56- Scattered.

The new Decepticon bowed to his master. "Lord Megatron."

"Shockwave! This is quite an unexpected turn. I thought you'd perished on Cybertron." Megatron said looking at Starscream.

"Yes, yes, yes. As did we all." Starscream answered nervously taking a few steps back.

"Reports of my demise were greatly…premature." Shockwave started to tell. "A pair of Autobots infiltrated my facility on Cybertron, sabotaging my space bridge."

Shockwave retold his experience with Arcee and Cliffjumper.

"I gave chase, but failed to accurately calculate the outcome."

When he failed to shoot Arcee and she hit his eye before they escaped. Next, Shockwave laid in the wreckage with an ugly mark on his eye.

"I awoke in the rubble, blinded. It soon became clear that I was marooned on our dead planet, with no means of communications. In time, I repaired my wounds and resume my experiments. The solitude enabled me to make tremendous advances in my research."

Next, Shockwave was working peacefully in his lab again, until the alarm sounded and showed something on the terminal.

"Until one day, my instruments detected a massive surge of unidentifiable energy. I traveled to investigate its origin at the edge of the Sea of Rust, where I encountered your salvage team and the smoldering wreckage of the Omega Lock. But this was not the search party I had anticipated so long ago."

Shockwave drove in his vehicle form, a cybertronian tank, until Knock Out saw him approaching before he transformed back to robot form, ending the tale.

"Leaving one unanswered question." Shockwave said looking at Starscream, thing that Megatron noticed, so he stepped aside so Shockwave could approach him closely. "Why was I left for scrap? Abandoned? Why?"

Starscream was so nervous as he tried to answer the best way he could. "The-the…the explosion! It…it collapsed the power core chamber. The last thing anyone witnessed was you charging into the space bridge portal. No one saw you come back out."

"I find your reply to be…logical."

Starscream sighed with high relief, before Shockwave and Megatron turned to exit the room. "But you will be pleased to know that I've tried to avenge your seeming demise by personally confronting the Autobot Cliffjumper. Haha."

"Careful, Starscream. You may dislocate a landing gear patting yourself on the back." Skywarp said.

"As Megatron's first lieutenant, allow me to welcome you back to the winning team."

"And allow me to clarify the new chain of command: while Starscream will retain authority over military operations, Shockwave will be my first lieutenant in charge of all scientific endeavors." Megatron explained.

"Uh, so you are saying they shall each report directly to you?" A droid present there asked.

"Affirmative. And Thundercracker, since you were our only other scientist present here before Shockwave's return, you will assist him in all his procedures and projects. Now, he's your superior."

"I think it will be most than logical for me to have a second-in-command in scientific sector. I've never have it before." Shockwave supported before almost all Decepticons left the rest, except the Seekers.

"You know what? I think it will be interesting learning from the best Decepticon scientist." Thundercracker admitted.

While Starscream pounded his hip out of anger. "Completely logical, my liege."

"Wow, the new officer surely knows to impose his figure." One of the droids commented.

"Oh, you have no idea." Slipstream reassured.

Takodana

Sky and Arcee drove near a forest.

"Hey, you're hungry? I've seen some fruit trees nearby." Arcee suggested.

"Not really. I grabbed some supplies before we left the spaceport." Sky answered.

"At least you don't have to get fuel. I'm pulling over anyways, need to stretch my legs." She stopped and allowed Sky to got off her. Next, she transformed and started stretching her limbs. "Aw, oh yeah."

"Arcee, Team Prime is scattered to the winds. For all we know, you and I could be the only ones left." Sky said worried sitting on a rock looking the sun.

Arcee went up to him, went on one knee and held his shoulder. "I don't believe that, Sky. And I know you don't either."

"Maybe not, but the Decepticons outnumber us 100 to 1, and now more with the droid fleet and army. Aren't there any more Autobots out there who can help us?"

"The War for Cybertron took a heavy toll, but there were others who escaped in the Ark."

