Meet Moonbeam Chapter 17

Two jets flew through the sky towards Dinobot Island, one was white and orange while the other was green and blue and wobbled.

Jetfire noticed Deecee's wobbling and tried to help.

"You be do good, just even out and you fly perfect." He said.

Deecee made a few nervous whimpers as she wobbled.

"I-I-oh this is so embarrassing." She said in dismay.

"No, you is really doing well, you just need straighten out flight." He said, consoling her.

She sighed and began to straighten out, her wobbling falling to a minimum.

"I- am I doing better?" she asked.

"Yes, very, now we is almost there, remember practice?" he asked.

Deecee made a small breathy sound before replying.

"Y-yes, I can do it." She said, seemingly more to herself.

Luna did her best to be silent and forced herself not to make a face before she looked out of Jetfire's window nervously.

"Be you alright?" he asked, concerned.

She nodded and smiled, looking away from the water below them.

"I'm fine; I'm just not very fond of water." She said with a nervous tone.

Jetfire was quiet for a moment before lightly bucking her seat.

"You no need worry, I protect you." He said, his tone kind.

Luna smiled and patted his window affectionately.

"Thanks fire, I know you will."

They flew to a large crater on the side of the island and transformed. Jetfire caught Luna midair and landed on the soft earth before waiting for Deecee to land. She hovered in the air uncertainly for a moment before slowly lowering herself down, her feet wobbly.

"D-did I do okay?" she asked nervously.

Jetfire nodded and smiled.

"You do perfect, just work on wobble." He said, smiling affectionately.

Deecee blushed and looked at the ground before looking around.

"W-wow, this place is so…different." She whispered, full of awe at the sights before her.

Luna forced a smile and looked at Jetfire before he set her on the ground and she walked behind him.

Jetfire used a device to scan the area as he walked.

"I is seeing no Decepticon activity, but my patrol is for area and we find something maybe." He said, looking at the device.

Luna nodded, not taking her gaze from Deecee as she looked at the plants and trees curiously.

"U-um wh-what are these called? They look like the plants back there b-but their…different." She said frowning at the flowering bushes.

Luna walked up beside her and looked at the plant and she recognized it.

"It looks like a boison berry bush." She said.

Deecee looked at her in surprise.

"Poison?" she said, bewildered.

Luna almost gave her a cold look but she smiled and giggled.

"No no, BOIson, not POIson, it's a sweet berry, humans enjoy it, though the bushes can be considered a pest." She said, smiling.

Deecee frowned and looked closer at the bush before poking a pink flower with a digit.

"You humans name your plants very strangely." She said, frowning.

Luna almost frowned herself but she just smiled.

"We do, but that cannot be helped." She giggled.

Deecee smiled at her before moving to another plant and poking at it.

"What are these?"

Luna smiled and looked at it before shrugging.

"I'm not sure, though I know their very tasty." She said, smiling.

Deecee looked at it before smiling and looking at her.

"You organics can eat quite the variety." She said, smiling.

Luna smiled back, hiding any hint of venom she held.

"You have no idea." She said.

Deecee turned and went back to Jetfire and held his hand as they began to walk into the forest. Luna waited a moment before looking back at the bush.

"Nightshade…poisonous." She muttered, looking at the flowering bush and running after the retreating couple.

Luna heard a frightened cry and she rushed towards the sound.

"Deecee?!" she heard Jetfire shout, his voice distraught and confused.

Luna ran towards the sounds but she felt they were moving further and further away.

"Deecee where you?!" he called again.

Luna pushed through the shrubbery, she ignored any scrapes and bruises she earned just to get closer to Jetfire.

"Jetfire?!" she called, her tone worried.

She continued to move through the shrubbery but found she could not hear him anymore. She stopped and was about to call out to him again when she heard a deep clank and a thud. She rushed fearfully towards the sound, hoping it was Jetfire moving about. She was about to call out when she stepped out of the trees only to duck back and hide, her heart pounding in her chest at what she had seen. Slowly she peeked out from behind the tree and looked, a femme was holding Jetfire, she looked roughly his age and Luna could not see her face. She was red in color, golden swirls decorated her entire chassis, her protoform was black and almost looked like she had a gold ponytail. After a moment Luna realized it was just a decorative piece on her helm, she had long clawed digits and two cylindrical devices on her hips. Her pedes were backless from the top all the way down to her ankles. She reminded Luna of somebot but she could not think of who she reminded her of and she was about to risk stepping from the foliage when the femme began to walk, dragging Jetfire behind her by his arm.

