"What are they planning Steve?" Asked Starscream.
"They want to cyberform earth using a machine Shockwave built." Steve explained, "they wanna whip out the humans to get revenge on the Autobots and claim earth for the Decepticons."
"We need to stop them." Knock Out chimed in, then they wasted no time informing the rest of the team.
Upon learning this the Autobots quickly put together a plan to stop Shockwave and save earth.
Then the Autobots used their ground bridge to go to the location where Shockwave had brought another ship with the weapon on it, where they started fighting the Decepticons who were there.
The plan was the Autobots would keep them busy so Starscream could fly over in his jet mode and shoot the weapon with his missiles and destroy it since he had enough fire power for the job.
While Knock Out and Ratchet would stay at base as mission control and in case anyone needed medical attention, and the humans went to see a movie because the Autobots wanted to make sure they were safe, (And didn't want to take a chance on Miko seeking through the ground bridge.)
They all wish their cybertronian friends good luck before leaving, Miko wanted to stay till Shayna suggested that she pick the movie then Jack facepalmed knowing she would choose one with lots of explosions in it.
"Well at least she won't try to sneak back or something." Shayna whispered in his ear and he nodded in agreement as they left.
Before heading into battle Optimus Prime told Steve to go get someone to help them as a backup plan to stop Shockwave if something went wrong, and the vehicon wasted no time going through the space bridge.
Then after the Autobots arrived where Shockwave's ship was the battle began.
At the scrapyard Knock Out had gone to refuel and was on his way back when he heard a crash and went to see what happen, only to be greeted by the sight of Ratchet laying on the ground with Barricade who had knocked the older medic unconscious standing over him, And he was about to finish Ratchet off.
"Hey remember me!" Knock Out hissed at Barricade while holding his Energon prob getting his attention.
"Yes your that good for nothing turncoat I tossed in the lake, your looking much better but I can fix that." Barricade said turning on Knock Out.
"The only thing that needs fixing around here is your attitude bolts for brains!" Knock Out quipped as he and Barricade started fighting each other.
Barricade used his blaster to shoot Knock Out's Energon prob out of his servos then started firing at the red medic who was barley managing to dodge the shots being fired at him.
One of the shots grazed Knock Out's shoulder, "Hey watch the paint!" Knock out growled at him now angry Barricade had actually been the one who shot him on Cybertron before capturing and torturing him then leaving him for dead, So Knock Out hatred of the police car was understandable.
"This time I won't miss your spark." Barricade belowed at the red sports car as he fired another blast at him, and Ratchet came too just in time to see the blast fired at Knock Out and the younger medic fall backwards.
Then something inside Ratchet snapped as he grabbed a wrench off a table and tossed it at Barricade hitting him right in the side of the helm but it only made the police car mad.
Then Barricade started beating Ratchet, "Sorry about your red friend over there, but don't worry your about to join him." Barricade said darkly.
"Missed me!" A voice suddenly shouted from behind the cop car and before Barricade even knew what hit him he was zapped and stunned by Knock Out's Energon prob.
And Ratchet was surprised to see Knock Out who was just fine and had just zapped Barricade with his Energon prob standing there alive and well.
"Your ok." Ratchet said his voice filled with relief having briefly thought Knock Out had been killed by Barricade, and feeling happy that wasn't the case.
"Guess I tripped and fell backwards at just the right moment." Knock Out told him holding up a datapad that had been broken when he tripped on it.
"I needed that." Ratchet deadpanned but was really glad Knock Out was ok, and thanked the Austin Martin for saving him, and they quickly put Barricade in a stasis pod and cleaning up the damage and patching each other up.
Meanwhile Starscream was in his jet mode flying to where the weapon was ready to blow it to bit.
When suddenly he found himself being fired at by Warhead who had been ordered to pervert him from destroying Shockwave's machine and still wanting to take his revenge on the seeker.
The others could only watch as the two jets engaged in a dog fight, and it was a pretty even match.
Starscream and Warhead kept fire at each other and dodging and even transforming into their bot modes and taking swipes and punches at each other then changing back and it was hard to tell who was winning.
"Good luck shooting down Shockwave's weapon with out these!" Warhead his as he suddenly and painfully ripped off Starscream 's missiles, fortunately his wings were ok but his missiles were gone now.
"Scrap! What do I do now?!" Starscream thought now panicking not only had he been relying on his missiles to shoot down Shockwave's weapon but now he didn't have a way to fight Warhead in his jet mode, and he couldn't keep transforming back and forth.
Then Starscream in his jet mode suddenly started dropping like a rock and Warhead was right behind him, Starscream did a few barriol rolls to avoid being shot down by Warhead and the ground was coming in fast.
Just a few seconds before he would have made contact Starscream suddenly pulled up and shot back up into the sky, But Warhead wasn't so lucky having put on speed wanting to catch Starscream and not figuring out what the seeker was up to till it was too late and he ended up flying straight into the ground and crashing down in flames.
Having gotten Warhead off his tail Starscream turned his attention to Shockwave's weapon that was charging up and about to fire but he didn't have his missiles to shoot it down and he wouldn't have time fly down and get more.
"Starscream what's wrong why aren't you firing on the machine?" Bumblebee asked over the com-link.
"I lost my missiles but I have another plan." Starscream replied with a edge in his voice. "I think I can still take it out if enough force were to hit it." "Tell Knock Out to take over being Shayna's guardian."
"No I know what your thinking of doing and there has to be another way, We'll find another way!" Arcee's voice cut in and almost screamed sounding like it was cracking in places.
"I'm sorry there is no other way we have to save Earth, Till all are one." Starscream said as he suddenly activated his thrusters at full speed and rammed himself into Shockwave's weapon casing it to explode and making the ship crash.
Everyone watch as it went down but lost sight of Starscream after his jet mode rammed into Shockwave's weapon.
They managed to capture the remaining Decepticons except for Shockwave who they couldn't locate, when Steve showed up and started to tell them that he did what Optimus ordered him too, but was cut off when the others told him what happened.
Then Arcee called the scrapyard and told Knock Out and Ratchet what happened as all the Autobots hung their heads.
"Wait his life single is still online but faint." Knock Out said looking at the monitor.
"We need to find him fast." Ratchet added.
Then everyone rush off to look for the seeker.
Meanwhile Starscream woke up to a world of pain he couldn't move or even get his optics to focus all he knew was his entire frame hurt and he felt tired.
He could hear someone approaching but couldn't tell who because all his sensors kept screaming at him to go into emergency stasis lock so he obeyed and let himself fall into stasis.
"You really messed up my plan Starscream so retribution would be logical to use you in an experiment I've been planning, I've often wondered what would happen in Dark Energon were used on a bot near death instead of already deceased." Shockwave said holding a Dark Energon shard.
Then started to approach the downed seeker with it.
Only to suddenly get blasted through the spark chamber from behind and killed instantly.
"Dark Energon has already caused enough damage I won't allow it to be used to harm anyone ever again." said a bot who then took the Dark Energon shard and used his fusion cannon to destroy it.
Just then everyone arrived there and were suprized to see Megatron now standing over Starscream.
"He needs medical attention now." The former Decepticon leader and Gladiator told them.
Then they wasted no time rushing Starscream to the medbay hoping he would survive.
To Be Continued.
Hope this chapter turned out OK, Sorry about the long wait, I'll be doing the epilogue next, In the meantime feel free to send feedback.
