A/N: I thought I'd put up the link to the fancharacter profiles, no that they're up where you readers can get to them. First off, DarkStatic's characters, the Decepticon Rangers: Darkclaw, Sky, Saber, Beedrill, Windwhisperer, Shadow (used to be one), and their gestalt merger, Pathfinder, also, Shadow's younger brother, Bluestatic. can be found at: http://dark-static. Girl also had some fancharacters in this, so I'll put up the links to hers, too. :-)

Alpha: both of them together: finally, I got all my RP series characters' profiles up on one page, except for Driveby (I don't know why she's giving me so much trouble. LOL.

But those can be found at:

http://jadeseeker. that that's been posted, on to the fiction.

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Beacon looked over at her, and Cable waved. "Hiya!" He headed for where she was sitting. "Hey guys, wait up!" the mud-colored Cap, The tank who was actually camo-colored, but mostly mud colored, currently, came in behind them.

"greatings" Shadow replied folding her wing back a fraction causing her brother to mumble in his recharge. She watched as the tank came up behind them idly wondering just who they all were.

Cap bounced after them, and Driveby, the white car and ty, the black chevy blazer walked in after them.

Shadow kept an optic on the group she looked at them carefully her calm detatched nature snapping into place with an almost audible click.

Bluestatic started to stir a little at all the noise, not enjoying it too much.

As a result Shadow allowed him to snuggle into her wing and arm. But all the while she was impassive otherwise. She knew about the others in the room but until she knew for certain Shadow would keep her guard up.

the trio got their energon cubes, and took a seat at a nearby table. Driveby and Ty joined them. Beacon glanced over. "If you don't mind my asking, you two are new to the Ark"
Shadow nodded "Yeah we just arrived we were on an outpost on Cybertron" she stated before Bluestatic mumbled "it got blizted" raising his head a bit Bluestatic looked at them before muttering something inaudible to his sister and curling back up.

Beacon nodded, blue visor dimming for a second. He went over to the table where his comrades were seated, giving the dragon her space.

Shadow was glad to see them leave; not that she was nasty but they'd had a long day and right now she couldn't care less about anyone...well except for 'Static.

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Sky was curious he knew were the ark was; why not fly a little closer to it. The pheonix radioed down to Saber and she agreed. The more they knew about their 6th's new home the better.

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Prime finished looking over the last report, and set it on the stack at the corner of his desk. The Decepticons had been rather quiet since they got back. Strange, since they were waiting for them as soon as they entered the atmosphere... what was that about, he pondered.

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Shadow's suddenly realised that Prime didn't exactly know about her. She'd been secretly waiting for someone to ask about the attack that they had endured as they had entered the atmoshphere. Making up her own mind Shadow gently nudged her brother awake.

"I'm going to tell" was all she needed to tell him, waking up immediately. Bluestatic looked nervous.

"Do you think it's a good idea?" he asked

"Nope but it one of those things, you wan't to stay here?"

"No, I'm coming" the tone in Bluestatic's voice was one of finality.

Nodding Shadow got up and politly excused herself before heading to the Autobot leaders office; her brother in tow.

When they reached the door Bluestatic quickly asked "You sure?"

"More than ever" was the reply. And with that Shadow gave a gentle but firm and loud enough knock.

Prime looked up when the dorchime rang. "Come in." he sounded.

Shadow would have taken in a deep breath if she could however instead she just opened the door slightly "Can I speak with you sir? It is rather important" she asked. Her wings drawn rather close around her; she looked a little nervous though she wasn't nevous about talking to Prime she was more nervous about what she had to say.

Prime nodded, notcing her tenseness. "Of course." He set aside the datapads, giving her full atention. "Have a seat." he motioned to the chair in front of his desk.

"Thank you sir" Shadow spoke quietly signaling to Bluestatic to wait outside.

"I err..." she paused for a bit before gathering herself.

"I think I should tell you a little about a certain incident that happened a few years back sir as I believe it might have had something to do with the attack on Skyfire when my brother and I came here" she paused waiting to see Prime's reaction and to judge whether or not to continue as she had been planning.

