Lockdown checked the place out and waited until the day of the ceremony because that's when it would be less likely to as guarded. Plus he could also get a second bounty for Megatron, king of Kaonol.
Megatron had put a bounty out for whoever could bring him the handsome prince Optimus Prime would get a pretty hefty reward. He was going to grab Optimus, along with Prowl and wait for Jazz to come to try and save them then he would have all that he needs, once he turned Optimus over to Megatron that is.
On that day of the ceremony, he made his way in as a supposed guest when he wasn't. He then hid in the back to wait for his prey to come to walk down the aisle. He made sure that no one would be able to know it was him. He got a cheap temporary paint job, and was wearing a mask and hood. He stood in the back of the room next to the doors so he could pounce and then run off. Sentinel had already told him that he would give chase but let him escape.
Elita sat nervously as Arcee finished painting on her makeup and polishing her face and helm. "Now try and hold still I'm almost done." Arcee said with a smile, because she knew the young femme was so excited that she could barely contain it.
"I'm sorry Arcee. I've always have dreamed of this day ever since I first met Optimus. I just can't wait to see the look on his face when he sees me like this. I can't wait much longer. I just want to run down the aisle and kiss him and to have us be married. I just hope nothing goes wrong." Elita said while having a nagging feeling that something wasn't right.
"Don't worry everything will go down just as planned, or even better." Arcee reassured the young femme. "There finished." She added and moved so Elita could look at herself. Elita was stunned at how beautiful she looked.
There was then a knock on the door. "How are things coming along in there?" Ultra Magnus asked. Elita had asked him to walk her down the aisle since he was more of a father to her than her real father.
"We are finished." Arcee said with a smile. Then Ultra Magnus entered the room. He was really stunned by how beautiful Elita looked it reminded him of his late wife. "What do you think?" Arcee asked with a smile.
"You look stunning Elita. I think everyone is going be stunned by your beauty." Ultra Magnus said with a proud smile. He always treated Elita as his own because his sons told him about what her parents were doing to her but unfortunately he couldn't do anything about it, because he lacked evidence.
"You really think so?" Elita asked shyly.
"Yes I know so, youngling. Now come let's go get you bonded." Ultra Magnus said with as he held his arm up to her. She took it and grabbed her crystal flowers.
Elita was thankful to have Ultra Magnus walk her down the aisle because the people stared at her as the doors were opened. She was so beautiful that she almost made Lockdown forget his jobs. He waited until they had passed through the door before he snatched Elita away from Ultra Magnus. Thankfully he was on the right side so he didn't have to move around Ultra Magnus giving himself away to some of the Eastern Islanders.
Everyone gasped and turned to see what was going on as Optimus, Rodimus, and some of their friends including Sentinel took up their weapons out of their subspace, and of course, Ultra Magnus always had his hammer with him. "Release her at once!" Optimus ordered as he charged at Lockdown.
"Wrong move," Lockdown said as he slit Elita's neck cables and tossed her to the floor and then he caught Optimus and put him in stasis cuffs. He then fired a hook and chain that luckily caught both Jazz and Prowl. Jazz went to push Prowl out of the way of the hook and chain but they both ended up getting caught in it. Lockdown smiled and pulled them to him. He had Optimus over his shoulders and then took off knowing that Sentinel would never be able to catch up with him in time. Ratchet and Red Alert began to work on Elita to try and save her life while everyone else went after the assassin. Lockdown was able to make it to his ship and took off to Kaonol. "What do you want from us?" Prowl asked as him, Jazz and Optimus struggled to get free.
"There is a bounty on the pretty prince's head. Well there is a bounty on both but I will get the other prince in due time." Lockdown said as he got rid of the cheap paint and the voice changer.
"Lockdown." Jazz snarled. He knew of Lockdown and was the one that saved their Emperor Yoketron. It was before Yoketron and his daughter found Prowl barely online and nursed him back to health before she went and married Ultra Magnus.
"You remember me Jazz? I'm impressed." Lockdown said with an evil smile.
"You know him?" Optimus asked.
"Unfortunately yes, he is the student that betrayed Emperor Yoketron and tried to kill him to steal his daughter and his kingdom, but I put a stop to that. It was a few millennias before we found you Prowl." Jazz said.
"What do you want with us?" Prowl asked.
"Well there are multiple reasons why I want each of you. For the young prince I'm going to turn him over to Megatron to do whatever he wished with, and as for you two you are my payment for taking care of that pretty little femme." Lockdown said with a smile.
"Payment? What do you mean? You hired you to kill Elita?!" Optimus demanded as he struggled to get free.
"Well I told him that if I got both the bots I asked for I wouldn't tell, but I will give you a hint. It wasn't her parents." Lockdown said with a smile. Optimus was shocked, along with Jazz and Prowl. Elita never crossed anyone's path the wrong way. She was a kind and selfless femme. She would give up her armor if she could to someone that needed it more.
"Who hired you?" Jazz asked while glaring at Lockdown.
