Cybertron's Outcasts; The Crash Landing

Chapter Nineteen- Out Of The Ocean

Raptore opened the door, water sloshing its way back into the porta-base. He used the same door that Raistlin had come in through, which was conveniently unlocked.

Cold! The water was cold! And the sky was dark. The sun probably had gone down while they were beating the scrap out of those decepticons.

"Should I close this door, or...?" Raptore questioned through the comm.

"Leave it open for now," Raistlin replied, "It doesn't matter. It'll be easier to drag the decepticons out. And I'll come back and dismantle the base after you return to your friends. Which is a topic we need to discuss."

Raptore lugged the seeker out of the base, shifting the unconscious Scorpio onto his other shoulder.

"Where's Ferris?" Raptore inquired as Raistlin and Tiger Lily caught up to him.

"On an island close by," Tiger Lily said, letting go of Pera Jinx's arms for a few seconds, stretching her own arms out, "Shouldn't be too far of a walk."

Raptore nodded, a slight smile coming to his face. He was glad to hear that he would finally be able to leave the depths for good, or at least for now.

"Alright, let's get going, don't wanna be down here for longer than we have to."

Raptore stayed behind Tiger Lily, she knew where she was going. He stayed in pace with Raistlin, who was slower than he had been earlier.

"You good?" Raptore asked, seeing that the old knight had an arm across his abdomen as if he'd been stabbed.

"I'm fine," Raistlin said, "I just took a nasty hit, that is all. Haven't been hit like that in a while, I wasn't prepared for it."

Raptore sympathized, he knew that feeling. He got hit when he wasn't expecting it all the time, most of the time he didn't realize he had been hit until later.

"The clown said that they killed someone close to you," Raptore tried, "What exactly happened? She brought it up like twice."

"That's not really your business." Raistlin said simply.

"Right, sorry about that."

Raistlin rolled his optic. He seemed very far away.

"Raptore." Raistlin said with a questioning tone, "You said that you were blown out of your ship when it crashed, how did that happen?"

"We were being chased by a bounty hunter." Raptore said, "One of my team mates took something from him because he tried to scam us and steal our fuel. He didn't like that very much and shot down our ship. The engine overloaded while I was still down there."

"Do you know where your ship would have crashed?"

Raptore thought for a moment, knowing deep down that the answer was no.

"I don't, but there has to be some way we can find it."

Raistlin looked at him as if he were stupid. Yes, he should of thought of how they would find his friends before making the deal with the knight.

"Doesn't your ship have scanners?" Raptore asked.

Raistlin nodded.

"Yes, we actually had them upgraded recently, why?" He asked.

Raptore smirked.

"We can track at least one of their signals with that, can it scan underground?"

"Yes, it can. Good thing too. Why? Are you thinking that the ship may have crashed in a cave?"

"One more thing..." Raptore asked.