Disclaimer: I do not own any of the following characters or universe. I'm just messing with it.

~Chapter One~

"Wheeljack. What the slag is that thing?"

"Oh Starscream, you're back from patrol! Are you early or something, you usually don't come back until-."

"Don't make me ask again Flashy! You know you're not allowed to build anything new without giving me a report about it."

"Awww, but Starscream-."

"Don't you 'Awww, Starscream' me! You remember what happened last time? Optimus made me promise him to keep a tight leash on you after the whole magnetic incident!"

"…How was I suppose to know it was going to attach itself to the largest mass of metal and send out harmless but annoying shockwaves?"

"You test it out first! And not on our leader!" Starscream let out an angry huff before walking over to the device, "verbal report right now before you turn it on!"

"But it's already on-"

"Before you do anything with it then!"

Wheeljack pouted behind his mask before letting out a defeated sigh, "it's an experiment I've been working on based on the transporter and Skywarp's ability."

"You can't copy Skywarp's warping ability! I keep telling you bots! Skywarp's ability is from Primus and is uncalculated-able-!"

"I know that! Month and months of gibberish data have taught me that! Some things from Primus cannot be calculated in mere mortal science," said Wheeljack in an ominous and deep tone. "I was talking about his ability to teleport anywhere without the aid of another transporter to determine the fixed location."

"You want to make a transporter that can teleport you where ever you want to go."

"Exactly! We are right now limited to only being able to teleport somewhere only if there is a working transporter to act as a receiver! And with the war and all that's become rare so I was trying to copy the end of Skywarp's warping for us to be able to appear anywhere we choose!"

"You have any idea how dangerous that can be if we don't have a visual? We can teleport into a wall! And the amount of energon it would take to teleport a full grown mech, not to mention teleporting a group of soldiers."

"…How the slag does Skywarp do it?" Wheeljack saw the deadpan look on Starscream's faceplate, "mysteries of Primus, mysteries of Primus."

"Don't think that the plans haven't crossed my processors, he is my trine mate, but I've spent vorns trying to work out his ability and it's impossible; the data from every warp is randomly generated even when the distance and place was the same." Starscream shook his helm before reaching over to turn off the machine, "there is no way to copy Skywarp's ability even if you only try to copy a part of it; it's his unique ability and only his to command."

"I guess," muttered Wheeljack while Starscream leaned on the bench, "...I was hoping that linking it up to the main reactor and having Teletran linked up to it would fix those problems though."

"YOU WHAT!" Before Starscream could slag the inventor though, the machine let out an ominous 'beep' and started smoking.

Both bots only glanced at the machine before making a dive for the nearest barrier. After a click of silence Wheeljack's head popped out from under the desk to take a look at the machine, "Hey! It's didn't blow up this time!"

"You! Back under there! Your machines always blow up! Especially, when you link something up to the main reactor!" Screamed Starscream from behind the bench.

"Well I can probably fix it if I can get to it. It was going fine before you distracted me Starscream."

"Distracted you? I. Am. Going. To. Slag. You! Flashy-!"

Before Starscream could finish his threat though, the machine let out another beep before making a whirling sound. Wheeljack's optics widened, recognizing the initiation sequence, scrambling out from under the table and trying to shut it off the inventor was able to grasp the main power line before the machine crackled with energy and bathed the room in a crackling blue. Wheeljack could only freeze and stare at the machine that was collecting particles for warp transportation, knowing that if it went off now, it would take the whole lab with it anywhere.

Just as Wheeljack was sure that the lab was doomed, he felt sharp claws grip his servos, and before he knew it, he was landing on his side with the main power line in his grasps. The inventor quickly glanced up to see that Starscream had torn him off the machine and was making a motion to dive to the ground with him. With the main power supply torn from the device, it was let out alarming streams of white energy that were fluctuating and mixing with the blue. Before Wheeljack could stay anything to the seeker, the machine exploded in a white flash that burst out into a large crackling white orb around the bench.

The last thing that Wheeljack heard was Starscream letting out a shriek before he was caught in the energy. The last thing he saw was the seekers surprised expression before he disappeared in the blinding flash. Wheeljack could only turn away from the vibrant flash to not short out his optics.

It was over in a click.

And when Wheeljack looked back.

The seeker and the bench were gone.

"WHAT THE SLAG HAPPENED!" The roar tore through the medbay.

"I-I don't know! One click the device just started working and the next Starscream ripped me off it and saved me," Wheeljack's tone held guilt as he confessed not being able to meet anyone in the optics, "I don't know how it could have happened, I've been fiddling with that thing for months and it's never done that before. Slag I couldn't ever even get it to work."

"Wheeljack, we don't know for sure what had really happened to Starscream," Optimus tried to calm everyone who was ranged from worried to angry, "you said that the machine was made to transport a bot, is there a chance that Starscream could have been transported somewhere."

"I guess," Wheeljack sighed trying to work out the calculations in his head, "there's a chance that he's somewhere rather then-." No one needed to say it. "But I wasn't even up to setting a destination on the device yet, he could be anywhere. I never could have gotten it to even turn on before, I don't know what went wrong."

"Prowl, any news about Starscream from Redalert?" Optimus turned to his second in command.

"Negative Optimus. Teletran was luckily unplugged from the machine before any damages to the system could occur, however, we are not receiving any signals from Starscream. We are scanning the planet using human satellites we have hacked into but still nothing."

"Nothing at all?"

"No sir. Redalert has already done two worldwide scans and still nothing."

