* * *
"Get some rest," he told Skyfire, patting his hull absently. He leaned against the white spaceship, too tired himself to argue if Skyfire told him to recharge too. But evidently the energy-eaters had taken more out of Skyfire than he thought as the spaceship just flashed his running lights in an affirmative, then went dark. With a whisper of metal, solar panels spiralled ope to almost completely cover Skyfire's dorsal side.
Blitzwing slid to the ground, turret screeching against Skyfire's hull. Bedamned energy leeches! They were nearing the end of their current loop, Skyfire was already low on fuel! The triple-changer had needed to transfer most of the contents of his fueltank into the spaceship for them to keep on flying out of the swarm.
But they'd gotten out, and they'd even found a good system to recharge in. The moon they'd set down on rotated at the same rate it revolved, so their side would always be in the sunlight. With the solar arrays aiding his generator, it would only take fifteen hours for Skyfire to get fully charged. Then Blitzwing could just collapse in his hold and leech off what his solar arrays collected while they soared through the system.
His chin thunked lightly against his chest. He was running on fumes, and he knew it... But someone had to keep watch. If anyone caught them now, they were dead.
Still, powering down his optics wouldn't hurt. He still had his other scanners up, after all.
* * *
"Tsk, tsk. Sleeping on watch, Blitzwing? I'm surprised at you."
That voice-! He knew that voice! Blitzwing shook his head to clear it, seething as he realized that he really had been sleeping on watch. "Look, you-"
"Oh, control your temper. There's no one to impress here." A transparent blue hand settled against his chest, and if he ran a few filters, he could just make out the rest of a red-and-white Seeker standing in the sunlight.
"Star-"
The Seeker lunged, and everything went black.
End