Bulkhead and Bumblebee starts waking up and find themselves back at base in med-bay, "Ohh what happened?" Bulkhead asked as he held his helm.

"There was an explosion, you guys are lucky to have made it out alive" Ratchet replied.

Bee looks around, Where's Arcee? he then asked after not seeing Arcee anywhere. Ratchet let out a heavy sigh and looked at Optimus.

"Megatron came into the mine after the explosion, I suppose to see what he could salvage. He found Arcee unconscious and took her, the last I saw of her she was being carried through the groundbridge back to the Nemesis by Megatron. I got up and went to stop him but my legs were too weak and I could do nothing except watch as they disappeared into the bridge" Optimus spoke up with a heavy spark.

"So Megatron now has her. We wasn't able to keep her safe from him" Bulkhead say with his optics casted towards the ground. What was he gonna tell Wheeljack if he came now?

"We'll get her back, one way or another" Optimus said with determination, he wasn't gonna just sit back while one of his soldiers were in the hands of the enemy.

Think we can reason with him to give her back? Bee asked hopeful that it would work.

"Doubt it, Megatron's not one to give up something he really wants" Optimus replied.

"Yeah and he really wants Arcee, been wanting her since before the war. Arcee and I had hopes that he would have forgotten and lost them feelings but this proves he still has the feelings for her and still wants to make her his mate. Something I knew deep down even though I would never mention it in front of her"

"Ratchet look and see if you can find their signal, Arcee's at least, anything that will tell us where they could be so we can go and try to get her back" Optimus told his medic and old friend.

"Sure thing Optimus" Ratchet says as he goes over to the computers to take a look.


Arcee wakes up with a pounding in her processor, she holds it as she tries to get her systems functioning properly again, "Ugh my head. Optimus? Bulkhead? Bumblebee? What happened guys?" she then looked around, "Guys?" that's when she noticed she wasn't with her teammates, she was in an unfamiliar room. She saw a little computer on one side of the room and a work table with datapads and stuff on it on the other side, she then noticed she was in a big berth, a king sized berth. She gets up off the berth and goes over to the table and looks at the datapads, she sees a lot of Decepticon stuff, plans and everything, "Am I on the Decepticon war ship?" she asks herself. Her optics then widen as she comes to a realization, "Oh no don't tell me Megatron captured me" she says in a bit of a panic. She runs to the door to get out but finds the door locked, she looks at the keypad and tries to figure the code to open it but to no success, she soon realized the door was locked from the other side so it won't open until the owner of the room returned. But she wasn't gonna have that, she transformed her hand to her gun and shot at the pad which malfunctioned and the door opened. With a smile she headed out, she looked around for any of the cons, she knew there was gonna be hundreds around since it was the Decepticon war ship, she just hoped she doesn't run into Megatron. She ran through the corridors, when she turned a corner she saw two drones headed her way and she ducked behind the wall and waited for the two to go by then she went on her way. She felt the ship moving and rumbling and knew they were in the sky so she decided to head for the groundbridge control room.

Megatron gets back to his room to see if Arcee had woken up, when he gets there he sees the door open and Arcee gone, "She got out!" he went to his computer and contacted Soundwave, "Soundwave, Arcee got out, find her" he then left out of the room to see where Arcee went as he called out, "THE FEMME IS ESCAPING! STOP HER!"

Hearing Megatron's voice ringing through the ship Arcee knew he had discovered she was gone and she went as fast as she could to the bridge control room. She went down one corridor and saw at least half a dozen of Vehicons running towards her to stop her and she turned around to go back and went down another corridor where she ran into three more Vehicons, but these ones she fought and took them down. She then proceeded on to the bridge control room, she gets there and goes over to the computer to put in the coordinates where she wants to go. Just as she started putting in the coordinates to start up the bridge she heard guns firing up, she looked and saw a group of Vehicons surrounding her along with Megatron, Soundwave and Starscream, "Going somewhere dear?" Megatron asked as he walked over to her, "Did you really think you could escape?"

"Can't blame a girl for trying" she replied as her faceplate turned into a scowl.

"Nice attempt but to no success" he says as he grabs her arm. He then pulls her out of the room and headed back to his room, "You're never getting away from me again, you will become my mate whether you want to or not"

"You can't force me to become your mate, it won't work unless I consent to it and my spark wants to merge with yours and it doesn't want to cause I don't want to be your mate so it's not gonna work"

Megatron let out a laugh, "Yes but what you don't know is that I now have a way to make you my mate without all that"

Her optics widened at the news, He can't be serious, please tell me he's not serious

They soon get to his room and he has her sit on the berth as he goes to look at the keypad to the door, after a bit of tinkering he was able to get it where the door could close, "You did some serious damage to this keypad, it's gonna take a lot of work to get it fixed" he says as he looks it over some more. He then turns and looks at her, "I'll worry about that later right now there's something else I need to do" he then said as he walked towards the berth. Arcee looked at him in fear as she scooted back to try and get away from him but she ended up getting against the wall and she could move no further. Her spark started racing as she watched the war lord, the muderer of many Cybertronians including her father, walking towards her, ready to dominate her and make her his mate. She's about to become mates with a monster and she didn't like it. Megatron got onto the berth and pulled Arcee closer then laid her down, "Please don't"

