The Authoress

Chapter 12: Seeker Coding

Chapter 12: Seeker coding

The sun was bright and the forest was warm, birds were singing and Corvin was happy.

Corvin fluttered her wings, looking around the wooded area in content. The sun hit her wings and back as she stretched out on the rock she was perched on. Optimus and Bee were somewhere in the woods, scouting out a signature they had found and had asked Corvin if she wished to join them. She had accepted and went with them through the ground bridge. Within five minutes Corvin had found the rock she was currently on and had claimed it as her own, and had not moved since.

The others had gone ahead and let her stay there, promising to call if they needed assistance. They had not called so Corvin didn’t worry, she just continued to sun bath like a lizard. She had collected a few shrub things that were rather large and let her seeker instincts take over and built a nest. She now was curled up in it, her wings facing the sun with her solar panels out. Her rock was high up, Optimus couldn’t even reach it, and that made her carrier programs sing in approval. This was a good spot to go if she ever had sparklings.

Corvin hummed in her chassis, needing the sides of her nest to make it soft. Future sparklings, the thought made her spark throb happily.

As a breeder, it was natural for her to want sparklings, and to set out to find the best sires for her sparklings. Coupled with her seeker programing, only the best would be accepted. Corvin was very glad that Optimus was in fact, the very best. He was strong, fast, and able bodied to protect any clutch she had, he was also a Prime, which meant he was always at maximum fertility. He’d sire the best sparklings; her programing screamed it whenever he was in the room. Her spark wanted him just as much as her body did, so Optimus was dominating her list of sires.

The seeker femme hummed louder from where she sat, peering out of her nest. No one would be able to spot her from where she sat, which was good. She idly wondered if Bee and Optimus would be able to see her from here…

Something was nagging at the side of her mind, like it was telling her to go somewhere, to find something.

She read in her data pads that seekers had been originally programed to find things, like energon. Maybe…

Corvin slowly emerged from her nest, moving over the sides and using her thrusters to get down. Her wings flicked as she moved quickly in the direction her mind was pushing her. Through trees and over rocks, scaring animals and making birds fly away. She followed her conscious to a small opening in the ground.

Corvin knelt down. The hole was about 7 feet in radius and her scanners said it was about 3 meters deep before it branched off. If she pressed her wings close to her frame, she could get down there. Her scanners read a cavern where it branched off to the right.

Silver and blue wings folded against her back and she squared her shoulders as she ducked down helm-first. She fit down easily enough, her hips gave her slight difficulty, but she was able to squeeze through. Her optics lit up the passage as she let gravity help her down. She wiggled and dug her claws into the earth, directing herself into the right passage. If one were watching, they’d have seen her peds disappear as she toppled into the right passage.