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Deadly Games Unlimited

She felt how her optics were slowly being activated.

She heard someone calling her name.

It took her a few moments to fully register her unfamiliar surroundings.

"Arcee," she heard the voices calling out to her. It was someone she knew, even if she couldn´t completely place it right now.

Then however her systems had finally completely reactivated themselves.

She was awake.

"Jack, Miko," she said, recognizing them now as two of her human friends.

She remembered that they had been very close to her, when it happened.

They had been accompanying her on a scout mission. It should have been easy, just pass the area and bring back all the information you can find. But the Cons had ambushed them.

Ratchet had then activated the ground-bridge to get them back to the base, literall in the last moment.

They had been trapped. There had not benn much and all their lives would have been lost. More than once had Arcee in the past questioned the wisdom of letting children like them anywhere close to them. But what choice did they have?

After all they were only watching over them to protect them from the Cons in the first place, because they just happened to watch one of their fights. The Decepticon wouldn´t have asked or cared if they were innocents. They would have just killed them to ensure their silence and keep their operations a secret.

The last thing Arcee could remember was that all three of them had passed the bridge together. But obviously that had not worked out, since this was clearly not their home-base.

"What happened? Where are we?" she asked them just a few moments later.

"We are not sure," Jack answered.

"We have just woken up here ourselves a few minutes ago," Miko told her. "Where ever `here´ is," she added, looking around.

As soon as Arcee began to take in her surroundings herself, the blue colored femme realized that they were inside a large room she had never seen before. A short distance from them she could see a metallic wall.

And they were not alone, as she now realized. Around them were standing several strangers, all of them Cybertronians like her, many of them. But now she also noticed something else.

Not all of them here were Autobots. There, right in the middle of it, was a line of bars that separated the room into two halves.

The occupants on the other side were easily to identify. It were Decepticons. The bars were obviously meant to separate the members of both groups from each other.

Suddenly it became clear to her what this room was. It was a prison, a cage and they, all of them here, were the prisoners. Ironically it was one that was holding members of both sides of the Cybertronian Civil-War.

She run a check on herself. Her weapons and her radio-transmitter were off-line, no great surprise given where she was, but at least her other systems seemed to be working properly.

Someone here was capturing both Autobots and Decepticons alike. And this someone was successful as it looked, going by the dozens of robots who were locked up here.

That left only the question, who was holding them here if it were not the Cons. Who would do something like this? Who was even capable of doing that? M.E.C.H.? the name of the human organization shot through her mind.

No, M.E.C.H. was dangerous, that much was true. But this? There was no way that they could ever capture so many Cybertronians or even that many Autobots alone. This was far beyond them.

If she thought about it, there were clearly more of her own faction here than she had ever seen alive during the entire last vorn.

In fact it were far more Autobots assembled in this room than even existed on Earth or in the entire `local sector´ of space. This meant in their case the two dozen parsecs around the human home-world where they were currently living.

What was going on here? Where in the world did all this Transformers come from?

"I see you are awake," someone addressed her. It was a white and grey armored robot she didn´t recognize. She had never seen him before or red about him in any personnel file, she was sure about that.

He was an Autobot, so much was clear, but none she had ever met or heard of.

"Yes," she responded.

She was now able to take a better look at the place around them. There were indeed several Autobots and Decepticons of various types being held here, on the two separated halves of the room.

To her surprise she saw also another human under the Autobot-prisoner. It was a young girl with red hair that she was wearing in pigtailed and strange bright blue eyes. Maybe she had been caught by accident, as it had probably been with Jack and Miko. Who ever was responsible for all this was clearly targeting cybertronians, not humans. The girl was sitting right next to a small bright yellow Autobot.

"My name is Getaway," she heard the unknown mech saying to her.

"Arcee, I am Arcee," she answered.

For a short moment he was looking at her strangely, as if this wasn´t what he had expected. But then his expression returned to normal. He smiled.

"I guess I should have expected something like this," he said to her.

Another Autobot chose this moment to introduce himself, it was another face she had never seen before. His optics had a strange purple-pinkish color and he obviously had a helicopter alt-mode.

"Hey, I am Rotorstorm," he said, "nice to meet you."

She just wanted to ask him what he meant. But before she had the chance to say anything, they were interrupted.

