I'm *SO* cheating on this. LOL
Okay, so I'm *really* not supposed to do this, but I kinda did these the same time I posted the challenge list. I was gonna wait till they got requested, but realised with the specifications, someone could request the same challenge prompts, but request something completely different. So These would be wasted fics.
So, here they are.
#1 Falling Jade
She was falling. Out of the sky, faster and faster. The ground was a brown whirl beneath her, rushing up to meet her, and the seekerjet twisted to one side to see Starscream streaking towards her. "Great. This is it." she thought. she turned off her optics, not wanting to see the inevitable. There was a whoosh, and something swooped under her, gently breaking the jet's fall. "huh?" Jade turned her optics back on in a flash. She had thought for sure it was the end of her. not just the falling, but Starscream had come circling back around to finish her off. "Are you allright?" Skyfire's deep voice penetrated Jade's thoughts, bringing her back to the present. "...y-yeah... i think do." she stuttered. "My wing..." she gulped at the stabbing pain where her wing had been sheared off by Skywarp's laserblast. Skyfire landed and she rolled off him, nearly sinking to the ground as her legs wobbled involuntarily, halfway out of relief, and halfway out of wracked nerves from falling. "Thanks." she glanced back at him, ambling towards Ratchet, and Skyfire took off into the air to continue his battle.
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#4 Cuddling (co-starring HighRoad)
(fluff)
He was finally back. Jade smiled and snuggled closer to the crimson and navy blue mech sitting beside her. Sure, it was a Star Trek movie, and sure they had seen it a million times. But it didn't matter. All that matter was that HighRoad was back, and he was staying for a while. Even for a day was nice. A couple was better. Which was what this occasion was. The Prime-mimic (HighRoad) chuckled at something one of the characters on the movie said. Jade couldn't remember his name. She wrapped one arm around behind him, draping the other over his stomach-armor and smiled. "First Contact" was the favorite out of all her Star trek movies. she snickered at the main character. Someone everyone in the future thought was a great hero, and he was just a drunk with ambition. heh. That reminded her of a couple people here. One in particular. She wondered if they'd remember her, also, in the future generations.
Nah. That didn't matter. So long as she could help, that was what counted. She sighed softly. "As long as I can make my life count for something that matters." she thought.
Her fingertips brushed indistinguishable patterns across her mate's dark red armor, listening to the thrum-thrum-thrum of his fuel pump beneath that armor.
He finally shifted and looked at her. "Do you know what that's doing to me?" he asked softly.
Jasde blinked. Uh... sorry." she sat up, clearing her vocaliser.
Eh, so much for snuggling.
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#6 Colorful
"Gyaaaaahhhh!!!" jade stomped down the hall, glaring daggers at one and all autobots. Whoever had done this was going to pay!
Ironhide rolled his eyes as she passed. "Oh brother. Don't those twins ever know when ta stop?" he drawled. Jade shot him a poisonous look. "It wasn't the twins." Ironhide snorted like he didn't believe her.
"And that is the last time I try to repaint my walls while human, and try to transform and fly just a *tad* HIGHER! Wheelajck chortled form one side. Ratchet gave her a curious look. she held her hands up. "okay, okay, so I had the paint balanced on this little ledge up by the ceiling of my room, and I was standing on a ladder, and couldn't reach up far enough, so I tohught "Well, if I turn into my robot mode, I should be able to fly up. The next thing I know, I'm falling, so I kick in my afterburners real quick. Which, I wound up doing too fast, and knocking into the shelf." she looked over her pink, yellow, blue, and green self, which had somehow swirled like water on oil.
"Although." she looked back up, features darkening into an angry snarl. "whoever's idea it was to give me safety paint, and I know this was on purpose, to paint my walls with, is going to be in big trouble when I catch up to him. I've told you guys before that stuff dries to fast for me to paint with. But did you listen? no." she huffed.
"Aw, jade, we didn't mean it like that. Ironhide drawled, his merriment leaking into his voice. We just htought if we gave ya the fast-dryin stuff, it's dry before it could hit the floor an make a mess." Ratchet nodded. "And you know how mad Prime got about paint-colored footprints being tracked up and down the main hall." he folded his arms.
