Betrayed

Chapter 7

There a small easter egg from the Bumblebee movie in this chapter. So you can look out for it. I'm curious to see if any of you can catch it. With that said on with the story.

The next day Optimus and Ratchet broke the news about General Brice's death to Agent Fowler who took it as hard as they had expected. And everyone on the team help comfort him.

While they all continued to think of how to stop Scourge and Cyclonus and clear themselves to the human government.

Starscream's voice still hadn't held yet but was improving and Ratchet had happily reported that it would go back to normal and the damage was healing. Other than that the seeker was already back to normal.

And it was actually pretty funny watching Starscream have to mime everything to them. At one point there had nearly been a fight when he was trying to get Smokescreen's attention for something and did it by using one of his digits to bonk him between the optics.

Smokescreen had responded by trying to grab his finger and Starscream jumped back and ended up hitting Sideswipe in the face with one of his wings almost knocking him out.

But he made it up to them both by bringing them energon later.
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Later everyone went out to look for energon after seeing that they were getting low. Starscream went too and because he couldn't speak right now but he could fight and fly.

Knock Out who still couldn't bring himself to use his weapons do to being triggered stayed at the scrapyard he was currently the only cybertronian there.

"So how are you holding up?" Asked June understanding and knowing the red medic hadn't yet recovered from his trama.

"I wish I could help the team more but everytime I activate my dill I just hear and see the ones they used on me and my energon prob's zap reminds me of the one that rendered me unconscious." He explained.

"Well that's understandable after what you went through." She told him.

"No I'm a medic but I can't bring myself to use any of my tools or even to use my weapons on the field." He replied.

"I just keep thinking what if one of my friends get captured like I did or comes back wounded and Ratchet and Fixit aren't available and I can't bring myself to use my tools? Or what if a Con attacks and I can't you my weapons to stop them?" He added almost in coolant tears.

"I already failed friends! I watched Megatron beat Starscream half to death multiple times during the war and neaver lefted a digit to stop it! And I could have volunteered to go on that mission with Breakdown and Dreadwing but didn't and now my best friend is dead!"

"And before that when he was captured by MECH I didn't go to save him I mean Megatron made it clear we weren't aloud to but I could have.. should have snuck out to help him! When I was being drilled into all I could think is that was what he went through!"

"And now I know what he went through and I know it was my fault if I had gone with him that day he wouldn't have been caught by them and he might have survived that mission with Arachnid if he'd had both his optics.." he finished now sobbing. "But I had to look out for my finish and my own sorry hide!"

"It's ok Knock Out none of that was your fault." Jack cut in having heard some of the conversation. "If you would have intervened any of those times you would have been killed and look at all the good you've been doing now."

"He right you've been a really good friend to Starscream and were the one who convinced him to switch sides after Optimus offer him a place in the Autobots Raff told him.