True Seekers

"There is a pretty good view up here of the old lake district," Bumblebee said as he sat down. Blurr stayed standing as he peered in the direction of Dinobot island. His optics then followed down the lake to the 'old district' Bumblebee spoke of. He saw some dilapidated docks nearby an abandoned train station. A short distance away was overgrown grass and woods.

The intel bot's optics saw three jets flying dangerously low in the nearby woods. A streak of neon yellow and light blue could be seen being lead by a bright green jet. They were flying too low and too precise to be human planes, "ThereareDecepticon'sdownthere."

"What? Lets go check it out!" Bumblebee quickly stood up again. Blurr held out his arm out to stop Bee from walking forward.

"Nonono, somethingbigishappening," the blue intel bot watched the Seekers intently. Blurr learned many things when being trained as an intel bot. One unusual lesson was that of Seeker flight formations. The trine lead by the bright green jet appeared to be going off to help distressed seekers. He could tell by they're steady but fast formation, low to the ground to not pull attention to themselves. When not dodging trees the three jets almost had their wings touching.

Near the train yard the clanging of metal could be heard. There was definitely some form of fighting going on. A cloud of smoke could be seen coming up between two run down boxcars. In a moment, a neon yellow Seeker was seen pursuing a ground bot. The bot was clearly a motorcycle by how he was swerving between the rusting train cars.

As the motorcycle made it to the woods three different Seekers came in the sky at amazing speed. These other three Seekers seemed to be chasing a ground bot within the woods. Blurr saw that those three Seekers were red, white, and teal in color. They were not flying low as the green lead trine had. They were flying higher and what appeared to be erratic. The neon yellow Seeker quickly joined them in the same formation.They flew above the trees, with one taking turns to dive down at the motorcycle. While the three Seekers were left above, two would fly circular around the other flying normal.

Bumblebee watched the spectacle like he was observing fireworks. He looked at the older bot awaiting an explanation. Blurr's optics seemed to be intensely analyzing the situation. He did not even notice Bee was looking to him for answers, "Should we call for backup?"

"No. They're-flying-in-a-frenzy-formation," Blurr began to explain. "Techincally-six-or-more-are-needed-to-be-considered-a-frenzy-but-I-have-a-feeling-more-will-be-joining. Its-best-to-leave-them-alone."

"We have to leave them alone because of the way they are flying? What if they're planning to attack humans? Or the tower?" Bumblebee spoke. Though he did not have the training Blurr had, the Seeker's flying formation seemed to instinctually put his combuster in knots. He did not like this at all.

"Go back to the base," commanded Blurr in a slower tone to make sure the yellow bot did not question his order, "Don't tell anyone what you saw. Bringing-your-team out-here-will-make-it-worse. Trustme."

"But, what are you doing?!?!" Bee replied as Blurr transformed into his car mode.

"I'mdoingmyjobasanintelbot. I-need-to-see-what-is-going-on-before-it-becomes-a-full-frenzy," explained Blurr as he then sped down to the old train station, keeping cover in what shrubbery he could. Bumblebee was left standing there with a pout.

"Awh man," Bee complained. He could just follow the blue car, but knew better. One speed bot could be stealthy, but not two. He sighed and transformed into car mode to start heading back to the base.

Blurr's engine ran perfectly silent as he barely slide between derailed train cars. He changed to robot mode as he got close enough to hear voices. A bright green Seeker was busy spraying Thundercracker down with a mist of the same color. It seemed to be a speedy cure for the cosmic rust the dark blue Seeker was suffering from.

Blurr observed a light blue Seeker awkwardly calming down Sunstorm. The golden Seeker seemed to be in a form of viral fear stimulator. He was acting much like his purple sibling. Sunstorm was trying to get to the green Seeker as the light blue one held him back, "Calm down there, Acid Storm will be with you once he gets your friend cured."

The green Seeker had a spectacle scanning mod must like Ratchet had. He did a scan of Thundercracker. His metal plating looked a bit weak in places. The overall damage from the cosmic rust was not major. The spectacle mod retracted as Acid Storm finally attended Sunstorm. The light blue Seeker let go of the shaking gold bot. The green Seeker kneeled down and put his arms around Sunstorm in an endearing way, outside of medical treatment. Blurr noted from his own intel scans that the two Seeker's were probably bonded.

The intel bot had not noticed Skywarp there until he came to TC's side. The dark blue Seeker stood, placing his hand on Sky's cockpit. He learned over and whispered something in the purple Seeker's audios. From Blurr's angle he could read Thundercracker's lips saying, 'I'm sorry. Truth is, it never stopped hurting each time.'

Blurr raised an optic brow at almost the same instant Acid Storm did. Apparently the green Seeker had a good set of audios to pick up whispers. He cradled the shaking Sunstorm while administering a data stick into his neck. He did not want these Earth born Seekers to feel like they were in any trouble for being attacked. Acid Storm spoke in a calm even tone, "What happened? We have four Seekers pursuing the 'con that attacked. We need to know how severely to handle him. "

"Th-they-they're Cybertronian Seekers, " Skywarp half whispered as he then bit his lip. He stayed close to his dark blue trinemate for protection, "what if there is a bit of truth to what Oilslick said?"

