Starscream woke up a few hours later. it took him a minute to come to himself but once he was fully conscious he realized he was in a cave or tunnel of some kind and it didn't look like there was a way out.

It was just four walls of dirt, rock and metal. And the only light source was a small lantern that was in there with him and the celling was nothing but rocks.

"Noo!" Starscream yelled now panicked realizing he was underground. "Can anyone hear me?" He screamed into his com-link but got no answer and saw it had been deactivated and he couldn't get a signal underground anyway.

Starscream quickly jumped to his feet only to feel pain in his back upon getting up. "Oh no what did Pharma do to me?" The seeker thought.

Then Starscream suddenly noticed he couldn't feel his wings. And his back felt like it had been welded.

"No my wings!" "Pharma what did you do with my wings?!" Starscream yelled in horror as coolant tears ran down his faceplates. "Give them back!" "Please give them back!" He cried only to come to the realization that he was underground and no one was there to hear him.

"There has to be a way out of here." He told himself. Then ran over to one of the walls and started using his claws to dig. He was now in full panic mode and desperately trying to find a way out. "Someone get me out of here!" "Can't anyone hear me?!" "Somebody help me!" Starscream begged still hoping to somehow get someone's attention but it was in vine because no one was there.

After several minutes of trying to dig he had to stop because his hands felt sore and were now stating to hurt. He looked at his servos and saw that they were now covered in scratches and a few of his digits were leaking energon.

He wasn't going to get out that way. Starscream leaned back against the wall he'd been digging in and let himself slump to the ground then spent several minutes in the fetal position.

He was trapped underground and his wings had been removed and no one knew he was down there but the one who'd put him there. And he didn't even have a way to get energon in there eventually he'd go offline.
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Meanwhile the others had noticed it was taking Starscream a long time to get back and had all gone out to look for the seeker after seeing it was now morning and that he should have returned by now and knew something was wrong.

They met up with each other having looked everywhere and still finding no sign of Starscream.

"I just left Maccadam's and they told me no one fitting Starscream's description ever came in last night." Bumblebee explained.

"Then what happened to him?" Asked First Aid.

"I don't know but I'm worried because he's not answering his com-link." Said Red Alert. Just then Ratchet and Knock Out showed up.

"Shouldn't you be resting?" Bumblebee asked Knock Out.

"When I heard Starscream was missing I had to help look." The red medic explained. "He's one of my best friends and I want to make sure he's OK"

"And I made him promise not to over do it." Ratchet explained.

"So where do you think Screamer could be?" Asked Knock Out.

"Not a clue." Bumblebee told him sounding worried.

"And you've checked everywhere?" Knock Out asked.

"Yes and no sign of him." First Aid said to Knock Out and could tell the Austin Martin was worried about his friend.

Then they all went back to the hospital still wondering what had become of Starscream.

Then they found a package on the front desk and opened it and were horrified to find Starscream's wings inside.

Then they got a call over the hospital's com-link.

"Have you heard from Starscream lately?" Asked Pharma's voice from the other end of the call.

"What have you done with him?" Asked Bumblebee sounding both angry and worried.

"He shouldn't have messed up my plan." Pharma hissed. "Now he's paying for it."

"Where is he?" Asked Knock Out and everyone could hear the rage in the red medic's voice.

"Oh good to hear from you Knock Out so you survived my treatment." Pharma said in a mocking tone.

"Your sick Pharma you were killing your patients and just almost killed me!" Knock Out growled at him.

"That secret was supposed to die with you and would have." Pharma said angrily. "If that seeker hadn't interfered the truth would have stayed buried kind of like Starscream is right now."

"What!" Screamed Bumblebee. "You killed him!"

"No he was alive when I left him trapped underground in a tomb that was made to torture seekers during the war." Pharma told them coldly. "But I don't know how long he'll last down there." "You see flyers don't fair well below ground that and the shock of having his wings taken will most certainly send him over the edge."

"You monster!" Cried Knock Out. "You buried him alive and took his wings that's the worse thing you can do to a seeker!"

"I happen to be a seeker so I know they don't last long underground and losing their wings alone is like a death sentence so it's the perfect revenge." Pharma told them. "He'll suffer down there till he finally starves to death from the lack of energon."

"Where is he buried?" Yelled Ratchet. But then Pharma hung up.

"What do we do?" Asked First Aid.

"We have to figure out where Starscream is so we can save him before it's to late." Said Bumblebee.

"We have to find Pharma and make him tell us where he buried Starscream!" Knock Out suggested.

"But where would Pharma be?" Asked Ratchet. And unfortunately none of them knew the answer.
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Meanwhile Starscream was trying to figure out what to do. He was trapped and scared knowing he was going to die down there if he didn't find a way out. Eventually he'd need to refuel.

He was going to suffer slowly knowing he was trapped with no way out. And slowly starving of energon. The situation seemed hopeless.

Then Starscream got an idea he'd use his missiles to shoot a hole in the top of his prison. Maybe if he could blast away some of the rocks he'd be able to climb out through the top.

Unfortunately it didn't go as planned. Starscream fired his missiles at the rocks above him but it caused a cave in. And rocks were falling all over the place he had been so horrified at being trapped underground that he wasn't thinking straight and by the time he realized what a dumb move this was it was to late.

The whole roof was crashing down on top of him. A rock smashed the lantern and glass shattered everywhere. And it was now pitch black and Starscream could only hear the sound of crashing rocks and metal and breaking glass. Then lost consciousness when several of the rocks hit him.

He regained consciousness sometime later he didn't know how long he been out weather it was for minute or hours. He slowly opened his optics but it was so dark he couldn't see anything.

Then he tried to get up only to find he couldn't because there were heavy rocks on top of him pinning him down.

He couldn't move and felt like he was being crushed. He couldn't tell how badly he'd been hurt he could feel some pain in parts of his body but other parts of him felt numb and he could feel something wet and realized he was leaking energon.

Starscream couldn't tell whitch parts of himself he could feel and whitch he couldn't he just felt weak and tired and then closed his optics as he fell into emergency recharge.

To Be Continued.

How's Starscream gonna get out of this one?