Transformers: Ambitions of a Velocitronian

Universe: Transformers: Prime
Primary Characters: Wildfire
Secondary Characters: Gearstrike, Blurr, Override
Genre: Racing

Mediziner's Notes: Christmas gift for the epic Spiketail94. C: I had quite a lot of fun doing this and I hope you'll like it, this took me forever to come up with something that I thought would be fun to do involving Wildfire... o: Also I'm sorry if the backstory on Wildfire and Gearstrike aren't accurate... But because since both you and Mich don't have a full solid backstory to your OCs officially, I kinda had to mix up what you both have told me months back... Nonetheless I hope you'll still like it...

Enjoy!

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Wildfire was beaming with pride as she looked up at a large poster, there was a special Speedia 500 race going on within the next cycle, that it was time that a new leader is to take Override's place, as eons of her ruling was starting to come to an end. 'I'll definitely become the new leader of Velocitron! I've trained and trained, and I feel that I'll be able to outrace not just that annoying thorn in my side, but also the leader, Override... I've been waiting for this moment, for the time to achieve my main goal. Only then, will this catch my Father's attention, and get a more higher chance to seek him out.' She thought to herself, determination boiled within the small minibot's circuits, Wildfire was indeed determined to become the next ruler no matter the cost.

She spent the entire cycle training and training after having signed herself up for the race, before retiring for the day and was greeted by Gearstrike, and her Father.  Wildfire greeted them in return, and she was in no way related to Gearstrike and her Father... At least, by life force. Overall, she never knew her creators as she was abandoned... But she then knew that her real Father is alive, and somewhere within Velocitron, but unknown where as Gearstrike's Father was long ago, close friends with them. Ever since when she became of age to learn about that she was abandoned, it angered her heavily... And was determined to find him.

In addition, she is also half Cybertronian, and half Velocitronian... As she had a Cybertronian Mother, and a Velocitronian Father.

The only way Wildfire herself could think of, is to achieve her goal in becoming the next ruler of Velocitron. She dared not hold anything back when the time came.

'I'll make you suffer just as you've made me suffer by abandoning me... Father...' She muttered silently under her breath, clenching a servo into a fist after having retreated to her room for the night. 'Just you wait and see...'

...

The following morning, Wildfire was up early which was unusual for her as she had been known to sometimes sleep in. But it was clear to Gearstrike that she only did this to train and prepare for the upcoming race, which is now today within a few joors.

Coming to a drift, Wildfire transformed as she came skidding to a stop as she panted heavily, her joints ached and were sore from her heavy determination in her training... Today is the day...

That she wouldn't hold back, and had to be serious about her goal.

"Wildfire?"

Turning around, she could see Gearstrike having found her at the empty track she's using, her older sister having brought her cubes of energon. Wildfire was just about to shrug it off and go for a few more rounds of training, until when her systems screamed for refueling.

She also had a different side to her which only was around Gearstrike, and her Father alone as she felt that it would wreck her pride as she found such a side of hers as a weakness. "Thanks, Gearstrike." She said casually, taking a seat as she sipped her cube. All was currently silent until when Gearstrike questioned about the big race, and that if she really is set up on doing this. "I've been waiting for such a day to come, Gear'... I can't back out on this... And if I'm going to get my Father's attention, I'm going to have to achieve in bigger goals.

"Even if you did gain your Father's attention and sorted things out, what will you do after that? Will you rule over Velocitron responsibly? Becoming the next ruler's a tough job, you know... But Override makes it look like she has no problem with it, maybe Blurr--"

"Don't even mention about him!" Wildfire snapped, snarling briefly before gasping, as she sighs and looked away. "Sorry, just the mentioning of that Mech is a thorn in my side... He's the only one I've never been able to outrace..." She said with a sigh, feeling unsure if she'd be able to pass Blurr once and for all... He held the title of the most fastest racer second to Override for his incredible speed, and that he appeared to others like a colourful shade of blue as if blurred into the environment like a ghost, and was difficult to snap a shot of... Also one to keep in mind of his timing program made him appear naturally to speak in a very quick voice.