"So, where are they?"

Arcee grabbed a handful of sand and let the wind blow it away from her hand. "Scattered to the winds. So let's focus on getting back to Naboo, and getting Team Prime back together."

"Thanks Arcee. That's what I needed to hear." Sky thanked before hugging her.

"You're welcome. Now, where exactly is that special place you know for us to hide?"

"Not far. We only need to find water and drive alongside the shore."

The duo restarted the march. In less than five minutes, they saw some kind of structure near the shore.

"Is that a castle? Don't tell me that's the place." Arcee said.

"Yeah. I have some good friends there, and trustworthy. So it's the perfect place to rest a little while we hide."

As they approached, they spotted a little human girl with black long hair, around Sky's age that was carrying a box whole with fruit to the castle. She looked at the newcomers and immediately smiled.

"Sky, its you!" The girl called.

"Hi Zarina." Sky saluted before giving her a hug. "It's been a while since the last time we played."

"What are you doing here?"

"My friend and I are in trouble. We need a safe spot for hiding, and I knew there is no better place than this. In part, thanks to the great company of here." Sky said, without realizing he was getting red in front of her.

Zarina chuckled. "Of course. I will tell Maz you're here."

When she was gone, Arcee, still in vehicle form, approached Sky.

"So, a special friend, you said?"

"Eh? What do you mean, Arcee?"

"Admit it: you like her."

"What? You mean like Luke likes Mara? I don't know what are you talking about."

"Come on, Sky. I'm a girl, I know about these things. Besides, your face turned red because of her." She said before chuckling.

Sky sighed. "Anyway, let's go inside."

Once they got inside, the place, which looked like a cantina, they saw the place was not full as usual, only a couple of droids around. Zarina was speaking with someone, around the same height than her and Sky, who gave the fruit box and told who arrived. She was an old woman, with glasses on, which she took off.

She smiled at recognizing the kid. "Oh Sky, my boy."

"Maz, it's been a while." He said hugging her.

"By the Force, look how much you have grown up. The last time I saw you, you only had three years. I'd heard you have advanced much with your abilities."

"Well, I had a lot of help. But that's not why we have come."

"I know. I have heard everything on the Holonet. When the droid army invaded Naboo again I started to fear the worst. How did you get here?"

"Wait, did she say we?"

"Arcee, you don't need to hide. She knows about the Autobots too." Sky reassured.

Arcee changed to robot form. "I thought we were not supposed to catch anyone's attention."

Maz chuckled. "Girl, I've been directing this place during a lot of time. Even before the Sith became extinct, and before their return."

"She's a friend of mine from a long time. You can trust her." Sky convinced.

"Well, if Sky trust you, I do." Arcee said.

"You may be fatigated from the long trip. Come, I will take you to a more comfortable room."

Once in a room of the castle, which was big enough even for Arcee, Maz revealed that she even had energon storage for the Autobot. As they rested, they told Maz what happened on Naboo and their previous skirmish.

"And that's how we decided to come here, because I knew we would be safe here." Sky ended telling.

"And you did well, Sky. They will never find you here." Zarina added.

"You can rest here all you can before continue your fight." Maz said.

"Huh, I'm not sure I'm following the last part. Of which fight are you talking about?" Arcee asked.

"The one you are doing, the same one that we all are in together. The only fight, against the dark side. For ages, I've seen evil adopt many forms: the Sith, the Separatist leaders, today is Megatron and the Decepticons, an extragalactic menace. Their shadow threatens to expand all across the galaxy, we need to rise and fight against it, together."

"Woah, I'm starting to like you."

"Maz is very experienced in many things for have lived more than one thousand years." Sky said.

"No way. More than master Yoda?"

Maz chuckled. "Surprised?"

"One of these days I have to bring Cliff and the others to this place."

"Now rest and regain all your strength. You will need it in order to find your companions tomorrow."

"Thanks for everything, Maz. Good night." Sky thanked.

