Wild Card a Royal Pain

Kit sat in the dining area eating a meal all alone. No one was up at this early in the morning. Some part of her missed her life back home. It was November and normally she'd be out in the middle of the woods waiting for the deer to come to her. Sighing heavily she waited for their assignments to be put up on the board by the morning crew. The person that put the orders up shook his head at Kit as he sat down beside her with a cup of coffee.

"What's the deal today?"

"Up again with Wild Card, for evaluation."

"I wish they'd just court marshal him and be done with it."

"A lot of this wish that Obsidian and don't doubt it. He abandoned you yesterday."

"Don't worry about it. Karma is a bitch when it comes down to it."

"That is true. You missed mail call yesterday."

"Yeah so?"

"Here."

He handed her a letter. Looking down at it she was confused at the address. No one ever sent her letters unless they were to inform her that something had happened, and it was to early for her cousin to send anything to her much less what Kit requested of her. The address was from a state she knew that none of her living relatives lived in that state.

"Is something wrong?"

"I don't know who could have sent me a letter. Most of my family isn't alive and those that are don't send me anything well except my cousin."

"Open it and see."

She shrugged and opened it. It was a normal piece of paper what struck her first was the one liner on the page. It was typed.

'You're in danger'

The next thing that struck her was the watermarked insignia behind the words taking up most of the page. It almost looked like the Decepticon logo except not. She figured that Starscream could help her out figuring what this message meant. Stuffing it in her flight suit pocket she headed up to the flight deck. Starscream was sitting in his normal position.

"Morning Starscream."

He remained silent as always but at least she figured he was listening to her. "I got this odd letter from the states saying that I was in danger. I assume when we're alone you can explain this odd symbol that looks almost like your symbol. Also, I'm going up against Wild Card again in. If you feel up to it you might want to follow I don't trust him at my back."

"Talking to yourself again?" she heard an annoying voice.

"Go to hell Wild Card."

Before she could even move Wild Card had her slammed up against Starscream's side. Kit bit her touch to keep from giving him the satisfaction of hitting her and making her cry out. There was a smirk on his face that made her inwardly shake. She knew that lust filled look. Though the look faded when a similar smirk graced her features, it was a malicious smirk. If Starscream was her companion she figured if Wild Card went to far than Starscream would do something. Of course she was putting a lot of faith in a robot that five years ago wanted to destroy human kind.

"What are you smirking about?"

"One day you're going to regret everything that you've done and I won't be the one to wipe you off the face of this world."

"Do you really think your words faze me?"

"No," she said causally. "But the truth is always hard to accept."

"One of these days Obsidian I'll wipe you off the face of the planet."

"You can try."

She had a feeling that when she went it would be at the hands of an alien robot. Standing there she waited for Wild Card to storm off before she turned to Starscream again.

"If you happen to go up don't kill him. As much as I would like for him to leave me alone I'd rather not be court marshaled for him."

A heavy sigh escaped her lips as she moved up the ladder and sat on Starscream's wing. Laying backwards she stared at the slowly changing sky. Red, purples, and oranges graced the skies. Something occurred to her just then.

"Hey Starscream why do you think they haven't put me as your pilot even though if we were then you'd be doing all the flying?"

Rolling over she laid on her stomach staring out at the vast ocean. A huge yawn escaped her as she rested her head on her folded arms. For some reason in Starscream's vicinity she felt this odd sense of comfort. It scared her because she had never allowed someone not in her family that amount of trust in a short amount of time. Shaking her head she felt her eyes growing heavy as she finally succumbed to sleep.

Dream sequence

Kit was walking down a familiar street. The buildings were abandoned and falling apart. Looking around she tried to locate the robots that normally graced this place. The wind whipped past her. Something black hit the back of her legs making her look down. Picking it up it seemed to be a blanket of some sort. Her fingers ran across the material in a soothing manner as if this was her comfort blanket. It was like this blanket meant something to her. Something white on one of the edges made her curious. Shaking it out the symbol Starscream bore was on it in white. Holding the blanket she began to trace the lines of the symbol as if she had done it a million times before.

