Yep ANOTHER chapter! yayz!
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It had been a quiet week. Since the time they returned Viper was in her room, keeping to herself. The odd time she would take a quick flight outside but her words were few when others tried to talk to her, cutting off all possible conversation.
Optimus and the others eventually gave up but once and awhile would check on her, just to see if she was ok.
Some other news, for a few days Jetfire was his usual self. But one morning he started acting odd, lonely. Optimus, Inferno and Hotshot knew exactly why their comrade was behaving in such an abnormal way however Kicker and Ironhide were clueless.
Hotshot warned them not to ask Jetfire anything about his behaviour, and his reasons.
It could just make it worse.
It was now Wednesday, a week and two days since they returned. Jetfire stood outside alone, staring out at the sea as sea gulls shrieked above. Waves lapped against the base of ocean city lazily, it was peaceful and quiet out here, which is unusual, for the Decepticon leader, Megatron, seems to always have something planned to cause trouble.
To much of his surprise, Jetfire did not even notice Viper a few feet from him.
How long she was actually standing there for, he didn't know, but by the looks of it, not that long at all.
"Been quiet lately." Viper spoke quietly
Jetfire kept silent
she fanned out her wings then neatly folded them behind her back as she lay down.
"Is something wrong?" she looked up, she obviously didn't know about what was going on, for she had been in her chambers to herself.
"No, nothing," he turned on his heel "I've been out here for awhile, I'll see you around."
Viper watched him leave and returned her gaze to the water.
'hm, something doesn't seem right.' She looked back again at the doors, standing up she headed back inside.

Panthera sat in her newly assigned chamber, sharpening her claws she was fairly bored. For awhile now she had been exploring, making sure she knew where she was going, though once in awhile she would go searching for the one she fought, Starscream.
With a deep sigh she stood and headed towards the door.
Upon opening it, she went to walk out but something stopped her
"I need to talk with you." There was no source to the voice
"what?"
she was pushed back into her room and the door was shut, Starscream appeared
"You don't have to be invisible all the time." She sat down on a chair
Starscream didn't say anything
"alright, what did you want to talk about?"
"you tell me!" Starscream crossed his arms over his chest plate
"what? You came here to talk to me."
"I've been watching you Panthera, you've been searching for me, and you even asked Demolisher where I was. So, what do you want?"
"Why did you spare me?" Panthera stood "we fought, you could have destroyed me, but you didn't, why?"
"Heh," a smirk formed on his face "that's what you wanted to know? Yes I could have destroyed you, but I wanted to see what you're more capable of, so did Megatron. Trust me, if you don't do a good job as a Decepticon fighter, Megatron will swiftly deal with you." With that Starscream turned and exited Panthera's room.
She stood there for a moment then sighed.
There was a knock at her door, she walked over and opened it to see Starscream again with a docile expression.
"Megatron needs us." He turned once more and headed towards the throne room, Panthera soon followed after shutting her door.

Upon reaching the throne room, Panthera's eyes automatically set upon a new transformer.
His back was to her and the rest of the Decepticons, he was facing Megatron, finishing off his conversation.
Once everyone was present Megatron nodded to the new comer
"Everybody, welcome back our old friend, Shockblast.
Shockblast turned and looked at everyone, then he set his sights on Panthera
"You!" he growled
"Shockblast?!" Panthera backed off as he stormed towards her in a fast paced walk
"What are you doing here? Why have you become a Decepticon? You don't deserve that title."
He aimed his cannon arm towards her and shot a glowing purple beam at her.
She quickly ducked and missed the laser by an inch
"Please Shockblast," he stopped in front of her, grabbing her neck he pushed her up against the wall "look that was the past, I've changed! Please put me down!"
"What's going on here!?" Megatron demanded
Dropping her, Shockblast turned
"Before I was set in the Autobot jail, Panthera here was supposed to give me a special type of energon, a powerful type that would have enabled me to destroy the Autobots, but instead she used it for herself and let the Autobots take me away."
Megatron stayed silent and watched Panthera with blazing eyes
"Please I can explain!" she stood and slowly moved farther away from Shockblast
"Look I had a different leader then, I was going to give you that energon but my leader would have killed me!"
"I should just kill you NOW!" Shockblast turned to her once more
"it's not like it'll happen again!" she hissed back, with that she bounded off down the corridor towards her chambers
Shockblast shook his head "I will deal with her later."
"Don't hurt her." Megatron growled
"I," Shockblast hesitated "won't. Anyway I have some good news."
"Oh?" Megatron sat up a bit from slouching
"somebody you know well, yet haven't seen ages will be coming back with the Decepticons."
"Who?" Megatron leaded forward a bit
Shockblast went to Megatron's side and mumbled to him the name of this newcomer that will soon arrive
Snowcat grumbled to Demolisher
"I can't help but continuously feel left out."
Demolisher shrugged "did you hear what he said?"
"no, you?"
"Yep, he said-"
Megatron burst into laughter, he was obviously happy
"This is perfect, the Autobots will stand no chance against us Decepticons!"

