Disclaimer: You've all heard this before; I don't own the Transformers, blah blah blah! However, I DO own the Elementacons and Dash/Becca

Ceestar: AHAHHHAHAHAA! Bet you all thought I was dead huh? Yeah well this story sure was! But I've decided to do the best I can to at least finish it! Sooner or later…..

Chapter 12: Darkness of Lost Souls

"Argh…" Becca groaned as she woke up in the same position as she had collapsed.

"Where…where am I?" She pushed herself up. "It's so dark, I can't see a thing!"

Footsteps could be heard in the distance, they slowly got closer and closer.

"Who's there?" A voice yelled.

Becca's POV--

I shuddered. The footsteps grew louder and louder. I heard a blade being drawn and I was in my human form too.

"Who's there!" Cried the mysterious figure again.

I gasped, the voice was so familiar.

"Show yourself!" It growled.

"Starcream?" I said, still rather scared. "Is that you?"

The heard the footsteps stop. "Becca?"

"Starscream! You're alright!" The lights suddenly came on, I don't even know what triggered it.

"What are you doing here? Don't tell me, they got you too?"

"Yeah. But what do they want? Dusk captured me and Alexis and…"

"Alexis!" Starscream shouted.

I felt my heart skip a beat, Starscream's shout nearly scared me out of my skin, but I didn't want him to know. "Yeah, last thing I remember, is Dusk knocking her against the cage. But don't worry, I'm sure she'll recover in no time at all."

Starscream's face gave a very determined look at the floor. I knew why, who wouldn't? Everyone knew how much he cared for Alexis, well, everyone except Alexis, but I think she's just hiding it.

We were both silent for a bit, there was just no sound. Except for that one that pierces your ears when it's totally silent. (You know, when there is NO SOUND at all, there's just some piercing noise?)

"Seeing we don't have anything better to do, I've had a question on my mind for the last three years Starscream." I said, breaking the silence.

"What is it?" Starscream responded, his voice with a hint of cold in it.

"Well, I want to know. What was going through your mind when … when…" I just couldn't find the right words to ask him. What went through his mind when Unicron destroyed him! You can't ask that! That's just weird!

"When I challenged Megatron on Cybertron?" He said.

My optics widened just a bit, I didn't really expect him to know what was going on in my mind. "Uh…yeah."

"I needed to stop him from hurting anyone else, Transformer, or human. I could not fail the humans."

"Wow, I never knew how passionate Starscream could be. I thought he may have just cut a circuit or something, well not really. But it was because he wanted to protect the humans!"

"Wow Starscream," I wanted to say what just went through my mind, but the words just wouldn't come out right. "I had no idea. Believe me, I…that lifts such a burden off my chest. Personally, I never knew that a Decepticon could go good, no offense! I mean, you've completely proven me wrong!"

He gave a faint smile, a smile that I had not seen it far too long.

I care a lot for the humans, the Decepticons would never have accepted that. But the Autobots took me in. That's why I care. Please tell Alexis when you get out of here."

"I…what?"

"I feel confident that the Autobots WILL get you out of this place, soon."

"Well, why don't you tell her yourself? If I get out, you will too." I said, there was no way I was leaving this place without Starscream!

Starscream once again fell silent. I could see that he had something on his mind, clearly something that he had been hiding from everyone, and by the look of things, I'm not sure I wanted to know what that secret was.

"I…well there's something none of you know. Something concerning both my resurrection and the so called Elementacons.

NORMAL POV—

: AUTOBOT BASE : -

Beep…….Beep……..Beep……..

Jetfire sat in a chair and watched RedAlert's status. He had made an amazing amount of recovery, especially considering what he had been through. It seemed that he would be up in just a few more hours, if that, to be once again on his feet.

"I hope the others are ok…some leader I am. Why did I leave them! Now Starscream can't be found, Becca's in a coma, Alexis is hurt and RedAlert was at deaths' door!" Jetfire slammed the table hard in front of him. "I'm SUPPOSED to be the Autobot leader! How could I let this happen to my team!"

