Chapter 5.

Arcee continued to look in the direction the van had left in. While Alexis stayed next to Starscream wondering what to do or say when the paramedics came.

But fortunately it turned out she didn't have anything to worry about because June and Agent Fowler got out of the ambulance which turned out to be Ratchet.

They had called base when they saw what was going on. And Ratchet came to help.

They wasted no time getting Starscream into the back of Ratchet's alt mode and Alexis didn't leave his side and June started tending to some of his injuries.

And as soon as they got to base they rushed him to the infirmary. The rest of them had just gotten back in time to see him taken back to be worked on. And were all concerned about how bad he looked.

"What happened?" Asked Megatron.

"MECH took Knock Out and he tried to catch them but they hit him with their van then one of them got out and shot him." Alexis explained in tears.

"Who shot him?" Megatron asked.

"Some blonde man with a scar on his chin." She told him while wiping her eyes then she went to sat outside the infirmary hoping Starscream would make it.

To say Megatron was angry would be an understatement. And Arcee was still worried about Knock Out as well as Starscream. And blamed herself for the whole thing if only she would have stayed with Knock Out he wouldn't have been captured and Starscream wouldn't have gotten hurt.

June came out a few minutes later and said Starscream was stable for the time being but he was extremely weak his ribs were broken, he had multiple fractures and had lost a dangerous amount of blood and was still in critical condition the bullet had passed all the way through him and they didn't know if he would survive or not.

"He needs blood and we don't have any here at base to give him." June explained sadly.

"Can we give him some of ours?" Asked Smokescreen.

"We'll have to see if any of your blood types are compatible with his." June explained. "I could test each of your blood types and see if any match his."

They all agreed to have their blood tested hoping one of them could save him.

June tested Starscream's first to find out what his blood type was. And frowned when she looked at the results. Then went to test the others.

"What is wrong?" Asked Optimus noticing the look on her face.

"He's O negative." She explained. "It's a universal downer but he can only receive blood from another O negative and it's a rare type."

"We can just keep our fingers crossed that one of us is O negative." She added before taking blood samples from each of them and labeling them with their names so they wouldn't get mixed up then she went back to test them.I

While they were waiting for the results Megatron went back to see Starscream. And didn't like what he saw.

Starscream was covered in cuts and bruises he had stitches and bandage on different parts of his body and he was hooked to a monitor that was showing his vitals and there was a mask over his face giving him oxygen.

Megatron had seen Starscream in bad shape before usually after inflicting the injuries himself. But he had never seen him look this close to death and he didn't like it. Why did human injuries look so much worse then cybertronian ones?

Megatron thought about all the times he had beaten Starscream in the past and how the seeker had always managed to bounce back.

Even in his current human form Megatron could see his vitals on the monitor and could tell he was still fighting to hold on. And clinging to whatever ounce of life he had left.

Determination was one of the few things he and Starscream had in common they both refused to give up. Pride was the other thing. Which was probably why they clashed so often in the past. But the more he thought the more Megatron realized he and Starscream were more alike then he thought.

He thought back to the beginning of the war for Cybertron he remembered when he first met Starscream and his brothers Sky Warp and Thundercracker when they three seekers had joined the Decepticons they had fought some of Cybertron's Elite Guard and Starscream had actually helped cover Megatron during that fight and had actually given him his fusion cannon that had become his primary weapon as a cybertronian.

And he had repaid him by shooting him with it several times during the war. The day Starscream had given him that weapon was also the day Megatron had made him his second in command. And Starscream was the only one of his trine to survive the war.

Megatron also thought about a moment during the war when he was fighting Predaking and Starscream had shot the predacon in the back detracting him long enough for Megatron to gain the upper hand. Megatron probably would have lost that fight if not for Starscream.

Then Megatron remembered when Bumblebee had killed him before Unicron had brought him back. As he was dying Megatron had caught a glimpse of the seeker who had actually dropped to his knees with a look of genuine sadness on his faceplates and had mourned him even though he had abuse him constantly.

Then he remembered the last thing he had said to Starscream when he called him a weakling.

"I was wrong Starscream your not a weakling your tough as nails." Megatron told his former second in command before leaving the room not being able to stand seeing him like that any longer.

Megatron had actually heard Starscream tell Knock Out he was planning to stay human. And Megatron was going to respect his decision. But now he might not live to make it.

Agent Fowler had gotten some men to try to locate MECH's base to try to find and rescue Knock Out but so far they hadn't had any luck. And there was no telling what they were doing to him.

Which had Arcee worried because she still blamed herself. But the only thing on Megatron's mind right now was Starscream. Alexis still hadn't left her spot from outside the infirmary just as worried about Starscream as Megatron was.

Megatron got a glimpse of himself in a mirror that was hanging on the wall. He hadn't really notice how his eyes were a different color then his optics had been instead of red his eyes were brown as a human.

Optimus, Arcee and Smokescreen's eyes had stayed the same color their optics had been blue. Where as his were brown now, Knock Out's had turned hazel and Starscream's human eye color had been green.

Megatron didn't even know why he was thinking about everyone's eye colors he was just so desperate to get his mind off Starscream being on his deathbed he was thinking of just anything and everything to keep his mind on anything besides his guilt.

Then June came out.

"We have a match." She said.

To Be Continued.

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