"And here is where the old Iacon Hall of Records used to be stationed. Here, thousands upon thousands of historical documents were filed and stored. Unfortunately, many of those files have been lost or destroyed during the war. However we Decepticons have done our best to recover as many of those documents as we possibly can. Many of those recovered are already on the shelves of the Great Kaon Library." Lugnut spoke as they passed through the ruins of another massive building complex.

Smokescreen and Bumblebee looked around themselves in awe.

"So this really used to be the old capital of Cybertron." Bumblebee muttered.

"Yeah, what a dump. No wonder the Decepticons destroyed it." Smokescreen replied jokingly.

"Okay but still, kinda makes you wonder what this place was like before the war, before the Empire. And, why hasn't the Emperor rebuilt it. Wasn't it a bustling metropolis once?" Bumblebee added.

"Yeah...maybe there're some lingering spirits around." Smokescreen said spookily.

"Smokescreen-"

"C'mon Bee. What if there are? Don't you wanna see some spoo-opy spi-irits?"

Smokescreen waved his servos around before walking off.

"Smokescreen! The group!" Bumblebee called.

"C'mon Bee! We're training to be Elite Guards! Where's your sense of adventure?" Smokescreen replied as he walked through a decaying archway.

"Smokescreen! Come back!...frag." Bumblebee cursed as he went off after his friend.

The yellow bot caught up with his white, blue and red friend. They were walking through a tall, long, dark corridor.

"Smokescreen let's go back. This place gives me the chills." Bumblebee spoke.

"Hey don't worry Bee. We'll get back to the group. I bet we'll get some extra credit if we find some sort of ancient artifact." Smokescreen continued.

"No way! We'll get into so much trouble!" Bumblebee replied.

Regardless of his protests, Bumblebee continued to follow Smokescreen through the old Hall of Records.

"Man this place is huge!" Smokescreen exclaimed. "Wonder how many people used to work here?"

They continued walking until they came to a large room.

It was blackened by ash as well as orange and brown from rust, but there were shelves and what looked like cots in the wall for datapads and information docks.

"Where are we now?" Smokescreen wondered.

"Hm." Bumblebee ran his servos on top of a dust covered counter. "This place kind of looks like the Great Library back home."

"Yee-ah. But it's certainly not the one back home. Look." Smokescreen pointed to the floor.

Bumblebee looked down as well, seeing the large symbol that covered most of the floor. Even though it was heavily coated with dust, ash, and other piles of garbage and wreckage, there was a faintly red face looking symbol.

"I think I've seen that somewhere before. In one of our history books. On like, the corner of a single page." Bumblebee spoke.

"Okay, what does it mean?" Smokescreen wondered.

"It's...the old Cybertron coat of arms...the Autobot insignia." Bumblebee answered.

"Seriously? That's what it looked like? Jeez no wonder Emperor Megatron changed it. The boxy design, and that colour...ugh, it's just ugly." Smokescreen hissed.

"Maybe..." Bumblebee muttered.

"This is kinda cool though. Who knows how long it's been since anyone's seen any of these? Probably forever." Smokescreen took out his datapad and took a picture. "This is cool-Bumblebee behind you!"

Just like that, Bumblebee heard a blaster begin to warm up behind his helm.

"Get away from him!" Smokescreen transformed his arm into his own blaster and pointed it at the dark mech.

"Move, and I don't know if I'll be able to control my reflexes." The mech spoke from behind.

Bumblebee raised his arms. "Who are you?"

"Doesn't matter. What're you two Pit spawns doin' down here?" He demanded.

Smokescreen looked closer at the dark mech. He had the same symbol sitting on the floor upon his chassis. However, it looked like the mark had been scratched at several times.

"We're just here on a field trip. We don't mean any harm to you."

The mech chuckled, but neither youngling could hear any humour in his voice.

"You don't mean any harm? Really. Two Cons in training by the looks of the insignias. Two killers in training. All the Decepticons do is harm." He rambled.

The mech looked like he was getting distracted. With that, Smokescreen shot just past the the mech's helm, throwing him off balance.

"C'mon Bee c'mon!" Smokescreen screamed and the two transformed and sped off.

"Those two little glitches." The mysterious mech muttered to himself before clicking on the comm. link wrist band.

"Hey, I got two more kids down in the old library. Heading back outside. They're both armed by the looks of it."

[Got it.]

Smokescreen and Bumblebee raced through the ruins until they reemerged outside.

They both quietly agreed to drive back towards Astrotrain. They did and saw several other cloaked, or dark figures going in and out of the body of the large mech. Most of them were coming out with the Energon cubes they had left in him.

"Hey...hey!" Smokescreen called and the thieves turned towards them.

"What are you doing? Those are ours!" Smokescreen shouted as he transformed and began shooting at them.

"Let's load these things up and get out of here!" One cloaked figure, one who seemed slightly taller than the rest, shouted.

Then that figure ran towards the two younglings. Bumblebee had transformed as well, shooting their assailant side by side. Even with both boys shooting the cloaked figure was able to maneuver and dodge every blast being sent.

Then the cloaked person jumped up and landed on top of Smokescreen, before they kicked Bumblebee away.

"Bee!" Smokescreen shouted.

"Hey!" The familiar sound of Lugnut's voice called as the rest of their class came back and began shooting at the thieves.

The cloaked figure looked at them before getting off of Smokescreen and walking away. They dropped something that began spewing smoke on their way.

"We're done here. Make sure everything is packed up and then get going."

The cloaked figure disappeared within the smokescreen.

"Oh that is not funny." Smokescreen mumbled.

When the smoke cleared, there was a bright red symbol painted on the door of Astrotrain. It was the same symbol that Smokescreen and Bumblebee saw on the floor earlier.

"The Autobots." Lugnut hissed under his breath.

"Astrotrain what happened to you?" Lugnut demanded on their way back to Kaon.

"They knocked me out. I think they used some sort of stasis lock device on me. Knocked me out cold." Astrotrain answered.

Smokescreen and Bumblebee were sitting in the back. They had told their teacher what had happened to them and needless to say, he was less than pleased.

When they landed, Lugnut went up to the two younglings.

"Hey you two. The Headmaster wishes to see you." Lugnut told them. "He wants you in his office. Now."

Smokescreen and Bumblebee flinched at the last word, before nodding and saluting.

They walked to the Headmaster's office.

When they reached the office, the Academy's Headmaster, Dreadwing, sat at his desk reading reports.

"Sir." The two greeted respectfully.

"Cadet Bumblebee. Cadet Smokescreen. Please have a seat." Dreadwing spoke.

Both younglings took a breath before walking forward and sitting down.

"Look, sir, we're really sorry for leaving the group. We didn't mean to really. And if you're gonna punish anyone, it should be me because-" Smokescreen spoke.

"Fear not boys. I will not be punishing anyone today." Dreadwing interrupted.

"-I understand that sir and what?" Smokescreen continued.

"I said, you two will not be punished today. Believe me when I say that I think you should but there is someone who wishes to speak with you two."

"Really? Who?" Bumblebee wondered.

"Me." A deep voice spoke from behind them.

Bumblebee and Smokescreen turned around to see a tall mech with high shoulders. Dark grey colour scheme with deep red optics glaring down at them.

It was the mech in charge of the Elite Guard-

"Commander Ultra Magnus."

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