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Journal Entry
June 11, 1987
Longhaul
Well, since I was present at the first big event of Aviator's life since his birthday, I should be the one to tell it.........
Aviator loved flying. It was the most wonderful sensations he had ever felt in his life, so far. What a delight, feeling the wind and clouds rush past the sensory, perception receptors on his face. He shut his optics, just letting his entire body absorb the atmosphere blowing by.
His optics snapped online, when he heard the crackling of an incoming transmission.
"Hey kid, how's your first day of flying?" Longhaul's voice came over the comm.
"It's incredible! I don't think I ever want to come down." Aviator almost shouted with joy into the comm.
"Well you should. You've been up in the clouds the whole time, I've barely seen you in action."
"All right, I'll be down in just a second." Aviator transformed into jet mode and divebombed through the clouds, towards the earth. He could see the bright green form of Longhaul down below driving along the road headed back toward the sea, his cargo hold heavily laiden with energon cubes from the solar tower they had 50 miles back.
Aviator pulled up slightly to steady his descent, then gently turned to the right, descended a little bit again and gently flew alongside Longhaul.
"Well, hey there." Longhaul greeted him over the radio. "How're things up in the wild blue yonder?"
"Oh wonderful, I love it!" Aviator answered cheerfully.
"Lucky you, I wish I was in your shoes, secretly speaking, my job sucks." Longhaul groaned.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to...." Aviator trailed off, not sure what to say, he hadn't meant make Longhaul unhappy.
"Meh, don't mind me. But you better get used to it. I gripe a lot."
"I don't see why you should, your function is very important to the Constructicons. I mean bring everything we need at once. Without you it would take twice as long to procure materials and get the work done. You're very important."
Longhaul paused. He'd never really thought about it that way before.
"Well, still it doesn't make my job any less boring." Longhaul gruffed.
"I really admire you y'know, it takes a lot of will power to do something you don't want to do." Aviator's voice seemed to smile. "I doubt if I could do that."
"Thanks kid. Yeah, you're right, an' don't worry about your will power I'm part a' you too remember?"
"That's right!"
"Sweet Primus this conversation sounds like it came out of one of them human, sentimental, family-type sitcoms." Longhaul, "let's stop it right now before we both regurgitate our energon."
"Agreed." Aviator chuckled, before noticing his radar.
"Uh, oh, we've got someone coming at us from the south!"
"Could be one of ours?" Longhaul tried to sound convinced of that conjecture, but after years of battle, you can feel in your core the enemy coming after you.
"I don't think so, the signature is too small to be Astrotrain and it's moving too slow to be one of the other jets." Aviator stated hurriedly, but firmly.
"Powerglide..." Longhaul growled, however, at the back of his mind, he was genuinely curious how Aviator knew it wasn't the jets just by the radar signature. After all, Aviator had only been brought into being a mere three solarcycles ago, and he hadn't met or even seen any of the other Decepticons yet.
"Who?"
"Powerglide, an Autobot and a spy at that!"
"Autobot, my enemy, yes?"
"Yup. I hope ya' remember somethin' from those Aerial combat tactics an scenarios, Bonecrusher n' me downloaded into your head. Cause about to get your wings wet, probably sooner than you should."
"Right, I remember."
With that Aviator kicked on his turbo thrusters and blasted toward the on coming aircraft. Meanwhile, Longhaul radioed into homebase, if there were Autobots in the vicinity, they need to get out of there and fast.
"This is Longhaul, I'm returning with a big batch of energon cubes, but I've been spotted the Autobots. If you want these cubes intact get me some transport outta here!"
Longhaul growled in frustration. Had he not been carrying energon cubes he would have transformed and jumped into battle without a second thought, however he was carrying it and energon in large quantities was known to be very unstable in subspace. He had to keep going, he wanted to fight, not so much to help the young Aviator, but to get the action he craved.
"I really admire you y'know, it takes a lot of will power to do something you don't want to do."
Aviator's words flashed up from the depths of Longhaul's memory banks. The kid was the first being to ever say, 'I admire you', sure the kid could be lying, but Longhaul didn't think so. For the Decepticons, lying and deceiving had been crafted down to an art form, and if you were an artist of this or knew one really well, you could begin to see patterns. Voice flection, certain looks, carefully chosen words, it was all part of the game. But Aviator was just a child, he had not even met the other Decepticons, much less be corrupted by them. As far as his core programming was concerned, he was just made up of parts of them, and the Constructicons told no lies to each other.
Longhaul's attention shifted when he heard a loud crash to his right. He saw Aviator standing tall in robot mode over the crashed banged up form of Powerglide.
"I don't believe it. First time out and the kid's taken down a veteran Autobot spyplane!"
Longhaul was about to send Aviator a victory message over the comm link, but sent something else when he saw something different appear on his radar. "Hey Aviator! We gotta move! I've got the Aerial Bots on radar, you're good, but these guys got you outnumbered six to one!"
"Right!" Aviator huffed over the comm and flew towards Longhaul.
Aviator gently landed on top of Longhaul's roof.
"Damn!" Longhaul cursed. "They're closing in on us fast!"
"I've got an idea for a distraction." Aviator picked up one of the energon cubes and threw it in the direction of the oncoming Aerial Bots. He took careful aim with his one functioning arm gun, and fired. The blast hit the energon cube and sent up a torrent of fire and smoke.
Longhaul saw the Aerial bots dodge and spiral out of the way of the flames, however it still wouldn't be long before they caught up again. He was relieved to see straight ahead of him, Astrotrain coming in. The triple changer transformed into train mode and landed in front of them with the back boarding end facing them. Astrotrain open his entry hatch while still moving, Longhaul punched the accelerator and drove in with Aviator following behind.
