Love is a Battlefield
Chapter 3
Ricochet watched Optimus and his troops approach as Lightspeed and Hawkeye took defensive stances near her. With a single annoyed glance at them they backed up a bit. Turning to the large red and blue Autobot she said "Optimus Prime I presume."
Optimus watched as the smaller black and gold femme got the two taller mechs to back up with a glance. When she addressed him he said "Yes, I am Optimus Prime. Who are you?"
"Of course I should have introduced myself first. I'm Ricochet." she then stepped between the two silver mechs with her placing a servo on each of their backs before she continued "And these are my younger brothers Lightspeed and Hawkeye."
'Ah she's an older sibling. That explains how she got them to back off with a glance.' Optimus thought while aloud he asked "What brings you and your brothers here, Ricochet?"
"Final orders from our commander before he offlined sir. He ordered us to commandier the Decepticon's space bridge long enough to get us to Earth and I decided to plant a virus in the controls temporarily rendering the space bridge useless. We are all that remains of a unit of Autobot seekers." she explained with tears starting to form in her optics.
Hawkeye embraced Ricochet in a hug while Lightspeed continued "He ordered us to join your crew on Earth. That is if you don't mind sir."
Ricochet pulled from Hawkeye's hug and turned to face Optimus as he said "We could always use more Autobots here on Earth. Welcome!"
"Thank you sir! I'm also in need of some minor repairs as well. My left thruster was damaged while still on Cybertron. Don't worry though I can still fly." she said as she winced from a sharp pain in her damaged thruster.
"All right then Autobots, transform and roll out!" Optimus ordered. Everyone else transformed and followed behind him with Ricochet, Lightspeed, and Hawkeye following above them.
As they got closer to the Ark Optimus commed Ratchet telling him of the three new Autobots, Ricochet's injury, and that somehow no one else was hurt during the battle. Soon the Ark was in sight. Hawkeye, of course, seeing it before Ricochet and Lightspeed. Once they stopped the Autobots transformed to robot mode and went inside with Optimus guiding the three seekers to the Med Bay.
Once inside the Med Bay Ricochet layed down on one of the berths her brothers standing a short distance away but out of the way of any medic. Ratchet walked up to the berth Ricochet was laying on glancing irately at her brothers who where standing in a protective stance not far from their sister.
"Don't let them get to you. My brothers have always been protective of me. Though at times I find it annoying they mean well." Ricochet said shaking her head.
Ratchet got to work on Ricochet's left thruster. Fortunately the damage took little time to fix despite the fact that flying increased the damage. Ratchet then went over to her brothers with a scanner in his servo intending to check for damage while Ricochet sat up. As Ratchet scanned them he discovered something that made him drop the scanner in surprise.
"What's wrong doc?" Lightspeed asked "Am I or my brother sparked up or something?"
Ricochet and Hawkeye were snickering as Ratchet picked up the scanner. Lightspeed, meanwhile, sported a cheeky grin.
"No you're not sparked up. You're split spark twins." Ratchet growled reaching for a wrench and with that Ricochet became silent.
Hawkeye, however, decided to push his luck and said sarcastically "Really doc? We hadn't noticed."
Next thing the silver duo knew a wrench connected with the top of each of their helms with a loud satisfying clang.
"You three! Get out of my Med Bay! Scat!" Ratchet yelled shoving Hawkeye and Lightspeed out while Ricochet ran out as if her life depended on it.
"Well that was fun. Did you see his face?" Lightspeed said snickering.
"It sure was 'Speedy." Hawkeye said as he clapped his twin on the back. "What next?"
"You two are incorrigable." Ricochet said shaking her head.
"And that is why you love us." both Hawkeye and Lightspeed said with cheeky grins.
"True. Come on boys. Let's go grab some energon." Ricochet said as the three of them left coming across Trailbreaker who guided them to the Rec Room.
-Meanwhile back at the Nemisis
Megatron was sitting on his throne silently raging. The recent defeat the Decepticons endured infuriated him to no end. Three unknown seekers appeared and caused his whole strategy to fall apart. Worse the unknown seekers were Autobots. Wait? Three Autobots? These must have been the Autobots Shockwave mentioned. Megatron roared in fury. Shockwave had neglected to mention that the three Autobots who came to Earth were seekers. That little bit of information would of been nice to have.
While Megatron was boiling with fury in the Command Room Starscream was in his lab puzzling out recent events. The conehead trine as well as his own trine was outdone by three unknown Autobot seekers. Not only that he was shot down by a black and gold femme who held him at gun point when he landed. Shortly afterwards the Autobots made a comeback and Megatron ordered the retreat. Though they made off with the energon Megatron was still in a bad mood so Starscream, as well as most of the other Decepticons, were avoiding the angry gunformer.
However the loss was not on his processor the femme who shot him down was. Who was she?