As the 6 Cybertronians had separated to find a suitable cave they had kept radio silence to make sure that if the Amazons could hear into their communicators that they couldn't eavesdrop. Scorchclaw was cutting down trees that were in the way of her and Hyperboom, the trees were very thick and they were incredibly clustered. Hyperboom asked Scorchclaw out of nowhere "What do you think about the Decepticons?" Scorchclaw responded as she continued to cut down the trees "Other than Dagger they're kind of aftholes, why are you asking?" Hyperboom continued to follow her as Scorchclaw focussed on cutting down the trees. She then answered her question with "Well I've been thinking about Gloom…. You ever ask yourself why she has that carving in her face?" Scorchclaw would stop for a moment and then turn around to face Hyperboom, she seemed to be just as confused as Hyperboom was on this "I've never really thought about that, haven't seen any other Decepticon with that on their face. Even the extreme loyalists didn't have that". She would then continue on with what she was doing previously, she could see a cave entrance. Hyperboom would begin to follow her again and she responded with "You think it's a branding?" Scorchclaw seemed to be disgusted by that thought "By Primus that's a horrible thought". Hyperboom realized what that had sounded like and took back the statement "Not that kind of branding you damn perv. It was probably as apart of a punishment, everybody knows that the Decepticons had some screwed up punishments". Scorchclaw thought for a bit, she seemed to be even more confused with a slight hint of concern "You think she did something horrible?" Hyperboom scoffed and said to Scorch "No that's probably not it, a lot of the Decepticons committed such horrible things and they don't have things like that. I'd have to ask her, though if I did she'd probably punch me". Scorch nodded as she had cut the last tree, they were at the entrance of the cave. "Well we're here now, let's hope that this one has enough space". They then both walked in and started to explore. Meanwhile Whistler and Nighteye were walking around in a field like the others looking for a cave entrance, these two had not talked since they had left the ship mostly because neither of them liked each other. Though Nighteye didn't really wish to speak with Whistler and neither did Whistler, but Whistler had decided to finally say something and that was "How did you lose your eye?" Nighteye had sighed and responded to his question with "You have no right to ask that yet, maybe if we don't end up hating each other after this I might just tell you". Whistler wouldn't budge on this topic "Come on you burnout, I fixed your aft many times back on Cybertron. The least you can do it tell me". Nighteye glared at him with his still intact optic "I'm not sure if you're still that bot anymore". Whistler responded angrily "What you think just because I joined with them I'm a different person now, I didn't understand how bad it would get. If I left they would've killed Dagger, I couldn't let them do that. She's like a Sparkling to me". Nighteye paused for a moment, he never thought that he would see this side of Whistler after he joined the Decepticon Party before the war. Nighteye didn't understand how corrupt it was, he was a low ranking cop how was he supposed to know how corrupt it was high up? Sure he saw some lower cops get away with dirty shit, but he thought that was just the low guys. He didn't know until it all started, he didn't know until the Autobot "heroes" started to fire on civilians. Back when that name was used by murders posing as heroes, and when the war came around some of those people were still around. When the war started the Autobots could never erase what their name was associated with, but they would be able to atone for that. Now the Decepticons have mostly evaporated, with the Autobots winning and ruling Cybertron. Many Decepticons changed sides, many faced time for war crimes and many went with the Autobots. Nighteye came out of his trance hearing Whistler say to him "Hey burnout what the frag are you doing?" Nighteye scoffed and then said "It was nothing, lets just move on". Before Whistler could say anything else Nighteye turned into his Horned Owl alt mode and flew into the sky to think, so he wouldn't be outrun Whistler transformed into his truck alt and began to follow him from the ground. Meanwhile with Dagger and Gloom inside of another part of the forest Dagger was riding on Gloom's shoulder, the only reason she allowed her to do this was because Dagger's joints were getting tired, and Gloom would be using her arm mounted Energon drainer to cut down trees in front of her. Dagger asked Gloom "Why do the Autobots not like us Gloom?" Gloom contemplated for a moment, remembering that Dagger was spared a lot of the horrible things because of Whistler's insistence that she was disabled. Gloom simply answered with "Our people have done some awful things, but they have some genuine reason to hate me. I'm a asshole and a coward and I don't give a damn that I'm those things, they have all the reason in this whole universe to hate me". Dagger seemed to be confused, she knew that around the others Gloom was unpleasant but around her she wasn't like that. She asked her once again "Why aren't you like that to me?" Gloom simply respond to her question with "You're the only truly good thing in this whole crew, we've all done some bad things and you've never shed a bit of Energon. You don't deserve things like that, we do". That just seemed to confuse her even more, but she didn't ask any more questions since she was feeling strain on her processor. Whistler wasn't wrong when saying that Dagger was disabled, most of her hardware and software didn't quite work how it was supposed to. No matter how old she would get she would stay the same size as a Sparkling, she also had problems processing pretty much all information, and she needed to get rest pretty much constantly or she would overheat. Gloom understood this and allowed the small bot to power off on her shoulder, giving her a slight pat on the head before she would power off for a while. Then the two groups had finally found a cave and begun to explore the inner parts of it. What they would find at the center of this cave system would reveal why exactly the Amazons were chasing them, and they would also find something else within. Something….. Sentient.