The Shadow of Kaon

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The Decepticon attacked her victim one last time by slashing her claws right through the Autobot's neck cables before he dropped into his own pooling Energon, his Spark leaving the scarred and dented husk while his optics turned dark too.

The femme smirked, watching the lifeless body for a second as she first shook her hand to get rid of most of the blue liquids on it, then licked down the remaining drops from her digits, cleaning every part of her servo with great attention.

"You were easy prey, idiot." She said with a low chuckle as her optics changed to a lighter shade, and a second later the smile left her face too, only leaving a somehow apologetic expression in its place instead of the devilish grin.

Without having a second thought, she left the dark cave, not even looking back at the damage she caused, and leaving back the carcass along with the small package the bot kept at his side.

When she reached the surface, she peeked out cautiously, looking around to see if there was any other enemy. Her frame was ready to jump at the smallest noises or movements. Her two, significantly longer pairs of wings moved up and down with small, skittish moves, and the smaller, damaged-looking top pair tried to follow it too, attempting to release some of the built-up nervousness and adrenaline rush from her recent fight.

Seemingly, her worry was meaningless.

Everywhere she looked, this desolate, plain place was only full of red rocks as far as she could see, indicating that she was the only remaining living creature on this deserted planet. Clearly, there was nothing else she would be interested in anymore.

Cleaning down some red dust from her chassis and helm, she switched in her communicator, ready to send a short message to the mothership, hoping that she would get her new task as soon as possible in return.

"Darkwing to Nemesis..." She started quietly. "I terminated the last Autobot in my designated sector. I'm waiting for new orders."

For some time, the only response she got was static noise, but finally, her radio gave her the answers she had awaited.

" Nemesis to Darkwing." The communicator fizzed from the short silence. "Lord Megatron is ordering you to come to Sol 3. Be here as soon as possible."

"Understood." The femme muttered her answer, then turned off her comm, looking around one last time in the empty, lifeless environment.

She wouldn't miss this place, that's for sure.

Darkwing moved her wings in a small circle to ease the tension in them, then with a few quick steps to gain momentum, she jumped in the air and changed into her light purple jet form, darting toward the sky.

While she programmed the quickest route in her navigation, the dark space opened around her as she left the secluded red rock, and flew out into the stars.

'I'm coming...' She thought to herself while flying across dozens of orbiting asteroids, her Spark getting filled with anxious anticipation about the change that came her way.

Days after days, she just went at full speed in the endless space, only stopping for the shortest possible times to rest and to regain energy from the few high-grade Energon cubes that she always carried in her subspace. She flew through dozens of stationeries and used their short-range spacebridges, but every moment of useless waiting and hopping from planet to planet caused her to be more restless.

She had already wasted too much time hunting down the Autobots in her area, and it was still almost a week before she reached the blue and green orb, the Sol 3, also known as the Earth.

She reached the atmosphere in a short time while her frame's temperature got more and more elevated in the lower parts of the planet, and some more minutes later, she was already flying above a big forest on one of the bigger continents.