Shadow backwinged to land allowing Jade to get off. She then transformed in to robot mode; the dragon head snapped back to become her helmet he arms changed to become more robot looking and her legs straightened.
It was at this time her brother tackle hugged her nearly knocking her over.
"Hey sis, glad your okay!" he told her while hugging her,
The Autobot commander briefly introduced the outposts troops and thanked the Autobots for their assistance.
Jade looked at shadow, and suddenly grinned. "Hey, I know you." her grin widened. "you're that 'bot on Cybertron that's been visiting my livejournal on the internet." she said.
Prowl gave Jade a look. "You've been posting information about the Autobots' activities on the internet?" he demanded, although his voice was still calm.
"Uh..."Jade glanced at him nervously. "Maybe?... But it wasn't anything about the location or movements of the forces or plans or anything, just non-essential information." she added quickly.
Sideswipe facepalmed, and Sunstreaker glared.
Jazz shook his head. "Babe, there's one thing ya don't do, it's put stuff on da web that can getchya in trouble." he noted.
Prowl looked at the jet. "I'm going to have a full review of your internet journal when we get home, Jade. And don't try to delete anything. I can find out if you did or not."
Jade gulped. "Yessir." she said.
Aw F! she thought. He didn't know she'd been talking to certain Cons. But it really was non-essential information, anyway, that she was posting.
And if anything, it would get Sideswipe and Sunstreaker into trouble with her, too. (late night street races with Drag Strip and Wildrider)
"Oh so that was you" Shadow grinned then she pointed at her brother "This is Bluestatic; my lil bro" she introduced him "You know the engineer who likes putting us in the medbay" she grinned a bit.
"Hey, Sir, really she hasn't been putting any important info on it; I'm sure that if anyone else was to read it they'd be bored out of their wits" Shadow tried to stand up for Jade even though she knew Kickback had been going on her journal. "Besides I even have a livejournal, and so far no one's complained about it Sir"
Shadow's tail flicked cauing a little bit of the dirt in her tail tip fur to hit Sunstreaker. Shadow didn't like the fact that he was glaring and she knew all to well why. However, with the way that she had done it there was no way of knowing where it had come from.
Bluestatic just grinned "Hi" he spoke to Jade in a cheerful tone ignoring the others "Hey, I don't do it that often" he complained.
Hearing the talk about the livejournal Bluestatic wisely said nothing.
"Hi." Jade grinned.
"In any event," Prowl almost-shrugged, walking forward and looking around, "We need to find a new location to move your troups to. If not take them back to Earth with us. That," he looked to the team commander. "Is up to you."
The autobot commander nodded "hmm this base has been compromised if we cannot find a new location soon then we may have to relocate to earth first we'd best destroy what is here though" he turned to Bluestatic "I want this place rigged to blow in 100 astro seconds. Everyone else, get your belongings out; what you can't carry, leave!"
With that Bluestatic nodded "Yes sir" and left to rig up the explosions next to the main generator where it should annailate everything.
"I'll get our stuff" Shadow called out to her brother before running after him but taking a different route. After a while Shadow was back the few items she had picked up as important and/or unreplacable were safely in subspace.
Prowl nodded. "Let's go." Her signaled Skyfire to land about half a megamile outside the city. He just hoped they wouldn't run into a patrol on the way. They headed for the alleys, ducking in and out of buildings, trying to hide.
The outpost bots followed the ark bots with a stealth pracited over many vorns. Soon enough Bluestatic joined them the base was rigged and they had just enough time to get out before it blew up.
The trio of seekers circled Shockwave's control center and landed. They and the others walked in. The gun-mech looked up. "report." he ordered.
"We found the location of their base, but a bunch of their friends showed up." Spire growled. "Yeah, the ones from earth." the blue seeker next to him said.
Shockwave looked suprised, as much as a faceless mech with a light bulb for an eye could.
"Elaborate."
The rangers walked passed carrying their damaged to the medbay. they could report later if needed to; right now they were angry at being denied what they believed was theirs.
Shockwave pressed the general comm switch. "Attention all troups, Autobots detected in the vicinity of sector 113-21-30. Find the invaders and destroy them." He nodded.
"go get yourselves repaired, my army will do the rest."
Skyfire circled and landed, opening his door.
