Chapter 2: Captivity

A groan escaped from the weakened flyer; however, how he regained his energon supply was beyond him. He flickered his optics, and groan again "Argh, Primus, my helm hurts." he shook his helm to faze the dizziness. When his vision cleared, he gasped softly 'No… no this place…"he thought, looking right and left, but he only found a dark, void-like cell 'Anyplace but here..' he wished it was all just a bad dream that Primus sent to him to mess with his mind. But it wasn't. He was in a dark cell, arms and legs locked with stasis cuffs. He tried to struggle, to make it go away. Until his cell door was opened, and there was Starscream with his smug smile.

"Ah I see you are awake." He stated as in matter of fact "Welcome to the Realm of the living, as the humans would say." Lightstrider flickered his optic in confusion

"...Humans?" he asked in confusion "Where am I? Where is Moonstrider?!" he asked in desperation. Starscream simply strode around the captive, intently studying from down to up 'He is quite the looker' Starscream thought lustfully "You are in the Nemesis, my ship to be more precise." He then walked in front of Lightstrider, "Commander Starscream." he mockingly bowed before him with hungry optic and smirk "At your servic-" he tried to finish but interrupted by a female voice

"You are a joke of a commander, Starscream." It was MoonStrider, who seem to be in the next cell.

"As for the other question…" he said while eyeing the wall which MoonStrider was no doubt behind "Your friend is resting in her own cell, in case of our 'great' leader is to come." he then walked toward the chained flyer "While you are for fun for our...crewmates" Lightstrider gasps softly out of fear while Starscream walked toward the door of the cell, laughing "Do make yourself comfortable, My dear one." he said, laughing some more as he exit ed the cell room. It's door closed with a clang.

"Don't worry, Lightstrider." Said Moonstrider, who seem distressed herself in her own cell "Someone will help us, perhaps the Autobots."

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Jasper, Nevada, a desert in the United States of America. Seemingly nothing really happen in the town, though inside a certain mountain lied a missile silo and within it, Transformers were working there: Their leader, Optimus Prime, a large and intimidating yet understanding mech. A scout named Bumblebee, who was mildly short for a transformer and had his voice coder torn. Ratchet, their CMO, was tall but his height came up to Optimus' chestplate, but more gruff and rough looking mech. Bulkhead was a huge and wide looking Transformer, his job: Wrecker. Arcee was the spy and quite the lethal warrior, and the only female in the group. Last and never not least: Cliffjumper, the hotshot mech that could match Bumblebee in speed (minor detail: Arcee's love interest). Optimus dubbed this team as Team Prime. Their job: to protect the earth from the evil of their arch enemy, the Decepticons.

"It been a while since we heard anything from the Decepticons" stated Arcee, "They're up to something." Optimus hummed in thought.

"You may be correct, Arcee." he walked over to Ratchet "search the perimeters, Ratchet, perhaps we can find out what we overlooked."

Ratchet nodded and typed in the console "Primitive Human technology" he ranted quietly before narrowing his optic ridges "That's odd…" said the CMO, surprisingly silent. It was enough to make the Autobots look among themselves worryingly

"What is odd, Ratchet?" asked Arcee. Ratchet typed on the keyboard while saying

"There has been an indicate that a ship has crashed landed, somewhere in Africa." Bulkhead look nervously toward his teammates.

"Well, I was wondering why Agent fowler didn't shown up-"

"PRIME!"

Bulkhead flinched and shakes head helm "Me and my big mouth.." he muttered quietly.

A matured adult, with a wide stomached and colored chocolate skin came to the room full of Autobots dressed formally in a suit and a tie. By the look in his eyes he seem nervous and simply pissed off. The man was Agent Fowler, Appointed by the government of United States in the matters of the transformers as liaison to them.

"I just heard a report from the news that a UFO was sighted in southern Africa, why did I see that in the 10 o'clock morning news?"

Ratchet simply explained "We received the information just few moments ago." Optimus nodded in agreement

"I was about to send Arcee and Cliffjumper to search the wreckage." he looked toward them and they received in a nod for the unsaid order.

"Opening up a ground bridge." informed Ratchet while inputting the coordinates on the keyboard. After that was said, the groundbridge came to life in a green light, both Arcee and Smokescreen transformed and went through the groundbridge.

As the pair made into the crash site in southern Africa, Arcee and Cliffjumper transformed to their bipedal forms. They strode toward the wrecked vessel. "By the look of it, it crashed by a missile attack." said Cliffjumper, as he was inspect one of the wings. Arcee went inside the ruined vessel and scanned the interior of the ship

"It shows that Decepticons were here, for the past two or three days." Arcee told as Smokescreen drew near her

"Probably scavenging." Cliffjumper speculated.

As the two walked toward the bridge, Arcee saw two discarded holopads containing portraits. one portrait was described femme, with curvy frame and spikes on, cuddled by what seem to be Megatron "That femme… I wonder if she is a Decepticon" Arcee wondered

"Perhaps, but it is odd, since when did Megatron have blue colored optics." the femme shrugged, decided to keep the holopad in her subspace. The other portrait described a azure, feminine mech, he had golden wings and seem to be decorated in gold around the frame, his sky-blue optics seem to be in full joy in the portrait. The mech in question seem to be hugged by two mechs: one was a seeker, the other was a grounder who looked like Ratchet.

