"Optimus… is that you?"
"F…Firon ca…can it be?"
"Yes, oh Primus, I can't believe it's you!" Firon said running towards Optimus whom outstretched his arms widely. She jumped up into his awaiting embrace, and held him tight.
"It's good to see you again; I thought you had been killed back on Cybertron."
"No I was only captured, but then I was rescued by Lightstreak." Firon said, looking towards the silver femme bot who was glancing over towards the white mech.
"Uh-Um it was nothing, just had the idea slip into my processor, Sir." Lightstreak said bashfully.
The autobot leader set Firon down and walked over to Lightstreak, "Thank you for your valiant service to our cause and to me. If it weren't for you I might not have ever seen my uh, family again."
Lightstreak shook Optimus's servo, and went to set down, the recent events had worn her out. Suddenly the large, green mech stepped out and asked, "What happened to those big, creature things?"
"They never left, you see they are in this very room." Optimus said gesturing towards Firon and Lightstreak. Firon transformed into her predatory form, and Lightstreak into hers.
"You see, Firon is a predicon, adopted family from Cybertron. And as I have been informed by a reliable source, Lightstreak is a triple-changer. This means she can transform into three modes, her bi-ped form, her preditorial form, and a vehicular form."
Lightstreak looked sleepily towards everyone in the room, and walked over behind some crates and lay down.
"We should all follow Lightstreak's example and go into recharge."
Lightstreak watched everyone ease out of the main room, Cliffjumper and Arcee into one room, Optimus and Firon into another. The yellow mech walked into his room, and the large green mech walked into his. The white and red medic sulked down a hallway back into a dark section of the base. Right when Lightstreak was about to shut her optics, she saw a glint of silver, grey. Lightstreak looked up to see the mech she had been gawking at only minutes before. The silver mech turned to her and spoke, "So your name is Lightstreak, I had a close friend of mine back on Cybertron with the name of Lightstreak. Unfortunately she was taken from me to where I could never see her again."
Lightstreak put her helm back down as she remembered a really close friend that had been taken from her long ago, his name was Smokescreen.
"Anyway if it means something to you, my name is Smokescreen." The mech got up to leave.
Lightstreak bolted up and transformed into her bi-ped form and jumped over the crates, startling Smokescreen. She pounced the unsuspecting mech, knocking him to the ground.
"What the Fra… Lightstreak?!"
"Smokescreen, is it you? As in Battle of Kaon Smokescreen?"
"Yeah? How could you know this unless…You're… LIGHTSTREAK!?"
"Oh Primus I thought I'd never see you again. How Did You Make It Out?" Lightstreak said with the feeling of rejoice running through her veins.
"I was sure I'd seen you shot down… How are you still here and not with the Allspark?" Asked an over excited Smokescreen.
The two long lost friends stood up, and gave each other a reassuring hug. They walked over to an empty ledge and sat down. Smokescreen began to ramble about events that had happened in Lightstreak's absence. Lightstreak fell into a trance as she began to sway. Soon she was staring at the back of her optical coverings, as her helm leaned up against Smokescreen's shoulder plating. The mech looked over from his ongoing ramble to see Lightstreak deep into recharge.
Smokescreen picked up the sleeping femme and walked over to an empty space in the base. "This may not be a berth, but it sure is more comfortable than the floor." He arranged some crates and cloth to form a raised platform, in which he then laid the sleeping femme down. Smokescreen began to walk away, when he felt his servo being grabbed. Smokescreen turned to see Lightstreak holding his wrist. "What is it Lightstreak?"
"Thanks." Lightstreak said curling up, and falling back to sleep.
Smokescreen whispered a 'Your welcome' and walked back into his room, to where he could get some much needed recharge. When Smokescreen entered his room, he walked over to his berth and sat down. He slowly lowered himself down, and set his servos behind his helm. He stared up at the ceiling and wondered on what account had brought back his Lightstreak.
When the team awoke, they slowly stumbled out of their rooms. Optimus walked out first in an overjoyed mood, Cliffjumper and Arcee couldn't stop staring at each other. Everyone else on the team was still tired, constantly rubbing their optics. Lightstreak sat up and looked up, slightly gazing over the small army of bots in the room. Everyone was there except for, "Smokescreen…" Lightstreak stood up and walked down the hall she remembered him walking down the night previous. She went to each door, quietly opening each checking to see if he was in them.
