Starscream grumbled, savagely kicking a rock as he paced back and forth in front of the spacebridge he was gaurding. The two figures hiding inside the treeline glanced at each other. Razer had told Jade exactly how to work the spacebridge while Bullet had Starscream distracted. But she wasn't so sure it would work. What if Starscream tried to shoot him? and don't even say Starscream wouldn't try to shoot Megatron. One hint of weakness, and he would. He had tried to before. And besides the fact that Bullet only looked like Megatron, he did not have the armor thickness Megatron had. One shot from Starscream and he would be out, and their plan would be a flop.
"I say we just shoot him." Jade, who was disguised as Starscream, mumbled. Bullet gave her a look. "If we do he'll go right back to Megatron and report on what happenned."He replied. "No he won't. Megatron left him in charge of gaurding the spacebridge. If he fails at that, he knows he'll be in even more trouble for letting it happen. So he'll either tell Megatron and recieve a beating, or keep his mouth shut and continue to gaurd the spacebridge." she reasoned. Bullet 'hmm'ed. Razer had given her a simple hologram. Not complex enough to fool someone is she used it to look like starscream. That would be a waste of energy, also, since she allready looked somewhat like him. The hologram was that of a simple, nondescript black-colored mech. He stood up "what are you..." Jade stopped as Bullet walked out towards where Starscream was. "Report."
the seeker whirled. "Me-megatron. How long have you been standing there?" apparently, Starscream had been talking smack about Megatron when Bullet (disguised as Megatron) walked up. "I just landed, you ibicile. Shockwave requires my prescence on Cybertron." He walked over to the trees. "We captured one of the renegade cybertronians that was helping the Autobots. And I want to see what kind of information he has." he winked at Jade, who grinned and went limp. 'Megatron' (Bullet) threw the black mech, (Jade masked by a hologram) over his shoulder. Starscream eyed the duo. "Wouldn't Soundwave be able to get the information you..."
"Are you questioning me, Starscream!" the mock-megatron demanded, sounding for all the world exactly like his evil counterpart. "No, but I just..."
Bulllet cut him off again., "Good! then activate the spacebridge! and don't try ANYTHING till I get back!"
"y-yes, Megatron." starscream hurriedly activated the spacebridge ring as 'Megatron' dumped the 'unconcious'(not really) mech on the ground. Jade (the black mech) tried not to "oof" too loudly. Once the sequence had started, it was not stoppable. Aside from shooting the spacebridge controls. And there was no telling how the holographic field would effect the spacebridge's transmitting beam. So Jade deactivated it., she stood up as it faded, looking exactly like Starscream, grinned, and waved, watching the red and blue seeker's optics go round. "Bye Bye.." she chuckled.
In Starscream's voice. Starscream could barely squeak before the sky lit up, and the two were gone. He gulped. "What do I do? Megatron's going to deactivate me if he finds out!" he worried. "Then again." he looked at the spacebridge. "Perhaps they can rid the Decepticons of that overly-loyal skidplate-kisser, Shockwave. Then *I* will be able to return to Cybertron and become the new ruler! Yes. I like that." Starscream smirked.
Frenzy turned around at Starscream's exclamation, but totally missed Jade's hologram being switched off. He gave Starscream a look. "You wish. And who ya talkin about?"
-Cybertron, about 30 seconds later-
The doors slid open, and Bullet steeled himself, Shockwave was Megatron's most trusted ally. Even moreso than Starscream. Jade beside him noticed his tension. "You didn't think of how you would get past shockwave, did you?" she asked, vocoder alterations making her sound exactly like the snooty air commander. "Of course I did, Starscream." Bullet replied in his Megatron voice. The doors were opening, and he didn't want Shockwave to hear him use his regular voice.
Speaking of the pea-brained leutenant, uh, where was he?
Bullet glanced around as he stepped out of the spacebridge, Jade (disguised as Starscream) following. "Speaking of your oh-so-loyal lieutenant," the seeker drawled. "Uh, where is he?" the Starscream imposter opticshifted to look around the control tower. All the lights were off, the computer monitors were blank, and there was no sign of the purple gun-former anywhere. P
"Hm. I guess he's in recharge?" Megatron replied, a hint of humor in his voice. Starscream snorted. "Beginner's luck." the seeker retorted, but gave the Megatron lookalike a smirk that said there some some humor to the wry comment. "Well, let's go before..." Bullet's words were cut off as the doors opened and Shockwave plodded in, looking like he was about to fall over he was so tired. Like he had just walked three laps around the planet. "He saw and his single optic light bulb brightened. "M-megatron!" the purple Decepticon blurted. Just as quickly as the suprise hit it left, and the leiutenant stiffened into a formal stance and saluted. "Hail, Megatron."P
Bullet grinned inwardly. "Hail, Shockwave. What have you to report?" Bullet replied without skipping a beat. Jade shot him a look, wondering how he had figured out so much about Megatron in such a short period of time to kow how Megatron would respond in kind to that greeting. Shockwave's stance faltered for a millisecond "I-uh... Had I known you were coming, Lord Megatron, I would have prepared a report, but I-" Bullet cut him off. "You were taking a break? were you slacking on your duty shift, shockwave?" the Megatron imposter asked accusingly. "What! of course not, Megatron, I..." Soundwave was shocked, if not suprised. Megatron had never spoken to him in such a manner. Not in quite a long time. It had been millions of years since the leader last snapped at him. After all, Shockwave was the appointed Gaurdian of Cybertron, not one of his pathetic troups. "I was under the impression my duty shift had ended." he finally admitted.
