The group had been flying for several hours, and they had all begun to get extremely tired, including Foneques.
"Okay, I think now would be a good time to land and get some recharge in." Chromia spoke as she yawned.
"Sounds good to me." Dion agreed as Foneques began his descent.
Foneques landed in the middle of a dense metal spike's forest. The younglings got off of their giant insect transportation and lay on the ground.
"Ah. It feels so good to lie down on stable ground." Ariel groaned.
"You said it. Now, let's get some shut optic alright?" Orion agreed as he too lay down on the ground.
The other younglings followed suit, all except for Megatronus.
"Hey. Aren't you gonna go into recharge?" Orion asked.
Megatronus shook his helm.
"Nah. I'll stay awake and play guard." He replied.
"Huh? Guard from what?" Dion wondered.
Megatronus shrugged.
"Monsters, assassins, y'know, stuff." He answered.
"Okay, but don't go overheating your systems because you didn't let them have a break mister tough guy." Ariel moaned before yawning and turning herself onto her side.
"I won't, don't you worry. G'night kid." Megatronus retorted.
Orion was having a pleasant, and peaceful dreamless recharge before he was violently awoken from someone shaking him fiercely.
"Huh? What? What?" He groaned.
"Orion. Wake up, hurry." Dion spoke tiredly, as he too had been woken up.
"Why?" Orion asked.
"The Elite." Ariel replied. "I heard the sound of their groundbridge and then their voices. So loud they are in the midst of the silence of night it woke me up."
"Who are the Elite?" Megatronus wondered.
"A bunch of assassins I think. They work for the Quintessons and are after the tools as well." Chromia answered. "We'd better get moving if we don't wanna fight 'em."
"Who says we don't?" Megatronus asked.
"Dude are you serious?" Dion almost exclaimed. "We're all still half in recharge! The Elite will tear us to pieces if we have to confront them like this."
Megatronus folded his arms.
"Fine then. You guys go on ahead." He said.
"What are you gonna do?" Ariel asked.
"I'll keep them off o' your tailpipes for a while. I'll catch up. Meet me on Foneques when you guys get out of the forest." Megatronus explained before running off into the dark forest.
Chromia yawned.
"We wouldn't miss him if we just left him out there right?" She spoke.
"Yeah, but he has the strongest pair of fists around. I'd say that he's useful." Orion replied.
Chromia shrugged as she turned in the opposite direction of where Megatronus had gone off.
"He didn't fare too well against that Bailiff." Chromia retorted.
"Yeah well that's to be expected. I'd bet anything that he'd be able to hold his own against a Sharkticon though." Orion replied.
Chromia sighed as she continued on her way, but not before something jumoed out from the shadows and tackled the youngling femme, bringing her to ground.
"Chromia!" Dion exclaimed.
Chromia struggled on the ground before she pushed her assailant off of her. The attacker was pushed out into the moonlight to reveal the scythe wielding Elite member.
"What? How'd you track us down so fast?" Dion exclaimed.
The Elite member chuckled behind her visor.
"A bunch of kids who're still in half recharge in the middle of the night? Easy pickings." She retorted before taking out her weapon and charging at them.
Ariel jumped forward with her fans out and deflected the femme's attack.
"How come you didn't hear her coming Ariel?" Chromia demanded.
"I'm tired. I'm focused on forwards and getting out of this forest, not what we left behind!" Ariel replied.
The femme came at Ariel again, and Ariel raised her fans once again, but she was pushed back against a tree.
"Oh, you're tired aren't you sweetspark. You defence is choppy at best and your reflexes are slow. Why don't you just relax and let my team and I do what we have to." She mocked.
Ariel growled and kicked the older femme away.
"Not a chance!" Ariel yelled. "Guys get going! Get outta here so Foneques can tranform and then come back and find me!"
"Ariel-"
"GO!"
Dion grabbed Chromia's arm as he turned to run alongside Orion.
"C'mon, Chromia! Wake up Foneques!" Dion shouted.
"Okay! Okay!" Chromia replied as she brought out Foneques from Ariel's bag. The small beetle was in deep recharge.
"C'mon Foneques! Wake up little buddy!" Chromia spoke as she shook the beetle into waking up.
"Okay, good you're awake!" Chromia exclaimed happily as they reached the end of the forest. "We need you transform Foneques!"
Foneques blinked his large, half-closed optics at the femme before jumping off of her servos and transforming.
The younglings jumped on the beetle quickly and he took off over the forest.
"ARIEL! MEGATRONUS! GUYS WHERE ARE YOU?" Dion and Chromia screamed down into the trees.
"Leaving us to find them was a really bad idea." Orion spoke.
"Yeah, but we have no choice but to trust them and follow through with it now." Dion replied.
Orion nodded in agreement as he too began screaming down below.
Before long, several of the spike trees began to shake in one area, and then Megatronus, carrying a very tired Ariel came jumping out of them.
"Guys!" Chromia exclaimed happily.
Megatronus climbed to the top of one tree when he spotted Foneques in the sky and waited for them to come down and pick them up.
He held up Ariel first before getting on the beetle as well.
"What happened down there?" Chromia demanded.
"Ariel was knocked out by one of those guys."
"They're femmes." Orion corrected.
"Yeah I know that, I'm just using guys in the general sense. Anyway, Ariel heard you guys hollering and came after me. She said that you guys were right on top of us before one of the assassins came up behind her knocked her out. I got her and came up here."
"Good. Now, is she hurt? Are you hurt?" Chromia asked.
"What? Me? I'm fine. I'm sure she's fine too. She is one tough kid I have to admit." Megatronus answered with a smirk.
Chromia gave him a smile in return as she inspected the little femme's chassis. Chromia ran her servo on Ariel's pedes and she immediately woke up.
"Who what where when why?" Ariel exclaimed.
"Oh, sorry. Didn't mean to wake you." Chromia said.
Ariel rubbed her non-seeing optics. "I would hope not. I was sleeping."
Ariel yawned and the other younglings followed.
"We should probably get some good distance away from here and set up camp." Orion said and he was met by tired mumblings and nods.
Foneques continued flying until he found a landing pad on an abandoned warehouse and the younglings all fell into recharge together.
There was one thing that bothered Orion as his processor drifted into recharge: How did the Elite know where to find them?
I meant for this to go on longer but I changed my mind and just went...nah. So, how did the Elite know where to find them?
Let me know what you think! Comment and review!