(Opening Theme: Transformers Prime Opening 1; BigBang Feeling)

Back down below, Gust and Bumblebee watched as Optimus engaged Skyquake in a fight. They had armed themselves and Optimus had fired first but missed; Skyquake pulled out his weapon which was a machine gun and had had pushed Optimus back when he was hit.

Finally, Bumblebee and Gust could no longer sit and watch.

"Bee! Throw me!" Gust said.

Bumblebee nodded and Gust jumped into the palm of his servo. He threw her and she was sent flying towards Skyquake her eyes changing to white. With her incredible strength she had punched Skyquake right in the back of he head causing him to stumble; she landed on the ground making a small crater.

Just before Skyquake could squash her under his foot, Bumblebee started to run from his position and fire at him from behind; Optimus used that as an opportunity to run over and grab Gust. In turn Skyquake turned around and started to fire at him from behind. Bumblebee dodge every shots and fired at Skyquake.

Though he managed to grab a hold of Bumblebee and threw him to the wall. Optimus placed Gust down on the ground and ran to Skyquake; making him fire up in the air when he tried to fire at the scout. Bumblebee tried to charge at him again, though Skyquake ended up throwing him again. Optimus charged at Skyquake and throw punches at him.

Skyquake in turn threw punches at Optimus and ended up pushing him back.

"This is definitely getting us nowhere!" Gust said to Optimus.

{So what's the plan?} Bumblebee asked his leader.

"Skyquake has not yet acquired a vehicle mode." Optimus said to them, but loud enough so that Skyquake couldn't hear them.

"So he's grounded." Gust whispered, "We can use that to our advantage."

It wasn't long till Skyquake had charged at them again. "Fall back!" Optimus said. Both Optimus and Bumblebee transformed into vehicle mode, and Gust fell inside as Bumble turned into a car. They backed up and drove away, and Skyquake stopped in his tracks.

"SO TIME HAS MADE YOU A COWARD PRIME!?" Skyquake shouted, as he began to fire at them. From above the canyons Soundwave and Starscream continued to watch the fight taking place until at one point they saw that they disappeared.

"We've lost sight of them." Starscream said, "Soundwave why aren't you tracking them!?" Both Nightblade and Starscream heard Soundwave let out beeps. "What? What is it?" Starscream asked him. Soundwave had pulled up a radar.

"That's a second Decepticon life signal." Nightblade said.

Starscream stared at that with disbelief, "What? How can that be? Skyquake was the only one here buried in this area."

"Starscream." Nightblade said, "... That's not in this location." They looked closer at the radar and saw that it was in the familiar site. "That's the same place where the space bridge was before the Autobots destroyed it." Nightblade said.

"That doesn't make any sense." Starscream said, "The only Decepticon that was out there was-" Starscream stopped himself in mid-sentence when he realized exactly who the life signal belonged to; Nightblade came to the same conclusion as she placed her hand over her chest.

"The heartbeat I felt than… Did it belong to him…?"

She was bought out of her thoughts when she heard Starscream say, "That's not possible! He was microns from the detonation point! Nothing could've survived that blast! Your sensors must be faulty! Ignore the contact! Delete the coordinates!"

"You can't just say that and expect it to be some sort of faulty!" Nightblade said.

"Don't talk nonsense Nightblade!" Starscream said, "You know better than I that nothing could've survived the blast!"

"Even so you have to investigate this!" Nightblade said, "If he indeed survived it even if there's a small chance, than you as his second in command have to look into it!" Soundwave though he didn't speak, he non verbally agreed with Nightblade.

"Of course, what am I saying?" Starscream had eventually said to Nightblade, "You're absolutely right, this should be investigated. If he is indeed up there, than I shall bring him home."

"What shall we do?" Nightblade asked.

"You two remain here." Starscream said, "Soundwave, continue to monitor them. Make sure you get the outcome. When Skyquake snuff's Prime's spark… I must bear witness." With a leap, Starscream transformed into his jet mode and flew past the clouds and into space. Nightblade couldn't help but think about Starscream and what he would do exactly.

"If it really is him…" Nightblade said to Soundwave, "... I don't like Starscream being the only one there."

Soundwave nodded, agreeing with Nightblade. "Must bear witness." He said with a recording. Laserbeak disconnected from his chest and flew in Starscream's direction.

