Unknown Territory (TFP)

10.

ENTRY: 29/4/2021

Lightblade was... clueless.

  'Make a list? Introduce myself? How?' she thought as she sat down in her now favourite spot, the medical berth. 'I didn't have to introduce myself formally at Decepticons. All I did was mentioned my designation and my post as a medic! Oh dear where should I start? Does he want a datapad for me to list it out? Oh wait no- he can't understand cybertronian. English it is.' Her proccessors were running fast. Seeing Lightblade deep in her thoughts, Optimus wanted to ask what was wrong. He went to Lightblade's side and spoke, once again startling the poor femme.

"Lightblade?" He said as the white and gold femme jumped on cue. Poor femme has been spooked so many times within her short encounter with the Autobots that it's becoming a routine now as it seems.

"Primus!" she jumped and clutched her chestplate. She turned to her left to see the boss bot looking down at her, optic looking back at her innocently.

"Optimus? Did you call me?" she asked. Optimus nodded his helm and raised an optic ridge in amusement. "I'm sorry for startling you Ioa, but I noticed you were in deep thoughts, perhaps you would want to share with us?" Optimus asked. Lightblade was embarrassed is an understatement. Her faceplate was blue as energon flushed her cheeks. 'Scrap!' she thought. Ioa was blinking owlishly at Optimus for a few seconds before a proper sentence came out of her dermas.

"S-S-Sorry to make you worried sir, it's nothing really. I-it's just... I-I don't know how to um- introduce myself?" Ioa said as she fiddled with her digits. She scratched the back of her neck in embarrassment. "I don't think there's much to know about me. I'm Lightblade Ioa and I'm a medic. I have two alt modes and that's it! I don't know how to make a list out of it." She said as she smiled awkwardly.

"I see. Well perhaps then we could ask you a few questions if you don't mind then?" Optimus offered, making Lightblade tensed up. She wasn't used to these QnA sessions. Even though she was awkward and not really looking forward to making a fool of herself, she still agreed to his request. Optimus assured her she was fine before gathering the rest of his team, humans included.

Not too long later, Optimus and his team were surrounding Lightblade, she who isn't used to the limelight was quite nervous. "We would like to ask you a few questions Ioa. You may decline to answer them, but please do know that we won't judge you in whatsoever way. You are free to express yourself." Optimus comforted Ioa as she nodded. Optimus was the first to ask. "What is your expertise young one?" he asked. "Didn't she-" Miko's question was halted by Jack and Raf. 

If the Prime wants to ask, you let him ask.

"I'm a medic sir. I tend to the injured Vehicons." She said. "Were you always a field medic Ioa?" He continued. Ioa shook her helm. "No I wasn't. I was supposed to be a sparkling care medic in Iacon actually, before it went into chaos and I was sent to Kaon as a field medic. The system changed and a new rule was set out that made every medical bot to be on the field, other medical careers no longer mattered." She said. Ratchet nodded, he had heard of the rule. Though he wanted to be a field medic so it didn't affect him, he too sympathizes with Ioa for not being able to pursue her career.

Arcee was next to question her. "Are you capable in combat? What's your range? Close combat or far range?" she asked. Lightblade shook her helm again but this time in shame. "Neither actually. I don't like fighting and I wasn't given a chance to go out, our encounter in the mines being the first exemption. I didn't understand why Starscream took me out actually, for I'm not skillful in fighting. I'm a medic, not a fighter." Ioa said. "But I do have weapons, two sword and blasters. I believe my guns are ion blasters." She said earning loud gasps by the bots. "Impossible! Only a few were equipped with ion blasters!" Ratchet cried. Lightblade tilted her head in confusion and transformed her hands into said blasters, solidifying her claims.

