Secrets At Home {TFRID}

-8-

Slipstream returned to his shared room after hearing the news, it scared him, like one of his worst nightmares coming to life. He knew that he and Jetstorm would have to train harder in order to stand a chance against him, because the trick they used before will not work twice.

It barely worked the first time.

He walked to his berth and reached beneath it, pulling out a D-pad, a kind of tablet that Cybertronians used. Whilst it could store information and possibly games for the younger generation, it was mostly used to make long distance video calls. At least, that was what he mostly used it for.

He sat on his berth and looked through his contacts, mainly old friends from Cybertron.

But there was one name further down that had a bright yellow star next to it, along with a picture of a faceplate that made him smile a little. He pressed it lightly as it filled the screen.

After a few seconds of a waiting, what felt like hours, the image dissapeared and was replaced by a live video call.

"Hey, Slipstream, how are things?"

He took a moment to respond.

"Skybird, hello."

Skybird, the Mini-con who had helped him through so much during their last adventure. One of the best friendships he had ever been in, one of the closest too. They still called, but between protecting Earth and rebuilding Luna 1, not much time could be set aside to get in contact. Only when they really needed to talk.

The femme could tell that something was wrong, he wasn't usually this quiet during their calls.

"Hey, what's wrong?"

Slipstream took a deep breath. "Shadow Raker escaped prison and came to Earth, we caught him but he has escaped again."

Skybird didn't say anything as her optics widened. The Decepticon who had almost gotten them all killed was loose, and on Earth.

She may as well have been on mute, as she continued to open her mouth but no words came out.

"W-what...?" she just about managed to say.

All he could do was nod.

She noticed the look in his optics, her panicking was doing no good, she had to calm herself down for his sake. So she took a few more breaths then looked back at him.

"So...what is the team going to do about it?" she asked him calmly.

Seeing her collect herself helped him calm down, proving that it was possible, so he managed to calm himself in order to answer her question.

"We're trying to locate him, hopefully we can arrest him again before he causes anymore damage."

She nodded, their plan was good, but considering the Decepticon they were after, it was not very thought through.

"If you want, we could come to Earth, Eclipse just moved in and Wildstreak's Cube league doesn't start for a few weeks, we could come to help out in this battle," she offered.

Slipstream wanted nothing more than for her to come to Earth, he really missed her, it had been years since they saw each other outside of a video call. However, he knew that he couldn't ask her to abandon their lives on Luna 1, especially seeing as he was the reason that she stayed.

Wildstreak was playing with her Cube team again, Eclipse was finally getting the support she needed for her optics, Galaxia was back to being a Bounty Hunter and bringing more Decepticons in, and Skybird was using her expertise to locate and rescue Mini-cons that were captured during the invasion.

They were all finally happy, he couldn't take them away from that.

"No, Luna 1 needs you, we'll be okay," he told her with a small smile.

She nodded, understanding where he was coming from, she knew that he didn't want to hurt her, but she also know that the moment they kissed, they would be willing to put their spark on the line for each other.

"Okay, but if you need us, just call and we'll be there as soon as possible. For now, I'll get some information and see what I can find out about his escape," she told him.

There was nothing he could do to keep her out of this, which was a little reassuring.

He nodded to her. "Okay," he replied with a small chuckled before hearing footsteps approaching the door. They were too loud to be Jetstorm. The Buzzsaw quickly turned to his friend.

"Someone's coming, I must go," he told her.

"Okay, talk to you soon, Slipstream," she replied with urgency.

Just as the door began to open, Slipstream ended the call and forced the D-Pad against the berth, faced down in case they were too late.

To his surprise, it was Sideswipe.

"Hey, Slip, just came to see if you're alright," he told him, keeping his servo on the edge of the door.

Slipstream raised an optic ridge at the Autobot. "Yes...I'm fine, why would I not be?"

"I heard you talking to someone, who was it?"

The Mini-con froze on the spot when he realised that the teen had been listening. It startled him. The reason why he never told anyone about his old friends on Luna 1 was because their master forbade it. Something about not wanting to live in the past.

Although, he assumed that the real reason was because of Galaxia. Drift had struggled to keep in contact with her unlike him and Skybird, with their busy lives continuously getting in the way.

None of them had heard much from Galaxia since her departure.

Slipstream turned his attention back to Sideswipe, he was not going to dishonour his master by telling him the truth.

"No one important," he told him, immidiently regretting his words.

Now it was Sideswipe who had a raised optic ridge, knowing that the Buzzsaw was lying. It was quite funny to him.

"Whatever you say," he chuckled before stepping back outside, closing the door behind him.

He let out a sigh of relief.