Um, so the reason I lost all my followers and Favorites is because…I deleted the other story. My reason was that I got some Pm's stating that they could not read chap 9, and it was right after I removed my update chap that it did it so yeah. I apologize to all my readers for it, it kinda made me sad :(
Also another Nalo and Stealthy chap.
Chapter 10
"WOW!" Nalo looked out of the side of StealthJacker as he began to lift up in the air. Nalo was bouncing his seat from excitement, and StealthJacker chuckled from the audio port inside him.
"If that impresses you, watch this!" StealthJacker sped upward toward the sky, with Nalo yelling, from both fear and excitement. As StealthJacker steadied himself in the air, Vay looked back out the cockpit, and saw his old rusted car in the parking lot outside the camping grounds.
"I probably should have moved that…" Nalo mused over, and StealtJacker's audio port clicked on again.
"Moved what?" He asked, and Nalo shrugged.
"My car, but it probably doesn't really start anymore." Nalo replied, and StealthJacker just hummed. "What's with you and humming?" Nalo asked in returned while StealthJacker activated his active camouflage.
"I am sorry," The seeker apologize, "I just found those songs you were playing last night on the World Wide Web, and I have them playing in my processor." StealthJacker explained, and Nalo tilted his head to the side confused.
"Processor?" Nalo repeated, and StealthJacker chuckled again.
"The same thing to your organic's minds." StealthJacker quickly began to explain, "Like how you call them eyes, we call them Optics. When you refer to a gender in your species, you say man or woman, but Cybertronians refer to them as Mechs and Femmes." Nalo nodded as he listened closely to StealthJacker, who continued to fly. "You have a torso, we have a chassis, you have a leg, and we have a ped. Also instead of calling it a hand, we call it a servo."
"I guess that makes since." Nalo looked back out the cockpit, and watched the land speed by. "So where are we going?" Nalo looked to the front of the cockpit as StealthJacker made a small hologram of Earth.
"Currently we are here." StealthJacker placed a yellow circle marker right at the edge of the Canadian border. "We will be going here in the next few days." As StealthJacker finished saying this, an orange circle marker was placed at the top of the earth, and Nalo looked closely at the placement of the markers, and shivered.
"Um….I don't think I have heavy enough clothing for me to go there." Nalo stated plainly, and Nalo felt the jet slow down some.
"Why would you need heavy clothing?" StealthJacker asked confused, and it was Nalo's turn to start laughing.
"Because we organics would freeze to death if we went up there without proper clothing." Nalo said in a teasing manner, and StealthJacker was still puzzled.
"So you're not organic?" StealthJacker asked, and Nalo continued to laugh.
"I was teasing you for using the term organics so much, Stealthy." Nalo grinned, and tapped the console, and StealthJacker chuckled again.
"You org- I mean humans, are strange." The neutral corrected his self, and Nalo nodded his head.
"See not that hard so say after all." Nalo teased, and it sounded like StealthJacker snorted from the audio port.
"Okay kid now that you are done teasing me, do we need to stop somewhere to get you something?" StealthJacker asked dully, obviously not enjoying the teasing. Vay looked thoughtful for a few seconds, and smirked.
"Well I could always just sit in here, it's pretty comfy." Nalo joked, but when StealthJacker remained silent, Nalo tilted his head to the side, worried. "Stealthy?"
"Kid, be quiet." StealthJacker commanded, and Nalo listened, as he looked out the cockpit window again. He was surprised to see two Jets flying by, one being the same F-22 Raptor as StealthJacker, except having a red trimming around his wings. The second was a A-10 Thunderbolt, with twin turbines and blue trimming its wings, but the rest being pure black. Nalo looked closely at the two Jets, and glanced at the audio port when StealthJacker cussed.
"Slag it to the pits, just my luck." StealthJacker muttered, and Nalo leaned closer to the audio port.
"What's wrong?" Nalo whispered, and he noticed that they were descending toward an open plain, with a few trees decorating the ground.
"I know those seekers," StealthJacker said as softly as he could, "I'm going set down on the ground, and I'm going to let you get out. When I'm letting you out, my cloaking device will deactivate, so you need to find cover as soon as possible, do you understand?"
