"Sure."
Kit smiled and pulled her outside. "Mommy!" She yelled, looking around and sniffing the air.
"Mommy?"
Snow looked around wildy, searching for a flash of white.
"Alpha?" she shouted, pretending to be looking for the femme.
Kit put her hands to her mouth. "MOMMY!!!!!!!"
Alpha gasped as she looked around. The now human femme swallowed.
"Kit..." She whispered.
Omega swallowed." I hope she stays inside"
"Me too, bro...don't come out here, Kit..." Alpha begged,
"Don't"
Snow frowned, then did look around for the femme.
"ALPHA?!!" she shouted.
Alpha winced. "Snow too?! Oh dear." She sank back.
Omega hugged her. "It's okay, Al"
"Mommy! Answer me!" Kit whimpered. "MOMMY"
"I wish I could, Kitten...I really wish I could..." Alpha said, trying not to cry.
Snow blinked.
"ALPHA?" she shouted again.
Alpha winced.
Omega winced as well.
"MOMMY!!"
The scream was heard all throughout the woods and the area. It made Alpha want to cry.
Snow started back. Never had she heard such a desparing scream. Never.
Alpha held onto her brother. "I can't do this"
Omega held onto his sister. "We have no choice, sis"
Alpha held him as another "mommy" was heard. "I feel horrible"
"We can't bring her with us...it'll only condem her"
"You're right"
Kit whimpered. "Mommy? Mommy, answer me."
Snow scooped the sparkling up, handing her Midnight. She glanced around again and tried to comfort the sparkling.
Kit whimpered and held onto Snow. "Where's mommy?"
"I... don't know..." Snow whispered back, watching Midnight carefully in case Kit hurt her by accident"
"Mommy..." Kit whimpered, looking at Midnight. She hugged the bat gently. "I want my mommy"
Snow sighed and rocked the sparkling gently, trying to soothe her.
Kit snuggled up into Snow. "Mommy.."
Alpha swallowed. "Do you think she gave up?"
"I doubt it...after all, she is your sparkling..."
"Ya might wanna get away from the doorway so nobody sees ya." Jazz stepped out into the light and looked down at them. "Hiya Jade"
the ex-jet grinned up at him Alpha looked up at Jazz, smiling softly. "Hiya, Jazz"
"Kitten." Jazz smiled.
Alpha frowned.
"Bad move, Jazz." Omega said at the nickname, hugging his sister.
Alpha hugged Omega. "It's okay..." She looked up at Jazz. "So what now, Jazz?"
Snow just kept rocking Kit, trying to make her go into recharge. Kit curled up against Snow and closed her optics, crying slightly.
"Why won't mommy answer me?"
A mind touched hers and soon the sparkling was fast asleep.
Alpha sighed. "There."
"What'd you do?" Omega eyed his sister.
"I just...I just put Kit to sleep, okay?" Alpha huffed.
the saboteur glanced at Jade. "Well, I think y'all should talk to Prowl and stand up ta this blue dork, but that's jus' my opinion."
Jade facepalmed.
"look, we need to get Ty here into human form." Jade glanced at Jazz.
"What we're planning on doing is since Klutch is bringing an army with him, is hide out in one of the storage bays in the lower level of the Ark. No, they're not sealed off. Alpha is going to teleport us to somewhere in the ark. I think Ratchet's office is a good place to start, namely because no one goes there except the CMO, and we can take the ventilation ductwork anywhere on the ship."
"Are you sure we won't get lost?" Cable asked.
"I don't see why we're hiding out like a bunch of cowards anyway!" HT grumbled.
"That's where Jazz comes in. I know you still have those maps the twins gave you." she turned to the others. "There was a small prank war a few years back, and Sunnsy and Sides used maps of the ventilation system, then passed them off to Jazz afterwards"
The saboteur shook his head. "They still have 'em. remember?"
"well," Jade sighed "Are you sure you don't have backups?"
"I might." The black and white started checking his subspace pockets.
The twins looked at Ht. Alpha smiled. "So...we'll still be in the Ark?"