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Outside Bluestatic stood guard, he wouldn't allow anyone to eavesdrop on this conversation nor would he allow anyone in; without him seeing them first. If someone did arrive he'd send a message to his sister and see if she needed more time to compleate her story or not. Then he'd do what ever he thought he needed to do.

Prime nodded. "Go on."

He knew nothing of shadow's past, or how she could be involved with the Decepticons attacking Skyfire as they were coming back. Well, not that it mattered. She was an Autobot. And that was what counted.

"Well I think it has something to do with the Rangers, sir." she paused seeming to struggle with herself "I think they want me back" her tail twitched with anxiety she hated to reveal anything about her past but she reminded herself that this was important.

"A few years back I was kinda like a mercenary; before I even knew my brother was still alive; I hunted and killed pirates using what I earned from doing so to live on." again she paused. "well, I'm not sure how it happened but I became involved with one of the earlier combiner projects; and the rangers are the others...I don't think I have to tell you it was a success. But when I found out Bluestatic was still alive I left. They're still not quite happy about it; and I basically joined up." Shadow finished her story and folded in on herself almost visibly her wings tightened around her frame and her tail wrapped around the base of her legs.

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Outside Bluestatic was ready to jump in and defend his sister if he had to. Otherwise he stayed outside and kept a silent vigil. He was a little concerned as he stood outside but so far he hadn't heard any shouting or anything so he deemed Shadow was safe.

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Prime nodded. "You're sure they're no longer influencing your thoughts?" he queried, trying to make it sound like an innocent question. But it was one that he had to ask.

Shadow gave a wry grin "They wish they could...but no they don't influence my thoughts otherwise I'd have gone back. Though it hurts I block them; my mental defences have grown quite...strong." She replied not at all bothered by the question she understood it. After all it is exactly what she would have done were she Prime. "Though normally this would cause complications as long as I have my brother I don't think you need to worry about me snapping".

Shadow did realise that geasults even if they couldn't stand each other did need to merge every now and then in order to stay sane; however because of Bluestatic this didn't bother Shadow she instead was merely fiercely protective of him.

He nodded. "Thank you for informing me." after a moment, he asked "Was there anything else?"

"not really, just to a slight warning sir; they're pretty desparate I'd hazard a guess that they'd be willing to do pretty much anything sir; they've already tried to harm 'Static and they'd probably do it again." she paused "in a way sir it's why I usually distance myself from people" Shadow gave a wry smile "Otherwise sir; no there is nothing else"

Prime nodded. "I'll inform the others to keep an optic out. Also, make sure you tell someone if you decide to leave the ark."

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Meanwhile, in the rec. room...

Cable leaned back in his chair. "I wonder who the new chick is?" he sipped his cube. Driveby steepled her fingers. "I don't know. But I'm sure we could ask someone."

Ty smiled. "You haven't gone to say hello to Prowl yet."

Driveby glanced at the black truck-femme. "True." she nodded. "He would know." she got up. Then glanced back at the mechs. "Since you're so curious."

Beacon smirked. "We're the curious types, aren't we guys?"

A chorus of "yep", "uh-huh" and "yeah" came from the table's other occupants. Ty looked up.

"Should I come along, or are you going alone?" she asked.

Driveby looked over at her. "There's no need for a bodygaurd inside the Ark, I shall do fine alone, Ty. Thank you anyway." the white car nodded, and Ty nodded back.
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Back in Prime's office, Shadow nodded. "thank you sir, and I shall do as you ask" she stood up and gave quick salute taking Prime's parting as a dismissal. Flicking her wings a bit Shadow exited and made sure the door was shut before turning to her brother "that went well".

"Did it now?" Bluestatic replied in a disbelieving tone

"Yeah he's not mad at me and I'm not going to be shoved in the brig to rust" Shadow replied totally serious.

"Well that's good; but?" he asked again.

"Prime's a little wary; I'm not to leave the ark without telling someone first and all that stuff" Shadow replied.

The siblings returned to the rec. room mainly because the currently had nothing else to do. As they did Shadow explained exactly what had happened in Prime's office.

Bluestatic and Shadow returned to where the had been sitting previously; while Bluestatic was more outgoing than Shadow; both of them were rather shy when it came to people they didn't know very well.

