Sometimes there were days when Prowl just needed to get away, and most of the time it was Bumblebee's fault. When those days came he would go to the one place the others, sans Bulkhead, didn't know about: Dinobot Island. Sure the Dinobots could be rambunctious, but they never purposefully annoyed him. When Prowl arrived on the island he was met with the strange sight of a tall blue fembot casually chatting with Grimlock. Normally he would just chalk another Cybertronian on Earth as simply an odd occurrence, but this one's size suggested she was a Decepticon. He slowly got closer to see exactly what was going on, and used his hologram generator to disguise himself as a tree.

The fembot was slightly bulky, her chassis was probably built with strength and power in mind. Her armor was samurai-esque with purple highlights and on her chest had the Decepticon emblem, confirming Prowl's fears. They barely managed to deal with Starscream, how were they going to deal with this Decepticon? Why was she even here?

"So, my strange friend, how exactly did you end up on this island?" She asked Grimlock.

"Me Grimlock was brought here with other Dinobots by a car-robot, after Dinobots lost fight to car-robots."

"That is a fascinating story." She pulled out a small screen that had a picture of the Autobots on it. Prowl recognized the still from a news feed from when they fought Starscream. "Are these the car-robots you fought?"

Grimlock took a close look at the screen. "Yes."

"Excellent." She switched the picture to one of Starscream. "Do you recognize this plane-robot?"

"No"

"I did not think so. That Is okay; I can still find him another way." She put the screen away. "I should get going now." She transformed into an SU 47 and flew off.

Prowl turned off the hologram then rushed back to base. As soon as he arrived he explained what he saw. "There's a new Decepticon. She's looking for Starscream."

"What!?" Bumblebee shouted. "Why are we always the ones who have to fight Decepticons?"

"Now hold on, Bumblebee." Optimus interjected before Bumblebee could really start to freak out. "Prowl, you said she was looking for Starscream. Does she know the Allspark is here?"

"If she does, I don't think she's looking for it." Prowl answered.

"That's good, but whatever the reason it is she's looking for Starscream, it won't end well for Detroit." Ratchet said.

"What do you mean?" Bulkhead asked.

"She'll team up with Starscream, which is bad for obvious reasons, or she'll end up fighting him, and everyone will get caught in that crossfire."

"Either way we should be on lookout for both this new Decepticon and Starscream." Optimus told them. "Our first priority, as always, is protecting the humans, so we should come up with a plan to move them all to safety if worse comes to worse, and in the meantime we should try to find this new Decepticon before she finds Starscream."

Ratchet went to the computers to start monitoring news feeds, while the rest split up to patrol the city. After a whole day of searching through the city, Optimus called off the patrol, so they could all get some rest, but Prowl stayed up. He wanted to check a few more places first. He left the city and started heading towards the mountains. Prowl knew it was a long shot, but they didn't find the Decepticon anywhere in Detroit, so it wouldn't hurt to quickly check out the mountains before he turned in for the night. He made sure to stay on guard and move with stealth as he searched. After a few hours Prowl spotted her.

Just like last time he disguised himself as a tree while watching her from a safe distance. She was sitting, probably resting, while looking over the news footage again, specifically the part where Starscream claims he killed Megatron. She re-watched that part several times before turning off the pad and setting it aside.

She stood up and looked around the forest with her gaze stopping right where Prowl was. He didn't move. There was no way she actually saw him. She approached the holo tree then put her hand through it, disrupting the hologram. "You did not think I would not notice something that was not here before, did you?"

Prowl transformed to try getting away, but as he drove off the Decepticon began shooting at him. He barely managed to dodge all of her shots, and was only was only stopped when she shot a tree down in front of him forcing him to make a turn which slowed him down and allowed for the next tree she shot down to fall on him. He transformed to push the tree off him, but he was stopped when the Decepticon landed near him and pushed the tree back down. Strangely she didn't push the tree down hard enough to crush him, only to keep him immobilized.

Her guns folded back into her arms once he was pinned down. "There is no need for you to worry. I am just going to ask you a few questions then I will be on my way."

"I'm not going to answer any of your questions."

"You are not exactly in a good position to do much else." She put more pressure on him. "Do you know where Starscream flew off to after your battle with him?"

"No."

She released some of the pressure. "One more question." She showed him an image of Blackarachnia. "What do you know about her?"

"Optimus fought her, but I don't know where she went after that."

She kicked the tree off him. "I will have to go back to my search then."

"That's it? You're not going to do anything else?"

"No. Why would I? You are not impeding my mission, so I have no reason to do you any harm."

With what he knew about Decepticons, one leaving an Autobot alone for any reason didn't make sense to Prowl. He would've questioned it, but he didn't want to in any way risk an actual encounter with her. He knew he wouldn't be able to take on the Decepticon alone, so he transformed and drove back to base. At least he knew why she was looking for Starscream.

When Prowl got back to base he woke the others up and told them about what happened. "The strangest thing was, the Decepticon didn't try to kill me. She just left me alone after I answered her questions."

"Some 'cons are extremely single minded." Ratchet said. "She probably saw killing you as a waste of time."

"I think it was more than that."

"It doesn't matter. We need to start preparing specifically for the possibility of two 'cons fighting each other in the city and endangering humans." Optimus told them. "If it comes to that our best option would be finding a way to get them out of the city."

"Wouldn't that require getting them to shoot at us instead of each other?" Bumblebee asked.

"Probably, but there might be other ways of getting them out of the city."

"You don't sound too sure of that, boss bot."

"Just, try not to worry about it too much. Why don't you and Bulkhead go hang out with Sari for awhile? I'll call if we need you."