"Well, a helluva not-mess this has become, hasn't it?" the femmejet deadpanned. "So, who's gonna help me get this stuff off of me now?" he CMO gave wheeljack a glance. "I think wheeljack here has some paint remover in his shop. Right Wheeljack?"
"uh...sure." the mechanic all of a suddenly looked a little more nervous. "Are you sure it'll work on this... paint.?" jade growled. Wheeljack nodded. "Sure, it's what I use to keep that stuff from drying when I'm not using it." he realised what he said a moment to late. "Uh... yeah." he glanced at Ratchet and Ironhide for some help, but they just shrugged like "Hey, you made it, you deal with it."
Instead of getting mad and chasing after Wheeljack, though, Jade just sighed. "Let's just get this stuff off." she trudged past Wheelajck towards the workshop.
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#5 Under the Stars
She woke with a start. Her surroundings were dark, and she felt like she really didn't want to move, just go back to sleep. Then her thoughts flickered back to earlier that evening.
Hound had spotted Ravage and Laserbeak on the west end of their terrain and given chase. It also led right into a trap. Jade had been out flying around, and the last thing she remembered was Buzzsaw coming out of nowhere and shooting her... she onlined her optics in a flash and sat up with a start.
Too quickly. Her equilibrium circuits protested, making her head swim as she did. She looked up.
Sky.
Dirt below her.
she looked off to the left. The faint dark shapes indicated trees in the distance.
So she hadn't woken up in a cell in the Decepticon bas?. That was good. Then she remembered why she was still out here. Her flight systems had been knocked offline with a simple electrical overload. Bombshell? whichever insecticon could do it. She could never get their names right anyways. No, it could have been one of the other Decepticons, with the right kind of weapon.
She slowly eased herself back to her feet, swaying slightly, and putting a hand to her head, as though it would help.
A twig snapped in the distance.
Jade's head shot up, focusing on the point of origin. the trees.
She was being followed. She tried her radio. Nope. scrambled, too. She hissed a curse before taking off as quietly as possible away from the trees. She couldn't get her sense of direction, and because of the new moon, there was barely any light to see around the rocks and other shapes in the valley.
Her stalker inched around another rock, being carefull to keep himself in the shadows.
Jade paused, listening for anything louder than her overworked oxygen cyclers. Nothing.
Suddenly, a glint of light. The owner cursed and ducked back to where he couldn't be seen. Jade reached for her pistol. The figure peeked around the rock, knowing his quarry had seen him, but did she know where he was? obviously not, since she was aiming 45 degrees away from him, off to his right. He grinned and unholstiered his own weapon.
Jade glanced around frantically for her adversary, panic threatening to grow a little more every astrosecond. Maybe if there was someplace to hide.... just rocks. and he could be behind any one.
The shadowed firgure targeted the jet, sliding off the safety of his rifle with barely-audible click. Jade turned and fired.
"Wrong way honey." came the reply, and the Decepticon fired.
Jade screeched and ducked as the bolt flew over her head, skirting for a nearby rock.
"Yeah, and you missed!" she retorted.
"Oh, I'll make sure I won't next time." the male voice echoed around the valley, making it impossible to tell where it came from. A second figure crested the hill behind her, keeping himself out of sight behind the rocks. There were two of them, and one jet.
She didn't stand a chance!
Jade breathed harder, trying to get oxygen into her overheated systems and cool them off some, but it didn't seem to be working.
The Decepticon up on the hill hit a lose rock, that bounced down, freezing and ducking down to squat in place as it fell.
Jade turned and fired.
The shadowed Decepticon in the other direction, across from Jade fired from behind the rock, hitting where the stone had fallen to. Jade turned and fired, getting a suprised cry.
"Ha. Tag, you're it!" the jet crowed.
A burst of light lanced out, catching the femmeseeker in the back and knocking her forward. The sniper from above made his way down, and tackled her shoving her facedown on the ground. "And overconfidence can lead to one's downfall." the voice calmly assured her.
