An Autobot was going through the nemesis as he been requested to go and find out what was going on. He began to crawl through the stiff and uncomfortable vents which were pretty unstable and looked to fall apart at any sort of moment or so. But he continued on, determined to get to the console room as quickly as possible without being noticed by the Decepticons which he assumed would be more populated since it's a weekend and not a weekday. He could feel the pain around his knee joints as he continued forwards, trying to not alert them as his hands gripped tightly on the inside of the vents, feeling a small dripping of sweat going across his face. His blue optics shined along the darkness of the stretchy vents as he could hear the conversation beneath him as he paused to listen to them.
"So we are starting to get a clue on where Megatron is, hm?" One of the Decepticons asked, a female one as the other one replied to her in a soft sort of mix between British and Texan accent "I assume so, aye. We been having dog day for ages, I'll say myself. It's about time we get something." He stated as she nodded before saying "Still no clue about Starscream however. He's been absent the day after Megatron left, it's a little suspicious." She said before noticing something over there before pointing over there "Wait a damn moment, I don't think that is supposed to happen however!" The Decepticon turned around and his optics widened before reloading his weapon "That ain't just right!" Immediately both of them ran away as the Autobot looked confused. What caused them be so alert as a whole? He continued to investigate deeper...
Soon he started to arrive at a dead end as he noticed it was getting even more tighter and he realized he could only go a few meters in before getting completely stuck. Soon he kicked down the metal plate of the vents with a strong kick and landed downwards on his feet before getting up fully. "Huh, looks like I'm in some small cleaning closet. At least I didn't arrive somewhere more dangerous." He soon firmly opened the door and leaned against the wall, trying to not be detected by the Decepticons. But it was pretty easy to get noticed by them, especially if they are in a large open area." With some effort he began to run but the cameras caught sight of him and he looked up in a surprised manner. "Intruder alert! An Autobot has been detected." Immediately Thundercracker got up hearing the alarm before mumbling to himself "What kind of Autobot intrudes here when we are at a desperate time?"
Immediately Skywarp teleported to where the Autobot was at as his eyes widened in feverish excitement. He soon casted a large beam which damaged some of the walls and grazed a burn on the Autobot's face. The Autobot shot back which caused Skywarp to use his wings to block the grenades with his wings which started to make dents when they started to go off. "Nice try Autobot. But I don't think you can get that far!" Skywarp released another beam, a much smaller one as the Autobot released another grenade. When it hit the beam and went off, it sent the Autobot flying backwards through the wall as Skywarp tripped from the sheer impact of the energy and was sent a few meters into another hallway. he landed safely since he wasn't injured in any way possible. "What just happened!?" He got up seeing the walls damaged as debris started to fall off and a couple of people was heard running. "Skywarp?" Sunstorm asked before Skywarp replied "Got no idea where he is now."
The Autobot landed in the debris as he appeared in a more isolated and dark part of the Nemesis as he got up noticing finally he was at the door of the console room. He looked in some relief as he wiped dust of himself as he got up, the sides of face dripping with energon as he began to walk and opened it as he saw himself inside of a large room. There he saw a large console module in the room its screen with an eerie green colour, it had wires attached to it as there was quiet beeping was heard from that device. The Autobot noticed what looks to be a small blue sphere which is the main core part of the computer and he touched it with his hand. Immediately it started to spin around slightly as it stopped afterwards and it went online as it soon greeted him and asked what he wanted to look at.
The Autobot began to search for Starscream's and Megatron's signal. He couldn't get much out of Starscream but he did get something surprising out of Megatron's signal. There was a faint orange line shown on the screen, showing that it was in fact his. So Megatron wasn't just missing after all. But what happened to him then? He began to scan over some other files to download into his database so he could send them later on to the Autobots as quickly as he could because the comms kind of sucked to work here in the nemesis. He began to search for anything deeper in the computer as he had gotten a little distracted in the process. Afterwards he heard something outside which brought his attention over and he realized he had to get out of there as quickly as possible. He downloaded the last few bits and got out.
When he began running he tripped over a metal object and got his foot stuck somewhere as he began struggling to grab it out of the tight crack. He heard someone's footsteps and began to struggle even more to escape, his spark racing quickly in the process. All of a sudden he felt a massive, unclear pain in his hand as he yelled slightly, as wet, dripping energon which had the same smell of human rubber fell down his face. He looked down seeing his hand crushed with skin bits being in gruesome angled lines. He looked upwards to see what was causing his hand to be dismantled.
There, was a 10 meters tall Cybertronian, his red and white body looking imperfect and wrinkled from his torso to his limbs. His claws were beastly sharp enough to cause deep gashes and his hands had near similar palm lines to a human's hands. His legs looked slightly more weighed down and he had wounds, gashes, lacerates and scarring from his back and his front. His optics were a haunting red around his grey faceplate, which had two gun shot wounds on the forehead near his right optic with the excessive energon being stained and dry. His optics were filled with malice and a sense of mocking. His wings had large edges that looked like peeled exterior and his Decepticon badge looked tarnished with some of its paints coming off. The Cybertronian's face had sharp teeth, each having different sharp angles with his canines being the sharpest and had bags under his optics and his face had some small wounds as well. His back was slightly hunched downwards and he was wearing a cloak with a hood covering his helmet made from different types of animal furs from animals he stitched together (mainly foxes and wolves). His hand had both human blood and energon covering him that was not his.
His grin became smaller as The Autobot recognised who that was. It was Starscream the seeker of all people. He looked very different but still looked somewhat like himself as Starscream said rather cryptically as he said in a rather calm yet raspy high pitched tone "Found you, didn't I?" As the Autobot felt fear go through him.