"If sure you've got a handle on this…" Bumblebee and Bulkhead transformed and drove off.

"Was that really the best move?" Ratchet asked.

"This is the first time we've had a chance to get ahead of the Decepticons, so the last thing we need is one of us panicking while we come up with a plan."

Prowl knew he wasn't needed, so he left the base again. This time he went to the park so he could just enjoy nature while he meditated. He was interrupted when he heard a jet fly overhead. He looked up and saw that it was the new Decepticon. With how low she was flying and the stunts she was pulling it looked like she was trying to get someone's attention. She must have changed her tactics in hunting Starscream. Prowl called Optimus and let him know what was going on.

By the time the rest of the team arrived, Starscream had already shown up. "Starthief, I wasn't expecting to see you here." He said while flying towards her. Starthief immediately turned and sped up to give chase to Starscream who recognized the danger and began flying away.

Optimus took note of their direction and led the team outside the city toward the mountains. The two may have left the city on their own, but he wanted to make sure the fight wouldn't go back into the city.

Starthief began firing at Starscream, so Starscream transformed to so he could fire back while still flying away from her. "Whatever this is about, I'm sure we can talk it out peacefully, instead of shooting at each other."

Starthief transformed then pinned him down. "You want to talk things out, then explain this." She showed him the data pad with the footage of him admitting to planting the bomb on Megatron.

"It's clearly an Autobot trick used to sow dissention among the Decepticon ranks. Do you really believe I would actually betray our glorious leader in such a way?"

The Autobots arrived, and Starthief looked over to them. "Those Autobots? Or do you mean in general? Both options seem unlikely. The Autobots have almost completely ignored us since the war ended."

"True, but they would see Megatron's demise as an opportunity to finish us off."

"Then why has this not been broadcast across the galaxy yet?"

"These Autobots must not yet have the means to do that. You should make sure they don't get that chance."

Starthief paused at his words, so Optimus decided to use that opportunity to attack. "Bulkhead, knock her off balance. Bumblebee, Ratchet, create an EMP to keep Starscream down. Prowl you're with me. Prowl?" Prowl had already disappeared, but the others followed Optimus's orders. Starthief was knocked off, but she quickly recovered, however Starscream was taken out of the fight by the EMP. "At least something's going right." Optimus mumble before jumping into the fray.

Bulkhead continued using his wrecking ball to try and keep Starthief off balance, but now that she was prepared for it, she was taking the hits with no effect. Bumblebee's stingers were equally as effective. Despite not being damaged Starthief wasn't making any move to attack back. She remained still in a defensive position. It was only when Optimus began to attack with his axe that she moved, by flying straight up.

Starthief saw Starscream start to move and aimed one of her guns at him, but her aim was thrown off when she fired by Optimus using his grappling hook to pull her down. Starscream flew away. "Originally I was going to leave you Autobots alone, but now you are impeding my mission." She flew further up, taking Optimus with her, then flipped, pulled out a bladed fan, and cut the cable.

Ratchet used his magnets to catch Optimus and slow his fall. Two shuriken flew at Starthief from seemingly nowhere, but she blocked both of them with the fan then fired in the direction they came from, destroying some of the trees. Bumblebee continued using his stingers on her, but she still didn't seem to take notice of him. "We need to get her out of the air." Optimus told them when he landed. "Bumblebee focus your fire on her thrusters. Ratchet and I will try pulling her down."

Optimus used his grappling hook to grab Starthief and start pulling her down, Bulkhead grabbed Optimus's cable to help, and Ratchet used his magnets to assist further. Bumblebee started focusing his fire more, and it seemed to have some effect. The edge of Starthief's fan glowed black and energy spikes formed on it. She then used to create a strong gust forcing the three holding her down back. They still managed to hold on to her though, causing her to be moved with them.

Once she was low enough. Prowl jumped up to attack her more directly. He attacked her wings with his shuriken. Starthief quickly blasted at the ground near the other four causing them to let her go, then turned all of her attention towards Prowl as she flew away from the others doing a lot aerobatic maneuvers to get Prowl's grip to loosen. Once it did she grabbed him and used her fan to threaten him with one of the spikes pointed directly at his neck. Her intentions were clear. "Give me one reason not to end your life."

"Why haven't you done it yet?"

"Excuse me?"

"You've had plenty of chances, but it's only now that you're resorting to it, and you're still giving me an out. Why?"

"You are the first Autobot that I know of that has tried to understand a Decepticon instead of simply deciding we are all purely evil. You must be the type to try and understand everything around you. I admire that." She slowly landed again then gently placed Prowl back on the ground. "Why did you attack me when I meant your team no harm?"

"We were worried you would harm the humans in that city."

"Humans? Oh the dominant life form on this planet." She glanced over to the city while she thought for a moment, she then turned her attention back to Prowl. "Very well. I will leave humans alone and make sure no harm comes to them, if your team stays out of my way while I am on this planet."

"Why are you on Earth?"

"Only to snuff out Starscream's spark and bring Blackarachnia back to New Kaon."

Prowl saw no reason why they would want to stop her mission, plus she didn't mention the Allspark, so she must not know it's on Earth. "How do I know you'll actually honor this deal?"

"I kept my word in regards to not harming you unless you interfered did I not?"

"Okay, I'll keep my team out of your way."

Starthief smiled. "Good to hear." She transformed and flew off in the direction she last saw Starscream fly in, just as the rest of the team found Prowl.

"What just happened?" Bumblebee asked.

"I'm not entirely sure," Prowl answered. "but I'll explain it was best as I can on the way back home."