He tapped her hand with the end of his gun, and she let go.
"Tag."
Jade mumbled something uncomplimentary about Decepticons. The mech who was holding her down merely chuckled. "If I was one. and I don't see what interfacing with a toaster has to do with tactical interpretation."
Jade laughed out loud as he took his weight off her and helped her to her feet. "It's a figure of speech, Prowl."
Jazz appeared from behind the rock, limping slightly as he walked up. "Aw, come on. it's only a stun blaster. sheesh." Jade shrugged.
"I know, but didjya have ta turn the rock ta shrapnel?" he winced, pulling out a bit of rock stuck in his knee-joint.
"Oops. Sorry." Jade looked sheepish.
She glanced around. "Actually, we should run these tactical battlefield scenarios whatever you call them more oftem." she gave the pair a grin. "I haven't had this much fun since my friends and I played hide and go seek in the dark, back in highschool."
"Hide and go seek in da dark? I tohught that was a kids game." Jazz piped. They started to walk, as Jade explained. "Well, it is. But when I was part of the church youth group, they used to have these sleepovers... parties, basically, at the church, and around 1 am, they'd turn out all the lights, and run around in the dark throwing a big dodgeball... ermm... bouncyball at each other. there were threebouncy balls, and whoever got hit was 'it', and had to help them find everyone else. The last person to get caught was the winner." she shrugged.
"I see."
"although, it just started out with one 'it' person. Made good for sneaking around and stuff. It was a lot of fun." she grinned as the Ark's blast door came into view around the mountain, it's warm orange glow seeming inviting somehow.
Prowl nodded. "Perhaps we should do this more often, then. It would help the other autobots to be more wary of the possibility of the casseticons infiltrating the Ark, and help in our organizational skills in battle."
Jade headed over to the repairbay. Her wing being damaged might have been exaggerated, but whatever... or whoever knocked out her flight systems hadn't. They had been sneaking around, and someone shot her from behind. when she woke up, she couldn't fly or use her radio. She guessed they were toying with her, telling her to be more cautious, more carefull. She grinned and promised to get them first next time.
So, here they are.
#1 Falling Jade
She was falling. Out of the sky, faster and faster. The ground was a brown whirl beneath her, rushing up to meet her, and the seekerjet twisted to one side to see Starscream streaking towards her. "Great. This is it." she thought. she turned off her optics, not wanting to see the inevitable. There was a whoosh, and something swooped under her, gently breaking the jet's fall. "huh?" Jade turned her optics back on in a flash. She had thought for sure it was the end of her. not just the falling, but Starscream had come circling back around to finish her off. "Are you allright?" Skyfire's deep voice penetrated Jade's thoughts, bringing her back to the present. "...y-yeah... i think do." she stuttered. "My wing..." she gulped at the stabbing pain where her wing had been sheared off by Skywarp's laserblast. Skyfire landed and she rolled off him, nearly sinking to the ground as her legs wobbled involuntarily, halfway out of relief, and halfway out of wracked nerves from falling. "Thanks." she glanced back at him, ambling towards Ratchet, and Skyfire took off into the air to continue his battle.
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#4 Cuddling (co-starring HighRoad)
(fluff)
He was finally back. Jade smiled and snuggled closer to the crimson and navy blue mech sitting beside her. Sure, it was a Star Trek movie, and sure they had seen it a million times. But it didn't matter. All that matter was that HighRoad was back, and he was staying for a while. Even for a day was nice. A couple was better. Which was what this occasion was. The Prime-mimic (HighRoad) chuckled at something one of the characters on the movie said. Jade couldn't remember his name. She wrapped one arm around behind him, draping the other over his stomach-armor and smiled. "First Contact" was the favorite out of all her Star trek movies. she snickered at the main character. Someone everyone in the future thought was a great hero, and he was just a drunk with ambition. heh. That reminded her of a couple people here. One in particular. She wondered if they'd remember her, also, in the future generations.
