Ep0 - Hanger 13 - 'Summoning Lightening' - Closed

Fairwinds spun in one 180 degree hop to face the massive Decepticon, bobbing her head once in the affirmative. Shockwave made her spark feel cold, and though she fully appreciated the significance of her role in the planned annihilation of the Autobots, a small part of her was looking forward to this just to 'be' physically bigger than the intimidating mech. "Yes Sir - ready and waiting for the light show."

Fairwinds had straightened to combat-alertness at the infiltrator's, her Master's spark-mate's transmission, automatically absorbing and sifting through the data-subtextures and signatures and coming back with nothing positive. When his signal abruptly cut out, her spark leapt, with resisting dread, to where the scientist's cool processor had.

"Wait! Barricade-"

Then everything happened, and the processor that Megatron himself had seen modified and advanced swung solidly back to the Phantom.

The cassette was already halfway inside when Shockwave had spoken, her transformation cogs loosening to allow her avian frame to semi-collapse and crawl inside, snatching up the Fallen components as she went. At the semi-living processor of the ship, Fairwinds scanned the modules to find the AI's core before snapping her beak around the right nodules.

Her tongue, a splintered thing not unlike a miniature version of Soundwave's tentacles if they were bundled at the root, dove and pried inside and began to strip away the proto-matter of the processor itself. She didn't destroy the parts consumed but temporarily integrated them within her own processor, automatic programs boots up to learn the Phantom's 'language' whilst her body began to splice and root into the physical systems around her. Within three minutes she had become a part of the ship - they shared fuel, power, and now a processor.

Her comparatively small body deconstructed and stretched out amongst the Phantom's systems, until the plates that made her 'her' were only held together by skeletal strands of exposed protoform. Moving firmly into the space that the ship's AI had left 'vacant' by the electrical incursion, Fairwinds set up the last of her firewalls and buffers before her optics turned dark.

The Phantom thrummed to life again as systems restarted, and Fairwinds tracked the automated functions without any interference feeling the powerful expanse of the vessel. The tonnes of additional mass felt foreign but very much hers, and she had a disorientating sense of being too tall and too wide. When everything was back online, she nudged the array of sensors towards Shockwave, ignoring the wave of disorientation that came from the new feeds. Still integrating the audio and transmission systems into her control, Fairwinds pulsed the EM field once to notify the scientist that they'd succeeded.