"Good night."

"See you tomorrow." Zarina added.

"No doubt you know how to find, choose and make good friends." Arcee declared to Sky.

Mykapo

Very far from there, Bumblebee continued traveling by another endless road.

"(We need a way to know where the others could go. Any luck?)"

"Nothing, Bee. Just the same old rubber mask and bad CGI, but the usual conspiracy websites might be our only chance to…Whoa, I found something!" Luke suddenly expressed.

"What is it?" Leia asked as they saw an odd picture. Once they zoomed, they were able to identify a familiar Autobot. "It's Ratchet."

Back to New Kaon, the Decepticon officers and Knock Out were telling Shockwave about everything that happened in his absence. Of course, not everyone was happy.

"Arg, Shockwave's toting is so transparent. Megatron's respect is earned by deeds, not words." Starscream complained.

"And exactly how are you going to prove him that your efforts are more welcome than his knowledge?" Skywarp asked.

"Locating at least one of those single Autobots."

"I know where you're going. If we managed to capture at least one of the members of their team, they will lead us to all the others." Slipstream deduced.

"Precisely. And since they're hiding, we must locate them by non-ordinary ways." Starscream said as he and the other two started checking the native conspiracy website. "Useless, useless, useless. Billions of cameras in the hands of those miserable natives. One of them is bound to catch an Autobot eventually."

"You may be right, because look what I've found." Slipstream said, finding the same image of Ratchet.

"Well well well, what do we have here?" Skywarp smirked.

"Lord Megatron, we have found something of great interest." Starscream called to everyone.

Back with Bee and the twins…

"The photo was taken yesterday, in a junkyard outside Garel's capital." Luke investigated.

"And if we can see it, the Cons would probably too." Leia pointed out. "So we better scrub Ratchet, and replace him with…"

At the same time in the Nemesis…

"An Autobot." Starscream presented as he and the others stepped aside.

But in the picture's place there was a funny video of a droid.

"This is a small step for a droid, but a great step for droid kind."

That caused some of the droids to laugh at that, even Knock Out. But the laugh ended when Megatron, Shockwave and Soundwave stared at him, making them to quickly straightened themselves up and return to their task.

Thundercracker groaned as he put a hand on his head. "Oh no, here we go again."

"Hey, that video makes us droids to look like fools!" One droid complained.

"Wait, what?" Skywarp said turning back at the screen.

"It was just here! I swear it!" Slipstream added.

"Surely one of you saw it!" Starscream said.

"Starscream, you and your Seekers would do well to take a cue from Soundwave on occasion, and keep things to yourselves." Megatron explained grinning his teeth.

"Vow of silence. Such a cop-out." Starscream admitted before he and the others continued researching.

"Lord Megatron, surely our Autobot prisoner is a better source of information than this primitive data-net."

"I will have you know, Shockwave, that we have been grinding Wheeljack down for days. If he knew anything, he would have spilled it by now." Skywarp informed.

"Again…some prove to be better at holding their tongues than others." Megatron pointed.

"Perhaps you would have better results if instead of a club, you used a scalpel. I recommend a cortical psychic patch." Shockwave explained.

Cato Neimoidia

Meanwhile, Han and Bulkhead sat on a grassy mountain slope.

"I don't think he's coming."

"Don't worry, Han. Every Wrecker knows the protocol. Jackie will show, if he's still kicking." Bulkhead reassured.

But inside the Decepticon lab, Wheeljack was about to experience the cortical psychic patch as Shockwave was preparing it, and Thundercracker was helping him.

"I always wanted to know the entire process of this surely interesting procedure." Thundercracker confessed.

"Do your worst, doc. I'm a Wrecker, I can take it." Wheeljack challenged.

Shockwave inserted on his back one end of the patch's cable and grabbed took the other end before he started advancing at him. "Trust me. You in fact, cannot."

Some time later, Shockwave went to Megatron's throne to report him the results.

