Author's Note: Next Chapter! Nothing much happens in this chapter, sorry! The excitement happens in the next chapter :D
Blitzwing's Prime design belongs to pika (seriously, she made the beloved nutball hotter lol)
I only own Jordan and the Nevada Tribe
Chapter 1
Jasper, Nevada now New Koan
Two Years Later
The sun begun to set over the Nevada Desert. The tower of New Kaon stood proudly, its black walls gleamed in the blood red light of setting sun. The normally lively town of Jasper now abandoned and partially destroyed lay silently nearby.
Megatron stood at the top of his new stronghold and fed his crimson optics with sheer beauty of the sunset. Vanishing star painted clouds with unimaginable colors, strands of gold, amber red-orange, crimson and purple danced on cloud floating lazily above the horizon. Suddenly, as the sun started to vanish below the horizon, the most wonderful phenomenon happened. Megatron heard of it, but never before he had the chance to observe it with his own optics. The golden-red disc dipped lower and suddenly a green flare flashed just above it. It lasted for just mere seconds, but it was beautiful. Emerald "puff" just as the sun vanished, a perfect start of the night in Megatron's opinion.
One that was instantly ruined.
Megatron flinched upon hearing Starcream's high pitched shriek and Blitzwing's maniacal laughter; one could count on the noisy seeker to ruin any moment of tranquility with the help of Blitzwing's crazy personality. The silver Decepticon growled, night started to settle, but the saturated colors still stained the skies.
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Jordan Dalton, 18, lowered her binoculars and looked jumped off the hand of Flameraid who she had stood in so that she can see what the Cons were doing. She turned to face the femme as she straightened to look down at the human, the human wore a long sleeve black turtle neck shirt that had the Predacon logo on it, she wore a leather jacket with rolled up sleeves over the shirt, black jeans that were tucked into black boots and black gloves. Around her neck was a black scarf and her once long black hair was in a pixie style cut, she had felt that it would get in her way while she fought the Cons so she had cut it.
"I saw our One and True Lord and Master, he was watching the sunset." Jordan whispered to her Predacons, her tone was flippant when she referred the silver 'Con by his title. "I didn't see his inner circle of loyal followers with him, not that Starscream should ever be considered be loyal, but they could be inside." She grabbed a stick and started to draw what she had seen. "I see a lot more Cons patrolling the area around the tower then there were a year ago and some wicked looking canons." Jordan drew the canons. "And I see a lot of destroyed human weapons." She put the stick down before she looked up at Stormfire. "Good news is that I didn't see your self-proclaimed king there."
Stormfire and the rest of the Nevada Tribe were behind and around her, they were silent as they listened to her.
None of the femmes made any reaction to Jordan's comment about Predaking but the human knew how they felt about that Predacon. Flameraid got really creative whenever she ranted about that mech.
Sparkray looked at their leader and asked, "What do you think?"
A slow blink of yellow optics before their appointed leader said, "We do nothing expect to watch them." Stormfire looked at Soundclaw. "Any sign of the Autobots?"
Soundclaw shook her head and signed, 'I haven't see them since that newcomer had arrived a year ago.' Unlike Sideline, Soundclaw couldn't make any type of sound so she was taught by Jordan how to do ASL or the Predacon version of it.
The first thing that the mute femme had learned were the insults and curse words.
"They must be keeping a low profile like us." Sideline said as she touched her neck, a unconscious habit that she had formed ever since Jordan had fixed her voice. The human's grandfather was no longer with them so it fell to Jordan to fix and help the Predacons that she had found that day in the destroyed lab whenever they got injured in battle.
Which didn't happen too often but sometimes the 'Cons got a lucky shot in before they were ripped to shreds.
The only one who the human hadn't been able to fix was Soundclaw though the femme didn't seem to be bothered by it because it helped her sneak up on their enemy.
Grimmjaw nodded her head and said, "Smart move on their part but their humans must be worried about their parents. They would have no clue if their parents had survived the first wave of 'Cons." The Predacons had quickly taken to their new home and its native species, they knew a lot more about human history then they did about their own history which was understandable because they were 'born' on Earth.
Jordan's grandfather had been killed during the first wave, leaving the then 16 year old human girl in the care of nine Predacons. And because of his death, the Predacons had then decided to become the protectors of the human race and their planet.
It was a promise that they took very seriously.
