Chapter 3

Soon, the entire room burst out laughing as Starscream came out of the shadows, doing a twirl like a ballerina. "This…?! How did this happened?!" Demanded Starscream.

Raf giggled as he explained. "Well…"

-Flashback-

"All we gotta do is sneak into Starscream's room without him realizing it. Then we switch his wires around and use this remote control to 'play' around with him." Said Kyoya holding up the controls.

"Then we can embarrass him in front of everyone!" said Kylie.

'Megatron and the Tategami siblings are in this for fun. Soundwave is good with signals for the control. How do me and Raf fit in this plan?'

"Bumblebee, just think of it as a prank. You two don't need a reason to be on board." Said Flame. "Besides, Raf is good with digital stuff. He could help us, and you can keep a look out for Prime and the others. We want this to be a surprise."

-End of Flashback-

"And that's exactly how we did it." Finished Raf.

Starscream growled and was about to lunge at Soundwave, but Flame was quicker. He took the controls and started to press the buttons randomly, making Starscream dance around. They sat down and watched Starscream screaming and growling about how he would have his revenge.

"Grrr. Just you wait! I will have my revenge! I'll blast you while you sleep! I'll tear apart your spark chamber! I'll-"

"Dude, you're talking to yourself out loud." Said Kylie, smiling in amusement. Starscream immediately closed his mouth as he continued to dance. A lot of them laughed while others smirked or chuckled. But Kyoya, he closed his mouth, sat down on the floor and buried his face in his knees, making small noises. The bladers looked at him in shock. None of them, not even Benkei had ever seen the wild beast laugh.

"Wow. That's a first." Said Madoka.

"What is?" asked Miko.

"I've never seen Mr. Kyoya laugh before." Said Yuki.

"I thought you guys are friends." Said Jack.

"We are, but Kyoya never shows emotion except anger or excitement for battle. On normal days, and I'm not too sure if this is one, he rarely shows emotion." Said Tsubasa.

"So I see." Said Raf.

After a few minutes of Starscream's 'marvelous dancing', Optimus called it off, which of course the teens groaned to. They switched back Starscream's wires and he stormed off muttering something inaudible. But little did he know that Miko and Yuu recorded the entire thing. Of course the Cybertronians made them promise not to post it online.

The Tategami siblings went around the base to talk and have time to themselves.

"Hey Kyoya, I just noticed. Your scars are still there. I thought they would have faded by now." Said Flame.

"Yea well, as it turns out, they became permanent." Kyoya replied.

"Bummer."

-In a Forest-

A creature was smashing trees around, a big creature. It had eight legs and it's heading towards the mountains. There, there are a lot of energon crystals and once the creature got there, it licked its lips like a snake.

-Back at Autobot HQ-

An alarm went off.

"It would appear that something crashed in the middle of the forest." Said Rachet.

"It looked like a large amount of energy is given out in these coordinates." Said Madoka as the screen changed to a valley.

"Oh? And just how in the name of Primus do you know that?" asked Rachet.

"You're not the only one good with computers." Replied Madoka.

"Rachet, open ground bridge. We will go out and investigate." Said Optimus.

"So, are we allowed to come too?" asked Flame.

"Well, it doesn't seem to be any robotic life forms around." Said Rachet.

"Bumblebee, Soundwave, Megatron, Kyoya, Kylie and Flame you're coming. The rest of you, help Rachet monitor the scene." Said Optimus.

"A mission? Sweet!" said Kylie, as the ground bridge opened.


They went through it to find tracks heading towards a valley.

"C'mon, let's go!" said Flame.

"Since when does he give the orders?" asked Kylie.

"Don't know, don't care. Let's just go." Said Kyoya firmly as he jumped into the valley.

"Alright." Said Kylie landing beside him. In the middle of the valley, there was a large space ship leaking energon.

"By the Alspark, what is this?" asked Megatron.

"A space ship." Said Flame.

"Whoa, it's huge!" said Kylie.

"I think it will be best if we split up." Said Optimus. "Kyoya and Kylie, you two should be partners in this situation. Flame will go with Bumblebee. The rest of us will go on our own. And be sure to keep your com. links on." And they did just that.

-With Optimus-

He walked down a hall and headed towards the bridge, but little did he know that something's following him. A lot of somethings.

-With Megatron-

He's walking down another hall, but this one headed towards the back room. Inside, he saw the heads of many different species and jumped back in shock. Yet he also failed to notice something following him too.

It was the same for the rest of them. The 'things' made their move and lunged at the all the robots, yet Kyoya and Kylie were the only ones that weren't attacked..

-With the Tategami twins-

"This is pointless. We've searched the entire room and there's nothing to find!" said Kylie.

"Yea, let's go outside and regroup with the others. They're bound to know something." said Kyoya. They went outside and Kyoya tried to contact the others, but there was only static.

:Hey guys…:

Silence…

:Um… Anyone there?:

Still no one answered.

"Something's wrong. No one's picking up." Said Kyoya.

"Should we call Rachet?" asked Kylie. Kyoya nodded and did just that.

:Hey Rachet, you there?:

:I'm here Kyoya, what's wrong?:

:I can't get in touch with the others. Can you pin point where they are?:

:Let's see… Ah! Here they are. Wait a minute, That's odd.:

:What is?:

:Their energon levels are drastically decreasing. I suggest you find them quickly.:

:On it. Kyoya out.:


Kyoya and Kylie went back inside and soon, they found them in the bridge. They were all covered in bite marks, except for Flame who was fighting off small things with large teeth.

:Uh… Rachet. We found them.:

:Are they hurt?:

:Sort of.:

:What is it? The plague? Dark energon?:

:Worse, SCRAPLETS!:


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