Here it is! The second chapter. The italics mean a flash back in this chapter. Enjoy!
Prowl's View:
I felt Starlit's fear through our bond as she, Bumblebee, and Sari drove off. I wanted to ask her what was wrong but I kind of felt the same way she did. Something was familiar about that blur in the sky. It wasn't a plane so it wasn't Blitzwing again, but it had the shape of a bot. I felt uneasy and followed the direction I thought I saw it go.
I ended up in front of an old warehouse. The building was falling apart worse than the one we lived in. The doors were rusted shut, all the windows were smashed in which caused the wind to blow through it, making an eerie whistling sound that unsettled me. I transformed and silently walked around the building, looking for a way in. Seeing as all the windows were broken, it really wasn't that hard. I jumped up and pulled myself into a higher window so I could look down from above.
I found a beam that seemed stable enough and crept along it while scanning the area below. Nothing came up. Deciding it was safe, I jumped down and landed behind some old oil barrels. A voice broke my concentration.
"My, my, have you grown." The voice sent chills down my spine. "How long has it been? 1,000 stellar cycles since you and your creator left me?" He could obviously see me but I couldn't see him just yet.
"Sideways..." I growled.
"Now, is that any way to greet your Sire!?" He barked and an oil barrel flew at my helm. I dodged it and kept hiding in the shadows until I could locate him.
"Sorry, reflex. I'm not used to having casual conversations without a fight." The mech hidden in the shadows said with a smirk.
"Like it would make a difference to me. You were always like this..." I kept moving so he couldn't track where my voice was really coming from. "What have you done to my Creator? And my sister!?" I couldn't hold my anger back.
"Nautica? My, I haven't seen her in a long time." The smirk in his voice said otherwise.
"You lying piece of..." I was cut off by a servo grabbing my throat and holding me up in the air. He had somehow gotten behind me.
"Such words, my little spark. I should teach you not to talk to your superiors in such a way!" He threw me against the wall, hard enough to make my head spin. "This isn't how I wanted our reunion to go, Prowl. Come on, let's start over. It's nice to see you again."
I growled as the tall gold and black mech sauntered towards me. I got up and leapt up on the beams and into the shadows again.
I heard him groan. "Prowl, come down, I want to talk."
"Fine, tell me what happened to our Creator!" I said, setting up a hologram form of myself in the rafters and moved to hide again.
He sighed. "You want to know? Fine. After she left me, I couldn't live. I missed you two. When I finally found you two, you had gone and ran off. Do you know how distort Nautica was? I saw her cry every night. " So he had been watching her all these stellar cycles. "Stellar cycles passed and I finally couldn't just let her be so alone. So I showed myself to her in an ally. She wasn't keen on seeing me but I...persuaded her." I growled. So that's how Starlit was conceived. "She ran off again after that. I found her two stellar cycles later. It seems our little encounter had given a cure to her loneliness. The little femme was so cute. Nautica saw me and ran off into the crowd. I haven't seen her for about a hundred and fourteen stellar cycles."
The 'about' part bothered me. "And then?" I projected my voice from the hologram.
"I did find them once again. But I think you know what happened. Things didn't...go according to plan. She fought me. All I wanted was to see my sparkling. It was truly an accident."
"You accidentally beat her and then shot her?" My denta were clenched in anger.
"She...made my gun go off. Starlit had revealed herself at that point. She ran and jumped out the window. But not before I managed to place a small device to track her on her helm. Unfortunately the stupid guard took it off when they got a hold of her and I lost her again. I do hope they removed it correctly. If not, it could corrupt part of her memory."
That explained everything. Why Starlit didn't want to talk to Jazz at first, and more importantly why she was missing part of her memory.
"I'll take your silence as a no. Is Starlit alright?"
"Don't you dare say her name or pretend to care for her..." I revved. "You don't know anything about her."
"And you didn't until two months ago." He said right behind me. "Please Prowl, where do you think you get your hologram powers from." His grin reflected off of the metal beam in front of me. I spun and tried to block his attack but he knocked me off balance and had me falling towards the ground. However, instead of letting me fall, he caught me by the servo.
"Careful, you'll fall." His tone was teasing. I swung myself, kicking off of the bottom of the support beam and causing him and me to tumble towards the ground. I landed on him and pulled out one of my throwing stars, but he had turned himself into my creator. I had forgotten he could do that. So it really was him who had done it.
"Please Prowl, don't do this!" He had even copied her voice. It caused me to hesitate which proved to be a horrible mistake. He flipped me, pinned me and changed back in to the evil red opticed mech that had the unfortunate title of being Starlit and my Sire.
"Pathetic. I though the ninja training would have thought you to see through deception. Guess not." He raised a fist but hauled when a voice called from outside.
"Prowl!" Optimus' voice rang out. "Prowl, are you in there?" The door was quickly cut to bits by his ax.
Sideways turned back to me and sighed. "Until next time, my little spark." He sneered and kissed my chevron before disappearing into the dark. I sat up and wiped off the spot he had kissed me. I felt dirty and wanted nothing more than to go home and wash off.
"Prowl?!" I saw a light shine in and settled on me. "What are you doing on the ground? I thought I heard another voice. Who else is here?" He asked me as he helped me up.
"Let's...go back to the base. I have something I need to tell everyone." It was time I stopped hiding my origin and fest up.
"Hold on, you and Starlit are both part Decepticon?" Bulkhead quipped. I nodded solemnly.
"And now he is here. After Starlit." I said, looking sadly towards the frightened femme. All of her memories seemed to have come flooding back, because while I was talking, her optics flashed white. She didn't pass out this time at least.