While the hatch closed Aviator quickly strapped Longhaul down so he wouldn't shake around during take off. Suddenly Astrotrain's voice came over the cargo comm.
"Hey the Aerial Bots are still out there! I could use some back, like now!"
Suddenly three jets shot past Astrotrain's windows and toward the Aerial Bots.
"Are those the seekers?" Aviator asked Longhaul when he finished strapping him in.
"Yup. Those are your fellow Decepticon jets. And this guy here is Astrotrain." Longhaul answered.
"Hello Astrotrain." Aviator said cheerfully to Astrotrain's hull.
"Hello back. So you're the new guy everybody's been talkin' about. Cool, I'm the first too meet you. Let's get a look at you." All of the camera's in Astrotrain's hull turned to Aviator, who smiled cheerfully back. "Well you're a happy lookin' kid, aren't you? Too bad that won't last long."
"What do mean?" A confused look crossed Aviator's face.
"Meh, you'll find out soon enough." Astrotrain sighed. "Hold on, I'm transforming and blasting off."
'I hope to Primus the kid doesn't find out.' Longhaul thought. In truth, Longhaul had to admit, he liked Aviator's happy demeanor so far. It seemed to lighten up the entire workshop atmosphere. However, he also had to admit Astrotrain was probably right.
Not long later Astrotrain landed in the Decepticon cargo bay, where the other Constructicons were waiting to unload the energon. Needless to say they were surprised to see when Aviator got out and he was covered with scratches, dirt and had one of his wings blown off.
"Primus! What happened?!" Scrapper walked up, almost afraid to touch Aviator for fear he would break at any moment.
"Our little Aviator here had his first Autobot take down today." Longhaul announced as he backed out of Astrotrain.
"What?!" Scrapper looked from Longhaul to Aviator, who was smiling brightly. "Are you all right?"
"Yup. I wouldn't be smiling if I wasn't." Aviator chirped, as Hook was looking over the extent of his injuries.
"From what I can tell now his wing damage is his worst injury, the rest of it just looks a lot worse than it actually is because of all the earth filth." Hook stated assuringly, and Scrapper relaxed a bit.
"Come on, let's get you fixed up." Hook led Aviator back to medbay, and Scrapper walked over to help with the energon cubes.
"So which Autobot did he get?" Bonecrusher smirked as he unloaded a huge stack of energon cubes.
"That little bastard of a plane Powerglide." Longhaul's voice was full of pride.
"That's wonderful." Scavenger's optics and voice smiled.
"Not a bad start for newborn mech." Bonecrusher's smirk grew boader.
"Hah! I fail to see the excitement, if Powerglide moved any slower, he would have birds nesting in his cockpit." Everyone turned to see Starscream land in the cargo bay, closely followed by the twins, Thundercracker and Skywarp.
"Stuff it up you afterburner flyboy!" Longhaul transformed after all of the energon cubes had been unloaded.
Starscream ignored comment and turned to Scrapper, "speaking of which, where is the little construct? I would like to meet the result of our bet."
"Oh gee, let me think about this, um no." Scrapper snarled. "You don't get the privilege of seeing him, yet."
"Megatron's curiosity has also been aroused, and he gets impatient quickly." Starscream sneered back.
"Megatron knows that we will show him when he's ready, and not before!" Scrapper spat.
"So why don't you take the hint and scram!" Longhaul growled at the Air Commander.
Starscream huffed indignantly and stalked out of the room.
"Actually, in truth Scrapper I think he is ready." Longhaul spoke up after Starscream had left. "He's a good kid and a tough one. After all he made feel better about my job."
Scrapper's visor widened in amused surprise. "Really? Now that's a greater accomplishment than taking down Powerglide."
"Ha, ha, very funny." Longhaul dripped sarcasm.
"Yes, indeed." Scrapper's voice turned serious again. "Aviator is a good kid, hope it stays that way. What do you think Mixmaster?"
The aforementioned Constructicon was just passing by with a stack of energon cubes. He turned and looked at them for a moment, his face completely devoid of expression, except for a deep sorrow that seemed to reside deep within his optics. With out a word he turned away and walked out of the cargo bay.......
........What's wrong with Mixmaster? How should I know? The nutcase chemist has blocked us out of his head, I guess the only way of knowing is to form Devastator, but he doesn't to want to.
Well anyway about Aviator, I vote we keep him. Just wait till he gets some more experience, he'll show that friggin flyboy what Constructicons are made of. I can't wait to see the look on old Screamer's face when he starts eaten Aviator's vapor trail.
Heh. Yeah it was a pretty good day.
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Yes! Another chapter of "Aviator" is complete. *Does a happy little dance.*
Will Powerglide's defeat at the hands of Aviator get explained? Yes!
What's with Mixmaster? Yes, that will get explained too, but not for quite a while.
Will Aviator ever have a showdown with Starscream? Yes! But not until the end.
Are Thundercracker and Skywarp twins? Yes! In my world if Sideswipe and Sunstreaker can be twins, it's equally plausible that TC and Skywarp can be twins too.
Were The Great NeoDragon and Wayward inspirations for the Constructicons personalities? Yes! I'm a great admirer of you both.
Will Aviator always be this sickeningly sweet? Yes, on one side of his personality, but just wait till the next chapter when Motormaster punches Scavenger in the face.
Is this the end of the chapter? Yes, but do not fear there will be more to come soon.
Please review and send me your opinions, they can sometimes alter and/or improve the story.
Till next time.
-Vega Sailor