The Flaming Emissary

Chapter 4

The group of British left at the first light of dawn leaving Reiscorn to his cave to himself. As light seeped inside the cave flowing across the cold floor and beaming on Reiscorns helm. He stirred till he slowly opened his optic looking straight into the light, he squinted from the brightness. Reiscorn blew his usual flame and stretched his limbs, he inspected the cave searching for the natives that took refuge last night. Their presence absent, he trotted a few steps toward a boulder to what lay behind it was a supply of energon crystals. It wasn't enough to suffice him, never the less it would sustain him for now. He heated the energon to a point where it was almost liquid but still solid, he chewed on it till the remains were just a puddle. Reiscorn heard shuffling and the rustling of rocks on metal scraping across the other, he quickly took to his battle stance ready for anything. Climbing up was a cybertronian, a gray skinny seeker strangling up the mountain with an injured leg. The seeker reached the mouth of the cave heaving from the climb, looking up to see Reiscorn in his battle stance.

 The seeker shrieked and pointed his missiles toward Reiscorn, 'A Seeker?!  Out here so far from its armada, what fool would stray from his ranks?'

"How is a Predacon all the way out here? Is this another experiment by a shockwave that megatron slipped under my vision?" the seeker spoke specifically to himself.

"It seems you are incapable of flight I assume, a pity that you were not gifted to soar the skies as I." he scoffed.

Reiscorn growled at his comment, Reiscorn looked down at the seeker's legs analyzing the injury. Reiscorn turned his gaze from the seeker and grabbed a piece of spare metal he picked up on his travels, he held it in his jaws and walked over to the seeker. The seeker was shrilling threats at Reiscorn as he paid no attention to any of them and continued forward, Reiscorn halted as his face interlocked with the seekers as he towered over the feeble flier. The seeker stumbled to the floor shuffling back as Reiscorn lowered his head to the seeker's wounded leg, he laid down in front of the seeker and used his claw to hold the scrap of metal over the wound. The seeker realizing reiscorns intention relaxed and let reiscorn proceed, Reiscorn blew a low fume on the metal welding it over the gash and sealing it over. 

Reiscorn had finished standing up and turned heading to the far wall of the cave, "Thank you" the seeker spoke.

Reiscorn turned his head and nodded to the seeker, "I am Commander Starscream" the seeker greeted.

'A commander he says. Why the screaming and cowardliness in your behavior, no commander acts like a weakling. I should know, I myself am a commander'

Reiscorn went over to starscream and looked down at him glaring into his optics, starscream was trembling under his gaze. Reiscorn flicked his head directing outside, starscream following his request limping toward the edge of the cave.

Reiscorn grabbed starscream by his right wing and lifted him onto his back, reiscorn had enough of seeing this so-called 'commander' make a scene of himself. Starscream was startled by this act and gripped one of the piped spikes that lined all the way down his back, Reiscorn leaped from the entrance and galloped his way down as Starscream shrilled his high-pitched vocalizer to its peak. Reiscorn slid across the soft ground slowly stopping and heaving from the sudden use of a large expense of his energy, starscream had finally stopped screaming. He started getting off slowly when Starscream's feeble legs gave out on him as he placed his balance on them falling on his face plate.

Starscream was wiping off dirt from his chassis as Reiscorn drew symbols in the dirt with one of his large, sharp talons. Starscream had gotten up from the dirt and examined what Reiscorn was writing.

"What in cybertron are you doing you insane reptile?" starscream spat.

Reiscorn hissed at his rudeness and starscream trembled with his wings down, Reiscorn returned to his writings.

Starscream finally reading what Reiscorn was scribbling on the ground looked at him amazed.

"How did you manage to write in old cybertronian, especially in this form? I haven't seen this type of writing since the golden ages or even during the times of the Primes it seems." starscream examined amazed by Reiscorn's comprehension of literature. 

Reiscorn finally spelled the remaining letters he needed to ask commander starscream about his ship and army. "Reiscorn, if that is what you've written here, to be clear we already have enough of your kind to deal with back on the nemesis so why would Lord Megatron want another?" he complained.

Reiscorns optics lit up, 'There are more here?! Then I am not the only one that escaped from the uneventful.' 

Reiscorn wagged his tail swishing the dirt away that dwell under it, he blew a happy fume of flame up into the sky in joy. Starscream quivered from the large flames being released from reiscorn not knowing his excitement. 

"I presume you would want me to call for a ground bridge and see for yourself?" starscream asked. Reiscorn nodded, starscream placed one his sharp claws to the side of his helm.

"Soundwave I am requesting a ground bridge, lock onto my coordinates immediately. I have a gift for Lord Megatron that may finally win us the war." starscream called gazing up at Reiscorns helm with a vile smirk.

Reiscorn tilted his helm a bit, 'A war? There has never been a war among Cybertron's grounds nor a war outside its boundaries either. What or who has upset the balance of Primus, why fight when there is no gain but death? Why did the Primes allow this to continue this conflict when it is never needed? What claim has brought this clash on Cybertron and beyond? What has happened while I was in slumber wandering the cosmos?'