"If it saves our friend's butt...yes..." Alpha sighed, looking at the ground.
"wait, hang on a minute, I just thought of something. If I help him escape, I can't stay here. And I can't go home, either.." Jade eyed the door as though someone were about to come through them.
"Maybe you should consider staying and going through with this hearing. Even if you use the maintenance shaft, they'll know I told you. I'm the only one who knows it's there. Except for Prime and Prowl... They know."
"Then don't." Alhpa said, looking at Jade. "Don't help him escape." she shrugged.
"Vector Prime."
VP looked at Alpha. "My child, think about-"
"I've been a nutral, I've been a 'Con. I've been an Autobot. Just open a slaggin' portal so HT can get out of here..." Alhpa said, looking at the ground.
"I can warp the tapes so they don't see you, Master."
"but-"
"Please."
"I can't just let him walk away." Jade said.
Hammertread snorted. "Like you can stop me?" Jade facepalmed. "I don't even know why I bothered to suggest that. I just know I'm gonna get in trouble again."
"If you leave... She sighed and looked away. Please, just think about it. It can't be all that bad, I mean, Prowl might have been mad at you in the mountains, but he's probably calmed down some."
Alpha looked at the cameras. She clenched her fists. "Now."
VP opened a portal.
"Go."
He watched HT go through. "You're going as well?"
"I have to." Alpha stated, backing through the portal. She unclenched her fist and then tumbled the rest of the way out.
"Wait!" Jade glanced around, then ran for the gate. She skidded to a stop at it's edge, not sure whether she wanted to follow or not. To do so meant leaving everything. But to stay might mean worse.
"Once forgiven, twice condemned." she sighed, and stepped through.
Vector Prime watched it close and then stepped through his own gate.
Chapter One --------------
Alpha looked around. They were in HT's ship. "Heh. Guess master knew where you would want to go, huh, HT?" She asked, dusting herself off.
Jade regretted it the instand her feet touched the other side. "Too late now."
the portal closed behind them. She looked around, realizing she was in a ship. And Alpha and Ht were right in front of her. She gulped, wishing she had stayed at the ark. "Prowl is never gonna forgive me now." she muttered.
"Well, I could call Master...he could reopen it for you...but it would take you where he is..." Alpha sighed as she looked around the ship. the femme created a copy of herself.
The jet looked around. "Where are we?"
Hammertread seated himself at one of the consoles. "my ship." he replied. "It won't ever fly again, but it makes a pretty good place to hide out."
Alpha nodded as she walked over to where she had sat when she had been kindapped and sat down. She looked at the dried energon on the walls and then sighed, covering it with her back.
"Well...at least we can't get in TOO much trouble now..."
Hammertread flipped on one of the outside cameras, and a blue-colored sportscar was racing along the desert. The low-slung Lotus Elise sport was doing about 80, and Jade's optic widened when she recognised it. Alongside it, a cherry-red 1986 Corvette Indy cuised alongside, headed for the Ark.
"Oh yes we can!" she gulped.
Alpha looked up. She yawned. "Exactly WHO are they?" She asked, then looked over at another camera. Her optics widened at the sight of a dragon and jet mech flying next to each other in the sky.
"Klutch and Indy." Jade deadpanned.
"Klutch is the blue one, Indy is the red one. I had a run in with Klutch once... he thought I was a Decepticon."
Hammertread gave the jet a dubious look.
"No, really. What do you think the Autobots do with the worst crimnals, keep them locked in the brig until kingdom-come? Klutch runs a... let's say a prison of sorts. I was trying to get into the 'cons for reasons usefull to my faction, and Megaton found out about the device. I escaped, but crashed nearby Klutch's... facility.." she trailed off. The tank looked up at her, smirking.
"Really, you were a con?" he was hiding a chuckle.
"I wasn't a con, we were trying to get rid of Megatron."
Alpha stepped away from the group and looked at the monitors once Jade was finished. She looked like she was looking at the first one, but what she was really looking at was the one with Lee and Leu (the Dragon and car) in it. The femme bit her lip.
"How close are they? All four of them, I mean..."
"about ten miles west. I don't think they're going to see us." They might see each other, though. and then we'll get to watch a fight." HT leaned back in his seat and laced his hands behind his head
Alpha swallowed. "At least they're not close..." She muttered, taking a seat. She looked at the ground. "But if I know Leu...he'll fight anyone, but Lee...no...he won't...not unless something's in it for him..." She mumbled to herself, "As much as enjoys causing pain, he wouldn't fight..."
"Where are you?"
Alpha jumped. She looked around and then realized the voice was coming from inside her mind.
"No...not again..."
"You're close...where are you?"
"Leave me alone..."
"Make me, dear..."
This isn't good." Jade started pacing. "I'm glad I left, but.."
"That was why I didn't want you to leave. I've been in trouble for supposedly switching sides before..." she trailed off again, not wanting to say the rest of the story.
"Oh cry about it." Hammertread snorted, watching the screen with interest.
"I wonder how he found out." She watched the blue car with the #6 emblazoned on his hood, and the red corvette, who resemble a lamborgini gallierro more than a corvette.
Alpha got to her feet. She walked over to her previous spot.
"What do you want? You've done enough." She hissed.
"What do you think I want?"
"Stay away from me." Alpha hissed turning away from her friends.
"You hear me?"
"Aww...but Leu wants to have fun too...can you really deny him that, my love?"
"Don't call me that! Listen to me you evil, twisted, monster, you can kiss my aft for all I care, but I will not let you find me again!"
The voice chuckled. "Have it your way, but I'll find ya soon enough...