Chapter 7:
Kidnapped

Elita giggled ferociously while Optimus Prime tickled her. "Oh O-optimus! H-heehee!" she laughed, chuckled, and giggled.

The sound that eminated from Elita's lips when she laughed sounded so wonderful to Optimus. Almost as if an angel was whispering into his audios. "Elita, my love. I must go on a mission with the others. Will you be alright here if I leave Ironhide, Bumblebee, Sideswipe, Skyfire and Sunstreaker here to guard you?"

"I can manage, Optimus." She stated as she sent a wave of assurance through their bond.

Optimus sent her a wave of love and devotion in return.

She kissed him on the cheek

"I'll be back as soon as I can, Elita. I love you," he told her.

"As I love you," she responded happily. She felt so great now that she was with Optimus. Starscream still nipped at her in the back of her proccessor and spark, though. She did her best to ignore those feelings.

Optimus left the room.

Elita was now all alone except for five other people keeping guard on her of whom she barely knew. She leaned back in her berth and then she let her mind run wild with various thoughts. She thought about the kiss Starscream had given her upon her neck. It was warm, pleasant, gentle and so affectionate. She wanted him to keep kissing her, but Optimus came in. As happy as she was to see him, she was also slightly sad and disappointed to be pulled away from Starscream. She'd had Decepticon lovers in the past, but they had always ended in tragedies. As much as she knew that part of her actually wanted to be with Starscream, she did her best to ignore the feelings because she knew that it would end in tragedy like all of the others. Plus, she just couldn't bring herself to be without Optimus...she loved him too much, but she cared for Starscream, too. She could see the pain and fear of rejection in his optics when he stared into hers on the Nemesis. She saw the hurt, sadness, distrust, abuse. She saw it all. She wished she had some way of comforting him, but she knew she couldn't as long as she was an au-

Clanking in the hallways interrupted her thoughts. She eyed the bottom of the door cautiously. She saw a shadow in the front of the door. She was then startled by a knock on the door.

"Hello?" called a voice.

"Who's there?"

"It's Skyfire. Optimus sent me to guard you. Is it alright if I come in?" the reply was warm and sweet.

She hesitated a moment, but then got up and approached the door then opened it. She was surprised at the huge mech standing in her doorway.

"Hello." he said as he smiled warmly down at her. He then turned a bit to get in the door. He was sort of hard for him to get through the door because of his largeness. But despite his huge self, he managed to get through the door. Not to mention he was a very, very sweet mech. Nobody ever thought bad of Skyfire. If he came to you, it was on good intent. But what Elita didn't know, is he didn't come here on "good intent"...

"How are you?" Elita asked as she broke the momentary silence. She was a bit curious about this mech. Perhaps a bit too curious.

"I am fine. I have had quite a busy day, but I am glad Optimus assigned me to protecting you because now I have something useful to do," he said sweetly and then chuckled.

Elita nodded. She then studied his appearance. He was an extremely tall, white mech. He had gorgeous sapphire optics that practically glowed. He had blue in the middle of his helm and around his face plates. He had a light gray face and a bulky frame. He had a red stripe above his spark chamber and blue around his spark chamber with a blue stripe directly below the red stripe. He had small wing struts with straight red lines following the shape of them. He had vents on each side of his cockpit, and red on his torso. He had one of those adorable faces that made you feel like you were staring into the face of an angel. Elita thought he was cute, honestly. But she didn't take any sort of liking to him as she did Optimus and Starscream.

Breaking the silence, "Um, Miss Elita, would you like to go for a walk with me? Or a ride perhaps?" he asked in a very nice tone.

"I suppose so," she responded. She kind of wanted to get out of the room. It was getting stuffy in there, anyway.

Skyfire stood and looked down at her and offered her his hand. She took it and he pulled her up and walked over the door and opened it. He bowed beside it and layed his hand out. "Ladies first," he said sweetly.

"Why, thank you, Skyfire." she chuckled, walked out of the room, and turned to Skyfire and waited for him to come out. He struggled through the small door but managed to get out of the room. They then made their way outside the Ark and Skyfire transformed.

