My goodness! I didn't expect to get positive feedback so quickly for this story! In a week or two, maybe, but a few days after the upload? I'm genuinely touched!
Ember: Oh shut up and get on with the story already!
Alright, alright! Sheesh, one would expect more respect from their creations...
Anyways, here's chapter two of Team Storm!
Rosalina slowly onlined her optics, feeling the wind whipping past her faceplates. Once they were open, they widened in shock once she realized that she and the others were stuck in a free fall, a metallic landscape slowly getting closer by the second. She screamed loudly, and Sonic Boom and Silver Claw joined her, although the sparkling's was more from enjoyment than fear.
Noticing that the others were merely playing a game of go fish, the femme Prime yelled over the wind, "What're you guys doing?! We're falling to our deaths, and you're playing go fish?!"
Rolling her optics, Lightning Strike said from behind her battlemask, "Oh, please. Ember and I have jet packs in our subspace, Jadewing is a seeker, and I'm rather positive that Sonic Boom has thrusters in her - EMBER! DON'T EVEN TRY CHEATING I CAN SEE YOU GETTING CARDS OUT OF YOUR SUBSPACE!"
The red twin smiled guiltily, and put the cards she tried to sneak into her hands back into her subspace.
"Anyways, I'm pretty sure Sonic has thrusters attached to her backpack."
After a moment, the twins activated their aforementioned jet packs, Sonic discovered that there were, indeed, thrusters built into her backpack, along with a large set of wings for steering, and Jadewing unfolded her own wings and activated the thrusters in her heels. Sonic held onto her sparkling tightly, as if her whole life depended on it, while Lightning caught Rosalina and Ember caught Blacklight. They hovered for a second, before Sonic remarked, "Hey, does anybody else hear that?"
"Hear what?"
"It sounds like... battle." A visor suddenly slid over her optics, and several pop-ups showed up on it. Focusing on one of them, she stated, "Rosalina, there appears to be a battle between Autobots and Decepticons going on just directly below us."
"What's happening?" Rosalina asked her communications officer, her long-forgotten leadership instincts kicking in.
"Going rather badly for the Bots, I'm afraid. They're badly outnumbered, have several wounded, and seem just about on the verge of defeat."
"Alright. Lightning, you go and help as many bots as you can. Ember, you watch her back, and cause as much destruction to the cons as possible."
Lightning and Ember nodded, waiting until told where to steer the ones they were holding to fly off.
"Sonic, you, Jade, and Silver see if you can find Lunar Blast, just to show her that we got here somewhat safely."
The seeker and communications officer both gave a small nod of their heads, and flew off to where Sonic thought she saw the Wreckers.
"And what about us, Rosalina?"
Smiling, the femme Prime told the twins, "Drop Blacklight and I over the part of the battlefield where Autobot defenses seem to be the weakest."
The interrogator smiled as the twins dropped them above the battlefield, and flew off to help the injured Autobots and mess with the Decepticons.
The two then straightened themselves out, and prepared themselves to land on the ground.
"Luna? Lunar Blast?"
Jadewing dodged away from another Decepticon shot as she tried to find the Wrecker femme.
"Jade!"
The small seeker turned around, just to be tackled down to the ground by a dark blue and dark green blur. She looked up to see Lunar Blast on top of her, a purple visor over her optics and a dark green battlemask over the rest of her face. The smaller femme smiled up at her, and said, "Hey, Luna."
"Hiya!"
Springer briefly looked over at them before getting back to blasting cons. Still focusing on the battle at hand, he asked, "You know this femme, Luna?"
"Pit yeah! She's practically a sparkling to me!"
The green mech's optics lit up slightly in remembrance, and he said, "Oh yeah! So this is one of the six femmes you told me and the rest of the Wreckers about?"
"I'm one of 'em too!" Sonic exclaimed, flying over and landing on the ground.
"Sonic!"
The communications officer was soon glomped by the tank femme, and the two fell to the ground laughing.
Springer smiled at their antics, and said, "From what Luna told me, you must be Jadewing and Sonic Boom."
"Yup!" Jade replied.
"And this," Sonic held out Silver, "is my sparkling, Silver Claw!"
The small sparkling waved and smiled widely.
"OH MY PRIMUS THE ADORABLENESS IS BACK! GIVE HER HERE, WOMAN!"
