Starscream's misadventure

Prologue: The Accident

Had Starscream known that his already unpredictable life would have taken a strange turn, he would have never left the war ship.

Starscream opened his optics as his internal alarm went and he found himself as always snuggled up to his lovers broad chest. He couldn't help but smile, despite their differences he couldn't help but love waking up in his master's arms.

Feeling playful, he ran a long clawed finger down Megatron's hip, earning him a small groan of pleasure. He smirked inwardly at the sound, as he knew every single of his master's hot spots.

"Couldn't get enough last night?" Megatron asked, opening his opening his optics.

Starscream chuckled and kissed him softly on the noseplates, his red optics sparkling with amusement and love. Megatron was a ruthless warrior, and a clever Commander, and yes, he could be violent and brutal, but it was expected of him. When they were alone, however, he became a loving, soft yet incredibly passionate lover.

Starscream could never get enough of him. He couldn't even imagine being away from him. His spark belonged to that mech, there was no doubts.

"You know I never get enough of you." he replied and snuggled against his chest. "I hope that today's attack will go well."

Later they were going to raid a military facility to steal the plans humand had done for a new space canon specialy made to destroy them. Cybertronians in general... It made Starscream frown. And Prime and his band were stupid enough to stand to protect those imbeciles... Who was to say they would never turn this weapon towards their so-called allies?...

"It will." Megatron assured him. "Not even Prime will be able to stop us. The fool, humans cannot be trusted and need to be controlled or destroyed."

Starscream shared his lovers distrust of humans and knew that sooner or later Optimus's human allies would turn against him.

"We'll lose several drones in the process but in the end it will be worth the sacrifice." Starscream replied.

Several hours later, they were in the battlefield, battling against the Autobots to steal those plans and neutralize that project before it could get into existence. Starscream Was firing at that little glitch Arcee, because as ever, she seemed to have a personal vendetta against him.

He was blown clean the large hangar and landed on a heap, parts of the wall toppling on top of him, against a very hard and sturdy object. He groaned and rubbed his sore helm. before he could even stand, an ominous whining sound of a powering machine could be heard behind him.

"Oh slag..." He whispered, having a bad feeling. he turned his head and was face-to-face with the muzzle of a canon.

The canon... it was already finished! And... Oh Primus! He was right in the line of fire! He made to jump to his pedes and out of the way but too late... White light exploded behind his optics and his head was filled with high-pitched screeching sound. And then all went black...

Megatron saw Starscream being blown through the wall, and his spark jolted with worry and fear. "Starscream!" He savagely threw Optimus away from him, having a bad feeling more when he saw that blinding white light and the sound of a machine going off. Starscream screamed, and it was cut short when the light erupted. And then a huge explosion shook the ground and almost destroyed the entire building.

"STARSCREAM! NO!" He rushed inside the building and tried to see something through the dust

and smoke. he was almost frantic, forgetting about Optimus and the other autobus still nearby. Soundwave, however, was faithfully covering his back and kept them at bay for the moment.

Lifting one last piece of blown-out equipment, Megatron froze at what he found under it.

A unconscious, but undamaged, silver and red seekerling.

It took the Decepticon leader a few seconds to process what he was looking at. It was a sparkling coming into its youngling years or in human terms; a toddler.

On closer inspection, Megatron instantly realized that it was Starscream. A rage started to build within the large warrior, he couldn't believe that this had happened and all because of Optimus...

'Optimus...' Megatron thought with a growl then activated his COM link.

-Knockout, get in here and take Starscream back to the Warship.-

-Yes, Lord Megatron.- Knockout replied.

"OPTIMUS!" Megatron roar carried throughout the battle field.

Optimus had run after Megatron after he threw him off him, and when he came into the collapsed bunker, he was met with the business end of a fusion canon to the faceplates. He stopped cold and crossed-eyed a little as he stared down the wide barel almost stuck to his faceplates.

"What happened?" he asked calmly, seeing Knockout come in and crouch down to take /something/ very small in his arms.

megatron, however, had no intention of letting the Autobots dicover what happened to his loyal Second, and he snarled back shoving his canon in the Prime's face. "It's your fault! That... that fragging /thing/ the human built severely wounded my Second! And you /protect/ it! You DISGUST ME!"

"Megatron-" Optimus started but Megatron silenced him with a burtal backhand.

"Shut up! You sicken me, Prime. You are a traitor to your own kind by protecting it!" Megatron snarled.

Optimus could tell that Megatron was hurt and upset by what had happened to his second in command.

"Lord Megatron, we need to get Starscream back to the Nemesis." Knockout said.

"Then call for a ground bridge." Megatron growled before attacking Optimus.

While Megatron attacked Optimus savagely, Knockout called toe nemesis for a ground bridge, and moments later, the blue and green vortex appeared and he quickly stepped through it before anyone could stop him. Luckily enough, no one even tried... and once on the other side, he sprinted to the medbay without even a glance for the drones that were on the Command Center.

The little bundle in his arms had started to whine and move a little, and he looked down to see sleepy huge red optics full of fear and confusion looking up at him. Starscream looked terrified and he was whining and whimpering louder when they arrived to the medbay. Knockout gently placed him on the examination berth and called his assistant over.

"Breakdown! Come down here I need assistance!"

Starscream, by now, had started a full blown fit of loud crying, and sat in the berth on his little bottom, tiny fists balled and coolant pouring down his cheeks like a broken water tap. Knockout winced, and leaned down to examine the little toddler. His estimation was that the tiny sparkling was the equivalent of a 3 years old human child.

"Megatron's not gonna like it..." he mumbled, scanning the tiny mechling for any injuries. he found none, other then his obvious state. maybe a little low on fuel...

"Breakdown, fetch me a cube of low-grade energon. And a small cup, or something, to pour it into..."

The assistant tilted his helm, but did as he was told after having just arived, and witnessed what was on the medberth. His optics widened at the sight of the rejuvenated SIC, and he asked, a little dumbfounded. "Is that... Starscream? What the frag happened?"

"I have no idea, but seeing how we are in the presences of a youngling, try not to swear infront of it," Knockout said, giving Breakdown a small glare. "I'll have to run a few tests but I doubt I'll get any answers."

Breakdown handed Knockout the lidded cup then gave it to the youngling, who calmed down a little as he started to drink the contents.

"Do you think Scream's still in there?" Breakdown asked.

"I don't know." Knockout replied with a small sigh.

Starscream's optics - whom looked too big for his little face - darted from one mech to the other as he drank his cup of energon. There was no recognition per se in them, but there was a little glint that told them that at least, he knew he was safe here. Taking the tip of the cup out of his tiny mouth, he licked hislips with a tny glossa poking through them and them waved the cup in front of knockout.

"Nokout!" he blurted, and giggled. He knew who he was at least...

Lnockout lifted an optic ridge, and had a soft smile, leaning down to be at Starscream,s optic level. "So you know me. Good, Starscream!"

Breakdown was examining Starscream's little wings for any dents or tear, and while his blunt big digits were leaving feather-light touches on the appendages, the sparkling wiggled and giggled, trying to scoot away from the tickling digits.

"I don't think he retains much of his memories from his adult self. To me, it looks like his processor regressed to sparkling age as well as his body..." Starscream was pouting cutely, getting a little aggravated by the prodding and poking. Before he started to blow their audios with shrieking wails, Knockout motione for his mate to stop the examination of the wings. "That's enough I think. he's in good health physically. However... I don't know how the frag I'm going to reverse this..."

-TBC-