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Previously- "It is worse than I feared then. That particular ship was built by the Decepticon emperor and left Cybertron in the early years of the war. Its presence here does not bode well for us"

"What should we do Optimus?"

"We will need to contact Ultra Magnus and Elita. They have held up well on Cybertron for four million years but I fear that with the growing Decepticon threat here on Earth, we will need their help more than ever. "

"Shall I inform the others sir?"

"I will contact Ironhide, Prowl and Jazz. We will not go down to these Decepticons without a fight"

12 January 1986, 10:15 joors, Pandemonium Command Centre...

Nitrofire and her soldiers had been on Earth for close to three monthsand some of the mechs on her forces had been on several partial successful raids with their fellow Decepticons. The past month, however, had been rather slow with many of the Decepticons on board getting caught up in the Christmas festivities celebrated by the natives of the planet. Not that they gave any gifts though….it was just an excuse to bring out the high grade and party until many of them passed out from being over-energised.

Nitrofire hoped that now the festive season was over, they could not get back down to business. The Autobots were still unaware of the overwhelming femme presence amongst the Decepticons and Nitrofire believed that this could be used to their advantage, the Autobots being the soft-sparked fools that they were.

As it was, Megatron was travelling to Cyberton to meet with Shockwave in order to discuss the rebuilding efforts that had begun in Darkmount. Megatron has also informed her that information had also been recorded by Laserbeak that the Autobot's computer Teletran 1 had a detailed map of all the energy sources located within a 10 mile radius. Any energon gathered from these sources would be essential in the rebuilding effort. So due to Megatron's absence, it fell to Nitrofire to plan a way to get the information from the Ark with as little damage to their side as possible. Unfortunately, Starscream was out of action again, after being blasted by Megatron for bad-mouthing him. Would that seeker never learn?

Speaking of seekers, Nitrofire had developed a rather good friendship with Thundercracker and Skywarp, against her better judgement. She even went flying with them occasionally as she had no trine of her own, something which surprised the other seekers. Both had even offered to take her into their trine-bond, effectively making them a tetrine. Nitrofire of course refused, having been used to flying by herself for millennia, her bond with her natural-born trine being broken by their deaths. She also didn't know if the bond would work considering those who formed an adult trine bond needed to have complementary personality traits. Knowing Starscream, she doubted he would appreciate the addition.

Nitrofire's thoughts turned back onto the information contained within the Ark. From what she had heard, Soundwave's cassette twins would be the best ones for the job. She would speak with Soundwave about it and have the twins dropped close to the Ark to recover the information and plant a virus in Teletran 1 to distract the Autobots. She was very fond of the twins. They reminded her so much of sparklings.

Nitrofire hoped that the mission would go according to plan. The Autobots had discovered the presence of the second Decepticon ship and had brought reinforcements to Earth, namely Ultra Magnus and Co. They may pose a larger obstacle to this mission if they caught wind of the latest Decepticon scheme.

Eight joors later...

Nitrofire waited with Soundwave in the command centre of Nemesis for Thundercracker to return with Rumble and Frenzy. They were already late. Nitrofire could only hope that the mission had gone as planned. Whilst contemplating what could have possibly occurred, an incoming call was received from Thundercracker.

"What have you got to report Thundercracker? You should have been back here by now"

"The twins got caught by the Autobots. Rumble managed to escape but they have Frenzy. If we don't get him outta there the Autobots will find out exactly what we were looking for. We won't have another chance at this"

"Stay out of sight Thundercracker. I will get Astrotrain to take Soundwave, Skywarp and myself over to your location. We will then work on a plan of attack"

The Ark, Autobot Headquarters...

The Autobots knew that Megatron had gone to Cybertron and had left the commander of the other Decepticon ship in charge of his crew. As of yet, they had still not seen anything of this commander and it made them feel distinctly uneasy. It did seem though, that the Decepticons had been looking for something as they had caught both Frenzy and Rumble in the main control room. Unfortunately, Rumble had managed to escape. This attempt made the Autobots complacent, after all, the Decepticons had never attacked twice in one day, or so they thought.

Jet engines rumbled through the sky and a number of shots hit the Ark, causing of the Autobots to run outside in order to protect their ship, leaving Frenzy unattended in his cell. Not exactly their smartest move.

A green, white, black and silver F-15 with Decepticon markings went flying through the corridors of the Ark with the red and yellow Autobot twins ( yes Sunny and Sides) attempting to slow it down.

"Come on, why don't you just crash already", growled an exasperated Sunstreaker, "you're gonna ruin my paint job"

"Yeah why can't you just cut and run like every other 'Con", shouted the other twin.

"Despite what you two morons may think, I am not every other 'Con, I am a high ranking commander of the Decepticon army...and I believe this is your stop, "Nitrofire said in a dead serious tone as she halted mid-flight and threw the Lamborghini twins into a nearby wall, knocking them out, "well, that takes care of them.

Nitrofire gunned her engines and continued her flight through the Ark until she reached the holding cells. Locking her targeting systems, she sent through a warning to Frenzy via com link.

:You better get yourself out of the way before you get your aft blown back to Cybertron. I'm blasting you out of there:

: Whatever you say Boss Lady. I was gettin' kinda bored hangin around a bunch of Autobots anyway:

: As soon as you get out of there, make a run for the exit. We cannot afford to lose that information. I will cover you:

:Ok orders is orders:

Nitrofire blasted through the bars of the holding cell, setting the small Decpticon cassette free. Hoping that the Autobots were still sufficiently distracted, the two Decepticons made their way through the Ark. Making their way out of the mouth of the ship, Nitrofire commed the Decepticons who ordering a retreat as Frenzy and the information had been recovered. Once they were outside, Nitrofire took to the skies to attack the Autobot from high up.

"Hey the "Cons have got Frenzy, grab him...we still need to find out what they were after!"

Ultra Magnus who was close by the escaping Casseticon managed to corner him. However, despite his small size, Frenzy would not go down without a fight.

"If you tell us exactly what you took you piece of scrap-metal you can go running back to your ship with all the other Decepticreeps"

"Go stick that blaster up your tailpipe fragger, you ain't getting nothing outta me"

The noise of jet engines closing and gun blasts hitting the ground nearby caused Ultra Magnus turn about and face an oncoming seeker. Turning his blaster, he returned fire as the seeker drew closer , flying past him and transforming mid-flight to grab Frenzy, its back turned to the Autobot.

Ultra Mangus took the opportunity to shoot at the seeker, the blast tearing through the seekers back and out of its chest. Letting out an audio-piercing cry, the badly wounded seeker took to the skies again smoke and sparks coming from its wounds.

When the seeker was out of range, Ultra Magnus returned to the Ark to report to Optimus Prime and survey the damage inflicted by the Decepticon attack.

Anyways, tetrine is something I made up myself and is derived from the greek work tetra, meaning four. I have suggested somewhat in this chapter that seekers are born in trines and when a trine member dies, seekers can form a bond with another if they are compatible. Also that there can be more than three seekers to a group. Please review!