Cybertron's Hunter

Untitled Part 1

We were perched at a higher vantage point then the Cybertronians fighting on the ground. It was my sister Bladeswipe, my aunt Swiftkill and me; Riptide. From what I could hear it was a fight with Autobots and Decepticons but we weren't here to fight for either one. We were learning to how take down certain bots.

"Bladeswipe, do you see Thundercracker?" Swiftkill asked my sister quietly who probably nodded. "He is the eldest of the Seeker brothers, and biggest. He, unlike his siblings, uses more processor than metal to take his enemies down. I know how you like to outsmart your enemies" she said. "Riptide, hear Skywarp?"

I nod. The mech's voice was clear in my audials. "I have chosen him for an example, since you are blind you can hear him better than us. He uses slip space to warp, and only you can tell where he will end up. Listen closely, hear his structure go into the slip then come out, determine where he is" Swiftkill instructed.

I listen carefully, hearing the clash of the mech's sword on an Autobot chassis. "I hear him; his frame is clicking to an unknown sound to me. I think that's the slip" I say. My aunt's servo pressed on my back and I felt a whoosh of air speed over me. "Starscream" Bladeswipe growled. My poor sister, Starscream had nearly killed her once.

"Indeed, he will probably let his superiority get the better of him" Swiftkill said. We had a bad history with the Seekers, the village did too. The Seekers were a hard group to defeat, they all had each other's backs and Swiftkill is teaching us how to mimic their strategies and take them by surprise. Of course, being young fems who had jet alts, we used to want to be just like them.

Just think of it like this, before I was blinded by Thundercracker or even met these three, my sister and I always admired the three mechs for their skill, strength and speed. Of course we wanted to be like two different ones, my sister wanted to be like Thundercracker and I wanted to be like Skywarp. Starscream? The mech's helm was too far up his tailpipe to do anything right.

But we used to paint ourselves with their colors and tried to act like them. We were younger when the Seekers attacked; we were in the same paint too. The mechs found this amusing though since we were younger, Thundercracker didn't let Starscream kill us. Instead we were minor hurt; some of our plating ripped off or cuts on our protoform plating.

Thundercracker, from what my aunt said, didn't mean to actually blind me. She said by the time she got there the mech was left alone with us for his brothers had to fight off our warriors. But the presence of Swiftkill startled Thundercracker who turned, his melee weapon scraping across my faceplate. Though Swiftkill said the mech did feel just a twinge of guilt for blinding me.

He was still a Decepticon, following his brothers further into death. I was knocked out of my thoughts by Bladeswipe who jerked me to my pedes and started running. "What's happening?!" I ask, trying to listen for gunshots behind us. Nothing, no sounds of pursuit or barking orders from commandos. "Swiftkill, you didn't hear her? She said get to the village, she was going to stay behind" Bladeswipe said, letting me run by myself. "You didn't ask why?" I ask; my long legs letting me run. "She told me not to, just get our afts back to the village" Bladeswipe said. I heard a loud noise and tried to identify what it was before Bladeswipe yelped beside me.

I heard the next shot and sidestep it, then the sound of slip. "It's the Seekers!"

"Why are they chasing us?!"

"They must've seen us!" Bladeswipe growled then the sound of slip exited from above us. "Skywarp is right on our afts-!" I was cut off as I was shoved to the right and the pained yelp from Bladeswipe hit me.

 

I stop though someone snapped beside me, a foreign voice. "Keep moving if you want your spark intact!" it was a gruff voice, not one of the Seekers as more gunfire sounded. "Who are you?" I ask, my speed faltering a little before a sharp shove at my shoulder again. "Just shut up and run!" he growled. Before long I could hear the sound of full battle and I dig my heels into the ground.