Sari and Bumblebee were at the local Burger Bot to get her something to eat. Ever since she started living with them they had to do all this for her. Bumblebee had no problem with it though. Sitting on the curb of the parking lot as Sari was eating her burger and Bumblebee bringing his small canister of old for him to drink.
Bumblebee noticed something about Sari recently. About two weeks to be exact, he noticed her to be not as talkative. Now she still had her usual crazy ideas among other things but she rarely talked to him. Now she just seemed to stair at things absent mindedly. Like right now they would be having a conversation about something. Rather it be about how Prowl is or how grumpy Ratchet is but now she was completely silent.
"Hey, is everything alright Sari?" Bumblebee finally asked looking down at his friend.
Sari turned to Bumblebee and said "Oh course I am okay, why wouldn't I be?"
"Well since that incident in the mountain you've been acting strange."
Sari just looked at him acting like she didn't did know what he was talking about and said "What do you mean?"
"Well we barely talk now. Was it something I did back at the mountain? Did something happen at the cave?" Bumblebee asked acting more excited with each thing he mentioned.
Sari just looked at her big friend and didn't know what to say. She never told Bumblebee or any of the other Autobots about her encounter with Starscream. How was she supposed to tell them that? Especially when in the end she repaired him. She knew Bumblebee and the rest of the Autobots would just snap at that and she wasn't defiantly going to telling them the part with the fact she grew close to him.
"Well nothing much really happened in the cave, it was just walking around." As she was looking up she noticed that he wasn't buying it. "Oh course with the occasional bugs here and there but really nothing major happened."
Bumblebee merely shrugged and said "Okay, so it wasn't the cave. So why aren't you like...I don't know like talking as much."
She knew Bumblebee was going to keep on pressing on about this. She knew Bumblebee wasn't going to stop till she gave an answer. It was true...she was thinking about her new possible 'friend' Starscream and how he started from an evil Decepticon to an honest bot (at least that is what she thinks she did) and that was it.
But what was she supposed to tell him? Now she did believe that Bumblebee could keep a secret but still this was something big. Knowing that a Decepticon traitor that tried to kill them and she seems to become close to him. She knew Bumblebee would have some sort of crazy reaction.
"Well back at the cave, there was someone I met..." Sari began.
"Ha! I knew something happened in the cave. So what happened? You encounter a monster or a Decepticon or..."
"Well, I...sort of-" she was cut off by the sound a jet flying over them.
Both Bumblebee and Sari looked up into the air to see a dark grey Su-47 Berkut flying across the sky. Right behind the grey jet were three other aircrafts. One being a white Tiltrotor, another was a fighter jet behind the white duel chopper vehicle, and a large bomber jet behind them.
"Decepticons!" Bumblebee said rising his voice slightly.
"Starscream?" Sari said silently watching the grey jet get away from the other aircrafts.
Bumblebee activated his com link and said "Prime, Decepticons sighted in the middle of Detroit!"
"Rodger, follow them but do not engage. Wait for back up." Optimus said over the link.
"Got it." He said then transformed and opened the driver's door and she jumped in.
--Over Detroit--
Starscream was flying rather fast to try and loose Megatron here. He was rather surprised to see that Megatron or his lackeys weren't trying to shoot him down. But he couldn't help but think this was a plan of Megatron's. But Starscream too had a plan, he was just waiting for the Autobots to finally arrive and then he could escape. To his misfortune he couldn't see them.
"Blitzwing...engage" Megatron ordered him.
"Yes sir." Blitzwing said flying in front of them to get closer to Starscream.
Starscream noticed this but didn't fire. He knew if he engaged him in a fire fight he risked the chance of being slowed down and then having to face Lugnut and Megatron. He tried to loose him so he could not get him locked but he couldn't loose him.
Starscream tried everything. Doing weird moves into the air, flying through risky areas between buildings, down really low, flying around like a maniac and yet Blitzwing was well still on his back.
To Starscream's surprise he noticed that Blitzwing was not trying to attack him. Instead he was just like...following him. But that seemed rather pointless since Starscream really had no place to go other than away from them. Megatron and Lugnut were far behind them which also bothered Starscream. He also noticed a small yellow sports car was following them also. He could tell that it was Bumblebee. But he wasn't concerned about the yellow car.
