And a thrid chapter. that will be all, so far, until i get time to look at this when i find the time. but i hope you like, and reviews might make me return to it faster:)

Skywarp had been ecstatic when Thundercracker had told him why Starscream weren't with them, the black and purple seeker relieved that the reason wasn't because their trineleader was mad at them. It had taken the stoic seeker a few minutes to calm the teleporter enough to be able to teleport them above the surface of the ocean.

Now en route to the location Starscream had relayed to them Thundercracker pushed his engines to their highest, Starscream was in dire need of help and in enemy territory, even worse he was followed. Hopefully they would make it before Starscream got caught by the 'bots. It would be risky to let him into enemy hands, and the CMO wasn't used to being captured. This would be the first time ever that would happen, and of course the autobots would use the chance to take him prisoner.

The thought of Starscream behind bars made his spark burn with unrestrained anger, the reaction strong in the normally calm and collected tactician. It fuelled his engines further and as they neared the location only ten minutes had passed.

He activated his scanner and tried to reach his trinemate through their comm. but got no answer beyond static. The scanner not showing any signs either.

Beside him Skywarp faltered a bit in his flight, his unease clearly stating that he too had tried to communicate with their missing trineleader to no avail.

"Where is he?!" the purple and black seeker inquired.

"I don't know 'Warp, stay in the air for now." Cursing Thundercracker landed a bit from the trees Starscream had mentioned, warily nearing them in case there would be a trap.

As he came closer to the trees his fuel tanks churned as he saw that the ground was littered with red and white flecks and the ground was a mess, showing signs of light struggle.

He knew the answer to Skywarps question – their trineleader, CMO and closest friend was in the hands of the enemy. He just hoped Starscream would pull through whatever the 'bots had in store for him.

Alerting Megatron of the situation he ordered Skywarp to return back to base as he himself took to the air and scouted the area before returning back to the base himself.

Starscream awoke with a groan; a forced stasis was never a pleasurable experience and the reboot made his systems sluggish coming online one at a time.

The first indication of his whereabouts was the ugly orange color surrounding him, the main coloration of the autobot base and he was reminded of the dire situation he found himself in.

Running a diagnostics he found his systems running normally, no glitch from the stasis was a lucky one, and the few bad codes that could occurred would be dealt with during his next recharge. That thought reminded him that he was in need of the downtime, his shift and later frustrations regarding his trinemates had kept him going and let him forget his depleted energy reserves which now came back full force.

Noting the few anomalies; his nullrays absence and the offline weapons systems, together with his communications he shrugged, it wasn't like the weapons would be of any use to him anyway and he knew that Thundercracker would know from his absence at the location he had provided them with that he now was a prisoner, he pulled himself into a comfortable position and initiated his recharge cycle. Sustaining his energy was priority number one and it wasn't like he could do anything else before his captors showed up.

The twins had returned to their quarters, satisfied with a task well done. It wasn't often that they got a chance to capture a seeker, and this one being Starscream was a first.

Sunstreaker had loved the chance to get so close to one while not in a fight, able to really study and feel the plating. While in a battle their focus was so much on besting the jets and avoid getting thrown off that he rarely got a chance to relish in the feel of the jets' plating, and as he had helped Sideswipe load Starscream into Ironhide he had for the first time noticed how warm the wings of the seeker were, almost burning hot to the touch. It made him wonder what differences there were between grounders and fliers beside the obvious visible designs.

As Sunstreaker reveled in the experience Sideswipe just enjoyed being close with his brother once more, Prowl had been generous and allowed him to stay at the base and not continue his punishment as the patrol had been. Currently he lay on his berth silently watching Sunstreaker fiddle with a pad in his hands, optics distant. He knew of his brothers infatuation of the seekers, and wasn't cruel enough to pull the other out of his dreaming just yet; it wasn't often that Sunstreaker mellowed, but it seemed something about the seeker tonight had done something to the always offensive mech.

Optimus was currently in a meeting with his officers discussing the events regarding their capture of the decepticon SIC, the ordeal big enough to cause smiles form on the stoic Prowl, while Jazz silently was celebrating their victory.

Returning to the present he turned his attention back to his CMO Ratchet who had had the opportunity to examine the seeker updating their files of the enemy and the seekers fully.

"It is confirmed Prime. The command trine is young; so far I had only had the chance to study Thundercracker and Skywarp up close, since we have had our hands on those two a few times during our skirmishes, with Starscream here I can conclude that they are of almost same age." The CMO was certainly pleased that was obvious, able to complete a full study of the command trine had been a project of his for a long time.