"Yeah." Omega nodded.
Alpha smiled. "Good."
"no"
"Drat"
Omega smirked. "D'ya have 'em, Jazz"
The Porsche pulled out a datapad. "Found 'em!" he grinned.
Jade grinned back. "Good. Now, let's get Ty down here, and..."
she grinned up at Jazz "Yaknow...It would make it easier for you to come sneak around and meet us..."
The saboteur lifted and optic ridge. "eh?"
There was sudennly a "thwp-thwp-thwp-thwp." sound from outside.
"helicopters." Beacon said.
The group quickly huddled near the back of the cave, until it had passed.
"Well?" Jade smirked up at him.
Jazz blinked. "Well what?"
Alpha and Omega looked at each other. And facepalmed.
Ratchet burst into the room, and looked down at Daze.
"What the slag happened?!" he demanded.
"I don't know...she just passed out." Bumblebee looked up, then moved over as the CMO bent down to look over Daze.
"She's just passed out. Let's get her to the medbay." He carefuly picked her up, Bumblebee trailing after him.
"Oh...that." Jazz grinned. there was a blue flash and the man with long brown hair in a ponytail, white turtleneck, black jeans, and a black leather jacket with sunglasses placed his hands on his hips.
"I thought you said someone had to touch the device to be able to do that." Driveby noted.
Jade blushed. "eh...um...uh..."
Ty walked over. "what device?"
The twins kept their mouths shut. They looked at each other.
"Ow!" Omega yelled as he hit the ground. "What did you do that for!?"
"I didn't do nothing." Alpha smirked. "I didn't move a muscle." She said, and it was true. She hadn't.
Jade turned back into a jet with a flash, and walked over to the black chevy Blazer with teal sidestripes. Ty looked at her. Jade touched one hand to her chest, and the same grid outline appeared as before, solidifying into the device.
Ty blinked, then touched it with her fingertips cautiously.
"Go on, it's not gonna zap you or anything." Jade smirked, remembering when she first said that. It had been to Gobee, right before her team was first teleported to the world of the Transformers.
The black and teal Ty laid her hand on it and the device hummed softly . Jade concentrated and there was a flash. A tall, broad-shouldered woman with red-brown hair the same length as driveby's, with a white tanktop and black Adidas sweatpants with teal stripes and a matching sweatjacket stood in her place. Her eyes were also green.
She looked at her hands. "amazing..." she said.
The twins nodded. "Yep"
anger muttered something, but hit the ground. "Ow."
Ratchet entered the med-bay, after answering several questions from the blue mech in the next room about "who's she" and "what's she doing here".
He had been about to yell, but Prime had given him a look. "I'll answer any questions you have, Klutch." the leader said.
Ratchet set Daze down on a repair berth and went to get a scanner. "Stupid little twit can't see there's something wrong with her and has to stand there for an hour and ask half a million questions. He hit the doorlock.
"If he even thinks about coming in here and hurrassing me..." he trailed off into mumbling as he went over the moaning jet with the scanner.
"Well, now that everyone's on the same level, I suggest we get going." Jade said.
"Jazz, when you get back to the Ark from your patrol, call me. I'll have my cellphone on. You know the number."
he nodded.
She plugged in the huge datapad to her handheld one, and hit a couple buttons. Then disconnected the cord. "let's get going."
Jazz stepped back, turning back into a 'bot.
Alpha nodded.
Omega nodded.
The copy stood up.
"Let's go." They all said at the same time.
They piled into the small car, Jade in the driver's seat,
"Shotgun!" Cap cackled.
"Like fragging heck." Cable shoved him to one side as the car door opened.
"Hey, hey, HEY!" Jazz protested. "Knock it off!"
Jade snickered. "You can both sit up front. We have ten people to fit in here!"
Alpha sighed and then looked at Omega. She looked at her copy and, somehow, managed to get the copy to disappear. "Okay, now we only have to fit nine." She smirked.
"Okay... Let Hammertread get up front, guys. He's bigger anyway."
they pouted, but got out.