"Wait, why do I need to find cover? I thought those jets might be your friends?" Nalo assumed, and StealthJacker snorted.
"We used to be friends." StealthJacker stated, in a sad undertone, in which Nalo missed, as he rubbed the back of his head, in thought.
"Wait, what you're going to do then, Stealthy?"
StealthJacker focused his whole external scanners on the two jets overhead, "Distract them." He answered the teen, which in turned shook his head vigorously, and made is fedora fall off.
"What so you can just be an open target?" Nalo gritted his teeth out of anger for a second before continuing, "I am no stupid damsel in distress!"
"You are when the 'cons that are trying to kill me, and don't care about humans what so ever." StealthJacker replied coolly, and Nalo huffed at the neutrals reasoning. StealthJacker activated his landing gear, and still cloaked as talked to Nalo for a few more seconds, "Once you hear a big explosion, I want you to run to the forest over there."
"But-"
"I will come and find you after this, but you must listen to me." StealthJacker directed, and Nalo nodded his head, and picked up his fallen Fedora back on his slightly messed up brown hair. Nalo reached back and grabbed a bag, which rattled full of cans and bottles. When Nalo stood up and shouldered the bag, StealthJacker stopped him before he opened the hatch. "Are you not going to take your guitar?"
Nalo looked back in seat behind his, and saw his guitar case leaning slightly in it, and shook his head with a big smile on his face, "Naw, you just said you would come and find me, and if I leave my guitar with you, there is no doubt in my mind that you would come and do just that." Nalo shifted the bag on his shoulder on more time before he tapped StealthJacker's console, "So don't you get yourself killed, I really want my guitar back."Nalo joked, but StealthJacker heard the worry that was in Nalo's voice, worry for his new friend.
"Kid, I don't plan on dying today, or even in the near future." StealthJacker consoled, and Nalo lighten up a bit.
"Fine, but you better not mess up my guitar, it's my favorite one." With that, Nalo opened the hatch before StealthJacker had the courtesy to do so, and in the process uncloaked him. Nalo jumped down on the balls of feet, and moved swiftly toward a opened ended log, and dove into it, almost completely hidden.
StealthJacker had changed into his bi-pedal form, which was standing fully upright, and watched the two seekers as they continued a little bit forward, and made a sharp turn around toward him. He watched as both the seekers external scanned him, and he felt both of them trying to access his Comm channel, in which he allowed.
:: Neutral!? :: On of the first voices screamed at him, :: You cannot betr-::
:: I haven't betrayed you, :: StealthJacker watched silently as the two flew close to the ground, and transformed mid-air, and land, :: Starscream. :: StealthJacker stated, unemotional.
The one designated as Starscream growled, and raised up a clutched servo, :: I have been looking for you, right after you just up and left! Then I find out you want to be Neutral! :: Starscream transformed his arm into a energon cannon at pointed it at StealthJacker's chest, :: Give me one reason why I shouldn't blast you to the pits right where you stand! ::
:: Because, :: StealthJacker looked at Starscream squarely in the optics, and completely ignoring the other Decepticon's raised energon cannon, :: You wanted me to be a part of your Trine, and make it a Quaratene. :: Starscream's frame grew rigid, and the second Decepticon glared at the Neutral.
:: Ya Lyin'! There is no way tha' Stars- ::
:: Thundercracker, silence! :: Starscream interrupted, and Thundercracker remained quiet, :: It is true that I had asked that before, but :: Starscream looked at StealthJacker with malevolence, :: that was before you abandoned the Decepticon cause. ::
StealthJacker gave the seeker a dejected look, :: When did you change, the Starscream I knew was never like this. :: Thundercracker gave a sideways glimpse at Starscream, who simply laughed at StealthJacker's words.
:: I have not changed at all; I just simply have a new task that I most handle, that is all. :: Starscream used his other hand in a slight wave, and his energon cannon began charging, :: Well, like all traitors, you will be offlined in mere moments 'old friend.' :: As Starscream smirked and charged up his energon canon, about to fire. "Any last words, Traitor?" Starscream spoke the last words out loud.
