To Protect And Serve

A Parent Trapped

Meanwhile Starscream was being led to the DJD's hideout. Tarn was keeping him at gunpoint with Voss in his rifle mode.

"So what are you planning to do with me?" Asked Starscream.

"We're going to kill you for betraying the Decepticon cause but not right away." Tarn explained. "You see Starscream you've betrayed the Decepticons multiple times so many that it make's you a special case." "So we're going to take it slow and let it linger so you'll have plenty of time to suffer!"

"Actually now that were a good ways from the Autobot base and Starsiren's far enough to be safe I'm going to end it here!" Yelled Starscream who tackled Tarn and started slashing at him with his talons. "This is for Cloudsiren!" Huffed Starscream and they could all here the anger in the seeker's voice.

"And how dare you brand a Decepticon shield on my daughter's wing!" "And when she was only a sparkling no less!" Starscream hissed as he continued to claw at Tarn in a fit of rage.

Then suddenly Starscream felt something jab into his neck cables and fell to the ground limp and he was fully conscious but couldn't move or speak. And noticed Kaon standing over him having just used a circuit booster on him.

"You didn't think we'd take you without having a way to keep you under control did you." Tarn said to the stunned seeker in a mocking tone. "We gave you a mild dose just enough to stun you and take the fight out of you but you'll stay fully conscious and alert so you'll still feel everything."

All Starscream could do was look up at them. Tarn looked Starscream in the optics but instead of fear like he'd seen in Knock Out's optics Starscream's optics were filled with rage.

Then they grabbed Starscream and carried him into their base.
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Meanwhile at the Autobot base Starsiren was worried about Starscream. She had just found her Dad only to possibly lose him forever. Smokescreen, Jazz and Knock Out had been trying to cheer her up but it wasn't working.

And the others felt bad for her too and wanted to help her get her Dad back.

Then Knock Out saw Prowl outside looking around and went out to see what the police car was doing.

"Prowl what are you looking for?" Knock Out asked noticing the White, Black and Red Autobot was looking around for something.

"Clues to where the DJD took Starscream." Prowl explained. "If I could just figure out where they took Starscream maybe I can save him." "I promised Starsiren I would."

"Whats that?" Asked Knock Out looking at something on the ground. Then he went over and looked at it closer. "Why it's spilled energon!"

"Your right." Said Prowl who also looked at it and saw that there was a trail of it. "The only reason I can think of spilled energon being here is that a fight took place here and I bet it's the DJD I'm going to follow that trail and find them."

"I'm coming with you." Knock Out told him. "Starscream might need medical attention and I want to make the DJD pay for messing up my finish!"

"No your staying here." Prowl told him and Knock Out started to protest.

"Knock Out they almost killed you." "The last time you encountered them you ended up in a coma and I don't want them to end up taking your spark this time around." The police car explained.

"OK I'll stay here and prepare the med bay." Said Knock Out. "But be careful those guys are bad news."

Then Knock Out went back to base while Prowl followed the energon trail.
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A little while later Prowl came to the DJD's base the trail did lead there. He decided to sneak in and try to save Starscream first then he'd call the rest of the team and the police force to bring down the DJD once and for all.

Prowl didn't see any of the DJD around but suddenly heard cries of pain coming form the basement. And rushed down the stairs then opened a door that was at the bottom of them to see what was going on. And was greeted with the sight of Kaon torturing Starscream by shocking him. The circuit booster had worn off so the seeker had been tied up and was on the floor.

"Get away from him!" Prowl shouted at Kaon angrily.

"How did you find our base?" Asked Kaon. "Wait." He said remembering how Starscream had slashed Tarn and that they had to patch a wound the DJD leader had when they got to base that had been dripping energon.

"You did that deliberately to lead you friends here." Kaon hissed looking down at Starscream who to spite the amount of pain he was in smirked. "You treacherous seeker!"

Kaon then turned up the voltage and shocked Starscream again making the fighter jet scream in agony.

"Stop it!" Prowl half ordered and half pleaded. Seeing how much pain Starscream was in.

But as if to say. "You don't tell me what to do!" Kaon turned the voltage up even more. Prowl knew Starscream couldn't take much more of this and Kaon wouldn't stop.

So Prowl used his blaster and shot Kaon through the spark chamber killing him instantly. This cause the electricity to stop and Prowl ran over to check on Starscream.

Prowl could tell the seeker was in pain but luckily aside from having been shocked Starscream didn't have any serious damage. And Prowl quickly untied the seeker.

"Starscream are you OK?" Asked Prowl.

"I'll live." Starscream replied weakly.

Prowl could tell he was weak and in pain so he told Starscream to take it easy as he half dragged half carried him to the door only to find it locked. And the four surviving DJD members were outside it.

"Seem you've found our base and killed one of our members." Said Tarn. "We'll have to punish you for that but we'll do that in the morning you two can just spend the night down there for now!"

Then the DJD went upstairs and left them trapped there.

To Be Continued.

Yeah that happened. Cliffhangers are a specialty of mine.