Fearing for his safety she followed behind and she shook as her mind ran through possible scenarios and outcomes. A moment of fear made her think he was not alive but when she heard him make a small moan she felt her hope rise, even though he stayed unconscious as the femme dragged him away. Luna wondered if the femme was just going to help him, she did not see an insignia, or her faceplate, and that made Luna curious.

Luna followed the femme all the way to what looked like a blank wall of rock and she watched as the femme approached it. At first she thought the femme was going to climb it but she walked right through it and she realized she had walked through a hologram. Luna followed after them and ran to the hologram, looking at it fearfully before taking a breath and stepping forward. It felt no different than stepping through a doorway, change felt no different and she looked over her shoulder to see if she saw a wall. She was surprised that she only saw outside rather than flashing lights as she expected from a normal holoprojector, there was no sign from within that there had ever been a projector at all. She blinked before continuing into the cave, it was dark but she noticed a light near the end and she hugged the wall as she moved towards it, her heart quivered in her chest in fear.

When she came to the source she hugged the wall before ducking to a low boulder and peeking out from over it, she froze with fear as she looked around. The whole room had been modified into a temporary lab of some sort, none of the room's contents scared her, not the table, not the pile of data pads on it or the sharp looking tools,not even the femme who had her back to her as she fiddled with some sort of device. What scared her was Jetfire, he was leaning against the wall and he had stasis cuff on.

Luna had the urge to run to him but she only crouched lower as the femme moved towards Jetfire, keeping her back towards the cave entrance as she did. Luna squinted, trying her best to remember the femme, but nothing came to mind and she only watched as the femme hovered over Jetfire. The femme transformed her servo and held it to his helm, as if ready to shoot him point blank.

"I know you're there organic, come out now and I won't offline your friend." She purred.

Her voice was slick and catlike, graceful but it had a sharpness to it that suggested malevolence, and it made Luna quiver.

"You have three micro clicks…three…two…oooneee." She said drawing out the word.

"NO STOP!" Luna cried, jumping from behind the boulder.

The femme turned to face her and Luna stared in shock at her face.

"Y-you!" she gasped, recoiling in a mixture of disgust and horror

The femme smirked, her red optics glowed with malice as she sneered at Luna.

"I guess I cannot say I fooled you, after all you did suspect there was something wrong with me." She sneered.

Luna quivered and began to recite the words of the Allspark.

"Two are within, beware the one with a dark spark…" she whispered, shaking with fear.

Deecee looked confused for a moment before breaking into a evil grin.

"Two within? Beware the dark spark? Well now that would not be a message about me would it?" she cackled, her optics glowing with maliciousness.

Luna trembled in fear before glancing at Jetfire.

"Oh don't worry, organic, he will not wake for a while yet, and I don't plan on harming him." She said, her tone feigning innocence.

Luna continued to look worried; she felt that there was something wrong.

"What do you want from us?" she managed to say.

Deecee sneered, still holding her gun to Jetfire's helm.

"I want the Allspark." She said, her tone suddenly turning cold.

Luna looked at her and clutched her shard, fear racing through her.

"The Allspark is on Cybertron, you cannot get it from here." She said, confused and afraid.

Deecee smirked.

"I know that, I meant the Allspark shards left on earth." She purred.

Luna clutched her necklace tighter.

"I-I only have this shard, there are no others, they were absorbed into the Allspark." She said, trembling fearfully.

Deecee sneered before smiling at Luna with awicked look.

"There are more." She purred.

Luna was confused, what did she mean?

"They are here and in several places, you see I have a special connection to the Allspark, I know where it is and where its remaining pieces are." She smirked, her tone growing darker.

Luna felt shivers ride up and down her spine and she quivered in fear.

"Wh-what do you mean?" she managed to whisper.

Deecee grinned wider, taking on the look of a demonic looking cheshire cat.

"I believe you know exactly what I mean."

Luna shook and forced her mind to work, Deecee wanted the shards, but Luna had one and the others had been returned to the Allspark. The only thing left that could be anywhere close would be-

Luna's eyes grew wide as she began to realize what Deecee meant and her shivers turned to full blown bone rattling shakes.

