THIS CHAPTER WAS RE-EDITED ON OCTOBER 25TH 2007

CHAPTER 2

Starscream and the other two Seekers took the female Decepticon's corpse into the repair bay (the room where Bombshell activated Nightbird I don't remember what they called it) of the Decepticon's underwater base.

"I don't see why Megatron is making such a big deal over this pile of scrap metal," Starscream complained as he let go of the body. The body let out a clang when it hit the table.

"Careful!" Thundercracker ordered, giving the red, white, and blue Seeker a disapproving look. "If you damage her Megatron will have your head!"

Starscream frowned at him and put his hands on his hips and turned to eye the body. "I don't care. It's not like he can actually reactive her."

Thundercracker set down the part he'd been holding, gentle, and frowned at the other Seeker. "I don't understand it either," he told Starscream. "But does it matter? She's a Decepticon. We could use another person to increase our numbers."

"We don't need a female," Starscream informed him, glaring at the dark metal body. "Females are nothing but trouble."

"Just because Nightbird and the female Autobots made a fool out of you doesn't mean you can say such things about this one," the blue Seeker told him. He pointed downward at the body. "I doubt she'll be anything like that."

"I still think reactivating her is pointless," Starscream grumbled, stalking out of the room. "Mark my words; He'll regret ever putting her back online."

The other two Seekers watched him go then, when he was out of sight, Skywarp looked at the blue jet and asked. "What's wrong with him?"

The other Seeker shook his head. "I don't know," Thundercracker replied. "But with Starscream it could be anything."

Starscream's problem wouldn't have seemed like much of one to the other Decepticons, it might even seem unimportant, and he wasn't about to tell anyone anyway so it didn't really matter. A long time ago he'd developed a total distrust of female robots after he'd been betrayed by one. Ever since then the very sight of females annoyed him and he felt he had to prove something to them. This new female might have been offline but if she ever was reactivated the same thing might happen with him and he didn't want to go through it again.

She was a Seeker.

The design she wore told him that much. Though it was slightly different than his own, her design had definately been some kind of plane. That didn't help things either. Because of her design, he could appreciate it more and he didn't want to think about it.

"She will never come back online," he told himself as he walked down the dark corridor. "Never... not if I can help it."

Starscream...

The jet froze. He thought he heard a voice. A low whispy voice that had a hint of teasing in it. He looked over his shoulder. "Hello?" he said tenatively. "Skywarp, is that you?" Skywarp was known to play awful pranks on people to amuse himself. Of course only he thought they were funny.

Nothing.

But I did hear something... what was it..?

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"You need me to what?!" the Insecticon Bombshell demanded after he heard what Megatron wanted him to do.

"You heard me," Megatron said, folding his arms. "I want you to reactivate her."

"This is going to cost you," the Insecticon informed him, folding his arms and looking up at the taller robot. This was almost exactly like the time Megatron wanted to activate the human made robot Nightbird. Only this time this was a real Decepticon, not a generic flesh creature creation full of flaws. Things might get messy. "You know I don't do this kind of thing for free."

Megatron knew the Insecticons never did anything unless Megatron promised them some Energon. Well he'd planned ahead for this. He already had the Energon cubes ready. "Don't worry about that," he told the Insecticon, holding up one of the cubes. Bombshell eyed it hungrily. "I already thought of that. You will get your Energon cubes after you reactivate her."

"And what if I can't?" he asked, still eyeing the cube.

"You get nothing." Megatron smirked. "But I'm sure that won't happen."

Bombshell thought about it for a moment then nodded. "All right," he said. "I'll see what I can do."

"Good." Megatron put the cube away and led the Insecticon into the repair bay.

On the way they passed Starscream who looked like he'd just seen a ghost, or was about to. Since Megatron was used to the Seeker looking like a paranoid nut case he ignored the jet and kept on going. When they entered the room Megatron pointed to the body lying on the table. "She's right there," he said.

The Insecticon walked over to the table and examined the corpse. "Well," he said. "Aside from the hole in her chest her body is in pretty good condition." he turned back to Megatron. "But I can't do anything without her mind."

"Oh yes," Megatron said, handing Lazerbeak, still in tape mode, over. "Just don't erase Lazerbeak in the process."

"Don't worry, Megatron," Bombshell said, not looking up from the body as he took the tape. "I'll be careful..."

"See that you do."

"I wonder if Bombshell will be able to reactivate that female," Skywarp said as he and Thundercracker walked out of the repair bay and down the hall. They'd stayed long enough to watch Bombshell begin to fix her body then left when they grew bored.

"I don't see why not," Thundercracker said, shrugging. "He was able to activate that human built piece of scrap metal, Nightbird."

