Semi-Charmed Life

Chapter one

Jazz sighed and ran the space scanners again. The Ark was expecting a shipment in from the Autobots on Cybertron soon, and Jazz got stuck with the night watch. It was just around midnight and pretty much the entire base was quiet. Although he could have sworn he heard one of the Dinobots snoring. Jazz sighed and twirled a pen in between his fingers as he continued to watch the scanners. He didn't notice the figure behind him until it covered his visor.

"Guess who." Jazz chuckled and gently pried the hands off his visor and leaned back looking into the face of Jynx.

"Hey, Jynx." Jazz smirked and watched as the femme sat down in a chair next to her.

"How did you know it was me?" Jynx leaned back, putting her feet up on the computer. Jazz chuckled and relaxed.

"Yer not hard ta figure out there, y'know; besides yer the only femme in th' Ark," Jazz said a chuckle lacing his voice. Jynx shrugged innocently and took Jazz's energon, taking a sip.

"So why are you up so late, Jazz-man?" Jazz sighed and shrugged.

"Shipment's comin' in from Cybertron an' I got stuck with night shift. A' least there's less commercials on the' radio at four in th' morning."

"I guess I can understand that. Hey, what was that?" Jynx asked, putting her feet down onto the floor. Jazz sat up and typed away at the computer.

"It's a ship, but not th' one I expected. I'm runnin' som' scans now." After a few moments the saboteur pulled up the ship's stats. "It's a hunter..."

"A hunter?" asked Jynx curious as to the term.

"A bounty hunter. From Cybertron. I can' get any more information than that. Either we have help, or a big problem on our hands." Jazz frowned and looked to the screen watching as the ship made contact with the planet in the deserts of Arizona.

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Rhythm winched at the rough landing he was forced to do. He hadn't expected the gravity to be so strong on his poor ship; but he shook it off. There was too much to do and too little time to worry about a landing.

"Slagging piece of crap," he muttered getting up and moving towards the door after grabbing a rifle and a scanner. He reached for the door and gave it a shove. "What the frag?" he growled as the door refused to open to him. Needless to say this was definitely turning out to be a worse hit than he thought.

CLANG!

The door went flying through the air as Rhythm side kicked it open, coughing out the dust that was suddenly stirred up from his crash landing. Taking out his scanner he punched in the activation code and waited for the old machine to charge. Within moments, though, his onboard scanners picked up the energy signature of an incoming transformer. A small green Autobot in the distance from the looks of it.

"This is Hound to base, I'm coming up on the ship. I'll have more information in a few moments."

"Roger Hound, base out," came Inferno's drawled reply. Hound smiled mentally and drove a bit closer to the scene before transforming.

"Seems a bit quiet," Hound thought aloud to himself. He walked over to the Cybertronian ship and saw the door kicked out. "Hello? Anyone home?" The only answer was his own echo. The green jeep peeked into the one mech ship and frowned. "Must have bailed." Just as the Autobot was going to turn around and leave, he found that it suddenly became very dark out and hit the ground; but not before sending out an emergency pre-recorded message to Hoist

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Prowl's right door wing twitched as the reports from the Sky Spy filled his computer screen. The Decepticons were on the move again and attacking a hydroelectric plant. Prowl shook his head, one would think that Megatron and his own tactician would deduce that not only could the Autobots easily discover a raid in such an open area but that they could not gain enough energy from a simple hydroelectric plant. Especially one in Arizona.

It was a desert for Primus sake! Why the humans built one there was a complete enigma but for the Decepticons to be stupid enough to steal from it was idiotic.

Nevertheless, Prowl again activated the alarms, signaling for the Autobots to come to the bridge for debriefing.

"Prowl! Answer your slagging Comm.!"

The tactician jumped at the sound of Ratchet's enraged voice over his personal com.

"Yes, Ratchet?" Prowl answered calmly.

"Hound just got back and he isn't in one piece." Ratchet sounded tired and worried. The way he always sounded when one of his patients found their way back to one of his berths. "He says a Hunter attacked him, thirty miles form Tempe, Arizona."

Prowl frowned, leaning over the console and looking down at the keys. "I was hoping the Hunter wouldn't have discovered Hound."

"Are you telling me you sent Hound to find a Hunter, alone?" Ratchet's voice raised a few notches in his anger. It didn't matter if it was Sideswipe and Sunstreaker he had sent out there; no one should ever confront a Hunter alone. They were too unpredictable and dangerous for one mech.

"I told him to keep his distance."

"You had better keep your slagging distance from me. I'm the one piecing him back together."

Prowl sighed and rubbed his brow; a sign of frustration that was so unlike him. "Stay behind with him for now and Optimus and I will come by later to talk to Hound. Right now we have a raid to take care of."

Ratchet didn't reply.

Prowl leaned heavily in his chair. What was it about this that bothered him so much? He'd dealt with Hunters before and power raids happened on a daily basis. Yet, each time he thought about the situation that had taken a mere day and a half to arise, his internals swirled. There was something about this that bothered him. He just wished he knew what.

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LJ's Author notes: Just the common we own no one, sept for Jynx, Rhythm and other stuff. .

Viewer responces responce!

Hunter Blues: Thanks Hunter! Yeah the story has changed, hopefully for the better over all.

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Jess: Well hopefully you won't have to wait long for the next chapter. IT's promised to be a doozy! ;)

Stormsoul: How very true you are, and as for what Starscream did, what hasn't he done? But this isn't just about our dear 'ghost's' bounty but also about something else. ducks a brick from DC i'm stutting up i promise:-D see:X

DesertCat's Author Notes: I don't have much to say this time. Just thanks to everyone who has kept us going on this and for all the reviews. Much appreciation J

Whirlwind: Thanks! I actually lost the first version of this on the computer. We caught spy ware bout 6 months ago XP An yeah, poooor Ryth. No telling who he is now! Mwhahah X) ;)

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