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Mean while Sky wasn't very happy. The pheonix had landed outside the ark; far enough away not to draw attenion to himself while Saber was padding silently forward. Sky was a little skittish; he hated to sit around for long periods of time; but more than that the sense that they would be able to get close to their dragoness made him stay where he was.

Saber on the other hand had activated her invisibility device and was hidden well enough from sensors and view alike. Her movements were soundless as she made her way into the Autobot base.

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Jade landed from patrol and headed inside. Driveby and her team were supposed to have stopped over from their base inside the moutain a few miles away for supplies, and she wanted to say hello. But first, she had to head to Prowl's office to check in.

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Cap went to find Terra. She'd said something about saying hello to her brother, or someone, so he thought he'd go wander the Ark and try to find her.

Terra looked up from where she was leaning against her brother in their room while watching TV. She saw Cap and smiled. "Hiyas." She waved.

CyberFin looked up, snorted, and went back to watching "Jaws".

Terra rolled her optics. "Sorry 'bout him."

Cap glanced at him. "Um...hi." he said shyly, and waved. He wondered if the shark-bot had gotten any stronger since they first met... he was still slightly wary of the brother-beating-him-up possibility...

Cyber nodded and let go of his little sister. "Go. Don't get into trouble. Again."

Terra rolled her optics and wapped him. "Yes, mother." She smirked, walking away.

Cyber muttered something along the lines of, "She'll thank me one of these days."

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And, in another part of the Ark, in the crew quarters, a certain set of twins were trying to watch TV in their quarters...

Alpha poked her brother, who growled.

"Please."

"No."

"Please."

"No."

"Fine." Alpha pouted.

Her brother growled. "Okay! Whatever."

"Yay!"

Alpha shoved her brother and grabbed the remote. She turned the TV to wrestling and grinned. "Get 'em, HBK!"

Omega facepalmed. "My sister...the wrestling addict."

WACK!

Omega groaned and rubbed where the wrench had hit his head. "Ow."

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Shadow had been watching the various autobots with interest her tail flicking abentmindedly every now and then. Something in her spark began to ache and while she showed no outward signs of her discomfort; she knew her instincts were telling her that something was wrong. Optics narrowing Shadow surveyed the room with an expert eye checking everything.

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Saber mean while was padding softly into the rec. room; still hidden she kept to the darker parts before she spied the dragoness sitting a little off to the side with her brother. Saber hated the engineer; he had taken what was theirs with a surge of almost irrational anger Saber padded towards them.

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Outside Sky noticed something was wron.g Saber had found something; perhaps their time to strike was close at hand. He patched a quick transmission through to Darkclaw. He was rewarded with a reply that stated simply "we're coming".

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the trio of Marauders saw Shadow and her brother walk in.

"you talk to her." Beacon said in a near-whisper.

"No, you go talk to her." Cable retorted.

Gunlock rolled his optics. "I'm not going to go talk to her. You go. You're the one who wnated to know who she is anyway."

Cable looked at his energon cube. Then the yellow and blue car glanced at shadow.

"oh, all right." he scooted his chair back and got up.

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Saber moved to the left, where the shadows of the rec room met the wall. She could see the two of them sitting together. Now if only she could get a little closer...

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Shadow was still keeping a wary eye; her hand had twitched when Cable had move towards her though she noticed it only out of the corner of her optic. Not sure where they were going she focused on them for a minute unknowingly leaving her brother open for an attack.

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Bluestatic was also watching the various autobots however his interest was more in their mannerisms and how they were constructed. Bluestatic noticing his sister just rolled his optics and muttered about her being paranoid and moved over a bit to better observe his comrades moving just of Shadow's reach; his curiosity getting the better of him.

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Outside, Sky noticed the rest of the rangers comming in. Darkclaw was as usual the first to land followed by the others. "Is everything ready?" he asked.

The pheonix nodded "I'd imagine Saber's just about ready" he replied quietly as they crouched there waiting.

Starscream, Thundercracker, and Skywarp landed, and Starscream gave Sky a sneer. "I don't see why Megatron sent us to help you. Can't you do this alone?" he said in that nasal, holier-than-thou tone.