She finally reached the end of the corridor, when she came upon a door that had been slightly cracked open. She opened it further and walked in. Lightstreak giggled to herself, as she saw Smokescreen passed out on his berth, blankets strewn out everywhere. Lightstreak walked up to his helm, and attempted to slap him. He didn't wake up. After a few minutes of these failed attempts, she turned to the last resort she could think of. A battle siren.
Lightstreak turned her vocals to the right frequency and opened her mouth. She hit the switch and watched as Smokescreen's optics, and him fall onto the floor. Lightstreak switched off her vocals as Smokescreen sat up.
"What was that for?"
The rest of the team ran to the entry way of the door.
"We heard a siren, is everything okay?" Asked the medic.
"Yes doctor, everything is fine…" Lightstreak giggled as she stepped aside, allowing the team to view the autobot sprawled out on the floor.
The team laughed as Smokescreen sat up. Optimus walked into the room, (having to crouch from his height compared to everyone else.) "How did you acquire that siren? Only military personnel were permitted to use the siren."
"Well Sir, I served as a commanding officer in a strike team on Cybertron. My team mostly consisted of femmes, and we most times surpassed the skills of the mechs. Sadly they were all lost in the Battle of Kaon, when we set up with a team of mechs to try and take down the capitol."
Everyone stared in surprise, not ever thinking that this triplechanging femme could be an officer for an autobot strike team. Even Smokescreen was surprised although he was in that battle fighting alongside with her.
"Well then commander Lightstreak, I believe that since there are no events today, we could all use a lesson in tactical maneuvers." Optimus spoke.
"Optimus is that really necessary? I mean we all were functioning quite well before they got here." Arcee stated.
"Yes I understand, but this might be the tactical advantage we need against the decepticons."
The team walked back into the main part of the base, leaving Lightstreak and Smokescreen alone.
"Well are you ready for your lesson that is been waiting for years?" Lightstreak said gleefully.
The Light Through The Optics Ch.5
That morning Lightstreak had taught the autobots some new moves, which she had learned as an inductee in the autobot academy. Suddenly Optimus walked over to Lightstreak while she was in the middle of demonstrating a move.
"I am sorry to interrupt, but we have received a reliquary signal, one of great importance."
"Oh it's no problem at all Sir."
"Please call me Optimus, Everyone here does."
"Yes Si- Okay Optimus."
The autobots gathered around their leader as he spoke of the coordinates that Ratchet had decoded. Optimus chose to bring Bumblebee, Smokescreen, Firon, and Lightstreak on the mission. He brought everyone to the groundbridge pad, preparing to leave. Ratchet fired up the groundbridge, and the chosen transformed, well that is everyone except for Firon and Lightstreak. The two looked at each other, and then decided to go as Predicons, since they had no other form to go as. The team traveled through the swirling energy until they reached their destination.
When they examined their surroundings they found that they were the first on the scene. Optimus ordered everyone to pair up and attempt to find the relic. Optimus set off towards the forest, Bee and Firon set off towards a near mountain, and Lightstreak and Smokescreen headed over to a meadow.
Lightstreak walked beside Smokescreen, on all fours.
"Hey Lightstreak, you wanna fly overhead, so we can maybe find the relic. I am just saying it'll be easier if we get a bird- I mean Dragons eye view."
Lightstreak nodded, and stretched her wings taking to the sky. Lightstreak switched on her hi-def. scanning mode (one of the newest additions of her new form) and began scanning the area. A sensor went off as her optics picked up an object caught in her sighting range. She turned to Smokescreen to get his attention.
"On my way Lightstreak!" Smokescreen said Transforming into his sports car, and driving towards her.
Lightstreak met Smokescreen on the ground, and then transformed into her bi-ped form. She knelt down to better see the object that lay hidden in the grass. Carefully pushing the plants aside she dug her servo into the green abyss grazing it over the object. She reached down farther grabbing ahold of a pulsing object.
"Smokescreen, are things on this planet supposed to vibrate with energy?"
"I don't think so…"
Smokescreen was interrupted by the scream of Lightstreak, as she arched up in pain. She fell hard to the ground, the sound echoed through the valley. Smokescreen turned to run but stopped, wondering what he should do. He decided he should go for help, and the closest help was through comm. Link.
