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The team leader mechs stared at each other then back at the frantic group of Bee, Jady and the twins speaking all at once. "Ok one at a time!" Optimus tried to yell through the groups blurts, but no one heard him. "Can we just? Look can everyone…HEY!" the final shout made everyone freeze. "Now one at a time; what happened?" Bee stepped forward. "Well ya see boss bot…" he explained everything from the tracker going off to the chase before the limo drive-away. "That's the most unbelievable story I've ever heard!" Sentinel shouted. Optimus rubbed his chin. "I'd hate to say it Bumblebee but it does seem a bit…farfetched." "But sir we're telling the truth!" said Jady. "Yes we are" the twins joined. "That's impossible; what would the Elite Guard want with an organic?" Sentinel crossed his servos. "What if…" they stared down to Sari as she finished her thought. "What if she's not organic?" "Hmmm.." Optimus pondered. "That's ridiculous!" "Stranger things have happened." He turned to the group, "Alright then, Bumblebee, Jady, Sari you're with me. Well go and find this Nixy character. Jetfire, Jetstorm you…" "Now just hold it right there Optimus." The blue mech interrupted, "I believe these two were still under my orders?" Optimus shrugged, "Very well Sentinel." returning to the others of his team he gave his final orders, "Let's roll out!" Transforming; Sari hoped into Bumblebee and they drove out of the plant.

"What are we to be doing Sentinel Prime sir?" Jetstrom asked the pacing mech, mumbling something under his breath. "What do you think you clogs? Go out there and find that organic or…whatever it is." "Yes sir!" Saluting they changed modes and flew out.

~~~Cravas paced franticly back and forth in front of the parked limo. His hair was tangled by the constant rubbing in frustration. "Are you sure she's not there?" he screamed into the phone, "Well check again!" Finally stopping he closed the phone and rubbed his forehead sighing. "Excuse me." A lady's voice and slight tap came from behind. "Sorry miss but I'm a bit bussyyEEEE!" he dropped the phone, frozen in place, looking up at the giant, towering robots. "Ya hi" Sari said bluntly "We need to speak to Nixy." Straitening himself up he fixed up his tie with a smirk. "Lots of people would like to young lady but I'm afraid she's very busy so it you'll excuse…HEY!" he found himself dangling upside down by a leg held by Bumblebee. "Sorry dude, but this is sort of urgent." "Put me down now!" "We're very sorry about this." Jady exclaimed. "Hey!" Sari opened the door to the limo, "she's not here!" "Do you know where she is?" Optimus asked the struggling human. "Nag! I don't know alright? She disappeared yesterday after the last !" "Why?" Sari asked. "I don't know! Now put me down please!" Bee did so. Cleaning himself off and fixing his shades he opened the limo door, "If you do happen to find her tell her she's got some explaining to do." Closing the door; the limo took off. "Wow what a jerk! No wonder she ran off. Sigh well I guess that was pointless" huffed Sari. "Let's not give up just yet Sari. If she has run off somewhere chances are we'll run into her eventually." Optimus turned on his com-link. "Ironhide, Bulkhead, Jazz; were gonna need your help…"

"Brother, you be seeing anything yet?" the blue jet called "No, not yet" the orange replied. "How long do you think he wants us to be out here?" "Beats me. I race you to building there though!" Zooming off the other brother followed close behind. The night came fast, the moon was at its highest with the stars. "I iz going to beat you!" Jetstorm flashed past his twin. A mile from the finish line; a flash of purple light blasted his side. "AAahhh!" "Brother!" Jetfire flew fast to his falling sibling. Another blast hit him in the chest. "Oof!" "Flying autobots; now I have seen everything." A femme's voice was heard as the two jets switched modes. "Tis badness bot femme clone!" Jetstorm regained his strength and flew higher into the air with his brother. "This should be interesting." A smirk crossed Slipscream's lips. "We are not wanting to fight you." Jetfire explained. "Aww too bad...that the feelings not mutual!" she dove at them, with null rays firing.

Splitting up; the twins flew around to either side and closed in on her. "That's right boys; come and get me." She muttered, waiting for the last nanosec until flying straight upward. Too late to stop; the twins smacked into each other and plummeted downward until regaining consciousness and flew back into the air. When returned to the sky the femme jet was gone. "Where she go?" Jetstorm looked around but saw no sign of the femme jet. Jetfire put his back to his brothers. "Prehaps it be better if we were to splitting." Nodding to each other one took north and the other south.