Nah. That didn't matter. So long as she could help, that was what counted. She sighed softly. "As long as I can make my life count for something that matters." she thought.
Her fingertips brushed indistinguishable patterns across her mate's dark red armor, listening to the thrum-thrum-thrum of his fuel pump beneath that armor.
He finally shifted and looked at her. "Do you know what that's doing to me?" he asked softly.
Jasde blinked. Uh... sorry." she sat up, clearing her vocaliser.
Eh, so much for snuggling.
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#6 Colorful
"Gyaaaaahhhh!!!" jade stomped down the hall, glaring daggers at one and all autobots. Whoever had done this was going to pay!
Ironhide rolled his eyes as she passed. "Oh brother. Don't those twins ever know when ta stop?" he drawled. Jade shot him a poisonous look. "It wasn't the twins." Ironhide snorted like he didn't believe her.
"And that is the last time I try to repaint my walls while human, and try to transform and fly just a *tad* HIGHER! Wheelajck chortled form one side. Ratchet gave her a curious look. she held her hands up. "okay, okay, so I had the paint balanced on this little ledge up by the ceiling of my room, and I was standing on a ladder, and couldn't reach up far enough, so I tohught "Well, if I turn into my robot mode, I should be able to fly up. The next thing I know, I'm falling, so I kick in my afterburners real quick. Which, I wound up doing too fast, and knocking into the shelf." she looked over her pink, yellow, blue, and green self, which had somehow swirled like water on oil.
"Although." she looked back up, features darkening into an angry snarl. "whoever's idea it was to give me safety paint, and I know this was on purpose, to paint my walls with, is going to be in big trouble when I catch up to him. I've told you guys before that stuff dries to fast for me to paint with. But did you listen? no." she huffed.
"Aw, jade, we didn't mean it like that. Ironhide drawled, his merriment leaking into his voice. We just htought if we gave ya the fast-dryin stuff, it's dry before it could hit the floor an make a mess." Ratchet nodded. "And you know how mad Prime got about paint-colored footprints being tracked up and down the main hall." he folded his arms.
"Well, a helluva not-mess this has become, hasn't it?" the femmejet deadpanned. "So, who's gonna help me get this stuff off of me now?" he CMO gave wheeljack a glance. "I think wheeljack here has some paint remover in his shop. Right Wheeljack?"
"uh...sure." the mechanic all of a suddenly looked a little more nervous. "Are you sure it'll work on this... paint.?" jade growled. Wheeljack nodded. "Sure, it's what I use to keep that stuff from drying when I'm not using it." he realised what he said a moment to late. "Uh... yeah." he glanced at Ratchet and Ironhide for some help, but they just shrugged like "Hey, you made it, you deal with it."
Instead of getting mad and chasing after Wheeljack, though, Jade just sighed. "Let's just get this stuff off." she trudged past Wheelajck towards the workshop.
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#5 Under the Stars
She woke with a start. Her surroundings were dark, and she felt like she really didn't want to move, just go back to sleep. Then her thoughts flickered back to earlier that evening.
Hound had spotted Ravage and Laserbeak on the west end of their terrain and given chase. It also led right into a trap. Jade had been out flying around, and the last thing she remembered was Buzzsaw coming out of nowhere and shooting her... she onlined her optics in a flash and sat up with a start.
Too quickly. Her equilibrium circuits protested, making her head swim as she did. She looked up.
Sky.
Dirt below her.
she looked off to the left. The faint dark shapes indicated trees in the distance.
So she hadn't woken up in a cell in the Decepticon bas?. That was good. Then she remembered why she was still out here. Her flight systems had been knocked offline with a simple electrical overload. Bombshell? whichever insecticon could do it. She could never get their names right anyways. No, it could have been one of the other Decepticons, with the right kind of weapon.
She slowly eased herself back to her feet, swaying slightly, and putting a hand to her head, as though it would help.
A twig snapped in the distance.
Jade's head shot up, focusing on the point of origin. the trees.