"The patch failed to yield any new information on the whereabouts of the Autobots." He informed.

"Hum, I see." Megatron said sat on his throne.

"That it would seem that Wheeljack has outlived his usefulness. With your permission, Lord Megatron, I will see it to his immediate termination." Starscream declared.

Wheeljack groaned as he recovered from the patch.

"Wake up, Wrecker." One Vehicon shoved him.

Once fully awake, Wheeljack saw that he was at a ledge, and right below him was a smelting pit.

"Time to smelt." The Vehicon announced as he, other Vehicon and two vulture droids hold him. "Commander Starscream wanted you conscious so you'd know precisely who ordered your execution."

"Where is Screamy? Doesn't have the bearings to do this himself?" Wheeljack mocked, making one of the Cons to shove him closer to the ledge.

"Jump." The Con demanded.

"Hey, you're a flyer?" Wheeljack said to one of the droids, before kicking it on the head, grabbing it and throwing it into the pit. That made all the others to aim their weapons at him. "Okay, I'll jump."

And Wheeljack jumped into the pit, following the droid, which changed to its flyer mode. So, Jackie landed right on it.

"Thought so. YEEE-HAAA!"

He steered the droid away from the smelting pit. Three flyer Cons saw it and changed to vehicle form to follow him, the same as some droid starfighters. Wheeljack hit the droid two times, trying to break the chains of his arms, when the others started to fire at them.

"Thanks for the ride."

Wheeljack jumped off before the droid crashed against the fortress. And landed on one of the Cons who were after him. He saw coming a TIE interceptor that fired at him, so he used the shots to break his chains, breaking free and able to use his guns, taking down the fighter. Another Decepticon fired at him, so he covered himself by using the Con he was riding as a shield before shooting down the other. Unfortunately, two cruisers nearby started to fire their weapons at them.

"That might come in handy."

He directed the Con toward a corvette, and jumped on it before the Con crashed against it, making a hole in the ship's hull. Before the security doors blocked it, Wheeljack managed to get inside, surprising the droids.

"Knock knock, guess who's home." He said pulling out his swords.

Moments later, the ship broke formation before jumping to hyperspace, leaving the planet while the Decepticon fortress' searchlights lighted up the area in response of the Autobot's escape. In Megatron's throne…

"Lord Megatron, we have been reported that one of our ships had left the system without authorization and jumped to hyperspace." A droid officer reported by hologram.

"This is how you handle things?!" Megatron yelled mad.

"Wheeljack is not the first prisoner to escape Starscream's care." Shockwave reminded.

"Actually, master, I allowed Wheeljack to escape." Starscream revealed.

"You what?!" Megatron shouted, getting up from his throne.

"But the Autobot's every move, his every word will be monitored." Starscream continued, making Megatron grew an intrigued look. "Slipstream."

"Thanks to a simple tracking device implanted while the prisoner was still unconscious, following the failed cortical psychic patch." She said, looking at Shockwave. "Now all we have to do is wait, watch and listen."

"When the Wrecker reunites with the other Autobots, my armada will strike." Starscream ended, making Megatron smirk.

Garel

After taking a ship to travel through space and reaching their destination, Bee drove inside the junkyard where Ratchet's picture was made.

"He's gotta be here." Luke said as he and his sister looked for Ratchet through the windows.

They continued searching until Bumblebee suddenly stopped. The reason, Ratchet was right in front of them, in vehicle mode.

"Ratchet." Leia called as she and Luke got out Bee and he changed to robot form. "Ratchet, it's us, Leia and Luke!"

But he didn't respond.

"Uh, Ratchet?" Luke asked confused.

"Go away." He finally said.

"(What do you mean with that?)"

"You're interrupting my power-down."

"(You're not serious, right?)"

"Come on, Ratchet. We need your help to find the others." Luke reminded.

"(So we can regroup to strike against Megatron.)"

