Chapter 11 Battle Scares.
The next day Slipstream told them how to find the Star Seeker's ship.
The plan was two of them would sneak aboard the ship and destroy the Requream Blaster. While the others would fight them on the ground as a distraction.
Starscream and Knock Out would sneak aboard because they'd be the two the Star Seekers wouldn't expect.
The humans would stay at base as mission control and Slipstream would also stay at base in the medbay because she hadn't fully healed yet.
Starscream and Knock Out had just ground bridged on to the Star Seeker's ship. And were currently making their way to the ship's control room where the weapon was.
"So we go in destroy the Requimam Blaster and bridge back to base?" Asked Knock Out.
"Yeah that's pretty much the plan." Starscream replied.
"Well let's hurry up and do this I don't want to be on this ship any longer then I have too." Knock Out told Starscream.
"I hear you this place is really creepy." The seeker agreed. "It kind of makes the Nemisis look like a nursery."
"Kind of reminds me of when we made those Terrorcons when you had the bright idea to mix Synthetic Energon with Dark Energon." Said Knock Out.
"Well it seemed like a good idea at the time." Starscream told him.
"In what universe?" Knock Out teased his friend.
"Let's just do this." Groaned Starscream tired of the conversation. "Your never gonna let me live that one down are you?"
"Nope." Knock Out said without missing a beet. Then the two continued down the hallway.
Meanwhile back at base the humans were acting as mission control and Shayna and DeAnn both had to leave the room to look for Pixel because the minicon had just disappeared.
And no one knew where he went. So everyone at base were taking turns being mission control while the others looked for the minicon.
But they just couldn't find him.
"We better find Pixel or there's no telling how much trouble he could get into." Said Shayna.
"Yeah he's just like a little kid when it comes to doing stuff he's not supposed too." DeAnn added.
"I'm sure he's fine." Denny told them. He, Russel, Jack, Raf, Miko and Jack's Mom were all there to help.
"I found him he's doing mission control on the consul." Said Agent Simmons who had just walked in.
"That's not Pixel that's Fixit." Agent Fowler told him. "Pixel is red and smaller."
"I get all these transformers mixed up." Said Simmons.
Everyone just shook their heads and continued looking.
Meanwhile the Autobots on the ground were all fighting the Star Seekers and it was an all out war zone.
But they noticed their leader Thundertron wasn't there.
"Everyone be on guard I do not see Thundertron and fear he may be up to something." Optimus Prime said to the others.
"You heard Optimus stay alert." Bumblebee told his team.
Suddenly both Optimus and Bumblebee's com-links beeped. It was Knock Out.
"What is it Knock Out?" Asked Bumblebee.
"We found the Requimam Blaster but we can't destroy it with out destroying the whole ship but we found a ground bridge we can take to get off the ship when we blow it up." Knock Out explained.
"Only problem is the ground bridge doesn't have a way for us to lock on to a location so all we know is we'll come out somewhere on Earth so we'll contact you guys for another bridge when we come out." "So ready for us to pop up in some random area." He added.
"Our com-link don't work here so I had to go to another room and use the ship's communications system to contact you Starscream is currently waiting for me to get back so we can destroy the Requimam Blaster so I'm gonna go back...ahhh!.." Thay heard Knock Out scream followed by a roar then were cut off.
"Oh scrap what just happened?" Asked Bumblebee.
"I do not know but I fear both Knock Out and Starscream are in danger." Optimus told him. "We must find a way to contact them." But when those words were barely out of Optimus Prime's mouth he and Bumblebee both found themselves being forced to battle more of the Star Seekers along with the rest of their teams.
Meanwhile Starscream was waiting for Knock Out to get back so they could destroy the Requimam Blaster but was growing inpatient because it seemed like the red sports car had been gone forever.
"What did he do decide to buff his finish?" Thought Starscream. He was about to go get him when he heard pedsteps coming down the hallway.
"What kept you did you scratch your paint job?" Starscream teased until the door opened and his face fell when he saw Thundertron appear on the other side of it instead of the cherry colored medic he was expecting.
"Oh he's got more then a scratch." Hissed the leader of the Star Seekers.
Then Starscream felt his spark sink when Thundertron entered the room dragging an unconscious and badly injured Knock Out by the helm across the floor.
Knock Out's entire frame was covered in dents and gashes that were leaking energon, his headlights were shattered and his tires had been popped and some of his wires were exposed with sparks coming from them. But the most disturbing thing was a crack across his chestplates.
"What have you done?!" Hissed Starscream who was fighting back coolant tears of both geaf and rage.
"Relax your friend is still alive for the moment I just surprised him in the communications room then gave him an old fashion beat down." "Now step away from the Requimam Blaster or I finish him." Thundertron threatened pointing his arm cannon at Knock Out's helm.
Starscream didn't know what to do other then obey not wanting Thundertron to hurt Knock Out more then he already had.
Then Thundertron kicked Knock Out aside and aimed his arm cannon at Starscream.
Starscream quickly jumped forward and attack Thundertron as soon as his arm cannon wasn't aimed at Knock Out anymore.
And now the two were fighting hard Thundertron transformed into his Lion form and Starscream knew right away that this had been the form he used to attack Knock Out because the medic's energon still stained his claws.
Thundertron was now trying to rip Starscream apart. But the seeker was putting up a surprisingly good fight mainly because he was angry at Thundertron for hurting his best friend.