"If I tell you what will I get in return?" Lockdown asked with a wicked grin. He then began to grope Jazz's chaise. Jazz growled, he knew why Lockdown wanted him and Prowl. He wanted them to become his personal interfacing slaves.
"If you tell us, then I will give you what you want." Jazz said. He would rather get raped, than let Prowl or Optimus get raped. He knew Lockdown was twisted, but like the pit was he going to let him taint the son of one of his best friends or the one he has always had a crush on.
"And how do you know what I want? Like I said the reasons differ from bot to bot." Lockdown said.
"Because you would rather torture, and humiliate me; before you offline me. So what better way than to threaten to hand over my best friend's oldest son to her worse enemy, and also threaten the bot I dared to fall in love with?" Jazz asked while trying to keep his cool, but he also forgot that Optimus and Prowl were still in the room.
"Jazz?" Prowl asked in shock. He wasn't sure what to say, but his spark began to race, with happiness and excitement. Prowl had fallen for Jazz after he recovered from his first love which was Optimus' mother, but she chose Ultra Magnus over him.
"So which would you rather have me start with? The Prince or your lover?" Lockdown asked with a wicked grin.
"How about I let you start with me? I'm more experienced than those two, so I will at least be able to warm you up." Jazz said. Prowl and Optimus were at a lost for what they were talking about.
"Well alright then. It was the princes' personal knight that came to me and hired me to kill the femme." Lockdown said with a smile.
"You lie! Sentinel would never do such a thing!" Optimus yelled. He was in a state of shock. How could Sentinel do such a thing? He was one of his best friends and was his best bot at the ceremony.
"Oh? Why don't you watch this then?" Lockdown said and then played a video on his computer screen that showed him and Sentinel and you could hear what they were talking about. Optimus was so hurt, first he lost his love not once but twice, and now he found out that his best friend was the one to betray him and have his love killed for the second time.
"Optimus, you have to hang in there, alright? Elita is a tough femme; she will fight for her life. You will see, once we get back she will be there to greet us." Jazz said. He had used mores code to Prowl to try and escape while he kept Lockdown busy and to leave him behind he will catch up with them later. All that matters is getting Optimus back to Iaconia.
Prowl gave Jazz a worried look. He couldn't leave him with this sick freak, but Jazz just gave him a loving, and pleading smile. Lockdown put Jazz in stasis cuffs and hauled him into the other room, like Jazz had hoped. He didn't want them to watch what was going to happen to him.
Prowl then began to use his processor over matter to break the shackles. He then went and freed Optimus. "Come we must get you out of here." Prowl said quietly. They then heard Jazz scream in pain. Prowl closed his optics, to try and drown out the sounds of his lover in pain.
"What about Jazz?" Optimus asked. Like frag he was going to leave him with Lockdown.
"I'll come back for him once I get you off this ship at least. Here is a distress beacon. Only Emperor Yoketron can pick it up, he will find you and get you back to your family." Prowl said while handing him a necklace that all cyber ninjas wear.
"I'm not leaving either of you here with this freak." Optimus said as he got out his ax. Prowl sighed and then pitched the back of Optimus' neck knocking him out. He then went to the control panel and used it to lower the ship so he wouldn't hurt Optimus when he dropped him out. He found the exit attached the necklace activated it and then dropped him out of the ship, in a dense forested area.
Prowl then went back to save his new lover. He kicked down the door, and was stunned to see Jazz on his back legs spread and Lockdown's spike inside of Jazz's port. "Prowl! Run!" Jazz said between pants of pain. Lockdown had just shoved his spike right in without preparing Jazz.
Prowl was stunned at first but then his shock turned into anger. No one treats his new lover like that. Prowl then attacked Lockdown off of Jazz, which actually ripped Lockdown out of Jazz. Jazz couldn't help but scream out in pain.
*Please Primus kill me now!* Jazz thought as the pain rippled through the most sensitive spot on his body at the time.
Prowl just kept attacking Lockdown until he wasn't moving any more. He stopped and looked at his hands that were now covered in energon. *W-what have I done?* He asked himself in panic.
"Prowly calm down, it will take more than that to kill him. Trust me I should know." Jazz said while trying to focus on getting rid of the pain, but it wasn't working.
"Jazz, are you alright?" Prowl asked while going to him. He then freed Jazz and helped him up.
"I'm in pain, but I will live. Come on let's get out of here before he wakes up, and next time wait for a bot to ease out of the other, that fraggin' hurts." Jazz said while allowing Prowl to help him out of the ship. "Where is O.P.?" Jazz asked.
"I knocked him out and tossed him off the ship a ways back, he has my distress beacon on him and I made sure it was turned on." Prowl said. Jazz sighed.
"Prowl you were supposed to stay with him and protect him. We are probably in Kaonol territory by now." Jazz said as he moved from Prowl and then jumped off the ship. This was going to hurt but they needed to find Optimus and fast before he was either taken to Megatron or sold into the interfacing trade.