Shadow had seen enough strange things in her life not to gawk at the size of Skyfire...unlike several other bots... Shadow though glancing amusedly at her brother who was doing just that. Following the main crowd Shadow walked up the gangplank into Skyfire her wings twitching slightly; she wasn't claustroboic she just didn't like flying when it wasn't under her own power...well, that and she had a fear of heights.
"All aboard." the white jet chuckled. They piled aboard, and Skyfire closed the door.
"Hang on!" the jet jerked, running down the clear area as his afterburners warmed up for takeoff.
Bluestatic snuggled close to his sister as they sat down on the flooring. If anyone saw them they might have called it cute...
Shortly afterwards Shadow would probably gut them; but still Shadow put her arm around her brother and held him close.
The rest of the garrison were either sitting or standing about talking idly with each other seemingly not to bothered about having to move base.
Shadow wasn't too sure about what was going on but she did notice that they had been chased though thankfully it seemed the big transport or whatever his name was had managed to out run them. She smiled down at her brother and gave him the thumbs up.
"There he is!" two trios of jets swooped down, firing at the jet. Skyfire shuddered, then took to the air, hoping to loose them. He sped up, leaving them behind.
"Whew, that was close." he broke atmosphere, and headed to Earth.
In the meantime, Shockwave was watching. "Shockwave to Megatron..."
Meanwhile the Rangers were not happy. Saber had sneaked into the command centre, and the tigress knew Shadow had escaped. Her invisibility device was activated so she could not be seen she turned tail and left to report to her fellows; perhaps they could try a different approach this time...
"Megatron here."
Shockwave saluted quickly. "Sir, the Autobots have found and rescued a group of autobots hiding out here on Cybertron, and are heading back to Earth. we tried to stop them, but there were too many.."
He steeled himself for Megatron's insults. But they never came. Instead, Megatron only said in a tight voice. "Very well, we'll be waiting for them."
Saber had reported what was going on to the others. DarkClaw growled angrilly and Beedrill just let out a slightly discordant buzz. Both of which were cut short by Windwhispers annoyed growl. They would get their 6th back eventually they all mutually agreed; the problem was, how?
Megatron waited, hovering over the console of the Nemesis's sensor readout boards.
Sunstreaker and Sideswipe were working on buffing out some scratches, and Jazz had turned his radio on. Prowl was silent, and Jade looked bored as could be.
Shadow looked over to Jade "hey you okay??" she asked pulling away slightly from her brother; though the blue bot just held on all the tighter. Shadow allowed her brother to hold on to her and she manuvered herself so he was more comfortable; and so she was as well.
Jade shrugged, resting her chin on one hand. "just bored."
after a minute, she started to think about what it would be like when the humans met Shadow. She imagined the looks on Spike and Sparkplugs faces. She grinned at the dragon.
"Just don't go yelling around Spike and Sparkplug, out human friends, it'll freak them out." she grinned. "You know... dragon... eheh... never mind." she blushed and let it drop.
Skyfire would take four hours to reach Earth, and they were nearly halfway there allready. Jade glanced out a window at the stars.
Shadow smirked "Hmm I'll keep that in mind; and yes I know dragons are mythical creatures on earth and as such I'll try to keep an open mind" She caught Jade looking outside "Beautiful aren't they?" she asked quietly.
She nodded. "I'd never thought I'd get to see them from outer space." she chuckled softly.
"See, aren't chya glad ya came along?" Jazz grinned and came over to sit with them. He draped an arm over the jet's wings and shoulders.
Jade nodded and put her arms around him too, squeezing slightly, as though to say "thanks for letting me come along."
A couple hours later, Skyfire piped "hold onto your seats, we're almost to the atmosphere..."
Shadow growled "I really hate this part" she muttered as she gently shook her brother awake. Bluestatic stirred and looked about slightly still a little out of it. Shadow just smirked "hold on bro" was all she had time to say before the began to descend.
The jet shuddered and vibrated at the turbulence, and Jade held onto a nearby ring that was used to tie the cords to to secure freight (kinda like the ones in a semi's trailer) to keep from being knocked over.
Bluestatic eeped and grabbed old of shadow who had also grabbed hold of one of the rings her wings semi spread for balance and her tail coiled tightly around her brother.
After a moment, the shaking stopped, and Skyfire had cleared the atmosphere. "Uh-oh. looks like we've got company." he said.
Starscream, Skywarp, Thundercracker, thrust, Dirge, and Ramjet were waiting for them.
"Prowl to base. The Decepticons were waiting for us. Requesting backup." he said calmly.
