This chapter was Re-edited on October 25th 2007

CHAPTER 3

"What do you wish to speak with me about, oh mighty Megatron?" Starscream asked, slightly sarcasticly, as he stepped into the control room where Megatron was lounging on a chair in front of one of the computers.

Megatron turned to the jet and got out of his chair. "Do you know who that was?" Megatron asked.

"Huh?" Starscream said, confused by the question. "Who?"

His superior gave him a look that said he should know. "The female," Megatron replied.

"Oh." Not her again. "What about her?"

"I contacted Shockwave about her," Megatron replied, turning from the jet and pacing. "He told me that her name is Shadowstar and her status was computer hacker. He also said he was the one who built her."

Starscream didn't see why that mattered so much. He didn't really care what she used to do or who had created her. "So?"

"She used hack into the Autobots computers during the war on Cybertron," Megatron answered, still pacing. "She was able to intercept many Autobot battle plans." He stopped and looked over at Starscream. "When we can get her back online she might be of use to us."

"If you can get her back online you mean," the jet corrected, folding his arms. "Her mind is so intertwined with the data on that computer that I doubt you'll be able to revive her." he smirked. "And if you do she'll probably be too full of errors to even think straight, much less hack into an Autobot frequency."

Megatron glared at him. "Don't talk about things you don't know anything about, Starscream," he said in an annoyed voice. "You might have been a scientist before you joined the Decepticons but, when it comes to things like this, even your knowledge has limits."

"Don't criticize my intelligents!" Starscream shouted, unfolding his arms and clenching his fists. I hate when you do that! Why do you always do that to me?! I'm not as dumb as you think I am! "I know more than you think!"

"But not enough to be useful," Megatron taunted.

Starscream glared at his superior. What could he say? He wasn't about to tell Megatron all that he actuallydid know. True, he'd never met this Decepticon female but he'd met one like her. Only she wound up to be an Autobot spy... "Is that all you wanted to talk to me about?" he asked impatiently. He was getting sick of everyone mentioning that female to him. He'd rather talk about something else, anything else.

"No, I want you, Thundercracker, and Thrust to go back to that place where we found the female and see if you can get the energy from the generators before the Autobots find out about it."

Starscream glared at him. Megatron met his gaze. "Well?" he said, impatiently. "Get going!"

"Yes, mighty Megatron," Starscream said, turning around and stalking out of the room to look for Thrust.

He stomped angrily into the hall. "Why does he want me to go back there?" he asked himself. "Why can't he go instead? At least going will get me out of here and away from that female for awhile. I should be happy for that-"

A shadow moved out of the corner of his eye. He turned his head but saw nothing but the hall. He waited a moment but saw nothing else. Thinking he was imagining things he turned, looked straight ahead, and kept on walking. A few minutes later he ran into Skywarp who was walking like he'd become the living dead. He walked right into the red, white, and blue jet and almost knocked him over.

"Hey!" Starscream grabbing Skywarp by the arms. "Watch where you're going!" he noticed the jet didn't seem to notice him. The other jet's face looked spaced out and his eyes didn't seem to be focused on anything. "Hey!" he shouted, shaking him. "I'm speaking to you!"

Skywarp seemed to snap out of a trance and looked at the other Seeker like he'd seen him for the first time. "Starscream?" he said, in a small voice. "What are you doing here?"

"What kind of question is that?" the jet demanded. "I live here! What's the matter with you?"

"Nothing," Skywarp said, pulling Starscream's hands off his arms. "Now let me go."

Starscream stared at him suspiciously, noticing the purple and black jet wasn't meeting his eyes. He got the worst feeling that the other Seeker had gotten himself into some kind of mess, again. "What have you done?"

"Nothing!" Skywarp exclaimed defensively. "I haven't done anything!" Then he added without thinking. "And I especially didn't accidently reactivate the female Decepticon before she was ready."

Starscream's optics got bigger. "You did what?!"

"Nothing!"