"Then you assumed wrong. If one is gaurding over Cybertron, one does not have time to rest." Megatron hit a key on the computer, bringing up a display of the outside city. "What information do you have on the newest group of Transfomers?" he asked, scrolling through the surveilance cameras as he spoke. "Sir?" Shockwave was truly lost now. "You never reported to me-" he paused when 'Megatron' turned to give him a glaring look. There was a glint of something dangerous in Megatron's optics.
Soundwave bowed his head slightly, as though to appease his commander. "I regret to inform you, sir, I did not recieve that report."
"What!" Megatron turned to the red and blue seeker behind him. "Starscream! I ordered you to send that report to Cybertron! Did you or did you not send it!" he demanded, cold fury lacing his voice. The seeker stumbled."...uh...I..uh..." the jet looked over at Shockwave and then back at Megatron. "Of *course* I sent the report. I'm not *that* incompetent. The air commander sent Shockwave an accusing look, and Shockwave glared back as much as his single light bulb could emit facial expression. "I tell you, Starscream, I did not get the report." he shot back.
The seeker rolled his optics. "Yes, well, don't blame your incompetence on me. It was your-"
"Enough!" Megatron barked. "We will discuss this later. I have investigations to do. I have recieved word of possible information on the whereabouts of the Cybertronian allies for this new group." Megatron waved his hand, as though dismissing the argument. "Do you wish me to dispatch a group of drones to with you, Megatron?" Shockwave asked, wondering why he couldn't just send the drones to retrieve the informant by force. "No. I think we can handle it." Megatron motioned to himself and Starscream. "You have done enough." He walked out, followed by starscream. Shockwave watched them leave, and a pang of suspicion making itself known. He might be low on energy, but he was not stupid. And Megatron would never treat him like "just another Decepticon soldier". He had allways had respect for the gaurdian. Plus, there was something else, but he couldn't quite place it.
No, something was wrong. Very wrong. He turned to the computer and typed a few keys. "Shockwave calling Earth, do you read me Earth. Megatron, are you there?"
-P
The two hurried out of the control tower and into the darkened city streets. "Whew, that was close." Bullet remarked, giving Jade a glance. The femmeseeker laughed. "are you kidding? you had me this" she held up two fingers a micrometer apart "close to freaking out back there. starting an argument with me. Good job, captain blame game."
"Hey, I got us out of there, didn't I?"
"Yeah, but something tells me the hard part is going to be getting back in when it's time to go home."
The two sighed and headed for the security section. Razer and Dusk had somehow managed to get the sodes to get in, though they claimed it was from an earlier rescue attempt. Jade idly wodered why Shockwave wouldn't change the security codes. Unless he didn't know about the breakin. In that case, (if he didn't), it seemed he really *was* lacking.
The duo ducked into a side street to avoid a patrol and double-checked their coordinates. It was in the darker part of the planet's rotaion, coincidentally referred to as "second rotation" on cybertron. bullet put the datapad away. "Okay, looks like it's not far from here." the Megatron lookalike nodded. "Then what're we waiting for, oh *mighty leader*." the starscream lookalike, Jade, grinned widely. Bullet made a sighing sound and shook his head. "Sometimes I think you're enjoying this way too much.
"Well no duh, oh mighty-"
"Jade!"
the seeker mock-pouted. "Oh, all right. Fine. I'm just trying to lighten the mood. Geesh!" the seeker rolled her (his?) optics and followed the silver mech into the shadows...
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Endnotes: Okay, it's official. Jade is a ham. LOL. She was totally hamming it up in my headspace on this. Just as soon as she came out of the repair-room in the mountainbase, she started strutting like Ladystarscream. (...of course it doesn't help she's based off my presonality, and my penname just happens to be LadyStarscream *eyeroll*. whatever.
More coming soon!
