(please see all previous disclaimers)
Optimus led his men back to their base in the volcano. This new development of a new bot arriving on earth needed to be thoroughly discussed. The others sensed it as well. Something didn't make a lot of sense to the earth bound Autobots.
"Alright, out with it Prime" Ironhide started once they arrived back at base.
"Out with what?" Optimus asked, not sure what Ironhide was asking.
"We need more information on that femme you were talking about, Prime" Bee answered instead of hide.
"I don't know much about here, but maybe Teletran 1 will" Optimus replied, answering his troops honestly.
"Ok, Teletran 1, Tell us more" Ironhide asked the computer, after inputting what they knew about the new supposed femme.
Teletran took a minute to think and gather the required info before spitting out. "from description, femme most likely Commander Aquaformer. She led an Autobot battalion in the gamma quadrant far from Cybertron millions of years ago. She lost most of the bots in her battalion but she survived after blowing up the installation that she had been sent to destroy. Before becoming a warrior, she was a nurse bot who cared for others. Here is a picture of her" Teletran 1 replied before showing a picture from Aquaformer's file.
"Well, that looks a lot like the description of the bot" Ironhide state before adding in his own comment, "And she barely looks like a femme bot."
"Hey, don't say that around a femme, or you'll get your aft handed to ya" Prowl added to HIde. "and at least now we know she is an Autobot, even though you can't really see her Autobot symbol."
"True" Bee added to the conversation.
"But what is she doing on Earth? It says she is supposed to be on Cybertron" Jazz piped up, a bit confused.
"I don't know Jazz, but hopefully we can find out soon" Optimus answered, just as curious as the rest of his men. He vaguely remembered this femme, but didn't know her personally. Something just seemed off. He just hoped that could figure this thing out
Meanwhile, Aquaformer was elsewhere, cooling her engines. This whole thing was tougher than she expected and she feared that the Autobots on earth would be much like the ones she left on Cybertron. She hadn't come here to help in the war, though she would do so if needed, she had come here looking for a mate, as her inner protocols demanded it. She wished she could turn those off and just be a happily single femme, but she couldn't and so life had already determined that since she was a rare femme, she must have a bonded mate to help continue the transformer race.
Not that she really minded, as she hated being alone. She had trouble making friends with other femmes as they often saw her as different and teased her relentlessly, especially for her figure which looked more mech like and less femme like. She had grown up around the mechs as they seemed to somewhat accept her, at least when she was younger, but now they too seemed scared off by her. She was also an independent type femme who didn't want to be anyone's "trophy", but she did want to be equal partners with her mech mate. Only now did she really feel alone, and so she decided that her inner protocols were okay and it drove her to find a mate, but it had to be the right mate.
"What am I going to do?" She wondered aloud, asking no one. "I want a sparkmate yet I am not sure if I will be accepted by those here." She prayed that she would find what her spark was searching for and that she would be led to the right bot for her. This was her mission, for now – to find the right mate and start a family.
Meanwhile, back at the con base, Starscream returned with not good news for Megatron. "Your mission failed" Starscream screeched towards Megatron.
"My missions don't fail, just my soldiers. What did you fail at this time, Starscream" Megatron answered, upset that Starscream had failed to get what he was supposed.
"I would have gotten what you wanted if it weren't for that accursed Autobot" Starscream responded, still seething about the femme beating him.
"Which Autobot drove you off this time, Huffer?" Megatron asked, taunting his seeker commander.
"No, that accursed Femme commander Aquaformer" Starscream responded with anger in his own vocal processor. Starscream knew Megatron hated the femme as much as Starscream did, as she had even made the best of Megatron. Megatron growled as another old nemesis had shown up. He hated her and wanted her aft dead.
"and yet you failed to stop her, and you call yourself a deadly seeker" Megatron retorted before taking his wrath out on Starscream. Poor Aquaformer had no clue had no idea that both sides now knew she was here on earth and both would soon be seeking her out, one side to help her and the other side to try and slaughter her. It was just a question of who would get to her first.