The sound of fighting cut through her confusion as she moved forward. The same scene replayed before her as the two mega powers were fighting each other. It seemed like neither had the upper hand but it was like the bigger one wasn't even trying.

"Hand over the catalyst, Starscream!" he heard the one dubbed Megatron yelled.

"As long as I still function you won't touch her."

"How sickenly sweet," Megatron said with a steel edge tone to his voice.

Starscream threw a punch knocking Megatron backwards. He turned towards her.

"Run!" he yelled again

Megatron launched himself at her and Starscream intercepted him tumbling the two of them into the nearest building. A scream tore from her throat seeing her companion in such a state of disrepair. She found herself stumbling backwards to try and get away from the falling pieces of scrap metal. Starscream was thrown from the hole he was in into another building across the street. Fear crept up her spine. It was the same building that Starscream always died in. The sound of screeching tires made her turn around. A red and blue semi with flames came barreling towards her along side of him was a fire rescue vehicle and a big GMC truck. They rushed past her towards the battle and changed as they went. Time slowed to a crawl as they moved past her and a white symbol almost familiar to her stared back until time resumed its normal pace as the bots slamming into Megatron's side and began to battle the big bot. Her feet carried her to the building where Starscream was fighting to rise.

"Starscream!"

"You have to get out of here!"

"Not without you!" she found herself yelling.

"Go, the autobots won't be able to hold Megatron off forever."

"Starscream…"

The battered robot rose to his feet and moved away from her not even looking back when she screamed his name. He spared her one glance over his shoulder but it was the last thing he saw before Megatron ripped his head off. A long scream escaped her throat.

End dream

Kit came awake breathing heavily. She rolled over and forgot that she was on Starscream's wing and hit the deck hard. Her breath was knocked from her again. Looking around she made sure that everything was in its place. The sun was up and some of the deck hands were there looking at her strangely. One of them helped her to her feet.

"Are you all right Obsidian?"

"What happened?"

She rubbed her forehead trying to get the slight ache to go away.

"You were talking in your sleep and you rolled off the edge of the wing."

The dream came rushing back to with force. It made her brows furrow in confusion and a bit of worry.

"Are you all right?" the deck hand asked in concern.

"Yeah I'm fine. Just need to get my wind back."

They all laughed softly at her. She didn't mind because her thoughts were directed inward. Looking towards Starscream again she shivered violently. "Is it time for me to go up?"

"Yes, we were coming to get you."

"Sorry guys."

They just shrugged and smiled at her. Kit rose up and moved towards her jet. The crewman helped her up the ladder and stood at the top checking her harness and things over for one last spot check.

"Kit be careful Wild Card is dangerous."

"I know this. I'll do what I can to be careful but I can't promise anything but thank you for the concern."

"There are many on this carrier that worry about you going up there alone with that bastard."

"It's all right. I better get up there so I can yet again show that moron that patients wins out over anger."

They dragged her jet out onto the launching pad. With one last glance towards Starscream she was launched forward and jetted towards the clouds. Once among them she waited for her target to appear. She waited for only a few moments before Wild Card shot past her.

"So eager to die aren't you?" she mused out loud.

Had see been Starscream he would have been dead already. She didn't give chase like most people would have if their enemy hadn't seen them. But Kit was something else. If an enemy wanted her she'd wait them out.

"Hiding from me Kit?" she heard him call over the com.

"Not hiding just waiting."

"Waiting for what, for your lover to come save you?"

"I don't have a lover."

"That's not what I heard. I hear that you've whored yourself out to Storm Chaser to get where you are."

"Is that so?" she asked calmly.

She and Storm Chaser were like brother and sister. Besides Storm Chaser would never sink that low. "I know what you're trying to do Wild Card and it isn't working."

"Isn't it?"

