Chapter 7 Friends In Need.

Arcee was about to call base when Knock Out's vehicle mode pulled up to her. He was on his way back from the drive in with the girls and Pixel. And they had spotted her and drove up to ask what she was doing there.

Knock Out told the girls and Pixel to head on back to base after he saw Arcee's optics. And they obeyed since they were close enough to walk to base.

"Arcee you didn't fuel with the energon that was in the medbay did you?" Knock Out asked her.

"Yes I did was something wrong with it?" She replied.

"Oh scrap Arcee that was Synth-En it was just in a blue container because it was the only one we could find me, Ratchet and Wheeljack were seeing if it could work as fuel for ships." Knock Out explained.

"That explains why I just attacked Starscream." Said Arcee.

"You did what?!" Cried Knock Out.

"I did something bad ok and because of my actions Starscream was captured by Shatter and Drop Kick and I have to figure out a way to save him and make amends." Arcee told the red medic.

"I have to find where they took him and get him back." She added.

"Not alone your not." Knock Out said to her. "Starscream is my best friend and he may require a medic so I'm coming too." "Plus Shatter and Drop Kick were two of the most dangerous Decepticon's during the war and you might not be able to take them both."

"Ok thanks." Arcee told him. Then they did a scan and picked up on a ships energy signal and started heading in that direction.


Meanwhile Starscream had come too and was currently in energon chains hanging from the ceiling of the ship's brig.

He had been a prisoner for some hours now and Shatter and Drop Kick had been torturing him for information.

They were currently on their own ship planning to take him to the Star Seekers later after they had gotten all the info on the Autobots the seeker had. But Starscream was holding out better then they'd expected him too.

Starscream was in a great deal of pain from the torture that had been inflicted on him. But trying everything he could to keep his wits about him.

When he suddenly heard the door to the brig open and Shatter and Drop Kick walked in.

"I must commend you Starscream you've held out much longer then we expected." Shatter said to the seeker. "We've tried just about every known torture and you haven't told us anything."

"And I'm not going too." Starscream growled in response.

"Don't be that way just tell us what you know about the Autobots and this doesn't have to continue." Shatter told Starscream. Then pick a cube of energon up off a table.

"I noticed your energon levels are dangerously low so here's what we'll do you can have a sip for every right answer you give us." She added. "I'll even let you go ahead and have the first one to get the ball rolling."

Then she approached Starscream with the cube. But what happened next surprised both Shatter and Drop Kick instead of taking the sip the seeker knocked it out of Shatter's servo making it spill on the floor.

"I said I'm not telling you anything and I meant it." Starscream hissed.

This action earned the seeker several punches to the helm from Drop Kick. Until he was leaking energon from the side of his mouth.

"Your just a gluten for punishment aren't you." Growled Drop Kick.

"Megatron hits harder." Starscream choked out forcing a smirk to spite the pain he was feeling.

"Looks like we're gonna have to try something more drastic." Drop Kick said then he and Shatter nodded at each other.

Then Shatter grabbed Starscream and held him firmly by the shoulders. While Drop Kick walked behind him.

"What are you doing?" Starscream asked nervously not liking this.

"I know one thing that's true with all seekers is their wings are the most sensitive part of their bodies and they don't last long with out them." Shatter told Starscream looking him in the optics.

"No!" "Please don't!" Starscream begged realizing where they were going with this especially when he felt Drop Kick grab his wings.

"Please don't do this!" Starscream continued pleading with them.

"Tell us what you know about the Autobots and we'll let you keep them." Shatter said to the seeker never breaking eye contact.

"Never." Starscream replied not being able to hide the fear in his optics or hold back the coolant tears that now spilled out of them.

"Do it." Shatter told Drop Kick darkly.

The next sounds that followed were Starscream's cries of agony as Drop Kick pulled, bent and yanked on his wings. As the seeker tried his best to fight and struggle only for Shatter to hold him still.

Then about an hour later Shatter let go of him as Drop Kick walked back in front of him and stood next to Shatter dropping Starscream's wings that were covered in energon on the floor.

Starscream was now sobbing coolant tears. Drop Kick could have sawed the seeker's wings off but they had chosen to rip them off of him instead knowing it would be more painful. And make it harder if not impossible to have them reattached.

"If you would have told us what we wanted to know that could have been avoided." Shatter mocked Starscream.

"I still wouldn't have told you." Groaned Starscream. "Years ago or even weeks ago I would have cracked but now I'm an Autobot and I refuse to betray my friends."

"I've never heard of a seeker willing to give up their wings for their friends." Said Drop Kick.

"Well the next worst thing you can do to a seeker is to put them in a closed space as flyers their claustrophobic by nature." Shatter told her partner.

Then Shatter and Drop Kick took Starscream down from the ceiling and dragged the injured and broken seeker down the hallway.


Meanwhile Arcee and Knock Out had found the ship and were now looking for Starscream. it was a good sized ship so they had their work cut out for them.

They decided to split up to cover more ground. And agreed to be careful to avoid being spotted.

Arcee was walking through the hallway when she spotted a trail of energon leading down it and followed it until she came to a room at the end of it.

Upon entering she saw a cybertronian coffin which was where the energon trail stopped.