Back down below, Bumblebee and Optimus drove through the canyons; Optimus and Bumblebee had soon split up, and Skyquake had followed close behind them. Gust would occasionally look back and could see Skyquake catching up to them.

"Just as planned." Gust said with a smirk, "Quick Bee turn here!"

Bumblebee turned the corner, and they had reached a dead end; Bumblebee had transformed from his vehicle mode and Gust rolled out onto the ground. They both turned to Skyquake.

"It will be a shame that I have to crush you bug." Skyquake said, "But it is my duty." Just than he heard a horn echo throughout the area. Skyquake turned around and saw that Optimus was charging at him. Skyquake quickly turned around started to fire at Optimus. Though this proved to be of no avail when Optimus transformed from his vehicle mode and punched Skyquake clear in the face. He had crashed in the wall behind him, and Bumblebee and Gust were quick to dodge so that they wouldn't get hit.

"Excellent strategy." Optimus said to them.

"No prob Optimus!" Gust said with her thumb up, "I did say that this would work!"

Skyquake fell out of the wall with a thud. As Optimus approached him; Skyquake got up from the ground and threw a punch at Optimus, only scratching the windshields on his chest. "Skyquake." He said, "Stay down." After saying that, he punched Skyquake to the ground and he fell to his knees. Just than they heard jet engines roar in the distance.

They turned to the sky and they saw that the jet belonged too-

"Agent Fowler?" Gust said.

-Meanwhile back at Base-

Raf watched as Ratchet worked on his project. Though he was curious to what exactly he was making even. Curious he walked up to Ratchet and asked, "Ratchet, what is this exactly?"

Ratchet had replied, "Don't worry, you'll find out."

"But Ratchet…" Raf said approaching his project, "Shouldn't I be working on this?"

"Eh yip, yip, yip!" Ratchet said stopping Raf, "Don't touch! Just watch and learn." With that he went back to work on Raf's project. The others stood on the sidelines, just standing there awkwardly.

"So…" Bulkhead said, "We're just gonna go help Jack and Miko finish their-"

He was cut off when Ratchet said, "Without my supervision!? You want them to be right, don't you?" Bulkhead and Arcee looked at one another, and looked back to Ratchet.

"Then watch the Master at work!" He said to them.

"Control freak." Miko said.

"I bet Gust doesn't have to deal with things like this." Jack said.

Gust, Optimus and Bumblebee saw Fowler in the sky. Optimus immediately patched through to Fowler knowing very well what's gonna happen.

"Agent Fowler! Fall back now!" Optimus said.

Gust saw Skyquake optics glow green. "Too late! Get down!" Gust exclaimed. A large beam of green light emanated from Skyquakes eyes and towards the jet Fowler was in. Fowler found himself engulfed in the green light; his controls began to mess up momentarily. "Agh! What was that!?"

Back down below Skyquake had let out a smirk seeing as he had the upper hand in the battle.

"Air superiority achieved." Skyquake said.

"Oh scrap." Gust said.

Skyquake ran but Optimus and Bumblebee tried to stop him; he ended up transforming into the same kind of jet Fowler was flying. He took the skies and Fowler saw him next to him. "Well I'll be a balds eagle." Fowler said in disbelief.

From down below, Optimus, Bumblebee and Skyquake circled back. "Crap he's coming back!" Gust exclaimed.

"MOVE! NOW!" Optimus yelled.

Optimus and Bumblebee started to run; Gust jumping on Bumblebee's shoulder with the help of her white energon in her veins. When the bullets drew closer to them, Optimus and Bumblebee quickly transformed; Gust falling into the driver's seat of Bumblebee's vehicle mode. They drove through the canyon evading the bullets but Gust soon saw another problem.

"Guys! He's arming missiles!" Gust exclaimed.

Bumblebee said through via beeps, "{Scrap! This is bad!}"

Just before Skyquake could fire the missiles, Fowler came up from a behind and started to fire at him; Skyquake started to take an evasive action.

"Stealing plans for classified military aircraft will not be tolerated on my watch!" Fowler said as he fired at him.

Skyquake had managed to get behind Fowler and fired the missiles on him instead. "Heat seekers!" Fowler said after checking the radar. He flew through the canyon as the group of missiles started to close in behind him, until he finally flew into a dead end. He flew upward and the missiles hit the wall exploding on contact.

"I still got it." Fowler said with a smirk.

