The Assassin and the Engineer

Cave-in

Several days have passed without a mission for Goldenclaw. In that time, she managed to rest much more easily thanks to the medication Knockout prescribed. By the time she was assigned to her next objective, she was in better mental shape. This one, she was assigned to assist Starscream and Soundwave in mining an energon mine pouring with Dark Energon. It could be useful to their advantage.
The only downside was Crossblade had to remain on the Nemesis.

"This is dumb. Why do you get to go on all the fun missions?" Crossblade pouted, angrily sucking on an energon pop. She crossed her arms, biolights dimming in disappointment.

"It's not fun, Crossblade, it's important. This mine of Dark Energon could be extremely useful to Lord Megatron. I'm just going to be down there to observe and monitor." Goldenclaw sighed, clipping the cannon on her hip and the rifle on her back. "Don't act so disappointed. If we have enough, I can ask Lord Megatron to let you borrow a portion for future projects."

Crossblade gasped, optics twinkling. "Really!?" She threw her arms in the air, then quickly hugged GoldenClaw. When she released, she was practically vibrating in happiness. "You're the best Claw!" Slipping off the table, she saluted GoldenClaw while rolling back to her workshop. "Good luck!"

The hug felt weird to Goldenclaw, but she merely huffed and squinted at her. "Get off of me, Crossblade." She commanded without any ill in her voice, before nodding. "Don't get into too much trouble." She waved before beginning to head up to the Nemesis. Once she was outside, she transformed and flew into the coordinates sent to her.

Crossblade hummed to herself as she worked, and was feeling pretty good. Her wings seemed functional, and they fit. She just needed time to test them.

Starscream was waiting by the entrance of the cave, grumbling. When GoldenClaw landed, he waved her over. "Stay behind Soundwave and I, and don't do anything stupid."

She greeted Starscream with a raised eyebrow. "Wasn't planning to." She muttered before looking to Soundwave and nodding to him. "How much progress has been made before I arrived?" Goldenclaw asked, looking around at the numerous Vehicons and their machinery while they harvested the energon.

Starscream response was haughty. He was clearly full of himself. "Quite a bit! No sign of the Autobots, and all we have to do is supervise!" He smirked, heels clacking on the stone. Soundwave was cataloguing everything he saw and recording their voices.

Goldenclaw hummed. "Still, we should be cautious. This is a rather large mine." She murmured. "I'll supervise from a different angle." The femme walked in front of the haughty Decepticon before releasing an energy rope and raising herself up to a ledge, hidden from sight but able to see almost everything.

Starscream scoffed, but continued his descent deeper into the mine. Soundwave nodded at her general direction, and followed Starscream.

The femme kneeled on the ledge and took her rifle out to clean and check that enough ammo was within it. All she had to do was wait for activity.
So far, nothing happened. It seemed as if this operation would be a quiet but major success.

Starscream was bored. There was nothing in this mine except dark energon and Vehicons. As he was about to turn back, a groundbridge opened up. Out came pouring Optimus Prime, and his disgusting Autobots. Starscream yelped, and raised an arm to fire a missile.

He missed.

The Autobots sprinted past him, and the cave began to come crashing down.

"Starscream. Status!" Goldenclaw called, but she didn't need his answer at seeing the Autobots. "Oh, you must be joking me." She muttered and took aim before shooting. The crossfire got intense as she heard rumbling from below the cave. They just *had* to intervene, didn't they! She missed her shot and took aim at one of the femmes.
When she turned around, Goldenclaw froze. It was Silverdart, but one of her eyes were dimmed down. Something that she caused. Hesitating was her downfall. The younger sister aimed at her placement and shot the ledge. Reacting quickly, she shot out an energy rope and swung down before her heel met the other femme's chest.