Betrayed

Chapter 5

The next day at the scrap yard everyone woke up and saw that Starscream was missing. Then got a distress call so opened a ground bridge to the location.

Ratchet went through with Knock Out as back up. But they were surprised to see not Starscream but Pharma and that he was literally in pieces apparently Unit E had captured him and give him the same treatment they had given Knock Out.

The only difference was no one had showed up to save him. After running a diagnostic scan Ratchet saw that he was alive but beyond help.

Ratchet told Knock Out to head back to base seeing that seeing Pharma was affecting the cherry colored mech. Knock Out went back without having to be asked twice he could tell that Unit E had done this to Pharma and that if his own situation had gone differently that could be him laying there dying in pieces.

Once Knock Out was back at the scrap yard Ratchet used his saw to put Pharma out of his misery knowing it was the most merciful thing he could do for him.

Ratchet didn't like Pharma but not even he had deserved that. After it was over he went back to the scrap yard shocked at what Unit E the humans who had once worked with them had done.
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Meanwhile Starscream woke up and realized he was in a cell and his servos were tied behind his back with chains that were connected to the wall and he starting trying to think of an escape plan after the memory of what happened before he was knocked out came flooding back.

Just then Cyclonus walked in. And the seeker just glared at him.

"I must say Starscream your the last bot I would have thought might join the Autobots." Said Cyclonus looking the seeker up and down and taking notice of the Autobot symbols that had replaced his Decepticon ones.

"I know you must have had something to do with the humans turning on us." Starscream hissed as he pulled at his chains.

"Yes it was easy enough to fool those humans all we had to do was hack into their computer and communication systems and give orders pretending to be their general." Cyclonus explained.

"So what did you do with the real General Brice?" Asked Starscream.

"Killed him of course. Then it was easy to fool the other it quit pathetic how blindly those humans follow their boss's orders." Cyclonus added in a mocking tone.

"You won't get away with this!" Starscream growled at him.

"We already have we've turned the humans against the Autobots." Cyclonus replied. "And once they learn about the way Earth is treating cybertronians on Cybertron it will be enough to get them to decide to declare war against this planet."

"Like you used to say humans are always the weak link." Cyclonus added. "Now you're going to tell us everything you know about the Autobots starting with the location of there base."

"No I'm not I won't be here long enough." Said Starscream. "Because speaking of weak links."

Then Starscream punched Cyclonus having managed to break the chains that were holding his servos having found a weak link in them while Cyclonus was speaking.

Then Starscream bolted passed the leader of the Sweeps and took off down the hallway looking for a way off the ship he was on wanting to tell the Autobots what he had just learned.

But he ended up running into Scourge in one of the hallways who started chasing him along with Cyclonus who was starting to catch up with him too.

"OK I'm out of here!" Starscream yelped as he turned a corner still trying to locate the exit.

"Don't let him escape he knows to much!" Cyclonus yelled.

"And who's fault is that?" Scourge deadpaned to the bot who had just told Starscream their entire plan as they continued to chase after the seeker.

Starscream was running as fast as his legs would carry him not wanting to be caught. Then he found the flight deck and rush to the edge where he started to transform only for Cyclonus to fire on him.

Starscream suddenly felt a pain in his right leg where the blast from Cyclonus's arm cannon hit it's mark and the next thing the poor seeker knew he was tumbling off the flight deck on to another part of the ship before rolling off now in a free fall trying desperately to change to his jet mode so he could fly since the ship had been high in the sky.

But it proved impossible do to his injured leg and he ended up hitting the ground hard.

Starscream heard Scourge and Cyclonus coming but was now to hurt to stand so started to crawl away.

Only for Scourge to grab him by the neck again remembering the effect it had on Starscream last time and Starscream weakly tried to pray his servos off his neck as the seeker continued to struggle just wanting to escape. This was bringing back to many horrible memories of Megatron.

Then Scourge kept applying more pressure on Starscream's throat and slammed him again the ground and Cyclonus who had just gotten there started attacking his wings.

Then their was a loud crunch and Starscream optics went wide and Scourge and Cyclonus let the seeker fall to the ground and Cyclonus held the seeker down pressing his face into the ground while Scourge started try to rip off his wings to punish him for attempting to escape.

Starscream was still trying to struggle but his efforts were getting weaker because the poor seeker was hurt and tired.

Just then blasts suddenly started being fired at Scourge and Cyclonus the Autobots had just ground bridged there after picking up Starscream's signal.

Since the whole team had come through the ground bridge the two Sweeps were forced to retreat. But before they flew off Scourge went over to Starscream and held the seeker's helm up.

"A quick parting gift to silence you forever." He hissed into Starscream's audio receptors then used his sword to literally stab him in the back before letting him drop to the ground and left with Cyclonus.

Upon seeing what happened the Autobots rushed to where Starscream was laying on the ground. Knowing since the Sweeps had gotten a head start it would be impossible to catch them. And right now they were more concerned about Starscream.

Who was somehow still conscious and was coughing up energon. Bumblebee and Optimus Prime were the first two to retch him. And they could see the stab wound on his back and that his wings had been bent but what really concerned them was what they saw when they turned him over to take carry him through the ground bridge.

Starscream's neck had been crushed and he was still coughing up energon and his body continued to shake Optimus quickly called Ratchet who wasted no time coming through the ground bridge.

And then gave Starscream a sedative to not only help him calm down but to relieve his pain.

Starscream thanked them with his optics before he closed them and aloud himself to drift into stasis while his friends rushed him to the medbay.

To Be Continued.

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