Chapter 4.

Warning this chapter has violence, a character death and possibly the darkest scene I've ever written. You've been warned.

Starscream was trying his best to get up but his body just wouldn't move. Then he saw a femme approach him.

"Arachnid..G..get away..fr..rom me.."Starscream choked out. He couldn't move to run or fight and was terrified.

Starscream could see Arachnid standing over him she touched his faceplates. He couldn't fight her off and was completely at her marcy and just knew she was going to finish him.

"Nnn...noo..!" Whimper the paralyzed seeker. Everything was fuzzy out of focus and Starscream felt sick and his frame felt sore, his helm ached and he felt dizzy and hot.

Then he saw Arachnid run off and come back with someone else form around the corner of the alley he was laying in. He couldn't make out who it was. Because for him everything was spinning and going dark.

Starscream could feel himself passing out. And was struggling to stay conscious he needed to remain alert knowing if he passed out he might not wake up again and there was no telling what Arachnid and whoever else was there were going to do to him.

The seeker couldn't defend himself and was struggling to stay awake and trying desperately to move his body to fend them off but it proved useless because he just couldn't move.

And the only sounds he could make sounded slurred and muffled and didn't make any since.

And then his body started shaking uncontrollably as he coughed up energon then lost his battle to stay conscious as his whole would went black.


Meanwhile Arcee had been driving through the streets of Iacon when another femme flagged her down she was bright pink and looked worried.

"A seeker who stood up for me yesterday in an oil house when another bot was harassing me is laying in the alley and I think he's dying!" She explained with pleading optics.

Arcee agreed to help and let the other femme who she could tell was from Caminus lead the way.

Then she was surprised to see Starscream was the bot in question and he didn't look well at all.

He kept moaning and groaning things that didn't make since and his system was overheated because his core temperature was raising to a dangerous level and his optics kept rolling to the back of his helm.

Arcee could tell he was really sick and saw he still had the damage from his fight with her and Quick Force from the night before.

Arcee call Ratchet and explained the situation then saw Starscream started convulsing and coughing up energon before his optics rolled shut and he became still.

Then a ground bridge opened and Ratchet came out with Bulkhead who carried Starscream through it as they rushed the seeker to the medbay where Ratchet got to work trying to save him.

Fortunately Ratchet had an antidote for the poison that Pharma had given Starscream having dealt with it before in the early days of the war and was able to save the seeker.

"Is he gonna be ok?" Asked the femme who had come with Arcee who's name was Maxima.

"Yes we got him here just in time another ten seconds and I wouldn't have been able to do anything." Ratchet explained as he fixed Starscream damage from the fight he'd been in.

And Maxima was glad the bot who helped her was gonna be ok. Then Windblade entered the base and was happy to see her. It turned out they had been best friends on Caminus. And they welcomed her to the team.


Later Starscream woke up in the medbay and Ratchet explained to him what happened. And the seeker thanked the Autobots for getting him there and saving him.

"Wait what about Knock Out?" Starscream asked remembering his friend.

"He's on the other side of the medbay recharging right now and should be fine when he wakes up." Ratchet explained. And Starscream vented a sigh of relief.

"You save his life Starscream if he had been given him one more dose of Nucleon it would have killed him." Ratchet continued.

"Pharma was the one who had him and poisoned me." Starscream explained. Then started to leave but Arcee stopped him. And for a moment Starscream thought she was going to attack him again.

"Starscream part of me will always be angry about what you did to Cliffjumper." Arcee told him.

"But you saved Knock Out's life today and you defended Maxima yesterday so I see that you have changed for the better and I know Cliffjumper wouldn't want me to hold a grudge and if he were here he'd say your were welcome to join us if you want so that's what I'm doing now." Arcee continued.

"I see that there is good in you Starscream and if Cliffjumper were here he'd forgive you and I forgive you." Arcee finished. "I'm sorry for attacking you yesterday and for the things I said and your welcome to join us if you want too."

"It's ok your anger towards me is justified and I'm sorry about everything I did in the past." Starscream replied. "And I will join you to try to make up for it."

Then everyone welcomed him to the team. Suddenly they heard a crash and saw Knock Out had woke up and jumped off the berth and was trying to crawl to the exit and had broken the IV that was giving him an energon drip.

"Please no more!" Knock Out almost sobbed when he heard pedsteps.

"Knock Out I needed that." Said Ratchet.

"Wait your not Pharma?" Knock Out said to him in a voice filled with relief. It had taken him a minute to figure out where he was and that he was safe now.

"Don't worry your safe back in the Autobot base now." Ratchet told him.

"And we'll make sure the Decepticons and Pharma don't hurt you again." Ratchet promised. Then explained what had happened and how he'd been rescued.

"Now you should probably get some bed rest until you body can burn off the drugs Pharma gave you." Ratchet added seeing Knock Out was still weak and a bit out of it.

"Rest sounds good." Knock Out said as they help him back on the berth. "And thanks for the save Screamer."

"Anytime." Starscream told his best friend who had already fallen back into recharge.


Meanwhile Pharma had returned to his clinic only to find he couldn't go inside because he saw Smokescreen and Bumblebee there waiting to capture him and that Knock Out had been rescued.

He knew Switchblades and the rest of the Leviathan crew wouldn't be happy that he had lost the proisnor who would now be able to give the Autobots all the information he'd learned.

He decided to try to come up with a plan to get the red medic back or end him once and for all. And was thinking up his plan as he walked away from where his clinic was hoping to not be seen or captured.

When suddenly he saw Quick Force standing at the end of the alley blocking his path.

"Can I help you with something?" Ask Pharma.

"Yes as a matter of fact Switchblades has hired me to kill you." Quick Force said a little to cheerfully and before Pharma could react he felt something prick him in the servo.

He tried to move or yell for help but couldn't. As Quick Force tossed the circuit booster he just used on him at his feet.

"I just gave you enough to paralyze you so you don't fight back or make too much noise." Quick Force explained. "Switchblades wanted me to cut off any loose ends so he sent me to kill you and the red medic."

"But I won't be able to get Knock Out just yet but at least I can take out one of my targets." Quick Force told Pharma as he took some medical tools out of his subspace and Pharma's optics widened in fear.

"I took these from your clinic before the Autobots showed up but after they had already taken Knock Out." He added. "You see I'm not a medic but I've always wanted to perform surgery."

"Unfortunately I only had enough circuit boosters to stun you and don't have a way to put you under or even turn off you pain receptors so you'll be wide awake for it just not about to move or scream." Quick Force told him calmly like it was the most casual thing in the world.

"Don't worry Doc you won't feel a thing." Quick Force mocked him as he picked up a scalpel and prepare to start cutting Pharma. "You'll feel lots of things and none of them pleasant."

Pharma felt sick as fear consumed him not only was he going to die slowly and painfully but his own medical tools were going to be the murder weapons. Just to add insult to injury.

And the true irony is the circuit booster Quick Force had used to paralyze him was from the same stash he had been using to drug Knock Out with.

Now all Pharma could do was watch as Quick Force brought the scalpel to his midsection and began cutting him.

Pharma felt all of it and couldn't even cry out in pain. But his optics were now filled with coolant tears. As Quick Force continued to just make small talk as he killed him.

To Be Continued.

I really don't like Pharma. Can you tell? XD