Jetstorm flew high and on full alert, but it was too dark to see. He stood in mid-air looking down to the ground below. "Brother are you seeing her yet?" his com-link buzzed. "Nothing ye..." SCREECH! A Sudden great weight leaped onto his side swiping deep claw marks into his chessie, "Gahhhh!" Slipscream laughed evilly as she let go and watched the blue jet plummet to the surface. The ground came closer and closer. Energon leaked from his wounds as his conciseness started to fade. The body of water below quickly enlarged as he fell further, until the loud splash echoed through the trees.

Sinking deeper into the moonlit water; he could feel the rush of bubbles around him fade away. His vision became blurry; the only thing he could see the rising line of bubbles escaping from his mouth, and the distant pale light of the moon shining through the water's wavy surface. Deeper he sank; with the darkness slowly taking over his vision. The last thing he could make out was a small grey speck on the water surface; but it was….moving. Suddenly it became darker and larger like it was coming right at him. Despite his weaken state the jet raised his hand as he sank; before the last of his energy depleted he could of swore he saw the shadow reaching for him too, then all was black.

Something cold and wet landed on the jet's forehead. He forced his optics open. Everything was at first blurry but slowly cleared. It was dark and damp all around; small droplets of water fell from the rock ceiling, echoing. Jetstorm slowly raised his upper torso which he discovered was a painful chore. Moaning and groaning he succeeded, and went to rub his aching scars. He was unable to feel them. "Huh?" he looked down; all around his torso had been bandaged.

Looking around his surroundings; there saw nothing but dark grey walls, obviously the inside of a cave. Though the surrounding rocks were smooth, the ground under him seemed rough yet soft. He looked to the floor; leaves and twigs were bundled neatly together on the floor in the shape of a giant nest.

Realizing what he was sitting in he jolted up seizing his chest in slight pain. Scrambling out, he found way to the cave entrance. A swishing sound and a flash of a shadow went by; immediately he shoved his back against the wall. A few minutes later he stuck his head out, looking around. Slowly but surely, still clutching his wound, he left the cave and walked along the pond's edge. The moon was now even higher and the stars brighter. The jet observed his wood surroundings. Another shadow whizzed by him, gasping in surprise he held his one free servo up ready to fire. It wasn't until it flew into the moon's light that he could see its true form; a giant bird of blue fire. Even though that he had a perfect shot; the mech slowly lowered his servo. There was just something about this creature; he didn't know what but he felt something as he watched it fly in the air with such elegance.

The purple bird apparently had not taken notice to the jet bot as it continually danced gracefully into the starry sky. Jetstorm watched silently as it flew down close to the water's surface, the very tip of its wing gently grazing it; making a soft ripple effect. With one last loop in the air it dove straight into the water. Gasping, he ran closer to the water's edge hoping it did not sink. Bubbles emerged from below until a shadow figure flew straight up into the sky. The jet's jaw dropped; in the light of the moon the silhouette of a femme spread her wings like an angel. She landed only a few feet away but was still unaware of Jetstorm's presence.

The mech could do nothing but stare; she looked so ...pretty. Lost for words he decided to slowly approach the winged femme without startling her. The closer he got the more she appeared to be…sad; staring at a pile of trees that looked like something large crashed into them. "What could have caused that?" he wondered.

Without noticing; a twig snapped under his foot. He froze in place waiting to see what the bird bot might do. "Hmm?" she looked back at him appearing quite calm. "Oh hello, I see you're awake." She said with a small smile. "H-hi" was all he could seem to say as he felt himself blush uncontrollably. "So what happened to you? All I know is that you fell straight from the sky." She turned right around to him with servos crossed showing no sign of intimidation. "I…well…uh" "A bit late for a swim wasn't it?" she mocked. Blushing even harder, he shook his head. "Uh no, I mean yes! I mean…I was attacked." he wanted to slap himself, he needed to speak straight but just from looking at her his vocals went numb. "I kinda figured after seeing that nasty scratch of yours." pointing to the mech's chest. "I'm Phoenix." She reached out her hand. "Jetstorm" he shook it gaining back self-control. "So what happened?" She asked. Jetstorm explained how he and his twin were attacked by a decepticon. "You have a twin? There are other decepticons?" "Yes he control fire like you, but what you mean other?" Phoenix explained everything that had happened; from the day she crashed, the constructicons, to the loss of Rosie." "Oh I see. I am sorry." "What are you sorry for? You didn't do anything." "About your friend, it would be like losing brother." The jet's visor widened, "Brother!" he quickly turned on his com-link but there was nothing but static. It must have been water logged when he was sinking; he hoped to Primus that Jetfire was alright. "I'm sure he's fine." Phoenix faintly smiled, putting a hand on his shoulder, he smiled back. "You are probably being right." A sudden flash of pain crossed his chessie; he wrapped his arms around himself, "ugghh!" Phoenix gasped and stopped Jetstorm from falling forward. "Come on, you need some rest."

