Last chapter was so extremely frickin short, so I hope I make up for it in this chapter!

Arcee shook her head as soon as she closed the comm. frequency. There was not a chance in the entire universe she would ever help her, not after what she did to Tailgate. And not only that, Arachnid was asking for help to bring Breakdown back to life. Nope, no way... But Arachnid had seemed truly genuine in wanting to make amends with what she'd done. But she was a con. Cons are sly like that. There was no way to know if she was truly lying.

And no way to know she isn't lying, a voice in her head said. Arcee came to a decision. She was going to risk it. Why, she had no idea. But she was going to. She entered the groundbridge coordinates to the outskirts of the MECH base and looked around for Arachnid. Arachnid was there, waiting for her. As they crept forward towards the main entrance, they stealthily disarmed and dispatched the four guards there and rigged the cameras to not notice. Then they entered. Slinking through the shadows, they went unnoticed until they entered the experimentation lab. There, Silas was watching as Breakdowns's body was slowly reassembled. Arcee choked a gag at the shape his body was in. They charged their weapons and charged forward, taking everyone by surprise. As the blaster fire echoed more people piled in, but were easily overcome by the two elite femmes. Soon only Silas and a few fighters and scientists were left. They chose a knowledgeable retreat. Arachnid and Arcee loaded up Breakdown's body onto a transformer sized stretcher and Arachnid summoned a groundbridge. Skyblue and Sandstorm, who were in on her project as well, opened it for the two. The four femmes took him to Arachnid's lab and began poking and priding in his head. Luckily Silas hadn't removed his memory card or his personality chip. Arachnid prepped a protoform and uploaded the memories and personality into it before sending an electric jolt to activate the protoform. In a way this would be a clone of Breakdown but at the same time not. The form Theban to morph into the large and bulky form of the bold brained warrior. Yellow eyes flashed open and Breakdown was in the place of the protoform. Arcee gasped before requesting to go back to base. The three femmes left, leaving Breakdown and Arachnid. Breakdown looked at his body and felt his missing eye, but it was no longer missing. He looked around and dully noticed he was in Arachnid's lab. Then he noticed the femme herself and growled as his last memories surfaced. Her removing almost all his limbs before snuffing his spark. She simply sighed and closed her eyes, waiting. Oookay, definitely not normal Arachnid behavior. She opened her eyes and glanced at him. She's lifted her head and watched him, waiting for a reaction of some sort. Tired of waiting, her mouth said the first thing that came to mind.

"Knockout has a sparkmate" she blurted. Breakdown seemed to react to this, cause he cocked his head to the side, and then, as he was about to ask something, 'Numa Numa' poured through the speakers, causing both to jump.

"Uh, yeah... There are also four humans aboard who are not to be squished or the insecticons will hurt you. And no, I did not order them to do so. They're developing minds of their own. "

Breakdown nodded, still trying to process what was going on.

"Why am I alive?" He asked. His voice was the same as before.

"I downloaded your memories and personality into an unused protoform and charged it."

" Why bring me back to life after killing me?"

" um... Becaaauussseee we needed a warrior like you around. "

"Oh. Megatron ordered you to do this"

"yeeeeaaah no. He has no idea about this. "

yeesh, she was acting like a fool. Why? No idea. She shook her head rot clear an unruly thought that had wormed its way into her brain.

You're in love~

Impossible! Besides, he'd never like her back after she, you know, tried to kill him. Did kill him! She shuffled her feet nervously, one of her extra limbs twitched on her back in uncomfortable awkwardness. He simply stared at her, debating whether to forgive her or pound her into dust. Well, she had brought him back to life. And, when he thought back on it, he had initially started the fight. And he would have killed her too had the roles been switched. So, he forgave her. Though he held this in for a moment simply because of her expression. She looked so much like a child waiting for punishment after doing something she shouldn't have. It was, in all honesty( in his mind at least), actually quite adorable. She glanced up at him again and he cocked his head. She looked away quickly.

"Well, um, I guess we should go tell Megatron that one of his top warriors is back online. " she said, trying to find a subject. Another awkward silence. Then he stood up and they walked out of the door, her leading the way nimbly, trying to avoid eye contact with anyone, or specifically a someone behind her. Sandstorm shuffled by and grinned at the two.

"Who was that?" Breakdown asked. His voice made her jump and make a squeak sound.

"Uh, Sandstorm, a reformatted Eradicon."She answered. She then proceeded to tell him of all the new happenings on the Nemesis since his...departure. He took it in slowly, but his mind froze when he stepped into the common room. Soundwave and a small blue and pink femme( Skyblue, from what Arachnid told him) were holding hands, four human girls were up on a table surrounded by Vehicons, telling jokes, and most scary of all, Megatron was smiling. Not smirking, not grinning evilly, but simply...smiling. It was all to surreal. Arachnid tapped his hand, motioning him to follow. She walked up to Megatron -didn't bow or salute or anything- and said "Your finest warrior has arisen". He looked up at him, did a double take, then narrowed his eyes.

"Arachnid , is this actually Breakdown or some crude trick?"

"actually Breakdown"

"Good enough. Breakdown, you can go see Knockout if you want. I'm sure he needs to loosen those vocal chords up a bit"

Breakdown was slightly confused about the vocal chords bit, but realized the point of what he said minutes later. Knockout had let out a shrill scream that shook the entire ship. Then he hyperventilated a bit as Arachnid and Sandstorm explained what happened. Knockout nodded happily at the end that his friend was alive, then promptly passed out. Breakdown shook his head. He had a lot to get used to.