The bots were lulled into a grave silence realizing the implications of what Prowl had said. Ratchet sighed as he welded close the claw marks that were left by the seeker trying to get the inventor out of the way, Starscream still was a military seeker and he sometimes couldn't control his strength in certain situations. "Wait…Where are Thundercracker and Skywarp?"

"Still on patrol over the Indian ocean right now-."

"WHAT? You slaggers didn't tell them what happened?"

"Ratchet we needed to get all the facts straight before we could inform Starscream's trine mates-"

"Trine. Mates. TRINE MATES! Meaning that they FELT when Starscream disappeared! They KNOW that he's not here. If the scans are not picking him up on the planet, they know that one of US is behind his disappearance!"

"Ratchet, I don't think that-" Optimus was interrupted by Redalert who turned on the alarms to the ark, "Redalert report. Decepticon activity?"

"Prime! It's the seekers! They have turned on us! I knew that they were going to betray us! I told you all! They're gonna-!"

"Redalert quiet!" Shouted Ratchet cutting off the paranoid bot, "YOU SLAGGING IDIOITS ALL OF YOU! You know that those two are bonded to Starscream, if anything happens to him they will instantly know! Now they think that we off lined him or something, what do you think they are going to do? Calmly walk in and ask; 'Excuse me, but I felt something dreadful happen to my trine leader and I want to discuss it all in a calm manner while drinking tea and sitting in front of the fire'. Wheeljack! Over to the other side of the room! Hide behind the bench and Swoop! Everyone else; do not activate your weapons or look anything like a challenge!"

"Ratchet what will they-" Optimus asked while motioning to the other bots to turn off their weapons.

"REDALERT YOU UNLOCK THAT DOOR RIGHT NOW!" Roared Ratchet when he realized that the security bot activated some defenses, the warp disrupters were on.

"Ratchet! They have already made it into the ark and have attacked some of the crew! They are bent of getting Wheeljack and with the command in there-"

"A door not going to stop them!-" The bots in the room whirled when they heard a loud 'clang' sound coming from the door, followed by louder and harsher ones.

"I know that slaggers in there! WHERE IS MY STAR! I WANT THAT FRAGGING WHEELJACK IN MY SERVOS NOW OR I WILL BURN THIS BASE TO THE GROUND TO GET HIM!"

Skywarp continued to shoot and slam his servos into the door trying to get to the inventor who whimpered and cowered behind Swoop. Being the door to the medical bay, however, it was well reinforced and made so that bots with even the seekers strength couldn't break through. "Slag that seekers gone off the deep end!" Jazz looked over Prowl's door wings which were flared out to protect the saboteur instinctively, "Skywarp we've done nothing to Starscream-"

"THEN WHY CAN'T I SENSE WHERE HE IS? WHY CAN'T I FEEL HIM IN MY SPARK? GIVE ME WHEELJACK RIGHT NOW OR YOU WILL ALL PAY!"

"Skywarp, calm yourself. We can explain the situation calmly and sensiblely-," Optimus tried to negotiate before the sounds stopped and a rumbling could be heard, "oh slag."

Before any bot could move to safety, the med bay doors were thrown off their place on the wall to crash land on Ironhide and Ratchet. Every other bot was thrown off their peds when the shockwaves hit them like a train, walking in with determined stomps, the two stiletto of a blue and black seeker appeared. Thundercracker shutting off his sonic weapon didn't even look at the command bots on the ground, focusing his glare on the flashing inventor who was practically hugging Swoop's peds, "where is our Starscream?"

Wheeljack's optics could only further widen as he let out a loud squeak when the two intimidating seekers started advancing on him and the dinobot.

When the command were able to get Wheeljack out of the seekers clutches, after suffering a few superficial scratches and after he scream out what had happened. Putting the bot down from the vicious shaking that Thundercracker had given him, the inventor ducked and cowered behind the medic while Skywarp stomped and pointed a servo finger at him. "Get my Star back right NOW!"

"I-I don't know how!" howled the inventor cowering behind the medic.

"Wait, Starscream is still alive?" asked Prowl to make sure they heard correctly.

"Of course he's alive!" shouted Skywarp glaring at the police bot, "I want him back!"

"Wait, Thundercracker please explain." Thundercracker huffed and glared at the leader before deflating a little.

"We felt Starscream panic for a click, he normally doesn't send emotions like that through unless he was in real trouble, then we felt that he was just, gone." Thundercracker shivered while Skywarp growled, "when we tried to open communication channels with him, comm. and spark wise, but we felt nothing, so we, panicked ourselves."

"But we knew that he was in the Lab with Wheeljack!" Skywarp growled and glared at the inventor again who had melded with Ratchet's peds, "so it had to be him that caused this."

"Wait, if you couldn't feel Stasrcream, how do you know that he's still alive?"

"When I was making my way to the base after Skywarp warped, it gave me time to search my spark for any traces of our trine leader," Thundercracker then clutched his chest and focused on the humming and beating spark under it, "if I concentrate hard, I can still feel that he's there, but I can't read his emotion, thoughts or sense his presence."

"Could it be because he is too far away?" asked Jazz helping Ironhide pull Swoop out of the box that the seekers threw him in, apparently the dinobots aft got stuck and now he was squawking for them to get him out.

"No, even if Starscream was on the other side of the galaxy, we would still be able to sense him." Thundercracker hummed as his spark tried to contact the third, where a shining golden spark once would be, the seeker only could sense a pale yellow sort of mist, "it's like he's nowhere in the universe."

"Get. Him. Back. Now." Wheeljack nodded furiously at the scary black and purple seeker, "or you will pay!"