Noblesse (Tformers100; Silverbolt, Skyfire; Table: Landscape; Prompt: #9- Underwater)
Title: Noblesse
Series: Transformers G1
Table(s): Landscape
Prompt: Underwater
Rating: G
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Silverbolt, Skyfire, a pod of humpback whales
Word Count: 657
Summary: Silverbolt runs across something fascinating on a trip.
Disclaimer: Transformers belongs to HasTak and whoever else has gotten in on it while I wasn't looking.
Notes: Done for playswithworms' claim in this post, asking for Silverbolt and a humpback whale. I didn't specify which sort of whales they were in-story, but that's what they're intended to be. This was so fun to write.
Normally, Silverbolt wouldn't have been the one sent on an Arctic mission- even with his greater range, he wasn't made for this kind of trip. But Skyfire had just gotten back from a mission to one of Jupiter's moons (he felt a little bad for not even remembering which one, but Fireflight had accepted some sort of dare from Sideswipe, Air Raid was egging both of them on, and things had devolved into general chaos after that) and despite his limitations, he could still make the trip.
Which was why he was out here, cargo hold full of the rock samples Perceptor had requested, flying back home over the north Atlantic. This was really rather peaceful, thinking about it. Hot Spot had agreed to watch over his team while he was gone, the quiet sound of the waves below him was oddly comforting, there was no one to heckle him for flying as low as he wanted-
-And there was something lighting up his ventral proximity sensors. It was a few hundred feet beneath him, but still enough to startle him out of his thoughts. Confused, he ran another quick sensor sweep, but nothing returned aside from the open water beneath him. There weren't even any birds that could have caused it within a reasonable distance. Banking slowly so as not to hit anything he somehow missed, he carefully turned his visual sensors downward.
A small group of surprisingly large dark shapes moved under the waves, some of them almost a fourth as long as his alt mode. For a few moments he thought that maybe they were somehow Decepticons that his scans had missed, but then one surfaced.
Only a little bit of the body came out of the water, the visible parts colored a sleek black, though it didn't look entirely smooth. Following the movement came a large... Tail, maybe? He wasn't sure, but it didn't look like a head, and whatever it was attached to was moving the opposite direction. He really should have paid more attention to Hound's talks about the native fauna...
Fascination overriding his common sense for once, Silverbolt flung his sensors outward again, finding an ice floe that appeared sturdy enough to hold his weight. He managed to land without cracking his new-found perch or skidding off, transforming carefully once he was sure it wasn't going to shatter. He moved closer to the edge, wary of any noises the ice made as he moved, and turned his focus back to where the animals had been.
Another one came up, this time throwing almost its entire body out of the water, and he couldn't help staring. The beast was covered in ridges, it looked like, and the bottom- at least he thought it was the bottom, he couldn't be sure- was a rather bright white. Before the Concorde could get a better look, the black half hit the water again, the creature dropping back out of sight.
Silverbolt wasn't really sure how long he followed the group for; he hadn't looked at his chronometer when he landed the first time, and they were far enough north that this world's sun didn't tell him much. No matter how long it was, it was enough time for him to run almost out of fuel, and he sent out a sheepish comm to Skyfire.
Normally, Skyfire wouldn't be sent out to pick up Silverbolt- though Fireflight was a different story- from some odd place on the planet, which turned out to be a small Norwegian island in this case. //So, I'm guessing there's a good explanation?// He (only partially) joked over their comm line, landing carefully so as not to crush any vegetation.
The Aerialbot just grinned at him, voice filled with such excitement and wonder as he answered that Skyfire couldn't find it in himself to be even slightly annoyed with the reason for his impromptu trip. //You won't believe what I saw.//
Series: Transformers G1
Table(s): Landscape
Prompt: Underwater
Rating: G
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Silverbolt, Skyfire, a pod of humpback whales
Word Count: 657
Summary: Silverbolt runs across something fascinating on a trip.
Disclaimer: Transformers belongs to HasTak and whoever else has gotten in on it while I wasn't looking.
Notes: Done for playswithworms' claim in this post, asking for Silverbolt and a humpback whale. I didn't specify which sort of whales they were in-story, but that's what they're intended to be. This was so fun to write.
Normally, Silverbolt wouldn't have been the one sent on an Arctic mission- even with his greater range, he wasn't made for this kind of trip. But Skyfire had just gotten back from a mission to one of Jupiter's moons (he felt a little bad for not even remembering which one, but Fireflight had accepted some sort of dare from Sideswipe, Air Raid was egging both of them on, and things had devolved into general chaos after that) and despite his limitations, he could still make the trip.
Which was why he was out here, cargo hold full of the rock samples Perceptor had requested, flying back home over the north Atlantic. This was really rather peaceful, thinking about it. Hot Spot had agreed to watch over his team while he was gone, the quiet sound of the waves below him was oddly comforting, there was no one to heckle him for flying as low as he wanted-
-And there was something lighting up his ventral proximity sensors. It was a few hundred feet beneath him, but still enough to startle him out of his thoughts. Confused, he ran another quick sensor sweep, but nothing returned aside from the open water beneath him. There weren't even any birds that could have caused it within a reasonable distance. Banking slowly so as not to hit anything he somehow missed, he carefully turned his visual sensors downward.
A small group of surprisingly large dark shapes moved under the waves, some of them almost a fourth as long as his alt mode. For a few moments he thought that maybe they were somehow Decepticons that his scans had missed, but then one surfaced.
Only a little bit of the body came out of the water, the visible parts colored a sleek black, though it didn't look entirely smooth. Following the movement came a large... Tail, maybe? He wasn't sure, but it didn't look like a head, and whatever it was attached to was moving the opposite direction. He really should have paid more attention to Hound's talks about the native fauna...
Fascination overriding his common sense for once, Silverbolt flung his sensors outward again, finding an ice floe that appeared sturdy enough to hold his weight. He managed to land without cracking his new-found perch or skidding off, transforming carefully once he was sure it wasn't going to shatter. He moved closer to the edge, wary of any noises the ice made as he moved, and turned his focus back to where the animals had been.
Another one came up, this time throwing almost its entire body out of the water, and he couldn't help staring. The beast was covered in ridges, it looked like, and the bottom- at least he thought it was the bottom, he couldn't be sure- was a rather bright white. Before the Concorde could get a better look, the black half hit the water again, the creature dropping back out of sight.
Silverbolt wasn't really sure how long he followed the group for; he hadn't looked at his chronometer when he landed the first time, and they were far enough north that this world's sun didn't tell him much. No matter how long it was, it was enough time for him to run almost out of fuel, and he sent out a sheepish comm to Skyfire.
Normally, Skyfire wouldn't be sent out to pick up Silverbolt- though Fireflight was a different story- from some odd place on the planet, which turned out to be a small Norwegian island in this case. //So, I'm guessing there's a good explanation?// He (only partially) joked over their comm line, landing carefully so as not to crush any vegetation.
The Aerialbot just grinned at him, voice filled with such excitement and wonder as he answered that Skyfire couldn't find it in himself to be even slightly annoyed with the reason for his impromptu trip. //You won't believe what I saw.//