"Well Nightbird was made from inferior material," Skywarp reminded him "Anybody could activate her. This robot is from Cybertron. Even he might not be able to activate her."

The black and blue Seeker shrugged. "Well it doesn't matter," he said. "Though I do think she's kinda hot."

The black and purple jet stared at him. "Huh?"

Thundercracker smirked. "If she is able to be reactivated things around here will get more interesting." he noticed Starscream up ahead, leaning against the wall with his arms folded and his head down. "I don't see why Starscream has to make so much fuss about her," he said in a slightly louder voice. "It's not like she's going to be interested in himanyway."

Starscream raised his head and glared at the other two jets. "I don't care if she's interested in me or not," Starscream informed him. "She's not worth bringing back online."

The other two jets stopped. Thundercracker put his hands on his hips and cocked his head, his red eyes probing. "You said the same thing when we brought her here. Now why don't you tell us why you hate her so much. Do you know her?"

"No."

"Have you ever seen her before?"

"No."

'Then why are you so against her being reactivated?"

"Because it's pointless!" Starscream answered, pushing himself from the wall and facing the other jets. "And I don't appreciate you asking."

"My aren't we touchee," Thundercracker said, his tone turning mocking. "Does this mean you don't want her?"

"What?"

"Because if you don't want her I'll take her."

The other jet became confused. "What are you talking about?"

"The female," the black and blue jet replied. "She's got the same design as us. I think one of us should take her."

"I can't believe what you are saying!" Starscream exclaimed, shocked at his wingmate's words. "You don't even know if she can be reactivated and you're already thinking of dating her."

"Well I'll date her if you don't want to."

"I don't want to date her!" Starscream shouted turning away from the other two jets and starting to stalk away. "I don't want to have anything to do with her."

Thundercracker grinned. He was succeeding in ticking Starscream off. "Then can I have her?"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!" Starscream shrieked, dashing away in hysterics. "IF YOU WANT HER TAKE HER!"

Thundercracker watched the red, white, and blue jet run off and laughed. "Why did you do that?" Skywarp asked.

"Because it's fun," Thundercracker replied, looking at the black and purple jet. "I was kidding anyway."

"So you don't want her?" Skywarp asked. He had a strange note in his voice.

Thundercracker stared at him. "Whoa What's with that tone?"

The other jet looked away. "Nothing," he said. "I don't know what you're talking about."

The blue jet smirked. "Then why are you blushing?"

Skywarp looked back at Thundercracker. "I'm not!"

Thundercracker laughed and pointed at Skywarp's face. "Yes you are!"

"We're metal! We can't blush!"

"Tell that to your face."

"Be quiet."

Idiots, Starscream thought as he stalked away, listening to Thundercracker and Skywarp laugh it up.You think it's funny now but you won't when they put her online...

"Hey, Starscream," Rumble said, jumping down from an area above and landing on Starscream's shoulders.

Starscream never liked random things popping out of nowhere and landing on his body. "Get off me!" the jet yelled.

"Ah, you're not fun!" Rumble hopped down. "What's wrong with you?" the smaller Decepticon asked.

"None of your business!" the seeker snapped.

"This wouldn't have anything to do with the female Decepticon you found would it?"

"No!" Starscream roared, getting sick of being asked about the femme bot. "and I wish you'd all stop talking to me about it."

"Cool your jets, I was just asking a question."

Starscream folded his arms and looked away. "Well I don't like it."

"Sometimes we're not always asked about things we like."

The jet glared down at the smaller robot. "Oh shut up."

"No," Rumble said, "Besides, Megatron wants you."

"What for?"

"How should I know? I was just told to tell you that he wanted you," the little robot walked away. "Good luck."

Starscream watched the little robot go and frowned. His suspicions began to rise. What did Megatron want him for? Was he going to yell at him about something? Well he didn't know so he would just have to go to Megatron to find out. At the moment he didn't want to talk to anybody especially not Megatron.

"Oh and Starscream," Rumble said, turning back to the jet.

"What?"

"I heard about your issue with the female Decepticon," the little cassette said smirking. "It's okay. There's really no need to be afraid of her."

"I AM NOT AFRAID OF HER!" Starscream shouted angrily, raising his one arm and shooting at Rumble. "I just don't trust females!"

Rumbled dodged the shot and ran off laughing.

The jet stopped shooting and angrily stalked into the control room. "Whatever he wants to say to me had better be worth my time..."

"Are you sure you saw them taking a transformer out of that old military base?" Optimus Prime asked once Jazz returned to the Ark.

"Sure as I'll ever be, Prime," Jazz said, spreading his arms out wide to gesture better. "Starscream, Skywarp, and Thundercracker flew off with it."

