Flying Day 1

Kit rose the next morning and headed out towards Starscream. The Decepticon was missing from his spot. Shrugging her shoulders she headed towards the line of F-22s. She soon found herself standing in front of Thundercracker. The two long scratches on his nose were still there. She wondered how long it would take before he realized those battle scars looked horrible on him.

"Hey Thundercrack-head. Have you seen Starscream?"

She hauled herself up into the cockpit so she could talk with him without people thinking she was nuts, not that they didn't already but that was a different story.

"Hey! That wasn't nice."

"No one said I was."

"He might have gone to fight Barricade."

"That moron wouldn't, would he?"

"No one ever said that Starscream was the brightest bulb in the box."

"I heard that. Kit come on we have training today."

She looked over and saw him. Her mouth dropped open.

"Starscream what did you do to yourself?"

There was shock lacing her voice as she saw the new and improved Starscream.

"You copycat!" Thundercracker snapped.

Starscream was now an F-22. He was smaller and sleeker than his previous F-18 form which was bulkier. The Decepticon logo was emblazoned on his side in a dark blue against the dark gray of his metal armor. His so masculine chuckle rang through Thundercracker's cockpit.

"Actually Thundercracker I was an F-22 before you were. I changed my form to sneak onto the U.S.S. Jackson. Considering the fact that it was a low class carrier and many of the aircraft on board were F-18s or below I had to blend in."

Kit got out of the cockpit and hauled herself up in Starscream's cockpit. In her mind Kit was jumping up and down. She had never been able to pilot an F-22 even though she had always wanted to. The newer pilots got the newer jets. It didn't even bother her that Starscream was doing most of the flying. She examined all the buttons and controls. It looked like most of the jets that she has flown before. Kit made sure to find where the autopilot button was and smirked darkly.

"Starscream lets get up in the air already you have all night to argue with Thundercracker. We need to talk."

"Some alone time?" Thundercracker said in a secretive manner.

"Oh please, shut up you stupid runt," Starscream snarled.

"Yeah get your mind out of the gutter you stupid tin can. You know I never thought that Decepticons could have dirty minds but that goes to say all races have that kind of thing."

She sighed in annoyance.

"That was really weak," Thundercracker said dryly.

"Shut up. Come on Starscream."

Kit got clearance from the tower and headed out to the runway. Starscream launched himself into the sky. They flew in silence for some time before Starscream decided to break the silence.

"What is so important?"

"How much longer until Megatron is up and ready to spread death to the human race?"

"Why?"

"In a month I'm going to be transferred to a base elsewhere."

She sighed in frustration it had to be spelled out she guessed. There was no getting around it. She had seen the orders. The base was in California. Leaning back she let out a tired sigh. Her contact was a army officer. Of course she didn't know the person's name but she had a feeling the person would have heavy metal companions with him. It would only take so long before the autobots would find out about her unique gift and come looking. "It's in California."

Starscream thought for a moment about something. Then realization dawned on him. There was a good chance she'd run into the autobots especially if they've learned of her existence.

"I'm guessing you're wondering on what to do if you meet up with the autobots."

"Not exactly. Starscream you are my guardian and I am wanting to know simply if you'll side with Earth against Megatron when he comes."

The conversation stopped after that. Kit didn't know what to say. She figured she just blew her chances of him joining them against Megatron.

"Forget I asked," she sighed softly.

This was going to be a very long month and she figured there would be a lot of fighting. If Starscream didn't help them and destroyed humanity and only sought to make her a pet she'd commit suicide if it came to that. She was too rebellious to be anyone's pet. She shivered at the thought. Megatron would kill Starscream for even remotely thinking about rebelling against him. That irked her even more.

"Stay away from Barricade."

"No shit Sherlock. Of course I'd hang around a homicidal police car so I can finally meet death face to face. I've always dreamed of meeting him. I wonder if he looks like what people imagine him to look like."

"Kit," Starscream growled in a warning manner.

"I'm confined to base dumb ass," she snapped. "I wont meet him unless he transforms and attacks the base. Besides I'd think you'd keep him off of the base for as long as I'm here. After I'm transferred I'm sure the autobots will happily take care of me."

