Thunderblast was trying desperately to think of a way to help Knock Out. She could tell he had lost a lot of energon and was losing more by the second and was going to die if he didn't get help soon.

"Knock Out please hold on!" Thunderblast pleaded but he didn't respond. "Come on think Thunderblast!" She told herself.

Then she turned off his pain receptors and half dragged half carried him to the cave Starscream's team had been using as a base and laid him on a berth that was in it. Then she found some medical tools.

"Knock Out I'm gonna try to patch you up but I need you to wake up and talk me through it." Thunderblast told the injured medic as she gently tried to nudge him awake but he wouldn't respond. "No Knock Out please I need you to wake up and tell me how to fix you!"

Just then Knock Out's com-link went off and Thunderblast answered it.

"This is Bumblebee we just got communications back up Thundercracker and Jailbreak are with us.." Bumblebee said over the com-link before Thunderblast cut him off.

"Yeah that's all well and good but Knock Out needs medical attention and will die if he doesn't get help soon!" Thunderblast told him. "I've been trying to get him to talk me through it but he won't wake up!" She explained almost in tears.

"Ratchet is here right now but the ground bridge isn't working so we can't send him to you but I'm going to patch you through to him on the com-link so he can talk you through repairing Knock Out." Bumblebee told her then she thanked him and he transferred her to Ratchet who began telling her how to save Knock Out.
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Meanwhile Starscream and Optimus Prime were trying to figure out how to get out of the brig when they heard what sounded like human footsteps and walked to the bars of their holding cell to find Kate and Mason both standing there.

"How did you guys get here?" Asked Starscream.

"We saw Thrust and Sideways bring you here and we snuck on behind them." Kate explained.

"You two put yourselves in danger coming here." Starscream scolded them.

"Sorry but I think I can get you two out of there." Mason explained. "That panel up there operates the bars to the cell your in I saw Sideways tap some buttons before it locked and the bars appeared I think it opens and closes with a code."

"And you saw what code he used?" Asked Starscream.

"No but I think if I can get up there I can figure it out." Mason explained.

"I will help you reach it." Said Optimus who put his hand between the bars and lifted Mason to the panel.

Mason pushed some buttons and Starscream noticed the screen on the panel changed form blue to red and it started making a ticking sound.

"That doesn't sound good what did you do to it Mason?" Asked Kate.

"I have no idea." He answered her.

"Get back I think it's gonna blow!" Starscream warned as he noticed smoke coming from it.

Starscream grabbed Kate through the bars and Optimus quickly moved Mason off the panel and both transformers used their hands to shield the human they were holding. When suddenly boom the panel exploded and the bars disappeared.

"You actually did it we're free." Starscream told them in disbelief. "How did you do that?"

"I don't know I just pressed random buttons." Mason explained while blushing.

"What can I say Mason when it comes to machines you've got the touch." Kate told her friend.

"Thank you for freeing us now we must find the other Autobots being held here then stop Unicron." Optimus told them. And then both mechs and the two humans took off down the hall.

After a while they came to another part of the brig where they found all the captured Autobots in cells and were now trying to figure out how to free them.

Starscream decided to look around to see if he could find any clues to what the codes to opened the cells were because they decided it was to risky to let Mason try again fearing these cells might have a more deadly boom if they blew up because Fixit had pointed out that all the cells had explosives on them to make sure even if Optimus and Starscream escaped they couldn't free the others.

Suddenly Starscream found the flight deck and saw something coming at the ship and smiled when it got close enough to make out what it was.

"Waspinator but how did you survive?" Asked Starscream as he ran over to where the Insecticon had landed. "I saw you blown to bits."

"Waspinator blow up all the time and then put self back together just harder to find parts under water so it took longer." Waspinator explained. "Then Waspinator see ship and fly to it."

"Well it's good to have you back buddy." Starscream told him then he saw a ground bridge was on the ship and got an idea. Just then Optimus walked in with Kate and Mason who were glad to see Waspinator in one piece. And Starscream told them his plan.

"Waspinator we need you to fly to where Bumblebee's team is and tell them to get their ground bridge working and find Jailbreak and send her here we need an escape artist to free the Autobots." Starscream told him. "And take Kate and Mason with you because right now this ship is in Earth orbit but if it goes into space I don't know if they'll have oxygen so it would be too dangerous for them here."

Waspinator obeyed and flew off with both humans on his back heading for the scrap yard to get Bumblebee's team to activate their ground bridge.
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A while later they arrived at the scrap yard and told Bumblebee and his team what the situation was. And Jailbreak and Thundercracker were happy to see Waspinator and both hugged him.

"We have to repair the space bridge but it will take hours at best." Bumblebee explained not sounding happy about it.

"We don't have hours the Autobots need to get free and stop Unicron before he can destroy Cybertron." Said Jailbreak.

"Maybe I can teleport you there." Sky Warp suggested.

"OK let's do it." Jailbreak agreed knowing she had to get on that ship to free the Autobots sooner better then later.

"I'm coming too." Said Thundercracker.

"OK both of you hold on to me and I'll take us to that ship." Sky Warp told them.

"You guys be careful we'll be along to help as soon as the ground bridge is online." Bumblebee said to them as they teleported away.
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Meanwhile Starscream and Optimus were watching the ground bridge waiting for Jailbreak and Bumblebee's team to come when Sky Warp, Thundercracker and Jailbreak appeared behind them out of nowhere making Starscream jump in surprise.