"This is silverbolt." came the reply. "we'll be right there."
"Prime here, I'll radio anyone else who is available."
Shadow growled at the jets that were waiting; "Sir do you want me to hold them off" she called out to no one in particular; her wings rustling as her tail unintwined from her brother, who had already brought out his rifle.
The dragoness transformer wasn't looking too eager for a fight; in fact she looked more eager to get out of Skyfire that to bash decepticon jets but Shadow did know what should come first. "She turned to jade; ya wanna lift again?" she asked with an almost inperceptable grin.
"Nah. ever been skydiving?" Jade grinned and moved her just-repaired wing. Prowl interrupted. "The aerialbots should be able to hold them off long enough for us to land. We are still to high up for any aerial combat." he looked at Shadow, meaning that this high in the atmosphere, there were hardly any wind currents to glide on.
Shadow just growled with all the glass and such around she couldn't 'see' the currents "very well sir" she replied to prowl before turning to jade "hmm depends I used to jump off very tall buildings just for the freefall" she commented absentmindedly...thinking back to the good old days before just shrugging "I'll have to try it here sometime"
Starscream and the other jets passed by Skyfire, firing off a row of shots, and the coneheads, Ramjet, Thrust, and Dirge fired a row of missiles as they passed.
Skyfire winced as part of his side armor was blasted away, leaving a gaping hole.
Begfore they knew it, the cargo conartment depressurized, and the Autobots inside were sucked out...
Shadow instinctivly transformed the great feathered black and red dragon swooped after the falling autobots prepared to catch those who could not fly themselves to safety. Optics narrowing Shadow focused on the wind currents though the air was thin she was falling at a rapid enough pace to get underneath the other falling autobots.
It was at this moment that the airialbots arrived though they were needless to say shocked at the sight of a huge dragon attempting to catch some of their fellow autobots they immediately joined the fray catching those that they could.
Starscream cackled and wheeled around to fire at Prowl. He was forced to turn to one side when a row of shots peppered his left wing, though. Jade streeaked between them, giving Skydive enough time to catch the white Datsun.
Shadow to be honest wasn't happy and the reason for this...she had just caught Sunstreaker (who hadn't wasted any time in complaining and demanding to finish his fight). She pretty much ignored it...that was until he decided to try to be a pilot. Shadow decided that she would probably kill him later. Fanning her wings she caught her brother and managed to grab hold of one of the other autobots with her talons.
With the others caught the airialbots started to veer off aiming to get the groundbased 'bots to safety before they chased the seekers off. Silverbolt kept his team in order, making sure that none of them dropped their 'passengers' or did something remarkably stupid.
Jade sped up taking off after Starscream, who swerved, trying to out-maneuver her, and Skywarp teleported behind her. The jet's computer suddenly said "missile lock detected" and she did a side flip/barrel roll, slamming on the brakes. Skywarp and his missile careened by.
Meanwhile, Megatron and Shockwave were having to deal with shadow's old group. Shockwave glared as much as he could while they explained about needing to go to Earth to get Shadow back. Megatron tapped his fingers on the desktop as he listened. It would get rid of the autobots' new help...
Shadow put the autobots on the ground (even though Sunstreaker wouldn't get off until she threatened to roll over on him). She took to the sky again hoping that she would be able to help out by guarding those who were still carrying their charges. Shadow used her feathers to change the shape of her wing slightly allowing her to go slightly faster as she arrowed into the sky aiming to help out jade with the seekers.
The airialbots soon started to put their charges to ground allowing them off only to fly into the sky again following after Shadow; hoping that (a) the fact that there was a dragon in the sky and (b) there were more of them than there were Decepticons; would cause the Decepticons to give up and go home leaving them free to return to the ark.
Surely enough, the seekers freaked out a little over seeing a red-on-black dragon appear in the air next to them. especially Starscream, who'd had a bad run-in with one when he and a couple other Decepticons were teleported back to medival times.
Jade dodged and rolled, firing off a few shots after the retreating Decepticons.
Shadow roared her firebreath licking their afterburners as they sped off making sure that they didn't come back.
Down on the ground Bluestatic found himself under rather close scrutiny and needless to say having a group of Autobots watching him for some unknown reason was scary.
The airialbots were quite content with their flying so much so that Skydive took to trying to fly circles about the dragon who had recently appeared.
The rest of the aerialbots kept dogging the six seekers for a few miles, then circled back to make sure everyone was alright before heading back to the ark.