11 – The seeker party! (Heroes Live Forever)

Song for the chap – Lets get this party started by Pink and Situation nowhere by Big Audio Dynamite

Skywarp jumped up and down in excitement the next morning. Not only was he going to go shopping with TC, go flying with Aviator and play with Starscream-his-favorite-hugging-toy, but it was also his birthday!
If anything, ‘birthday’ was the one word that Skywarp understood completely. That’s why he was to be found on the couch in the living room, watching his favorite TV show and opening his presents. TC was cooking again with a giant apron on; Starscream and Alexis were still asleep and Aviator had just walked in.
“Happy birthday ‘Warp!” He chanted happily and tackled him. The two of them started play fighting around the living room while TC just looked skyward and muttered, “all right children, settle down.”
“What’s all the racket?” Said a new voice.
Starscream hovered in a foot off the ground and looked like he had just been plucked out of bed without his consent.
“Those two.” TC said absent mildly, now mixing some different energon together on a stove. Suddenly –
BOOOOOOOOOM!!!!
Starscream was thrown backwards and smashed into the lounge room wall, while TC was covered in black … stuff.
“Eh … heh?” He said, throwing his arms up in an awkward shrug. Just then Alexis entered.
“What was that explosion!?” She said, shocked to find TC looking like he had been dipped in black paint.
“Owww …” Starscream mumbled from being tossed upside down against the wall. He managed to pull himself up and hover again though.
“Little miscalculation, that’s all!” TC explained and saw Alexis glare at him.
“I was having such a good dream too!” She grumbled and stomped back up to bed.
Aviator managed to sit up after having pulled Skywarp off himself and said, “Is she always grumpy in the mornings?”
“Sorda …” TC replied. “So, you got the invites done for this party, Screamer?”
“Yup! Got about 20 or so responses too. Everyone wanted to come!” he said and flew over to get his own breakfast. He didn’t quite trust TC anymore.
After pulling a pack of red energon out of the cupboard, Alexis came back in and ran over to greet Skywarp. The purple seeker was too happy at all this attention and flew around the room. Aviator watched in awed fascination at how Skywarp could soar giddily around the roof and not hit a thing. Just then Skywarp transformed and ran to the door, he had heard the doorbell go off.
A few minutes later, Skywarp came in carrying a HUGE box full of party gear and energon and streamers and toys and cookies and-
*Skins bashes the narrator*
- CD’s.
And so the day was spent putting up all the decorations for Skywarp’s big party. Seekers from all over would be coming to celebrate, as birthdays only happened once every 1000 years. It would be too much hassle to do it every year. And it’d go on and on and on and on and-
*MiT bashes the narrator*
By night, at least fifty seekers were gathered in the seeker mansion. Alexis marveled at all of them; she had never realized just how many seekers there were!
Some were fairly normal looking … the traditional cannons and so on, but here and there was one that stood out greatly. One had wires sticking out of her head like really frizzy hair. She came over to Alexis and said “hi!”
“Hey!” Alexis greeted. “What’s your name?”
“Zap.” She said, and jumped as she saw one of the male seekers look her way. “I’m sorda related to the Great Starscream. So, what about you?”
“I’m his femmefriend at the moment.” Alexis said, laughing as she saw her red seeker trying to restrain Skywarp from hugging yet another poor soul.
TC was busy chatting away to the seeker femme’s on the couch. One, a silver and pink one with black highlights had taken a really big interest in the blue seeker, and was listening raptly to TC and her girls chat about the latest soups.
“ … So after the marriage Tidalwave goes and proposes to Jetfire, who turns him down because she is getting married to Overload.” TC explained, snickering. “And, if you will believe this, Wheeljack went and found Scavenger and now THEY are going out!!”
The girls laughed at the stupidity of it all.
“So’s …” TC continued, voice contorted with laughter. “So’s Jets went and got married to Overload a few eps back, and who should come along and ruin the happy moment?”
“Who?” Chorused the girls.
“MEGATRON!!” Jetfire laughed. “He recently got a job there and he goes and gets them to go on some strange and wild adventure though the Cybertron jungle! So yeah, that was the last episode.”
They all had a good laugh.
“I manage to get them from a hacker called Soundwave.” Said the pink and silver femme. “I can get them for you if you like …”
“Okay!”

