Disclaimer: I do not own Transformers or any of the characters in it. Aly Rose, Zoe Smith, and Moonraider belong to me.

If it hadn't of been for the fact that she was the reason Bumblebee had been captured by Sector Seven, Aly was pretty sure that she would have been feeling bad for Moonraider right about now. The femme was taking a pretty bad beating from Starscream after all and the teen was pretty doubtful that she was going to able to beat him now. She couldn't help but wince when Starscream bent one of her door wings back. Bumblebee had told her that door wings were slightly sensitive appendages and that when they were damaged, it hurt a lot. Bumblebee kept giving her a pleading look. Aly knew that he wanted her to leave now, but she just couldn't. Sure he was her guardian and it was his job to protect her, but he was also her brother, so shouldn't she protect him? She thought that she should, but it was clear that Bumblebee had another opinion entirely. Though she could understand where he was coming from. After all it was no longer humans that she was protecting him from, it was giant alien robots. Giant alien robots that could step on her and squish her like an ant. Aly tried not to think too much about that as she watched the two fighting Decepticons.

"Starscream enough."

Both of the Decepticons paused in their fighting – well Starscream paused, Moonraider collapsed to the ground in exhaustion. Bumblebee tensed and a look of fear showed itself on his face as the newcomer walked in. The hulking form of the Decepticon leader caused the room to slightly shake as he walked closer to his second in command.

Megatron can't be here! Not while Aly's here! Bumblebee thought with panic. At least the Decepticon leader hadn't seemed to notice them yet, but as soon as he was done with Starscream and Moonraider, Bumblebee was worried that they would catch his attention.

"'Bee?" the human whispered. "Who's that?"

"Megatron…" Bumblebee hesitantly answered, trying to hide the panic in his voice.

Aly's light blue eyes widened at Bumblebee's words. This was Megatron? This was the Decepticon leader that the Autobots had told her about? He was so much bigger than she had expected. He had to be the same size as Optimus, if not a tad bit bigger. The major difference though, was while Optimus' form could be intimidating at first; you soon would realize that he wouldn't harm you. Megaton on the other hand was terrifying. There were many sharp points on his armor and there was a huge cannon on one of his arms. It was clear that he wouldn't hesitate to hurt anyone who got in his way.

Now she was hoping that Elita had called the other Autobots too. If she hadn't, they were going to be in a lot of trouble.

Megatron glanced at his second in command without much thought. He was impressed at the Seeker's work, but he would not say anything to Starscream about that. He turned his entire focus to the femme on the ground. Moonraider shrank under his furious gaze, her damaged form trembling. Energon was oozing out of her wounds and if it was not patched up, there was a high chance of her going into stasis. Megatron charged up his fusion cannon and aimed it at Moonraider.

"You are no longer any use to me Moonraider. I will not tolerate traitors in my army."

"A-and yet you l-let the biggest traitor stand by your side," Moonraider weakly chuckled.

Megatron let out a growl and fired his cannon, efficiently knocking the femme out. She wasn't dead… yet, but without any medical attention soon, she wouldn't be causing him trouble anymore. Megatron turned his head and noticed the Autobot's scout strapped to the human's examination table.

"Well if it isn't my brother's precious scout," Megatron sneered as he strode over to Bumblebee, before glancing at Aly. "And you've brought a little pet too."

Unlike when Moonraider had called her a pet, Aly remained silent. She was annoyed by the comment, but her fear was currently overruling her urge to fuss about it. Considering who her insulter was it was probably a good thing. She looked away from Megatron, and focused on her guardian next to her instead. Bumblebee was trembling. She had never seen him this scared before; though that could be because of the short time she had known him.

"I see you remember our last encounter," the Decepticon leader tapped a claw on Bumblebee's throat, causing the youngling's trembling to increase.

"Still threatening younglings I see."

The sound of Elita's voice was a huge relief for both Aly and Bumblebee. Help had finally arrived.

"Elita, I'm surprised to see that Optimus is not with you. After all, my brother doesn't normally let his sparkmate confront me alone."

"Sometimes we have no choice in the matter. Now step away from Bumblebee and Aly."

Elita had her right arm transformed into a blaster, and had it aimed at Megatron. It was clear that she was going to protect the scout and human. If Megatron or Starscream attempted to harm either one of them, they were going to have to deal with her.

