COLD AIR

By Snowblaze

Snowy's notes: Ghost is the copyright of GhostShadow. While Prowl(BW) and Snowblaze are copyrights of yours truly. All other BW characters are the sole copyrights of Mainframe, Hasbro, etc. This and all my other fics are for entertainment only. Please don't sue me I've already got a second mortgage on my cardboard box, :::kiddin:::=Þ

This fic isn't part of my regular arc with Wes and Slasher. But I would like to start a series with Ghost in them. Merry Christmas Ghosty! Hope you like it!

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Hmm... I never noticed that piece of metal hanging off the ceiling.

Primus am I glad I'm done my shift, Optimus really knows how to get his troops' chords to ache. After what happened today I'm just happy to be anywhere then on the battle field. Crap those Preds really can get on your nerves. Staring at the ceiling is quite boring, just laying here on my recharge berth, like I have no will to face the outside world again. Heh. I might feel like that now, but wait until the next time I met up with the Preds. I have to give a certain black Predacon a personal thank you for the lovely shoulder wound he gave me. Lousy bastard. Always throwing those swords of his around, screaming like a freaking chickenbot with it's head melting into burning slag. Cripes, ya think I'd learn better. Uggghh.... ow. My shoulder is surging pretty badly. Rhinox booted me into my quarters after I was done in the CR chamber. I remember being in there, feeling my systems getting repaired under all the electrodes. It was painful, but it helped me to get my shoulder junction working again. My wound was so bad my arm probably would've fallen off.

The look Prowl gave me when Ghost and I came in was typical. He immediately came to my side, codling me like I was made of glass. I swear one of these days I'll pull more than his black tail, he knows I don't like to be totally worried about. Still... I do love his concern about me. It shows how much he cares, I don't know where I'd be without him sometimes. But constantly saying "Snowy are you okay?" "Are you alright?" "You sure you're fine?" it can get a bit annoying. That's my mate for you. Huh. Ohhhh....Yeah that hurts. Stupid move snow leopard. Why would I turn over on my own shoulder wound? I think I'll just stay on my back. Blasted Preds, they always show up when you least want them to.

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Almost covering his optics in disgust, Rattrap flinched as he saw Ghost practice a few shots on the target droid. The blue laser shots sailing right by the small practice droid and contacting with Prowl's backside. The black and silver Maximal jumped forward at the feel of a slight laser blast to his backside, he yelped out a bit as it contacted. The training room only had four inhabitants in it, but all the optics were now fixed on Prowl as he turned his head back toward Ghost's direction with a look of annoyance written all over his face. His hands were in tight fists and his stance was stiff. Ghost lowered her sonic laser and put on her best innocent look, a sheepish grin decorating her features.

"Prowl, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to hit you." Her voice was sweet, trying to make the black and silver male forgive her. Prowl laxed his stance somewhat. He lifted an optic ridge, while his wings spread once to their full wingspan. "I forgive you Ghost, but I suggest that you train with the defenses on high." He grumbled a few more things under his breath as he bent over to grab his sword, placing it back into sub space when he had it in his grasp. Snowblaze was also in the room, she frowned at what her mate had said. She had acute hearing and she heard every word that he had grumbled to himself. Her wings tightened to her robotic form and she looked over at Ghost, the white femme hanging her head somewhat and her optics looked sullen. Snowblaze sighed inwardly. She knew that Prowl didn't mean to be mean, he was just under a lot of pressure. Optimus had assigned him to do most of the nightly patrols and he had been tired than anything when he came back at night to their quarters.

His optics would always be dim with recharge lingering over him. He'd come in, drop all his stuff in a pile (armor included) and he'd collapse on to their recharge berth. Then near the dawn he'd get all cuddly with her. Sheesh he certainly knew what he wanted. But Snowy hoped these late night shifts wouldn't last for too much longer. She didn't know how much more of this system she could take. Her thoughts went over to Ghost as she saw her turn to put the sonic laser back in the armory. "She just needs something more controlable. That gun isn't the right kind for her." Snowblaze thought. The femme saw her mate walk over towards her as he came in from the target range. Snowy had been leaning against the side of the one wall. Prowl came up to her still a bit annoyed. "Prowl it's alright, she's still in training." "I know, but I'm just really edgy today. Maybe you could help me end that though." Snowblaze rolled her optics. "Prowl you're too much sometimes." The couple continued to talk with Ghost and Rattrap were in sort of in a different situation.

