"Back off, Lugnut." Bumblebee pushed Sunwing behind him protectively. The purple giant advanced closer. Sunwing looked into the decepticon's eye and saw only anger within. He would not spare her. Not a chance. Bee growled. "I'm warning you, if you hurt my sparkling…"Lugnut said nothing, just walked closer until he was almost directly in front of the two cowering bots. Sunwing screamed. Over the comm link she heard Bee's voice.

'Sunny, when I fire my stingers you run.' The tone of voice said that there would be no arguing. Sunwing looked up at her mother, terror in her eyes. Bee braced himself for the attack and prepared his stingers. Sunwing got ready to run.

Lugnut was in Bee's face when he launched his attack. He lined his stingers up with Lugnut's chin and let out a pulse of electricity so strong that Sunwing felt it. Lugnut roared in pain and fell over. "NOW!" screamed Bumblebee, charging up for another attack. Sunwing got to her feet and ran as fast she could. He heard a sickening shout and looked back. Lugnut was back on his feet, and if there was pity in him before it was gone. She slid to a halt, ready to run to her mother's aid. Suddenly the floor began to shake. Sunwing leapt up and hovered. She saw Bee smile at her, right before his face met Lugnut's fist. She couldn't look anymore. Guilt plaguing her heart, she flew away.

Bee whimpered sadly as his face was driven into the floor. At least Sunwing was safe. But where was the rest of his family? Starcrusher and Megs? And what about the ninjas? Surely they had heard the crashes…he looked up at his assailant's face. Judging by the look he saw they wouldn't be able to get there in time. He was going to die.

'SLAG NO! I will not die like this!' He thought. He kicked at Lugnut, who seemed unfazed by the attempts at self-preservation. He could feel the floor starting to give way under him. He only had one shot. Lugnut's eye.

He managed to get control over one of his arms that was wildly flailing around. His sensors screamed that he didn't have enough power to charge an attack, but Bumblebee ignored his body and began to power up. When Lugnut had stopped punching him, probably to charge his strongest attack, Bumblebee drove his stinger into the purple giant's eye.

Lugnut howled in pain as electricity was sent through his every sensor, right through to the processor. He lost consciousness and began to fall. Bumblebee managed to move away from the falling body with the small bit of energy he had left, but the body hitting the ground knocked him to his feet. Bumblebee's optics flickered as he lay on the ground.

"I won't die, I can't." He muttered over and over, as his optics flickered out. He managed to stay online for a few more minutes and heard the sound of his name being called and someone rushing to his side. But he couldn't tell who it was. As his head was being lifted he went offline.

Megatron looked over the inmates. So far none had tried to escape, making his job that much easier. Shockwave was going through all of them and making sure none were damaged. Megatron spotted Soundwave and Rodimus Prime having a friendly conversation. He smirked. He never dreamed that peace could be so…rewarding. And he owed it all to his little Bee.

Speaking of him, where was Bee? Megatron knew that his mate spent a lot of his free time at the academy. His thoughts were disrupted when he felt the ground shaking. 'Ugh. Rumble.'

He stomped over to the sparkling and glared at him. Rumble looked up nervously. "Yes, Lord Megatron?" he squeaked.

"Control yourself!" barked Megatron. Rumble murmured something. "What was that?"

"I'm worried about Sunwing. She didn't come to play today." Megatron looked over the young bot's shoulders and saw that the other cassettes were looking much the same. "And Lazerbeak thought she heard her upstairs, but Soundwave wouldn't let us go look…"

Lazerbeak was rarely wrong. Megatron turned to run up the stairs but crashed into a much smaller object. He looked down to see his daughter at his feet. He scooped Sunwing up into a hug. "I was so worried about you, love." He kissed her forehead and noticed that she was crying. "What is it dear one?" He asked softly.

"Mum." She whispered. Megatron froze. He almost dropped his daughter in shock. He started to go up the stairs, but Shockwave stopped him.

"Sir, the computer's scans reveal that the floor has been severely weakened by an impact of some sort." Megatron felt sick. "I suggest sending one of the ninja's up to look." Megatron nodded numbly. Shockwave nodded at Prowl, who bolted up the stairs. Sunwing clutched at him tighter. Prowl's cries proved what he had already suspected. His mate was severely wounded, maybe dead. To top it off, he had no idea were his son was.

Everything was truly falling apart.