• Why the hell did I come down here again?

    Right, I’ll tell you like it is.

    A while ago, I had a very good friend. Her name was Tasha, and she was an Auto-bot. I know a lot of you are probably immediately thinking ‘Oh but some of your team are Decepticons won’t that screw things up for you an such blah blah blah’ Well the answer is no. You see, she didn’t grass like I thought she would. Neither did the other Auto-bots that stayed here with us. In fact, the AAs and Tasha became like a family to us, as Diode and Diablos would say they were like brothers [and sisters] from other mothers!

    Well, not too long after I got to know them, we ended up battling together, sharing jokes, heck, even sharing missions between our groups. We became comrades in arms and shared everything between us. Skartplug and Nightbeam practically ruled the medbay until Rollz arrived and ruled with them, they shared things between each other because they knew they could trust each other. Backwind and Blade Breaker both looked up to Cannonball, and he did the same to them when his ‘Never Give Up’ attitude grew thin. Tasha helped me out when things got too hard and the paperwork too tall, she helped me calm down and relax, and occasionally she’d look after Steve for me. The team also helped with Sky Shadows re-uniting with his brother Airstrike, even if it was Berserker who blurted it out halfway through a battle.

    That’s how it was. But then, tragedy struck when their second in command passed away. The team started breaking apart. The two shuttles started arguing and fighting, Nightbeam started becoming stressed with her work, it was like they’d just met each other! Liquid Ice vanished, Old enemies such as Roadblock started re-appearing, and although we gained two medics, Nightbeam’s parents, the problems continued to rise.

    That was vorns ago though… After a while, the team did break up… Tasha went back to the Auto-bots situated on Earth with Liquid Ice, and the others I don’t know what happened to them. Whitebolt disappeared not long after Scourch passed on so where he went is a mystery...

    Their leave took its toll on my team too. Skartplug and Rollz obviously miss Nightbeam’s presence in the medbay, the two of them hardly speak now. Napalm and lil Storm miss Tasha dearly, Cannonball misses having his two juggernaut shuttle friends around to train with, Backfire misses Tornado Dust and Oíche, so much in fact he hasn’t left the base since they went. Bullet misses Joyride seeing as the two used to always get along and race. Diode misses having Liquid Ice around to listen to him play, and occasionally he’ll play a short song he made up, titled Strike of a Blue Wolf. I don’t think I’ve ever heard him finish it without breaking down and having to stop.

    I miss them all too… it was great having a team that I knew I could trust… Storm occasionally comes to my quarters to ask if I’ve heard from any of them… it breaks my spark having to say no everytime…

    Which is why I’m here, sitting in an Auto-bot holding cell on Earth, waiting to be interrogated by the ‘mighty Optimus Prime’. Wonder if he’ll remember me…

    Its because I was stupid. Again. I came to Earth with Storm, Napalm and Flash, hoping to be able to talk to Tasha. No. I forgot to turn my Decepticon energy off, as did Napalm and Flash. So the first thing we see are blasters in the face and Prowls aft as we’re marched down here. Napalms next to me at the moment trying to calm Flash down, but Storm I don’t know where he is. They took him off me at the bloody door!

    Flash thinks we’re going to die. Then again he always did jump to conclusions seeing as the Auto-bots refused to take him in all that time ago when Napalm helped him escape. Luckily thanks to his new appearance they don’t recognise him, or he would be on the dead list no matter how much the Auto-bots say they don’t kill their prisoners. No, they’d hand him back to Megatron in exchange for one of theirs stupid enough to get caught, and then he would die, because tronny-boy has it in for all of us. Good job I didn’t bring Skartplug then…

    That’s another matter. Skartplug. Ever since I learnt about his slave past, he’s hardly ever been seen around the base except in the medbay and occasionally in his room. Cannonball’s living next door to him, and he’s reported to me about hearing Skarts scream at night and always leaving the light on its brightest setting so no shadows can be seen in the room. Rollz is one of the only people he’ll hold a conversation with but he’s sworn on the patient / medic confidentiality thing, so I can’t get anything out of him.

    Then there’s Sky Shadow… or should I say there was Sky Shadow. After the AAs and Tasha left, he left. Airstrike searched for him day after day… until one day he radioed in a distress signal to us… He’d found Sky… battered and broken… and stone dead. Fenair had returned, and because he didn’t feel safe anymore, Sky Shadow just went straight to him in hopes to protect his brother and the rest of us… Airstrike hardly speaks anymore now. He mopes around in his room all day in the dark, sobbing quietly to himself because no one understands how he feels… well that’s what he thinks anyway. Bullet had to move out of the room because it was upsetting him as well. The two still talk, occasionally, but I haven’t seen them race lately…

    It’s not right without them… And I don’t want to sound selfish… but I want them all to come back… I want it to be how it used to be. Dangerous, but fun and energetic, everyday knowing that if something happens, there’s always someone nearby to help…

    The day the AAs left was the day the Freelancers died. That’s the way I see it, and that’s the way I’ll always see it. The day Scourch died… was the day the AAs died…

    But you have to carry on… friends come and go in life; you just have to ride the waves. But they were more than friends to us… they were family. I don’t know if they know what happened when they left, but it wasn’t only one team that split that day. But there is one thing I want to say.

    The least you could’ve done…

    …Was say Goodbye.