Cybertron's Outcasts; The Crash Landing

Chapter Twenty Two- Up And Out

Raptore thought that Raistlin's ship, the Court, was a bit flashy, especially for the knight.
    The interior was nothing like the Fire Light, it was much more organized; he wasn't too fond of organization.
    The interior of the ship was painted the same colors as it was outside; blue and white with some silver.
    There was one long hall down the middle of the ship, which was wider than the one on Raptore's ship, the doors on either side more frequent and higher in number. There must have been several rooms, causing Raptore to wonder what was stored inside them.
    The bridge took up a good amount of the front of the ship. There were several computer panels and screens, though they were only placed near the windshield. They seemed very up to date compared to the computers on the Fire Light.
    "I'm guessing that you haven't seen a knight's ship before?" Raistlin said as he walked up behind Raptore, who was currently standing in the bridge.
    "Nope," Raptore said, "Then again, you did say that you were the last of your kind, so I wouldn't have either way."
    Raistlin shook his head.
    "Other bots use knight's ships, even if it is inconsiderate and disrespectful." Raistlin explained.
    "That's odd."
    "Anyhow, you should probably help Tiger Lily bring the decepticons down to the brig," Raistlin suggested, "There's a good chance that they'll return to consciousness soon. Then we'll have a bigger problem."
    Raptore silently agreed, turning back to Tiger Lily, following her towards a door near the exit hatch. He left Raistlin to start preparing the ship for flight.
    Tiger Lily tapped a button next to the door, causing it to bing and open. An elevator. Raptore remembered the elevator on his ship never working, no matter how hard Beelzebub tried to fix it. The two bots stepped into the elevator, having a difficult time dragging decepticons along.
    "Your ship is much bigger than it looks," Raptore chuckled.
    "I agree," Tiger Lily replied to his comment, "You should have seen Ferris' face when she first saw it!"
    "It must have been hilarious."
    Tiger Lily smiled and nodded.
    "I think I have a picture somewhere, her face stayed stuck as the same surprised expression for two hours!" Tiger Lily laughed as the elevator binged.
    The brig was much darker than the upper level. That was probably because there were no windows. Raptore honestly expected a dingy passage lined with greasy and filthy cells, but he was surprised. Raistlin kept this place surprisingly clean. He was probably trying to avoid the stereotype of dinginess that the decepticons gave prisons.
    Though there were several cells lining the walls of the lower level, very few of them were occupied. There was only one other decepticon down there, but he was an empurata and refused to acknowledge them. Tiger Lily dragged Pera Jinx through the door of an open cell, tossing her body onto the berth on the far side of the room and activating the energy beams.
    Raptore decided to do the same with the seeker in a different cell.
    He brushed off his hands and looked at the tigress minicon.
    "I'm glad that's over." Raptore said, "My arms were getting tired."
    Tiger Lily shrugged.
                                                                 -!=!-
    Raistlin was just preparing the ship for liftoff as the two bots appeared again. Raptore walked over to the knight, Raistlin simply acknowledging his presence with a nod.
    "Your ship ready for flight yet?" Raptore asked.
    "The ship is in good condition." Raistlin replied with a bit of attitude in his tone.
    "I was just asking," Raptore asked, "Considering that my ship was shot down..."
    Raistlin looked to Raptore with confusion.
    "Shot down?" The knight questioned.
    "Yeah," Raptore replied, shrugging, "I thought I said that already."
    "I don't think you did." Ferris said from her place near Raistlin's pede.
    Raptore shrugged.
    "Who shot you down?" Raistlin asked, turning to make direct optic contact with Raptore.
    "Some aft hat named Toxin!" Raptore hissed, "We we're trying to trade with him, some of our energon for a few new weapons, but he tried to scam us! His minions tried to sneak aboard our ship and steal our fuel and weapons. Would've been robbed if Hawthorn's cybercat wasn't lurking about."
    "You met Toxin?" Tiger Lily questioned, "And you lived?"
    "We didn't know who he was when we met him!" Raptore defended, "He used Hawthorn's brother's name to make the deal, we didn't know until we showed up at the rendezvous point."