She was being followed. She tried her radio. Nope. scrambled, too. She hissed a curse before taking off as quietly as possible away from the trees. She couldn't get her sense of direction, and because of the new moon, there was barely any light to see around the rocks and other shapes in the valley.
Her stalker inched around another rock, being carefull to keep himself in the shadows.
Jade paused, listening for anything louder than her overworked oxygen cyclers. Nothing.
Suddenly, a glint of light. The owner cursed and ducked back to where he couldn't be seen. Jade reached for her pistol. The figure peeked around the rock, knowing his quarry had seen him, but did she know where he was? obviously not, since she was aiming 45 degrees away from him, off to his right. He grinned and unholstiered his own weapon.
Jade glanced around frantically for her adversary, panic threatening to grow a little more every astrosecond. Maybe if there was someplace to hide.... just rocks. and he could be behind any one.
The shadowed firgure targeted the jet, sliding off the safety of his rifle with barely-audible click. Jade turned and fired.
"Wrong way honey." came the reply, and the Decepticon fired.
Jade screeched and ducked as the bolt flew over her head, skirting for a nearby rock.
"Yeah, and you missed!" she retorted.
"Oh, I'll make sure I won't next time." the male voice echoed around the valley, making it impossible to tell where it came from. A second figure crested the hill behind her, keeping himself out of sight behind the rocks. There were two of them, and one jet.
She didn't stand a chance!
Jade breathed harder, trying to get oxygen into her overheated systems and cool them off some, but it didn't seem to be working.
The Decepticon up on the hill hit a lose rock, that bounced down, freezing and ducking down to squat in place as it fell.
Jade turned and fired.
The shadowed Decepticon in the other direction, across from Jade fired from behind the rock, hitting where the stone had fallen to. Jade turned and fired, getting a suprised cry.
"Ha. Tag, you're it!" the jet crowed.
A burst of light lanced out, catching the femmeseeker in the back and knocking her forward. The sniper from above made his way down, and tackled her shoving her facedown on the ground. "And overconfidence can lead to one's downfall." the voice calmly assured her.
He tapped her hand with the end of his gun, and she let go.
"Tag."
Jade mumbled something uncomplimentary about Decepticons. The mech who was holding her down merely chuckled. "If I was one. and I don't see what interfacing with a toaster has to do with tactical interpretation."
Jade laughed out loud as he took his weight off her and helped her to her feet. "It's a figure of speech, Prowl."
Jazz appeared from behind the rock, limping slightly as he walked up. "Aw, come on. it's only a stun blaster. sheesh." Jade shrugged.
"I know, but didjya have ta turn the rock ta shrapnel?" he winced, pulling out a bit of rock stuck in his knee-joint.
"Oops. Sorry." Jade looked sheepish.
She glanced around. "Actually, we should run these tactical battlefield scenarios whatever you call them more oftem." she gave the pair a grin. "I haven't had this much fun since my friends and I played hide and go seek in the dark, back in highschool."
"Hide and go seek in da dark? I tohught that was a kids game." Jazz piped. They started to walk, as Jade explained. "Well, it is. But when I was part of the church youth group, they used to have these sleepovers... parties, basically, at the church, and around 1 am, they'd turn out all the lights, and run around in the dark throwing a big dodgeball... ermm... bouncyball at each other. there were threebouncy balls, and whoever got hit was 'it', and had to help them find everyone else. The last person to get caught was the winner." she shrugged.
"I see."
"although, it just started out with one 'it' person. Made good for sneaking around and stuff. It was a lot of fun." she grinned as the Ark's blast door came into view around the mountain, it's warm orange glow seeming inviting somehow.
Prowl nodded. "Perhaps we should do this more often, then. It would help the other autobots to be more wary of the possibility of the casseticons infiltrating the Ark, and help in our organizational skills in battle."
Jade headed over to the repairbay. Her wing being damaged might have been exaggerated, but whatever... or whoever knocked out her flight systems hadn't. They had been sneaking around, and someone shot her from behind. when she woke up, she couldn't fly or use her radio. She guessed they were toying with her, telling her to be more cautious, more carefull. She grinned and promised to get them first next time.