I stood there in line preparing to go through the ground bridge. I wonder if this will be tame, or will we be attacked daily. I've heard the autobots are ruthless when it comes to drones. At least I get to see the sky every once in awhile when I get outside guard duty. Man, I wish I was a flyer, being a grounder sucks and-
"Are you listening!", screeched the commander suddenly in my visor disturbing me from my thoughts. I look around to see the other vehicons already went through the ground bridge. Commander Starscream growled and hit me on my helm, as usual, and yelled at me to go. I ran through the bridge as fast as I can, faintly hearing the commander call me a defective grounder.
Before
"Hook!" yelled the air commander to the constructicon medic. Entering the medbay with his trine in tow. "Where is our sparkling?!" the ship shakes from another attack from the autobot's siege.
Hook looks at them and sighs, "Do not worry. They are safe, I sent them off ship with someone else an orn ago, they should be getting their protoforms soon."
Once the medic said this, the commander and his trine seemed to get angrier. "Where did you send them?!" growled the left wing surprisingly.
"I sent them to-" an explosion from an attack by the autobots hits the side of the med bay causing the bay to collapse in on itself. When the debris settles, the room is completely destroyed.
"Doctor? Doctor?!" the right wing called out desperately, as his trine begins to look for the constructicon.
"Star…..TC…. look.." the youngest member shakenly says while pointing to a pile of debris. There lied the broken grey remains of the now former medic.
Shortly after…
An abandoned decepticon pod floats through space heading to the broken metal planet below, crashing right outside a certain empurata's lab….
Present…
We have been at this mine for a few earth lunar cycles, and so far nothing has happened. I run my patrols day and night, walking through the lower levels. I was hoping for the upper levels, so I could see the sky, but now I'm furthest from it. Nothing ever happens down here. It's my job to guard and make sure the quota is being met, which it is not due to the low amount of energon in the bottom levels.
Another mine collapse, I can hear it from here, the lower levels are the most dangerous. I ignored it, it means nothing to the decepticon cause to lose the life of a few drones. Not like they would save me if something were to happen, I know they don't like me, I report any and all activity to the higher ups, even the casual activities of my fellow drones. They know we are not suppose to indulge in ourselves. No ideas, recreation, or opinions, they forget their purpose. Live and die for the decepticon cause and lord Megatron.
Again, I hear a mine collapse. What is going on over there, our superior's are suppose to be arriving for collection and reports in the next cycle or two, and all the mine collapses are ruining our quota. I guess I must investigate and tell them to stop or I will report them. I turn the corner expecting to see several vehicons under rock, but instead I see at least a dozen offline vehicons and the autobots stealing our mined energon through their own ground bridge.
Following standard protocol, I shot at them while sending a comm to the other guards requesting backup. I fired at them and they fired back. Simply put, I missed every shot, but they hit their mark. The blast hit me right in my chassis and I was down. I fell to the ground right as I saw the autobots go through their ground bridge with our energon. Now we'll never reach our quota, lord Megatron will not be pleased.
Just as I thought this, the other vehicons entered the area, very late mind you, and started to search around the room for any signs of the already gone autobots. Quickly as they came, all but two of them left. The remaining drones searching for witnesses and/or survivors. Eventually they came to me. My systems were already starting to shut down from energon loss. One of them looked me over, amusement clear in his movements, "Well, well, well, if it isn't D-8311, are you going to report this, or are you going to report us for laughing." they laughed, glad to see me down. They are showing too much emotion.
"What is going on here?!", screeched the voice that could only be the commander. The other drones went to defend themselves, but I didn't hear them, nor did I care. I'm busy offlining at the moment from loss of energon. I move my head, which is very painful, to face the commander. I saw the commander's legs along with two nearly identical pairs. The commander's trine! I look pathetic in front of them, can't even salute. I tried to look up, only for my eyes to glitch out and for me to go into forced stasis.
Earlier…
"Ah, it seems your faithful trine has arrived.", the warlord sarcastically stated to his second in command, "Do remember what I told you, and take them with you to work, I have not the time nor the patience to deal with one idiotic seeker, let alone three." he said over the shoulder as he left the deck.
Starscream frowned at his retreating lord's form before turning back to the landing ship with his trinemates on boards, along with a few others of course. Starscream stood silently as each person walked off the ship, making a line in front of starscream. As each one walked passed him he named them one by one in his head.
Ramjet. Dirge. Thust. Damn conehead trine. Nova Storm. Acid Storm. Fragging twins. Sunstorm. Their blasted trine leader. Nacelle. Hotlink. Slipstream. Pit spawned copies. Blitzwing. Him and his amazing personalities. Starscream glared at each of the trines, plus one. He looks back to the ship to see his trinemates walk out. "Took you long enough, I was tired at looking at idiots." sneered the air commander ignoring the chorus of 'Hey!'s from behind him as he walks to his trine.
His trinemates, Thundercracker and Skywarp analyzed their leader, as if he was someone new. "It's been awhile." Thundercracker spoke first. He looked...nothing like his leader like some people think. Thundercracker was much bigger, in height and, most significantly, frame. His colors were blue and red, colorful compared to most other decepticons. After all, seekers were all about flaunting, and colors were a huge part of their culture before the war, and that was something most refused to give up, unlike Starscream who quickly gave up his colors to win favor and move up in the decepticon ranks.
"Screamer!" yelled the youngest of the command trine, running up to his trine leader and giving him a surprise hug, much to the leader's dismay.
Thundercracker felt how Starscream was getting uncomfortable through their trine bond and quickly shooed the other seekers off before they start getting any ideas. The youngest member of the group, Skywarp, was shorter than Starscream, but had a thicker frame colored black and purple.
Once the seekers left to be assigned duties by Soundwave, Starscream relaxed a bit and sighed, "What have I said about calling me that in public?"
"To not do it…" shyed the youngest, "But we missed you so much, and now that we are back together we can go looking for our sparkling-"
"Do not speak of them!" Shreeched the leader aggressively causing Skywarp to shrink down and Thundercracker to flinch. Starscream vented a few times collecting himself before speaking again, "Megatron has forbidden us from searching, and it's a waste of time anyway, they are probably offline, permanently." choked out the leader, speaking as if he was trying to convince himself.
"You know that isn't true Star'" sighed the right wing putting his hand on Starscream's shoulder for comfort, "We would have felt it in our bond." Starscream shook his shoulder out of Thundercracker's grip and walked off pretending to not listen to what he said.
"Our orders are to check up on one of the mines and to ensure the quotas are being met, let's go and hopefully it will be a quick job." sighed Starscream walking away from his trine as they looked at each other before following their leader to the ground bridge.
Shortly after, when they arrive at the mine…
"Finally, let's get this over wi-" started Starscream before a mining drone ran up to him, venting quickly.
"Commander Starscream, Autobots on the lower levels stealing the energon, Sir!" yelled the drone in a panic.
"Of course there is, because you are all incompetent idiots!" berated the commander before hitting the drone and looking to his trine, "Ready to beat some autobots?"
"Just like old times." reminisced the right wing.
"Oh yeah, some action on the first day!" cheered the left wing.
The command trine transformed and flew down to the lower levels as flying will always be quicker and superior to any of the ground pounders. Sadly for the youngest member, they were too late, the energon was gone and vehicons destroyed. There are two drones looking down at another drone on the ground, barely staying online.
"What is going on here?!"