    "That is fair," Raistlin said calmly, "He has done that to many bots."
    "How do you guys know who he is?" Raptore asked.
    "Another decepticon on our black list." Tiger Lily replied simply.
"You have a decepticon blacklist?" Raptore questioned.
Tiger Lily shrugged.
"Yeah, a good amount of decepticons have tried to shoot us down too."
"Speaking of getting shot down, can we please fix my arm?" Raptore asked, "It's becoming quite the nuisance."
Raistlin nodded, turning away from his station and walked over to a wall. There he pulled a red lever, which displaced a panel, revealing a small hidden cubby. Inside there was an axe, similar to the one Gearend had stolen, and a medical kit. Raistlin pulled out the latter and walked back over to the youngling.
The youngling was very hesitant to let the knight touch him, but he knew that it was the only way to get his arm splinted. Raistlin had taken a hold of his arm and pulled a scalpel from the med kit. The knight took the small blade and scraped it against the wound, causing the dinobot only minimal pain. He did this to remove any possible rust.
Raistlin placed the scalpel back in its place and replaced it with a welder. Raptore turned his head away from the knight as he welded the wound shut, placing a patch on it shortly after the wound was closed.
As Raistlin placed the medical tools back in their case, Raptore tapped the newly welded patch on his arm. Yes, that would hold stable for a while, but not as long as it should. He was an active youngling, he had no other excuse for the frequent patch work he had needed done in the past.
"Thank you." Raptore said, turning back to face the knight.
Raistlin nodded, a silent way of saying 'You're welcome'.
Raistlin didn't say much after that. He was very focused on getting the ship into the air. Raptore flogged the ship as old, like he did the mech. This ship was probably given to him when he was younger, though Raptore didn't know too much about the knight's life or his culture.
He did not know that his minicons hadn't been with him for their entire lives, thanks to a comment that Tiger Lily had made earlier. He would have to ask them about that later, but now he needed to focus.
"So, how do you think we should search for my ship?" Raptore asked as Raistlin reinitiated the cloaking shield.
Raistlin thought for a moment, before stepping away from his console, moving to another. He moved to another console and began typing into it.
"What are you doing?" Raptore asked, walking over.
"I installed a certain scanner on the ship years ago," Raistlin replied, continuing to type, "It's built to pick up signals."
"Well, no slag," Raptore snapped, "What kinds of signals?"
"Life signals and activity, it's wide spread. It can pick up things under ground and under water. That's how we found the decepticons."
"So it's just a normal scanner on circuit boosters?"
Raistlin chuckled and nodded, bringing a map up on the screen, several different signals appearing on it.
"And those are?" Raptore asked.
"Apparitions." Raistlin replied simply, "That have appeared over the past decade or so."
Raptore didn't quite grasp the concept, but he grasped it enough to understand what to do.
Raistlin stepped away as Raptore began to scour the map, tapping on every signal and examining its output closely.
The old knight moved back to his station, tapping away at the keypad once more. As he did so, the ship began to come back online. Engines hummed and thrusters whirred, the relayed power operating their primary directive causing them to shift.
Raptore didn't pay the engines much mind, when he was focused on something, there was really no possible way to distract him. As he observed the map, the ship groaned as it lifted into the air and away from the island. The youngling only looked up once, when they were lifting off from the clearing.
He would miss the short time he spent in the forest, but he was sure that he would get another chance to explore the environment of this planet. Once he found his companions.

(Sorry for the sudden change of formatting, my cat spilled water on my computer and killed it so now I have to operate from my iPad.
I would have used this format anyway, because I like it better; but the program on my computer canceled out the tab button so I wasn't able to.
It makes it look like a real book and the spacing is better. Though there may be more spelling errors since autocorrect sucks ass.
I hope you liked the new chapter!
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