Chapter 12 Crisis on Quintessa.

The next day the team on Jungle Planet went out to see if they could find out what the Quintessons were up to. Except for Starscream and Knock Out who stayed on the ship because after what happened the day before everyone wanted the seeker to take it easy. And as the medic Knock Out stayed behind to have the med bay ready in case someone else got hurt.

The rest of the team had gone into the jungle and had come across some Quintessons who were mining something which turned out to be red energon.

"What do they want that for?" Asked Sideswipe. "The Quintessons don't look like the kind who'd want super speed."

"Their probably planing to use it as a power source for something." Said Strongarm. "But what?"

"Beat's me." Windblade added.

"Well knowing the Quintessons whatever it is can't be good." Megatron told them.

Then they overheard the Quintessons say they knew some of the cybertronians were at Quintessa and were planing to trap them.

So they hurried back to the ship and explained everything to Knock Out and Starscream.

"We have to find a way to warn our friends on Quintessa that their walking into a trap." Said Knock Out. "But the communications are down."

"There is a way we can warn them." Steeljaw spoke up. "Before we left Cybertron me and Ratchet worked together to install a space bridge on both ships in case of an emergency like this we could send someone to the other ship unfortunately it only has enough juice to send two of use there."

"So we'll send Knock Out and Starscream because they could probably use another medic over there and their team didn't have a flyer." Said Strongarm and the others agreed.

"You two will have to use the space bridge and the rest of us will be along as soon as we can get the ship there." Megatron told Starscream and Knock Out who then walked through the space bridge and then it shorted out because Steeljaw wasn't kidding when he said it could only transport two.

Then the others got the ship off the ground and set a course for Quintessa.

Meanwhile Starscream and Knock Out came out on the other end in their friend's ship and told them what was going on. Then noticed Arcee wasn't there and Optimus explained that she had gone out to scout the area but had been gone for awhile now and they were starting to worry.

So Starscream took off to look for her while the others discussed what they should do since the Quintessons knew they were there.

Starscream was flying around in his jet mode hoping to get a birdseye view to find Arcee quicker and being careful not to be detected at the same time.

Then he saw Arcee in her motorcycle form and tried to call her com-link but she didn't answer it and kept driving it must have been turned off or Quintessa had a lousy reception so Starscream started flying after her and was starting to feel uneasy because they were getting farther and farther away from where the others were. And something seemed off.

Then he saw her stop and change back to her cybertronian mode then turned to where Starscream was hovering in his jet mode and stood there. She must have realize he'd been following her and trying to get her attention.

"Arcee I was starting to think you'd never stop now let's go back to the ship and I'll explained what I'm doing here on the way." Starscream told her then turned to lead the way back to the ship but suddenly felt something jab into his neck cables and turned to see Arcee had stabbed him in the neck with a syringe and was trying to restrain him.

"Arcee what's going on?" Asked a panicked Starscream. "What did you just inject me with?"

Starscream managed to break free from the grip Arcee had on him and knowing something was wrong he started to run back to the others only to suddenly feel dizzy as everything was becoming fuzzy and distorted what Arcee had injected Starscream with was some kind of tranquilizer. And the seeker was now struggling to fight the affects.

"Why are you doing this?" Starscream asked now struggling to speck.

Then he ended up falling face first to the ground but was still trying hard to stay conscious. He was having trouble keeping his optics open and trying to use his arms to push himself back up but couldn't get his body to cooperate. All his movements were weak and shaky. Until Arcee hit him across the helm and everything went black.

Starscream woke up sometime later still droggy from the tranquilizer and realized he was strapped to a berth in some kind of lab or med bay he noticed there was a lot of medical equipment in the room and that Arcee was standing next to the door as he slowly came back to himself.

"Arcee why did you knock me out then bring me here?" Asked a frightened Starscream. "Is this some kind of joke?" "Please tell me this is some kind of joke." Then Starscream noticed Arcee's optics were white instead of blue. "No the Quintessons did something to you didn't they."

"You are correct." Said a Quintessons who entered the room.

"What did you do to Arcee?" Yelled a now angry Starscream.

"The same thing I'm doing to you." Said the Quintessons who then put a mask over Starscream that started pumping Cryo gas into him the seeker struggled for only a few moments before going into stasis.

Meanwhile the others were at the ship trying to figure out what to do since the Quintessons knew they were there.

Suddenly a bunch of Sharkicons showed up. To many for them to fight off and Optimus, Bumblebee and Ratchet were taken into the Quintesson's fortress. But Smokescreen and Knock Out who were in the med bay at the time managed to hide and turned on the ship's clocking device and moved to a safe location.

"What do we do Arcee and Starscream aren't back yet and the others have been captured." Asked Knock Out.

"First we're gonna call the others on Cybertron and tell them what the situation is." Smokescreen told him.

Then they called the Autobot base on Cybertron and Ultra Magnus answered and told them they would take a ship and be there as soon as they could but it would take awhile for them to reach Quintessa. Then hung up to get ready. And it would take the team coming from Jungle planet just as long. to long.

"Looks like it's up to us." Said Smokescreen. "We need to sneak into that building and find out where everyone is being held and find a way to free them."

"We can split up to cover more ground but we have to be careful not to be seen, captured or both." Knock Out added. "By splitting up it means if they do happen to capture one of us the other will still be free and it will be easier to sneak around that way."

So the two mechs quietly walked off the ship and snuck into the building then saluted each other before going down opposite hallways.

To Be Continued.

"The team on Quintessa is in a pretty tight spot but hopefully Smokescreen and Knock Out can do something." "yeah it's a bad day for the Transformers XD." "Sorry if this chapter seemed short but it was another filler the next one will be better and I'll try to have it up soon." "Please let me know if I missed any spelling errors."