're heading, yes. Now go!"
ordered Megatron. He could hear
Quickstrike as the fuzor dashed down the hallway, "Ah'm gonna whip those
maximal tin-horns' kiesters. Ha
ha!"
Megatron
turned on his communicator. "Megatron to Dragonite."
~Dragonite
here, sir.~
"I
need you and Waspinator to back up Tarantulas and Quickstrike."
~It
is done, my liege.~
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Flyby
was doing a corkscrew when some green cyber-venom nearly hit her.
"Whoa! Preds at seven o'clock. Flyby, Maximize!"
"Air
Razor, Maximize"
"Blackarachnia,
Maximize!"
"Starvix,
Maximize!"
Flyby
nearly avoided a blast from Waspinator's stinger-launcher. Smiling to herself, she said under her
breath, "Looks like I'll get to try out that sub-system I installed."
When
she was close enough to Waspinator, she started to sing.
"Now
you see me, now you don't. First you
do, then you won't. Watch me vanish
right before you're eyes. You might
think you see me there, in a cafe on a street somewhere. Well, that might be me, but I'll be
gone. Now you see me, now you
don't." When ever she sang
"Now you see me", "First you do", or "You might
think" she was visible, but when she sang "Now you don't",
"Then you won't", or "Well that might be me" she
disappeared.
"Thizz
izz giving Wazzpinator headache!" Waspinator, of course. While she was still in her new stealth mode,
Flyby flew behind the giant wasp. He
couldn't hear her because her stealth mode makes her invisible to all scanners,
plus you can only hear her talk. No
other sound comes from her. She shot at
Waspinator's back a few times, disabling his wings. When she was done, she returned to normal. As he crashed into the ground, Flyby heard
Waspinator yell, "Wazzpinator hatezz maximalzz!"
Smiling,
Flyby went to help Air Razor with Dragonite.
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Blackarachnia
ducked behind a tree, dodging Taratulas' attack. She could feel the tree shake form the firepower hitting it.
"Come
out, Witch, I won't hurt you," he said in an insincere voice.
"Much?"
she called. His answer came in the form
of more firepower hitting the tree. Tarantulas paused to refill his gun. Blackarachnia took the opportunity and came out from behind the tree. She fired her gun once. The shot hit Tarantulas (on the most painful
spot on all males) and he went into stasis lock from the pain.
"That's
what you get for messing with me." Looking at her comrade, Blackarachnia saw Starvix take out
Quickstrike. Just then Flyby and Air
Razor flew down.
"Anybody
hurt?" asked Flyby.
"Not
me."
"Nope."
"Okay,
gang, lets get going!"
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The
four females, after a loooong walk, finally reached the energon field. They got shovels and containers from their
sub-space pockets. They mined for a few
mega-cycles. Then they started the long
journey back to the Ark. It was late
when got back. The only people that
were still up were Optimus, Tigatron, Leemoun, and Silverbolt. They were waiting for the four females to
return.
Silverbolt
had insisted on carrying Blackarachnia to bed. She didn't object, in fact, she fell asleep as soon as Silverbolt picked
her up. Tigatron helped Air Razor to
the quarters they shared and Leemoun helped Starvix to her's. Flyby stumbled into her's, and without
turning on the lights, fell into her bed and fell asleep.
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Little to their knowledge, two people had been watching Flyby and gang. They were two Cybertronians unknown to the Maximals or Predacons. Who are they?