Back at the Autobot base, everyone was surprised to see Sunstreaker again after losing Brawn the day before.
Tamaki: I see that you've decided to come back after a short time.
Sunstreaker: It's not like I had anywhere to go or anything.
Optimus walks towards Sunstreaker.
Optimus Prime: But whatever the case, I advise you to never go on your own again; your sibling has worried about you.
Sunstreaker: I understand, Optimus. I just wanted to find Brawn's killer and...
Optimus Prime: Revenge will not bring back the Fallen. You mustn't allow vengeance will only cloud your judgement.
Sunstreaker nods at Optimus, Tamaki could easily see that Optimus was a good leader, because like him, Optimus cares about the other's well-being more than he did his own; Tamaki didn't let anger over being seperated from his mother get in the way of his judgement. Meanwhile, back at the Energon mines, Megatron is preparing to test the piece of Dark Energon.
Megatron: Now we will see if power born from darkness can reignite the Spark.
Megatron jams the Dark Energon shard into Brawn's Spark chamber; Brawn's body gives off a purple glow when the Dark Energon sinks into his Spark chamber. Brawn opens his eyes, but he is not his usual self; the fallen Autobot gives off a hostile snarl as he breaks from his restraints. Two Vehicons shoots at the zombie Brawn, but their blast is having no effect; it jumps towards one of them and attacks the Decepticon soldier, biting the blaster when he was trying to get the undead Cybertronian off of him. The other one tries to save his comrade, but it attacks him as well; Starscream gives of a terror in his tone.
Starscream: (terrified) That's your plan?! Bring Autobots back from the dead to attack us?!
Megatron: That is no longer an Autotbot; it's a mindless beast whose only instinct is to destroy everything in it's path.
The Brawn terrorcon makes an attempt to attack Megatron, but he uses his blade to cut it in half; as the terrorcon falls but he still has one arm, as it climbs back up.
Megatron: There Starscream; the seed of my undead army.
Megatron kicks the Brawn terrorcon down a level.
Megatron: Once I learn to control it.
Back at the Autobot base, Brawn's signal pops up.
Ratchet: What could this be? Optimus! Brawn's life signal popped back online!
Misaki: Brawn?!
Shintani: Who's Brawn?
Hikaru: Another Autobot.
Kaoru: Hold on, I thought that he was dead...
Optimus Prime: How is this possible?
Ratchet: It's not! It's gotta be some kind of Decepticon trick to lure us out of hiding!
Sunstreaker: Maybe not!
Sideswipe: Sunstreaker.
Sunstreaker: There's a chance that he might still be alive! We've got to help him! He'd do the same for any of us!
Drift: Sunstreaker is right, trick or not we can't just sit here and do nothing!
Optimus Prime: And we won't. Half of us will go aid him, and the rest will remain here with our human allies.
Arcee: How do we play it out?
Optimus Prime: Arcee, Bumblebee, Bulkhead, Cliffjumper, Sideswipe, and Sunstreaker with me! Jazz, you will assume command in our abscene!
Jazz: Sure thing, Prime! Ratchet! Lock onto Brawn's coordinates!
Ratchet activates the ground bridge, a green tunnel opens up.
Optimus Prime: Prepare a sick bay, because we may need it. Autobots! Transform and roll out!
Optimus and his squad transforms to vehicle mode to rescue their comrade in need; the ground bridge closes.
Shintani: What just happened?
Ratchet: I've just activated the ground bridge and sent them to those set of coordinates.
Hikaru and Kaoru: Ground bridge?
Kyuoya: It's sort of like "space bridge", but it's Earth bound; Ratchet specifically designed it to teleport them anywhere on Earth, but I doubt that they have the Energon and resources for it.
Haruhi: Okay, how do YOU know so much all of a sudden?
The Autobots arrived in the mines and all is quiet, so far. They come behind huge boulders.
Cliffjumper: Do you think they know we're here yet?
The Vehicons open fire on the Autobots, as they are behind huge rocks to block the blasts.
Sideswipe: You had to ask!
Optimus Prime: Open fire!
The seven bots fires back at the Vehicons wiping them out one by one, then they procede to the mining operations.
Bulkhead: Look at all that sweet fuel.
Sunstreaker: Where's Brawn?
Bumblebee: He's here somewhere.
Sunstorm walks by a trooper and he spots the Autobots hding below.
Sunstorm: Autobots! Fire!