Right at that moment, a tuna fish can flew through the air and hit Starscream in the helm, busted open, and splattered tuna fish all over his faceplates, and all three Cybertronians turned and looked at Nalo, who had another one ready to throw. "I'm sorry, but isn't offlining him a little harsh?"
"Slag." StealthJacker muttered, as he quickly brought out a a grey cylinder with red glyphs on it from seemingly out of nowhere, and pressed down on a seemingly concealed button. The red glyphs on the canister began to light up brighter and brighter, "Primus, please let this work." StealthJacker prayed, as he lobbed the canister at the two Decepticon seekers.
"Thundercracker capture the squishy," Starscream glared at StealthJacker, as he picked up the canister, which was changing to a bright red, "What is this stupid little object StealthJacker?"
StealthJacker crossed his arms and smirked as the glyphs began turn into a fierce white light, "That, old friend, is the human's equivalent to a flash grenade." Thundercracker and Starscream stared at the canister quizzically, as a weird high frequency sound began to emit from it. "Nalo cover your eyes!" SteathJacker ordered the guitarist; he obeyed as SteathJacker offlined his one optics. Right at that moment, StealthJacker's invention went off, as a bright light filled the area, with a small explosion.
"My optics!" Starscream screamed in agony. "You will pay for that you Traitor!" Starscream fell back clutching his helm, while Thundercracker had tried to balance himself, and failed. He fell to the side, and landed directly on Starscream. "Get off of me you fool!"
StealthJacker onlined his optics and looked at the humorous position the two seekers were in, as he heard Nalo giggled. He turned and looked down at the Nalo as the guitarist looked up at him sheepishly. "Kid, we need to get out of here." StealthJacker stated as he transformed, and opened up his hatch.
Nalo paused as he looked at the two struggling seekers worringly, and back at StealthJacker, "Shouldn't you, I don't know, offline them?" Nalo suggested, and StealthJacker vented his vents.
"No, I don't like offlining any kind of faction, it's just wrong." StealthJacker's voiced, even though it was cold, and Nalo flinched back a bit, bothered by the sound the neutral's voice. He walked up to StealthJacker a laid a hand on the side of the nose of the F-22 Raptor.
"Are you al-"
"Get in, NOW." StealthJacker strained the emphasis on the now, and Nalo sighed, as he climbed into the cockpit again. After he was in, StealthJacker activated his thrusters and camouflage , even before Nalo got situated, sped off toward their current objective, the artic. Nalo fell back into the seat, the back of his head hitting the seat rather hard, and caused the guitarist to rub the back of his fiercely.
"OW!" Nalo glared at the console in front of him, as he muttered a few curse words. "Okay I think you owe me some answers, I been going into this blind now." StealthJacker remained silent though, not answering Nalo at all. Nalo leaned back into his seat and fumed with his arms crossed, as he turned his head as he watched the sky fly by.
"Your right." Nalo stared at the audio port out of the corner of his eye, clearly angered by the neutrals current behavior. "I do owe you explanation." StealthJacker muttered sadly, and Nalo just gritted his teeth as he looked back out the window. "There is a war going on between two factions of my people, the Autobots and the Decepticons. I…I didn't want to join the war." StealthJacker admitted, and Nalo looked a little bit closer at the audio port.
"I believed the war was stupid, that we were fighting against our own brother and sisters." StealthJacker voice was strained, and Nalo dropped his anger, concern evident on his face. "I-We didn't join the war at first, it was mostly grounders."
"Grounders? And who do you mean when you say we?" Nalo inquired, and a sad laugh came out of the audio port.
"It is what we call the Cybertronians who fight on the ground." StealthJacker established, and continued on his explanation. "We included Me, Starscream, and…. Jetfire." StealthJacker's frame shuttered at the mention of the last name, and Nalo refrained from asking what was wrong. "Jetfire was Starscream's and mine tutor of sorts, he wasn't that much older than us, but he always watched our backs. When the war broke out Jetfire tried to convince me and Starscream to flee, but Starscream wasn't going to let his home be destroyed." As the neutral continued to talk, Nalo had reached behind the seat, and brought his guitar up there with him, and softly began playing a tune. "I was the youngest of the three of them, so I was still Naïve enough to believe that I could do something about it, and Jetfire agreed to stay, but to only protect us, not his home." StealthJacker said whispered something, and small hologram image popped up in front of Nalo as we looked closely at the image.