Lunar Blast took the sparkling from Sonic, and started to rub her mask against Silver's cheek.
There was another blast, and Springer yelled, "Alright, playtime's over! Back to the battle at hand!"
The three femmes nodded as Silver went back into Sonic's backpack. Sonic pulled out a long rifle, Luna prepared the turrets on her arms, and Jade got out a small pistol.
Lightning's servos quickly flied across Sunstreaker's chassis, reconnecting severed wires. Sideswipe, whom was always near his twin, helped Ember cause as much damage as possible to the Decepticons around the medic and his brother.
As Sideswipe blasted the head off of another Decepticon drone, he asked the red femme, "So, you and your sister new to the Autobots?"
"Yeah! The two of us and the rest of our team just dropped in!" Ember used her flamethrower to melt down another drone in a matter of seconds.
"That's cool! Where were you posted before you left to join us?"
"No, we literally just dropped in!" Ember threw a grenade at a small group of drones, destroying them all. "We were on a prisoner ship being sent to Shockwave, but then something hit the hull and we all fell out!"
"Okay, that entrance sounds way cooler than what I thought you meant!" Sideswipe blasted another drone, this time in the spark chamber.
Lightning reconnected the last wire, and closed Sunstreaker's chassis. As an explosion went off in the air above them, his optics turned on.
The blue femme stood up, and held her servo out to help him up. "Hey there."
He merely nodded his head, grabbing her outstretched servo. Once he was up on his feet, Sideswipe and Ember came in, the flame-covered femme saying, "C'mon, let's go scrap some more cons!"
Sideswipe and Sunstreaker shared a glance as the femme twins, and smiled at one another. They had, at long last, met someone that loved destruction as they did.
Rosalina sliced two drones in half at the same time with her two swords, which resembled the ones Wheeljack used in Transformers Prime. Behind her, Blacklight was blasting numerous other drones with her two pistols. The interrogator rolled up to the femme Prime, blasting several more cons along the way, and said with a small smirk, "This is way too easy."
"I agree. Then again," she sliced another drone into thirds, "these are just drones."
"True," Blacklight remarked, blasting two more of them.
Rosalina went back to cutting down the drones, but quickly froze in place when she thought she heard a yelp of pain. She turned around, and froze at what she saw; a pure black dragon Predacon, which looked exactly like Toothless, with green optics and a deep gash on his left wing joint, was being pushed into a corner by Starscream, Thundercracker, and Skywarp. The dragon was only up to their knees on his hind legs, showing that he was nothing more than a sparkling.
She glared at the trine, then turned to Blacklight, saying, "Lights, give me a boost."
Blacklight turned to look at what Rosalina saw, grimaced, and nodded. Then bending down onto one knee, she cupped her hands together.
Rosalina stepped back, took a deep intake of air, and charged forward. Then, stepping onto her friend's hand, she leaped as Blacklight pushed her hands towards the trine, sending Rosalina flying through the air and towards the three seekers and Predacon sparkling.
Starscream smirked as he and the other two seekers pinned the Predacon against a crumbling wall. Reaching for the sparkling, he said, "Come here, you infernal beast."
The dragon merely growled, baring his razor-sharp teeth at the seeker, flaring out his one good wing.
Starscream, undeterred, continued on until he heard a femme scream, "Get away from the sparkling, Decepti-freak!"
Starscream turned around, and was punched in the face by Rosalina as she flew through the air. With the amount of force and speed behind the blow, the seeker was sent flying backwards and through the crumbling wall.
The remaining two seekers looked at each other, then at the femme. Then, when they saw she had no guns, they grinned at pointed their null rays at her, getting ready to fire. In retaliation, she drew her two swords and charged to two. Every swing she made was countered by the barrels of the guns attached to their arms. Then, finding a weak point in their defenses, she slashed Thundercracker across the chest, and stabbed Skywarp in the gut.
The two stumbled back, covering their wounds. Then, before Rosalina could advance on them, Skywarp grabbed Thundercracker and teleported away.
Rosalina sheathed her two swords, and walked over to the Predacon.
The sparkling, seeing her walk over, growled and tried to back up into the wall even further.
Once she was close enough, the femme Prime got down onto her knees and stretched out her right servo, muttering, "Hey, it's alright. I'm a good guy. You can trust me."
