Chapter 14

We meet again, old friend

Amelia was bored. She had nothing to do but wait until her injuries were healed or at least started healing. Even though she was able to heal her self twice as fast as a normal human it still took a very long time. Amelia had been lying there for about one hour when she decided that it was enough, she had gotten up and jumped down from the berth to do some exploring. She was definitely not the patient type and wasting time also was not on her to-do list. The base was enormous, there was loads of corridors and room just waiting to be explored. She had been given schematics of the base and popped them up on her visor screen. First off was the energon storage room. Amelia was in no hurry and her leg still hurt like hell so she just took her time getting there. It took about ten minutes of limping before she arrived. The doors opened quietly and she walked in. The room was enormous, the walls had been left bear and the room was filled with blue cubes. The doors closed behind Amelia and the room went pitch black except for the soft blue glow the energon cubes emitted. Amelia changed her eyes into snow leopard ones so she could see in the dark. The room was more like a very wide cave and it reached far into the distance, to far for Amelia to be able to see the end. Amelia then just started walking, she was not really keeping track of where but she couldn't care less at the moment. Deep in thought, she walked further and further into the darkness until here thoughts were scrambled by an ear-piercing screech.

"What in the name of primus…" Amelia hissed as she nursed her ear.

"Ehem, sorry for that." Knockout said. "Where are you? I told you to stay put! If your not here within three cycles, I swear to the pit you'll make your life hell!"

Amelia rolled her eyes, as if here life wasn't that already she thought. "Kay! Don't fry your circuits! I'll be there in five." Amelia said as she pulled the schematics of the base back onto her visors so she could see which way she needed to go to get back. When she saw how far she had walked Amelia groaned. If she was planning on keeping her head she had to hurry. Jogging through cave she found the exit and went through it. Then she stopped, looked at her time and started running towards med-bay. When she entered she was met by a fuming Knockout.

"What? I'm on time!" Amelia argued, tapping her wrist with emphases. Knockout aired his vents and uncrossed his arms.

"I need to check on your injuries." He said as he narrowed his optics.

"What? Why? I'm fine! You had your chance to do that an hour ago!" Amelia growled in annoyance. Knockout ignored Amelia's protests and picked her up. He dropped her on one of the examining tables and got the tools he needed. Amelia knew better than to flee, Knockout was not only fast, but he had a dart gun as well and he knew that she hated needles more than anything in the universe. After her check up she left again. She had half an hour before she had to meet up with Barricade for a "Surprise" or "Treat" as he called it. Amelia had grown to like being a Decepticon, life was hard but she liked it that way. Before all this, her life had been boring and she had longed for something like this to happen to her. Barricade knew that Amelia was not going to run away, so he had given her the schematics of the base so she could independently find her way. Amelia was now also part of the military ranks, as far as she could tell she was just higher than the average drone maybe on the same line as Frenzy or Ravage but she had no way of telling. She still gave a great deal of respect to her superiors though, she gave the medic probably the minimum, but as for The Dreads, her master Barricade, Soundwave, shockwave and especially Megatron, they all got the maximum respect she could give them. Amelia thought of all of these things as she was wondering through the endless corridors but she stopped when her thoughts wondered to one subject, a subject that had not bothered her up till now, her family. She had not missed them for some reason, its not that she did not love them of care for them but she just did not seem to need them. She had a family of five, her, a twin sister called Emilie, a little sister of 9 called Anne-Claire and two loving parents. She felt guilty for leaving them without a clue of where she had gone. For all they knew she had run away or been kidnapped or maybe even been killed, only if they knew what had truly happened to her. Amelia shook her head, they were none of her concerns and she could not go back in time and change the past no matter how badly she wanted to. Amelia frowned and kept walking, she looked at the time, she still had ten minutes but she decided to head back anyway, the thought of her family still lingering in the back of mind. When she arrived at there meeting spot, she found an empty energon cube, jumped up and sat on it with her legs dangling of the side. And then she waited. She bit her lip and propped her hear up onto her hands and stared into the distance letting her mind wonder freely. She pulled herself out of her thoughts when she heard familiar footsteps. Barricade entered the room and stood in front of her. Amelia got up on the cube she had been sitting on and stood straight, waiting orders.

"Starglider, you never disappoint me." Barricade said. "I have decided that you are going to go energon scouting with me, I though you might like to go outside." Amelia perked up and beamed up at him.

"Really?" Amelia asked, trying hard to contain her excitement. She had not been outside for a very long time and she longed for it and today, finally, she was allowed to go.

"Meet me in med-bay in four mega cycles." Barricade said. He marched of but before going far he stopped and turned his head slightly into her direction.

"Also, Spaceout is waiting for you in the Communication center with Soundwave." He then left without another word. When he rounded the corner Amelia jumped of the cube and flat out sprinted for the Communications center. She barely missed running into the bots that were in the hallways and then she finally arrived at her destination. The doors were bigger than most of the ones she had seen so far and opened with a slight voosh sound. Amelia entered the room and just stared in awe at all the conceals that seemed to take over the room.

"We meet again! Hi Ame-I mean Starglider!" Abigail corrected herself. Amelia looked up to where she was standing. Abby opened her wings and flew down with extraordinary grace.

"I see you've learnt how to fly." Amelia said smiling wickedly. She had taken her visors off so that Abby could see her face.

"Come here you!" Abigail said as she opened her arms to embrace Amelia. They hugged each other for a very long ten seconds. Amelia was the first one to release her friend.

"Sooooo, what do you do here?" Amelia asked as she looked around her.

"We keep everything in order." Abigial answered in a matter-of-fact tone of voice.

"Kay, sounds cool." Amelia said.

"What do you do?" Abigail asked.

"Um, well, I'm a bounty hunter and spy." Amelia answered. "Check it! I got the most awesome armor in the world!" She said as she did a small pose.

"Looks good on you." Abby said thoughtfully looking over her friend. "What's that on your back?" She then asked pointing at Amelia's back.

"O, that! Yes, say hello to ma little friends!" Amelia said happily as she sowed off her weapons.

"Guess those archery lessons did you good after all." Abigail said as she rose and eyebrow.

"They sure did!" Amelia chirped.

Amelia and Abigail spent the next three hours showing off what they had learnt and telling each other small things about what had happened in the last few weeks, with Soundwave silently looking over them.