Thanks for the review last chapter! It made me happy! Let's see if I can get even more this chapter!
The Twin Terrors show up this chapter! We all know what this means! Jet Judo! Gotta say, Aquafire and Screamer really don't get along as you'll find out.
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"You hear? Vos and Tarn are gone, completely destroyed!" This is what they heard everywhere they went. More than once, they were approached by recruiters, asking them to join the Decepticons. They'd heard rumors about them and their beginnings in the underground gladiatorial arena's of Kaon, Slaughter City and the likes. They'd also heard about Megatron and his ideals, how he wanted to bring Cybertron back to the Golden Age and, like anybot, they were slightly interested in his cause.
"Maybe we should give it a try?" Storm Ridge muttered as they made their way through Simfur. "Joining the Decepticons I mean."
"That means going to Kaon," Aquafire reminded him.
"But it also means seeing other survivors," Steel Wing snapped. The femme couldn't argue with him on that. They knew others had survived the photon missiles but they didn't know who and joining the Decepticons was their best bet at finding them.
"We'll head out at the beginning of the next orbital cycle," Aquafire sighed. Her wingmates nodded as they continued through town, eventually winding up in some club. They walked in, holding themselves proudly as every bot in the place turned their optics to them. A lot of the mech's were giving Aquafire a quick once over, pleased grins tugging at their lip components once they finished their assessment of her. She wasn't as bulky as her wingmates, she had more curves to her and was slightly shorter than them. Femme Seekers were a rare sight and when one did show up... everything usually went to Pit. Storm Ridge and Steel Wing settled themselves slightly in front of Aquafire, wings flared slightly to try and intimidate any mech dumb enough to make a grab at their trine leader. The trio made their way to a secluded corner and sat down, waiting for a bar drone to bring them their energon.
"The sooner we leave Simfur the better," Steel Wing rumbled out. He snatched the cube of energon away from the drone when it arrived and sniffed it, making a face when he did so. He saw the other two do the same and hesitantly took a sip of it. "Primus!" He gasped out, reeling back. "That is really strong!"
"Its high grade, what do you expect?" Storm Ridge snorted at his reaction.
"It's a lot stronger than I'm used to," He snapped. Aquafire was nearly half done with her cube and was feeling the need to just get up and do something. She shot a look towards the partially empty dance floor and let herself smirk. She finished the rest of her cube and got up, making her way to the center of the dance floor. She began to dance almost instantly, drawing everybot's attention as she did so. She eyed her wingmates at the edge of the crowd that had now gathered and knew they would step in the moment someone tried to touch her. As the beat of the music picked up so too did her dancing. Others were beginning to dance along side her, mostly mechs but there were a few scattered femmes about, all of them groundpounders. Steel Wing eventually dragged her off the dance floor and forced her to sit down, saying that she'd had enough fun for one day.
"We should leave," Storm Ridge sighed. Steel Wing nodded and helped Aquafire out of the club. The trio drifted around the town and eventually found an inn they could stay at for the night. Steel Wing watched over the other two as they curled up on the large berth together and sighed, unable to fall into recharge. He missed being in Vos, he missed his family... he missed everything. But he had his wingmates, they would keep him company and share his pain.
"Steel Wing?" He jerked his helm up and looked into the worried optics of Aquafire. "Come here you stubborn mech," He climbed onto the berth and laid behind her, careful of her wings as he wrapped his arms around her. "Next time, I'll simply sit on you," She teased softly.
"You have a rather large aft for a femme," He teased back, earning a kick to the shin plates. "I'm joking!"
"Good," She chuckled. "Now get some rest," She felt him nod and offlined her optics.
-X-X-X-
Two orbital cycles later, they found themselves in Kaon, standing before Megatron, the Decepticon leader.
"Why have you come?" He asked, eying all three of them carefully
"We wish to join the Decepticons," Aquafire told him, optics narrowed. Megatron considered them all and nodded to himself.
