Awaking from her recharge cycle nightstalker decided to explore the building as she made her way to see riverrun. Leaving her quarters she imputed a new code to lock the door. Turning away she walked down the hall, later coming across med bays, common, private, as well as other various labs and equipment rooms. Passing by an intersection in the hallway a yellow blur side checked her throwing her up against the wall.

"hay sorry…oh you didn't see me if anyone asks" landing on the floor she looked back over her left wing to see a yellow and red mech running down the hallway, turn and disappear. Standing back up she started to hear an increasing thumping and metal on metal sound coming down the hallway the mech just came from.

"COME BACK HERE YOU SPAWN OF UNICRON. WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON YOU I'M GONNA RIP OUT YOUR OPTICS!" her jaw dropped slightly as a very agitated and heavily venting mech covered in pink paint appeared in the hallway. Stopping just in front of her his bright red optics glared down in examination before demanding "Where..Did…He…Go?" Not wanting to be on the receiving end of this bundle of fury she lifted her arm and holding it as steady as possible pointed down the hallway. Then she watched in stunned silence as the mech turned and took off full throttle down the hall venting curses and oaths.

"note to self I am going to want to avoid him." swiveling around she screamed and jumped back in shock from seeing the mech, who earlier used her as a stopping wall, about two inches from her face. "Primus! when did you..I didn't hear you….It's rude to sneak up on others" slowly regaining her composure.

"Um sorry I have a habit of doing that. Anyway thanks for that back there. Don't know many mechs who would stand up to an infuriated skuffle let alone point him in the wrong direction." Grinning he held out his hand "names sunspot, primary function local pain in the aft or so I've been told." Looking at the black, purple and pink triple changer standing in front of him "you must be nightstalker, I've heard about you." Reaching out to shake his hand she found herself being grabbed on the arm and pulled down the hallway. "Gota move, I'm sure skuffles realized you sent him the wrong way by now…..you do realize you just made the naughty list of this posts chief security officer right." Pulling nightstalker up the hallway behind him didn't allow sunspot to see the look of panic that appeared on her face.

"I'VE WHAT!!!" continuing to run and half pulled behind sunspot. "what have I gotten myself into" she thought as they turned a corner and came to a sudden stop. "oh great he brought us to a dead end. Skuffle will find us now and oh I don't even want to imagine what he will do" As she was about to question the logic of brining them here, she saw sunspot flip out a hidden consol, type in a combination code and stand back as a door slide open in the wall "Amazing. I didn't perceive that there"

"no time, come on" sunspot exclaimed as he grabbed nightstalker's arm and pulled her inside with the door closing out the sound of curses reverberating up the hall behind them.

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"so it is settled. she is not to be told anything"

"what! No, she deserves to know. With all she has been through she is owed that much. As well, that is her history, her lineage, her…."

"no! she will not be told. This is a new age of peace and she has no allegiance so far and shall remain that way. No matter what you may think Riverrun."

"but…"

"no buts. I am in charge of this post and what I say goes. I will have some discipline here."

"discipline windstorm, ha. We are decepticons, as few of us there are but still we don't have to listen to you autobots."

"enough riverrun. You forget that the war is over and for both nightstalker and sunspot futures let it go. It overheats my circuits to be working with you as well but I will bare it for them. Now is there anything else about her I should know?"

"no…that is everything"

"and you say that they are dormant?"

"yes"

"good, then lets hope they stay that way. It could mean travesty and chaos if they were to become functional. You're dismissed and remember not a word or hint to her or anyone else. I'm keeping an optic on you."

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"you can't look just yet" by now she was wishing that she didn't agree to see this secret of his. "ok! Now you can look" it was spectacular as she looked out through the glass at Cybertron for the first time. Stepping up to the window, her face bright with amazement and wonder at all that she was seeing.

"yup, you're looking at our beautiful home world Cybertron. It's not perfect yet, still repairing a lot of the damage that the oldies made with their wars" placing his hand on her shoulder she turned around "and this" passing his hand out in front of him "is my own personal sanctuary and anti-skuffle hid out. He doesn't know its here, it's protected from his radar and snooping." Leading her over to a table they both sat down. Grabbing two bottles of energon he hands on to nightstalker and then slide a data pad across the table "guess your gonna need the passwords and access routes since your officially on skuffle's radar from helping yours truly"

Reaching out she picked up the pad and downloaded the data "so what exactly did you do to him? Just a quick guess but I do believe that pink is not his primary color" placing the pad down on the table.

