Good god! It's been a year since I updated!? Sorry guys…New college and bad internet will do that I guess, Enjoy!
Starlight's View:
I sat in front of the window of my Sire's office, head in my servo and watched the city below. I was waiting for my Sire to come back from a scouting mission. Hot Shot had picked up a signal from a possible Decepticon base. I wanted to go too but Sire said I was too young and this mission was too dangerous. I sighed and let my forehelm hit the glass. I was mad that he didn't let Bee or me go but more than that I was worried about what could happen. It had been weeks since Black Sunshine had escaped and we all knew he would give our location away along with secrets of how to get into the city.
"Hello? Cybertron to Star!" Bee said waving his hand in my sight line.
"Huh?!"I blinked and looked up at him, "Sorry, what did you say?
Bee sighed and rolled his optics. "I was saying that I logged into your Sire's computer." He smirked.
I glared. "Bee, you could get into a lot of trouble!" I wasn't really mad at him but all computers were monitored by none other than Prowl. He was a stickler for following the rules and his punishments were awful.
"Yeah, yeah…" he said as he turned back to the computer.
"What are you doing on there anyway? And how did you figure out the password so fast?" I was curious since even I couldn't get it. I had tried everything.
Bee held up a flash drive. "Let's just say I had some help." I could tell he was smiling. That flash drive looked familiar. "I know what you're thinking. I shouldn't have taken it from Hoist but…"
"You took it from Hoist?!" I interrupted. "Bumblebee, do you have some kind of death wish?" Hoist was a nice guy, he mostly did maintenance stuff so it wasn't surprising that he had a flash drive with a password hack on it, but to take something from him was a huge mistake.
"Oh come on! Live a little Star! It's all for fun."
"Fun? What's so fun about hacking a computer and getting caught?" I kept looking up at the door, expecting Prowl or even Hoist to show up.
"Relax, no one is coming in here. And he left it on the table at lunch today so I snagged it. I'll give it back." Bee tried to reason.
"Whatever…what are you looking for anyway?" I asked him again.
"For this." He moved to the side so I could see. It was the location of where my Sire and his team went. "See, fun right?"
I couldn't believe it. I'd been working on figuring out where they went for hours and here Bumblebee was doing it like it was nothing. "I hate you sometimes…" I teased. He grinned and motioned for me to come take a look.
"That's not far from here. Like fifteen klicks from here?" I said as I got a bit closer to the screen. "Wait…there's two dots now?" The one Sire was going too was the one on the left of the screen and much farther away. The new one was off to the right and much closer, maybe five klicks.
"I know, the one that's close wasn't detected until I told the computer to scan again." Bee said in a weirdly calm and quiet voice. I could tell he was scared but also slightly excited.
"What are you planning?" I looked at him from the corner of my optics. He quickly stood up and pulled the flash drive out, shutting down the computer instantly.
"We should check it out!" he said, walking towards the door.
"Woh, what?" I caught his arm, forcing him to stop walking. "Are you crazy? What if…"
"What if what Starlight?" He turned to me and gave me a look I had never seen before. "If they get here everyone is in danger. If we go and investigate a lot of lives could be saved." He wasn't wrong.
"Ok…but we'll have to find some other bots to help." There was no way Bee and I could take on more than one Decepticon. We haven't even started weapons training yet for spark sake.
"No, we should keep this low key." I couldn't believe what he just said. "Listen Star, if we alert the base, all of Iacon will be alerted. If that happens the Decepticons could run off or worst, attack everyone. Honestly though, this doesn't look like a real attack. They're this close and haven't attacked the wall? It's probably a false reading."
He had a point, but he was also being stupid about it. "Fine, we'll do a quick check. But we shouldn't go alone. We should tell Jazz at least." Jazz was normally cool about taking us on small missions just outside of Iacon city. Of course he always asked us to keep it on the down low. If Sire found out, I'd be locked away in a tower for the rest of my life to keep me 'safe'
"Fine, we'll tell Jazz what we found…" Bee sighed. I let his arm go and stood by him. "Come on!" he said, running out the door. I sighed and followed him.
Bumblebee decided we should hit the weapons depot before going. Since Blacksunshine's attempt to kill everyone, Ironhide had taken over. He was nicer than Sunshine but he was also much stricter.
"Are you sure we can get in?" I asked.
"Yeah, Ironhide is with Prime on the mission. It'll be easy!" he grinned. We turned the corner and saw that it was in fact clear. No one was in front of the door guarding it and the office Ironhide had across from the weapons room was closed. "Come on!" Bee tugged my arm and led the way. He pulled out the flash drive again and plugged it into the side of the security scanner.
"It works on doors too?" I watched as numbers on the screen spun about until they turned into the right code and unlocked the door. We looked at each other for a nano click, both surprised it had worked. It answered my question but why was there a drive like this just lying around? If it fell into the wrong hands, we'd have some trouble.
Bee pushed the door open and looked inside to make sure no one was in there. "Clear." He whispered as he stepped in.
