Dawn

Starlight/Solarflare & Skywarp

(Story: Hidden Secrets)

It was still dark outside when the light yellow jet plane took to the skies, she took a quick look back at the ark before turning back towards her destination and transforming into her alt mode. Storm would no doubt be cross with her but it was something she'd dealt with a hundred time before. She needed time to think, somewhere on her own away from Storm, Lightning and the rest of the Ark crew. She transformed and landed on a mountain cliff top overlooking forests, fields and rivers, the sky beginning to lighten as dawn began to brake. She sighed as she remembered all that was and had been going on. Of how Starscream had revealed their secret, how Storm had run from the Ark in both anger and fear –something that still surprised the femme- and Lightning's revelation that she had a sparkling with one of the Ark's crew members long before the three of them met. Only to be told by that same sparkling that he wished she never returned.

That had infuriated her but it was all in the past now, now she had to look to the future. Hm. Future, that's a laugh she thought bitterly what kind of a future is it where even your own side questions your loyalty.

"Flare." A voice said startling the femme. She turned thinking it to be Storm and was ready to yell at her only to gasp when she saw who it actually was.

"Skywarp."

"Hello Solarflare." He greeted taking a step towards her.

Starlight went to take a step back only to remember there was a cliff edge behind her.

"Don't call me that!" she annoyed "my name is Starlight now, get used it."

The black seeker gave a small smile. "That's what Lazer said to Thundercracker and yet you both still answer to those names."

Starlight growled as the mech walked even closer. She could fly off but he would no doubt follow her.

"What do you want, Skywarp? Haven't you and Thundercracker ruined our lives enough." She saw a sad almost depressed look cross the seekers face.

"You believe that attack was our fault, I'm here to tell you it was not." He told her.

"You expect me to believe that? Storm saw you, both of you. You cannot deny what her optics saw. How my happiness was completely shattered that day." She told him voice going quiet near the end as she looked away at the ground.

"What Lazer saw was us arriving after we heard what had happened. We hoped we weren't too late and that you were both still alive." He tried to explain. The only thing he ever cared about was his sister everything else could go frag itself.

"Why? So you could take us to Megatron, pretend we were one happy family again? Ha!" she could see he was about to say something and beat him to it. "You killed your sister that day, Skywarp. She died when you killed the only mech she ever loved, the mech who was to be her mate." A burning anger shone in Starlight's pink optics. "And now I'm going to return the favour." Pointing her weapon at him.

Skywarp stood dumbfounded by her words. It couldn't be true, the femme in front of him was his sister, his little Solarflare the one he'd sworn to protect with all his spark and now she was going to shoot him for something she believed was his fault.

"You shoot him you'll have to shoot me." A voice said gaining both Cybertronian's attention.

Starlight narrowed her optics at the blue mech, Skywarp was easy to deal with since he was her brother but if she shot Thundercracker she knew Storm would never forgive her despite the femme claiming she hated him.

"You know I can't do that." She told him "Storm would have my aft."

"She doesn't know you're here, does she." The blue seeker stated.

The light yellow femme looked back at her so-called brother. "You planned this!" she growled at him. Suddenly she heard a lot of bird chirps behind and below. The dawn chorus. She thought remembering what someone once told her. She flew off back to the ark, Storm and Lightning would be onlining from recharge soon and she would rather not have the white and ocean blue femme know she'd met and been talking with the black seeker.

"Flare, wait!" Skywarp called out and went to go after her when a black hand stopped him.

"She'll never believe you, Warp. As far as they're concerned we're the ones who pulled that attack and no amount of talking will convince them otherwise."

The black mech looked at his trinemate a moment before looking over at the rising sun. "She was going to shoot me." He said after a while.

Thundercracker couldn't help but feel sorry for his friend. Yes Lazer had shouted at him but she never tried to shoot him.

(End)