Once Wildfire had refueled, she stood up. "I should go, the race is starting within a joor." She said, serious and determination coming back to her as Gearstrike smiled with a nod.

"I signed up to become a healer for any of the racers that may get wiped out, so I can get a chance to watch you." She said with a smile, which Wildfire seemed a bit surprised.

"You're not going to get a spot on the benches?"

"Nope!"

Wildfire then just sighed with a smile, shaking her head slightly. "Well, if you plan to do that, I won't stop you, big sis."

Without further ado, they transformed and raced towards the main racing course as they went their separate ways, to their destinations. Wildfire raced into the room that held all of the signed up racers, Override was already beginning to explain to them about the type of race they've signed up for. It was no surprise that Blurr as always had signed up to every single race as Override would... But the Femme always participated in every single race that was being held due to tradition. The minibot was also quite impressed that even with age showing in Override's armour and protoform... She always knew how to appear as if her mental age was of no concern to her at all.

As the race began, everyone gave themselves room to transform and drive out to the starting places as the speaker called out for the racers to come out.

The crowd cheered, and the sounds of engines revving filled the air as Wildfire revved hers, despite a few of the other racers laughed at her, and especially about how others kept saying that she looked more like a Femling than a full grown Femme... But as much as Wildfire wanted to give them a piece of her mind, she had to shove it aside and hopefully achieve her goal.

'I won't let anyone stand in my way...' Wildfire thought to herself, as her visual focused briefly at the back of Blurr's alt mode. 'Not even you, Blurr...'

As the countdown began, everyone's engines revved louder and louder as it neared the green... And when it finally glowed, the violent sounds of tires screeching as they slammed on the gas sounded loudly.

And were off...

It started off slow for Wildfire, as she was trying to pick up speed as fast as she could, though her engines wouldn't allow that quickly, and would cause her engines to make odd whining noises so she had to slowly work her way up. Thankfully, her body was quite thin and fairly hollowed for a Grounder such as herself, but she mainly liked to think that her small size, or her Velocitronian half is what makes her rather fast. She easily passed various racers and even outsmarted some that attempted to block her way from continuing.

Coming to the first obstacle course, everyone was beginning to decrease some of their speed due to the upcoming drifting which was coming up ahead inside of a tunnel, riddled with various paths to confuse and trick racers. Some were trapped with oil slick, or patches of sand or water to cause a major decrease in speed, or even tunnels that contained magnetic asphalt floors. Many have tried to follow the paths Override or Blurr took, as they knew the race better than any other Velocitronian ever would, but they were much too fast... Often easily loosing sight of them whenever they took a quick turn into one of the other tunnels.

Wildfire mentally bit her lip, she had to carefully choose her paths wisely... If she got any of the tunnels containing magnetic fields, it's game over for her...

'I can do this... I'm not going to let any obstacles get in my way...' She murmured to herself in her thoughts, taking paths she's seen Blurr or Override take at some points, when she took a wrong path, there was one racer that had gotten themselves stuck in a sand pit. Cursing herself, Wildfire leaped upwards as she transformed, landing on the roof of the racer before springing herself forward over the pit, followed by a twisting backflip before smoothly landing as she transforms back into her alt mode and sped on forth, followed by the echoing screech of her tires.

Keeping focus, Wildfire felt heavily relieved that they finally came to the end of the obstacle course, having not gone through any of the tunnels containing magnetic fields as the tunnels connected to the main large racing track.

'Phew...' She sighed in relief, but it was not over yet as she had to struggle to catch up to the two racing leaders, she had three other racers who struggled to try and pass them, but to no avail. The sight of this gnawed at her to make fun of them failing to surpass the main leaders, but for once kept her mouth shut. Up ahead, the road was beginning to ascend slightly up much like a ramp, but there were no track rails to prevent if the racers were to go off the course... Fortunately, the sides contained nets to catch anyone that may have fallen.

The racers began to decrease their speed and began to twist faintly into a drift, the small Femme felt worried as she could see herself nearing the edge... She had to keep away otherwise her entire training could have gone to waste... But this made her feel a lot more uneasy when one of the racers was beginning to near her and one slight bump could send her spinning out of control. Wildfire had to break from drifting to allow the other more room while she quickly engaged in another drift.