"You see, this is how you properly fire a sonic laser." Rattrap had grabbed the gun from the armory after Ghost had put it back. He fired a few shots and the blue lasers went across to one of the target droids, impacting with its head dead centre. Ghost narrowed her optics a bit. "Com'ere I'll help you." The white femme stayed in place, Rattrap lowered the gun and pulled her over to his side. She was slightly smaller than him. He handed her the gun again, and she took it. He placed his own arm along with hers as she reached out with the gun, pointing it at another droid. Ghost was beginning to get annoyed, as he was holding the gun over her own grasp. "Pull the trigger, I'll guide you." Her finger pulled it back and the blue laser shots came out again and she aimed the gun herself. She felt him turn her aim over though to the centre of the droids head. "Rattrap let go, I can manage this myself." He shook his head slightly, "Yeah right. You've got to get some help or you might do something more to one of our comrades than just shoot him in the rear." Ghost's optics were fuming, was he always such an arogant idiot. She broke off her grip with him and whirlled around to glare him in the optics.

"I'm not a little recruit here for your amusement Rattrap. I am a soldier. I do know a thing or two about using a fire arm." He smirked and his posture went lax. "Oh yeah sure ya know. I can just see the next time you're on the battle field with this thing. You'd probably hit Optimus right between his optics other than Megatron." Ghost was growling slightly, "I think you know as much rat that I was once an Autobot, I had more experience than you'd ever have in a stellar life time. I can operate more than 50 types of laser canons, rifles and torpedoes. Don't tell me about how to operate a sonic laser. I haven't used a model like that in virons." "Oooo! I'm sorry Rambo-femme. I guess I misjudged you. But ya know Prowl and Snow over there are Autobots too, and they don't shoot a comrade dead centre in his ass. Primus Ghost ya think a femme like you would at least want some help. Sorry I tried to help, just don't come running to me the next time you hit one of our fleet if decide to use to that sonic laser again. I know for sure Snowy won't be too happy the next time you blast Prowl, probably in his codpiece this time."

"Go to the pit Rattrap! I would never fire on him in that way, I'm not that stupid. Besides Snowy knows it was an accident when I hit him by mistake today. You didn't see her ripping me to shreds did you? I don't need insults from you rat, let alone armory training!!" She yelled out, her voice almost cracking near the end. Rattrap could've sworn he'd seen some cleansing fluid in the corner of her optics. She turned away and stormed out of the simulation room, her pace quick as she went down the corridor. Rattrap just turned back to the sonic laser and fired another shot, blowing up one of the droids. He then turned around and slammed the weapon back into the armory. Fuming in disgust as he began to walk over the the other exit, he looked up to see Prowl and Snowblaze staring at him with raised optic ridges. "What are you looking at cats?" He sneered as he reverted to his rat form and left the room.

The couple stayed together in the lonely room, the droid still smoking from the blast. Prowl looked over at Snowy as she looked at him. Their optics still raised in question. "I'm glad we don't disagree that often, darling. As a couple Ghost and Rattrap must've set a record for the number of arguements they've had but remarkably stay together." Snowblaze smiled at her mate, placing a hand on his shoulder. "They'll cool off soon, I think I'll go get Ghost. Maybe she'd like to come with me on my recon mission this afternoon. How's your backside? Still hurt?" Prowl glanced back at his rear, smiling slightly. "Nothing I can't handle. I'll be fine." "If you say so baby. I'll see you later, I better catch up to Ghost before she leaves or something." She stroked his cheek gently with one hand, smiling. Prowl watched her as she transformed to her snow leopard mode, she flexed her wings once, then ran down the corridor which Ghost had stormed down earlier. He smiled to himself, then turned to see the giagantic mess of debris which he had to deal with. "Oh great."

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The cool air passed through her feathers and she sighed happily. Ghost was more relaxed now that she had gotten away from the base. The blue sky was gorgeous as the world below was just a white blanket. Snow had fallen last night and most of the lands surrounding the Axalon were covered in a glistening sheet of it. The cold air currents carried her futher ahead in the azure sky, more of her tension draining away as she took in all the sights around her. She could see out of the corner of her eye her friend doing a few air rolls in mid air. She smiled to herself, the antics of her comrade cheering her more, as she forgot about the previous arguement she had had with her *mate*. It was hard for her to get along with him sometimes. Still she couldn't help but feel love for him. They had argued most of the time they first met, but then they began to understand each other more. Lately though, Rattrap didn't know a thing about how well Ghost was able to fight. Today he'd takend away some of her dignity by saying she didn't know how to work the sonic laser. It made her angry but hurt in turn. She felt bad knowing that he didn't have much faith in her abilities. Her attention turned back to the snow leopard beside her, seeing the wind blow past her friend's soft gray fur.