"All aboard!" he called playfully.

Elita couldn't help but laugh. She went inside of the shuttle and sat down infront of the controls. She then leaned back, relaxed, and began to sight see as Skyfire took lifted off.

"So where exactly are we going, Sky?" she asked curiously.

"I-I, uhm, you'll see! It's a very gorgeous location!" he said. He was telling the truth - It was an extremely beautiful location. But he didn't tell her why he was bringing her there. At least he didn't lie. He absolutely hated lying, and that's exactly why he couldn't bring himself to say no to Starscream. He was simply too soft to hurt his former friend, not to mention it was most likely his only chance to repair their friendship.

"Aren't we a little too far from the Ark, Skyfire? We're not supposed to go over 50 miles away from it," she said nervously.

"Don't worry, ma'am. I have no bad intent," that was true.

What was Elita thinking? This was Skyfire! He wouldn't do anything to get her hurt. At least, not intentionally.

Skyfire slowed as they reached their location and landed. Elita climbed out of the shuttle. After she came out, Skyfire transformed and immediately looked to the left. It was Starscream.

"W-what are you doing here, Decepticon! Skyfire, get him!" Elita yelled.

"My apologies, Miss Elita. But, I am afraid I cannot do that. Starscream is my friend and partner," he responded.

Her optics widened in shock, "H-h-how could you, Skyfire! H-he's a Decepticon!"

"Starscream informs me that no harm will come unto you," he stated, "His intentions are not to hurt you. I would not have brought you if I knew he was going to harm you."

"But, Skyfire! He's a Decepticon! Decepticon's were built to destroy!" Elita protested.

"Trust me, please, miss Elita," he pleaded.

She just turned her head nervously to Starscream who was looking at her sadly.

"Hello, Elita," he said quietly and walked up to her. "Skyfire, you may leave."

Skyfire nodded as a response. He then transformed and took off.

Elita backed away slightly as she eyed Starscream cautiously.

"You don't need to be afraid, Elita. I don't want to hurt you," he walked closer to Elita and gently grabbed her hand and clasped there hands together. He then did the same thing with the other hand. "I wanted to speak with you."

"I seriously doubt what you have to say is going to mean anything to me, Decepticon!" she yelled and pulled her hands away.

Starscream frowned deeply and allowed a tear to slip down his cheek. "Please, do not call me Decepticon. Call me Starscream. Please," he croaked out.

Elita stared at him in disbelief. "Y-you - y-you're crying," she said in amazement.

"Yes I am, Elita." he walked closer and wrapped her in his embrace. "I told you, I've lost so much. I didn't want to lose you whenever Optimus came in on us. A-and I still don't," he choked out while crying.

Elita couldn't take it. She returned the embrace and put her head against his chest.

Starscream definitely noticed this. He pulled back a bit and looked into those gorgeous blue optics

Elita looked up into his as well.

Starscream then slowly moved closer to her and kissed her forehead. He caressed her hands with a graceful gentleness. He then removed his hand from hers and began to caress her thigh.

Elita gasped at this action.

Pleased by this reaction, Starscream continued on. He moved his hand to this inner part of her thigh. He continued to look into her eyes. Their noses were practically touching. He could feel each breath she took, and her optics were dim with content. Starscream took this as his chance to "enhance the romance." He brushed his lips against hers like he did last time, he then bit her lip and pulled it back some and then moved forward and kissed her passionately.

A bit taken back by this action, Elita happily returned the kiss.

Starscream then took poked at her teeth with his glossa requesting enterance.

Elita happily openened her mouth and allowed Starscream's glossa to pass into her mouth.

Starscream flicked his glossa at Elita's and entertwined it with hers as they kissed in a blissful silence. There was no sound but the waves crashing against the shore, the sound of the birds tweeting, the wind, and the graceful sound of Elita's breathing.

He then broke the kiss and pushed her down gently to where she was laying in the sand. He crawled on top of her and resumed their previous kissing session. He continued to explore the wet inside of Elita's mouth and loving every single second of it.

Elita wrapped her arms and legs around Starscream and pulled him closer. Suddenly, there was a ping in Elita's transmission. She ignored it.

