"Why have you brought such an insignificant piece of filth aboard my ship?" Megatron snarled in Bitstream's face, the seeker cowardly looked away in fear of his master's wrath.

"He is an Autobot scout, he must have an idea of where the Allspark might be," Bitstream said, "And if not, we might be able to use him to get Optimus to come out of hiding."

Megatron growled, he raised his right arm behind him and swung it forwards. Bitstream grunted as Megatron's balled fist collided with his face and sent him crashing to the ground.

"You better be right," Megatron snarled, "You don't want to replace Starscream as my punching bag."

Bitstream groaned, picking himself back up off of the floor of the Nemesis's bridge slowly. He wiped energon from his lip and stood back up. He bowed to his master then turned around to leave the bridge, sulking as the laughter of his comrades mocking him began to grow louder.

"Didn't think anyone could piss Megatron off like that," Starscream chuckled, "Except for me."

"Put a scraplet in it, Sir." Bitstream growled as the door shut behind him.

"Starscream, in case Bitstream's projections prove incorrect," Megatron said in a low voice, Starscream took a knee in front of his master.

"Yes Lord Megatron?" He said.

"I want you and the other Seekers searching this state," Megatron ordered, "We know it's here, somewhere."

Starscream smirked and rose to his feet. He saluted Megatron and left the room, on his way out his smile faded to a scowl.

"You best hope Thundercracker finds it," Starscream sneered once in the hallway to the barracks, "Else the Allspark won't find itself in your possession."

Hot Shot screamed in agony, his limbs strapped to a metal table and energon prods stabbing themselves into his chassis. One in his chest, two in his arms and two in his legs. All of them sending volts of high electricity powered energon through his body.

Threatening to overload him.

"I asked you," Vortex, the Decepticon interrogator said, cutting off the electricity to allow the Autobot another chance to answer, "Where is the Ark?"

"My name is Private Hot Shot, I am a scout assigned to Optimus Prime's deep space exploration unit," Hot Shot answered, then he screamed again as Vortex activated the prods once more.

"Want to give me the right answer?" Vortex asked.

"My serial number is J1984A02MM" Hot Shot moaned.

Vortex grimmiced under his faceplate and charged the prods up to full voltage. Hot Shot closed his optics and screamed as pink electricity coursed through his body.

Sometime later Vortex approached Megatron's throne and bowed down on one knee to his leader.

"Rise," Megatron said.

"Lord Megatron," Vortex said, "The Autobot won't reveal any new information regarding the whereabouts of the Ark or the Allspark."

"Hmmm" Megatron glared at the Combaticon.

"What should I do with him?" Vortex asked.

"It would be a waste of our time to offline him," Megatron pondered, "Hmm, put a mode-locker on him, trap him in vehicle mode, then put the car wherever you want as long as it's not on board my ship."

Scrapyard, Phoenix, AZ

January 10, 2015

4:40 AM

Hot Shot groaned as Breakdown and Barricade dragged his limp body through the ground bridge. He looked up to see mounds of scrap metal, a dark starry sky and the red glow of the two grunts' optics glaring down at him.

The two Decepticons threw Hot Shot down to the ground, and a foot kicked him into a pile of scrap.

Hot Shot growled and stood up, ready to transform his left arm into a blaster, but before he could Barricade shot a rifle at him. A metal device latched to Hot Shot's leg and shocked him.

He then froze in place and with a loud broken sound coming from his T-Cog, he converted into vehicle mode. He tried to drive, but the mode-locker disabled his motor functions.

And to make sure the scout couldn't go anywhere, Barricade knelt down and put a tire clamp on Hot Shot's front left tire.

Hot Shot couldn't do anything but watch as Barricade and Breakdown walked back through the ground bridge and the blueish green portal closed behind them.

"Scrap," Hot Shot muttered to himself, before he ran out of energon and fell into stasis.

Transformers: Warfront...

Hey, to answer a question I got from lat chapter. This mini series is based on varrious different Transformers continuities. Mainly G1, Prime, and Filmverse. Hot Shot is based on his Cybertron appearance. Knockout and Breakdown from Prime, hopefully every one else will be a little more clear.