It's been months since Wheeljack had left and Arcee been waiting for any sign of him returning but none has appeared yet. She started to grow worry that he won't return after all, or that something happened to him, but she knew she had to have faith that he will return like he said. Bulkhead been noticing how worried she's been growing so one day he decided to talk to her about it, "You worried about Wheeljack?"

"Yeah. It's been a few months since he left, I guess I expected to get at least one visit from him by now but there's been no sign of him"

"He will return Arcee I assure you, he won't stay away for too long with you here. Something probably happened to delay his return"

"That's what I'm afraid of" Arcee says as she looks to the ground.

"But you know just as well as I do that Wheeljack is tough, he can handle anything and he won't be taken down that easily"

"I know"

"But that's not the only thing troubling you, is it?" Bulkhead asked with concern, he knew what else could be bothering her.

"No, it's not. I can't believe Megatron is still alive"

FLASHBACK

Optimus had just gotten sick with the Cybonic Plague and the Autobots needed to find a cure for him fast, Arcee and Bumblebee volunteer to go onto the Nemesis to look for a cure. They were able to sneak on board without being noticed and headed to the med-bay area where they could look into their database. Arcee goes over to the computer while Bee looks around, he goes to a door and peers through the little window then starts beeping. Arcee was busy arguing with Ratchet while looking through the computer for any sign of a cure but was finding none and was getting frustrated. Bee continued beeping an Arcee finally acknoledged him, "What is it!?" she asked in an irritated tone. Bee just pointed to the window in the door and Arcee took a look. She looks in and peers at Megatron who was laying on a berth hooked up to a machine, still alive. The door opened up and Bee and Arcee walked into the room, Arcee looked in disbelief as her body started to feel icy cold and shivers ran through her. She couldn't believe her optics, Megatron is still alive. Questions started running through her processor, 'Was he still into her?' 'Does he still want her?' 'Will he come after her if he ever wakes up?' every questioned sent chills through her body, she felt like her systems were starting to malfunction, she didn't want to think of what he would do to her if he was still into her and still wanted her as his mate. Then the day of her father's death played out in her processor, the way Megatron jammed his sword into his spark chamber and how he fell to the floor with no life left in his body, how Megatron orders his soldiers to hunt her down and capture her, how he was hunting her down to make her his mate even if it had to be by force. Her energon turned cold as her spark ached at the memory.

"Arcee what's going on?" Ratchet inquires breaking Arcee out of her thoughts.

"It's Megatron, he's still alive" she replied as she transformed her hand into a gun. Now that she had her senses back she was gonna see to it that Megatron never woke up, she wasn't gonna go through the horrors again, "Just give me the word and I'll blast him and see to it he's dead for real this time"

"Arcee wait. I know you want to get him for what he did but we need him alive, he may be our only chance to find the cure for Optimus" Ratchet explained, his spark went out to her as everyone else's did. They knew this had to be tough for her given her history with the war-lord but they all hoped she could see reason and spare Megatron so they could find the cure for Optimus.

Luckily Arcee is more for saving her teammates, especially her leader, than taking her revenge, "Alright. How are we gonna find out?" she asks as she lowers her gun.

"One of you will have to go into Megatron's head through the cortical patch to find out" Ratchet replies as he secretly lets out a sigh of relief.

"Whoa, are you serious? Ratchet I would do anything for Optimus, but a mind and body split? I don't think I can do that"

Just then Bee buzzed in to volunteer to do it, "Are you sure Bee" the two heard Raf's voice over the comms as he asked in concern, but Bee had made up his mind to go. Arcee got him ready to go into Megatron's head and before he knew it he was in.

Time passed as Arcee waited for the signal to bring him out, she watched as Knockout, Starscream and Soundwave entered the room. Starscream and Knockout was plotting to take out Megatron and as much as it displeased Arcee she knew she had to stop them and keep Megatron alive for the sake of Bee and Optimus. With a sick feeling she raised her gun and prepared to fire to save Megatron from being offlined. But just as Starscream was about to pull the plug Soundwave pointed out the cord going from behind Megatron and going to the side of the room. Arcee started to feel panicked as she looked at Bee and hoped that he would be done soon. Didn't take long and she got the word from Ratchet that she could pulled out the cord and bring Bee back then they departed. But before she left she decided to leave a little parting gift and shot at the cord which was hooked up to Megatron's chest giving him life support and made it unplug. With a smile she jumped into the groundbridge returning to base, she felt pleased that she was able to see to it that the war-lord and murderer of her father was now officially dead. Or so she thought..

