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When [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003 (Animation)|Tengu Shredder]] [[Ink City (Roleplay)/Recap/S3 Squid Ink Well|set the City on fire]], [[9 (Animation)|Three]] was seperated from his twin brother and the rest of the stitchpunks. Unfortunately, [[Transformers Prime|Starscream]] found him first -- a lucky break in the Decepticon's eyes, as he was very interested in figuring out how the little non-organics functioned.
 
Unbeknownst to him, however, [[Ah! My Goddess (Manga)|Belldandy]] wasn't the ''only'' new arrival to [[Ink City]] that weekend... and amongst the newcomers was Optimus Prime. Among his 'welcoming' wagon were several stitchpunks -- so many that Optimus initially thought they were the dominiant species in this new area! While most were wary of him at first, given their poor experiences with other robots, Optimus's nobility managed to strike a chord with them... as did his promise to protect them.
 
He was called upon to fulfill that promise much sooner than anyone anticipated. While trapped in Starscream's lab, Three managed to get a distress message out. Naturally, Optimus responds -- and despite his attempt to convince the fragile-seeming stitchpunks to let him handle everything, Four, Six and One hitch a ride on the Autobot.
 
Though taken off-guard by Optimus showing up, Starscream tries turning the tables the only way he knows how: fighting dirty. Once he spots the miniature army, he tries aiming at ''them'' instead -- but misses. He only gets one shot before he winds up strapped to his own medical bed. After Optimus safely carries the others away, he's left to contact the only ally he can think of: [[Portal 2 (Video Game)|Caroline]].
 
Thanks to the handy-dandy free standing portal device she constructed from [[G La DOS]]' notes, freeing him's a simple affair. Starscream immediately puts [[From a Certain Point of View|his own spin]] on the Decepticon-Autobot war. Though Caroline's [[Genre Savvy]] enough to recognize who the villains are, she regards him as too valuable an ally to lose.
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Taking advantage of this, Starscream offers Jetstorm another flying lesson, then lures him back to his lab to test some synthetic Energon he'd created. The injection has some unexpected side-effects; a surge of energy nearly knocks the younger mech offline, and when he awakens, his memory's completely gone. Immediately realizing the potential of this, Starscream spins a lie about the Autobots brainwashing him, and convinces him to let Optimus keep believing he's still under their control.
 
Meanwhile... [[Aeon Flux|Trevor's]] [[Ink City (Roleplay)/Recap/S3 Aftershocks|temporary 'truce']] with his usual victims wasn't keeping the [[Mad Scientist]] from continuing his experiments. Having immediately taken an interest in [[The Secret of Kells|Aisling]] upon her arrival, he has one of his robots capture her so that he can run tests on her unusual blood. Unfortunately for him, she manages to get her hands on his communicator... While he tries to play off the broadcast as one of his new security cores acting up, nobody buys it -- particularly not Optimus, who storms the compound and breaks her out immediately.
 
Afterward, Optimus asks the other residents for more information about Trevor. The more he learns, the less he likes. While hearing [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|Twilight Sparkle's]] proposal of a city guard is encouraging, he also agrees that they need a jail as well -- they just need to figure out somewhere to put it.
 
Starscream conducts some tests of his own upon a sample taken from the Ink Well. To his shock, it appears to be just regular old ink, with no special properties at all...! As he puzzles over this result, Trevor contacts him, hoping to compare notes. His superior attitude fails to earn him any points, and his [[Blatant Lies|claim that he only 'spared' Optimus for the sake of future research on the Prime]] only gets him [[Caught Onon Tape|called out by Soundwave]]. Still, he ''does'' get Starscream interested in the samples of ink blood he'd managed to collect before being interrupted, and an uneasy alliance is formed.
 
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* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Optimus gets to do this twice, effectively introducing (or ''re''introducing) himself to some of Ink City's biggest villains in the process.
* [[Bold Inflation]]: When '''Optimus''' is the one doing this, that's a pretty good sign you're screwed. Not that Trevor heeds that (or any other) warning.
* [[Caught Onon Tape]]: Soundwave specializes in this, and uses it to torpedo Trevor's claims about dealing effectively with Optimus.
* [[The Cavalry Arrives Late]]: By the time Cabrakan responds to Starscream's distress signal, Caroline has already freed him.
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]
* [[Deal Withwith the Devil]]: She'd already struck deals with [[G La DOS]], Starscream and Trevor by the time Optimus arrived... so really, what was one more promise made to the Decepticon after all of that?
* [[Digging Yourself Deeper]]: Trevor's decision to keep lying to Optimus well past the point of [[Implausible Deniability]].
* [[Dynamic Entry]]: To be fair, Optimus ''does'' give Trevor every opportunity to avoid having this befall ''his'' lab as well...
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* [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished]]: While trying to repair the damage caused by the fire, Belldandy uses a great deal of energy fixing Trevor's complex. Trevor immediately starts plotting to experiment on ''her'' instead.
* [[Not So Different]]: For all intents and purposes, Optimus regards Trevor as a human Decepticon, thanks to his worryingly similar methods.
** While justifying her decision to ally with Starscream over Optimus, Caroline comes to an uncomfortable realization that [[Inverted Trope|inverts this]]: by healing her when she was injured, Starscream showed more concern for her well-being than her own boss, who had [[Ink City (Roleplay)/Recap/S3 A Discorded Halloween|just recently]] nearly burned her alive and showed no remorse whatsoever for it.
* [[Oblivious Guilt Slinging]]: Seeing how deeply Optimus and Aisling already cared for one another left Caroline feeling so guilty she had to cut the video feed and resort to voice messaging just so she wouldn't have to watch them any longer.
* [[Oh Crap]]: Starscream's ''very'' surprised by Optimus's [[Dynamic Entry]] into his lab.
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