She went over and opened it and found Starscream inside it and didn't waste time running a diagnostic scan on him and saw that he was still alive but unconscious.

He was covered in dents and scratchs and had been leaking energon in several places which had been welded only so he wouldn't bleed out. And most disturbingly his wings had been torn off. And she could see claw marks on the inside of the coffin where he had been trying to get out.

"Starscream wake up we have to find Knock Out and get out of here to get you to the medbay." Arcee said as she tried nudging the seeker awake but got no response.

She could tell he was hurt badly and running dangerously low on energon. He needed a medic to look at him. They needed Knock Out in there but there was no telling which part of the ship he was on or how long it would take him to get there.

Arcee quickly got an energon cube out of her subspace and held it to the seeker's mouth. "Come on Starscream you have to drink this." She pleaded knowing with the amount he'd lost if he didn't get some energon in him soon he was going to die.

But unfortunately he still didn't respond and she could tell even if he was conscious he be to weak to drink it. But then she spotted a syringe on a table and quickly grabbed it and filled it with the energon from the cube and injected it into Starscream.

But the seeker still remained unresponsive. And Arcee could tell he was dying and needed medical attention if there was any chance to save him.

"I'm gonna get Knock Out then I'll be back I just need you to hold on till then." She told the unconscious seeker before running down the hall hoping she could get Knock Out there in time.

Then she felt a wave of panic hit her when she heard blasters being fired down the hallway.


Meanwhile Knock Out had been wondering the hallway looking for Starscream when he had stumbled across the brig and was horror stricken when he came across Starscream's wings still covered in energon.

"Those monsters." He whispered as he put the wings in his subspace. Then left the brig and passed Drop Kick on his way out and raised his servo in a waving manner.

Drop Kick wave back and kept walking until he stopped dead in his tracks doing a double take then made a U-turn running after the Austin Martin.

Then Knock Out heard pedsteps running after him. And bolted down the hallway. "Scrap I knew that was too easy." He thought now running for his life. Then ended up passing Shatter when he cut a corner.

Knock Out now had both Cons turned Star Seekers chasing him. And firing their blasters at him. Which he was just barely managing to dodge.

"Let's split up and box him in." Said Drop Kick as he and Shatter noticed Knock Out run into a room that connected to two different hallways without knowing it. And Shatter went around to the other hallway.

Knock Out was now beginning to relax a bit thinking he'd lost them. He could see Drop Kick walking outside in the hall looking for him.

"But wait where's Shatter?" He thought as he realized too late that there was another door behind him. Just in time for Shatter to bust through it and attack him from behind.

Now Knock Out was struggling with Shatter and unfortunately the femme was winning as she was pulling at his neckcables and managed to hit him hard across the helm.

Knock Out was now dazed but still managing to fight back. As Shatter had him in a chokehold. If he was human Knock Out would have been unconscious at this point and if he didn't got her off soon at this rate she could end up popping his head off.

Desperate to get her off him Knock Out start slamming them into the wall and managed to break out of the hold she had him in.

Then suddenly he felt something sharp price through the side of his midsection and looked down just in time to see Shatter yank out an energon dagger she'd gotten off a table and stabbed him with.

Knock Out was in pain but he continued to fight with Shatter who was now beating him senseless.

Drop Kick was still outside waiting for the right moment to jump in when Arcee ran out and tackled him and they were now fighting with each other and He managed to pin her against the wall.

Then fired his blaster into the room Knock Out was currently fighting Shatter in at the first flash of red he saw on rapid fire. And to her horror Arcee heard the sound of a metal body hitting the floor.

"Sorry about your friend." Drop Kick mocked.

"No!" Arcee scream as she attacked Drop Kick in a rage as coolant tears fell from her optics. She continued to deliver one punch to the blue mech after another she was going to make him pay for killing Knock Out.

But Drop Kick suddenly managed to get the upper hand because Arcee let her rage get the better of her. And now the mech was about to finish her.

But suddenly Drop Kick stopped cold and heard a drilling sound then the blue mech fell to the floor and look inside the room they had been right outside of to see the dead body of Shatter laying there full of holes where she had been shot by him. Right before his optics went out as he died.

And Arcee looked over and saw Knock Out standing there who had just killed Drop Kick with his drill.

"He really should have looked at more then just the color scheme of his target." Knock Out quipped before he staggered for a moment.

"Your leaking." Arcee said with concern noticing where he'd been stabbed.

"It's nothing." Knock Out told her.

"Are you sure?" She asked.

"I'll live but we need to find Starscream." He said to Arcee then she lead him to where she'd found the seeker who fortunately was still alive.

Arcee explained how she had injected the energon into him.

"Good job you save his life." Knock Out told her.

Then they called for a ground bridge and Ratchet and Bulkhead came in and rushed Starscream to the medbay and Knock Out handed Ratchet Starscream's wings.

But then the Austin Martin started coughing up energon and collapsed.

"Quick call some of the medics from Cybertron I'm going to need help to save Knock Out and Starscream!" Ratchet shouted.

Then they rushed both patients to the medbay while Optimus called Cybertron and a few minutes later a space bridge open and Red Alert and First Aid came out and got to work helping Ratchet try to save both mechs.

All of them just hoping both their friends would pull through.

To Be Continued.

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