"Optimus, Bee somebody Lightstreak is down I repeat Lightstreak is dow-" Smokescreen was interrupted as he was hit with a pang of electricity. Smokescreen fell onto his faceplate into the dirt. He was hit one more time with a shot of electricity and everything went black.
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Optimus was in the middle of searching a nearby hollow tree when he got the comm From Smokescreen.
"Optimus, Bee somebody Lightstreak is down I repeat Lightstreak is dow-" The line went dead.
Optimus commed in the rest of the team, telling them to rendezvous at Smokescreen and Lightstreak's last known coordinates. Optimus then Transformed into the big-rig and sped out of the forest. When Optimus arrived at their previous meeting spot, he asked in which direction the duo had traveled.
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"Sir we only have enough resources to transport one of the robots."
"Very well, take the female; tell me you didn't see what she can turn into. With power like that we can construct the greatest war machine in history."
The group of hidden soldiers directed a ground team towards the knocked out femme, they then strapped her to the back of multiple Humvees. The soldiers drove away quickly as the approach of dust could be seen in the distance.
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The autobots sped towards the meadow where Smokescreen and Lightstreak were last known to be. Firon was flying ever faster until she reached the meadow, (of course before everyone else, she's flying for primus sake!") The scene shocked Firon into a stupor. She hovered for a klick, and then landed abruptly next to Smokescreen. Optimus and Bumblebee caught up with Firon, taken aback from the sight. Smokescreen lay face down in the dirt, and Lightstreak was nowhere to be seen. Firon transformed into her bi-ped form, and ran over to Smokescreen.
Bee joined her at Smokescreen's side. Bee knelt down and began to violently shake the knocked-out mech. A moan came from Smokescreen's vocals, as he was slowly awoken from his hazy nightmare.
"Smokescreen what happened? Where is Lightstreak?" Optimus asked.
"Wha… LIGHTSTREAK! Where is she, what happened to her?"
"That's what we'd like to know" Said Firon.
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Lightstreak's optics slowly on-lined, as they adjusted to the dimly lit room. She turned her helm to the side, only to spot a large drill pointed in her direction.
"Sir, she's awake."
A large muscular man stepped into her sights, and spoke with an evil, sinister tone.
"Hello, my name is Sylus, and I am the leader of M.E.C.H. You may be wondering why we brought you here, well the answer is simple you have something I want."
"And that would be what exactly?" Lightstreak said confused.
The man snickered, "You must not know who I am, and well I take what I need when I want it." The man gestured towards the drills. They started up and were moved towards her. Lightstreak jostled herself against the bindings holding her down. The drill aimed itself towards her chest plates. Lightstreak struggled as she attempted to keep the spinning metal mass away from her.
"You keep that thing away from me!" She screamed.
The man only laughed as he instructed the drills operator to push forward. The drill met with the metal chest plate that covered her spark. Sparks flew like fireworks into the air, as the drill pushed through the dense metal. Lightstreak could feel her spark begin to diminish in size as the drill moved closer. She screamed as the drill pecked the outer casing of her spark chamber. Light flooded the room, causing the drill to stop. (Clearly its operator was stunned by the magnificent light that is LIGHTSTREAK!) This moment of awe gave Lightstreak enough time to act on her part.
She turned over under the large mass of the drill, breaking free of one of the metal braces, binding her left servo; she then continued to break free her right servo. When she had enough of her body unconfined, she kicked out her predicon form, bringing the soldiers back to their senses. They started to fire their weapons, barely affecting her as she made her way towards their leader. She spread her vocals and screamed in his face. The look of fear, as he now knew what he had gotten himself into. (We all know he won't stop though…)
The man stood up and ran outside, all his men following. He quickly jumped into his helicopter, and flew away. Lightstreak stumbled outside, her frame feeling weak, as her spark began to drain. (If your heart was exposed wouldn't you feel weak as well?!) Lightstreak transformed back into her bi-ped form, and lay on the ground. She sent a comm. Link to Smokescreen hoping he could hear her call.
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"Smokescreen, help me…"
"Lightstreak!? Where are you?" He got no response.
"Ratchet I think I found Lightstreak!"
"I'll fire up the groundbridge."