Sunspot leaned back in his chair and rested his hands behind his head "ah old skuffle, well this time I snuck into his storage locker and replaced his wax with a personally derived thickened paint. Looks like regular wax and goes on like regular wax but then changes color gradually as it is exposed to the atmosphere….dries like paint though" There was a moment of silence then the room filled with sound as they both broke out in fits of laughter. "Yah..you should have seen his face when he realized he was pink. Of course none of the other mechs had the nerve to tell him. He walked around for his whole shift like that before someone broke out in laughter and spilled" looking across at nightstalker he sat forward suddenly and leaned on the table "you do know what this means now"

Overcoming her fits of laughter she took a sip of energon before putting it down on the table. Seeing him looking at her with a sly grin on his face made her feel a little worried "No. What does this mean?"

As the giant grin exploded across his face he stuck his hand out and tapped it down on her shoulder, giving it a slight shake "that we are now partners in crime." Reaching down he grabbed her hand and held it up in a ninety degree angle. Letting go he leaned back in the same hand position "now repeat after me… I nightstalker, where in by aiding and abiding the local pain in the aft sunspot do herby swear to create as much torment and chaos to skuffle as my spark permits."

Smile creping across her face she held her laughter. "I. nightstalker where in by……."
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Fastscan had just finished cataloging materials and cleaning up the med bay when the sound of the door opening caused him to pause and look up. "What in the name of sweet primus happened to you? Oh do let me guess, a certain mech with the initial S and is yellow and red got the better of our ever alert and observant security officer again" trying his best he could not hold back his laughter.

Sending a glare that could have melted paint "yah yah, laugh it up but mark my words I am going to catch that little slagger one of these days and when I do even windstorm will not be able to save him from me." Walking across the room towards fastscan and looking down his appearance gave way to one of surrender "do you think you can do something about this. please tell me you can."

"Sit up there and I will see what I can do. Hopefully this time whatever he used is not reactive with my cleaning solvents. We do not need a recurrence of the last issue we had now" walking over to the counter he opened a drawer and picked up some scrapers and bottles of cleaning solution. "You sure now, pink does go so well with your green and white motif" coming back he pored some of the cleaner on skuffle and started to scrap. "hum you are going to need a new paint job after this. So what's the running tally now?"

"Since refit created that spawn, I lost track after 30. Oh and get this that new robotrix that riverrun has taken under his care actually helped him escape my grasp. I almost had him today but was sent down the wrong hallway" pausing for a moment to think. "I'm going to have to have a chat with riverrun about her. That's all I need is to have another prankster here. If refit will not control sunspot then I will make sure that riverrun will control that robotrix."

Fastscan paused for a moment then continued to scrap paint off "well that might be hard considering I have the understanding that windstorm is not going to let riverrun or any other decepticons around nightstalker and although you have given up on your old ways it is going to include you too as you have not exactly embraced the autobot way."

Turning around in confusion caused fastscan to scrap off more than just the pink paint.
Looking directly at fastscan "what do you mean not allow her to be around us? Are you saying that nightstalker is a decepticon but I didn't see our marking on her? Why is windstorm so scared of her being around us?"

"Look I.." sighing he put the scraper down on the table. "I don't know everything I just repaired her when riverrun brought her in. All I know is that something horrible happened to her, she has no memory or data she can currently access for anything other than the situation she experienced and what she has learned here. I get the idea that there is more to her than what riverrun and windstorm will tell me or anyone else. And all I know is that riverrun got into a conflict with windstorm about not being able to tell her." Picking the scraper back up he pushed skuffle back around "now lets get you cleaned up."

Thinking to himself as fastscan removed the paint "why, what is it about her, where did she come from and who created her. I may have given up my old ways but I'll be slagged if I let windstorm change who she is. I'll have to get riverrun to tell me about her"
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Two heads popped out of an opening that appeared in the wall and listen intently. "looks good, all clear, don't hear anything that sounds like skuffle" opening the door completely they both stepped out into the hallway and closed the exit behind them "just to be on the safe side we should avoid him for a while."

"AHEM" the sound caused sunspot and nightstalker to cringe as a hand firmly clamped down on the back of their shoulders. "I should say you two will be avoiding him. I just had to listen to him lecture..again...on the torment you have been causing him" giving sunspots shoulder a hard squeeze. "and you nightstalker, I had higher hopes for but it appears that you have fallen in with this ruffian. Typical of a dec…." catching himself he pushed them both forward "My office, now, both of you."

"yes windstorm" both answered in unison as they walked up the hall. "and the fun begins" sunspot sent the private message to nightstalker who returned a confused look.
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