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beccalovesbumblebee- I do not own TFP.

Chapter three

The ping was heard throughout the Autobot base. Ratchet was brought to the bases control center instantly. He couldn't believe what he was seeing, there was another Autobot on Earth. Everyone else that heard the alarm go off on the computer came into the room shortly after Ratchet had.

"What's going on Ratchet?" Arcee asked.

Ratchet opened his mouth to speak, but Wheeljack beat him to it. "There is another bot on this rock. I can't believe it." He sounded utterly shocked.

"What? Are we sure it isn't just another Con in disguise?" Bulkhead asked looking to Prime for agreement. Optimus Prime didn't look like he was sure of anything.

"Bulk it isn't a Con. I would know that signal anywhere, it's Crusher. A Fembot that was one of my contacts eons ago," Wheeljack explained.

"How can you be so sure?" Arcee asked, it was no secret she didn't trust the wrecker, but even this question seemed cold.

"It would explain the spike in Decepticon activity," Bumblebee interjected.

"Arcee, we cannot say that it isn't an Autobot. If it is a comrade in distress it is our job to help her out," Prime said looking at the others. "Ratchet, trace her co-ordinates and bridge us to her."

They opened the ground-bridge, but no one would expect what happened next.

Bonecrusher kept driving, she couldn't stop she had too many cons on her tail to slow down. Erick was freaking out. He had slipped out of his seat belt, and was watching the cons gain on them.

"What are we going to do?" Erick asked in an obvious panic.

"I don't know, kid. I may have to fight our way out of this," Bonecrusher sounded worried herself. She wasn't worried for herself though, she was worried for Erick. The truth was she lost her reason to live a long time ago.

"You against all of them! Are you sure you can do this?" Erick asked.

"I don't know, Erick. Just stay behind me, and if something bad happens to me, I'm sorry." She stopped suddenly and transformed, setting Erick down as gently as she could. "Behind me." Erick stayed close to her.

Just as the cons began to surround the pair, the Autobot's ground-bridge portal opened behind them. Erick stared into the swirling blue portal in confusion. "What is that?" He asked in awe.

"The good guys," Bonecrusher responded, at first she felt relief, but after she saw the scene around them she realized that she was just endangering the other bots safety. "Erick, forgive me for this." She pulled out her portal disk and threw it into the portal. It absorbed the transport energy and closed the portal. The cons grabbed her and Erick instantly. Erick tried to struggle, to fight back for Bonecrusher, he wanted to be more than useless in this fight.

"Erick, listen to me, stop fighting with them and go peacefully. The more you struggle, the worse they will treat you, and honestly struggling will do you no good. You can't fight them." She sounded like she was pain from the cons beating, and restraining her.

The Autobot's in the base were bewildered when the portal closed suddenly.

"Ratchet, what just happened?" Optimus asked in confusion.

"It had to be the cons," Arcee said sounding sure of herself, as usual.

"No, it was probably Crusher. She has portal disks," Wheeljack stated, when he recieved looks of confusion he explained, "They are disks that can absorb the transport energy."

"Jackie, you seem to know a lot about her," Bulkhead said giving Wheeljack a questioning look.

"Me and her have a history, can we keep it at that for now. I met her, before I had this scar," Wheeljack explained, pointing at the scar on his face.

"Well you may not see her again the cons have her now," Arcee said that out loud, she didn't mean to, but she did.

"Arcee!" Bumblebee yelled in his usual beeps and clicks. Jack's jaw dropped at what she said. Miko nearly dropped her cellphone as she texted.

Wheekljack got into Arcee's face and looked her in the optics. "If Bonecrusher was captured by the cons, she had a reason for it. Don't you talk about her like that she has seen more of this war than you have." He backed off, and drove out of the base to clear his head.

"Must be some history," Arcee and Bulkhead said at the same time.

They were transported to the Nemesis. Bonecrusher had already managed to figure out how to break her cuffs, but she had to save Erick as well. With one quick motion she busted her cuffs, and knocked a couple of vehicons off of the warship. The remaining cons pointed their blasters at Bonecrusher.

"Come any closer, and we kill the boy," the head vehicon said.

"Is that a threat? What makes you think I care if he lives, or dies?" Bonecrusher asked them coldly.

"You were running with him," one of them answered her.

"That was when I thought we had a chance, in the end I only care that I make it out online." She became her usual sassy self.

Erick was honestly scared by her words. "Did she really mean them?" He thought to himself.

"Then we shall kill him and the female." They placed him in the ground and were about to blast him, when Bonecrusher shielded him with her body.