"This mech seems… happy in the picture." Cliffjumper commented

"He looked like a priest to me." Arcee looked at her lover

"What make you say that?" Cliffjumper shruged his shoulders "Most priests wear in decorated gold with inprintation of Primus' teaching." Arcee looked on the picture again

"I wonder if this is related to Ratchet." she wondered as she took it with her in her subspace.

As they walked out, they scanned the area until they heard a beep from the scanner. "What the?" began Cliff. They seemed to have found a human footprint on the scanner.

"It seems like Decepticons are not the only one which arrived recently." Arcee reached to her comm. link "Ratchet, we found a… disturbing turn of event" Arcee said "We are in need of groundbridge." after that was said, few moments later a groundbridge came to life "Now that is a fast service." Cliffjumper commented while walking toward the groundbridge, not before Arcee shook her helm and smiled, following him into the groundbridge.

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As the groundbridge closed when the Autobots got back, Ratchet came over the scouts and started to ask questions.

"So what evidence did you find, beside the footprint." Arcee came over toward Ratchet

"Beside knowing the Decepticons were there." She took two datapad and gave to Ratchet "We found these on the ship, since we saw a picture that resembled you."

Ratchet's optics dimmed a bit "...Resembles me?" he walked backwards, his back was in front of the Autobot and human agent

"What is it, Old friend?" Optimus asked, concerned over the silence which was not typical in Ratchet's standards. When no answer was given, Optimus walked over to Ratchet, and put a servo on his shoulder. Ratchet looked mournful yet his optics shown a look of hope.

"Do you need time for yourself, Ratchet?" Optimus Prime asked quietly which was replied.

"Yes, just a bit of time." Ratchet walked out into the elevator while Optimus watched him go.

"We will continue it further ahead." Optimus said, turned to his teammates.

Cliff came toward Fowler "About the Human footprint, we thought maybe bring the scan to your capable hand." He said while Arcee interjected

"We fear it might be someone who is after our… technology."

Agent Fowler nodded "We will see who this will belong in our lab" He took his leave to the human sized elevator "I hope to get more information about this shuttle." He said as the elevator's door closed.

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MoonStrider huffed from where she sat, chained to the floor and walls of the Nemesis. It was very uncomfortable and her wings were rather cramped in their cuffs. She wasn't happy, truth be told… she was a little afraid. Not of dying or injury, but of a mech she had ran away from a long, long time ago.

Megatron didn't take her leaving well it seemed.

She was worried about how he would react to seeing her for the first time in a bit over 3 million years… Knowing him as well as she did, it wouldn't be good. She huffed again, thinking on every possible situation that could happen, none were good or in her favor.

The door opened with a 'whoosh', and in stepped Starscream.

He just looked at her for the longest time, just standing there staring at her. She could read his face, she could see the almost awed curiosity.

"So you are the famous MoonStrider, the One Touch Killer, lover to Megatron." Starscream announced her "Titles", she had to let out a laugh.

"Now where did you hear that?" Her voice was full of amusement. She shook her helm slightly. Starscream hummed.

"Common Decepticon knowledge, you are rather famous among us."

"Wouldn't have guessed," she retorted. She didn't really feel like having manners at the moment.

"All Decepticons know of you, have heard your stories. You helped defeat that corrupted city-bot, what was his designation?" Starscream walked around her, inspecting her closely.

"Trypticon." MoonStrider informed.

"Ah yes, Trypticon. What had happened with him again?" He

"Someone tampered with his CPU, made him crazy."

"You defeated him," he reminisced, "And how he is here." MoonStrider looked up in alarm. Starscream was quick to inform her just what he meant. "After he was killed, Megatron made him into the Nemesis." The femme seeker relaxed.

Trypticon was the ship she was in, the Nemesis? Interesting. She wondered what became of the other city-bots: Fortress Maximus, Metroplex, Scorponok, Grand Maximus, and Metrotitan. She also wondered what had become of the Autobot Guardian: Omega Supreme. Last she heard, he was an Autobot ship.

She looked up at the mech in front of her. "How is Lightstrider?" A sly grin came across the mech seeker's face plates.

"So that is his name," He purred, his optics turning a shade darker. "No fear, he is in… good servos." The femme snarled and abruptly stood, the chains attempting to hold her back. They failed… and the chains holding her down broke under her immense strength.

Starscream let out a screech as her frame pinned him to a wall, but lucky for him, the chains on her wrists still held in place.

Her golden optics bored holes into his, the power and strength behind them intense. It bubbled beneath the surface like hot acid, an uncontrollable, destructive force that ached to get out. Her titles held truth behind them.

There was a reason Megatron had wanted her.

"Touch him," She whispered lowly, letting some of her power crackle into the edges of her voice, "and no one will be able to pick up all your pieces" She moved back, letting the shocked seeker go. Her chains rattled against the floor, her optics eerily glowed in the dark room. It wasn't long later that Starscream left, ordering some drones to chain her back up, but to use the extra strength ones.

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"I await your glorious return, my Lord."

"Starscream, report of your findings in my absence"

"Of course, my Lord. I assure you, you will be more than pleased with our… findings."

(AN: Cliffhanger! A Glorious Cliffhanger! So early on too. BTW, MoonStrider still has her electricity ability, which is only part of what you saw behind her optics.

Co-written with Lightrunner, Lightstrider belongs to him

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