Disclaimer: I do not own the Transformers, they are owned by Hasbro. Aquaformer, Starblast, Airstrike, Spectra, and Showoff are my creations. Scarclash is the creation of and used with permission from :icongshepherd17:. This is a prequel to Old Friends to the rescue, talking about the after effects of the supposedly "failed" mission of Aquaformer and her crew. This is strictly a fan fic. No flames or harsh comments. Constructive criticisms welcome. Enjoy!

Aquaformer, severely injured yet online, looked all around her, there was nothing left. No Decepticons, No Autobots, no nothing. Well, that was not exactly true, as the hollow empty shells of transformers lay around her, all femmes that had been sent on this most secret of missions, and the only sign of life that Aquaformer picked up was a weak signal not too far away. And in following the weakened signal, that was when Aquaformer got the shock of all shocks – there was her friend, Scarclash, barely clinging to life. There were a few lifeless shells of cons, but far fewer than Autobot femmes who had accepted this mission to help the Autobots defeat the cons and ended up giving their all for the Autobot cause.

Upon reaching her friend, Aquaformer looked as she could see wires and energon lines bent and twisted if not shredded and ripped apart. And while not a medic, having been trained as a nurse, Aquaformer was able to get the worst damage bandaged up, but she knew deep within her spark it would not be enough to save her friend until help arrived. And that was when Aquaformer remembered secret knowledge that had been placed deep within her own processor. And with that information, Aquaformer put Scarclash in a stasis lock that would help keep Scarclash alive while they waited for help. Aquaformer could only hope that either help would come soon or that the knowledge would be powerful enough to keep her and her friend's sparks online.

And as Aquaformer scanned over the area, she saw her all femme fighter crew that she had been leading laying dead all around her. She had lost many other friends during this deadly mission. Amongst the carnage were the lifeless forms of her friends Starblast, Airstrike, Spectra, and Showoff as well as many others. She had been leading a crew of 19 bots, and as the captain and commander of the mission she made the number an even 20, all femmes, in hopes of finding out certain secrets about the cons supposedly abandoned base. The only problem was that the base that Aquaformer and her crew had found was occupied, and it was only through some miracle that Aquaformer was able to injure Megatron enough to get him to call a retreat, but at what cost, as 18 of her crew was dead, Scarclash was dying, and Aquaformer herself was running low on energon, as the wounds she had sustained were leaking out the energon she was trying to conserve.

For days, Aquaformer used the energon that she could get out of the dead bots all around her, as she never gave up hope that she and her friend Scarclash would be found. Aquaformer knew that in the stasis lock that Scarclash was in, the dragon would neither lose energon nor require any energon. This left one less worry on Aquaformer's mind as she woke up day in and day out, hoping that Autobots would come to rescue her and her one remaining crew member.

But as the days went by, Aquaformer's hope waned, and having been attacked by Starscream and other Aerial Con bots as well as being Ambushed, Aquaformer felt her life force start to change. The cons, believing that she was about to die, left her to wallow alone in agony, none of them realizing that Aquaformer knew how to repair some damage, helping her to remain online longer than even she thought she would be able to do.

But, soon the energon in the lifeless carcasses ran out and Aquaformer found no more energon. She was getting weaker and weaker, and then she reached deep into her spark and processor, taking knowledge that had been there for who knows how long – a knowledge that very few had, and that all thought was none existent as none knew anyone who contained this precious knowledge. It was a knowledge that could turn the tide of the war. And with said knowledge safe and secure in her processor, Aquaformer positioned herself next to her friend that she had placed in stasis, and soon fell into a deep stasis lock that would preserve her own spark.

And for many, many years, Aquaformer and her one surviving crew mate remained on that deserted moon with the shells of lost comrades around them. Aquaformer and Scarclash, trapped in suspended animation and stasis lock knew not how much time had passed, as their bodies, badly damaged and just barely reading Autobot signals, just waited on where they had fallen. Aquaformer knew deep inside that someday they would be found and that hope all with the knowledge kept her spark going. And the limited amount of that hope and knowledge that Aquaformer had shared with Scarclash, helped keep the dragon combat femme's spark online as well.

And then, upon that planet after the big war effort that Aquaformer and Scarclash had been part of was over and in the past, and the cons had been defeated, or so it was thought, the abandoned moon base of the cons was destroyed and the lifeless forms of the 18 femmes that had been killed as well as the few Cons that had met their maker were removed, but no one was able to find the commander of the mission Aquaformer nor her first mate, Scarclash – both of whom had been moved away from the others by Aquaformer herself. And since it could not be confirmed that the two were alive or dead, rumors of their valor spread through the Autobots. And without knowing it, Aquaformer and Scarclash became old legends of the old war that had been fought.

Meanwhile, on the very moon that Aquaformer and Scarclash were on, the Autobots eventually built a space bridge, as since it had been a previous base, it needed to be monitored. But it was not until a rogue prisoner broke out of the Autobot brig on Cybertron that Aquaformer and her friend Scarclash would be found, heavily damaged but somehow still miraculously online. And that would lead to a whole new set of problems for Scarclash and Aquaformer, who once reactivated, would realize that the knowledge that they possess, particularly Aquaformer, could mean the end of the war or the end of the Autobots. It was all who could get to the information first.