Chapter 16

After Goldflight had left the two of them it hadn't taken them long to find lodestar. What had taken a while was finding his less talkative conjunx. Then finding out she had become a mentor meaning he was one as well. Now as lodestar idled near an E.D.C. Space station. He watched as St3ve was dancing next to his mentee, a cessate bot who named herself Tape-Eater and one of Lodestar's mentors Lightbright. He walked towards the command deck's viewport. In front of Lodestar was a small Autobot shuttle. He figured the shuttle was probably arriving for the meeting the E.D.C. Had been putting on yearly since the G.I.JOE had started having strategic talks with the Autobots. From what lodestars files we're telling him when the E.D.C. Took over. the meetings became exclusive to E.D.C. members, Autobot earth command, and finally Autobot fliers. Suddenly he felt a tap on his shoulder. He turned to see the human-made cybertronian known as nightbird. The ninja bot was a fembot of few words. Shortly after her creator had put her in cold storage something mysterious happened. Somehow she gained a spark. This put her fate into a difficult decision. Plus she refused to talk to anyone. After their ship had been found in the Chicago bay and everyone had been recovering he heard about the mysterious ninja bot and requested he be able to try to talk to her. He was the only one who could. And somehow he ended up falling for the bot. She was holding out a data pad for him to look at. He reached out and took it. It was a compilation of cats knocking things off ledges. He nodded personally thinking the cats were adorable. "Cats are like small ninjas," Nightbird said in a kind of monotone. She had a gravely higher-pitched voice. He smiled. "They are kinda adorable." he stated while staring at the video. Nightbird stood motionless. Without a word she walked away. Then St3ve walked up while giving tape eater a piggyback ride. "She scares the living scrap out of me Yknow." St3ve said. He put his hand on his shoulder. He shut his optics and shook his head. "By Primus me too, me too." He said still shaking his head. "The weird part is I've been under the command of bots like overlord, straxus, and even deadlock before he became drift and none of them scared me but she sends shivers down my servos." St3ve said blankly. Once nightbird was far enough away they both sighed. "So St3ve what's your thoughts on the firecon?" He asked. "Well Sparkstalker seems like a nice guy compared to his former comrades. I mean I once dated a bot who served alongside the firecons. He told me one of them had roasted one of his friends for looking at him the wrong way." St3ve said while taking Tape-eater off his shoulders and setting the young bot down. He watched as the young bot stood there listening to the two friends talk. He looked like he was hearing the story of The Fallen betraying the thirteen for the first time. "So Midtruck old buddy ol pal what exactly is the plan?" St3ve asked. He thought about the plan nightbird had come up with alongside lodestar. "Well if I'm remembering correctly me and tape eater with nightbird in the shadows following we're.." he said pausing realizing what he had to do so that they could get new autobot intel on this spark mutation and intern get official funding to get unit stop experimentation onto bots with the mutation. "I mean I'm going to interrupt the meeting to talk about what scourge and nemesis prime are doing." He said proudly. "Oh and Yknow what St3ve I promise to stop our former captors if my name isn't Midtruck" he said with the widest and bravest smile. "And hey look on the bright side everything that could go wrong to me already has." He said with a wide smile. "We are jinxed now." Nightbird said from behind them. All but tape-eater jumped. "Ok I'm ready, let's do this." He said with a confident smile