"I will never understand why you Autobots are so interested in protecting a pathetic human," Starscream scoffed, receiving a glare from Aly.

"Alyson is under Autobot protection. If you harm her, or any other human for that matter, you deal with all of us."

: Lord Megatron if I may, this is an opportunity that we cannot pass up. One of Prime's most trusted soldiers, his sparkmate, and their human ally… any one of those could give us an advantage over the Autobots if we captured them. : Starscream sent through the comm.

: For once I agree with you Starscream. But I will not take merely one. Grab the human; she will give us the leverage we need. :

Starscream looked at the human female. She didn't appear to be paying much attention to himself or to Megatron for that matter. More than likely she was terrified at the current predicament and was trying to keep herself from going into shock.

'It's only about to get worse for you girl,' Starscream smirked to himself.

While Elita and Bumblebee weren't paying much attention to him or the human, Starscream slipped over and snatched her up – making sure to place one talon over her mouth to where she wouldn't be able to speak. After all there was no point in alerting the two Autobots to what he and Megatron were planning before it was necessary. Aly immediately struggled in his grip, but Starscream wasn't going to let go and he made sure to tighten his hold on her slightly to make her stop her muffled screams.

"You have left me with too good of an opportunity here Elita. My brother's sparkmate and his scout would make excellent prisoners for me."

"Optimus is on his way Megatron-" Elita started to say, but Megatron cut her off.

"Well it appears I don't have much time to waste. One of you will come with me as a prisoner and we will be gone before Optimus arrives."

"And if we refuse?"

"Then you won't have a human to worry about anymore."

Elita's and Bumblebee's optics widened when they saw that Starscream had Aly. Bumblebee quickly started to struggle to get out of the bonds that were keeping him from helping his friend. In a split second his helpless optics met her terrified eyes, and Bumblebee knew that if he wanted to make sure that she was going to be safe, he was going to have to let Megatron capture him again… But right before he could say anything, Elita spoke.

"I'll go."

Bumblebee looked at Elita in surprise right before the femme sent him a message over the comm.

: I am not letting Megatron have you as a captive again Bumblebee. When we got you back last time, you were near death. I don't want to see that again. :

: But he has Aly… :

: And I will keep her safe. Do you believe that she would be better off if she had to see you tortured? Don't make this more traumatizing for her. And Optimus will be able to find me, and by extension Aly, through our bond. It would be more difficult with you. :

Bumblebee gave Elita a look of defeat, before looking back at Aly with sadness. He couldn't believe that the Decepticons were about to take her away. Now he felt like he had failed as her guardian. He was supposed to keep her away from the Decepticons, and he hadn't been able to do that. Optimus would probably take him off of guardian duty once they were able to get her and Elita back.

"I'm going Megatron," Elita restated. "You're not harming that youngling again."

"I find it interesting that you would risk your life for one youngling Elita," Megatron chuckled as he roughly grabbed her arm. "Have fun scout."

Megatron bawled his free hand into a fist and slammed it down on Bumblebee's head – knocking him out before ordering Starscream to leave.

Elita looked at the shivering human that was sitting next to her in the brig of the Nemesis. The teen hadn't said a word since they had arrived and it was clear that Aly was terrified at the current situation. Of course she wasn't the only one. Elita could feel all of Optimus' worry for the two of them clearly over their bond.

(Are you both still alright?)

(No one has come near us since we've arrived Optimus. Aly is still terrified though. Has Megatron contacted you about any of this?)

(No. Elita I have no idea what my brother is planning to do with you and Alyson. Ratchet is trying to finish the GroundBridge that he has been working on to transport us onto the Nemesis. I just hope that we will get to you both soon.)

(So do I. Tell Bumblebee that I am keeping her safe.)

"Aly," Elita tried to get a response out of the girl.

"I'm sorry," Aly quietly whispered.

"What are you sorry for?"

"I should have paid better attention to what was going on so I could have avoided Starscream grabbing me or I should have listened to 'Bee and left like he wanted me too. Then they wouldn't have used me to get you as a prisoner."

"You really like to blame yourself for things, don't you?"

"No, I just feel like it is my fault."

"It isn't. You were in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Perhaps you should have listened, but you decided to stay with Bumblebee instead. That was a very brave and loyal thing to do."

"You think so?" Aly looked up at Elita.

"I do," the femme nodded. "And right now, bravery is a good thing to have."

"Yeah, but unfortunately right now I'm running low on bravery."