"If you're succeeding at anything its being an asshole."

"You're words wound me Obsidian."

"If I didn't know any better I'd think you were being sarcastic."

She looked to her left and she saw him jet past her grouping of clouds. With a shake of her head she moved to intercept when the sound of gun fire made her react without thinking and barrel rolling to the right to avoid the shots. To her cringe she heard shots rip into the metal of her wings.

"Crap!" she cursed. "Wild Card what the hell are you waiting for?"

"Sorry Obsidian," he said calmly. "This battle is yours they seem to be gunning for you and you alone."

The cruelty of his voice made her wince. He had abandoned her again. A sole determination stole over her as she shot forward towards where she saw him go. It didn't take long for her to find him. They would probably court marshal him for sure this time. He wasn't trust worthy if he kept abandoning his wingman in a dog fight. Her thoughts were abruptly halted as she had to dodge another onslaught by the enemy.

"Wild Card get your ass back here."

"No way Obsidian."

She snarled as she barrel rolled again before arming her missiles and let one go once she got a radar lock. The smaller jet managed to dodge the onslaught.

"OBSIDIAN!!" she heard over the com.

"What sir?!"

"Bring him back alive."

"If it's possible I will but no promises."

"Bring him back alive that's an order."

She snarled in annoyance. The sound of shrill beeping made her curse.

"They've got radar lock on me."

With quick movements she tried to swerve out of their way. They hung on like a pit bull on the throat of their enemy. She saw Wild Card jet past her in the same situation. Two more enemy planes joined the fray. About three of them were on his tail and just the one was on her. More shots ripped into her already damaged wing making her go into a flat out tail spin.

"Crap! Can't reach the ejection cords."

This spinning was making her dizzy. Suddenly she was brought to a halt making her slam her head against the side of the canopy. Looking over to see what had happened her eyes widened. Starscream was holding onto her. They crashed in the ground throwing up debris everywhere. Starscream had done it as if he had done it a hundred times before. He let go of her jet and shot towards the sky again in his jet form.

"He did it again," she said in shock and amazement. "Starscream don't kill Wild Card."

A loud explosion rocked her words. Kit scrambled from her charred jet and she got as far from it as she could. There was a chance it could explode with the wing the way it was there were sparks flying from the holes and it was only a matter of time before one of those sparks hit a gas line. She removed her helmet and felt her head to make sure her cracking her head against the side didn't do any damage. She figured that it would bruise but no blood and for that she was thankful. Looking through the canopy of the trees she watched Starscream's battle. His grace and flying skills made her stare in awe. It didn't take him long to obliterate the jets of the enemy. With a heavy thud he landed gracefully a short distance from her.

"Starscream where's Wild Card?"

"He chickened out and fled."

She sighed as she moved towards the Decepticon. "Is your jet in working order?"

Starscream was being all business like and it was irritating her. A large explosion rocked the clearing. Starscream shielded her with his massive hands from the shards. Once he dubbed it safe he stood up. Kit looked up at Starscream wondering again at his motives for saving her again, and from the amount of times he has thus far she was starting to feel weak again, like her first days in training. This time though she was an experienced pilot and no Storm Chaser laughing at her. For a second she was resenting ever finding the Decepticon's identity.

"Well that answers that question," she said in an annoyed manner.

Starscream changed into his jet form. The hatch opened up in a clear invitation for her to get in. Shaking her head she hauled herself up into the cockpit. Everything was the same as in her own jet. She guessed it was for illusion purposes. She placed her helmet back on and strapped herself up. Leaning backwards she felt exhaustion wash over her. Leaning back she drifted off even as Starscream shot up towards the sky.

Starscream's mind was in complete turmoil. He didn't understand why he was going through all of this trouble to protect this girl. He was a Decepticon for crying out loud. It didn't take long for him to get back to the carrier. As soon as he landed humans swarmed him to get to her. The Decepticon allowed them to take her and he returned to his spot.