Bluish Heart (Sequal to Crimson Throne)

Chapter 1: €Survival€

"Survival is the ability to swim in strange waters.."
.........
Telsa watched her mate with grief. His unmoving state unsettled her to great lengths.
She would have cried but she had to stay strong in front of the decepticons.
"He'll wake up Telsa." Knockouts Servo on my shoulder didn't me any good.
"I'd better give the next command." Telsa brushed away his support and stood up.
She walked towards the main room.
They'd done their best to make an underground base.
It turned out well but it was like a submarine. Cramped and small.
Telsa called everyone to 1st platoon to central quarters, which is what they called the main room, and started giving orders.
"Divide yourselves into half. 1st squad will take the south. Go in and scavenge the energon you find only within the base of the walls. 2nd squad will take the East. Same orders as first. I want the job done quickly. We are starving But we must survive for Lord Megatron. He is surviving so we must as well. Your orders are given. " She waved them away and a groundbridge was formed.
They ran through the bridge.
......
Next order of business was to attend the council meeting.
Many decepticons had joined the fraction and Telsa had appointed seven of them officers and advice givers.
They called themselves the council.
Telsa walked down the underground hallways and into a side room.
A metal long table sat in the middle and her officers with it.
She sat down at the table and looked at her second in command, Knockout.
He looked at her and began.
"They believe that we need to storm the cyberstorm and take it back." knockout rolled his optics.
"Absolutely not." Telsa said quickly.
"We have the tactic, just not the numbers. People, right now all we need to think about is surviving. Our troops aren't strong enough to take on the elite forces." She said.
The Cyberstorm was what  Deathsteel, the leader of the brutes that took over the nemises, now called the nemises.
And the elites were what he called his followers.
His motive?
Same as Megatrons former plan.
Take Earth as his own and rebuild cybertron with the best of his abilities.
However, Deathsteel's plan had a twist.
He had the power to turn earth into cybernucleaic matter.
All he needed now was the matrix of leadership, which optimus had of course.
"What if we could both fight AND survive?" A former wrecker turned decepticon femme spoke up.
"What are You saying?" Telsa asked.
"Don't shoot me for saying this but..." she hesitated.
"What about allying ourselves with the autobots?" she asked.
Gasps and outraged cried sounded from around the table.
Telsa held her servo up and everyone silenced themselves.
"Go on.." she said intrigued.
"Well, the autobots have the technology to scout mass energon mines and they have a skilled medic and other teammates that have skills to play in our favor." she said smartly.
"We could use their tech to find other cybertronians . they could join is here and we could end this." she stated.
"Yea but what about taking earth?" a mech by the designation of Bezerk asked.
"Taking over earth, Bezerk, is no longer our priority. As for your suggestion Bud, I believe it is a good plan but we have no way of finding Optimus or his crew." She informed.
Bud seemed to get an idea.
"Leave that to me." she stated.
Telsa had no choice but to trust her.
The council meeting was dismissed with a few grudges and grumbles but eventually theyd get over it.
Telsa made her way to Megatrons quarters.
She sat down in the chair beside his medical birth and studied the life support cables.
Knockout said that he needed to wake up soon or they'd have to pull the plug.
She shuddered in fear.
She leaned forward.
"Megatron.....I don't know if you can hear me but we need you back. I need you to wake up.." she talked to him everyday hoping that he may wake up to a familiar voice.
"Everyday gets harder and harder and I don't know how long I can keep this up. Telsa grabbed his servo in hers.
"They need you back. You're the leader. Not me." She starter to tear up.
"Please wake up." She begged.
He didn't and so she left a kiss on his forehead and left the room..
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"I've figured out a way to get a hold of the Autobots." Bud said walking up to Telsa with some type of device in her hand.
The device had a few touchpad buttons and it made a few weird electrical noises.
"All we have to do is intercept a certain frequency that transmits to their base." She informed.
"Yes but how will you find said frequency?" I asked stoicly.
"Never ask a magician how they do their tricks." She said.
"That's not the saying." Telsa smiled softly.
"A magician never reveals their secret." Telsa corrected .
"Oh!" Bud said.
"Yea I was human so I'd know." Telsa reminded her.
"Right." She seemed nervous.
"Talk to me." Tesla set her servo on Bud's shoulder plate.
"Well..." She rubbed her arm up and down.
"It's okay Bud. You can trust me." Telsa reassured her.
"Wheeljack was in the whole wrecker thing with me.." She said
"And you grew feelings for him." Telsa stated realizing that look on Bud's face.
"Yea but...He never noticed me. I'm not his type of femme anyways. He likes femmes that are tough like...What's her face....Arcee!" Bud said sadly.
"And now that we're attempting to team up with the Autobots..." Bud didn't finish.
"You are a smart, beautiful AND tough femme. You are everything Arcee needs to be. There is no reason to doubt yourself. Have a little faith Bud. Any mech would want you. In fact I see mechs around here eyeing you all the time." Telsa said proudly.
"Really?" She said looking around excited.
"Yup." I said and she perked up.
"Well then..I should get back to work. Perhaps you'll 'hang' with me later?" Bud smiled and Telsa giggled.
Bud loved to learn new phrases and she'd taken kindly to human ones.
"I'd love to." Telsa said happily.
"Yay! See ya!" She scampered off happily with a light skip in her step.
Telsa shook her helm amused.
"Winglord Telsa. We have excavated the energon mine and we are starting the drills now." A drone said into her comlink.
"I'm on my way." She said and walked towards central quarters .
"Fire up the bridge." Telsa ordered as she walked into the room.
Soundwave nodded and did as he was told.
Before she could step through it a servo was placed on her shoulder.
She turned to look at soundwave.
"I'll be careful. I promise." She said.
He nodded and let her go.
Telsa ran through the bridge and into the mine.
......
Telsa worked hard alongside her decepticon comrades to scavenge any and all energon she could.
They were doing well.
Until they heard a groundbridge open.
Telsa tensed but relaxed when Bud cam through.
"What is it Bud?" She asked.
"Well um I got a hold of a comlink from the Autobots." She hesitated.
"And?"
Another groundbridge opened.
"They're here."