Chapter 33: Starscream's Victory

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Nemesis No POV

Knockout: wakey, wakey.

Smokescreen: what?

Smokescreen was strapped into one of the medical berths in the Med Bay as Smokescreen noticed he didn't have the Phase Shifter anymore.

Knockout; if you're looking for your phase shifter... <shows he has the phase shifter on> finders keepers.

Megatron; enough paddling, Knockout, hand me the final Iacon relic. Now.

Smokescreen: yeah, I can't really help you. That's the only one I was packing.

Megatron: SoundWave.

SoundWave showed the de-pixelating picture.

Smokescreen: you got the wrong guy, Chief, Optimus Prime's the one who can decode the Iacon database.

Megatron: ah, but you misunderstand. The final entry has been decoded by us! According to our findings, it would appear I do indeed have the right guy.

SoundWave:<shows the clear picture>

Knockout; the question is... what is it that you are still packing? <uses an X-Ray pad on Smokescreen and sees the Omega Key> why, Hidden Treasure, of course!

Autobot Base

Ratchet: Smokescreen must have been taken aboard the Decepticon Warship. Tracing his signal through its shielding will be impossible.

Optimus: continue monitoring all frequencies, Ratchet, far more than Smokescreen's fate may be at stake.

Bulkhead: I don't get it, how could smoke be an Omega key?

Ratchet: like Elita said, perhaps he isn't the key but it's container.

Arcee: the other Iacon relics were sent to Earth in pods, why not this one?

Prowl: most of the relics.

Optimus; when the Decepticons stormed Iacon, it may have been too late for Alpha Tryon to launch the final Omega Key into space. At least by standard means.

Prowl: so Smokescreen assumed everything went black because he was hit by Decepticons.

IronHide: but Alpha Tryon's the one who actually turned out the kid's lights.

Optimus: it stands to reason that my mentor did not want Smokescreen to know what he was carrying in the event of capture.

Arcee: and with a mobile relic, Alpha Tryon couldn't possibly supply fixed coordinates.

Bulkhead: so the big A slipped us a clue instead. Smoke's mugshot.

Elita: SoundStorm got to Smokescreen first, I fear they have decoded the same clue.

Chromia: <walks over>

Optimus: Chromia, how is BloodSport?

Chromia: SoundStorm stabbed her pretty bad and may have damaged some important circuits but she'll live.

Elita: we also found this on the site. <holds the pieces of the Polarity Gauntlet>

Optimus: the remains of the Polarity Gauntlet. BloodSport made sure that the Decepticons didn't have another relic in their hands that could be used against us.

Arcee: will she wake up?

Chromia: I'm not sure. She went into stasis and I patched up her wound, I have a line of Energon going into her to help her recover but all we can do is wait.

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