"My guess is that they only had had a few thousand vorns of mechhood before entering the war. I have recorded some oddities to their frames, but those being seekers could have some to do with it, I still don't have enough knowledge of the subspecies that the seekers are."

"What stand out the most is that some of their systems are still not fully developed which might rely on their young age. What interests me is that Starscream has no sign of a codpiece visibly, but scans shows that his interface array is under development. From my knowledge of Thundercracker and Skywarp they the last time we had our hands on them had both developed this. My knowledge of seekers is slim, and I guess that their coding is much more complex than ours, my override codes didn't even activate the opening of their codpieces as it should have." The last sentence left the medic in a more grouchy tone than the rest, and it was clearly that the medic didn't like not to know everything about mechs in his care.

"I don't see what relevance this has to us Ratchet." Ironhide said, not understanding all the fuss the medic vented.

"Not much right now, but it might come in handy later." Was the huffed response from the medic across the table.

Optimus watched their discussion with interest, he knew that his CMO was obsessed by medical knowledge and took the chance to explore when the opportunity came.

"Any further information you need to show Ratchet? Or can I let Prowl take over from now?" Optimus cut their discussion.

"No Prime. Carry on." The medic relaxed in his seat accepting that now was not the time for further discussion on the difference between ground and flier models.

"Good. Prowl what is your plan so far? Think we can gain any information from him?" They didn't know how Starscream would react since this was a first time to have him in their possession.

"My guess is that he might be in possession of useful information, but how easy he is broken and how likely it is for Megatron to be willing to negotiate is unsure." Prowl voiced, he had had his musings as soon as they had send Sunstreaker and Ironhide to assist Sideswipe in taking the seeker prisoner. He had deemed the benefit in leaving Megatron without his SIC enough to act, but the fact that they possibly could get information out of the flier was what would be the biggest gain in the action.

And in the case that they weren't able to get any information out of the seeker the negotiations with the decepticon warlord to get his SIC back might prove useful. The decepticons to Prowls knowledge did not have any autobot prisoners currently and thus they would be able to demand other actions as payment to let the SIC get back to his faction. Of course if the SIC was worth anything to the warlord at all. Prowl had no illusions of the goodness in the decepticon army where it was everyone for themselves and Starscream might just be a sacrifice willingly made.

"Very well mechs. We will submit Starscream to interrogation 0800 in the morning. Let's call it for now. Go get some recharge everyone." Optimus announced as it seemed there were no more to discuss.

While the autobots disbanded to their shifts or to recharge if they were off shift the situation on the Nemesis was a different one.

Thundercracker had made it back to base half an hour after Skywarp and had sought out Megatron, who unsurprisingly had been in the command center occupied in livid discussion with Soundwave.

Announcing his return as he entered, Thundercracker strode to the throne in the middle of the room. As he reached the discussing mechs he listened to the two arguing whether to wait for or act before the autobots contacted them. After all it wouldn't do to let their enemies know that they had in their possession one of the most delicate members of the whole Decepticon army. Hook was a decent medic, but Starscream handled the more severe cases of injury among their soldiers, and had advanced study of sparks and processors, something even Ratchet as educated as he was didn't have any knowledge of.

To Thundercracker the missing trinemate meant a lot. He still couldn't get anything from Starscream, which meant he must still be in some sort of stasis. It put the two thirds left at the nemesis off, not at all used to being separated like this, and never from their Star. It was obvious that the warlord was concerned about his CMO since the seeker even weren't admonished by his rude intrusion of the argument, something he usually didn't show, preferring to yell and curse the red flier.

"Report!" Megatron ordered the seeker, his optics ablaze in fury.

"No more signs found at the location, the only sign the flecks of paint at the spot. Thankfully no signs of severe injury since there weren't any energon spilt." Thundercracker said voice carrying a faint relief at the fact that it seemed Starscream had been subdued quite calmly.

Megatron growled not at all liking that his CMO was caught and in the hands of the enemy. The medic wasn't geared to handling this kind of situations. Inwardly he scolded himself for not thinking of preparing the red flier just I case something like this occurred.

Returning to Thundercracker he dismissed the seeker for now. The Air commander would be of use for battle strategy in case they decided to take the fight to the autobots before entering any kind of negotiations. For now he would need his SIC to help plan and decide what course of action to take.

Sending a Comm. to the black and purple flier he summoned Skywarp to the command center just as Thundercracker turn on his heels.

As the blue seeker left, Skywarp announced his presence with a pop before he emerged from a flashing purple mist. The autobots might think him stupid and more of a prankster, but the black and purple seeker did quite well at his assignment and when shit hit the fan he was a refreshing contribute with unorthodox ways of handling the situations.

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