Synopsis: Being very bored, Depth and Shadow go through the Autobot reconnaissance of active and inactive Decepticons just to have something to read. While scanning through these vast and detailed files, they discover a discrepancy and what they find starts... THE QUEST

Magmorta did not like how her two buddies were acting, and that was saying a lot consider how long she had known them and their ways. They were acting almost out of character. She decided to observe them closely, utilizing her ability to transform into anything to overhear their conversation and overlook what they were up to in their secured attic area of their room.

The purple, red, and white form of Depth was standing behind his red, purple, and white buddy Shadow. Shadow was adeptly typing away at the computer console. They were both intently scanning some sort of file. Magmorta focused her attention to the file, it seemed to be a file on Starscream.

*What are those two up to?* she pondered in thought.

Shadow gave a cry, "AH HA!"

Depth's body showed his excitement, "What? What you see?"

Shadow laid a finger on the screen, "Look here, there is a time discrepancy here, like old Screamer was inactive for awhile."

Depth gave his buddy a look, "So? That happens."

Shadow turned his head to glare at Depth, "The point here is that this discrepancy does not show him being inactive, deactivated, in repair bay, or anything else that would show why he was gone for about three Earth days."

Depth hrmed. Magmorta pondered that fact too, very strange for not accounting of why a warrior would just disappear for three days.

Depth suggested, "Try checking against active and inactive Cons at that time, seeif anyone else may suggest this strange disappearance."

Shadow typed away, the computer bleeped many times, checking files, comparing files,it came up with one thing.

"WHAT THE HELL?" Depth exclaimed.

"Well this explains a bit of it, but not all of it." Shadow stated, fingering thescreen again.

Magmorta looked where his finger pointed, it seemed that for three days a medic had also disappeared. Said medic had reappeared shortly after that and then no more was heard from HER. Magmorta checked again, it was a female Con. She had thought that they didn't exist, but this proved they did, or at least HAD.

"Check for inactive female Cons." Depth suggested.

Shadow typed again, the computer bleeped and a listing come up.

"WHOA!" gasped Depth, "There were a lot of em! What happened to em all?"

Shadow typed, the answer came up, "Hrm, seems like good old Meggy didn't think females as strong enough to have a place in his army, he had them all exterminated."

"You know, this warrants getting into the Con fortress and downloading their filesfor more information." Depth stated.

"I can do it from here." Shadow said.

"Are you actually going to modem out and break through all their computer security codes via phone and download their files without them noticing? I don't think it's possible." Depth chided.

"Watch me." Shadow retorted. His fingers flew, soon enough he found the way to modem into the Cons main computer, using stealth mode to sneak into it without them detecting the origin of the call, get to the files he wanted, and started downloading.

"I hate it when you show off." Depth snorted as he crossed his arms.

Magmorta had to stifle a laugh. Shadow chuckled for her.

"You shouldn't challenge me like that, Chameleon." he stated.

"Oh, shuddup Shady!" Depth grumped, "Tell me when the things done downloading."

"It just finished." Shadow replied.

"Dang man, what baud modem you got?" Depth asked.

"Faster than a human one, buddy. Isn't home technology contorted to human need justwonderful? Made some really good friends selling this sucker to the human community." Shadow stated.

"I bet you did too. So, find that cross reference stuff man." Depth grunted.

Shadows fingers flew across the keyboard, the files that the Bot computer had were cross referenced to the Con files. The information they wanted came up.

"By the Divine Weld!" they exclaimed as one.

Magmorta took a look at what they found, where Starscream had disappeared was a secret medical bay. The female medic had preformed a very delicate and necessary operation.

"Holy freaking Primus and Sequista! Starscream was a FEMALE?" Depth stammered.

"I don't believe it!" Shadow choked out.

Neither did Magmorta, but there it was. Depth regained his composure and his body shifted.

"I got a thought!" Depth murmured and whispered into Shadows audio receptor.

Shadow gave him a look and started to laugh, "Oh that is so cruel! I love it! I just LOVE it!"

"Let's go." Depth stated.

Magmorta watched them leave, what were they up to now? She decided to follow them.

AN HOUR LATER.

"Hey Electra. We want words." Depth called out to the silver, black, red, and purple form of the Trechercon Commander - Electra.

Electra turned about and raised her left forearm-mounted cannon.

"Hey no need for that." Shadow stated, "We want to involve you in a little plan ofours that will help out your cause."

Electra glared at them and slowly lowered her cannon, "Speak."

Magmorta watched from afar. What in the name of all things decent were they doing talking to the enemy? Pretty soon she heard the Trechercon laughing, something she thought she'd never hear. Some time passed, her two comrades departed company from the Trechercon and were off toward their home base.

"Something is definitely wrong with this picture." Magmorta mumbled.

A FEW HOURS LATER.

In through a secret lab door, walked a group of Trechercons carrying a gagged and bound Starscream.

"Look Shadow, Trechercons bearing gifts!" Depth stated.

"Here he is gentlemen. May we watch the festivities?" Electra queried.

Magmorta was not liking this at all! From her hidden position she watched Depth and

Shadow take Starscream and put him on some sort of contraption which they secured him to.

"Don't worry, Screamer, this won't hurt... MUCH." Depth stated.

SEVERAL HOURS LATER.

"Well, that's it. All done." Depth announced.

"Wake old Screamer up." Shadow replied.

Magmorta could NOT believe what those two had done, and somehow it would fit intotheir perverse sense of humor.

Screamer awoke and sat up. "What in the... MY VOICE?"

The Trechercons were practically rolling in the aisles. Screamer got off of the table and caught a glimpse of a reflection in a mirror.

"WHAT IN THE NAME OF PRIMUS HAVE YOU DONE TO ME?"

"Settle down, Screamer, we just gave you back the body you had many eons ago... andimproved it too, I might add." Shadow stated.

Screamer was flabbergasted into silence.

Electra strode up and remarked, "You are welcomed among our ranks, but don't youdare try to vie for my position or I will not hesitate in killing you."

Screamers' jaw worked a moment, "I would never..."

Electra glared, "What other choice is there? Do you think Galvatron would allow a

Female Screamer in his ranks? It's going to take a lot of explaining as it is to settle him down when I tell him the news that his Lieutenant Commander is now known as Sexscream."

Screamer thought a moment, "Well, you've a point there." she sighed, "I guessit's better to stay what one is. It took eons to get used to being male. And believe me it ain't easy to curb the old female emotions and such. Megatron never knew how much I wanted him. And I think anyone who wasn't blind to it noticed something was up with me."

"True." Depth said.

"Come then, Sexscream.. will you join us?" Electra asked.

Screamer shrugged, "Why not."

"Oh Electra..." Shadow began.

Your payment, I have not forgotten." Electra said. The Trechercons Commanders' mask rose up into her helmet, she approached the two and kissed them on the cheek. Both blushed for effect. The Commander turned to her troops, her mask lowering back down as she did, "Let us take our new recruit home. She has much to learn of our ways."