"You did so!" Starscream shouted, grabbing the jet again and shaking him. "How could you have been so stupid!? Why did you reactivate her?"

"It was an accident!" Skywarp shouted. "And I don't think she's totally activated. She was moving funny and-"

"Where is she?!" Starscream shouted, cutting the other Seeker off.

"I don't know," the other jet replied in a slightly whiny voice. "She got up and walked out."

Starscream dropped him. "So she's loose in the base and she's not even totally activated!?" This was bad. If Megatron found out, he'd blame the red, white, and blue Seeker. Well Starscream wasn't about to be blamed or be around when she was found. "Find her," Starscream shouted grabbing Skywarp off the floor and throwing him forward. "You'd better find her and take her back to the infirmary before Megatron finds out and punishes you!"

Skywarp got going. He didn't want to be beaten up by Megatron. He'd seen Megatron do that to Starscream many times and he didn't like the results that came from it... or the hours of repairs...If Megatron did find out Skywarp could just blame Starscream but he wasn't clever enough for that. Instead he got going, determine to find that female Seeker before Megatron found out about his latest blunder.

At that moment Shrapnel, the leader of the Insecticons, was in the base looking for Bombshell. He wanted to talk to him about a recent power source he'd found. Some farmer's grain field. Thing was; he couldn't find his comrade, so he wound up spending more time in the base than he usually tolerated. He'd recently noticed something was following him as he'd gone from sector to sector of the bunker. The Insecticon didn't know what it was though. It seemed to vanish whenever he tried to get a good look at it. He eventually decided he was just being paranoid and chose to ignore it, though he was still uneasy.

That was until the thing touched him on the shoulder. He immediately spun around and stared up at a dark figure with glowing red optics. "W-who are you, you?" the Insecticon asked.

"Insecti... short... short...Megatro...Decepticon... Decepticon...," the thing sputtered in a female sounding voice.

"What?"

"POWER DRAIN...REGAIN ENERGY...MuSt ReGaIn EnErGy..."

Suddenly, and without even a warning, it grabbed the Insecticon by the arms and lifted it off the floor. "Ahhh! What are you doing, doing?!" Shrapnel exclaimed in surprise.

"Energy... Power drain... must refuel..." it said before bringing its face close to the smaller robot's.

Skywarp heard a scream and stopped in his tracks. He listened to the noise as it went on for a few seconds more then was cut off suddenly. He changed direction and ran toward the sound, getting the feeling that that meant someone had encountered the Decepticon he'd reactivated the wrong way.

I'm in trouble! I am in so much trouble! I just hope I can get there before Megatron does. Maybe I can put her back before anyone notices!

But that wasn't to be.

When he arrived at the spot he thought the sound had come from, all he saw was Sharpnel sitting on the floor, looking like he'd been to hell and back.

"You! Insecticon!" Skywarp exclaimed, grabbing the Insecticon by the shoulder. "Did you see a female Decepticon come by?"

Sharpnel said nothing.

"Answer me!" the jet ordered, shaking it.

The Insecticon fell over.

Skywarp let it go, his face filling with horror. He saw what looked like teeth marks in the smaller robot's neck and face area. He realized then that he couldn't hide this from Megatron. That zombie Decepticon was too dangerous to keep a secret!

"MEGATRON!" the jet screamed, running away from the Insecticon body and toward the control room. "MEGATROOOOOOOOOON!"

He burst into the control room and nearly knocked his superior over as he tried to stop himself. The Decepticon leader was able to keep his balance and grabbed Skywarp by the arms. He held him at arms length, his red optics glaring impatiently at the slightly stupid jet. "You had better have a good reason for running into me like that," he said annoyed.

"Megatron!" Skywarp exclaimed, his body trembling. "The-the the female Decepticon! She-!"

"She what?"

It all came out in a rush. "I accidently activated her and now she's running lose around the base and sucking energy out of our comrades and-"

"YOU DID WHAT!?" Megatron demanded, throwing the black and purple jet to the floor.