"Where did you guys come from?" Asked Starscream who then spotted Sky Warp with them. "Sky Warp your here and OK."

Then Starscream hugged his brother and Thundercracker joined in. the three seekers were happy to be back together. Starscream was glad to have his trine back.

But the three quickly snapped back to the present and the task at hand. Starscream and Optimus lead them to where the Autobots were being held and Jailbreak got to work freeing them.

Then the ground bridge came online and Bumblebee's team came through it and started helping rush the Autobots in the ground bridge and to safety on the other side.

The plan was to get everyone off the ship then go to Cybertron to be ready to defend it from Unicron.

Almost everyone was through the ground bridge now and the only two left to cross it were Bumblebee and Starscream but suddenly the ship started to activate it's hyperdrive it was going to do a jump.

Starscream quickly pushed Bumblebee through the ground bridge but it suddenly went out before he could go through it himself.

Then Starscream saw why Thrust, Sideways and Unicron had found out the Autobots had escape and cut the power to try to stop them from leaving the ship but had been to late and only stop Starscream from leaving it. And they had also sealed the exit so he was stuck in that room.

"Not good." Starscream said to himself realizing what a tight spot he was in. He had to find a way out of there or there was no telling what Unicron and the other two would do to him when they found out the others had escaped.

Suddenly the seeker got an idea what if he could stop Unicron before he got to Lunar 1 to make it into his new body. Just then his com-link started beeping and he answered it.

"Starscream are you ok?" Asked Optimus from the other end of the call. "We are going to get you off that ship then blow up Lunar 1 Cybertron's chance of surviving if one of its moons is destroyed will be slim but Unicron must be stopped for the whole universe is at stake."

"Yes and I have a plan I'm going to try to stop Unicron before he gets to Lunar 1 but if I fail only then blow it to bits." Starscream told him. "If there's a way to stop Unicron without possibly sacrificing Cybertron we should do it."

"Alright do what you can and we will try to get there to assist you as soon as we can." Optimus told him before they ended the call.

"Now I just need to find a way out of this room." Starscream told himself. Then he saw the explosives that had been on the cells the Autobots were in and put them all next to a wall. If he couldn't find a way out he'd just have to make one.

Then he shot the explosives with his missiles and a big boom followed. Starscream had stood on the other side of the room which was a good thing because he was still knocked backwards by the explosion. Then he pulled himself up and saw it had worked and he now had a way off the ship.

Then he realized they were in space and near Lunar 1. And saw Unicron who was still in Megatron's body heading there. He had to stop him.

Then he saw the cylinder Unicron had been trapped in was in the corner of the room and put it in his cockpit as he changed into his jet mode and flew out to confront Unicron.

"Hey ugly over here!" Starscream yelled at Unicron as he fired some of his missiles at him. This got his attention.

"You are very stupid seeker you dare undermine me." Unicron hissed at Starscream.

"Your in Megatron's body I always undermine him." Starscream quipped.

"You will find my wrath much worse then his." Growled Unicron. "Before I take on my new body I'll use this one to destroy you it's given you so many beatings it's only fitting for it to end you." With that Unicron started chasing Starscream.

Starscream was being forced to use every trick he had to keep ahead of the chaos bringer. Then suddenly Unicron made Megatron's body change to his cybertronian mode and jump on Starscream's jet mode making the seeker crash into a small astroid.

Starscream change to his cybertronian mode on impact and was knock out for only a second then opened his optics just in time for Unicron to grab him by the face with Megatron's hand and slam him head first into the rock and ground.

Then Starscream tried to fight back but only to be punched over and over again Unicron was giving him a beat down. And in Megatron's body this was bringing back terrible memories for Starscream. About how Megatron would beat him and he'd end up in the med bay.

Then Unicron picked Starscream up and held him by the throat. Like Megatron had down so many times.

"Any last words Starscream?" Unicron asked the seeker. Then Starscream to spite being held by the neck and choked nodded.

"Enjoy your prison." Starscream groaned as he opened the cylinder and Unicron's spark was pulled out of Megatron and sucked in and trapped before he could process what happened.

Starscream quickly closed it then collapsed because he was weak, tired and in pain after what he just went through. But then he look up and saw Thrust standing over him with a blaster aimed right at his helm. And Starscream was to weak to move no less fight.

But then Thrust was suddenly blasted to pieces and Starscream saw that Megatron was the one who shot him. Then Optimus showed up because the others had managed to bridge on to the ship.

Optimus took the cylinder while Megatron carried Starscream who had gone unconscious and they went to the ship.
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Meanwhile Sideways saw them coming back to the ship and was at the ship's controls and was now planing to kill everyone on board by crashing it into Lunar 1.

But Sideways suddenly felt something zap him from behind then knew no more.

"That was for stabbing me in the back." Said Knock Out who had just zapped Sideways with his energon prob. Thunderblast had managed to save him thanks to Ratchet's help. Then once the ground bridge had been fix Ratchet had bridged over and check him over and he was now A OK back to normal and he and Thunderblast had bridged over with the others.

Just then Optimus and Megatron boarded the ship. Optimus put the cylinder on a table and Megatron was still carrying Starscream.

"Knock Out we need you and Ratchet to get the med bay ready Starscream needs medical attention!" Said Megatron.

To Be Continued.

One last cliffhanger for this story. Next the epilogue.