ANIMEQUEEN! Thank you for finally asking this. The autobots are finally involved.
Optimus and his team had surrounded the pit spawn of a medic the 'cons have.
"Knockout! What have you fraggers done with Jack? It's been three fragging weeks, if you-" Arcee had vocally attacked the medic before suddenly falling silent as the cheeky fragger showed a video of Jack walking to Skyquake's open palm, wearing a bow and a bell that would have belonged just as easily to a cyber kitten.
"I've done nothing to skyquakes new little pet. Adorable, isn't he?"
"You've no-" Arcee began on her tyrade of words and laser blasts to only be cut off by Optimus.
"Arcee, stand down. Knockout, what has happened to Jackson Darby?"
"All skyquake did was love as any good master would do." Knockout said with a smirk before disappearing into a ground bridge.
"Jack... What terror could they be threatening him with to make him turn into a common pet?" Bee asked solemnly.
"Those Fraggers will pay!" Arcee bellowed, destroying a boulder in her fury.
"Jack will not be on the nemesis for longer than necessary, arcee, but for his safety we must carefully plan his rescue." Optimus said in a rare spout of rage.
Bulkhead was speechless, his wrecking ball staying in the same place it had been in since he saw the video...
As for ratchet, well, let's just saw the 'cons weren't the only ones who had been threatened when the medic saw a recording of the event THREE MINUTES AFTER THE TEAM HAD BEEN GROUNDBRIDGED in... Their human partners were not at base at the time the video was shown, and the news has not yet been disclosed to them...
I hope there's enough random foreshadowing that another prompt will be related to this one. I like a combination of Bots and cons chapters