"Darklight, take the Elite and retrieve the tool." Firesteel ordered when Darklight brought the tracker to her father and the Judge.
"Yes father." Darklight replied as she took the tracker and left for the upper levels.
"As for you boy." Firesteel spoke as he turned towards Orion. "You will remain in your little work station until you are needed again."
Orion sighed and went back. He had just given the Quintessons the device they needed to free themselves. He pretty much doomed Cybertron with giving them the tracker.
Orion tried to take his mind off of those thoughts by looking around him. The workplace he had been given was a small room that looked as though it had once been a computer lab. Wires, cords, chips, and other computer related items lay strewn about the floor.
The torn shell of a rusted old communicator caught Orion's optic.
Orion leaned down and picked it up. He examined it closely. It was broken and rusted but with some tweaking Orion might be able to make it resonate a signal.
It was a long shot but if his friends were looking for him, Foneques might be able to hear it...
Darklight had put her armour back on and walked out into the lobby of her father's workplace/home in Iacon.
The other two members of the Elite were there waiting in full armour as well.
The three of them had all been close friends since their younglinghood, for all of them had gone through the same training regiments and classes in the Femme Division of the Cybertron War Academy.
After graduating, Firesteel had often employed them for his business. Going undercover as spies and sometimes even as assassins.
The two femmes Darklight were working with now were considered to be the main Elite. Although, they did had one more member who didn't join the team nearly as often as the femmes do. However, he was usually called upon when Firesteel needed to force information out of someone. He was ruthless and harsh, perfect for intense interrogations. Otherwise, the three femmes were usually enough for Firesteel.
"What are our orders now?" The sniper femme asked.
Darklight held up the tracker. "We're gonna go get the next tool."
The other two femmes got up and followed Darklight to the groundbridge.
"It looks like Fon is taking us back to Iacon." Dion spoke.
"Great. Because we're just on such great terms with Iacon." Ariel groaned.
"Yeah. We're gonna have to be careful when we go though Iacon." Chromia said. She leaned down to Foneques's head.
"You hear that buddy? You have to be careful." Chromia whispered to him.
Foneques let out a chirp in reply.
"Uh huh. Because the giant flying metal beetle in the sky can be so easily concealed." Dion muttered sarcastically.
"Shut up Dion." Ariel spat.
"Hm." Dion groaned.
The younglings continued to fly in relative silence through the skies until the shining capital city of Cybertron came into sight.
"There it is. Iacon." Chromia announced quietly.
Mere moments after spoke those words, alarms blared from the buildings below them.
"Unidentified aircraft inbound!" A booming voice exclaimed.
Several Cybertronian flyers transformed and made their ways up towards Foneques.
"What? Since when did Iacon have an air patrol?" Chromia wondered.
"Hmm, bet my parents had something to do with this." Ariel commented.
"Just calm down guys. Don't act as though we're wanted delinquents." Dion said quickly.
"But...we are." Ariel replied.
"Sssshhhhh!" Chromia hissed just as the flyers came up next to Foneques.
"Identify yourselves." One of the flyers demanded.
"Okay, but before that, if you don't mind telling us, why is there a sky guard or patrol...whatever the heck you are. Why?" Dion asked.
"Ever since the recent disappearance of the One family heiress, the order was given to search every unauthorized visitors to the city." The flyer replied.
Ariel had to resist the urge to exclaim a prompt "I told you so," as she pressed herself low to Foneques's base.
"So, identify yourselves. Provide your designation, home city, and reason for coming to Iacon." The flyer demanded.
"Uh, okay. I'm Nocai, and this is my sister Iya Nocai, with our pet Nof—"
While Dion was talking to the city's air patrol captain, another flyer was looking up the wanted poster of the children. When it came up, he shouted.
"It's them! The delinquents connected to the heiress's disappearance!" He exclaimed.
The captain turned back towards Dion. "We are going to have to take you in mister Nocai."
"Yeah you so huh. Foneques!" Dion said and Foneques replied with a chirp as he began to descend, and fast.
"After them!" One flyer ordered and they followed.
"Waaaaaaaahhhhhhhh! Slow down!" Ariel screamed as she tightly held onto Chromia.
"Sorry Ariel but we can't!" Chromia replied causing Ariel to tighten her grip on her friend's arm.
Then the flyers began shooting at them.
"Scrap! Watch it Foneques!" Dion shouted.
Foneques expertly dodged and maneuvered his way around and away from the shots and their pursuers, towards the city.
"Careful Foneques! We're heading into the city! Straight into the buildings!" Dion shouted.
Foneques was flying straight towards the side of a skyscraper.
"Foneques." Dion said.
The beetle kept flying.
"Foneques." Chromia said, a little louder.
The beetle kept flying.
"Foneques!" Ariel exclaimed, not sure what her friends were worried about but worried nonetheless.
The beetle kept flying.
"FONEQUES!" The three younglings screamed as the skyscraper came so close, but Foneques was able to pull up at the last second and avoid a collision. Their pursuers won't so lucky as they swerved away from the building, spinning wildly in the air.
"Woo hoo! We lost 'em! Fantastic flying there Foneques!" Chromia exclaimed.
"Yeah." Ariel groaned still shakily holding onto Chromia. "Fantastic...flying."
"Okay, now we can concentrate on finding...oh come on!" Dion shouted.
There was still one more ship pursuing them, however, it wasn't a transformed Cybertronian. It was a Cybertronian operated ship.
"C'mon buddy. We gotta lose them to." Chromia told Foneques. The flying beetle chirped and began swerving between buildings in several attempts to lose the ship. All were in vain as the ship was able to mimic Foneques's maneuvers. Whoever was flying the ship was clearly an experienced one.
"Who is this guy?" Dion muttered.
"You kids have better stop and land now or else we will open fire!" A voice announced from the ship.
"That voice..." Ariel whispered before gasping and remembering it. "The bounty hunters!"
Violetwing was almost at ease as she maneuvered her ship to follow the younglings.
After she made her demands of the younglings, the blue and orange mech stood up and faced the ship. He stuck his glossa out and pulled down on his optic.
Violetwing growled.
"Damn brats. Redrock be a dear and shoot them out of the sky. But be careful, the Ones want their daughter alive." Violetwing spoke.
Redrock chuckled as he put his servos on the cannon controls. He aimed at the beetle and began firing.
Foneques dodged and maneuvered the shots however with more difficulty.
"You can do it Foneques! Uh oh." Chromia said.
"What? What now?" Ariel asked.
They were headed towards the aircraft intersecting highway of Iacon. It was a massive entanglement of fast moving aircrafts.
"That's not good." Dion commented.
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