Starscream and Knock Out continued to wait for Jailbreak and Waspinator while talking with Kate and Mason and telling them all about Cybertron and the war. When suddenly Starscream put a hand on his spark chamber and made a face as if he were in pain.

"Starscream are you OK?" Knock Out asked after seeing the look on the seeker's faceplates. "Where does it hurt?"

"It can't be." Starscream said as he continued to hold his servo over his spark.

"What can't be?" "What is it?" Asked Knock Out now more then a little concerned. "What are you feeling?"

"Something I haven't felt in a very long time." Starscream told him before changing into his jet mode and flying off.

"What Starscream where are you going?" Asked Knock Out over his com-link because Starscream was already too far off to hear him otherwise. "Have you lost it?" "I've never seen you fly that fast."

Kate and Mason look out at where Starscream's jet mode was going just as confused as Knock Out.

"If I don't hurry I might be to late!" Starscream told him over the com-link. "I'm pretty sure I just felt the trine bond I had with Sky Warp and Thundercracker one of them is near by and in pain!"

"That's right seekers form trines of three usually with siblings they have something called a train bond that allows them to communicate with each other telepathically and even feel each others emotions and pain if one of them gets hurt." Knock Out explained to Kate and Mason.

"So one of Starscream's trine is near by somewhere?" Asked Kate.

"We thought Starscream's wing mates were killed in the war but apparently at least one of them is still kicking." Knock Out told them. "You see Starscream is the train leader and he blamed himself when his brothers were lost."

"Wow poor Starscream." Said Mason rubbing his fingers though his sort Auburn heir.

"Starscream have you found them?" Asked Knock Out over the com-link. But no answer. "He must have shut off his com-link to hear the trine bond better."

Knock Out and the two humans watched outside the cave in the direction Starscream had taken off in. Hoping their friend would find his train mates in one piece and that he wasn't flying into some kind of trap.

Starscream continued his search till he finally spotted one of his trine mates laying on the ground unconscious and recognized his bother Thundercracker right away. And could tell he was hurt badly.

"Thundercracker!" Starscream shouted now worried and desperately trying to revive the other seeker. Thundercracker was leaking energon and Starscream could tell he'd crashed there. "Don't worry I'm taking you to get medical attention."

And with that Starscream lifted his injured brother and carried him back to the cave so Knock Out could treat his wounds.

"Thundercracker please hold on!" Starscream begged his injured brother as he was rushing him to the cave just hoping he make it in time.

Then after what seemed like forever Starscream finally made it back to the cave with Thundercracker and Knock Out got to work trying to patch up the injured mech and just hoped he be able to help him not having very much medical equipment to work with. Mason was also trying to help as much as he could.

All Starscream could do right now was wait and hope his brother would survive and it was killing him. Had he found one of his trine mates only to watch him die?
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A few hours later Kate came out of the cave to where Starscream was setting. The seeker had gone outside to keep from getting in the way.

"Knock Out said to come get you." Kate told him. Then she and Starscream went back inside the cave.

"Good news Thundercracker is going to pull through." Knock Out reported. "It was touch and go for awhile but he's going to be fine but should take it easy." "Mason was a big help."

"Thanks but it was really you who did most of the work." Mason said to the cherry colored medic.

Then Starscream went to see his brother. Thundercracker opened his optics when he felt his brother come next to him through the trine bond.

"Starscream is it really you?" He asked.

"Yes it's me." Starscream told him. "How did you get here and in that condition?" "And what happened to Sky Warp?"

"After we got separated in that last battle the three of us fought together me and Sky Warp found a space bridge and tried to get back to Cybertron but it blew up at the last minute before I was about to pass through it after Sky Warp already had." Thundercracker explained.

"I don't know if he survived or not or where it sent him if he did." "I told him that space bridge looked faulty I should have tested it first now Sky Warp could be dead or all alone on some barren planet." He said almost in tears. "After that I just flew around this planet and lived off what energon I could find then today I was looking for some when someone opened fire on me and I crashed then you found me." "Poor Sky Warp I let him down."

"It's not your fault Thundercracker." Starscream told him. "Sky Warp always had a bad habit of rushing into a situation as the oldest of the three of us you always tried to protect us as the responsible one."

"If I was really the responsible one I would have gone first instead of letting our little brother do it!" Thundercracker said and Starscream could tell how much he blamed himself over the trine bond.

"Well it not just you I should have been there I didn't feel you guy over the trine bond and thought you were both dead." Starscream told him. "I should have looked for you two." "What kind of leader leaves their trine for dead?" "How could I fail my brothers?" Now Starscream was crying coolant tears.

"Starscream don't blame yourself I would have offlined if you hadn't found me out there." Thundercracker told him. "Let's stop blaming ourselves for the past and live in the present."

"I'm happy to have one of my brothers back I just wish Sky Warp was here too." Said Starscream.

"Me too." Thundercracker agreed and the two brothers hugged.

