As the silence seemed to stretch on I began to grow anxious, most eyes were on me aside from Optimus and Megatron having a stare down nearby.

"Soundwave, ground bridge would be nice," I grumbled softly, when the familiar green vortex appeared I latched my teeth into the scouts neck making sure they knew who held the power over the small bots life in their hands. Once safely through the ground bridge I began to haul the scout towards the holding cells where I was sure something horrendous would happen to him, throwing him inside one of the cells I noticed Megatron had followed me.

"A rather brilliant move Shadowseeker, not only did you aid in returning the artefact you also caused those worthless Autobot's to stop in their assault, their fear for the lives of others is rather pathetic, your earlier incident had been forgiven for now, but you are not off of my complete watch list yet," the dark overlord praised, dipping my head respectfully I cast a final glance at Bumblebee before making my way back to Soundwave's and I's station. Upon arriving I noticed Starscream standing in the corner of the room watching what the silent mech did, to my utter surprise I also noticed Shockwave assisting Soundwave in his work.

"Greetings Shockwave, I do believe this is our first time meeting," I greeted formally, I might not know the mech but I did know he had a higher stance than I did.

"Ahh you must be Shadowseeker, Soundwave has brought me up to speed on your current progress and it does intrigue me on how you work, alongside Soundwave I shall watch your progress with great interest," Shockwave stated his one optic focused solely on me, nodding to his words I could see I was not needed here and so with a swift turn I began to make my way back towards the holding cells. Once inside the one holding the Autobot prisoner I went close enough to examine what might be causing his odd silence, twitching an ear I knew someone else was in the room but I continued my examination.

"Vocal equipment fried but fixable, a few circuits could use replacing, memory systems hold some damage but not problematic, energon systems could use some work but otherwise fine, all that aside a perfectly stable specimen," I noticed half to myself as I circled the hanging bot, a surprised beep sounded from him and I stepped back to look at his face.

"What? Just because I'm more experienced in kicking your tail pipe doesn't mean I'm not skilled enough to follow in Soundwave's footsteps," I grumbled before lifting myself up on my hind legs so I could reach his vocal systems, reaching forwards I shifted my paw into a welding tool of sorts. Lifting the bots head up with my other paw I began to work on his vocal systems, just because he was an enemy didn't mean I couldn't fix his vocals so he could actually spill information. After what seemed to be twenty or so minutes I leant back shifting my paw back and lowering myself to all fours once more, looking me over the black and yellow mech seemed to be almost confused at my work.

"Why did you fix my voice?" He questioned seemingly shocked at his own words, shrugging I twitched an ear to my onlooker once more.

"It annoys me when I can't understand a word someone says, you might be an enemy but Megatron won't get anything useful out of a mute," I state before turning and heading for the door of the cell, in a way I felt bad for the AutoBot mech as he had to be stuck there enduring the pain without even a chance to fight back at the very least.

"Your point in fixing that Autobot's vocals was a fine one but never do something like that without my permission again, got it?" Megatron snarled as he followed me out, dipping my head respectfully I nodded.

"I do apologise lord Megatron, I shall remember for future purposes," I sigh as the large and fearsome mech walked onwards to the main bay aboard the Nemesis, once he was gone I headed for the launch bay to hopefully think. Once outside I sat down and looked at the world below, such a strange but beautiful planet going to waste because the Autobots refused to let Megatron rule it.

"I'm surprised our fearsome leader doesn't scare you, in the entire time you've been here you have broken rules as well as found loop holes in them to do things your way, in a sense you aren't as different from me as the others think," I heard a familiar voice explain behind me, letting out a low chuckle I gestured with my tail for him to join me.

"Trust me Screamer, we are far more different than you admit, for me death is permanent and there is no Allspark for me, so when I one day fall there will be no place for me to go, that is why I don't fear Megatron, Soundwave and the others don't need me all that much, my main purpose at the moment is saving your tailgate from Megatron's wrath you clumsy piece of scrap!" I teased shaking my helm with a light chuckle, Starscream looked down but I could see him resisting the urge to laugh.

"Well as of right now Megatron doesn't trust either of us, plus, you fixing Bumblebee's vocals hasn't fixed your case nor mine, did I forget to tell you that Shockwave almost shot me to pieces when I arrived!" Starscream exaggerated, letting out another chuckle I returned my gaze to the planet below.

"Why doesn't Megatron just kill Optimus? He's had many chances but he always holds back, from what research I've done they used to be great friends, why did that change over a simple artefact?" I questioned glancing sideways at Starscream, the seeker began to rub his arm slightly as he began to recall the events.

"I wasn't really there so I'm fuzzy on the details but Megatron's ambition to become a prime truly showed itself after Optimus was shown more praise than he ever was, he did after all prove himself a worthy leader in the gladiator pits, before that however Megatron and Optimus would consult in one another, but when our fearless leaders chose Optimus over Megatron I guess he snapped, so far neither of them really truly tries to kill the other so if one of them dies it's purely an accident," Starscream explained, with a nod I looked back down to earth.

"That's a fair enough reason, to be completely honest if Megatron wanted to be a prime so badly he could have just taken it, the war on Cybertron wasn't really necessary," I stated with a shrug, this caused an awkward silence to sit between us both.

"Maybe you're right, anyways I have things to take care of before our fearless leader rips me to pieces," Starscream sighed as he turned and left, sitting there for a few more moments I turned and followed him back into the Nemesis.