Saneres sat on her throne, looking down upon a dark figure that stood before her. A powerful aura radiated off his slate grey form.
"If you can get her back to me, then I will give you all the power you want."
"all the power I want?"
"All the power you want." Saneres repeated "but it won't be easy to get her."
"You've got yourself a deal, it won't be that hard, at least, not for me."
" Korwrath, will you escort him to the exit?"
"Yes your highness." The dark figure who too was searching for Viper but got called off and so came back to the space station and now began exiting the room with the figure behind him.
'You can't run from me forever Viper, you will rule over everything alongside me.'



Viper walked slowly through the halls of ocean city, Optimus wasn't in the command centre, neither was Hotshot or Inferno. She had found Ironhide and Kicker, they said Jetfire was upset about something, but they weren't sure as to the reason.
So now she went in search of Optimus once more, hoping he would know.
Rounding a corner she almost bumped right into Rodimus with Prowl and Landmine
"Whoa! Hey! What are you doing here?" Viper tilted her head a bit as she stood on her hind legs, making herself much taller, after finding out Rodimus worked for Alpha Q, there was no trusting him.
"I came to talk to Optimus, he knew I was coming but I arrived earlier than expected."
"Hm, well sorry I can't help ya there, I'm in the midst of trying to find him at the moment as well."
"Oh alright."
"Well just head on to the command center, Ironhide is in there so he can signal Optimus."
"Thank you." He nodded and turned to the command centre
she watched the three leave and soon she found herself just wandering.
Viper was getting bored, really bored, she needed to fight, and just as she thought about a battle, she slammed up against the wall
"You're coming back to Saneres."
The air seemed distorted, oily looking, suddenly a draconian appeared, red in colour with orange and yellow highlights. Small ports upon his body glowed white, his eyes, a crimson red.
"Firon!" she growled "you're the one who locked Optimus up aren't you? You're the one with the darts."
"Indeed, I've been hanging around this city, enjoying the sights, watching you while you recharge."
Viper bared her teeth as she stood and swiped his face with her clawed hand
"Get out of here, now, leave ocean city!"
"Not without you!" he grabbed her arm tightly
"Let go!" she head butt him "I'm warning you, if you don't leave this will get ugly."
"We'll just have to do this the hard way!" he punched her gut, then kicked her side
Viper roared as she flew back, twisting her body she landed on all fours, claws stopping her from sliding "don't say I didn't warn you!" she then bounded back away from him, inhaling then breathing out a large body of flame. The fire alarms went off in their area

Back in the control room, Optimus talked with Rodimus
"I just found out about it yesterday, one of the Terrorcons saw that the Decepticons have a newcomer, her name is Panthera, and Shockblast as reunited with the Decepticon force."
"Great, doesn't make the fight against the Decepticons any easier." Optimus sighed
"Here," Rodimus opened his hand towards Optimus. In his palm sat a small device.
"What is it?" Optimus carefully took it and examined it
"If you ever need help I'll give you a hand."
Optimus looked up to Rodimus and was about to say something, but he was interrupted by a flashing red light and a fire warning for area 457.
"Oh no!" Optimus went running out the control room with Rodimus, Prowl, and Landmine in behind. They soon met Hotshot in the hall with Inferno rushing ahead.
Suddenly the alarms cut off and it was quiet again
"What was that all about?" Inferno yelled out
"I don't know, but it couldn't be good!" Hotshot answered.

Viper and Firon were locked together, biting and scratching. Her jaws clamped tight on Firon's neck, he pried her jaws open and grabbed her shoulders, slamming his head into hers.
"Damnit Firon!" Viper kicked him off.
He landed on his back and slid back, Viper didn't waste anytime, she lunged towards him and they were rolling on the ground, fighting one more.
They never even realized Optimus and the gang arrive. Jetfire, Ironhide, and Kicker arrived on the other end of the hall
"Viper!" Hotshot called out, and she didn't even hear him through the snarling.
This time, Firon stabbed a dart into her neck then kicked her off when she was in surprise, she went sliding right into Rodimus' feet, tripping him, then Hotshot who was semi-behind Rodimus, then Inferno who was the unlucky shoulder Hotshot went to grab
"Get him!" Viper screeched as she jumped back up from the heap "get that transformer!"
she went to go fight again but Hotshot grabbed her tail
"hold on there." she slumped down, suddenly her legs felt heavier than Unicron, felt like fifty Unicrons, then she went numb and she then slipped into a sub-concious state. Hotshot sootd and picked her up carefully "she's lighter than I thought."
Hotshot turned and headed towards Viper's chamber.
Optimus, Jetfire, Ironhide, Prowler, and Landmine surrounded Firon
"we're going to have to decide what to do with you." Optimus grabbed Firons' arm

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OK, I need a bit of help.
I want to add Alpha Q, Scorpinok, Prowl, Landmine and Rodimus into this story more but I don't know exactly how I could include them, does anyone have any ideas? R&R!!!!!!