Snowblaze ended her antics and straightened out her flight pattern. Her white and tan wings swinging around into gliding forward. "Ghost? Are you feeling better?" She smiled as she asked her friend. "I'm doing better Snowy, thanks for letting me come with you."

"Hey I need company and you can come with me anytime. Recons can be boring if you go all the time alone." The snowy owl nodded, that was true. "So did Optimus want us find anything in paricular?" The female snow leopard shook her head. "No, he just wanted us to patrol the skies. Hopefully we won't run into any Preds. I'm enjoying this, I don't feel like slagging those idiots today." Ghost adjusted her wings to match the wind currents. "There's a ceratin idiot I'd like to slag sometimes." Snowblaze looked over at the snowy owl, seeing her face contort with pain.

"I know how you feel Ghost, but RT doesn't mean half the things he says, his problem is he doesn't watch his mouth. Things will be alright. His problem though today was that he gave you the wrong type of sonic laser." Snowblaze flapped her wings to get more momentum."He gave you a quantom sonic laser, it was no wonder the laser hit Prowl today, you were using your knowledge of a regular sonic, not a quantom. Had you known it was a quantom, I know you'd use different settings. Rattrap can be an ass sometimes."

Ghost smiled, Snowblaze knew she could use weapons, it didn't take a maintenance bot to see that they both were excellent fighters. Ghost was about to reply to her friend's words when a sudden blast exploded right between the flying Maximals. Causing the two femmes to divide under the explosion. Snowblaze reared around quick, her eyes narrowing as she saw the source of the blast. Onyx Primal and Inferno were hovering in the air space behind the two femmes. "Your heads are desired by the royalty. For the glory of the colony you will BURRRNNNN!!!"

The insane red mech flew forward at the disoriented snowy owl, his hideous laughter burning both the Maximal femmes audios. Onyx moved forward to engage Snowblaze, his twin sabre swords in his hands, an evil smile on his face.

Snowblaze wasn't that vulnerable, nor was Ghost, and they both evaded the two incoming Predacons with ease. Together, they both flew up over the Preds heads both crying out "Maximize!" Their transform circuits whirred and beeped. Both femmes' gears shifting until two strong female rovots were in view. Ghost verred left to take on Inferno, while Snowblaze took after Onyx. The Preds started to move ahead too, a battle was about to begin.

"YOU WILL BOTH BURN FEMALES!!!" Ghost grabbed her rifle from her subspace, adjusting her wings to carry her on the wind currents. Her optics studied Inferno as his butt rotar kept him in the air. She fired her rifle several times at his head, one impacted on the left side of his face and he screamed out. His flame gun blasted out, she saw the fireballs zooming ahead in her direction. She couldn't let them make contact with her frame or she'd be set on fire. Ghost manuevered out of the way, the fireballs jusr barely passing by her torso.

Snowblaze was locked in hand to hand combat with Onyx, she was using all her strength to push him away from herself. He grunted back in fury as he dug his hands into her upper arms. Being within the air resulted in the two tumbling around in the sky. Not knowing which way their struggle would throw them next. The black Predacon glared at her with his blazing red optics, his teeth gritted and he growled loudly. Snowblaze extended her claws and dug into his armor, her blue optics a fire of hatred of the Predacon. She knew waht he had done to her mate when the land cruiser had been tested. He had slashed him to near death, Snowy clentched her teeth in anger. She remembered seeinghim come back to the base with his blue energon all over his body, her horror filled her when his optics went off-line. Dammit she really REALLY hated this particular Predacon. He drove her crazy with his pyshic swords, both which were in his hands as they continued to wrestle around in the air. Her claws dug deeper into his metallic flesh, rage driving her on as his green energon flowed out and on to her hands.

Inferno was now chasing after Ghost, she was flying at her top speed trying to formulate her

plan. She knew what she had to do to get him to the ground and perhaps off-line. The trouble was to get her enemy in the right position to pull it off. She stooped lower, knowing he couldn't manuever as easily as she could. Her small size gave her a major advantage over him. Below them was a pine forest, with enormous trees which were pretty tall. Ghost scanned the area with her optics, a smile crossing her face and her yellow optics flickered with amusement. "Stand your ground Maximal!" She turned around in the air and watched as he sailed by her and continued to fly toward the forest below, he had been going to fast to stop. Inferno yelled out in rage as he slowed himself down, only when he looked up, expecting to see the white femme all he saw was empty air space. His head darted around trying to figure out where she had gone to.