"Bee, shouldn't we have gotten Jazz first?" I said as I entered and shut the door behind me.
"We will don't worry." He brushed me off and started looking for what we needed. We hadn't had our weapons upgrades so we would have to carry our guns instead on transforming our servos into them. I picked up an energon blaster and Bee took a plasma cannon.
"Ok, we got our weapons let's go get…" I was cut off by Bee running past me and through the door. "Bumblebee!?" I ran after him. He wasn't stopping and he wasn't going to get Jazz.
I chased him all the way outside and almost caught up to him when he transformed and drove off. I groaned and transformed and chased after him once more. Eventually I caught up. "Ok, genius, how are we going to get through the gate at the wall? Oh, and the guards?" I scolded him.
"We go the back way!" he said and took a sharp turn to the right.
"Wah…Bee! This is stupid!" I wanted to go back so baldy but I couldn't leave the yellow mech on his own.
Optimus Primes View:
Ironhide, Hot Shot, Springer and I were all looking for where this base or whatever it could be. We were right on top of the signal according to Hot Shot's tracking device.
"Sir!" Springer called out. I turned to see him holding up a small device with a red blinking light on it. "I think this is where the signal is coming from."
"It's a decoy." Ironhide growled.
"So where's the real one?" I mumbled.
"Prime! There's a new reading ten klicks from here!" Hot Shot called. "Wait…there's two energy signatures going right towards it." He suddenly put a servo over his chest plate. "Oh Primus…one is Bumblebee!" He must have felt something through the connection he and Bee had.
If one was Bee then the other…oh no… "Autobots, move out!" I called as I transformed and speed off in the direction of the signal. If this signal was a real Decepticon, those two where in real danger.
Starlight's View:
We got to where the signal was but saw nothing but an old battle field. The rusted shells of ships and land transportation was a bit disconcerting. I transformed and looked around. "Bee there's nothing here." I said as he transformed.
"See, false alarm then!" he beamed. Something seemed off though.
"Let's go back then." I suggested but Bee put his servo on my arm. "Wait! Look!" He said and pointed up at the sky. "You can see the stars so clearly out here." I sighed and looked up. My optics widened at the beauty of all the stars.
"Wow…" There was no light pollution out here. "It's…"
"Beautiful." Bee said, putting an arm around my shoulders. I could have stayed like that for cycles but we couldn't.
"Bumblebee…" I started but the ground started shaking, causing us to stumble away from each other. I was about to tell him to run when something shot up from underground, using two giant drills to make its way. I grabbed Bumblebee and pulled him away and to the left of this thing. The first thing I noticed was this was a machine and not a bot because of the glass cabin with a bot at the helm. The second thing I saw was the purple symbol crudely painted on the side.
Oh slag… "Decepticon…" I whispered in fear. I knew we were totally screwed. I was about to tell Bee we should make a tactical retreat but I turned and saw the yellow mech take aim and fire at the ship. He hit a joint that was holding one of the two drills, cause a small explosion. I moved my left servo up to shield my eyes from the light.
"Star, we should go, come on!" He called to me but before we could, the driver of the machine kicked out the glass and jumped out right in front of us.
"Little glitches!" the black and red seeker growled. As he said this, Bumblebee and I watched in horror as three more Decepticons crawled out of the ship. "You will pay!" he transformed in to his jet mode along with a blue and yellow seeker. Both started circling us and shooting while the other two charged at us.
Bee and I ran and took cover behind a rusted out ship hull. We looked at each other with disbelief.
"So much for false alarm…" I sighed. The two jets were circling still but couldn't get a good shot at us from the air. However I knew we couldn't out run the other two mechs that weren't in their jet forms. "Now what?"
"I….I don't know." Bee sighed. He put his hand up to his right audio receptor. "Bumblebee to Autobot base, come in Autobot base!" He called. He was trying to contact the base. I looked over at the two grounded seekers and saw they were just waiting now. We couldn't stay here forever.
"Bee, by the time they get here, we could…" I ducked as a shot ricashade off the hull.
"Come out, come out little sparklings!" One of them taunted.
"We have to fight Bumblebee." I said, cocking my gun. "We'll try for the ones in the air first, they're the real danger right now."
"The other two?" the yellow mech asked, mimicking my moves.
"Until they fly or shoot, we ignore them for now. One my mark, one, two…" Right before I said three, the blue and yellow seeker was shot out of the sky. He screamed as he hit the ground below. He was out but not offline. I turned to Bee who had the same look of surprise.
"Younglings! Get out of there!" A voice, who I recognized as Ironhide called out. I grabbed Bee's arm and pulled him with me. We ran out and towards the four vehicles driving towards us. As we got to them, they transformed and starting firing at the four 'Cons. We turned and did the same.
"It's Optimus!" The grey grounded seeker yelled out to his comrades before transforming.
"Frag it!" The dark turquoise mech by him growled before following his partner. "We aren't to engage! Retreat!"
