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Drag Strip and Wildrider raced back to the Nemesis.
"Told you there would be other around"
"Lucky for use it was only the medic and the antique van with the younglings" they laughed still making their get away.
"Motor Master, we obtained a youngling. We are bringing it back to Megatron" Drag Strip commed his gestalt leader.
"Glory to the Decepticons, Megatron will be pleased." Motor Master replied. "We took care of those jet wannabes and are heading towards the base as well"
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Optimus arrived at the beach with Prowl, Bluestreak, Sunstreaker, Sideswipe and Wheeljack. Not seeing the aerialbots at the scene Optimus sent the twins to find them.
Wheeljack and Bluestreak went to aide Ratchet and Ironihde.
Optimus transformed and stood up, he walked over to the youngling still crouched in the sand.
"Hot Shot, are you alright?" he asked in a low vibration.
"Un…Unka!" he called out sobbing.
He ran up to the tall red mech "they took Fracture, we have to go save her. Let's go!" he cried pulling on the blue hand.
Prime remained calmed and eyed the youngling. "Hot Shot, we have to come up with a plan first. We can't just run in there".
"No!" the little mech protested. "We have to get her back now, who knows what they'll to do her" he cried out loud.
Optimus picked the blue youngling up "I'm sorry Hot Shot. We'll get her back. I will do everything in my power to get her back".
"Unka, why did they take her?! Why?....why?" Hot Shot's vocalizer became softer and softer with every why he asked before slipping into recharge.
Prowl finished surveying the scene and took his place beside the Prime.
"Will he be alright Optimus?" Prowl asked looking over the small Autobot.
"He'll be fine. This was all just too much for him" Optimus answered before turning and walking to where Ironhide and Bluestreak were loading Ratchet into his trailer.
"How does he look Wheeljack?" he asked.
"Once I get him back to the city, I can finish patching him up and he'll be as good as new" the inventor said cheerfully.
"If I don't blow up after you finished repairing me" Ratchet shot in.
"I'll have you know not everything I build explodes"
"Ok, name one time it didn't or that it didn't go haywire and try to destroy us all" the Earth CMO went on.
"He's got ya there 'Jack" Ironhide chuckled.
"I can't think of any off the top of my head, but I am sure I will think of at least one later" Wheeljack defended himself.
"Yeah right" Ratchet said as his friend finished the temporary sealing on his energon lines.
Prowl's commlink beeped "Sideswipe to Prowl".
"What is it Sideswipe? What's the situation?" the Earth SIC asked.
"Seems the stunticons already took off, Skydive will need to be transported back to base. But, Slingshot says he's ok to fly back"
"Copy that, stay at your position. We'll be right there".
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"Since you two failed on every mission to capture them since they sparklings, you can have the honor of babysitting this one" Megatron said with a sinister smile.
Fracture sat on the ground in the corner of the cell, back against the wall and her arms hugging her knees, dried energon in the corner of her optics.
"Here have some energon" Thundercracker shoved the small cube into the cell.
Fracture didn't speak, she continued to sit still in the corner staring at the cube.
"It's not poisoned, I just thought you'd be hungry. It's no slag to me whether you drink it or not". He walked over the by the entrance of the brig area, where Skywarp was sitting, playing a game on a data pad. Thundercracker sighed through his intakes.
Skywarp paused his game and looked up at his mate "So did she drink it?"
"I left the cube there for her"
"I don't see why you are so concerned anyway" The black and purple jet replied.
"You know 'Warp, she didn't choose to be apart of this war. She was born into it. We are making a youngling into our enemy. Before her, we haven't seen a sparkling in…..primus knows how long" he threw his arms into the air.
"She's still an Autobot" Skywarp reminded the other.
"But there is something different about her" the blue jet said looking back down to the cells.
Some time later, Thundercracker walked back down to the cell holding the femme.
"You didn't drink anything" he said looking at the still filled cube.
Fracture lifted her head to look at him
"Why did you become a Decepticon?" she asked.
"What's it to you?" he retorted.
"You don't seem evil" she answered innocently.
Thundercracker leaned back against the wall opposite the cell.
"When the war was first starting, some bots were at the bottom, they lost everything. And when you lost everything, you have nothing left to lose" he said scowling at the memory.
"I… I don't understand" she said looking into his optics.
"No, you wouldn't. Would you?" he turned and started to walk away.
"Wait!" Fracture finally got up, putting an arm out in front of her.
Thundercracker stopped mid step and turned back to face her.
"What now?" he asked sorely.
"Can you tell me about the war? How it started?" she asked.
"What difference does it make how it started, we are stuck on this mudball now because of it" he said still attempting to act callous towards her.
When she still glared at him, Thundercracker dimmed his optics searching his mainframe for the memory tracks more millions of years old.
"The planet was in crisis, energon was becoming scarce to everyone but the elite, the wealthy and the government. The splurged and spent like there were no troubles anywhere on the planet. Lower status transformers were left to die off. This caused social unrest in some of the areas of the planet. Riots broke out, there was turmoil and chaos" he stopped and looked straight ahead.
"That is until Megatron united us under the name Decepticons. He gave us a mission and hope. He preached for social justice, equality among mechs. He lead us in a fight against the corrupt government of Iacon. And we won battle after battle but at some point we lost sight of our real goal" he looked down at the ground.
"Megatron was gaining troups not through his speeches and talks of justice but through his terror. And he brought about a reign of terror upon Cybertron. He had gone mad with power. He was bringing about his justice through fear and death" he balled his hand into a fist.
"We were lead so far astray" he stopped again. "That's all you need to know" he said before walking away without turning back.
Fracture finally walked over to the cube that still sat on the floor and drank it, taking in all she had just heard.