Hoist walked into the room and saw Jetfire cursing under his breathe. From what he could make out, he knew why Jetfire was so upset.

"Hey," Hoist said, walking over to Jetfire and pulling up a chair. "Why so glum?"

"I'm not cut to be the leader of the Autobots-"

"Wowowo," Hoist cut in. "Are we still on about that? Haven't you been saying that ever since we came back to Earth?" He sighed. "When will you accept that we have all accepted you to be the Autobot leader! You make just as good a leader as Optimus was, ok?"

"No!" Jetfire spat. "I can't even COMPARE myself to Optimus! He wouldn't have ever let this happen. We've got three of the team down, and that Starscream's gone missing! A proper leader wouldn't let that happen!"

"Jetfire! I think I can speak for everyone, when I say that we are sick and tired of hearing about you thinking you're not good enough to be our leader! Accept the fact! Stop fighting your destiny!" Hoist smiled, as a glimpse of hope as some hope sparked on Jetfire's face. "Besides, we all said you were good, not perfect."

"Thanks."

"Any time my friend. Now go re charge, I'll take over here ok?"

: MED BAY : -

Rad sat next to Alexis's sleeping body. He dipped the towel in some water and lay it back on her forehead.

Rad's POV--

"How did this happen? We were just innocent kids, then Carlos and I had to stumble on the mini cons didn't we? If we didn't, I don't think any of this would've happened."

I remembered when Alexis, Carlos and I pretty much traveled back in time. I knew that day that it was destiny that I met Highwire and the others. But it was still unfair. Why couldn't we be like everyone else? Where the only problems we had were zits and dates for the prom? Not, whether the universe is going to be destroyed today. That's too much for any teenager to handle!

My eyes filled with rage, I enjoyed hanging out with the Autobots. But is knowing this secret worth all this?

I looked down at Alexis. We're getting hurt, and all because we got tangled in some intergalactic war!

Alexis winced, and I immediately knew she was coming to.

"Alexis?"

She slowly opened her eyes, and looked at me. "Rad?"

"Yeah, are you feeling alright?"

I helped her as she sat up in the bed, and dropped the wet towel into the bowl of water. "Yes, what happened?"

"Eh…"

Normal POV—

: -

Becca sat there, silent, and her eyes wide. Her heart felt as if it had just shattered. Maybe she was over reacting, but this did come to a shock to her.

Starscream was also silent. He had just told her a secret that he had been keeping since he came back to Earth. He hadn't wanted to face it at first, he just thought, maybe it wasn't true. But as time went on, he knew, there was no doubting it. But he had wanted to tell anyone, seeing that wonderous smile on Alexis's face, only to wipe it away? He couldn't do that. He had hurt her before, and he did not want to do it again.

"I don't believe it." Becca said after minutes of silence. "How? How can that be?"

"I don't know." Starscream said plainly. "I'm not even sure how I knew. I didn't really, the Elementacons told me. I believe it is the same case for Sideways."

"You know?" Becca looked up. She sat on the ground, hugging her knees by her chest.

Starscream nodded, just staring at his feet, he sat with his legs folded, just sitting there. "They told be everything before sending me here."

"Well, it explains why your body wasn't there. Well…I guess mine is still … uh… home if you will."

"It would be. They only took your soul."

"I still don't want to believe it Starscream!" Becca yelled.

"I'm sorry." Starscream moved over to Becca and held her in his palm.

Becca felt warm, and safe. But from the information she just got, she also felt slightly cold, and very depressed.

Ceestar: Haha! I'm getting lazy. I can't be bothered writing so many pages, is 5 enough? Well to bad if it isn't! I'll update quicker this way. Must get all this out of the way before I gulp enter year 9. Well, I think I'm making a bit of a big deal about that secret thingy, so, just to let you all know, it's really no big deal ok? Actually, it's not a big deal at all when I think about it. XP Oh well, I better get started on the next chapter.