As it finally finished, the ramp began to lead downwards, but into the Diablo Desert, the most dangerous hazard of the course as due to sandstorms known for blinding the visual and optical sensors, as well as it was known for being home to quicksand pits... One slip into any of those pits, and you're gone for good...

The sand was beginning to decrease everyone's speed, as it was what it also served it's purpose... To make the racing course even more difficult and tricky to avoid the quicksand pits...

Some of the racers have nearly been unfortunate, but have recovered either from other racers helping them out but at the cost of being out of the race. While they didn't mean to leave anyone to be lost forever in the quicksand, but they had to be within a range of the other racers... If they were too far, it meant disqualification. Wildfire fought for control on the sand, she had completely forgotten about this course, and never bothered to train herself to race off the track... The sand is very slippery. "Can't... Afford... To lose!" She grunted, her vision already decreased from the sandstorm having hit the track.

Then taken by surprise, one of the quicksand pits formed under one of Wildfire's tires, which she tried to drive out of... But before her second tire could meet the pit, she was given a bump forward, sending her off the pit and in front as her wheels met the asphalt. Her vision began to clear, but she couldn't see who gave her a boost.

'Whatever who that was, I've got a race to beat!' She thought, and sped on forth... Luckily she was nearing Override and Blurr as the two of them fought for the lead. Though they broke away from each other as a turn neared, and they began to drift... Followed closely behind by Wildfire as she's catching up quickly. The minibot's speed was growing each second once they had finished the turn, and far ahead in the distance...

Is the finish line...

'The finish line!' Exclaimed Wildfire in her thoughts, needing to press on forth harder than ever to outrace both Blurr and Override. So far Wildfire had made progress in passing Blurr, but now surpassing the ruler of Velocitron was the most difficult part ever to do so... And she could feel her engines and circuits ache from going faster than her usual max speed, but dared not to stop. Determination roared like a raging fire burning through gasoline. Though there was trouble, and Blurr spotted what looked like smoke coming out of Wildfire's engines.

"Stop!" Cried Blurr. "You're going to catch fire!"

"I don't care what happens to me!" Wildfire spat, as she pressed on forth, and Blurr couldn't catch up as he hit his max speed. Override could see the smoking minibot catching up to her fast, finding Wildfire completely crazy to overwork her systems and this proved to be not only rather crazy, but found Wildfire had the guts to catch up to both her, and Blurr.

Override's engines roared, which traveled through the skies as she pressed harder to distance herself from Wildfire, but was taken by surprise when she was catching up more and more... Until when suddenly she was taken by surprise when her engines began to catch fire... Which prompted Override to swerve away, almost nearly losing control of herself... But this had brought Wildfire into the lead, despite leaving a trail of smoke behind her.

'I'll win... I'll win... I'LL WIN..!!!.' She thought to herself... And was drowned in the cheering crowd when she felt her tires passed the finishing line. Wildfire screeched to a stop as the sound traveled into the skies... Having left trails of fire behind her as she Transformed. A couple Velocitronians came to put the fire out before it could cause serious damage to her engines. She looked over at the large screen to see who had won... And she beamed with pride that she ended up surpassing Override as a smug looking grin stretched across her face.

"I've won... I've actually won!" She cheered as others came to congratulate her, especially Gearstrike.

...

"I've won... I've won, Gearstrike... I've beaten Override..." Mumbled Wildfire in her sleep, but was then shook awake by Gearstrike as she had brought in a cube of energon for her.

"I won the race!" Wildfire screamed as she sat up forward quickly.

"You won a race?" Questioned Gearstrike, which Wildfire nodded. But...

"Wait, this was all a dream!?" She exclaimed, but then dropped completely into depression... She had forgotten about her damaged cog, and not only that but her systems that connect to the cog made her unable to Transform anymore, even with a new installed cog... "And I thought I'd get the chance to find my Father if I got his attention... Ugh..."

All was silence as they sipped their cubes, until the two half sisters decided to start their usual day in Velocitron.

'Someday, I'll get his attention...' Wildfire thought to herself.