"I'm sorry!" Skywarp exclaimed, looking up at Megatron who towered over him angrily. "Please don't punish me!"

"How could you have been sostupid?!" Megatron demanded. "She wasn't ready to be reactivated yet! Her mind wasn't ready to be returned to her body!"

"I'm sorry."

Megatron grabbed him by the throat and pulled him toward his face. "Where is she?" he hissed.

"I-I don't know."

Megatron threw him to the floor again. '"Find her!" he ordered. He looked over at Soundwave and Bombshell who were also in the control room. They had recently gotten back from getting the special item the Insecticon needed to reactivate the female Decepticon. "I want you two to help him!" he said, pointing at them "Find her and take her back to the repair bay. This time don't take any breaks until you can reactivate her. I want her online as soon a possible!"

"Yes, Megatron," Soundwave said, before he and the Insecticon followed Skywarp out of the room.

Jazz, Seaspray, and Powerglide didn't waste any time heading out to the Decepticon base. Since the place was underwater they would have to swim to get inside. Powerglide, being a plane, didn't like that idea. He would rather fly inside than get wet.

"I don't see why we are going through all this trouble just to take back a corpse," Powerglide said as he and the other two Autobots entered the sea and headed toward the spot where the base was. "How are you even sure it was an Autobot corpse? It could have been a Decepticon."

"I'm not sure," Jazz replied, looking at the airplane. "That's why we're going to check."

Powerglide made a helpless gesture. "Istill don't get it," he said. "It's not like we can reactivate it."

"Maybe Ratchet can," Seaspray suggested in his bubbly sounding voice. "He can fix almostanything."

"He can fix things," Powerglide said, correctively. "He can't revive. He's not Jesus."

"Let's not argue about it right now," Jazz cut in. "We have to get our comrade out of there before the Decepticons do something to him."

"All right," Powerglide said, turning back to the Porsche. "But I still think it's a waste of time."

"Why did you turn her on in the first place?" Bombshell demanded, looking up at Skywarp as he, the jet, and Soundwave searched the base for the zombie female. "I wasn't finished getting her ready."

"It was an accident," the jet replied, defensively. He was getting a little tired of people asking him that question. "I only went in to look at her. I didn't mean to reactivate her before she was supposed to be. I accidently fell onto the computer."

"Well next time stay out of the repair bay when you know something's being worked on in there," the Insecticon scolded. "I wouldn't be surprised it she was going around the base taking other people's energy to make herself whole."

"Uh..."

Bombshell stared at him. "What?"

"I think she is..."

Bombshell shook his head. "You are an idiot, aren't you?" he said.

Skywarp was about to retort when Soundwave exclaimed. "Target spotted!"

The other two Decepticons looked up and saw the dark figure of the female Decepticon walking slowly up the hall a few yards ahead. They didn't waste time staring. The three went into action breaking into a run and quickly closing the distance between them and the zombie. Soundwave caught up to her first and grabbed her arm, forcing her to stop.

Unexpectantly she turned around and glared at them with a cold expression. Skywarp knew that look and for a moment he couldn't move as he stared right into her red optics. Soundwave wasn't fazed by her gaze and grabbed onto both of her arms, pinning them behind her and shoving her against the wall. He held her still as Bombshell quickly deactivated her by reaching over and yanking out the wires in her back. She went limp and fell to the floor with a loud clanging thud.

"Well that was easy," the Insecticon said and looked at Soundwave and Skywarp. "We'd better get her back to the infirmary and back online before somethingelse happens."

Skywarp shook himself out of his paralasis and helped Soundwave pick up the body. The three Decepticons carried her back to the repair bay.