While he was focusing on the yellow Autobot, Blitzwing saw that Starscream was distracted and he immediately went to robot mode. He then fired his both his ice cannons and hitting him in his thrusters. Starscream lost control and started to dive forward.
"Yes, freezing the thrusters would be a big problem in someone's flight." Blitzwing said in his intelligent mode.
Bumblebee saw this but kept on going. They both watched Starscream fall from the sky till he eventually hit the ground. Sari stayed silent but it was clearly shown by her face that she was concerned and Bumblebee noticed this.
"Hey Sari don't worry you'll be okay." Bumblebee said as he slowed down.
"I'm not worried about us. I worry about Starscream!" Sari said stating in the driver's seat looking out in front of them.
"What!? You're worried about Starscream! Why?" Bumblebee basically yelled.
Sari stopped. What was she supposed to tell him? She was facing the same dilemma she had back at Burger Bot. But right now they were under attack so she knew they would have to hold off on questions.
Just before she could answer they all heard the sirens of the police vehicles coming in front. They all saw that it was the other Autobots coming to their aid.
"Autobots: transform!" All the Autobots did as ordered and went in robot mode with weapons ready to take on the Decepticons. Megatron and his men both transformed back to robot mode and opened fire on the Autobots.
Starscream saw the Autobots attacking Megatron and the others which is what he wanted. He rubbed his head and started to run away from the battle. Not that he was a coward but right now he just lost his hideout and needed to find/make a new one.
But before he could advance far he heard the yellow Autobot come from behind and transform behind him.
"Stop where you are Starscream!" Bumblebee said from behind.
Starscream turned around to face him with his sonic shock blaster and when he did he saw Bumblebee with his electric stringers out in front of him. He was about to fire with no hesitation but he saw the dark skinned human next to him. It was Sari from the cave and he was facing the same dilemma he did before...he couldn't shoot. He growled and turned away and started to run away from him.
Bumblebee lowered one optic and said "Okay...that was weird."
Sari wasn't really surprised but at the same time she was. She recalled Starscream saying that she was no longer one of his targets but knowing a Decepticon he would either look past that or just think that he was aiming for Bumblebee.
Bumblebee lowered his stingers and started after him. Sari followed but with caution. Since Starscream's thrusters were still frozen but he still couldn't fly. As he was still trying to get away, a black and gold police motorcycle came out in front of him. He stopped as the motorcycle transformed to revile itself to be Prowl. As he was still in the air he took his two cutting discs from his back and they came around and hit him in the knees making Starscream trip and fall hard into the street. Prowl then used his ninja training to quick use the cuffs on him.
Sari ran by Bumblebee and saw Starscream on the ground stuck and unable to move. She was worried about him. Starscream was just unconscious from the sudden shock and the knock of the head.
As the three were dealing with Starscream; Megatron and the other two were preoccupied with the Autobots. Megatron from a distance saw Starscream being apprehended. He would rather take on Starscream himself but at the same time...a Decepticon being taken out by a work crew of Autobots...that was humiliating all in it self. He found no reason to continue the fight.
Megatron fired his fusion cannon one last time at Optimus and then said "Blitzwing, Lugnut, retreat." The two Decepticons did as ordered as they left the scene.
Optimus put his axe away and said "Wow, seems Megatron didn't want to give it his all."
"Yeah that is strange." Bulkhead said putting his wrecking ball away.
"Don't get cocky Prime, Decepticons don't leave till they get something out of it." Ratchet said putting his magnetic weapons down.
"Where's Prowl and Bumblebee?" Prime asked. Just as he said that his com link went off. He put his hand on the side of his head and got the call.
"Prime, we got Starscream apprehended."
Prime couldn't believe what he was hearing but he put the shock aside and said "Good job Prowl. We'll pick him up and call the Elite Guard."
Well long story short they took Starscream on top of Bulkhead and they took him to the base where they are about to contact the Elite Guard.
(Okay, this is so what a jerk would do but this is the best part to end this chapter as far as I can see)