I was surprised as I saw the three seekers take off and blast over us. Hot Shot took aim but my Sire stopped him.
"Let them go. They are no threat." He had a stern tone to his voice. "Ironhide, help me get the 'Con. We'll take him back for interrogation." The old red mech nodded and walked over to the thought to be unconscious bot. The moment he got to the now sparking bot, he got up and took aim at Ironhide. The old mech was faster and was able to disarm him but unfortunately wasn't fast enough to stop him from transforming and taking off. How he was still able to fly was beyond me.
"Let's get back." A green mech who I had only seen in the halls said, putting a hand on both Bee and my shoulder. Before we transformed, I noticed the disappointed look in my Sire's optics. I could feel his anger and fear through our bond which made the guilt I felt even worst. I knew we were in for it when we got back.
Optimus Prime's View:
"What were you two thinking?" Both younglings were sitting in the chairs in front of my desk and both had the same guilty look. I asked them as calmly as I could. Earlier I asked Springer to report to Prowl what had happened, and get patrol unites sent out to make sure there were not ways a bot could get in or out undetected again so I could talk to these two.
"I-I'm sorry, Sire…" Starlight said softly. Unlike Bumblebee, she wouldn't look up from her servos in her lap. The guilt I was feeling from our bond was almost overwhelming.
"Sorry? Primus." I said, putting a servo over my face in frustration for a moment before regaining my composure. "Do you know what could have happened to you two? You could have been killed!" Both shyed away. "What were you doing?"
"I-um…" Bumblebee started. "I-I found a signal and…well I thought we could help since you guys were out investigating a different area."
"How did you access the computers Bumblebee?" It was a security issue. Did I have to change the passwords? Was the system glitching?
Starlight look at Bee and he sighed before getting something from his storage unit. "I found…" Starlight elbowed him. "TOOK it. It was left in the mess hall. It's Hoist's security pass…" He handed the flash drive over.
I was disappointed he didn't turn it in but I was now also angry Hoist would do something so stupid.
"Bumblebee, why didn't you turn it in?"
"I wanted too see where you guys went." He blurted. "I-I wanted to make sure you were safe." In other words, he wanted to make sure we weren't offline.
I sighed again as I got up and walked towards them. I knelt down in front of them and put a servo on each of their shoulders.
"I'm disappointed in both of you. You should have alerted Prowl or Jazz to the situation. What you did was not only dangerous but suicidal." Starlight looked up at me for the first time. I saw coolant forming in her eyes. "But I also am…proud that you two did this." Both looked at me confused. "You two pointed out flaws in our system and were going to take on four Decepticons on your own. That takes steel wires to do." Both smiled softly.
"Sire…we…we didn't think it was a real alarm." Starlight said, her vocalizers sounding like she was on the verge of crying. "We…thought it was a glitch." Bumblebee nodded in agreement.
"Unfortunately it was not." I said, wiping a stray tear off of her cheek. I reached back and took ahold of the drive. I couldn't let it exist any longer. If my younglings could get it, the cons could as well. I crushed in, surprising both bots. "The Decepticons are well named. They excel in deceit. The one we went to investigate was the false signal." I looked back at them as I stood. "If this happens again, which I dearly hope it doesn't, what is it you two should do?"
"We alert the team." Starlight said softly.
"And?" They tilted their helms. "You wait for a command from a superior." I smiled. "You are both almost old enough to get your weapons upgrade so…I'll allow both of you to do weapons training with Ironhide and Chromia." Their optics lit up at that.
"Really?!" Both chirped happily.
"After your punishment." Their faces fell which made me chuckle. "You're not getting out scot free. You will both clean the showers and help with kitchen duty for the next seven solar cycles." They groaned in disappointment.
"Then we can do weapons training?!" Bumblebee beamed. His demeanor had changed completely for a few klicks ago.
"Of course." I patted his shoulder and stood. "You're dismissed." I turned back to my desk and deposited the crushed flash drive into the trash. I heard Bee chirp with glee and ran out the door but my sparkling stayed behind. "Is there anything else?" I asked her.
"Sire…" She was standing behind me. I turned to her and waited for her to finish. "Um…about the security thing. Could someone be able to design a, I don't know…an optic scanner for the doors and stuff?" I was a good idea.
"I'll ask Wheeljack about it. That's a good idea Star." I smiled. She still seemed off about something though. Maybe she felt I was still angry.
"Star." I said as I pulled her into a hug. "I'm not angry. I was worried. I thought I was going to lose you." She wrapped her arms around me. "If I had lost you and Bee…I don't know what I would do."
"I'm sorry." She sobbed.
"Shhh…I know." I held her for a while while she cried. I knew I couldn't always be there to protect her and I didn't want anything to happen to her. I wanted her to always be safe but this war was not going to let that happen. "I love you, my little spark."
"I love you too, Sire." She said as she calmed down.
Well, that was fun! I'm still waiting for someone to guess on where I got Blacksunshine's name! Please R&R and let me know of any errors. I went back and edited things again!