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When We Where Young

Chapter –13 Fuelshed Part 1

Thundercracker was beginning to wish he had taken Soundwave's advice. The empty campus streets had an extra eerie feeling tonight.

He felt like he was being watched…

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Soundwave looked out the window at the empty streets below. His fingers tapped nervously on the study room table.

"Soundwave will you stop that, please?" The annoyance in Shockwave's voice was evident. "If you don't I predict a 99.9% percent chance that it will soon drive me to insanity."

Soundwave stopped tapping.

"Thank you. May I ask what has you so disturbed?" Shockwave closed his laptop.

Before Soundwave could answer, his audios picked up a soft knocking on the study room door. The door opened slowly to reveal the elusive Scrapper.

"Hello….umm…I just…uh…came in to work on something. I…I didn't feel like being alone. I won't disturb you anymore."

Shockwave motions to one of the empty seats. Scrapper sits down and opens his laptop.

"Do we frighten you?" Soundwave tilted his head at Scrapper.

"Oh. Well, no and yes. You see, it's not so much you, it's just that……" Scrapper trailed off.

" I predict an 89.906% chance that this has to do with being separated from your combiner team."

"89.906%? Try 100%." Scrapper sighed. "I'm tense and nervous wondering if my Constructicons have destroyed each other yet."

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"Primus, what do you put in this slag Octane? Battery acid?" Skywarp coughed after ingesting Octane's "homemade" heavy energon.

"Just for color." The Triple-Changer smirked sitting back on one of the entertainment room's couches and taking a swig of the stuff himself.

"Yeah, Octane's Brew is good for two things. Greasin' engines and killin' brain circuits." Blitzwing chuckled. He didn't want to think about how much trouble he was in and he "advised" no one ask him about it. So some brain circuit killing "energon" was just what he needed.

"Aw man, this is so bad it would make a maggot gag. Ugh." Skywarp, moaned. " I think I'm going to go regurgitate now, excuse me."

"Come on Skywarp, they're just getting to the missile launchers on the Weapons Channel." Dirge called after the black and purple jet.

"Yeah, now it's gettin' good." Ramjet sneered at the screen that now had a nuclear warhead being presented by the channel's salesbot. 

Blitzwing leaned his head back against the couch and muttered. "Wonder whatever happened to 'Cracker?"

Suddenly the front door burst open, but it wasn't Thundercracker….

"Hey Onslaught! What brings ya' by?" Thrust asks cheerfully

"Heh. I gotta stay here for the combiner separation experiment/competition."

"Separation?"

"Yeah, instead of taking a written test to get into the Academy we gotta take a "different" one. Whoever's team can last the longest separated from their leader without killing each other gets in to the Academy. It sucks crude."

"Hmph! I'd rather do something like that then take that horrible entrance test. Yuck." Dirge pretended to gag.

"May I ask where your caretaker is?" Onslaught sighed.

"He left to go see the Headmaster, a while ago." Thrust answered.

"Wait a minute. Your caretaker wouldn't be the freaky looking guy with all the weapons attached to him, and ends a sentence with the word "yes"…….would he?"

"Yep, that's him." Octane reported casually.

"Wonderful." Onslaught's voice was dripping with sarcasm.

"Meh. It's not so bad. Have a seat." Dirge motions to a spot on the couch. "By the way Onslaught, have you seen Thundercracker anywhere."

"No I haven't…….."

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 Ravage quickened his pace to keep up with the winged Decepticon, Soundwave had told him to follow. Why Soundwave had asked him to trail this particular Decepticon he didn't know. Usually his parent tended to stay away from the winged ones due to the fact that they tended to show him terrible cruelty, but this particular one had not. Ravage remembered that short time on the field when this same blue winged one had shown up.

What was his name again?

Thundercracker.

That's it.

Then this Thundercracker had shown again at the house. Soundwave had used his voice to go along with the Starscream's voice with the new rhythmic sounds Soundwave had made. Ravage had to admit that though it was not as beautiful as Soundwave's, the Thundercracker's voice was quite exceptional with its deep and rich tones.

"Is someone there?" The Thundercracker spoke.

'Uh, oh.' Ravage thought. 'Did he hear me? Am I losing my edge?'

"Hello?" The Thundercracker called out again.

It was then Ravage realized that he was not the only shadow of the blue winged one. Someone else was also stalking the Thundercracker….

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"Is someone there?" Thundercracker called out.

The streets were quiet.

"Hello?" Thundercracker called again.

Only silence answered him.

'This is stupid!' Thundercracker thought angrily. 'I'm just scaring myself.'

He stood completely still for another few seconds.

'It's all in my mind…..right?'

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This chapter is like a two part episode. Don't worry the second part is done and ready to go, but I want to tantalize my audience a little. Don't give me that puppy eye look, you won't have to wait for more than two days. Be patient. I just want to give you plenty of time to read and enjoy this. Oh and don't forget to review and tell me what you think ^_^

Vega Sailor