Chapter Two - StarScream

After my weird feeding session, I was feeling incredibly energised. I felt an odd sensation throughout my body and I looked down to see my body glowing. The exposed wires were being covered with some sort of armour, similar to what was on the Autobots. It, strangely enough, made me feel a lot more secure. I breathed a sigh of relief at the lovely feeling of safety.

"What just happened?" The soldier asked.

"That, Lennox, was what I believe you would call a growth spurt" Rachet scanned me quickly before nodding to himself. I guess I was still healthy, always good to know.

"Growth spurt?" Rachet nodded.

"They will become more frequent as she grows"

"So she's a she?"

"Yes, Lennox"

Lennox beamed at me "I have a little girl" He sighed wistfully.

I decided it was high time I tested it out my new armour, bending my legs I managed to stand again. This time I felt more balanced and stable, I moved my arms and was starteled when I realised that my right arm was now some sort of gun. I twisted it around and somehow managed to fire a shot which whisetled and flared before it fell two feet to the left of me, thankfully not hitting anyone.

Lennox raised his eyebrows "I didn't know babies got guns"

Rachet crouched down to look at me "Usually they can't get to them until later life, but she seems stable enough to have them" I took another look at my gun, I was going to need to practise or I'm sure that I could somehow blow this base up.

Bumblebee crouched down on the other side of me, making loads of noise, none of which I could understand. He poked me in the side, which sent me tumbling back down.

"Bumblebee!" Rachet swatted him out of the way, but looked pleased when I didn't start crying. Bumblebee hummed what I assumed was supposed to be some sort of apology and gently patted me on the head. My ears twitched and I had what felt like antennae in their place. I wasn't too bothered about this new development, I'd already had space gas fed to me there wasn't much that could surprise me now.

I stood up again, flexing my wrists and hearing a nasty grinding noise. I winced, realising my new body probably had different limitations to my old one. I tried to remember what I looked like human, I found it very difficult, all I could remember was that I used to be human. I couldn't remember my name, what colour my hair was, what colour my eyes were. My face scrunched up in concentration but the only thing that happened was one of the humans decided to laugh at me.

I lay down on my back and stared at the ceiling. This was not cool.

I was picked up by Rachet as he motioned towards Bumblebee, who transformed into a car. My jaw dropped. The only thing that crossed my mind was that someday, if I stayed a robot, I would be able to do that. This information cheered me up significantly. I was placed in the front seat and the rest of the robots transformed into a variety of vehicles, Bumblebee moved the seatbelt across my tiny body and started his engine.

"We have to move the Sparkling to our secure base" I heard Optimus' voice rumble.

"Yeah, we'll be right behind you" Lennox assured.

I heard a multitude of engines starting, I couldn't see out of the window because I was too short but I could just about see a few heads walking past it, the soldiers were probably climbed into different vehicles. The back door opened and Lennox got it, the radio made a questioning noise, which made me want to touch it and see what was wrong. Lennox shrugged from behind me.

"Just to be completely safe"

I twisted in my seat to try and look at him, but my seatbelt didn't allow it. We were soon on our way to the 'secure base' where it was I had absolutely no idea, but I hoped we got there quickly. Bumblebee played some little kiddy songs which were winding me up, so I attempted to kick the radio but my legs weren't long enough. I heard a chuckle from behind me.

"I don't think she likes the songs man" Bumblebee whined and changed the channel to something upbeat, like a roadtrip song.

"Incoming!" I heard. My ears pricking up as Lennox swore and lifted his gun. We swerved violently to the left as something exploded where we just were.

"Bumblebee drive faster!" Lennox demanded, opening the window and firing a couple of shots. I was thrown against the seatbelt as we swerved again, it was becoming very uncomfortable where my armour was still fresh and not very protective.

I whined as one of my wires got caught, it was tugged free of it's confines and some blue liquid started to pour from it. My eyesight flickered. I'm gonna go ahead and guess that the blue liquid was pretty important. Lennox fired another shot and I could finally see what the problem was, some sort of aircraft was flying in front of us, coming straight for us.

I squinted as I saw that it was firing at us, confused as to why someone would want to hurt us giant robots... I nodded as I figured out the reason why someone would want to hurt us.

Bumblebee's radio flickered and whined, we swerved again and heard Optimus' voice "Get to the base, we'll take care of Starscream" The windscreen was convered in mud and dust, but it seemed as though Bumblebee didn't need to see out of it.

It was at this moment, when we were dodging explosives and trying not to hit each other when my eyes shut off. My vision was gone. My ears shut off.

My entire tiny robot body seemed to be shutting down and all I could see was the tiny symbols beneath my eyelids. There was some warning symbol flashing and I assumed that it had something to do with the blue liquid that was leaking from my leg.

The warning symbol became bigger and moved to the centre of my eyesight before everything went completely black, but I was not unconscious. I could still feel everything that was going on, I could feel my body getting thrown around as the swerves were becoming more and more frequent. Human hands touched my arm, I think to try and stop the leaking liquid. I think that my main senses shut off to try and preserve my energy, but seeing as I could still feel the liquid dripping I knew I wasn't going to last long, especially as the swerves were continually hurting me.

The seatbelt tightened around my body, wrapping itself around my arm, which hurt so much but I could feel it cut of the liquids flow. It took another minute filled with pain for me to finally give into the unconsciousness, the warning symbol slowly fading from my sight as everything went away.