"We can't stop Megatron, not anymore. The war is over, and we…lost." Ratchet responded.

"You're giving up?!" Leia asked in disbelief. "We can't just give up!"

Ratchet changed to robot form. "Then tell me what we can do! Without communications, without a ground bridge, without a base of operations or resources of any kind!"

"(The Seekers used a ground bridge when they were on their own.)"

"Bee's right! We know Starscream had access to a ground bridge while he was operating solo." Luke supported.

"Yes, yes. He clearly had been using the derelict Decepticon ship, the Harbinger. What does that have to do with anything?!" Ratchet demanded.

"It could be full of cybertronian tech."

"And it's probably abandoned again now that Starscream and his fellas are back with the Cons." Leia added.

"Phfft! Well, resources won't be of much use, not without someone to…lead us." Ratchet said with sorrow.

"It's a start!"

"Then you'll have to start without me. This is someone else's fight now."

"There is no one else, Ratchet. Just us! Just the team!" Luke said.

Ratchet shook his head as he turned his back on them.

"Please." He started before changing to vehicle mode. "Just let me…rust in peace."

Luke finally gave up. "Come on."

"You know, Ratchet, Optimus would be very disappointed with you right now. He wouldn't want you to give up." Leia said before she and Luke entered Bee, in vehicle mode, and left Ratchet with his sorrow.

Lothal

Meanwhile, Optimus continued inside the caves, accompanied by the wolves, which guarded him. In that moment, Smokescreen phased through the wall.

"I'm back." Smokey announced, making the wolves and Optimus to look at him, still groaning in pain. "I combed through every square micron of our old base. I couldn't find Ratchet's medical kit, not even a bandage."

"The Forge…of Solus Prime." Optimus named in weak tone.

"It's gone too. The Cons picked the place clean."

Optimus continued moaning in despair with heavy breathing while Smokescreen reflected about it.

"Wait! If you had the forge you can fix yourself up, power of the Primes. Optimus, hang on just a little longer. That hammer's gotta be somewhere in Megatron's fortress. Take care of him." He asked to the alpha wolf, which nodded before the Autobot phased through the rock wall again.

At the same time, back to Maz Kanata's castle, the sun was starting to raise, and both Sky and Arcee were already out of the castle, getting ready to return to their ship.

Suddenly, Zarina met with them. "I got you some supplies, you may need them. And also a present for you, Sky."

"What?"

She put some kind of bracelet on Sky's right arm. "My parents told me to give this to someone special for me."

"Is this a Kyber cristal?" He said noticing it on the bracelet.

"Indeed. You surely know about it because of your Jedi origin."

"It's great. Many thanks, Zarina."

"Are you sure you will be fine?"

"Of course. We'll return to the ship and try to get to Naboo as close as we can."

"Well, it has been great seeing you again." She said, and giving him a kiss on the cheek without warning.

That left Sky's face totally red while Arcee chuckled.

"Well, we…we better get going." He said nervously.

Maz also was present there. "Good luck. And may the Force be with you, always."

"Same for you, Maz. Take care."

"I knew you liked her."

"Arcee!" He said as she continued chuckling while they departed.

And both partners started their way back. Meanwhile, at the dawn, Bulkhead continued waiting, but Han was already sleeping against his foot. Suddenly, Bulk heard some engine noise coming from a road between the mountains, so he got up, making Han to fall on the grass.

"Han, wake up."

He stretched his limbs. "Why?"

Bulkhead pulled out one of his guns and wrecking balls. "Someone's coming. Prepare yourself."

Bulkhead charged his weapon at whoever was approaching and Han was also hidden behind a tree with his blaster. But when the sound was getting closer, Bulkhead retrieved his weapons.

"Ah, Bulkhead?" Han asked confused.

"I know the hum of that engine anywhere." He said cheered walking to the road.

Then a familiar vehicle arrived, revealing to be Wheeljack, and changed back to robot form.