The insecticons landed behind them. They didn't see why they had been called out here either, but if there was energon cubes in it for them, who were they to complain?

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Meanwhile, inside, Saber slowly slinked towards her target in beast mode. He didn't even see her. This was perfect!

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Cable walked up to one side of the table, temporarily blocking the tiger's view of her target. "Hi, um... is this seat taken?" he tried to put on a friendly smile.

Jade walked in. "Hi guys." she called. Cable turned long enough to wave. "Hi."

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Sky meerly gave Starscream a look back, Having once been a seeker, he was well aware of their arrogant attitudes; that and he was damnwell thankful that he was no longer one of them.

Sky spoke quietly "no sir we just thought we'd give you the oppertunity to show us your ledgendary selves in action." The way he said it gave no way for starscream to reply to the obvious micky-take ((don't know a better desc for it)) other than cause the rest of the rangers to not watch his back as much as they might.

Kickback was just bored why the hell he had to be out here he had no idea...even if he did manage to get those pictures into the ark; meh maybe megsy was punishing them. Restraining a snigger, Kickback couldn't help but spare a glance at the purple seeker; imagining all sorts of things that might happen to him if Megatron found out. Contenting himself with eating a small twig kickback sat down to wait for the order; whether it came from Shrapnel or Starscream didn't really matter to him.

Starscream just looked suprised. Well, his flying skills were ledgendary... at least to him, he thought.

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Shadow looked impassively at Cable for a second before shaking her head; her features softening into a small smile "No; not at all" she replied. Coiling her tail around the base of her chair and folding her wings so they rested a little more comfortably; even though at a moments notice they could snap open and give her any neccessary balance. She motioned for him to take the seat.

Jade went over to where Beacon and Gulock were sitting and took the seat Cable had just vacated. "What are you guys up to?" she asked. "Nothing." Gunlock shrugged. Beacon turned to regaurd the jet. "Cable wanted to know who the new people are, so we suggested he go talk to them." he shrugged. "Ah." Jade nodded. She glanced over at where they were sitting Turning to see Jade; Shadow gave a friendly nod

"have fun?" she asked in a slight conversational tone. The femmeseeker shrugged. "Guess so."

if Shadow wanted to talk, she'd come over to the table she and the fliers were at, and she didn't want to distract Cable... She went to get another energon cube.

Bluestatic however was looking about wide opticed having just calcualted the engineering possiblities of various items in the room. He looked back at Shadow only to notice someone else was there as well. He better not damn well try to chat her up Bluestatic thought to himself showing the little known fact that he was just as protective of Shadow as she was of him. Even though he prefered to protect her from things he could deal with.

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Shrapnel was busy looking for stuff he could use to make clones of himself with, and thinking of the possibilities of all the stuff he could use once they got inside, and Bombshell was double-checking his cerebro-shells. He might be able to use one of them to gain control of Shadow, but he didn't want the autobots getting their hands on one of his shells, and discovering the technology behind them. Then his cerebro-shells would be useless..

Sky, seeing the seeker had nothing more to say, turned his attention back to the entrance. Darkclaw flicked his wings waiting for Saber to make her move the leader of the rangers ruthlessly quelled the bubbling sense of anticipation he was beginning to feel. Beedrill looked over at the insecticons with a manner of interest but otherwise seemed bored. Windwhisper made sure his medkit was prepared and drew his gun.

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Meanwhile, Driveby tapped the doorchime to Prowl's office. The door slid open.

Prowl looked up from his desk as the white femm entered. "Hello, Driveby, what can I do for you?" he asked without looking up.

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Shadow just gave her brother a square look as if to say 'knock it off bro'. She waited for Cable to start otherwise she'd be quite happy not to say anything; she was a little sadistic like that sometimes.

Bluestatic shrugged with a what? expression otherwise he continued to look at the far more interesting items and people that were in the room.

Cable gave the pair a friendly smile. "So, are you guys from around here?" he asked half-seriously.

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Saber transformerd oh-so-slowly, making sure not to be heard. She aimed at Bluestatic's helmet, and started to squeeze the trigger...