Chapter 3

A/N: Thank you all for the reviews, they always make my day and encourage me to write more! I hope I didn't make anyone too ooc, I hope you enjoy the story!

"Demonstrike?" Julian asked, while keeping pace with me as I was out looking for the medical bay, since Starscream wasn't much help.

"It was only thing that popped in my mind at that moment," I retorted.
" What did you want me to say, it's not like we can use our human names." I was getting irritated, where the hell was the medbay? Why couldn't the 'cons have a map or something of the base.

"But still, Demonstrike?"

I huffed in frustration of not finding the medbay and my brother wouldn't stop pestering about his new name.

"What did you want?" I stopped walking and turned around to face him.

"Would you have rather been named king douche bag?" I sneered and began walking again, my brother followed.

" Okay, okay, okay," he replied.
" I mean you did pick out a cool enough name, not bad Phoenix," he playfully punched me in the arm and winked. I rolled my optics and looked for any vehicons that could give us directions, one was walking towards us.

"Hey, do you know where we can find the medbay?" I asked, the vehicon pointed to our left. I gave him gracious nod and walked into the room, Knockout was thankfully in there with his back to us. I knocked on the wall and he turned around.

"Ah, you must be the new recruits," Knockout purred. I bit my lip and fidgeted a little, I forgot how flirtatious the medic could be.

"I'm Demonstrike and this is my sister, Phoenix," Julian said, nudging me with his elbow and I broke off from my thoughts and smiled sheepishly at Knockout. He smirked in return and motioned for me to lay down on the examination berth.

"Come here Phoenix; let the good doctor take a look at you."

"Joining the decepticons was the worst thing I have ever done," I thought and lied down on the berth, hoping this examination would go by fast. It was awkward enough to be in a ship full of mech's and to have one being a flirt right now made it worst. Flying sparks caught my attention; Knockout was putting the decepticon insignia on my chest plate. When he finally finished, I quickly got up and Julian walked over and took my place.

"Well Doc I gotta admit, you're handiwork is quite impressive," I looked down at the insignia, Knockout did have a talent for making everything look stunning.

"Thank you, I take pride in what I do, not just anyone can do it," He said and finally finished with my brother's insignia. Julian...err I mean Demonstrike got up and walked over to me, looking at his insignia as well.

"It seems that the two of you are in working condition and have your alt modes already picked out," Knockout filling out a datapad, Demonstrike nodded and walked out, I followed him and gave Knockout a 'thank you' before leaving the medbay. Demonstrike was leaning against the wall, he looked excited.

"Commander screechy wants us to go look for energon signatures and for any autobot activity," he said with a grin and I giggled at his nickname for Starscream, it was perfect match.

"If we come across any 'bots, I hope you remember your karate moves," I teased, but in all seriousness I was somewhat worried for my brother. He hadn't practiced fighting skills or took classes, I taught him some moves from what I learned from my kick boxing classes but it wasn't enough for a fight against 'bots who've had years of training.

"We're definitely going to train after this, I mean we're both pretty rusty and plus we also have to learn to use the weapons that we have," I continued and watched my hands form into cannons. Demonstrike nodded, watching his hands turn into cannons as well.

"We might as well be going," he said, smirking.
" Don't wanna miss the chance of fighting the bots,"

Flying wasn't as easy as I thought, I was having trouble with keeping my balance; like transforming wasn't hard enough. My brother was a natural, he tried to help me with my balance and I managed to keep it. Flying was actually fun, I've always wanted to fly now I finally got my wish.

"Hey, I picked some energon signatures below us!" Demonstrike exclaimed, doing a nose dive and I followed after him. He landed gracefully and I stumbled forward, I glared at him it wasn't fair that he was able to do everything with grace, at least with flight.

"So where's the signatures coming from?" I asked, looking around and he pointed over to the cave. Demonstrike went inside with his cannons activated. I waited a few minutes, wondering if my brother would need my help. When he yelled,
"Phoenix! We found the mother lode!"