The Autobots and Decepticons fires at each other, some vehicons are hit by the blast, Slipstream comes to what the commotion was about, and she sees the battle between the two forces, she makes contact with Starscream.
Slipstream: Commander Starscream! The Autobots have arrived!
Starscream: (over Slipstream's com) Then scrap them!
As the battle continues, Sunstreaker sees the mutilated Brawn a few levels up.
Sunstreaker: I have a visual! It's Brawn!
Optimus Prime: We'll cover you! Go!
Sunstreaker shoots his way towards Brawn, he makes it up to his level, and he notices that Brawn was in half, and he leaking a purple substance, but he goes towards him as the floor begins to come apart; Sunstreaker grabs Brawn's hand before he could fall.
Suntreaker: I've got ya, old timer! Let's get you home!
The Brawn Terrorcon snarls at him, Sunstreaker is shocked to see what happened to him. As the zombiefied Brawn attempts to attack Sunstreaker, he lets go and he falls, Sunstreaker olds out his hand in a no pose. Optmis and the others fires their way towards Suntreaker and they notice him falling.
Optimus Prime: No...
Aboard the Nemesis, Megatron is gazing upon the Dark Energon, pondering how to control it's power.
Megatron: Blood of Unicron... how might I fathom the depths of your mystery, become worthy of weilding your astonishing power?
Starscream: Lord Megatron, we have intruders in the mines.
Megatron: Optimus?
Starscream: Indeed.
Megatron: I need more time prepare an apprioate reception for my old friend. Prepare the ship for departure.
Starscream: But the Energon I've mined! The Autobots will seize it!
Megatron: Then blow the mines!
The Autobots continue their assualt, and Stascream come out laughing.
Bulkhead: Starscream!
Arcee: No surprises here!
Starscream: Prime. I've stick around, but I've got to go.
Starscream drops a grenade into the Energon, he jumps and transforms into his jet mode; as the bomb falls Sunstorm wasn't to stick around.
Sunstorm: I'm out of here!
Sunstorm transform into his jet mode and flies off.
Arcee: This place is gonna blow!
Bumblebee: We've better get out of here!
Optimus Prime: Autobots! Roll out!
The Autobots transform into their vehicle mode, and drives off the bomb then explodes, a blue cloud comes up behind them.
Optimus Prime: Ratchet! Bridge us back! Use the arrival coordinates now!
Ratchet activates the ground bridge to bring them back, the Autobots arrives in this order: Bumblebee, Arcee, Bulkhead, Sideswipe, Cliffjumper, Sunstreaker, Optimus; the ground bridge closes as before the explosion could take them.
Tamaki: Wow...
Takumi: Taking a bit close.
Ratchet: Indeed. How about Brawn?
Optimus and the others did not answer.
Honey: What was that explosion?
Haruhi: What happened?
Misaki: Was there a fight?
Arcee: There was.
Cliffjumper: Something happened.
Sideswipe: Sunstreaker had Brawn, but he dropped him.
Hikaru: What?
Kaoru: Seriously? You screwed up!
Sideswipe: Look...
Kyuoya: It's best that we hear what they have to say in this.
Opimus Prime: Suntreaker, what did you see?
Sunstreaker: It wasn't Brawn... not anymore. He mutated and butchered like something those con experiments back on Cybertron.
Sunstreaker suddenly felt weak and he leans on a box.
Bumblebee: Are you okay?
Sunstreaker: I'm fine... just dizzy...
Shintani: They can get dizzy?
Misaki: They also have emotions.
Haruhi: And they can die.
Ratchet scans Sunstreaker for the source of his dizziness, and he finds it.
Ratchet: What is this?
The medic notices the purple substance on Sunstreaker's hand.
Sunstreaker: I don't know. Brawn wasn't just covered in it, he was leaking it.
Ratchet uses a scaple to scrape it off of him.
Ratchet: You should go take a decontamination bath at once.
Sudeswipe escorts his twin towards the decontamination bath, Optimus has a grave suspicion; he did want to believe it, but he knew that there was one thing that could have risen Brawn from the dead, Dark Energon. Later, that night in Haruhi's bedroom couldn't help but wonder about what could have happened to make Brawn come back and go again, but Haruhi wasn't the type to believe in zombies or any supernatural outbreak, but she knew for sure that something was not right.
Yeah I know, like Transformers Prime don't give me flames here, but I'll end the chapter here and prepare an another one soon enough.