"What does he want?" Her optics were tearing up.
"I don't really know..." I really didn't. He didn't give and answer to that, other than wanting to know where she was. Did he want to take her and raise her to be a 'Con like him? Did he want to do unspeakable things to her?
"Why doesn't he show up on scanners?" Optimus asked from behind me. He was near the computer, possibly scanning for Sideways' signal.
"He's a master spy. He can change form at will into anybot using his holographic projector. It doesn't surprise me that he can hide his signal too." I felt more fear bleed through the bond. I looked to her and saw she was looking towards the ground. I walked towards her and put a hand on her shoulder. "Starlit, I promise, I won't let him near you." She looked up at me and wiped the tears from her eyes.
"I know...but what he did...what I saw..." She hiccupped and buried her face into my chest and cried. I just held her there and let her cry. So everything he said was partly true. Starlit had seen our Creator's death but it was nothing like he said. Starlit told me the full story through our bond as she cried.
Starlit and Nautica where building a small flying creature. One very similar Starlit later created on Earth. The thing flew for a bit and both femmies were excited. That is until the bug like creature malfunctioned, sparked and fell to the ground. Starlit sighed sadly and Nautica frowned.
"Oh well. We'll get it eventually! Come on, who wants energon sweets!" Nautica smiled at her sparkling. Starlit enthusiastically put her hand up.
"Me, me!" She laughed. Nautica got up and ran to the kitchen.
"Alright, you get the energon out of the cooling chamber and I'll get the rest!" The purple and yellow femme said as the youngling shot past her.
"Got it, Creator!" The youngling said, holding up two medium sized cubes. "What else?"
"Mixing bowl!" Nautica said pointing to the lower cabinet.
Starlit got it and set it next to the cube by her Creator.
"Remember how to do it Star?"
The youngling nodded. "Spoon full of axel grease, a pinch of oil and..." She thought. "A sprinkle of rust?"
"You forgot the most important part." The older femme teased.
"What?"
Nautica hugged Starlit. "Love!" Starlit laughed.
"How cheesy Creator."
"Yeah, yeah..." She brushed her off and added everything Starlit had said into the bowl along with the energon. Starlit mixed it and poured it into a rectangular cooking sheet. "And bake it for thirty clicks."
Starlit smiled and blinked as Nautica wiped some of the left over batter on to her nose. She laughed and did the same back to her Creator. Both of them laughed but their laughter was cut short by a knock on the door. Nautica shrugged and walked towards the door with Starlit following, and looks out the peep hole. She beamed and opened the door. It was her son, Prowl.
"Starlit! Come he…" She was cut off when the mech revealed his true face for a nano click.
"Nautica! How are you?" A black and gold mech with a stolen voice and form that Starlit didn't recognize sneers. "Where is she?"
"What are you talking about? There is no one here but me, Sideways." She spits as she stands, silently signaling Starlit to hid in the closet. Over their bond, she told Starlit to hide and not to move. The youngling did and kept quiet. Sideways grabs Nautica's arm, and squeezes hard enough to leave dents. "Ah...there isn't any one here!" She grimaces in pain.
"Don't lie to me!" He throws her against the wall, the air knocked out of her vents. "You may have broken our bond and dampened the bond she has with me but I can still, somewhat, sense her. I know she is here, but not sure where. Now, I'll ask nicely one more time." His denta were clenched with anger.
"I will never give her to you!" She said through the energon leaking from her mouth. Sideways then pinned her to the ground and started beating her, repeating the same thing over and over.
"Nautica, reveal her to me now!" He growled as the last punch hit her square in the face, knocking her out for a moment.
Starlit saw this from the closet and couldn't take it anymore. She pushed the door open and cried out for him to stop. Nautica looked up at her with fear and sorrow as Sideways grinned and stood to go after her.
"S-Star...r-run!" The purple femme said weakly as she tried to get up. Starlit looked around for a second before taking off towards a window. She felt something hit the back of her neck as she ran.
She saw a reflection of Sideways in the glass. He rose his gun towards her but her creator got in the way of the shot as she jumped through, landing hard on the ground two stories below. The last thing she heard was Nautica crying out no before a shot rang out. Pain blossomed in Starlit's chest. Her creator's signature was no longer detected and their bond had been shattered.
Starlit ran. She had no idea where she was going but knew it had to be far away from here. She took the most populated routes but no one paid her any mind. The frantic young femme was ignored as bots went about their daily lives.
After days of running, she had made it to the out skirts of the city and into what looked like an old battle field. She was so caught up in making sure she wasn't followed, she didn't see the two jets land in front of her.
"Jetfire and Jetstorm reporting to call!" Two voices rang out. She turned and ran at them, ready to fight.
"Easy!" The blue one said, easily disarming her and holding her back.
"We not here to bring you any harm!" The orange bot put his hands up. "You are safe with us. Please, do tell why you sent signal?"
She didn't do it consciously but she sent out a distress signal. "S-someone wants to kill me!"
The memory faded there. Jazz had filled in most of the blanks from that point. I hadn't realized what she had truly gone through until that moment. I reached up and wiped the tear off my face. My face was wet and I guessed I had been crying more than I had thought; I was too caught up in the memory to notice.
"Prowl?" Optimus said, concern lacing his voice. I shook my head and told him I'd tell him later.
"This bot, Sideways, is extremely dangerous. He can change form at will and is very cunning. Please, be very careful if we find him." I said to the others, still holding Starlit as she nodded in agreement.
And there it is. Let's see what I can do from here. Please R&R.