-Up in Space; Space Bridge Location-

Starscream finally managed to get to the ruins of where the Space Bridge once was. He transformed to his robot mode landing on one of the debris. He looked around, having his doubts about anyone just living through the explosion.

"This is ridiculous, no one could've survived this." Starscream said to himself, "As I suspected. Faulty sensors. The last thing I need are rumors that Megatron is still-"

Starscream was soon cut off when he heard the sound of groans of agony just nearby, which caught Starscream's audio receivers. He turned fast and saw a body in the distance; he jumped from debris to debris to get closer to it, until finally the body was in full view of his optics. He couldn't believe it when he saw it was-

"... Megatron…" Starscream said; his servo on his chest.

"DIE!" Megatron exclaimed grabbing onto Starscream's shoulder, causing him to jump back. His optics glowed an ominous red glow before he passed out again; he let go of Starscream's shoulder.

"But how?" Starscream asked himself, "How did he survive?"

Starscream soon had gotten his answer as to how, when he saw a huge hole in the middle of his chest. Inside their was a purple glow, coming from a familiar purple shard.

"Dark Energon…" Starscream said with a smile.

He leaned over to Megatron's audio receptor, "Everyone believes that you are deceased… Who am I to disappoint them… Master?"

Starscream reached to the Dark Energon shard and pulled it out of his spark chamber. Megatron shot up, and tried to reach out to grab the shard out of Starscream's servo. His optics rolled back and with a groan, his optics rolled to the back of his head, and his body went limp.

"And this time… STAY DEAD!" Starscream said kicking him away.

He heard whistling in the distance and quickly turned around. He saw Laserbeak in the distance and quickly hid the Dark Energon shard behind his back. "Soundwave!" Starscream said, "If you and Nightblade are listening, I have found Lord Megatron, and he is… Unwell."

Laserbeak circled around Starscream and he kept the Shard out of view, so that Soundwave or Nightblade would see it.

"We must transport him to sickbay." Starscream said, "Immediately!"

While in vehicle mode, and with Gust in the passenger's seat of Bumblebee, they drove avoiding the oncoming missiles that Skyquake had fired at them as well as bullets. Gust watched Skyquake via rearview mirror.

"This is definitely getting us nowhere!" Gust said, "We need a new plan!"

A missile had fired close behind Optimus and he ended up flying while transforming from his vehicle mode, he toppled.

"OPTIMUS!" Gust exclaimed, "BEE WE HAVE TO TURN AROUND AND HELP HIM!"

"{I can't exactly do that with the raining bullets right now!}" Bumblebee said as he dodged the bullets that Skyquake had continued to fire. Gust looked ahead and tried to think of something; that's when she saw a pathway up ahead that lead up to the cliffs. She quickly hatched an idea.

"Bee, I've got it!" Gust said, "I know how we can beat this guy! Turn here and throw me when I tell you!"

"{You got it!}" Bumblebee said as he quickly turned the way Gust had told him to go; Skyquake quickly evaded when he got close to the ground. When they got to the top, Bumblebee transformed into his robot mode, holding onto Gust with his servo. They soon got to the edge where they saw Skyquake circle back.

"NOW BEE! THROW ME!" Gust yelled.

With a powerful throw, Bumblebee throw Gust towards Skyquake and she landed on his wing. Immediately when she did, Skyquake did the best he could to shake her off. Gust managed to hang on tight with the help of her talons. "Okay, I didn't want to have to use this… But here goes nothing." Gust said to herself as she shut her eyes.

The second she opened her eyes, it glowed a purple color, and her Cybertronian arm glowed purple as well. She clenched her first and purple flames appeared, and she started to dig into Skyquake wing crippling it. The wing ended up catching on fire as they started to fall towards the ground; her eyes changed back to an odd color.

"OH GOD, I DIDN'T THINK THIS THROUGH!" Gust exclaimed.

Just than she heard Fowler over her coms, "Gust! Jump onto my wing!"

Her eyes switched to white, and she used the white energon to enhance her jumps. She jumped on over to Fowler's plane just as Skyquake went crashing to the ground near where Optimus was. After awhile she jumped off of Fowler's jet and landed in Bumblebees open servo.

"Okay…" Gust said, taking deep breaths, "... I'm never doing that again…"

Bumblebee and Gust soon joined up with Optimus, who was now standing over the corpse of Skyquake. "I guess, the crash must've finished him off." Gust said to Optimus, taking a moment to look at her talons.

