"Found something interesting."
Skyfire glanced up at the rather scruffy looking Seeker who stood at door to what passed for his office. "Oh?" This particular Seeker, who'd abandoned the Decepticons to join Skyfire's motely crew of neutrals was good at finding interesting things so Skyfire's question was tinged with anticipation. "What do you have?"
The Seeker smiled and tossed a datapad at the jet who plucked it easily out of the air. "You'll see. Something for your pet project." He emphasized "pet" a bit too much for Skyfire's liking, but he said nothing because the remark was perhaps a little too true.
He leaned carefully back in the rickety chair in the makeshift office and paged through the datapad. His optics grew brighter by the second as he realized what he was reading. Someone had managed to dig up Shockwave's lab and get the computer working again. Then they'd downloaded nearly his entire database, which was what Skyfire was holding in his hands.
He scanned through it until he came to what the other mech had been referring to; Blitzwing's records. Skyfire had been hoping to turn this information up, hoping it would help him understand and possibly reach the triplechanger and rescue him. Though, to be honest, Blitzwing may be unreachable, he told himself.
As he read, he couldn't help but be astonished. There was information here that only Shockwave and Blitzwing himself probably knew. The triplechanger was old. Older than Skyfire. Maybe even old enough to remember the Quintessons. He was also the first successful triplechanger, the first success in a long string of failures for Shockwave.
Fascinated, Skyfire read for several megacycles before he put the pad down and began planning his next move.