Shadows (A prequel to 'Burn')

Chapter Five: Shadow Reader

Nightstar rolled over and faintly smiled as she saw Stormblazer still in recharge, his arms folded behind his helm and his breathing slow paced. Nightstar went to climb out of the berth but was pulled down onto her back, she couldn't help but laugh as Stormblazer started tickling her frame. Nightstar's laughter was cut short by a Decepticon soldier ordering the two to the control room.

"Ugh..Let's go," Stormblazer pulled Nightstar up to her pede's, much to his surprise Nightstar tightly hugged him while pressing her helm into his chassis. He knew that this was all about last night, he listened to Nightstar talk about growing up with Icespark all night and he didn't mind it at all. He loved listening to her talk, her voice was so calming and soothing to him.

"Stormblazer you are to come with me to a meeting with Shockwave, he has been working on something important for the Decepticon cause..Nightstar you are free to do what you will for today." Nightstar nodded and quickly left the control room before Megatron changed his mind.

Nightstar was planning on flying out on her own to get in contact with her fellow Autobots but that plan quickly was thrown out the window as Thundercracker and Skywarp approached the lonesome femme. She laughed as she saw the wicked grins on the two seeker's faceplates, she knew they something planned for today.

"Hey Nightstar, I was just talking to Warp about going out to the old abandoned scrap yard just outside of Kaon. Wanna come with?" Nightstar wanted to say no but she knew that if she agreed to this then she would be making better connections with the Decepticons.

"Yeah I'm all for it!" Nightstar followed the two seekers to the roof, they jumped off the edge and transformed. The two kept a steady pace so Nightstar could keep up with them which she was grateful for. She felt a sudden fear as they landed just outside of Kaon, she didn't know what to expect.

"I was telling TC that I've heard rumors about this scrapyard. I've heard that there are old junkies that live down here..Haha!" Skywarp started laughing which only irritated Nightstar, she was slowly falling behind the two Decepticons.

Nightstar stopped in her tracks as she heard strange growling noises coming from the path to her right. She then heard a mech's voice, it was strong and stern just like her father's voice. Within seconds the voice had her mesmerized in a state of trance, Nightstar followed the voice deeper into the junkyard.

Thundercracker reached for Skywarp's arm but there was no one there anymore, Thundercracker heard a scream that came from Skywarp. Thundercracker felt his sparkmates fear over the bond and quickly called out for him, he needed to make sure he wasn't in any danger. Thundercracker was running through all the open paths he could find throughout the junkyard until finally his chassis collided with Skywarp.

"TC! I-..We have to go now!" Skywarp got ready to transform but was confused when he saw Thundercracker still standing in the path motionless. Skywarp looked in the same direction as his sparkmate and saw a group of mutants coming their way.

"TC! We have to go!" Thundercracker knew the trouble that he would get in for leaving Nightstar but he had to save himself first, that was his biggest priority right now. Thundercracker transformed and raced back to the Decepticon base, his fear grew knowing the kind of torment the two would get from their commander.

"YOU DID WHAT?" Thundercracker was harshly thrown into the wall by his Commander, who was more than upset with his actions. Stormblazer drew his blade and pressed it to Thundercracker's neck and pressed for more information on what happened today.

"Me and Warp didn't have anything to do so we invited Nightstar to come with us to look around the old scrapyard. We got separated and I don't know where she is. All I know is that there are mutants in the scrapyard," Stormblazer let go and started shaking his helm in anger.