THEIR WHAT! chpt 4
Orbital Cycle = 1 month
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It had been an Orbital Cycle since then and things had gone from odd to weird. First there had been the shock from when they had combined before being captured, Onslaught had brushed that off as a buildup of nervous energy being released.
And then there were the Autobots. Ever since they had escaped from the Autobot base the bots had been trying
to capture the group of cons. It had gotten to the point that Onslaught forbid them from leaving the Nemesis unless it was for an Energon raid, leaving three of the five members with a need to get out of the base.
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Currently Vortex was sneaking towards the way out of the Nemesis with his rotors twitching with excitement. However just as reached the controls to open it up he heard a voice.
“And just were do you think your going.”
Startled he turned around to find Blast-off standing in the doorway with his arms crossed. He took a moment to think before shrugging his shoulders and responding, “Out.”
“And your risking punishment by Onslaught because?”
“Aw come on Blast-off,” Vortex responded with a slight wine in his voice as he slid up to the other and put his arm over the others shoulders, “It's just gonna be a quick trip to the mainland and back, heck you could even come along,” at this he turned his head to look at the other.
Blast- off seemed to be thinking about it, but Vortex could see his shuttle wings faintly shake with a need to get out and fly, “Why would you want to get out.”
Vortex gave him what would have been a look of surprise had he not been wearing a mask and visor. Suddenly
he grabbed hold of the shuttles wings and turned the other to face him visor to visor. “Are you kidding! The Seekers get to leave whenever they want, the Coneheads get to leave whenever they want, the tripplechangers get to leave whenever they want, heck even Sounwaves little monsters get to leave whenever they want, and you ask me why! Seekers aren't the only ones who need to fly Blast-off, we're winged Cybertronians too!”
Blast-off just continued to stand there thinking with an uneasy feeling growing inside him.
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Meanwhile in another part of the Nemesis the other Combaticons were in the rec room doing their own things.
Brawl had challenged one of the other Decepticons to an Energon drinking contest. Swindle holding a betting pool over who would win, trying to sell something to some unfortunate con, and keeping a wary optic out for the seekers.
And off to the side of the room siting at a table with an Energon cube in front of him sat Onslaught. He was watching everything going on around him with a critical optic as he kept a close watch on the gestalt bond. But while doing all this he was thinking.
Swindle had mentioned a sale with the seekers going bad before all this happened.
He watched as Swindle seemed to tense up when one of the seekers entered the room. He didn't say what happened when the deal went bad but it's obvious. He should have tried contacting one of us. He felt a pang of confusion and what might have been fear coming from Blast-off for a second. Vortex what are you planning? Taking a big gulp of his Energon he walked out of the room. I can't let them know what I really think happened.
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“Hound to Mirage, I've got a visual of two of the Combaticons heading your way.”
“Roger that, I'll be expecting you to help out.”
“Of course.”
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Out on the coastline Vortex and Blast-off had just landed and transformed .
“See,” Vortex said as he looked around, “It wasn't so ba-”
He was stopped by Blast-off suddenly opening up his face mask, and getting on his knees to spew out what Energon he had in him.
Vortex just looked at him worried before speaking, “Um never mind.”
Then things just went down the toilet. For Vortex radar then detected an Autobot coming into the area.
Thinking fast he grabbed Blast-off as best he could and flung the two of them into the ocean.
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“Mirage did you see where they went?”
“Yes, they went into the ocean. Do you think we should go in after them?”
“Yes”
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Vortex was quick to find out that moving in the water was not as easy as flying in the air, especially when your dragging some almost the same size as you. It certainly didn't help that there were Autobots following them.
Quickly looking he spotted an underwater cave and dragged Blast-off to it as fast as possible.
Swimming up the two Autobots looked at each other before Mirage spoke, “What makes you think that we got them?”
“Simple, that cave they went into is a hologram.”
Upon overhearing this Vortex just about panicked.
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Brawl looked up holding his twelfth Energon cube. That had felt like fear coming from his part of the bond. Shrugging it off he went back to the competition, but not without noticing Swindle excuse himself from his betting table.