"Bonecrusher?" Erick asked, he was nearly crying from fear.

"Sorry, if I worried you kid." She stood up shoving him behind her. "Looks like these vehicons are ready to die." She smirked at them before taking out her sword and stabbing one through the chest plate. Bonecrusher blasted a few of them and knocked the others off of the ship.

After they were gone she grabbed Erick, and ran with him into the warship. She turned on her signal dampener again, and hid in a storage closet for a moment.

"So, what do we do now?" Erick asked keeping his voice low.

"Find Emily, then I use this to get you two out of here." Bonecrusher held out the charged portal disk and showed it to him. She had two disks left, and only one was charged. Erick realized that she said you two, and not us. He looked at her with a worried expression, and decided to ask her about it.

"What about you?"

"Erick, I lost a lot in the war. I don't have much to keep on fighting for. I will be lucky to get you guys out of here alive," she stated. "So don't worry about me."

"So you lied about wanting to live? You don't care if you survive?" Erick asked getting a little angry at her, because she seemed like she was giving up.

"Relax," Bonecrusher said trying to calm the boy down. "Let's take this one step at a time."

After Wheeljack returned from his drive, he tried to keep tabs on Bonecrusher's energy signature. It was all he could do, since she was being transported to the Nemesis, and he had no way to get there without his ship, or the ground-bridge. As Ratchet was trying to get the ground-bridge back online, Bonecrusher's energy signal disappeared from the screen.

"Why did she just disappear?" Miko asked.

Wheeljack looked frustrated. "Doc, how's the bridge coming?"

He sighed loudly. "Wheeljack, she fried the system, and I don't think it will be a quick fix." Ratchet was angry, and done trying to mess with the circuitry of the ground-bridge.

"I understand Doc, I am sorry. When I think about her being in danger my processor gets a little frazzled," Wheeljack said, saying way more than he meant too.

"Is she dead?" Jack asked, not trying to be rude, but honestly curious about why she disappeared.

Wheeljack shook his head. "No, I would say she activated a signal dampener again, to avoid detection if she escapes."

"Why would she let herself be captured, instead of coming here when we sent the bridge for her?" Raf asked, trying to put logic to the situation.

"I don't know, kid. I don't know." Wheeljack turned away from the screen, and went back outside of the base to watch the sky.

It took them awhile, but after a lot of sneaking around and fighting, they finally found Emily. Erick ran to her side to check her, because she really didn't look good. The cons had tortured, and beat the hell out of her. Bonecrusher stood at the door and watched as Erick tried to wake her up. He went to check her pulse, when Bonecrusher said, "She is alive, Erick. I can sense that." As she finished her statement Emily's eyes opened slightly to see Erick.

"Erick, how'd you get here?" Her weak voice asked with a slight smile.

"With the help of a friend," He answered, but as she looked at Bonecrusher, her eye widened with fear and she trembled.

"Don't hurt us, I will tell you all that I know," Emily pleaded with Bonecrusher thinking she was one of the cons.

"I know it is hard for you to believe right now, but some of us are good guys. I'm here on a rescue mission, so I wouldn't hurt you." Bonecrusher tried to sound gentle for Emily's sake, but it was hard for her.

"She brought me here to save you, Em. I promise, I will get you out of here." Erick kissed the top of her head. "I'm sorry for this," He apologized, as Emily lost conciousness.

"She'll be alright. Now let's get out of here." Bonecrusher held Emily in her arm, and her blaster was out in the other. Stealth wasn't the plan on the way out. She took a page from Wheeljack's handbook, and fired first thought about it later. Whoever she saw she fired at, and that cycle continued until she reached the bay at the top of the ship. A bunch of cons were after her at this point, she even saw a few faces she remembered from Cybertron. She looked around, before placing Emily in Erick's arms. The two remaining portal disks were on her hip, she touched one gingerly, before throwing it onto the ground. With a crackle a portal opened, and Bonecrusher pushed Erick forward into it.

"Go, run. Don't look back." Her hand was on his back, pushing him and the girl into the edge of the portal.

"What about you?" Erick asked.

"You don't have time to question, Erick. GO!"

"But, BC."

"Kid, I am covering your retreat. You need to go, now." She was using her energy shield to cover them, but she couldn't hold it for very much longer.

Erick started to go deeper into the portal, when he heard her shield shatter like glass. He turned to look at her, but she was already surrounded by the bad guys. "Just remember I fought the good fight kid." He heard her say, as the portal snapped closed.