Nanoclick: Second

Cycle:Minute

Megacycle: Hour

Orbital Cycle: Day

Solarcycle: Year

LightningStrike onlined his red optics and took a look around his surroundings. His black paint job hiding well in the darkness of the ship. The only thing really noticeable of him was his golden stripes. The Decepticon ship was in ruins and he saw his teammates lying around on the ground. He saw that the ship got stuck in some type of huge rock. He looked around for Lord Megatron or the little Autobot ship but didn't see them anywhere in sight. He would find his glorious leader, but first he needed to awaken his team in which he calls family (mostly StarScream and Megatron though, they are his main family).

"StarScream, you must awaken." LightningStrike shook the SIC. StarScream groaned a little and stirred, but didn't wake. LightningStrike only huffed in annoyance. "Come on StarScream, Megatron is nowhere to be found and the rest of the crew still hasn't woken up." StarScream groaned again and opened his optics.

"LightningStrike?" Said Decepticon nodded. StarScream looked around just like LightningStrike did. "LightningStrike; go wake the others. I'll help too; just give me a cycle to get up." LightningStrike nodded and went over to BlackArachnia.

"Hey princess guess what…it's time to get UP!" LightningStrike yelled at her. She screamed awake and looked around franticly. When she saw it was only LightningStrike she smirked.

"Hey shrimp. Ow, my side hurts. Where is Megatron?" She asked.

LightningStrike shrugged. "I don't know. I was the first one up and I couldn't find him anywhere so he must have landed somewhere else."

"HELLOOOOOO!" BlackArachnia yelped and turned, getting ready to fire at the bot behind them. Random was standing there laughing. BlackArachnia scowled and hit Random in the head.

"You fool! This is not the time to be joking around!"

"You just need to loosen up Miss Spider."

"Don't call me that!"

"Oh and why not?"

"Just shut up."

LightningStrike only shook his head in disappointment at his teammates arguing about something so stupid. He walked back to where StarScream was. StarScream looked at him and nodded. LightningStrike stood next to him and shot a blast of electricity on a nearby wall to get everyone's attention. Silence was all that was heard in the ship.

"Thank-you LightningStrike. Now…what do we do?" StarScream asked the assassin. LightningStrike was confused. Why was StarScream asking him what to do? He was the SIC. All LightningStrike was an assassin. A cold-energoned murderer.

"I do not understand. Why are you asking me this?"

"Because you are the new second-in command. Megatron appointed you himself." StarScream told him.

"I am not second-in-command yet though. The ceremony was interrupted last time I checked and that means you are still second-in-command." LightningStrike stared at the rest of his fellow Decepticons. "Am I not mistaking?" The Decepticons shook their heads and LightningStrike smirked. "I thought so. Now what are we supposed to do Master StarScream?"

StarScream had a thoughtful look on his face. "LugNut, BlitzWing, BlackArachnia and I will do our best to try to find our glorious leader Megatron. You, LightningStrike will find that mangy Autobot repair crew and bring back the Allspark to us."

LightningStrike nodded before going towards the exit. He was called back though and he turned around.

"LightningStrike, I want you to check in with us every 3 Orbital Cycles until you find the Allspark." StarScream told his nephew-figure. LightningStrike bowed and walked out. StarScream sighed and said under his breath "Be careful little youngling."

LightningStrike turned into hi Cybertronian vehicle mode and drove through a thick forest of big, brown and green things. When he exited the forest he made it to a small sandy beach. There was blue liquid around the land the ship crashed on. On the other side of this liquid was what appeared to be a city. It was nothing like the cities on Cybertron. LightningStrike dived in the mysterious liquid and swam to the civilization. He jumped out of the water and had a better look at the civilization. The buildings were big, but smaller than the ones on Cybertron. Vehicles drove on roads and he saw something that interested him very much. Organics were everywhere. This was an organic planet. He needed a better disguise so the Autobots wouldn't recognize him. A Camaro drove past and LightningStrike scanned the vehicle. He transformed and admired his new look. While pretty much every Decepticon was flyers, LightningStrike preferred to be a groundbot.

LightningStrike heard screams not far from his coordinates. He drove to where the sounds originated from and saw a giant bug-like organic attacking the smaller organics. Two trucks and a cycle were driving towards the creature before turning into those Autobots from the repair crew. They fought off the creature, but the creature was gaining the victory. LightningStrike heard a feminine scream and saw that the creature had a female organic in its tentacle. Everyone was scared and ran away except an old looking organic that was screaming for the female organic. The Autobots tried to help her, but they couldn't get to her.

Without thinking, LightningStrike sped towards the creature in vehicle mode and used a ramp to go in the air. He transformed into robot mode and grabbed the girl. Once his feet touched the ground he bolted off into a parking lot.

The organic girl looked at him in awe. LightningStrike didn't know what to do so he did the first thing that popped in his processor.

"Hi, I'm LightningStrike." As this was said the girl smiled big at him.

"I'm Sari." LightningStrike was interested that it seemed to speak and wasn't scared of him despite her size. He was confused that she was sorry for his name.

"Don't be. My name suits me pretty well." Which was true.

"No. That's my name. Sari." She explained to him. LightningStrike blinked a couple of times before the meaning clicked in his processor. "Get it now?"

"Yeah." He put her down and turned back to the fight between the bots and monster. "Listen, I have to go help before they get turned to scrap metal. I need them for something. See ya."

LightningStrike turned and ran out to the fight. The Autobots didn't notice him until the creature tried to grab the ninja bot and was pushed away by LightningStrike before the creature could absorb him. The Autobots stared in shock at him but he didn't care. He created a lightning rod made out of pure energy. He jumped and dodged while managing to shock the creature a couple of times. The creature would only scream in pain every time it got a shock. LightningStrike was doing well before the creature slammed one of its tentacles into LightningStrike's chassis. LightningStrike landed against a wall of a building. He onlined his optics to see the Autobots holding something. LightningStrike scanned the object and learned its purpose.

While the Autobots were trying to figure out who was going to put the object inside the creature, LightningStrike jumped up and ran. He grabbed the object out of the red and blue Autobot's servos and turned to his vehicle mode. He drove up in the parking lot building while being chased by one of the creature's tentacles. It was gaining up on him and he sped up his pace. He reached the top of the building and drove off. LightningStrike transformed and entered the creature's mouth.

Once inside he turned on the device and electricity flowed everywhere in the creature. Soon the creature broke into thousands of pieces. Some of the goo got stuck on him and got inside his armor. It started absorbing LightningStrike from the inside out. LightningStrike fell on the pavement hard. He tried to stand but his systems were not working properly. He fell back down and saw the Autobots running towards him. He needed to get away from them. Sure he could take all of them on at the same time, but now he was too weak to take them on even if it was one Autobot. The Cyclebot and the big, green Truckbot got ready to attack him in case he tried to attack.

"Friend or foe?" The Cyclebot asked. LightningStrike didn't say anything. The Cyclebot narrowed his optics, but nobody could tell due to his visor. "Friend or foe?" He asked again.

"Foe." LightningStrike replied. He flinched in pain. This didn't go unnoticed by the blue and red Truckbot.

"You may be a foe but you are hurt. Autobots, he needs medical attention." He ordered out. "Bulkhead, transform and I will load him up in your trunk." Bulkhead looked uneasy about this but complied. LightningStrike was loaded up and he could feel that they started moving. StarScream would be disappointed in him for having the Autobots care for his injuries. He didn't know where they were going but his optics was blurring a little. He started slipping to unconsciousness. He heard transforming sounds before he slipped into darkness.