New Alt

"That one?" I ask pointing to a car going past on a highway.

"Really?" Smokescreen said, I frown, his been rejecting my suggestions for the last hour - in human terms.

"If you're not goin' to give me constructive criticism, then why are you here?"

He sighs, rubbing his faceplate. "There's no flash motorcycles."

I groan "I can't scan a motorcycle, they're too small. It needs to be a car, I may not be as tall as you but I almost am, scanning something, it'll accustom to my size. You should know that."

"I thought all femmes were motorcycles." I give him a blank look.

Idiot.

I look back to the road and look for the right car, then I see it. I grin, standing up and scanning it. As soon as I do, I get the blueprints and I transform down, spinning my tires I do a loop around Smokescreen.

It's a 2015 Lamborghini Aventador model, it was originally the colour red but to suit my paint, it's black, partly gold and silver lines over the frame. It's slightly smaller then what it's supposed to be, but its still okay.

"Sweet alt. You'll be one of the fastest, aside from me of course." I rev my engine.

"That a challenge?"

He smirks "tonight, there's illegal street racing in Jasper Nevada, we'll go there and see who wins."

I transform to my bipedal "you're on."

~ ~ ~

We drive into base and I transform, all optics/eyes are on me and I suddenly feel insecure and vulnerable "What?" I snap harshly, but it's fake.

They look away, Optimus walks into the room, towering above everyone else. He nods at me before walking towards Ratchet at the controls, they speak in a too low of a tone for me to hear. A beeping sound goes off and I look to the roof, lights are flashing.
"Decepticon activity." Ratchet announces "quite a few at once."

"We'll have to spilt up." Optimus says looking at everyone whose standing nearby, we're short a 'bot, Wheeljack.

"Smokescreen and I will investigate the first one. Arcee and Bumblebee second, Bulkhead and Ratchet third," he looks at me "we'll call Wheeljack to go with you."

"I'm okay going alone." I said, trying to get out of going with Wheeljack, there's something about him that I dislike.

But ya don't dislike him, do ya?

What the pit? Is that voice coming from my spark? It seems so familiar.

Aw, don't tell me ya've forgotten about ole' Sunny and Sides.

Don't call me Sunny, idiot!

I freeze slightly "Sundown, are you okay?" Optimus asks as my spark races.

Their voices are coming through the sibling bond, amusement is pouring through. But it broke, when their spark were extinguished. As soon as the amusement and their voices come through, the bond disappears again. Just as if it never happened, their side of the bond, blank, empty.

"Her spark rate is climbing." Ratchet informs everyone. I quickly snap out of it, pretending it never happened.

"I'm okay going alone." I repeat.

Optimus shakes his helm "the last time somebot went alone, they didn't come back."

I mentally groan but I nod instead.

~ ~ ~

The ground bridge frizzles to existence, the shape of Wheeljack walking in before I close it, resetting the co-ordinates. "So you couldn't do it alone, and had to ask for help?"

"I didn't ask for you to come alone." I reply evenly before I pull down the lever, looking to Raf "you got controls now?"

His back is turned to me but he holds up a thumbs-up, I nod briefly before walking through, seeing the rocky scenery, I scan the surrounding area.

Wheeljack also walks through and the ground bridge disappears. "Nothing seems out of the ordinary." I mummer, mostly to myself although I can feel fear starting to creep through my circuits, not from the threat of being ambushed.

"You good at stating the obvious, did you know that?" I ignore him, walking forward to the ledge of a cliff, looking below I find nothing.

I frown, this was the right location, right? "Are you sure you sent us to the right location?"

"Of course I'm sure, I don't make mistakes."

"Everybot makes mistakes, it's who we are."

"Well I don't, not anymore." I shake my head, jumping off the cliff edge and landing on the ground with it breaking underneath my peds.

I pull out a scanner from my subspace and I look at it, energon signatures are not too far away, but are coming, fast. "We're about to get company." I warm him as I look up, the idiot is climbing down. "Just jump!"

"Are you crazy!?" He yells back, before slipping and tumbling down, landing on his aft, serves him right.

I stifle a laugh, looking to the horizon I see the the mirage of the sun setting, five black shapes. "Can you handle two on you're own?" He asks me, the sound of his faceplate sliding over and unsheathing his katanas.

"Believe me, I could hold them all off as you run like coward."

"Wreckers don't run."

"And I don't care." I pull out my electric energon staff, holding it in one servo as I draw a dagger in my right, holding it as I ready it to throw.

They gets closer as they begin to shoot, easily, we avoid the red blasts. "Is it just me, or have the 'highly trained vehicon troopers' have been lacking I'm the highly trained area?"

"It's been like that since I came to this planet." He replies, the five vehicons get closer and I throw my dagger, hitting on exactly where the spark would be, he falls.

The other lands nearby and I glance behind me, seeing that the cliff face is cornering us in. Only that there's only five, it should be easy but they could have backup, as well as I've been trained to think of every situation and how to avoid it as much as possible or how to get out of it.

The vehicons charge at us, blasters aimed. I charge forward, crying out a battle cry as I punch the first vehicon, I jump into the air, landing behind him as I stab him in the spark with a dagger hidden beneath my amour plating. I turn to face the other two vehicons, Wheeljack already engaging to the third one, the two about to pounce on him from behind.