Phoenix helped the wounded jet back into the cave and into the large nest. After that she saw he was comfortable she turned to leave, Jetstorm shot up, "Wait! Ow. Where are you going?" She looked at him with bright optics "Don't worry; just for a short flight. I'll be back soon." She winked. "Now go to sleep, you're gonna need it." She left; Jetstorm laid back and put his hands behind his head, smiling. He was not sure about what he was feeling right now, but he was almost certain it was….love.

~~~Sari covered her nose with both hands trying to avoid the overbearing stench. "Eeeewwww, Bulkhead are you sure this is one of the signal's locations." She asked the green bot. "Yup, this is it." He replied. The group of autobots entered the junkyard; avoiding the passing workers. Sari looked down from Bumblebee's shoulder, "Hey Bee," she whispered. "Ya?" "Don't you think it's weird how none of these guys are freaked out by us?" The yellow bot looked around. "You know; now that you've mentioned it, you're right. Weird." Bending over, Optimus tapped one the workers gently as he could on the back. The worker turned around and looked up at the mech. "Hey, what can I do for ya?" "Um, were looking for the person in charge." The mech was surprised by the human's lack of reaction. "Oh you want Mac; he's the one in the orange over there." He pointed to a large built organic, "Hey Mac! These bots want to talk to ya!"

Turning away from his previous task; Mac came up to the autobot and shook his finger. "Hey there, how can I help you?" "Hello; we'd like to ask you a few questions if you don't mind." Optimus explained. "Sure thing." "Has anything strange happened or appear in the last while or so?" Mac rubbed his chin in thought. "Wait, this doesn't have anything to do with Wreck-Gar does it?"

"Wreck-Gar?" blurted Ratchet. "Hello! I am Wreck-gar!" Came a familiar voice. The orange dump truck mech pounced of a trash pile, waving to the stunned autobots. "No way!" cried Sari. "Oh my!" exclaimed Jady. "Dude! The last time we saw you was after we defeated Soundwave at Christmas." Bee shouted. "How'd you end up here?" "Haha! Found him snoozing in a junkpile," Mac laughed as he explained, "We didn't know what to do with him at the time; so we just let him stick around. He's kind became our…comic relief?" "Why does the not surprise me." Ratchet rolled his optics. Jady giggled; she found the new bot quite amusing. "Well at least now we know why no one's freaking out." Sari whispered into Bee's audio sensor. "Hey Ratchet!" Wreck-gar happily smacked the old med-bots back. Ratchet let out a low moan. "Hello." "We should have a party!" "Maybe another time, were in the middle of something right now." Optimus explained to the junkbot. "Your right, besides it's won't be complete without Phoenix." "Phoenix?" asked Jady, Mac nodded to the butterfly bot. "Another lady bot like you but different." "A bot? You don't think…" she turned to the others. "That that is what were look 'in for? I wouldn't doubt for a nanosec." Said Ratchet bluntly. "Excuse me sir but where can we find this Phoenix?" Jady asked Mac in the most polite way possible. "Beats me, she usually hangs with Rosie; a little girl that visits. But to where you can find them; 'friad I can't help ya there." He rubbed the back of his head, "Come to think of it, I haven't seen ether of them in months." "Wait, back-up. Little girl? What did she look like?" Sari called from above. "Hmm, black hair, plaid dress, and a large blue bow on her head." Sari and Bee looked at each other uneasily. "Why?" "Oh… no reason." Bee replied innocently. Looking over to Sari he could tell she felt the same thing too.

