When All Lights Go Out I (TFP)

Chapter 84

Azura shook her head and glared at Miko. "Correction, none of this wouldn't have happened if you had not decided to run into the vortex, Miko. Don't blame anyone else, but yourself for this." Miko was not listening to her as she was too focused on being irritated. "Whatever..."

Azura looked back at Optimus when she heard him speak to Starscream in firm tone. He had his blaster ready, as did Bumblebee and Bulkhead, while Ratchet kept his distance, he would likely get his swords ready if needed. Starscream had heard Optimus, and Azura noticed that Starscream's body seemed to be extremely damaged. It seemed Megatron had done a number on him, but Starscream has decided to do something else, and it probably won't end well for him if Megatron finds out.

She flinched as she watched Starscream armed his missile and fired it at the autobots. She covered her mouth to keep herself from shrieking over watching the autobots needing to duck for cover. None of them were hit, but Starscream did not hesitate. And she could sense the dark energon as well. And it seemed there was dark energon flowing through Starscream's body now, and she didn't know if that was a good or bad thing yet.

However, she nearly burst into laughter after Starscream declared he could not be harmed due to the dark energon flowing through his veins, as Optimus fired his weapon and caused Starscream to lose his right arm. Azura wondered if that was Optimus's way of proving a point or something, because it was extremely funny. And Azura had to keep her laughter quiet, as she didn't want to be noticed by the autobots.

She watched Starscream duck for cover, as he probably realized that he should not have opened his big mouth. It was extremely funny to see him cower. And it's obviously given the autobots the advantage, even though they already had the advantage due to them having more numbers, and that Starscream was already damaged from Megatron's punishment. And as Starscream wasn't flying away, maybe he couldn't with his right arm severed from his body.

"Ugh!" Azura flinched and looked at Miko when she began shouting loudly, getting the attention of the autobots. "I can't believe you made me lose my phone!"

Jack scoffed as Miko was looking at him with daggers in her eyes. "How is this my fault?!"

Azura sighed as she glanced at the autobots, locking optics with Optimus who was looking at her with disappointment right now. And it seemed Arcee just alerted Optimus too, which seemed to be too late in her opinion. Azura knew that a ground bridge was being ordered, and she stood up, grumbling a little and looking at Miko with a frown for a moment. Miko also realized that the autobots had seen them, and she was even more irritated.

And in that moment, not one, but two ground bridge portals opened. Azura glanced at each one as she realized that Starscream would have ordered a bridge as well, and it just so happened to be opened at the same time. Azura did not know if that would be an issue, but she already guessed the bridge closest to them was the autobot bridge. She hoped so, as she did not want to end up on the warship right now.

Ratchet seemed to be surprised as well, but he turned with a frown and yelled at them. "Your four, into our ground bridge! Now!"

Miko groaned and Jack grabbed Miko's wrist. "Come on!"

"Ugh, but I want to stay!" She argued as she followed Jack down the rocky formation towards the ground bridge. "I don't want to go back, cause I'm going to miss it!"

"That's not up for discussion, Miko!" Azura hissed at the girl as she ran ahead of them into the ground bridge. "None of us should even be here!"

"I don't recall ever asking any of you to follow me!" Azura glared back at Miko and the girl shrugged. "It is true, isn't it?!"

Azura stopped briefly and turned to face the girl. "And we care about you, Miko! That is why we came! Not because we wanted to, but because we are..."

"Azura!" She flinched and whimpered when she heard Optimus shout at her. "Keep moving!"