I'll Trust You ((Wild Kratts/Transformers Prime Crossover) Zach x Starscream)

Chapter 1: Captured

Zach's p.o.v

Zach's fingers snapped at the keyboard like each key had personally insulted him. His mind raced at approximately 140 miles per hour as he desperately tried to fix the holes in his system. Who ever had successfully hacked into his system, they were good. Scary good. Like... Zach Varmitech good. An aggravated yell ripped from his throat, causing a few glitching Zacbots to glance over as yet another virus was successfully planted in his files. Who WAS this guy!? Zach didn't recognize one virus that was stealing and then DESTROYING valuable information. Their programming codes were alien, futuristic almost. He rubbed his head as his system crashed completely, the Zacbots deactivating, leaving Zach in a dark jet that was no longer in his control. Thank God he had landed in a forest somewhere....

CRASH.

Zach jumped up, his head whirling towards the door as a terrible thought hit him. He landed somewhere all right...

SOMEWHERE WHERE HE WAS VULNERABLE.

He mentally made a list of what he could use as a substitute for his robotic bodyguards. It... wasn't a very long list. The only thing he could really think of was his toolbox. But since he was finicky about how clean and organized his things were, of course he kept them near his work desk. By the jet door. OUTSIDE of the safe unit he was currently in. Zach grit his teeth. 'Screw it...'

Carefully, he edged his way toward the door. Without warning, it silently slid open, giving way to the dark open space beyond it. Slowly, he poked his head out giving a quick glance left and right. Safe. He made his way through the jet to his work desk, where his reliable toolbox sat. Quietly as he could, he opened it and began to shift through it as another crash echoed somewhere outside. And... Cursing? Zach's eyes landed on a wrench. With shaking hands, he hefted it and glanced toward the doors of the jet. An outraged shriek of, "I'M STILL SECOND IN COMMAND!! SHOCKWAVE'S POSITION IS MERELY TEMPORARY!!" and another crash sounded somewhere beyond the doors, followed by a offended, "I JUST BUFFED THAT, STARSCREAM!" Starscream? What kind of name-

BANG

Something burst through the doors of the jet as a voice screeched, "FORGET your paint job, Knockout! Let's just... Let's just get what we're supposed to and LEAVE." Zach almost dropped the wrench. A tall male walked through what was left of the doors. Ruby eyes locked with his emerald ones, and a twisted smile spread across his face. "Well, Knockout! You'll never guess what I just stumbled across!" A smaller male poked his head around the corner. He too had red eyes, though his could be more compared to fire red. A similar smile was quickly gained, and Zach, completely forgetting his weapon in his shock, raised it not-so-threateningly. He tried to find his voice as the taller male stalked toward him. 'Shoot shoot shoot shoot...' Zach felt dizzy. When the male towered over him, he allowed the wrench to slip from his hands as he stared at who his brain unhelpfully concluded was Starscream. Zach managed a small whimper. "Pl-Please don't hurt me..." Starscream raised an eyebrow as a soft smirk took the place of the twisted grin, the malice in his eyes melting into mild amusement. "HURT you? My dear human. I have no desire to HURT you... So long you give me what I need." A soft beeping resonated behind him that softly increased. "Well, Starscream, that's good! Because according to this gizmo Shockwave gave us..." The shorter one leaned around Starscream and glamorously portrayed a strange gadget, "He IS what we need!"

Wait...

WHAT.

Starscream looked surprised. "Wait... No, that can't... Shockwave said nothing about the fossil being HUMAN! Wait! No!" He pinched the bridge of his nose. "Knockout. Do you know what a fossil is?" Knockout glared at him. "Yes! I know what a fossil is!" Starscream gave him a annoyed look. "Then how would our dear LIVING HUMAN friend here," He gave a glamorous gesture towards Zach, "Be a PREDACON FOSSIL!?" Fossil? Predacon? Weird named guys who thought he was a fossil of whatever a Predacon was? That was it. Zach's brain had it. It was done. Zach keeled forward as his body went wonderfully numb, and he gladly embraced the darkness that would save him from the stupidity and insanity of that moment.