"Well, another dead end." Ratchet groaned, swatting away a swarm of flies. "Not quite, I think...I think I'm picking up something!" Bulkhead showed them the tracker, a small, faint red blip flashed on the screen. "Now were getting somewhere! Hey, wait, there's another one." Another red blip emerged; flashing brighter than the other. Before giving the order to roll out a voice called franticly though Optimus' com-link. "This Jetfire to autobots! Jetfire to autobots!" "Calm down Jetfire, what's wrong?" "It's brother Optimus Prime sir, we were attacked by femme seeker last night and I cannot contact him." "Femme seeker?" Jady cocked her head in confusion. "One of Starscream's remaining clones." Optimus replied, "Where are you now?" "I am just above you." Jetfire dropped from the sky landing within the group. "Are you alright?" "Yes, but I do not know about Jetstorm." He slouched in depression. "Don't worry; I think we may have found him." The orange jet optics shot open. "You have?" "Bulkhead do you have a lock?" "Sure do, apparently there coming from….that way!" he pointed a large digit towards the woods. "Good luck; those woods are thicker then tar. Those wheels of yours are not gonna be much help." Mac implied. "We'll have to try. Jady, Jetfire you can fly over. You will be faster so we can meet you there." Both of them nodded, transformed and flew over the trees. "Hey buddy," Optimus felt a tap on his foot, he looked down to Mac. "If you do find Phoenix, take it easy with her will ya? She tends to spook easy at first." "Thank-you." The mech nodded, 'The rest of you let's roll!"

~~~Jetstorm slowly awakened and let out a huge yawn while carefully shifting over to his opposite side. When he flipped over he automatically felt himself blush; Phoenix laid only a short distance away on the other side of the cave nest, facing away asleep. Pulling himself together he got up without waking her and out into the morning sun. "Mmmm, that was very much needed." He said to himself cheerfully. "Now if I am just figuring out where I am." He took in the surroundings until a pair of jets flew by, turning back towards him. One was coloured peach, green and white while the other looked vaguely familiar. "Brother!" he waved. The two transformed before landing. Jetfire ran up and hugged his twin, "Strom I haz been so worried! What happened to you chessie?" Jetstorm didn't answer he finally felt relief at last; brother was safe. Jady smiled watching the two reuniting with each other; it was such a sweet sight. "I am ok Fire, I had help from new friend!" "Her name wouldn't happen to be Phoenix now would it?" Jady gracefully cut in. "It's… well yes. How are you knowing?" "We'll explain later, but right now the rest of team will be here soon." She replied. "So where is this friend of yours?" "I think she is still sleeping, I go wake her and introduce!" he returned to the cave only to find the nest empty, "Phoenix? Where you go?" "Who-Who are they? Outside?" a small voice came the dark, he could sense she was tense. "Do not worry, it just my brother Jetfire and Jadebutterfly. They won't hurt you I promise." He held out his hand but she only backed away from it. "I…I can't." A shout from outside startled them both, "Dang nab it! Fraggin branches keep...!" Jetstorm watched from the opening; the others had caught up. Ratchet was ranting, as he yanked broken branches from his shoulder blades. "Stay here I be right back."

Optimus smiled, "Jetstorm, glad you're still in on piece, other than the obvious." he stared at the jets bandages. "Yes thank you sir." He nodded in approval. "So where is this Phoenix?" "I am still trying to convince her to come out sir, but she's a little …nervous." "This is defiantly it boss bot," Bulkhead butted in, pointing to the cave "The signal come'in from in there."

Phoenix peeked from the edge of the cave wall; she watched as the Jetstorm explained to the others. There were so many of them, and yet she could even find one before. Thinking back she thought of how she would have jumped at the chance to meet them but now, she wasn't so sure anymore. Then again if she didn't go now all that searching that Rosie did would be in vain. "Come on get a hold of yourself!" she whispered, "You can do this…..I think." With a deep inhale she placed one foot out, then there was a crash as a blue snowmobile, an orange truck and a snazzy white streetcar burst through the trees. She quickly shuffled back in. There were more?

Looking out from the hiding post again she watched as they too changed and engaged in the conversation. Nothing could be made out except the sudden yelling from the large chinned one. After a few more moments of conversation (and yelling) she saw Jetstorm returning and went back into the depths of the cave. "Now who are they?" "Others. Please Phoenix, just trust me." He gave a nervous smile, she could tell from the tone of his voice that something made him uneasy. He reached out his hand again. She reached for it, but at the last second she pulled back before he could grasp it. "I'm...I'm sorry." she admitted. "But trust …is something I just don't have anymore."

To Be continued…