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Chapter 2
Starscream was sitting on Ratchet's work table while having the good doctor examine him with all sorts of strange devices that haven't been busted by Bulkhead, yet. The whole time Starscream was kicking his legs back and forth and he had a smile on his face. The rest of the Autobots including Optimus were staring dumbfounded at Starscream.
"Look at him, he's just sitting there all-", Arcee couldn't find the right words.
"Happy, peaceful, tranquil, not a care in the world?", Bulkhead helped.
"Yeah that", Arcee said.
The staring went on for another couple minutes, until Starscream finally noticed. He grew a frown when he saw them staring but then grew another smile and waived at them causing them to jump and start looking in other directions.
"Okay all finished", Ratchet said putting away his tools.
"Any problems?", Starscream asked.
"No, you will make a full recovery as long as you don't strain yourself", Ratchet said making his way over to the rest of the occupants of the room.
"Thank you", Starscream said causing Ratchet to stop dead in his track.
Ratchet turned around wide eyed and was greeted with another heart warming smile, "Uhm your welcome".
Ratchet walked up to Optimus with a smile growing on his face, the other Autobots gave him an incredulous look.
"So what's the diagnosis Racthet?", Optimus asked.
"Well physically he will heal, but mentally is going to be an issue", the team gave Ratchet a look to continue. "His processor seems to be damaged and a large fraction of his memory hard drive is missing", this earned various gasped that Starscream wasn't oblivious too.
"How do you miss that the first time?", asked Bulkhead.
"Well I'm sorry, I was a bit preoccupied with the very serious blast wound on his chest", Ratchet said irritated.
"I love what you've done with the place", the Autobots jumped and noticed that Starscream managed to sneak up behind them, "Oh I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you".
Bulkhead was about to retort until, "Not at all", Bulhead looked to see that Arcee was the one that intervened.
Optimus walked up to him and said, "Starscream, my name is Optimus Prime leader of the Autobots and this is my crew", Optimus gestured towards his crew. "We have Bulkhead."
"Uhh sup"
"Bumblebee"
"Nice to uhm, meet you"
"You already met Ratchet, and last but not least Arcee"
"Hey", Arcee said flatly.
"Nice to meet you all, as I said before my name is Starscream I am a field scientist from the University of Iacon", He said.
That was something they never expected to hear, Starscream was a scientist, but they suppose that explained some of the knowledge he had in the past.
"Starscream, what else do you remember?", Optimus asked.
"Well let's see I remember some of my days at the university, my time living in Iacon, but I have a question for you if you don't mind", Starscream finished.
"Ask away."
Starscream asked the question they were dreading, "Where are we? I now we are not on Cybertron".
"I am afraid this will be very difficult for you to hear", Optimus then began to recount on the great war that took place on Cyberton, between the Autobots and the Decepticons. Going on to tell that when the war was over there was not much of Cybertron to save afterwords. Then he began discussing the battles that took place off of Cybertron on their current location: Earth. The whole time Starscream had the same expression on his face, the other Autobots couldn't tell what his feelings on the matter could be.
"How long has this been going on?", Starscream finally asked.
"This has been going on for eons", Optimus said grimly.
"I've been gone for a long time, haven't I?", Starscream said with a sad look in his eyes.
"I now this is a lot to take in, it would be best for you to go to your room and rest", Optimus said.
"Room?"
"Oh sorry, your room is down the hall fifth door to your left", Optimus said.
Without another word Starscream walked down the hall to his room.
"Optimus isn't that the storage room?", Arcee asked.
"It was", was Optimus' only reply.
"Anyway, you can't be serious about letting that good for nothing slagger live here!", Arcee yelled angrily.
"Starscream is not himself so we will be required to be there for him until all of his memories return, for better or for worse", was Optimus' stern reply.
"Right now whatever memories he still has will be a little foggy but until we get the rest of the hard drive the old Starscream will never return", Ratchet stated.
"Is that a bad thing?", Bulkhead asked.
"I like this Starscream a lot better than the old one, he's a lot nicer", Bumblebee beeped.
"My decision is final, we will help Starscream get his memories back in anyway possible", Optimus said leaving for the entrance of the hall. Stopping he turned back around and said, "Everyone deserves a second chance and Megatron has unknowingly given Starscream his", with that said he leaves.
Meanwhile...
"THAT SON OF A GLITCH!"
Knockout was walking down the corridors of the Nemesis when he heard a yell and then a blaster go off.
'Great it's another one of those days, well lets see the damages'
Knockout entered the control room and saw a pile of wounded and some off-lined Vehicons with multiple fusion cannon wounds.
"Should I even ask?", Knockout said sarcastically.
"Even after death he still manages to vex me", Megatron said angrily.
"Who?"
"Who else? STARSCREAM!", Megatron yelled and blasted Breakdown.
"Ow, what did I do?", Breakdown asked irritated.
Ignoring him, Megatron started pacing and talking to no one in particular, "That blasted Starscream, an encryption, I know he was smart but I didn't think this smart!"
"Come again?", Knockout asked.
"Starscream left an encryption so if he was ever defeated in combat no one could take his memory hard drive and figure out his secrets.", Megatron explained.
"Why don't you have Soundwave decrypt it?"
"He already tried, this encryption is too advanced even for him", Megatron said growing more angry.
"Well what would Starscream know that you don't?"
"That's what I'm trying to find out", Megatron said darkly.
Megatron's reply gave Knockout an uneasy feeling, "Well maybe Airachnid could have a go at it".
"I tried her first", Megatron said grimmly. Then his eyes widened and he grew a small smile, "There is only one other Decepticon I know who can crack this code".
"Who?"
"You'll see", Megatron said with dark chuckle. "Leave me be, I have to make a call", he said gesturing for everyone to leave.
Breakdown walked up to Knockout, "I couldn't help listen in on your conversion", he said while rubbing the wound on his shoulder from the blast. "I may not be very familiar with how our bodies work but how did Megatron manage to take such a large fraction of Starscream's memory hard drive? I thought if something like that would be attempted without the right tools there would be like permanent damage and then the hard drive would be useless."
Knockout looked at his one eyed friend, "That is true mein freund but do you remember when we raided that fallen Decepticon battle ship?". This received a nod from the cyclops, "Well lets just say we had an interesting find".