Meanwhile, Skywarp took up the mike and started to sing. TC had had too much energon and swayed a bit to the beat, eventually landing on the floor. If anything that the femme’s loved and his brothers could be proud of Skywarp for, it was his ability to sing. He struck up a famous earth song and began to sing:
“If I had my time again,
I would do it all the same,
And not change a single thing,
Even when I was to blame …”

Starscream and Alexis sat outside on the roof; the latter was snuggled next to the red seeker, watching the fireworks in the sky as Aviator set them off. They listened to the music below, but they wanted a little time alone from everyone.
“Say,” Alexis murmured. “Skywarp is a good singer …”
Starscream chuckled. “The one thing we can actually be proud of, yes.”
“Surely though …” Alexis peered at him. “You love your family don’t you?”
“Of course.”
“Then you must love Skywarp for who he is too.”
“… For the heartache and the pain,
Got a cause throughout my years.
How I’d love to be your man,
Though the laughter and the tears …”
“What’s your point?” Starscream looked down at her, and she seemed to be nervous.
“Can … can you accept me as more than that? A … bondmate maybe?”
Starscream looked down at her a little shocked, but he smiled and said, “Hell yeah.”
Alexis smiled her beautiful smile and hugged him, proceeding to kiss him happily…
The song below changed, and Skywarp begun to sing:
“You are the light … that shines in everyone
The truth … that’s there for all to see
You are the voice … that speaks to everyone
You’re the heroes we all like to be …”
An enormous cheer went off as he sang. This was a song everyone knew. Aviator flew up and though one of the windows near him as he had set the fireworks to ‘auto’. He didn’t want to miss this song, as it was his favorite of all. If anything, it could be called Cybertron’s theme song.
“You live the dreams that lie within us all
With a passion … that cannot be denied
You bring the whole world together as one
And we’ll always be by your side …”
TC stood up suddenly and cheered with the rest of them as Shadow Fox joined up on the stage. They sung together, their voices rang powerfully over the crowd:
“And all the world will join in celebration
And all the world will share the joy you bring
And all the power of hope and inspiration
And all their glory the nations all will sing”
Below, Skywarp mentioned that this was for his brothers, and Starscream smiled.
“Heroes live forever
Heroes live forever
Always will remember
Heroes live forever”
A huge silver firework exploded. And everyone sung along, swept up in the joy of this song. Even if this was an earth song, nearly everyone on Cybertron knew it.
“Since the dawn of history!”
Since the dawn of history
“In searching for our destinies!”
In searching for our destinies
“To be the best that we can be!”
To be the best that we can be
“We will rule EVERYTHING!”*
“Heroes!”
Everyone screamed as the climax of the song drew up. The building seemed to shine as everyone on Cybertron listened to the song … they all knew whom it was dedicated to …
“Heroes live forever
Heroes live forever
Always will remember
Heroes live forever

Heroes live forever
Heroes live forever
Always will remember
Heroes live forever!”
“Heroes really do live forever …” Alexis thought as she watched the fireworks and listening to the cheering below them. She looked up at Starscream, “Did you do something a long time ago for Skywarp?”
“As a matter of fact,” Starscream said, a gentle smile on his face, “I did indeed. I saved him from the Death Eating Petro Rabbit.”
Alexis laughed.
Skywarp and Shadow Fox bowed to the audience as the song ended. Shadow wandered over to TC, who immediately blushed and made a space for her. Skywarp then proceeded to cut his energon cake. Starscream and Alexis came back in and joined in the gossip of the crowd.

And so the end is near, and the seekers partied long into the night. The adventures continued on though many times to come by the seekers, all to be written in the future.
For who could say that these seekers weren’t the best of all? Starscream, Skywarp and Thundercracker …

*Not in song. Lyrics changed.