Cybertron's Outcasts; The Crash Landing

Chapter Eight- Run and Hide?

Beelzebub flew through the cave, hoping to everything that there was left that her signal wasn't picked up. How could she have been so stupid? To not think that her signal would suddenly disappear behind her need for flight?

Beelzebub twisted and turned through the cave, trying to figure out what she should do if she actually was found. How would she hide her friends? How would she hide herself?

She spun towards the ship, transforming in midair and landing on the roof of the ship with a clunk. Beelzebub sighed and began to pace back and forth trying to think, her spark racing. Beelzebub tried to calm herself down, she was using too much of her energy.

Beelzebub didn't have enough to hold over her injured friends, let alone herself. She needed to reserve her energy and stop PANICKING. She took a deep breath, glancing around. Beelzebub spotted what she was looking for and walked towards it.

The shattered turret station, the only way she was able to get back into the ship. Beelzebub carefully climbed through the hole, making sure not to cut herself. Beelzebub dropped back into the ship with a grunt, trying his best not to slip and fall again.

As she walked back to check on her friends' condition, she heard something echo through the cave. The unmistakable sound of a groundbridge opening. Beelzebub stood in the middle of the hallway, frozen in place, staring in the direction where the sound had omitted from.

Beelzebub didn't know exactly what to do. The weapons systems were offline,the turrets were torn off and the control panels were completely destroyed. Beelzebub glanced around the ship, looking for a solution.

Then it hit her, her friends were already quite dead looking, right? Why not just play dead? It was easy enough. And whoever was looking for them could have been smart enough to actually check if they were still alive. Unless they were autobots.

But she could at least try.

Beelzebub turned to the berthroom that her friends were occupying and set her plan into action. She pulled the blanket that Gearend already had over his head, then turned to Harvenger. Beelzebub pulled another blanket out from underneath the berth and covered Harvenger with it.

This created the partial illusion that Hawthorn was the only one that had made it out of the crash, since she was the only one unaccounted for.

Now to deal with herself. She didn't think this entirely through... Beelzebub refused to hide in the water, falling in it was enough for her. Maybe she could hide outside the ship? No, though her paint job was mostly black, she wasn't exactly good at camouflaging.

Hiding herself under a blanket might have worked, but since there were only two berths, it would look suspicious.

Beelzebub thought back to the crash, when she first woke up near the water. Maybe she could just lay in the same position she woke up in. Hawthorn and Beelzebub were close, so if Beelzebub actually had died, Hawthorn would have never touched her body.

Beelzebub dragged the piece of roof paneling she had pushed against the wall earlier back to the center of the hallway. Beelzebub laid down on the floor and pulled the piece of paneling over her back, making sure not to damage her wings.

She simply laid there, trying to remember how to put herself into stasis so she didn't flinch if anyone came near her.

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Leocard stepped out of the groundbridge with a smirk still pasted on his face. He glanced around as the rest of his team walked through the groundbridge.

"Will you stop grinning like a dumbaft?" An orange and blue bot, Reign, asked, shoving Leocard out of his way.

"Hey, don't touch me!" Leocard hissed at the grounder, "I am the leader of this squadron! You work under me for now."