KrissyKat91: Last chapter! Then I can move on to something else!

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Ch. 5: Sorrow

The two Seekers stared at each other for what seemed like centuries, then Skywarp, in a tiny voice, asked, "Why? Why did you betray us? I thought we were friends."

Sorrow filled Thunderblade's glacier blue optics. "You were friends with 'Thundercracker'. The fact is, he was a lie, an identity I made up so no one would connect me with the Stormblades."

Skywarp sucked in a sharp breath. "You're a Stormblade?"

"I'm the leader of the Stormblades."

Hey! What am I, boiled Energon?

"Well," he corrected himself, "co-leader, anyway."

Thank you.

Thunderblade sighed. "I'm sorry, 'Warp. I truly did want to be your friend." His sad optics suddenly grew frosty. "But it's like I told Megatron. You can't betray a cause you don't believe in." With that, he flew to where his sister was waiting.

"Wait!" Skywarp tried to get up and follow him, only to find that Lightningblade's electrical surge had knocked his equilibrium chip offline. He barely got a step before falling to his knees, processor spinning.

"Wait, please," he whispered as he watched his best friend—more than that, his brother—soaring on the horizon, in perfect harmony with Lightningblade, and moving further and further away from him.

He was still staring, sitting in the middle of a thunderstorm, when the rest of the Decepticons woke up a groon later. As the others complained about the Autobots getting away and water rusting their joints, all he could think was that the rain went well with the tears running down his face.

KrissyKat91: So. Yeah. There it is. The first fanfic I ever wrote. Not the first one I ever came up with, mind you, just the first one to ever make the perilous journey out of the dark recesses of my imagination. I have a prequel partially written to kind of explain some things, I'm just a little... stuck. I know where I'm starting from. I know where I want to end. I'm just a little lost on how to get there.