"Haha, Jackie!" Bulkhead yelled happy running at him before giving him a bear-hug. "Where've you been, buddy?"

"Catching up with a few old dance partners." He replied feeling Bulkhead's hug with so much strength. He also noticed Han laughing at the happy reunion, and the face he put because the bear-hug. "Good to see you, kid. Safe to assume we're the only three Wreckers around."

"So what are we waiting for? Let's do some damage." Han suggested cheered.

"What's our next move, Jackie? Circle back to base?" Bulk asked.

"There is no base, the Cons blasted it to dust."

Unfortunately, their entire conversation was recorded in the Nemesis.

"The dim-wit played right into my hands." Starscream said chuckling.

"All Seekers and droid starfighters to the flight deck. We have pinpointed the enemy." Slipstream instructed.

One of the former Separatist cruisers came out from hyperspace to the same planet as Wheeljack traveled, and deployed a squadron of Seekers, vulture and hyena droids that headed for its surface, right at where the Wreckers were.

"Attack, my armada." Starscream ordered.

Once there, the entire squadron transformed and landed, the droids also changed to their walker form. They got their weapons ready.

"We're at the coordinates, commander Starscream." The squadron's leader reported.

"Hold fast. They're approaching your position." Starscream said as he monitored the Autobot and Decepticon signals.

One of the droids noticed something approaching by the river, so they aimed at it. But it was only a tree trunk floating with the current, so they relaxed. But they didn't realize that the Autobots and Han were watching them from a cliff at the distance.

"Targets at range." Bulkhead saw, so Wheeljack prepared a detonator.

One of the Seekers approached the river and saw the tracker on the trunk, attacked to something.

"And boom." Jackie said, activating the detonator.

"Grenade!" The Seeker shouted.

Too late: the grenade detonated, eliminating all the Cons and droids. That was detected in the Nemesis too.

"He…he tricked us." Skywarp realized, while Megatron showed a face of disappointment.

Back with the trio…

"How did you know the Cons planted a tracker on you?" Han asked.

"I figured the Cons were up to something, so I did a little poking around under my hook."

"Haha, that's my Jackie." Bulk congratulated.

"So, what's our next move?" Han asked.

"I salvaged some ammunitions from the Jackhammer on my way out, alongside all the extra ones I found inside the ship I stole from the Cons' fleet." Wheeljack told before he changed to vehicle mode. "You though that made a loud noise? Just wait."

And he started to drive. Bulkhead changed to vehicle form too, allowed Han to get inside and went after him.

Barkhesh

Bumblebee and the twins finally arrived to their goal: the Harbinger. It took them a few seconds to find the control room, but once there they observed the place looked like someone reached there first. The twins hid while Bee advanced in the room with guns ready, but when he reached the control panel, someone tackled him to the ground.

"You'll regret following us here, Con." His attacker said, but he stopped at recognizing each other. "Bee, is that you?"

"(Cliffjumper!)" Bee said as his Autobot companion helped him back to his feet.

"Sorry about that. I thought you might be a Con after our trail."

"(That's okay. I would have done the same thing.)"

"We're glad that you made it, Bee." Aris said, getting out from her hideout.

"Aris!" Leia and Luke yelled cheered before hugging their friend.

"Oh, I'm so glad to see you!"

"So, you decided to come here too, huh?" Luke deduced.

"Right. Based on what we know about how Starscream managed to operated that long without Megatron's army support, we thought that the Harbinger might be the best place to start getting the team together." She explained.

"And maybe that anyone else of the team might do the same, and it seems we were right." Cliff added.

"Then what are we waiting for? Let's get this place operational." Leia proclaimed.

Bee and Cliff plugged a power-core cable, making the energon canisters to get full.

"(Ready Aris. Your turn.)"

"Hold it right there, guys." Aris instructed before she walked on the console's keyboard and hit some buttons. "And, powering up."

The ship started to power up, but it immediately died again.