"hey Dri, you could fit up front with me if you want." he grinned.
"Not without sitting on his lap." the black-clad Gunlock pointed out.
Driveby shot him a look. "I am not snuggling up with you, you dirty-minded..."
"Hey, it was just an offer!" HT shot back, getting out.
The twins facepalmed. They looked at each other. "Who's small enough to fit up there with HT WITHOUT sitting in his lap?" They asked, looking around.
"Who's the smallest one here?"
Everyone glanced at each other, then at cap.
"I'm not the shortest. Cable is." he protested, hands on hips.
"No" cable grinned back. "But you squish well."
Cap gave him a flat look.
The twins sighed. They looked at each other and then at Jazz. "Why couldn't you have been something with more room"
"heh. Jus' the way I was made, man. 'sides, if I was a bigger car, I wouldn't have the style I got now."
"Okay." Jade said. "Cable, get up there with HT. Cap, you can sit over here, I'll squinch myself into the middle. Hopefully I won't hit the gearshift" she added under her breath.
You guys in the back can sit crosslegged three or four on the seat, one person on either side on the floorboard, with one or two people laying crosswise over you, so it should more than take care of that."
Gunlock muttered something uncomplimentary under his breath.
"Unless you wanna fit a couple people in the trunk. It's not that far, and we could have Jazz pop the lid when we get there so you can get out." she added.
Gunlock looked away.
"Uh..." Alpha and Omega looked at each other. They glared at each other until Omega yelped and hit the ground like he was pushed.
"Omega's in the trunk!"
"not fair!"
"Nyah!"
"Hey Alpha, I can fit two back there." Jazz chuckled
"Hang on, that was a threat, not an invitation. We can fit five or six in the back, and four up here." Jade said.
"However you guys wanna do is fine with me." the Porsche replied.
Alpha smiled. "Okay. Works for me." She said, nodding.
"Same here."
They piled in, and the Porsche took off, heading for the grove of trees a few hundred meters from the ark.
Alpha and Omega looked outside. She sighed a ragged sigh as she felt her daughter waking up.
"Shh.." she whispered in the sparkling's mind.
"Mommy?" Kit asked in her mother's mind.
"Sleep...sleep"
"But, Mommy"
"Please, Kit."
"But.."
"Please."
Omega looked over at his sister and realized what she was doing. He kept his mouth shut. "how much farther?"
"Mommy...I'm scared...where are you?"
"I'm right here."
"Not much further, guys. Hang on." The Porsche swerved sharply left, and slowed down a little as another trio of jets streaked by.
"Man, they're all over the place." Cable commented from where his upper half was sticking out between HT and the dashboard.
"Shut up and stay still." the tank growled.
"I'm getting a cramp." the blonde whined.
Cap shifted beside Jade, giving her a little more room.
"They find my ship and I'm not going to be happy. I should have gone back to Megatron like I wanted to." HT grumbled.
Alpha mentally wapped HT. "Bite me." She grumbled then looked outside the car.
The femme swallowed. Omega rubbed his sister's back. "We're hangin' Jazz."
The Porche waited till he was sure they weren't circling around, then rounded a pile of rocks, and pulled up at the trees. The group piled out, and smartly stayed quiet.
Jade glanced around the hill they were behind, and whistled. Five hummers, three jeeps, two covered transport trucks, seven tanks, and Klutch talking with a tall man in camoflauge. Several soldiers were milling around, all armed with rifles, helmets, and body armor jackets.
"Great. They called the swat team." Cap grumbled.
Jade gave him a look.
"What? I watch tv."
Cable rolled his eyes. "They're looking for us, idiot."
"I know." the short man hissed back.
"I gotta go guys." Jazz whispered.
"Good luck." Jade nodded. "Thanks for the ride.
"Wait." Ty got up. "Permission to go with him, sir."
Driveby eyed the troups.
"Very well, but if anything happens, get out of there and contact us."
The dark-haired woman nodded, and concentrated. There was a blue flash, and the now-transformer transformed to car mode.