"Continue to keep an eye out for them." Stormfire ordered before she looked at the rest of her tribe. "Keep a low profile and only defend yourselves when you absolutely have to, we want to keep the fact that there were survivors to that destroyed lab a secret a little while longer."
Hotstreak raised a hand and covered her mouth as she said with a smirk, "Ol' Megatron probably thinks Lugnut had lost a couple of bolts when he reported about fighting a Predacon that day." Her tail curled in her amusement.
"Naughty, Hotstreak, playing with a 'Con without calling me to back you up." Wideblade cooed at the femme with a smirk.
Ripwar smirked and said, "You would have given us away, Wideblade, if you had gone to back up Hotstreak."
"Knock it off." Flameraid snapped as she shot the two hyper Predacons a glare who were instantly silenced, not because she was the Second-in-Command but because they knew how she'd get when you push her too far. Flameraid had this annoying habit of sitting on those who annoy or anger her.
And being the largest one out of all nine, Flameraid wasn't exactly light.
Stormfire smiled a little before she lost it and said, "You have your orders now go." The femmes bowed their heads before they shifted into their beast mode and took off, the flying ones stayed grounded so they wouldn't attract the attention of the Cons. The red femme watched them leave then she looked at the human that was with her.
"You and I will remain here and watch the tower." Stormfire said as she shifted into her beast mode, Jordan climbed up onto her back and lifted her binoculars to watch the tower once more while the Predacon slipped into recharge stasis.
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"Come on, Screamy, you need to relax and cut loose!" Blitzwing crackled as he wiggled his hips. "Cha cha cha."
Megatron briefly wondered if all of his loyal lieutenants were insane before or after they joined the Decepticons as he stepped into the room, though none were as insane of Blitzwing who was his own level of insanity.
Lugnut was a close second with his repeated claims of seeing and fighting a Predacon who had protected a human teenage girl two years ago.
No signs of that other Predacon had been found and even Predaking himself had gone looking for the femme in the hopes of locating her himself with his honing instincts and Shockwave had always thought that the clones had all perished in the explosion, none should have survived it. It was illogical.
"Report, any signs of the Autobots?"
Shockwave turned to face the Deception Leader and said, "Negative, they have managed to keep themselves well hidden from our scanners despite the occasional hit we get from them."
"Any signs of that Predacon that Lugnut swore he had fought with?" Megatron asked as said mech twitched but said nothing.
Starscream shot Lugnut a look before he answered, "No but there has been some mysterious attacks on Vehicon and Seeker patrols...no survivors but none of the attacks match the Autobots. No marks of a weapon, it looks like that they had literally ripped apart by hands."
"And Screamy says that I'm nuts! Hahahahaha!" Blitzwing crackled.
Megatron caressed his chin as he thought about it and ignored the flier's random (and crazier) personality, it certainly did sound like a Predacon but how did it survive the explosion? And was it the only one that did? It would be bad for the Cons if more had survived and were not loyal to him like Predaking was.
"Lugnut, if you were to see this human again would you recognize her?" Megatron asked.
"Yes, Lord Megatron."
"Good, take Blitzwing and find her." Megatron ordered. "If she is protected by a Predacon then perhaps we could use her to lure it out once and for all."
"Yes, Lord Megatron." Lugnut and Starscream said before they took off.
Megatron didn't know what they would find because there weren't many humans still in this area, most of them had fled the area when the Cons had arrived. The only ones who stayed were the human allies of the Autobots and probably the human companion of a Predacon.
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"...Time for us to go, little one." Stormfire said. "We need to collect food supplies for you before it gets too dark." The femme stood up and shook herself.
"Alright, Stormy." Jordan said before she collected her stuff. "The rest of the tribe will met us in town?"
Most of the food had gone bad expect for the MREs, which had become Jordan's main food though she had taken trying to grow her own garden. With mixed results, it was hard to keep said garden safe when you have nine large robotic dragons walking around the cave that they called home.
Vegetables tended to die a lot with them around.
Stormfire nodded her head and said, "Yes." The she shifted in her beast mode and lowered herself down so that the human could climb onto her back, once Jordan was safely on her back the femme leapt down the side of the mountain that they had been on and carefully climbed down the side.
They never flew when they were this close to the tower, they didn't want to risk drawing the Cons attention and dragging Jordan into a battle. So the flier Predacons were stuck on the ground until they were out of scanner and optic view.