"Scrap. Stupid Con tech, the Seekers probably wasted all resources before getting back with the Cons." Cliff cursed.

"Not to mention this ship has been buried here for a long time." Luke added. "I wish BB-8 or R2 were here."

"Come on guys, that was only the first try. Keep trying, we'll figure it out." Leia said trying to keep them cheered.

"Dat dat dat." A familiar voice said from behind them.

"Ratchet! You made it!" Cliffjumper exclaimed.

"You're miscalibrating the energon transducer."

"Ratchet!" Aris yelled happy.

"But how did you get here?" Luke asked.

"I sneaked inside your ship before we left Garel." Ratchet answered as he moved Bumblebee aside. "Now step out of my way so I can work."

The kids moved away so he could type on the terminal while they continued looking him, so Ratchet looked them back, smiling. Meanwhile, Sky and Arcee were on their way back to their ship.

"You know? The last time things became this dark, Optimus gave me the key of Vector Sigma, as something we can hang our hopes on."

"I know you're feeling helpless, Sky. But this doesn't need to be your burden." Arcee said. "Besides, good surprises come when no one expect them."

Suddenly, a giant cybertronian ship passed above them, forcing them to stop.

"Wow! What I told you?!"

The ship circled around and landed in front of them. Sky got off Arcee and she returned to robot form.

"Stay behind me, and get your lightsaber ready." She advised.

The ship powered its elevator shaft and a large mist prevented Arcee to see who was on the shaft. She instinctively activated her weapons, and Sky did the same with his lightsaber, but when she saw who was the ship's owner, she lowered her weapons, relieved and surprised at the same time.

"Sky, I don't think we are gonna need that key card." Arcee said.

Once the mist disappeared, Sky could see that the new cybertronian was as big as Optimus, and looked almost like him, with the difference that this had high shoulders and was blue with little red touches.

"Meet Ultra Magnus."

"Eh, I think there's someone else inside." Sky sensed.

And he was right, because another Autobot exited the ramp: this one was another girl, almost tall as Ultra Magnus, of pink color with little red touches. Arcee's eyes seemed surprised as she saw her.

"Commander?" She recognized.

"Is good to see you again, Arcee. It's been a long time." The new female Autobot saluted.

At the same time, inside the Nemesis…

"So not only did you fail to destroy the Autobots, but you allowed their number to increase?" Megatron retailed as he glared at Starscream. "Is there no one who could bring me their heads?!"

"If I may, Lord Megatron, during my exile on Cybertron I resumed work on a long dormant project." Shockwave began as he walked to the controls and displayed a DNA structure. "One that I believe may provide a solution to our current problem."

"Cybernucleic acid?" Knock Out recognized.

"The building blocks of all cybertronian life." Thundercracker added.

"Indeed. This hails from a specimen I excavated upon our planet and has yielded promising results." Shockwave explained.

"The Autobots continue to evade us. What makes you think we can afford to wait for the answer to our prayers to be birthed in some petri dish?" Slipstream asked.

"You misunderstand: the subject has been fully cultivated and it only needs to be transported from my laboratory on Cybertron."

That left the female Seeker without words.

"Then by all means, activate the space bridge." Megatron declared.

Back to Cybertron, Shockwave examined his experiment, which was still in a liquidized stasis container pod. He went to the controls and charged up the pod. That sent a lot of electricity to the pod, waking up the creature, followed by the pod preparing itself to release the creature. Meanwhile, Megatron waited sat on his throne tapping his finger on the throne's arm when suddenly the space bridge appeared in front of him. As six Decepticon soldiers and big droids spotted Shockwave coming out of the portal, he walked towards Megatron with the other Decepticons around the place and he bowed.

"I present to you, my liege, the ultimate Autobot hunter." Shockwave proclaimed as he pointed to the portal.

The metallic creature emerged form the portal, making the Seekers to take a few steps back, and some droids went to hiding. Megatron stood up from his throne and stared at the creature as it let out a tremendous roar.