"The shards within those created by the Allspark." She whispered, almost too quietly for Deecee to hear.

Deecee's crazy grin became a monstrous sneer as she watched Luna rattle.

"Bingo, and now, give me the shard." She said, holding out a servo towards Luna.

Luna bit her lip and started to take a step back but Deecee pressed the muzzle of her cannon to Jetfire's chest.

"Now." Deecee said coldly.

Luna was frozen for a moment before she slowly puled off the shard and held it in her hand.

"Toss it over here and he can go." She sultured.

Luna bit her lip and looked at the shard for a moment, she clenched it in her fist before swinging her arm and letting it fly towards Deecee. It landed in front of her feet, making a low tinkling sound as it landed.

Deecee bent down and plucked up the shard, examining it between her digits.

"Alright, now please, let him go." Luna begged.

Deecee clutched the shard in her fist and grinned evily; her cannont powered up and made a single shot. Jetfire turned gray almost instantly, though he looked untouched Luna was frozen in horror.

"Y-NO!" she cried, rushing forward.

Deecee kicked her, letting her fly against the wall with a painful crackling sound as the wall fractured from her impact.

Luna yelped in pain and lay on the ground, unmoving for a second before he began to sob.

"Y-you promised." She whimpered.

Deecee sneered and walked over to Luna, crouching behind her.

"Oh you poor little thing, such a pathetic sight you are. Now, I made no promises he could go alive, and that is your fault. You see my ability is to absorb and manipulate spark energy and because of that I can sense it.." She said, her tone as if telling a naughty student a moral lesson.

"Now I am only doing all of this because you were being negative about me, if you had not tried so obviously to get rid of me I would not have done this. So all of this is your fault, if you had only been a little more secretive I would have let him live, now I am going to have to destroy you." She sneered.

Luna slowly sat up, looking at Deecee with tear filled eyes.

"Oh, and by the way, Jetfire was too clingy for my taste." She sneered aiming her cannon at Luna.

Luna closed her eyes as the cannon began to power up inches from her face.

"Goodbye." She said cheerily before she shot her.
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Ratchet was in the medbay before his comlink pinged and he answered it.

"Who the frag is this?" he growled.

"Ratchet! Its Deecee!" deecee called, her voice panicked.

"Deecee? Wh-where are you?"

"I'm on Dinobot island! We were attacked by the Dinobots but we didn't get way in time!" she cried, she could be heard venting heavily on the other end.

"Hold on, I'll send in help, just hang in there kid, where are the Dinobots now?" he said, tracking her coordinates and sending them to Jetstorm and Jazz.

"I-I don't know, Luna led them away a-a-and I'm so scared." She whimpered.

"Alright, just hang in there, Jetstorm and Jazz are coming." He said.

"Hurry." She whimpered.
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Deecee ended the com and looked at the burning patches of the island, she sneered before smudging ashes onto her servos and pedes and holding a foot in the fire. She winced but held it until she deemed them done and quickly pulled them out before sitting on the ground as if she could not walk.

"too easy." She sneered.

She looked back at the burning woods behind her then at Jetfire who lay on the ground beside her. She stroked his white cheek and smirked.

"I really enjoyed using you, I hope you realize what I did." She cackled and looked to the sky.

Her face losing any sign of malevolence and becoming innocently scared as Jetstorm appeared overhead.

Jetstorm landed beside them, his visor wide in fear as he crouched beside his brother and put a servo to his chest.

"I felt brother in pain; is you okay?" he asked, looking at her.

She nodded then began to sob.

"Th-they came at us! Form behind! J-jetfire was hot down immediately a-and they burned my feet." She whimpered.

Quickly he moved beside her and put his other servo on her shoulder.

"Be calm, where Luna?" he asked, looking her optic to optic.

"Sh-she ran off to lead them away, i-im so afraid." She whimpered and hugged him.

"I'm so scared."

He wrapped his servos around her and patted her back.

"It going be okay, we find Luna, I wait for Jazz and go find luna, okay?" he asked, looking at her.

She nodded and whimpered, cuddling up to him fearfully.

"D-do you think shes okay?" she asked.

He leaned his chin comfortably on her helm.

"I is sure." He said, his voice quivering slightly.

"I hope."

As he held her she made a wicked grin, her red optics glowing for a second before turning blue again.

"May primus be with her."