Ghost was clever, she had managed to revert to her beast mode in mid sky dive and enter the pine forest, concealing her form. She was now waiting in the trees, making sure she knew when to attack him. She saw him dart his head around trying to located her, his gun in one hand and his rotar blades still propelling him in the air. Those were what she needed to destroy or inactivate. Silently she maximized and turned on her stealth mode. She concentrated and soon she was able to shield herself, a cloaking field was around her form. Making her invisible to everything and everyone around. She used this to fly up right behind him, she studied his rotary blades, noting the several wires which lead from the blades to his body. She grinned widely, knowing he couldn't see her at all. Making sure she didn't come into contact with the blades, she reached down and pulled out a group of wires. His flying mechanism suddenly sputtered an puked out smoke. Banging and seasing up, the red Predacon stopped hovering in the air. Ghost let her cloaking field dissolve to see his expression as she saw her reappear as he was plummeting to the ground. His optics wide and mouth wide open screaming out insanely as gravity played itself out. Ghost wved at him as he fell, she turned her attention up at the comotion above her, seeing her friend going madly at the black Predacon.

Snowblaze roared out as she fired her feather torpedos, they were still in a wrestling grip, both fighting on with equal fury. One of the torpedoes blasted him in the shoulder and he yelled out crazily. "Oh so you want to inflict shoulder damage huh? Try this you Maximal bitch!" Snowblaze's optics narrowed as she tried to figure out his next move. Onyx moved one of his arms to break free her grasp. He swerved his arm around quickly, and in a blurr slashed

almost clear through Snowblaze's arm. She felt the blade slice through her metal and circuits, the pain was enormous. Screaming out in agony, the femme released the black mech. His sword was coated in her blue energon. Snowblaze decided she had enough shit from him. He slammed into her again, but his time Snowblaze reared up one of her knees and slammed him right between his legs. He stopped immediately, a frozen grimace on his features while she fumed at him, her one arm holding on to the enormous wound. She flinched from the pain, but she could tell her blow had sent him to near agonizing death. He let his optics go dim and he shuddered before giving off a series of screams, falling to the ground below because he couldn't concentrate to keep himself in the air any longer. Snowblaze let her optics shut off, she cried out again as her energon came out of her wounded shoulder in torrents. Her power dwindled and she tried to keep herself in the air as she felt a hand on her other shoulder.

"Snowy we've got to get you to base!" Snowblaze shuddered, her blue metal beginning to be covered in her blue energon, it glistened but jammed up some of her joints. She stuttered as she tried to make her thoughts made clear to Ghost. "Energy fading.....energon....blood...gone." Her voice stopped and Ghost helped to support her friend in the air. Ghost didn't need to think twice, she powered up her jets and the two femmes raced back to the Axalon. Snowblaze's energon flowing down her body and falling to the ground when it ran off her frame.

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We came back to the base and I can hardly remember what had happened from the last moment I battled Onyx to arriving at the Axalon. We both came into the command centre and we saw Prowl, Rhinox, Rattrap and Optimus. Prowl immediately got up and started to take Ghost's place as my supporter. His arms were gripping me pretty tightly. He, of course, said "Snowy are you okay?" I gave him a confused look. Look at me Prowl, what do you think? I had energon running down my entire bodyand he was asking a stupid question like that. Rhinox then told me to get in the CR chamber. Prowl helped me over there, but before the door wnet down I thanked Ghost, she was a good friend. Without her, I would've died. No way I can say she doesn't have any skills as a soldier. To me she's a damn good one. I remember seeing Rattrap go over to Ghost just as the door was going down. I heard Prowl whisper a sweet phrase at me, and his worried optics soon weren't in view anymore as the door came down.

Now about 8 mega cycle later I'm here on my recharge berth, I know that Ghost and RT musta worked something out by now. They always do, how could RT think she didn't know how to be a soldier when she helped me out today. If he doesn't storp it though I'm going to clean up his garbage filled room one day. Oh he'd go slaggin crazy! He can't stand tidy and clean rooms.

Thinks it's sick.

It's pretty dark outside, from what I can see from the skylight. Prowl should be done his shift soon, nothing I enjoy more than a cuddle. He'll like that, we're both tired out of our minds and we just like being together. I hope Ghost is getting a good recharge tonight. We'll see if our next recon mission is this interesting.

THE END =)