Starscream and his small armada were able to reactivate the generators in the military base where they'd found the female Decepticon's body. It hadn't been an easy task but they'd succeeded after Starscream rewired a few power lines that had been severed by a recent storm of some kind. He and the others immediately began filling Energon cubes. For the next four hours they were able to fill a vast amount of cubes up with energy without an interruptions from the Autobots. Starscream began to think that the Autobots didn't even know what they were doing and felt a little confident about it. Little did he realize was that Mirage, using his cloaking ability, was spying on them. When the Autobot saw enough he sent in his report to Prime.

The Autobot leader instantly sent out a group to stop the Decepticons.

Thrust was the first to see them coming. "Starscream!" he said, grabbing the other Seeker jet by the arm and pointing toward the road. "Look! The Autobots!"

"Autobots!?" Starscream exclaimed, dropping the cube he'd been holding. It landed on his foot. "Ow!" He bounced around on one foot for a moment then shouted. "Decepticons, attack!" before going into jet mode and firing at the Autobot cars from the sky.

The Autobots transformed and started firing back, an accurate blast from Ironhide's gun hitting the right wing of the jet, causing Starscream to crash. "AAAHHHHHH!" the jet screamed before taking a nose dive into the dirt. He transformed back into robot mode and got up, shooting at Bumblebee's tires and causing one to blow out.

"Ahhh!" Bumblebee yelped spinning out of control and running into a rock.

"You okay?" Bluestreak asked, pulling up beside the smaller Autobot.

"I think so," Bumblebee said, going into robot mode. He raised his gun and shot at Starscream

The jet took the blast in the face. He screamed in pain as the glass covering his optics exploded, and grabbed his face, falling on his back. Thundercracker, who had been standing behind him, shot at the Autobots and stepped over to where Starscream had fallen. He grabbed the other jet by the arm and pulled him to his feet. "I think now would be a good time to retreat," he said, his voice strangely calm. He was used to this sort of thing by now.

Starscream was still screaming and didn't reply. The blue jet looked back at the other Decepticons. "Decepticons!" he yelled. "Get as many Energon cubes as you can carry! Let's get out of here!"

The others wasted no time. They grabbed up the cubes and got into the air. Thundercracker, keeping a tight hold on the wailing Starscream followed, still blasting away at the Autobots on the ground. "Suck it up, Starscream," he ordered. "It can't be that bad."

"My optics!" the jet screamed, his hands still over his face. "I can't see!"

Oh boy... So maybe it was..."Don't worry," the blue jet said, trying his best to stay calm. Blasted optics were one of the worse kinds of damage. "We'll get you back to the base and get your optics fixed."

An hour after Bombshell and Soundwave started on reactivating the female Decepticon again they succeeded. When her mind was completely returned to her body without any added data from the military computers, her eyes gained their full illumination and she took a deep breath. She slowly sat up and looked around herself. When she spotted the two Decepticons she stared at them in confusion. "Who are you?" she asked.

"I am Bomshell," the Insecticon replied. "I reactivated you." he pointed at Soundwave. "This is Soundwave. He helped me."

She noticed the Decepticon symbols on their bodies. "Where am I?" she asked, looking around.

"You are in the Decepticon's underwater bunker on Earth," Bombshell explained.

"How did I get here?" she wanted to know.

"Megatron found you and brought you here to be reactivated."

"Megatron?!" the femme exclaimed, then jumped off the table when she remembered something. "Oh Primus! I must speak to Megatron right away!" Then she dashed out of the room before the two males could stop her.

A/N

Aside from her being a computer hacker Shockwave also programmed her to have a strange way of getting energy (Completely by accident, or so he insists) . She cannot drink it out of Energon cubes. She has to get it the same way a vampire sucks blood out of its victim. This can either be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on which side you're on. This interesting bit of information will later be used by Megatron to gain control of her and to keep her in line if she tries to betray him. I got the idea from the female cyborg called Cyber 6 who gets her energy the same way.

I'll try to make the next chapter better and have her actually doing something. Now that she's totally activated I can do that.

Poor Skywarp. If only he was a little smarter. He's adorable though. Don't worry. Shrapnel will be fine.