Megatron ignored her pleas as he started kissing her down her neck. His hand slowly went to her breast plate and he started removing it to reveal her spark. Arcee panicked and started wiggling to get out of his grasp and away from him but his body was laying on her and he had her pinned to the berth. He opened up her spark chamber then his own and before Arcee could do or say anything their sparks were connected. She screamed out as the harsh, coldness of his spark while he let out a groan. She felt herself connecting to him in a weird way, it wasn't normal, she shouldn't be connecting to him but she was but it didn't seem to be an ordinary spark bonding, it seemed different. She couldn't tell what it was, she just knew she didn't like it. The bonding went on for a little while and then it stopped and their sparks parted, as much as Arcee wanted to believe it didn't work she could feel it did, somehow it did work and she's now bonded with Megatron. Megatron then closed up his spark chamber and got off her and laid next to her on the berth, "Your now my mate and no one else will have you"

Arcee just closed up her spark chamber and turned around to lay on her side with her back to him. She then felt his arms wrap around her and then was pulled closer to him and was up against his body. She couldn't believe this was happening, this had to be a nightmare, just another nightmare that she will soon wake up from, but it wasn't a nightmare it was real. She laid there in his arms as lubricants started falling from her optics, she started thinking about Wheeljack and what he would think of this if he found out. Wheeljack was the mech she wanted to be with, to mate with and spend the rest of her life with but now she won't be able to cause she's mates with Megatron. But how? How is it possible that it worked? Everything spun around in her processor as she started to drift off into recharge.


The next day the Autobots were still trying to find signals, any signals to indicate where the Decepticon war ship was so they could save Arcee. While they were doing that they got a call from a bot they didn't expect to hear from just yet, "Wheeljack! You finally coming for a visit?" Bulkhead exclaimed.
"Yes I am. Sorry for the delay, I'll explain when I get there"

"Ok. We have something to tell you about too"

"Can't wait to hear it. Is Arcee there?"

Bulkhead looked at the others who just looked back at him with sad optics, he then looked back at the screen, "She's out on patrol" he then lied. He couldn't tell him, not yet.

"Alright, I'll just have to surprise her when she returns"

Bulkhead chuckled a bit, "Yeah, what a surprise it will be"

"Be there in a bit" Wheeljack said before he cut the transmission.

Bulkhead looked back to the others. How was he gonna tell Wheeljack Arcee was taken by Megatron? This was gonna push him over the edge, "We better get ready to tell him what happened" Ratchet says breaking the silence.

"Yeah" Bulkhead says as his optics casts off to the side.

"It's not gonna be easy for him to hear" Optimus put in.

"No it's not"

A bit later Wheeljack arrived and was greeted by the team, "I'll wait till Arcee gets here to explain why I'm overdue for a visit" Wheeljack tells them.

Bulkhead looks at his friend with sad optics as he tries to find a way to tell him what happened, "About Arcee.." he inhales deeply before going on, "Wheeljack she's not on patrol, I told you that cause I needed to find a way to tell you the truth"

Wheeljack looked at his friend with wondering optics. He started to get the feeling that something happened, "Did something happen Bulk?"

"She was taken by Megatron"

Wheeljack's optics went wide as his spark sank into his stomach, he felt confused and furious at the same time, "But I thought he was dead"

"So did we until we discovered he was alive.." Bulkhead then went into the story of Optimus getting sick and them looking for a cure and finding Megatron still alive.

"So when we thought he was dead he was actually still alive but in a coma?" Wheeljack asked once Bulkhead finished.

"Yes. We were surprised as well but none of us more surprised or affected by the discovery than Arcee, she was afraid he would come after her and take her, we tried to comfort her by saying that he wouldn't but we knew just as well that he would. Then yesterday we went to investigate an energon signal and we encountered the cons and got into a fight then the energon blew up and we were all knocked out. Optimus came to in the mine and saw Megatron carrying Arcee away and he tried to get up and go stop him but he was too weak from the blast he couldn't do anything. We're so sorry Wheeljack"

"I don't blame you guys, I'm sure you all did everything you could to keep her out of Megatron's hands. I'm not gonna let him keep her, I will get her back one way or another"

"And we'll be with you in the fight" Optimus announced, "She's one of my soldiers and I will not rest until I have my soldier back"

"I know. Do you guys have a plan?"

"No, we're still thinking it over. Right now we're trying to find some kind of signal that can inform us where the Nemesis is so we can get on board and get her, but no luck so far"

Wheeljack looked over to the computer, he was gonna find them no matter what and he was gonna get his femme back.

TO BE CONTINUED...