Kate and Mason saw them together and were happy the two seekers were reunited and noticed that Thundercracker looked just like Starscream only he was blue.
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Then Starscream got a transmission from Jailbreak over his com-link telling him that she and Waspinator were on their way back. And Starscream told them the good news that Knock Out was fine. And he had found one of his wing mates. And Jailbreak and Waspinator told him they couldn't wait to meet them.

Knock Out was excited to meet Jailbreak and Waspinator when Starscream told him they were on their way back. He wanted to thank Jailbreak for helping fix him.

But when Jailbreak and Waspinator made it back to the cave. Knock Out's reaction to seeing her surprised everyone. "Jailbreak." He said suddenly wrapping his arms around her in a hug. Knock Out apparently knew Jailbreak. But Jailbreak looked confused.

"Jailbreak I thought you were dead." Knock Out told her. "If we'd known you were alive we would have been looking for you."

Suddenly Jailbreak got a look on her face. "Big brother I remember you now?" She said wrapping her arms around him too. Then the two of them started to cry and everyone cold tell they were tears of joy.

Starscream was surprised and happy for the two of them and glad they'd found each other. But he never would have guessed Jailbreak's older brother was Knock Out.

Then Knock Out and Jailbreak explained to the others how they got separated as sparklings.

(Flashback.)

As sparklings on Valocatron Knock Out and Jailbreak always had fun racing each other. Till one day when they were having a race at first it was fun Jailbreak was winning and a ways ahead of her brother.

"Hurry up big brother I'm leaving you in the dust." Jailbreak teased Knock Out as the two sparklings continued to race with each other and play.

"Not for long." Said Knock Out as he put on more speed to catch up to his sister.

But unbeknownst to the two sparklings they were being watched. Some Quintessons had landed on Valocatron and wanted to bring back a test subject from the speed planet. And were waiting to get a Valocatronian who was alone when they happened upon the two sparklings.

"Which one should we take?" One of the Quintessons asked the others.

"Why not both?" Another one of them asked.

"We only have enough holding space for one." Was the reply.

"I say we fire on them and take the one who survives that way we'll get the stronger one." One of them suggested. "The stronger one's always make better test subjects." The others agreed and they opened fire on the sparklings.

Knock Out and Jailbreak were both frightened when a ship showed up and opened fire on them. Both of them started driving and looking for safety. Suddenly Knock Out saw one shot was aimed right at his sister and quickly transformed and pushed her out of the way but ended up taking it head on and was blasted into a rock for his trouble.

While Jailbreak was still hit by the force from the blast and knocked unconscious. Then the Quintessons came out of their ship and took Jailbreak because aside from being knocked out she had only sustained minor damage to her memory banks.

Where as Knock Out had been badly injured and the Quintessons didn't think he would survive and ended up leaving him for dead.
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The next thing Knock Out remembered was waking up in the hospital and was told he'd been found by a search party after he and his sister didn't come home. And he had spent the last three weeks in a coma.

Everyone thought Jailbreak was dead because the two sparklings had suffered an accident while racing and when Knock Out told them about the ship that fired at them. They thought he'd dreamed it using his imagination as a coping mechanism.
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Meanwhile Jailbreak was being experimented on by the Quints or more like tortured to see how fast she could go.

For years she tried to escape from them till Alpha Q The only Quintesson who was nice to her help her escape by putting her in a pod and hitting the ejected button sending her to Earth. Where she had been ever since.

Alpha Q Wasn't like the other Quintessons he didn't like the why the other members of his species treated others. But he was to afraid to speak out against them so was forced to watch them harm others. And felt bad about not being able to stop team from hurting the sparklings. And letting Jailbreak escape was his way of trying to make up for it.

(Flashback ends.)

"That's so sad Waspinator glad Jailbot find Knockbot." Said Waspinator crying at the sad story.

"Those Quintessons are monsters shooting at sparklings like that." Thundercracker said feeling bad for Knock Out and Jailbreak.

"It so sad what you both went through." Kate told them and the look on Mason's face said he agreed.

"Amazing that you and I both got reunited with lost siblings today though." Starscream added. "Wait a second Thundercracker you said someone opened fire on you but you didn't say who."

"I don't know who shot at me I didn't see who it was." Thundercracker explained. "One moment I was flying the next I'd been shot and was crashing to the earth."

"I wonder if the one who shot you down was the same one who fired on me and Knock Out on Cybertron?" Starscream thought out loud.

"But we're on Earth now." "Oh no you don't think the one who nearly killed me somehow followed us here?" Asked Knock Out.

"He probably thought Thundercracker was me." Said Starscream.

"Well this almost confirms the one who tried to offline us has something to do with the mission Prime gave you." Knock Out told him. "They must be trying to stop you from finding out what's happening to the Autobots."

"Hey mind telling the rest of us what's going on?" Asked Thundercracker.

Then Starscream and Knock Out explained to the others about the mission Optimus gave the seeker.

To Be Continued.

When I wrote this on Fanfiction.net I did a poll for who the last member of the team would be and Thundercracker won.