"Sarcasm don't become you Kit."

"I'm tired of you being such an ass. You're my guardian Starscream and I don't want what I see in my dreams to come true."

"They're just dreams Kit."

"And so was my dream of Megatron coming back."

"That was a fluke."

Kit leaned forward rubbing her forehead. These Decepticons were driving her on the brink of insanity. After this she might be inclined to retire from the navy and go back to her farm in the middle of nowhere and get back to a normal life. Of course her luck would be that they'd follow her just to make her miserable. Sighing softly she leaned back and stared up at the rapidly cloudy skies.

"Starscream when I'm not bothering you what do you like to do?"

She didn't expect him to answer her.

"Fly. Just go and not care about where I'm going or were I've been."

"When I'm alone I like to write but when I was at home on the farm I'd ride my horses in the back pastures when I couldn't think of anything to write. I miss the farm."

"Will you return there?"

"Maybe someday I will return, when there isn't something standing in my way."

Starscream rolled a bit to avoid killing a group of birds. Kit was too lost in her own thoughts to feel the shift. Closing her eyes she laid back and allowed sleep to claim her exhausted mind.

Kit stood among the ruins of a different town. Nothing was like her dream before. Looking around none of the buildings were a level high. Bodies lay all over the place. She was sure that the bodies would be smelling of decay and scorched flesh. Normally the robots would show up and Starscream would be fighting Megatron. Moving forward she looked among the buildings and didn't see any of them ally or bad guy. Frowning slightly she moved to climb over a large stack of rubble to see what she could. As she was about to grab for the first rock to haul herself up she stopped. Something seemed off about this pile of rubble. Moving forward she pulled a small rock away from the pile. She revealed a logo. It was scratched up and tarnished. She began to pull the rocks away with more vigor. The logo was the opposite of the Decepticon logo. She assumed it was the autobot's logo. She stopped for a moment seeing that her hands were covered in blood. Shaking it off she began to dig some more. The more she dug the more what was covered was revealed. It was an autobot. She finally uncovered the head. There were feather like ears were coming from the bots head. There was a nagging feeling that she had seen this bot before. She reached forward and touched the bot's face. The dead eyes sparked to life.

"Who are you?" the bot asked.

"Kit."

"Catalyst. Run."

"What?!"

Turning she saw a large odd plane shooting strait towards her. She cursed as she slid down the rubble and turned to see the down autobot rise and face the approaching plane. Starscream landed beside the smaller autobot.

"Starscream!"

"Run Kit!"

She turned and for once did what he said and ran. Before she got far the group crumbled from beneath her. She screamed as she fell.

Kit shot awake breathing heavily. She looked around wildly realizing that she was still up in the air with Starscream.

"What's wrong Kit?"

"Starscream there is an autobot that has feather like ears on his head and he's not very big…"

"That was Jazz. He died battling Megatron."

Kit thought on that for a moment. She was confused. Was she going to have a hand in bringing back this Jazz to? "What happened?"

"I was walking in a demolished city. I went to climb this rock pile and I uncovered a scrap of metal with what I assumed was the autobot logo. I began to pull the rocks away. I found his head and touched him. His eyes came to life. He asked me my name and then he called me the catalyst and told me to run. You joined him in the battle. I didn't see what happened after that the ground crumbled underneath my feet."

Her dreams were making her nervous about them coming to being. She didn't want to loose her stoic friend. He had come to mean so much to her despite his nasty attitude and attempts to push her away. She felt a slight shift in the pressure in the cockpit.

"Starscream?"

"We're heading back to base."

"What is it?"

"Thundercracker has informed me that Barricade is acting up."

"Right."

She sighed softly as the f-22 changed directions and headed back to base. Once they landed Starscream sent her strait to the barracks. Kit sat on her bed and let her mind wander and only could hope for the best.

A/N: I wanna thank all of my reviewers. And Lady1Venus Wild Card is one of those guys that believes in the superiority of men against women and I know all guys aren't like that so don't get mad if some of you my reviewers are guys. Barricade hates Kit. To him her purpose is done. Megatron is alive. Thundercracker and Blackout are confused on which side their going to take. Ummm… thanks to everyone again for the reviews.

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