Notes:

Hey everybody! I'm back! Now we can resolve this cliffhanger! Sorry I left you on a cliffhanger. I had to teach the people who doubted me a lesson. Yeah, I'm talking to you, doubters!

I give the people what they want, but I do not tolerate insubordination. Hehehe. Now I sound like Megatron! Speaking of which, who wants to see good old Megsy? Well here he is! This is the chapter where the big evil overlord comes into play! I hope you enjoy! Please review! I love reviews. But no hate please.

Transformers, their characters, and their franchises do not belong to me. But they will someday! Mwahahahaha! But until then, all I own are my stories and some toys.

Narration

"Dialog"

Internal thoughts

Starscream and the Sparkling: Chapter 4

Megatron was seething with rage. He gave Knock Out one task, and he up and disappears! It seemed he could never control his troops.

Right now he was storming around the Nemesis, looking for his missing medic. He would not tolerate this! It was bad enough that Starscream had to always question him. Not to mention the many times Starscream attempted to kill him. He was glad that annoying pest was gone. But he would rather have him dead. Oh well, you take what you can get.

Now Knock Out had gone AWOL. It annoyed Megatron to no end. Why did none of his troops listen to him? Was he not strict enough? Megatron decided he would make sure to enforce the rules better. And punish those that disobeyed. But that still didn't solve his problem of having a missing Knock Out.

Speaking of Knock Out, he was in the MECH base, still unconscious. He started to wake up and looked around at his surroundings. This didn't look like his home, or his new dad's home. It was completely different. And scary.

Then Knock Out realized he was in a cage of some sort. The bars were a glowing form of energy. Not like regular bars. Probably because the MECH people knew he could just break out of regular bars. That frightened Knock Out even more.

Knock Out wasn't stupid. He knew he was in trouble, one way or another. He had no idea what the MECH people had planned for him. He had to get out of here, and soon. But how? He was small and totally not strong enough to get through.

He touched the bars to test them, and burnt his hand. He started to cry. He was still a sparkling after all. And pain upset sparklings.

Starscream was desperately working at the monitors in his base. He was trying to find Knock Out's signal. He needed to find him before something happened. Starscream had a feeling MECH was not a group to be messed with. If they could kidnap a Cybertronian, who knows what else they could do?

"Where could he be? I need to find him! Come on, stupid computer!" Starscream said to nobody in particular.

Finally the computer made a pinging sound. Knock Out's signal had finally come online. Starscream studied the coordinates carefully and then ran out of the base. He transformed into his alt mode and took off as fast as his wings could carry him.

He was going to save Knock Out, even if he got hurt in the process. Hopefully that wouldn't happen. But he had become really close to the sparkling, and he didn't want to lose him.

The cage next to Knock Out's had regular bars, instead of energy ones. It was also a lot smaller. The person inside started to stir. They stood up and looked around.

"Shoot! I'm in a stupid cage! LET ME OUTTA HERE! MY FRIEND WILL BE HERE SOON AND HE'S GONNA KICK YOUR STINKIN' BUTTS!" Miko shouted. She was not happy. She didn't like being captured. Especially by stupid MECH agents.

Then she kicked the bars just to prove her point. "OW!" she shouted once her foot hit the bars and she felt a shot of pain. "Okay. Not gonna do that again. BUT LET ME OUT! SERIOUSLY! I'M NOT KIDDING! WHEN MY FRIEND GETS HERE, YOU'RE ALL GONNA BE DEAD MEAT!"

"That's what we are counting on," Silas said as he walked over to Miko's cage.

"Once your friend arrives, he will be ours. And there will be nothing you can do about it. Once we have him, you will not be needed anymore. We can't have any witnesses," he continued.

"Oh, what am I gonna tell them? 'Hey officer! There's this group of soldiers that kidnapped me so they could capture alien robots from another planet!' Nobody's gonna believe a story like that," Miko replied.

"One can never be too sure," Silas said.

"YOU ARE A JERK! IF YOU HURT BULK' AT ALL, I WILL KILL YOU!" Miko screamed back.

"There's nothing you can do about it. Now shut up," Silas replied.

"NEVER! I WILL NEVER SHUT UP!" Miko yelled.

"Hey! He said shut up! Listen, stupid teenager!" one of the MECH soldiers said as he jabbed Miko with his gun.

"Stop that! Okay, okay, I'll shut up! But I'm not happy!" Miko said.

"Very good," Silas replied.

Bulkhead was driving to the MECH base so he could save Miko. He felt it was partly his fault that she got kidnapped in the first place.

They had gone dune bashing, when he stopped to answer a call from Prime. When he turned back around, the MECH helicopter was flying away with Miko inside. He tried to follow, but it's sorta hard when you are on the ground and they're in the air.

He had rushed back to the base as soon as he could and located Miko's coordinates. Then he ran back out without saying a word to anybody. Now he was driving fast through the desert to find Miko.

He knew he had to save her. They had encountered Silas and the rest of his MECH soldiers before. If there was one thing he learned, it was that MECH was not kind at all. They were soulless basically. There was no telling what they would do to her. With that thought in mind, Bulkhead pushed his speed to the max and zoomed towards the MECH base.