"Femme, do not make me regret my decision of allowing you into my army," He gave her a pointed look.
"I promise I will not," She bowed and left with her trine. They were led to a living quarters where all of the other surviving Seekers were being housed and decided to make themselves known.
"Well, if it isn't Aquafire," They heard a familiar voice and found themselves faced with Ramjet, Thrust, and Dirge.
"I told you they were alive," Ramjet shoved Thrust with a growl. The Conehead trine more than eagerly showed them around, introducing them to their fellow Decepticons along the way.
"I could get used to this," Aquafire mused as they relaxed in their new quarters.
"So could I but I'm not gonna be branded with that weird mark," Steel Wing frowned.
"I second that," Storm Ridge nodded.
"Agreed," Aquafire nodded. "I suppose we should get some rest and wait for Lord Megatron to call upon us." The other two nodded and climbed into the berth with her, exhausted from the two days of traveling.
-X-X-X-
The war was in full swing as the years passed and all of Cybertron was now divided. Aquafire's trine had quickly established themselves as one of the fiercest units on the Decepticon side but time and again, the other Seekers found every little reason to put them down. They didn't appreciate or like the fact that a trine led by a femme was better than them.
This day was however, one of those rare, peaceful ones that everyone seemed to enjoy. High grade flowed freely in the rec room, music pulsed in the room as well and many mechs were looking for femmes or other mechs to warm their berths.
"Hey, pretty femme," Another Seeker slipped behind Aquafire as she danced. The blue femme looked over her shoulder at him and flashed a look to her trine mates who were in a drinking match with some of the other Decepticons. "How about we take this somewhere else?" He dipped his helm down and brushed his lip components along the edge of her wing. Aquafire purred and nodded, giggling as she stumbled after him.
Steel Wing watched his trine leader with a snort and downed another cube of high grade. Ah, oh well, how she relieved herself of stress was her own business. As long as she didn't get hurt, he and Storm Ridge didn't get involved with who she decided to sleep with. Their bond was already at full strength, so they would know if she needed their help dealing with someone.
"Jeez, it's down to the Seekers," One 'Con rumbled. He'd placed his bets on the Constructicons but they'd fallen out by now. The others began cheering on either side, wanting to see if the newer trine could beat out the Coneheads.
Starscream watched from across the room, dark faceplates set in a scowl. He didn't know why Megatron even allowed that new trine in, the Seeker had enough to deal with! The Seekers already under his command were enough, and having a femme among his troops was distracting! Every time he wanted them to do battle training, they would all stare at Aquafire and talk about how they could get her in their berths. If they'd already had her, they would brag and that would further distract his troops. But when they were in actual combat, his troops would sneer and try to knock her trine down a few pegs. He hated to admit it, but she and her trine were great on the battle front.
"Still brooding about that last battle where they outdid you?" Thundercracker taunted his leader.
"Mute it, Thundercracker!" He hissed at the blue jet.
"Aww, is Screamer upset because a femme took out more Autobots than he did?" Skywarp cackled, earning a venomous glare. Starscream hit his wingmate with a growl and sipped at his cube, trying to focus on something else for the time being. Slowly, the crowd in the rec room began to thin out as the mechs began stumbling off to their quarters, or in some cases, being dragged to their quarters because they were over-charged. Starscream had long since left to attend a meeting with Megatron and Soundwave while his trine mates got up to Primus knows what.
"Are you doing this just to get over the pain?" Starscream heard the harsh whisper as he was on his way back to his quarters. Curious, he stopped to listen in.
"No," Came the growled out reply. Starscream realized that the two arguing bots were none other than Steel Wing and Aquafire. Running a quick scan, he realized that Storm Ridge was with them but he was staying silent. "And like you haven't been drinking a lot lately either?"
"Whether you like it or not, we are your wingmates," Now Storm Ridge jumped in. "We have to make sure you are safe. And with how you keep jumping from berth to berth..."
