"Alexa! Bumblebee! What is going on here?" Ratchet yelled out loud as he dropped Optimus on the floor and Bumblebee said "It's one of those SKY ROBOTS!" But he had no time to explain as the Sky Robot jumped and grabbed a long sword from his subspace as the seeker was trying to get an attack on Bumblebee and when he brought down his sword, Ratchet firmly grabbed it with his servo as the Seeker was trying to pull it out. He managed to take it again and soon gave one big slash on Ratchet's shoulder which made him hiss in pain as he held his hand over the leaking wound and stepped back. The seeker attempted to get another attack, not before Hoist ran and pushed him away, which made him roll on the floor. The Seeker got up and soon threw his sword at Optimus as Ratchet was trying to catch it to no avail. It flew and embedded itself slightly in Optimus' collarbone and Optimus went offline as Ratchet went to help him not before the seeker threw Ratchet against the wall. Alexa grabbed her own shotgun out attempting to distract the Cybertronain as they turned around and rushed towards her as she dodged, not trying to be bloodied and injured. Hoist tried to get to Optimus as the Seeker turned and shot which made Hoist fall backwards. Bumblebee had finally hit his back which made him turn around and fought back. The seeker was doing pretty good for a 1V4.
Immediately the Seeker took out a highly advanced weapon and the top part which look to have two solar panels by its sides began to move around. It let out a electrical beam of light as it made shockwaves go across the area, stunning Hoist and Bumblebee but since Ratchet was far off, he didn't get stunned and Alexa was a human so it only gave her a shock as she looked seeing Hoist and Bumblebee fall down to the floor and their optics became black which showed that they are offline. With Alexa and Ratchet left, the seeker thought they were easy pickings as he threw Alexa upwards and she landed on a ledge where the seeker jumped cornering her as he grabbed his sword putting it next to her head. He soon said with a surprisingly deep but almost charmingly deep voice but had this slight roughness which didn't make it fully appealing "So then, where is the cube? Talk. I mean it." Alexa felt sweat dripping down her face as she shrugged having no idea. Immediately the seeker growled and tried to slowly cut her neck off. That was until Ratchet jumped and grabbed him by the throat before throwing him backwards. The seeker tried to gain his balance as he landed on a rather large rock in the room and slipped as he jumped to catch himself. He looked upwards as energon leaked down his faceplate from the cut on his head. Ratchet helped Alexa up by asking "Are you okay?" and she nodded.
Immediately the seeker soon managed to get up high on the far side of the ledge as he tried to gun them down as Ratchet grabbed her and went down as Alexa soon shot back at the Cybertronain who got shot in his chassis but didn't seem to react. Soon the Seeker jumped and had attempted to stab Alexa with the sharp pointy silver spike on his arm as Alexa's eyes squinted and opened up in surprise. But the Cybertronain felt pain on his back as two of huge cables which looked slightly like tendrils on his back got sliced off, as a black liquid spilled. The seeker hastily turned around seeing Bumblebee who had recovered and grabbed Alexa's dragger which had fallen from her backpack. "W-What is the meaning of this!?" He yelled spitting on the floor as he pointed the gun dead on at Bumblebee's face as Ratchet kicked him and he went flying as he landed on the ground faceplanted. As Hoist also recovered, Ratchet helped him while still being injured as Bumblebee was exhausted. "I think that 'seeker' or whatever we call him is dangerous enough that he stunned two of us and injure two of us." Hoist said as they nodded. As they were distracted Optimus pulled out the sword from his collarbone and threw it to the side as he slowly got up while energon leaked down his throat as his steps were unsteady and he moved forward while his head was downwards.
Alexa turned as her eyes shot open as she saw Optimus walking to them in a rough manner with his knees facing each other expect they were apart from each other. His pedes were facing different directions, his left one facing left diagonally and the right pede facing the right diagonally. All of them turned around and Bumblebee asked under his breath "Optimus...?" But what surprised them the most was when Optimus pointed his ion cannon at them before shooting at them which forced them to take cover behind a rock as Alexa whispered "What is wrong with him?" as Ratchet said gruffly "There isn't a clear answer but its certain that something is wrong with Optimus." Optimus soon raised his head which revealed his optics as a light pink colour and one of his optics were flickering. His colours became a darker red and blue and his antenna had a piece missing from it. Internally, everything felt a mix of pain and numbness as he stepped forward with his vision showing a saturated red and black which made his optics hurt and he felt like his body was moving even though his mind was in a different place. He soon said loudly "Where are they!?" As his voice sounded like himself and a mix of someone familiar they all dreaded about... Similar to a seeker, like Starscream's voice as he turned to look at the rock.
Optimus shot it which blew open their cover and they had no choice but to fight him. Not to kill him but to disarm him. Bumblebee jumped upwards and tried to shoot down specifically at the ion cannon but Starscream who was controlling Optimus' body growled and dodged backwards as he shot up, getting a hit on Bumblebee. Bumblebee fell down near Ratchet who's instant attention was on him and ran over to heal him meanwhile Hoist was trying to build a device and began screwing in bolts while Alexa was trying to find some ammo since her gun ran out of ammo. Optimus rushed toward Hoist who went to the side surprised by the speed from Optimus as Optimus stopped before he hit a wall. Starscream turned and fired bullets at all of them which Alexa jumped to the other side instantly while Hoist grabbed his device and ran while Ratchet soon pulled Bumblebee away as Optimus was throwing fast shots which could kill them in a moment if they are not careful enough. Ratchet had pulled out the bullet which Bumblebee thanked him for and Bumblebee had to pull out his lasergun since his normal one was broken as both attempted to shoot at the weapon but Optimus' speed had completely caught them off and Ratchet had missed hitting the gun and instead almost shot his own friend a couple of times. Bumblebee wasn't doing any better as he struggled as well.
Hoist set up his device and quickly programmed it to hit Optimus' weapon as Optimus/Starscream saw the device and got distracted while Ratchet tried to rush forward and grab the weapon. Optimus spun which caught Ratchet off guard as Optimus kicked him for trying to grab the gun as Ratchet hit his helmet hard against the wall. He landed feeling pain and he opened his optics slowly as Optimus was shooting at Hoist's device and Bumblebee as Hoist's device got destroyed and Bumblebee had to hide behind a rock as he seemed especially upset that things turned out this way. Alexa had finally found some ammo that Bumblebee gave her and turned giving thanks before putting it in her pistol. When shooting Optimus turned around and saw the bullet. But what freaked out Alex the most was when Optimus turned around and winked ominously as he took the bullet. Soon the bullet hit into the top of his forehead which made him fall backwards and soon got onto his knee, his optics glitching back into a blue colour before they turned fully blue which showed he was back to normal? Optimus grabbed the bullet from his head as he looked upwards before saying slowly "Autobots?" He said while struggling to adjust to his movements after being controlled by Starscream. He got up with his legs trying to adjust to his normal position overall.
"Your okay! You freaked us out." Hoist said with his hand which had a deep cut and his forearms had wounds. Alexa seemed rather upset for hurting her friend while Bumblebee seemed especially upset that this happened while Hoist looked nervous to ask what happened. "What happened?" Optimus asked feeling his head being wozy all of a sudden. "We dealt with one of those Sky Robots or whatever they are and when you got hurt by the sword, something flipped in you and made you aggressive." Ratchet recalled what happened as Optimus felt that odd voice laughing internally at him. Bumblebee helped him up and hugged him as Optimus was caught off guard. But he hugged him back with his optics flickering to light pink for a moment as they turned to his normal light blue colour. He felt guilty for hurting his own friends as his optics looked at everyone.