It had three seekers standing together, one slightly hunched over with another pushing the other's 'wings' slightly, with one last one holding some kind of square metallic pad, vaguely looking at the other two. "The one holding the data pad is Jetfire, and well the two goofing around were me and Starscream. We had this data clip taken right before the war broke out, and that was probably the last time we were so worry free." StealthJacker said with sadness threaded in his voice, but Nalo continued to play, as we looked at the hologram picture.
"I shiver and shake; the warm air cold; I'm alone on my own…" Nalo singed softly, as StealthJacker continued.
"It was a hopeless situation though, we fought, and we lost. Megatron took our home, and threaten to kill all of us. Jetfire volunteered us though to become Decepticons, and saved our lives. So I became a Decepticon, and the three of us had to part ways then and there. I was forced to do stealth missions against the Autobots, not because I wanted to, in fear that if I didn't, Jetfire and Starscream would die."
Nalo paused his playing, as he looked up at the audio port, puzzled "Wait, wasn't that Starscream back their?"
"Yes, I will eventually explain what happen," StealthJacker flicked the hologram off, and seemed to take a steady intake of air, "Many cycles later, I saw them again. Starscream had gotten his own Trine, Him, Thundercracker, and Skywarp, while Jetfire was the best solider on the front line of frontal attacks, and a top strategist. When I saw them though, both were sullen, and weren't very talkative. We all had done terrible things in such little time. That is when we began to hatch a plan."
After the extended silence from StealthJacker, Nalo picked back up playing, "With blackbirds following me; I'm digging out my grave…" StealthJacker listened to Nalo sing and play, as he steadily flew past the border into Canada. After Nalo finished the song he was singing, StealthJacker felt calmer, and more at peace.
"We agreed that we needed to get one of us out there, so we all thought who would get a chance to escape. Starscream wasn't able to leave, cause then Thundercracker and Skywarp would have been tortured, and Starscream would easily have been found. A trine can feel each other's location, but if one of the trine is hacked, then the other two's location is also located." StealthJacker paused, as Nalo strummed his guitar softly, playing a few cords, and continued when Nalo remained quiet, "Me and Jetfire got into a fight of who should go, but in the end Starscream sided with me, and forced Jetfire would be the one to escape."
"Wait," Nalo interrupted, connecting the dots, " So the friend you're looking for…"
"Yes, after we got Jetfire to escape, he had somehow ended up here, and when I also got a signal Starscream, I assumed that he was searching for him too. I was wrong though." StealthJacker's voice had severely since the beginning of the explanation darkened, "He seemed crazed and unreasonable, and he wanted to kill all Autobots. He was never liked that before, He wanted to find a way to stop the war, through peace, not fighting and killing." StealthJacker stopped talking, and allowed Nalo to absorb all the information that StealthJacker had given him. Nalo played his guitar softly, thinking about each part of the information.
"That is why you didn't kill them." Nalo concluded, as he stopped playing his guitar, "He is still a friend to you, and you probably thinking that if we get Jetfire, then he will be able to talk some sense to him. Am I right?"
StealthJacker chuckled, "Your spot on, Kid, but-"
"I'm not going to leave, if that is what your about to suggest." Nalo interrupted stubbornly, "I having the time of my life, so why do I have leave, Stealthy?"
"Your fragile kid, I could just accidentally step on you, and you would be offlined," StealthJacker reasoned, and Nalo rolled his eyes, "and you said earlier you don't have the right clothes for that climate."
Nalo pouted for a few seconds, and got a huge grin on his face, "Well you can't just abandoned me either."
"How so?" StealthJacker asked, worried about the change in behavior that Nalo was putting forth.
"Well, those Decepticons saw me, and if you just left me, how would I fare?" StealthJacker's thrusters sputtered out of surprise for being out maneuvered by Nalo.
"Slag it, you win this round, Kid."
So some major background on StealthJacker this chap, and a lot of stuff went down. So college starts this week and I don't really know how my schedule will be, so don't be mad if I don't update on time like I usually do.
Anyway I hope you all enjoyed this chap, and till next time. Peace out.
~SilentPerson.