"H-How?" Ratchet asked. "I don't know Ratchet. I was given these by the Elite guards during the war before I was sent to Kaon to assist there. They said that Kaon was a big mess so we were given priority to heavy duty weapons. As far as I remembered, I was the only medic going there, the rest were elite guards. The elite guards chose the heavy duty automatic energon blaster and other high-end weapons, I just took whatever seemed okay for me." Ioa said as she changed her blasters into her sword similar to Optimus but longer and glowing. "This on the other hand was in beta testing actually. They called it X-40 for some reason. But what it does is that I'm able to store energy and release energon waves, causing quite the havoc. Initially I was in denial of accepting it, but the other short-ranged weapons were hard to control. The elite guards took the stock of blades so I was left with 3 choices: X-40, ninja stars and a pair of chain sickles. I didn't know how to operate the chain sickles and my throw is horrible, so I was stuck with X-40." Lightblade chuckled at the thought. She remembered being absolutely not wanting to be near the swords but when she saw the other two her mind was made up immediately. She'd rather use a beta model sword than a weapon she don't even know how to use, at least a sword is much more easier to handle. 

Team Prime was quite shocked indeed, such strong weapons in the hands of a Decepticons yet they never knew. "I know the basics of fighting, but I'm far from capable than you guys. I've heard more than enough stories from the Vehicons that you guys pack quite the punch." Lightblade said, genuinely impressed with them. "I believe with some practice, you'd be kicking afts too!" Bulkhead said, making Lightblade chuckled lightly. "I am more capable in the medical side Bulkhead but thank you for the boost." She dipped her helm lightly.

Miko ran towards Bulkhead which he then picked her up by his servos. "Can I ask a question please?" she pleaded. Lightblade smiled and nodded in approval. "So besides being having such a badass weapon, cool vehicle modes and that shapeshifting abilities of yours, what some more cool tricks ya got? You got superpowers? Like able to zap us with electric?" Miko asked, excited to know more. It earned her a disapproval grunts and some head/helm shaking from the rest of the team except Optimus, who was too intrigued by Ioa. Lightblade smiled at her antics. "I don't really know actually..." she said while pondering Miko's question. Before Bulkhead could try and tell not to take Miko's words too seriously, Ioa suddenly eureka'd.

"I can open a spacebridge or groundbridge without having to utilise either devices!" Ioa's optics shoned brightly. If it was the one thing she was proud of besides able to shapeshift, it was her ability to open spacebridge/ groundbridge portals without using said devices. It got her looks of impress and bewildered by her fellow teammates again that she's starting to think she isn't normal at all. 'I feel like I have a screw loose somewhere. Am I that weird for them to be staring at me like that?' Ioa sweatdropped.

"Impressive." Optimus said, not knowing what else to say but that. These information were vital to them. How did the Decepticons not made her their valuable comrade? Instead, they tossed her away like useless scrap metal. Seeing Optimus' expression darkened, she deduced his thoughts and explained to him.

"Like I mentioned earlier, they never really bothered asking about me nor did I want to help their cause. So I guess it was a blessing in disguise that I was not chosen to be out in the field fighting, rather staying inside and clean after them. I believe Soundwave have my basic data and history, but I highly doubt that they know about all these informations I'm telling you guys. If they did, I would be in a high post or worst, experimented by them!" Ioa shuddered. Boy was she glad that Megatron only saw her as a measly medic and clueless about her abilities. The outcome would undoubtly catastrophic. Nodding his helm in approval, Optimus decided that enough questions was asked for the day and ended the session.

"I think that's it for now Lightblade. Thank you for sharing these information with us." Optimus said, grateful that Lightblade trusted them with her secrets. "I'll show you your berthroom so you can rest, you've had enough stress for now." He said while ignoring a groan from Miko. "But we aren't done yet!" She whined as she was taken away by Bulkhead. Lightblade got up and followed the Autobot leader as he took her for a tour, letting her get use to the place.

A/N: Phew! That was long! So yeah basically an introduction to team Prime about Lightblade, I had fun writing this because Lightblade's awkwardness is a whole ass mood for me. Very relatable. Anyways, thanks for reading and don't forget to vote and comment! Stay safe and healthy! Enigma signing out.