"Something is bound to happen," Steel Wing finished. "We're here for you, you stubborn femme, let us help you," Starscream heard a pained sound escape the femme and peeked around the corner to see her collapsed in her wingmates' arms. He snorted and continued on his way. That femme and her trine couldn't be trusted, they were young, unstable and had more issues than any ten of the Decepticons put together.
"Spying on the troops again?" Thrust fell into step with him. It wasn't often that the Elite and Conehead trine's interacted in a peaceful manner as they were usually at odds with one another.
"Not that it's any of your business," Starscream snorted.
"You mess with Aquafire and you will find yourself in the Pit," The red Conehead warned.
"What's this? Protecting her now are you?" Starscream sneered at him. "Had her in your berth as well have you?"
"This has nothing to do with me having had her in my berth, which I have not," He hissed at the mech. "Do not cross me, Starscream," He backed off and went in a different direction. Starscream scowled after him, wondering what had crawled up his aft as he stalked to his quarters. Primus only knew why he put up with these imbeciles on a daily basis...
-X-X-X-
"Argh! What the frag! Get him off!" Steel Wing screeched as he spiraled out of control, a red and black form clinging to him
"I would but I'm busy!" Storm Ridge yelped, trying to rid himself of the red mech's golden twin.
"You two are hopeless!" Aquafire shouted as she swooped in, knocking away the golden mech. It didn't work as she planned as he clung to her wings instead. "Filthy groundpounder!" She snarled, trying to shake him. "Get off!" She transformed with him still clinging to her and yelped when he tried to ground her.
"Yo bro! Having fun without me?" The red twin, Sideswipe complained when he finally noticed his brother struggling with Aquafire. The femme was fairly sure she felt Sunstreaker grab at her chestplates, not even bothering to hide the fact that he'd done so. Sideswipe managed to take Steel Wing to the ground and leapt after Storm Ridge, who was still reeling with his encounter with Sunstreaker. Aquafire struggled with the golden twin who kept trying to grope her while he tried to take her down.
"Ugh, disgusting!" She snarled, trying to throw him off. His brother soon jumped up with a howl of laughter and grabbed onto her leg, yanking her down. Aquafire let out a shout as she was taken down, landing heavily on her back. Sunstreaker had already let go by then and now stood over her with his grinning twin. She honestly thought they were about to molest her as they leaned down to get a proper look at her.
"She's pretty easy on the optics," Sideswipe admitted.
"She's a Seeker," Sunstreaker reminded him.
"So what? Not like we haven't had our fun with a couple of 'Cons before," He shot Aquafire a lewd look. "I wonder if Optimus will let us take her prisoner? Then she'll be in the brig and we can have her to ourselves," Wait a klik... the Autobots had a brig? Huh, that was nice to know. They soon got a comm. saying to fall back and both swore softly.
"Sorry little femme, maybe next time," Sunstreaker transformed and took off with his brother. The Decepticons cheered over their small victory while Aquafire and her trine gathered themselves and tried to process exactly what had happened. When they returned to Kaon, almost everyone on the base knew of their run in with the Autobot twins, who were quickly becoming infamous among the Seekers for their Jet Judo. The young trine huddled together, ashamed of their defeat at the servos of two Autobot groundpounders.
"How's it feel being taken down a few pegs?" Starscream sneered at them as he and his wingmates approached.
"I don't want to hear it," Aquafire bit out. They'd heard it enough from the rest of the Decepticons, she didn't need to hear it again from her commanding officer.
"Don't take it too hard," Skywarp chirped.
"Every single one of us has had the misfortune of being introduced to that horrid technique of theirs," Thundercracker snorted. This made the younger trine feel slightly better but the constant teasing didn't help.
"They practically molested me in my jet and bipedal form," Aquafire grimaced.
"Yeah, you'll want to avoid them at all costs," Skywarp giggled.
"I'll keep that in mind," She responded dryly. She eyed the Elite trine warily before storming off, her equally slagged off wingmate's hot on her thrusters.