The dragon stared at the servo, then looked up at her faceplates. Dark green optics with thin black pupils met calm and smiling bright green optics. The Predacon looked back at the servo, then slowly and hesitantly reached his head towards it. Right before he could touch it, however, a servo grasped Rosalina's neck cables.
The femme prime screamed, trying to kick Starscream, the mech that had grabbed her. The Predacon tried to attack the seeker, but her merely kicked the sparkling to the side, making him land on his damaged wing. He smirked at the femme in his grip, and said, "You are mine now, femme!"
"Let her go, you creep!"
Starscream turned around, and just barely dodged a punch from Blacklight. Using his slightly larger build, he kneed the interrogator in the gut, and kicked her while she was doubled over. As she fell, the seeker flew into the air, the femme Prime still in his grasp.
Blacklight looked up, then put a digit to the side of her helm to activate her comm link.
Lightning had just finished electrocuting several drones with her E.D.K TechVolt when she got a comm from Blacklight, saying, ::L-Lightning?::
"Yeah, Lights?"
::St-Starscream just pulled Rosalina up into the air, and injured me and a Predacon sparkling.::
"Understood. I'm on my way."
She readied her jet pack, and relayed the same message to the other three. Ember glared behind her visor, and readied her jet pack as well. As they blasted off to Blacklight's coordinates, Sideswipe grabbed Sunstreaker and followed them using his own jet pack. As they flew, Ember sent a comm link to Jadewing, saying, "Hey, Jade?"
::Yes, Ember?::
"We're about to go and beat up Screamer. You wanna-"
::PIT YEAH! C'MON, LUNA AND JADE! LET'S GO BEAT UP THAT NO GOOD SON OF A-::
::Sonic! First off, watch your diction, you have a sparkling. Second off, HOW'D YOU INTERRUPT MY COMM MESSAGE WITH EMBER?!::
::I'm a communications officer, remember? It's my job to listen in on all comm links!::
::*Sigh* Sonic, Luna, and I will meet you there, okay?::
"Alright."
With that, the comm link ended, and the two sets of twins flew at full speeds towards Blacklight's coordinates.
Starscream stopped when he was so high up, the battlefield was as big as an ant. He smiled at the femme, but before he could say anything, a silver blur rushed at him from the side, yelling, "TAKE THIS, SCREAMER!"
The mech was then punched by Sonic directly in the face, making him loose his grip on the femme Prime. Rosalina only fell for a few seconds before being caught by Ember. As they hovered in the air, Jade soon joined them to watch as Sonic beat Starscream to a pulp, putting huge dents in his armor, making him bleed energon, and twisting his wings at odd angles. At one point, the femmes actually tried to separate the two because they felt sorry for the con. Sorry.
Starscream shakily flew away, yelling, "Decepticons, RETREAT!"
They all then started to run away from the battlefield, and the Autobots cheered at the turn of events.
The four femmes quickly rejoined the others, as Lightning finished fixing the Predacon's wing. Once the femme Prime had her pedes on solid ground, the dragon jumped onto her, knocking her over. She chuckled weakly, and rubbed him behind the ears. At the sound of a large Autobot ship, she smirked slightly, muttering, "Well it's... about time that..."
She didn't finish her sentence, however, as she and the other femmes, except for Luna, soon passed out. Sunstreaker just barely caught Lightning, and Sideswipe barely caught Ember. Luna caught Sonic and Jade as well, but Blacklight was already on the ground, so they didn't have to worry about anyone catching her. They gently put the two down as Optimus, Ratchet, and Ironhide drove up to them. Transforming, Ironhide pointed his gun at the Predacon, yelling, "Stand back! There's a Predacon on 'er!"
"Wait, wait!" Luna exclaimed, putting down the two she was holding and jumping between Ironhide and the growling Predacon, whom was standing next to the unconscious Rose protectively. "He's harmless, I promise!"
"How d'you know, Luna?"
"The Decepticon trine was trying to harm him, that's how."
Walking past the Wrecker femme, Optimus knelt down next to Rosalina. The Predacon growled at him in warning, but he merely held up his hand, saying, "I mean you no harm, young one."
The black dragon still glared at him, but had stopped growling.