It pinged again. She sat up and motioned for Starscream to be quiet.

:: Hello? :: she said.

:: Elita! Where are you? You're not in our quarters! :: Optimus Prime's voice came through the other end of the transmission.

Elita froze and then hesitantly responded.

:: I went for a flight with Skyfire ::

Optimus sighed with relief. :: I am glad you are safe. Please hurry back. ::

:: Right away. :: she responded.

She looked up at Starscream a moment and said, "I'm sorry, I have to go now, Starscream."

Starscream smiled a little sadly. "I understand. I'll get Skyfire to fly you back."

"Thank you." she said in a thankful manner.

"You're welcome."

Starscream then pinged Skyfire and told him to come and take Elita back to the Ark.

After a few moments, Skyfire whooshed around them then came back around and landed.

"Be sure she is taken safely, Skyfire. If any harm comes to her, I will kill you." Starscream said in a serious tone.

"Will do. But Starscream, I still have one question to ask you. Are we friends again or have I not proven myself?"

Starscream paused a moment but responded, "Yes, we're friends, Skyfire. Now go and take Elita home."

"Alright."

Elita looked at Starscream again and asked, "Will I ever see you again?"

"You will see me again, I'm sure...and...Elita...?"

"Yes?"

"Thank you for trusting me. " he pulled her into one more passionate kiss, but it was short lived.

Elita nodded. She then climbed into Skyfire and with a burst of speed, they were quickly one with the stars in the night sky.

Elita jumped out of the shuttle and made her way to the entrance of the Ark to find Optimus standing there with a worried expression on his face - or at least, as worried as his face could look with him not having a mouth.

"Elita!" Optimus called out to her as he ran to her. "I was worried to death." he then pulled her into an embrace.

"I am fine now, Optimus." she returned the embrace but she quickly pulled away and smiled and then walked passed him making her way to where their quarters was.

Optimus was a bit puzzled by Elita's actions. She was acting herself. He could tell. Was she mad at him? What could he have done to make her mad at him? Or was it something else? Perhaps it was because he had left her there rather than took her with her on the mission. He had no choice, really. Not to mention he most definitely did NOT want to lose her again. He wouldn't be able to live with himself if he let that happen a second time. But why would she mad about him not taking her with him? Surely she understood that he simply did not want her to be harmed in anyway. Or maybe she didn't? At this point, he had no clue. I wanted to ask her about it, but he was a bit hesitant. He nodded the idea off and made his way to his quarters where Elita was headed, or perhaps already there. Then he stopped dead in his tracks and turned to look at Skyfire who was observing the stars.
Optimus then began to eye him for a moment, wondering what might of happened. After all, they didn't have a chaperone with them while they were, which means they must have been alone. Then again, Skyfire wouldn't do anything like that. Didn't he like Chromia? Well, for all he knew Skyfire could have just been flying around with Elita, but they were outside the 50 mile perimeter, so this left his mind confused. They may have did something that Optimus preffered not to happen, or they really could have been flying. Since he didn't know, he did his best to push the thought to the back of his mind and focused on if Elita was really okay. He resumed his walk to his quarters. When he got there, he noticed Elita laying down on the berth. She looked upset to him. He approached her and caressed her cheek.

"Elita, are you alright?" he asked sounding extremely concerned.

She hesitated a moment. "I guess I just got a little jet-lag, or...jetsick?" she laughed a little.

Optimus laughed as well. "Well, at least you're unharmed. I thought you were kidnapped or something. And if I might, may I ask you a question?"

"Sure."

"Why were you and Skyfire 45 miles outside of the 50 mile perimeter? You could have been hurt." he asked.

"Skyfire informed me of that, but I wanted to go out a little farther, I suppose. I apologize, Optimus."

"You did not wrong. You needn't apologize. I love you, Elita."

"As I love you, Optimus. If it isn't too much to ask, may I please have some time to myself?"

Optimus wanted to ask why but he decided not to. "Whatever you need, my dearest."

"Thank you."

"You're welcome." caressed her cheek one time and then left her in the room by herself.

At that very moment, Elita was consumed by guilt.