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Smokescreen recovers consciousness to find himself on a slab in the Decepticon warship with Knockout standing over him. Megatron demands the last relic, pointing out Soundwave's work decrypting the Iacon database has revealed an image of Smokescreen, but Smokescreen is merely confused as to what it means. Knockout scans the Autobot and finds it's hidden inside.

"Knockout, retrieve the artifact while I go talk to our other guest," Megatron says.

"Wait, who else did you 'Cons kidnap...I mean Botnap?" Smokescreen asks.

"Wheeljack's human partner. I'm sure she is awake by now, so I can claim my prize," Megatron answers.

Inside a different room on the Nemesis, Tracy starts to regain consciousness. She groans in pain when she feels a sharp pain flow through both of her shoulders due to the 'Cons chaining her to the ceiling. The Silver Ranger refused to look down since she wasn't interested in how far the fall is to the floor. She hears the door open and sees Savanna, Heckle and Megatron walk in.

"I know complaining about my accommodations won't aid in my escape. Isn't chaining me to the ceiling overkill?" Tracy asks.

"Not human, but I'll take your energem," Megatron says.

Megatron walks over to Tracy puts his finger to Tracy's throat. He snickers when he sees the fear in Tracy's eyes. A sigh of relief after she sees him place his digit underneath the strings of her necklaces. Then she hears a faint clinking sound as her medical ID necklace falls to the floor.

"You've done your purpose, Little sister," Heckyl says.

"Purpose? Little sister? What is Heckyl talking about Savanna?" Tracy asks.

The guards take Savanna away before she has a chance to answer Tracy's question. They throw her into and escape pod. Tracy hangs her head in shame as she watches Heckle and Megatron walk out of the room. The other Autobots, meanwhile, realize that the Decepticons figured out that Smokescreen holds the Omega Key inside him, due to being installed within him while unconscious by Alpha Trion.

Back on the Nemesis, After putting Tracy's energem in one of the vaults alongside the Omega key. Megatron heads back to see how Knockout is doing getting the other key out of Smokescreen. He enters the room to see Knockout walk up to Smokescreen with a rotary saw, only to reveal he's going to use the phase shifter to do the operation. He reaches inside Smokescreen and soon has the Omega Key in hand. Smokescreen refuses to tell the Decepticons what the Omega Keys are, but Megatron has ways of finding out.

Megatron listens in on Prime's briefing about the Omega Keys, thanks to a cortical psychic patch hooked up to Smokescreen. Once they've learned all they need, Knockout unplugs the pair and Megatron orders Knockout to use the patch to find the location of the Autobot base so they can retrieve the other Omega Keys. After Megatron leaves to put their new key in a safe place, Knockout moves in, only for Smokescreen to grab the phase shifter attached to his wrist and uses it to free himself the pair grapple until Smokescreen manages to pull the device from his opponent's wrist, leaving Knockout embedded in one of the walls.

He points out Smokescreen has no means of escape from the ship, Smokescreen has plans of his own. The Autobot use of the phase shifter, he manages to catch up with Megatron near the storage area, where he snatches back the Omega Key and takes the one in storage as well as Tracy's energem. The Decepticons attempt to stop him, but their firepower passes straight through him. He eventually reaches the outer hull, only to be confronted by Megatron. With no other choice, the Autobot bails the ship.

At the Autobot base, Ratchet returns from picking up Matias from work. He transforms and puts his partner on his shoulder before he walks over the computer. Then he picks up Smokescreen's signal but has trouble locking on because Smokescreen is plummeting through the air. Harried by Vehicons, Smokescreen drops towards the GroundBridge Ratchet opens, only to be knocked off-course by Megatron. He uses the phase shifter to pass through the ground. Moments later, Megatron lands and demands his subordinates search the wreckage. Smokescreen bridges back to base, where the Autobots congratulate him, but Wheeljack sees Tracy's energem gem next to one of the keys.

"Smokescreen, I have a better question how did you get Tracy's Energem?" Wheeljack asks.

"Oh, yeah, I guess I forgot to mention that the 'Cons kidnapped Tracy," Smokescreen says.

"Why didn't you help her?" Wheeljack snaps.

"Yeah, I can't believe you left my niece on that ship," Matias adds.

"Sorry, everyone there wasn't enough time to find her and get off the ship." Smokescreen says.

"You should have left her energem on the ship Smoke so that we could have at last tracked the Nemesis down. Now we have no way to find her," Bulkhead says.

"While the rest of you figure out where the last omega key is I'm going to find Tracy," Wheeljack says.

Wheeljack refuses to let anyone even Bulkhead try to talk him out of going to find Tracy. He transforms and speeds out of the base to his ship.

"Jackie, wait," Bulkhead shouts

"Well, what do you know it looks like Wheeljack has finally taken a shine to Tracy," Arcee says.

A moment later when they get a message from Starscream offering the key in return for the replacement of his T-Cog. Having considered it, Optimus Prime decides it's too important to not take Starscream up on his offer. Optimus, Ratchet, and Bulkhead bridge to a forested location and approach Starscream, only to find him apparently dead. It is, of course, just the dead clone, as the real Starscream uses his Red Energon to nip through the GroundBridge into the Autobot base. Moving too fast to be seen, he is tempted at first to finish off the slow-moving Autobots but goes back to finding the Omega Keys first. The Autobots in the field realize that Starscream tricked them just as Starscream blows open the vault holding the keys. Though Optimus orders Arcee to close the GroundBridge, it is too slow to prevent Starscream from escaping the base. He stops to mock Optimus, Ratchet, and Bulkhead, only for the Red Energon to wear off right at the worst possible moment. After firing a missile at the Autobots, he frantically opens his own GroundBridge and escapes back to the Harbinger, much to Optimus's despair. Though Bulkhead and Ratchet believe they can get the keys back, Optimus grimly announces the fate of Cybertron is now in Starscream's hands. Megatron and Dreadwing return to the bridge, where they find Starscream who has come with a peace offering of all four Omega Keys.