Author's note. The Autobots are finally in this story again. And how does Megatron react to Starscream's....transformation? Read on to find out.
Sorry for shortness of chapter, the next one will be longer.
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Skywarp gaped at the sight that met his eyes as he stood in the doorway of Starscream's lab. Barely half an hour before, he had been woken by Hook telling him that Skyfire was all better and could be picked up.
But that hadn't been all Hook had told him. After Skywarp had managed to shake himself of his shock, he had asked if it was safe to bring his Sparklings along as he didn't want to disturb Thundercracker again.
Hook had said yes, so he'd spent the next five minutes waking up his babies and getting them ready. They'd been very excited to learn that Skyfire was now better and had been on fire to go to the lab. So he'd taken them with him, and once they'd reached the lab, they had all rushed inside to hug the waiting Shuttle, who had laughed with joy.
But Skywarp had been distracted by the sight on the table just behind them. For there with a look of boredom sat Starscream. And he was a Sparkling.
"How did this happen?" Skywarp said in disbelief as he finally walked into the room to scoop Skyfire into his arms and hug him.
His other Sparklings turned around to see what he was talking about and their jaws dropped. It was Hook who answered as he calmly scanned the white Seekerlet.
"Starscream was forced to turn himself into a Sparkling to test the program he had invented for Skyfire. Skyfire was too ill to receive an untested program," he added as Ratchet opened his mouth to speak.
"He did that for me, daddy," Skyfire whispered as he held tightly onto Skywarp's neck.
Starscream sniffed and looked away, as though to deny that kindness had anything to do with it. There was a pause and then Ironhide burst out laughing.
"What's so funny?" Ratchet asked, his lips twitching with suppressed amusement.
"Ah can't wait to see how Megatron takes this," the red Sparkling sniggered causing Chromia and Elita to snigger as well.
Starscream groaned softly but didn't say anything causing Hook and Skywarp to raise their brows. It seemed Starscream was much quieter as a Sparkling.
"I suppose..."Skywarp said slowly. "That we'd better tell Megatron about this."
Starscream buried his face in his hands.
Megatron's POV.
Megatron eyed the purple Seeker in front of him with open suspicion. Skywarp had a very guilty look on his face, one that didn't bode well. Hook also looked wary though he hid it much better than Skywarp, and Thundercracker just looked resigned.
Megatron's optics look downwards at the Sparklings who were milling about at the adults feet and not looking worried in the slightest. In fact Ironhide and Ratchet looked a little...gleeful.
He saw that the Shuttle Skyfire was there, meaning he was all better. This amazingly meant that Starscream had actually done as he had been ordered to, and not tried to find a way around it. Speaking of Starscream.
"I see that your Sparkling is all better Skywarp," Megatron began, still eying the Seeker.
"Yes sir, Starscream fixed him up good as new," Skywarp said with a grin, giving Skyfire a very fond look.
Megatron's optics narrowed.
"I'm surprised he isn't here gloating over his success."
"Ah, well sir," Skywarp began nervously.
"There's been a bit of incident involving Starscream and so um....yeah...he's...."
"Out with it Skywarp," Megatron growled as Ironhide and Chromia giggled.
"What has he done?"
It was Hook who answered.
"In order to cure Skyfire he was forced to take a drastic step."
"And?" Megatron said, rapidly losing his patience, why were they all skirting around the subject.
The three adults looked at each other, the Sparklings giggling madly now, even the Shuttle's lips were twitching a little. Megatron's optics flashed and with a sigh, they stepped out of the way and let their leader see what was behind him.
Megatron's jaw dropped.
There, right in front of him was a white Sparkling with red highlights. Its red optics had been staring at the floor but were now raised to defiantly glare at him.
Megatron exhaled and then inhaled, and then.
"Starscream!"
Mirage's POV.
The spybot carefully made his way through the Nemesis but stopped when he heard the echoes of a loud roar. He froze, it sounded like Megatron but he couldn't make out what had been yelled.
Mirage shrugged, it wasn't important, what was important was that he needed to find a place to stake out and wait for the end of this cycle. He was on a mission, and nothing could distract him from it.
The plan was that he would find out what the Decepticons in particular Skywarp, did with the Autobot Sparklings during the day and also where they slept. With this information they could come up with a proper plan for rescuing their comrades. Hopefully Perceptor and Wheeljack could find a way to change them back into adults and they could all put this while mess behind them.
It hadn't been easy getting in, security had seemingly been doubled but at long last, Mirage had managed it. Not only were the Decpeticons wary of Autobot infiltration, there hadn't been much traffic coming in and out of the Nemesis which made it harder to get into.
Mirage ducked into a room to quickly gaive a report before he continued. A small team was close by so the signal wouldn't be too powerful and would not be picked up.
"Cloak to Saxophone, do you read me?"
"Saxophone to Cloak, reading you loud and clear," came Jazz's voice over the comm.
"I'm inside and am now trying to find a place to lay low for a while," Mirage said quietly into the comm.
"Any sigh of the stars?"
Stars were codename for the Sparklings.
"Negative, but I'm in the lower levels, their likely to be much higher up," Mirage replied calmly.
"I'm going to do some stargazing later tonight," Mirage continued.
"Alright, report back when you've found something. Saxophone out."
Mirage sighed as he closed the link, now it was just a question of doing what he had said. Never before had he been in a situation involving Sparklings, even if said Sparklings were former comrades.
Oh well, on with the job, no doubt he'd learn something later.
He didn't know just what he was going to learn.
Author's note. Megatron deals with the Starscream situation and Mirage does some snooping, but how does that turn out. Find out in the next chapter.
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Ratchet, Ironhide, and Chromia: I scream for Starscream! I scream for Starscream!
Starscream: Stop it! It's annoying!
Skyfire: *managed to talk me out of permanetly keeping on the chair* But it's funny!
Starscream: No it's not.
Ratchet, Ironhide, and Chromia: I scream for Starscream! I scream for Starscream!
Me: What's wrong, Starscream?
Starscream: They're harassing me.
Skyfire: I wouldn't call it harassing per se...
Starscream: Stop helping.
Me: Will you three behave or I'm putting you on the chair.
Skyfire: Yes! No chair for me!
Me: Yet...
Skyfire: **...