"Had Skyquake chosen to stray from his Master's path, we might not be burying him today." Optimus said to them.

-Sometime Later-

After burying Skyquake, Optimus, Bumblebee, and Gust returned to base. Ratchet tended over to Bumblebee while Gust was recieving a scolding from Jolt after he had heard what happened. "Jolt for the hundredth time, I am sorry, but it seemed like a good idea at the time." Gust said to him.

Jolt growled at her angrily. "Geez, you're never gonna let me this down." Gust said.

"Gust, putting yourself and Bumblebee at risk was perhaps not the wisest of strategies." Optimus said, "But you both performed admirably."

"{Thank you Optimus.}" Bumblebee said.

"Eh, it was no problem, really." Gust said with a shrug before heading down one of the halls, "No if you'll excuse me, I've gotta go catch some shut eye. After all, I've got school tomorrow."

With that Gust went down the hall along with Jolt to her room for the night. The room that she stayed in was very spacious and had a loft since she always liked high places; there was some space for the bed so that a desk and computer could fit. Changing into her pjs, which was a standard purple t-shirt with long gray sweatpants, she climbed up onto the loft and undid her ponytail letting her hair fall loosely.

She noticed that some of the blue had gotten on her hand; she looked into a mirror that was provided and saw a large patch of or her own chestnut brown hair was revealed.

She sighed, "I really hate this cheap hair dye, but… I'm gonna have to stick with it. I'll just put on a new batch tomorrow before I go."

Grabbing a towel she got off all of the hair dye, turning her hair from blue back to her natural hair color brown so that the hair dye wouldn't stain on the pillow provided. For a moment she looked herself in the mirror and just for a split second she caught the glimpse of strange purple eyes looking at her. This caused her to jump and quickly turn around; though she clearly saw that there was no one behind her.

"What…" She said to herself, "... What was that…?"

-The Next Day-

The school day was long, that was for sure, but luckily everyone at the school was excused earlier than usually after… Certain events had transpired. Gust rode in on Jolt, while Jack, Miko and Raf rode in on their usual rides with their Autobot partners. Ratchet saw them come back and excitedly went over to them.

"Ah, there you are!" Ratchet said, "Well how were my-I mean our projects received?"

Gust let out a sigh, "Well good new is that I got an A on my science project, bad news…" She pointed over to Jack, Miko, and Raf who were giving Ratchet a certain look, "They got a failing grade."

"What?! Why?!" Ratchet said.

"Well how do I put this…" Gust said, "... Miko's was on Cybertron which no one technically hasn't heard about, Jack's went on a rampage that is nothing like a motorcycle, and Raf's 'volcano' left a hole in the roof and two floors of the school building."

Ratchet didn't seem all to pleased about that, "Well, on our planet you would have been awarded the highest honors!"

Ratchet walked away from them while grumbling angrily. Gust turned to the three of them, "This is why I get my projects done as quickly as possible."

"Yeah… We see that now." Jack said.

"{Maybe having Ratchet help them out with their projects wasn't the best idea.}" Bumblebee said to Ratchet.

"Indeed Bumblebee." Optimus said, "Our human friends would've been wise to stray from Ratchet's path."

Gust couldn't help but chuckle at that, which earned a look from her three new friends, "What? It's funny."

-Decepticon Warship Nemesis-

Nightblade sat in a fetal position just next to the helm of Megatron, looking at the various wires plugged into almost every part of his body. She couldn't help but worry about the Decepticon leader, and since Starscream had bought him into sickbay, she didn't move from that spot in the last 24 hours; she didn't even sleep. She was scared, and that was something she usually kept hidden well until now. It was seen clearly on her face and in her eyes, any of comrades could tell from a mile away.

Starscream and Soundwave stood in front of where Megatron slept.

"We were lucky to have gotten him to sick bay and put him in stasis." Nightblade said to Starscream and Soundwave.

"Yes." Starscream said, "The troops will be pleased to hear of our success… Let us hope our Master pulls through."

Unaware to Soundwave and even Nightblade herself, they didn't realize that Starscream didn't sound all to pleased as either of them were, that Megatron was currently in stasis.

(Ending Theme: Black Butler Ending 1 I'm Alive Performed By Becca)

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