I chuckled and opened up my comm. link.

: Commander Starscream, I think you'll be happy to know that we've located energon signatures, I'm sending my coordinates:

: Good, I will be sending troops to your coordinates, you two are more useful than I thought:

Starscream said before disconnecting the link.
"Thanks for having some faith in us, Screamy" I muttered sarcastically, suddenly a ground bridge opened up in front of me and instead of vehicons, autobots came out. It was Bumblebee and Arcee; they immediately raised their weapons and began to shoot. I yelped and ducked behind a rock, shooting back.

:'Strike, you better get your sorry aft out here right now! I'm takin' heavy fire:

I shot a couple more rounds and rolled over to the next boulder. Demonstrike came rushing out, shooting straight at Bumblebee. I continued shooting at Arcee hoping to get a successful shot soon, I quickly looked over at my brother and he was in full blown fist fight with the yellow scout. Arcee continued shooting at me and one of her shots got me in the arm, I cried out and took cover behind the boulder.

"Where are the fuckin' troops?"

I was enraged and ignored the burning sensation in my arm; I popped back up from my cover and took the shot. Surprisingly it hit her right in the abdomen and she staggered back, clutching the wound. A ground bridge opened and the vehicons came out, shooting at the two Autobots.

" 'Bee fall back!" Arcee shouted, wincing. Bumblebee punched Demonstrike in the face and ran over to Arcee, a ground bridge opened behind the two of them and they disappeared into it. I sighed and made my way over to Demonstrike, who was rubbing his faceplate at the moment.

"Hey Phoenix! Did you see-" he stopped as he finally noticed the condition of my arm.

"What happened to your arm?" He asked, I rolled my optics as if wasn't obvious of what had happened.

"Arcee had a lucky shot," I replied, giving a small pained smile.

"I comm-ed Soundwave he should be opening up a ground bridge, don't worry I'm sure the Doc'll get it patched up," he said, placing a servo on my shoulder. I grimaced; another visit with Knockout was not something I was looking forward to. I had nothing against him even if he was an egotistical narcissist. I was just a bit uncomfortable with his constant flirting and not mention I had somewhat of a fear for needles and other doctor stuff. A ground bridge appeared in front of us and we both walked into it, ending up in the medbay.

"Did the little bird hurt herself?" He asked in that purring voice of his, I rolled my optics and walked over to berth.

"Just patch up my arm, Doc" I urged, this needed to go by quickly as possible. Knockout nodded and began working on my arm.

"Mind telling me how you got this nasty wound?"

I turned my head over to face him and replied.

"An autobot femme had a lucky shot, surprised it didn't blast my entire arm off."

"You're pretty lucky it didn't, anyway I'm done," he said and I got up, moving my arm.

"Good as new, thanks Doc," I said with a small grin.

"You're welcome," he smirked and placed a hand on his hip.

"Come in sometime and I can make your paint job even more dashing,"

I shrugged, a retouch wouldn't sound bad. However I was in desperate need for a recharge.

"I'll think about it Doc, thanks again." I said leaving the room and headed straight for my quarters. However, I didn't get far when I bumped into Starscream.

"Ah Phoenix, just the 'bot I wanted to see," he said and I raised a brow in suspicion, what could he possibly want?

"I must say, I was extremely impressed with your performance earlier today,"

I was surprised, Starscream actually complimented me.

"Thank you, sir" I grinned. "After all, I'm not one to give up so easily."

I shifted uncomfortably, was this all Starscream was here to tell me?

"Well uh Commander, I regret to cut our conversation short, but I am in desperate need of recharge,"

"Err yes, I won't keep you from it, seeing as you are clearly exhausted."

I nodded and walked off to my quarters, I was too tired to give him a goodbye or anything. Once reaching my quarters, I immediately collapsed on my berth and fell into stasis.