Later it was revealed that Megatron was still alive and was inside Bumblebee's head. While they were in the Arctic trying to stop Starscream from completing his plan Megatron made Bee go to the Nemesis to revive his own body, and despite the resistance from Ratchet and Raf he succeeded and got back into his own body. It was soon revealed to the others of his return which upset Arcee, she didn't know what he was gonna do. She didn't know what she was gonna do if he decided to come after her, she just hoped and prayed that he had forgotten about her and the feelings had went away. She just watched as Megatron rammed into Starscream and flew them both back to the ship and after a bit they took off away from them.

END OF FLASHBACK

"Do you think he'll come after you?" Bulkhead asked, he knew that's what she was worried about.

"Not sure, he hasn't yet and I'm hoping he never will. Hopefully he had forgotten all about me and everything and the feelings had died"

"I'm sure he has, I bet all the feelings had disappeared over the years" Bulkhead says trying to comfort her, but deep down he knew that wasn't likely, he knew Megatron wasn't the type to just give up on something he keeps trying to get what he wants until he gets it. Megatron will be after Arcee eventually, he knew it and so did the others and they're gonna make sure he doesn't succeed in getting her.

"Arcee, Bulkhead!" they then hear Optimus call their names and they looked over at him, "We're getting an energon signal, let's go" the two then went to follow Optimus, along with Bumblebee, through the bridge to where they were getting the signal from.

Once they arrived they saw a group of con Drones there drilling, getting the energon crystals out. The Drones see the Autobots and get prepared to fight, the Autobots transformed their hands into the weapons and prepared to fight as well. The two sides then started firing at each other and Arcee and Bumblebee ran up to them to do some hand to hand combat, Arcee brought out her arm blades and started slashing at the Vehicons in front of her while Bee was jumping on the other Vehicons to punch theor lights out and was doing flips over them as he shot blasts into their helms. The Vehicons started falling one after another. Bulkhead transforms and drives running over a couple of Vehicons in the process before transforming and bashing one Vehicon after another with his wrecking ball. Optimus was doing his usual shooting and slashing and punching taking out every Vehicon that came up to him.

During the fight one of the blasts strayed and hit one of the energon crystals causing a big explosion, the Vehicons and Autobots went flying everywhere and the walls of the mine started collapsing in around them. After it all stopped none of the Vehicons were alive and the energon were all gone, every bit of it taken out in the blast.

A bridge opened up and megatron walked through, he looked around and looked at the aftermath of the explosion. He found all the Vehicons dead and all the energon gone, not a single piece remained. He started feeling furious, "Those blasted Autobots, they always ruin everything" he snarled to himself. He noticed the Autobots laying on the ground unconscious, all was still alive but knocked out by the blast and Bee and Bulkhead was half cover by rocks. But he didn't see Optimus anywhere he decided to look, he wanted to get payback for ruining all his plans. He walked around the rocks and everything looking when he caught a shimmering blue out of the corner of his optc, "There you are Optimus" he says as he begins to walk over to the blue figure. But once he got there he noticed it wasn't Optimus, it was Arcee the femme he had fell in love with back on Cybertron and the one he wanted to make his mate, the femme he's been hunting down and looking for all these years. Now at long last she was in his reach, she was available to him and he wasn't gonna pass it up, he was gonna make her his mate even if he has to do it by force she was gonna be his. He bent down and picked her up and carried her to the bridge.

Optimus started to come to just in time to see Megatron carry Arcee off to the bridge. His vision was blurry but he could still see what was going on and despite the weakness in his legs he tries to get up to go and stop Megatron from taking Arcee. But his legs gave way and all he could do was watch through blurred vision as Megatron carried Arcee through the bridge and the bridge closing behind him.

TO BE CONTINUED...