Taking this as a good sign, the Prime looked down at the femme next to the sparkling Predacon, and asked Luna, "Who are these femmes?"
"Remember the ones I told you about a while back, sir?"
His optics widened, and he asked her, "These are the femmes you told us about? But I thought you said that-"
"They were destroyed? That's what I thought had happened, but apparently they survived."
Optimus continued to stare at the femme on the ground as she recharged peacefully. Then, reaching down to pick her up, he told the Predacon, "Don't worry, young one. I'm not going to harm her."
Apparently believing him, the dragon let him pick her up, but not before he curled up on her chest, closing his optics.
Standing up, he told the others that were still conscious, "Take them back to the ship, and tell the others to help the injured."
They nodded, and Sunstreaker carried Lightning, Sideswipe effortlessly carried Ember, Luna carried Sonic, Ironhide carried Blacklight, Ratchet picked up Jade, and Optimus carried Rosalina and the Predacon sparkling.
As they walked, Rosalina's optics slowly flickered online. Seeing Optimus, she muttered, "Wh-who...? What...?"
"I'm Optimus Prime, leader of the Autobots. And you are?"
Struggling to stay awake, she muttered, "Rosalina..." she paused to yawn, "Rosalina... Prime..."
Optimus's optics widened, and he silently asked her, "Prime?!"
His question fell of deaf audio receptors, as she had already slipped into recharge.
As they all sat down, setting down the unconscious femmes next to them, Optimus said to Luna, "You... you never told us that Rosalina was a Prime."
"She's a Prime?! Since when?!"
Frowning, the Autobot commander said, "She just told me. She was awake for a brief second, asked who I was, and after I told her, she said that she was a Prime."
Smiling slightly as she looked at the unconscious Prime, Luna muttered, "Way to go, girl," then looking back at Optimus, she said, "Rosalina and the others have been missing for years, Optimus. For all I knew, they were all dead. It could have happened some point after we got separated, but I don't know."
After this, they were all silent as the ship started to take off.
Ironhide, sitting across from the Autobot commander, said, "Er, Optimus, Ah know this ain't the best time to ask about yer personal life, but... what's goin' on b'tween you 'n Elita?"
Perking up, Luna added, "Yeah, what is going on? I heard something from the other femmes something about you and Elita going on, but I couldn't get all the details."
"Really?"
"Hey, Wreckers don't normally participate in gossip, even the femmes. Speaking of which, I should probably tell Springer that I'm with you guys before he starts to panic and have the other Wreckers start looking for me..."
Staring at the recharging femme Prime, Optimus said, "We both realized that our relationship was loosing the love we once felt for each other, so we both agreed that we would be better off breaking up."
The other five dropped the subject after he told them what they wanted to hear. Ratchet was still checking the vitals of Jadewing, Sunstreaker was letting Lightning rest her head on his lap, and Sideswipe was doing the same with Ember. Luna was currently having a private comm link with Springer, telling him that she was alright, and Ironhide was just sitting back, his optics offline.
Optimus just sat where he was, and occasionally found his optics wandering to the sleeping Prime next to him. He didn't understand why, but his spark seemed to be fluttering inside of his chest. The Predacon, whom was still sitting on Rosalina's chest, seemed to notice the Autobot commander staring at the femme Prime, and every time Optimus went to look at her, he would find the dragon's dark green optics staring back at him. This went on for the rest of the way back to Iacon.
And there you go! Second chapter is down and out! In the next chapter, the small band of femmes will formally introduce themselves to the Autobot chain of command in Iacon.
So, something I probably should have done last chapter is post the pairings that will appear in the story. If you can guess who is with who correctly on all of them, you'll get a cookie! Not really, I'm broke, but hey, the thought counts, right?
OC X Optimus (probably obvious)
OC X Sunstreaker (hopefully obvious)
OC X Sideswipe (once again, hopefully obvious)
OC X Grimlock
OC X Prowl
OC X Soundwave
OC X Springer
Oh, and if any of you artists out there is reading this, could you please make some cover art for this story and send me the link? Anything that you guys thinks represents this story would be fine, whether it be a picture of one of the femmes, a group shot, or none of the above. Until then, I'll either just leave it blank or find a picture that somehow relates to Transformers.
Well, I think that's all, so... yeah.
Til All Are One,
- Alpha