I sigh, rushing forward before I grab the two by their neck cables, pulling them backwards, letting one go I grab the second on with my sharp-talon-like-digits. Digging my digits into his exposed neck cables, in turn ripping out his vocaliser and sensitive wiring with it.

The other one shoots me in the back, I stumble forward but regain my footing, turning and high kicking him. I twist my body so my servos are on the floor, I push myself up, onto his shoulders. Transforming my servo into an axe, I stab it into his helm, he falls as I land on his back, looking at Wheeljack whose staring, optics-wide.

"Didn't think I could handle two? I handled four, you one." I say cockily, and repointing to the horizon, "we've got more."

He looks as well, narrowing his optics. "Two fliers, two grounders." He frowns "they aren't vehicons."

"Great." I groan, harder work, I then grin. "More fun then."

I draw a sword that's hidden beneath my forearm plating, similar to Megatron's but shorter. "Are you some kind of sadist?" He asks.

"Only when it's the enemy being delivered the pain." The decepticons come closer, I walk to the first vehicon that was killed, pulling out my dagger and it immediately retracts.

I look behind us and see the sun is easily making us visible, a white mech and a black, gold and silver femme are easily visible in this light. "We could ambush them."

He gestures around us "where do you suggests we hide?"

"In plain sight."

He frowns, "how?"

I point the vehicons. "Hiding behind them."

"There's only enough room for one." He frowns.

"If I hide my insignia and claim to be on no side, yet I also claim on having killing them because I was 'defending myself' and I was scared." I raise an optic ridge "why would they hurt an innocent femme that could be of use to their cause?"

~ ~ ~

I fake cry, almost in a sobbing mess, my back is against the wall, dust covering my armour and insignia. My knee joints are pulled to my chest plates and my faceplate is in my servos.

I hear the sound of a gun being ready to fired and I know they're here. "Autobot or Decepticon?" I look up in fake surprise, kicking the ground as I try to backup, obviously the rock wall preventing me from doing so.

"N-neither." I tremble for effect, looking at my energon stained servos "I-I didn't mean too. It was a-an accident." I look up, not entirely fake terror in my optics.

There's onto two mechs, and we saw four. Both are seekers, one being silver, Starscream I could recognise the ex-prince of Vos anywhere, I'd doubt if he'd remember me and the other seeker is entirely unfamiliar to me. His quite large, with main dark blue paint and a golden faceplate, the usual red decepticon optics.

The Starscream's optics soften slightly at the sight of my only having one seeker wing. He offers a servo "we won't hurt you femme, you're a seeker like us." I take his servo and he easily pulls me up.

"Why did you kill them?"

"They frightened me." I explain as I lock optics with his, doing a sign with my servo hidden behind my back, a signal to get ready to Wheeljack. "And so have you."

I use my sharp digits to stab him in his abdomen, he gasps on shock. I pull him down slightly so I can whisper into his audio receptor, "I had thought you'd recognise me, guess I was wrong." I pull out my digits, he drops to the ground in shock, the other seeker lunges at me but Wheeljack tackles him, punching him in his faceplate.

Something's in his optics, something must've happened for him to have anger within his optics. Where are the grounder?

I look around then look up, seeing two faces looking back down, Knockout and Breakdown. I raise my fist "get down here and fight!" The bigger form, Breakdown, jumps down.

To avoid his large body, I roll out of the way, landing he looks up at me. "You're not going to beat me a second time."

"Wouldn't count on it." I draw my sword, running towards him, I spin around his servo as he tries to punch, spinning, I slice along his chest, exactly where the new welded area is starting heal, he snarls in pain.

"Hurt like a glitch, eh?" I ask as he swings his hammer, jumping back I avoid it, grabbing the top of it as I push myself upwards, landing on his shoulders.

I go to slit his throat but I'm tackles by a red blur, I groan as I'm punched, opening my optics I see Knockout above me, attempting to punch me again I move my helm to the side, his fist connects the ground. "Stay still!"

"Make me." I challenge as I kick him in his interface plating, pulling myself free I spin so I'm on his back, pinning him and pushing my sword into his shoulder.

He cries out in pain "would you shut up?" I ask calmly.

He opens his optics, which are full of pain and my spark skips a beat, is he okay?

Ugh! Why should I care!

"You're friend is about to become scrap metal." I frown, looking up to Wheeljack and Dreadwing, seeing that Wheeljack is down.

Climbing off Knockout and using his faceplate to push off and give me a quick start, I launch myself into the air, as Dreadwing brings Wheeljack's own katana towards him, I jump in between, blocking his attack with my sword.

His optics slightly widen before they narrow, he puts more pressure on it and my peds scarp at the rock beneath me, trying to hold my ground. "You're weaker then me femme."

I roll my optics although I am struggling "I hate it when anybot thinks that." I grab my staff from behind me, bringing it forward to his chest.

He groans in surprise, his frame begins to tremble from the electricity coursing through him, it's on full power. He collapses, his frame still spasming, I look to other enemies, they are getting up.

I turn to Wheeljack and see that his unconscious, great. Three 'cons, no help. Maybe I should call for backup, not for my safety but for his, only as a comrade, his nothing more.

At least that's what I'm trying to believe.