"Was it necessary to send them after those pit-spawned glitches?" Thundercracker scowled at Starscream. "You knew what would happen-"
"Exactly," He hissed out. "That'll teach them their place and show them that they are no better than anyone else. Especially me!" Thundercracker and Skywarp shared a look and shrugged, following their now boasting leader to the rec room where the other soldiers were celebrating.
Meanwhile, Aquafire was in the private wash racks she'd demanded Megatron give her (being one of the few femmes and all) and was scrubbing hard at her armor, trying to get all the grime from the battle off as well as the sickening feeling of those Autobots touch on her chassis. Storm Ridge poked his head in and sighed, grabbing the scrubbing brush from her with ease as he stepped in.
"Storm Ridge!" Aquafire gave a surprised sound.
"If you keep scrubbing at your armor like that, you'll ruin the paint and you'll have to go see Hook," He warned her.
"I'd sooner be offlined than go see him," She spat. It wasn't that Hook bothered her or anything but she just, in general, did not like medics.
"Then stop it," He snapped at her. The femme scowled at him and was slightly shocked when he began scrubbing at her armor, though he wasn't as rough as she'd been. When he reached her back however, she let out a tiny gasp of pain and jerked away from him. Storm Ridge shuttered his optics a few times before he carefully inspected the spot. "Looks like you have to go see Hook anyway," He told her.
"Ugh," She groaned unhappily at this. He shut off the flow of solvent and dried off with her before they got Steel Wing off the berth.
"Let's go," He grabbed Aquafire the moment the words 'back' and 'injury' fell from Storm Ridge's mouthplates. Luckily for them, the sick bay wasn't too horribly full and the moment they walked in, Hook was before them.
"I don't see you three in here very often," He noted, looking over their frames in a professional manner. He made it a point not to linger on any one part of Aquafire's frame as he did so. "From the looks of it, you had a run in with the Autobot twins?"
"Yes and it's not something we want a repeat of," Steel Wing grumbled. Hook did another scan of the young trine and patched the minor injuries on both mech's before he turned his gaze to Aquafire.
"On the berth," He ordered. The femme stood in one place stubbornly, wings twitching in what he guessed was nervousness. "Now." The finality in his voice did the job and she hopped onto the examination berth. He checked her over, giving her a full exam as he would to every new recruit (which he'd failed to do on this particular trine) and finally checked her for injuries. He had her lay on her front carefully once he found the injury on her back and quickly set to work on it. "You're lucky," Hook told her as he continued. "It's just a few twisted cables and cut wires. None of them were very life threatening but if you'd allowed them to fester..."
"I get the point," She growled out. Hook continued his repairs and finished within a reasonable time frame. He then insisted on giving her wingmate's complete exams as well, as he'd neglected to do so upon their arrival.
"Femme, no more interfacing," Hook told Aquafire. The blue Seeker was stunned by his words and gaped at him. "You heard me. And I expect you to follow that order," She scowled at him then. "You two, control her," Her wingmate's nodded and smirked at her.
"Traitors!" She hissed at them accusingly. Hook waved a dismissive servo at them and they left... quicker than he expected. Aquafire was in a foul mood the rest of the day and it became quite obvious to the other Decepticons that she was not to be bothered in such a state. She'd snapped at quite a few others and had sent quite a few more to the sick bay because they just did not know when to shut their mouthplates.
"This keeps up and you'll have more enemies than friends here, Aquafire!" Ramjet teased her when he came across her.
"Frag off, Ramjet," She grumbled, downing a cube of high grade. The white Seeker snorted and walked off, leaving the femme to herself. Aquafire sat there for a few breems more before she stood and left for their quarters, her trine following behind her dutifully. When they arrived, she curled up between them, needing to settle down before she did anything else for that day. As she forced herself into recharge, she thought of how she needed to speak with Megatron though it would have to be the next cycle. She was too wound up and exhausted today. That was her last thought before her systems shut down for rest.