Chapter Five

Minutes prior to the signal that Starscream gave off...

At the Autobot base

"Optimus! Your not seriously thinking of recruiting Starscream of all mechs to join us are you?! It's preposterous!" Ratchet was more than surprised by Optimus Prime suggesting such a thing.

Arcee and Bulkhead didn't seem too pleased with it but neither did the humans Jack, Miko, and Raf. Bumblebee was torn between his friends and the person he looked up to.

Optimus vented. "Ratchet, my old friend, you know as well as I that having Starscream here would benefit everyone, both himself and us included. He ran away from Megatron and even tried to join us at the end, even if it was to protect himself from us killing him. I believe that if we get to know him and, him us, that we may all live together in harmony."

Arcee glared. "He killed Cliffjumper, Optimus. I'll never forgive him for that."

Optimus looked at her. "He did Arcee, but we don't have to forgive him for that; but we can show him a better future."

Ratchet spoke up after looking at his monitor as a blinking red dot appeared where they had met Starscream at two weeks ago. "Optimus! Starscreams signalling us."

Optimus walked to the bridge. "Bridge me there, Ratchet. Bee, you're coming with me just in case of an attack."

Bee beeped in reply of saying yes sir.

Optimus walked into the opened ground bridge and walked out. He was surprised to see Starscream passed out on the ground next to the water. He walked over and gently picked up Starscream noticing how weak and fragile he looked.

As Bumblebee walked through the ground bridge, he was very surprised to see an unconscious Starscream in Optimus Prime's arms.

Together they walked back into the ground bridge and immediately walked to a berth to lay the unconscious Starscream down.

Starscream only twitched his servo as he was set down on the berth's medical table. Other than the twitch, he did not show any signs of being awake.

Miko became curious to see why Optimus was carrying Starscream, and so she decided to follow him to the med bay. She was quick to notice Ratchet attaching all sorts of things to Starscreams body, checking his vitals and all the other things a mecha would have.

Ratchet looked worriedly at Starscream's vitals and looked to Optimus with a grim look. "Optimus... he's very weak. His vitals are just barely there. We should have brought him here the first time we saw him! He could die on us at any second! Not to mention..." He trailed off becoming quiet and looking down at Starscream's weak form. "We need to give him energon transfusions. From the readings I'm getting he hasn't had any energon in almost three weeks! I'm actually surprised he's still online at the moment."

Optimus frowned at that. "He will have to be given transfusions from all of us as we do not have that much energon to spare unless we can win some from Megatron. I will be the first donor followed by Bumblebee, Bulkhead, Arcee, and then yourself if it is still needed."

Ratchet vented. "Very well. Sit down and I will extract four gallons full as our energon flow is like that of a human's only quadrupled." Ratchet got the energon extractor and four glass cylinders that the energon would go into.

Optimus sat down on the extra berth and held out his servo for Ratchet to extract his energon. He watched as Ratchet took his energon and started to hook up Starscream with an energon drip. He even watched as Ratchet put a breathing mask onto Starscream's faceplate to help him breath.

Miko watched both mechs quietly hidden before slowly sneaking out to tell Raf and Jack what she found out.

Neither bot noticed the human girl leave the med bay.

Starscream stayed in his induced stasis to recharge and refuel as he was indeed very weak. If he tried, he wouldn't even be able to open his optics or move a servo. He would most likely awaken the next day.