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Chapter 4
Arcee stepped out from the ground bridge and was met with the beautiful desert night of Nevada and Starscream admiring said beauty. She couldn't stop the glare that was forming on her face, but she formed a stoic expression when Starscream turned around with a excited look on his face.
"Arcee this is magnificent! The calm beauty of it all, is this what I've been missing being cooped up in the base?" Starscream asked with a beaming smile on his face.
Arcee still couldn't believe what she was seeing. Starscream being giddy, energetic, wanting to learn she just never expected this from the cold hearted, egotistical, and homicidal maniac she grew to hate. Seeing Starscream in such a different light made Arcee realize something:
"He is actually quite handso- NO! Not this again!" Arcee began to get angry with these unfamiliar thoughts clouding her head.
"Uhm Arcee? Are you alright?" Starscream asked.
"What? Oh yeah, I'm fine," Arcee said trying to cover up the awkward situation "So Starscream do you think you can transform?"
"I could try."
Starscream got into what looked like push-up position and began to slowly transform into the unfamiliar vehicle. Arcee watched all his different parts detach, shift, and reattach into different segments. She didn't know why but she was very fascinated, she always saw this mech quickly transform on the battlefield prepared to slaughter the enemy which was usually herself. But now she isn't the enemy and he isn't either, it was nice not having to prepare for an imminent battle and to just observe. Finally complete Arcee got the time to examine his jet mode, a sleek F-16 Falcon was an impressive sight with the gleam of the moon.
"Wow, I like the jet," Starscream said in his jet mode "It gives me this feeling, this feeling ...to fly."
Without any warning Starscream activated his thrusters and flew into the night sky, he began to do many flips in the air enjoying himself. The feeling of the cool night air brushing past him while he was at unimaginable speeds was too much and he let out a yell of joy. Arcee transformed and sped up to keep up with the seeker.
"I haven't felt like this in stellar cycles!" Starscream yelled.
"Okay Starscream all you have to do is scour the area for any suspicious activity and then we can head back to base," Arcee said wanting to get this over with.
"Got it," Starscream said over the comm.
Strascream increased his speed in a random direction wanting to see more of the sights, Arcee increased her speed to keep up. A few minutes of sight seeing past and everything was all clear, Starscream then saw something that intrigued him. Starscream transformed midair and landed in front of a forest.
"Strange, I've never seen such strange structures," Starscream said in awe.
"They're called trees, Earth has different types of vegetation growing all over the planet," Arcee said finally catching up to the seeker.
"I always believed that organic planets had more to offer in the fields of science than Cybertron ever could. But they never believed me," Starscream began to get that familiar hate in his eyes. "All they did was laugh!"
Starscream's anger over came him and with a powerful swing he cut down a tree with his sharp claws. His eyes widened at what he did and his anger was replaced with grief.
"Oh no! What have I done?" Starscream examined the fallen tree then sighed. "You were right, you were always right-"
Starscream felt a comforting hand on his shoulder, his eyes trailed up the slender arm to the owner's face which had a look of concern. The light from the moon shined off of her frame and Starscream began to feel strange, he could feel his energon begin to heat up around his cheeks.
"She's so beautiful," Starscream began to get lost in her eyes.
"Starscream it's alright, trees grow back you don't have to beat yourself up," Arcee said soothingly.
"What am I doing? He is the enemy!" Arcee screamed in her head.
"Oh uhh yes! Sorry I tend to uhm over react a bit," Starscream trying to regain his cool.
"A bit?" Arcee questioned with a smirk.
"Yes well, uhh," Starscream grew a smile when an idea struck "Arcee if it isn't too much trouble would you be so kind as to allow me to examine the vegetation of this forest?"
Arcee got an unsure look "I suppose, but make it quick."
Strascream smile grew and out of excitement he grabbed Arcee's hand and dragged her into the forest "Oh this will be so much fun!"
Arcee rolled her eyes and frowned "Yeah fun".
Meanwhile...
"Shockwave my most loyal subject, how long has it been?" Megatron said with a grin.
"A couple thousand stellar cycles my lord," Shockwave said emotionless.
"Come, come and meet the team," Megatron said gesturing to the Decepticons who did not look like the rest of the army.
"Have you ever seen Megatron so chummy with someone before?" Breakdown whispered to Knockout.
"No one except Shockwave, after all he was always Megatron's favorite. Makes you wonder how Starscream managed to stay as second-in-command for so long," Knockout replied.
"This is my chief field medic-" Megatron began.
"Knockout," Shockwave said.
"Shockwave," Knockout said back.
"Yes well, meet my top soldier-," Megatron began again.
"Breakdown," Shockwave said.
"Shockwave," Breakdown said back.
"Okay, this is my new second-in-command-"
"Airachnid"
"Shockwave"
"Lastly, I'm sure you remember my chief intelligence officer," Megatron said not bothering to say his name.
"Soundwave"
"Shockwave," Soundwave managed to say using a recording of Megatron saying Shockwave's name.
"Now that the acknowledgments are over with I'll take you to your new work station," Megatron said showing Shockwave his way through the Nemesis.
On the way to the station Megatron began to thoroughly explained the situation at hand, not surprisingly it seemed that Shockwave had the situation grasped.
As they entered the station Megatron began "So all I'll need you to do is to unlock the encryptions, I now it will be a complicated task that will take you a couple solar cycles for you to accomplish-".
"Done," Shockwave said.
"Wait what?" Megatron asked surprised.
"Well not 100%, I've managed to hack one algorithm but it will take some time to hack all of them. I'm afraid I'll only be able to unlock Starscream's memories piece by piece," Shockwave stated.
"I see, nevertheless what did you find?" Megatron asked.
"Take a look," Shockwave gestured towards the computer screen.
Megatron examined the new information and realized that they were coordinates, when realization dawned on him of what were at these locations he became enraged.
"After the last incident he still did not learn, he thought he could hoard energon from me? With this large quantity of energon deposits we could have defeated the Autobots long ago! Instead I've been stuck on this horrid planet fighting a war that should have been ours!" with that last statement Megatron blasted a random piece of technology with his fusion cannon.
"That was a little much don't you think?" Shockwave asked.
"Shockwave! Stay here and try to decode more of the encryption, I'm going energon hunting," Megatron said leaving the lab.
Shockwave's emotionless gaze watched Megatron leave the lab as the sliding doors shut, Shockwave went back to the computer and began his work.
"What are you hiding?"