After the MECH soldiers had left, Miko noticed the cage next to her. She heard crying coming from the cage and looked over. The bars were glowing and looked like they would hurt if touched. The cage was a lot bigger than hers too.

Inside the cage she saw the sparkling. He was the one crying. It looked like he had hurt himself on the energy bars by the burn she saw on his hand. She decided he would need some comforting too. They were in the same situation. She had never seen this bot before, but he was super cute.

"Hey, what's the matter? Did you hurt yourself?" Miko asked gently.

The little sparkling nodded.

"I'm sorry. I hurt myself too. Don't kick cage bars. That's what I learned today," Miko replied.

That made Knock Out giggle. "You're funny!" he said.

"I'm glad to make you laugh. Being a comedian is one of my many awesome talents. My name's Miko, by the way. What's yours?" Miko asked.

"My name's Knock Out!" Knock Out replied. He had completely forgotten about his burnt finger.

Wow. That's Knock Out? He looks like a little kid. He acts like one too. I don't think he remembers me. Maybe he only has little kid memories. Which means he won't be all evil. Miko thought to herself.

"Where did you get caught from? I was with my new daddy, Starscream, before I got caught and put in this ugly cage," Knock Out asked.

"Oh, me and my friend, Bulkhead, were dune bashing! It's really fun! You should try it sometime. Basically, you knock down a bunch of sand dunes," Miko said.

"Daddy Starscream and I have lots of fun too! We played hide and seek, and had energon, and went on the computers, and I even learned about the big fat meanie Megatron!" Knock Out replied.

Miko could agree with Megatron being a big fat meanie. She would have to remember that insult. But she didn't understand how Starscream could be so nice to this little sparkling. She didn't even think Starscream and nice could be fit in the same sentence. Maybe there was more to Screamer than she thought.

"Really? That sounds like a lot of fun. Hey, wanna play I Spy?" Miko asked.

"Sure! Me first!" Knock Out answered.

"Okay. You go first."

"I spy with my little eye, something square!"

Starscream landed in front of the MECH base and transformed into his base mode. He would have to go on foot from here.

Just then, Starscream saw a dark green, off-road vehicle headed for the base. He had seen that vehicle before. But where?

The car skidded to a halt in front of Starscream. Bulkhead then transformed into his base mode as well.

"What are you doing here, Starscream?" Bulkhead asked menacingly. He didn't want Starscream to hurt Miko.

Starscream felt that it would be best to tell the truth. Well most of the truth anyways. "I'm here to save a sparkling from these stupid human soldiers. What are you doing here?" he asked.

"I'm here to save Miko," Bulkhead replied suspiciously.

"Well, I guess we are both on a rescue mission. You know, if we worked together, we could save them faster," Starscream suggested.

"I guess. But don't try anything. I don't wanna hurt you," Bulkhead said.

"Why would I do that? We both have the same goal. And what would I gain from doing something bad?" Starscream replied calmly.

"Okay. Fine. But since when did you have a sparkling?" Bulkhead asked, confused.

"Long story. I'll explain later. First, let's go save our friends," Starscream said.

"Okay," Bulkhead said. Then they both headed into the base.

"We have to be quiet. We don't want to get caught by those soldiers. Then, we'll all need saving," Starscream whispered once they got inside.

"Got it," Bulkhead whispered back. Then they started walking. Bulkhead was walking really noisily, like some kind of elephant.

Starscream stopped and turned around to face Bulkhead, who almost ran into the seeker. "I thought I said be quiet! That does not mean stomp around like Omega Supreme," Starscream hissed at Bulkhead.

"Oops. Sorry," Bulkhead whispered back. Then he started to tiptoe as Starscream walked forward.

Soon, they arrived at the room where Miko and Knock Out were in their cages. The cages were guarded by about fifty MECH agents. They would have to be careful and move fast if they wanted to save their friends. But they had the element of surprise on their side.

"Okay. We have to be careful not to draw attention to ourselves. We need to get in there, save them, and get out. As you can see, there is the sparkling I came to save," Starscream whispered.

So Screamer was telling the truth. Weird. Maybe there's more to him than we thought. Maybe Starscream isn't all that bad. Bulkhead thought to himself.

"Okay. Let's go," Bulkhead whispered back.

He started to walk, but he then tripped over the corner and landed flat on his face. There was a loud crash that followed. It caused all the guards to whirl around and point their guns at Bulkhead's head.

"Um… Hey guys. Nice floor you have here," Bulkhead said nervously to the guards.

Starscream facepalmed. Why couldn't anything be simple for him?

Silas walked up to Bulkhead. "I see our back-up plan has also worked. Knock him out and put him in a cage next to the others. He will prove to be quite useful," he said. Then the other MECH guards proceeded to follow his orders.

Now I have to save all of them. Why can't anything be simple? I told him to be careful, but did he listen? Noooo. Now I have to save everyone. Oh well, time to come up with a new plan. Starscream thought to himself.

More Notes:

Oh no! Now Starscream has to save the day! What will happen? Will Starscream succeed? What will Megatron do without Knock Out? Find out in the next chapter!

I hope you enjoyed this story! Please, please, please review! Reviews keep me alive! Just no hate. Until next time, my dear readers!