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Previously- "You do know you moron that Megatron will go looking for Starscream within that time...Starscream going missing is not going to go unnoticed. What are we going to say when Megatron asks us why Starscream...and probably Nitrofire haven't been seen in a while"
"We tell him the truth"
"And what is that exactly?"
"They are currently fulfilling other active duties"
August 1986, Nemesis Command Centre
Thundercracker had been right of course, two Earth weeks after Skywarp dumped Starscream in Nitofire's quarters, Megatron had come looking for them, requesting their presence at a meeting for yet another energon raid. All attempts at contacting either Nitrofire or Starscream via comlink had been ignored repeatedly, so Megatron, not used to being ignored had gone to Nitrofire's quarters and demanded to speak to the femme commander and his SIC, knowing both were currently barricaded in there . He received no answer despite hearing movement from within her quarters.
In yet another attempt to find out what they were up to he found Thundercracker wandering the halls of Nemesis and asked why the commander and his SIC had confined themselves to Nitrofire's quarters. Thundercracker gave his leader a funny look and simply said 'seeker business' and they were 'fulfilling other active duties', before leaving his confused and annoyed leader standing in the hallway. Finally fed up with not receiving an acceptable answer, Megatron had stormed back to Nitrofire's quarters and blasted his way in.
Megatron was seen not long after walking hurriedly away from said quarters muttering about needing to flush his optics with acid. Unfortunately, no one had warned Megatron about seeker mating habits and he had seen something he had wished to forget. Now he understood what Thundercracker meant by fulfilling other active duties...he was never going to be able to look at Starscream the same way ever again.
26 September 1986...
After their mating protocols had worn off, almost everything seemed to go back to normal for the seekers...well except that Nitrofire and Starscream seemed to be avoiding spending time with their wing mates. Both Skywarp and Thundercracker speculated that this was because both seekers were thoroughly annoyed at having been pushed together involuntarily. However, neither of the two seekers showed any signs of having become spark mates, the only time either Skywarp or Thundercracker saw them close together was when they were in Starscream's lab, working on what they said was their latest project. Neither of the seekers would reveal exactly what they were working on...not even to Megatron. All access codes to the lab were also changed meaning the only ones who could enter were Starscream and Nitrofire.
Of course, Skywarp had got what was coming to him...Nitrofire did exactly as promised and somehow managed to shove his wings up his tailpipe...Hook nearly had a spark attack when he saw him...he really didn't want to know how it was possible for the wings to be where they were. Starscream also got his own revenge...using Skywarp as a sort of guinea pig for some of his other experiments. After all this, it seemed that Skywarp FINALLY got the point...no more setting up his wing mates. Thundercracker was extremely relieved. It looked like he wouldn't have to own up to Starscream about destroying his mineral collection after all...
Pandemonium Command Centre...
Nitrofire and Megatron sat in conference debating over the possibility of coordinating an attack on the Autobot headquarters on Earth, the Autobots had interfered yet again with their plans to gather energy and the human pets that the Autobots kept had escaped Megatron's clutches yet again.
Megatron would conveniently ( in Nitrofire's opinion) be sitting out of this battle as his canon had been pulverised in his last battle with Prime...they were still waiting for a replacement from Cybertron. Megatron suggested postponing the plans until he got a replacement weapon, however Nitrofire was not willing to wait...after months of inaction, she had had enough.
"No Megatron...the attack will go ahead as planned. We will waste no more time. The sooner the Autobots are put in their place, the better"
"I do not see why we should rush into this Commander...after all the Autobots are going nowhere and I wish to take care of the Prime problem myself"
"Do not forget yourself Megatron, while we may have worked together now for the good of the Decepticon forces, I still rank higher than you...as for Prime...he will not be a problem...I have fought against a Prime before and this one shall be no different. We attack at dawn"
"Fine...I will inform my forces that they fight with you tomorrow"
"For your sake they better be prepared"
"Rest assured any slackers will be severely punished"
"No, any slackers will be offlined. Are we clear"
"Of course Commander. Crystal clear"
