Author's Note: Sorry for the long break between uploads; call me ADD! Thanks to Vivian Hale, Starscream fan, I Am Blueberry, Riptide2, and DJ Blacklite (This chapter:D) for reviewing the last chapter! I own nothing but my OCs

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Chapter III

"Door on your left. {Neo goes right} Your other left!"- Tank, The Matrix

Jazz tested the repairs Ratchet had made and relaxed. "Is there any other pain?" Ratchet asked, watching Jazz move with a critical eye.

"None," Jazz said with an easy grin. "Now do ya wanna meet my new friend?" Ratchet sighed in exasperation and Ironhide grumbled under his breath about unsafe operations. Still Ratchet followed Jazz and Ironhide followed the medic in some sort of mock parade. The dark black and purple femme who had probably saved his life a few moments earlier was crouched next to two others. "Hey," Jazz called and she glanced up, arching an optic ridge.

"Did any of you check the other entrances?" Her tone was light but her expression was dead serious.

"Nope," Jazz said with a shrug and she glared at him before turning to the brown femme next to her.

"Acadia check the entrances, all of them. And make sure you're not noticed," she snapped and the brown femme nodded.

"Easy 'nough," she replied, her chipper tone wavering slightly as she slipped by the Autobots. Then she completely vanished into thin air, only a shifting ripple of movement near a wall showing that she was still there. Jazz blinked, stunned. He hadn't thought anyone else had Mirage's cloaking capabilities. Then he saw the slight shimmer in the air and realized what had happened. Acadia had the ability to camouflage herself.

Now that Acadia was gone the sharp tongued femme knelt next to her final trine mate. Ratchet knelt next to her and, with a nod from the femme, began repairs. They sat in silence until Acadia returned to say that the coast was clear. Nobody had arrived to investigate the racket that had been going on a few moments before.

Echo felt the strange urge to laugh at Starscream's frozen expression. After everything that happened around the Decepticon base, and knowing how quickly rumors spread, she would have thought this wouldn't have come as much of a surprise. His emotions swung quickly through shock and delight, heading straight for worry. "And you didn't tell me?"

"I'm telling you now aren't I?" Echo quipped, raising an optic ridge at him. "Honestly 'Screamer. You would think I never told you anything."

"The time Skywarp and Shimmer blew up Megatron's office?"

"You were gone at that time period. There was no way you were going to be implicated."

"When they set off the fire alarm."

"I wasn't on speaking terms with you, remember?"

"When Megatron went on a rampage because the Constructicons decided to knock down a few walls?"

"I managed to find you before our glorious leader did."

"The incident where our rooms all ended up redecorated?"

"You're still holding that against me?" Echo said in an exasperated tone, throwing her hands up in the air.

"What I mean to say is," Starscream said, fighting back a grin. "You don't always tell me anything until everyone else knows." The pair looked at each other and then started laughing. "Okay," Starscream admitted. "Maybe that was a bit unnecessary."

"You think?" Echo asked but she was grinning. "Trust me. Besides Hook You're the first one who knows." Starscream grinned and picked her up, spinning her around. Echo was grinning like crazy. Finally something good was going to happen.