Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen (2)

Introducing Silverclaw!

After a while of flying, Critter landed in a random secluded forest and transformed.

She was in a beautiful clearing, there were trees surrounded it save for the big rock that the sun was just above, giving nice, sunny lighting.

She opened her subspace and pulled out the items she had retrieved.

Laying them out on the floor, she inspected them, surprised the Decepticons weren't using them.

Then she knelt down and looked at the stasis pod in front of her. She was debating on whether she should open it or not as it could be a Decepticon trap.

That was when she realized that it wouldn't matter if it was. She had nowhere to go, nothing to lose.

So she activated the pod.

The door opened with a hiss as the cold mist flowed out and blanketed the floor around it until it dissipated.

The minicon onlined it's optics slowly and groaned before dragging itself out onto the grass.

Suddenly, it shot it's head up and assumed a defensive position. "DECEPTICONS!" It shouted in a female voice.

"Woah! Wait, I'm not a Decepticon, I'm an Autobot!" Critter held up a servo and pointed the other one at the insignia on her chestplates.

"Oh." The minicon let out a sigh of relief before chuckling. "Sorry! I didn't realize. You look..."

"Like a 'Con, I know. I used to be one and I hated every second of it." She looked down and there was a silence before she looked at the minicon again. "I'm Critter by the way. What's your designation?"

With this the minicon seemed to relax a little and sit up proud. "I am Silverclaw!" She announced happily.

"That's a nice name." Critter smiled. "How did you get here?"

"I was on a scouting mission for the Autobots of Iacon to see how big the army heading towards the city was. But I was ambushed and taken hostage. The last thing I remember is refusing to work for the Decepticons so they locked me in that pod until they could think of a use for me."

"Before Iacon fell? That was decacycles ago! You've been in stasis for that long?"

The little bot looked down. "It would seem so." She looked around in confusion. "Hang on, this isn't Cybertron. Where am I?"

"Earth. It's a horrible planet full of disgusting, irritating little fleshlings."

"Earth? Is the war still going on? Who's winning? Is Optimus Prime here?"

"Slow down! Yes the war is still going on, unfortunately the Decepticons are winning and Optimus is... dead."

"WHAT? HE CAN'T BE DEAD! Without him, how are we going to win?" Silverclaw panicked.

"I don't know." Critter admitted. "I was sent back to the Decepticons by Optimus on an undercover mission to gather intel before he offlined by Megatron's servo. We had recently come back from a mission where a 'Con said 'the Fallen shall rise again' and Prime wanted me to find out what they knew. Sadly, I couldn't tell the other Autobots and I had to make it believable so I told them I killed Optimus and joined the 'Cons again. Then when I went back, my former best friend, Eclipse hated me and tricked me into following her into a forest where she pushed me into Megatron's waiting arms. She betrayed me..."

"I'm sorry. It sounds like you had a hard decision to make."

"Yeah... it really was." She showed Silverclaw a hologram of all her memories from Optimus giving her the mission, to her opening the minicon's pod.

"I- wow." The dragon stuttered, taking it all in. "You have had the worst time lately huh?"

"You might say that..."

"Look, I know we don't know each other very well but I think at the moment, we're all we've got. We should be friends!"

"Really? I didn't think you'd want to after everything you just saw."

"On the contrary, I see a lost and broken spark to just wants to be loved. Isn't that why you almost took Starscream up on his offer?"

"I- well I um... yes." She admitted looking away.

"It's ok. I understand that." She walked closer and looked up into the purple femme's honeycomb optics. "Critter, I've been looking for a master or mistress. A minicon like me won't last long on my own here on this planet with the war still raging on. Will you be mistress?"

The spiderbot smiled a broad smile. "Yes. I'd love to."

"Great!" The minicon collapsed on the floor.

"Silverclaw? Silverclaw! What's wrong?"

"Low on energon."

"Oh! Of course, I'm so sorry!" She opened her subspace and retrieved the two cubes she always kept stashed in there for emergencies. "Here!" She opened one and placed it in front of the minicon.

"Thank you." She quickly drank the cube, leaving not even a drop left.

"Do you want the other one?"

"No, I'm ok. We should save it."

Critter nodded and shifted to sit down. "So, tell me a bit about yourself."

The two new friends carried on talking until night fell and they decided to recharge.