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“So what you are saying is that Starscream ambushed you in Sector Gamma alongside your patrol route, and you managed to fight him off, but he flew off before you could get him in stasis cuffs?”

“That’s right, and he seemed off. It was too easy. It was almost as if he wasn’t used to fighting. He made several mistakes I’ve never seen him make before.”

A pause.

“I will bring this to Prime’s attention. Dismissed.”

~~

Skyfire walked down the canyon. He had been given this route because he was the only one who could see over the sides of the cliffs, or at least, some of the time. It wasn’t as if it mattered, really, the Decepticons rarely ever came around here, and when they did, it was usually someone looking for a place to sulk.

Skyfire scanned his surroundings idly. Cliff, bird, boulder, Cybertronian ping, cactus- Wait, what? He scanned again; yes that definitely was a ping. The ping was oddly familiar as well, as if someone he knew had somehow changed the feel, or shape of their ping…

Skyfire pulled out his rifle from his sub-space, better safe then sorry as the humans said, and cautiously followed the ping. It led him to a capillarity of the canyon where the cliffs went far above his head and there had been mining there in previous years. In fact, the ping was down in one of the old mineshafts, a place where, if his radar was correct, he would have to crouch for the first bit but after that he would be able to stand back up.

He walked to the entrance, a deep hole in the ground really, hesitated a little, and then jumped in, firing his thrusters in order to make a better landing. After landing on the bottom of the shaft, he flicked on his night vision. The ping was coming from further inside the cave. He crouched and walked a few yards, then stood up, the room he had just entered was large enough for him to stand up with space to spare, in fact the cavern was the size of half a football stadium! Caught off guard, he didn’t see the figure lying on the ground until it moved, pushing itself up using its arms.

Skyfire stared at the figure lying there on the ground. The figure looked like Starscream, but Starscream didn’t have blue optics, nor for that matter did he have Autobot symbols on his wings. And yet, he did! He was lying sprawled right in front of him!

“Starscream?” he finally asked, half dreading the answer.

“Who are you?” The figure asked, looking up at him, blue optics bright with confusion, “Do I know you?”

~~
Starscream mentally grinned; everything was going according to plan.