"What did 'Oilslick' tell you?" Acid Storm questioned calmly. Blurr's sensors picked up that the green Seeker had spread an open com to several other Seekers not present. He spoke to the Earth made bots as though he was speaking to a youngling. It was not meant to talk down to them, but instead be a calming air to what was going on. The green Seeker gently stroked the side of Sunstorm's face. The golden Seeker finally stopped shaking but did not seem completely aware yet. Skywarp looked up pleading without words for Thundercracker to explain it.

"He told me first," Thundercracker started out in his normal bragging way. His tone became more withdrawn as he went on, "Many Earth years ago he told me first, to get rid of any sparkling growths we may get. We're not really Seekers, so true Seekers don't want to have sparklings with us, right? "

TC's explanation faded out into a question. Part of him wanted what Oilslick said to be true. Not because he wanted to be rid of sparklings, but if it were not true, it meant he took those little lives for no good reason. And if he had done so, he had a feeling in his meta there was big consequences for it.

"What?" the green Seeker neither TC or Warp knew replied with a more raised tone. Sunstorm sat up on his own accord, but still kept Acid Storm's arm draped around him.He rubbed his temples with one servo as he did his best to listen into the conversation going on around him.

"H-h-he was trying to convince me to d-do the sa-same," stuttered out Skywarp. He took a step back from Acid Storm as though he thought the green Seeker was going to attack him at any moment. The scaredy Seeker could feel a thick tension in the air. Something big was going to happen because of this, he could feel it. He worried that the angry would be directed to his Allspark siblings for what they had done.

"Has your creator taught you anything?!" Acid Storm's voice was clearly raised, but not an enraged tone directed towards the Seeker Clones. He then looked to the recovering Sunstorm as the light blue Seeker seemed to be silently spoken to over com. The light blue Seeker then went up to join the formation in the sky. Blurr saw this and knew his time was limited to find out more about the situation. The green Seeker's optic's soften in concern as he looked to Sunstorm, "Did you partake in this too?"

"I did not want to lose my magnificent science bot!" Sunstorm answered as he hugged his arms around the kneeling Acid Storm. The green Seeker's optics flared brightly in anger. Skywarp took another step back from the Cybertronian Seeker, hoping his fears were not true. The nearby intel bot still listened in.

"Blurr! They're headed back to the train yard! They're kinda... herding that ground Deception back there," Bumblebee spoke over the intel bot's com. Luckily Blurr had his on silent so only he could hear it in his audios. The intel bot then stepped away from the scene he was watching to answer Bee's call at a whisper.

"Itoldyoutogobacktothebase!" Blurr said at his annoyed tone. He still tried to pick up what was going on with the Seeker's at the same time. The green Seeker was helping Sunstorm up. He did not appear to direct his anger at any of the Allspark made Seekers. Acid Storm was seen with his hand to his audios, perhaps talking over com to the Seekers in the air.

"But I got to thinking that you might need a bot on the outside to tell you what's going on! Ramjet and the teal Seeker fell back a little for a moment, but now they're still doing that formation you said they were doing... or something....," explained the yellow speed bot.

"Go-back-tothebase!" Blurr whispered back to Bee exasperatedly. He was trying to listen in on what the Seekers were still talking about. He missed the next parts of their discussion. It was then followed by Acid Storm and Thundercracker taking to the air, "If-they-go-into-full-frenzy-they-won't-care-if-anyone-in-their-way-was-involved-or-not."

Skywarp noticed the blue speed bot out of the corner of his optic. As Sunstorm came closer to the purple Seeker, Warp rushed to his Allspark sibling in a hug. His move was purposeful so the Megatron allied Seeker did not see the Autobot. Sunstorm gave Skywarp a confused look.

"S-so-sorry, I'm just really scared!" the purple Seeker whined. He nuzzled under Sunstorm's chin like he would one of his trinemates. The golden Seeker petted him on the back of the helm as though he was a youngling.

"Its going to be alright my wonderfully cautious friend, Didn't you hear what my beautifully intelligent Acid Storm said? They're not mad at us at all. It is only Oilslick thats in trouble," Sunstorm smiled in his usual way as he complemented. He did slip into a darker tone, "That treacherous piece of slag."

"If I have to go back to the base then you have to go back to the base," demanded Bee over Blurr's com, "If its so dangerous you shouldn't be there either!"

Blurr was about to argue that point. Being that he was an intel bot, it was his job to figure out such situations. However, he did gather up enough information to know the gist. Oilslick had taught the younger Seekers to destroy growing sparklings. The intel bot was taught that messing with anything dealing with Seeker's and their sparklings was a very bad idea.

"Whoa....," Bumblebee was heard over Blurr's com. It was followed by silence. This worried Blurr. One thing he knew about the yellow bot, was that he was rarely quiet.

"BeeBeeBEE! What-is-it-whats-wrong?!" Blurr still tried to keep himself at a whisper. He waited tensely for a response.