Thundertron manged to get Starscream pinned down on the floor. And the seeker could feel the claws of Thundertron's Lion from digging into where his ribcage would be if he was human. As he fought back a cry of pain.
But then Thundertron look up and spotted something on the Requimam Blaster. Starscream saw it too.
"Pixel what are you doing here?" The seeker asked the minicon who responded with a series of beeps.
"You snuck in in my subspace!" Starscream said in disbelief. "I can't believe you pulled a Miko."
"What is that minicon doing?!" Growled Thundertron.
"What he loves doing best pushing random buttons." Starscream answer him with a smirk seeing which button the minicon's digits happened to be hovering over.
"No not that one!" Thundertron cried as Pixel pressed it.
"It seems he's activated the selfdestruct sequence." Starscream smiled.
"No I have to stop it!" Thundertron yelled jumping off Starscream and running to try to save his ship and weapon.
Starscream wasted no time jumping to his peds and grabbed Pixel who had run over to where he was and he quickly put the minicon on his shoulder then he half dragged half carried Knock Out and activated the ground bridge and rushed through it.
Upon coming out on the other side of the ground bridge Starscream laid Knock Out on the ground and saw how bad his injuries actually were.
His gashes were really deep and he was still bleeding energon in several places upon looking closer Starscream saw that the crack on his chestplates was actually another slash mark and if he'd been slashed just one inch deeper it would have hit his spark.
Starscream could tell Knock Out needed medical attention fast if he was going to survive.
"This is Starscream I need an emergency ground bridge now!" He yelled into his com-link only to realize it wouldn't work because it had been damaged in his fight with Thundertron and Knock Out's com-link wasn't in good shape either.
"No." Starscream whispered as tears filled his optics. Knock Out was dying and he couldn't call for help or a ground bridge and didn't even know where they were.
"Pixel go try to find help." Starscream told the minicon who saluted him then ran off to look for help.
Starscream stayed to make sure no enemies found Knock Out.
"Come on doctor you have to survive this." Starscream practically begged him. But Knock Out remained unresponsive. And Starscream tried to move him as little as possible not wanting to accidentally add to his injuries.
"You'll survive this you have to I survived worse beatings then the one you just took you won't like what that did to you paint job but you'll recover and I'll help you fix it as good as new." Starscream told him.
Knock Out still didn't show any sign of waking.
"Please Knock Out you have to live through this I can't lose you your one of the only friends I had during the war your more like a brother to me really!" Said Starscream who was crying now.
"You helped me survive the war." Starscream sobbed. "You must pull through!" "I'm so sorry I should have gone with you to contact the rest of the team instead of waiting I should have gone with you and stood watch so Thundertron couldn't have surprised you like that."
"Knock Out I'm so sorry!" Starscream cried.
Then he suddenly heard pedsteps at first he felt relieved thinking help had arrived. But unfortunately it wasn't the case Thundertron step out of the bushes he had gotten through the ground bridge as well before his ship exploded.
"How touching and pathetic." He growled as he clapped mockingly.
Starscream aim his missiles at him. "Stay back!" The seeker growled.
But Thundertron was to fast and transformed into his Lion mode and attacked Starscream.
Before the seeker knew what hit him he was laying on the ground covered in scratchs and leaking energon.
"You really messed up my plans." Thundertron hissed as he changed back to his bot mode. "Now I'm going to make you pay for it."
"But first I have something to finish." He added darkly as he walked over to where Knock Out was laying and started kicking him.
"Leave him alone!" Starscream roared as he jumped to his feet and tackled Thundertron taking him by surprise.
To say the seeker was angry would be an understatement Starscream had never felt so much rage not even towards Megatron.
But Thundertron quickly regained the upper hand because Starscream was so mad at him he was fighting sloppy.
Thundertron change back to his Lion mode and tackled Starscream but felt something stab him in the midsection and realize to late that Starscream had wanted him to pounce on top of him so he could stab him with his servo.
"Bang!" Starscream growled as he fired a missile from close range into the wound he'd just inflicted killing Thundertron.
Then Starscream push the larger mech's body off him and got up and took three steps only to fall to the ground because he had been badly injured in the fight he was just in.
He tried to get back up but couldn't. All he could do was lay there as everything became dark and fuzzy and the last thing he saw was a mech walking over to where he was then he blacked out.
The mech stood over Starscream and also saw Knock Out laying there both of them badly injured. And the mech put a finger to his com-link.
"Optimus you should send a ground bridge to these cordnets and get the medbay ready a minicon alerted me to the situation." He said looking down at Pixel who was standing there looking nervously at both injured mechs. "Two of your men are injured."
"Starscream has changed I just saw the end of his fight with Thundertron and he fought just like a gladiator in the pits of Kaon the last move he pulled was not unlike something I would have." Said the mech. "I'm not sure I like that." "But I'm proud of him."
"I can't stay but here are the cordnets to the location hurry and get them to the medbay because they are both near death." The mech told Optimus over the com-link. "I'm glad to see that Starscream and Knock Out have both walked away from the Decepticon cause and are changing for the better just like I am." "Goodbye Librarian I hope to see you again in person sometime Orion Pax." He added before leaving.
Then the Autobots ground bridged to the location and rushed both Starscream and Knock Out to the medbay hoping they would both pull through.
To Be Continued.
The epilogue is next hope you all enjoyed the story so far. Feel free to send feedback.