"And you're positive that it was an Autobot?"

"Well I don't exactly know but it looked like it," Jazz replied, folding his arms. "I just wonder what they're going to do with it if they can get it back online."

"They'll probably reprogram it to be a Decepticon," Prime replied, also folding his arms and lowering his head thoughtfully. "We can't let that happen." he looked at the car. "Jazz take Seaspray and Powerglide and see what you can find out."

"Sure thing, Prime," Jazz said, nodding and going into vehicle mode.

Bombshell was able to fix the hole that had been blown in the female Decepticon's chest but he wasn't too sure he'd be able to put her mind back into her body. That would be a little more tricky. Since Lazerbeak had downloaded everything from the computer she'd put her mind into, her thoughts and data was scrambled with the intelligents already in the machine at the time from when the humans had used the machine. He would have to unscramble all the chains and to do that he need help. So he'd asked Soundwave to help him. Soundwave agreed to only because Megatron wanted the female reactivated. He was having a slightly better time telling the Decepticon data from the human data and had been able to download half of that data onto a disposable disc.

As they sorted out Decepticon data from human, the louder her pleas for reactivation became. Bombshell and Soundwave had to turn the volume off on the computer to shut her up. After about five hours they finally got everything in order but Bombshell needed a certain something before he could reactivate her. It would be awhile before he got it so the two called it a day and left the room, turning off the computer and the lights before they did.

Skywarp didn't have anything to do so he decided to check on the progress Soundwave and Bombshell were making on the female Decepticon. He'd never met her before but he felt he should be worried about her anyway, though he didn't know why. This was the first time he ever worried about anyone. By the time he got there, though, the two had already left. He was disappointed but decided to get a look at her anyway. Earlier he'd been too preoccupied by Starscream's unexplained dislike of females that he hadn't paid much attention to this one. Now that he was able to, he'd take as long as he wanted.

Looking down the hall to make sure nobody was coming he stepped into the room and stood by the table the female Decepticon's body had been laid out on. The body was in the same position it had been in when he'd left but now the damages to her armor had been repaired and her head no longer had a dent in it. He noticed her body was similar in design to his and the other Seekers but slightly different because of her gender. It also seemed that her vehicle mode might have been a different jet design as well because her head and upper body was altered as well.

She's pretty, he found himself thinking. He reached out a hand to touch her but he heard a noise out in the hall and retracted it. He turned from the table and started toward the door, ready to leave before anyone saw him. He took two steps toward the door but slipped on something on the floor and fell backward. He put his hand on the computer keyboard to keep himself from falling. When his hand hit the keys the power came back on and lit up the room. He jumped, startled, and looked up at the screen.

REACTIVATION IN PROGRESS! The screen said.

"What?"

A noise behind him made him turn around. He hadn't noticed the wires coming from the female's body and going into the computer until now. The wires were lit up with white light and sparks were flying from the female's body.

"By the Matrix!" he exclaimed, staring at the sparks. "I've ruined it!"

He grabbed the wires but they shocked him and sent him flying into the computer screen. He slumped to the floor, and sat there rubbing his head. When he looked up again the sparks had died down and the computer went silent. He stood up and stepped close to the robot again, to make sure nothing had happened to her that would get him in trouble. She seemed to be okay. He was relieved. He hadn't blown her up by accident after all-

The female's hand moved. He stared down at it in shock, not sure if he was imagining things. "Wha-"

Suddenly her whole body began to jerk. He stepped back and stared opened mouthed as the Decepticon femme began to revive. Slowly her eyes began to brighten and she began to sit up. He backed away until he hit the wall and couldn't move anymore. His mind didn't even begin to tell him to slowly inch out of the room before she saw him. When she was sitting up straight she slowly turned her head and looked at him. His mouth hung wide open as she stared at him with the coldest gaze he'd ever seen.

"I..." he began.

Never taking her eyes off of him, she swung her legs over the side of the table and stood up. She walked over to him, her red eyes boring into his. He tried to say something but nothing came out. She stopped right in front of him and her eyes took him in. Slowly a smirk turned up her lips and she put her hand on her hip, her stance loosening. She opened her mouth to say something then shut it.

Before he knew what was happening she stepped away from him and seemed to float out of the room and into the hall. When she was gone Skywarp's body loosened up and he sighed. "What was that? What did I do?"

A/N

What indeed...

I noticed (in the show) G1 Starscream doesn't seem to like female robots for some reason (or at least Nightbird). Why do you think that is? Also I'm trying my best to make this interesting but G1 robots are a little bit harder to keep in character than the robots I'm used to. I hope this was okay. The femame Decepticon's only acting weird because she's not totally reactivated yet. Right now she's nothing more than a zombie.