The doors were being opened, one at either side of the room.

Robots entered, it were both guards and prisoners. This was easy to notice, since two of the mechs were each being dragged into the room by two others.

The obvious guards seemed to be cybertronian, but they were wearing neither Autobot or Decepticon marks. This was quite strange.

Had a neutral faction of Transformers come into existence that was powerful enough to take so many members of both sides of the war prisoner? While the theory sounded a bit far stretched, it was possible.

But it didn´t explain why she had no files or information about most of the other prisoners here. There was more than that.

The guards threw the two robots they just brought in carelessly to the ground, right before the feet of the other captives.

One of them was a bizarre looking blue Decepticon. He had large bat-like wings, claw like fingers and a metallic beard and mustache. Like all the others here, he was a stranger to her.

The other one however, the one who had been dragged in on the Autobot side, he was not, by far not. She would recognize the small sized red robot anywhere. The specific modifications of his body and as it looked his alt-mode, were different. But there was no mistaken that it was him.

But this was impossible. He was dead. It had to be someone else, a bot designed in his image, maybe by their captors to get to her.

Once again Arcee asked herself, what was going on here?

On the other end of their giant cage the blue Decepticon had at the same time also come back to his feet and was being greeted by the rest of the prisoners on `their´ side. Under them was a black seeker who was right now standing the closest to him.

But that was not really Arcee´s problem right now. The cons might become an issue later, but right now she had other things on her mind. For example a `dead´ partner who was standing right before her.

"Cliffjumper?" she addressed the red Autobot.

He turned to her as he heard her saying his name. She saw however instantly in his optics that he didn´t recognize her. This was another shock, right after awakening in this place. He had been her friend, her partner for years, but now he obviously didn´t know who she was.

"Yes, and who are you?" he wanted to know.

Like herself a few minutes before, he looked around, analyzing his situation. Then he took a offensive stance towards everyone around him.

"I don´t knew who you are," he said. "I know a femme of this name, but you are obviously not her."

"This is no great surprise," someone else addressed them. "As it looks barely anyone of us knows the other, even if it seems that we should. The names of many here are known to me, even if the appearance often doesn´t match. I am Longarm," he told them. "Maybe we all should introdure ourselves."

"Arcee," she responded. "This are Jack and Miko," she gestured to the two humans.

"Getaway," the mech next to her said once again.

"I am Cliffjumper."

"You were a member of Prime´s Ark Crew right?"

"Right. So you have heard of me," he commented.

"Yes, even if I had never met you in person."

Ark Crew? Arcee asked herself. She had never heard of it.

"And I am Rotorstorm, as I already said," the helicopter she had spoken to earlier introduced himself.

"I am Bumblebee," said the yellow mech who was with the human girl.

Arcee was now starring at the robot in open surprise. While their was some ressemblence, this was clearly not her friend Bumblebee from her own team. To that came that he had spoken in english. Through a failure in his voice-box, the Bumblebee she knew was currently only able to speak cybertronian.

"And I am Sari," the red haired girl told them.

"I think all of us should introduce themselves," Longarm now stated. He said this, looking in the direction of the closest Decepticons.

A few of their enemies were exchanging either distrustfull or curious looks at his words. But in the end he was right, they were in this situation together, at least for the moment.

As much as Arcee herself hated the thought to have to cooperate with all these Decepticons.

"My name is Scourge," the eccentric looking Decepticon said to them now in a growling voice.

"Skywarp," the black jet introduced himself.

But before they could continue, they were interrupted once again.

A quite plain looking green robot entered the room, followed by a half dozen of the guards that they already knew.

"Welcome," he addressed them all. The guards were pointing their weapons at them in case someone dared to come too close to him.

"My name is Rook," he said. "You are all `guests´ of the great Cybertronian Empire. I will now explain to you the reason why you have all been brought here."


Author´s note: I had the idea for this story some time ago.

The main focus is on different characters from the Transformers multiverse.

The ones I concentrate on for now are:

- Arcee (Prime) + Jack and Miko

- Bumblebee and Sari (Animated)

- Getaway (G1)

- Longarm

- Rotorstorm (European G1)

- Scourge (G1)

- Skywarp (G1)

I am open for suggestions for more characters to appear in this story.