Chapter Eight

Together the three walked in silence to the ground bridge area where the three humans were playing a game on the tv while Bulkhead, Bumblebee, and Arcee watched.

Starscream hid behind Optimus and Ratchet as he did not want to enrage the femme bot. He just hoped that when Optimus lets him stay that he wouldn't be scrapped by the femme bot.

Optimus cleared his vocalizers and spoke. "Everyone may I have your attention please?"

Everyone turned to look at Optimus as he continued his talk.

"Our compatriot has finally awoken and has given me insight on a ship that may have much needed supplies and so I am sending a search party to collect these supplies. Ratchet and I shall accompany Starscream to the ship along with Bumblebee. Arcee, you will be in charge of the base until our return." Optimus took a few steps to the bridge while Ratchet walked over to the computer to type in the coordinates that Starscream will give him.

Starscream glanced nervously at Arcee and seen her glare before quickly walking over to Ratchet and giving him the coordinates of the Harvenger. He followed Ratchet and made sure he was out of optic view from Arcee's glare. He watched as Optimus went in followed by Bumblebee before he walked in with Ratchet. As soon as the two stepped foot on the Harvenger the ground bridge swirling vortex disappeared signaling it off for now. Without saying a word he walked to the med bay on the ship not even caring if anyone followed him.

Bumblebee noticed Starscream walking away from the group and decided to follow him. He watched as Starscream scanned the the med bay room, sigh and leave the room. He became reallycurious about Starscream.

Starscream opened a door and looked inside. He seen the odd like dummies on display in a row and walked over to them. He turned on the computer and looked at the data. "Shockwave's cloning data... this might come in handy for my T-cog if I can't find one." He hummed to himself and shut it off for the time being to look around.

Bumblebee blinked. 'Cloning?' He thinks to himself still silently following Starscream.

Starscream came across another room with a couple containers of red energon. He picked one up and examined it. "Red energon? Wonder why it's here... Can't let Megatron get ahold of this stuff." He mumbled to himself. "Another door?" He vented and left to go search another room.

Bumblebee was silently questioning Starscream's sanity that moment as he was talking to himself. Then again Bee couldn't say anything about it as he literally couldn't say.

Starscream frowned when he seen the empty room full of energon cubes. He rolled his optics. "I'm not amused. You're lucky I was able to get you, now come out."

Bumblebee was fixing to walk out until he spotted a small racecar, that reminded him of the humans toy cars, coming towards Starscream. He vaguely noticed it was red in color.

The racecar transformed into a small human sized bot. It looked up at Starscream and looked to be happy.

Starscream smiled a genuine smile. "Come on Swindle, we don't have to worry about Megatron taking you away from me. You and I are no longer gonna have to partner ourselves with him. The autobots have asked me to join so that means you can come with me! You are apart of me now. Their medic said he will help me with my T-cog problem. Did you do anything these past few weeks while I was gone?"

Bumblebee heard beeping and clicking sounds that he did, but on a level he couldn't understand. Who was this Swindle?