(Cybertron near the end of the golden age)
When he opened his optics for the first time he saw the Allspark that he had just emerged from. Then upon looking around saw an opening above him that he wasted no time climbing his way to the top of.
Upon emerging from it he was greeted by another bot.
"Hello I'm the gildmaster I'll assign you to what part of the cast system you will belong too. You have wings so come with me and you can show us what you can do." The bot told him.
"OK." The new spark replied as he followed the older bot until they came to a cliff where other bots with wings were waiting some bigger then him.
"Now we can begin one by one you'll jump off, transform and join your wing mates in flight and when you land I'll asian you a name." Said the bot looking at all the winged new sparks who were standing there some looking back at him nervously.
"Now let's begin." He added.
Then for the next few hours the bot watched as the others one by one jumped off the cliff some transforming and taking flight and a few unlucky one's crashing to the ground having failed to transform in time some of them were taken to a medbay to be fix and try again while the really unlucky one's were killed on impact.
The bot watched one of them make a sonic boom while he was in the sky before landing then he was giving the name Thundercracker and another one teleport who was named Sky Warp. The gildmaster explained that it was rare but some bots had abilities that didn't have anything to do with their alt mode who were called outliners.
Then it was the New Spark's turn he held his servos out on each side of him and closed his optics before jumping off the cliff like a professional diver as if something clicked on instinct he transformed in midair but wasn't pulling up.
The gildmaster was about to write him off as having failed having his finger on his com-link ready to call the medical team to see if the young bot could be salvaged.
When suddenly the bot's alt mode shot up into the sky having waited till the last second to pull up then did a spin before catching up to the others and passing even some of the older more experienced flyers (who had shown up because they enjoyed flying with the new sparks.) and did a barrel roll before coming in for a landing.
"So how did I do?" He asked.
"You did excellent." The Gildmaster told him still getting over the shock of seeing a new spark out fly some of the most experienced seekers.
"I think you'll make an excellent seeker you have a bright future ahead of you Starscream." The gildmaster finished given the bot his name.
Starscream smiled at his new designation and was glad to be a seeker because flying had been the best feeling in the world to him.
(Cybertron present day.)
Starscream was currently walking down the street of Iacon ignoring the dirty looks he was getting from all the other bots in the area.
He had been released from prison on good behavior which a lot of bots didn't like because most of them thought he should either rot in prison or be put to death. But Optimus Prime had been against that believing everyone deserved a second chance.
But this didn't mean everyone on Cybertron felt the same way. Starscream had to look over his shoulder everytime he left his home.
The seeker had managed to make up with Knock Out so at least he had one friend now. The red medic had even apologized for hitting him with the immobilizer.
Starscream went to Macadams where he met the red medic for lunch. But as soon as he walked through the door a bot who was leaving dump their energon cube over the seeker's helm.
"Go soak your head decepticreep!" The bot hissed as he started out the door.
Only for a horn to suddenly honk and cause the bot who had been standing next to a fire alarm that was by the door and pull it trying to catch himself and the next thing he knew he was sprayed with fire repellent foam while the alarm sounded causing everyone to look at him.
Then Starscream watch the bot run out the door without an ounce of dignity left. While Knock Out who motion him to a booth and also watched the bot go with a smirk on his faceplates having been the one who honked his horn just to startle him.
"Maybe that will take him down a few pegs." Knock Out said to Starscream as he help him clean the energon off.
"When you honked your horn did you actually mean for him to catch himself by pulling the fire alarm?" Asked the seeker.
"No I meant for him to land on his tailpipe but that was just lucky timing." Knock Out explained. "And he deserved it talk about rude dumping his energon on you like that."
"Well I guess I kind of deserve it after everything I did during the war and the stunt I pulled with those minicons." Starscream said letting his wings drop.
"Starscream you've changed for the better since then." Knock Out told his best friend. "I know it we just need to show everyone else."
"I don't think I'll ever really be accepted here after all I've done." Starscream replied with a sad look. "Megatron was right I am worthless."
"No your not your more then meets the eye Starscream Megatron is just a jerk I mean he said he changed for the better but instead of trying to help us rebuild Cybertron he just flew off to who knows where doing who knows what while your here actually trying to make up for what you did." Knock Out told his friend.
"And he beat you constantly during the war and bad monthed you and he never apologized to you even once. No one deserves that kind of abuse and I'm so sorry I stood by and let it happen." The red medic finished.
"Hey you have a paint job to protect." Starscream joked.
"Well that is true." Knock Out agreed as the two laughed.
Then suddenly they both heard screaming from outside and rushed out to investigate and were greeted with the sight of bots panicking and other bots attacking them. And all the bots who were attacking were Decepticons this was a revolt it was like the war had suddenly started over and it was complete chaos.
Just then Ratchet showed up.
"Ratchet what's going on?!" Asked Knock Out.
"The Decepticons are back we don't know how but they managed to build their numbers back up and their attacking all over the planet." Ratchet explained. "I managed to lock down Teletraan-1 then wipe the code from my processor and saved it on this drive so without this the Decepticons can't access it. Now I need you to get this to Bumblebee's team at the scrapyard on earth!"
Then Ratchet handed the drive to Knock Out who he knew was faster then him and the cons would be less likely to target him. Before he drove off to lead them away.
Then Knock Out started heading for the space bridge with Starscream covering him. Because some of the Decepticons had seen Ratchet hand him the drive.
And it got really confusing when the vehicons got involved because some were trying to help the Autobots while some were working with the Decepticons so vehicons were fighting vehicons and it was hard to keep track of which ones were on their side.
The two headed for the space bridge when suddenly they were cut off by blaster fire because some of the cons were shooting at them. Starscream was right next to the space bridge but Knock Out couldn't get passed them but he managed to tossed the drive to the seeker who caught it.
"Knock Out!" Starscream called to his best friend.
"Go the Autobots need that drive!" Knock Out yelled to his friend. "I'll be fine and catch up to you when I can find a way around this!"
Starscream nodded and reluctantly started to go through the space bridge when he heard a loud boom and turned around only to wish he hadn't.
He didn't see who had fired the blast but he only saw it hit it's mark Knock Out's chestplates then saw his beast friend hit the ground having taken a shot that had been aimed at him.
"NO! KNOCK OUT!!!" Starscream cried out still registering what had just happened and had to force himself to run through the space bridge instead of to his friend's body wanting to fullfil the red medic's last request.
Starscream ran through the space bridge and shot the control panel with one of his missiles so the Decepticons couldn't follow him. Then the seeker fell to his knees sobbing as he finished processing the fact that he had just watched his friend die.
To Be Continued.
Hope this first chapter turned out OK. And sorry it took so long this was a nightmare to come up with. I'll try to get the next chapter up soon. In the meantime feel free to send feedback.