Author's Note: First I don't own Transformers but I hope you enjoy anyway. Secondly review please but be warned if you flame you will be used as target practice for Ironhide. Enjoy!
"I don't wanna live to waste another day underneath the shadows of mistakes I made. Cause I feel like I'm breaking inside. " Breaking Inside, Shinedown
Shock Factor-Chapter IV
Outside it was soon easy to see what was causing the chaos. A battered Starscream was landed in front of the base looking dazed and confused with no weapons in sight. Sideswipe was laying to one side of the NEST base against a wall looking slightly dazed himself. Jazz guessed that Starscream had been forced to throw the other mech off of him. Unlike the other mechs around him Jazz knew exactly why Starscream was here and the reason was perched silently on his shoulder. Kaylen. Starscream had an unexplanable soft spot when it came to the human and he had turned his back on Kaylen and Jazz to allow them to escape from Megatron not once but twice.
Jazz glanced around him, sensing trouble. Ironhide and Ratchet already had weapons out and, in Ironhide's case, ready to fire. Optimus looked wary, and Jazz himself felt uneasy about the 'Con being here. He knew of only one way to diffuse the situation and he suggested it to Kaylen quietly but reluctantly. "Do ya want ta go talk ta him?"
"It would probably be best," Kaylen whispered sensing his reluctance and Jazz put her down. He watched as she slipped silently past the tense mechs who didn't even notice she was moving until she was already out of their range. He also watched the looks of stunned awe on their faces as she made her way over to Starscream and proceeded to give him a piece of her mind. "You've ripped a line again. Don't you realize how long it took me to fix that last time?" she asked, exasperated. Jazz watched Starscream survey the girl with a little amusement but saw no sign of ill will toward his charge. He relaxed slightly, knowing that Kaylen was probably just as safe if not safer with Starscream than with him. Then he remembered Ironhide was back online. Okay, maybe she wasn't so safe.
Starscream turned and glanced at the assembled Autobots, red optics fixed on them warily. "Jazz," he said finally, aknowledging the Autobot to whom he had intrusted Kaylen's life.
"Screamer," Jazz replied and Starscream forced down a growl at that nickname. He would have liked nothing more than to give the silver Autobot a piece of his mind but there were two things stopping him. First Ironhide was online and with cannons pointed at the Seeker should he make a wrong move and secondly it would hurt Kaylen.
"Don't call me that," he finally growled and left it at that. It was vaguely pathetic but it was better than the alternative which was to be blasted into a million pieces by Ironhide.
"What are you doing here?" Kaylen asked softly, drawing his attention back to her. "I didn't think I would ever see you again."
"I have a problem but I'll tell you about it later," Starscream said, casting a glance in the direction he had come from. "You should go back to your guardians now."
"Too late," a cold voice said and Starscream felt a rage begin pulsing inside him. However this ended it wasn't going to be good.