Blind Jade
It had been a simple neough mission, stop the Decepticons, fly around and play laser-hockey with Starscream and the other jets until Megatron called a retreat. It would have been fine had there not been only five Autobots and backup hadn't arrived yet. Megatron was allready leaving, so it made no difference.
That is, until megatron turned and fired a parting shot. Jade transformed going into a feet-first screeching halt midair, her favorite maneuver, and the trio of seekers streaked past her.
Unfortunately, that was when Megatron decided to fire at her. The jet screeched and hit the ground. They were somewhere in Canada, and it was a few miles to the Ark. Their fuel reserves were getting pretty low, and it was getting colder, being about 5 in the morning. Jade suspected the rest of the Ark was asleep right now in the relative warmth of the depths of the mountain volcano the Ark resided in. She wished she could be there right now. The jet hit facefirst, shattering her canopy. (again). she cursed aloud. Shadow ran up, and all Jade heard was footsteps. She reached for her backup guns, but someone grabbed her arms from behind. She instinctively stamped on his foot and elbowed him at the same time turning trying to deliver an open-palmed blow, buit Prowl dodged it easily. "Jade! calm down!"
She stopped. "Prowl?" she looked around, but only saw darkness. "What happened? why can't I see?" Two more sets of footsteps, off to the left. She turned her head slightly at the sound. Shadow hissed. "oooh. that had to hurt."
Wheeljack winced. "I'm suprised you're still awake." he came up, putting a hand under the jet's chin so she couldn't move her head much. He looked for a second, then moved something and the jet cringed at the sharp pain, like someone was trying to peel her forehead armor off. "Hold still." wheeljack admonished gently. Light hit her optics. Nothing but an ocean of blue light. Like being underwater. She could make out dark blots where her friends might be. "Great. lovely." wheeljack 'hmm"-ed again. "How interesting." he said. "What?" Shadow waked up, making sure her friend was okay. "You're lucky you were that far away." Wheeljack pointed out the shattered remains of optic glass on the ground, and picked one of the peices up, some sort of melted clear material hanging from it. "If you had been any closer, you could've been killed, or permanently blinded." the jet just nodded.
Shadow looked at the glass. It was blue. The clear material melted to it was yellow.
"We should get back to the ark." Prowl advised. "Need a ride?" shadow asked. "Yeah, sure." jade nodded. She could make out a slightly darker area where shadow was, and walked forward, using her hands to dtop when she reached the dragon. She climbed on and Shadow took to the air, while wheeljack and Prowl led the way on the ground. Sunstreaker was none too happy being on gaurd duty when they got there, but decided not to gripe since Prowl was with the group. He retook his seat on the rock outside the Ark's main door, and pulled his waxing cloth and can of wax out, and picked up where he had left off polishing himself.
He mumbled something about "This job stinks." then he noticed Prowl was out of audio range, added. "It stinks like a rotten fish!"
his commline came on. "don't think I didn't hear that." Sunstreaker looked up and flipped off the security camera (gave it the bird)
okay... whew! that was hard, trying to get the rotten fish in there! they were nowhere near the ocean or any water the whole time... heh. I would like to see Shadow's reaction to Jade having the equivalent of contact lenses, though. (they're why her eyes are green and not blue. They allow her to see against the sun while flying, something lika 'gamma filter' or something-or-another, I'm not really sure...)